The Weaker they are, the longer the fight. o.O (Zorolo)

Frantically running from door to door, the young Saurian girl panted, frightened that she had lost her friend. Raven had been gone last night, and he didn't return. Another dusk was falling, quickly. Arina's incandescent glow was becoming more and more prevalent, the twilight would take hold, and soon, she would have to put on her cloak.

Put on her cloak? Yes, going back to the inn without her friend was out of the question. A chilling wind blew in, Arina put on her cloak and pulled up the hood. She looked towards the sky, the sun started it's daily rest behind the clouds on the horizon. The girl kept moving from house to house, banging on the doors and asking for someone by the name of 'Raven'.

It was getting later, the night began to wrap it's shadows around buildings and into cracks and crevices. Arina pulled her hood over her face more, so that she could hide her glow as much as possible. The night had fallen heavily on the town, crushing the once bustling community and transforming it into lonely darkness.

She panted, doors became locked and the sounds of the streets had moves indoors. She was alone outside now. On the verge of crying, she ran around a corner.

BUMP!

She was on the ground now, a towering figure over her, but even worse, her cloak had somwhat fallen aside, and her glow was shining brightly, at the same time, the figure bent over.

"Hey, miss?... what the?! How can you glow like that? You... are you? A demon?"

OoC: Okay Zorolo, your character is the dark figure, I just gave the reason for the fight, people mistake Arina for a demon because of her glow ^^

This girl has a strange glow, she may be a violent demon, better be careful, she may have some kind of evil magic she's about to cast Zorlo thought as he moved back from her. Better be careful, don't want any of the people in this city to get hurt because of a stupid move on my part. Zorlo stared at the woman and wondered what she was. She's so young, there is no way that she could plan anything evil, but who knows, I sense something different about her, something not quite human he pondered as he continued to ponder over the girl.

"Sorry, I did not mean to walk into you, but you have a strange glow about you, did something happen to make you glow like that?!" Zorlo asked as he watched her actions.

The girl just stood there and seemed to stare at him. Zorlo continued, "Are you trying to get sick, I don't see why you are out here, ah, well, what ever. So, uh, why are you out here, I don't seem to understand why someone would be outside at this time of night. Wait, I'm out here at night, ahhhh...... yeah, never mind. This is worrying, her glow isn't going away, hmm... gotta get her out of the middle of this city before something happens. Gotta be smooth for this one, but first. Zorlo thought and began to speak again, "We should get out of the road, it seems a bit strange to be outside in this cold and it's best to keep both of us out of trouble with the city's guards." Zorlo chuckled.

"We should find a place to sleep, I have some camping stuff outside the city, perhaps we should head there?"

OoC: Sorry to leave starting the battle to you, I hope you can come up with something.

OoC: Meh... it's hard to find a reason to start a fight between two good characters. I'll see what I can do.

Arina was scared of the person, she stared at him, knowing that her glow had been exposed, she didn't bother to scramble for her cloak.

This person... seems nice enough.... but.... I can't go inside now... I have to find Raven....

She stood there, just staring, her mind and heart tearing at each other. Her mind arguing that she should get back to the inn, her heart pleading that she should find Raven. She heard the person talk, but she was enveloped in her own world for now. The night seemed to get darker as she stood there, what felt like hours were mere minutes...

Her eyes became filled with tears, but she hid that from the stranger, she did not want to appear helpless for someone to take advantage of her. Without thinking, pushed past the person.

"... Leave me alone..."

She felt the person's hand grab her own.

"But, miss..."

Out of shear reflex and fueled by her distorted thoughts in her mind, her wings burst from her back, her hands became talons, which tightened a grip around ther person's hand. She let out a falcon's wail as her brilliant glow increased ten fold, her wingspan kept increasing, larger and larger. Her glow spread a brilliant white across the town.

OoC: Meh... your turn

“Ah,” Zorlo Shrieked as the girl tightened her grip. “I am very sorry in advance for what I must do, but I am afraid that you may hurt others in this state.” Zorlo said calmly as he he grabbed the girl’s wrist and began to squeeze until she released.

“Alright, I guess I have no choice but to fight you hear in the open, so, let us begin,” Zorlo shouted.

The girl flapped her wings hard and created a gust that began to blow Zorlo backwards, in attempts to give her time to think of her next attack perhaps.

“So you can use the wind as a weapon, then let us see who’s air attack is stronger,” Zorlo said as he tightened the grip on his sword, his focus was slightly broken because he did not want to hurt this girl more than enough to disengage her.

“Let me demonstrate some of my power, and perhaps you will understand why I wanted to move this battle out of the city. here goes, Air Slash,” Zorlo shouted as he unleashed his special technique against the girl, her wings now beating at twice the speed.

“That won’t work, I put lots of energy into that one, it should be strong enough to break your gust.” Zorlo explained.

The blade of air sliced through the gust, even at its strength, and it hit the girl in the stomach. She fell to the ground, but she was not hurt bad, her gust had weakened the strength of the Air Slash to about half of its original strength.

“I want to know what you are thinking about so deeply that would cause you to become so violent all of a sudden?” Zorlo asked in a calm voice.

OoC: sorry it sucks. Hope I gave you enough to come up with something good.

Leave.. me... ALONE!

She sent a thought towards her attacker. The swordsman became bewildered at the sudden thought that had infiltrated his mind.
Seeing that he was bewildered, the falcon dived on him, and used her talons to grasp his shoulder. Out of reflex, the swordsman raised his sword quickly, slicing the bird's talon. Arina let out a loud wail, letting go of her attacker's shoulder. She flew up into the air.

I don't have time for this... I have to find Raven Arina thought, looking down on her attacker.

She flapped her wings, and gave one final glare at the swordsman before taking off into the town.

OoC: Loooowww on CJsssss....

Zorlo watched as the girl began to fly away from him. She is telepathic, well, this makes things more interesting, gotta watch out for that, maybe she can read my mind if she can send me her thoughts. Still, I must be careful, in her state, she's liable to hurt someone, including herself.

Zorlo followed the girl at burning speed, "Must stop her from hurting someone," he screamed as he ran after her. Her speed was amazing, but the blood that was dripping from her talon left Zorlo a nice path to follow after. Zorlo decided to make his hunt easier, as he ran up onto a second story bridge and leapt from it to a nearby roof and began to follow the girl this way. "My line of sight is much better up here, even in the night, good thing is that the streets are all lit up. Then again, her glow isn't exactly something that I can overlook in this darkness."

Zorlo leapt from house to house after the girl. Zorlo finally closed in enough to hit her with an Air Slash in her back. The fencer stopped on the roof from which he had launched his technique and watched the girl begin to revert back to her humanoid form. Zorlo slid forward on the tiles as he watched her ready herself for another attack.

Arina sped towards the fencer at high speed and ran him right through the roof he was on. The tackle forced him through the building was on top of and he barely grabbed the roof with his shield hand. Zorlo threw his sword up onto the non-slanted part of the roof and climbed up onto it. The girl flew towards him to try to knock him off the roof again, but this time he was ready. "Air Slash," the boy shouted as he unleashed a powerful blade when the girl was almost on top of him. The recoil of the attack flung them both back wards at fast speeds. They both landed painfully on the roofs of nearby buildings and began to rise for the next round of combat.

"Had enough yet, or do you hunger for another beating?" Zorlo screamed across the roofs. Although Zorlo was tired, he was still ready to go another round. Even in the pain he was in, the battle invigorated him making him want to continue all the more. "I'm still wondering, what has you so distracted that you continue to fight in a zombie like state? that is all I desire to know before we continue," Zorlo requested with growing concern.

OoC: hope you like this, I'm a little distracted because I have alot going on. Also, this battle is so much fun, the even playing field makes this so awsome.

Feathers scattered everywhere, dotting the night with luminous spatters of white light. Arina flapped her wings upon the rooftop, she let out a high wail.

"Had enough yet, or do you hunger for another beating?" the fencer asked.

Arina heard him, and began altering her structure... back to humanoid form.

"I'm still wondering, what has you so distracted that you continue to fight in a zombie like state? that is all I desire to know before we continue."

Arina detected the concern in his voice, but her mind was clouded, she panicked, and stopped the transformation halfway. Trembling, she brought up her hand, that was once the bleeding talon, to her face. She panted, her mind racing with thoughts muddled with the sound of the fencer's voice. Her heart raced, a drop of sweat trickled down her forehead.

She panicked even more.

She looked at her attacker, wide-eyed, she spun around, and ran off the roof. Before she lept off, a string of words had forced it's way into Zorlo's mind.

Leave me alone... I don't want to fight you....

She was no longer on the edge of the roof, but soaring upwards. She scattered her feathers and forced her wings to it's full span as she became her full falcon form again.

Zorlo looked up at the giant bird. He lowered his arm.

Arina was confused, she did not wish to fight, but this person may follow her and attempt to harm her again. She spun around, and divebombed the fencer.

Zorlo looked up in astonishment and raised his sword. But he was too late in defending himself. She flew past him with such speed and accuracy, her right wing caught the fencer on the shin, lifting him up into the air, and knocking him off the rooftop.

Zorlo plummeted quickly to the ground beneath the rooftops he had been fighting on since he followed the girl during her fleeing.

Ok, bad situation, need to think of a way out of it. What to do, what to do. Cobblestone will odds are kill me if something doesn't break my fall, but what???? Zorlo thought as he continued his decent, but he finally had an idea on how to not die from the landing.

"Air Slash," Zorlo screamed as he produced another powerful blade of air from his sword that caught him just as he landed. The power of the attack though also recoiled him backwards and he slammed into the ground after narrowly avoiding death. Man, near death experiences should go on my list of things to avoid, I can't keep seeing my life flash before my eyes. It's getting repetitive, and I'm gonna need therapy after I when I get old from almost dying so many times.

Zorlo slowly stood back up, Arina flew through the air watching him to see what he would do.

"Hey, get down here!" By this point, Zorlo was exhausted. Most of his power had fleeted from all of the energy he had used in forming all of the Air Slashes he had fired. He was now conserving energy, as much as he could. His only hope would be to incapacitate her before she tried to kill him again. Zorlo concentrated his energy trying to gather up all he could, he knew he could manage no more than maybe one more Air Slash, any more and the over use of power could, at worst, kill him.

Zorlo now charged up the stairs on one of the buildings and jumped again to the rooftops where he readied himself for combat, he knew he could not fight much longer, but he needed to stop her before someone died. "I am sorry that I have to stop you, but I can't allow you to hurt anyone else as I have already told you. I am low on energy, but I should have enough left to stop you. I am very sorry that you and I had to fight, I'm sure if we had met under other circumstances we could have become friends, but as of now, I see only path, and that is stopping you and hopefully not dying is a good thing to hope for to.

OoC: I hope this is ok, I'm a little distracted cuz I have a few battles I need to respond to. Sorry for being such a pain. This is a fun battle though.

OoC:

Originally Posted by Zorolo

Man, near death experiences should go on my list of things to avoid, I can't keep seeing my life flash before my eyes. It's getting repetitive, and I'm gonna need therapy after I when I get old from almost dying so many times.

I love that line

BiC:

Arina watched the fencer upon the rooftop. He was exhausted, sweating and breathing heavily. She knew he wanted to stop her. Arina assumed that the fencer wanted to take her down; by any means necessary.

She had to get away, she had to find Raven. She began panicking again, this time, her eyes narrowed, glaring at the fencer on the rooftop.

She concentrated, and sent a burst of thoughts towards her attacker. Zorlo became confused, thoughts of his and hers became entwined, swirling and blinding the power of the fencer's mind. Zorlo knelt with his hands grasping his head, he let out a painful scream. The mind can only take so much...

Arina flew down towards him, grabbing him by the shoulder with one of her talons, she pulled him upwards. She flapped her wings, forcing herself and the fencer upwards.
She soared towards the stars, moving higher and higher. Zorlo looked down, he saw the lights of the town moving further away, he screamed.

Startled by the scream, Arina loosened her grip.

And dropped him.

Zorlo screamed again. She looked down on him, hovering over the town, she watched the person fall. His scream reached her ears, her eyes widened. She folded her wings, and dove after the falling fencer.

What...? What am I doing?!

She caught up with Zorlo, almost a second too late, she grabbed his clothes with her beak and spread her wings. She soared just a few feet off the ground, and she was going too fast to stop. A wall of wooden crates were rapidly approaching, she dropped the swordsman and spun around so that her back would collide with the crates.

She watched Zorlo land and bounce off the cobblestone street. She glimpsed behind her, she wasn't flapping her wings to keep flight, so she was rapidly descending, her feathers touched the ground as she hit the crates.

She crashed straight through.

She hit the ground with a grunt, and lay there, slowly transforming back to her full humanoid form. She coughed up some dust, and moved her arms cautiously. She slowly got off the ground, coughing and moaning.

She looked at the other side of the debris, the fencer was moaning and struggling to get off the ground. He seemed okay...

Oh... he might kill me after what I just did...

Arina watched as the fencer got off the ground, he moaned. She gasped, and sprouted her wings speedily, sending feathers flying.

No time to transform fully... I have to get away...

She lifted off the ground, flapped her wings, and flew towards the centre of the town.

This is getting frustrating, but I'm so hurt. I have to fight on, I have to stop her. Zorlo was really weakened from being thrown to the ground twice, using the Air Slash three times and the shear amount of stress his body was under from all the fighting. Zorlo now had one choice, but he was uneasy doing it.

Zorlo ripped his shirt off and ran his fingers over his chain-mail remembering that he had it on. He had not seen it in a long time, because he always had his shirt over it. The girl looked at the armor strangely because she had not realized it from when she had connected.

"I have no choice. Please forgive me for having to do this."

Zorlo removed his shield from his right arm and removed his chain-mail. He changed his stance for speed. He held his right hand behind his back and rushed the girl. Zorlo's speed had increased slightly, but the speed increase would be all needed.

The girl had not noticed him as he ran up a flight of stairs and jumped down onto Arina. She had not seen him coming and he slammed her hard into the ground. Zorlo had finally managed to restrained her so he could try to bring her to her senses. To prevent from killing her, he dropped his sword as he jumped hand used his arms to hold hers down, and used his knees to restrain her legs. Her chances of escape were bad now.

"Please stop resisting, I do not want to fight anymore." Tears flowed from Zorlo's eyes. "I'm very sorry I had to hurt you at all, I do not enjoy this, but please come to your senses, but I'm not going to kill you. Please forgive me, I want to be your friend, not your adversary. Forgive me, please!" Zorlo shouted as he restrained the girl with all of his might as he suffered more pain from the fight that had occurred.

Arina groaned under the weight of the fencer, she was tired, but she was determined to get away. She flapped her wings against the fencer, they only touched him. The saurian let out a desperate gasp.

She moved her arms as best as she could towards her body. She groaned painfully, as her glowing feathers sprouted on her body, her wingspan widened, her feet became the falcon's tail and her hands transformed into her talons.

With the strength of her current form, she lifted off the ground, the fencer still on her back.

"Wha..? ... again?!" She heard him mutter exasperatedly.

She shifted under his weight, and jumped off the ground making the fencer fall backwards off her back.

He groaned on the ground, as she flew up to a nearby rooftop. She reverted back to her humanoid form while she was up there, lying on the rooftop. She coughed and moaned, her eyes were closed, she was exhausted, and in pain.

She opened her eyes slightly as a slight drizzle of rain fell from the heavens.

Zorlo had taken a lot of knocks during the battle, and being dropped was on his list of things to try to avoid for the rest of his life. He rose to his feet again, his pain was horrible, and he was exhausted from all of the strain he had put his body under. He stumbled over to where his sword lay and picked it up, although he was not intent on using it.

As the rain fell, Zorlo could feel the drizzle and looked up at the sky.

"So, even the gods weep at having to watch this battle."

Zorlo stumbled up the stairs and climbed onto the roof of one of the buildings. He was not as agile as he had been, he had worn his muscles out from the extenuating combat. Zorlo moved slowly across the roofs trying to find the girl. I can hardly stand. My body is wrapped with the pains I have in my muscles. She is most likely in a similar amount of pain. I won't give up, not quite yet, I have little but my will to keep me going.

Zorlo spotted the girl, and slowly moved and jumped from building to building. The drizzle had changed into a downpour and the weary fencer felt as though the drops of water could bring him down at any moment. Upon finally reaching the rooftop where Arina lay, Zorlo looked at her and fell to his knees. He collapsed right next to where the girl lay, unmoving.

"I don't have the strength....to......move. I......am........sorry.......I.....could......not. ....help...you." Zorlo said as he passed out from pain and exhaustion.

The battle had been a little over an hour long, but it had attracted a few watchers from the city who now looked upon the rooftop at the collapsed warriors. They had heard the ruckus, seen it from their windows or even had part of the roof fall from where Zorlo had been run through.

OoC: this is getting interesting, I know you'll come up with something good. Thanks again for making this such a great battle.

Even the Gods weep...

The rain pounded the rooftop, hammering as if it were intent on breaking through. Arina moved slightly, and turned her face away from the piercing rain. She was awake, but too much in pain to move, even her eyes remained closed. She listened to the rain pounding on the roof. She felt the splatter of the cold liquid on her face.

The sun blazed upon them, and heated up the sand they were on. Arina sneezed, causing dust to raise. She batted her eyelids, forcing them to open. She was shocked at what she saw. There was no town before her, but she stood in an ancient colosseum of sorts, the hardened mud walls cracked under the great heat. She moaned, and got off the ground. She looked over to the other side of the arena, where Zorlo was moaning and forcing himself off the ground. Arina looked up at the sky, which was lit up by three suns, one to the east, one directly above the arena, and one to the west. The sky was dotted with small greyish-white clouds.

"Where... where are we?" She heard Zorlo ask under his breath.

She looked at him, and at the same time, two small orbs of light flew down from the centre sun. They circled around in the centre of the field letting out small childish cackles as they did.

One of them flew up to the saurian's face.

It floated there, as quiet as ever. She observed it with curiousity and utmost caution. Sensing no danger within it, she reached out to touch it. The orb let out a slight giggle and flew straight at her chest. It stood there, and melted into her body.

Arina gagged, and knelt to the ground, gasping for air. Her eyes rolled as she held her chest tightly.

Zorlo watched the young girl's struggle with wide eyes.

He wasn't prepared for what came next.

Arina stood up, her eyes closed, and her hair flowing about her. Zorlo watched in horror as the girl stood there, and almost totally transparent blue flames surrounded and engulfed her, the flames formed wings and the head of a falcon, with purple flaming eyes. The blue flaming falcon wailed, causing an echo to ring across the arena. The falcon flapped it's wings raising dust and sand. It raised it's head, revealing it's heart within it's transparent body. Arina was it's heart, her eyes closed, her arms a little way from her waist, and her hair flowing about her, in accordance to the flowing blue flames.

Zorlo looked up at the being, not noticing the other orb of light darting towards him, he was knocked to the ground by it. He gagged and coughed a bit. He stopped suddenly and stood up.

What the hell happened. That orb, it made her some kind of..... Zorlo's thought paused as and then he said, "Some kind of monster."

The other orb circled around him, and as he watched it, he wondered what it was. When she grabbed it, it made her into that thing. I wonder if..... Zorlo thought as he grabbed the orb and it shot into his heart. He felt an awakening of sorts and a bright, emerald green aura consumed his body. He could feel more power than he had ever been capable of. Possibly, even more then his master had, he thought as he felt the aura changing his appearence from what it had been when he had passed out on the roof.

The aura first created dragon scale vest around him and the a shirt appeared over it as he normally kept his chain-mail under his over-shirt. The shirt had the japanese symbols that form the word twilight. His sword transformed into his master's legendary sword the Queen's Guard. Zorlo could not explain how this was happening, but he felt the power in him growing, and the change in appearance made him feel stronger looking. Zorlo felt his face and noticed that he no longer had the scare on his face, but it made him wonder, but as he moved his hand along where his scare had been and found that he was wearing a bandana. He removed the bandana and it had the Japanese symbol for warrior on it.

Zorlo looked at his sword and felt a great feeling of pride, as the sword had once belonged to his master. The nostalgia he felt was amazing, but he was still unsure of what happened.

"Ok, what is going on. Why do I look like this, and what happened to her?" Zorlo asked in utter surprise as he looked up. "I know this is not the world I am from, but how could I have gotten here. Some one please give me an answer?" Zorlo pleaded as he looked into the sky.

Arina's human eyes were closed, but her falcon's eyes saw for her. She looked down on the new Zorlo.

I don't know what has happened, but somehow, we are stronger than before.

She sent Zorlo a message, but this time, the fencer could sense the change in her mind. The message wasn't as distorted or as panicked or confused as before, but it had the clarity of a powerful mind.

Zorlo looked down at the blade in his hand, he still seemed to be confused. At the same time, a ghostly figure trodded into the middle of the arena.

"You both... were brought here to fight. I am one of the gods of this world, and I've never been beaten in this arena. I was watching your fight, if your both your will match your inabilites to give up, you will prevail against me and you will turn back to normal and sent back to your world. If not, you will die, like all the others that have set foot into this arena."

The ghostly figure stood in the centre of the area, his both hands tucked away inside his robe, and he seemed to be holding no weapon of sorts.

Zorlo looked at the god; "We... have to fight you?"

"Yes, you have to fight me. Now, begin."

The figure took his hands from his robe and moved them to his side, preparing himself for an attack. He lowered his brows, as his palms spawned glowing orbs, the same type of orbs that 'attacked' the two before.

"What are you waiting for?!" He shouted at Arina, "BEGIN!"

Zorlo watched as the god stood before them. This god was watching our battle. Now he wants us to fight him. The power I have from this sword should allow me to defeat him. I must be careful though, I don't think he gave us these powers without cause.

"Hey, Mr. God, um, excuse me. I was just wondering, why did you bring us here? What, do you have nothing better to do that watch mortals fight on the planet of their origin and then kill us here. I mean, this makes no sense," Zorlo preached to the god.

"If your not gonna answer," Zorlo said, "then I am just going to have to force you then, aren't I."

Zorlo charged the god, and to his surprise, the god did not move. The good stood stationary, and when Zorlo was about to slash him, a ball of light rammed into Zorlo and sent him flying backwards against the arena wall. Ouch, that hurt, bad Idea. Note to self, don't attack a god unless I know his full power first.

Zorlo stood up and began to focus his aura into an Air Slash. The aura he gathered was so powerful, it amplified the green of the swords blade with Zorlo's emerald green aura. "Air Slash," Zorlo shouted as the blade sped towards the god. The Air Slash was now green, which was unusual for Zorlo because all of his slashed before had been white. My enhanced aura makes my attacks stronger, and it also changes the appearance.

The god did not move again. The attack collided with him, but upon closer inspection, Zorlo realized in horror that one of his orbs had absorbed the attack and was unfazed by it. Unreal, he repelled my attack without even moving. This is going to be tough Zorlo thought as he readied himself for what was to come.

OoC: Wh00t! Second page! We Will RoCk YoU!
BiC:

Zorlo stood up, the god still facing him. A wail shot out from behind him, the god spun around. Arina's flowing, flaming blue falcon form stood towering over him. He let out a small chuckle as he looked up at the towering falcon. Another echoing wail left it's beak...

"Foolish girl! You want to fight! Come on then!"

The god shouted, as Arina's wings began to beat against the ground. She lifted up into the air, and flew straight towards the god.

Fool..

Sparks flew from the god's hands as another two orbs flew towards the ghostly bird. They darted towards Arina at an immense speed, only to meet her wings and go through the ghostly flames.

What?!

The god was dumbfounded. Arina picked up speed. Suddenly, she disappeared as a loud crack rang through the arena.

Zorlo and the god scanned the area with there eyes, Arina was no where to be seen. Arina appeared abruptly, hovering behind the god. At first, when she appeared, she was blurry to the human eye, and gradually, she became clearer.

Zorlo's eyes widened.

She...? Did she...?... Did she just break the sound barrier?

Arina let out a sharp wail, to attract the god's attention. He spun around, as Arina's flaming talons grabbed him by the shoulders and lifted him up into the air. She flew higher and faster, until another loud crack rang through the skies as she disappeared.

Zorlo looked up at the sky, at the point where she and the god dissappeared. He was breathing heavily, still recovering from the last blow he received.

"Hm?"

Zorlo gasped, and jumped back. There was a loud explosion in the centre of the arena, the dust rose up, thickening the air. When it cleared, Zorlo saw Arina standing over the god in a crater that was made when she slammed him into the ground.

The god sent two orbs at the bird again, but this time, he aimed for the heart, he aimed for the human Arina. The bird yelped in pain and she was thrown backwards, up and out of the crater. She flapped her wings to land safely. The god slowly rose up, laughing menacingly as he hovered over the hole.

Zorlo was amazed at watching Arina break the sound barrier and slam the demonic god into the ground, but was scared, nearly to death when he rose, almost without a scratch. Zorlo stepped forwards, it was his turn again.

"HEY, you god, leave her alone and come fight me," Zorlo said mockingly to prevent the god from trying to kill Arina. I'll buy her some time to ready another attack. I sense that I have more new powers, and I think I'll try to reach them. Zorlo assumed the same stance he had take when he had charged Arina trying to subdue her. Zorlo ran at such a speed that all that the god could see was a huge whirlwind of sand that Zorlo's high speed had created.

"Come now boy, do you actually think your little sand screen will work," the god said mockingly to Zorlo as he continued to run around him.

Suddenly, Zorlo appeared in front of the god and said, "No, but it sure did work as one hell of a good distraction, especially on a big headed cretin like you."

Zorlo kicked the god into the air with amazing force, and then jumped after him and delivered another hard kick to his stomach. His balls of light tried with all their might to catch up to Zorlo as he continued to kick his opponent farther and farther into the air. The speed that Zorlo was kicking the god made it impossible for the balls of light that he was releasing to even see Zorlo's hair before he was past them.

After reaching a certain altitude, Zorlo felt a new power running through his sword. He flowed more aura into the sword and realized that the power he was feeling was the power of lighting. Lightning, awesome. This makes things more interesting.

Zorlo grabbed the god's robe and pulled him backwards so Zorlo could wrap himself around such that he held his sword by its hilt with his left hand and the blade with his right. "Tell me how you like this while you're descending into hell where you belong," Zorlo shouted as he ran a huge amount of energy from his sword into the god. "Ya see, because my aura is making this lightning, it won't hurt me, but it will hurt and stun you for this technique," Zorlo said as he turned them so they pointed towards the ground and began their descent into the arena.

While the two fell, Zorlo began to spin and increased the electrical energy he was releasing from his sword to a high level to restrain the god through paralysis. The two shot like a rocket towards the ground, the orbs turned around to try to catch up to their master, who seemed doomed at this point. The rocket made out of the god and Zorlo ripped through the orbs of light like a sword through leather and the two continued to shoot towards the ground.

About two-thirds of the way from where Zorlo was aiming the two to land, Zorlo released himself from his technique as his adversary continued to fall. He knew that at the speed they were going, should he hold the god when they collided into the ground, he would die and make a Pyrrhic victory. Although Zorlo let go, the amount of electricity he had poored into the god left him unable to move. The god crashed into the ground and left a larger crater than the one Arina had made in the far right side of the arena.

"I call that move, Thunder Spiral. Now, she and I can leave, because I just killed you, right," Zorlo said almost laughing hysterically at what he thought was an easily won victory.

"Don't take me so lightly boy," the god said angrily as he rose from the crater. "You shouldn't take a god as being a weakling. But, you on the other hand, I can take as being inferior to me.

Back to square one Zorlo thought as he rose from one knee and stood back up. This guy is good. I'll probably need that girls help to defeat him. I'm sure together we could crush him.

Zorlo looked over to Arina and said, "Miss, I need your help to crush this creature so please assist me so we can both leave. Also, because I forgot to introduce myself when we first met, my name is Zorlo, The Fencer of Tasogare, and who might you be?" Zorlo asked politely as he readied himself for round two.

OoC: I can tell this is going to be a tough battle. But man is this a fun battle. Insaney, you're the man.

Arina listened to the fencer. And with a voice in her mind, filled with the clarity of calmness, she sent a message to him.

I'm Arina, now, no time for talking.

She pushed off, and filled the arena with another echoing crack. The sand raised of the ground blasting against everything in it's path violently. Arina let out a loud wail in mid flight, as her talons grasped the god again, but this time, she dragged him on the ground. Moving faster than the speed of sound, she kept slamming the god into the ground and holding him there while she was flying. The god screamed in pain as his back grated against the hot, coarse sand and ground.

Arina slowed down, so that Zorlo, who was bewildered by her speed could see her and predict her next move, so that he could strike. To help him with his prediction, Arina talked to him in his mind.

Zorlo! Catch!

Zorlo readied himself, as the burning falcon stopped abruptly, and, leaning backwards, threw her victim up into the air.
Zorlo leaped up after him, he grasped the stunned god and carried him higher. They reached altitude where oxygen was scarce. Zorlo positioned himself above the god, and held the lightning charged blade at his neck. The fencer looked down in the god's eyes and smiled deviously...

"You know what comes next."

They began to descend rapidly, the air biting them with freezing blasts. Zorlo heard a loud wail as a burning blue blur sped passed them. Arina slowed down and spun around, and descended upon the falling duo. Zorlo felt her talon holding his back, but not so hard as to hurt him. Lightning began to emerge from the fencers blade, as the three began to spin in a downward spiral.

Suddenly, Arina warned the lightning fencer.

Hold on tight...

Arina concentrated, as she rushed at the speed of sound again, sending a cracking burst into the sky, sending the three spiralling into the ground at a speed faster than the speed of sound.

Zorlo screamed, it seemed as though the ground was coming up to meet them as fast as they were descending, everything was a blur. The spiral slammed into the ground, causing an unatural explosion, creating a crater wider and deeper than the previous ones. Dust and sand clouded the air. It was useless trying to see for a few brief seconds. Arina flapped her wings and cleared the dust away. Zorlo leaped out of the crater as Arina landed beside him. They looked down at the god at the centre.

He was just laying there... blood and sand caked his lips.

"Did we... did we win?" Zorlo asked, panting. That last move had taken a lot out of both of them, Arina could barely flap her wings.

The god coughed up some blood, drawing the two's attention to the crater. He struggled to get up, coughing, and groaning, blood running down his back and staining his robe.

He floated out of the crater, still struggling to keep his balance.

"Fools..." He coughed.

He spread his legs and arms, and screamed in pain, as his body began to glow, sending countless orbs of light everywhere. His scream increased, as the sheer power of his charging body caused the arena to start crumbling.

Zorlo watched as the god released a huge amount of orbs in horror. That Thunder Spiral would have killed a dragon, but this guy gets away mostly unscathed. This guy is insane. Good thing that He looks pretty weak now. Zorlo thought and then said, " We have the advantage, now let's take it."

As Zorlo began to charge, he was brought to screeching stop as the massive number of orbs attacked the two of them. The orbs speed matched the speed Zorlo had used when he used the first Thunder Spiral. Zorlo dodged them with everything he had as more and more came at him. The attacks came from all sides, and Zorlo could barely keep up with the huge amount of orbs.

Suddenly, the orbs all moved back and attacked Zorlo at once. Zorlo watched as Arina dodged the orbs and they did the same thing to her. As the orbs came in, Zorlo took a defensive stance and was hit heavily. The orbs detonated after hitting Zorlo and he fell to the ground. He was pretty hurt, but he rose using his sword to prop him up and got ready to fight again. Arina landed unharmed, because she had escaped with her supreme speed.

The god was getting mad at the two's incessant persistence and their inability to die so easily as his last foes had. Although his anger, he began to laugh suddenly. "You think that you are so great? You have hurt me, even if it is only a little. I'm a god you fools, you think your little petty attacks can defeat me." Suddenly the god released a huge amount of orbs that began to unite around him and formed a huge barrier of light. As the barrier closed around the god, he shouted, "This is the first time in a long time that I must use this. You should feel honored you weaklings!"

Zorlo could feel amazing power from the giant orb the god had created around himself. I don't like the feeling I'm getting from that orb. His powers seem to be getting stronger than before. I'm guessing he's probably using it to heal, but it may be something worse. Odds are it is the second one.

The giant orb of light that shielded the god was amazingly powerful looking, but Zorlo felt he had to test the strength of the shield. "I guess I'll just have to crack through your shield. I'll show you the power I have."

Zorlo looked around the arena, he formulated a plan from his last attack with Arina. If I can reach a fast enough speed, this attack should pierce right through the attack. The arena had crumbled slightly, but it still stood high over the two. Almost 5 stories tall, the suns were glowing through the openings in the old, Romanesque style arena. Zorlo ran at the orb and did a massive over head swing which was easily repelled with ease by the orbs hard shell. Zorlo attacked again, this time he spun around and side slashed the orb, but again his sword just bounced harmlessly off of the gods shell.

Damn it, this isn't working. I need a new plan. Zorlo contemplated a new attack. He began to focus his energy in his sword to make it electrify, and then it hit him. I've got it, if I can focus enough energy into the tip of my sword, I should be able to pierce the shell. I'll need a high speed to do it though.

Zorlo ran up the north wall which had no entrances or exits and began to focus energy into his sword again. Zorlo focused electricity and energy into the tip and formed a spear tip at the tip of his sword of electricity. This should do it, I hope this works.

Arina looked at Zorlo and sent him a telepathic message of What are you doing?

"You'll see Arina," Zorlo said confidently. With the energy in a spear-like tip, at the right speed, it will pierce right through the shield. Zorlo sprinted down the wall and made a speed that was faster than he could manage on his own. Suddenly, a large, blue flame talon grabbed Zorlo and Flung him at an amazing speed, but he did not break the sound barrier as she was capable of.

Zorlo's electric tip hit the wall of light and the tip began to pierce the shell. As Zorlo slowed down from the collision with the light shield, his blade began to be pushed back by the orb until a giant flash exploded and shot Zorlo back from the orb. He landed on the ground and was slightly hurt. His attack had left a small dent in the shield, but had come nowhere close to breaking the shield as he had hoped.

"That shield's amazingly strong, but I'm more worried about what's inside of it," Zorlo said as he rose to his feet and looked at the orb pulsing now.