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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 13:17:14 GMT -5
Shive (in his full plate once more), Aphostos, and Solranous landed in the crater, which was much bigger than expected. It spanned a good 2500 feet across, and was about 500 feet deep at the center. Shive pulled out Ragnarok, or whatever it's real name was, and asked,
"So... now what?"
Well, as soon as your friend pulls his sword out, we'll spar.
"S-spar? You mean like-"
I don't believe I stuttered. No, I'm pretty sure I didn't. The blade replied, the voice becoming more defined.
Shive could've sworn-
"Are... are you a female Zanpoktou?" Shive asked meekly.
YES, I am female. Why, do you have a PROBLEM with it?!
Shive held his hands out before him and replied,
"N-no! I was just trying to clarify!"
Whatever. Let's just get this thing on the road, shall we?
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 17:18:25 GMT -5
Solranous had heard a similar phrase of words from his own blade, though he didn't have the embarrassment of discovering his sword's spirit's gender was female. Solranous didn't question the Zanpoktou's words and drew his blade, leaping into the air and landing across from Shive in a battle stance.
"So, we spar to learn the names of our Zanpoktou's, I can't help but wonder if this is against the normal protocal."
'Eh, it is. We're just making an exception for this particular case.'
"Playing favorites?"
'EH!? Vhat makes you think dat?'
"Oh, nothing, nothing at all."
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 17:35:44 GMT -5
Heh. It'll be more than just a sparring match...
What's that supposed to mean? Shive asked.
What? Oh, nothing. Just go at him. The Zanpoktou replied.
Shive shrugged and drew his blade, then gasped. The blade's metal had been tinted red!
Whoa! D'you do that?! Shive asked.
He could sense the Zanpoktou nodding. He nodded, and he boomed to Solranous,
"You ready?! I have the feeling they have more than just a sparring match planned for us!"
((They'll be messing with us, I'll tell ya that))
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 17:49:41 GMT -5
"Always ready, Shive" Solranous returned, taking the inititive in the match. The dragon's legs tensed and Solranous lunged at Shive with his sword held horizontally. (OOC: Think kind of like how a tiger would lunge at its prey.) The dragonkin, though caught somewhat off guard, was able to block the charge with his own sword. His balance was messed up from taking Solranous' weight like that, forcing him to take a step back to restabilize.
In the moment of opening, Solranous landed on his feet again before sweeping low, taking Shive's legs out from under him with the dull edge of his sword. The emerald dragon came up again, aiming another side-to-side swipe at Shive's chest.
'Hmm... Interesting tactic... And not in any of the styles I'm familiar with...' the Zanpoktou mused to himself
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 18:06:18 GMT -5
Shive stood up just fast enough to block another sweep at him, then shoved backwards and slammed the blade downwards fst enough to make the blade whistle. Shive slapped himself in the head, muttering,
"Sparring session. DON'T kill."
He brought the sword back up and flat-bladed Solranous in the side of the head, making him stumble backwards.
"Urgh! I still need to tone it down. Or Sol needs to step it up a notch!" He yelled, grinning.
He spun around and brought the blade down hard on Solranous's weapon, making the dragon seep into the ground a bit upon impact. Shive jumped up and slammed the blade down again, then swept it to the side and made a feint kick at Solranous.
Interesting... he's all brute force. No tactics. The Zanpoktou thought.
Let's step it up a bit, shall we? She asked Solranous's Zanpoktou.
The blade vibrated a bit, and Shive glanced back up to see Solranous had been replaced by...
"Daedalus." Shive growled.
"damn straight, little bro. Your superior-in-every-way big brother." Daedalus stated, grinning.
Shive let out a low growl as his pupils dialated, and he rushed forward and swept the blade up in the hopes of severing Daedalus's head from his shoulders.
Solranous however, didn't see Daedalus anywhere, but Shive was coming at him pretty damn fast...
((Bwahaha! Now you know how they intend to screw with us!))
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 18:24:33 GMT -5
'The Zanpoktous must be making an illusion!' Solranous thought, making sure sure to keep said thought from his Zanpoktou.
'Oh well, I'll just have to go full force.' he continued, parrying Shive's blow with little wasted energy. Solranous' own blade vibrated just low enough to be undetected, it was time for the emerald dragon's illusion. Solranous' eyes widen as he saw Shive's form flicker into that of...
Ruin Mode Solranous.
"Hehehe, Long time no see, my light half."
'Not long enough' Solranous thought in response, momentarily forgetting that the Zanpoktou's were merely creating illusions. Solranous bellowed as he surged even more power with his telekinesis, blowing his dark half back with the force. The dragon snarled, charging again. He began to spin his sword, until it was fast enough to be mistaken for the blade of a saw instead of an actual sword. RM Solranous parried the attack with a Dusk Blade, strangely not severing through Solranous' sword. The attack, however, wasn't meant to damage. With RM Solranous moving to parry the attack, Solranous slipped behind him and drove his heel straight into the demon dragon's spine.
RM Solranous hissed with pain as he fell flat on his face, turning just in time to see Solranous already in mid air, attempting to drive his sword through his dark half's chest (OOC: If you played Super Smash Bros Melee, think of my last move as what Link does in a mid air down A attack)
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 18:30:18 GMT -5
Shive snarled as Daedalus was about to shove the blade through his chest, and Shive reacted by shoving his feet into the air and kicking Daedalus square in the gut with both feet. Shive then reeled his fist back and decked Daedalus square in the face, and as the daemon reeled backwards, brought the blade crashing down.
Daedalus swerved to the side, making the blade impact into the ground. Shive responded by firing mutliple shots of acid at his elder-brother, one of them catching him in the shoulder and another on his left foot. As the dragonkin reeled in pain, Shive brought both fists up and smashed them into Daedalus's chin, sending him into the air.
"I hope you die the long and painful death you deserve, b******." Shive hissed through gritted teeth.
((Oooh, gettin' serious! XP))
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 18:46:44 GMT -5
Solranous backflipped in mid air, landing on his good foot. It was strange to see Ruin Mode spewing acid, since he never had that before. He missed what Ruin Mode had said, so he didn't reply. Instead, he took a few seconds out to heal his wounds enough to stop bleeding and remove the acid. The emerald dragon snarled, flexing his claws as he began to tunnel underground. Ruin Mode seemed surprised and glanced around in many directions attempting to predict where his light half will come up again. The ground behind Ruin Mode erupted as Solranous went from under to above ground. Hearing the ground break open behind him, RM Solranous turned around to fire another burst of acid, only to find nothing.
Glancing up, Ruin Mode's pupils, if he had any, would have widen as Solranous drop kicked him on the snout. The demon dragon backed away a step, spewing some obscurities. And Solranous took the time to barbacue his face with three Magma Rockets. With the smoke from the explosions giving him cover, Solranous ducked in, giving his dark half a solid uppercut to the chin that sent him air borne.
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 19:01:18 GMT -5
Shive stumbled backwards as Daedalus punched him, and Shive snarled. He grabbed the wrist as Daedalus pulled it back. He then brought up his leg and kicked him dead in the side of the head, sending him reeling across the crater. Shive was about to fire when he saw Daedalus holding a hostage.
Myrr.
Shive roared in fury as he pleaded angrily,
"LET HER GO, YA bastard!"
Daedalus smirked as he brought up his blade, and Myrr gave him a pleading look just before the blade slit across her throat, then dropped her to the side carelessly. Shive nearly dropped the blade, then gripped it so tightly the Zanpoktou began to protest, but he paid her no heed. He rushed forward as the air around him began to flare with an orchid glow, the sword changing a bit. Not only was the blade tinted red, it was now slightly serrated on both edges. Shive swept the blade upwards, carving a solid gash in Daedalus's front, sending blood spraying out onto his front.
damn. they're almost there, and this quickly... I guess they just needed a little push, is all. The Zanpoktou thought smugly.
Shive brought the blade back down sideways, hoping to sever Daedalus's arm off.
((Solranous is at the same level as Shive, so you get to glow now too! yay!))
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 19:32:06 GMT -5
Memories seemed to flash into Solranous' mind as time stopped for him. All of them pertained to his ruin mode, and a surprising discovery.
The first was him, in his normal state, casually strolling through the wilderness, his eyes were closed, as if in thought, before thundering foot steps were heard behind him. The memory him gripped the handle of his blade, ripping it out of the sheath and turning to find a forty foot tall demon with horns twenty feet long from horn tip to horn tip. A massive flare was building in the demon's maw and with a bellow he did not understand, the flare filled his entire vision, then black.
The next had the same demon, Armageddon, and him, in Ruin Mode. Armageddon spoke of an amassing army, and sent Solranous RM, who he called 'Darkdrium,' with a single worded command: Annihilate. As the demon dragon approach the army, they fired upon him. He never felt the attacks, he was above death because of Armageddon. In a matter of twenty minutes, a ten-thousand soldier strong army, with all of their war weapons, was reduced to a fearful few hundred soldiers, deprived of all offensive weaponry. Ruin Mode had even tore off a still alive man's head with his jaws, and swallowed it.
Most of the other scenes were similar in brutality and bloodshed. And Ruin Mode was always victorious. Those that weren't were of unsuspecting, helpless cities. In a day each, he had wiped them off the map in all of their entirety.
Time resumed again as a massive fire burned in Solranous' eyes. The demon in front of him was a murderer, a cold-blooded killer. And he intended to make him the next casualty. Solranous bellowed, catching the blade with his hand, ignoring the blood that fell because of it. A neon blue aura, his reiatsu, emerged in a vortex-like fashion. The vortex itself was truely immense, to attempt to contain it by other means then through the emerald dragon would be absolutely futile. Solranous' blade seemed to fall into a fire-like state, in that it won't spread-like a normal fire, but it wasn't energy-like as with light sabers.
His reiatsu flared as he mounted his counter-attack. The emerald dragon carved his blade into RM Solranous' chest. it wasn't deep enough to kill, and he wouldn't bleed to death because each swipe was now cauterizing its wound. Thrice more he attacked, even scarring the demon dragon's right eye. He drew his free hand back and cleched it into a fist, now that he didn't have to hold back the Dusk Blade, and landed a full force punch on the demon dragon's snout, the blow sent Solranous RM back at least six-hundred feet. Solranous panted as his reiatsu aura receeded, its power mostly spent.
(OOC: YIPE! That is gonna hurt in the morning!)
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 20:06:44 GMT -5
((And... the sparring be done. Yay!))
Shive screamed in anger as his nose dribbled blood. He grabbed Daedalus by the throat, and, with his claws lateched into his brother's esophagus, slammed his other fist into the dragonkin's stomach, then in the face, then as he dropped him, Shive brought up his knee, and struck him square in-between the legs.
Shive screamed again as he bought the blade down, taking joy in the 'thunk' noise it made as it was lodged in...
Solranous's shoulder?!
"WHOAH! What the hell?! I'm sorry!" he shouted in dismay as he removed the blade from the dragon's shoulder.
He glanced at the blade, and the orchid aura around it.
"I guess... we're done, then?" He asked.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 20:17:11 GMT -5
"Ow..." Solranous groaned. Just because he was a dragon didn't exactly make him exempt from the pain of being struck where sun doesn't shine. He collasped to the side, not taking note that his own blade was glowing with, err, formed from his neon blue reiatsu. In his currently exhausted state, the blade was no more then a dagger's length. When he looked up, it was not Ruin Mode he saw standing there...
It was Shive.
"S***! I got fooled by some damn illusion even though I already guessed it! I must have let my anger cloud my judgement... to a degree..." Solranous growled, standing on wobbling legs. They were numb from what he assumed was Shive's last attack, so he would have a hard time standing up. And then there was the matter of his shoulders...
"Heh, its alright Shive, I fell for the same thing. It does appear that we are finished though." The dragon replied, groaning still.
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 20:33:43 GMT -5
Shive clutched at his eye. He just now remembered that it HURT LIKE HELL. He growled through clenched teeth, still clutching at his eye,
"Yeah. I hope they'll coopoerate now."
Shive looked at the sword with his one good eye, when he saw a shape appear before him. Actually, it was more like, around him. Shive kinda freaked out at first, when the Zanpoktou stated,
So... it seems you can fully hear me now. Can you tell me my name?
The shape was fully defined now. It was a 20-foot long, red-eyed serpentine dragon with chrome-colored scales, and a row of dark-gray, bony ridges running down her back. From each individual ridge was a 3-foot long, katana-like blade, and she had a long, blade-like (like Shive’s, but much longer) mane of silver hair about 8 feet long. The serpent smiled, rather charmingly, actually.
Shive smirked, then glanced at Ragnarok. Ragnarok? No...
"Hidoi-Hakaisha." Shive stated.
A flare of orchid reiatsu burst forth from Shive's body as his eyes glowed with it, the sword outlined in it as well. The glow dissapated, and Shive looked at himself. he was fully healed!
"How'd you-"
Simple. When you gather THAT much reiatsu, the individual spirit particles fill in any unwanted gaps in your body.
Shive's head hurt.
It seems you'll just have to learn these things as you go. Hakaisha sighed.
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Post by Azure_Ghidorah on Dec 23, 2007 21:07:16 GMT -5
'Wow, that was one brutal fight.' Solranous' Zanpoktou commented, as a lithe black dragon form faded into 'existance' next to him. Solranous glanced to the side to spot the dragon.
"You're..."
'The avatar of your sword. Now that you can hear me to the fullest extent, can you reveal my name?'
Solranous smirked, the name was easy to understand.
"Kyouran Kizoku Shounetsujigoku" he replied, his emerald eyes sparkling with his neon blue reiatsu as he spoke. The wind seemed to start picking up as waves of reiatsu appeared, before reforming the slow, but enormous, vortex from before. He felt his body be restored as the vortex slowly receded back within his body.
"Well, that was uplifting." Was Solranous' only response afterwards.
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Post by Talon on Dec 23, 2007 21:20:47 GMT -5
I believe you have someone to go find. Hakaisha stated.
Shive's chest hurt suddenly. The image of Myrr dying, then becoming that.. thing, could've driven him to madness. This time, however, it was replaced with bloodlust. He let out a thunderous roar as he hefted Hakaisha into the air, his eyes glowing orchid again.
He turned to Solranous, his reiatsu gathering about him like flames now. He raised his fist and clenched, stating,
"I believe we have a certain someone to kill, and another to save."
His pupils had dialated so much, they were like snake eyes. He was literally shaking with rage.
Oooh... this hould be fun. Hakaisha thought, smirking.
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