The Day of the Thief (Mugenajin)

[Nyahna Sasin]

Timestamp: 18th of Spring

Wandering the market, the young Dhani blended right in, just another face in the throng. Any one who was watching him, however, would notice that he was going no where in paticular, merely wandering to and fro. He was dressed in a plain shirt and pants, with a dagger tucked in his pant pocket. It was the busiest time of the day, and already, he could spot several purses, just waiting to be snatched. Still he waited for an easy target. It had been a while since he had done this, and he wanted to be certain of getting away with it.

He was currently eyeing a young lady and the man acompanying here. His eyes glittered as he spotted a money pouch dangling from the man's belt. This was too easy. Still, he had never been one to look a gift snake in the jaw. He followed them as they walked, inspecting item after item. His speed varied, sometimes walking right up to them, sometimes far away, but he didn't let them out of his sight.

Again, they stopped, and, for the millionth time, the woman bent over to look over and stroke a scarf. The man, obviously bored, turned away, and shook his head. Big mistake. Sasin wasn't the only thief in the area, and already, he could see a young boy, probably about sixteen, turn and stare. By Siku, this boy seemed to have less experience than Sasin himself did in the art of pickpocketing?

He frowned as a thought struck him. The man seemed almost unconcerned about his money. Here, he had two options. First, he could try and steal the money himself, and risk being caught, or he could wait for the other thief to try and steal it, then steal from the thief himself. The second option had more potential, as that eliminated any element of risk. He could always claim he had seen the theft, and had decided to help out by stealing it back. On the other hand, he ran the risk of loosing the thief.

His decision was made for him, as the young thief darted forward and bumped into the man. Idiot. That would make him the prime suspect when the man discovered his purse missing. "All the better for me." He muttered to himself. The thief nodded to the man, accepting the scolding that the man was delivering to him, before slipping away. Sasin followed the thief, who stopped at an alleyway to pour the coins into his own money pouch, which was slipped into a pocket. Sasin quickened his pace, and circled around so he was walking towards the thief.

Slipping his hand into his pocket, he took the knife in his hand, and, as the nervous thief passed by, constantly glancing backwards, slit the pocket, and caught the money pouch as it fell. The thief, preocupied as he was with making sure no one had notice his theft, did not notice that he himself had been robbed.

Smirking, Sasin slipped the pouch into his own pocket, and, keeping his hand on it, wandered off in search of some other victim.

[Mugenajin]

The market was loud and crowded but for once the excessive ammount of people and noise didn't bother Mugen. He was having too much fun watching a clumsy child playing thief. He bumped into a man that was shopping with his girlfriend to steal his coinpurse. Meaning the man will quickly notice the disappearance of his money and remember the child running into him, making him the prime suspect. Mugen planned on stealing the money from the child when he went somewhere quiet to check his loot, which was pretty likely to happen.

It didn't take long for Mugen to notice another man who had the same idea.
Instead of following the child he decided on following the man. It would save him the trouble of going through whining and pleading twice. Or so he thought, for Mugen had no idea the man he was following was a Dhani aswell and would very, very likely not plead considering his race.

He followed the man who made a run-aroud to run into the child and snatch the money from him. Mugen was impressed with the smooth motion in which he sliced open the child's pocket and caught the moneypurse in its fall.

The man quickly walked onwards, with Mugen on his tail.

[Nyahna Sasin]

Sasin grinned to himself in triumph as he slipped away, un-noticed, though the crowd. Ahh, the sweet taste of victory, no matter how small. As he walked back to where the shops were, he heard a yell of outrage. Turning, he spotted his original target, who had finally noticed his missing coin pouch. It was in this movement of turning that he spotted another man. Sasin normally would have thought nothing of it, but he had marked this man as another potential thief. Shaking it off his mind, he turned, and continued walking.

He ducked in and out of shops, waiting for a good chance to strike. Though he found nothing, he couldn't help but notice the other man continue to follow him. Had he seen? Why was he following him? He dared not show that he had noticed. He made up his mind. Find out what he wants, and kill him if you don't like it.

Sasin ducked into an alleyway, took a turn, and continued till he reached a secluded area, where no one would interupt them. Turning, he asked "What do you want?" His hand slipped into his pocket, and grasped the dagger. A fight was a possibility here.

[Mugenajin]

As he slithered through the crowd, following his prey, he was spotted during an unlucky turn of events when his target turned around because of a shout.
He quickly thought about what the best way to proceed was. Either his target noticed and would run for safety to a populated or guarded area, or he noticed and would try to confront him, or he didn't notice him and would carry on.

At first Mugen thought he hadn't noticed him but as the pace of the man increased and he became restless the animal instinct of Mugen took over. His prey knew he was being chased, and he was getting anxious. Mugen's gold-in-black eyes narrowed. This would be a fun chase hopefully. He followed the man casually and noticed him ducking in an alley. With the Dhani Viper's swift and agily movement he sprinted forward to see his foot vanish around a corner.

Mugen licked his lips, the prey decided to fight.

He unsheathed his heirloom ( special shortblade ) and his other shortblade and turned around the corner with a slick but venomous smile.

" What I want? I want to ... catch ... my prey. " He hissed with a devious smile.

[Nyahna Sasin]

" What I want? I want to ... catch ... my prey. "

Sasin smiled cruelly. "You'll find no prey tonight, little human. Only pain."

He could already see that there was no way to win this with brute strength, only speed and cunning. Luckily, both were traits of his race.

Holding his dagger in one hand, he started waving other hand, as if tracing some magical signs in the air. He started mumbleing some gobbledegook, then suddenly, without warning, darted as fast as he could towards Mugenajin, aimed a punch at his gut, and swung his dagger upwards, before darting back.

(How long do you want this fight scene to last.)

[Mugenajin]

( A few posts, 'till some guards notice us or something. PS: Mugenajin is a Dhani, not a human. )

Little as Mugen knew about magic he feared an incantation was actually being cast when the man before him started talking gibberish and waving his free hand around. The only way for Mugen to stop the incantation was to rush forward and cut him down before the spell was cast, but it was all a trick to catch him offguard, which worked well.

Before Mugen could rush forward the man had done the same, punching him in his gut and slashing his dagger in an upward arc. Mugen was flabbergasted, the man had rushed forward at the same speed Mugen could run, which was not an easy task for any human to do. The gutpunch was unavoidable but the daggercontrol was clumsy and easily blocked with his sword. Mugen didn't follow the Dhani instantly for the gut punch was relatively strong and caused heavy breathing and momentary pain.

" Ssssss, clever young man, I can tell you'll be a worthy kill for I haven't met a human yet who was able to move at my speed.But there is one defining difference between us however. And that is our skills with the blade. "

He didn't even finish saying the sentence before he had bend his legs and sprinted towards the man, without breaking he had slashed his two blades in horizontal cross and came to a halt a few feet behind the man.

[Nyahna Sasin]

Sasin laughed in amusement. Oh, this would be fun. He readied himself as the man rushed towards him, but was unprepared for the speed and ferociety with which the other man rushed toward him. He imediately dropped to the floor, and swung his leg, aiming to trip him up. He scrambled to his feet, and cursed himself a fool for only bringing a dagger.

[Mugenajin]

Mugen anticipated the crouching of the man since his only viable option, besides stepping backwards which would only cause them to collide, was to crouch. He swiftly jumped and slid to a halt a few feet further.

Without any words said he darted back onwards towards the man, laughing maniacally and swinging his two blades in a crisscross and zigzag pattern.

[Nyahna Sasin]

He cursed, and did the only thing he could. He ran at him, dodging and blocking. He slammed his shoulder against the other man, hopefully knocking him off his feet.

Sasin was no fool, and knew which places hurt. He used the pommel of his dagger to try to slam the man's temple, swung a punch at the throat, and slashed downwards.

[Mugenajin]

" My oh my, what a fierce fellow. " Mugen thought as instead of running the man fought back and even launched himself in the barrage of slashing swords, Mugen managed to tear a slash in the man's tunic but he was able to halt the attack by pressing his shoulder and his weight against Mugen, causing him to reposition himself as to not topple backwards.

By the nick of time Mugen noticed the backhand of the man's dagger, aimed at his temple, and was just in time to crouch so he wasn't knocked clean out, by doing so he managed to half-dodge the throatpunch which hit him on the forehead causing him to fall on his back, he quickly used the momentum to roll back on his feet.

Mugen finally acknowledged the man's skill.

" You have a fine warrior's intuition mate, your skill with the dagger needs alot of improvement but you make up for it with fine hand- and footwork. "

" Let's see if I can rise up to the challenge. " He said before launching himself carefully towards the man.

This time he didn't just swing his swords in a frenzy but carefully aimed his right hand with the snake blade at the hip of the man and tried to stab the man in the chest with his lefthand-blade. Then he used the momentum to spin around and launch an upward kick.