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Post by raptorman on Dec 21, 2009 8:31:48 GMT -5
*Star vs Zaltias*
Zaltias was faster than a normal human though his speed did pale before stars save when he took enormous effort. A normal human may well have died but he was not normal. For the first time in the fight his wings shot out from his back right as star had begun to speak. And as she spoke the second word a shield began to form behind him, though too little too late.
The ki blast struck his shield and the half formed shield crumpled. But it did serve it's purpose just enough. Zaltias was sent flying across the amphitheater and he struck the wall with a sickening crack. His once immaculate robes were scorched and burnt the hand he raised as he pulled himself up was no longer quite so flawless with blisters atop its smooth surface. A scream of pain as his now blistered hands wretched himself up. He still held his sword though and with an almost feral snarl of hatred on his still beautiful face he raised it and spread his wings.
"There are ways my dear of surviving nearly anything, and from long experience here I know most of them." He gasped slightly and a full shield of the energy from the void surrounded him. "If you truly wish a challenge than break the seal and let us fight power to power, instead of this weakened form." As he spoke these words he seemed to stagger slightly behind his shield and then an enormous pressure began to push at Star's mind, a painfully raw feeling of grief, loss, and death itself.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 21, 2009 11:14:21 GMT -5
*Star vs Zaltias*
"Psh, who do you think I am?" she asked to his taunt. "Vegeta? And I gotta say, you're certainly no Cell."
Her brows furrowed as he attempted to ply his trademark against her. "Ohhhhh," she answered sarcastically, "are you trying to make me cry? Don't waste your energy. I'm a martial artist. Lesson One is controlling your emotions, staying focused and keeping your objectives straight. Like I said, you're just a weak, nobody loser. And you're starting to realize it, aren't you?" Focusing on Zaltias and his failings made overriding the feelings he was trying to stir up easier. "Do you really think I'm even trying right now? Hon, I'm just toying with you. And you aren't the only one with a super-form. You would have to be a tremendous increase in power with your seal undone to even challenge me now. And then, if we truly fought "power-to-power," I would then transform and kick your butt again. And I'm just a miniscule, irrelevant peant compared to the power of my God."
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Post by raptorman on Dec 21, 2009 11:25:30 GMT -5
*Star vs Zaltias*
"Come and fight then without your speed. Fight me sword to sword a gentleman's duel so to speak." He flourished his sword as he spoke. "Or are you to afraid that I can beat you if you fought on equal terms?"
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 21, 2009 11:32:04 GMT -5
*Star vs Zaltias*
"There is no such thing as equal terms, Zaltias," she answered as she strode toward him, then slipped into a fencing stance - she studied the style extensively when she was staying with her fiancee, Coronin - with her left hand behind her back and her King's Blade held before her as if it were a rapier. "Even if I try to slow down for you, my reaction time and my physical strength far exceed yours. It would simply be another method of playing with you. Or are you so desperate for confirmation that you're somebody important that you'd grasp at even that?"
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Post by raptorman on Dec 21, 2009 11:40:10 GMT -5
"We were the creators. The lords of the earth and all that dwelt upon it." Zaltias began, and his now blistered face contorted into one of his spasms of rage. "Then he came, We fought and through numbers he defeated us. The skies ran red with the blood of angels and then we were defeated. Your god is too cowardly to fight himself. He sent thousands of servants against 7 of us." His hand tightened on his sword. "And then he locked us away or so he thought. He missed me, though he sealed my plane shut and cut me off from much of my power."
He laughed an insane cackle and the malignant aura began to pour from the air around him. Something like a gate seemed to flicker before him. A gate unable to open. "How do you feel to serve a coward?" He stepped through the flickering gate and stood in the center of the seeming illusion. He was completely ready to disappear and fade out.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 21, 2009 11:51:13 GMT -5
*Star vs Zaltias*
"You can't even take me," Star countered, not biting the bait, "and I can tell you first-hand that angels can kick my butt. So He must not have sent much more than cherubs after you. Guess He didn't think a poser like you was worth His time, either."
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Post by raptorman on Dec 22, 2009 19:33:48 GMT -5
Zaltias only shrugged and when she didn't fall for the taunt he sighed and the gateway disappeared. Then his face contorted in anger again as the raging fury he had suppressed most of the fight bubbled to the surface. He spoke and the room echoed with his rage. Despair rang from the rafters with a physical force. "This is not the last you see of me. Should you even survive this."
Zaltias' psionics ripped at the walls of the amphitheater and his energy erupted from his hands to smote the walls all around. Then with a sudden fade out he was gone. The once sacred, once abandoned and now decrepit amphitheater began to collapse around star. A faint laughing echo sounded and then he was truly gone.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 22, 2009 19:43:56 GMT -5
*Star vs Zaltias*
"Psh, what a loser," the girl intoned, ignoring the stones falling around her. "He really is lame if he thinks that a few pebbles are going to bother me any." And she turned and took her time walking on out, sidestepping with ease any stones that might have landed on her, and occasionally blowing one up with a direction of will as it would come down in front of her.
And in the end, the old ampitheater collapsed upon nothing.
*Stand*
"Wow, can anyone say one-sided?" Apparently after exiting the ampitheater, Star had teleported directly to her earlier spot in the Announcer's Box, because she snatched up the microphone from Karen before the scientist could say anything about it, herself. "I mean, really, what was he thinking? Was he thinking?"
Somebody offstage cleared their throat.
"Oh, right," the pink-haired girl answered. "So that match is over, and already there's another one! This one is Nayra Sturiesk versus Steven "Evermind" No-Name!" Star paused and glanced down at the cue card. "Huh?" And glanced back off-stage. "Wait, is this right?" She answered the apparent shrug off-stage with one of her own and turned back to the microphone. "Well, it's a Battle of the Brains! These two laser-toting geniuses, one no longer human and the other only in fragments, will be facing off in our specially-designed generic deserted city battleground!"
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Post by raptorman on Dec 22, 2009 20:04:13 GMT -5
Steven vs. Nayra
Steven or as he liked to call himself the evermind arrived in an alleyway behind what appeared to be a closed down pizza shop. His head swiveled on his artificial neck and one of his hands came up to the laser pistol he had tucked into the pocket of his green trench coat. He did not see an enemy at the moment but that likely meant his opponent was due to arrive now. He sent out his far site to examine the interior of the building he was standing behind as he waited for his opponent to show.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 22, 2009 20:18:43 GMT -5
*Steven vs Nayra*
It was from another rooftop, however, from behind crates kept under a tarp to protect them from the rain, that a pair of eyes watched the newcomer. Peering out from behind a crate marked with some faded clothing brand, the figure traced the man's movements.
Taking a running start, the figure jumped to the next building, then the next, all out of sight of Steven, who apparently thought his opponent might be breaking for lunch. Each leap brought the figure closer to its objective: The alleyway Steven seemed content to stay within.
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Post by raptorman on Dec 22, 2009 20:26:29 GMT -5
*Steven vs Nayra*
Steven's far site had failed to after sweeping the building locate anything or anyone that looked hostile. Steven proceeded to have his far site scan the street that the alley branched off from. With still no luck finding his opponent Steven deduced that either his opponent was not here -the less logical assumption- or that his opponent was traveling in a way that he was not searching -the more logical assumption.- With that realization Steven decided it was best to get out of the open and he slipped in through the unlocked back door of the pizza shop and began to work at rigging a trap of sorts above the doorway. A rather simple trap with some knives arranged in such a way that his accelerated calculations confirmed would hit something walking in through the door.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 22, 2009 21:01:24 GMT -5
*Steven vs Nayra*
Unfortunately for Steven, only a fool follows prey blindly, and his opponent was no such thing. Instead, his opponent hopped to the roof of the pizza house, where a grand skylight let in the daylight. Creeping around the edges to spy its quarry, the figure jumped and crashed feet-first into the skylight, crashing down into the parlor in a cacophony of glass smashing into the tile floor.
"Evermind?" The voice that inquired as to his identity was masculine, maybe that of a middle-class caucasian American in his twenties. Two pistols were already in the figure's hands, pointed at his back.
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Post by raptorman on Dec 22, 2009 21:10:57 GMT -5
*Steven vs Nayra*
Steven when he heard the sound of breaking glass had realized something was up and his mind calculated the most probable reason for the sound within a fraction of a second. This did not keep him from being startled but it did allow him to as the man who jumped through the sky light landed to have been halfway through a turn himself and to have his own pistol in his hand.
He stopped mid turn with his pistol pointed in an awkward fashion at the man who had come through the light. "Yes I am the Evermind. Though I must say you do not seem female to me." As he finished the last word he fired a shot from the pistol as he dove sideways in a clumsy but passable roll to behind the counter of pizza shop.
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Post by Ninmast on Dec 22, 2009 21:30:49 GMT -5
*Steven vs Nayra*
Whether his target moved or if the shot simply missed was unseen to Steven as he rolled behind the counter, but his voice followed soon after.
"I am Daniel Hawkins," he answered calmly as he adjusted his aim for the counter. "I will be executing you today." And with that, he fired at the wooden counter, the combat-grade lasers piercing right through the weak, inexpensive counter siding. He repeatedly fired, perforating the counter with holes. Only after it was sufficiently swiss did he pause to see if his target would rise.
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Post by raptorman on Dec 22, 2009 21:40:10 GMT -5
*Steven vs Nayra*
Fortunately for Steven the counter was a rather large one and so there were spots that escaped without being completely swissed. None the less one of the lasers did manage to hit Steven and draw a scorched line across the side of one of his arms and a second one did a similar amount to his leg. He gave a low moan in pain, both designed to trick his foe into thinking him more badly injured than he was and because he was hurt and letting the pain out felt good.
Steven did not stand up though and assuming Hawkins as he called himself had not moved or that if he had he had not moved far Steven concentrated and the glass shards on the floor rose up and then in a burst scattered moving not with the force of a gunshot but with enough force for the sharper fragments to penetrate clothing and flesh.
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