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When; Today!
Rating; PG-PG13
Characters; Flonne

hunterborn
Summary; Flonne found yet another person who accepted her challenge~, so they go to a clearing just outside of the city to start!
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Flonne was so happy so many people had accepted! There were so many cool people here that would be worth learning a thing or two from, so she didn't mind parting with a few treasures in order to gain much more in expirience.

She had made it to the clearing where she told Doris to meet her. She wouldn't be using her magic, after all, that wouldn't be fair against a human. She had left her archery at home too, that was a bit too long-range for this fight. She'd be using her own strength. The only thing she had actually brought was a small satchel, containing one of her treasures as promised.

"Hello...?" She asked around her, wondering if Miss Doris had arrived yet.

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Doris had already left the flat early that morning. She'd been avoiding the place ever since it was confirmed that D had left the City. It had only been two days but it already felt like much longer. And living with his family was particularly grating. She'd been there with them for four months already, but without D there she had no real connection to any of them, save for a friendship with Arthur--who lived in a different flat altogether. Not to mention the fact that she was pretty sure that Integral Hellsing barely tolerated her presence. And in the end, what business did a frontier woman have living living the the same flat with two vampires? It was like some really bad joke.

So, if she was going to be wandering around anyway, why not a friendly match with some random person? She just hoped she hadn't gotten herself into something she couldn't handle. She saw a young girl with bright pink hair ahead of her, who was apparently calling for her.

"Hello," she responded, raising her hand to catch her attention. Doris had brought her whip and rifle with her, though she had no intention of using the later--just a mere precaution after years of living on the frontier.

Flonne waved happily, floating over. "Right on time!" She chimed. "Thanks for coming! I really appreciate it." Set her little bag to the side, next to a tree, before coming back to discuss the rules with Doris. "Well now..." Since they were on solid ground now, and this woman was only human, the rules would have to be much, much different. Flonne's aim was to learn more, not to injure anyone terribly, so she thought for a moment before getting an idea and smiled widely.

"Well, this is only training, so we'll need a few rules. Feel free to use your weapon--" She gestured to the whip, and I'll stick to my hands and kicks. Since I'm, well...a demon, it'll be a better challenge for me and even it out!" She tilted her head in thought. But what about the rules for the solid win?

"Oh, and since we aren't aiming to...well, kill eachother," She scratched the back of her head, "I guess if you get knocked from the area, you lose! That, or we can do the 'if you stay down for ten seconds or more, you lose' sort of thing, either is fine with me."

Doris blinked, seeing the girl float over. She hadn't realized the girl wasn't human when she'd accepted.

"Not a problem," Doris answered brightly. "I need the distraction right now." She also nodded to the girl's acceptance of her using her whip. "I'd say the being knocked out of the area would work the best. I'd rather not take enough damage to be unable to get back up, if you know what I mean..."

"By the way, I'm Doris Lang," she held out her hand. "I don't think I properly introduced myself before."

"Ooh, I understand." Flonne bowed her head. "I'll be sure to be--um--distracting!" Flonne's vocabulary...obviously did not help her in this situation, but she went on anyway. "That sounds good!" She looked around the clearing, it seemed to be wide enough. "About...thirty feet around sound good? That reaches to the surrounding trees, so it'll be easy to remember." She tilted her head. "Oh, and don't worry. If you do get hurt -- which I promise I'll do my best to avoid any bad damage! -- I'll heal you afterwards!"

"Pleased to meet you, Miss Doris! I'm Flonne...!" She held out her hand to shake. "We haven't known eachother for very long, but I hope we can be friends!"

Doris laughed slightly and shook her hand. Flonne seemed a bit like Kisara to her at the moment. "I don't see why we can't. And you can just call me Doris. No need for a 'Miss.'"

"Thirty feet works good for me. I tend to jump around a lot when I use the whip." She was relieved to know the girl was a healer. Although she had a high tolerance for pain, she wasn't really in the mood to be nursing any accidentally broken bones.

She glanced around. "I'm not sure how you want to start off..."

Flonne had a habit of using Mister and Miss that was incredibly hard to break. "Alright, Doris. I'll do my best to remember!"

She nodded. "I like to move around a lot too. It should be just enough...~" Flonne had no intention of using her wings in this fight either. She stretched her arms and legs, getting loose and ready, ready to move fast.

"On the count of ten~?" She asked brightly. She backed up about ten feet, to give them distance to start.

She laughed. "If you forget it's not a problem." She moved back as well, releasing her whip, inwardly glad it wasn't her old whip from home. Considering the girl's bare legs she would feel terrible if she actually drew blood with the werewolf bristle.

"Count of 10 works for me," she said, her skill with the weapon apparent as it coiled around her with the barest movement of her wrist.

She bounced around a little bit, cracking her fingers once and getting her blood pumping. "O-Okay!"

"Alright..." Flonne began, calming herself and beginning the countdown. "Ten...nine...eight...seven...six..." She prepared herself to make a quick first move. "Five...four...three...twoooo~..."

A pause. "One~!" With that Flonne bolted forward without delay, jumping into the air and aiming a kick at her side, looking to knock her back a few feet in a split second.

Damn she was fast. Doris didn't have time to counter with the whip, and instead grounded herself and blocked with her left forearm. It was a much stronger blow than she was expecting from the little girl. She weathered it and forced the girl back, before leaping to the side, flicking her wrist while in mid-air. The whip arced around, aimed to coil around Flonne's ankles.

Eep! She certainly was quick with the whip, and she made a mental note of it. Flonne's legs buckled mid-air, making her rely on her hands for a not-so-steady landing. Moving quickly, she did a forceful backflip, aiming to loosen the whip's grip from her ankles, and maybe catch Doris off guard.

Doris smirked at Flonne's reflexes in going into the flip as she found her own footing again. The last person she did that to landed flat on their face. She quickly drew up the slack of her whip before Flonne could break loose and pulled hard while the demon-girl was still in the air, straightening her out again.

Flonne resisted the urge to use her wings, but the decision cost her--she rocketed through the air and hit the ground. Hard. At least she knew one thing she needed to work on. She felt the brief second of looseness that she needed when she hit the ground and pulled free, doing another bounce back and moving backward a few more feet.

Oww... She thought, rubbing her nose. She bolted around her in a circle, wanting to keep on her toes from now on, staying focused on that whip.

Doris flinched as Flonne made impact, wondering why on earth she didn't soften her fall with those little wings. Doris cursed to herself, realizing she'd let the whip slip a little and the girl had gotten loose. She turned, following Flonne's movements in an effort to keep her opponent in front of her, her whip still dancing around her. She scuttled backward, more to the center of their playing field as Flonne made her furthest arc around her so that she wasn't going toward the girl.

And she struck, her wrist twisting to send the whip arcing for Flonne's ankle again (or at least where her ankle would be), but at the last second she flicked her wrist again so that the length of the whip made to coil around the girl's torso instead.

Flonne avoided it very narrowly, she knew going in circles was a good idea, at least this time around. She still felt the lash of it strike her stomach, but she escaped it's grip. Sometimes it was good to make full use of that demon speed, even though needed to remind herself to take it a little easier.

She made a few more circles now, faster than she had gone before. When she was sure that her movements were more of a blur than anything else, she attacked from behind, delivering a forceful forearm into Doris's back, at least, if she had made it fast enough.

Flonne had evaded the strike skillfully. Then again, Doris had to remind herself she wasn't fighting with another human, so technically she shouldn't be too surprised.

Now the girl was making it especially known that she wasn't human, moving so quickly that Doris couldn't focus on her, and entirely gave up trying to keep her in front of her.

She had enough time to think This is gonna hurt before Flonne moved to attack again, sensing her striking at her back. Doris moved slightly, enough to take the blow more to the shoulder than the center of her back and went crashing to the ground. If it hadn't of been for the training her father had giving her she would have floundered and left herself wide open, but she managed to hit the ground and use her momentum to roll to her feet. She didn't wait to get her bearings, but pushed off the ground and bolted back at Flonne, bringing her arm about and sending the whip out first.

She grinned, seeing the whip coil around Flonne's chest and torso, barely managing to avoid her own whip as it finished coiling as she moved in on the girl. Two feet away, she grabbed the slack of the whip with her left hand, pulled it taunt so that the demon girl was forced forward slightly and, at less than a foot away, flipped her right arm up, hoping to land a blow to the side of Flonne's head with her elbow.

Flonne had now successfully knocked her back at least once; which was good! But she needed to keep going. Doris had already proven to be far above the skill of most average humans, and demon or not, Flonne really needed to keep up with that.

She made the mistake of idling to see the effect of her attack, thinking, Oh no...did...did I hit her too ha-- when all thoughts of the Fallen Angel were cut off when the whip got her. That was the last thing she wanted--! She really should learn to be trickier like Laharl or Etna, but those thoughts were cut off yet again when Doris's elbow skidded against her head as she tried to make a dodge. "Nnnh!" Was all she could get out. She knew flying was an unfair advantage, but when you're bound with a whip in close contact, she couldn't think of much else.

Quickly her wings flapped to propel her slightly upwards and backwards, knowing the force couldn't get Doris completely but it gave her legs leeway to aim a fast kick at her hands, at least her arms, biting back an apology as she did so.

She loosed the slack of the whip again and leaped backward as Flonne kicked, blocking her whip hand with her left forearm. She found her footing and took the slack of the whip again, and, with all of her strength pulled on the whip.

She'd tried this trick in the past, but having her opponent airborne made it work so much better. With her backward force combined with Doris' pull, the whip came forward like a rip chord, setting Flonne into a dizzying spin. With Flonne disoriented from the spin she ran forward and caught her in the side with her shoulder and forced her to the edge of their set "ring" before letting Flonne's weight and momentum do the rest.

She lost. She couldn't believe it, but after all, she was up against a human, so she had kind of underestimated it. But she skidded to a hault just a few feet outside of their ring, eyes feeling like they were still spinning in their sockets. "Huuu..." She groaned as she flopped to the ground.

When she had finally recovered from that awful dizzyness, she sat up. She slowly brought herself to her feet and dusted off her little white jacket, then looked to Doris with a large, happy smile.

"Wow, that was lots of fun!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands together. "You won fair and square, and I learned a lot more about fighting today! So I don't feel too bad about losing. Thank you!" She bowed her head and skittered off to go fetch the bag from the place under the tree where she had set it.

Doris laughed at how well Flonne had taken the defeat. She was walking over to help the dizzied girl up, but before she could even reach her hand out she'd zipped off. Doris had completely forgotten Flonne had promised prizes to the winners. She chuckled to herself. She'd just agreed to the match to get out of the flat and avoid thinking about D's absence.

"Flonne, you don't have to do that," she called as she re-coiled her whip and placed it in the holster at her side. She moved to follow. "I didn't hit you too hard, did I?"

"Oh, but I want to! I'd feel bad if I didn't!" She picked up the little velvet pouch and hurried back. "Oh, no, I'm fine, actually! I'm a demon, so I recover quickly. Don't worry about it!"

She fished an old but elegant looking necklace out of the velvet pouch. It was typical demon-looking jewelery, with a gold, ornate chain and a ruby-like stone strung on it. She put it in Doris's hand, smiling. "It's really helpful during some fights, so I hope you like it!" She beamed. Bringing all those little treasures from home with her was certainly well worth it.

Doris smiled at the demon-girl's innocence. This place was so odd--running into so many creatures that acted more human than the other humans of her own world. A needle of regret hit her as she thought of D being back there and inwardly scolded herself.

She took the necklace, admiring the beauty of it. Aside from the chocker that she saw as a necessity to cover the scars on her neck, she wore no jewelry--it was too easy to catch a chain or a ring in farm equipment and suddenly find yourself missing a digit or a limb. She rolled the stone in her hand. "How is it helpful?" she asked, accepting the gift and stringing it around her neck so she wouldn't lose it.

"Well, it can make you stronger, or faster, or help you to last longer in a fight! It's good to have handy if you're up against someone who could wear you down." She said, gesturing to it. "The nice thing about that one is that it helps improve nearly everything!"

It was then that Flonne realized something. "Oh! I promised other people I'd train with them too!" She looked a bit flustered. "I really should be going--do enjoy the necklace, and let's spar again sometime! I really enjoyed myself today!"

Doris continued to smile, hearing the explanation of the necklace suddenly making her very grateful for taking up the challenge. She reached up and tucked it down into her top.

"Thank you very much. I'm up to sparing again too. Just let me know."

She laughed as the demon girl rushed off. "Good luck, Flonne!"

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