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This is the tournament battle between Jaswinder (KiiMeLwi) Vs. Lorne (Ganon Firenight); please only post if you are one of the riders.


Battle One

This is one of the four elimination battles between Kyns of the Kyns Battle Tournament. The victor of this battle will be eligible to continued to the semi-finals and later finals. Good luck to both Kyn riders and their Kyns.

Will Kyns, Kyn riders, and spectators take their respective places.


Rules

1. No godmoding
2. No bunnying
3. No killing off your Kyn(s)
4. Please be curteous
5. Please use decent grammer and spelling
6. Please type in IC; OC comments should be in arrow (())
7. You must post your reply within one week that your opponent has posted theirs.


Terrain

This is your basic grass medow. The yellowish-green vegetation was tall, almost up to one's waist; it entended for miles and miles. A giant tree was far off to the right in a distance, appearing to be the sole guardian of the land. With the vegetation so dense, it was had to move; however, it also provided for a nice hiding spot of one was crouching down low enough. Surveying the grass medow, one could perhaps distinguish five black spots in the middle. Apparently, it was a 'bald spot', shall we say, of 100 meters or so and no vegetation grew there.

Your opponent and their Kyn is standing on the otherside of the field, waiting for the battle to begin. A judge stood to the left, whistle in hand. He blows the whistle and yells...

((To keep things straight, for now I will have Ganon type in black and Lorne will type in green.))

Ganon grinned and took to the air immediately, soaring high above the battlefield for a better view. Lorne raised his head and let loose a devastatingly loud roar, then began to move slowly forward. The monstrous kyn was in no rush; he wanted to conserve his energy. The tall grass was crushed underneath him, leaving little canyon-like lines through the meadow.

Later on in the year, aliens would mistake these lines for signs, would land in the meadow and try to interrogate the tree. After several failed attempts, they would kick the tree in frustration, and the Great Spirit inhabiting the tree would awaken and smite them. But that would not be for some time now.

In any case, Ganon kept his eyes on Mararan and Jaswinder, chanting softly in Serpentine. His spear began to glow softly with an orange aura. [1/2, alterative magic]

((The [1/2] is how I denote how many turns it will take for Ganon to complete the spell. For example, Ganon's current spell is fairly simple; he will cause the spear to gain a rubber coating to protect against Jaswinder's lightning. He has chanted one of the two turns it will take to complete the spell.))

Ganon finished his incantation after a moment and the handle of his spear was covered in thick rubber. [2/2] Now Jaswinder didn't have a big metal object she could target to attack him. He focused back down just in time to dodge the arrow, and he decided to move a bit higher, trying to get above her arrow range. He was now just waiting for a good chance to strike.

Lorne just continued on his thunderous way, tail swishing slowly through the grass. He could see Jas dive, but due to his slight nearsightedness lost track of her as she darted about under the grass. However, he had a simple remedy for not knowing her location: narrow it down. He inhaled deeply, then let rip with a burst of flame that took out a large plot of grass in front of him.

Lorne roared in pain as the jolt went into his body, but his constitution allowed him to take the blow and continue to fight. He whipped his massive tail up and smashed it down at Jaswinder, flailing it back up should he miss in an attempt to swat her. Should he manage to successfully hit her-- and Ganon had been training him to hit small objects by throwing chickens into the air-- she would probably be sent flying out of control.

Ganon watched the battle closely, then began to move over Mararan. He grinned evilly and dipped down into her arrow range again, this time right above her. He was taunting her. Unless, of course, she was actually stupid enough to fire an arrow straight up.

Lorne growled and squinted around, then fired another blast of flame. Nothing. Again. Still nothing. He couldn't tell where she was... damn it! And then a thought occurred to him. Surely, he could get her out of hiding... he turned his head and suddenly expelled a powerful blast of flame right at Mararan. Ganon flew on to avoid the updraft the fire would create, circling around and scanning the tall grass for movement. He was really surprised. Lorne was a terribly powerful creature, and Ganon was reminded of the ancient tales of dragons battling knights and usually annihilating the tin men.

Ganon looked down and looped away. She didn't seem like much of a threat right now, and he could certainly deal with her later. She was badly crippled, and would not be launching any attacks any time soon. He began to push his way through the air back toward Lorne and Jaswinder, hoping he could assist his kyn.

Lorne looked about, slamming his claws into the ground as he sought her, slamming his tail indiscriminately (and inadvertently creating alien punctuation). "I will find you...! You can't hide from me!" It was interesting to see Lorne taking out his anger. Most of it was probably actually built up against InuYasha.

It would be romantic, of course, if Mararan's arrow flew straight and true, burying itself in Ganon's leg and crippling him badly. It really would, and under other circumstances it would probably happen.

But let's be realistic. She was on the ground, on her side, badly injured, with tears blurring her vision, and he was flying away from her way up in the air. Her arrow missed terribly, arching off several yards to his left and a good way behind him. He just continued on his way, glancing back for a moment to make sure she was okay before sweeping down toward the battling kyn.

Lorne roared in pain as he was caught off-guard. He fortunately closed his eyes when the flash went off, but she had gotten her claws into his nostrils and dug into the soft flesh. Other slashes didn't seem to do much, his scales were so thick, but at least she had made him bleed. He, in response, snapped his jaws wide open and shut right in front of himself, trying to grab Jaswinder in his powerful jaws. It was a stab in the dark (or a snap in the bright), but his jaws are pretty damn big, too. They don't need to be accurate to catch prey.

Unfortunately for Jas, this meant she was running straight toward Ganon. The snakeman's eyesight was rather better than Lorne's, and he could see the movement under the grass. He grinned slowly and folded his wings, dropping like a smart missile toward the worried kyn.

Lorne kept his eye on Ganon and started to make his way in that direction. It was clear that the battle was migrating that way, and Lorne needed to be there in order to help. His footsteps shook the meadow as he thundered along, leaving the canyon-like trail in his wake.