originally posted in:The New Dojo
Bella let him go and looked up at him.
"B-but Diana?! You only have your arrows!" She exclaimed with a worried look on her face.
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The Mando charged forward and dove onto his back at the last second to slide under the spears, hurling another arrow head as he did.
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Diana then quickly sent out a burst of ice, which coated the arrow like a ball. As the ball approached her she slapped it off the bridge as she jumped and slid towards Cannon, a double edged shortsword forming in both of her hands which emitted frost and mist.
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Seeing her coming, Cannon rolled off the bridge, catching himself on the ropes as she slid past.
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She put her right foot forward which stopped her advance. She leapt off the ice and onto her feet as she twirled her blades in her hands.
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To Cannon, she was almost in slow motion as he luanched hinself at her using the rope as a push off point. He timed his impact to be as the sword blade was pointed away from him.
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The impact hit her in her chest and sent her sliding back across the bridge. She cursed as she held her chest, then looked at Cannon as she was taking in her breath with pure hatred in her eyes.
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He didn't give her a chance to recover, launching at her again.
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However this time, Cannon realized too late that this was a feint. Diana quickly got on one knee and cut across Can's chest as he got close. Blood spurted from his skin as he flew over her and crashed on to the bridge.
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He roared in frustration, the cold having already numbed the pain, and rolled to his feet. He hurled an arrowhead at her back.
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Diana threw her blade up and be arrow head harmlessly [i]pinged![/i] off her left blade. She chuckled at Cannons attempt to attack her with the same trick.
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He was running out of ideas, and the cold was seriously wearing him down along with the blood loss. He still had one plan, but it was risky and he'd never actually tried it before. And he was running out of arrows.
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"Come on Canny. Not giving up are you? Tell you what. If you do, I'll give you a fast death! Free of charge!"
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He clenched his fists and charged. For his plan to work, he needed to be able to make physical contact.
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Diana swung both her blades at Cannon. Her right blade would sweep at his legs, while the left would go at at throat.
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He dove between both swings, slamming into her and activating his special power.
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As he tackled her to the ground, Can saw it. It was a party. People wore old looking dresses and there were knights adorned in their armour. Cannon sat in a chair that overlooked the party and festivities. His vision was very blurry and dizzy, so he assumed he was drunk. He stood out of his chair and looked around, and he opened his mouth to speak. "Go to hell you rascals!" He yelled with Diana's voice as he laughed and drank red wine from a goblet. Then, however, he felt someone grip his shoulder. Then, the touch of cold steel came around to the front of his throats and a painful burn cut across his neck. He saw blood spew from his body as he fell forwards. He put his pale, crimson stained hands on the table as red liquid poured out from his throat and into the bowl of soup and glass of wine in front of him. Everything went dark suddenly and he felt himself hit the floor. The vision ended, and as he looked down he saw the terrified Diana shaking as he was on top of her. "N-n-no." She said. "No, no. NO!" She screamed as she kicked Cannon off of her with an addition of the ice cold wind. Cannon was sent flying back towards where he had started as Diana got up and stumbled around like a mad woman. She raised her hands and twenty speared made of ice surrounded her but each one seemed to be moving in place randomly. She stumbled around, her blades in hand. "NO! This...that....this can't be..." she looked around aimlessly as she swung her blades around viciously a few times. She looked at Cannon then. "STAY BACK OR I WILL KILL YOU!" She screamed as the spears took aim at Cannon.
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He slowly tried to rise to his feet, but failed as his strength was spent. He settled for glaring sliently at her, too exhausted by the cold and bloodloss for much else.
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"You...you bastard! You insufferable bastard!" She cried out. "I won't let you kill me! You won't kill me!" She yelled as she suddenly cut the rope of the bridge to her right. The rope was cut and let off a [i]t-thung![/i] noise as if came loose. The side to Cannons left became looser and dipped slightly from the lack of support,
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He grabbes onto the other side to keep from sliding off. "From what I just saw, you already died, mir'osik." [spoiler]Translation: crap for brains[/spoiler]
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"That's right! That's right I did! Which means I can't die again!" She said madly. "Now DIE! DIE! DIE!" She cried as she cut the other rope. The other rope flung up, and then, nothing happened. Diana stood there for a moment, looking at Cannon madly. "W-why didn't it-" Suddenly, the middle of the bridge snapped and the ice exploded as the half of the bridge fell towards the cliff side. Cannon felt his legs leave the ground as he was flung backwards towards the cliff. His body slammed into the side of the cliff, which made his arm feel like it was crushed by the fantastic impact as his grip on the rope became looser.
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"Uurgh!" He grabbed the rope with both hands, gritting his teeth as he watched Diana.
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As he looked down, he saw that Diana had gripped onto the boards. She climbed up ever so slightly as she let out audible breaths of panic. It seemed that in her stress, her magic had faded away and the massive blizzard dome followed suit and disappeared. She was about a persons distance away from Cannon, while Cannon was seven feet away from the top of the cliff. Suddenly, the familiar black curly haired pale skinned face popped up from over the cliff. "CANNY!" Bella called out as she looked down at him.
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"Bella! Run!" He grunted, not wnating Diana to get her again as he began to slowly and painfully climb hand over hand.
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"No!" Bella yelled. Then, Diana called out. As Cannon looked down, he saw that her left arm had completely snapped back. "HELP CAN!" She cried out. "DON'T DO THIS! PLEASE! I BEG OF YOU!" She yelled. Can saw the tears streaming down Diana's face as she held on with her right hand. She jumped up to grab onto another board with her only available hand, which put her at Cannons feet, and as she grasped on to it the board snapped and swung down only being held by the remainder of rope. Diana let out a cry as she held on for dear life with her only hand. "Canderouse! Grab my hand!" Bella yelled as she lowered her hand to Can.
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Cannon hesitated for a moment before grabbing Diana and pulling her up slightly. He braced his other arm and feet as he climbed so she wouldn't be able to dislodge him, and slowly made his way up. "I swear if you make me regret this... I will kill you... And it will be much slower... And more painful... Than a slit throat..." He growled, his breaths laboured.