Vanitas vs. Silv

[Hades]

Well, how does a Death God top a spectacular preliminary round of his own tournament? By making the rest of the rounds even better, of course. The stands and arena was empty currently, everyone avoiding the repair process. Hades stood in front of his throne, assessing the damage. He chuckled at the sight of the ruined stadium. The mayhem was amazing! He clapped his hands and a blast of white light enveloped the stadium. When it subsided, the stands and the battlefield were fully restored, with added bonuses. The battlefield now included several platforms of varying heights and sizes. Most of them were suspended in mid-air, but a few near the bottom were attached to posts secured in the ground.

A gong sounded and two gates opened up, signaling the combatants forward. The stands quickly filled as the warriors took their spots. Hades shouted across the stadium, "Welcome to Round Two! You'll see a few differences in the arena this time. I've added multiple platforms to enhance the battles. I know many of you like to hop around like rabbits on caffene, so here's your chance! I'm sure you'll also be glad to know that I've created barriers around the stands, so the spectators will not be injured. Feel free to cut loose in this round!" A shout of joy came from the spectators as they were glad they wouldn't be burnt, blown away, frozen, pelted by rocks, or anything else.

Hades, however, was not finished yet. He spoke again, "In the North Corner, we have -Vanitas-!" More cheers roared from the stands and then fell quickly. "In the South Corner, we have -Silv-!" Another round of cheers rose and fell. Hades then finished with, "But what kind of Hades Cup would this be without some stipulations, huh? In this round, I'm gonna take away... Summons and Transformation abilities! And to make sure you follow this rule, I'm going to do this!" Another ball of energy left his hands and created an invisibile field around the arena. "This will ensure that you follow my rules. Now, fight!"




-OOC: Okay, now for rules. You can't use Summons or Transformations at all. That includes drive forms, trance, metamorphosis, or anything else that follows these lines. You cannot use Summons of any type, including GFs, Materia Summons, or any other types under your Summon sections. All of you should know what I'm getting at here. Attempting this will not only make your favorite deadman angry, but result in immediate disqualification. There is a 72 hour post limit and a 2 week limit on the round. So have fun, post frequently, and kick some butt. I look forward to seeing how this round goes. Don't disappoint me, now!-

[Vanitas]

[atrb=style,border: 2px solid #000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 20px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 20px;][atrb=background, i52.tinypic.com/2zghpbb.jpg][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,442,true][atrb=height,450,true][atrb=vAlign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,3,true] Evil tastes the tears of fear! tearing down your helpless fate Theme: Light Comes Out Of Black Tagged: Vanitas, Silv Comments:Let the carnage begin. Vanitas hadn’t been the least bit surprised by his advancement into the next round. He’d shown some of his full potential in that preliminary round, and planned to show even more as he grew more and more towards advancing tom the top, so he might teach some of these wannabe losers the proper way to be defeated: By him. He did regret that amongst the rankings was Claire. Well, maybe regret was a strong word. He would prefer to not have to destroy her like every other combatant, but he could not guarentee they would not face, and therefore could not guarentee he wouldn’t destroy her in the future. Well, not so early at least. The girl had some potential, if a little headstrong. Other combatants had been moving about the stadium, but Vanitas refused to interact with any of them. He kept his helmet on, refusing to remove the apparatus within sight of anyone. Some might know his name. Some might even recognize him, but he remained silent as a statue. He was sure he had set at least a few on nerve from this, and beneath his mask he smirked at the thought. Even as he stood with the gates lowered, he sighed and smirked at the thought of how he would perform in this torunement. He would destroy everyone, even the people watching. He’d be a mysterious figure, and enigma. His name, after all, meant nothingness. It meant emptiness, and though he was not empty like nobodies, he was empty of the sympathy and compassion of light. He knew only chaos and destruction, and he would provide that. Even as the god spoke about protecting the viewers, he smirked. Let’s see how long that lasts…

[/color] he smirked. All barriers had a weakness, and while his target was not the audience, he would still destroy them somehow.

The gates rose, and his name was called. Vanitas stepped out amongst the cheers. Ignorant fools. Yet many hushed quickly, almost too quick. Did they know him, or did they sense him? Could they sense the darkness that coated his oddly masked boy, an enigma and unknown to the world? With the calling of the second combatant came a more interesting turn. Silv… such an odd name. Yet as the woman stepped out, Vanitas could already taste it. It seemed the crowd, being hushed soon after the second set of cheers as well, might have sensed it as well. This woman was not a woman. She may look it, but deep down, Vanitas could taste the secret within her. The audience seemed to even be able to sense it. Vanitas spared a moment to turn to the God of the dead, staring at him from beneath the mask, and grinning. He did not know if the god would sense his enjoyment, but he wondered if the God of death did this purposefully, perhaps.

For he had just pitted the master of the Unversed and Keyblader of the Broken Dark Heart, against a higher order Heartless.

The words of the lack of summons and transformations did resonate within Vanitas, but that just meant things would be more.. Even, per se. The woman would not be able to summon heartless reinforcements, as he suspected she might remotely be able to. But he would not be able to summon his own pets, the Unversed. Well, this was not a bad thing of course. Vanitas had no intention fo using his trump card for quite a while.

Now, Fight!

“My pleasure.” Vanitas said with a grin, doing the one thing he knew would set this heartless off. He forced out his hand and grined as the dark light of darkness pooled around his half closed fist, flashing brilliantly until a form took shape. His Keyblade in hand, Vanitas dropped into a fighting stance, Keyblade over head and hand out before him. With any luck, the woman, upon seeing the key blade, would immediately attack him head on.

Which was just what he wanted.[/div][/td][/tr][/table]

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[Silv]

Staring at all the different platforms flying around didn't make it a flat easy place to execute her opponent in. She definitely preferred the old tournaments, one platform, one place of slaughter. Although all these stupid rules made so many things different to do within. And this time it was with some kind of God of Death hosting the damn place.

Weak, regardless of all this, she had managed to get to another round. Since the first tournament, the Remnant Cup Tournament, she had not reached the Semi-Finals again. And at the time she wasn't a Heartless.

The rule against transformations and summons did little to her, she preferred to fight alone and had no ways of changing forms. Perhaps... somewhere in the past that had been an issue, but at this moment, she would only trust in her own strength. The Empty she once controlled had never been of that much use otherwise than some form of 'extension' for powers.

Looking at her opponent, she noted the Keyblade. "What is it with all these idiots carrying Keyblades? You find them everywhere these days, she said disgusted as she felt she sometimes met more Keybladers than Heartless, but especially more than Nobodies.

It did not matter to her. Silv then finally set herself in motion as the opponent had only gone into a fighting stance and with all the platforms, she wasn't able to simply rush right at him. Instead, she thought of using a little trick.

Slowly she started to hold up her axe, then she opened a portal for the Corridors before her as she slipped through in an instant. She reappeared right behind her opponent as her axe came down. She aimed to cut her opponent in half at the very start of this battle, but figured that was impossible as nobody here would be caught in such an attack.

Right after, she jumped backwards to distance herself while darkness started to swirl into her axe.

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Corridors to Darkness: 4 post cooldown
Dark Beleaguer: 1 post storeds

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ignore this post if not allowed, just having some trouble

[Vanitas]

[atrb=style,border: 2px solid #000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 20px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 20px;][atrb=background, i52.tinypic.com/2zghpbb.jpg][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,442,true][atrb=height,450,true][atrb=vAlign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,3,true] Evil tastes the tears of fear! tearing down your helpless fate Theme: Light Comes Out Of Black Tagged: Vani, Silv Comments:Short, but effective. They always fall for it. That was the thought that crossed Vanitas mind as he heard the portal behind him opening, an after image of him within the ready stance left behind long enough for her to strike through it, looking as if she might have dealt her killing blow right off and hopefully setting her into false security. With no sound, Vanitas appeared behind the woman and slightly above after she herself had jumped back, bringing his key blade down in the same manner she had attempted with her axe, but with an added bonus: when his key blade connected to the ground, he struck out with lightning, sending a shock of thunder from his key blade that sparked from the collision on the ground up through the heartless woman should it connect. He noted the darkness swirling in her staff and grinned beneath his mask, jumping and spinning back in a dodging move reminiscent of Aqua from long ago, landing on one of the many platforms from above. With a grin, he looked down to his opponent and waved his hand in a taunting motion. That was only a taste of Vanitas’ potential, and he had much more to show. A simple parlor trick and spell would do little against a heartless that was in physical form like her own. He’d have to do much, MUCH more to take her out, and he wasn’t afraid to do such. In fact, he’d do it easily. Heartless or not, this woman was just the first step to decimating the rest of the competition. She was barely an ant to him right now. And he would squish this ant with glee.

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[Silv]

When her attack struck an image that was left behind, it didn't bother her or make her think she had dealt a big blow. Instead, it just reminded her of two others that used similar images. Makes me wonder if he's part of the family, she figured annoyed, but still cared very little.

After that, she could just have expected nothing other than the guy reappearing behind him. Though, he wasn't going to jump away or dodge or anything, doing so would just seem retarded to her as she braced herself. Silv took the first attack from Vanitas as he came down with his key, as it was the attack from a Keyblade, she could feel a great sting from the attack. It only reminded her of how annoying Keybladers were. Then she moved away to the side, still with her back towards the Keybearer.

"Hmph," she had dodged the lightning that followed the strike and continued to send Darkness into her axe. Looking at the boy move about while jumping and spinning, made her wonder what he was up to next. She didn't bother to follow his attacks with an attack of her own, instead charging her axe for a later attack. She figured it was best to use it later when the wave would be bigger.

"Oh, you think you're all that great, do you?" She responded to Vanitas' taunting gesture. With that, she started to move forward while a globe started to shape in her free hand. At the middle of the arena, she hit the ground with the orb as she used her Dark Seed technique to shatter the platform they were on. "Hmph," she quickly pulled up and kicked some debris at Vanitas' direction, but considering it a very 'lame' attack to attack with debris, but she wanted to keep her axe for a larger attack.

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Corridors to Darkness: 3 posts cooldown
Dark beleaguer: 2 posts stored
Dark Seed: 3 post cooldown

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just in case you wonder how the Dark Beleaguer works.. I store darkness into the axe in posts, if I use the attack without storing, it works like a low level attack, when I have one post worth of Darkness stored (like I had now) and had used the attack in this post (which I didn't), it would be equal to a -ra attack if you go by Fira, Blizzara, Thundara.. now I have two posts stored, so if I was to use the attack in the next post, it would be equal to a -ga attack.. when the attack is used, I have to store again from the start if I want to reuse this attack.. I can store up to five posts, which would be five posts of storing and one post of releasing and would be an 6th form if you went by -ra, -ga, -ja.. so: 0=normal; 1=ra; 2=ga; 3=ja; 4=sa; 5=ultimate attack

[Vanitas]

[atrb=style,border: 2px solid #000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 20px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 20px;][atrb=background, i52.tinypic.com/2zghpbb.jpg][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,442,true][atrb=height,450,true][atrb=vAlign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,3,true] Evil tastes the tears of fear! tearing down your helpless fate Theme: Light Comes Out of Black Tagged: Vani, Silv Comments: I get your meaning of your build-up, no worries. The fellow warrior of darkness had dodged the Lightning. Interesting, and it proved she was not stupid like most heartless. But given she was humanoid, perhaps that said something after all. Humanoid heartless were so… unique. Whether they acted more human or heartless was so strange. Sometimes they changed. In this case, it seemed the woman would act more human, but feel the annoyingness of his key blade. Yes, despite a key blade from the realm of darkness, it still harmed heartless all the same. It sent a primal glee through Vanitas to know he would be the bane of this warrior, simply by having a key blade at all. Keybearers were annoying like that anyway though, weren’t they? His taunt seemed to have garnered a vocal response though, and Vanitas grinned beneath his mask at that. To get such a verbal response. Did he think he was all that? Well, maybe. He was certainly at an advantage having a key blade, but did he believe he was all that? Well, yes. He may have had only half a heart. He may have been pure darkness. He may have been a broken shell. But Vanitas was, quite simply, all that and more. He would destroy this heartless and then continue to the next round easily. The woman moved forward, forming darkness in her hand and then slamming the ground to destroy the very platform they stood on. Interesting technique.It would mean little though as Vanitas quickly coated himself in darkness and warped at, into, and through Silv, attacking her in a warp attack rush that he would follow up with two more attacks should the first connect, whilst simultaneously thanks to his speed dodging the kicked debris. He would follow up with a leap back to an even higher platform, shooting a bolt of ice from his key blade while mid-air before landing in an attempt to hit the woman. Simple attacks and moves for now, but he wanted to remain simple for now. He knew the woman was charging some sort of technique to use, and he’d need to be ready to dodge it.

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After-Image - [1/2]
Thundaga - [1/3]
Dark Spiral - Vanitas quickly charges forward covered in darkness, attacking twice more if the target is hit on first strike. [2 or 3 post cool down based on if hit or not]
Blizzaga Vanitas fires a projectile of ice from his key blade. [3 post cool down]

[Silv]

It didn't seem her opponent was very responsive... with the helmet on and everything, it just made her feel like she was fighting a Heartless like in the past. Only a Heartless that had his act put better together than one of the weaker ones. No... She was taught by the others how to somewhat 'feel' other Heartless and it wasn't the case from the boy, although... she had a different feeling about him than a normal person sometimes referred to as a 'Sombody', does that make him different?

So far he had found out that Nobodies were hard to sense other than by the Darkness, in case they were people like Saïx and Xigbar. However, she always had a different 'feel' when it had come down to Keybearers, but it seemed to her that this one was 'special'. It would possibly interest someone like Yazoo, but all I would care here is to cleave that mask and head, if he has one, together with it into two. Wether he's some kind of special 'Heartless Keybearer' or some random new species for the hell I care, she thought irritated by her current form of thoughts.

The opponent appeared very confident in his movements, if he could tear off the mask, he'd expect one giant grin or smirk like that of Kadaj. What would happen if I aimed for the mask, would he be so incredibly ugly or just trying to hide his identity or something? Suddenly she remembered where she had seen that mask before, the one with the old man? The two silent spectators back before she became a Heartless. Well, this makes things much more interesting, she thought interested while planning her next strategy.

When she had crushed the platform, the boy seemed to use some form of Darkness. Before she knew it, she was suddenly attacked by the boy. While taking the full assault from three strikes, she gripped ahold of her axe in full, while continuously storing Darkness into it, she quickly spun the weapon. With one quick throw, she sent the axe hurling upwards and at another platform.

Then she started to move quickly over the debris and bended her legs at the last part to make a full jump into the air. Now weaponless, she got onto a different platform. She already had noted the opponent moving further and using an ice-attack, so she tried to jump in a pattern to dodge and continued to move. On the platform, she then started to move to where her axe had hit another platform on the side to take back her weapon.

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Corridors to Darkness: 2 post cooldown
Dark Beleaguer: 3 post stored
Dark Seed: 2 post cooldown

[Vanitas]

[atrb=style,border: 2px solid #000000; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 20px; -moz-border-radius-bottomright: 20px;][atrb=background, i52.tinypic.com/2zghpbb.jpg][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=width,442,true][atrb=height,450,true][atrb=vAlign,top][atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellSpacing,0,true][atrb=cellPadding,3,true] Evil tastes the tears of fear! tearing down your helpless fate Theme: Light Comes Out Of Black Tagged: Vani, Silv Comments: Meh, crap post, but it functions It had been a long time ago, and given Vanitas’ own unnatural state, it was any wonder he had remembered this woman at all. There had been a small twinge of familiarity somewhere, and then it came flooding back as soon as the platform he had landed on became shattered, the bladed edge of the axe being thrown only just catching on his chin guard and kicking his head back, causing him to stumble and be unable to hold his balance as he began to tumble. He threw out a hand in the tumbling to catch a ledge, pulling himself up with his supernatural dark strength and swinging about to look for the woman, watching. She was clearly strong, and now he knew why. This woman was a heartless humanoid because her heart had been strong, because he had watched this woman before she became a heartless. He saw the woman drop to another platform, weaponless, but somehow Vanitas knew not defenseless. She had used an attack of darkness before, and she could have more up her sleeve. Not to mention the dark power in her axe hadn’t been released yet. He needed to step up his game, and quickly cleared his mind, letting the darkness flood his mind and body. He soon emanated that murky cloud-like darkness off his body, dropping into attack stance. The darkness would empower him, make him stronger. If he could just defeat her before she fully charged that darn axe. That’s it! The axe. He had to time this right. Aiming his key blade, Vanitas fired off yet another spell, the last in his elemental repertoire. A large large ball of flame formed before his key blade, then was fired, splitting into three smaller balls of flame aimed right for Silv. One straight on, two to each side. All three were tracking and would follow the woman unless eh was good at dodging. But with timing, if she dodged it, she’d be delayed in collecting her axe. If he could prevent her from actually getting a hold of her axe, he’d clearly hold the upper hand. Even better: If he could grab a hold of that darn axe…

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After-Image - [2/2]
Thundaga - [2/3]
Dark Spiral - [1/3]
Blizzaga - [1/3]
Firaga - Vanitas can cast this spell which causes a large ball of flame to form in front of him, then split in three to strike in an arc before him, following after the intended target and increasing in speed. [3 Post Cooldown]

[Silv]

Silv had hoped to get Vanitas closer, that he had closed the distance between the two and she could just summon her axe and strike right in his face. This strategy seemed to have completely failed when the guy seemed to be more interested in getting closer to the axe than her. The next skill I need to learn is to teleport to my axe rather than to teleport my axe to me, she thought frustrated by the turn of events when the masked kid started to use more magical attacks.

"Why do I keep meeting pests that only toss around magic or ranged assault?" She asked frustrated in-mouth, so the one she now considered a total bastard wouldn't hear her. The attack came at her and she had slightly slowed down in her pace to keep check of the attack in case it just followed her around, then it suddenly split in three. This guy just keeps getting more annoying, she thought as she came to a halt, the first thing she needed was to avoid all three balls of fire. She activated her Mirage as her entire body became more of a blur. This allowed her greater evasive movement and gave her a Haste effect, so it would help her to speed up as well.

Using this current increase in evasion, she started to move rapidly sideways and down while taking up her left arm to hit one of the balls of fire down to the ground. It scorched her skin, but she was able to dodge the other two. Since she had dodged them, she now took check of the two to see how they moved. Tracking, it bothered her and she started to move onward in the hopes they would just fall away. Spells didn't last eternally and she then jumped sidewards and started to rush up onto a different platform, so if they tracked her, they would possibly hit the side. On this platform, she moved more to the center, so the two balls had to go all the way up before it came to her.

Due to her increased movement, she was a lot quicker and hoped this would help her a lot to avoid those attacks. Not bothered by the two balls of fire now, she continued to head for the axe. Still hoping the boy would come after her.

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Corridors to Darkness: 1 post cooldown
Dark Beleaguer: 3 post stored (unable to store unless she holds the axe)
Dark Seed: 1 post cooldown
Mirage: 2 post duration

[Hades]

-Okay, time's up! Round Two will be judged and the winners will be posted in another thread with an updated Tournament bracket. Stay Tuned for Round Three!-