Halfway towards the training grounds, the warning bell rang three times. Once was for unknowies approag the camp, twice was for wounded party returning, and three was for hostile entities approag the camp. Kiko should have known they weren’t going to just let them sit here after destroying that , but hitting them this soon must have been a desperation move. Sprinting off with Ele, the two of them would rush to the front to join the guards there, who were staring down a Heteroatic Vampire. One was a deep, crimson red, just the shade of blood, and the other was a striking yellow. They were rare creatures, and they were dangerous creatures, for their ability to think, and pn, and corrupt.

  “Good m” the Vampire said, giving the gathered people a nod. Not oo stand on ceremony - she didn’t even know what the ceremony of this situation was - Kiko would leap into the frey, swinging her fist at the creature while Ele came around her fnk to strike the other side. Though they greatly uimated this woman, as she twisted, grabbing both their wrists and tossing them away in the same spinning moment.

  Ele nded oree with some stelr acrobatics, and rushed in for a sed blow to keep the momentum, and Kiko supported - having recovered less well - with some Magic, using her Hydros to freeze the grouh the woman and ruin her footing as well as give sympathetic resoowards Ele’s Yin-backed punch. At least, that was the i, but when the Vampire caught Ele’s blow in the cup of her hand, she inexplicably didn’t move an inbsp;

  “Solid basics, but you are so brutish” The vampire excimed, holding tight to Ele’s hand even after she sparked up her Raiju Tails for a power up. “Don’t try to use yourself as a bludgeon. Leave that for the men, yea?” she suggested, yanking Ele forward and then rapidly clotheslining her.

  The focus on Ele had given Kiko the time to call in her sword. Morphed into a Zeldi, she empowered her muscles with a Fulgar and shot towards the woman like a bullet from a gun. Not that it did anything, because the Vampire leaned bad caught the shaft, whipping Kiko into the ground like she was just a child pying at war.

  “You as well. You are using yourself like a Warhammer. And sure, that works in basic, but you’ll have far better luck embrag your natural grace” The Vampire was…surprisingly friendly. Or mog? Either way, Kiko hadn’t expected this much versation in a fight.

  The way the Vampire was just pying with a Three Tail Fatherborn and a Three Tail Raiju was giving the uards apprehension, as they lingered on the edge, ons ready but not moving. Ele staggering to her feet only to be put back down with a tooth-shattering bad didn’t help matters at all.

  Kiko, now pletely livid, ripped off her neckd filled her blood with fire, fur turning blood red as she unched a trio of Fox Fire at the woman and rushing in, thrusting the Zeldi that was then shifted into a sword when the womao grab it. The diamond white colour turned deep blue just as the woman’s hand closed around the bde, and Kiko gave a griing go of the sword and shifting into close quarters to sink a Mana-Empowered punto the woman’s gut.

  “Ohh, papercut” the Vampire excimed, as Kiko’s fist hit her gut and two knuckles broke from the impad the fox fire simply dissipated an inch from her. It was like hitting Queenie, only ten times as solid. The bde that had previously cut through a Minotaur’s arm had barely left a mark on this woman, only a few drops of blood from a small ni her hand. “Points for persistehough” she’d tinue, grabbing Ele’s face as they tried atack, driven to obsession by the Raiju Tails.

  Before Kiko could take more than a step backwards, the Vampire would grab her robes and drag her in, pnting a warm kiss osune’s lips. It was…heaven. She had never felt like this with anyone…her knees immediately gave out and she colpsed in front of her. Why…was she fighting her?

  Only a few seds into this haze, her brai fire to the thoughts and threw her body backwards, just in time to watch Ele suffer the same treatment and colpse just like Kiko did.

  “Ohh, wow. That was quick. I didn’t want to shatter your mind so I made it weak, but still. Kudos~” she would cp, giving a warm smile that showed off her fangs.

  Bravado aside, Kiko had no way of even b this woma aloing them.The only thing she could hope for would be p all her Mana into the sword and hoping that it would cut her in its new empowered state. Holding out her hand, she would call the bde to her, trying her best to ighe fact that her body was g in pain from being used as a ragdoll.

  And then, before anything could happen, a Lupian came barreling through the undergrowth, and gred at the Vampire.

  “Why did you run off like that? And why are you bullying the kids now? Didn’t you e here for that one?” he asked, pointing at Kiko.

  “ I not have a bit of fun before we get to the b serious stuff?” she asked, looking at the Lupian. It was..very strao see a Lupian talk to a Vampire in such a friendly manner, usually there was a lot more r and biting and stabbing.

  “You are a Queen, Sagi. You o be more…like a Queen” he excimed, in an exasperated tone.

  While Kiko felt it kind of rude to interrupt her versation, the st bit really caught her off guard. Memories of another life blossomed in her head, causio gasp.

  “Sarasagi? Th-the, Queen Of Blood?” Kiko excimed, dropping the sword and shifting back a step from surprise.

  “Look Alric, I’m famous~” she excimed, giving a giggling ugh and nodding. “I am ihe Queen of Blood, yes” she replied, looking to Kiko for a moment and then holding out a hand. Something jolted through her body, and it was suddenly no longer in pain, and no longer in Blood Moon Mode. She then poio Ele, who shuddered and then stood bolt up right, barih for a moment before realizing the other person was there, and there was no more fighting.

  “W…what happened?” Ele asked, lookiween Kiko and the two new people.

  “You guys called me, why are you so surprised that I turned up?” She asked, raising an eyebrow. That cim added to Kiko’s surprise, and she frowrying to shuffle through her memories until…

  “That was weeks ago! And we never heard anything back from our attempts! How was I supposed to know that it was you?” Kiko excimed, wildly gestig with her hands.

  “Sorry for not having instant intergactic teleportation” Sagi replied with a sardonie. “Anyway. Fun time over, let’s get down to business” she’d state, looking to the crowd of gathered Kitsunes. Her stari on for a few seds before Kiko sighed and turo them. She had some weight to her words despite only being around a few weeks.

  “It’s ok. She’s not hostile. But it is a long story, let’s get something to eat” she told the crowd, pig up her sword and shifting it into a hair-pin that she slid into her hair. The crowd, while awkward, accepted her words, and migrated to the firepit used for cooking. After all, this was going to be an iing story indeed~