Meetings of Chance (Nikuvillain)

[Zorolo]

OoC: You and I spoke of this battle a while ago, but now that I've finally posted Zachary's upgrade, it can begin. Using Zachary and Monroe, as you well know. They're in the link in my sig (Second and third characters down)

BiC: Drip...drip...drip...

The cavern walls simply dripped water from the stalactite landed on the rock floor of the water filled cavern. The inside of the cavern upon this small island covered most of the landscape, and found itself defined enough. Aside from the floor of solid ground, which formed an interesting patter, starting out as a small walkway that then expanded into a massive circle, and then into another walkway on the other side of the room leading to a wall, there were massive almost lakes formed around the landscape. The shear density of water vapor and the damp environment made this an ideal location for any person that used water or ice magic.

In fact, a certain ice mage had found his way onto this island. Zachary had headed here for some special training in honing his magical powers. Although he now had a much larger reserve of magical energy, he still needed to spend a good deal of time practicing in order to fully master his art. Ice magic, as Zachary used it, draws upon nature, and this island worked nicely as a medium to help him focus his powers. The red haired youth needed this strength, for in case he found himself matched with powerful foes such as Cadenza or Zorlo.

As the young Ice Elemental sat, his legs crossed, his arms crossed across his chest, his head hung low with his eyes closed and a look of focus about his facial features, with his sword laying upon his knees, ice crystals danced about the red haired youth. He had spent many hours to learn to control six ice crystals in the form of what he'd use for ice spears, and he was starting work on his seventh. Water vapor and water from around the youth began to cool and move together, slowly forming a small piece of the crystal to come.

All in all, this was a very straining training on the mind more than anything. Forming a crystal while keeping six moving around oneself and keeping them from falling. Zachary, although focused, was becoming frustrated and angry. This wasn't working fast enough. He'd never be able to fight someone like Zorlo with just this strength. What he really needed was a strong foe. He needed someone that would push him to his fullest and force him to grow stronger.

Zachary's eyes opened and a burst of magical energy erupted off of him, firing his crystals sideways into the walls of the cavern, shattering them into small shards as they fell to the ground or into the lakes. Heavy breathing echoed the red haired boy as he stood up and hefted his sword upwards and sheathed the ice blade. "That was good, and all, but I need something that's more training then that. I won't get any stronger like this," he muttered as he spit in annoyance.

To make matters worse than just the intense training, Zachary had been feeling odd things of late. He'd felt surges of pain when he closed his eyes, and could see odd wave patterns. They were unlike what Zorlo described for aura, but still similar. Zorlo had told him that, mayhap, it was elemental vision. If so, it was taking a hell of a long time, but Zachary really hadn't been working on perfecting it, so he understood why it seemed to be so annoying.

Zachary sighed and sat down. This God forsaken island didn't have anything on it to do but train. Zachary guessed, with a great deal of annoyance, that was why Zorlo had told him to come here.

o=)----------Out at Sea----------(=o

Hell. This was God damn hell! Three days on a small boat, and what had Monroe found? Absolutely nothing! He'd been floating next to an ice bridge for two days, and then when the last bits of it melted, he found himself traveling around aimlessly through the wide ocean. Damn that red haired kid.

Vossler had read about the bounty known as, "The Avenger" recently, but after finding out that said bounty had some association with Zorlo, the dark clad man had set out to find this kid and force him to tell the former assassin exactly where the green haired man was now. With Johnny Bones gone, Monroe only had one big target left, and that target was, in fact, Zorlo.

As the modern fencer laid down on the boat, he floated rather pointlessly, since the boat had also run out of gas earlier in the day. Well, nothing worse could happen, could it?

Before the bounty hunter knew what he had thought, it began to downpour. The waves were vicious, tossing and throwing the small boat around like it was a person. Monroe made sure to brace himself. As the storm grew worse, the dark clad man feared he may not live to see anything after this day.

However, if by an extreme twist of luck or by fate, a powerful wave carried his boat upwards and risked to throw it into a nearby island. In a last ditch effort, the mercenary jumped from the boat, and, with all the force he could muster against the wind, Moon Stepped his way towards the island. Almost as soon as he landed, Monroe found a chunk of his boat coming towards him and, with what ill luck he had found himself with, wound up being hit extremely hard in the head by a plank of the wooden boat.

And there lay the dark clad man, unconscious on the shore of an island. Luckily for him, the storm broke. It seemed fate had played an interesting card for him.

[nikuvillain]

The sound of flowing water, splashing water, water that flowed passed her face and covered her ears. Water, yes, that cool gentle liquid touched her body and brought her back to the world. Her eyes opened up as if for the first time in her life as she quickly shut them close again. She couldn’t feel her body anymore all the pain was gone and the only feeling she had left was the cold flowing water that covered most of her body. She tried to talk, but only a small cough came out.

The man that saved her turned his head towards her. She rested in a stream of water and her warm red blood washed down the stream. They been camped there for five days now and he’d been worried if she would ever wake up. He heard another light cough come out of her mouth as she tried to say something. He wasn’t shock that she couldn’t talk since he did hit her hard and she had done a lot of screaming.

Jezebel felt a large rough palm rest on her belly and a shadow covered the sun from her closed eyes. She could feel the warmth of life entering her body and flowing through it. Calmly and gentle it reached her throat smoothing it and relaxing it back to life. “Is that better?” the deep commanding voice of her master asked.

“Master?” she asked weakly in a soft gentle voice. A tear rolled down her eyes as she turned her head away from him. If she had, enough strength she would have ran away in shame. “I lost.”

“You did, but not because you wasn’t strong enough. You lost because you lost control of your power and it begun to take form in the world outside of your body.” He said and he glided his hand up to where her heart is. “This wasn’t strong enough to hold that much power, so I moved it to a stronger place. Can you feel it? It’s really close to you.”

Jezebel just shook her head not feeling anything, but the water flowing pass her. She searched her body for her powers, for any powers, but nothing. She shook her head again finally opening her eyes and a small green line moved passed her sight.

“You can’t feel it yet, because your soul is still healing your body. Mostly likely, it’s using a small part of your power to keep you a live right now. Don’t worry you’ll feel it when your soul stops over working it self.”


Jezebel jumped through the tree tops making her way to the port. She finally recovered and the church already gave her a mission. She wasn’t happy, but at least she was better her thought and she shot out a chain clear across the open field to other tree that was miles away. Since she recovered, her chain has felt stronger and been able to grow longer than before.

“To the port your target is called the Avenger he was spotted by are spy on an island named Iceizdar.” She repeated to herself thinking about how much they care about her. She was pissed at the church, but left without saying a world. She was saved and to say something with her master around would be asking to take that gift away from her.

She made it to the port and took the only boat to the island. It was a small boat that smelled like fish, she guess the island wasn’t that big so she target should be easy enough to find. She rode the boat for what felt like years before they finally arrived at the shoe of the island. The place was odd it looked like a topical graveyard place then what she thought it would be by the name. Now where can he be? She thought view the dieing leaves hanging from the trees.

***

The die plants that covered the jungle like island was every odd to Kaien, but not interesting enough to view it history. He was trailing something more interesting and it when into the cavern ahead of him. It was a strange red head young man that he followed. Kaien couldn’t put his finger on why this boy caught his eye but he did. He strolled through the cave checking every so often which way the man when.

The awaken heard the odd rhythm of water droplets splashing up against the rocky floor below. He slowed down to a claw, getting closer to the man. He could finally hear his breathing and he heard the sound of ice forming. It was odd to hear the sound so clearly, but he slowly got closer and closer. The boy just sat there doing nothing as ice shards formed in the air.

Kaien watched on wondering how the ice formed in the air. It’s something he never seen, but as he study it a large piece of ice flew pass him as he dodged his body out of the way. “How did he find me?” he asked gripping his chain as he landed on his feet. He held on to the chain as it glowed dim, “Attacking me was not a good idea boy,” He said ripping the chain off his neck and forming it into a lager metal pole.

[Zorolo]

It wasn't too long before the bounty hunter woke up and sat up, rubbing his head. That hurt like hell. The mercenary began to walk forwards. Where? He didn't have the faintest idea where he was going, much less if he'd find the person he was looking for. Still, something told the modern fencer he'd find his target in the end. After all, word travels fast of a red haired boy with the power to generate ice. However, the enhanced human didn't find any trace of ice. Merely, he found himself walking through a forest of dead palm trees.

As the crunch of dead leaves filled the air, the dark clad man continued to walk on through the empty wasteland. Still, something, anything, that would be a clue would be helpful here. Suddenly, the dark man bumped into someone else. Monroe stepped back and looked at the red haired woman as he stepped back. He wasn't quite sure who she was, but didn't make any mention of talking to her aside from a simple, "Sorry." With that mutter, he would have simply continued on had he not heard something that peaked his interest.

"Darn the church making me hunt down this "Avenger" person," she muttered as she moved along.

"Hey, you!" Monroe yelled over to her, turning and looking at her. "What'd you just say? You're looking for the Avenger too?" he asked her, hiding his hands in the pockets of his trench coat.

"Yes, I am. The church has ordered I destroy him. What business is it of yours?!" she asked, shifting her feet and looking ready to fight.

"Well," he stated, flipping the handle of his photon sword out of his jacket and turning on the blade and pointing it at the girl, "for one, I'm searching for him, but not to kill him. Secondly, I've got no interest in letting anyone else claim him. I'm defeating him, and I'm claiming his bounty, and lastly, I'm catching the more important person that he's associated with. I'm not about to let some newcomer get in my way!"

Monroe's body vanished and he reappeared behind the priestess, swinging his photon blade towards her. The woman noticed him as he came. Quickly, chains of energy materialized in her hands and blocked the sword, almost like a blade itself. The two pushed and leapt backwards. "So, you've got a strange power, do you. This'll be fun," the modern fencer stated as he smiled. He needed a good warm up anyway.

o=)---------Where Zach Is---------(=o

“Attacking me was not a good idea boy,” a voice replied as a man holding a metal stick walked into the cavern and faced the ice innate. The person wasn't very threatening looking, despite the silver colored stick, but did seem rather brave to enter this cavern, mostly with an Ice Elemental inside of it. Zachary unsheathed his sword slightly and used his powers to begin to draw in water vapor and freeze it. Slowly, the ice began to harden into a sword with a blade about two and a half feet long with an eight inch hilt.

Zachary swung the sword as he sheathed Mobius and smiled. "Interesting weapon, but I can make weapons too," Zachary stated as he held his left hand out and began to create ice needles in the air. "I can make all kinds of ice." With a flick of his left wrist, the ice mage sent the daggers flying towards the Awaken, who quickly spun his staff around and destroyed them. "But this sword is special. It's made of ice that's condensed to the point of being hard as steel. Think you can handle it?" the Elemental asked as he swung his left hand again and threw several more needles.

The staff spun again and destroyed the needles fairly effortlessly as Zachary rushed forwards, slashing his sword forwards, only to have it meet with Kaien's staff. "Not bad, guy," the ice mage responded as he began to gather ice around his hand and form gauntlets around his hands. "Take this!" the firebrand yelled as he thrust his fist towards Kaien's face.

[nikuvillain]

A strange smile came over the awakens face as fist of ice came towards him. The metal staff transformed into a golden shield blocking his punch. The force of the punch tossed him back a bit. Catching his footing Kaien glared at the red head with his eyes wide open. With his mind opened ready to learn everything his opponent could do. Kaien change the shield back into the pole and ready himself again. “I’m still here. Should I attack next boy?”

The air around Zachary became cold and the moister begun to freeze into icicles. The thin ice stick shot quickly at the awaken wizard, with ease he spun the pole around again knocking the ice out of his path. Zachary dashed at him and with a swift motion slashed at him. Kaien slammed the pole into the ground, jumped up over the sword, and landed behind Zachary. With out warning more icicles shot at Kaien, dropping to the ground he dodged the attack.

The young man spun around glaring at Kaien getting back up from the ground. The awaken transformed the pole into a sword never much like the one his opponent made. “I just it time for me to try something new,” he said forming icicles around himself. The icicles were smaller then the ones he’d been dodging, but for trying it for the first time, he was happy enough. With a smile across his face he lunched the ice needless at ice warrior.

***

“Strange?” Jezebel questioned looking at him with an odd look before continuing to speak her thoughts. “Only ones with no power would think having powers is strange. I was like you before I learned how to use and control it.” Jezebel chains disappeared back into her body; she hadn’t used her powers in awhile and still was getting a feel of where it was stored.

"It isn't the fact I have no power, so much as the world of the supernatural is a sin against the world of logic. To challenge logic is to challenge the way things should be. What do you have to say to that?"

“Again, only a weak human who is trying to make something out of their life would say that,” Jezebel stated holding her hand up in front of her. “Now.” A small green and red chain formed out of her hand, hanging from her hand. She threw it up into the air and caught it with her other hand spinning it around her body. “I must find this Avenger person. I’m sorry if I must end this quick.” Jezebel dashed forward tossing the chain at Monroe, shooting another two chains out of her hands towards him.

[Zorolo]

"Not very creative, are you?" the ice innate asked as he held his hand up and stopped the needles of ice with a smile. Well, tried, is the better thought to that, since the smaller needles slowed down, but didn't fully stop. "Annoying," the ice mage muttered as he swung his hand and tossed counter needles. The ice blades ripped through their counterpart copies and moved towards the Awaken, who merely sidestepped and charged. The Ice Elemental smiled as he lowered his blade to his side and charged.

The blades clashed and a battle of ice needles broke out as the two began to fire needles at each other from the moist atmosphere around them. Although it took two of Kaien's needles to match one of Zachary's at first, quickly, the needles began to balance out in size. The two broke the sword lock and began to swing their blades quickly and in a frenzy. A powerful horizontal slash from the ice mage met with a downward slash from the Awaken, and then a thrust for the ice innate barely missed the learner's body as the man sidestepped and swung his sword downwards.

The Ice Elemental quickly leapt forwards, narrowly evading the blade and turning to face his foe. "Well, if needles won't work as well any longer, I guess I'll need something larger," the ice warrior stated as he held his hand out and countless needles formed into a single is spear. With a palm thrust, the innate sent the spear rushing towards his foe. "Block that one, guy!"

o=)----------Monroe----------(=o

The three chains moved forwards quickly and the bounty hunter smiled. So this woman used chains as her form of attack. A long and short range weapon, thanks to the golden spikes atop them and the strange, what seemed to be red barbs. Aside from that, they could work as offense or defense. Still, all these thoughts did were to make Monroe smile widely and move his photon sword quickly, knocking the chains away.

The chain-wielder pulled her weapons back quickly after they were blocked and looked at the mercenary's buzzing blade. "Powers are great, but they're nothing like the power technology can give you. My sword isn't magic, but instead technology. It will overcome you!" the modern fencer yelled as he rushed at the woman. Quickly, the red haired woman spun her chains and launched them at the bounty hunter, who merely sidestepped the first, only to move towards the second, oncoming chain that cut his side lightly.

Monroe winced at the pain of the cut, but pushed it back as he swung his blade down, quickly meeting a sword-like chain that appeared to be held by the woman. The buzz of the blade against the chain and the force of the two meeting made the enhanced human smile. "Do you see what I mean?" he asked her, pushing his blade forward with all of his might, intent on pushing through her chains or pushing her back. Whichever came first.

[nikuvillain]

Jezebel’s eyes shot open wide in shock at the man’s blade that was now in her face. Her eyes stayed fixed on the pieces of chain that slowly rained down to the dirt ground below. She quickly glanced back over at the man that was now only inches from cutting her in half. Without warning hundred of small chain formed a wall between them giving the chain user enough time to jump away. She glanced at the wall as she landed on her feet.

The metal chain wall shook and rattled at the power of the odd sword that made contact with it. Close one, she thought as she shot another chain through her wall, shattering it to dust, only to find no one on the other side. “Where did he go?” she questioned lower her body ready to dodge an attack.

This was like a hunting game to her and she wait for her prey to appear again. She could only guess that he was somewhere in the forest tress, but she wasn’t going to waste her energy to find him. Everything seemed quiet to her ear, but she could feel that he was still around await for her.

“There!” Jezebel yelled turning around to see him standing with his sword point at her just a few feet away.

“Nice try, but it miss,” he said dashing towards her again. Jezebel didn’t or couldn’t understand why he didn’t try attacking her when he had the chance to land a small hit. It was very odd, but she didn’t have the time to think too long on it as she jumped back and shot two chain onto a tree. Swing herself into Monroe knocking him down and rolling into the dirt just a few feet away from him. She could hear him getting up before her body even stopped rolling.

***

Quickly Kaien formed layers of thin sheets of ice in front of the giant spear. The large attack slowed down, but it didn’t not stop as it got closer. Closer and closer it came as it was about to hit him Kaien jumped up and ran up the large spear. Jumping off the edge Kaien shot more small needles of ice as he swung down with a pole aiming for Zachary’s head. “Dodge this you damn boy!”

[Zorolo]

Monroe had hit his back hard from the impact and was still a bit dizzy from the collision of the ground and his head, however, more than that he was a bit shaken by the attacks this woman had used thus far. The bounty hunter rolled on his back a bit more then pushed his momentum forwards, thrusting himself to his feet. The mercenary turned around to see the woman standing up slowly as he began to walk towards her. Along the way, the dark clad man recovered a tool of his. His lost photon sword.

The crunch of his steps upon the long dead leaves and grass made it extremely obvious he was coming, but that didn't really matter to him. The red haired woman seemed to be standing up, which meant this wouldn't actually be a slaughter, but more of a fight than the enhanced human thought. THe modern fencer loosened his grip around the handle of his sword and let the handle drop until the knuckle guard was sitting on his index finger and spinning around quickly.

I can't just rush this one. If I'm not careful she could turn that wall of chains into a serious binding. That'd be annoying, not to mention hard to break. I'd better take this slightly seriously. Still, that doesn't mean I'm just gonna stand here, but I need to conserve Flash Step. I don't want to wear it completely out before fighting the "Avenger."

The blade stopped spinning and Monroe continued walking, holding the sword in his hand, and readying to attack. "So, what reason are you hunting the "Avenger" down for, huh? It's obvious you've never met him, so why are you after him?"

o=)---------- ----------(=o

Zachary looked at the needles and smiled. Quickly, the ice innate raised his sword and braced it with his armored left hand, absorbing the blow from the staff and rolling the blade of his weapon under the staff and rolling away, quickly wiping his hand from side to side, creating a bit of magical power that stopped the needles near effortlessly as they approached. The red haired warrior rose and looked at his sword. It was hanging in fine, aside from a few small cracks.

"Do you honestly think I'm some kind of amateur with ice magic? Because it seems like you do using that level of attack. Time I show you some serious skill in magic," Zachary whispered as he opened his hand and allowed ice energy into his hand. The Ice Elemental quickly created a spear of ice and tossed it fiercely, aiming it to do some damage.

[nikuvillain]

Jezebel stood glaring that the strange fighter with intense interest in him. The chains moved throughout her body crawling along her blood stream. The ebbing flow of her chest moving from her deep breathing calmed her mind. “I was given the orders to kill him,” She said without hatred or malice in her voice. It was a job that she must do, in order to keep her freedom.

“You don’t seem like the type that likes following orders.”

“And what does a type that likes following orders look like?” Jezebel asked while one of her chains moved across the ground like a snake. “What do you care?” she asked with a smile, the chain shot up from the ground. Monroe dodged out the way but not before the bladed tip of the chain cut his cheek.

The rattling of the metal tapping against each other as it moved in the air going back to Jezebel side. The move was low even for her, but she had no time to sit a talk with him. She was a little disappointed that he was able to dodge out of the way and it showed on her face. The smile on her face disappeared, as she became a bit more into the fight.

Monroe touched his cheek wiping away what little blood that came from the cut. He swung his sword around his hand seeming to be thinking. Jezebel watched as she fought to summon up the strength to give her all against the strange man. She couldn’t kill him, but she knew that keeping her power locked within her would only make this fight longer. She focused, but her soul wasn’t really to give her that much power.

***

Kaien spun the staff quickly, as it slowed down to a stop the staff turned into a hug shield. Kaien held the metal shield up that stood taller then him. Diamonds covered the front of the shield each one sharp enough to cut through anything that got in it way. “Who do you think I am!?” The awaken yelled grabbing hold of one of the inner lining sending it spinning. The ice spear dove into the shield and chunks of ice flew back at the Ice Elemental.

As the last little bit of the spear shredded from the odd shield, Kaien quickly transformed it into a tall pole. The heavy pole came crushing down towards Zachary, but he quickly dodged it and the ice balls that flew at him. Kaien transformed the pole into a sword and swung in around a bit before holding in up waiting for the next attack. “You’re pretty good, but you’ll still pay.”

[Zorolo]

Monroe held his hand up, his blade buzzing normally, as he readied to make his move. The bounty hunter wasn't amused with this woman's weapon, nor her tactics. If anything, he was rather pissed off. The bounty hunter rested his palm on the handle of his revolver and wrapped his fingers around it. He didn't feel like taking too much longer with this, and figured maybe a good threat would get the job done.

Monroe released the handle of his sword again and began to spin the weapon around his left index finger again as he removed his revolver from its holster and smiled. "You're got some annoying attack there; however, I've got something a little bit too good to be stopped by your chains. I've got bullets. Try to stop a few," Monroe stated as he pulled back the hammer of the gun and fired off a single bullet towards the woman, watching closely. He was interested in how she'd stop that one.

o=)---------- ----------(=o

Zachary spun his sword around and smiled at the man standing before him. That transformation trick is getting on my nerves. Aside from that, he's copying my magic. More than anything, this guy is plain annoying. Still, he's not too good. His skill with weapons is mostly trying to best me by striking me. Well, it's time to try this skill. Might as well, anyway.

The Ice Elemental ceased spinning his sword and drove it fiercely into the ground. The red haired warrior released the blade and held his right hand out, forming an icy gauntlet around his hand and clenching his fist tightly. He'd refocused the ice and condensed it into his special, hyper dense ice. This armor could take blows from steel and stand it. Still, being ice, it needed to be maintained every so often. Still, the air was rank with water vapor still, so that was an edge on Zachary's side.

Zachary tightened his fingers into a tight fist and began to focus magic into them. Time for his secret weapon. The one he hadn't tested out completely yet. It was an idea he had thought up while practicing with just his fists. Hopefully, it would work. If not, then it wouldn't, but still, it was a pretty sweet idea. Now then, to put it into action.

The ice mage bent his elbow upwards into the air and aimed his fist at the ground, building up energy into his fist as he watched the Awaken swing his sword wildly. The copy cat began his attack and Zachary, his counter attack. "Try this! Ice Wave!" he yelled as he slammed his fist into the ground and launched a wave of magic that rushed through the ground, causing spikes to erupt from the ground towards Kaien. "Let's see you escape that one," he said as he watched the attack rush forwards at a two feet wide straight line.

[nikuvillain]

Without a thought in her mind her eyes flashed red and flames busted out of the metal chains. She swung and twirled the bladed chain around. The flames grew bigger and bigger quickly by the time the bullet reached the flames it was to late. The small piece of metal melted as it hit her hot flaming tornado. “Childs play,” she said seeing her win coming soon. “Not try this on for size.”

The chain spun around faster and faster, growing longer and hotter with every passing second. The metal links glowed pure white and finally she lashed out the chain from within the swirling tornado only glazing the skin of Monroe. Whipping it out of the flames again the hunter just dodged it before it hit. The heat coming from the chain burned his skin only a little.

Jezebel glanced down at her hand, it turn black from the burns of the chain. It hurt, but only a little, it was nothing to what she’d been through. The flames died down and disappeared and the metal chain cooled down. It wasn’t like she needed all that power to defeat this man. The gun is going to be a pain if I don’t keep him busy. Jezebel dashed forward forming chains around her fist.

***

Kaien had little time to reacted to the attack the ice mage sent towards him. Quickly Kaien formed a shield around his body coving his self from the waves of ice that came towards him. The shape spike came crushing up into his shield tossing him into the air. The around rolled down other spike crushing into the wall of the cave before finally stopping.

Kaien could feel the pain from being thrown around in the metal ball, but at least he wasn’t dead. What a pain, he thought getting up from the ground. The field became nothing, but ice and spike pillars; he couldn’t even see the young mage anymore thought the ice. Kaien grabbed the shield from off the ground and stood there thinking.

Damn this boy is stronger then I thought. He is a much better warrior then me. I don’t know what I can do to help myself win. If only I could view some history of fighting right now. Think, think, think…. He could see the young mage coming towards him and he was running out of ideas. Kaien transformed the shield in a long sword and held it be his side.

I will win. It not my time yet, he thought to himself as he readied himself to attack the warrior in front of him. His eyes showed no fear nor did it show anger. He would fight and continue to learn as he fought with his sword. He stood there waiting for the right time to attack.

[Zorolo]

The bounty hunter spun his revolver around his finger before returning it to its holster as the woman charged. Time until impact is pending. Let me see, with the way she's moving, I'm gonna say I've got a few seconds, the mercenary thought to himself as he rested his hand on his photon sword, wincing as he glanced at his grazed right arm. Luckily I'm a lefty, Monroe mused to himself as he spun the blade from its location on his belt and held it ready to defend himself.

The woman spun around quickly and attempted to backhand the modern fencer who quickly spun the handle of the blade around as he turned it on, bracing his left forearm with his right forearm and blocking the chains with his sword. The dark clad man was pushed back a few steps as he held his sword defensively as he took a shaky step backwards. Monroe's body shivered after the step, and he felt something a tad unusual. He felt anxious to continue.

The bounty hunter spun his weapon around and pointed the green, energy blade of his sword at the priestess. The woman spun around quickly and uncoiled the whip from her hand, allowing the chains to whip quickly at the dark clad man, who quickly stepped back and skidded to a stop, readying himself for a counter attack. Time to take the offensive!

Monroe pushed his foot forwards and dashed quickly, dust kicking up behind him as he charged at the woman. Quickly, the blade flashed multiple times, barely missing the red haired woman as she moved from side to side, narrowly escaping the tip. Aside from the few cuts in the sleeves of her shirt, the woman evaded all of the attacks barely. Finally, the dark clad man spun on his heel and swung his sword quickly, allowing it to move towards the woman. "Block this!"

o=)----------- ----------(=o

Zachary stood behind the thick spikes of ice and smiled. The room had quickly changed from a water density that was thick and moist and spread throughout the whole room into a condensed mist that remained close to the floor. The ice mage looked at the figure he had just struck with a violent force, and noticed the man had survived. "Well, that's annoying," the ice innate stated as he rested his palm on the handle of his sword.

The man stood up and changed his shield into a long sword, it seemed through the silhouette in the mist. Well, I've got a few choices now. Given how thick this mist is, I can strike from it, but he could probably tell where I'm coming from thanks to the mist. Zachary looked at the mist and moved his hand through it, thinking. Actually, here's an idea, the firebrand thought as a smile cracked over his face.

The Ice Elemental unsheathed his sword and grasped it firmly between his hands and began to focus his magical energies into the blade of the sword. The ice innate hefted the blade over his shoulder and quickly swung his sword horizontally. "Frost Wave!" he yelled as the blade sliced through the ice spikes and sent them falling into the slightly frozen water as the blade continued to travel towards the Awaken.

"Show me just how skilled you are at copying stuff!" Zachary yelled through the mist, jumping up onto the flat land that had once been the spikes and ran towards the man. "Gotcha!" Zach yelled as he leapt into the air and swung his blade down.

[nikuvillain]

Kaien calmly stayed still he was getting use to this newfound power that he learned to use. A smile came across his face as his hand floated in front of him. He never said a word, glaring at the blades of ice and hearing the young boy soaring through the air with his blade in hand. His hand moved almost in slow monition as it formed a circle in front of him. The Awaken’s eyes glowed deep blue as the air around him cooled and froze, forming a thick dome around his body.

One by one the wave of ice crashed into the huge dome of ice the Awaken formed. He gripped his blade in his hand knowing the wall of ice wouldn’t last that long. He could ear it cracking while inside its shelter. Long webs formed within the ice and he gripped the blade tighter lowering his body just a bit to have more weight in his next attack.

Zachary arched his back and swung into the weaken ice; smashing it apart and falling through to the man that waited for him. Kaien glanced up as the ice walls shattered down around him. He glared at the man readying the sword to attack. The Ice Elemental arched his sword back swing it towards the Awaken with all his might.

Kaien released all his energy at once; let the blade soar through the air, his body followed in a perfect motion upwards. The ice blade and the Awaken’s blade collided with each other; the impact blow away the fall ice that would have stuck them. Zachary landed and Kaien body took the impact of the blow. He stared down the icy blue eyes of his foe and breathed a moist cloud of air out of mouth.

He hadn’t noticed when it got cold, but seeing his breathing showed him it was. Kaien moved his sword downwards and reached for the odd man that seemed more interesting to him. He wondered what kind of story he had to tell as his eyes fixed into the past. Zachary jumped back stopping Kaien from being able to view the past. “Ooooh. Boy, what kind of story could you tell me?” he asked moving his hand back onto his sword.

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Jezebel’s eyes opened wide as she watched the blade move towards her waist. Two small thin chains shot out of her side and fly towards the man. One of the chains slammed into the tip of the sword with great force while the other swung around the man’s arm, coving it in it chain. The movement of the blade stopped, the chain tighten around his arm.

“Nice try little man,” she said glaring in to his eyes as she walked closer to him. “But it would seem that you’ve got caught in my chains.” A strange smile came over her face standing face to face with him. “Now than give up or die a slow painful death a lone.”

“Like I would give up on catching The Avenger,” he replied back with no sign of fear of her threat. His other hand slowly reached up, reaching for the one of his hidden weapons in his vest. “But you seem to fell into my trip,” he said, piercing the photon dagger into her gut.

The heat of the blade burned her inside and she jumped back from the weapon. She held the wound that sealed its self with melted skin. The young chain user glared at him angry that she could be so careless. “Why you!?” She yelled whipping her hot chain out cutting down a tree near her as she sent it flying at him.

[Zorolo]

Zachary smiled as he crossed his arms and stabbed his sword into the ground. "A story, you say?" he asked the intruder as he looked at the ground. "A story greater than one any epic hero has ever been heard of. A story of betrayal, love, suffering, madness, hatred, and countless other things. A story that, when I have long been dead, no one will speak of, for I will have been forgotten." The ice innate sighed as he walked over to the water with thick mist over it. A single finger touched the top of the lake and the entire area top of the lake froze over.

"It is hard to explain, but I guess I'll start from most recent things. Not long ago, I found a woman, but lost her to an insane megalomaniac stronger than even the mightiest man I know. After that, the strongest people I've ever met trained me and helped me to overcome a demon that existed trying to control me. After he was destroyed, I gained these new powers. I am now, as I am. Such is the only bit of the story I feel a need to tell, you see. Disinterested in the rest as I'm sure you are, let us continue," the innate stated as he pulled his sword from the ground.

The mist began to vanish, settling atop the now frozen lake. The water beneath the upper layer of ice remained stagnant in its movement. "I'm losing my sense of reason to stand around, and my reason to fight is leaving as well. If you leave now, I won't try to finish you, I promise," Zachary stated as he grasped his sword firmly, ready to make his next move.

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Monroe spun the glowing dagger through his fingers and turned the blade off, sliding it back into its holder on his jacket. "Well, that proved effective," he stated, spinning the handle of his photon sword around his finger. The bounty hunter ceased moving the handle and turned the blade back on, pointing it at his foe. "You know, if you leave, this fight won't need to continue. I've got no interest in wasting any of my really strong stuff on you. Just stop fighting and go home and tell your people that their target is taken care of. Right now, you're just making things harder than they need to be," the mercenary stated as he started at the red haired woman and held his blade ready to continue.

A tree began to fall towards the dark clad man. He must have not been paying very good attention during his monologue to not notice the tree falling. "Oh, this is so gonna suck... not!" he stated as he rolled out of the way, only wind find a chain impale itself through his upper right side, between his collarbone and shoulder, where only muscle and flesh is. The spike of the chain caught itself into a nearby tree and straightened out.

"Well... that twinges quite a bit," the fighter noted as he grabbed the chain and began pulling. "The problem with this weapon is you're attached to it," Monroe stated firmly as he gave a strong yank, pulling Jezebel towards him. "Time to end this," he stated, readying his sword to impale her when she reached him.

[nikuvillain]

OoC: It it going to take a few posts to get back what you took away.

BiC: Jezebel’s body rushed through the air towards the man she’d be fighting her could see her death. The end of her life, ended without anything to call her own. The tip of the blade rushing closer to her body while he held her only means of fighting back. This is the thoughts she would have felt if she wasn’t that weak to die from since a useless attack. The blade pierced her body, stabbing right for her heart. Drips of blood followed down the blade as the strange warrior tried to dug deeper into her body. “What?” he asked founding his sword stopped from piercing farther into her body.

“Stupid,” she said glaring into his eyes with her cold lonely eyes. “After if a useless attack would kill me.” She gripped the blade and pulled herself off the sword showing hundreds of chains swarming around her body.

Monroe didn’t take long before swing his sword around already to attack the chain user again. He dashed towards the young lady and she dropped low releasing her upon the young man in furry from his poor plan.

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“It just too bad that I found something I must answer first,” Kaien replied after a long cold wait for his responses. He had no plans of letting him go after attacking him for no reason and even more so now. He found something that he had know and though the man story was cute it didn’t answer his question.

“So,” he said swirling his sword around. “You have two chooses let me find the answer to my burning mind or fight. But I’m not leaving here with out an answer that I seek.

[Zorolo]

Monroe looked around and jumped back as the chains continued to rain down on and around him like a volley of arrows. It's a surreal feeling when you realize that you've been trapped in a burning buildings and are likely going to die. It's a similar feeling when a murderer begins indiscriminately killing people. Well, something about this moment in time, where chains snaked towards him, seeking to turn his outsides into the appearance of his insides, and there was almost no defense that could be mustered.

The bounty hunter, rather than simply giving up and dying, looked at the chains and leapt back as the next wave of attacks crashed into the ground, tearing it asunder. Have I come... this far simply... to die? he asked himself as he watched the spiked ends of the chains move towards him with all speed. Well, if fate does exist... the mercenary told himself as he lowered his head, the chains coming from above him on all sides, Than I'll strike against it!

Monroe swung his sword to the side, knocking away some of the chains as he began to bob and weave around the spikes as they tore into the ground, leaving thick holes in it. The bounty hunter used everything he knew, sliding, jumping, slashing and rolling to evade every chain that made its way towards him. However, no matter how much evasion he did, eventually, the dark clad man had run out of moving room.

Chains snaked quickly as he evaded two, but suddenly stopped, falling on his side due to a chain that cut his right leg that he had slid upon, causing him to fall over. The bount