Motor City Misadventures

Miranda could not help but laugh as she approached the mechanical bull and climbed on to it. Only a few days ago, she found herself riding a huge boar for real and now this. Life definitely had a sense of humour and the blue haired mage was more than confident in completing this challenge. The blabbermouth fool had no idea what he had gotten himself for by challenging the bar and for his sake, he had better have the jewels to pay up afterwards. He was an arrogant piece of trash, traits that even the usually casual Miranda could not stand. She truly wanted to punch him in his hideous face, a temptation that was difficult for her to ignore. Amusingly, she could almost feel the crowd egging her on as well.

Nodding her head to the man controlling the bull, the Slayer relaxed and prepared for the device to start. With a whirring noise, it did just that and Miranda started to shift her body in time with the bull. She was surprisingly graceful and there were one or two of the punters who seemed to become mesmerised by her. That amused her but that was as far as it went. She had no interest in the male gender and certainly did not feel embarrassed or shy about her beautiful form being displayed in front of them in such a way. They could stare as much as they wanted. Compared to her previous adventures, the riding of a mechanical boar seemed like child’s play to her

The speed began to increase but Miranda was in complete control, adapting to the change with ease and managing to make it all look like child's play. The crowd were definitely getting into it though and the male who made the wager looked more and more uncomfortable by the moment. It was as if he had just one of those, "I have made a terrible mistake," realisations. The faster the bull moved, the more graceful she seemed and she ended up taking her hands off of the bull completely, using just her legs for balance. If there was an easier way to make jewels then she did not know it and by the time the bull came to the end, there was an audible groan from the crowd, before they gave her a standing ovation for her effort, wolf whistles and all.

Grinning and performing an extravagant bow to the public, she then made her way to the sheepish gambler, who quickly ferreted around in his pockets and paid her what he promised. With that, she turned to leave, before turning back around again and cracking him in the face with her right fist, sending him back side first onto the bar floor. She received another cheer for that and after helping herself to the rest of his drink, decided that it probably was time to leave then and swiftly made her way towards the exit. What had originally meant to be a night off had actually become one of her most profitable nights work. Who would have thought that?

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Before Miranda could leave Motor City, she was approached by the local police force and offered a job. It sounded simple enough and she never could say no so she agreed to do it. The task itself was to find a bike that had been stolen and return to its rightful owner. Unfortunately, the information that she had been given said that the bike was most probably in the midst of a group of thugs and knowing full well how encounters with them usually turned out, Miranda had prepared herself for a fight of some kind. She had followed the trail that they had left and eventually came to a large warehouse with a pair of guards standing outside. They were unwilling to let her in and despite her attempts at agreeing a deal with them, they had instead pulled out a pair of baseball bats and threatened her to leave. So, she summoned Aquarius to her side, who swiftly managed to incapacitate the duo without too much trouble. Her water powers easily managed to catch one of them with a powerful kick and a few regular blows took out the other. It was not much of a test for him and he stayed by her side as they infiltrated the place.

By the time that they actually reached the centre of the warehouse, Aquarius had taken out at least half a dozen of the thugs, using her martial skills and by now the stairs were littered with them. Her Zodiac spirit had become so powerful over time and by now she would say that she was probably her strongest, well, of those that she summoned regularly.

In the middle of the main area sat a group of six thugs, with another standing up and telling a story to the others. As soon as she and her spirit started to approach, they all quickly stood up and drew out various types of weapons.

"I sense a fight," interrupted a loud voice as another spirit chose that moment to appear, much to the surprise of everyone in the room, Miranda and Aquarius included.

Rengar had just made her appearance. One of Miranda's new spirits, a large cat-like female with razor sharp claws.

"Leave them to me, I'll take care of these fools," she said with a monstrous roar, before suddenly vanishing, surrounding herself with shadows, hiding her form,. "Go home, Aquarius, I'll defend our mistress."

"Very well," Aquarius answered, before vanishing back to the spirit realm.

Charging into the fray, Rengar laughed as she leapt into the fray, lashing out with her claws as she suddenly reappeared in the middle of the thugs. The slaughter was so swift that the bunny girl didn’t even register it but just like that, her assassin had destroyed all that were in her way, leaving just a bloody mess of carcasses.

With a wide grin, she’d then nod her head to her mistress, “If you ever need someone to dish out the pain again, just summon me, OK?”

Before the bluenette could even reply, Rengar was gone, leaving a baffled Miranda to pick up the bike and return it to its owner. Another little quest completed.

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(1050 Thread WC)