2388/Swords sharpened

Swords sharpened
Date of Scene:	23 January 2017
Location:	Plot Room #1
Synopsis:	Sakura got some help capturing the Sword card from Tsubasa. The bladed woman then had some cutting words for the young card captor.
Cast of Characters:	Sakura Kinomoto, Tsubasa Kazanari

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Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto was not having a good day. A better day than she'd be having eventually, but still, NOT a good day. She dove around a pillar of steel in the construction site she was fighting in, right before the sword card cut through it, the younger girl wielding it chasing after her. "Kero-chan, what do I do?"

"Keep running! Try to out pace her and get some distance! The sword card can cut through anything!"

"She's in the track team, I don't think, AHH! DASH!" And then zoom, running for her life... right into... She let out a little squeak as her escape was suddenly cut off by a tractor. "Jump!" she yelled, leaping up...

The sword card slashed, sending a shockwave at her and making her barely avoid the cutting edge, falling back to the ground. She let out a whimper, staring. "H-hey. You don't... you don't really want to do this! It's just the card controlling you!"

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
    "A blade that cuts like a sudden wind, lovely as a thousand flowers~"
    "A slashing moon sparkles in the sunlight. Sadness, return to the pure land... for eternity~"

Another sword arrives, and she slashes downwards, sending a blue shockwave at the Sword card as she sings, she lands atop a pillar off steel and stares at what's going on, her face betraying no emotion of any kind. The big sword in her hands follows the motion of the Sword card.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto blinked a few times. What? where had that--

The sword card cut through the shockwave. The wielder turned to fact the woman, gripping the blade firmly in both hands, before leaping at her.

"Careful!" Kero-chan yelled. "That's the sword card! It can cut through anything! It's possessed that girl!"

Sakura's eyes widened. "You're that girl, from the earth card!"

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
    "In a battlefield crying with lamentation~"

Tsubasa jumps up and backwards, dodging the blade that comes in, and blue lights start to appear in the sky, energy swords that point themselves towards the sword card. There's an awful lot of them, and the Symphogear user doesn't seem to be too concerned about the possessed girl, by all appearances.

    "I wipe away the drops of tedium~"

The swords then rush forward, striking the ground sequentially. They're actually fairly easy to dodge, but come from enough directions that parrying them would be unwise. The easiest way to dodge is away from Sakura and towards a wall, potentially pinning the possessed girl and card in.

    "I put my memories and my pride in every single slash of thunder~"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto couldn't help but stare. The girl was such a good singer, too. Did she always sing while fighting? Didn't that get difficult? What if she missed a note? Would she have to start over?

The girl, meanwhile, was quickly pinned back to the wall, dodging and moving away, before slashing her sword again and sending a slashing shockwave of energy out at the other girl.

Sakura's eyes widened. "W-wait, careful! The girl is possessed! Don't hurt her!" She started to run forward too, drawing a card... just in case.

Her chosen card was windy. If it looked like she was going to actually skewer the girl, the winds would come out to envelop her and knock the swords away. Because, after all, the girl was innocent.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
Difficult or not, Tsubasa keeps singing as she jumps over the shockwave, getting clipped by it and flipping over, thus she lands on her hands, and she quickly uses that position to move into her next attack. The blades on her feet extend, and she starts to spin, those blades start to light up with fire.

    "Come see the mercilessly burning flame~"
    "Fall and perish at Kagua's wind."

The spinning, singing girl approaches the possessed girl quickly, every pass of the spinning blades aimed squarely for the sword, not its wielder, but with seemingly little regard for the fate of the wielder.

    "This brilliant pengram cuts through the darkness~"
    "Let us forge ahead in our colour~"

And then she jumps back and throws a knife towards the girl's shadow, one that pins any shadow in place, and thus whatever person the shadow belongs to as well. When she lands it's back on her feet, fires extuingished.

    "Our firm determination gives our souls the resiliant courage~"
    "The bond between us drives the ultimate shining~"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
The girl stepped back, using the sword to block each strike, sparks flying through the air as metal touched metal, the flames not even phasing the wielder, even when her own clothes were singed slightly by them and a small burn formed on her hands.

Sakura started to run at them. "C-careful! You'll hurt her!"

The dagger flies... and the girl reacts. The sword clips out, slashing the dagger and sending it flying away. She then faces forward, the blade tip out, aiming towards her stomach to skewer her!

Except... "Windy! Bind her!" The winds lanced out, wrapping her legs for a moment, before the sword cuts and slices through the winds. But... it's enough. Sending her flying forward, tripping her...

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
    "Without complaingin? No..."
    "The world splashing goes on to the end..."

Tsubasa jumps back an to tghe side at the approaching blade, she isn't new at this to any degree, she was ready for the possibility of retaliation. If it wasn't for Windy, she may have been cut, she's not flawless after all, and the target falls.

    "I'm struggling, caught inside the lightning~"
    "It's my destiny to obliterate, to overcome my hesitation~"

She rushes in, her sword shrinking to the size of a mere Katana, trying to take advantage of the lack of stability and hit the sword card hard enough to separate it from the girl its taken control of. Disarming in reverse, or diswieldering.

    "I return to the sounds of my music~"
    "It's the only way I know~"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
The trip did throw her off balance, leading one hand off the sword... Then Tsubasa strikes the blade. It flies from her grip, landing embedded in the ground. The girl collapsed to the ground, unconscious. Sakura let out a sigh of relief, before looking to the card and raising her wand.

"Return to your true form! Clow card!" she yelled, tapping the air. The card began to slowly rise up, forming a mist before solidifying into a card and falling into her hand.

She then let out a sigh of relief, hanging her head for a moment, before turning back to Tsubasa. "Thank you very much for the help! A second time! Hee hee!"

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
Tsubasa shrugs slightly as Sakura thanks for the help, and for a moment seems like she might not respond to the words at all. Then, there's a brief statement. "You're not ready to be a magical girl." And then she's off, leaping away and landing on a motorcycle that she revvs up before driving off.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto stared, her mouth falling open. "What? I just... what?"

She stared, a little wide eyed. Kero flew over and landed on her shoulder. "Pfft. Don't listen to her. She's just some brat."

"But..."

"What?"

"She's really strong... remember Earthy? What if she's right?"

"Sakura, the cards chose you. There's no one in the whole world more qualified."

".... if you say so..."