closer then ever..

[amiya]

Mutable eyes search the ship yard. Her inky shadows writhe around her slowly. Eyes narrowed she inhaled deeply. Her shadows whispered words of promise to her. Completely twisted, having been mostly consumed by her desire to shed the blood of the death dealer. He had killed the only one who had ever thawed the ice around her heart. She seethed inside, but on the outside she was calm as the night sky.

A subtle grin in her lips she waited. Her shadows spread out from her, seeking..searching for any trace of the tainted power that he had used to best her lover. She hissed out through her shadows a clear challenge to him. To meet her right where she stood.

[Alex]

Sitting on a mast of an old ship watching, the hood covered most ofthe facial features. A red hue glowed under the hood, both gloved hands rested on either side of the youths form. To most he would look like any normal nine year old boy. as he wondered just what the odd looking female was doing here, he could feel a malice coming from her which had drawn him there.

"Did you ever hear the saying. Seeking revenge will not bring the slain back" Remained sitting as still as stone dispite the light wind that seemed to be picking up, he could feel a storm coming.

[KnOT Death.]

"Amiya...".

The single word spoken from his lips came out of great spite, a bite of venom to his tongue as the figure began to take his form atop one of the many shipping containers awaiting exportation.
It had been some time since he had left Arcane and found his way back into these lands, The Assassin must have left quickly after to reach him so quickly since his arrival.

"Ketsueki Kan is dead....Why are you so determined to follow in his footsteps, woman".

He pushed forward, shifting down to the ground level and approaching the two, his eyes moving to Alex and right hand rising to point off to their left, a gesture for his better interests, he would not survive witnessing a bout between the two so close as he was.

"Leave us....You will thank me for it later, boy".

[amiya]

Deep mutable eyes glare at the figure of the boy. Her head tilted her shadows hiss. "I am no fool child. I do not expect him to come back." She turned to the sound of her name and a look of hatred came to her features. "You have some nerve saying his name death monger." She spat, her shadows writhed and hissed around her. A tension built in her spine as she watched him now. "I will not be following him..his shadows are with me now. But I do intend to send you into the next realm." She growled, trying for the moment to keep herself in check.

[KnOT Death.]

"You're a mess, Amiya. Look at you, you're barely unable to contain that anger of yours, you're hardly the little assassin I saw back in Noctis Umbris...You've followed me to a Vampire ruled land, you have little to no allies and you assume I'm alone here, at least Kan would have done a little homework, you've thrown yourself into a situation you can barely afford to think about, let alone leave here in one piece now...".

Darkness flared up around him in the form of his Shadow, they fell back from the man and sunk back into the night awaiting the command to be let loose upon the woman, he kept himself at bay, his expression unseen though his tone was cold as it usually was.

"You have a lot of potential Amiya but you're going to waste it if you wish to pursue this fantasy of yours. Kestueki Kan didn't have what it takes to kill me and I lived for years under his creed, what makes you think you have the strength to take me down, Did he ever finish your training....".

[amiya]

Amiya forced herself to stay put. Her shadows around her hid most of her from sight. She growled a little and crossed her arms under her chest. "You go no where alone Death dealer. I am well aware of those who are here. Don't assume I didn't do my homework on you. That is all I did in Arcane." She snapped
"No thanks to you!" She spat, and huffed. "I warned him! He knew that keeping you around was dangerous! He did not listen to me." She said. "I finished it on my own. Like everything else in my life." She said quieter. She snorted and looked at him. "Since when do you care abot anyone's potential but your own?" She scoffed, and looked at him.

[KnOT Death.]

"I am not completely souless, Assassin. Ketsueki Kan never agree'd with my way of doing things though contrary to his beliefs, my actions haven't always been for my own personal gain. The war that will envelope my home land will wipe the area clean of it's corruption, purification by the fires of battle. There will be a great many fatalities though all for the greater good of the land. The humans will return as they always do, spread like cockroaches across the capital but not without the reminder of what happens when one forgets it's place. The Lycan numbers will be cut in half and...What happens to your Creed is in your hands now, Amiya.".

Pulling his hood back, he revealed his identity though he was well aware she'd identified him long before hand, his darkly lit eyes did not waver from his form though he did relax slightly, drawing a cigarette from the inside of his cloak and placing it to his lips, lighting it before continuing to speak.

"Kan was going to wipe me off the map when our alliance was no longer of use to him in any case, he knew that as long as I'm in power, I will continue to try to bring my family back from it's very dead state. Like him however, I cared for my family, I trained them until they could find their own paths, I took most of them off of the streets and helped them become something far greater. All of them were special to me and most of them have perished since. There is little I care for now but do not make the mistake that I'm incapable of holding others above myself. I simply choose not to now".

[Alex]

He had been watching them both but it was only when the man pulled back his head he slipped away in the shadows without looking back. "Master Death has come back, this is going to be very interesting." He vanished to let the two battle it out

[amiya]

Her shadows calmed only a little, and relaxed around her. A bit more exposed she watched him. "I know what you did for them.." she said, having read a lot in her time in arcane. He made sense in what he said, and began to doubt. She began to question things she never did before. She blinked, and her eyes changed hues a few times.

"You speak of reason..but that does not change anything. I hate you for what you did."

[KnOT Death.]

"And I do not expect that to change. Come for blood, fight for vengeance. Bring death in your wake if you can, I killed your lover, nothing will change that but Amiya...War's are not waged without casualties...Lives are taken every day all over our world out of selfish reasons, personal power and the lust for petty things like mortal currencies. Kan and I were fighting for the same thing but he hoped to go about it differently, he challenged my position in Arcane and he ultimately got in the way of my plans for my homeland. Kan did not belong in Arcane, neither did your creed. He came from afar just like you did, he did not understand that Arcane and her people are a stubborn land, one that requires violence and bloodshed to pave the way for the future..."

He watched her carefully, he was armed though had made no attempt to draw attention to his weapons sheathed beneath his cloak, his shadows could sense Amiya's growing Anxieties.

"I know what is best for Arcane, what is best for her future people. No one will get in the way of it's future. Not Kan...Not the Lycanthrope...And if you choose to stand in my way, not you either. Don't cast such power you weild away so easily with your life, I'm giving you this one chance to turn back...".

[amiya]

Her shadows moved quicker around her as he spoke. Her fists slowly balled up at her sides. She closed her eyes and shook her head. When he finished speaking her eyes opened. A deep emerald color she looked at him. Her expression darkened and she hissed. "His death did not effect just him!" She snapped, then almost laughed. "Turn back? And go where!? I left Arcane for good. There is nothing left for me in that city. No..this is what I came for. To try and get back some piece of sanity I lost.."

[KnOT Death.]

"And you think your sanity will come back to you when you've killed me?".

He laughed coldly, eyeing her as if she were a spectacle to be ridiculed, he had given her the one chance and she had evidently declined.

"You were foolish enough to follow Kan down a path without question, he told you half of what was to come and expected you to obey without question, you did exactly that and now you think I can return you that piece of sanity supposedly lost? Kan died of his own mistakes and now you're going to die for them too. The pathetic thing is that your mind is so warped around his words that you actually believe his loss, the Creed's decline and inevitable collapse is going to make the world worse when on the contrary, the Creed is to blame for more deaths in and around Arcane than even I am in the time that I've lived there.".

He rolled his shoulders back, releasing the clock from around his neck and letting it fall down behind him. His belt held sheathed 'Harmony' and 'Tempest', the two short swords engraved with demonic power, a visible aura about them as they had already begun to feed off of KnOT's feelings long before his hands had even moved down to their hilts. Finally he tore the two blades from their housings and smirked as the shadows began to return to him.

"And to think, I'm about to kill you with the help of some of the abilities Kan himself, taught me...".

[amiya]

A sigh and she shook her head. "No. Killing you will only deepen the hole of questions." She said and flowered at him. "So you're telling me, that he lied to me " she said, confused .Vivid eyes glinted, questioning. "I no longer serve the creed....I  left for good. " she said, and raised a brow when.he spoke of using Kan's technique to kill her. "Yes well he taught me a few as well KnOT." She sneered. "Tell me..then, if he lied to me. You seem to know things I don't."

[KnOT Death.]

"I did not say he lied to you, Amiya. He simply did not tell you everything there was to his ways. Ketsueki Kan emerged within the lands neighboring Arcane long ago, this we both understand though the day he made Noctis Umbris the home of his Creed, I had already had my eyes on him for some time. As usually as Mortal mortals are, there are some willing to do dirty deeds for the sake of their loved ones, much alike yourself I would assume. Such people that I managed to have wrapped around my fingers long enough to infiltrate his Creed before you'd even rejoined him.".

KnOT Moved to circle around her slowly, his eyes had left her and were otherwise glancing around their surroundings ensuring no one else was listening, though he had in the back of his mind, a hunch that the child still hung about listening from afar. After all, it would have been what KnOT had done.

"I don't know where he was from before Arcane but he's come to my homeland twice. The first time was when the Death Family was still very much in power and though my focus was swayed, I took notice of his movements as 'Noctis Umbris' was not originally his Creeds but anothers. He wiped them out, selectively and to skillfully to go unnoticed, one by one they all died and he disappeared soon after, just vanished without a trace. A decade or two later and he turns up again, not alone but with a Creed of his own and you...".

KnOT turned back to face her, taking a long drag from his cigarette before exhaling slowly before continuing.

"I had my little mortal play toys infiltrate the Creed, it just happened to be the same day I 'Bumped' into him out in the streets of the capital and coincidentally ended up throwing myself into exile but a plot he assumed he had created. He thought he'd been manipulating me the entire time....For all his ranting on about the Illuminati and their threat against Arcane and blah blah blah, it was all just an act...Even I was surprised when I discovered he was one of them. A member of the Inner Circle of the Illuminati".

[Blades]

Yawned, the massive claymore resting over one shoulder as she watched from the shadows just to KnOT's left. Smirking toward the other female. There was nothing she would say in this, she for now just watched to watch the fight. The small glow of the cigarette end was the only thing that showed underneath the hood for now.

Watching for now considering it was of interest to her not to mention it also had to do with her own past as well as it did both of theirs. A curious look showed under the hood as she looked from on to the other, the claymore's blade glinted slightly in the light.