Muninn vs. Luke

[YONKOU SUZAKU]

A young red-headed male had stepped into the center of a large arena. Looking about as many people had cheered out to him from all around, thousands of fans waiting to see how he would pull through his next bout. He had looked down at his dirtied hands, stained with blood and mud. He had came a long way, and he surely wasn't planning on stopping his winning streak. His scarlet hues had sat upon the area ten meters in front of him, where his opponent would be destined to arrive. From behind the door that kept him concealed, hidden away from the red-headed male, and audience to see. He had worn a primarily black jacket, with gold threading along the trimming of the jacket, and sporting a pair of american army cargo green pants. with a matching pair of boots that complimented the pants. His attire was battle damaged and worn, but he kept on moving.

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Marco's Mythical Zoan Phoenix Fruit

[Severus Cross]

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[style=font-family:georgia; font-size:40px; letter-spacing:-3px; color:#2ABAD9; margin-left:-5px; margin-bottom:55px; margin-top:-20px;]LeT's KiLL ToNiGHT![/style] [style=background-color:#DC0512; color:#2ABAD9; font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:center; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; margin-left:-25px; margin-top:-50px;]SHOW THEM ALL YOU'RE NOT THE ORDINARY TYPE[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; border-bottom:5px #DC0512 solid; margin-bottom:-40px; margin-left:-65px; margin-top:25px; text-align:center;]246 words tag open/aaron kick ass![/style]

[cs=2][style=margin-top:-5px; width:400px; border-left:5px #DC0512 solid; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; text-align:justify; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:10px; margin-left:40px; font-family:tahoma;] Severus groaned as he entered the arena, Scythe in hand. He was bored at the moment. He had surged through this supposed arena and come out unscathed. No, that was incorrect. He had one flaw. One error in his calculations. There was blood on his damn tie. That simply would not do. He stepped forward, stepping fully into the arena and into the gaze of the crowd. They were stunned, unsure of what reaction they were supposed to have. This man they saw in front of him seemed inhumane, too analytic. He resembled a cyborg more than anything. Severus didn't care. He had better things to do. He swept his free right hand through his hair, letting his eyes began their magic. A slow smirk began to reveal himself. From what he could tell, his opponent had emerged virtually unscathed also. Despite the tattered clothes, his opponent's physical shape was quite high. This would certainly be an interesting fight. He switched the grip of the scythe in his left hand. It was time to get serious. Introductions weren't necessary, they'd soon get acquainted enough. By the end of this battle, Severus will have analyzed every aspect of his opponent. That was his ability, what made him so dangerous. It was those demon eyes of his. His smirk slowly extended until his finally moved his lips in speech, "Area Analyzation Complete. Data Collected. Begin Analyzation of Opponent. Let's dance, baby." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Chain Scythe ■ A special segmented Chain Scythe, resembling a Kusarigama in use and capable of breaking apart to lengthen and be used as a Kusarigama. It's length when combined is the average 67 in but when broken apart, it can reach lengths of approximately 3 times it's combined form. Devil Fruit ■ Kage Kage no Mi [/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#DC0512; text-align:center;]created by shiki[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#2abad9; text-align:center;]@ ote[/style]

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[YONKOU SUZAKU]

He had seen the one who would be his opponent enter into the arena. The red-head right eyebrow had arched a bit at his appearance, seeing him carry a weapon into the arena with him. The young red-head himself didn't have a weapon upon him, but he had other ways of protecting himself if he needed to. Once his foe would reach the ten meter distance away from him, his scarlet hues began to scan his body, looking him up and down slowly, paying attention to all of his features, before his eyes would sat upon his own.

The red-head had clinched his fist at his sides, slowly spreading his feet shoulder with apart. His lips had curled up into a smile, he was going to be able to test his vessel against his opponents, to see who was better, who wanted to survive more, who was more blood thirsty. Excitement of what the outcome would be had drove the male crazy, and he had wanted to get started, he wanted to see what this man could do. In a burst of speed, the red-head had taken off toward the male, quickly covering the distance between him, as he ran toward him in a fierce, yet graceful way.

His arms had tailed back behind him, as if they were lifeless and boneless, nothing in them, just blowing in the wind. Though, he would fix his hands into a claw like gestures, making his fingers and thumb bend in toward his palms, as if he was about to scratch someone.

("Let's goooooooo!!!!")

[Severus Cross]

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[style=font-family:georgia; font-size:40px; letter-spacing:-3px; color:#2ABAD9; margin-left:-5px; margin-bottom:55px; margin-top:-20px;]LeT's KiLL ToNiGHT![/style] [style=background-color:#DC0512; color:#2ABAD9; font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:center; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; margin-left:-25px; margin-top:-50px;]SHOW THEM ALL YOU'RE NOT THE ORDINARY TYPE[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; border-bottom:5px #DC0512 solid; margin-bottom:-40px; margin-left:-65px; margin-top:25px; text-align:center;]257 words tag munin fight![/style]

[cs=2][style=margin-top:-5px; width:400px; border-left:5px #DC0512 solid; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; text-align:justify; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:10px; margin-left:40px; font-family:tahoma;] Severus sighed, looking over his opponent. The man standing in front of him definitely appeared to be strong. He wouldn't have the time nor the chance to go easy. From the first gear he would have to be prepared for anything. He watched his opponent, analyzing and collecting the data. Imitating his opponent, he slowly moved his feet, though his was a bit different. His right foot extended, waiting for the first move. It wasn't a perfect science but the room for error was small and varyingly negligible. He moved second but almost immediately after his opponent. Straight attacks were the easiest to predict. He had, in the slightest of instants, brought his left foot back, matching his right foot and causing a shift in position. By the time Zuzaku had reached him, Severus was already off to the side in wait. This was the art of body language, the simplistic science lost to the art of battle. Yet he knew it wouldn't be this simple. No battle ever was. He quickly jumped back, away from his opponent, wary of staying within the air for too long. He hadn't had enough time to learn his opponent yet. He waited in preparation, changing his stance to better prepare for the situation. As he stood now, his right leg was a bit behind, his left leg a bit ahead of him and bent. His right arm was higher up and held the Scythe towards the end while his left hand grasped the weapon near it's head. Now it began. [/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#DC0512; text-align:center;]created by shiki[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#2abad9; text-align:center;]@ ote[/style]

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[YONKOU SUZAKU]

As the red-head had cleared the distance swiftly, after preparing his hands, he would extend them both out to either side of him, before he had reached the target. What he had in mind of doing wasn't any normal attack, and it surely wasn't a natural physical attack that he had in mind. He liked going all out at the very beginning, and power colliding. As he charged in, he could see the target slowly preparing himself for something, and without knowing anything about his foe, he surely wouldn't try a direct attack against another direct attack.

He had only two options, to defend or dodge, but, the red-head didn't know which one his foe would do, so he had to just "wing" it. A few mere seconds before he would seemingly crash into the male, his arms had been engulfed in blue flames. which had taken on the shape of wings, and extended out an additional eight feet, from his natural three and a half feet range. Once he would have reached the target, he would have side-stepped.

he would have fallen into one of the red-head's flaming wings, which wasn't hot like normal fire, or even near it. The power he had generated from his arms were from the power of the devil fruit he had consumed, nothing physical. Though, if the foe were to get hit by this close call move, the wing itself wasn't dangerous, though he used it as a tactic to generate fear into his opponent, or tried to. In an effort to show that he could have lost his life.

("Pft!")

If the foe were to continue onward with his movements, he would simply turn to face his direction.

[Severus Cross]

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[style=font-family:georgia; font-size:40px; letter-spacing:-3px; color:#2ABAD9; margin-left:-5px; margin-bottom:55px; margin-top:-20px;]LeT's KiLL ToNiGHT![/style] [style=background-color:#DC0512; color:#2ABAD9; font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:center; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; margin-left:-25px; margin-top:-50px;]SHOW THEM ALL YOU'RE NOT THE ORDINARY TYPE[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; border-bottom:5px #DC0512 solid; margin-bottom:-40px; margin-left:-65px; margin-top:25px; text-align:center;]209 words tag munin move![/style]

[cs=2][style=margin-top:-5px; width:400px; border-left:5px #DC0512 solid; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; text-align:justify; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:10px; margin-left:40px; font-family:tahoma;] Despite Severus' predictive ability, it could only serve him so well at this stage of the fight. Besides, speed wasn't his attribute. Regardless of his attempt to get away from his opponent, a part of his body met with the flames of the man's wing. He was about to take care of it when he noticed that there was no actual sign of damage. While his Intelligence guarded him against irrational fear, it definitely urged him to be more careful. If the fire didn't burn, he wondered, what exactly did it do? Nonetheless, Severus didn't have time to wait and find out. He had to move in and strike fast. He couldn't be pushed back and allow his opponent to gain the momentum. He sprung forward from his stance as his Scythe separated into segments, gaining both length and flexibility. Right before reaching his opponent, he stopped on a single leg, using the power and momentum amassed from the sudden hult to twist his hip to bring him behind his opponent, slashing down from right to left against the back of his opponent. Whether his opponent reacted within enough time was not yet calculated. He was only aware of the fact that he needed to gain momentum. [/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#DC0512; text-align:center;]created by shiki[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#2abad9; text-align:center;]@ ote[/style]

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[YONKOU SUZAKU]

After he moved past the his target, he had known he would be thinking about what just happened, and why he wasn't affected, even if it were for only a few seconds. He had a gut feelings that he would have to stay upon his toes, for the target he was dealing with seemed to be a capable man. He had known that he wouldn't be able to take him too lightly, like how he hadn't taken any of his past opponents lightly. He had to treat him like he was one of the most dangerous people alive, and fight him like he had to defeat him no matter what.

As these thoughts had flown through his head, he looked back from the corner of right his eyes, and saw his target on the move, preparing to strike, and he would have to act quickly. The flames that had engulfed his arms had soon engulfed his legs, and while using his Haste attribute. Along with the speed and flight ability of the devil fruit, he had more than enough time and speed to move into the air, to avoid the oncoming slash of his target. He kicked off of the ground and took straight into the air, performing a backflip up over the head of his target, and over his scythe that had went from upper right to lower left, or just right to left.

Since it didn't cover the top center, he would be successful, and his speed would be great enough so that the average human wouldn't be able to keep up with his speed, all he would see is a blur as he had slashed in mid-attack. While in the upside down position of his quick moving backflip, he had released the flames from around his hands, grappling onto the head of his foe, using his Power attribute to twist the head of his opponent. He would have overpowered him quickly do to the speed of his Rebirth technique, and while twisting the head of his foe, and surely snapping his neck.

if successful, he would take him up off of his feet, and tossed him high into the air, thanks to his devil fruits granted power behind his technique.

("Hmph!")
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rebirth (umarekawari, 生まれ変わり) - this counter attack, created by trine warmack himself, is him utilizing his steel clawed gauntlets to it's fullest potential. with his ability, when trine is either being attack by an attack he see's coming, he can do two things; one of the things he can do when he see's the attack coming, is to wait till it comes close enough into his deep into his striking range, as if they were about to hit him. and then he would use his last second before hit to deliver a quick, powerful, and accurate attack. depending on how the attack would be coming, he'd use his battle experience skill to avoid the attack, and then unleash a dreadful attack, of however he would choose to. the second thing he could choose to do, the reason why he invented the technique, is if an opponent was coming from behind him with an attack, and he could predict their movements. he would quickly, at a blur, performing an acrobatic stunt that would enable him to jump up into the air and flip backwards over his charging opponent. while in the air, he would use his claws to severe the head of his attacker before landing back upon the ground.

[Severus Cross]

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[style=font-family:georgia; font-size:40px; letter-spacing:-3px; color:#2ABAD9; margin-left:-5px; margin-bottom:55px; margin-top:-20px;]LeT's KiLL ToNiGHT![/style] [style=background-color:#DC0512; color:#2ABAD9; font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:center; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px; margin-left:-25px; margin-top:-50px;]SHOW THEM ALL YOU'RE NOT THE ORDINARY TYPE[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; border-bottom:5px #DC0512 solid; margin-bottom:-40px; margin-left:-65px; margin-top:25px; text-align:center;]209 words tag munin counter![/style]

[cs=2][style=margin-top:-5px; width:400px; border-left:5px #DC0512 solid; font-size:10px; color:#2ABAD9; text-align:justify; padding-left:10px; padding-bottom:10px; padding-top:10px; margin-left:40px; font-family:tahoma;] While his opponent's maneuver was definitely applaudable, it wouldn't bring the finality his opponent wanted. For one, while his body may not have been fast enough to react, his eyes were. The second his opponent disappeared there remained only one logical position for his opponent to move. It certainly wouldn't have been a dodge as that would have been a waste of a lethal opportunity. No, Severus had been studying his opponent carefully and after seeing those wings, flight had become a possibility. Severus almost wanted to laugh as the smirk consumed his face. See, after he had come to a halt, every bit of power of from the dash came to a single focus point, his leg. He had used his power to spin around and aim a slash from right to left. But that wasn't it. He had never put down his left foot, never got rid of that momentum. If his slash had made it then his momentum would have ended their and quite simply. But his Scythe met air, meaning he had plenty of momentum to carry him through. As his Scythe met air, moving from right to left, it continued extending in the form of a parabola (arc). Thank you, Sir Isaac Newton. But this was simply the laws of motion at work. Severus was busy moving. His other foot met the ground, the power from his other foot transferring to this one through momentum. This momentum was all he needed as he reached backward with his right hand, grasping the head of his scythe as he used the inertia to duck low. In the most simple of turns, Severus had essentially used the momentum of his first spin to move into another spin, bending lower and coming to a stop in a crouched position. It was a very simply move but quite the acrobatic feet. That being said, he didn't wait long at all to move. His next move and one of an attack was to dash forward, grabbing at his shadow with the hand that held the base of the Scythe and continuing to move forward. [/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#DC0512; text-align:center;]created by shiki[/style] [style=font-family:georgia; font-size:8px; color:#2abad9; text-align:center;]@ ote[/style]

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[YONKOU SUZAKU]

He landed on the ground (since you didn't state that you dashed at me while I would be landed, or if I was already on the ground), watching as the foe had taken off toward him. His flames that continued to engulf his legs and arms had instantly engulfed his entire torso, much quicker than it would take to engulf his body. His body had emitted a bright glowing light from his blue flames, the red-headed boy had turned into a phoenix before the foe could reach him (i didn't say how far i would be from you, i left it up to you, but since you "dashed" toward me, i presume i am some feet away).

("Sorry, I forgot to say, "flame on!"")