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While Ryugi took a moment to realise his attack was being eating, and then called it back after it was partially eaten, Tzenidaar was constantly on the move, with his back to the man, since like, that's what their positioning was at the time. Each boost compounded the speed of which he had been moving forward, his feet not touching the ground often enough to create enough friction to slow him down, thus, he only moved faster and faster with each step.
So, theres a twister moving at three feet per second towards him, in addition to whatever it had already moved; while he himself was moving at a constant growing speed forward, with somewhere below fourty feet between them (the twister and the chimera), since fifty feet would be the distance between Damion and Rae in relation the Tzenidaar previously, and the tornado was slowly moving forward beforehand anyway before it built up that kind of speed. Let's say he'd reach the twister in three seconds or so; The twister having moved about ten feet forward, cutting down distance to thirty feet, in addition to Tzenidaar moving forward at upwards past ten feet per second with the boosts in addition to his previously built forward momentum. Well, that made sense. In fact, it'd probably be closer to being two seconds, or just in between two or three seconds.
And what was Ryugi doing during that time?
Being taken aback for a moment, calling back his attack, talking to himself or whatever ('cause Tzenidaar wasnt listening to him at the time), and powering up before he began to super-speed his way to him.
This was enough time to get to the twister right?
And what did he do when he got to the twister?
Turn into it, and slow down nearly to a halt as a result as he planted his feet to turn, 'cause he was going to cut through the winds in order to get through, and he had to actively push against it, thus why he would turn into it.
And this turning motion would change his field of vision.
Kraun Wrote:
He'd probably follow up after him shortly though.
So it was time to check on him, and he'd do it with minimal effort, since he was already turning. And just as he guessed, he was correct.
And here he came, swinging his sword around again, all magical and powered up.
Haha! Backstabbing. The cowards attack. It seemed to fit him perfectly.
Another horizontal swing. Well, he was already in the process of lowering his body, so he might as well go all the way, his legs bending as he went into a squat, his torso bending forward as he ducked the passing blade which swept across the air nearly parallel to his back.
Well, he could have his wings. They stuck out and all that. And being hollow bone and all, they'd break pretty easily to a super power, super fast slash. In fact, they didnt have any real solid base, since they were attached only to his back with nothing else to support it. So they'd shatter, cause thats what bones do.
"b***h." Oh, he was SUPER mad now. See, he can use SUPER to describe something about himself too. The red fleckles in his eye just got a lot bigger, in fact, it seemed to begin threatening to consume the green colour.
And because they provided little to no resistance to the super cutting techniques of Ryugi who's trying to cut a two-hundred-fifty plus man of dense bone and muscle in half (y'know 'cleave' and all meaning to cut through things), the swing would continue on as if he had missed his target. Or maybe he could ignore the weight and inertia of his own weapon's swing and his super speed and strength put into the swing and cancel that move as well.
'Cause things normally dont just stop like that. Y'know, physics.
Hey, he had already squatted down to avoid the cut, so he was naturally in a position to spring back up. BAM! Lower body put to use once again, like coils they push apart and he sprung straight back up as soon as the blade had just passed over his head, and having been in the process of turning, he'd be launching himself straight into Ryugi since his upper body was tilted forward with the squat anyway, of course, with a nice boost of air behind himself to make it real fast, as well as fiery wings bursting forth...
Except he didnt have wings. Two huge jets of flame would flare outwards from the skeletal stumps, adding to the suddeness and speed of the burst forward straight into the man.
His right hand would press its palm against Ryugi's right arm as it crossed over his body from the swing, around the center of the forearm, fingers wrapping around it so that it wouldnt slip out while it held and barely pushing downwards against it with the aid of his failed swing's momentum to keep it out of place and prevent it from coming back around to recover or swinging too far for him to escape again.
Tzenidaar's left hand would quite simply shoot up towards Ryugi's face since his arms were held out of the way, snaking up from the chin onto the side of his head to wrap his fingers behind the ear, unless he turned his head with the swing, then it'd go from the jaw up to the ear. The chin (or jaw) was the initial target for a simply reason, its distance to the neck, the join which let the head pivot and sway; at such a close proximity to the joint, it turned any chance of tilting the head out of grasp nigh-impossible, and with a hold on the man's arm, he had a means to measure any other shifts in the body in attept to remove his head from the path of the hand. In addition to that, The powerful forward spring and boost would hurl his body straight up into Team Phoenix's captain before he could recover and shift his body weight into an evasion, destroying any distance between them as he'd ram his body into the other man, his pelvis up at Ryugi's stomach with his legs forward, knees out to go around the man's side and clamp down against his hips, Ryugi's right arm crossing over his own chest with Tzenidaar's stomach in the way of his shoulder and upper arm so it couldnt come back around to his right side.
Extremely close quartered combat destroyed the ability to use any weapon larger than a knife properly and limited the movements of the arms and legs, cutting into the path of movement allowed by the joints. It was sort of like wrestling or any other grappling technique. Only Tzenidaar didnt have any sort of fancy submission hold or joint lock. He got in real close to prevent other people from defending themselves. Well, guess it wasnt much grappling them.
Hey, that hand which had a hold of Ryugi's head, the clawed thumb would slip up to the eye socket, and press right into it, hooking into the outside of the eye socket to complete the clamping motion of his hand against the inside and outside of the skull to get a good grip. Damage to the eye? Well, that depended on if his eyeball would pop out with the thumb all pressing against its side and forcing its way into the socket.
Somewhere, some kid was playing with one of those Tzenidaar action figures with KUNG-FU GRIP.
Hey, this called for a yellow flag.
As the result of Ryugi interrupting his attempt to get through the tornado, he'd never get a chance to get through it, though the winds would be directed around his body, he wouldnt be in its path for long as he launched himself back outwards into Ryugi for a counterattack before he could recover from his powerful swing, the winds being forced away from him back to the twister. Sometimes, power and speed were disadvantages when it came to the recoil of missing a wide swing with the body commited into its motion.
Damion and Rae would never witness the chimera going through the tornado, since he found himself busy with their captain once again. They must be having a whole lot of fun sitting off to the side watching from the other end of the whirlwind. Oh, that was sarcasm by the way.
Raven tried not to look guilty as she pointed to the fighter on her wrist, trying to explain that it had apparently malfunctioned.... without having to actually say that.
She was doing her best to ignore the raised hairs on the back of her neck that usually signified ghosts or other ethereal beings close by. This place was almost more dreary than a hospital morgue....
"Ghosts? Like for real ghosts..." Apparently Raven couldn't see the apparitions.. or perhaps she was just totally in denial! "It is not all that bad... just needs some flowers a little sunlight and a well placed shrub..." Rae looked around at the desolate landscape and revised her opinion "or two...." 
that was a good idea...even if it was a little over optimistic... at least it would have worked against a regular opponent.
