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Rishi	There is a ruin outside of Great Forks, a place of rock and stone, scrub and waste. It is a lonely place that few travel to. Which makes it perfect for clandestine meetings between Anathema. Currently, it is claimed by a woman of nigh unparalled beauty, to the point that her wings and claws merely add to her charms. Let us see if her position can be deposed.
Fudou the Mountain	Fudou's arrival is slightly more..physical in its own way. He descends as a large hawk which seems to literally unfold itself into his monstrous physical form mid descent and in the blink of an eye and twitch of a heartbeat. One moment a bird passing by a narrow tree - the next 'himself', touching down with a steady rumble from his vast weight that ripples across the ruined site. Beauty is probably he last thing one thinks of when seeing the behemoth though there are different ways to consider magnetic attraction. There's that sort of vast awe pull of 'can't look away' that he has about him as if looking upon one of those roided out beasts of burden. A yeddim overly gifted with size and strength beyond measure and yet stil languid and relaxed despite the weight of its shadow being enough to flatten someone if they were too close. This made that much more apparent as he dismisses the illusionary effects that hide the mutations of his hybrid form. His body taking on more visibly oxen like traits with monstrous curling horns atop his head that spread behind him and down his city-street wide back as he approaches Rishi. "Rishi!" his deep voice rumbling with great cheer, "..So this is your chosen site. I hope you're not still mad at me, are you luv?"
Rishi	"It is being a topic that is most complex so we will not be getting much of the anywhere doing the arguing. Now it is being much more of the important for you to be seeing me as more than the little girl that you must be doing the protecting of. So." She stretches. "To begin with, here are being the rules. I will not be doing the defending, you will be doing the punching. First round, we will not be using the essence...though your hybrid form is being fine. After that, I will don my armor and then anything is being allowed. I will be telling you when I am being too injured to be going on." "But first! I must be disarming!" She reaches up to the vine in her hair and pulls it free, where it turns into a large bramble shield. She shoos it off to one side. With another command her Demon Spider manifests ans she shoos it off to the side as well. "Neither of you are to be doing the helping of me right now." After that, she turns back to Fudou and takes a ready stance. "You may be starting."
Fudou the Mountain	"Is that what this is all about?" Fudou lets his expression become crestfallen slightly and he places one hand against his hips while gesturing at Rishi with a frustrated movement to his gargantuan arms, "This is not what you sold me on when we were talking with Pearl, Rishi. You implied you simply wanted to test your defenses considering the threats we are facing but now you imply that you're trying to -prove- something to me? When have I ever tried to shelter you from something, luv. Aside from yourself when you got overzealous with your 'Miracles' in Great Forks." Irate now, he stalks forward slightly, "And attacking you without the use of essence proves little as essence is to us as breathing is. After all, I -assume- you can defend ourself against common bandits but if you just want to see how hard I can punch when I'm only lightly swatting at you... Fine. As is your comment on injury. A woman who chops her own arm off to prove a point is hardly someone I need worry about injuring to seriously..."
Rishi	"I am wanting to be testing them. Which is meaning I am wanting to be seeing how this body of mine is doing against the mortal threats, to better see how everything is doing the working. But... it is still doing the feeling like you are not respecting the opinion I am having. Or perhaps I am doing the needing to be proving this to myself. Either way, When you are being ready."
Fudou the Mountain	"Need I remind you that disagreement is not the same as disrespect." points out Fudou. "Showing me that you can take a punch is not going to change my feelings on matters concerning actions you've taken or beliefs you're holding. We've known each other too long to for that. You've every right to believe what you believe, regardless of what my personal feelings are and what I think is going to happen." He finally just shakes his head and his stanec slowly changes as he slips into a stance that balances his center of gravity. I imagine I must seem like a barbaric brute in contrast but like you I have reasons for thinking as I do. The only thing that matters in the end are the facts. But have it your way." Fudou leans back, the ground itself groaning from his vast weight and the sound of his knuckles cracking like boulders being broken as he brings a clenched fist back.. the muscles in his arms swelling with the girth of swamp trees. "Get ready!"
Rishi	Rishi steels herself against the coming blow, standing slightly to the side and tensing all her muscles to be ready to move with it and mitigate as much damage as she can.
Fudou the Mountain	He explodes at her like a shot fired from a first age Essence Cannon. Even without the visible use of essence the sheer power afforded him by just being him and his hybrid and war form send him hurtling in with all the thunderous power of a meteor strike heading for Creations surface. Just before contact he pivots, planting a foot onto the ground with a loud *TWHOOOM* that shakes the ruins and the energy from his charge twists into his punching limb..bringing the colossal fist around and hurtling at her with force that seems to almost distort the air around it as it lunges closer, closer and closer towards potential impact. He must indeed have some faith in her.
Rishi	Rishi moves just enough so the blow from Fudou's fist barely hits her and it still feels like she's been tread upon by an elephant. Her flesh knits perfectly and her ears stop ringing after only a moment, but she's still been shoved back slightly and placed even further on the defensive than she'd like. She says nothing, pride preventing her from stopping things now, and stands up straight, moonsilver gliding over her body until she more resembles a statue of a lovely woman. "A Fine Strike. Now, let us see how you do with Essence."
Fudou the Mountain	There is a sound like industrial leather being stretched as Fudou's stretches his arms out after that tremendous punch and lets a gargantuan chain bursting flex ripple throguh them as if he were loosening up. He pantomines the act of a bear hug, crossing his monstrous arms across each other and each gesture seeming to pump them up ever larger, veins the size of shipping ropes standing out against his rugged and slightly hirsute flesh. He bears down on Rishi, not stopping even as she staggers backwards in an inexorable approach.. eventually reaching up to sniff slightly and rub the back of his gnarled thick hand across his nose. "Very well." he rumbles. There is the faintest hint of hesitance in his voice. He doesn't seem to -really- want to do this despite his juggernaut like bearing. A moment later and he's seemingly flashed out of sight. A sudden burst of impossible speed for his vast bulk which brings him right to her with a loud *BOOM* roaring through the air. Her entire field of vision is taken up by his gigantic fist, swinging in towards her as if moving in slow motion as the rest of his towering body casts her and the immediate are around her in deep shadow. His very features seemingly shrouded save for that monstrous silohuette and the gleam of that odd pair of glasses he wears.
Rishi	Rishi has a brief moment to think "The fist of an angry god" before being knocked back further. She's well out of her combat stance, Moonsilver cracked, muscles bruised...but she recovers. She always recovers. And stands back up. "Once Again."
Fudou the Mountain	Any hesitation drains from Fudou as Rishi stands again, demanding more. He frowns and it's not a pleasent frown. "Dammit Rishi! You're going to make me do smething I'm going to regret! Over -nothing-!" The ground sunders from his steady approaches, fist clenching and unclenching and muscles bunching and relaxing like the movement of mountain ranges and the rumble and roar of landslides. "I warned you!" he declares before finally lunging in at her, arms swelling towards girth to make ancient swamp trees look like matchsticks as his teeth bare and moonsilver essence contrails from his eyes and his body like the roaring of a furnace. His arm swings around, down and then up again in a monstrous uppercut like some sort of ancient trebuchet unleashed against his fellow lunar. The very ground itself heaves and explodes upwards in he passage of the monstrous limg, sending the earth and portions of the ruins skyward before the fist even lands.
Fudou the Mountain	The behemoths fist impacts with the force someone might compare to an attempt to just launch something into the canopy of the heavens above with sheer force alone. It's not -quite- that but it sure looks that way. His upper cut rips her from the earth along with a cascade of rocks and dirt exploding upwards as the shockwave of his strike ripples out over the batltefield and Rishi is sent skywards. Different circumstances might have allowed her to recover in the air but the force of the blow is a telling one with its thundreous boom echoing out for miles after its impact against her moonsilver armored hide. He crouches and -almost- goes after her.. Not to catch her and save her stunned form but to grab it and come down with him atop her.. But he 'pauses'. A sudden realization dawning on him and instead he starts a slow but increasing foot paced tread to rush after her. "Rishi, Rishi, Rishi..."
Rishi	Rishi has just enough time to get all four arms and her wings in front of her to take part of the brunt of the damage before she's flung skyward, belching blood. Her shattered armor rains down on the ground, she blinks, trying to move ...anything, before she passes out, eventually landing on the ground like a sack of wet, bleeding meat. When Fudou finds her, both legs are shattered, all four arms are simply...gone from the elbow down and her wings have huge rents in them. Her moonsilver armor has sloughed off in pieces, some of it is even dripping. She's even bleeding in several places. Though, as he approaches, the bleeding stops. If he checks, she's still breathing and her heart is still beating. Quite strongly.
Fudou the Mountain	"Rishi! Oh no....Why were.. We. I.." Fudou sputters, nonsense as he looms over head and then crouches down, hands moving rapidly over her body as if trying to figure out what to do and where to grasp hold. His expressio begins bordering on that of a panic of sorts as struggles and then--sees that she's healing and rapidly a that. A sigh of relief escapes him. Of course she is. He likewise can regenerate from such wounds and her expertise and dedication in such fields far exceeds his own training. He's not in the business of chopping limbs off just to say 'See look' after all, or healing others. "Idiot. You and me both." he grouses, attempting to get his game face back on before she has the ability to speak. "Why didn't we decide to use the dojo! This could have been avoided!" He straightens back up and starts stalking away to find a ruined wall to rest on and wait.
Rishi	It takes some few minutes before she's recovered enough to regain any amount of awareness. Her two main arms are weak and skeletal while her extra ones have vanished. Her shattered ribs have knit back together enough that she can take deep breaths again. She tries to say something and nothing comes. She licks her lips and tries again. "...Fudou."
Fudou the Mountain	'Yes, yes, I'm here. And you're lucky to be here as well." Fudou's arms are folded now as he looks on at the mending Rishi and then says, "Well one thing is clear. You -are- a Lunar. As reckless and as stubborn as the lot of us. If there was ever any doubt.." He approaches now, drawing nearer to her and the crater she's in and then crouching down over it to look her over and watch as the healing process continues. "I know that technique..." he says after moment, "..It's powerful... Though I've rarely had to invoke it but..I have used it."
Rishi	"Fudou... I...I am being most sorry. It is seeming that you *are* being 'too big for me to handle,' yes?" she tries to smile with the weak joke, and coughs, then spits out a chunk of something and a tooth. "...As long as I am not being dead, I will be doing the recovering. Thank you for not ..finishing things. You were ...most correct, that I am needing more of the experience at the defending." She twists her head, vertibrae snapping back into place. "...Could I be requesting once more the favor from you?"
Fudou the Mountain	He looks like he wants to shout at her but it passes and Fudou just sighs and rests both hands on his waist. Then. "I seem to be spending more time severely injuring my friends then I am helpng newly exalted Lunars being hunted by the Wyld Hunt or destroying slavers. Amethyst. You. You don't need to -prove- yourselves against me or test yourselves based on me. I am not some totem for your effectiveness or place in Creation. You are perfect just the way you are and doing what your heart leads you to do." He crouches down over her, "You can ask anything." he murmurs, more gently now that he's gotten that off his chest, "You wish to be taken to a safe place to heal?" he presumes, noting her visible glow. "....Come on then. Perhaps we'll luck across one of Tiziri's towers.. Or at least a safe glade." he moves to try and help her up and carry if need be.
Rishi	Rishi nods, her neck being floppier than usual. "I am thinking I should be able to be moving by myself shortly, but I could be using the help for now." Rishi tries to headtilt, but fails. "You...you are being most correct. Once I am being recovered...no." She slowly reaches down and holds Fudou's hand. "I will not be promising you the boon out of the guilt or the self interest. No. You...you are being my Friend, Fudou. And I am being sorry for asking you to do the fighting of me. As my friend, you may be asking me for any of the help at any of the time. I would not want to have the contract with you." "We will just be doing the helping of each other, when we are needing it, yes?"
Fudou the Mountain	The touch seems to immediately soften the irrate giant and Fudou utters a non committal grunt at first before finally nodding his head. "It was always so, Rishi. I'm sorry you never realized that luv. Yes, whenever you need it you need only ask." He offers her smile though it's not -quite- as big and bombastic as is usual for him but it seems he is satisfied enough. "Alright. Off we go then less prying eyes pry abit to much." With that he takes her up and begins quickly bounding towards the deeper woodlands in order to use distance and the cover of the forest to muffle the glow of their anima.