Traveling Tantalus and Tree Tits Troupe. (Private)

Eve barely reacted as her body was thrown over him, but she was instantly up and a few feet back, throwing another kinetic burst at him. She shot forward again, throwing rapid punches at his shield, leaving almost no room to retaliate right before she charged a kinetic burst into her fist, throwing a haymaker with that fist, right to the middle of his shield. She was ready to near instantly counter any move against her, though she was more focused on physical retaliation from Sugary.

Just as Eve recovered quickly, so did he after he had tossed her over, once again blocking her kinetic burst with brief force shields to cancel her out. The problem was dealing with her curse empowered physical prowess that, while he wasn't incapable of attempting to match her using his own magic to make up for natural differences, he was sure he'd be unable to outlast her anyway as her vitality was under a far different ruling than his own. He wasn't even sure if he could harm her properly with conventional means, not that he was about to actually try too hard either since he had no easy way of telling how to actually stop the Dullahan in a serious fight without using lethal force. So rather than attempting to draw out the fight, he'd try to slow and hamper her momentum to try and restrain her afterwards by blocking and heavily dampening her initial swings with just the water rather than the shield while preparing for a countermeasure. Even with the added kinetic blow, the water and his own power would just dampen the overall force down time and time again since she may as well be punching down on reforming jelly as he stepped back from her. Of course, when she did throw the haymaker, he attempted to make use of the extra force behind the blow to let some of the arm go nearer to him, but would then forcibly wrap water around her arm, charge his horn with a yellow static-like aura, and send a near constant flow of electricity an restraining energy out from his arm onto her own through the water for best results and attempt to make her body submit through shock and forced paralysis in one go. He was, of course, ready to improvise further if that somehow wasn't enough to get her to stop.

Eve had obviously grown irritated and possibly bored from him absorbing her strikes, but when he sent the shock through her, her arm locked up, unable to move it while she struggled to keep standing, grunting. "Not…bad…for a…mortal." She joked, then flicked a small wave of kinetic energy across her arm, shoving the water away as she stepped back and repeatedly flexed her arm to check for damage. "Luckily my bodysuit is partly rubber. Absorbed at least some of the shock." She looked to him. "You believe I can fight in the third person now?" She asked, as if she knew he had been testing her at first.

Sugary was still on alert despite her moving away from him. In a way, he was glad he hadn't hurt her with the shock much. In another way, he probably should have poured in more effort into the paralysis spell and his ability for strong telekinetic restraints than the electricity one to subdue her and make the decisive maneuver. "Yeah, I believe it... I do wonder though..." said he as he looked more in Eve's head direction to make eye contact though still wary of the rest of her. "I still get the feeling you might not do as well if your head were attacked or blinded... Can't you move your own head by yourself as you are without your body? Seems risky to just leave it like that in a real fight... How do you actually manage to do well?"

As it was sparring on the deck of his airship, he wasn't against taking a mild breather and talk details out of curiosity. Upwards of them, the first rinse cycle had finished and he purposely clumped the laundry together tightly while he discarded the water off a dozen or so yards away from the ship and onto the grass while squeezing what he could out of the laundry as well before reforming the water sphere again slowly...

Her hand came up and pointed to where her head was supposed to be. "If my head was destroyed or lost, I would be able to see or hear as if I still had it attached. We Dullahan can even use objects to take the place of our heads. A few have used Jack O' Lanterns." She was charging magic right behind him, a large kinetic burst, to throw him towards her. She lunged forward as he released the magic, planning on getting him into a nelson hold, and also grabbing his horn to prevent magic flow. She hoped this would end it, because he really wanted to win.

While listening in on her explanation about her own head, he knew she was charging up something for something. Being a powerful magic user in his own right, he had to learn how to deal with other possibly dangerous sorcerers and not get caught off guard. Trying to time it right, he still made water flow around him some more, though the overall force of the kinetic burst still made his small frame flinch forward even with the protection he was setting up. Not being so close to her when she lunged at him in what seemed like a decisive, if seemingly reckless maneuver, he made an effort to force the match into a draw by levitating her own head over to them right in front of him as she went to grab his horn as it lit up while he used all of his well earned strength in his arms to slow her arm down with a soft block to keep her from impaling her own head on his horn as it charged what ought to be a just powerful enough shot to blow her head up while she roughly tackled and held the rest of him. "Hah...! I can play... dirty too...! Unless you want to... lose your head in training permanently... surrender or call it a draw...!" He struggled to hold her unnatural strength, but her head was still very much at point blank as he looked straight at her, defying her to actually try and force her way further while using the water around him and force of magic to try and keep her hold from suddenly fracturing or breaking a few ribs on him.

Up ahead, the water sphere was very shaky, nearly on the verge of collapse at the abrupt and rough moment between them...

Eve had grinned as ye got him but had a blank face as she realized he had her head. "…" She stayed silent for a moment. "This is quite a kinky position we are in, is it not?" She asked, hoping to surprise him. She really did not want to lose, an was not about to risk reaction times if she teleported her head away.

Sakura walked onto deck and saw their positions. She was finally dressed, and did not seem tired at all. "Wow…Sugary, if ya wanted a threesome with her, ya could have told me." She said, eyebrow raised.

Eve used Sakura's appearance to do what she had contemplated. Her hed teleported to Sakura's arms. The treefolk mare holding the head towards Sugary and Eve's body, which her right hand was now going for the stallion's horn.

Eve's comment didn't distract him since he was no stranger to suggestive taunts or taunts in general. Sakura showing up when she did and making her comment, however, did just enough for him to have missed the foresight in that Eve would actually teleport her own head away as a countermeasure. He had to admit, it was certainly not something he'd think of on a regular basis as his own head wasn't removable without serious risks.

Of course, that meant he was now once again left to deal with her weapon of a body once more and fewer options. Still holding her arm away during her teleportaion maneuver, he had just enough time to cast self enhancing spells on himself. Temper, to temporarily strengthen his physical might and resilience beyond his normal limit, and a barrier mainly expanding from around his waist to forcibly push her other arm away with his magic to keep from getting pressed down less so as he discarded the water onto the ground to freeze her legs in a single block that would eventually reach her waist, while his enhanced strength went towards trying to once again use her offensive against her to grip and pull her arm by holding her wrist and elbow towards his horn as she initially intended... But there was a catch as his horn was flaring along with static now, which meant that grabbing or touching his horn was, as opposed to most unicorns, a very bad idea when active for a fight rather than make him submissive. Should he manage to use her aggression against her, she'd once again have her arm body receive both a stronger shock of electricity as well as a more concentrated effect of paralysis. And given that she was at point blank still with the water turning to ice on her lower body, she was very unlikely to go anywhere.

It also didn't help that, should she have taken a closer look at his horn when she was right in front of him, his horn seemed somewhat thicker with overgrowth, with a dull white hue, and with a few old small scratches, which meant that his horn had been used and hit upon with actual physical impact, and was tougher and harder than it looked from a distance. Even Eve would have to put effort into breaking it in a more serious fight than this one. While his horn as it was might not be particularly aesthetically pleasing to some other unicorns, it was a part of his proof of his years as a mercenary. Laid back as he may be from time to time, his lifestyle had not been entirely domestic.

Meanwhile, he had intended to open up and pour a portion of fabric softener into a couple cups worth into the laundry, but decided against it and placed the softener cantine back where it was and instead just barely managed to add the extra powdered soap into the wash. It was all happening rather fast, and in several ways, he regretted the decision to try to spar and wash clothes... But he had to admit, if his wide grin was any indication, that he was having up till now a very fun and increasingly difficult challenge with the Dullahan. For better or worse...

Eve was no longer thinking this was fun. It was now a challenge, and a tough one at that. She had merely grunted at her legs were frozen, then barely tried anything besides throwing kinetic bursts and punches at her egs, shattering the ice before she jumped up. She did not lunge this time, nor was she grinning anymore. Her face was calm, cool, calculating, and definitely about to step it up a notch. She stalked forwards in a boxing position, fists ready, before she flared her horn, her body vanishing as if she teleported…

Sugary kept up his own self enhancing spells, once again slowly gathering water around him as well from the ice. "Sheesh! Eve, we gotta try and settle this somehow. This is more a sparring than I thought we'd have... And hello, Sakura! Rest well?" His tone wasn't irritated, but rather a tad exasperated as he wasn't expecting for things to come to this. He kept a defensive stance, and made slow movements as he slowly released a field of magic to feel out where Eve's body might be. She was casting a spell, and her body was no longer visible, so he had to be careful about where it might be so as to not get caught off guard while tracking for any sort of magic trail it might leave or have, as well as feel out for any unusual fluxes in the nearby air that might suggest she was close while magically concealed, and charging for another strike.

Meanwhile, now that he wasn't under as much pressure, he could finally afford to add the fabric softener and mix it into the water as it kept spinning more organized now...

Sugary would be able to feel at least five magical signatures in a perfect pentagon around him, each flaring slightly. Eve had become invisible, and was one of the five, the other five were large kinetic bursts she was preparing, as well as forming them to imitate her own magical 'form', or what her magic feels and it's specific traits. Her head was actually still visible, and spoke. "Well, was it not the point of this game?"

"Doing well, I guess, Sugary." Sakura sat down and held Eve's head towards their mock fight, setting the head on her lap.

"I'm starting to think we might have different ideas about what a game is..." Chances were it would irritate Eve, but it had been effective time and again as he chose to make the water spiral around him faster and faster like a whirlpool that was expanding to push against all the various magical pressures he felt from her around him while placing layer upon layer of barrier spells that he was slowly charging with raw energy. His first act would be to force the whirlpool upon her body as it was, but at the very least, it was meant to spot her apart from the kinetic force she was building up around him, and make her easier to focus on should she be revealed...

Eve's five different signatures began moving around, erratically. One bolted close, planning on bursting through the whirlpool to slam into Sugary. It was kinetic, not her. She was the second furthest from him, as the second closest also bolted at him.

Sakura watched, amused. "This is kinda fun to watch." She giggled.

Since it was simply too hard to tell which was which easily and all were forcing themselves upon him, he discarded the use of the whirlpool for now and focused solely on the strong barrier he had been making. "SEEIIYYAAHH!!!" With one strong surge from where he stood as his energy and aura spiked rapidly, he forcibly expanded the barrier outward to push the nearby kinetic forces and Eve away like a wall punching outward and upwards, and while he would normally hesitate to do something like this on most sparring matches, she had shown herself to be quite resilient thus far. On top of expanding the barrier outward as if it were a localized explosion, there was also the fact that another spell had been placed upon it as extra surges of force literally made ghostly fists of energy rapidly shoot out at seemingly random in the dozens, though not so far out as to reach Sakura and Eve's head...

All the kinetic parts vanished, Eve's body reappearing and getting thrown almost off the edge, lnding fce down in what looked to be a very uncomfortable position, unmoving. Her head lolled lightly, as if unconscious. She truly was faking, but knew she was really good at faking unconsciousness.

Sakura's eyes widened. "Uhh…Sugary? I think you may have hit her a bit too hard." She shakes Eve's head lightly. "Eve~ Wake up~!" She got no reaction, and grunted unhappily. "Just a little too hard."

Sugary took a deep breath as he focused once more and composed himself after that brief spike of power and outburst. While he was genuinely concerned whether or not Eve was injured and/or unconscious, he at least knew she wasn't dead... per-sé. Not wanting to waste time and take advantage of the circumstances, he once again flared his horn and formed swords of Light to appear all around him by the dozens, and move them about as he conjured them. Many of them would surround and come close to Eve's body, but he didn't dare poke her as he might genuinely hurt her more than intended as his Light magic spells were meant to be particularly harmful to dark energies and monsters... notably, undead beings such as Eve. While making the swords, he made sure to grasp one for himself and walk quickly towards her and Sakura, looking slightly more exasperated. "If she is unconscious, then I win by default. If she isn't... I think we'd best save this for another time, or try another method of facing one another. It's getting late, and the deck of my ship isn't the best place to step things further. I'd rather not fight on top of my house so much, Eve... Plus, I still need to finish up with our laundry." He'd point the sword of Light at her head, as if awaiting for her to answer if she were faking it. He already had, after all, mentioned that being unconscious was a win for him, so she had best speak up or move if she wanted to at least prevent a loss for the wrong reasons.

Eve's body and head seemed to begin absorbing the light magic, oddly. Her eyes shot open, turning from steel grey to a fiery blue-white. "Silence, Apostate, You will not be allowed to give into temptation!" A large blast of pure light magic fired from her horn, locked onto his magical signature, and the magic's intentions were to absorb and disperse every ounce of magic he had, leaving only enough for his magical signature to be present. She then winced as that magic took out most of her physical and magical reserves. She had released an incantationally triggered silencing spell. It would normally rip away the ability to cast magic for ten seconds, but she altered it to eat away their mana for an hour, leaving them unable to do even the simplest of magic for that hour.

Sakura yelped at the sudden burst of magic, but watched as Eve teleported perfectly under her head, reconnecting it. "You really are an odd creature."

"You as well." Eve replied, panting heavily, exhausted, she slumped to one knee, and looked to Sugary, knowing even barriers would be eaten away, unless the barrier was made by another mage, one who wasn't the target.

Sugary half expected for Eve to retaliate. What he wasn't expecting was for her to become something he particularly despised in dealing with: A Living Magic Seal. Fortunately for him, he knew some tricks to keep his own Mana from being syphoned from him easily, though this was not exactly a specialty of his and he was already at the disadvantage of being on the defensive as he managed to hold onto just enough to protect himself from what seemed to be his own magic and avoid getting tossed too abruptly.

However, despite having managed to protect himself from magic that would not harm him much to begin with as he got pushed back, there was the Anti-magic field that followed... Which meant that he was now forced to watch as the clothes and water could no longer be supported, and fell onto the deck and splashing everyone with soapy water and -fortunately- wet laundry. ".......... I lost..." And just like that, the match was set, leaving Sugary bruised in body, spirit, and pride as he looked at Sakura's panties hanging from his horn while he stood with a tired slump.

Eve and Sakura both burst into laughter.

"Um, I might need those later." Sakura pointed out teasingly, then removed Sugary's boxers from her shoulder and moved over, then hugged him and kissed him. She hoped he did not feel bad about losing, since she had a slight sense that Eve would only give up when she was near death or dead. She nosed him probingly.

Eve shakily stood, and moved over, holding out her hand. "Good Match, but I hope I never have to use that spell again anytime soon." She was in a lot of pain, something that was quite a novel experience with her massive amount of pain tolerance. "The spell with wear off in an hour, and my magic will return to me in a half hour, I am a bit...exhaus...ted." She collapsed into a heap on the floor.

"Wha...? Oh, come on..." Sugary was about to take Eve's hand, but was unable to as she fell at that moment. This meant he now had to tend to her collapsed form, the soapy wet deck, and getting the laundry back from every corner... A task that would have been much easier to deal with if he could use his magic freely, but Eve's Anti-magic field meant it would be a chore to even try to levitate something, which meant he had no choice but to do it all by hand for the next hour or so.

He did, of course, lightly lean onto Sakura's affections, but he was a tad too mixed in his thoughts to enjoy it properly. He gave a sigh as he held onto Sakura's waist and looked at Eve and everything else on the deck. "... Sakura... Could you place the laundry in a single pile while I try to take her armor off...?" He would then get on his knees and examine the armor closely... only to find there was no immediate way for him to remove segments of it as he did not know the design of Eve's armor. "Good grief..." Before he considered lifting her into the ship entirely, he kept tinkering with the segments, hoping to find some kind of release or at least a clue.

Sugary would eventually find the release on the inner part of her right middle finger, and once that plate came loose, the others around it became easier to pull away. Eve groaned lightly, and mumbled something incoherent. She seemed just a little loopy.

Sakura moved closer after a little bit. "Picked it all up. And jeez she really is out of it, isn't she? She looks kinda cute with that peaceful look, though..." She had that 'D'awwww' face, and was smiling. "Anyway, I am gonna go get her bed ready." Sakura walked off, with a sensual sway of her hips as she walked, seeming to like to do so.

"Ah hah! Bingo!" Sugary was glad to have finally figured out the trick to Eve's armor, a task that might have been much harder than it should have were it not for the fact that he knew about armors and owned a couple himself over time as well as the current one he had stored away until needed. He was also glad to know she wasn't too badly out of it if she could still mumble at least, but would keep a close eye on her as he tried to remove all of her armor carefully.

Before Sakura went off too far, he called out to her -and stared at her wet flanks-. "Hey, before you do that, could you turn on the shower real quick? I wanna help Eve wash off." He then almost immediately added. "With your help! I can't just leave her like this till she wakes up!" He was referring to being left wet with soapy water on her and her clothes, so he wanted to at least get her freshened up and dry her off as soon as he could. Assuming Sakura followed through with his request, he carefully lifted her body over his and made his way back inside. She was heavy to be sure, but at least his strength was truly well earned despite his size, though it was still awkward walking down the hall with her like that towards the bathroom. "... Sheesh... And I still need to clean the deck AND finish drying the clothes... And we're supposed to start work tomorrow... I really hope today ends up being harder to deal with things, or it's gonna be a long day..."

Eve groaned as he stripped off her armor, revealing her black skintight bodysuit, it showing off what she had. She mumbled something else about candy, then shifted slightly as she was lifted.

Sakura had, in fact, turned on the shower to it's hottest temperature, then had gotten Eve's bed ready before hurriedly getting to the bathroom, before Sugary got there. She sat down, grinning, and yawned a bit, waiting for Sugary. Upon seeing him, she would point out the hidden zipper along the front of Eve's bodysuit, and begin unzipping it.

Eve, while having a thoroughly lithe and quite lethal figure, had herself a handful of both rump and breasts, but Sakura seemed to not even take notice, just gently getting Eve out of the bodysuit and into the shower.

As it would turn out, the hottest setting in Sugary's shower wasn't really all that hot as he preferred lukewarm or cool showers unless he made adjustments elsewhere on the ship, but it was still rather warm.

He was glad that Sakura had done his request and both thanked her and nuzzled her for it. When she pointed out the zipper and went ahead with stripping Eve, he was a little taken aback by the act, but was still more focused on tending to Eve as intended. Of course, this also meant he got to take a close look at her aged and cursed body closely. He was surprised how she looked somewhat slimmer than he had expected -if reasonably well endowed-, and she seemed to be in better condition than he thought the elderly cursed warrior would be in as he only saw a few old bruises which, given her approximate age and occupation, was nothing unusual.

He carefully set her down onto the shower and turned to speak to Sakura once more. "Sakura? Please help me wash her off quickly so we can get her to bed soon and I can get back to cleaning upstairs." For the most part, he just made sure to move Eve's body very carefully to have the soapy water get washed off, but he also did want for Sakura to help out in case she woke up. He did not want to give the wrong impression by being alone with her after all.

Sakura nodded, though she glance at Eve's body. "I'm not touching any part of her she wouldn't want me to." She mumbled, then did as he asked and began washing one of Eve's arms. "I did promise I wouldn't touch her unless she allowed it, but this is okay, I guess." She moves on to Eve's other arm, leaving the rest to Sugary.

Eve murmured something as she was washed, and shifted slightly as well. There were old, faded scars that were quite difficult to see at first glance along her forearms, and a few others randomly placed except for quite large gashes(obviously from some form of whipping) across her back.

Sakura shuddered at the sight of the scars on her back. "Wow..."