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 Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 3:11 pm
*with all his might, he managed to strike ... her shields. pain coursing through his hand, enough to distract him from her next move. a blindsided attack from behind. he feels the staff hit him square in the back, flinging him to the floor violently. laying there, on the floor, he begins to laugh*
Hahaha. Good good. That is the way to do it. *standing up facing away from her, dusting off his clothes, he clutches his left hand, trying to relieve the numbness* That's what I want to see. You defended and attacked all in one motion. *cracking his hand* Now, keep it up ...
*moving quickly toward her, the ground tearing up over where he has passed, he motions to back kick knowing full well her shield is still up ... and with his cape hiding his arms, he has managed to pull out his twin katanas from his dimensional void*
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 12:03 am
He giggled softly to himself as the rune brands on his neck began to pulsate and it almost appeared as if it was beginning to move, as a snake would in the trees.
"Hmmm I haven't been here in what seems like ages... yet it feels like just yesterday I was in here practicing my shield magic..." He whispered to himself as he looked around as his azure blue eyes pulsated with the same strange power that seemed to be coursing through his very body.
He stretched again and cracked several joins as he looked over at the door and awaited either or both of them to enter. "Why am I so eager to go into a spar?" His mind whispered inside of his own mind. "I haven't felt this alive in years... before I went... there." He whispered as his eyes widened as a surge of energy bolted through his body and a dark smile flashed across his face.
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 11:22 pm
*appearing out of seemingly nowhere behind Unstable Dark, he stands there for a while, studying his old friend's movements, looking for any sign of how eager or not so eager he may be. after he watched his stretch for a bit, he moves closer to him. placing his hand on Unstable's shoulder, he quietly exclaims*
Took you long enough to get here ...
*his pendant upon his chest glaring a brilliant red glow around him, casting his facial profile in a deep red glow. a small smile can be seen on his face as he moves back a little*
So what do you say? Do you think our new friend will join us here and test his mettle against us?
*looking toward the door, slowly walking toward it*
Or do you think he will sit this one out. Persoanlly, I hope he joins us. He looks like he is made of sterner stuff than some of the others here, and I do believe that a three on three challenge would be a perfect way to ... how shall we say it ... um, relax.
*walking over to a dark corner in the room where only the light of his pendant gave him away as being there, he looks over to his friend once again*
Should we wait for him ... or do you wish to begin now?
*another devilish smile creeps across his face, hidden by the darkness*
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 12:58 am
He chuckled softly to himself as he slowly turned to face him, "You haven't changed at all..." He said with a wide brilliant smile on his face. "You never did like to walk somewhere... always trying to snick up and and scare someone."
He looked over at the door as he clapped his hands together and his body began to glow with a faint blue aura, but not as it did once, it had a black hugh to it. "It is because his eyes are harsh... they show power... anger... you can sense it in him can't you?" He smirked as his eyes closed and he concentrated.
"If he comes he can join in, but we can no longer wait..." His tongue flashed out and licked his lips. His eyes reopened, this time with a different look, as if he had changed completely.
"Let's begin shall we?" He whispered and perked a brow as he slammed his hands together, producing a loud slap. His aura became concentrated around his hands as he took in a deep breath. The runes seemed to be dancing upon the flesh of his hands as they steamed with dark power.
"You know this ability... but I found it too weak, so I had to make it a bit more... dangerous." His eyes gleamed with a demonic power that seemed to flare inside him.
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 4:17 am
*Walks in slowly form the shadows of the room. slowly he starts to look around the room in search of someone that he has long awaited to meet again.*
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 2:25 pm
Peach gritted her teeth as Strange's back-kick collided with the barrier, and proceeded to shatter it; her body blown back by the force of the barrier's demolish, her hands shielding her face and eyes. She caught the presence of fatal weapons being withdrawn from behind the mysterious cape, and she regained her ground quickly, glassy-blue eyes solid as ice.
I don't know why he keeps getting the impression I'm new at this. I've been battling orcs, bandits, and rogue dragons for nearly my whole life. It's true he is powerful, but it's not like either of us is loosing the battle, nor am I using my full potencial. What a cocky b*****d.
Abruptly, just as she had been prepared to preform her next attack, Strange disappeared. She narrowed her eyes suspiciously, positive that this was an invisibility spell and that he would strike any moment ... However, when her sparring partner failed to show any presence, floods of anger rose within her. Dashing from the dojo, she found Strange outside along with someone else unfamiliar to her, and she twitched then set up a terrible protest.
"How dare you! Abandoning the fight in the middle... It was just getting challenging! Just what do you think you're doing?! Come back and finish this like the man you're supposed to be! And don't consider it a waste of your time. You're powerful, but not so powerful that you can just brush me off like that. I haven't even begun to show you my power."
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 5:50 pm
Let's, my old friend.
*as he stands there watching Unstable using he newly amplified power, he wonders just how much his friend had learned since last they met*
Seems like you have been doing some serious training there, friend. Now lets see if you can ...
*his thoughts interupted as the young woman, Peach, with whom he had been sparring with just before entered the room. upset and rightfully so. he stands there motionless and listens to her as she screams and scolds him for leaving their battle early. when she is done, he looks upon her as he makes his way out of the shadows and addresses her*
Seems this has really riled you up, hasn't it? Haha. Do not worry though, I was not abandoning our little party. I haven't had enough fun with you yet. I was just merely welcoming an old friend into what will soon be our battle. I have no intention of letting you off that easy as I would just simply stroll away. No, that is not my way.
*looking back over at his friend, his eyes glowing a deep purple once again, he gestures a bow*
We will have our time soon enough. For now, I must tend to current matter at hand. *looking over at Peach again* So, my dear, let us continue. And do forgive my transgression against you. It was honestly not my intention to spite you.
*walking calmly back into the arena as if nothing had happened, he turns and faces her as he awaits for her to re-enter. readying himself once more for her response to this*
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 10:13 pm
He blinked a few times as he caught himself before he started his movements, and let out a soft growl of annoyance. "I see you've enraged someone..." He smiled wickedly as his hands began to shake softly as he closed his eyes and began to breathe deeply, the runes began to subside as they no longer burned with black smoke and the soft glow faded slowly.
As he exhaled his last breath, a billows of black smoke poored from his mouth and nostrils as he stretched his neck and back and opened his eyes to his normal azure blue color and a more gentle smile came to his face, "You're lucky you caught me in time to stop... if you would have gotten an attack off there would have been no stopping this..." His tongue snaked out once more and wetted his lips as he walked over against a pillar and sat down against it.
His body trembled slightly as he gritted his teeth, trying to hide the pain that from the energy he conjured was jolting through him. His body was throbbing with pain from head to toe as he whispered softly to himself words of power to slowly release the energy, which showed as the burned runes on his neck smoked faintly with pitch black mist.
"God I hate the recourse of cancelling out the void magic..." He thought to himself as he strained a smile on his face and watched as Strange and Peach resumed their fight. "Well this will be a learning experience... he must have gone up in power... he too can summon an aura." He chuckled softly to himself as he let out a sigh of relief and stretched his body, feeling powerful once more. "He has, I can tell by the look in his eye... he harbors power from her... and it is a lot that he is holding back..."
"I wonder if he's realized this isn't the same body I used back then... He must have realized that this was the gift from that place..." He reached up and touched the indentations of the burned runes and marks on his neck which slowly stopped smokiing and smirked, "I'm just glad the ritual was a success..." He snapped out of his mindless ranting to himself and watched the two closely now only taking a few seconds to glance over at the new person who has entered via the shadows "It seems I'm the only one not using the shadows as a form of transportation these days..." A disturbing smirk followed by an even more disturbing and cold laugh that echoed in the room as his eyes looked back towards Peach and Stranger.
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 8:54 am
"Now this is better. I wouldn't of let you abandon our fight whether or not you had agreed to continue it, but this is a much better way for both of us, hn?"
Peach began to return to the inner walls of the dojo, when without warning, a strong presence of dark power shot through her concious. Trembling lightly, she collapsed upon her knees, holding her head and breathing loudly. She turned her head slowly, and locked eyes with the mysterious man who'd been talking with Strange -- her own glassy-blue eyes wide and suddenly swirrling with a curious mixture of scarlet and gold.
I shouldn't be able to sense spirits and inner powers without my phoenix transformation... However, I am able to feel the darkness spilling off this creature's form with a hated and positive malevolent intention. My phoenix counterpart is reacting to it strongly, as though ... He couldn't possibly be the reincarnation of...?
Then she spoke to him with a tone that despite fearing the worst, managed to stay collected; the burning emotion of no existant name remaining within her eyes.
"Who in the Goddesses' names are you? You are not truly a human. Speak your true form, and if it's what I suspect, I may not be able to let you go."
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 11:35 am
He stood up and tilted his head to the side as a slight smirk crossed his face, "I am human... this is my true form..." His lips twisted into a more sinister smile.
He looked closely at this woman as she lay sprawled on her knees on the floor, "I'm nothing more then a human who has seen the void and come back with a little still lingering with me." He gestured to the dark burned runes and strange tribal designs upon his neck that disappear beneath his shirt.
He then looked up to Strange, "I think you might have been a bit too rough my friend, it seems she's lost her senses." He laughed softly and with a demonic tone.
He then gazed back down at her and locked eyes with her. She could see something within them swirling, a darkness that hid within them, just waiting to be set free again. And a single whisper was heard in Peach's mind, "You see nothing... We are the darkness... We are the shadows... We are... the void." The runes were slowly snaking on his body but nothing more then that at this point in time.
"Perhaps I should take a look at her, I am a guild healer... and one of the first." He had to boast about it. Everyone needs an ego boost every now and then.
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:31 pm
So then he is not one of them... One of the Shadows. He is merely a copy... One who has tampered with the creatures of the Shadows. However, how accurate of a copy?
Peach decided copies didn't concern her, and the phoenix blood within her was beginning to settle down, when a malevolent voice which echoed in her mind stirred it again. Automatically, her mind set up a barricade against this voice, preventing it from exploiting anymore of her mind, and a sharp jolt was sent to whomever it was that sent it. It was her sub-concious defense against those who attempted to access her mind.
Pesky annoyance. He is flaunting these powers, that which doesn't belong to him. If he was truly one of them, I'd need to annihilate him, but then if he claims he is not, I wouldn't put it past that he's just a foolish human... One which will eventually be devoured by that he flaunts. The Shadows will seek him out in time. They do not like those who mascarade as themselves, and he does it too well to be ignored.
Peach hastily got to her feet, and brushed off the dirt which had collected on her dress. Clenching her fists, and giving off an angry expression when what she considers to be the 'Shadows-copy' considered there was something wrong with her, she shot him another icy look. The flash of scarlet and gold showed itself again as she sent a telepathic message to the Shadows-copy.
"Do not take the Shadows, nor me lightly. Your foul-earned powers will one day prove to your demise. Also... Ask next time before you try to pry in my mind. Thank you."
She turned away from Shadows-copy, and began to walk through the entrance to the inner walls of the dojo, one message said aloud before she faded away into the shadows which were cast by the ceiling and the arrival of dusk.
"Don't touch me."
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 10:42 pm
A small, lithe figure slipped into the dojo quietly, watching those before her. She smiled at the familiar faces she saw, and those she dodn't know. Her old friends had finally returned. Taking a seat close to the door, she watched intently, adjusting the shades over her eyes. Hopefully she could watch for a while without being discovered. The Lady would be furious that she had been gone so long, ignoring her duties.
"Oh boy, am I in for it."
She smiled and shifted lower in her seat, greatful to be back home once again.
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 11:37 pm
"I have copied no shadow... nor any other form of creature..." He spoke out loud for all to hear. "I have lost something precious to me... and I have gained this..." He whispered softly as he touched his fingertips to his cheek where the point of the tribal burn mark started and trailed down his neck. He then pulled up his sleeve and revealed his lower arm as the tribal marks ran down the top side of his arm and wove into 5 points going down each finger.
"I have gained power from my studies and I have passed beyond human limitations... I am in all forms considered human... though considering power..." He smiled wickedly, "...I am considered something much more dangerous. Call me a copy cat if you wish, but I am far from it. I am an original... I am of the void not the shadow plane. Learn this well..." He smiled wickedly as he slowly rose to his feet and flexed his muscles.
"Careful with that one, she is quite the hot blooded one!" He joked with Strange once more. He summoned an orb of black energy, glowing with blue light as he tossed it back and forth and shaped it into various sizes and shapes, it was something that he did to learn control. It was easy to him now, his figures were so acurate, so... life like.
"So are you going to continue your fight... or do I get the pleasure of beginning the match with him... I don't want to get him when he's tired... that just wouldn't be far... or fun." He said with a devious smirk as he looked over at strange, "Would it my friend?" He tilted his head to the side and smiled again.
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 6:55 pm
Hahahaha!!! *laughing maniacally as his aura increases in size. his body enveloped now in a casing of hardened scales increasing his size as well* Ugh! *two huge, black and torn wings errupt from out of his back ...* Ahh! *blood spilling off of them onto the ground and splattering the farthest walls* Aaaargh!!! *falling to his knees, he screams out in pain as his very existance and soul have been twisted about to allow his new self ... his true self ... to be exposed. only the frightening red glow remained the same as bolts of dark and negative energy stem and race up and down his body as he begins to rise*
*his breathing heavy and fast, cracking his bones* That is right my friend ... *he said in a now deep and growled voice* ... that would not be very proper at all ... ... *focusing his eyes and turning his complete attention to the young woman Peach once more* ... And you, my dear, would do well not to turn your back on me!!!
*rushing at her headlong, his footsteps cracking and breaking the ground with every monsterous thud. rearing his hands back, they fill with the same energy flowing through the outside casing of his body as all of a sudden, his twin katanas, now barbed and twisted by the same powers that transformed him, appear into his waiting hands. Let's see how you do with this. And pay attention, my old friend. This is what awaits you next. Rwarrr!!! *roaring loudly, shaking the walls of the arena as he begins swinging one of the blades wildly forward in her direction*
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Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:25 pm
The small figure by the door giggled and clapped gleefully as she watched her old friend transform. She smiled and leaned forward, resting her head in her hands, actually wanting to be noticed now. Too bad they were busy...
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