TOA Elite Eight: Usagy vs. Malevolence

[Shan'do Spike]

Ok, here begins the elite eight of this TOA. Make sure to read the rules, posted here. May the best fighter win, and good luck. I expect to see blood, peoples!

PLEASE READ BELOW

The closure post rule (previously known by a different name) remains in effect for this round.

[Malevolence]

WOOSH!!

Taere was again deposited on the marble walkway outside his room. Again, his door was open, and a broken lockpick was in the door. He pushed the door wide open, and was about to start saying "Alexia," but his words were stopped short by the fact that...she wasn't there.

"Bloody...left the damn door open, why doesn't she just steal everything herself."

Taere plodded into the room, and thunked his heavy self down onto the bed. His armor retracted, and he placed the three gems off to the side on his bedtable. He, for the third time that week, immediately fell asleep on the bed. His sleep was, to say the least, not really restful at all. At around midnight he awoke in a cold sweat, for reasons he couldn't quite figure out. He wasn't dreaming, and he wasn't worried. So he stripped the sheets off of the mattress, and curled up in the heavy fur blanket that laid over them. He also again woke up two hours later, after inhaling fur that was shedding off the blanket, coughing like a leper inhaling coal dust. The third and final time he awoke - before morning that is - was at around four-thirty AM, when a bird decided to fly in his apparently open window, flit around the room noisily, then land on his head. As Taere awoke immediately, the bird proceeded to squawk loudly and flutter its wings in odd directions, throwing small downy feathers everywhere; making Taere sneeze incessantly. By the time he had gotten the bird out of his room, he was as wide-awake as ever, and had a hard time falling asleep again. He woke later at ten in the morning, mostly because the sun had reached the angle where it shone directly in his eyes, and he did not bother trying to stay asleep. He awoke groggily, and was surprised to find a handmaid waiting in his room with a steaming pot of...something that was steaming.

“Would ye' like some coffee, dear?”

“What kind?”

“Finest roast of Al-Hajjiran Corbusius beans with a hint of extra added vanilla bean from Arkrynn. Or that’s what it is so far as I can tell. ”

“As far as you can tell…what…fine.”

The dark black coffee swirled in the cup that already apparently had cream and sugar in it. The white and black mixed to form a rich dark brown in the convolutions of the swirling currents of precipitant beverage. As the maid poured the cup, though, a note slipped out from the top of her dress. The seal was emblazoned with the mark of the Tournament of Arms.

“Alexia...”

“Sorry,” she said, throwing off both her accent and the rather stupid-looking head bonnet she had on. “I had to get in here somehow you know.”

“Right. Now what do you know about this next one?”

“All right, lets start with the basics. His name's Shinobi, and he's a ninja. He's got a fascination with black, from his hair to his eyes to his clothes. The twist here is he's half-dragon, and he's got dark green skin with small scales. He's a magic user no doubt, and he's got this big nasty katana called Kanetsu and loads and loads of shuriken. Just be careful with this one.”

“Aren't I always?”

“Of course you are. You do realize you had a broken rib yesterday, right?”

“Well, yeah, but…um…yeah.”

“Try to come back without any broken appendages this time, will you?”

“I'll do my best to preserve my holy body, oh curator of my soul.”

“Shut up and go kill something.”

“Fine you psychotic bitchwoman.”

“Moron.”

Taere stood ready for the wash of blue light. It came quickly.

WOOSH!!

Taere was deposited on a battlefield laden with piles upon piles of logs. Straight, finely cut logs all about 10 meters long were strewn in huge piles on the battlefield, from a crossed pile of 3 to a 400-ton pile of hundreds of logs. The entire field, out to the edges, was covered in these piles of logs and stone hills from 5 to 50 meters high. The battlefield itself was imposing, and Taere immediately threw up a flashbang grenade device so as to both blind Shinobi if he had arrived yet, and to use its internal resonance light imagers to scan the battlefield without trying to climb up a precarious pile of logs and loose rocks. The battlefield was enormous, and the edges were enclosed in a blue forcefield so as to keep them from exiting, but the field was almost 15 miles in diameter, and they would most likely never reach either side. The main part of the arena was large enough, and was itself enclosed by a natural wall of mountains that reached some 5000 feet into the sky, their peaks occasionally speckled with glaciers and clumps of snow and ice. The majority of the mountains were sheer rock faces and unscalable stone that prevented climbing. It would be problematic and pointless to try to get over them anyway, so why try?

Taere then decided to try to find some way to rig himself a hiding place in the piles of logs. He searched for a suitable pile, and laid down behind it, almost flat. He then placed a flashbang in a knothole in one of the logs facing toward the middle of the arena where Shinobi would appear. He set the internal resonance scanners to detect and relay any movement, and he waited. Soon, the flashbang detonated, and sent back an image, just before detonating, of Shinobi emerging from a pillar of blue light. The green skin was visible on the flashbang’s reflective scanners, and Shinobi’s scales glistened in the sunlight. Taere, from his limited vision angle, could not tell if he had either a tail or wings, but either or both would put Taere at a disadvantage. He readied himself in a crouch. Taere drew the Malevolence behind the log pile, and prepared for Shinobi's first move…

[Usagy]

Sorry...but I have to give you an easy victory. Congratulations....I have no inspiration...know that I can't make a post anyways with this state of mind etc. Besides that I got a bit bored with the TOA after the long delay...blarghh..
So yeah..this match goes to Malevolence....good luck in the next round!

Peace out

[psychosyd]

Well then Manevolence Wins...

Im passing the flashbang, cuz in that time, it would be a form of flash powder, or whatnot... it works, just be careful... we still mideval here...