An old fairytale setting with a modern day princess.(Closed)

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"That's your mistake." When he heard those words followed by her extending out her hand to clench it in a fist he assumed that she was going to try to strike at him. What he got however was something unexpected, yet very familiar to him. A wave of pressure pushed down on his body and caused him to fall to the floor. The pressure of it was pining him down to the ground, one would of expected him to be in shock and awe. Yet his face held a smile across it instead of being bewildered or confused.

He listened to her words before he started to chuckle out softly. Laughing with joy and not mockery it had been a long time since someone had done this exact thing to him and it bough back so many joyful memories of times long ago and events long forgotten by historians. He stopped laughing for a moment and under his breath he spoke softly to himself and to those long dead.“Even now thy lessons still teach me much my master.” It was a bit fitting that after meeting someone so strong and willing to train him that he would be reminded of his old mentor by the first action they took against him.

A small pulse of reiatsu came off of his body as he slowly stood up unfazed by the whole event with a smile across his face aimed at Shizuka. “I must thank thee lady Shizuka. It hath been too long since I hath felt an aura such as that.” The distance between the two was still a few feet from one another. “However you must think little of my teachers. The very act you did upon me was the first lesson I was given. The knight I squired under for five years. Thou art lacking in power compared to him. If that was thy first blow then allow me to retort.”

Even as he stood up he could still feel the weight of her pressure all around his body. There was no getting around it, still he couldn't let this keep him from moving forward. This was nothing to what he had been put under before. Another trial before him, getting use to this pressure around his body. However he knew that he wouldn't have to deal with it for too much longer or at least he hoped. If Shizuka really was a lady of her word then he would soon feel the pressure leave his body. If it didn't well, that would be another matter to deal with at a later time. For now he had to make his move.

She was standing right before him, entirely open to an attack. It could be a trap, but at the same time she had been so confident in her abilities that she even said that she would force him to use his powers against her. So he assumed that her having an entirely open guard was another way for her to be cocky about her power and not a trap. Even so, he wasn't going to waste any time debating what he was going to do. The plan was set in motion, the only thing left to do was to follow up with the actual actions.

With a bright light coming from where he stood he vanished and reappeared before her. A simple stepping technique that could be used anywhere. His right arm had been extended and a closed fist was coming towards her stomach. He would be holding back his punch, only using half of his strength in order to keep from harming her too much. This was a sparing match, not a real fight. There was no need for him to bring out all of his strength against her, nor could he bring himself to do it while she was unarmed.

As his punch got closer to her stomach his closed fist turned into an open palm. Again this was him pulling back his strike even more for her. If it made contact he would follow up by lifting his arm up pushing on her sternum lifting her into the air slightly, keeping his arm bent before straightening it out pushing her up and away from where he stood. This would be done with more strength, but not enough to cause any broken bones, but enough to push her a few feet up into the air. This would only happen if he actually made contact with her though.

If by chance she did block his attack and it was a somewhat of a high chance, if she noticed he was attacking her and not distracted by the fact that he had gotten rather close to her face with his own. He would follow up by raising his knee up to meet with any sort of guard she would try to produce with her hands. If it made contact he would further extend his first attack to grab at her shoulder to bring her close, before using an open palm strike with the other hand to her abdomen to push her away from him without causing too much harm .

(ooc: -300 reiatsu to resist grav pressure)

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

The Fullbringer woman smiled. So he knew how to resist her Gravitational Pressure, huh? That was impressive coming from someone who didn't have complete control over his powers yet. What she wanted to do was try to bring them back out of him. She wasn't sure what had happened, but with what she heard from his story, they still exist. He just has to unlock them again. Knowing that, she figured this kind of training would be beneficial. Maybe he won't be able to get to his full potential, but she could certainly try.

“I must thank thee, Lady Shizuka. It hath been too long since I hath felt an aura such as that; however, you must think little of my teachers. The very act you did upon me was the first lesson I was given. The knight I squired under for five years. Thou art lacking in power compared to him. If that was thy first blow then allow me to retort.”

Shizuka smirked at Siegfried and accepted his counter to her move. Though he did not attack her immediately, he understood how to fight back. Still, that didn't mean he wasn't feeling the effects at all. It was there, but he could move. How well he could move was going to be severely cut down, though. The blonde figured that if he could get around her basic Fullbringer techniques, he was going to be just fine. It just took a little bit of a push to get him going, and she was ready to give him that kind of training. He would get out alive, especially since she had no intention of killing him, and he would come out stronger.

What she wanted to do was see if Siegfried knew about the other techniques his kind could use. Shizuka, herself, knew about many of them because she'd been either forced or chose to use a variety of these techniques on multiple occasions. He has many talents, including drying his own clothes the way she had just earlier that day. Learning about these abilities would be crucial to his life as a Fullbringer, whether he calls himself that or not. Actually, Shizuka was excited to have another Fullbringer friend. It had been a long time since she'd met someone like her, despite meeting so many other races.

Siegfried took the opportunity to use his own Bringer Light against her, catching her off guard. Shizuka cursed herself a bit for getting distracted, but she admitted to underestimating him a little. She should have known better that he wasn't completely clueless, but it was a thought she had a hard time getting out of her mind. Now she had to deal with her own incompetence by rubbing her eyes to escape the blindness that a technique she'd been known to use often had caused. The man abused this opening and threw a punch straight at her stomach, though held back a bit as to not hurt her by opening his palm.

This attack was something Shizuka could handle. After learning from previous experiences, Shizuka learned that her own strengths could be used in a form of cutback for blunt force. A punch was still a punch regardless of how he delivered it, and it was, in fact, blunt. The impact would likely harm him instead, especially since he was still using the force of his own strength. Once the hit made contact, Shizuka waited just barely a second before grabbing on to his arm as he lifted her up. She wouldn't feel pain, but his arm would sustain some bruising at the very least and be incredibly hard to use after that.

Grabbing on to his arm simply allowed her to stay close to him as she kicked with all her might at his chest, following up with another kick towards the bottom part of the arm that was holding her up. Siegfried would have probably recoiled himself back because of the pain, but since she was holding on to him, he wouldn't be able to escape her. At the very least, his original attack that had hit her would cause him pain and limit the usage of his arm. What saved him from breaking it was holding back his strength and weakening the blow on his own, but if he had gone all out, his arm would have taken the hit.

Because of cutback, it's likely that Siegfried would have been in too much pain to follow up with whatever he planned to do after the hit made contact. After Shizuka kicked his chest and arm, she'd push off of him with her leg using Movement to distance the two of them. With her enhanced speed, the force from her using him as a form of leverage would push him back a bit as she made the move. He wouldn't fall or anything, but she knew it'd be enough to get him to bounce back. She stopped herself about 20 yards away from him and kept her feet about five yards above the ground as she stood on air.

"Not bad, but you can't use blunt force on me like that. You'll suffer the consequences instead, you know."

Shizuka held her index finger up as she spoke and waved it at him in a lecturing manner, but she was smiling and her tone of voice was rather humorous. She wasn't trying to hurt him or anything, but she wanted him to practice. He could use air ground, too, so why not follow her up there? Even if he didn't, she had another plan. Depending on what he would do to return her attack, Shizuka decided she was going to get more on the offensive than the defensive and see if she could really hurt him. The pressure she emitted did not let up just yet, but she was trying to see if he could resist it enough to follow her. If not, maybe she'd change her mind.



Shizuka's Remaining Reiatsu: 4775 (-200 from earlier, -25 for Movement)

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The moment his fist made contact with her he knew he had made a mistake. He felt it, the blacklash from striking someone much stronger than he was. He had seen this once before when he was training with his old mentor. A random bandit dared to attack them and in his folly he took what his mentor called, the protection of god. He should of known better than to rush into this. He had seen how much damage the bandit took from attacking, yet it was in the back of his mind when he struck at Shizuka, he had made the mistake thinking that she wasn't as strong as she appeared. This training was over, if this had been a fight his life would have been forfeit.

The damage that had been inflicted wouldn't show because of his heavy clothing and armor, but that didn't make it any less serious. The backlash from her would start on the arm that he struck her with. That arm soon bursted with long gashes going to his chest. While his chest was lucky only damage slightly with a few lacerations here and there the other arm wasn't as lucky. Just as the arm that struck Shizuka was covered in gashes so too was this one. All this happened in the very instant that he struck her he had no way of getting out of it. This was his punishment for being foolish.

He had no way of stopping what was coming next, the kick from Shizuka would land and make contact. However if she paid close attention she would notice that where her kick had landed there would now be an imprint of her high heel shoe in red. That red being his blood that was pooling out of the freshly made wounds that he had just gotten from the cut back. Still even as she pushed off of him he did not fall, he did not falter. The pain was emense, but he knew he couldn't fall just yet.

His arms wouldn't respond to his commands, they were dead, utterly useless at the moment. He could feel the tips of his gloves filling up with blood. As she spoke to him it would become very clear just how much he had been hurt. The clothing that was once white was starting to change color. The bright pristine white was now being tainted by a deep red. The imprint of her kick on his chest slowly grew and lost it's shape as more blood started to stick to his shirt and dye the white clothing. From his hands a few droplets of blood spilled onto the floor leaking out of quickly filling gauntlets.

Yet even though he was badly beaten, he wasn't about to give up. The pain his body was in kept him from answering back, as his focus continued to be on trying to keep the pressure from crushing him. Even if his arms no longer worked he knew that his legs still did. She stood on the air, something he knew how to do. It was a valuable tool, however he seldom used it given his own fighting style. With a heavy breath he took one step into the air. His foot stopping a few inches from the ground, followed by another step from him. Slowly he was going to make his way up to her. This training wouldn't be over just because of a few cuts.

He had a feeling that she would say something to him about the state he was in and to that he would reply with a heavy voice. “Tis only a flesh wound.” His climb would take some time, but eventually he would make it to where she stood up in the air. His eyes looked at her still ready to continue, he wouldn't back down. No his eyes had fire in them, his spirit was still strong even if his body was beaten. That's just who he was, he wouldn't give up till he came out on top. Even if this was training he something to prove. Not to her, but to himself that he was still strong. That he wasn't weak, that he could protect those that needed protection.

OOC reiatsu 980/1630 -300 to resist grav

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Even Shizuka didn't expect to see such results from her attacks. Sure, she'd known of the cutback effect and how it worked against a weaker opponent, but it wasn't as if Siegfried was even weak, per se. He was doing so well for his level, so the fact that her kick had shown a bit of the damage she'd unknowingly done to him was extremely surprising. It shocked her so much that she took a step back, concern immediately replacing the playful look she originally had on her face. She felt bad because she'd hurt him, but she gave him a warning beforehand. Would he take her up on it now?

Actually, the Fullbringer was highly enjoying the bit of training she was getting with this man. It wasn't every day she got to work with another Fullbringer, and she loved the feeling of being around her own kind again. It was interesting for her, but she knew he probably wasn't doing so well under her own Gravitational Pressure. She considered releasing it, but got distracted when she noticed how much he was trying to resist her. She was thoroughly impressed with his willingness to go on with the spar even though he was losing, but this could also be good for him, in a way.

Siegfried began climbing the air like stairs to get to his feminine opponent. Shizuka smiled at his determination, knowing it was a shame she'd already lost him to another organization. She wasn't too familiar with "Uzaki Enterprises" or whatever it was, but she made a mental note to snoop through Xcution's documents and find some information on these other guys. Soon enough, though, Siegfried was getting closer to her. The more he limped along, the more she felt sorry for what she was doing to the poor guy. She was worried about him, and he probably saw it on her face.

"Siegfried, you're seriously injured. Don't you think you need a break?"

“Tis only a flesh wound,” he responded, sounding as tired as ever.

"Alright, well, then I guess it's time we bump this up a little if you're still raring to go!"

Shizuka met his eyes with her own and flashed him a friendly grin as she excitedly stated her own Fullbring's name. Her shoes glowed a beautiful shade of purple, her own spirit color, before shining brightly and transforming into her all-too-familiar weapon. Its partnered storage bucket fell to the ground beneath the two of them. The Xcution Seven Guns assassin had finally unleashed herself upon the man, allowing him to take in her weapon's form. While he most likely would be a but underwhelmed at the site of it, she'd soon display what abilities she was hiding from him before this moment.

"You said you weren't going to use your powers unless I did. Well, now I am! If you need to be healed, I actually have a way to do that. We can take care of your injuries before you get too bad, but not until the end of the spar. Deal?"

She chose a rather calm fluid this time around, going with a bit of hydrochloric acid. This stuff wouldn't kill anybody unless high concentrations were poured on them all at once, but she had no intention of dumping her bucket's contents on this man. If she wanted to kill him, she would have to shoot him until it ran out on its own. Since she was avoiding doing that, Shizuka decided it would be best to set the gun to Stream Line. Each shot used five gallons of liquid, but her Stream Line was thin and less damaging than Blast Cannon or Super Soaker.

"Oh, and I almost forgot!"

Shizuka spoke to him and then waved her hand upwards. As her hand moved, the gravity she applied to him before had vanished, allowing him full mobility. She didn't want anymore handicaps. It's about time he was able to fight to his full extent, despite the fact that he was hurt. If he wanted to learn about every ability he could develop, he'd have to fight her seriously. She knew neither of them meant the other any harm, but she knew he was ready. His body wasn't as durable as some races, maybe, but it was still durable. He'd be okay.

Shizuka jumped up in the air one more time, firing three shots of acid towards Siegfried. She was an excellent shot, so it would be pretty hard for her to miss unless he moved quickly. If he chose to the way she assumed he would, she already planned on paying strict attention to his feet for whatever direction he chose to move in. As soon as he made his direction clear, she'd use Movement to follow him and shoot three more shots at Siegfried. She kept a distance of ten or fifteen meters either way, but if she had to get closer, she would.

Realizing she had already used thirty gallons with her previous attacks, she thanked herself for not choosing Blast Cannon because she'd already be down to forty gallons if she had. That setting used ten gallons per shot. It wasn't too big of a deal since Shizuka could easily refill her bucket immediately, but it was a step she'd need to consider when it came to that. Still, she was going to take him seriously. So he said he was a knight, right? She wanted to test how much he learned from his own time and how useful it truly was to him.



Shizuka's Remaining Reiatsu: 4550 (-200 for Beach Queen, -25 for Movement)
Fullbring Stage 1: 1/10
Liquid Type: Hydrochloric Acid
Gallons Remaining: 70/100 (-30 for Stream Line)

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"Alright, well, then I guess it's time we bump this up a little if you're still raring to go!"

Those words were exactly what he wanted to hear at this moment. He knew that he couldn't keep his head high if he lost here and now to her in the way that he did. How could he bare to handle the shame of being so foolish in his attack letting it cost him so much without gaining a thing. It wasn't an insult to Shizuka, it was his own mistake, one that he should of known better than to make. She was much stronger than he was, that much was clear to him. Underestimating her had been his own fault and his own doom.

While he wanted to keep on going, to keep this training from ending after one hit, his body wasn't aligned with his mind. It was bleeding out quickly, his vision was becoming blurred more and more with each breath he took. For a brief moment he closed his eyes and that was all it took for him to be brought back to another memory. Another fragment of his past and who he was. Who his allies were and more importantly where he truly belonged. In a time where he was honored as a knight and not mocked behind his back by those who claimed to be his cohorts.

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The smell of wet grass and dog filled the air as he continued onwards on his trusty steed. The rain had just fallen once more across this town. Every night it fell in this small place, each night wiping away more and more of the soil that made up the ground under their feet. Normally rain would have been a blessing, however the constant rain had taken it's toll on the land. No longer was there soft and fertile soil to plant crops in, no now all that remained was hard rock, made moist by the rain and sharpened strangely by it as well.

Months and months of rain had caused a famine from the crops being unable to be planted. He was here to find what was causing this as rain lasting this long was not natural. His all knowing king had sent him to deal with whomever or whatever was causing this. He was soaked to the bone, haunted by an empty night with no sounds. Slowly the wind started to pick up filling the empty night with the soft rustles of empty tree branches sound followed by a chill from the air being cold.

From atop his horse he saw the village and the pitiful state that it was in. For as far as he could see around it there was no sign of life. None of the trees had any leaves of them, in the barren forest that surrounded the town there was no sign of movement at all nor any sounds made by animals, not even owls crying out at night looking for prey. There was nothing,that hinted at life still here in this town, nothing say for a few flicking flames from candles in the homes of the town. This was a somber sight as he had seen this town once before in his travels before the weather had taken it's toll.

The woods had been so lush that one could easily lose sight of the village after just stepping into them. Life danced around the woods as if drawn to it and at night the town boomed with life as many of the townsfolk celebrated at a tavern nearby. This was a booming town with a happy populace. Now that time seemed so long ago, with a heavy sigh he forced his horse to move forward to the town. His armor was soaked and so was the clothing under it, the wind was causing him to feel cold, he didn't want to catch his death in the cold, not in this depressing place.

As he approached the town the only sounds were the clops of his horse. Each step echoing in the night without anything to silence them. Nearing what he assumed was the tavern a woman opened the door looking to see what was making the sound. Atop his horse he saw her, she was much older than him and well past her prime. Her hair looked weathered and frayed while her face appeared tired and her eyes held desperation. In a soft soft voice she uttered out words very tiredly. “Oh great knight have thee come to free our land of this curse?”

In a confident yet stern voice he spoke, each word reverberating off of his soaking wet armor. “Aye good lady, I hath come to end this cursed weather and bring the light back to this land owned by our king and god.” Getting off of his horse he lead it to a nearby stable for it to rest for the night as he himself ventured back into the tavern hoping to stay the night in one of the rooms. However as he closed the door to the tavern the old woman who had greeted him attacked him.

She pulled out a knife and attempted to stab at his chest, however he was able to intercept her arm and keep her attack from reaching his armor. “Foul woman why hath thee dared to attack a knight of the king.” Tears streamed off of her face as she tried to free her arm. His helmet still on he yelled at her again his tone now more forceful. Again she offered no answer say for the tears coming off of her eyes. Before he could scream at her again he was blasted by a pulse of water coming from the side. His grip on the older woman loosened as he fell backwards.

It was there on the ground that he saw who attacked him. It was a young and pretty woman who resembled the older lady he held in his grasp. She shrieked out in rage at him “remove thy hands from my mother.” Water formed around her hands, that was when he understood why the woman had attacked him. The plague had been this girl, the daughter of the tavern owner and he was here to end it. The mother acted to save the life of her daughter from his blade. Sadly he had his duty to his country and king, she would have to die for her crimes against the crown and this land.

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The words of Shizuka and the combination of her removing the pressure of her spiritual power on him caused him to snap somewhat back into the present. He had lost the part about her healing him, but he did hear a bit of her saying that she forgot about something. His head was still in a fog as he looked at what appeared to be her blessing. To him it was a strange device that had a bucket as well, a rather bright bucket, however he couldn't understand as to what the other thing in her hand was. He had never come in contact with something like that yet, to him the concept of a water gun was something new and foreign.

Either way it meant that she had brought out her blessing, it was time for him to unleash his own. His gauntlets glowed brightly then the long chains fall from his side reaching the floor as his hands barely grasp the ends of them. He knew it was pointless to attempt to hold onto them with a firm grip as his hands could no longer close to make a fist. The chains slowly slipped through his grasp and as the end with a large boxed snake head sips into his grasp it catches on his hand allowing him to hold onto it briefly. His own blood dripping onto his sleeping fullbring, if it had been awake he could of used it better in this state, however right now he couldn't hope but to just hold on to the chains.

He followed her with his eyes as she climbed up higher into the air, waiting to see what she would do, what her blessing was. With the distance growing between them he assumed that she had a long range blessing, somewhat similar to his. His vision blurred again, as he saw before him not the friendly and kind lass he had met just moments ago, but instead the image of the young witch who he had fought so long ago. Then the attack came towards him, three blasts of something at a fast pace, to him though he saw three torrents of water head towards him.

He remembered the pain of getting hit by one so long ago, the force was enough to push him aside and cause him to lose balance when he was in good condition. Now in this state he couldn't force himself to stand from these blasts. He knew his action, there was no movement from him say for him rapidly dropping from the place he was standing at. He had undid the airground he had been standing on and rapidly started to fall from where he was. The first few torrents of what he assumed was water had missed him slightly. He was ready to counter attack when he saw her move and aimed another three shots of what he assume was water. However he was very wrong about the contents of the fluid of what was being fired at him.

In a bright flash he used bringer light to place himself to the left and above Shizuka, who he saw as the witch of old. The blood loss was high at this point, yet he wasn't going down without a fight. With his arms out of commission he used what he had left in his body to swing his his leg to strike her on her side. It didn't matter if his kick landed or not, the fight was over for him. It was the last of the energy he had in his body. His vision faded into black, before he felt his strength leave his body entirely.

With his strength drained he couldn't keep himself upright any longer nor control the reiatsu under his feet acting as a platform for him to stand upon. With no control over his body or the reiatsu he felt to the ground landing face first with a large thud as his body and steel hit the ground, followed by the last bits of his chains hitting the ground. The rough landing caused his armor to shuffle allowing the blood that had pooled in his clothing and armor to spill out. Now around him was a puddle of his own blood, here Shizuka could see true damage that her cutback had caused him.


OOC:Remaining reiatsu 930/1630 -50 for bringer light

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

"Not bad."

Shizuka nodded in his direction as she noted the fact that this man dodged her attacks. She wasn't trying to hurt him so much as she was trying to get him to think on his feet. Still, she could tell that he was getting tired and how hurt he was. She wasn't able to see the full extent of it, but she could tell that he wasn't at full capacity anymore even though he released his weapon. He was soaking the poor thing in his own blood, to which Shizuka grimaced. She didn't have a problem with blood and guts or anything, but she hated it staining things. Blood was so difficult to wash out and his clothes were no exception.

As he attempted to counter her attacks, he made his way up towards her using Bringer Light. She had to cover her eyes, but in doing so, her positioning made it so that his kick wouldn't hurt her that badly even if it could. She let him kick her, of course, since she was actually caught off guard, but it didn't matter to her. Cutback would still work against him, and she expected even more bones to be crushed. It didn't surprise her when she looked back in Siegfried's direction and saw him drop to the ground, his body hitting hard against the earth beneath him as he did so. She flinched at the thought of the pain that must have caused him.

Shizuka brought herself back down to the land underneath the two of them, carefully inspecting his wounds. He was not as strong as she was, but he'd make it out alive. She just needed him to listen to her since she could heal him. It was unlikely that he was even conscious now, but she could at least heal some of the broken and bruised things within his body. The mess that was his entire being shook Shizuka awake as she realized just what the power difference did to him. She hated looking at him like this, but she gave him fair warnings throughout their training. Shizuka needed to try to get him to wake up, even if it was a little bit.

"Hey!" Shizuka started shaking his shoulder to see if he'd open his eyes. "I can help you but I need you to cut me. Can you do that?"

As the man stayed there, she kept shaking him and whispering in his ear that she needed him to injure her somehow. It was an odd request, but she couldn't get what she needed on her own. She was going to have to ask for help and he was the only help here. Blaize had since left and she didn't see any point in calling the poor reptile all the way over there just to scratch her owner. Instead, she hoped that Siegfried would have just enough consciousness to snap out of his blacked out state and cut her somehow. Well, that, and not be weird about it.



Shizuka's Remaining Reiatsu: 4550
Fullbring Stage 1: 2/10
Liquid Type: Hydrochloric Acid
Gallons Remaining: 70/100

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There it was, darkness, nothingness only a vast void of black and a cold chill that slowly crept it's way into his body. He could feel his fingers numbing as if they were bitten by frost. Here the was, without knowing how he had gotten here or where exactly he was, the only thing he knew is that he couldn't move and it was getting colder. After letting out a heavy breath he could see it in the air. Yet in this darkness as he looked for answers he saw one thing, a bright light, calling to him becoming him to go to it. It's whispers were inviting him to move. It was then he understood exactly where he was, he was at the end. The door of death and the afterlife awaited him.

Upon this realization he found himself able to move, the cold chill still was there, but now he could move and so he did. He lurched forward hindered by the injuries he had taken in the training with Shizuka. He was going to the light, going to the end to meet the one who had blessed him and to ask if his deeds had earned him a spot in eternal paradise. He had known he was a good knight, yet he had his own sins that had cost him dearly. His pride had cost him the life he had known so many years ago and now once again it had cost him his life.

With each stride forward the whispers grew louder and louder. He continued forward till he heard a voice in the whispers he recognized. It was her voice, the voice of the woman he had loved a lifetime ago. Alexia Endicott, here in the moments before he entered the afterlife was a voice that he knew, one that brought a smile across his face. To be reunited with the woman he had loved so long ago was something that he wanted, yet he knew that while he lived it would never happen. For a moment he waited and listen to her voice calling to him, before coming closer to the light.

Now before the light he could see no darkness around him, the chill vanished as he basked in it's warmth. Facing it he could see beyond the light, past everything he could see a field of grass and waiting for him was Alexia. He tired to speak to her, he opened his mouth and called to her, yet there was no sound. His voice was gone, yet it seemed as if she had heard him as she turned to face him. With a smile across her face she shook her head and softly uttered out the words “not yet.”

Heavy, his eyes were very heavy as he felt something jostling him back and forth. The motion was enough to wake him up from blacking out due to the loss of blood. To bring him out of the dreamlike state he had been in and back to reality. His vision was blurred as he saw Shizuka standing over him. It was hard to understand, but he could make out what she was telling him to do. She wanted him to cut her, if he could. He didn't understand how that would help him, but he assumed that she had known something that he didn't.

With the last of his strength he moved his hand to rest on her arm. Slowly dragging back his fingers against her skin he tried to cut her using the metal serrations on his gauntlets. They would dig and pull across her skin as his hand slowly slipped off of her arm and dropped to the floor. He had no idea if it had worked or not, however he no longer had any strength left to do anything. He had seen the end, he had seen what was waiting for him and now he questioned if he should keep going or just accept the promise of the afterlife waiting for him.

[Shizuka Sanamizu ✮]

Well, it was obvious that this man wasn't doing so good. He was practically lifeless as he came back from his fainted state, and Shizuka felt bad for the damage she inflicted upon him. Er, well, the truth was that he did it himself. Shizuka shrugged the thoughts away as Siegfried slowly, painfully, held his hand against her skin to cut into her flesh ever-so-slightly. It managed to work, though, and Shizuka quickly got up before the blood could dry and brought her injury to her bucket. She shook her arm above it and was able to get at least one drop into the liquid she had, transforming it into a brilliantly-colored fluid. It was bright and shiny, and seemed to only glow even more as she sacrificed some of her own Reiatsu to activate it.

"Here, I got you now."

Shizuka rushed back over to Siegfried with her gun in hand as the remaining 70 gallons was transformed into her Royal Elixir. She aimed her gun at the man and shot the last of the bucket's contents at his body, allowing this human form to absorb every last bit of it. All he would feel would be his body getting lighter as the pain left him, healing the injuries he had obtained during their training. He wasn't dead yet, so she could fix what she needed to in order to bring him back up to strength. As the power washed over him, stitching up all of his cuts and bruises and scrapes, Siegfried would be able to eventually feel everything piecing itself back together. He'd be okay again.

"You're going to want to rest a bit for a while until everything is fixed, but this Royal Elixir will make you better in the next few minutes. It heals quickly, especially since I still had so much liquid left in my bucket to use. Everything will be fine now, so just take it easy."

The Fullbringer smiled and turned to leave, giving the man the space he deserved. The fight was fun and all, but she knew he learned a bit about cutback, at the very least. He wasn't quite at the point where he could defeat an Xcution Seven Guns member, but she had faith in his abilities. It wouldn't be much longer now before they could meet up again and have a rematch, but he would remember this training and do better the next time. All it took was experience, and he was getting enough of that. Shizuka waved him off and deactivated her Fullbring, returning her shoes to her feet with a small jump. Once the light vanished from the transformed articles, she turned back around and left Siegfried to his healing.

"I hope I see you again! It's been nice fighting a knight like you. Next time, I won't go so easy."

And once her words were spoken, with a slight giggle, the blonde walked away to return to her home in Karakura.

END THREAD



Shizuka's Remaining Reiatsu: 4150 (-400 for Royal Elixir)

[Zeich Yajuu]

124 Paragraphs = 680 TP.

Since it was not specified, both will be awarded this as CTP. That being said, I am not sure if Siegfried was still going for SP due to the mid-way grading, so if so, please let me know and I can change the award.

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I'll take it as SP.