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Oni crossed his arms in an X formation, as if to defend. At the last minute before the first kick landed, his body vanished in a puff of black smoke, reappearing in the air, above Hariko. "You missed!" Oni shouted for fun, aiming both palms downward as Hariko continued to spin. "DARKNESS DRAGON!!!" Oni shouted, and he quickly charged and fired his attack. From his palm shot black energy, shaped into a serphant-like dragon, which roared as it raced for it's target: Hariko. (3)

"Heh, fool," Oni said, his eyes flashing to pure white as his pupils were erased, a now visible increasement of his power. The beam pulsed, and nearly doubled in size. But size rarely mattered, but each portion of his attack nearly doubled in power, meaning he just multiplied his attacks force by 4. The two attacks landed head on, it forced Hariko to the ground, but he still managed to stay standing, and actually seemed to be fighting the attack. In a sudden movement, Oni whipped his arms to the side, dispersing the attack, but continued shooting one attack to his left, the other to his right. Once he stopped his attack, Oni front flipped, aiming his heel for Hakiro's head. Oni had to trust his energy to protect him from the flames... (4)

Oni smiled. It couldn't have been more perfect. He bent his leg to the bottom of Oni's foot hit Hikaro's head instead of his heel. Then, pushing hard, Oni leaped from Hikaros head like a springboard, flying and spiraling gracefully into the air, as the force shoved Hikaro torward the ground. And the fact that he was covered in a massive amount of solid rock only helped him plummit faster. Then, the two dragon attacks Oni shot off earlier curved back in, ready to meet Hikaru upon the instant he hits the ground. And by this time, Oni was already preparing another attack... (5)

Then perhaps we should just finish this up another day. I don't really have time to wait and do nothing, so I'll be heading out as well. Nice fight, it was really getting interesting. 3nodding

"Quantity never wins, especially with the lack of quality," Oni said, as a large, transparent black barrier appeared around him, deflecting the attacks away. Hikaro sent so many, he couldn't have possibly focused a good deal of energy into each attack, whereas Oni only had to focus on one defensive barrier. Oni's barrier flashed away, and he gripped his Shadow Blade once again, falling torward Hikaro, ready to strike. (6)

"A distraction?!" Oni said in shock, not expecting the move. With a sudden repel of his power, Oni stopped dead in the air, giving him seconds to act. "You want a fancy move? Then pay attention, because you'll love this!" Oni said. He didn't have enough time to resheath his sword, so he merely dropped it, and focused his energy into his hands. They glowed red, and he clapped them together right in front of the walls of fire. This released fire from his own hands, creating an outward explosion. Oni was literally fighting fire with fire. The conflict of the two matching elements caused Hakiro's attack to slow, but everything seemed slow compaired to Oni's quick movements. Motion, sound, and even time itself was slowing for Oni, not due to any power, but due to the speed of hsi actions. Oni's attack had blown out a small hole in the walls, but as expected, this lack of pressure created a vacuum, sucking spare fire from the surrounding walls into the hole to fill it out. Exactly what Oni was going for.

Focusing agian, quicker this time, as he had it planned out and the energy at hand, Oni's hands began to glow a green, as he swung his hand over and over again, in a circle before him. The energy left a trail, until it created a glowing green circle as well, and he stopped. With one last clap, Oni let himself fall to the mercy of the flames. As he planned, the wind-energy spun suddenly into a cyclone ring, and combined with the sudden rush of fire, enhanced it's vacuum so that it absorbed all of the fire, shooting like a sling shot (Or similar to a worm hole type of effect), from the side of the arena out the top, and harmlessly into the sky. Each and every wall of fire was was sucked into the cyclone like matter into a black hole.

Oni landed on a knee, stood up, and ripped his sword from where it stuck in the ground. He gripped it tightly, and a whip of energy went by as his wings emerged, already black. This energy continued until it covered his body, turning his skin black, and his sword's blade the same color, though it was transparent. "Let's go, the real fight's about to begin," Oni said, his hair waving partially due to the wind, and partially due to the heat that bent his image to the eyes of his enemy. And it was in this mirage, that Oni's body seemed to vanish completely... (7)

Azmaru sat near the edge of the ring. Biting into a piece of chocolate. In his left hand he held a bottle of apple juice.
"Oni...you 'round here?"