Match #10: Silv VS Jecht

[Felix]

Alright folks the tournament has finally been judged and thus the next round of matches can begin. This match will be between Silv and Jecht! The first one to post will be Jecht who has three days to get out his post.

You may begin!

[malachi]

Now THAT was a fight.

That Zack was a powerful opponent, Jecht had to admit. It was one of the more even matches Jecht had been in in awhile. Even Tidus didn't give him that much trouble as the former SOLDIER did. Jecht almost thought he might lose. "Almost" being the operative word. Jecht was the best, bar none. No one would be allowed to beat him. In the end, Jecht won, although he had plenty of nasty cuts and bruises for the nurses to patch up, who he subsequently flirted with. Some things never really changed and Jecht was too stubborn to change anyways. While being cured by the healers, he got a decent look at the other winners. He could tell that plenty of them were powerful in their own right. Jecht thought about stepping things up in the matches ahead. Might even have to go full Final Aeon, the Blitz King muttered before immediately shaking his head. No, no, that wouldn't do. That was a last resort, if anything. He didn't want to lose control of himself.

After he was all patched up, he heard that goat guy yell, "Will the combatants for Match #10 enter the arena? Jecht cracked his neck and knuckles, picked up his giant sword and strode into the arena with a strut that exuded confidence... or arrogance, if one wished to look at it that way. As he made his way into the arena, the goat guy saw him and began to introduce Jecht. "Alright, ladies and germs! This is a man who came in relatively unknown and came out on top by beating a veteran of the Olympus Colosseum, Zack Fair! He's a man who's not ashamed to say that he's the best and may give our other contenders a run for their money! Here he is, the one, the only, THE GREAT JECHT!"

Jecht nodded as he name was shouted out. That's right, goat boy, you got it right. Any further talk from him was drowned out by the din of the crowd, shouting his name as he waved back at the crowd, a big grin on his face. It all took him back to his Blitzball days and it reminded him of good times. Granted, he considered himself a better man now than he was then, but he still loved Blitzball and he still loved the adoring fans. Jecht jumped up into the arena, took his place and as always, planted his sword in the ground and waited for his next opponent to arrive, folding his arms across his chest.

[Silv]

The last fight was stupid. Actually it was nothing. If she ever saw Terra again, she’d beat his face in. Silv was irritated and didn’t even care who her next opponent was. Whomever it was, she pulverise the person. Even if it was some sort of ‘ally’ of hers. Grr, that just started to bother her, if it truly was someone like Rude, it was a bad idea to mess with them. Calming down seemed also useless. Still, she tried a bit.

Silv was sitting until she heard the call to the arena, giving glares to passer-by’s just because she could. Some of her hair came to hang over her face, so she started to wonder who this next fighter she was facing was. The girl in green and brown never bothered with reading, since young she had to read everything her brother wrote, so she really didn’t want to bother reading anymore. Then suddenly the call came.

By her side, she grabbed her axe and came up from the bench. While moving, she heard the goat person already introducing her opponent. Some circus freak? She was getting annoyed again, just from how this guy was getting introduced. “And competing against the Great Je-“

While Phil was trying to introduce Silv, she interrupted him with a shout: “piss off!! Who cares?!” She was pissed and then turned to Jecht, “and you, get back to the circus you came from!” She shouted at him as she grabbed her axe by the tail. In her arm she started to spin her axe as she dashed forward, not caring whether the match had started or not. Rather, the barrier would be put up anyway, just like the last time the match began before any announcement of it starting came.

Around her axe, Darkness started to swirl as Silv started to charge an attack, but as she came at Jecht, she did not attack with the axe. Instead, she moved her other arm forward as a full-out punch to try and ram it into Jecht’s face, “go away!”

--active spells-
Dark Beleaguer: stored one post

[malachi]

Jecht smirked as he caught Silv's fist in his hand before it could rearrange his face. He chuckled a bit as he grabbed his sword. "'A' for effort but an 'F' in the taunting department. Come on, 'go back to the circus'? My crybaby of a son could think up of a better one." he said and he began his combo by slicing at Silv's belly with his sword, bringing up a chunk of the arena with it since it was still embedded in the ground. He then let go of Silv's fist so he could retaliate with a fist of his own, before continuing on the combo with more punches, sword slices and kicks before finishing it off with a headbutt.

"I guess you're charging your axe up for an attack, eh?" Jecht mused as he stepped back. "Nice try, but it ain't gonna do you any good. I'M the best and there ain't no way you're gonna beat me!" Jecht then held his sword up high and gathered his own energy into it, getting ready to pulverize this kid into next month. "Although, I gotta say, you're energetic and ready for a fight. I like that. It'll make it all the sweeter when I pound the tar out of ya!"

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Jecht Blade - Charged up next post.

[Silv]

When Jecht grabbed his blade, she also pulled the tail of her axe and gripped it in her hand. When he tried to slice at her stomach, she stopped it with her axe. "I don't taunt, neither joke. You're the freak here," she said while glaring and when released, she was a bit surprised by the sudden attacks. Trying to react quickly to them, she could halt some attacks, especially concentrating on the sword attacks as she didn't feel like getting cut up.

When he was done with his charge of attacks, she jumped away and tried to create a distance, "you're the one looking like you're some person that takes stage in a circus for 'strongest man'. Why am I fighting an old man now?" She then started to spin her axe and charging Darkness into it, listening to him rant on him being the best and his notice of her charging attack.

"The best? You will see... I will cut this entire coliseum when I'm done with my charge. There'll be no way for you to dodge when my axe is fully engulfed in Darkness as I attack from the sky," she said serious and annoyed with the man. When he started to charge his own attack, she stared darkly at him: at least I'm glad to be fighting someone that is fighting with strength like myself. Usually there are all these stupid speedy types or ranged attacks that bother me. Head-on, full strength assault is what I prefer."

Silv then started to charge at Jecht once more, but this time as she charged and tried another punch, she created a globe in her hand as she tried to hit him again. The sphere was for her attack to create a shockwave right in Jecht's face. If he would catch her fist, it would send the shockwave through his arm, hoping to break it. If anything else, like being dodged or something, she'd crush it herself and create a shockwave to send the man flying instead.

--active spells--
Dark beleaguer: stored two posts
Dark Seed: sphere created

[malachi]

Jecht smirked and thumbed his nose at the girl. All this talk of Darkness was turning some gears in Jecht's brain. When the girl attacked and Jecht blocked it, feeling a powerful shockwave of Darkness go through his arm. It didn't break it, since Jecht was made of stronger stuff, but it hurt like no one's business. Jecht even managed a grunt of pain as he blocked it. But the Darkness he felt was familiar. Familiar... like the time he had to bail that Sora kid out of danger. Yeah...

"So you're one of those Heartless fiends, eh?" Jecht speculated, smirking still. "Well, even if you defeat me, there ain't no way you're going to kill everyone in this stadium. Not if the other competitors have anything to do about it. Heck, I even saw one of those Keyblader people back there, I think. Of course, that's IF you beat me, kid. Which you ain't gonna do, not by a long shot. I don't think you thought your plan through enough."

Jecht then unleashed Jecht Blade on the Heartless girl, hitting her with a sword slash combo, every slash much more powerful due to the energy packed into it. The final slash he used released all that energy at once, causing a rather large explosion. But Jecht wasn't done yet. The Blitz King summoned a meteor, preparing the Ultimate Jecht Shot. He caught the meteor, jumped up, spiraling through the air and through the giant flaming rock at Silv, which would cause a huge explosion on impact, as meteors tend to do.

So she wanted to destroy people. Fine. She'd just have to get through Jecht and anyone who knew Jecht personally knew that he was about as stubborn as a locked steel door.

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Jecht Blade: Cooldown - Two Posts

Ultimate Jecht Shot: Cooldown - Three Posts

[Silv]

Silv raised an eyebrow to Jecht’s words. “Don’t care about the people here,” she simply said irritated, “the barrier will protect them. They might still have their uses. I’ve worked for the Horsemen, still do if they’re still around. Not heard for some time,” she simply said bothered by the man. “Did you grow brains in the middle of the arena?” She asked when the man launched his attacks on her.

Immediately she took the handle of her axe in her hand again, stopping the spinning, and tried to block the attacks of Jecht. Due to every attack becoming more powerful, she felt it through her arms. They seemed to rang and felt near breaking as she took some attacks upon her body after all.

Beaten back, she was surprised when the man jumped and caught a meteor. “Wha-” she stared in disbelieve upwards, “where did that thing come from?” Her feet, however, had started to sink down into the ground and before the meteor could hit the ground, she had vanished into the ground using Shadow Creep. The meteor destroyed the arena, which she had planned to do with her own attack. In the flying rubble, she was as a shadow and moved so that it would appear like she had vanished completely, mixing with other shadows to surprise attack Jecht when he wouldn’t notice. It also gave her some time to recover of Jecht's attacks.

--active spells—
Dark Beleaguer: stored two posts, not stored more this post because not able when a shadow
Shadow Creep: have to come out next post

--cooldowns—
Dark Seed: three posts

[malachi]

If there was one thing Jecht excelled at, it was keeping the pressure on his opponents. However, after two attacks, he couldn't find Silv. He landed on the ground and looked around the crater he made, wondering where his Heartless opponent was. His attack wasn't that powerful, there had to be a body or something. Jecht also didn't think his opponent was that weak to just get vaporized. Then he remembered something from the Heartless he battled with Sora and the ones he battled on other worlds. Some of them had the ability to melt into the floors, like actual shadows. Since Silv was a Heartless, Jecht didn't think it was out of line to suspect her opponent could do the same.

Jecht, while disconcerted, held his ground. If the girl was going to hide from him, instead of face him head-on, that was her problem. After all, he was the Great Jecht. OF COURSE she wouldn't want to face him head on. But that also meant she'd try a surprise attack on him and Jecht had a suspicion that it'd probably work to. But all he had to do was survive it and retaliate. Jecht began charging energy into his free arm and waited for Silv. She'd have to show up at some point. In the meantime, Jecht kept his eyes on the numerous shadows, hoping to at least catch a glimpse of one moving on its own.

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Triumphant Grasp: Charged up next Round!

Jecht Blade: Cooldown - One Post

Ultimate Jecht Shot: Cooldown - Two Posts

[Silv]

The next that happened was as if Silv spoke against Jecht’s thoughts, the girl didn’t like anything other than taking her opponents head-on. She wouldn’t fall on lousy tricks like backstabbing, but instead jumped from the shadows right at Jecht’s feet with a swing forward. She had hoped to store her axe completely with this attack, but it didn’t matter any longer.

Silv jumped right out of the shadows below Jecht, but in her jump she had already started the swing with her axe as Darkness came off it. Her Dark Beleaguer was sent right in Jecht’s face, so she was certain with having stored two of five charges and this close of range, the blast would be too wide for Jecht to dodge. All there was, was to block, but even if he was so insanely strong, he’d be pushed back.

As if she wasn’t finished, she immediately rushed after her own wave to try and slice her axe through Jecht extra. At the same time as she started her run, she activated Mirage to be able to follow her wave quickly and be able to react if Jecht pulled a trick other than brute strength. “You’re making this enjoyable, old man! We should do this often!” She shouted with a grin. Her form became entirely blurry as if she was a mirage.

-- active spell--
Mirage: unknown post active (needs an update, I should ask Vincent about it later)

—cooldowns—
Dark Seed: two post
Shadow Creep: three posts
Dark Beleaguer: one post

[malachi]

Jecht was caught off-guard when the Heartless not to be sneaky with her next attack. She then sent a wave of Darkness, which luckily, Jecht could see coming and he did block it. Unfortunately, this also pushed him back and caused him a deal of pain. His feet churned up a lot of dust around him as he was pushed back. Jecht then saw Silv charging at him through the dust and lifted his sword as she attacked and blocked the Axe. Jecht then smirked at the Heartless's words.

"Yeah, well, word of advice, kid," Jecht said as he lifted his energized hand. "Should've kept your distance." He then threw his palm at the center of Silv's body and unleashed Triumphant Grasp on her, pushing her along a series of explosions before releasing the remainder of the energy like a bomb. He then kept the pressure on Silv by launching another combo on her before rearing back with that sword of his and slicing at her, intending to not only hit her but send sailing into the ground. "Like I said, you can't beat me! I'M THE BEST!"

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OOC Note: I know it's my final post, hush.

Triumphant Grasp: Cooldown - Two Rounds

Jecht Blade: FULLY COOLED DOWN

Ultimate Jecht Shot: Cooldown - One Round

[Silv]

Silv was annoyed when her attack was blocked, but when the man gave his advice and tried to grab her chest, all that was in his hands was a fading blur as Silv dodged. Using her Mirage, she had slipped past the man as he did his attack and now watched the explosions of his attack. She understood that that could’ve been painful, but she wanted to throw an attack after him. The only problem was that her Dark Beleaguer wasn’t useable yet.

“I think you just failed your title,” she said and grabbed a boulder, crushing her fist around a part that cracked to get ahold of it. Then she slammed her axe in the ground as she swung the boulder over her shoulder at the man like one of those throwers in a homerun match. She hoped to hit the man with the boulder before moving in again.

Quickly pulling the axe from the ground again, she started to move after the man, albeit slower this time as she jumped through the rubble that had been the arena. All this fighting hadn’t put it in a good shape.

--active spells--
Mirage: unknown posts

--cooldowns--
Dark Seed: one post
Shadow Creep: two posts
Dark Beleaguer: can be used again

(ooc: well, that ended this..)

[Larxene]

Jecht will progress to the next round.