Blood on the Asphalt biker
He felt the shift in the air pressure, the sudden, violent displacement of the holographic cherry blossoms.
The white blade materialized aimed directly at Dax's neck.
Dax ducked, the blinding corrupted sub-ether searing the collar of his leather cut as it passed over him. He spun on his heel, driving his Phase-Knife in a brutal upward arc toward the Shogun's exposed chrome ribs.
CLANG.
The Shogun parried the strike with blinding speed, the clash of blue and white sub-ether sending a localized shockwave through the courtyard that cracked the obsidian floor beneath their boots.