Lonely Maiden Lake

This lake is located in the Mystic Forest. Guarded over by a mysterious woman. Many men (and a few women) have attempted to beseech her hand in marriage. Some died in the attempt. Others walked out of the forest, dazed and confused about who and where they were. The rest emerged from the Forest crestfallen or invigorated by the meet up with the woman.

The lake itself is large enough to contain a full ecosystem. A variety of fish make this lake their home as well as the various animals that feed on those fish. A couple beaver dams can be spotted on the lake's perimeter. It is almost always peaceful and definitely humble in nature.

A true vision of natural beauty.

SoL appears next to the forest's exit within a gust of wind and leaf's. SoL removes his Cape and sets it aside on a branch and then lays the Cursed Sword of Light next to the cape out of site. SoL then stands closer to the Lake with his Sword of Will's point in the ground and covering the end of the handle with both hands with the Sword of Knowledge on his back. SoL then looks at his watch and says to himself "Well,... farther if I hadn't of done that paper work," then Sol goes back to the position that he was at. As though he was waiting for someone.

Tiamatt rockets out from over the forest canopy, wings tucked to her sides before spreading them wide suddenly, stopping her in midair as she looks down as the lake and the stranger standing on the shore. "hm?" She flies down near the stranger, landing behind him. "what are you doing here?"

*jumps a little higher to check if the lake is farther, after a few more jump from tree to tree I finally arriving near the lake, then silently lands down when the lake and the dragon is visible, slowly walking, sensing another presence, silently muttering*

great.... what now

Tiamatt twist her head around and smirks at seeing the stranger emerge from the forest and recalls her wings, leaving her looking pure human if you ignored the fact that she had wings just moments before. Pivoting on heel and toe, she turned to completely face him and bowed her head briefly in greeting. "So I see you made it." Tiamatt grinned and eyed the wooden sword he carried with him. "Now tell me what it is that Valian sent you here for."

*blinks and gasped*

"Tia?!"

*laughs out loud while looking at her*

"Your the maiden?"

*shakes head and tries to calm down and gently speaks*

" I come with an errand from valian, to get an alloy that he needs for his research"

*looks at tia again, and burst into laughter*

Tiamatt's eyes narrow into a glare of annoyance as she looks at Glint. "Yes, this is my lake and my forest. I was not the one who named the lake. That would be all the adventurers who have wandered here over the years. I have never been truely loney here only because i enjoy the peace of this land." She smirked a little, reaching over to her left for her sword. "And though you may be a friend, I'm afraid that if you want that alloy, I'm going to have to test you. Beat me and I'll give you want you need. If you lose, then you'll return empty handed to Valian."

*shakes head, tries to calm down again, nodding*

"wait, just wait, actually, I find it funny because I was asking valian if the "maiden" is sexy, no offense tia. I just find that funny"

*goes into a stance and breathes in, my face slowly goes seriously*

"too bad... I want to talk more... but a mission, is a mission, on guard tia"

*grabs the wooden sword replica in one hand and a kunai in another*

Tiamatt's eye twitched slightly before she sighed. "None taken, Glint." Drawing the Oblivion Blade, she grinned and dashed forward her arm and sword at her side. Once Glint was within range, she swung the blade upwards.

*on that very moment, I realize, I can't parry the blade, I barely side stepped, dropping the real wooden sword, grab tia's wrist and point a kunai on her neck*

"tia, I can't compete with "that" kind of weapon, I'll fight you, but I ask for a fair one"

*let's go of tia and bows*

"shall we?"

Tiamatt blinks at having Glint grab her wrist before sighing. "A fair fight? my swords are my only weapons in this form, Glint." She smirks a little as she pulls away and sheaths the Oblivion Blade. "However, if you prefer, i could use my true form in battle."

*shrugs*

"ah.... I mean, two people, using ordinary weapon... take note ordinary weapon and your human form would suffice"

Tiamatt looks at her Oblivion Blade and before looking at Glint. "This sword is about as ordinary as it can be, especially in this form. I won't let it shift to Shitsunen. As for my FORGE Sword, i prefer not to use then in battle."

"I guess I'm a little sensitive to your weapon's hidden powers, anyway if you say so then shall we?"

*goes into a stance again, with a kunai and the wooden sword*

"on guard!"

Tiamatt laughs lightly and redraws the Oblivion Blade. "Don't worry so much, Glint. I won't use Shitsunen no Kiba." She smiled reassuringly before jumping back a few feet. "Now come on!"

*slumps against a tree, bleeding*

SoL watched the two and stood there still then quickly said before they started "Great now that your both here, We can start. I would also like to have that alloy if you dont mind, and Tia ... Zuka says hi ..."

*Looks at SoL and says*

"wait your turn."

*then goes back and focuses on tia's movement, goes into a stance and grabs the wooden stick replica on the left hand and a kunai on the right, switching them to get familiar, I suddenly throws the kunai, whispering*

"ivory"

*and the kunai becomes white with a dead aim on tia*

Tiamatt grinned at the sight of the kunai, raising her blade to parry the strike and knock it away from her. With the kunai out of the way, Tiamatt dashed foward, the Oblivion Blade ready to race skywards once Glint was within range.

*glint just smiled and whispered*

"ebony"

*and a secondary kunai hiding in the shadow of ivory, comes forth racing towards tia's arm, I started to rush towards tia just behind the kunai, gripping the wooden sword replica with two hands over my head, readying for a downward slash*

*the downward slash connects hitting tia with the wooden sword*

HIYA!

Tiamatt snarled as she raised the Oblivion blade enough to deflect most of the blow with the flat of the blade only to feel the new kunai slice into her arm. Her hand twitched from the pain but she tightened her grip on the hilt of her sword, pushing Glint away before pulling the kunai from her arm and throwing it to the ground. Growling Tiamatt turned her gaze to Glint, her eyes already dilated to slit before she raced at him again, striking down diagonially with her sword.

*the slash, nicks my shoulders which bleeds a little while jumping away, producing 4 throwing stars in one hand while still gripping the wooden replica sword on my right hand*

"hmmmm, I think I need to test this sword more throughly"

*proceeds on throwing the stars upwards and out of sight, the goes on a frontal assault again, placing the wooden sword on my left waist to use centrifugal force*

Tiamatt grins and glancing upwards for a mere second for sight of the stars before turning to attention back to Glint. She jumped backwards into the air, sprouting large red scaled wings, hovering for just a moment before a single sweep of her wings sent her higher into the air, sending a gust of wind towards Glint. Now several dozen feet above the battle ground, Tiamatt tucked her wings to her side, diving towards Glint, her sword aimed for a piercing strike to him right shoulder.

"Gotcha!"

*pulls down my left hand hard, indicating the throwing stars are attached with strings and are now surrounding tia, tying her up tighter and tighter with the use of the swirling motion and of gravity, punching the ground down burrying the strings with the kunai, I run fast to a tree to gain some leverage to jump and confront the tied up diving dragon with the wooden sword again*