Dorian glanced at Xander after his little speech. "Honestly. You keep trying to get yourself killed along with your partner and the rest of us in the process I'm going to rip you a new one." He said in a rather cheerful tone despite the situation. "I'm not gonna let you do whatever you want just because you're acting too stupid and selfish to see things properly when I try things the nice way." He chuckled and then smiled softly. "And you can TRY to kill me. But I won't hold back." The fact that he said that with such a cheerful face and then a soft smile would make it that much more serious and somewhat creepy of a threat considering he really didn't like to be the bad guy.
Still he turned his attention choosing not to bother with Xander for a little while and looked at Danny. "Just trust me dude. She's a fighter. I'm a fighter. This is probably the best bet at getting things resolved." He said in a much more calm voice and somewhat reliable tone. If one analyzed him and Danny it was a bit more likely that in most cases Danny could very well be the brain and he the muscle, even if they had known each other for a bit. But Dorian was by no means a brainless muscle head. On most occasions anyway.
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Kitty is bold and I'm normal
After he spoke to both Xander and Danny, Dorian turned his attention back to Ebony. "Ladies first." He said getting into a seemingly relaxed fighting stance.
"I don't take that type of crap so don't expect me to take the first move." Ebony said standing with her hands on her hips, almost as though they weren't about to fight.
Dorian chuckled. "Of course not." He said as he made a swift move forward and made a palm strike aimed for her gut following by a quick spin kick to the side.
Ebony backfliped, successfully dodging his attacks before running at him aiming to kick the back of his knees when he reached the point of the spin kick when he was facing away from her.
Dorian could see where she was aiming. For any ordinary guy it would have been over there, but he was better than that. He quickly transitioned himself into a jump and dodged. "Wow. You're fast." He said as he landed.
Ebony just rolled her eyes as she watched him silently analyzing his moves. 'He relies more off a strength than speed while I rely of of more speed than strength...' she thought to herself as she continued observing him.
Dorian smirked as moved forward. She wasn't expecting any speed. Sure she was faster, but that didn't mean he couldn't move at all. So just as he got close he shifted around to her side quickly and threw a few punches followed by two kicks.
Ebony was expecting him to move at some point with speed, she knew he was strong but she also knew he had speed that he could use when he wanted to. She may not have had time to dodge but she easily blocked the punches with her arms not even noticing the pain that being punched brought them as she ducked down with a low kick when he kicked towards her. Thus easily dodging his kicks while attacking with her own.
Dorian fell back at the low kick, but transitioned into a backflip. He smirked mid-air as he got himself to his feet. "Let's try this one." He said as he got up close again. He threw a punch with his right, but stopped short. THis one was a distraction. A more strategic move that she would likely see through. The next move was a knee to her gut, but that was a feint well. Most fighters wouldn't expect a second fake out. And the final true attack came. One more palm thrust to her gut with some serious force behind it.
Ebony saw through the first feint and sidestepped the second attack. She realized a second too late that he faked her out and took the impact to the gut but all it did to her was cause her to step back. She doubled over acting as if she was in pain as she fake gasped for air before bending down and using her leg strength to push of the ground only taking one step more and pushing off again before flipping over Dorian. She did a half twist in the air and kicked both her feet as the lower part of his shoulder blades.
Dorian watched her movements closely. It was a big move. That was mostly it's downfall though. "You know I'm sure this would work against an amateur or somebody a lot weaker than you." He said as he turned and put his guard up blocking the attack. "But I'm just as skilled and stronger. Not overall, mind you. But physically stronger." He said with a small smirk as he got back into a fighting stance. "But you don't want tips from me, that could improve your overall fighting technique." He grinned teasing her a bit.
"That wasn't even meant to attack. It's for more of a way to change your way of thinking of my attacks." Ebony said smirking. He may seem like he is better than her, that she is someone who just uses big attacks because they can but she had other things up her sleeves. She had been training in fighting for a while now so she had more techniques than he knew off. She was just using the technique she developed for slower, not too slow, and slightly stronger opponents. He may know how to fight but she was trained first in many years of daily gymnastics techniques, but she was also trained for a while in applying her gymnastics techniques into fighting along with learning different ways and techniques of fighting. Ebony was anything but stupid when it came to how her enemies would view her attacks and analyze them. She had to admit he was a formidable opponent but she didn't deny her own skills not being abe to take him down if she just analyzed him more and applied the information to select one of her many techniques.
"Well come on. It gets boring constantly being the first to attack." Dorian said with a slight chuckle quite enjoying the fight. It was better than the usual street brawl. Plus he felt that against her he could test more techniques than he usual would.
Ebony just shook her head. She would wait, she wouldn't make the first move until she felt the time was right.
15 minutes of some serious fighting passed. It was lucky the group had not been attacked. But it was dying down. "Alright. I didn't win. But you didn't either." Dorian laughed a bit. "So what do ya say? Compromise? Actually try to help this place while we try and get home?"
Ebony just shrugged. It was her way of agreeing. She'd never actually say she agreed with it but she would help the best she could. "whatever" She said as cold as ever.
Dorian managed to stand up straight and walked up to her. "Come on. We might even get to fight more. That'll be fun." He joked holding his hand out to shake.
Ebony just hit his hand away, just because they fought doesn't mean she was going to chummy with them. She'd tolerate and help them. But that is it.
"Fine fine. Let's just move on." Dorian said before patting Danny on the shoulder. "Told you it wouldn't be too bad." He said before Impmon started to lead them off. Things were finally starting to pick up. Dorian's ways might have been brutish and somewhat crude but they worked in their own way.
Ebony just followed them Lunamon stepping into place besides her. For now Ebony would acknowledge Lunamon as a partner but nothing more.
