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 Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:03 am
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:22 am
Elyse laid on her back in the simple Dojo setting, making shapes with her hands as they hung before her face. She couldn't help but feel that she'd could a bit more training away from the Engaged Revlis.
Elyse just sighed to her self as she waited for someone to come in and take her up on some good old fashioned sparing. hopefully not Mikhail, last time really wasn't the nicest experience. she'd never really thought or new about how her own melted flesh tasted like until then.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:47 pm
Ryou entered quietly wondering if there was even anyone here. Spying one other person in the room he decided that he should get to know others now while he had the opportunity as a new member, while gaining some form of experience at least. "Hi, I'm Ryou. I just joined, but I was wondering if I could train with you today." Ryou said with a smile and masking any nervous feelings he had about being a new squad member.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:06 pm
Elyse wasn't going to run off the new member, since she'd been waiting for a good fight for awhile. She looked at his trough her fingers and sighed heavily again before answering him.
"your new, meaning no shikai, right. You any good with that blade?..." before he could even answer Elyse jumped to her feet and came dangerously close the the new shinigami.
"Hmm, you'll do." With that Elyse pranced back away from him a few feet and drew her long katana. It was a Japanese style (one edge) steel blade with a wave patter, the hilt was silver with a emerald and sapphire wave patterns. Her stance was low and center like a traditional samurai, but only one of her hands held her obviously heavy long blade.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:17 pm
"I'm not horrible with one if that's what your asking." Ryou said quickly pulling the majority of his hair into a tie of white cloth to just keep it back and out of his face in the lose ponytail. Then he drew the two wakizashis from their bone casing at his waist and took his natural stance for combat. Placing his left foot out and right one back, and with more weight on it, with both blades at the ready in front of him.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:26 pm
Elyse was happy to see he had confidence, which ment he'd try even if he was put in a bad spot.
"Well then lets begin." In the instance that Elyse said those words, her body flew forward with her blade coming down on Ryou's left shoulder. yet the attack was a faint, she quickly drew back slightly and redirected her attack for his stomach. The attack was meant to be shallow, due to the fact that she continued to draw back as she followed trough with the attack. Elyse wasn't oe to end attacks on the shallow end so side stepped to the side of Ryou to see if he could defend after attempting to block the first two shallow attacks. this time her attack was meant only to clash with his blades and catch him off guard. then with her free hand she'd simply punch him in the stomach.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:41 pm
Ryou saw the strike to his left shoulder and brought his right arm across himself to meet the blade. However as he got his blade in place to block he watched the katana change directions and swerve to his gut. "A fake out." Was all he could think as he slammed his left hand blade to meet Elyse's. At that moment of a block and knowing he would need a lot of force to not get cut he actually slammed more force into his left arm to push him straight forward while using the katana as a object to press against. This moved him about two steps forward as he blocked. "I need to not look like pathetic so soon." He shouted in his mind as he whipped his right hand, still at his shoulder at the upper arm of Elyse. However the blade in his hand was short so even if it was a direct hit he would have only made a nick at the most from this range.
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 7:53 pm
((Sorry for th late comeback. Took a bit of a break.))
As Ryou's left blade ran along Elyses long katana, Elyse quickly stopped her foot work to replace it with a grounded stance. Elyses unnatural strength was one of her prides, so she pushed Ryous left blade down into the ground, having her body come to a kneeling position in the process. Elyse placed her foot on Ryou's blade and rouse her blade up to meet the right aiming for her shoulder. In the same motion she lunged forward to kick Ryou in the stomach. Then flipping away from him in the same instance.
"You now your good to use the number of blades you have to your advantage like that, but speed and power are in my corner, more than you could guess. you have good eyes so why don't you try finding an opening. if you can't draw one out of me, kay." Elyse was pleased with his reactions but she'd seen more inventive win blade fighters in her time, and he still needed work.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 8:45 am
Ryou was partialy stunned by his left hand losing its grip. Another side of him was laughing and shouting duh at him as he skidded backwards from the force of the kick. Shutting up the voices that were laughing, Ryou did notice one bright side to losing a blade. At least now he could maneuver using his hands better, but now all he had to do was be able to get in close range.
"Yeah, your right. I probably would be beaten by you hundreds of times over." Ryou said while the back of his mind tried to plan out something fast. "Then again I never was one to toss away a good book right when it gets good. Besides, I may learn some way to fight stronger opponents better like this." He said as he finished his basic idea of attack. Flicking his wrist he switched his blade to be pointing backwards as he then ran two steps forward and tried a slide tackle to get Elyse's foot off his other blade and put him in position to get it back. as he slid he held his right hand blade at the ready to catch a, what he felt to be, imminent attack.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:51 pm
"i knew you had spirit, now lets see..." Just when Elyse finished her sentence she noticed that Ryou was already moving a sliding tackle, coming in low must mean he's got his eyes on his weapon. Well we can't have that being to simple now. Elyse thought this as she quickly kicked the hilt of Ryous left blade, dislodging it from the ground and sending it flying in the opposite direction of bits master. As the blade went on to fly over Ryous head and stabbing into the ground. Elyse came at Ryou dragging her blade trough the ground, pieces of the floor started to fly as she rushed in and side stepped Ryou, creating a screen out of the pieces of the floor her blade kicked up. Elyses hair was dancing in the air as she cut rough the screen and tried to loop off Ryous left arm.
"You see the thing about placing your blade in the position you have means you lose out in distance, and are put in a position where you need to be quick and nimble to get a decisive blow. Yet it is good for those who like grappling, defending, closing distance if properly introduced, and placing more power into close strikes or revers strikes. The tackle was a but out of place with it though. Try switching between what you usually do and back to it, that should work far better. Hehe"
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:55 pm
"Finally she closed the distance... I hope this works or I'm going to be touring the medical ward from a patients view on my first day." Ryou thought as he rolled in close to his opponent, entering the cloud of dust and splinters. He felt a tug and release on his hair as the loose tie and a few strands were cut by her blade. Ignoring his long hair now able to fan out as he moved he stabbed his only blade into the ground as his hair was set loose.
Since she would attack again Ryou had to act fast. Gripping the wakizashi with both hands now he swung his entire body and kicked up into a hand stand of sorts right next to her arm. Then shoving his weight down his legs went to slam into her sword arm. In so doing, whether he missed or not he propelled himself down back almost to the ground as he arched his back and pushed up off the ground with one hand, yanking his blade out and landing on his feet. "Close combat it is then." Ryou said knowing that if he tried doing another trick like that he wouldn't get away with it since surprise attacks only work once.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:50 pm
Elyse was surprised by the sudden agile ingenuity of the young shinigami. he'd not only dodged her attack also attacked her arm and landed an attack on her arm. this was surprising to Elyse but her arms were so thick that the blow only budged it slightly. As Ryou was arching his body Elyse choose to use her quirk to an advantage. her knowledge as a medical shinigami gave her the know how how to use her body in strange ways. Her favorite was dislodging her arm from the socket, to gain length and fluidiy. her arm came flying at Ryou's stomach as fast as a snake striking at it's pray. The force would be enough to knock the wind out of him, but like all her hits so far they were meant to be shallow.
Elyse came down to her knee again to flow with his attack to her arm, and jumped into a tackle ha would have her shoulder meet with his face. to follow rough with the movement Elyse would shift around Ryou to grab him from behind. Pressing her blade fat against his stomach. Arching back slamming his head into the floor completing a sueplex.
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:42 am
Ryou lost control of his breathing in the first hit for a moment. A second later when he tasted blood filling his mouth from where he bit his tongue. The taste snapped him out of his partial daze. Next thing he felt was Elyse behind him and a blade on his gut.
Since he still could move his right arm which clutched the small blade he decided that since he didn't want his head in the floor just yet. Bringing his arm quickly behind him and Elyse, he hopefully stabbed his blade into the general area bellow the ribcage and before the spinal cord. "My head hits how she wants it to I'll lose consciousness for a bit. So there is no way in hell I'm going to lose so easily." Was his only thought as his attack was executed.
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 11:30 am
Standing inside the brand spankin new Dojo that acted as the Squad 4 indoor training grounds, he watched as two of his fellow Squad mates duked it out. Mikhail had unexpectantly entered the Dojo and passed unnoticed into a corner where he took a seat and laid his Zanpakuto down next to him. The atmosphere within the large room was tense and it smelled thicky of sweat and salt. Small flower pots littered the outer edges of the Dojo and acted as the only decor besides the murals on the walls.
Mikhail had been fairly surprised to see Ryou and Elyse here. The two were on two different tiers of power yet it seemed Ryou was holding his own against the more experienced Elyse. Hmm, he shows promise. Mikhail enjoyed watching others fight, he loved to analyse battle styles and how people carried themselves in the heat of a match. He was always surprised too, he expected so little from others which was one characteristic he needed to change.
So, as 3rd seat Mikhail sat and watched his two Squad mates battle one another, he felt a fire grow inside him, one that urged him to jump in and lay both on their asses but he felt a need to supress it. This was not his match and he should not interfere unless otherwise asked to. Or, if things should get carried away he might need to put an end to the match but he doubted either would get too misguided during their fight. As much as he wanted to show off his recently mastered Shikai, he needed to wait for his turn.
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 1:22 pm
Slowly walking to the building, the man's crimson colored coat dragged slightly on the ground behind him, as his boots made a soft smacking sound on the concrete he walked on. Nero's yellow eyes looked from the ground, to the Dojo's door, as he came closer. There were three sources inside the Dojo, only one of which was staying the same. The other two were clashing against one another, meaning that the one staying still was the one he was after. Pushing open the door, Nero's eyes swept to where Mikhail was sitting, grinning slightly as he saw the man. He was looking for a fight, and Nero was the one who had accepted it. Coming from inside his coat, his small pet, Kiba the bunny, looked out at the two fighting. It's nose twitching slightly, Nero just chuckled. "No, not now Kiba. Later. You need to watch for now, though. Find somewhere where you won't get hurt, ok?" Looking up to him, Kiba's nose just twitched once, and then the bunny flew from inside his coat, landing on the ground in front of him. Quickly hopping to a safe place inside the Dojo, Nero looked back up, walking towards Mikhail, his hands in his pockets the whole time.
"So, you the one who wanted a challenge?" While it was a question he already knew the answer to, Nero asked the question anyway, just to affirm that this man was the one who he was about to fight. Inside his head, he could already feel his zanpaktou spirit, Hebi, becoming restless. Orra, what's taking so long? You know he's the one, why not just go ahead and get the first strike in? Because, you know that I like to watch first, and then lop their heads off. Well...I can't exactly do that now, but you get the picture. His Spirit was always wanting him to find someone knew to fight, he loved testing his own power. Though, he already knew Nero's abilities. Always wanting him to fight someone would only prove to be his downfall. He was like how Nero was, once a long time ago. Nostalgic, really. But, he had to focus now. Smirking slightly, Nero waited for Mikhail's response.
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