This brings back memories...

[Kie]

(OOC: Having recently revived my favourite RP character, I'd like to test how rusty my skills are. I was thinking of expanding Zack's past and making it into a story. Some of the names in his history are copyright and would be changed, but it would be fun i think. No-one would read but oh well :D. This can be a fight or an RP, whatever.)

A cold night in the snow, a slight breeze in the wind. The cherry blossoms await the return of warm times to once again blossom into beauty. They are patient, for they know the coming of warmth to be inevitable. To be a blossom tree is to be in a state of eternal comfort. The knowledge of happier times, brighter times to come. The cherishing of all you have experienced and are to experience. No regret, no fear, no suffering to adhere. No wishing for it all to end...

Zachary threw his pen down, laughing in a dark manner.

"Would it not be great to be a tree, indeed.", he said with a smirk, to nobody in particular.

"To be dead for half a year, hm.", he continued. Living in solitude since leaving his son, Sayukie, in the Earth realm, Zachary had nothing to do but write. He would write only of what was around him. Not of past and not of future, the writings only gave a vivid insight to what the man who had lost so much was really trying to convey. There was nobody to read them, nobody within hundreds of kilometres. Even if there were, the writings only served as a guide for Zachary's mind, in trying to deal with his past, in deciding what to do in the future. And only Zachary would ever know what they really meant.

"Although, a choice to not exist for half a year and be free, or live the full year and be cursed...", he said, after pacing his small bedroom several times.

"...perhaps they are so lucky after all. But then again...hm?". Knocks were heard at the door. Zachary immediately grabbed his Magustic Blade and ran to the front door...

"How did they pass the traps?", he said on his way, sounding slightly agitated. He opened the door, blade drawn. The man at the door was a few steps back by this point, as if he already knew the reaction to expect. As if he knew the man to expect. Zachary stared at the man for a moment, then smirked.

"Looks like you remember me after all.", the man said calmly as he drew his blade and rose it in an attack stance.

"Yes, I remember all too well.", Zachary said as he raised his blade to match.

[teddy]

'how could you forget me after all? i was always in your shadow. Remember how you used to beat me?'

Teddy extented his wings in a show off fashion, extending them to their full length. He flashed a splay of magic through them, making them shimmer for a brief second and letting them return to a fluffly, placid grey.

'Like them? i finally learned how to reveal my true self. this is how you avoid simple tricks.'

Zackary looked like he was not impressed with Teddy's entrance. By Teddy's arrogance he thought he would have been disgusted with the other person as well. But teddy knew his intentions were pure and he had to be strong facing his old rival.

Teddy's emotions ran with the weather, a small and complicated thing about being an angel. when he lughed it shone, cried it rained and the air around was humid, choking and confining. Teddy was stressed, fearful and respectful of Zack, his old friend but he was reacting to the situation the only way he knew how - the powerful act tough and invincible - at least thats what he was taught. But he was way out of his boundaries.

'Snap out of it, and get that tough-guy look off of your face!' Zack snapped at him.

Teddy was taken aback in shock at his old friends frustratration at him, but he shouldn't have felt surprised. Zack was a friend, an old one at that and not just that, a mentor, a travel companion, questing and serving together. Teddy just wanted to prove himself, even if it was his last battle he would give it all, thats what he had decided to do.

'Zack, i apologise for my attitude, but that doesnt change the fact of our history or working relationship. I came here to fight.'

'i can see that, clearly, your blade is raised. Very well Teddy. It will be your last wish that i see granted' Zackary was calm, as usual before a fight, Teddy noted. Teddy had to reclaim the same serene state, if he hoped to overcome Zack, the man of many long years of battle.

'It will be the last fight between us. You do realize this?' Zack proclaimed, as if Teddy hadn't understood the first time.

Teddy nodded, he was ready and itching to fight...

He took to the skies and motioned for Zack to come outside and fight, before flapping his massive wings and diving towards Zack, eager to get it started.