It's all fun and games until someone dies (JoB/RN)

[Jack of Blades]

A man ran down the back alleys of the Labyrinth... Looking over his shoulder every now and again for signs of his pursuer... Fear lingered in his eyes and roamed on his scent...

"HELP!" he screamed... clutching a clean sliced wound on his side... His words being those of a wounded animal... Pushing forwards he gave no concern for the direction he was travelling or where he was headed... He just needed to get away... Away from that mist that had wounded him...

He ran into someones back... He fell to the floor and looked up at the figure whom he had burst into... The figure turned around... And the man let out a bloodcurdling scream... It was no-one else but himself... Albeit decrepit and seemingly rotting... Getting up and running around the apparition of his own death... The man turned a corner only to be grabbed by hands from the shadows...

Suddenly he was roughly pushed against a wall... Squirming for his life...

"Stay still!" the voice of the young man, wearing black and red clothing growled and the man receded, calming down, the world became much less fearful and he felt safer now that he wasn't alone "I... I saw... I saw myself b-but... d-dead..." he stuttered "It was just an illusion!" the man growled, silencing the figure he held before him... The held man unaware of the danger that he currently faced, as the red mist turned the corner along with a teenager with mismatched colored eyes...

"It was but an illusion..." the teen whispered, his voice dripping menace, evil but most of all, authority "But the reality is much, much worse..." suddenly the young man who'd been holding the stranger up let go, and bowed to the teen who now held a knife "He's all yours Jack" he said before backing away, Jack smiled and grabbed the man, who was now once again screaming for his life, by the throat and held the knife to his neck...

"Help! HELP! HEEEEEEEELP!

Suddenly, everything went quiet... Save for the dripping blood coming from the Jack's knife...

"Soon..." he whispered...

"Soon they will come, once again..."

[Riku Nomura]

Following the sounds of someone calling help Riku decided to investigate. Upon rounding the corner he noticed that it had gone quiet. "It's quiet, too quiet." He said.

[Jack of Blades]

A voice spoke out from the shadows "Ahh..." Jack said as he stepped from the darkness and into the light, his small figure seemingly distorting the light around him, making him nearly invisible to the naked eye save for the slight distortion of his shape. "An Otherborn... I can sense it in your bones, and you're just what I need..."

[Riku Nomura]

"And who pry tell are you?" Riku summoned Way To Dawn and prepared to take up a stance in case he tried to attack.

[Jack of Blades]

Jack tutted "You don't remember?" he asked as two daggers suddenly appeared in the palms of his hand "My name is Jack of Blades, we met on the Main Street a few days ago... You had the gall to threaten me and my gang..." he chuckled as he pointed one of the blades across at Riku "But none of that matters now, no, that game has been played, the city knows the name Jack now... But I cannot yet take The Void... No, I need back the blade but for that I need something special, something that only an Otherborn can give me..."

[Riku Nomura]

"Yes now I remember, What is it that you need that only an Otherborn can give?"

[Jack of Blades]

"I need my sword, with that The Void will bend to my will with ease, but if I am to get the sword I need to release it from it's prison, those bloody lesser demons fear the weapons abilities to invade their mind and warp them to my bidding... As such they've sealed the weapon away in a place they know that no demon will reach, a prison that can only be entered by those with the blood of the Other, those who hold the power to drive demons back" Jack took a defensive stance.

"If I am to retake The Void I need to disguise myself as an Otherborn and retrieve the Blade of Aeons, of course the lesser demons will sniff me out if I just go in proclaiming I am Otherborn, no, I need their blood coursing through my veins before my weapon will be mine..." he growled at Riku "And nobody will stop me..."

[Riku Nomura]

Riku took up a stance. "Then I'm afraid your out of luck as I don't have any blood to give." To emphasize his point he cut his arm and watched as Darkness seeped out of it. "No blood nor soul to give I'm afraid however if you insist..." He split his sword into Dawn and Dusk. "I'll be happy to take you on."

[Jack of Blades]

"You foolish boy..." Jack said with a shake of his head "It seems you don't understand, the blood of the Other is something few know about, it is something all humans carry, I don't even understand it myself but for some reason my research has told me all Otherborn are potent in it, now I'm guessing that this 'blood' may simply be a metaphor, a cover for the magical essence that flows through us all, who knows? Who cares? I certainly don't..."

He started spinning one of his knives in the palm of his hand, a habit of his "All I know is that if I can harvest the energy in the darkness of yours, the Blade of Aeons will be mine!"

[Riku Nomura]

"Good luck with that." Riku prepared himself. "Since I'm a gentileman, I'll let you have the first move."

[Jack of Blades]

Jack shrugged "Your mistake" with that the red mist that had been around him since earlier faded away to reveal the corpse of the man earlier, the mist stabbed into the cadaver before connecting to Jack, the corpse juddered for a while before laying still. Jack stretched his neck and stopped spinning his dagger. He threw both of the daggers forwards towards Riku, the blades splitting into three as they flew, sending six deadly projectiles in the boy's direction.

[Riku Nomura]

"Neat trick. Here's one of mine." Riku used the darkness around him to project a shield which the blades impacted upon bouncing back to their owner. "Catch." He replied.

[Jack of Blades]

Jack did just that, his hands mvoing swiftly as he caught all six projectiles and folded them back into two blades "Really, why are you struggling?" Jack asked as he kicked the corpse in front of him aside as if it were just a dead rat or something similar, to advance on Riku "I only want some of your energy, not all of it!" the body hit the alley wall with a sickening thud "If you're good about it, when I regather my forces and fulfill my plan, I promise to simply enslave your people rather than slaughter them all, but only if you're good!"

[Riku Nomura]

"Tempting offer but I'm afraid I'll have to pass." Riku raised Dawn and Dusk and charged at Jack. Riku was no fool. even if he did agree Riku knew better than to trust a demon as they always try to find loopholes and exploit the hell out of them.

[Jack of Blades]

But what if I offered you power? Jack asked, placing as much emphasis as possible on the prospect. "A power greater than you have ever known..." As Riku charged forwards there was the grounding sound of metal against metal as Jack lifted his daggers and effortlessly entered a blade lock with the boy, leaning in close, so his grey and red eyes were only inches from Riku's "A power that with which, you'd never fail your friends? Never again would you suffer the looks of dissapointment that you can't keep up... That you can't help those you care for... Even... Sora...