Author Topic: Assassin and Ace duel (Read 2370 times)

Nisorin · « **on:** April 11, 2010, 09:00:05 PM »

The arena, a pocket dimension ringed with veins of crystal and precious ores, with a floor of bone and magicked lights all about the stadium. In the stands beyond the mostly translucent crystal and ore wall, sit a massive variety of spirits waiting patiently for the duel to start.

K2 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:04:48 PM »

Assassin walked through the portal, grinning. His staff was clutched firmly in his hand as he took his side of the arena and waited for the arrival of his partner.

Zero · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:09:05 PM »

On the side of the arena belonging to Ace mist formed which then formed into Ace as he had taken a different means of travel. He didn't like to use magic or be affected by magic if it could be avoided.

Wanting to be as blunt as possible Ace merely thought of crystal sharks hardened against magic attacking Assassin. He had no time for trivial games right now with would be murderers. All he wished to do was to end the fight rather quickly for the sake of the Tideans.

In order to aid his 'land sharks' Ace used Essence to Summon Several Diamond Fists which went flying towards Assassin. Simultaneously though he used his power to extend an orange thread which if it worked would wrap around Assassin and prevent his movement.

K2 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:14:59 PM »

Assassin merely jumped in the air as the attacks flew past where he had been on the ground and ran into an arena wall. Assassin then landed on the ground and looked up at Ace, shaking his head. "In the future, bow and introduce yourself, please. Thank you."

Assassin bowed and introduced himself by saying, "I am Assassin, Level 2 member of the Anrufe."

Zero · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:22:54 PM »

"Ace Thunders is my name. I am the most trusted one Aria has although she has banished me for the good of the Tideans so that I could fight Assassin legally here and now. " as he said this crystals rose out of portals which had opened and formed into several blades. Bowing slightly he nodded his head and the crystals all headed towards Assassin in the form of swords.

As a second attack more to disorient his opponent than anything else Ace took out his rune sword and plunged it into the ground. "Essence Wielder's Box, Erupt. Several Multi Colored Energy Blades came down from the sky at Assassin. He had 3 options. 1.Dodge or Block now. 2.Experience Great Pain. 3. Experience even greater pain.

"I will give you 3 options Assassin. Option number one is that you surrender now before my attacks collide with you as is inevitable since you are unlikely to be able to dodge them all. Option 2 is that you release the Tideans and any magic you may have on Terraguove after you feel the sting of my sword. Your third option is that you experience first hand what I can do with my powers and then you release them. "

K2 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:36:04 PM »

Assassin smirked as he raised the staff in his hand far off the ground. He chanted softly, "Gaimaki; Harnessing seal," before banging his staff on the ground, the result being the ground's painting with several dark marks seemingly originating from the seal so that a fairly large circle of some sort of dark 'paint' containing many symbols and lines inside was evident to plain view.

The marks on the ground seemed to raise up from the ground, folding in some sort of way like a pancake; The blades and energy blades both went no further then the black circle in the air which basically had become some sort of net. All the blades were contained in this 'net' which now began to fly towards Ace at alarming speeds.

Zero · « **Reply #6 on:** April 11, 2010, 09:49:12 PM »

The net when it came within 2 feet of him stopped existing because he had singed it out of existence with invisible fire that he had purposely gave no heat to. Now he would retaliate in due course.

Fists of blue flame appeared all over in the air and all of them simultaneously flew at Assassin while crystal blades rose out of the ground at him and balls of energy came at him fast.

K2 · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2010, 05:34:48 PM »

However; none of the attacks had time to take effect. The moment fire was set to the 'net', it exploded with great power which had only been amplified by the energy blades and certain kinetic energy of the flying blades. Even if Ace had survived the explosion, the shockwave certainly might have killed him. Assuring the defeat of Ace was the shrapnel from the blades inside the net. Ace had been caught in a trap.

Zero · « **Reply #8 on:** April 14, 2010, 08:19:10 AM »

However the explosion and shrapnel had never even collided with Ace at all. What they had hit was an Essence Bubble which had protected him from the attack. He had done it the moment he fired his other attacks at Assassin secretly making it invisible to Assassin so that he would survive.

"Enough. I declare the fight over. I shall teach you some Essence Techniques Assassin and half of Terraguove will nbe freed from your control." said Ace. He had no desire to prolong this conflict.

Nisorin · « **Reply #9 on:** April 14, 2010, 07:38:15 PM »

At his words, the spirits watching the match start shouting and screaming and screeching in protest, a few flinging what looks to be magically-conjured turds at Ace.

K2 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 16, 2010, 08:51:13 PM »

"I refuse your offer," Assassin informed Ace, "and now your destruction has been assured."

At that moment, the ground under the essence bubble seemed to be a puddle of darkness. From this puddle of darkness, black text shot up -- written in a foreign cipher, lining itself across the essence bubble. Soon, there were several lines of text. The ground under the bubble dissipated, becoming a giant hole for Ace to fall into as the black text on the bubble began to glow green before sinking into the bubble.

Zero · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2010, 10:37:43 PM »

Ace immediately teleported out of the bubble the moment the black text began to form and he threw a note to Assassin telling him to go to Terraguove if he wished to begin his Essence Training. Where Ace had gone nobody would know? (I won't be using him for 2 months. )

Nisorin · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2010, 10:48:34 PM »

((COWARD! GET THE HELL BACK HERE!))

K2 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2010, 06:56:44 PM »

Only, it was too late. Before Ace could even teleport away, a blast radius contained inside the bubble began to erupt.

Zero · « **Reply #14 on:** April 19, 2010, 06:58:39 PM »

However what Assassin had thought to be Ace faded away. Ace had never really been inside the bubble but had escaped an hour earlier in order to prolong his existence.

The note appeared telling Assassin that if he still wanted the training to evacuate 250 sq miles of Terraguove.

Orph · « **Reply #15 on:** April 19, 2010, 07:01:38 PM »

No, you got yourself into the fight, finish it like a man. I'll fucking ban your ass if you run.

Zero · « **Reply #16 on:** April 19, 2010, 07:10:50 PM »

It was time to flee. He had noticed that things were getting just plain wrong for him and so it was time that he escaped. Well now was the perfect time for that he thought. The statements along with Assassin's growing power behind his attacks worried him. Fight or Flight instinct caught on and so it was time for Flight rather than for fight since he had no desire to die a horrible death at the hands of Assassin he immediately teleported away.

K2 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 21, 2010, 08:23:25 PM »

And that would have been a really good idea if Assassin didn't use his blast to latch onto Ace and pull him out of teleportation.

"Stop resisting.. or you die."

Zero · « **Reply #18 on:** April 21, 2010, 09:48:41 PM »

However when he latched onto Ace's energy signature he pulled back more than he had bargained for. Ace was invisibly cloaked. From the other side of the Arena that he was not in, a sizzling fireball came at Assassin all of the sudden from behind and quite unexpectedly.

K2 · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2010, 06:34:57 PM »

With the magic signature of Ace grasped, Assassin teleported Ace back to the arena -- right in front of the fireball, who's shadow was emitting black text which painted across the ground. It was in this moment that Assassin got the hell out of the way.

Zero · « **Reply #20 on:** April 23, 2010, 11:30:22 PM »

Turning into mist once more Ace managed to successfully evade the fireball attack that he himself had made and that Assassin had moved him in front of. He wasn't using magic but Essence this time and so Assasin couldn't hold onto it.

On the other side of the Arena, Ace reformed safely and a large hammer formed in his hands made out of diamond which he prepared to throw and cause to explode into Shrapnel.

Ace was receiving mental messages from the Warrior Humans. Lesh was theirs. There was no need to continue this pitiful fight much longer. "You shall be trained by me. " He said merely blocking any further attacks by forming his katana in his hands and using it to parry. His sword was 50% magically resistant so obviously it would work.

K2 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 24, 2010, 10:56:06 PM »

"From the looks of it, it is you who needs training," Assassin noted, walking forward towards Ace. "I intended merely to take your powers, because this was intended to be a fight to the death. I shall find inside you the power of essence," Assassin stated as a black mist formed around Ace, "and duplicate it for myself, though I do not want your training. Nor do I want your ships. Though tell me.. who is your leader?"

Zero · « **Reply #22 on:** April 24, 2010, 11:09:57 PM »

"You can't duplicate essence. It would cause a crisis that I have worked most of my life to prevent." said Ace now looking truly scared. His essence in response to his fear dispelled the mist. "There is no leader. We all work solo. Following a last order given to us by Order Tyrus before he kicked the bucket namely that we were to fight like phantoms. " Avoiding the mist via his Essence Powers he formed a sphere of energy in each hand and silently mouthed an ancient essence technique's name.

"You wish to gain Essence without my training? So be it. I shall only guide you to where I gained it."

At that a portal opened to an ancient looking library.

K2 · « **Reply #23 on:** April 25, 2010, 09:25:07 PM »

Assassin looked at the portal and sighed. He knew what this meant. He had some experience with life, magic portals to ancient places, and all kinds of such things. He knew that he was going to be awhile, especially if he was learning some new, ancient technique -- one that wasn't magic.

He held out his right arm and muttered, "Vizoke, simaba."

The cloak sleeve of his right arm suddenly turned to black energy which quickly dispersed to reveal his arm was made of the same 'skin' clay-like covering as the rest of his body. The white material suddenly moved of its own accord, ripping itself from the shoulder of Assassin.. But there was no blood. In the place of his arm, there suddenly was weaved a new arm -- a normal arm with normal skin.

The protective-covering arm suddenly grew in shape and size. Suddenly, there he was.. A man in black clothing.

"Sirius.. Welcome."
"Thank you," the man, Sirius, replied.
"You know your job."
"Yes, sir."
"Disperse."

And suddenly, the form of Sirius turned to black energy and dispersed, a form of teleportation. Assassin walked through the door.