Bumbling Booze [Job/Kite]

"You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

- Kite

Kite had taken his position as soon as he managed his climb up the tree, he stood up right with his left arm extended above him, his hand gripping the branch that hung up above him using it to keep his balance as well as making sure that the weight of his sword was supported by his chosen hiding spot. It was a good spot he picked, it was high enough to where his presence was hidden in the thick of the trees but he coincidentally he could see Mao clearly as she walked about the clearing intentionally keeping her distance from the tree Kite had chosen and yet made it seem like she was just keeping guard with superb acting. It was then that a thought popped in his mind, something that wasn't covered in the planning stages of their strategy and that was how would he be able to warn her if they had company. Should he make an animal sound or try to morse code it with taps on the tree? At the end of his thoughts it would turn out it wouldn’t matter much at all, the sound of a rough raspy voice bounced off his ear drums, caused his crimson colored eyes to search around but soon found that there were four men all in front of Mao and just as lewd as the original bunch they dealt with but it was more or less tamed, just making insinuations that they could keep her busy if she needed company, it wasn’t hard to figure what exactly the man was trying to imply.

Kite crouched down so he could get a better look at the group, two of them were identical in both physical appearance and attire, the third one was thicker man, stocky more than built had a bottle in his hand and lastly was the tall lanky one hunched over like he had a back problem. The next bit of words to come from the lanky man this time around were less than what Mao deserved to have spoken to her, in fact when the words outta be tamed escaped the man’s mouth Kite was about to let loose his magic and his anger all in one shot but restrained himself. He knew that this wasn’t the time to spring into action, Mao seemed to be talking them down from what it looked like, in fact it seemed that upon Kite being asked about she told the lot of them that he had went to hunt their boss and warned them to move along.  "Good, Keep them...“ he was saying to himself but stopped when he heard them declare they would put them in her place real soon.. the whole thing that the lanky man bothered him to hell and back, but it was the emphasis of real soon that made him feel weary about what was to come next. It was then that out of the corner of his eye, from behind Mao the tall lanky man was sneaking up behind her, his eyes widened but then looked over at the identical duplicate of the man who was grinning at Mao and that is when he noticed it, the being that was standing before Mao had no shadow while the others did "A copy? that’s playing dirty.“ he said as he took a step off the branch and let himself free fall from the rather tall height, in the mean time the lanky man , the real lanky man grabbed a hold of Mao from behind and pinning her arms to her side and one hand around her mouth in an attempt to take control “Like I says Darlin, real soo” he was saying but it was by then that Kite had dropped down and front rolled behind the man. "Nope, that ain’t gonna fly but you are.“ he said grabbed the man by his throat and threw him towards a nearby tree which force the back half of the word soon to extend.”ooooon” and with a thud sound and the man making an humpf sound when his butt hit the ground Kite turned his attention to the group that was looking at the scene play off, "Flame Demon’s Adramelech!“ He let loose a large fireball into the men catching them in an explosion and then set his sights on the man who had attempted to carry Mao off with him with a sour look on his face, "Sorry pal, but you ain’t taking my girl here, but I’m looking to play for a spell.“
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"You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

- Kite

The tall lanky man had been sent flying into a nearby tree and for the brief moment he had available to launch a large fireball at the group before Mao. The attack wasn’t meant to cause any damage to the men seeing as Adramelech was one of his weaker spells despite it’s sizes, but the spell had two purposes. The first was to shake the three men’s resolve a bit, plant that seed of doubt in their brain that there was much worse to come and the second and the most important was to wipe the dark clone off the face of earthland, he wasn’t sure what it could do but last thing they needed was anymore surprises. Kite then turned and faced his quarry, his prey his next victim. Kite didn’t pay much attention to the words that escaped his mouth while taunting the man all that mattered was making him pay for laying his grimy hands on Mao, make him pay for the sick thoughts that he knew the man was having, the inexcusable fantasy he might have had involving his friend. Kite cracked his neck as he approached the man and let his magic aura flow from his body while the man who had his back pressed against three he had just met on an intimate level. "You look a might comfy after getting knocked on your ass. might want to get use to it, you are gonna have many meetings with the ground when I am done with you. But first why don’t you stand on up.“ he said to the man with a smirk on his face. The man complied and stood up slowly at first, almost like he was too stiff to do so for a moment but then seemed fine. "Ah, perfect, you’re on your feet. This means I can teach show you how it’s done.“ he said goading the man into asking what it was Kite was talking about and it worked the apprentice took the bait, “Show me how what’s dun?” the man said with a confused look on his face. "Oh did I forget to tell you? My apologies, you see I am going to show you how easy it is to confront an enemy while they are facing you.“ He said and like an explosion Kite charged at the man and drove his shoulder into the man sandwiching him between Kite and the tree before backing off a bit to see what the man would do.

“Real funny Mister, reallll funny!” he said before quick drawing his weapon and shooting at Kite from the hip with his gun infused with magic. Kite side steps the first shot and draws shamash from his back and uses it to block the next shot and charges in using his sword as a shield until he got close enough to be in range to swing the sword at the man. He swung it hard and true aiming to split the man like the toothpick that he was but he was quick enough to dive out of the way so the only thing to feel the sharp edge of Kite’s weapon as the tree falls to the ground. "Woah, I gotta be careful. Why don’t you hold still? I’d rather not cut down the whole forest to just get you.“ he stated as he approached the man, this time a different tactic was going to be used, as the man prepared to fire his weapon Kite acted first and threw Shamash like a spear at the man causing his aim to go a stray, gave Kite the opening he needed and he charged in again but this time drove his right hand hard into the man’s ribs. The man winced and pointed the barrel of the gun at Kite and pulled the trigger Kite pushed the gun’s barrel so it was pointed at the ground and followed by driving an elbow into the man’s neck. The man spun 360 degrees from the shot and brought the butt end of the pistol across Kite’s face, pistol whipping him and caused a gash across his forehead. Blood poured down from the wound in his eye, in his mouth. "Well, looks like you just made matters worse for yourself, now I’m pissed.“ he said and without warning the man pointed the gun and smirked “sucks for you, why don’t you eat a little fire power” the tall lanky man said as he pulled the trigger and fired an Incendiary like round at the demon slayer which exploded on impact. For anyone on the shooting end, such a shot would mean lights out for the target, too bad for him that the target this time was a demon slayer who could eat fire and that is what Kite did. Using his hand to guide the flames from the shot he swallowed all the flames that were produced by the explosion and without a hint of emotion except anger Kite was already on the offensive, he drove his fist hard into the man’s stomach with a right uppercut and immediately followed up with a left hook into the man’s face. The force of the hook made the man’s face go to the right just as the demon slayer brought a fierce right elbow into the oncoming face, the sound of cracking could be heard possibly the nose or the orbital bone around the eye broke either way it send the man stumbling backwards. Kite caught the man by his arm and pulled him back with his right hand but quickly brought his right arm back up clotheslining the man hard enough to drive him onto the ground but instead of the usual thud that came from something like a body hitting the ground the sound of him hitting a metallic object was heard. As it just so happened the man landed back and head first onto shamash that was still lodged in the ground. As the anger subsided a smiled appeared on his face as he reached down and picked up Shamash "Ah there it is, sure glad I won’t have to be digging for this thing.“ he said to himself but was soon blindsided by Mao who, in a cutesy like way asked about when Kite called her his girl. A rosey color came across Kite’s cheeks for a second "Is that really what you took from that?“ he asked her trying to dodge answering the question.


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"You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

- Kite

Kite had finished off his man, his opponent just about as fast as Mao and Nockshanks took out their foes but that unfortunately left enough time for Mao to directly ask the Slayer about the words he had mentioned earlier regarding to Mao being his girl. Kite dodged the question pretty much entirely by asking if that was all she had taken out of everything that had happened. However Kite did take notice of the signs of how the answer wasn’t quite what Mao wanted to hear, or that the answer itself was weak tea. Kite let out a sigh after hearing Mao agree and stated that they had more important things to worry about and truth be told they had still a bit to do on this job of theirs but Kite wasn’t going to let that be the way of things ”Perhaps I’ll tell you what I meant once this job is over.” he declared giving the cute Sabertooth mage a smile and a slightly better answer that his total dodge.

Kite looked upon the devastation that Mao and her companion left in their wake and then looked back at the moonshiner in training that he had just took out of the picture and matched Mao’s sigh just before she had stated the obvious which was that neither of them left one of the thugs conscious enough to get answers out of to which Kite gave a chuckle as a response ”Yeah, I didn’t really have that in mind when I picked that fight. Guess we all took it a bit too far huh? “, the slayer felt a bit guilty here they were with three people who could have lead them to the ring leader behind this whole ordeal. However Mao regained her composure quickly and asked if they should resume the last formation, her as bait with himself and Nockshanks her backup but Kite didn’t even get a chance to agree or disagree the sound of gun fire could be heard coming from the client’s location. ”could it be they were smarter than we gave them credit for?” he asked himself but it was loud enough for Mao to also hear.

As it stood the three of them had left the bar defenseless and whether it was known to the men who laid on the ground after their encounter with the three beings from Sabertooth or not, they were no less a distraction for them, to draw them away far enough from the tavern to do some damage to it. Kite wasn’t even able to conjure a plan before Mao had already made one, she seemed to be one step ahead of Kite when it came to formulating plans, he didn’t like the plan either way, it entailed Kite and Nockshanks leaving Mao here alone with these men and possibly any other danger about, to go and defend the bar. Her eyes were serious but even more so when she locked eyes on Kite and told him she promised that she would be fine. Nockshanks charged on ahead while Kite stayed there looking at the girl, extremely hesitant on going along with her plan but his hesitation was met with a kind and genuine smile, one that was able to melt the coldest ice with warmth and Kite let out a sigh ”I ain’t know you for more than a day and you already found a way to prevent me to say no to you. Fine you win just becareful. he quickly followed Noc towards the bar with the hopes that he would make it there in time to save the bar and anyone who would be in danger.

"You ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

- Kite

There was a pit in his stomach, a knot the size of an apple dead center in his gut. It wasn’t from something he had eaten or anything like that, but from the fact that he had left Mao by herself in the middle of the woods while he and her pet friend go about to accomplish some thrilling heroics. Nocshanks was quite fast, in fact he had already made his way to the tavern, where the sound of gun shots rang through the air and echoed far into the woods despite the numerous trees that would disrupt the sound waves emitted from the barrel of the guns not to mention the lingering smell of booze that permeated the air around them ”woo, that smell. Smells like someone has had one too many swings from their flask.“ he determined as he approached the bar, now with the back of Nocshanks facing him and he smiled at this fact. It meant that someone was so inebriated that a fight with him shouldn’t take very long at all and it certainly didn’t. There were three men standing about the place, all firing into the air shouting and taunting the owner to come out and deal with them himself whether it be a fight like one was trying to goad out of the man who was probably terrifyed inside the establishment or the one who just wanted the recipe and made that his demand. The third one chimed in with the rest. “Yeah! Give us the recipe so we can fight ya!” he shouted and as it was pretty ironic how it wasn’t much of an incentive to come out at all but soon enough the loud mouth was quickly dispatched by a charging beast of a wrecking ball while one jumped out of the way and the other one used his magic to hide away from them. Kite didn’t have much of an idea where the one who sank into the darkness would pop up at but he did have a notion to take the one who still had a physical form out while his attention was on the beast. Kite charged in and rotated 360 degrees swinging the sword full force as the man started to draw his weapon, aimed at Nocshanks but like butter due to the mass and the force driven into him by the Demon Slayer’s slash, his arm was no long attached, severed at the elbow where he attempted to shoot from his hip. The man was screaming in pain from the missing limb and was so distracted that he didn’t see that Kite used a quick reverse technique and drove the blade back along the same slashing trail that he had swung at but struck the man with the back of the blade sending him crashing into a stack of barrels. That is when he heard the sound of Nocshanks roaring, not in pain but n frustration as a pool of darkness swelled around his feet, pinning him in place while the new “leader” took aim with his twin guns. “ Wake up ya fool, blow the beast up then its the pretty bumpkin”. The man who Kite had thought was down for the count took aim with his good/only arm just as the apprentice had. The word blow up meant one thing to Kite, they were using the explosive fire round that he had eaten up before, which meant snack time for the slayer. Kite jumped in front of Nocshanks, and intercepted the shots with a large fiery explosion taking place as soon as they made impact with Kite’s sword which was being used as a shield. “ Ya see that! what a twit gone and saved us the trouble of off’in him next.” but soon terror would be seen in their eyes as the flames from the spell were sucked into the slayer’s mouth and in his stomach. ”Thanks, our turn. Noc, batters up. “. Kite wasn’t sure if the beast caught on with Kite’s idea but going with it the beast hopped up in the air, and with the width of the blade, Kite swung it into the feet of the beast which sent him charging into the stronger of the two.

Kite was about to follow up but a sound caught his attention, the sound of a scream nearby ”What the...wait no! “ he had not heard her scream before but he recognized the sound of Mao’s voice and it’s volume was high enough for Kite to hear over the rukus occuring in front of him. ”Damn it, I promised. “ he shouted at himself as he charged in the direction that he heard the scream come from and he followed it until he saw a sight that boiled his anger to the brim of the amount of tolerance he was going to allow. There she was, the cute girl he boldly promised to protect being dragged by her arm by a brute of a man and she was out cold. ”Mao, hang on! “ Kite charged and leaped into the air with his sword above his head, he had planned on using his descent to cleave the man in two but at the last second as the man turned to face him he had done something the Demon Slayer hadn’t expected, he held Mao out in front of him by her arm, she was like a rag doll compared to him but with his current trajectory and speed his blade would also cut through Mao and upon realizing that he diverted the direction of his blade and missed the man and by doing so he left himself exposed to a counter attack. The man put his hand against the slayer’s back and with a pulse of darkness drove him into the ground, Kite made a sickening thud. The bulky man began to walk away, still insight of Kite although blurry he snickered “Don’t worry little man, I’ll treat her like the dessert she is and if you are lucky, I’ll leave ya tha scraps.” he laughed like an obnoxious pig but the idea of Mao being abused by this pig continuously played in his mind over and over again. Kite slowly stood up, wobbly at best ”Wh...what makes you think.. “ he paused to spit out some of the blood that had found its way into his mouth, he wasn’t sure if it was from his face hitting the ground or internal but at this point that fact was a moot one, the priority now was taking this guy out before he took Mao away from him ”That I will let you just take her? I’ll kill you before that happens. “ the anger boiled and an overwhelming heat surround him and soon his white fire surrounded his body, with two horns made out of the same white flames appeared on his forehead, his ears grew pointed and a tail came from his back. He hadn’t known it yet but he had for the first time entered the Demon Force he had heard of from Asmodeous but there was something else in play, a small flicker of extra energy popped up on top of the Force.. The man held Mao out in front of him “ You move she…” but before he could finish sentence Kite was already on top of him with two searing hot blades created by his flames had cut through the hand that was holding Mao up.”Flame Demon’s Flambergs “ and as she fell he caught her and pushed off with his feet creating distance between himself Mao and the boss. He was holding her princess style but put her down gently before standing up right and wiping his mouth where blood had been leaking from,”I had better act fast or.. “ he had already began to feel dizzy and released his spell and had to catch his balance. Gragas noticed this and lifted his pistol up from it’s holster and aimed it at the slayer “lights out firebug” he said as he cocked the hammer but from out of nowhere Nocshanks came out from the brush tackling the man causing his shot to miss them both entirely. Kite saw an opening now ”Nocshanks move! He said and waited for Nocshanks to move as he gathered a small sphere made of his demon  flame but soon it grew bigger and bigger until it was larger than he was 4 meters in diameter and chucked it at the man ”Flame Demon’s Inferno Destroyer! “ after the attack would hit, the power of the force would leave him due to the internal injury he had sustained and he would fall to the ground with the last thing he saw was Gragas about to meet his end.
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