Match #11: Whatever VS Selena

[Felix]

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

You may begin!

[Whatever]

In a rather sluggish way, the Heartless walked onto the stage. Last round he had only won due to his opponent not showing up. Apparently his name was Weiss, the Heartless never got to see the guy even, so he guessed the guy went off to do some other business. Maybe he got caught up or whatever. Still, in some of the Heartless’ memories he remembered some things happening in this world. Tournaments happened a lot, but he saw in the past not really people forfeiting matches. Suppose I just got lucky, he thought, still unsure why he even bothered entering this place.

The people weren’t exactly cheering for him, it seemed, most of them were rather confused by the Heartless’ appearance, others cheered for his opponent. Apparently his opponent had made more appearances on the stage. He had not even given a name when entering, suddenly a voice called, just like the last match, but that time nobody appeared to oppose him when the same voice had called for his opponent. It didn’t take long before the voice had called that his opponent had not shown that time.

“Alright, ladies and gentlemen! This person came in unknown and not even given a name, other than having been a gladiator in the past. So we’ll just dub him as the ‘Nameless Homeless Gladiator’ due to his appearance. Since seriously, what happened after his days as a gladiator, he looks like he got dumped in the streets. Maybe he’s just looking to regain his fame. Well, I got little more to say!”

Again the bit with the hobo, what is it with everyone and calling me hobo? the Heartless wondered with a sigh, at least no one knows I’m a Heartless here. At least I don’t see anyone and I don’t know this opponent I’m facing, "so whatever." He simply awaited his opponent’s appearance. Standing there a bit bowed and hanging as if he seriously looked like some retard that should be sitting on the ground on the sidelines, begging for food and money.

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OOC Note
Hey Selena, good luck and have fun! ^.^ Hope this is good enough of a start... ^.^;;

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The dark angel had not expected herself to pull a win at the last moment with her new-found ability to use the darkness to transform herself to a heartless demon due to all the damaged she had taken from Shuyin's blitzball attacks. Selena had to admit that the blitzball player was a formidable opponent and he had given her a run for her munny especially when she had given him a chance to surrender. He had managed to cause as much damage as she did to him if not more.

After the match between herself and Shuyin was over, Selena , in her normal form, had staggered off the arena to the lobby so the next matches could be set up. Catching her breath, the dark angel sat down on a bench to contemplate on what had happened during the last match. At first glance, it would appear that the 'angel' was depressed, and in a way, that assumption would be right, but she was more disappointed in herself for her acts in the previous round. That really could not have been me...Right? mused the winged woman solemnly as she remembered how harsh the battle had become even before she had accepted her 'demon' and mentally reassured herself that the blitzball warrior had asked for it because she had given him a chance to quit.

Her back was sore from constantly backing into the barrier and the blitzball effect so the winged woman sticks her hand inside her right jeans pocket to pull out a potion.. She pulls out the potion before uncorking the small vial and drank its contents. Relieved temporarily of the soreness, the dark angel could hear her 'name' being called up by the one called 'Phil'. "I should learn to at least control it..." muttered Selena as she stood up with a dark aura surrounding her body before wrapping itself around her to replace the "angel" with the demon, her Dark Form[/b]. It was in this form that Selena returned to the arena to face her future opponent and the cold, emotionless mask returned to her expression.

"And up next as our ‘Nameless Homeless Gladiator’s opponent, is a Black Angel who had fought valiantly against Shuyin in the previous round, is Artemis! Whether she is after our current champion, Genesis Rhapsodos, to claim the title for herself after he-"

As the crowds loudly cheered the at the appearance of Selena, Phil's rant was cut short by a frighteningly dark glare in the satyr's direction from the amber eyes of 'Artemis'. With her reptilian tail swishing from side to side, the demon glances at the hunched position of whom she had presumed to be her opponent as the announcement didn't give him a name. ...I shouldn't let my guard down even if he appears to be weak...[/i] mused the dark keybearer as she summoned her Heartsickness keyblade to her outstretched right hand and the crowd cheered wildy as they recognized the weapon, "Good luck. I certainly hope you're aware of what you're getting yourself into." There was an arrogant smirk on her face as she said this to Whatever but the demon wasn't going to be the first to start the fight.

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Dark Form: Appearance

With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 5 Posts]

OOC: Good luck to you too Whatever! ^^' Hope this is enough to start the fight.

[Whatever]

The Heartless noticed his opponent coming, but what he saw, did surprise him. Okayyyy... Let me think... I’ve seen dog-things, a giant ice golem, and even a half-snake creature... then he studied his opponent, this time... winged... seems like some sort of bat-thing? Dogs, snakes, bats, what manner of sick person mixed with animals? He wondered how that even worked.

The woman was titled ‘black angel’, or was this her race? He wasn’t even sure about it all anymore. Her glare towards the announcer did make the Heartless give a bit of a smile while tilting his head backwards, as if he was looking down on the woman. Wait, that tail... his smile faded as he looked at it and recalled a bat in mind, bats have no tails. It looks more of... he tried to think of the strange reptile he had seen before. What are those creatures called anyway?

Other than weird choice of clothing, she’s... bizarre, the Heartless thought to himself as he watched the girl stretch out a hand. His curious gaze turned into a shocked expression when seeing the Keyblade appear. He still remained quiet, though. The woman spoke to him with an arrogant smirk, which resulted the Heartless to turn his own expression in more of a dark one as he glared at the woman.

“Are... angels creatures made of bats, humans and lizards? Maybe born from a mix of them all?” He questioned the woman all of a sudden as he tilted his head to the left, “also...” he lowered himself as his knees bend. The Heartless came more in a crouched positioning, but remained standing as he took more of a stance. It was a stance he had gotten used to during his time as a slave with the many fights in the pit, “... I suggest you quit. You wear little clothing and reveal to me too much of your body. This only allows me to pinpoint the area’s I need to strike easier,” he continued with a light smirk on his face.

The Heartless tilted his head forward, wondering if he could intimidate the woman in simply giving up, but also accepted that this might work in the opposite way. In that the ‘angel’ would attack him at full force from the start, but he was not planning to give away his abilities immediately. He waited, waited for the moment to materialize a weapon and strike unnoticed. He didn’t see much difference on the more ‘human’ skin parts, so he suspected he could easily penetrate those parts with attacks.

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As 'Artemis' studied her opponent, she realized that he was observing her as well and that would make the fight difficult if they are waiting for the other to make the first move. If he isn't going to fight, then why join this tournament? wondered the demonic keybearer, instinctively tightening her grip on the keyblade when he darkly glared at her despite the smile he had shown earlier for 'shutting up' the announcer. She merely rose an unseen brow at the glare and the tip of her reptilian tail twitched to the left in irritation.

The nameless fighter's attire didn't faze her, but it did intrigue her quite a bit. It was as if he was dressed for survival in a desert rather than a tournament. Should I be looking out for hand-to-hand combat? mused the dark demon in wonder as she noticed that he lacked a weapon, and was nearly caused off guard when he asked her if an angel were made up of several species but mentally shrugged it off with a dark smirk, "No. If anything, this form is one of a demon."

However, the smirk turned into a frown as he audibly noted the little clothing that her dark form had. 'Artemis' suddenly felt self-conscious and wished that she had her cloak with her. Just stay aware that this form doesn't have any type of defensive armor to protect the vital areas...[/i] mused the demon as she kept her expression neutral and shrugged, "Nice try. Just because you know where my weak points are at, doesn't mean that you would able to hit them with a hundred percent accuracy." As soon as those words left her lips, the Black Angel casually slashed her keyblade downward at Whatever's general, summoning the silver 'flame' wolf from her blade. The wolf released a mournful howl as it charged at its master's opponent and leaped up at him, aiming to take out the throat.

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Dark Form: Appearance

With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 4 Posts left]

Wolf's Fang[/color]: a silver/blood-red wolf out of Heart's Blood comes out of her keyblade and attacks the opponent. It may team up with Selena during the two post duration. [Duration: 2 Posts]

[Whatever]

Demon? It was a word he could remember from the past. Apparently even some immensely strong people were called demons. He could recall some of the strongest slaves in the pits had been named demons for the way they slaughtered others. They completely lost their minds. Demons... are creatures. Mindless killing machines, so that’s the physical form of a demon? A smirk played on the Heartless’ face with that thought, being interested. Deeply interested.

Listening to the ‘demon’’s words, he wondered what she planned if he would not be able to strike her at full accuracy. So she’s fast? Or is there a hidden trick? When she slashed his way, he narrowed his eyes, not sure what the use of slashing in his general direction would be until he saw something silver appear. Silver flames? It took the form of a wolf, remembering his days as a slave, he had been in the ring with beasts before.

Masters love to see their slaves combat beasts and see them being ripped to shreds especially when they loose use for that slave, he had seen fellow slaves being killed by beasts. Even wolves had been driven mad by no food until they would attack in a berserk state. Seeing the beast almost looked like flames at the start, he wasn’t sure whether it was right to touch the beast.

In his mind, he thought of this as if he was once again in the pits, fighting for survival. Quickly bending his feet further, he turned his right food sideward and pushed himself forward when the wolf leaped. Sliding over the ground, he could feel his back as he flattened himself against the ground while sliding to make sure the claws would reach him at all as the wolf passed by over him. Then pushing himself off the ground, he rolled over and tried to get back on his feet, with a stumble he started to move for Selena.

While rushing, he tried to a bit to the side and let himself drop forward. His left leg bended as he went down to the ground and placed his foot so that he could use the ground to set himself off and brought up his right fist to try and deliver a punch. Meanwhile, he also kept his right foot up to place and try to push forward in case the woman tried to block with her Keyblade. By pushing an extra time with the right foot, he would try to push the woman backwards and maybe bring her off-balance for a next attack.

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OOC Note
I hope you get what I'm trying here. I'm trying my best to explain his attack. o.0; His two actions: 1. Evading the Wolf, and 2. Attacking Selena with his right fist, but giving boosts forward with both legs, initially with his left to speed forward, then, when he's striking with his fist, with his right to give an extra boost in trying to give a heavier punch or pushing Selena backwards in case of blocking. ^.^;

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When 'Artemis' had stated that her Dark form was that of a demon, her Heart was disturbed at the realization. 'Demon' had been amongst the derogatory names that the villagers had called her so long ago before the Heartless attacked and she 'escaped' her own home world. The image of a room with blood-stained walls and claw marks scarring almost every pale-colored floor board flashed across her mind for a brief moment . The dark angel frowned as she noted that her opponent had succeeded in evading her 'wolf' and was now charging at her with his right fist aimed for her.

The wolf misses its intended target and as a result, smashes into the barrier that separates it from the crowd. Those who were unfortunate to have been seated close to or directly behind where the 'wolf' smashed against the strong barrier, either gave a surprised gasp or screamed when the ‘wolf’ connected to the barrier. The wolf of 'silver flame' lands in a heap on the ground, but not willing to fail its 'master', it stands up and held its head high as it howls directly at the sky. The crowd cheers wildly at the comeback of the Black Angel's 'wolf'. Snarling, it began to stalk Whatever as he began his assault on the dark keybearer and waits for its chance to strike.

The 'Demon' raises her keyblade to block the blow, but the force impact of when it connected did catch her off guard and was pushed backward as result. The heels of her thigh-high boots slid on the ground as she was pushed backward, creating a dirt-cloud. That was a pretty gutsy move... mused 'Artemis' as she quickly regained her balance, Risky too...I wonder if he got nicked by one of the thorns of my keyblade? When the dark keybearer had raised her keyblade, she knew that there was a chance that his fist could collide into one of the many poisonous thorns of her keyblade. He could have poisoned himself and not know it until the poison itself kicks in.

The dark keybearer cruelly smirks at the man in front of her. From behind Whatever, the wolf of 'silver flame' dashes toward him and leaps for his back. "You should never turn your back on your opponents." states 'Artemis' as she sidesteps to the left in case she should somehow get caught in the crossfire between her 'pet' and the opponent.

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Dark Form: Appearance

With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 3 Posts left]

Wolf's Fang: a silver/blood-red wolf out of Heart's Blood comes out of her keyblade and attacks the opponent. It may team up with Selena during the two post duration. [Duration: 1 Post left]

[Whatever]

The woman did regain her balance too quickly, which he had not hoped for. Still, she got pushed a bit back, so he... wait, even before Selena mentioned the wolf, the Heartless had turned half backwards. He wasn’t going to forget the second problem. With his half-turn, he lifted a hand, planning to use Stonera. Dark streams flowed around his hand as suddenly a large rock materialized, sent right at the wolf that had leapt his way. The Heartless could not see how the wolf would dodge that. He was still unsure if he could touch the beast.

While knowing of the wolf’s strange silver flaming-ness, the Heartless had also noted the strange thorns of the Keyblade. Especially up close when he had attacked, he noticed that they indeed were sharp. In the same moment as he had turned to the wolf, in his other hand, something started to materialize with streams of Darkness. In that hand a handgun quickly materialized in the same black and foggy manner as the stone had.

As the girl was probably not expecting a sudden weapon and the Heartless materialized it rapidly. He fired three bullets at the woman, trying to aim for head, torso and legs in succession due to the range not being that far. He did feel disappointed with the weapon, again the smaller gun... It doesn’t give as much defence as the other and seems so much harder to use, he thought annoyed to himself. Due to his bad use of guns, he hoped his shots would at least hit, but seeing this close range, he found it hard to believe to miss like when he was firing on long range. With the speed of materializing both stone and gun, he hoped to have caught them both off guard for these attacks.

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The Cries of a Spell
d6 ~ 1: Stonera: One post cooldown.

The Cries of an Item
d6 ~ 2: Handgun: Four posts active.

OOC Note
Fail post is fail... Sorry. @_@;; Just found little time to reply in and really needed to get a reply in, sorry again.

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If the wolf of her Wolf's Fang was capable of any emotion or logical thought, it would have been astonished at how fast Whatever was able to turn around and cast a spell at it. As the fiery wolf was still in mid-air when the spell was cast, the stone smashes into the wolf successfully. Flying backward, the wolf smashes into the barrier and once again scares the audience before it fell limp onto its side on the ground. The wolf doesn't get back up this time and its form fades away into nothingness.

Upon seeing the handgun, 'Artemis' herself was mentally caught off guard as she wasn't expecting to see a weapon in her opponent's hands at all because she had dangerously assumed that he was an expert in hand-to-hand combat. The Black Angel instinctively raises her keyblade up again to block two of the bullets that were specifically aimed for her head and torso. However when the demon had positioned herself to block the bullets, 'Artemis' had left her legs vulnerable and as a result, the third shot grazes the right side of her left shin.

The Demon grimaces as she felt herself fall onto her left knee, but only cruelly smirks as she glanced up at him. "Lucky shot, but the fight isn't over yet." states 'Artemis' as she forces herself to stand up again, but winces as the red-hot pain shoots up her leg. Ignoring the fact that Whatever could shoot her where she stood, the dark angel charges at Whatever and aims a five-slash combination (lower left to upper right diagonal, upper-right to upper-left horizontal, upper-left to lower-right diagonal, lower-right to lower-left horizontal then lower-left to lower-right horizontal) at his upper-torso in the hopes of at least one of the slashes would hit.

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Dark Form[/color]: Appearance

With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense.
[Duration: 2 Posts left]

Wolf's Fang: a silver/blood-red wolf out of Heart's Blood comes out of her keyblade and attacks the opponent. It may team up with Selena during the two post duration. [Cooldown: 3 Posts]

[Keyblade Ability]:
What is special about this keyblade is that it turns the Heart's Blood into a poison that attacks the Heart. It's most effective on Heartless, ironically, but it has no effect on Nobodies. Selena is usually never uses this keyblade to attack people though Black Angel might. The poison will only deplete health until it’s low. No worries.

[Cool Down: None.] [Duration: 3 Posts or until healed with a curative spell.]

((OOC: Musedeath. So sorry. x.x))

[Whatever]

The Heartless was slightly thankful for all his battles and training had brought him. While he had been wounded and in pain a lot, it did give him some extra and one of the things that had kept him alive so long had been his reflexes to be able to quickly react to certain situations. Still, he was not able to see what happened to the wolf when Artemis started her own attack.

Having made his surprise attack, the Heartless was glad he had been able to wound his opponent a bit and gotten to a close range seemed to have worked in his favour for the moment. However, all this did make him think of himself as stupid when ‘Artemis’ counter-attacked. “Luck is one of the things that kept me alive, probably,” he responded to the woman and pulled his other hand up as he gathered more streams of Darkness. In this sad excuse of a hand, he now held his other gun, the Reinforced Gun.

Since his left hand lost his pink and ring finger, he wasn’t as strong with it as his other hand. His other hand was the one he normally used for weapons, which was also the reason he had used that hand first to gain a weapon. In ‘Artemis’’s attack, he would never be able to get the two guns to switch hand, so had to work with what he had as he attempted to block the first attack. Since the attack was fast and his attempt at blocking was not as fast, the initial slash went quite well through shirt and skin.

The Heartless started to jump back, letting himself fall a bit backwards to speed up the movement as the second slash of the combo came through, but weaker. The second diagonal slash and third part of the combo, he did place his Reinforced Gun in the way, but with help from his second as he pushed it away and got to the ground. He immediately crouched both legs upwards and placed it against the ground as he felt the next two attacks run through his body as well, but pushed himself away over the ground. He rolled quickly to get back onto his feet and started to hop further backwards as he took a quick keep around for the wolf.

While he had started to try and distance himself, he felt intense pains from the wounds as Darkness seemed out of them. He wasn’t certain why the pain was this intense, but tried to ignore most of it. Immediately, he raised up his guns again and now started shooting with both. “You playing dirty?” He asked her as the pain seemed to ring through his body as he figured it was some kind of poison, but didn’t know it was more effective on a Heartless.

His barrage of bullets weren’t as well aimed as before, but due to continuously shooting the two guns, it was like he was holding a slow machine gun.

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The Cries of an Item
Handgun: Three posts active.
Reinforced Gun: Four posts active.

The Cries of a Spell
Stonera: Opened up.

OOC Note
No worries! Was really fun match! Our last posts and the fun has sadly ended. Definitely one that could have gone on for so much longer. xDDD I could see this match reach a second page. Thank you for the match! -bows-

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The "wolf" that the Black Angel had summoned during the beginning of their round was long gone as it had been defeated by his Stonera technique. 'Artemis' had noticed that he was glancing around for the creature and was tempted to call him foolish as the searching had compromised his defenses when she had counter-attacked. She felt her left shin throb in pain from the graze but the dark angel tries not to let it get to her. "I'm the one you should be worrying about now..."states the 'Artemis' seductively, a dark smirk appearing on her pale face but she mentally frowns as she notices the reinforced gun appearing in his other hand as he blocked two of her slashes of her combination, Two? Is he holding back?

However, the dark angel's smirk broadens into a sadistic grin as she saw that a few of her slashes from her Heartsickness keyblade had connected with Whatever's body. She knew that her keyblade's poison was going to affect her opponent very soon. 'Artemis' cruelly laughs when Whatever hopped backward after her previous five-slash onslaught and looked around for the wolf. "Pay attention!" shouts the Demon just the Heartless warrior pointed both guns at her and started his barrage of bullets.

The dark angel grins as she jumps to the left side, but that grin dissolves into a grimace as a few of the bullets grazes her right bicep and tail. She grits her teeth when one bullet is lodged in her right shoulder and switches her keyblade to her left hand, her weaker hand. I needed to end it now! Don't be clumsy now, Selena! mentally chastises 'Artemis' to herself but smirks in response to Whatever's inquiry of whether or not she was 'playing dirty', "What's the matter? Can't handle a little poison?"

With a loud battle cry that sounded more like a banshee, the Demon charges at Whatever for a three-slash combination (left to right horizontal, top right to lower left diagonal then lower left to upper left vertical). The battle was wearing the Black Angel's patience thin and she did not know whether or not she can hold this 'Dark Form' until the battle finally ended. Selena had realized back when she fought Shuyin that the darkness was twisting her own personality and knew that she needs to end the fight soon before she loses herself completely.

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Dark Form:[/b]: Appearance

With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense.
[Duration: 1 Posts left]

Wolf's Fang[/color]: a silver/blood-red wolf out of Heart's Blood comes out of her keyblade and attacks the opponent. It may team up with Selena during the two post duration. [Cooldown: 2 Posts left]

[Keyblade Ability]:
What is special about this keyblade is that it turns the Heart's Blood into a poison that attacks the Heart. It's most effective on Heartless, ironically, but it has no effect on Nobodies. Selena is usually never uses this keyblade to attack people though Black Angel might. The poison will only deplete health until it’s low. No worries.

[Cool Down: None.] [Duration: 2 Posts left or until healed with a curative spell.]

OOC: Yes it was fun. I could definitely see this going onto a second and maybe even a third page. ^^' Good luck and thank you for the match Yazoo! ='D

[Larxene]

Selena will progress to the next round.