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Post by sakuraacr on Nov 30, 2009 14:21:35 GMT -5
(Jo-aun would like to enter if that is alright with you all)
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Post by aurius on Nov 30, 2009 16:17:08 GMT -5
(Normally i'd be fine with another fighter entering however, Jo-aun is mid level and were trying to keep this fight HL only. Your welcome to enter your character as an observer though)
Zaru released his Zanpakuto his energy swirling as his blade came towards Azuma from above. Quickly Azuma dropped low his hand flying to his blade and slamming up to black the attack as he used the momentum from the strike to push himself into a backward strike keeping his distance from Zaru. Thunder like sounds with it’s release and the bolt shaped dual blades, his zanpakuto was probably electricity based making it extremely dangerous in close quarters. Keeping his distance Azuma’s hand flung to his blade as he drew it he couldn’t risk using tai-jutsu until he understood more about his opponents abilities.
Quickly he flash stepped to Zaru’s right his blade making a series of swipes and jabs as he quickly circled his enemy. The attacks were weak at best but they changed from varying distances a total of nine strikes getting closed and further within a range of one to two feet from the end of zaru’s blade. The whole point to help Azuma gather information before he approached the shikai form of this weapon.
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Post by zaru on Nov 30, 2009 21:55:52 GMT -5
Zaru watched as Azuma crouched low and brought his zanpakuto up to block Zaru's. Then Azuma appeared to Zaru's right and began a series of strikes. The strikes did not seem to be aimed for Zaru however but more his zanpakuto. He was testing Zaru. He's trying to test out my shikai. Then I'll keep him guessing for now Zaru thought to himself. He kept an offensive stance and began striking again and again. Zaru alternated between the blades of his zanpakuto, slashing left and right repeatedly. Every few strikes he would spin his zanpakuto over his head to build momentum behind his strikes. Zaru was trying to overwhelm Azuma with his increased speed and power.
The blades of Zaru's zanpakuto glowed yellow and half-way through one of his strikes, he flash stepped around 10 feet to Azuma's left, still facing him. Raikyoshou! Zaru shoutedand a blast of lightning mixed with Zaru's reiatsu sped towards Azuma
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Post by aurius on Dec 2, 2009 10:29:18 GMT -5
The bolt slammed into Azuma’s shoulder flinging him back several feet to the floor before he could roll to his feet. His left shoulder hurt from the blast but the information gained from the attack was invaluable. Cutting in close he had learned how the blade was wielded using the spinning momentum to increase attack speed ad strength required timing and execution, combined with lightening attack to offset the limited reach of the weapon made it extremely effective. A stern but angelic voice spoke into his mind ringing with authority and energy his words were precise and clean.
” The spin is the weak point Azuma, notice how he times it against your strikes so that he has the proper time to gain momentum with his attacks, without that momentum his attacks would become sloppy and lack fluidity.”
The years Azuma had spent training were possibly his greatest ally, after the strongest weapon one could use was his mind. The key to defeating this opponent lied in breaking his momentum with that blade. However how to do that was the issue.
”I can help, with that my lord.”
Azuma’s free hand flashed up to his face his fingers together and his hand directly in front of his mouth. Suddenly his energy surged as his fingers splayed out, suddenly a pentagon shaped mask materialized in front of Azuma’s face, creased slightly down the center to bend over his face the mask, had a black boarder and Jack O’ lantern like mouth which contains an infinite darkness. Where the eye’s should be contains a single eye which appears to be painted on with a purple outline and gold iris the eye began to glow with a golden light as soon as the mask materialized.
As soon as the mask appeared Azuma disappeared shunpoing to his opponents right he attacked with three consecutive sword slashes the first going from right shoulder to left hip the next going in the opposite direction across the mid section, and the final a one handed overhand strike (note right hand holds the sword). During the last strike Azuma raises his left hand palm pointed at his opponent hopefully distracted by the deceptively weak over hand strike. “Shakkaho”, The words left his mouth as his strike came down and he pushed away the blow never meant to land as the blast hurdled at close range towards his opponents stomach.
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Post by zaru on Dec 3, 2009 21:47:13 GMT -5
Zaru watched as his Raikyoshou struck his opponents shoulder and sent him rolling backwards back up to his feet. He smiled, It's working. I put a lot on the hope that he wouldn't be ready for the sudden jump in my power with my release. Zaru thought to himself. His smile vanished however when he saw his opponents hand go to his face and his reiatsu steadily increase, he had seen this before. A mask appeared over Azuma's face and just its appearance was intimidating. That's not good. Those masks always augment their pow- Zaru did not even have time to finish his thought. Azuma was already on him in the blink of an eye. He threw three strikes on Zaru's right and Zaru was barely able to block the first two. As for the third, as Zaru moved his blade up to block the strike, Azuma flash stepped away and Zaru heard the kido spell as he brought his blade up. "Shakkaho" his opponent said and Zaru was sent sprawling by the spell. Zaru has been hit by kido countless times but Azuma was good with kido even without his mask so this new increase in power was enough to slam Zaru backwards into the wall.
Zaru pulled himself back up to his feet using his zanpakuto as support. This is definetly not good. He thought to himself. It took my Shikai just to surpass him with no mask or release. So with a mask there's a good chance he's stronger than me at that level. And then is he releases his zanpakuto... Zaru forced himself to stop thinking so negatively and took an offensive stance once again. Then it happened. Without any provocation from Zaru, his reiatsu began to slowly increase. There was only one explanation, the kido from Azuma had cracked his mask and it was leaking Zaru's selaed reiatsu. For the time being it would increase Zaru's speed and the strenght of his attacks but in the long run, it was a negative. If enough time passed, the level of his reiatsu would become too much for Shikai and his zanpakuto to shatter and revert to its sealed form. If that happened, it was over. I just won't let it reach that point then. Zaru said.
Zaru leaped forward to strike Azuma and began striking as he did before. Alternating which blade he struck with to make his attacks quick and from different angles and spinning his blade at oportune times to increase momentum. He then stepped backwards just out of reach of (hopefully) Azuma's zanpakuto. He then let his hand slide as far back as it could on the hilt and made a long sweeping horizontal strike with a reach of 3'9" (1 foot for the hilt and 2 feet 9 inches for one of the blades).
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Post by aurius on Dec 7, 2009 10:52:51 GMT -5
Azuma felt Zaru’s reiatsu levels raise, curiosity of how his energy was suddenly raising was quickly replaced by worry as Zaru moved towards him. Quickly Azuma dropped his stance shifting to a wider defensive position as Zaru began his attack. The swipes came in rapid succession each clang of their two zanpakuto building momentum as Zaru increased the speed and ferocity of his attacks, Azuma attempting to gain a rhythm with the new attacks kept his eyes on his opponents movements making sure not to keep careful watch on the rhythm that he kept. Suddenly Zaru slid back his grip on his zanpakuto sliding down his hilt to extend his reach, the blade came up and a smile shone in Azuma’s eyes hidden behind his mask as his trap was sprung. Quickly Azuma slammed his blade up to the top of his opponents attack at the same time the glowing gold eye in front of his mask disappears the glowing insignia soundlessly re-appearing two feet above Zaru and four inches back before the glowing eye tore open releasing a powerful golden cero spraying down from the iris approximately one foot in radius the blast charged with incredible fury down towards Zaru’s shoulder blades as Azuma’s blade made contact the blast reached Zaru, using the slam of their blades as a timer Azuma pushed off into a shunpo the blast still knocking him several feet back as he barely managed to escape it.
”My Lord, please be more careful the blast from my eye requires such a long time to charge for a reason.
”True Hellias but the glow of your eye is easy to connect to the attack and thus it is simple to know that it is coming after it’s first use. The time it takes to charge makes it perfect for a sneak attack which must hit thus certain sacrifices must be made”
Azuma stood panting slightly as he resumed his defensive stance blade drawn he would have to wait before using cero again, and he doubted he would be able to catch his opponent by surprise with it again.
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Post by zaru on Dec 8, 2009 18:11:23 GMT -5
Zaru raised his blade and swung down with all his might towards his opponent but as he swung he noticed the golden eye disappear from his Azuma's mask. As Zaru heard the clang of his zanpakuto against his opponent's, he felt an incredible burning sensation and was engulfed in a golden energy. The Cero synged his clothes and skin and Zaru collapsed. What was that? Zaru thought to himself. I didn't hear or feel a thing until the attack hit me. Incredible, but this is bad. He's overpowering me mentally. My brute strength won't do it alone. Its a shame I'm only realizing that now.
Get up Zaru. Raijin said. Your giving up too easy. You need to fight smarter and think before you attack. I gave you great power to help you become stronger and to win. No get up, and at the very least....don't give up!"
Zaru stood up. A new intensity building within him. He heard Raijin say to him, I will try to hold my shikai form for as long as I can while you use your full power. Once I reach my limit in Shikai you have two options and you know what they are. Right, I understand. Thank you Raijin. Zaru replied. Then Zaru began to increase his reiatsu once more. He trusted his zanpakuto and let 90% of his reiatsu escape from the mask and add to his power (think a little higher than kenpachi's reiatsu with his eyepatch on). It was a strain on his body but he would be alright for now. He raised his blade and recited one more time Raikyoshou!! Zaru charged reiatsu into his blade and let loose his attack. This time, with the added charging the blast came slower than the previous blasts but with much more power and in a continuous streak rather than one blast, lasting for around 5 seconds.
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Post by aurius on Dec 10, 2009 7:35:35 GMT -5
Azuma stood his muscles visibly relaxing as he watched the cero engulf his opponent, The golden cero from his eye was his deadliest hollow based ability and few could with stand it and fight. Considering the match over he began to raised his hand to dispel his mask, suddenly a call shattered the silence as Zaru’s reiatsu surged ”Raikyoshou”. The blast of lightning came surging at Azuma, caught of guard Azuma was barely able to dodge, instead surging his reiatsu and spinning right to reduce the power of the blow as it slammed into his chest he was sent sprawling into the far right wall leaving a small crater surrounded by a cloud of dust.
The blast cracked a rib and singed his chest, but Azuma stood quickly. He was a Vizard and a powerful one with out his mask Azuma had been trained to deal with pain, he had been tortured to see if he would crack under the stress and he shown an amazing threshold for it. With his mask Azuma like all Vizard was shielded from pain Hellais called it his blessing, but Azuma knew it as a curse after all pain focused the mind and many young Vizards were lost to the immortal feeling that mask shielding brought. However now Azuma knew the fight had truly begun the man had shown his true strength.
The hollow like screech that released from the depths of the black pit of his mask’s mouth echoed through the room as Azuma flashed through the smoke towards his opponent. His blade criss-crossing his strikes as he drove in towards Zaru, however this tactic was a ploy a clever deception to make Zaru believed Azuma had thrown strategy out the window. He would wait timing his strikes for the point when Zaru spun his blade while trying to keep up with Azuma’s speed and fully engrossed in the momentum, hopefully his drive would put Zaru on his heels forcing him to focus on recovering his footing and then he would strike. His right foot snapping up into the V of Zaru’s rib driving forward with the kick his sword would come back to his sheath and then he would charge after Zaru slashing with his blade in the same criss-crossing manner.
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Post by zaru on Dec 10, 2009 19:34:06 GMT -5
Zaru stood, panting but somewhat triumphant. His attack had for the most part landed and it had successfully knocked his opponent into a corner. Zaru leaned on his zanpakuto for extra support panting. Then he watched in horror as his opponent leapt out from the dust and charged at Zaru. He couldn't believe it, Azuma seemed completely unaffected by the most powerful attack he could muster in Shikai form.
"Impossible, how could he be unscathed, so strong? He hasn't even released his zanpakuto yet and I'm running out of options. Damnit..."Azuma locked swords with Zaru and began slicing in a criss-cross pattern. Zaru was forced back a few steps as he blocked the strikes and then as they locked zanpakuto once more he began his attack pattern once more. But as he spun his blade once again to build momentum Azuma through a quick and hard swing towards Zaru causing him to stop his zanpakuto mid-rotation and block the strike. This caused him to lose his footing and as he began to step back Azuma threw an impossibly fast kick straight into Zaru's ribs. Zaru coughed up blood which dripped from beneath his mask but did not back up. He grabbed his opponents leg to keep him from escaping and to help keep balance. He then swung the blade pointed behind him up towards Azuma's left arm. As Azuma blocked it (if you don't or want something else to happen that's fine just end it here) he pushed on the leg he had grabbed to send Azuma backwards, stood up, charged another Raikyoshou for a few seconds, and fired.
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Post by aurius on Dec 13, 2009 10:02:21 GMT -5
Azuma spun rolling along the ground as the Raikyoshou fired, the blast flung him against the wall as it landed a mere inch behind his rolling body. Again Azuma stood the injury was mild some bruising and probably a pulled muscle however the blast from his Zanpakuto had become a problem, his long-range capabilities needed to be countered. Azuma turned his sword drawn and held out in front of him the blade gleaming in the light of the dojo.
”Count your self lucky, I rarely release my Shikai with out the intent to kill. Shinjitsu o ooi nasai, Shainingu Mitsukai “
The words left Azumas mouth and his reiatsu spiked a wave of translucent energy rising around him like the shimmer of the desert sun. His sword and sheath disappear behind the energy leaving Azuma standing his stance defensive his hands cocked in front of him with his index and pointer fingers up the rest curved into his palm. Quickly he settled his reaitsu calmed and stable at it’s new level.
”It has been awhile Azuma, my power is your to wield as always lets begin.”
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