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((>.> I shall do some awesomeness of captain power modifications!!! This shall be edited into a real post when I'm done >.>))

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((I have never used this character before, and he is basically someone else who was absorbed into the Dominion. He used to be known as Lyger, and I basically absorbed him as a favor, but you didn't need to know that.))

The northern entrance to the arena is filled with dark energies, crimson flowing through the cloud at regular intervals. As the darkness began to spread outward it becomes apparent that it is merely an aura of a greater being, a single angelic being with three pairs of wings, each of which were jet black with every other few feathers being metallic crimson. His seven foot form floats off the ground ever so slightly, eyes glowing behind a mask of pure ruby. Crimson dreadlocks trail down his back, writhing of their own accord as if they had been given life.

He paused several feet outside the portal from whence he came and glanced down the long expanse that lay between himself and the southern entrance. His eyes trailed up the the stars as a smile formed, hidden by the Ruby Mask.

((Its going to take me forever to get used to The Blade >.>))

Her appearance meant nothing to him, for he couldn't see it, only the pulse of her aura and the flows of energy and heat in the air, his eyes replaced by a vision granted by the Dominion as his gaze fell back to earth. His own energies did nothing to mar this sight, as they were of the Dominion, and so were these new eyes. His reaction times had been streamlined, cutting out vision and going directly to thought. His body was nearly one with thought, one with the Crimson Mist that permeated his dark aura, increasing the fluidity, speed, and agility of his already inhuman form. Two thick dreads pulled down and produced two blades from their sheaths, scimitars of approximately four feet in length of a dark metal that seemed to come alive as the energies of the Dominion coursed through them from the tendrils.

He gave a half bow, shrouded in his darkness, his voice spanning the considerable distance, "The pleasure is ours, child. We can guaranteee your life, but not your free will. It is not within our power to deny the Hunger." Each spoken word produced a glow from under the mask, as if a flame had errupted within his mouth, matching the one that consumed his eyes. The blades were sheathed with crimson light and two orbs of similar light had formed within his palms as he touched the ground to dart forward to close the considerable distance.

((The dialogue bit is standard MD shtuff >.> Empty threats in a spar.))

((Everything is kinda happening at once, so this post isn't exactly chronological. Keep in mind I usually seperate reactions from actions, which is why it might get a bit wierd. Furthermore, this is utilizing interupt style posting based on actions stated. Also, Lyger=The Blade))

Within the darkness Lyger seemed to shift and flow, the flame meeting first with the dark aura suffused with Crimson Mist, which threatened to snuff it out, the Crimson Mists draining away any and all energies within them that were not of the Dominion, though not with any great speed. If the blade were naught but flame, the strike would be performed in futility, for even if the flame did touch his form the Dominion shielded its warriors from all types of flame based assault, immunity granted by a demon of fire that was now within his ranks. If the blade had a solid component, it would be the same as before, his revolution forming a slight cut along his back that seemed to cover itself with Crimson Mist and seal much like a laceration in a cube of Jell-O.

His own motion came in several flurries of light and darkness. The tendrils gripping the scimitars reached out for a double slash aimed to cross her chest and neck as she dodged to one side, before the knight could even be summoned forth. And if the Knight couldn't be summoned completely, then I wasted my time with that first paragraph. ^_^``` The blades flared with crimson light, ready to not only cut flesh, but to connect with energy and auras.

The two orbs in his palms would be thrust forth as he turned to face her, creating two streams of light and energy with an intensity similar to that one might find in laser rifle technology. These Lances did not have the aura latching capability Lances normally had, forfeiting such for pure destructive capabilities.

The Mists pulled out as well, stretching out from his aura as the Knight was summoned, if she was going to bring more to the party, why shouldn't he? Two snails of gellatinous ooze formed five feet behind him, from whence he came, each blazing with the same crimson light inside. Each side of the snails' shells pulled out into what seemed to be two cannons, and from them issued a single blob of green slop, fired as a projectile towards the Knight. An added bonus of this was that these snails had true eyes to assist in Lyger's assaults, should Artemis actually be able to complete the transfiguration of her aura. (see below*)

The Crimson Mists did not stop with these two large snails, but began to billow as light coursed through them, pushing outwards at the rate of one would walk at a liesurely pace. Temperatures continued to fall as heat flowed into Lyger from the surrounding air.

* Should the scimitars connect, one would assume Artemis's conjuring of a blade of her own, not to mention alteration of her Aura, would be disrupted as Lyger's speeds rivaled that of even ki fighters, and what was to come would rival the speed of light itself.

((The Crimson Mist is the visual depiction of Mindblaze's consciousness. As for the big words....well, I can't help that. >.<))

When reality itself began to shift and change, Artemis would find that the Coliseum itself resisted her efforts. The arena was Coliseum property, and such an alteration would not be tolerated by the staff, which included Archmagi, Destruction given form, Negativity Incarnate, and Time himself. A voice boomed through the arena, "Ahahah, you didn't say the magic word!" The arena could manipulate itself, and maintain itself just the same. Shame Artemis, for shame!





Beyond such reality bending magic, Lyger would come to a conclusion that the blades would be of little assistance, in either case. His laughter would pass through the arena as two orbs of pure light were launched out from within the mist and Lyger's form was thrust backwards, draging the mist along with him before he darted into the skies, carried not by wings but force of will. Should rules and laws cease, Lyger's form would become naught but a continuous stream of motion. Not bound by physics thought would be unlocked, and his form and aura, suffused with pure thought, would become a deadly force. The two orbs of Crimson Light were aimed to slam into this newly summoned knight, and would alter their course to meet with the knight with precision unrivaled by any mind contained within a cage of flesh, even those of the greatest psions. They were created simply to explode in a pulse of light again as a laser beam, concentrated into an explosion instead of a beam. In their wake Crimson Mists would be left.

The Crimson Mists continued to expand, bringing forth more of Mindblaze's will, stretching out Lyger's dark aura and suffusing the darkness with more and more crimson. Crimson light pulsed within with ever growing intensity, and Lyger was lost within it.

((Yeah, I know thats likely confusing, but I was damned sure there was something about not screwing with the arena somewhere. Knowing Diez he likely had it in the second rules thread that I deleted cause I thought it was duplicate. *le sigh* I'll have to revise things...again. The small bit is also slightly based upon the effects, but is mostly informative anyhow.))

Light met crimson light, and the assault was nullified, drawn into the Crimson Mists and ruby radiance that suffused Lyger's dark aura, quashed by three seperate forces and thousands of minds, lost beyond the reach of her aura and knowledge to its end. Her attempts to alter reality had ended, and this gave him at least some relief, though he was still curious to know what would have become of it, not knowing that she would have removed all limitations upon his form. Her attempt to match the aura of Mindblaze would be in vain, for she would have to suddenly become over two thousand people, and the constant shift as the different consciousness roiled within his own made it impossible to duplicate in the slightest.

Her assault from the side would also end in futility as Lyger was lost within the crimson light, and her entrance into his dark aura gave the light itself the opportunity to assail her and the growing energies with millions of pinpricks, all aimed at touching upon her existance and consuming it into his own. Furthermore, her own momentum would be used to hopefully catch her off guard as she sailed past within the pinpricks. Out from Lyger's palms a pair of crimson streams of light issued forth to slam into the light that constituted her hair and wings, his goal to link to that light and consume the energy contained within each and ever last photon, not to mention that the darkness was also encroaching upon them.

((Ok, there are several discrepancies.

If the arena actually did conform to your reality, you are screwed. Think of Neo in The Matrix, you'd be giving Mindblaze all of his powers and then some on crack, allowing him to surpass even the speed of light without any effort, and if effort is applied, you get screwed. Thought is unbound by physics, but is restrained when applied to reality due to the restraints of physics and biological ability. Mindblaze takes away Biology, and you take away physics. What is left to restrict the mind? Rethink what you've tried to do.

Second of all, if your aura exists at all, Mindblaze can tap it and drain it, ESPECIALLY while alongst his consciousness, the Crimson Mists.

Thirdly, no one can imitate his aura in any form, nor pull it from him ~this goes along with the part of his profile that emntions immunity from having his energies manipulated by outside forces~

Fourth, Mindblaze consumed energy of any kind and it is refined into pure electrical energy. This includes all forms of magic, the mind, the soul, anti-energy, neutralization energies, voidal energies, and whatever the hell else people throw at him. He was built to be an energy drain that, while the mists are slow moving, cannot be defeated by energy users.

Fifth, Mindblaze can never be distracted, especially within the influence of the Crimson Mists, he only has 2000 consciousnesses to work with.

Lastly, you should have realized by now that your combined assault mentioned at the end of your post is going to be an excersize in futility.))