Sparing with Keyra

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Ryota cracked his neck as he walked across the deck of the Galleon occasionally sidestepping a member of the crew too busy with his or her work to note that someone was nearby. It had been a fair amount of time since he'd last checked in on how his crew was developing power-wise. Sure he was able to sense that in general most of them were stronger than the last time he'd spared with them but that wasn't quite the bet way to really find out if everyone was still up to snuff. The best way was to start up a few good fights.

He even knew exactly where who he'd start with, Keyra. She was probably aside from himself the toughest member of the crew which was exactly why she was his first-mate. He had no real doubts that Keyra had kept herself in shape since there last fight but still it sent there fights tended to be a good show for the crew and a pretty good incentive for them to pick up there training a bit more often than not once his spar with Keyra was finished and he'd healed up what injuries she managed to inflict someone else was next.

Ryota grinned as he spotted Keyra dangling from the rigging of the ship practically half asleep. Likely she'd been shoved out of the crows nest not to long ago and decided not to bother with coming down from where she'd caught herself. Smirking Ryota drew his blade and sliced a small rift off to his side which sliced into the air just next to Keyra's head. Ryota reached his hand through the rift and swatted Keyra across the back of the head. He quickly withdrew his hand and closed the portal as Keyra screeched in confusion lost her balance and fell from the rigging.

Ryota let out a laugh as she just barely stopped herself in mid air, he made no attempt to quiet his laughs and as such Keyra quickly spotted Ryota and fixed him with an annoyed glare before sle flew over. "What was that for ya jerk" She said landing in fromt of Ryota with her arms crossed over her chest. Ryota smirked, Keyra was one of of two members of the crew willing to show 'disrespect' to Ryota. Ryota was fairly certain that the fact that she was willing to express herself in such a way was why he liked her so much. She simply didn't give half a fuck what she said and who she said it to.

"You looked way to relaxed up there, everyone else is doing something and your asleep. That's just not fair." Ryota said giving her another smirk as he sheathed his blade and mimicked her by crossing his own arms over his chest. He knew very well that Keyra wasn't actually slacking off and made a point to sound particularly sarcastic when he'd said it. Even so his statement managed to rile up his first-mate even further causing her tail to whip out from around her waist and her wings to twitch in annoyance.

"I'm kidding, I wanted to wake you because I thought now might be as good a time as any for a spar. The crew's already gotten a bit of a show from my fight with Belphagor and I bet them seeing a mortal with such power has invigorated them a bit but if they also know that I'll be going around checking in on there strength as they know I will be after we spar they'll be even more driven." Ryota said as he let one arm slide down to his sword while he took a step back. It wasn't that he was planning to attack Keyra quite yet.. but knowing her she'd be the one to make the first move when he least expect--

"Ok" Keyra said with a vicious grin cutting Ryota's thoughts off almost immedietly as her aura flared up and she leapt at him swiping at her captain with her long black claws. Ryota managed to react quick enough though as he drew his blade and began blocking and parrying Keyra's assault. Ryota couldent help but grin over Keyra's vicious assault, she didn't quite look it but her fighting style was the very definition of 'berserker rage'. Ryota scowled a bit as Keyra's tail slipped up behind him and managed to make a long cut across his side ripping apart fabric, flesh and drawing blood.

"Sneaky sneak Keyra, somehow you always manage to catch me with that damn tail of yours. It's entirely unfair that you have that." Ryota said as he pulled back a bit from Keyra launching a small volley of energy at her to aid in his attempt to disengage from immediet physical combat with her. "Maybe but considering all the tricks you have I think it's pretty fair." She shot back as she ducked weaved and rolled past all of Ryota's energy blasts and zipped forward intending to close the gap that he'd managed to form.

Ryota groaned as Keyra so skillfully dodged his attacks it was always a pain having to bring himself down a bit to fight on level with her for the begining portion of there fights as it was there that Keyra really shined as she could counter a good number of his normal tactics with simple brute force and speed. Ryota grinned as he continued pulling back though he moved slow enough that Keyra would still gain ground on him. Finally once she was close enough Ryota made a wide arching cut with his blade opening a rift right in front of Keyra causing her to shriek as she tumbled ass over teakettle through it and into the space around the ship.

"Galleon FIRE!" Ryota called out once he closed the rift on Keyra leaveing her stranded in space and in perfect range for the Galleon. Ryota let out a chuckle as he heard Keyra shriek once again as the Galleon's cannons began firing upon her. To her credit she managed to dodge quite a few blasts before getting nailed a few times. Ryota raised an eyebrow as he watched the area where Keyra had been. Then he paled slightly as a bestial roar erupted from the blast area.

It appeared that this fight was quickly moving on to what was commonly referred to by the crew as 'stage two' as Keyra like Ryota was capable of using a demon technique known as the 'Demonic Aura' to enhance herself greatly. It made her strong enough that Ryota was painfully aware that he too would need to use one of his techniques as SHE was the stronger one now. Keyra blasted out from where she'd been hit and began assaulting Ryota with a barrage of punches, kicks, headbutts, elbows, knee strikes, and tail slices. Ryota groaned in pain as a number of the attacks slipped past his guard before he could do much of anything.

"No more... mister... nice captain." Ryota growled shaking his head slightly as he managed grab hold of one of Keyra's arms and twist it around her back. "Makaioken TIMES TWO" Ryota shouted as his aura exploded around him and he flipped Keyra over and slammed ehr into the deck which thankfully was protected as a few of the crew who had seen the fight coming a mile away set up the barrier. Keyra growled in pain and as Ryota tried to pull away from her she latched onto his arm and spinning herself around managed to knock Ryota off his feat before leaping too her own. Keyra then leapt onto Ryota and began her assault anew as she now had her captain at a major disadvantage.

Ryota grunted in pain as he did his best to block Keyra's attacks, he hadn't quite expected that to go as poorly as it had, especially since he was using the Makaioken. Evidently Keyra had gotten significantly better since there last spar. At the very least while the predicament he was in now was BAD it wasn't a complete loss, with her on top of him she at the very least lost easy use of her legs though the tail probably easily made up for that as it had already cut him a few times and while he wasn't completely sure it may have also stabbed him fairly deep. "Should have... expected.." Ryota managed to say as he managed to grab hold of Keyra's tail with one hand. "Expected what?!" Keyra growled as she continued her assault not entirely sure what nonsense Ryota was trying to say now while she was trying to beat him into a bloody pulp.

"That you'd.. like it on top." Ryota said giving Keyra his widest smirk possbile. The comment to a second to register with Keyra and the moment she got it she halted for a second as her face flushed red and contorted into a 'what did you just say' sort of expression as she tried to come up with something to say. However in that second Ryota took advantage of Keyra's lapse in concentration and the halt in the assault to push his Makaioken to the next level and launch Keyra into the air. "Gotcha!" He said the smirk still not having left his face. Ryota then began his own assault and with his Makaioken at full power it slowly became apparent that he was more than powerful enough to defeat Keyra now.

After a few more minutes of fighting the two finally stopped once Ryota had Keyra at knife-point, even Keyra's attempt to add her own demon blade into the battle to hopefully even the odds a bit had gone sour as Ryota managed to disarm her. "You've gotten really strong Keyra." Ryota said as he rested himself against the railing as the crew cheered for both there captain and the first-mate. "Thanks, but I'm still gonna get you for that stupid comment." Keyra said as she dragged herself back to her feet and headed back down below likely either to the kitchens or to her room. Ryota just chuckled and dragged himself off to oversee a few more of the repairs. The fight had definetly taken a lot out of him but he needed to crew to see that it was time to get back to work.

[Maxxie]

1,250 Pl or Zeni.

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I'll be taking the PL