A flash of green and malevolent red-black swirled together and lit up the dim mouth of the cave which both Inu Clan bandits stood in the middle of. They raised their weapons in preparation to counter the incoming attacks. The roar of magic exploded forth, and together, both Saionji and Andrei called out their finalizing words, locking their spells in and rushing forth alongside them. "... Streamers!" Saionji shouted.
Beside her, Andrei analyzed these people... they wouldn't be able to withstand his full force attack. Narrowing his eyes, and tensing his whole arm, he began to control the flow of mana through it... then he fired forth with a new, more condensed blast. He would not stoop so low as to kill another human. It was something he convinced himself. "... Burst!" He roared, throwing an uppercut and unleashing a ball of flame which was carried on the wind for a few moments before beginning to spiral and pick up speed.
A sword enveloped in a silvery ki aura was raised to defend against the bullet of crimson-black flame, but it only continued to drill inwards. The other bandit guard unleashed his full-force aura, protecting both from Saionji's wind attack for only a moment as the individual streamers drilled inward, and eventually cut through the defensive barrier. "Bastards, give us back-!?" She shouted, before being cut off by a sudden burst of energy.
A brilliant and clear blue exploded forth, and both of the bandit guards were sent reeling as they grew light-headed. The mysterious aura stretched across the grass and dirt between itself and the opposing duo, and Saionji instinctively leapt back. Looking to her side, she gasped, then realized that Andrei hadn't retreated. Instead, he brought up his sword to block, the demon inside of him unwilling to budge on this single occasion... or perhaps it was he himself who wouldn't move. "What the hell-? Andrei, get back! I need you!" She called out, her cry falling on deaf ears.
To budge would have been to give up on Inoshi and Hattori. His face twisted into something more serious, and his glass began to shudder under the pressure. It was at that moment that his body began to tense, though he refused to move as the source of the aura drew closer, and the blood in his head began to slow even with his heart beating. A second pressure began to build around him. His passion for the fight began in his feet, and the carnal rage of his second voice inside him began from his mind. "No...! I'll take 'em on by myself if I have to, Saiji!" He shouted as he put his free arm against the flat of his sword, pushing it forward and forcing his body to step along with the blade. "This one though, he's pretty tough it seems..."
Gritting his teeth, the two emotions he felt began to physically take shape. Andrei's body began to crackle with black sparks, and his feet began to conduct crimson lightning. The two colors slowly enveloped the boy in a pressurized shield, twin outlines mingling with one another. Black and red, his animalistic fury and his inferno of passion combined into something so beautifully him. Saionji's eyes simply widened and shivered in awe.
"... But so am I damnit!" Andrei shouted, the crackling aura of black-red ki swirling around him like something akin to the opposition, but more raw, bestial in nature. His lips curled into a smile as he remembered that memory of the legendary warrior on the television rising against some insurmountable foe. "Shoda said this was humanity? Lemme' prove I'm one of us too! This is my humanity!" He howled, before spinning his sword, no longer affected too harshly by the greater Ch'i still pounding at his own animalistic aura.
The source of the immense ki finally revealed himself to Andrei now, his body illuminated in the darkness by his own power. Grasping at the thick, almost blunt sword at his hip, a hulking near eight-foot tall wolf-man, who might've been Beastkin, might've been a Chimera in his own right, drew the slab of Earthly steel. Tossing it down, he pierced the hard stone ground, then took a grappler's stance as Andrei took a step forward, his hair, jacket, and partially unbuttoned shirt billowing now alongside his chest-chain. Taking his own cautious step forward, as he stepped out of the cavern, he revealed the bared fangs in his werewolf's maw, his face twisted into the grin of a true warrior. "You... It's not often many can withstand me! You might serve a worthy opponent, come at me then, 'Andrei?' I am leader of the Inu Clan, Okuri the Blue!"
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