Genesis VS G Slayer: Battle #5

[Felix]

Genesis VS G Slayer

The first to post will be going to G Slayer this fight and if you need a refresher on the rules... here. Now without further ado (because I know the wait has been painfully long)...

Let the second round of the tournament... begin!

[gslayer]

The arena was mainly empty, no crowd was watching the fights again as if they had been either removed or something else was in play. This troubled Phil and Hercules who were the only two in the coliseum, watching what was going to happen this time. The last fight with the G Slayer in the arena, as well, had an entirely empty place. And the appearance of the Copy was almost like he had been under a spell when he entered the arena.

Today was even more special as the two fighters were similar looking, which had made Phil wonder if whatever, that controlled the G Slayer to make his appearance, would be able to make the G Slayer attack Genesis. Hercules had given that perhaps the G Slayer would be even further controlled this time, the two still weren't sure whether Hades was in play here or something else.

While it was Terra who had appeared first the last time, this time a scraping sound was heard from the entrance. It did not take long before the strange elder becoming individual made its appearance. The G Slayer again appeared as if he was under control as he made his way to the ring. Dragging with him was his large gunblade again, the Copy lifted the massive thing as he walked up onto the ring and walked into position. This time, however, a feeling of control remained while the Copy stood at the far side of the ring.

This time, however, while the Copy remained in position, a spell was chanted by him as he got cloaked into a glow. Wall came into effect which made the two bystanders look up. "This time he stays like this?" Hercules said as he thought on this while Phil responded: "I don't know about you, but I think there's something not right here." The two wondered if the controller would make its appearance this fight.

[OOC: Genesis, I prefer if this thread came before the raid. It works better with my plotline. ^^; Hope that's fine with you. Thanks. I needed a reason for the G Slayer to be fighting Genesis, so I've thought up a little plot thingy I hope to work out, hahah. xD]

[Genesis Rhapsodos]

((OOC- I planned to have this happen before the raid anyway, so this suits me fine =D))

((Note to Felix/Judges- Is there any possible chance that me and Yazoo can have a 5 post limit for this match? I'm sure Yazoo wants to get his plot out and I really want to enjoy this match. What say you? =D))

So he had made it into the next round? A messenger came and informed him only a few moments ago, perhaps while the judges were still making their decisions. Either way, it seemed he had done enough to surpass the Keybarer in the previous round, but that didn't please the Scarlet SOLDIER. He wasn't the type of man who sought out battle just to enjoyed them, unless it was against Sephiroth, Angeal or Zack. But the woman in the last round... her weapon was of extreme power, nothing like anything he'd ever faced before. What was a Keyblade? Why was it such a magnificent weapon? Who could wield these things? What was their purpose? All these and more were what displeased the auburn-haired man. He was pondering what to do in the last round, contemplating even loosing deliberately so he could wait for the winged woman to finish the rest of her matches and meet up with her for an interrogation afterwards. But it seemed that the Goddess had other plans and that Genesis was to continue onwards, making the Scarlet SOLDIER simply shrug his shoulders, before deciding he might as well give the rest of the Tournament all he's got and aim for 1st place. Perhaps that might attract Hojo's attention, maybe?

After a few moments, Genesis pushed himself up from the wall on which he was leaning on, before walking over to where the small room was which housed the trophies obtained by a trio of previous warriors called Sora, Donald and Goofy. What weird names... However, something inside the arena had caught his attention, his senses picking up a strange, very familiar aura coming from within. Curious to see who his next opponent would be, the Scarlet SOLDIER casually walked through the door before him, entering the arena. Expecting to see another stadium full of fans, Genesis was actually surprised to see it was completely empty. What? Did the organizer of this Tournament forget to mention that there were going to be more rounds after the first lot? It mattered not, for it was his opponent that had caught 100% of his attention. Genesis had frozen in his movements, his eyes widened as he just stared at the man in the middle of the arena.
"What...?"
Was all the SOLDIER 1st Class was able to say, attracting the attention of both Phil and Herc from nearby. Genesis broke his line of sight with the degraded version of himself, peering off towards the small goat-man.

"Who is that?"
Genesis asked.
"Dunno kid. He's been here several times and we even had to throw him out the once. Keeps going on about 'Cells' or something, dunno much else apart from that. He was in the last round and went by the name of G Slayer. He looks a heck of a lot like you kid, you sure you don't know him?"
"I got a bad feeling about this Phil... something does feel right.
Herc spoke up, causing Genesis to divert his gaze onto the son of Zeus.
"You're not the only one. I haven't seen a Clone ever since Hollander was making them back home..."
"Clone?"
"Hollander?
Genesis smiled at the two men... err... man and goat-thing and just shook his head from side to side slightly.
"Nothing to worry yourselves over. I'll sort this guy out..."
And with that, Genesis turned away from the only audience in this place and walked towards the arena, hopping up and small steps to reach the same level G Slayer was standing on.
"I got a bad feeling about him as well..."
Phil whispered to Herc, who had to kneel down to actually hear him.
"Same... what are we gonna do?"
"Nothing. Lets have them beat each other up first and then decide. They might simply be here for the Tournament."
"Okay, gotcha."

The auburn-haired man glanced over his shoulder, his bright blue eyes staring at both Phil and Herc as he thought he heard them say something, but both the Hero and Trainer of Heroes just started whistling and looking away as if nothing had happened. Genesis shrugged his shoulders before proceeding further out towards the G Slayer, stopping a short distance away and looking the Clone up and down a couple of times, sizing him up, taking note of his severe degradation and his gigantic gunblade. This seemed to be a later Clone, one with more skills and abilities then earlier models... but why was this one still alive? Why was it even in these worlds? What was going on? Nothing being able to think of anything else to say, Genesis said the one thing already within his mind.
"Did Hollander send you?"

[gslayer]

The appearance of Genesis did not change a thing about the G Slayer's stance as he remained silent on the arena. Some wisps of Darkness started to cloak the Copy's eyes as if something was happening within or from elsewhere. His eyes gave then a yellow glow when Genesis walked up the arena. The Copy started to move, unable to hear Genesis words.

The G Slayer was again in control, but what he saw was not Genesis in front of him, it was Kadaj that the yellow glowing eyes saw. As if it was plucked from the G Slayer's memories from his multiple encounters with the Remnant, they had made an illusion for the Copy's eyes to make him believe that the man that stood before him was Kadaj. Also his ears seemed to have lost their function as darkness covered them, filtering the sounds around him. He could even hear his rough and dry voice as he spoke: "... S... Cells..."

As his feet moved over the ground, he could hear the steps, but the words spoken by Genesis were removed. He could not hear him, only see his mouth move. The Copy quickly dashed forward, having fought with Kadaj before, he thought he knew how the man would react and so went in an immediate attack with a Combo Attack, trying to strike Genesis' head, then a horizontal strike at the torso and finishing the three slicing attacks with an attack at the legs in an attempt to cripple the man. As finish he pointed his gunblade at Genesis and released a shell, shooting at the man's torso in the hopes of tearing it open. He had started the attack on the man.

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Status Effects
Wall: One post.

Cooldowns
Combo Attack: No cooldown.

[Genesis Rhapsodos]

It appeared that the words spoke by the man in the scarlet coat, didn't reach the ears of his degrading clone. With his own bright blue eyes still widened slightly from the initial shock of finding an ancient clone such as this one, the last thing he was expecting was an attack. Foolish really, seeing as how this was a Tournament and the only way to progress into the next round was by fighting. But Genesis didn't want to fight this time around, much as he half decided not to in the last fight due to his opponent. Now the same thing had happened again- an opponent whom he'd rather try and have a conversation with over fighting... but... sometimes you could tell a lot about a person by the way they fought and trying to be realistic for a moment... this was a clone. Shouldn't the SOLDIER 1st Class know everything about this guy already, if he's supposed to be himself? But more and more questions were going unanswered. Was this a Hollander Clone? Did Hojo somehow make one and send it? And what were these 'S Cells'?

G Slayer began to move, automatically putting the Scarlet SOLDIER on guard, forcing him to raise his right arm before himself and calling forth his Rapier, which appeared within his hand in a long stream of flame. Gripping the decorated handle tightly, taking note that this guy was using a massive weapon over a Keyblade, he assumed it's power wasn't going to be as great... but who knew? These worlds held many strange secrets that wouldn't ever have been thought of happening back home on Gaia. It was also strange having to fight in such a quiet arena. In the last match there was a full audience, screaming and cheering at the top of their lungs. Here and now, it was nice to be able to hear yourself think but also it was an advantage that Genesis could now hear his opponents movements. His footsteps, the wind blowing through his degrading coat. They'd all help tell the Scarlet SOLDIER where his opponent would be. Then the attacks came.

First a swing for his head. The G Slayer seemed skilled with his large weapon, able to lift it and swing it around with what seemed to be minimum effort. Flexing his knees, Genesis ducked down to allow the gunblade to sail over his head harmlessly. Looking up, the auburn-haired man jumped backwards now, avoiding the reverse horizontal strike that followed. As he jumped back, Genesis noticed that a strange barrier had been activated around the raised section of the arena. That must have been what he bumped into during the last match. He wasn't going to make that mistake again. Digging his heels into the ground to steady himself, Genesis brought his Rapier up and swung the long crimson blade down against G Slayer's gunblade when he aimed for his legs. Sparks flew off the two weapons when they made contact and did so again when the SOLDIER 1st Class used his weapon to block the other two attacks for his legs. Was this guy trying to cripple him? There was a large amount of power in these strikes and the G Slayer seemed intent to cause some serious damage. Wasn't this a Tournament and not a battle to the death?

Taking a single step backwards, watching as his opponent raised his weapon up as if it were a gun, Genesis' blue eyes widened when he watched a shot get fired from the weapon, sending a shell his way. With little time to react, Genesis just bent his knees and jumped up, launching himself up into the air high over G Slayer's head, much like how he jumped when chasing Sephiroth during their fight on the Junon Cannon. Looking down at the arena below, the Scarlet SOLDIER watched the area where he was standing explode from the impact of the shell. This 'G Slayer' seemed to be fighting for real... No normal human would have survived that. Reaching the peak of his jump, Genesis flipped his body around so he was upside down, before throwing out his left arm and casting his Flash spell. With a swing of his arm, Genesis fired down 5 'Flashes' before returning his arm back across his body launching out another 5, all 10 hurling down to the ground as if the clouds decided to rain fire with each Flash homing in on the G Slayer. After casting the spell, Genesis returned his body the right way up and fell back down the ground, landing close to the edge of the barrier behind the G Slayer now.

-=Cooldowns=-
Flash - 1 Post.

[gslayer]

The G Slayer watched the man's movements. As he saw the image of Kadaj, he kept using the knowledge he had of the silver-haired man, but while watching Genesis move and react to his combo attack, he noticed much differences. The 'Kadaj' before him reacted differently to his attacks than he had seen so far, also he appeared less 'angry' like how Kadaj kept getting bothered by his presences with every time he met the Remnant Leader. When Genesis jumped away, he was certain this was a person differently, but the looks were still the same to the Copy, so he dropped for a part of what he knew of the man.

His attacks had not done much, so the G Slayer watched the man fly high and then started his own attack. He was neither certain there were S Cells this time. Although he had thought of only Sephiroth when meeting Kadaj, even here he had been thinking that, but his feelings seemed to tell there was something wrong. Just a random feeling that the Copy would never bother himself with. No matter who the person was, so far he had attacked them, but it never came to the degradated man that the person he was fighting was his own master.

The fire spell Genesis cast then was thought to be more of the Fire spell series, so the G Slayer took up his large gunblade and swung it at one. The explosion came unexpected and blasted the gunblade back down, which took the Copy with it, spinning a bit on his feet back while the next Flash hit him full and blasted him against the ground. Before the third could hit him, however, he pulled the gunblade rapidly up again as a shield while he was laying on the ground, the next three hit the gunblade while he shielded himself, but his arms were feeling the impacts.

Before the next five hit, he pulled himself quickly up while slipping one foot down and came in a crouched position with his gunblade by the side. The next Flash he quickly shielded against again with his gunblade, the impact was felt again, but the G Slayer then pushed himself off the ground and and raised his other arm, from which he tossed his Fira spell. The two fire projectiles tossed at two of the Flashes, which exploded in the air.

This left two more Flashes and the G Slayer felt the Wall spell he had on him fade, so the last two he quickly pulled up his large gunblade above his head and shot them down with two bullets. As finishing touch he released another bullet, this time a Stun shot to have the man become unable to move in the air for a while if hit, but as the man was in the air, the Copy could not see Genesis evade the attack. Then he released three more bullets at Genesis as he could not jump all the way up there, but as the man was falling, he prepared to slice at the man once he came down at him as he stood right underneath. Keeping the massive gunblade ready by his side in both hands.

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Status Effects
Wall: Ended.
Gunblade: If hit, Genesis will be Stunned for one post.

Cooldowns
Fira: Two posts.

[Genesis Rhapsodos]

While falling through the air during his large jump, the wind blowing through his hair and catching his coat, whipping it out behind him as if it were a flag on a pole, the Scarlet SOLDIER looked down upon the arena, his bright blue eyes remaining locked onto the figure of the G Slayer. Questions were still buzzing through his mind mainly as to why this clone was still active, but the reality hit that if he didn't start to concentrate, things could take a turn for the worse. This whole Tournament was going to be an excellent chance to test his fighting abilities have been dormant for several years inside the Flooded Cavern. This would be the perfect chance to wake his body up and learn how to fight to the best of his potential once more. So with that in mind, Genesis allowed a small smile to appear on his lips, watching with interest as to how the G Slayer was going to deal with the Flashes.

The Scarlet SOLDIER fought hard not to let out a small chuckle when he watched how his opponent tried to deal with the first Flash. That would teach him not to try that again it seemed, as he got pelted by the full force of the second. using his large gun-sword-weapon-thing as a shield thought was clever, one that Genesis nodded his head to in approval. The next four Flashes were destroyed from hitting the gunblade and the last remaining four were defeated from a similar looking spell as well as being shot down from shells from the gunblade. This clone didn't look like much, but he certainly had the strength and agility required to make him a deadly adversary using such a massive weapon- something Genesis knew he;d have to look out for if he decided to engage this guy in close quarters combat. However, another bullet shot rang out from below and the blue eyes of the Scarlet SOLDIER narrowed as he noticed another shell heading his way. Raising his Rapier up, the SOLDIER 1st Class stuck the shell and destroyed it, but an odd tingling feeling shot down his arm as he did so before it seemed to shoot throughout his whole body, making him feel stiff like his muscles were seizing up.

More gunshots rang throughout the arena and Genesis peered down to see three more shots heading his way. Normally it wouldn't be too much trouble to dodge this, but whatever that last shell had done to him, he was only just able to raise his Rapier back up to block the first of the three shots. The second smashed into his right leather pauldron, tearing through and getting lodged into his shoulder, while the third scrapped across his lower right torso leaving behind a long, clean slice in it's wake, ruining his black undershirt. Thankfully the shot missed any vital organs but he was bleeding quiet steadily now. What luck. And with his muscles freezing up, he wasn't really able to try and patch himself up yet. However, this was the last thing on his mind. If there was one thing Genesis Rhapsodos didn't like, it was being struck in combat. A lesson G Slayer was about to learn.

The instant he felt the third bullet strike his torso, Genesis temporarily became free of any movement impairing effects and quickly launched himself down to the ground, landing with a heavy thud in a crouched position where he brought up his Rapier in a vicious Dancing Sword Counter attack, smashing the crimson Rapier hard into G Slayer's gunblade in a attempt to move it out the way with the first strike before following through with a diagonal slice from top left to bottom right. Twisting his hips to get align his shoulder and arm, Genesis continued his Counter with three hard, fast thrusts forwards aiming one for G Slayers stomach, a second for his chest and the third towards his right shoulder. To finish up the technique, Genesis jumped back up into the air, only just above G Slayer's head before plunging his Rapier into the ground, creating a large shockwave to blast around the Scarlet SOLDIER which would attempt to blast away anyone standing too close.

Freeing his Rapier from the ground, Genesis felt the stunning effect from before return, which caused him to fall back onto his bum and remain stationary for a while. Head bowed and gasping for air as he desperately fought to regain control of his body, the best the SOLDIER 1st Class could do was to try and brace himself for whatever came next.

-=Cooldowns=-

Flash - Ready to use.
Dancing Sword Counter - 2 Posts.
Stunned for One Post.

[gslayer]

The G Slayer held his gunblade with both hands tight as Genesis slammed his rapier against it. He did not plan to loose his weapon, so his knees and legs bended with the hit and got him down. When he saw the man coming with a strike from top right, the Copy let himself lower entirely onto the ground as he moved his gunblade a little. The hit from earlier had shaken his arms and the force allowed him to move his weapon a little less, but his body was different as he sunk through both knees and bended his body to use the gunblade as a shield against the next strike.

The following strikes were then the large problem as Genesis thrust his rapier at his stomach. The hit came in full as the Copy backed away, this time dropping the entire gunblade. Without the heavy weight of the gunblade, the Copy was able to move faster, so the thrust for his chest only scratched while the last he dodged entirely while backing away. Creating some distance, but when Genesis jumped up again, the G Slayer tried to get back to his gunblade. The downward attack, the Copy moved away while trying to move around, but the shockwave after the downward attack came unexpected. While the Genesis Copy had thought it was a normal attack, it had been some more special attack.

None of the attacks he had now seen were in the information the Copy had from Kadaj, so he no longer was relying on any data. The shockwave sent the G Slayer fly a bit and roll about for a moment. Then the G Slayer rushed towards his gunblade, not noticing that 'Kadaj', as he still saw Genesis as, was stunned. Grabbing his gunblade, he held an arm up to the sky. There a large seal started to appear as Apocalypse began. Runes started to cover the sky before showering lightning bolts down on Genesis. While the shower went on, it had come to the G Slayer's attention that Genesis was moving much less. So after the shower, he moved in while taking up his gunblade high above his head, putting in his strength in a downward slash to attack splitting 'Kadaj' in two. Afterwards he would take care of the S Cells.

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Cooldowns
Fira: One post.
Apocalypse: Four posts.

[OOC: Bad muse, sorry.]

[Genesis Rhapsodos]

What cheap tricks were being used here? Why wasn't his body listening to his brain? Just trying to lift a finger off the ground felt like it had a massive weight attached to it. Since when did a simple, mere clone possess such an ability? Or was it indeed a cheap trick? But what could have caused it? With nothing else to do in his currently seated position, head bowed and muscles aching as if he'd just ran from an army of Midgar Zoloms, Genesis looked back at the fight so far and wondered what went wrong. First the combination attack from the Clone, which he avoided by leaping into the air. Then he cast his Flash spell before having to intercept a bullet before it hit him, followed by three more shots. A stun shot perhaps? A bullet loaded with a powerful charge capable of disabling a person's body? That seemed the most logical answer, for the bullet that hit his shoulder and the one scraping his torso were just normal bullets.

Though for a moment, a smirk appeared on Genesis' lips as he heard what he assumed was the sound of a body hitting the floor. It seemed the shockwave from the final strike of his Dancing Sword found it's target, but it wasn't helping the situation that he was stuck here with no physical way of getting back to his feet. Upon hearing the sound of a metal object being picked up, Genesis forced himself to lift his head, struggling throughout before finally getting to lift his head a fraction and take note of the G Slayer standing a short distance away, hand raised into the sky. Then, for the first time in a long, LONG time, Genesis felt pure rage flow through his veins. What mockery was this?!?! How dare this fake copy use such a spell!!! Genesis gritted his teeth together tightly, bearing his 'fangs' as he if were a cornered fox. Nobody was allowed to use that spell! Nobody!! Where did he learn it?! Hollander? Zack? Hojo?
"RRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
Genesis screamed, his adrenaline pumping throughout his body causing his fingers to twitch and a sensation begin to return.

Slowly, painfully, Genesis was able to raise a leg and force himself up into a knelt position, just in time for him to look up and notice that the Apocalypse seal had already been formed within the skies. The Scarlet SOLDIER knew all too well what was coming next and still unable to feel the whole of his body yet, all the SOLDIER 1st Class was able to do were to simply raised his arms up over his head and cross his forearms over one another into an 'X' shape. The bolts of lightning shot down and struck the SOLDIER with all the power he expected from such a spell. It didn't half sting, his long crimson coat getting torn to shreds in the process. Fortunately, the Apocalypse spell had enough 'oomph' in it to push Genesis backwards, out the way of the large downward slash that followed from the G Slayer's gunblade. Having been thrown back and now sitting up against the barrier that surrounded the fighting area, Genesis let out a deep breath from his lungs as he finally felt his body start to respond to his thoughts again.

Pushing himself back up to his feet, though wishing he had just stayed on the floor for a while longer still the stinging stopped, the SOLDIER 1st Class raised his head and locked his bright blue eyes onto his opponent, looking upon him with the utmost disrespect.
"How can a simple copy... a mere puppet like you learn that spell!! You are a mere clone! A fake! A tool!! Hollander never gave you any of my abilities!! You were built to die!! You were created, to die!!! And die is what you'll now do!! Feel the true wrath of the Apocalypse!!"
Genesis roared, thrusting his right arm up into the air and pointing his Rapier towards the skies. A gigantic rune formed within the heavens that started to glow brightly. Genesis didn't care who this monster was, for he were the true owner of this spell. A moment passed and suddenly the rune in the sky flashed, unleashing a massive amount of bolts of pure energy down into the Coliseum, the majority of them crashing down upon where the G Slayer stood.

-=Cooldown=-

Apocalypse - 3 Posts.
Dancing Sword Counter - 1 Post.
Stunned effected ended.

[Felix]

This fight has ended and judging will begin asap! That is all!