Bamboo Forest

BAMBOO FOREST

Remember those insane asian swordplay movies? Well its like that, when the competitors battle it out in the thich bamboo growth of the area, where everything is green but for the blur of bodies and the flash of blades.

Terrain

General - Heavy bamboo growth creates obstacles in the way, restricting movement

Weapons - None, unless of course you want to cut some bamboo and use it as a makeshift weapon

Natural Element Resource - None, Minor Earth

Bonus Effects - None

As he walked through the bamboo forest, anticipation was building up inside of him. He smiled as he saw a member of the opposing team. What team was it again..oh yea the Ryugin Silver Dragons. His lips parted and he spoke.

"So, it's my team against yours."

He still wore that insane grin as he said this. His voice was sightly chilly, Light shone his machete and his spiked steel gauntlets. He calmy awaited the arrival of his teammates.

They were more than enough to give anyone in this tourament a run for their money. Page leaned against a bamboo tree and smiled. He would be the last to fight.

~THUD!

A dark figure had landed right beside the Dragon Warrior. The ground was dry, good for jumping. That suited him just nicely. His emerald green eyes looked around the beautiful bamboo forest, noting every fine detail.

He was dressed in black and silver, with a silver sword pendant around his neck. He wore black brestplate, etched with silver runes and embroidered with a magnificent Silver Dragon. On his left arm was his FIGHTER, on his other was a silver armband with the Runes of the Ryugin. His long silver hair seemed to match his armor and attire nicely. This was Silver Moonblade, Captain of the Silver Dragons.

He grined as he looked forward, not looking at his comrade.

"You take the fun out of everything... and its Captain.

He saw what he thought was his opponents approaching. He gripped his magnificent Silver spear, Dragoonair, with pride. The spear had intricate carvings of what looked like Scales down the sides of its shaft. At the edge of the spear was what looked to be the head of a silver dragon, which "breathed" the leap shape blade of the weapon. There were two glowing rubies for eyes, by the paled in comparison to the ones at the bottom of the spear. All in all, the spear was 6ft in legnth, plus a 1ft long blade.

"So, you must be team Arazel. The pleasures mine. I am Silver Moonblade of the Ryugin. We can start... as soon as Chris shows himself."

Ryugi smiled and chuckled a bit.

I'll call you Captain when I'm on your ship, but on the battlefield, you're my friend, and as such, I'll call you Silver.

Ryugi then turned to look towards Team Arazel. He noticed two of the three members prepping themselves, and began to search for the third, seeing him appear soon afterwords.

Karasen Kanaraku Wrote:

(Is your third coming?) ((Yes, he'll be along shortly. He's trying to finish his bio to send to Kraun. Then he'll be here. For now, go along with some Teamside chatter until he arrives. That will pass the time. ))

This was disappointing. The sun had long risen and the comforting fog that crept through the forest was beginning to fade. Cris had been sitting, resting against one of the many bamboos, waiting for the spectacle to arrive. The scarf he wore covered his mouth and nose as his chin pressed towards his chest and his hat was pulled down to cover any light. Then it came, the first sign of the fight to come, a familiar aura, scent, and face.

Ryugi appeared. Then some idiotic grinning stranger, then what appeared to be his teammate. Not long after Silver also made his appearance. Cris looked them all over once more before he sighed away his peace in the forest. More than likely unknown the both teams he sat dead center in between them, cloaked however. He rose from his sitting position and began to walk only to leave the sound of footsteps as a sign of him there. What was left of the fog may've silhouetted him slightly making him look like a ghostly apparition. However, much like his rest in the peace filled forest that was also cute short.

As he neared Ryugin he came back to the visible world. A bit different this time however, this time one could say he literally stepped into it. And there he was just a few feet from his teammates, his pace didn't slow however as he brushed past them to a nearby bamboo. Needless to say he once again took his seat, arms folded, legs crossed, his face partly covered by his scarf.

"Ready...."

The only word he spoke before tipping his hat back over his face.

"I picked them up on my way to... Chris, you have to stop doing that."

He was, of course, talking to the man who just appeared in there midst. There was no need to prolong this battle any longer, so he keept it short and sweet.

"How about we start this thing?"

(half life 2, most definatly)

Page turned his haed towards Karasen. His lips parted as he answered his question.

"Makenshi fights first, You fight second and I fight last."

He noticed the third member of team Ryugin had appeared. Page averted his attention back to Karasen.

"You face the one called Chris."

Makenshi came scaling down on a set of bambo thickets like a spider. Silently sculking down the way a ninja would. He was always wearing all black, leather and such that he usually wore. He was the spitting image of Kadaj off the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children except Makenshi had more of a feminine look to him. He set foot on the ground with his team and stood a fine six feet tall with a leather coat on.

He didnt have his gunblades with him, nor was he prepared to use them. He only had with him a sachel on his waist on his back left side of his belt and a holster for a PDA on his left side. His hair shined a silver and hung over his face ( sig pic is an example ) his hair covering over his right eye mostly. It didnt matter really for the sunglasses he wore windowed over his red eyes.

He noticed the other team then smiled in a polite smile. If his eyes werent so deviant then no one would think he were a bad guy at all. He really wasnt he just looked the part. He bowed politely to them and kept his happy grin.

" Good afternoon gentlemen. My names Makenshi Hayashi, how do you do? "

He said to them, the shade of bambo hovering over his face. Or perhaps it was rays of sunlight peeking through an ocean of tree's? The setting was quite lovely and a lot of the shadow camo-ed with Makenshi's appearance. It was a lovely day for a fight.

"Give him hell... Dragon Boy"

Silver closed his eyes, having nothing more to say.

Page walked towards his third team member, Makenshi. He and Makenshi sort of looked the same except he looked like a younger version. He whispered in Makenshi's ear as he past him.

"You're facing Ryugi..paralyze him."

Page was not a nice guy. He was born on cruelness. His cold gray eyes flashed as he said this. He made his way away from where the battle was about to be held. He didn't want to get in the way.

((Alrighty. I guess you're my opponent, so I wish you luck. Lets get this thing started! ))

((We're going all out my friend. No killing or maiming would be preferred, however, they are NOT illegal. The fight will go according to tournament rules.))

Ryugi looked towards the man in front of him. He seemed to look alot like his brother Ryudo, except a bit younger and much more feminine. He took a deep breath, turned back to his teammates giving them a thumbs up, and then looked back towards the man.

Well, Mr. Hayashi, my name is Ryugi Kazamaru and I'll be your opponent. I wish you the best of luck, Sir.

Ryugi hooked Ragnarok firmly to his back and took up a fighting stance with a slight bow, about twenty feet from his opponent, and even more from his teammates, as he charged energy for the first few attacks.

The first move is yours.

Makenshi Hayashi Wrote:

He skid his right leg back then leaned forward a bit on his left and placed his left fingertips on the ground. He pushed off on them then ran forward ten feet. He jumped out five feet in front of him then rolled another five feet and leaped up and did a right jumping snap kick then an immediate follow up snap kick off the same right foot then and third snap kick off his right foot in a quick tripple kick combo. The momentum from the jumping then rolling gave him a quick time lapse which made the one attack only a second or two long.

He had his right hand behind him and his left hand in front of him as he flew in his attack towards the man. On his face he still had that same smile. His opponent looked happy too. It was like a kids on Christmas. A child with skills of a pro. Sometimes the scariest things in the world is a child. Some children at a young age had no fear. Hopefully though they would just have fun and not have a personal vendeta by the end of the match. Ryugi was astonished, the man had a very nice sense of grace and precision, however, as first attacks often were, this one was relatively easy to avoid. As his opponent dashed for him and jumped into the air, Ryugi ducked and jumped to the side, landing on the ground as his boots dug into the soil. As he moved to the side, his left hand rose up aiming towards his opponent.

Without a word he fired a tiny compact blast of light energy, glowing a brilliant, almost blinding white. The blast would travel at a speed of thirty feet per second. Most of Ryugi's attacks could be found at this speed, however, not all. If the blast were to hit his opponent it would immediately burn his skin similar to a cross between a sunburn and someone pouring boiling water across your side, as well as detonate with enough force to send a person of about 150 lbs about ten feet across the ground, and easily more than enough to send them off ballance. If the blast missed his opponent, it would also detonate, however, it would explode in a bright flash of blinding white light, enough to temporarily blind anyone within a five foot radius from the center.

Since his opponent was leaping up as Ryugi was firing the blast, he would be airborne, and therefore, very hard pressed to move and avoid the blast. And since Ryugi was nearly seven feet away from his opponent as he fired the blast, it would take a little more than 1/6 of a second for the blast to hit his opponent while moving at its speed. Since the normal reaction time was 1/4th of a second, this might prove a problem for his opponent when it came to even reacting to the attack.

Ryugi would then prepare for his next few attacks, with one turn of charge still under his belt.

As Karasen sat at the edge of the battle zone to watch the fight, he observed Ryugi's fighting style closely. Was this the power of this team's captain? It was not very impressive, as Karasen had seen many attacks just like the one being used by Ryugi, he had even used something like this several times before.

( Playing Soul Caliber II right now as a sort of training LOL )

Silver Moonblade Wrote:

Makenshi Hayashi Wrote:

( Playing Soul Caliber II right now as a sort of training LOL ) (dude, you read my thoughts)

( Lol well its simple to tell who I'm using. I mean if I made a staff with the bamboo around us what kind of weapon would I have? LOL so thats who I'm practicing with. I'm gonna switch to capcom VS SNK2 in a second. )

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

Ryugi noted that his opponent was unharmed by the burning of his attack, however the physical force still sent him flying off in the opposite direction, only to launch back towards him after catapulting off of a stray bamboo branch. One problem with airborne attacks, they were generally very easy to avoid, or take advantage of. Once more, Ryugi would use this weakness.

As his opponent flew off, and spun around towards him, Ryugi mearely moved off to the side as his opponent approached him, reaching out to firmly grip his boots by the ankles. As Ryugi gripped the man's ankles, he would pull back and twist his torso downwards, his aim to slam his opponent into the ground using his own momentum against him. Once more, since his opponent was airborne, his direction and momentum were set, and very difficult to change by normal means.

Ryugi would aim to slam the man into the ground side first, possibly injuring and breaking his ribs. Bone breaking was completely legal in HoH, and therefore perfectly acceptable as a consequence. Ryugi would then plan to let go after aiming his opponent, another turn of charge being added to him...

The attempt was that Makenshi would be slammed into the ground with his own momentum. This wouldnt give Makenshi enough time to escape nor would if give him enough time to counter or attack so Makenshi had to do the next best thing. He would have to go and nullify everything that the men did as of then.

Makenshi caught the ground, before he was slammed, with his palms, the dirt and leaves now durtying up his gloves. The instant he would land his hands on the ground he would shift the weight in his hips and legs to the opposite side so assuming that he landed more on his right then his left that would mean his legs were being held by the left and he would have to shift to the right. Doing so would toss his opponent to the right and nullify his attack and his opponents. His opponent would most likely land on his feet anyways.

With the airborn time his opponent would have he would only have enough time to get back to his feet. There was something else he could do though. Something that he probably should have done to begin with.

Earlier he made a hand seal in his first move. It was the Kagebunshin seal. This meant that he made shadow copies of himself, however they never showed themselves. There couldnt have been a lot because then they would have been seen already. There was only seven of them that fell during the attack where he catapulted himself. Enough to stay hidden without being seen. Three of them had already placed hidden seals aside off in the distance equivalent to a mile off by a tri and a foot up. The equalled amount made the radius. That meant that that was their hiding spots. With the four that was left or five considering the real one they each dropped a bomb that did nothing, but make a loud noise. They all however had red eyes glowing. Anyone that looked at them would fall victim to the attack.

The attack being done was an acute attack of Paranoia. It was a hypnotic attack that if anyone looked even with a glimpse they were automatically caught in the attack. They made the victim think that they were bound with their arms and legs spread out and their limbs being melted off their bones. This would cause such a trauma in the mind that the person would slip into shizophrenia which would result in catatonic like endings meaning that there would be numerous cramps within the persons central nervous system or anywhere else in the body. Enough cramps to render a person unable to fight for the rest of the fight. This was the hypnosis through seeing.

Earlier Makenshi skid his left fingertips on the ground as well. That made no sense to use that as your push off movement. Instead it was the activation of the Never Ending area. Now no matter where Ryugi went he would always end up in the same spot. As would everyone else caught in the immediate area except Makenshi since he was the original starter. Escaping was simple as long as Ryugi could Mathematically find out where the seals were. And you couldnt reach them physically because they were outside the area for they had to MAKE the area.

If he escaped the hypnosis through seeing he would have it through smelling. He would still become hypnotized for the five senses tantilized the brain in some way. Every one of the senses affected the brain in some way. If someone could be hypnotized through seeing they could be hypnotized through smelling and the other five senses as well. The poison would be through out the area as well and no matter where Ryugi would run he would run into the poison.

Two facters that lead to a hypnotic body malfunction and a third facter that meant Ryugi couldnt escape from it. Through the hypnosis there was only one escape. No movement while hypnotized.

( I have to go this can be the end unless you can stop it. Its a Mahou sensei negima + Naruto technique. Volume 7 and Volume 12 of Naruto and Negima. )

((Apparently I'm suppose to make a judge call on this. What I see.

Kege Bunshin in first post. Kage Bunshin doesnt make invisible clones.

Marked area in second post, makes sort of spell which traps the area.

Hypnotic attack which affects looking into the eyes.

Dont see where some poison came from, which seemingly appeared out of nowhere. Ignore it. Plus if it did, I'd make a call on like... Bagdad Bobbit or something. Instant win move, unavoidable in any situation.

End statement. Just ignore the weird poison part and continue. Personal Disqualification may result in the case of the attack on the entire team and not just the designated fighter.))

((Well, fact is that whats seen in the attack is hypnotism in the eyes and the ombs did nothing but make loud noise. So I still say ignore that part and continue on.

Funny eye thing in effect, trapping area in effect. No poison though.))

Kraun Wrote:

((Well, fact is that whats seen in the attack is hypnotism in the eyes and the ombs did nothing but make loud noise. So I still say ignore that part and continue on.

Funny eye thing in effect, trapping area in effect. No poison though.))

( Ok deal. If I use the bombs again, but I state that the poison is in them can I continue to use it or is it null and voide now? )

((Dont see why you cant. Though it'd have to be a different kind of bomb that actually does something, and then you'd probably have to contain it so it doesnt count as an attack on anyone other than the designated fighter.

And enough OOC here. Take it to the damn OOC thread.))

Kraun Wrote:

((Dont see why you cant. Though it'd have to be a different kind of bomb that actually does something, and then you'd probably have to contain it so it doesnt count as an attack on anyone other than the designated fighter.

And enough OOC here. Take it to the damn OOC thread.))

( Sorry. I'll wait for my opponents post first if he decides he wants to continue. )

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

There was a slight problem with this man's thinking. Apparently, he believed Ryugi was still holding onto him as he performed his tossing motion. This, however, was false. Ryugi had long since let go of the man before he tried his little toss. This meant that any attacks made after Makenshi tried to toss Ryugi would be null and void. His opponent had left himself wide open for Ryugi's next attack.

Ryugi's hands were already ideally placed towards his opponent for his next attack as he unleashed a technique known as Flashbang! Moving at a speed of thirty feet per second, two twin balls of brilliant white energy would fire foreward towards his opponent only milliseconds after Ryugi threw the man. As he fired these he would be jumping away from his opponent to avoid what was to come.

The twin balls would explode with an extremely loud and high pitched squeal loud enough to deafen an opponent for nearly ten seconds if they had normal human hearing, longer if it was more enhanced. At the same time they would explode with a light bright enough to completely blind an opponent for about seven seconds. The light was so bright, even if one were to close their eyes, it would still blind for a total of five seconds.

However, the attack had its limits. The bright light only had a blinding radius of five feet, and a deafening radius of six feet. After those distances the attack broke down, the light simply growing painful, and the sound being high pitched, but not deafening. Ryugi would be safely outside the attack's range by the time it acted.

As long as his opponent was within the radius of influence, the attack would go off without a hitch, the effects acting accordingly. The explosions were pure light, no fire, no ash or dust, and no burning effect. Ryugi would land on his feet after his jump, wait a moment, then attack his opponent.

The copies he had earlier created continue on with their never ending place plan and did seal everyone in. They had it set up so that only his opponent, Ryugi would be caught in the dimensions effects, trusting that his teammates and Makenshi's own teammates would not interfere with the seals in any way or interfere with the fight for that matter.

The original Makenshi did in fact make contact with the two balls and although he wasnt hurt by the balls explosion he was tossed off a few feet away and momentarilly blind. What was the more serious of effects was his deafened moment. He did in fact have a higher sense of hearing. This was not good. Since using his eye hypnotics meant that one day he may become susceptable to becoming vision impared he took advancements that made him hear using echolocation. With that his deafened state would last a rather long time. He covered his ears for they were in pain from the sonic attack.

The shadow copies were still in the air during the moment that the attack was commensed therefore they were unaffected, but they had to protect Makenshi now. The four surrounded him for the time being until the other three came back which would take about two minutes since they were so far away.

The four Makenshi copies did their Kage bunshins to make more copies for the real Makenshi's protection. there were now another set of seven protecting Makenshi which totalled up to eleven Makenshi copies. Seven being the amount created each time for this was a non-killing and non-maiming match. This was Makenshi going easy because he did respect his opponent.

Now six of the Makenshi clones protected the original long enough that he would gain his eye sight back. There may be a problem with his hearing however. His kitsune's ears came out, no longer looking like a humans ears. They were twitching more. If they were like humans ears they would be red at this moment.

All the Makenshi's did their red hypnotic suggestion eyes technique, which meant that the original would never become vision impared. They only did a minimal attack. Enough to hurt their opponent, not a lethal amount like the Tsukyomi technique. As perviously stated the attack would be that if his opponent had even a glimpse of the red glow he would become susceptable to its effects. He would have an attack of Paranoia. This time feeling as if his worst fear came true only ten fold. He would have no use of his physical body, but not know of it. He would feel as if the whole thing changed just into his worst fear.

This paranoia rush would form into a Schizophrantic attack that resulted into a catatonic attack. It would rush because of the hypnotic suggestions multiplying times ten. He would get cramps only bad enough that he wouldnt be able to fight.

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

As soon as Ryugi landed about eight feet away, he had landed in a crouch. His semi-spiked boots dug into the ground, and he pushed off towards his opponent as quickly as he could, forcing himself foreward. Within a second he closed the gap between he and his opponent, the clones descending around him as he arrived.

Ryugi then activated one of his own "Secret Techniques". He tapped into the Elemental Realm of Fire, his body acting as a portal for the raw unbridled power of the ancient magic. However, rather than keeping the portal open, he left it open for only a split second to make use of its energy, quickly closing it before he tired himself.

The massive flux of energy caused the air to expand around Ryugi enough to create a massively expanding wall of force. The heat within the blast would disapate enough that it wouldn't burn anyone, but it was enough to toss a person, or several descending clones nearly twenty feet away with ease.

At the same time, he jumped towards his opponent and his feet flew forward, the spiked metalic bits at the end of the sole aiming to collide with the man's solarplexus and chest with enough force to shatter ribs at the most, and at the least, bruise them to the point it hurt terribly to breathe. If it connected, it would most certainly knock the wind out of the man, as well as scrape and cut up his chest.

The hit would push the man backwards and toward the ground, the time between jump and connection being only about half a second, bringing the total attack time to about two seconds. And since Ryugi had managed to attack the clones before they could copy themselves once more, he only had to deal with four, while the others were still more than a minute and a half away...

He came in a time amount fast enough that the back two copies could cancel their attacks and jump out in front of Makenshi with a quick wind barrier. There would never be enough time to make a wind barrier to completely stop the worce blast, but there was enough time to divert it away from the real Makenshi. There wasnt enough time for them to protect the first two however so they sadly enough poofed into nothing yet again.

Since Makenshi could send the copies information he told the three that were coming to come with reinforcements. One Kagebunshin, the closest one that was just a few seconds ahead of the other two made his own set of seven. There were now eight coming in.

As for the two that were still there, they were near to being dissipated since they could only divert the force blast they would have to make a temporary shield. One jumped in front only to protect the other one. He knocked back the opponent from his kick, not enough to make it a counter, but enough so the opponent would just be sent back for a moment. The other copy only had enough time to drop a seal that could protect Makenshi long enough that he could regain enough sight to defend himself. He needed five seconds and he could have at least3 to four. There wasnt enough time to make the shield strong enough to protect him for any more then four seconds.

The defense came in only one second and the copy had to take an already made copy of the shield for only a second. It made it rather weak. Strong enough to last for four seconds at most, but not strong enough that it could defend for more then that. With only one second that he wouldnt be able to defend himself it sounded like nothing. Sure he could make copies of himself again in less then a second, but if he did at that moment then they would also be blind and deaf. He could do one other thing depending on if his opponent did something particular. In four seconds he would have absolutely no defense for a second. In another minute or so he would be able to hear, but that was different. He would be in trouble soon.

( Honestly I dont know what to do when that second comes up. I have no idea what to do for that second. )

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

In those precious four seconds, Ryugi had recovered from his opponent's tiny push back, and had used another of his secret techniques. Trading his stamina for power, he supercharged his body with a little more energy than he would normally gain in one turn. Already having three saved up, he traded 10% of his stamina for one extra turn of energy, pulling the total to five.

Then, pulsing as much energy as he could into his body, he unleashed a full on barrage of power, his hair whipping back and winds spinning around him as he braced for the rebound of the attack, his scarf whipping around from the force. Then, with a mighty battlecry, his eyes burning with anger and determination, he unleashed the horrible attack apon his defenseless opponent. Within three and a half seconds he had gathered enough energy and unleashed his might.

Gyyyyyyaaaaaahhh!!!

With a titanic shockwave a beam of pure white and glowing light energy exploded from Ryugi's body and fired towards his unprotected opponent at a speed of nearly fifty feet per second. With Ryugi only about five feet away, the attack would only have one tenth of a second to reach his opponent, and it would have enough power to tear through the barrier like tissue paper.

The ammount of power coming from the attack was enough to tear through clothing as if it wasn't there. The light was in a mix of different spectrums, but, it contained no infared, the type of light that is called "heat". Instead, it contained some of the most powerful types of light in the spectrum. Gamma rays that could kill next to anything, Ultraviolet light that caused sunburn and broke down the skin's cells, and of course, bright white light, able to induce temporary blindness that could last for hours.

The sheer force from the blast would be enough to simply tear his opponent's skin in places. No need for burning to cause injury here. The speed of the photons of light would be fast enough to merely cut him open like dozens of tiny razor blades. Mind you this attack was not lethel, but it was terribly damaging. The force would also be enough to toss him nearly one hundred and fifty feet in a straight line through plants and objects that could severely damage his back. (The attack lasts a total of three seconds. 50 ft/s x 3 =150ft in three seconds.)

After three seconds of firing the attack, Ryugi would stop as the beam disapated, and he would then draw Ragnarok, his trusty broadsword. If this fight was going to continue on, it was going to get FAR more dangerous...

Makenshi only had three and a half seconds. Only enough that he could prepare to endure whichever attack came next. He drew a sanskrit in the ground that made the sign of Endure. It wouldnt have its full effect now since he was moving from a Chakra enduced skill to Magic based. Chi and Chakra conflicts with Magic energy. He would only have enough magic energy now so that he would still get cut and thrown. He would have bruises and still become injured in a pretty bad way soon.

He had enough time to make the symbol, which he had to do with his eyes closed. Since the attack came before his eyes were completely healed his eyes were closed during the attack. All he could see was white from the first blinding attack so he couldnt tell if another blinding attack was coming in. He would still gain back his eyesight soon, but his hearing wouldnt come in till the other Makenshi copies came back.

He had his endurance spell drawn, but only long enough that it could be cast. It wasnt powerful either. He was still thrown back. Being thrown into the tree's felt like nothing since he was thrown into four ton boulders before, but being hurled made him lose his sense of what was going on around him. He was probably closer now to one of his clones, but perhaps not the clone that had the reinforcements coming. From his guess he was close to the east. Now was time for his two last resorts.

He pulled out his star ball from a small pocket hidden away on his jacket. The pocket was lined with a rave metal, which was known for negating non physical attacks. This was most protected to him and being thrown away meant that he had a lot of space now from his opponent. He had time. He pulled out his star ball and swallowed it. The bad part was that it would come back later, still not broken, but in a form he wouldnt want it anymore.

He was drawing energy from the starball. When he was younger up until just recently he was holding energy in the star ball for three people. This

meant he would be healed now, with scars of course, and he would have a major jump start in everything. This would only last perhaps until five hours and when it came back out it would have no energy in it. With the side effect that when its done he will sleep for a while, But it had to be done.

He got up and brushed off some of the torn off clothing and such then cracked his back. If this were dragonball z then supposingly this would be his super saiyajin four. That was only if this was that show and if he was a saiyajin, but he wasnt. Everything was hightened now for him. He was still deaf though. He could see, but only blurrs which meant he had to use his eye suggestion again to see. He did so, but his eyesight might be different again later. Once his opponent saw his eyes he would be stuck in the Tsukyomi.

He drew on a bomb and wrote down the names of everyone around him except his opponent, and he wrote it in sanskrit. He threw the bomb to an area that his knew his opponent would most likely be in. He could see his opponent clear as day from where he stood as well with his enhanced eyesight now. The bomb was the suggestive hypnotism bomb again. There again was no where to run from it since it was the Never Ending area technique still going on and now his copies were closer now. When his star ball was over in use he would fall asleep for a while until someone healed him as well.

The time it took for him to swallow and reach for the star ball was about three seconds and his opponent was far off since Makenshi was thrown 150 feet away. Everything for him was now enhanced, but only for a while of course. No outside substance would stop that now. Everything that he was doing could be done in no more then twenty seconds, since throwing the bomb was a factor, writing everyones name, and pulling out the star ball. What could happen now?

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

Ryugi took this time to prepare for "round two". Round one ended up with the two fighters split apart by nearly 150 feet, so Ryugi decided to charge energy for his next few attacks. Getting a good one turn of charge in, he noticed his opponent's bomb being thrown at him. Thinking quickly, he swung Ragnarok and hit the bomb away, it detonating and sending its poison across the field.

When Ryugi noticed the smoke from the bomb wasn't disapating as it should, he quickly decided to remedy the situation with another quick blast of energy like he had used to divert his opponent's clones. The heat and force from the blast almost instantly dispersed the poison to a harmless distance.

That trouble dealt with, Ryugi went back to charging for his next few attacks, his sword beginning to glow a dull red with energy. He then calmed himself, feeling around for ambient energies in the air. He couldn't see his opponent, but he knew approximately where he was from the ammount of power he now held. He then noticed something strange. It seemed there were various points of energy scattered around him in several directions...

They were all close enough now. All about the distance in a circle that Makenshi was. The other two Kagebunshin copies that were without reinforcements were informed to create their own seven Kagebunshin copies, each. The distance of which they would have time to do so. It only took a second. They each drew signs in sanskrit on themselves with the words " Negate Attack " on them. It meant that for one attack they would be unharmed.

There were now twenty-four kagebunshin copies and one Makenshi original. They all, from where they stood, did a light dash and moved forward in a litteral light dash ( you see him move, but its like a firefly wizzing by faster then sound, but slower then light. ) till they were about one-hundred feet away from Ryugi. This was space enough that everyone could charge a small ball of energy the size of a soccer ball.

Every one of them kicked the blast and sent a barrage of three-hundred soccer ball sized concentrated balls of energy at Ryugi. It was Makenshi's Splinter ryshuuken. Makenshi was the only one that didnt fire. Instead he made three balls of energy in the shape of a triangle around him and let them levitate there. It was a concentrated amount of energy in the balls that could fire three hundred shots. It was only a drop in the bucket to fire and create them, it was another amount of energy to have it so that they would follow their opponent.

Originally this attack was created for the soul purpose of fighting a one man versus an army type of battle. It was one on one now so this would be different. There were twenty-four times three hundred. This elapsed time of running and firing would equal to about twenty seconds more. Each ball of energy was equivalent to, now, a single punch from an average man. Together, however it was a hit from an army. That was if it was one Makenshi doing this. With twenty-four it made seven-thousand-two-hundred shots. Each one following Ryugi. Shields wouldnt work for too long since it was a constant barrage. Even the ultimate shield would shatter after a single barrage. Running from them wouldnt work since it would be easier to run between rain-drops. There were those who escaped this blast, but would Ryugi?

Makenshi waited about two seconds after the Kagebunshin shot their blasts before his shot his. He spun in a quick spin that looked like a blurr, fists out. He hit the blasts in his spin to let loose another nine-hundred shots of energy. This made a grand total of eight-thousand-one-hundred balls of energy. All focused on one target. This was MAkenshi's signature move. The Splinter Ryshuuken. ( More info in the journal. )

Elapsed time would be about thirty-seconds. Five to create and fire the balls and twenty-five to let it rain.

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Silver grinned, his teeth shining. It was rare that his teeth were ever shown, but he was considerably proud of his teamate at the moment. Ryugi didn't even need a Striker to get out of this troublesome situation. He had saved his "trump card" until the perfect moment, and it worked flawlessly. He even did a "little" jump ten feet into the air, summersaulting the way down.

"YEAH! Thats how its done, Dragon. Now... finish him!"

He was extremly pleased, and entirely happy that his friend was on his team for the tournament.

From the display the opposing member had shown thus far Reinhart couldn't help but be annoyed. Was this guy for real? Making clone after clone, sealing areas, then launching an onslaught of god knows what. Ryugi handled himself well as far at the competition goes he assumed. Though both sides displayed an enormous amount of energy attacks Reinhart wasn't impressed. Hence he remained unmoved. Though the ground shook and rock flew everywhere he kept still.

His face still hidden underneath his black scarf and hat, arms and legs crossed, his back still resting on the bamboo. The only thing that could've been considered acknowledgement of the things going on around him was the simple glance he gave the chaos. No more, no less. The only thing that excused him from being inanimate was his steady breathes. Guess he may be next unless that fox pulled another twenty something odd clones out again.

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

This was simple enough. Ryugi used his supercharge technique to take an extra 2 turns of charge from the realm, while docking another 20% from his stamina to bring him to roughly 70% remaining. This gave him access to a single attack at two turns of charge and another with one.

Ryugi's image was covered for a moment by dust as it blew past him, but it quickly revealed him once more, still standing in the same position with his sword ready to strike. One thing was for sure, this would end soon as Ryugi slashed towards his severely weakened opponent...

Makenshi only had two moves left. Either one meant that he would lose his energy soon. HE stood, not tired, but in pain. Once the fight was over he could heal himself, however for the time being he was still in it with his opponent now charging at him. It was about ten feet so Ryugi would have to come to him in two or three steps.

Makenshi turned his left arm backwards as it fired his draining shield just in case so that the spectators of the other team and his team wouldnt become injured or caught in the cross fire. His opponent would probably be at him in a second or two and he only had one hand sign to make which was pretty simple.

He leaned all his weight backwards to avoid the sword as it came then he made the final seal. He made a thumbs up like sign with his thumb bent. The final move was a use of ten percent of his strength left, which was good enough since ten percent was a lot yet a little amount of energy for him. The moment he did so an explosion erupted immediately from it. The explosion was mostly just a burst of fire and a force strong enough to send everyone around flying off about ten more feet. Like being hit by a truck or so. The fire was a burning hot six-hundred degree's farenheit, which felt good to Makenshi. The force probably wouldnt have really thrown the spectaters too far, but Makenshi didnt want to risk it.

It enough to send his on coming opponent flying off into the distance or burn him. Makenshi would hit the ground too, only his right arm would be in any real pain from hitting the ground so hard and so fast considering it was the most damaged. As he lyed in the ground he relized that he only had five percent to ten percent left of energy. It wasnt a lot. If he got up it would take even more energy.

There wasnt enough energy in him for an attack, but probably there wouldnt need to be. Only one thing he could do if his explosion didnt work to end this in a draw. He mumbled latin verses to himself as he lyed on the ground. HE smiled as he did so. This was one of the only fights where he was ever rendered injured before. Except for fights with Michael Noire.

" Emittam...Sagitta Magica...Aer...Capt.... "

His voice was a bit raspy and low. It was enough that the people around him could tell that he was mumbling. The blast only took a second, but that was a lot of time to think. It felt like he had hours to think of this. Think of the things he should have done and what would happen once the negative effects of the star ball would kick in. He would just lye on the ground. He was too tired to do anything else. He just stared up at the sky thinking as he waited for his opponent.

( You didnt explain too much in your last post, so I'm assuming that you were coming at me. I only had to make one more hand seal and it doesnt take a second to give somebody a thumbs up, so yeah... If you dont get burned you would probably get thrown back if you werent thrown back you would probably get burned. If nothing then you would probably still end up just flying over him as he falls down. )

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

Ryugi slashed towards his opponent, and his opponent hit Ryugi with the blast. Ryugi wasn't burned however, and since he was leaning into his attack, the blast only pushed him back about three feet. Skidding across the area in a crouch, Ryugi then dashed towards his opponent, closing the gap in less than a second. He then dove at his opponent. Then, when Ryugi was close enough...he exploded in another light based blast!! (That means no heat etc for you.)

The force of the explosion would be enough to send a person flying backwards about fifteen feet, and it was still strong enough that the concussion wave would injure bones and slice skin once more, especially at the close range. But if Ryugi exploded, then that must mean...

WRONG!! The real Ryugi appeared behind his unsuspecting opponent and swung Ragnarok in a horizontal slash, unleashing a powerful wave of light energy in a lancing flow! This energy would also feel like several razor blades were cutting across Mak's already injured skin.

He had used the explosive blast to hide his footsteps, not knowing his opponent was still deaf. But how had he performed this attack? It was simple really. Using the first two turns of energy, he created a light shield. This was a spherical shield of photons that rendered Ryugi invisible, and since the shield was made of a physical substance, and not magical energy, he would be safe from his opponent's special vision. Of course, Ryugi didn't know this, he had used the attack to confuse his opponent.

The second attack was the most obvious. As the dust had covered him, he had created a light clone. This clone was a collection of photons that resembled Ryugi in every way. It was even given some of his abilities. The clones could be detonated as his friend had just shown Mak, in order to take opponent's by surprise.

While his opponent messed with the clone, Ryugi had moved around behind him, shielded from view by his light shield. Then, when his opponent attacked the clone, Ryugi had already gained enough energy for his lancing blast. Using the two attacks in combination should be enough to win the battle against his opponent. Ryugi readied himself incase his opponent was somehow able to fight after all of that damage...

With the blast Makenshi was thrown off yet again. He probably could have caught his ground if he wasnt so tired. He decided just to let it be since with no energy left he wouldnt be able to do anything anyways. With all things considered he had fun, despite what others around him might think of the match.

Makenshi hit the ground then curled up and prepared to have himself a nice sleep. IT was probably about time he have one anyways. Ryugi had won this one, which was good because now Makenshi had more to learn. It was better to learn from a lost fight then to learn from a won fight.

Makenshi had enough. If only he could have done things differently, but it was all right. It was more fun to finally lose then it was to win. Maybe they ended in a draw. Whatever it was, he was sleepy now. Someone would have to heal him and give him some energy for him to wake up again. If not he would just sleep for a week. He was done. Draw, Win or lose, he didnt care. He just wanted to sleep now.

He fell to the ground not knowing if the capture spell worked and he would sleep, dirt and all in his wounds and on his face. It was a good fight and he finally met his match. Maybe one day they would fight again outside the tournament.

Hopefully his teammates would help him somehow if not he would wake up in a week. The problem would be his vulnerability now. With his sleeping state he could easilly be hit with a blind move. Perhaps from his own captain.

(Waiting for my opponent..)

As the battle ended, Karasen opened his eyes for a moment and yawned. He had been taking a slight nap during the entire fight, and was just now waking up. "My turn to fight, I guess." He rose to his feet slowly, his movements rather sluggish. As he moved into the battle area, he seemed to be falling in and out of sleep. His eyes, though usually blue, had shifted to gold in the process. As he stretched for a second he looked across the area to Reinhart. "Hey... Can we get this over with? I need a nap."

"Right, right.." The seemingly exhausted man said as he straightened his posture up before reaching into his pouch with the adamantium gauntlet and pulling out a small half-inch long piece of material. As he held his hand out, the item resting gently upon his palm, a green energy seemed to engulf his hand.

Within seconds this energy had extended out to the left and right to reach a length of six feet. One end of this wooden staff sharpened off to a point, and the other held a clouded green sphere which was encircled by a stone dragon, a guardian of sorts. "This is the fabled Staff of Quakes. One of a set of six.. Good luck in this battle, I hope I am able to challenge you."

With that said, Karasen gripped the staff gently as the green energy from before began to spiral down the shaft of the staff, moving into the soft, lush grass which they stood upon. "Your move."

Reinhart held the same expression as before. Taking note of the things visible to him on his opponent and his first move would show how he'd exploit them. The "mighty" staff appeared, it displayed whatever power it held but failed to impress anyone. Save for his teammates maybe. Seemed he stood ready then gave Reinhart the first move.

Seeing his protected hands were totally visible it was easy to take note he wore gauntlets over them. This was also noted when he first appeared. Though Reinhart had no idea what the gauntlets were made of he assumed they were some sort of steel. Bringing his right hand out infront of him as if reaching to his opponent he kept his eyes fixed on his. The very things made to protect him were the same things that would cause his early demise.

Though his right eye was covered over by his hair and the bandage that wrapped slightly over his face it emitted a dark red glow. then in what little time it took him now to clench his fist the gauntlets on his opponent would be crushed. Crushing the hands they covered along with them. Mind you this took little to no time at all as it was stated it only took the time between his hand being open and then clenched.

Let's see what he'd do with crushed hands, ripped flesh, and shattered bone.

(Just in case I need to explain myself I'll do it now. The reason why your gauntlets were crushed along with your hands is due to Reinharts abilities with Magnetism. Plain and simple you're wearing it, he has power over it.)

Reinhart sighed. It looked like he'd have to drag the match out longer than he expected. This was more than annoying. Unfortunately for his opponent it just meant his hurting would be carried out longer than need be. It wasn't hard to notice what was going on around the man, his staff, and the soil around him. No matter, Reinhart was prepared for anything the opposition could muster. Not wanting to prolong the need for a real attack from sides he began walking towards the opponent.

It was casual, a casual walk. No dash, no sprint, nothing, just a normal walk, almost as if he were about to greet the man. They were just thirty feet apart so the gap began to close rather quickly. His black scarf swayed behind him and as far as anyone could see he had no visible weapons. No sword, staff, gauntlet, nothing. At this point though Reinhart was just curious as to what his opponent would do next. Would he unleash some sort of earth attack with the soil?

Would he attempt to beat him with his staff? Everyone would find out in just a second as it would seem. Reinhart didn't let up, his pace the same, his manner unchanged. Only difference was his eyes were fixed on his opponents.

(You're in for quite a few surprises. Don't let your guard down.)

Was this guy trying to put him to sleep? All he did was stand there. Some encouragement seemed to be in order.

"You just gonna stand there holding your stick?"

There was still no audible emption in his voice as the gap almost closed between them.

(Short posts merit shorter ones. Let me see what you got.)

*The small feline lazed groggily as she observed the round from afar. The last round had been overly-active... but this one! It seemed as if the man with the staff's tactic was to bore his opponent to death and the audience too! ((Hey can he get flagged for that? Hazerdous boredom, may cause death to all parties spectating? o_O; )) At this rate... they would all die of old age.

The magnetic attack had perked Sakura's intrest. Being a creature of magic, she could see the unseen... thus making her immeasurably valuable as a familliar. It was information on that ability that would please her mistress. So it was that little tidbit of info she filed away in her cunning little brain. But since then... Nadda'.

The winged cat certainly hoped that this fighter was going to do something to make up for what was currently a waste of her time. She was supposed to be the eyes and ears of her mistress, who was currently engaged in her own fight... Surely she could glean much more valuable data from another team.

Oh well. She lounged... and waited... for something... ANYHING! Hell, even a cat needs to be entertained yo!*

Silver's eye twitched. He hated slow moving battles. It had proven to be a weakness before, but he had since learned to coupe. The last move may have been quite average, but at least it was something. Though Cris had the right idea by staying back to learn what they could do, Silver was actually glad that he got things going.

"Stuborn little..."

It was then he saw something slightly more interesting. Could that possibly be... a winged cat? Silver had never seen a cat with wings, nor did he have any idea why the hell one would be around here. Instead of speaking and interupting the match, he gave it a wave.

Well, things were off to a much slower pace than Ryugi would have anticipated. He watched the energy flow into the ground for a while before he lost most interest. It was then that he heard Silver mumble something under his breath. Ryugi huffed in responce, and added his say soon afterwords.

Stubborn, maybe. But this could just be a tactic to anger his opponent into making a mistake. And that energy going into the ground probably isn't a good sign. Something tells me that when he's ready, this fight will heat up...

Ryugi just lay back against the bamboo stalks, looking briefly over to the winged feline who seemed to be visiting ringside.

Page grinned maliciously. He could tell that whhen Karasen did fight Reinhart would be in a lot of trouble. He noticed a winged cat watching the fight. So..they had a specator. Page leaned further against a tree waiting for his teammate's match to go on.

"Should I...use the super-organism-armor in the first round?"

Page struggled with this thought. He didn't want to reveal the capabilities of the armor just yet. He threw his machete in the air and caught it by it's handle. He moved his hair out of his cold-gray eyes. He noticed that a newcomer had arrived. It must be their alternate.

His thoughts went back to the cat.it had a familair scent. Yes..it was the scent of that drunken lady who threw beer at him. Too bad Page didn't have a lighter and match would've made quite a spectacle.

He grinned wider as he thought about what he was going to do if his team won the first round against all the other teams.

Meryl Tomorrow Wrote:

"Hey guys, whats going on?" Ryugi jumped at first, but calmed soon afterwords.

Hello Meryl. You're just in time to watch the second match. You missed mine, but Cris's is just getting started. Although, not much is going on right now...

Ryugi chuckled. Things were indeed slow at the moment. And it was nice to see that Meryl had made it afterall.

Makenshi Hayashi Wrote:

Taki (Kid Death) Hajime Wrote:

Page grinned maliciously. He could tell that whhen Karasen did fight Reinhart would be in a lot of trouble. He noticed a winged cat watching the fight. So..they had a specator. Page leaned further against a tree waiting for his teammate's match to go on.

"Should I...use the super-organism-armor in the first round?"

Page struggled with this thought. He didn't want to reveal the capabilities of the armor just yet. He threw his machete in the air and caught it by it's handle. He moved his hair out of his cold-gray eyes. He noticed that a newcomer had arrived. It must be their alternate.

His thoughts went back to the cat.it had a familair scent. Yes..it was the scent of that drunken lady who threw beer at him. Too bad Page didn't have a lighter and match would've made quite a spectacle.

He grinned wider as he thought about what he was going to do if his team won the first round against all the other teams.

( Since I cant use Makenshi at the moment I'll use my other Character. )

Karasu walked into the Bamboo forest far enough to which he would see familiar faces. As he got closer to the battle area he would see a large crater in the ground from an earlier fight, Makenshi asleep on the ground and Page making a stupid grin as usual. ( Uhh...remember my other characters....not nice? )

He was wearing a large baseball shirt with another red plaid shirt underneath that stretched down to his calves in a Tall-Tee fashion. Underneath that shirt he had a Black long sleeve shirt that said " Can I Live? " Although no one would ever see it unless they actually went in to look. He wore dark red shorts, Maroon perhaps, that went lower then his knee's and he had Red and White Sneakers that matched with his outfit.

He had long hair that came down on the sides, more so on his right eye. It wasnt like Makenshi's, but it had the fashion of it. It was more like The Pillows haircuts. Maybe even Gackt. Yes his hair was like Gackts. Color and all. Well at the moment a redish brownish orangish color. Today he had the look af a J-Rocker of L'Arc En Ciel.

He walked up to the team that looked like they were playing alongside Makenshi. Not that it mattered too much since the other team was standing not too far from them either. He walked up to one of Makenshi's teammates, which was most likely Page, then asked in a meloncholly tone.

" So...Who's winning? And what happened to the white haired fool? "

Thats Gackt. Thats how my hair is IRL except longer and darker.

Page looked at him and gave him a reply not caring who he was,

"So far they are.."

"Whoops, sorry boss, i'll try to be on time next time!" Meryl said as she let go of the bamboo to flip down to the ground, her cloak falling around her to cover her body once more as she stood and looked down at the two fighters mid-battle, the bamboo she'd been hanging off flinging up flexibly to stand erect.

"Wooo, c'mon Cris! Wipe the floor with him! Cris, Cris, he's our guy, if he cant do it no-one...will!" She cheered, waving to the fighters and clapping her hands -

Before suddenly turning to Ryugi, her sunglasses lowered to show her slightly embarrised green eyes, scratching her blond locks with a hesitant chuckle. "Um...which one is Cris again?"

Reinhart's eyes narrowed, again his opponent went into defense, and it looked as if he didn't take notice that he'd SHATTERED stone. Although the distance was closed a bit his arm was already pulled back ready to strike. Unless that capsule of a shield formed instantly Reinhart would've seen it forming and would have more than enough time to react. Reinhart continued his attack as he planted his feet into the ground bringing him to a sort of skid slowing his speed.

Though it was solid stone it was still just solid stone, it was vunerable to break. The punch was launched just as he'd planned on doing but seeing the stone rising his reinforced his punch. He would emplloy one of his hand to hand fighting skills here. A swirl of energy and winds became visible before his fist and and then the impact!

A loud boom soon followed then a blast of wind that exploded in all directions. Leaves were cleared from around the fighters and the nearest of the bamboo was distrubed. The skill Reinhart employed was rather simple as it was a martial arts skill. Though his fist collided with the stone infront of him it seemed to only crack slightly. This was due to the fact that he'd concentrated the force of the punch itself on the back of the stone. It was visible as the impact occured if one was looking they'd notice the back of the stone had a crater two times the size of Reinhart's fist.

Unfortunately for the opponent he was and onbstruction between the front and back of his stone. Meaning that as Reinhart still aimed his punch where his chest would be and the bigger part of the impact would collide with his chest. While the smaller part of it would explode out the back of the stone. It'd feel as if he took the punch straight on the chest, through his back, and out his capsule. There was no defense in this like the man had thought. He was also incased so there was no way to know what exactly Reinhart did until it was too late.

If he tried to dig back into the soil he'd more than likely take the hit in the neck or face area. And since Reinhart had concentrated the major part of the force to hit his opponent it'd feel a good four times worse than the small crater on the back of the capsule.

(I hope you don't need a reference or explaination for that. It's rather simple and basic.)

Karasen already knew Reinhart was going to attack him, that's why he made the stone capsule. Now that the attack is launched, it's too late to change your mind and sink in the ground, too.

Unless Karasen clicked at the last minute and buried under, which would make him get the fist in the FACE, he'll have to take the hit. Please edit your post as such. ^_^;

(If you read carefully you'd see that I didn't even break through the length of your stone. I stated it clearly that the front was cracked and it exploded out the back creating a small crater as the impact escaped. If you were to take it you're taking the force alone and not my solid fist. Don't get me wrong it's still a hard blow but not enough to break your face or cave your chest in not to mention kill you.)

(So what's to happen?)

((Taking into account Trick's decision, which I agree because changing yout mind isnt allowed once you do something...

I say the amount of force produced in the attack wouldnt go through the stone but has to disperse against the immediate area in front and around and shatter the solid stone and maybe some flashy explosions.))

((Shrapnel maybe, depending on the amount of space between his body and the rock's surface for shards of stone to travel.

Karasen Kanaraku Wrote:

the core perfectly outlined to fit Karasen's current shape.

Or not. As with no distance, its like trying to injure someone by swinging a bat at them while touching them with the surface you plan to hit them with. Like a pushing sensation.))

(Alright so the official ruling is that the impact hit the surface spread out around the rock and Karasen still got out and made his clones. Correct? No damage done aside from the stone.

EDIT: Damn it! I took too long to respond and Gaia logged me out. To top it off I didn't copy the post. Ugh. Now I have to leave work so I won't post again for a couple of hours. Sorry.)

(Just a warning. I may not be able to post at all tomorrow so don't be surprised.)

The flow of energy from Karasen's staff quickly halted once the ground was cleared of the energy he had expended, both by the talisman and the staff. He twirled the item between his fingers as it quickly miniaturized. He quickly placed the item within his pouch. Another item was brought out in his grasp as he sealed the pouch before snapping the fingers of his other hand, which cut the link between his clones and caused the energy within to expell outwards. As this energy expelled outwards, the seven beings exploded in a massive cloud of dust.

As the cloud spread, Karasen's eyes shifted to their golden gleam, which allowed him perfect sight through the cloud of dust. His opponent, though, would be blinded and most likely struck with a violent case of sneezing from the dust. Karasen then quickly dashed into the cloud towards his opponent, his fists tightened in the gauntlets and ready to fight him hand to hand.

As he approached his opponent, he would lift his right fist and send it towards the oncoming chest of his opponent, with enough force to simply crack the man's sternum.

Page smiled and removed the armor he wore underneath his clothes. He felt lighter. He smiled watching Karasen's fight. How much time did they have left? He placed his machete on the floor and donned his spiked steel gauntlets. Reaching towards his left he picked up a black hat. (Similar's to Dr. Jackal's. ) He quietly placed it on his head, lowering it to cover one eye.

He lifted himself from the ground and began circling the fighters. His smile had diappeared. He had a serious look on his face. he wanted to fighter and frankly Karasen was taking too long.

Page wanted to fight Silver. He wanted to see what the guy was capable of. He continued circling the fighters keeping his distance. His gray eyes feel on Reinhart, then on Karasen. Then it feel on Tommorrow, Karasu and finally the cat.

((Like Goddamn the whining doesnt cease does it?

Cristopher Reinhart Wrote:

I hate to ask again but this guy isn't making much sense and even if he is it's way off. I need a ruling!

My last post and his in the Bamboo Forest. He clearly stated in one post before his last that he put away his staff.

In his new post he had it hidden in his hand. I don't know what the rule is but is that possible? Like I said he says one thing in one post then another in the next. If he were to put it like "He put his staff or so it seemed as he hid it in palm." or some s**t it wouldn't look so off. He could call me on Miss Cleo if I knew he had the hidden staff.

Karasen Kanaraku Wrote:

He twirled the item between his fingers as it quickly miniaturized. He quickly placed the item within his pouch. Another item was brought out in his grasp as he sealed the pouch -- yadda yadda yadda

Yes, I also am lazy and miss reading things sometimes.

Cristopher Reinhart Wrote:

Aside from that his physics are off. I'm aiming an elbow for his chest and he's trying to flip over me. On his post he's saying my elbow grazed his head, I don't see how that's possible. The impact point is the chest! He's jumping over me, would't that make the new point of impact his stomach or something? Aside from that we're both dashing at each other my elbow should be less than a foot from hitting him.

How fast does he have to be to make his "hidden" staff extend, kick off the ground, and flip over me? To do it all as we're coming in on each other and with less than a foot of space would have to mean he's lightning fast.

Well that depends how much spring power he's got in his ankles to flip. Because from what that describes, if he isnt jumping and flipping at the same time, which would hit him in the gut or something, he'd be doing some retarded front flip early where his head would be rolling over your elbow or something.

But thats not the case since thres contact and he's polevaulting or something. So, naturally...

Karasen Kanaraku Wrote:

A foot's distance was more than enough time for the miniaturized staff which Karasen held hidden in his right hand to extend down into the soil just below him at a slightly slanted angle. As this happened, Karasen kicked off of the ground --

-- and got an elbow in the gut.

Or something along those lines... or maybe one in the groin if he could vault like... 3 feet upwards in a split second.

Ah well, for logic's sake, I'm gonna have to ask Karasen to edit that post.))

(Editted, now hurry up and post.)

There was little to no contact from Reinhart to Karasen, as his right hand was only used to veer the fist of course. It was then bent at the elbow completely removing it from any long term contact. Though he felt the heat swell and temperature rise Karasen had made a big mistake. For much like Makenshi, Reinharts biggest affinity to any element was FIRE. The quick, short burst of heat he'd gotten from the touch did little to his flesh as it only burned some of his glove off.

Seeing as the attempt to jump over the attack had failed and Karasen now took the chest bound elbow to his gut Reinhart quickly gave chase. The moment the hit made contact and began to send Karasen back Reinhart stepped forward with his left foot quickly. Thus closing the gap between yet again and following up on his first attack. Hitting someone in the abdomen area made them fold slightly due to the force of impact. In such a way that their head and upper body was leaned forward. This was where Reinhart was aiming his attack.

Weather or not he'd been folded from the elbow he now faced an on coming right hook to his ribs. Again this was done with the right as the left stayed to guard any counters. As the punch was delivered Reinhart stepped forward with his right foot this time closing the gap undoubtedly. Just as when he did the first hit he also turned his body to the left giving Karasen his right.

(Glad to see you're finally in a hurry.)

Meryl Tomorrow Wrote:

Meryl had crouched down, her cloak pulled over her shoulders to show her coiled like a spring. She balanced her body on her toes gently, her elbows placed on her knees as her gloved hands supported her chin. She'd been here only for a few minutes, but it was clear this might take some time.

She sighed. Silver ignored her. That was rude unto itself, but it also meant that she had no idea who to root for. And rooting for the wrong team wouldn't go well with her own team.

She watched the man circle them and stuck her tounge out at him, blowing a raspberry at him. "Go circle someone who cares, Michael Jackson. Intimidation doesnt work in the big-boy's world." She muttered sullenly, sighing again.

"Who?". Page had no idea who this Michael Jackson person was. He also had no idea why Meryl struck her tongue ouut at him. It seemed she thought it was intimidation. Boy was she wrong he was just bored and felt like circling them. In response he just smiled.

"It's only intimidation if you take it that way. I'm just circling people because I feel like it not because of intimidation. My methods of intimidation are a whole lot different..Miss. Tommorrow."

Meryl Tomorrow Wrote:

Taki (Kid Death) Hajime Wrote:

"Who?". Page had no idea who this Michael Jackson person was. He also had no idea why Meryl struck her tongue ouut at him. It seemed she thought it was intimidation. Boy was she wrong he was just bored and felt like circling them. In response he just smiled.

"It's only intimidation if you take it that way. I'm just circling people because I feel like it not because of intimidation. My methods of intimidation are a whole lot different..Miss. Tommorrow."

"Ooo, i'm impressed. Sit down then, you're getting in my way." Meryl pouted, heaving another sigh and slipping her sunglasses down to rub the sleep out of one of her lush green eyes.

" You shouldn't order people around, Miss. Tommorrow."

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

Taki (Kid Death) Hajime Wrote:

" You shouldn't order people around, Miss. Tommorrow." And you Sir, should keep out of our team's business. Now, if you would be so kind, please stay on your side of the battleground...

Ryugi didn't like the fact that this strange man was fraternizing with his teammates, as well as seemingly giving them orders of his own. If Silver was going to be silent, then so be it, but he wasn't going to stay quiet.

Oh, and Cris is the one who ISN'T using alot of flashy powers. He's ours.

" I am on my side of the battlefield. I already walked over to your side and back to mine.You didn't notice?"

Ryugi Kazamaru Wrote:

Taki (Kid Death) Hajime Wrote:

" I am on my side of the battlefield. I already walked over to your side and back to mine.You didn't notice?" Of course I noticed. Thats why I asked you to please stay on your side.

Don't know why you are so worried about me being on your side..but okay."

As Karasen rose, he could see the man coming at him with a right hook to his ribs. The strange thing about this punch was that a right hook was usually sent to the person's face, and usually followed other punches, not directly sent. Oh well, maybe the man was simply a novice boxer or something, Karasen cared not.

The man was simply dash towards him and trying to punch him, not very much danger in such an attack. With a simple step to his right to move from the man's range of attack with the right hook, but simply stepping was not Karasen's only action. As he stepped out of the way, Karasen performed a quick leg three hundred and sixty degree leg sweep, which would easily trip the man up because of his simple mad dash towards Karasen. Also, if the man would attempt to modify the right hook, it would be near impossible to make the shift with such a short distance.

(Your post makes no sense, Cris. Karasen was performing the sweep in the process of your punch. How are you expecting to be able to shift your entire body into a kick when Karasen stepped to his right, not yours. Just try and perform an action like what you're doing in real life. A right hook to someone's mid section immediately followed by a kick. You won't be able to do it very easily. It's like trying to kick a wall from eight inches away.)

(Kraun has already stated that your kick would be as useless as trying to kick a wall at about eight feet away, and in the first place, there's no way your kick would be done faster than my sweep, because my sweep occured BEFORE your kick was done. And I know kicks can be quick, but you're kicking to the side, not straight. Hell, you're kicking to your LEFT with your RIGHT. That alone causes more time. I know there isn't a rule when it comes to interupting only a couple of times in a fight. But hell, you've interupted almost every one of my actions with your own actions to try and make this fight go the way you want it to. And even if Bubbles is called in, Kraun will have to also be called in because I believe he is the head judge if not higher up than Bubbles.)

Ryugi saw the sweep hit his friend. Maybe he was wrong about this actually turning into a fight instead of a blockfest. All this time and only three actual hits had taken place. Two by his friend and teammate Cris, and one by the opponent. It really was somewhat boring, however, Ryugi shouted words of encouragement to his friend.

Come on Cris, kick his butt!

Reinhart held the same expression as he did when he started the fight although it was only his eyes that were visible now. He pulled it down now looking up at Karasen watching do whatever it was he was doing. Staves, gauntlet, blah blah blah, the expression didn't change only because Reinhart still wasn�t impressed. Then his projectiles they had some distance and Karasen sure did take his time to launch his attack. Enough for anyone to plan a counter attack or method of dodging but instead Reinhart would show him a bit of what he could do.

Seeing as the spikes were made of ice they were easily able to break or be broken. As they made there way towards their destination Reinhart did as he did before with the dust. A strong gust of wind blew out as he brought both arms up launching it towards the spikes. The wind was strong enough to kick up dust, rocks, and branches. The spikes would be totally blown off course and open a clear path between the two fighters. If they weren't blown off then they would meet the resistance from the force of wind and drop to the floor. Almost as if they rebounded off a wall or something of the like.

Reinhart kicked off the ground and went at Karasen again hopefully he had more tricks up his sleeve with that gauntlet of his. It was time to end the match Reinhart was bored and thought he may step it up a notch this time.

Karasen Kanaraku Wrote:

Karasen observed closely as the spikes fell to the ground, the specific area of grass where they landed dying within seconds of contact. As the man came towards him, Karasen could only leap into the air.....

As he did so Reinhart gave chase and leapt as well pushing off the ground hard with his foot. So hard he imprinted the ground he stepped off of and increased his speed to collide with Karasen. His arms were extended outwards reaching for the opponent and as it was Karasen flipped he'd have little visibility of what was going on. It was a sort of tackle Reinhart was trying to perform and it would most likely have great effect.

Reinharts shoulder would collide with whatever part of Karasens body faced him at that precise moment. The original target was his torso of course as it was the biggest and easiest target. In the moment they would collide and Karasen was in reach Reinhart would wrap his arms around him. Once the opponent was hit he'd go in the opposite direction more than likely since Reinhart stepped off with much more force. Once his hands clasped around Karasen Reinhart would instantly send a powerful surge of electricity.

This was Reinharts attack, he had big contact with Karasen and even as they fell from the air he would send that electrical surge. Nothing weak either, enough to make any living thing convulse, fall unconscious, and probably even smoke. Now where did this energy come from so suddenly? The forgotten talisman that still lay on the ground was the source. It had sucked up the stray energy and unknown to everyone it transferred it to Reinhart.

How did it work? Under his shirt Reinhart wore bracers one contained the very same symbol the grounded talisman had. It converted the stray energy to fit Reinhart and now power his attack. To go over it simply, Karasen jumped and began his flip; Reinhart followed up, and entered a tackle. Upon collision he'd secure Karasen and give him a strong electrical charge, not just a burst of it either. It would begin in mid air, till they hit the floor, and would remain thereafter. Karasen would feel the electricity from every part of his body that touched Reinhart. Not to mention that when they landed, Reinhart would probably end up atop his opponent.

This was good as it would give Karasen limited ways to counter, not that he could do much anyway because his muscles would spasm right about now. Reinhart would only let up till Karasen knocked out or forfeit the match; it was more likely he'd be knocked unconscious from the volts and amps anyway.

(You're going to want a ruling on that for sure I know.)

Page' body began to undergo a change. His chest grew larger as well as his nostils. He gained more muscles in his leg area which was now built like those of a cat. He stood watching the fight. He had chosen to turn into this form because he was bored.

Well, the last of the judging is done, and the scores are in and averaged out. Obviously there is going to be a lot of bitching, but its only expected when testosterone is flaring up in unbelievable levels.

Points are awarded in 4 categories, each part is worth 5 points. On a rating scale of 1-5 for each category.

1. Did they break any rules?

1. How long did it take them to post?

1. Were they creative?

1. Could you tell what they were doing? Also being were they able to describe their moves clearly?

So winning is not about beating the living crap out of someone, but rather RPing as a whole. Though of course, winning a round does provide bonus points, and contrary to that, arguements result in deduction of points.

Ryugin: 12.41 pts

Azarel: 11.58 pts