Airius vs. Musashi - Training day

[Sperrit]

Sperrit walks into the stands and sits down, looking from one fighter to the other like this: :dungetit:
He does this for several minutes before throwing his hands in the air in frustration and sorrow!
"Man! How can I root for one and not the other!? I just can't! GO BOTH OF YOU GUYS! YAAAAAAAY!"

[Shino]

MUSASHI!!!!!

Sorry Rev. He is my teammate ya know.

[Reverend]

Airius had the bone set, and decided now was as best a time as ever to press the advantage. Charging Musashi, Airius once again starts the deadly duel of weapons, looking for some opening, while fighting to keep his breath from being ragged.

[Musashi]

[Before Airius resumes his attack]

"Musashi looks up. Nah, I'm alright. The armor actually absorbed most of the blow. Still hurts like crap though, but let's just heal at the end of the match. This may just be sparring, but how can we be teachers if we don't follow standards."

Musashi crosses his arms over his chest and his body glows red with a haste spell.

[After Airius leaps in]

Musashi and Rev again launch into a flurry of blows, each parrying and dodging the other, neither able to make a scratch. However, just as in their first fight, Reverend seems to be the stronger of the two, but Musashi's enhanced speed and greater range is keeping him one step ahead of his sparring partner. Seeing an opportuninty, Musashi counters one of Reverend's blows with a scissor kick, knocking his weapon arm askew. As he lands from his kick, he leaps into the air into a sweeping uppercut slash with Luminaire.

[Reverend]

The upstrike from Luminare scores a hit across Airius's midsection, cutting clothe and scraping armored plating. Airius lands, looking at the tatters that his robes are becoming quickly.

Now somewhat upest about his clothing, Airius ignites CHaos fires across his arms, turning them into rather dangerous close combat weapons, and charges in on Musashi, batting away Luminare to encompass the Dragoon in a bear hug around his torso. Hefting him off the ground, Airius begins to squeeze Musashi's ribcage, trying to take his breath away from him.

[Musashi]

Barely able to breathe, Musashi gasps for air as he looks skyward. His eyes start to glow with yellow energy as a command utters from his lips.

"...Thunder....Bolt!..."

Dark clouds manifest above the arena and a single bolt of lightning strikes Musashi's body, electrifying his body with electricity and launching his sparring partner off his body. Musashi timeports behind Airius and launches an electrically charged round kick as the priest's body approaches.

[Reverend]

Airius feels the kick connect with the small of his back, and can do little but hastily erect an Order shield to keep him from flying too far from the battle.

"Alright, you've one the first round here Musashi, you countered my moves and got me into a position I couldn't win from." Airius stands himself up, his robes noow charred black from electrical burns, and his skin has not been doing to well either.

"So why don't we kick this one up a notch?" His eyes cloud into a bright blue, a white glow encompasses his body, and Shock/Rev stands in front of Musashi. "I've been meaning to push what I can do battle wise, let's see the results." From the ground, matter begins to condense and swirl into the basic form of a human, it's shape then refines itself to look exactly like Aftershock when not bound to Airius, his broadsword level at Musashi.

In a heartbeat, both Shock/Rev and the puppet have surrounded Musashi, attacking him from two fronts.

[Musashi]

Musashi begins to block and parry with amazing speed as Rev/shock and the puppet close in on him. The two begin making progress though, and Musashi realizes he can't keep up like this. As his two opponents rear back for a blow, Musashi leaps straight into the air.

"Yes, let's turn it up a notch."

There's a bright flash of white holy light momentarily blinding Musashi's opponents. Musashi appears hovering in the air in a white column of light, his golden angel wings now replacing his white cape. Slowly the light around him constricts to a pulsating sphere of lightning and wind energy. The energy continues to focus inward until it looks as though his body is outlined with a tremendous power. Suddenly, Musashi vanishes, timeporting behind Aftershock with his hands thrust forward.

"HARIKEEN RYOUBAKU!!!"

A focused beam of lightning and wind energy emerges from his hands aimed directly at Aftershock and Reverend in the line behind Aftershock.

[Reverend]

The Shock dummy takes the full front of the blast, a large hole being driven through it's torso. Shock/Rev is currently off balance and unable to dodge, so does the next best thing, he takes the blast full front.

"Fun...that hurt alot, so I'll see if I can't repay in kind"

A battered Shock/Rev begins to suck Order energy out of the air like a sponge, forming it around him, and the Aftershock dummy. The marionette collapses, but the sand and dirt it was made from travels underneath the soles of Musashi's boot, providing a connection to Rev.

Angelic Retribution!

The wounds on Airius's body vanish, now appearing on Musashi instead, meanwhile Musashi's bruised ribs and mangled shoulder appear on Rev. Once finished with his own techinque Airius once again charges Musashi, hoping that he bought himself some time to get an attack in.

[Musashi]

Musashi collapses to his knees, the pain overwhelming, his flesh burning from the lightning energy.

I can't keep this up much longer, I need time.

Musashi clipped Luminaire to his back, putting away his typically used weapon. From his belt, he drew the Sword of the Guardian, the Sakura Blade from its sheath. The brilliant silver sword gleamed in the midday sun. Cherry blossoms swirled around the blade. From his kneeling position, Musashi pointed the sword at his adversary and Reverend's body began to glow with a gray outline, the slow spell stiffening his muscles.

Musashi speaks and raises the Cherry Blossom Sword skyward, "Goddess of the Cherry Blossoms! Grant me your power!
I, the Guardian of your Chosen Soul, request it!"

The sword flashes with pink light and the cherry blossoms around the sword swirl with greater intensity. Musashi brings the sword down, again pointing it at Reverend as he charges towards him.

"Escape this....RAZOR TEMPEST!!"

A tornado of dozens of razor-sharp pink cherry blossom petals launched from the blade of the sword at the now slowed Reverend, each of the petals swirling around his body before taking a gash at his exposed skin.