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The Skies Around the Island; Saturday.

Of course, Setsuna would be one to arm herself immediately after hearing the announcement that people were needed to defend against the big creatures; she hadn't expected those big creatures to be dinosaurs, as she discovered, but she did know there were plenty of capable fighters for the land. What she knew they were a little lacking on was defense from the sky. With Yuunagi ready, she swooped the air space. Because she knew there were flying dinosaurs around here somewhere.

Probably.

Hopefully.

[[ heyyyyy, flying dinos! Other....flying capable fighters, tooooo, wheee! ]]

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From one of the rooftops, a smallish pteranodon noted the other flying thing. Curious, with a flap of its wings, it took off after said other flying thing to see where it was going, and whether it knew where food was.

Ah! There one was! Setsuna caught the pteranodon in the corner of her eyes, catching it coming near her. Drawing in a deep breath, hands on the hilt, ready to rip Yuunagi out at a strategic moment, she stopped, wings flapping a little to keep her in place as she turned around carefully, letting it come to her and seeing what it might do.

The pteranodon kept a safe distance to start, but sped up to keep pace with her, occasionally calling to her as if to say "What's up? Come here often?"

Well, it didn't seem exactly...immediately threatening. Setsuna bit her lip, circling around the pteranodon as best she could and remembering the announcement from earlier. She slowly easing the blade an inch out its sheath.

Well, that wasn't exactly polite. The flying thing had completely ignored him.

Making whatever face a pteranodon could make, it swooped a little closer, all "Hey!"

Setsuna quickly, still facing the pteranodon, swooped back, taking away any distance it had expected to make by moving toward her, out of defense, because she wasn't sure what it had intended to do with that long beak thing. Bite her, most likely, which wouldn't be good. She kept her eyes sharply on it as she pulled the sword the rest of the way out, wielding it on one side while the sheath was wielded the same way on her other. She wasn't sure if the dinosaur would understand that she was displaying that she was fully arms and capable if it intended on any funny business.

The pteranodon wasn't sure what the big stick thing was, as it wasn't from a time where swords were all the rage, but it knew it wasn't supposed to be there.

With a little dinosaur yell, he flew closer towards her, trying to get a better look at it.

Poor dumb dino.

Setsuna moved quickly; she struck out against the pteranodon with the sheath of her sword, hoping for a quick, slashing motion upwards across its body, flying slightly to the side in the process. She still wasn't feeling anything too particularly hostile from it yet, so she didn't want to use her blade.

Of course, now that she'd attempted to hit it, she had a feeling that was going to change.

Yeah, pretty much.

The slash hadn't hurt, so the pteranodon figured that if he upped the aggression a little by snapping its beak at her, it wouldn't do more than try to hit him again.

Now this, Setsuna felt, was interesting. It had merely snapped at her, it seemed. Hadn't actually tried to bite her. She backed up a little, small push of wings, and then twirled her sheath slightly so that she could readjust her grip. Instead of a slashing motion, she could now bring the sheath down and clunk the dinosaur on the head with it.

Perhaps it was merely a game of showing dominance. In which case, she planned to win.

Getting clunked on the head hurt. Not just a physical hurt, it kind of hurt emotionally, too. Or it would if the pteranodon had that sort of emotional depth.

Which it didn't.

Also now it was trying to bite her.

As it took its second try, Setsuna pushed herself back, using the wind resistance through her (ha!) feathered wings to keep her from going too far. She pulled back her arm with the sheath; awkward positioning, but it allowed for the arm with the sword to jab up, an upward stab toward....well, whatever she might managed to stab.

As it felt a stab through its side, the pteranodon began reconsidering this whole idea. It really shouldn't have gotten out of... cave, or whatever constituted a bed.

Well, fine. It tried again to fly closer and bite her. It was trying, dammit.

It was trying. But Setsuna was ~~overpowered~~ experienced.

Instead of moving back this time, she darted sideway, her blade moving lightening quick for one of its wings. It had seemed mostly not hostile; she'd feel bad about killing the thing. But if she left it merely injured, unable to fly and indisposed....then she wouldn't have guilt on her conscience.

The pteranodon yelled at the blade sliced into his wing, and he dropped a few feet as he figured out flying with one wing was hard to do. Sill, he tried to get back up to try and bite.

Determined little thing.

Setsuna was almost certain that it would retreat. Her surprise might have allowed an attack to work if it weren't for the discrepancy in the pteranodon's flying. She drew in a breath. It was making it difficult for her to be honourable in this situation.

"There is no shame in a retreat," she told it as she flapped her wings, dodging the bite, slashing her sword toward the other wings, "especially if you may fly to fight again."

Yes. Touting Buddhist wisdom to a dinosaur. Some habits just couldn't be broken.

The other flying thing was making sounds the pteranodon didn't understand.

And hey! There was the sharp thing again. He managed to manuever away from it before the other wing could be hit, dropping down again below her where she hopefully couldn't stab it anymore. ANd it might have been looking for a good place to nurse the bleeding wound.

Just wasn't worth it to try and make friends.

Setsuna watched the pteranodon retreat carefully, circling above it in case it was merely trying to bluff her (she gave it far more credit than its tactics probably needed); she kept her eyes on it to remembered where it might finally find a spot to recover, satisfied in feeling like she'd staved off any potential threat....for the time being...and got prepared to defend more air space if she needed to.

After getting away from the ~~dimetrodon~~ big spikey lizard guy, (he was bad at remembering names), he took to the skies because those clearly had to be safer, right?

"Setsuna!"

"Teddy!" Setsuna turned slightly. It was good to see him; clearly, there were flying dinosaurs, and the amount of flying fighters to handle them were few, she knew. She gave him a nod. "Good to have you join me..."

Teddy nodded back, a lazy flap of his wings to keep him nearby her. "What the hell is going on?"

"Dinosaurs," Setsuna answered, in case he hadn't noticed, her eyes doing a quick sweep around for any more of those flying ones. She was searching the treetops over the preserve; maybe that's where they were hiding?

"Yeah, I kinda noticed that bit," Teddy snarked back. "Invasion or something?"

"Most likely," Setsuna nodded, making a small swoop so she could get a better view of the rocky bits. "Not too sure. I wouldn't be all too terribly surprised if there was a crack in the island somewhere and, apparently, underneath was some sort of space that time forgot and they're just now emerging. Around here, anything is possible."

Teddy made a face before noticing she where she was looking. "Just came from over there. Big thing, tried to eat me. I might have hit it a few times."

"Mmm," Setsuna gave a small, thoughtful nod. "I've encountered one so far; the fliers seem to be laying low, probably because there aren't as many of us up here. The one I met didn't seem exceptionally hostile, but it turned out that way in the end...."

"I really hope there aren't a lot of them flying around. There's just you and me really..."

"The skies do seem generally safe," Setsuna assured him. "So far. But, I mean, really....because it's just the two of us who could potentially deal with any flying hostility to the best advantage, I'm going to remain here and keep watch. And keep telling myself that it is the best thing to do, just in case, and remind myself that we have more than enough capable fighters who are landlocked..." She frowned slightly, biting her lip as she cast her eyes toward the park.

Teddy followed her gaze, wondering where in all that Chad was. "I hope so..." He nodded at her. "I'll be back."

"Be careful, Teddy," Setsuna nodded back; she knew she probably didn't have to tell him so, but that didn't mean that the hope that he would wasn't with her.

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