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Date Posted: 17:24:22 08/04/03 Mon
Author: Erashun and Wureshi || Tew and Atumi
Subject: ...

A fateful pause as the black is distracted earns him a massive blow, Erashun's whitely silver blade slamming into the smaller male's skull and sending his ebony form skidding twenty feet. Now Erashun has a brief chance to check on the battle, and what he sees surprises him.

Only about twenty or so of Wureshi's spawn are left alive, and only a dozen still standing and able to fight. But there's no more time to observe the fate of his pack as Wureshi picks himself up. The black and white have been perfectly matched so far, tearing each other apart with seemingly little reaction to the immense wounds shredding both powerful bodies. Despite restraining himself because of his packmates and his land, Erashun has found ways around this disadvantage and caused quite a bit of damage to the crimson-stained black.

Wureshi's ears fall flat, realizing his children are losing... have lost. The white-eyed black scowls and avoids Erashun's next charge, steel-trap mind calculating.

Atumi watches the battle between masters with only half his attention, and soon switches his focus to the others. He scans those still able to fight and still on their paws -Noni, Gerwyn, Kalata, Elygan and someone who smells like his brother, Jrehkehd, Olakarahm, Zrego and Jysulehn, Ewyna, Deyt, Rachedith, Adi... Teal orbs flicker to the other side of Wureshi's group of a dozen Korats, recognizing two blood-soaked Korats as Yoshi and Akar, and a golden blur as Tew.

The dozen Korats, of all four breeds, exchange unnerved look as they see their father locked in a stalemate and their kindred massacred on the battlefield. Muzzles swivel in union, glancing between Yoshi and Akar, and back to the more numerous of Shula's pack on their other flank.

Atumi stalks towards them, tired frame rippling with sheer grace nonetheless. Unpitying, he offers them the only way out -- "Run now, and you shall be spared." His only answer is a unified roar from all twelve, one black even darting forwards to attack the master. One snap of a velvet-grey blade splits her skull in two, and the rest reconsider charging the older black.

Tew slows to a stop, breathing hard but grinning. His unscathed pelt is soaked in others' blood, and a strange lack of compassion is in his blue gaze. "Last chance," he calls to the dozen. Two begin to retreat, a black and a tan, but are slaughtered by their siblings before they can get out of the group. Nine left. Atumi and Tew exchange tired glances; the black doesn't have the energy to kill them all and Tew doesn't have the heart. With a nod, Atumi dismisses his fellow 'second, who immediately speeds up again to help those Korats of Shula's pack still battling for their lives. Though Noni and Kalata have nicely killed their two black opponents, and he will not interrupt an honor-bound match like Gerwyn's, Tew can still aid others.

The tan's lithe form bounds in speeds surpassing 200 mph, slow for him and not exceptionally fast to even his students, but for Wureshi's non-tan offspring, it's like a living lightning-bolt. The blacks attacking Elygan and Nagyle are surprised to find two of their number without heads, and the remaining pair feel only the briefest instant of pain before their skulls are split wide open. Shaking the gore from his coppery blade, Tew moves on to the four beasts mauling a rather familiar white form. Olakarahm. One loses a tail, another his back half, another her head, and one more a foreleg; Tew leaves the father to finish the wounded off. Muscles burning now with prolonged intense speed, the tan slows and stops near Noni and Kalata, taking a brief rest.

Atumi stares down the nine remaining warriors, noting with pity the ages... a good half of them are under five years old. A white female, probably only three, steps forward, bluish fur rippling unevenly from where close calls had nearly ended her life. By the blood staining her paws, muzzle, and even bladeless tail, she's been in the thick of things, yet no major wound slows her frame. "I call myself Cokach," she rumbles, olive eyes bright and calculating. Atumi inhales silently, ears falling back; he will fight these nine and they will all die... so young, when they may yet be changed for the better. Teal eyes narrow. "I am Atumi."

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Replies:

Watching... -- Noni, Kalata, 17:48:33 08/04/03 Mon
- ~!@#$%^&*()_+ -- Deyt, 18:34:15 08/04/03 Mon
  - The final stretch. -- Elygan and Nagyle ... Jrehkehd ... Olakarahm, 18:39:08 08/04/03 Mon
- The end is near... -- Zrego, 18:39:18 08/04/03 Mon
  - I feel like Korat tonight, Korat tonight! -- Ewyna, 19:09:35 08/04/03 Mon
- Blade to Blade -- Gerwyn, 19:12:11 08/04/03 Mon
  - Bwahr -- Jysulehn, 21:35:31 08/04/03 Mon
    - Darkness... -- Elis, 21:36:39 08/04/03 Mon
      - Fin. *takes a bow* -- Yoshi and Akar, 21:37:41 08/04/03 Mon
- Oops. (NT) -- QoC closes tag, 21:44:55 08/04/03 Mon
{-}{-}{-} -- Kaw, 22:07:14 08/04/03 Mon
- Hello, my name is Baka Cub-chan. But I can make it better! Really! -- Elis, 22:15:15 08/04/03 Mon
  - Aw shut up. *laughs* Just kidding. I'mmmm cooooomiiiiiing *slo-mo* -- Yoshi, 22:26:52 08/04/03 Mon
- ... -- Atumi, 22:17:52 08/04/03 Mon
  - If not a killer, what, pray tell, am I? -- Noni, 22:24:17 08/04/03 Mon
  - Aw btsa. -- Shula and Tew, 22:33:47 08/04/03 Mon
    - *whew* -- Rachedith, Adi, 22:37:23 08/04/03 Mon
  - ~!@#$%^&*()_+ -- Deyt, 22:38:52 08/04/03 Mon
    - Now you know why we tans are so often pacifists... -- Akartis || Numi, 22:57:57 08/04/03 Mon
      - Finally over... at least for 'Wyn... -- Gerwyn, 23:47:40 08/04/03 Mon
        Oopsie.... very very very naughty typo... -- Gerwyn, 00:49:29 08/05/03 Tue
        Is it over? -- Raydiehl - Durorger // Umarak, 13:33:30 08/05/03 Tue
        Hullo. -- Elygan, 13:38:50 08/05/03 Tue