[h3]Kage Tatsuya – No Honor Among the Dead: First Blood pt 2[/h3] 
[hider=Into The Void][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A0vbmkESQ4[/youtube][/hider]

One. Two. Three. Four. Kage stabbed and slashed his way through what felt like a countless number of undead who appeared more as mindless fodder than actual resistance. He kept pace with his breath as to not exhaust his physical body or put strain on his mental state. The breathing kept his central nervous system, rhythm, and pulse all in a homeostasis. His body followed the speed of his head, and if he were to guess, the living were winning. It may have been a bias assumption but it was one that kept the spirits high above the battlefield where clarity existed, while the dark woods of blood and bodies convoluted much of one's senses in the thick of it. 

An undead sword plunged deep into the man next to Kage, his attention curled to the left and side kicked the undead's knee, buckling it backwards. Gritting teeth he flipped his hilt toward the upward position, blade down, and with the undead collapsing to the ground, he shunned his blade to the left forcing steel to penetrate the undead's trapezius. Kage pulled his blade out and shoved the butt of his Chang Dao into the jawline of an undead who just filled the space in front of him. The bones of the undead who was just struck cracked sending the head up from focusing on Kage. Kage followed through with the strike by stopping his momentum at the peak right above his shoulder and sent the tip of the blade back down to stab right through the chest of his recent target. The two undead now folding in their own filth gave the living more ground to step into, but as they did the high screeching took root in everyones ears. 

Kage dropped to his knee as his senses were thrown into a disorienting frenzy. His Chang Dao lost in the confusion, "What the fuck!" He yelled out as the screeching surrendered back into the background of able fighting bodies. Two allies around him were caught by surprise, one was gutted by an undead blade, while the other had their neck gouged from the teeth of a ravage unresting. Kage spotted the mobile Nagri who he assumed were the cause of his immediate disorientation. They stood out adorned with more armor and moved akin to a human. While on his knees he sunk both hands into the mud and grabbed some sludge to shove into his ears. 

As the mud settled the noise of the battlefield became muffled, nearly silent with few sound waves reaching Kage's cerebellum. He zoned in on his new objective, 'I have no time for the screams of undead children, throwing tantrums because they are losing, pitiful.'

An undead sword came thundering down on his lowered position, Kage's attention reset on the field, he tucked his left shoulder forward and under while grabbing with his right hand around his left sheathed Dansu Raito. Rolling forward and unsheathing Dansu Raito he came to a crouch while cutting horizontally severing the unresting's back knee sweeping it right off the ground and landing on its back. Kage followed the line of his strike from left to right and came back from right to left but on a 45 degree angle to meet the undead as it landed on it's back. Kage's Dansu Raito pierced the gut. He stood up with his blade smoothly following out of the undead's stomach. The smell of death filled Kage's nostrils as he stepped over the deceased, he looked to a Nagri with a fire in his eyes.

He noticed the living were losing some ground on his side and then he spotted his target, 'Nagri...' he thought.

Kage noticed it was gazing at a formation which appeared to be protecting their archers. He would set his line of attack to intercept it's intention. The Nagri found it's moment as Kage started his approach, it ripped through a few minor skirmishes without much resistance from the living. Men and women alike were thrown off position as unresting followed the Nagri's destructive wake. It made incredible ground and at about 30 yards from encroaching on the formation of archers, Kage lowered his shoulder to hit the Nagri from the side slowing its movement and sending it to the ground for a second. Kage quickly slew an undead following the Nagri before the Nagri got back to its feet and attacked Kage, the Nagri's blade came from Kage's left in a crescent cut across his body. He instinctively twisted his right shoulder back, dipping his left shoulder, and using his hips to generate power in his maneuver pivoting the right foot to spin and cut. Upon spinning his right foot slipped in the mud causing him to fall to the floor right underneath the Nagri. The Nagri's blade came mere inches from his nose during the fall. Kage quickly recovering by switching the Dansu Raito to his left hand and rolling onto his right forearm allowing him to stab his sacred weapon upward at the Nagri. The Nagri side stepping the stab it used it's momentum from the cut to change direction back at Kage which was aimed at the rib cage. Kage was able to sit up from the energy produced in his stab and face the Nagri's blade, slipping his support leg back in the mud while leaning his lead knee forward to drop his height, Dansu Raito glanced the Nagri's horizontal cut. Springing from the back foot shifting weight to the front knee Kage pulled up and followed with a stab to the Nagri's skull. 

After making the kill Kage scanned the battlefield quickly to reorient himself, turning his back to his allies formation, and focusing on the next Nagri to take out before the screams continued to effect the living.