The Duel

[Hanxtan]

Hanxtan was slowly being knocked back and was increasingly getting annoyed by Astrixinch's constant attack. Hanxtan knew if he gave up his frontal protection that Astrixinch's attack could do some damage. Hanxtan thought for a moment and realized that all of the clones and hopefully the original were all in the same general location, this must be so for all of the attacks to precisely land in the same area. So the most efficient way to attack would be to clear out all the clones in one motion and hopefully hit Astrixinch himself, this means no replicas should remain standing. This was Hanxtan's thought process at the time. Hanxtan's pushed his chest forward and moved his arms in a spread out position. All of the armoring in Hanxtan's skin concentrated in the one area where the clones were on a constant attack. Suddenly two halves of a strong sphere bursted out of Hanxtan's sides and swiftly closed in on all of the clones. Hanxtan then detached the enormous trap from his body and raised his right hand as it took flight in the middle of the air. "Let you know what I think?" Hanxtan then took both hands in front of him and shaped them as if he was holding the sphere it's self. "Honestly, I find it annoying." Satisfied that he had caught the original Astrixinch in his trap he then started to move his hands closer together just like he was crushing the sphere, his creation followed his command and started to slowly crush in on it's self.  

[Astrixinch]

Hanxtan suddenly felt two somethings make contact with the sides of his head, pause momentarily then pass into his head. He felt no pain, but instean a sudden chill. His arms then shot apart and a hole appeared in the sphere. Astrixinch stepped out with his hands in the same position as Hanxtan's. Hanxtan looked back just in time to see the clone that had linked his mind to Astrixinch's fizzle patheticly out of existance. "Well," said Astrixinch in his customary monotone, "Then it must have worked." He then made a sweeping motion with one arm and a large groop of clones charged Hanxtan as Astrixinch made a slight retreat.  

[Hanxtan]

"This shouldn't be a problem." Hanxtan calls Dark Star into his hands and his weapon appears, he then tosses it in the air. Dark Star floats patiently awaiting Hanxtan's next move. Hanxtan then places his hands side by side with his palms facing his weapon, through his own view Dark Star is covered by his hands. Slowly Hanxtan moves his hands horizontally doing so forces Dark Star to grow wider. When he is satisfied by the width he then returns his hands to the original start position then moves them to a position where both hands are turned horizontally with his right hand placed above his left. Hanxtan then moves his hands vertically causing Dark Star to grown thicker. When finished Dark Star is about the width of the room and close to 10 feet thick. Hanxtan ,being done with his crafting, quickly pull his hands beside his head and throws them forward. This causes the Dark Star to spin rapidly and make it's way toward the clones. In a matter of seconds Astrixinch's cluster of clones fizzle away and Dark Star now speeds toward Astrixinch himself.  

[Astrixinch]

Astrixinch jumps up into a flip and comes down on the middle of one of Dark Star's points feet first, shattering the Shirukin due to it keeping the same mass no matter the shape (i.e. a huge shape is brittle). He then crouches and lands with his hands, putting him in a hunched over position.  

[Hanxtan]

Hanxtan clinches his fist and quickly pulls it back. When Hanxtan formed his fist the shards of the shattered weapon formed together into stronger shards. When he pulled that fist back the shards were sent flying toward Astrixinch.  

[Astrixinch]

Astrixinch creates a set of clones between him and the shards which begin batting them away at ridiculus speeds. Seeing his oppertunity to hit his opponent un-armored Astrixinch charges forward, summoning the Longinus holding it like someone about to swing an axe. His eyes and staff begin to glow as he runs signifying a buildup of mental energy. When in range of Hanxtan he brings the Longinus down and hundreds of clones explode from the Longinus upon impact.  

[Hanxtan]

The explosion of clones against the unprepared Hanxtan sent him speeding through the air toward the wall. On the opposite side of that wall was the hallway. Hanxtan knew if he broke through the wall without any protection, at this rate, it would not end well for him. Quickly thinking, Hanxtan absorbed Dark Star which gave him a weight gain of 400 pounds which left him at 620 pounds. The sudden change of weight lowered Hanxtan toward the ground. Hanxtan smashed into the ground and slid on the floor, for roughly one and a half feet. Hanxtan made contact with the wall that left a hole in the wall that was about two feet tall. Once in the hallway Hanxtan flipped off his back and waited for Astrixinch to make his move.  

[Astrixinch]

As Astrixinch followed through his swing he watched Hanxtan blast through the wall and raised his left hand, and down the hall to Hanxtan's right clones were charging him, not just on the ground but the walls and ceiling too. He then began running towards the hole Longinus at the read.  

[Hanxtan]

Hanxtan sent spikes through the bottom of his feet, the bottom of his feet now resembled amplified ice climber boots. Hanxtan pushed out the rest of Dark Star through his hand and condensed it into the size of a marble. He did this to take off the extra weight that Dark Star gives him. With the clones swarming him from all directions, including up, Hanxtan backed up and ran for the wall. When Hanxtan was now close enough to make contact with the wall he kicked it. As he kicked his foot into the wall his make shift climbing boots stuck into the wall. Hanxtan leaned forward and kicked his other foot into the wall. Unstopping, Hanxtan continued to run up the wall. Small indentions followed him up the wall where his foot had once been planted. He now placed both of his palms together and split the condense marble into two parts. Pulling his hands apart, all while still running up the wall and toward the clones on the ceiling, Hanxtan held both hands as if duel wielding two weapons. The formation of the weapons started with the hilt and grew from the bottom up into two katanas. Hanxtan, now ready and equipped, placed his footing on the ceiling. So that Hanxtan didn't fall off of the ceiling, he widened the tips of the spikes into a flat strong piece of metal when they penetrated the ceiling. This held him tightly in place. In order to move he would set one foot planted and return the spikes to their original shape on the other foot so that he could planted else where. Taking a single step took a decent amount concentration. Using this method, Hanxtan rushed toward the clones with his swords drawn. Hanxtan swung his Katana, but was not yet close enough. Near the point of farthest reach, Hanxtan extended his blade far enough to make a devastating slice that took out the first 5 ceiling clones. Hanxtan shrunk his blade and carried them back handed style and held them out to his side. He now ran toward the remaining line up of clones, obliterating them as he ran past them. That was 11 clones killed so far. One final clone remained on the ceiling and it was eagerly charging Hanxtan. Hanxtan now waited, when the clone was finally in range Hanxtan released his thin metal braces and started to fall. At the beginning of his fall Hanxtan kicked up and placed a perfect kick on the clones face, the final ceiling clone then poped out of existence. All within the same motion Hanxtan flipped forward so that he would land feet first onto the ground but as he was falling he absorbed his Katanas into his body and through his feet. This made Hanxtan's climbing boots ridiculously huge. While Hanxtan was fighting the clones on the ceiling the other clones that were charging him on the floor were swinging at him from the ground. This meant they were now right below him, in the perfect position to be swiftly be destroyed. The weight of the huge spiked boots made Hanxtan's fall harder. The clones that once stood on the ground, trying their best to reach Hanxtan, were now splattered beneath his feet. Fizzling darkness now escaped out of the side of his massive boots. Hanxtan now completely absorbed Dark Star and stood waiting for the real Astrixinch to emerge from the hole.  

[Astrixinch]

As Astrixinch stepped through the hole into the swirling dust from the walls being ravaged he quickly survayed the area. He then charged towards Hanxtan weapon ready, but when he drew to the outer edges of Hanxtan's range he planted one spike of the longinus in the floor giving himself a sturdy root, jumped, and ran several steps up the wall before releasing the Longinus and jumping forward, his momentum carring him forward and slightly away from the wall. He then re-summoned the Longinus into his hand and thrusted it horrizontally into the wall, swinging forward and back and then pulling himself into a kneeling position on the Longinus, Which was now very near the ceiling and behind Hanxtan on the opposite end of his range. After re-gaining his ballance Astrixinch lept away from Hanxtan rlanding and running further down the hall while sending tides of clones back towards Hanxtan running on every available surface. "I have an idea," Astrixinch thought as he ran "But I'll need some time, and a little space."  

[Hanxtan]

Hanxtan watched as the army of clones was running his way. Being tired of fighting simple clones, he didn't want to stay behind. Hanxtan stood still and push Dark Star out of the bottom of his feet and formed what looked like a metallic surf board. Hanxtan kept what was not needed to make the board absorbed so that the clones would not be such a nuisance to him as he chased Astrixinch. Hanxtan threw his arms back and pushed his body forward, with this motion he levitated off the ground and shot down the hallway in pursuit of the real Astrixinch. As he made his way down the hallway Hanxtan was constantly struck by clones but thanks to his armor plated skin it was as if they were not even there.  

[Astrixinch]

Astrixinch looked back and saw Hanxtan barreling down the hall towards him, he sighed and turned a corner. "He'll catch me in no time unless I do something" He muttered. He then spun around and created two clones. He placed a palm on each clone's back and they began to let off a slight purple aura. They then began to change, growing at least two feet taller, gaining the muscle mass of Pro. body-builders with their arms ripping right out of their sleeves, and their longinuses grew much wider on one side with the blades extending to within a foot of the other side's blades making them more like a sword. At that moment Hanxtan rounded the corner. "Ah, Hanxtan, meet my attack forme clones. Pure offensive power." They then charged.  

[Hanxtan]

Being stopped by Astrixinch, Hanxtan's board was no longer levitating but instead lay resting beneath his feet. Hanxtan reinforced his board by poring the remaining metallic mass that he had resting in his body into it. He then placed it horizontally in front of him. Hanxtan stood patiently as the two brutes rushed toward him. When in range for a strike the board flipped up on it's side, throwing the two clones backwards and flat on their backs. Hanxtan repositioned the board and hopped on in hopes that he would be able to fly past them. Just as he was all most away from them, the two brutes gain composer and gripped Hanxtan's board to insure that he couldn't get away. Noticing this Hanxtan sprang off the board, doing a back flip. While Hanxtan was in mid flip the the metal in the board started to flow from the board and onto a clone's arm, and had completely in cased the arm by the time Hanxtan touch the ground. Hanxtan stood staring at the clone with the in cased arm. The in casement quickly spread over it's body, and in a matter of seconds the torso of the clone was completely covered. The other clone charged Hanxtan yet again but was soon stopped by a powerful swing into the back of the head from his other half. Keeping it's momentum the charging clone went flying into the ground and slid at Hanxtan's side. Hanxtan dropped concentration on the other clone, looked down, and curb stomped the all ready severely damaged clone into cloud of dark energy. "Pure offensive power." Hanxtan snapped his head forward and noticed the in cased clone right up on him readying a swing. Thankfully Hanxtan's attention snapped back on the clone which regained Hanxtan full control just in time. The clone stood struggling for his freedom, to be sure the clone wouldn't get loose Hanxtan threw his hand up. This sent the clone flying through the ceiling. After a few seconds of having his hand raised Hanxtan reabsorbed Dark Star and pushed his board back through his feet, preparing for flight and the continued chase of Astrixinch. Hanxtan waited, levitating on his board. As if falling straight down, the clone dropped from the hole in the roof and smashed against the ground and fizzled away into yet another cloud of energy. Hanxtan continued in pursuit of Astrixinch.  

[Astrixinch]

Astrixnch, who was further down the hall at a left turn, stood facing towards Hanxtan. He summoned his Longinus and took up his combat stance: Right leg forward, body slightly turned, knees bent, with the Longinus pointed forward. He then began to charge back towards Hanxtan "I'm not going to loose him," he thought, "I'll have to make some room." He raised his waepon back over his shoulder, ready to swing downward. He looked Hanxtan square in the face, his grey, emotionles eyes never moving from Hanxtan.  

[Hanxtan]

At the time that Hanxtan noticed Astrixinch he absorbed Dark Star and stood ready to fight so he was all ready in the position to fight. As Astrixinch swung down toward Hanxtan, Hanxtan threw his crossed arms up and blocked the attack. Hanxtan stood struggling against Astrixinch as he held his attack in the cross section of his arms, not allowing the Longinus to escape. Hanxtan, trying to keep the element of surprise, ducked down and allowed Longinus to thrust downward and clash against the ground. As Hanxtan ducked to the right he push Dark Star's mass out of his chest in the shape of a battering ram and slammed it against Astrixinch's chest just as he started to swing back at Hanxtan. The force of the battering ram threw Astrixinch through the air and forced him through the wall behind him. Hanxtan didn't know where he had tossed Astrixinch but he hoped that he had boxed him into a place where he couldn't run. Hanxtan sprinted toward the gaping hole in the wall.