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 Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 11:12 pm
It was something about the weapons.
Their sleek profiles, the smoothness of the metal. The second a hand clamped around the metal of his sword, Marx would belay the strike with his katar. Instead, he transitioned from his solid striking footing, into one more suited for pulling. There were not any notable rivets upon the hands of the glove, so it was more than simple for Marx to pull his blade free. After all, what can one hold onto, when the thing they are grasping for is smooth, lest for the cutting edge?
With the placement of his feet, Marx had likewise evaded the strike towards his knee. His left leg naturally had been moved back to pull away, so the kick came up short.
Marx replied quickly, with the agility natural to his species and likewise ingrained into his body. The Djinn, primarily an adeptly swift species due to their usual nonphysicial forms, had natural speed which bellied that of most humans. Trained martially, it was magnificent to see one go to town. Marx called a burst of green prana into materialization, quickly coating the weapon closest to his opponent. His Katar would glow with the sickly colored stuff for a mere instant, before it broke off, and flew towards James' chest. Prana, by nature, was explosive, and at such a close range, man, wold it hurt the slayer.
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:17 am
James resisted Marx's pull, the djinn wouldn't be able to free his sword from the slayer's grip that easily as his hand wrapped around the blade and twisted it this way and that, depriving the djinn of the correct angle to withdraw his weapon safely. It was hardly as if it was the first the daemonslayer had intercepted and gripped bladed weapons.
The cunning daemonslayer let Marx's pulling on his sword pull him along as well, staying in range effectively. Sensing the arcane energy that the djinn used being called into form once again, James was forewarned, and replied by twisting his left side in for a tremendous axe kick. The rising section would come up from below the djinn's field of view (unless he was looking down, but it would threaten to strike him in the face then), knocking up and away the hand and arm holding the glowing katar, causing the ensuing bolt of energy to fly off wildly to the side.
The falling section was equally devastating as James brought his heel down in a crippling technique, designed to just smash and break whatever was in its path, in this case, most likely Marx's collarbone.
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Energy Meter:
+1 passive gain
5/15
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 4:08 am
There was only one thing to do. When a warrior had his main weapon in a vice grip, you had to get it free. The grip James was presenting made that difficult. So, Marx forced the issue. The energy covering his blade dissipated, before he pulled his right arm back.
Instead of letting his opponent counter with a punch, or a kick, or even the odd throw, Marx took a last step, before pushing his weight forwards off of that foot. Marx timed it right in between one of the Demon Slayer's own steps, the one that would have resulted in a kick. Nevertheless, Marx kept moving, using this momentary uneasiness in James' step to move forwards.
Max let his leg rise like a over, before wedging it against James' knee. He pushed off harshly, throwing himself into a backflip that left him with not a foot between himself and the chandelier. His grip wouldn't falter, but he knew that even with the cool gloves the slayer was wearing, Marx's grip on the ergonomic handle would reign supreme.
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:12 pm
James grunted and let go of the djinn's sword. The being saw the danger present, and kicked off into a backflip to free his weapon.
As Marx flipped off him, the daemonslayer held his stance firmly, and brought up his right hand to his face, a new burst of flame licking into being from his palm, the corners of his lips turned upwards into a smirk.
The idiom "Out of the frying pan, into the fire" was going to be strangely appropriate here.
"Reverse Style, Serpent Wave!" James thought as he unleashed the wave of flame with a sweep of his right fist for a second time. The target was Marx right as he landed from his backflip. With the giant chandelier so close behind him, there was nowhere the djinn could escape to, the cunning slayer had effectively cornered Marx.
The blastwave would strike and knock the djinn into the obstacle behind him once more, and that was going to be merely the beginning of the end, the start of a torrent of punishment.
Quote: Serpent Wave: James’s signature ki technique. Energy is focused around one hand, and is projected forth in a massive, sweeping short-ranged wave of flame. James does not require a specific state of mind to use this, so ingrained into his basic arts it is. James is able to use this technique in mid-air, and the force behind it allows him to dramatically slow his fall back to earth, or change his direction. Being struck by Serpent Wave is like being hit by a wall. Effective distance of 6 feet. Costs 3 energy.
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Energy Meter:
-3 Serpent Wave
2/15
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Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:25 pm
Marx's flip left him plenty of room to get a scope on what was happening. Any back flipply fighter knew the get your eyes on the opponent as quickly as you could, with as little time in between seeing and not seeing as possible. This left Marx a bit of breathing room, which he quickly employed. Upon James lift his hand up, and create that tiny spark, Marx swung into action, quite literally.
Prana would quickly gather around his weapon as he began falling towards the ground. His Katar. Glowing with green emery from a moment before, when it had not been dispelled, had sort of sat upon the blade, stagnating. No charge, or extra power to it, Marx simply swung his arm out in a swift chop, sending a small, dense, and edged chunk of prana flying towards what would bean explosion of fire.
The c***k of prana, no more than a foot in length, exploded once again. Co tending against the storm of fire, the secondary explosion would wipe both attacks out. If only it were a video game, that cool counter thing would have popped up.
With James being closer to the explosion itself, the Human wild be in for the brunt of the force, while Marx got almost all of the heat. It washed over him with a squeal, and what force hit him forced him back a step. With his lips uncomfortably chapped at that point, .the Djonn began his approach. Careful steps forwards this time, taking his body away from the chandelier, and at a diagonal to the Human. Oh, the time to attack would come.
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 7:33 pm
Marx was extraordinarily skilled, or lucky to have managed to get a get a glimpse of the start of his Orochi Naga during his back flip and execute a counter like that, but James wasn't so easily deterred.
With a solid footing and his defending arm up by his head, James was well in control of himself, resisting the blow-back from the explosion expertly, and he would recover relatively faster then his opponent would.
Not giving his opponent an inch of breathing space, James snapped out his left arm at him, flinging a large spark of sacred flame at the djinn even as the other man staggered from the force of the prior explosion and his shaky landing.
The daemonslayer closed in rapidly after that, hands out at his sides, the smirk on his lips having become a full-blown Cheshire Cat's grin. There was no avenue of escape, the man known as the Scion of Flame was completely confident in dealing with his opponent, even if he was still armed and James wasn't.
Quote: Dragon Surge: A large spark of ki (or small object) is created, and thrown at an enemy with explosive results. Feels like being slugged by James's fists, in addition to burning and concussive damage. A ranged attack with medium distance, and reasonable accuracy up to 10 meters. Projectile speed is relatively slow, but can be altered accordingly to the aerodynamics of any charged object if there is one. Costs 1 energy.
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Energy Meter:
-1 Dragon Surge
1/15
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 9:39 pm
Marx hardly had enough time to push off, before another attack was thrown his way. With the movement to the diagonal, Marx pushed off with his right foot, turning his body so that his left lined up with James. The spark flew past him, impacting on the wall with a solid thump. Marx didn't look back to see what went on; his attention was on the human.
Closing in might not have been the best way to go through with a sword user. Especially a Djinn, at that. Close ranges, even with a normal Djinn, was the worst place to be. Prana bursts, close range, caused quite a bit of harm. And when sent through a blade, it meant trouble, and Marx's eyes narrowed. This human would learn.
A thin coat of green prana covered his leading saber. The long black blade would be wreathed on the stuff as James closed in, And Marx moved to counter, by bring his right hand up towards his chest. With his blades held in front of his body, Marx could execute a simple feint.
James neared, and Marx jabbed with his Katar. A simple straight. But, it was pulld in swiftly, leaving quite a bit of space between itself and the target. Feinting like that would attract the attention towards the Katar, and Marx swiftly went on the offensive. With a flash of green, Marx swung his blade towards James' chest. It would likely be open, and going on that, Marx intended to lash the green prana against his chest directly.
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 10:42 pm
Feints only worked if the opponent was worried about them, or was in a position to be worried if the feint was real.
James was neither of those. Neither was he a greenhorn who might've been distracted by such a simple maneuver when going for the kill. Marx would've done well to have noted the slayer's confidence.
As the djinn pushed off his right foot, James pushed of with his left foot to mirror the being's movements and keep him pinned with his back to the obstacle behind him. When the djinn stabbed his katar forth, James lunged in, grabbing for the wrist of the katar hand with his own left hand and wretching it up and out of the way while his right hand lay ready in an open fist to intercept and do the same to the sword arm if he tried to strike. The daemonslayer put his weight behind the pinning moves, ultilizing his forward momentum to actually press the djinn back and slam him against the fallen chandelier.
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Energy Meter:
+1 Passive Gain
2/15
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Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 11:31 pm
Marx's reply was simple and sweet. He felt a hand wrap around his fist, just as he began pulling it back. Quick reaction was the best way to go here. Instead of striking with his blade, he moved his body forwards and to the left, dragging his right foot. And meanwhile, while James attempted to wrenched his arm, Marx locked it into place, refusing to let it move, so he could anchor the human.
He would use the slayers own movement against him. With James moving forwards, Marx simply tripped the guy. Even a trained warrior like James would get caught in the simple ploy. All it took was some simple placement,
Whether or not the trip itself worked, this left Marx in a wonderful position. With his opponent's arm open, speed would be needed. Speed, Marx had. His sword was pressed forwards in a quick jab, right for the kidney.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:10 am
James felt the djinn's arm stiffen, perfect. Locked in place to try and resist him, the daemonslayer had no problem grabbing onto it with his other hand, and avoided the simple trip by twisting his body to the left, kicking off the ground to strike the djinn with a right kick to the chest.
Which, however, was merely a distraction as James went into his physical technique, the aptly named "Crocodile Death Roll".
Hyperextending the djinn's katar arm and twisting in mid-air from the kick, James would be perpendicular to his opponent. Much like the animal feeding method from which the move was named, the jaws of the crocodile were James's arms and hands, and the violent, full-body spinning motion would either break the djinn's joints if he tried to resist, or pull him down to the ground then break his joints. Best of all, since James was on the complete opposite side of the djinn's sword arm, the being would be unable to strike at the cunning daemonslayer at all with his energy-laced weapon.
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Energy Meter:
+1 Passive Gain
3/15
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:22 am
Marx's arm was essentially caught. No biggie, as of this moment.
But the thing is, even if his opponent is on that side, a sword can still touch everything. Since the human didn't even try to go for a block, Marx's sword would slam into his side before he could throw himself into the air. After all, what would make Marx stop his stab? Twisting like that was a good way to dodge a trip, sure, but that left your entire side wide open.
Marx's blade would tear into the area around the kidney, his aim wonderful. The second the blade bit deep into the human's flesh, it detonated. A very small explosion, sure, but one that would cause quite a bit of harm to the internal organs of any being. It wouldn't tear the man in half by any standards either; it's size and strength dependent upon the object it was coating. Hell yeah, this human would be hurt.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:42 am
Marx's sword would not bite into the soft flesh the djinn expected, but instead gouged itself into the custom, reinforced jacket that James wore, and since the daemonslayer was twisting his body around, it went in at an angle that didn't allow for deep penetration, a grazing blow near his back. All that resulted was a surface detonation, since Marx didn't put any force or strength behind his light sword either with the attack being a speedy jab to deliver an energy-laced cargo.
It pained James to be sure, but the move would leave nothing more then a bruise on the surface, and allow him to carry on breaking every joint in the djinn's arm as the rest of the daemonslayer's technique went unhindered.
After the elbow and wrist joints were done, since they would be on the floor by now, James would complete the destruction of the djinn's whole arm by stomping on the shoulder with both feet while pulling, dislocating it from its socket.
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Energy Meter:
+1 Passive Gain
4/15
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 1:42 pm
The white-haired judge had been watching the fight for some time, waiting for the crowd to tear the two fighters to pieces at such a bad show. He should have had been called in earlier, but alas, he was too nice of a snake-kin and had allowed it to be dealt with between the two.
But that was it.
Putting down his cards on the table as time seemed to slow and stop within the field of battle, the Cleric made his way through the crowd before looking at the two fighters for a moment, his arms crossed over his chest, allowing his left index finger to tap his goatee'd chin in thought.
Reversing time a bit until Jame's foot had kicked off Marx's chest and the spin around the appendage began in earnest, he lifted up the opposite hand of Marx holding the sword.
Measuring the length of the blade, he shook his head slightly as it's 2 feet of length was exactly what Marx needed in this short space. Sliding the blade up so that as he was pulled forward by the weight of James on his arm, his blade would...well it would stab into the front of James' jacket above the kidney and detonate, it's position causing James gloves hands to slip on the arm a bit disrupting the twist.
Stopping for a moment here, he pondered a few things as he loosened James' fingers around the appendage before hand.
When he activated time again, James would be rotating around the arm, with quite a bit of pain in his side from the Prana explosion that had loosened his grip. He would find that in the begining of his next post, he'd slam his back into the ground under the arm with Marx's hand still in his grip of his hands and quite possibly feet.
Marx would find himself being pulled forward on one knee unless he had the strength to lift James off the ground one-handed. His arm would still be extended, but his sword hand would be free to do what it will.
Dusting off his hands, the Cleric walked out of the ring, restarting time, indicating that it was Jame's (Feirach) turn to reply.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:50 pm
James gritted his teeth as he felt like he was punched in his side. The pain lanced into him, but it was nothing he was a stranger to. As he landed on the ground, James immediately redoubled his grip and rolled to his right, onto his front, pulling Marx into the ground unless the djinn wanted his arm to break from the strain. A side result would be that the djinn also had his sword arm pinned underneath him.
With nothing to defend himself with, the djinn would be completely vulnerable as James kicked him in the face repeatedly until it was a bloody mess or something else came up entirely.
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Energy Meter:
+1 Passive Gain
5/15
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 9:11 pm
Marx was just as quick as the slayer, more or less. Suddenly pulled to his knee, he knew the danger that his held arm presented to the slayer. His blade, about nine inches in length, could easily pierce the slayer's body as he fell onto his back, and the Djinn to his right knee. There was a chance the blade could pierce right into the slayer's open stomach.
Marx couldn't do much here. He resisted the pull, by supplying his own strength in the arm, and twisting the other way. Djinn, as creatures made of prana solidified, were much more durable that normal. His strength, and the durability of his bones could hold out for a while. Essentially, Marx pushed his arm in the opposite direction of the roll, forcing James to remain flat on his back. The position was bad; but it could turn around. Marx knew that, and he moved to turn this portion of the fight around, and engage his advantages again. His blades in particular.
His reply was quick, and happened at the same moment he was earnestly attempting to pull the slayer back. His blade lanced in between the two, a swift chop for the slayer's right arm. Since Marx was pulling towards his own right, and therefore James' left, there wouldn't be the chance of striking himself. By aiming here, Marx intended to cut through the jacket and into the flesh with a strong and quick strike. The blade could bite through the jacket, and the arm itself with this sort of move.
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