This is something else....(Jack and Ryo in the Haunted swamp)

.....Theres always an uncanny moment when theres a scary movie type situation, the dark sky hanging over a desecrated area lets say like a swamp, and dark and spooky murky swamp just left untouched over the years, and over those years theres a gleam within the center of it, and so it rapidly grows and acts as though its alive, whenever you look at the swamp it pulsates and you here the voices echoing from afar, some people actually say the swamp is swarmed with spirits of lost ones or actually the trees have learned to speak on their own accord, some even say this swamp sucks the life right out the person that walks through it, and that person who is walking through it, is only a wandering Swordsman named Ryokubo, looking left to right Ryo could sense that something was there..Who knows, it was just like an instinct, Ryo had to train blind with his swords so his other senses would be more advanced. Pulling out the only sword that he carried with him Ryo holds it in front of him and shuts his eyes, listening to every insect,every moving object that wasn't wind at all. Gripping the blade firmly but still loosely just enough for him to switch hands. Whatever happens in this forest would only mean that Ryo would have to defend himself.

"And who are you?" the man asked from hundreds of feet away he shouted to get the voice to carry through the moor that was his little garden. The ground was mucky and weed stricken there was many spots were someone could fall through if they were not sure of their footing. Of course that would doom nearly anyone not only in battle, but also outside.
Mr. Jack as he refereed to himself lay sprawled on a twisted black trees upper branch before him was a small grove between him and the other man would have had a hard time seeing him had he relied on sight. However guessing by his movements he didn't rely much on sight, probably would have fallen in by then if that were the case.
On the branch next to the Pumpkin King stood a water bong perched on the brach next to him, the hose was connected to his mouth supported by his left hand the right grasped a large sword with a double edge and a small hilt. As he spoke his earlier words purple smoke billowed from his mouth, now however he just let it escape as he scanned the laterns scattered around up to one hundred yards in front of him. They provided some light in the otherwise dark swamp. All Jack could do was hop the man would be able to reply to him without upsetting some fearful creature or falling into the mire beneath their feet.

Opening his eyes prior to hearing the voice that hailed through the forest which really meant that someone was either really close or was really far away; Ryo didn't want to scream out into the air like an idiot so he leaps unto a lone branch that curved around the trunk of its structure then jumps into the air creating an invisible floor of air using his soul drive to walk on it, this technique is called the air step and its one of the most simplist and basic techniques that he learned, just walking for now until he can find the person who asked him that question, cupping his hands and holding it up to his face Ryo yells this."HELLLOOOO THERE!!"

"Who might this be? Someone entering the land of whimsical wonderment without a visa perhaps?" Jack called out before taking the hose back into his mouth again and inhaling the purple smoke inside of it. The man now wondered who exactly this person was who could walk on the air.

"My name is Ryokubo the wandering swordsman, and may I ask you of the same nature, what do you call yourself?"Ryo moves a few steps forward and tries to understand that theres an actual person calling towards him,"Thy business here would be among the normal, and tis variant in theory sadly I have to say that I don't have my reasons for wandering through this forest...Im in other words passing through"

"So you barge into a man's home and asks his name?" Jack said with a laugh towards the end as if the idea itself was ridiculous. "How rude he continued after another puff before blinking out of existence he was headed for a lantern one hundred and twenty seven degrees from himself and near the border of the two half moons that had been peppered with the glowing, floating sentries.
Of course at the moment he was floating through the void being pulled to his destination by unseen hands with a smile. Perhaps his smoking session being interrupted would not be so bad after all.

Ambience seems to be biting Ryo in the ass cause its getting really odd in the area, this guy was calling out from afar then claiming to be the master of the area, then Ryo thought about it,"I see, so you're either the Kage to the nearbye village or you're just villager that is too proud of himself.." Ryo said while relaxing himself and focusing on the area around him, using the wind around him to get heavy, heavy enough to make projectiles to slow down and gives the caster the upper hand to zip away, the best thing to do now is to continue to walk towards the origin of the man,"Well why don't you show yourself to me...I would love to have a spar." Ryo said in a polite tone while the pressure around him was growing rapidly.

Twirling out of the latern in a crimson puff of smoke he gave out a short laugh before bringing his lower body towards a tree and pushing off adding to his momentum as he climbed fairly more into the air bounding off another until he was above Ryo, then he fell towards his with a sword in each hand twirling three hundred and sixty degrees the air allowing him to fall fast and gain more force. Each blade was slightly staggered for hitting time and area. One was more towards the right shoulder the other the crown itself. "Challenge accepted" Jack cackled as he fell from the sky.

Seeing a figure drop from the darkness and into his vision with it looked like blades drawn and heading for certain areas on his body so Ryo took it upon himself and decided not to take any chances at all so he falls backwards a bit pulling out his second blade then crosses them together focusing the lightning into his blades and outwards towards the man who is coming towards him while saying a mental note,"Lightning art number two: Mild surge!" This attack shocks the enemy with a mild surge causing them to buckle just a bit, it wont kill them just slow them down for a bit, Ryo was aiming at either the swords or the chest,If it worked then he could use the hilt of his blade to hit the man in the space under his chest and above the stomach just to knock the wind out of him for the time being then Ryo would let out a much higher surge of electricity that would render him unconscious.

If the first attack didn't succeed then Ryo would have to use the blast step and jet backwards getting a better stance, holding his hand out to slow him down from the blast step's effect and to prevent the falling afterwards then Ryo creates a second floor under that and prepares to drop just a bit, holding his blades tightly he stares at the man, looking up and down reading him.