Battle in a desert(kao)

OOC: ill be using Dang Man-Ci link in my sig or check the list
IC:in a desolate desert plane, a lone traveller walks the parched land, bundled in a cloak. His name is Dang Man-Ci, and he is looking for a challenger to fight in order to prove himself to the locals so they will accept him as a great fighter, he is a bit of a show-off and feels he has to do this. He see sees a sillouette in the distance and alerts go off in his head, he mentally prepares himself for a difficult battle.

Zurel thundered through the vast, unvorgiving desert. Wading his way through dunes and the occasional sand creature. He finally saw a sillouette of a man not too far off. Wetting his parched lips, he says to the best of his ability, "Who are you, and do you have hostile intent?"

i intend to fight you, and win, but i do not intend to kill you if i do not have to, i would like to face you again if you prove a challenge, or if you defeat me, now prepare yourself for the fight of your life!

"Fine then." Zurel unsheathed his mighty axe and held it in a guard, "I accept your challenge."

Dang throws off his cloak, and a layer of clothing, leaving quite a bit still on. he draws his pike and braces himself, then charges, his pike trailing behind him, ready for a swing. He jumps high in the air and brings it over his head, swinging it as hard as he could.
zurel anticipated this move and held his axe in the way, the weapons met and Dang was dealt a shockwave like jolt of vibrations alomst causing him to lose his grip, but he hangs on and flings himself and his pike out of the break, firing an electric magic ball as he hit the ground.

Zurel stepped to the side, avoiding the fireball. "Magic? I've never fought a mage before. This should be interesting!" Zurel charged like Dang had. Again, axe and pike met in a thunderous clash. Dang Man-Ci seemed to be anticipating the slow attacks of Zurel and countering, forcing Zurel to defend or die. Zurel, losing his patience, slammed his fist into Dang, sending him into a dune.

dang climbed out of the dune, shaking himself off and losing the sandy outer layer, making him even lighter. "No Mage, i just picked up a trick during my travels, thats all i do."
with that he jumped and slammed his pike downward again, nut this time when the giant zurel blocked his strike he took one hand off drew his sword swinging it in a fluid motion at zurel's shoulder, leaving a large, but not terribly deep (due to zurels size) gash. this left zurels left arm weakened, but not immobilized. so he swung his axe and not having two hands on his pike, could not hold his ground and was flung into the air.
sheathing his sword and using his pike like a cat uses its tail to flip himself around and land on his feet, already in a guard. But he was hurting all over, and probably had multiple bruises.

"I see. Mage or warrior, you are a worthy opponent. I promise to give you a proper burial!" Zurel charged, axe held in position to deliver one punishing slice that could cut down the toughest of men.

"I beleive you are a great warrior yourself, but I'm not about to let you defeat me."
he sidestepped the behemoth Zurel's charge, swinging around behind the man and firing another blast of magic, knocking over and temporarily stunning Zurel. Just long enough for dang to release the straps holding his extra clothing on, leaving him in a sleeveless shirt and pants of regular weight. "Now you'll see what I really fight like." By this time Zurel was up, and really pissed "I'm going to crush you and get this over with!"
to those around it seemed that Dang dissapeared from sight and reappeared behind zurel, because he really moved that fast without all of that weight on him. When he "reappeared" multiple deep cuts appeared along zurels chest, arms and stomach.

Zurel roared (yes, roared) in pain as he struck blindly at his swift foe. He appeared to be flailing drunkenly, but he was forcing Dang into a certain strike radius. Knowing Dang would have to duck, Zurel feinted with a wild axe swing and then threw an uppercut, flooring Dang with a cracking sound.

Slash multiple bruises, dang's body was one big bruise, and he had a dislocated right shoulder. but he got up, and he painfully reacked back to put his pike up as he would need to hands for that, so he was down to his sword, and not fighting at 100% either.

"you have to give me some credit, im standing arent I?" he said, but zurel just roared and charged with his axe ready again. so dang weakly sidestepped his attack and of all things, tripped him in hopes of buying some time. but zurel was up in a split second and ready to chop Dang in half.

Dang wasnt giving up though, and this time instead of a trip he used zurels own momentum to flip him over his shoulder and send him sprawling onto the ground. Zurlel was about tired of this and this time he grabbed dang and threw him into the pit between two dunes, dropping in after him.

Looking around inside the pit, Zurel's eyes struggled against the dark sand. "Where are you, warrior? I have a duel to win!" he shouted, swinging his axe rapidly at every sound of a footstep or a possible breath.

Dang quickly ran up behind zurel and beat away at him with his pike quickly before jumping off of zurels back and out of his reach as he turned around.

He then lunged with his sword and slashed across zurels chest before jumping again and landing outside of the pit.

Zurel climbed slowly out fo the pit, scanning the area as he regained his feet, but out of the blue dang was all over him again, slashing away and as zurel blocked he was taken aback at the ferocity of Dang Man Ci's atack, taken back until he stepped right off the edge back into that pit

Falling flat on his back, Zurel coughed and jumped back up again, this time swinging as he jumped out to catch Dang off guard. Dang thought to ambush Zurel again, but it ended up a grappling match when Dang grabbed his axe and Zurel did the same to Dang's sword (the pike was elsewhere, split in half). The two tried to throw each other by the weapons, and Zurel's superior strength helped acheive that goal, Zurel smirked in self satisfaction as Dang plummeted headfirst into the pit.

dang flipped himself over and springboarded himself out of the pit as soon as he landed to take zurel by suprise, when he got above the surface, zurel still had that stupid smirk on his face, so dang wiped it off with a quick kick to the gut, and then knocked zurel in the head with the hilt of his sword, but zurel just turned around and swung his axe at dang's head. So dang dodged this and slashed at his stomach, leaving another deep cut. but zurel showed no severe signs of fatigue, and kept on swinging, trying to cut dang off at the neck.
Dan wasnt about to lose his head, he enjoyed it right where it was, on his neck. so he parried with his sword on the third attemt at his head, then slid it up and over then back onto zurels axe, pinning it against the ground. and kicking zurel in the head, knocking out one of his teeth and toppling him over.

Zurel reacted like one of his home's famous wild bulls, roaring and charging at Dang, head outstretched. If Zurel had had horns, Dang would've been skewered as his gargantuan foe crashed into him, slamming him to the ground, where Zurel repeatedly punched the fallen man before getting up and taking his axe.

Dang getting up as fast as he could because his life WAS at stake was out of the way just in time to avoid the falling axe, so he grabbed his sword and stabbed zurel in the stomach, causing him to drop his axe. Dang pulled it out and stabbed zurel in the leg as well, hoping to avoid him getting up anytime soon. but zurel, always the fighter was up and getting his axe off the ground so dang kicked him in the face as he bent over.

"Damn you, you're almost too good to be human!" Zurel, now mad from his wounds charged. plowing through Dang, who he once again threw into a pit. This time, he jumped in after Dang and landed right on his chest. Grabbing his axe and his opponent's sword, he prepared a final blow.

Dang, thinking quicky, shot thee blasts of electricity at Zurel, leaving his majic exausted for the moment and getting the big guy off of him, but he was still weaponless. but then he remembered his greaves. so he jumped and landed on zurel's chest with his knee.

Zurel threw Dang into the sand again, getting up and charging with both weapons.