Light Up The Sky;; Mythic/Jiyu;; Private

Someone had been going around annihilating entire villages as of recently. Actually? It was only one village, a small and nearly insignificant one at that, but whenever anyone could take out some village with barely any time being taken up, the magic council tended to get worried about it. So why not send one of their Rising Stars to investigate it and apprehend whoever had done it?! Politically the move was very smart, people realized by the council for good or bad reasons, were often decent matches for each other, and could easily face off with neither dying, or only the evil side of things going down. However Jiyu had not been thinking about all those sorts of things when she accepted being a rising star! The only thing on the young mages head? Had been how it would make her mother proud. "The Village Used To Be Over Here." she was being led by a little boy and his family, they lived in the village that was gone, but had not been within the village when this attack happened. That? Had to be depressing, one second everything was normal and the next second, everything you ever knew was gone! Jiyu had lost her mother young, so she understood it to an extent, but at least this family still had each other, and the wind mage prayed they would for some time. If she let them walk much further with her, and they possibly were there when she faced whoever had attacked the village? "You guys could go back to the other village, I'll let you know if I find anything~ The landmark is the clock tower, right?" they nodded once more, confirming that the clock tower was all that remained.

If she'd allowed those villagers to come with her? They'd be dead, but she really shouldn't be thinking about them, nor the way the two children at looked at her like she was the bravest thing in the world! "I guess this whole thing really isn't that bad." she likely wouldn't even meet the culprit, and just doing something like looking around, boosted people's spirits! So the wind mage dropped the ideal that she had received the short end of the stick with this request, and realized she received a bonus from this, more admiration from people, just for trying!

"So this clock tower is the only thing? Hmm, could have been used in the attack, an area of affect or such than." her hands touched the clock tower, before she looked around, to see something about the landscape didn't look quiet right. The land the village once took up? Had different grass and plants than from the rest of the area, like someone had turned back time.

The air smelled even better now! Mythica loved the world like this. Absolutely adored it! When the shadows of the past came creeping back to haunt your mind... It was such an exciting feeling. There the young girl sat. At the top of the clock tower, looking out from behind the giant clock from the inside. She was dressed in her usual black buttoned shirt, her hair tied into two uneven twin tails. Half of her face obscured by her black bangs, careful not to reveal her golden clock eye as it ticked on and on through time. Her face sported a dark grin as she witnessed her own handy work. The entire village. Poof! Gone! As if it never existed... Along with its inhabitants. Such was life wasn't it? The people in this village didn't actually deserve to be here. That's what Mythica thought anyways. What right did they have to destroy the land in order to build it? None! No right at all! So Mythica took care of it. She restored this piece of earth back to its natural state... Leaving the clock tower as a monument to all of their sins...

She hummed silently to herself as she looked out the window. The clock tower continued to tick with every second, reminding her that time kept moving even though she had just altered it. However, something was odd. Mythica's humming stopped. She lifted a hand and covered her red eye. Her golden clock eye began to glow, and the ticking inside it began to spin faster. Someone was about to come... Someone sent to investigate Mythica's works... Her precognition never failed her. She could see through time, and see the culprit. A rather strange girl. But what was interesting was that she wasn't like the other mage's she'd killed in the past... No, this one was different. She was a Rising Star! Mythica's mouth began to turn into a toothy grin... Spectacular. This was a great opportunity. Time to show the Magic Council what happened to their little pets when they were sent to interfere with her...

"My, my my... You're a rather odd one aren't you?" Mythica's voice could be heard from around the corner of the clock tower. The girl slowly walked around to face Jiyu. her hands behind her back with her dark grin. She hadn't requipped her battle gear yet, so her clock eye, and weapons were still hidden to the mage. "Is my handy work really WORTHY of a Rising Star to bother themselves with?" Mythica continued to grin, staring at the girl... Learning all her secrets. Her time magic came very useful in situations like these. She could easily peer into the girl's soul and stare directly into her past. As far back as her skill would let her. "Tell me Jiyu... How long do you plan to run from your bloodline?" Mythica said this, obviously implying her ties to Inuki. She could see Jiyu's history. The girl had been imprisoned for two years, and then rescued by a Yokai... Brought to a guild, and quickly rose through its ranks. This was going to be fun. Mythica also was a descendant of the demon dog. But unlike Jiyu, she had control over it. No ears or tail sprouted from Mythica's head, because the time demon sealed to her soul fought off the demonic blood that ran through her veins...

Once they actually start fighting I'll put my Combat Status tags on the bottom <3

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An inhaling of her mouth and nose brought up the scents that came with the changed landscape, it had been there before, but Jiyu had not been actively trying to utilize it at that moment. Until now? The sweet smell of the ancient plants has went unnoticed by the inuki, but now, it flooded her nose and had her covering her mouth and closing her eyes, it was pleasant but she could not allow herself to be over taken by it! After-all she had a mission to accomplish here, it was sad, but she could not enjoy this landscape, not when it was where a village full of people once stood, not when it came at the price of so many lives. Yet, she inhaled again, looking around, and wondering about the place and how this came to be. Even refocused on her task? She could not deny the scent of the location pleased her nose.

   The wilderness could be so much nicer than the hustle and bustle generated by villages and cities. Often in the past? Jiyu recalled ending up bed ridden due to her hyper sensitive senses being over loaded by the world itself. However that did not happen in places like this, there was always someplace quiet to find, she should be angrier about the village being gone, but if it wasn't for the lost lives she could forgive it easily! Remembering people had died or at leas vanished? Was enough to redirect the bikini top clad rising star to what she should be doing here, using her senses to track whoever did this or whoever might still be alive! Even if she couldn't find who did this, coming back with a survivor who might have information would be pleasant and earn her some credit.  

       Well, someone was eager to own up to what they had done, and Jiyu guessed this saved her the trouble of figuring out who she had to arrest by the end of this! Kazehime tucked her hair behind her elfin ear, looking up at the other girl, and deciding what she should do as her first step. Considering the village was already gone? Fighting here would bring no harm she guessed, but it was also a field this other girl might have control over still. "Well at the very least, the council became concerned with your actions and sent me, plus there was a family that used to live here, concerned about their friends and such, you knock out a whole village and expect no one to investigate? Oh my, your quiet rude, you seem to know my name, but you've yet to introduce yourself~" despite their condition, the half demon sounded playful, letting one foot get to its toes, the other still flat on the ground. If this girl knew that her mother had been enough of a demon to pass that blood onto her? Than the new comer was dangerous and Jiyu certainly wanted her behind bars!

       "So tell me, how long do you intend to hide your name." she mimed mythica, rubbing the back of her neck and cracking it briefly, taking a single step forward, her bow and arrow bouncing against her leg, quiver swaying slightly on her back. If only this girl had not possibly killed a whole village, Jiyu could actually like what she'd done, but life was precious.

Mythica continued to grin. She watched the girl intently, memorizing her body language. It seemed as if she was getting ready to battle her. Mythica's precognition told a similar story, she could already foresee a coming battle. She continued to stand there with her hands behind her back, smirking. It seemed Jiyu didn't feel surprised that Mythica knew her identity, which already told the time Mage one thing.

"Oh, there were many families living in that village. But I'm afraid they've all been trapped in the flow of time. Their existence from this world has all but disappeared." Mythica told her with a dark smile, her stance still not showing any signs of hostility. Soon, Jiyu copied her, and implied a question to her name. Mythica saw no need to hide it. After all, she wanted the magic council to know of her. "Heheh... I am Mythica. It would seem that you've surprised me. I am not the only one who's been touched by Inuki. I wonder if our meeting is really a coincidence after all..." She pondered, a finger to her chin. However, the thought didn't last long before she turned back to her playmate.

"I wonder what your intention is here. Do you really plan to bring me in?" Mythica chuckled, seemingly knowing Jiyu's plan. "Dear girl, I'm afraid I cannot allow that to happen. My plans are far from complete. This village was just an experiment really. Or was it entertainment? It was probably both. Either way, I have much work left to do, and I don't plan on getting hindered by a Magic Council slave."

Right now? Kazehime was only a human girl with dormant demonic blood, that she was unaware of. In all high possibilities, she might not be the best match for someone who had a demon active within them! However in time the match up would improve, one day soon the young girls demon blood would become active, and turn her into a true half demon. However for now this was a mere human wind mage with some exceptional qualities, against someone with the active powers of a time demon. Without a demon's aura of her own as protection? She felt Mythica’s in the girls grin, watching those white teeth spread wide, and while fear did not touch her heart, she felt this would be an intense fight, more so than the other’s she’d been involved in thus so far. Jiyu focused in, thinking about how she would deal with this female that was seemingly able to come up with information not well known by others, out of nowhere. At the moment? She had no reason to suspect her ability to predict the future slightly, as the information revealed could have been gathered by someone very good at intelligence collection. Simply knowing someone’s identity? Was never enough, and Jiyu had no reason to think someone knowing hers was odd, considering her position as a rising star, plenty of people who she had never even seen in her life, knew who she was and what she looked like. This might be an unfair fight, simply because of the things Jiyu did not and had no reason to suspect.

“Hmm and since you're being so forthcoming, is there anyway to undo that? The people part.” it seemed weird that she did not appear to care about the actual village itself, just the lives that had been contained within. For all essential purposes? She seemed to have no problem with the structure being destroyed, her only focus was the lives lost due to it. Even if she didn’t take this girl in? Restoring the life would be just fine, in fact if there was a way to do it and she had to choose between fighting Mythica and restoring the lost lives? She would chose the lives every single time, for now. “Inuki?”

Jiyu had no idea who or what she was, the fact her mother had been a demon was foreign to the wind mage! However she’d find out soon, and even as much as mythica knew, it was not the other demons role to tell her. Listening to the other girl she scoffed slightly “That depends. Will you restore the lives lost? Otherwise I’ll have to fight you.” finally she drew one of her arrows, and placed it into her bow, trained right on the other girl, a shot that would be deadly accurate when fired.

She stood dormant, not showing any signs of hostility, rather her coming opponent was different. She began to aim her bow at Mythica. Clearly this... Wind Mage? That was her magic it seemed. Had no idea who Mythica really was, and she seemed to be unaware of the demon blood that flowed in her veins. Mythica giggled slightly when she asked about the people. There wasn't any way to undo the spell which Mythica had placed on them, not unless she did it herself. And that was never going to happen. "Oh, of course not. You see this entire village was turned back in time! They've all but dissapred from exsistence... You can't save people who aren't real..." She told her, her red eye adding to her ominous grin as the sun began to set, casting an orange glow on the two girls.

At her question about Inuki, Mythica couldn't help but giggle. "Hehehe.. What? You mean you don't know? Hahahah! Oh my dear girl... You'll soon find out." Mythica said, being very cryptic on purpose. "I'm afraid I can't do that Jiyu. You see, for every person that is sent back through the flow of time, it adds to my store of magic power... Their souls are nothing but food for my endless hunger..." She told her finally, not moving at all when Jiyu raised the bow to her... She just stood there smiling...

sorry for the long wait, I was very busy Rl <3

Do you want to continue here, or just have one of us contact the other when we're ready for the next fight and just agree on OOC the ending of this thread, since Jiyu could be B rank right now if I bothered getting her magic approved?