A Missing Pearl [Job: Find The Missing/Stolen Jewelry] [Private] [Kiru and Shade]

Sprint, duck, spin, kick. It was a dance Kiru was all too familiar with by this point. And Paulie stood no chance. By now, he was too tired, and too angry to even think about his strategy. Kiru could never afford to take that kind of risk in battle. It was crucial in her mind to keep her senses completely intact, because even the slightest flaw can be the downfall of any wizard.

He lay on the ground. His large arms slowly struggled to lift himself up off the splintered floor as a few more men tried to attack Kiru. Same as before, she ducked underneath the swing of one of them, grabbing their arms, cracking it backwards. As he screamed in pain, she brought a foot over to kick him directly in the face, the man tumbling directly into a book shelf. 3 more tendrils sprouted from the wood floorboards, and began to trip up the multiple opponents, all the while Kiru took her time with each and every one of her foes. Making no effort to dispatch them one by one. That's when the Demon slayer heard Shade's familiar voice chime in. She turned over to see the girl and her large... "friend" watching her. She had a smile on her face as the demon slayer witnessed the destruction she had brought on the other cronies from the shop. Giving a simple nod, the tendrils all launched forward and grabbed Paulie by the leg. They dragged him towards her as he tiredly made one last attempt to grab his mace, but to no avail. The tendrils swung him past Kiru, and smashed him into a wall, they then proceeded to hold him there, several feet from the ground by his neck.

"Next time, don't try lying to someone who can sense the sweat coming from your brow..." Suddenly, the tendrils pulled him straight toward Kiru, who was now holding Paulie's mace. She simply stepped out of the way and held it out so his head smashed directly into the cold metal. He was knocked out cold. At this the rain began to stop and Kiru turned to Shade. Her black and white hair had been messed up a bit, but other then the dust on her intricate black and white uniform, she didn't seem phased at all.

"That took a lot longer then I would have liked it too.." She said simply, turning over to Shade and her summon to observe the pearl necklace.

The brouhaha found itself quelled quickly, a little to Shade’s disappointment. ’Well turning some of them against their friends probably didn’t help…oh well!’ Combined with the limited space the mob made a crucial mistake: not getting in each other’s way. They’d been so keen to back their boss up they created not only easier targets as a whole, but left the shop in complete and utter disarray in the process. Paulie found himself laid out on his back, completely and utterly wiped out by Kiru. ’Maybe after this he’ll work on some cardio. Can’t expect raw power to win out every time.’ They may not have been wizard saints, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t expect someone to eventually waltz in beyond his capability. In the fellow’s defense two short girls had probably been towards the end of his list of people to “kick butt and take names.”

”Maybe next time we just go in punching, see where that takes us?” Shade flashed her partner-in-not-so-crime a grin. Mostly she’d been joking, but the fellow did earn a few points for sheer willpower to not back down. Next time they’d simply have to take the item she supposed and jumpstart the festivities a little quicker. Peering around at the sheer destruction she rubbed her fingers through Kumei’s thick, white mane, ”Mmmm….I suppose we should alert some authorities or other. Let ‘em book the fellows and rummage through to see what’s stolen or not. Doubt the necklace is the only thing, but I guess we should go return it ourselves.” It wouldn’t do well to leave Paulie and his gang of ruffians to go about as they pleased, not without some payback for their less than savory antics.