Tournament: Merek vs Wynfei

    Merek was coming to the fight he was signed up for. He did not particularly care whether he wins, the whole concept was to test himself and to work on his skill. He will need it, that is all that matters, while he wears a beltcape that adjusts about the hips, a hood pulled back while he takes a moment to draw what looks like a black and red blade, his shield in the same, while he prepares for combat.

    It was time for his fight, he didn't know who all would be here but Wynfei is excited. He smiles as he is permitted to the Arena floor, he had just seen Vertina's match and he looks around as he comes out from the tunnel. He looks forward and sees his opponet, his tail sways from side to side behind him.

    Wisteria stands on the announcers plinth. As the two new entrants come into the arena. "Good evening fight fans!" she announces, the tall albino girl with the geometric bunbun tattoo on her neck raises her hands into the air letting the sleaves of her kimono slide down exposing her pale white arms. "We bring to you the next event in the Grand Balancing of the Scales!" The crowd roars, it seems they never get tired of making noise when a new fight starts. New people mean new action and new amazing feats of prowess.

    "In this match coming in the east gate we have Merek! He's a human with the Grandeur guild, not sure why a merchant is in a tourney of martial combat but hey even merchant Adventurers have some pretty mighty access to Wave and Sword arts am I right?" she says to another cheer from the crowd. "He's a mage knight so watch out for both and hey maybe after the match check out his wares and slip him some coppers?" she grins a bright shiny expression full of a mix of easy grace and practiced care.

    "And from the west gate we have Wynfei, he's a cainine Cait Sith with the Crescent Moon representing the Olympus alliance. He's a martial artists so look for those flying hands and feet and lets see how he stands up against Wave Arts and steel! Show your apreciation for these two fighters and lets see who moves forward to help tip the Scales in their favor, LETS START THE DUEL!" she announces loudly. The magical screens showing both fighters, half of the screens showing Eyn and half showing Marek, while the two central screens show a split view of both.

    Merek nods a bit when he is announced, waiting for it all to begin. When it does, the man sweeps along into the fight, taking a moment to flip a coin, which he flings to the man, taking a moment to spin around with a hand bringing an energy coat of that dark magic onto him, then he twirls the weapon he wields about.

    Wynfei looks back to the gate he came out of, "Huh." he says as he nears Merek, "Hey!" he calls out to Wis, "Monkey Cait Sith! Not Canine!" he calls out to the announcer. He rubs the back of his head and he stretches out fully.

    As he nears Merek, "Hello, let's make this fun!" he exclaims as he looks to the Human Mage Knight. "Hello." he sys with a wave of his hand. Watching Merek twirls his weapon about, Wynfei reaches behind him and shows off a plain wooden staff and he drops it to the ground, "Uhh....you ready?" he asks.

    Merek looks then to Wynfei of course before he would actually begin combat, "Prepared," he notes, while he begins to shift about to dodge, taking a moment to lift his weapon to parry with, managing to keep a little of the swing from hitting him with the fists. Then he lifts up both hands to sheath away the weapon, drawing his energy bow which is colored in black and red, to fire a mystical holy assault.

    The fight jumps off, and well Wynfei is curious about the coin coming at him with high speed, though as the coin nears him, he rolls below it and as he completes his roll, Wynfei launches himself towards Merek. The monkey Cait Sith moves quickly closing the distances with the swordsman. "My turn!" he calls out as he drops his right shoulder and throws a punch towards Merek's chest scoring a decent hit.

    "Hehehe!" he laughs. Though when Merek gains some distance away from him and fires some crazy energy arrow thingie at him, "What's that!" he calls out he blinks as he sees the powerful arrow speeding towards him. "Shit!" he exclaims as he crosses his arms in front of him taking the energy arrow at full force. The arrow hits and sends him backwards, but grunting with effort, Wynfei looks up as he stops sliding backwards from the hit.

    With that attack, Wynfei again races towards Merek, his arms hurt and he can be seen shaking his arms but the monkey cait sith moves to the left and as he does he pivots on his right foot bringing himself to spin about and he slams an elbow strike so fast that it's possible that it could pierce through his defenses if he hits. "Having fun yet!?" he asks with a grin.

    Wisteria watches the opening "Ooh hey we've got some gentlemen down here, nice little tet a tet. Lets see how things go. And there we have Merek opening up with an old merchant's trick, distract them with thrown money!" she looks "OOh sorry didn't see the tail! Pointy ears and all... he's a Monkey folks, maybe a Monkey King? Sun Wu Wynfei? Well let's see if he can keep up with the great stone monkey and his five fold immortality!" Someon has read WAY too many light novels and fantasy stories.

    "OOhh and there we go that magic arrow looks like it could do some real damage there." she says "Well it looks like he's as eager as the Sage Equal to Heaven lets cheer them on folks!"

    Merek looks then to Wynfei while he nods a bit, then he opens up so that the strike will take him. He doesn't defend and it hits full into him. No shimmer from the man like if he took actual strikes, though that HP Bar looks like it's going down. The man nods a bit, "Indeed, I am enjoying the duel, it's nice not to need to fight only for survival. Let's give them a whole show, it's what this is about."
    The man offers a grin, which is rare for him, while he steps back, then he begins chanting in a magical language, "Oh Queens above that watch us with the goddesses' gaze. I call from the Ancient Wave the Magic that will stand against all enemies of the nation!" He then has a dark-water swirl that comes from above him, though what spell that might be, it's not noticable, while he launches them to the man. He will know in a moment.

    "Good!" he calls out as Merek said he was having fun. Power emanates from Wynfei as he prepared for an attack. That was the thing he didn't like about magic, you never really know what people are going to do with it. Though as flames flare up around his arms thorns streak out at him catching Wynfei off guard, "Crap, I hate these." he says as he feels the bite of the thorns and the icon for Thorns show under his HP gauge.

    With Merek having again moved back and a blast of cold and ice hit shock Wynfei, "Sorry, but no!" he calls out as he plants his feet and moves his hands in a circular motion and as he does, his arms stretch out and he pulls his arms back cupping his hands as a dark purple/black energy roils around his hands begin gathering, "Dragons's Roar!" he calls out throwing his hands forward sending forth a powerful energy wave streaking fast towards Merek.

    Wisteria announces "Ohh here we go. Looks like the boys are having fun, I hope you all have as much fun with their violent conflict!" she says brightly "Ooh Looks like someone is going in on the Thorn Bind Hostage and Wynfei is not happy look at that wave of power." she cries out. The crowd giving cheers for all of the action, not seeming to favor one or the other fighter. However neither of them is from the Empire so no favoritism to be seen.

    Merek looks to that strike when it slams right into him, fully knocking him back while he swivels on a hand to keep on the playing field. With a nod he looks to Wynfei, "Well, it looks like you managed to turn the fight back with that," he states. The shield of light which he summons of course protected him from a bit. Then he swirls a hand to draw fairy healing upon himself. There's a potion he picks up from the belt he wears, then he throws that into the man.

    Everyone has their own unique way of fighting and this is allowing Wynfei to see how he fights against others. Still Merek was fun but challenging, he grimaces as he notices his health goess up a little, still that wasn't going to stop Wynfei from putting more pressure on him.

    The concoction that was thrown at him, he allowed it to hit him. He had to learn how to take some hits and he could feel the bite of the poison. He could see the poison icon show up under his hp gauage, but it doesn't stop him. His eyes flashes red slightly as he power envokes through him. He is able to see where Merek was weak at and that is what Wynfei uses against Merek.

    Quickly closing the distance, the monkey cait sith leaps in the air throwing a powerful kick to Mereks left side aiming to send the man flying and possibly slowing him down and brusing his ribs.

    Wisteria shouts "Ooh look at that, this fight is swinging into the monkey house. Things seem to be stacking up against the merchant but lets see it's still anyone's game. Does someone decide to turtle? Will we see a berserk charge? Will there be a bizarre bazaar of pain being served up hot and free of charge?"

    "Alright, that is a lot of power," Merek notes. The man seems to be built for support, not for fighting in solo duels. All the same he lifts up a hand with his shield which is set aflame, then he charges forward with a little growl, rolling along into that assault to shift away some of the damage. Alight with flame, he then holds the shield before him with both hands.
    "I stay amidst the dream, that we might call upon the ones that strike true into the moonlight." The whole of the shield is lifted up above him, while an imprint of the same shield appears above Wynfei, charging along while it seems to prepare.

    "WHOA! WHAT IS THAT!" Wynfei eclaims as Merek charges in at him. Hey why if he charging, he wasn't doing that all damn fight. But he was, and Wynfei prepares himself. He could feel the heat and he tries to evade as he channels energy through his body but the Holy above him hits him as he leaps backwards and he hits the ground and rolls backwards. He stops and takes a moment to get his head together.

    Wynfei gets back on his feet, "Alright, you are more skilled then you think." he says. With that Wynfei holds out his hand in front of him and a dark violet energy builds up in his hand and he grins, "Hope you can see in the dark." he says to Merek, "Darkness!" he calls out the attack as he fires the Dark Ball at Merek.

    "It looks like Merek is working to close that hitpoint gap folks, will we see a comeback?" she asks loudly to cheers. "Can Wynfei hold onto his lead with an adroit use of darkness? Keep your eyes on the prize people, I know these two men are."

    Merek looks to the magic that Wynfei seems to be preparing, then he takes a moment to consider all of the fight. He does take the ball strike right into him, though even while it affects the man, it looks like the divine shield which he brings to him manages to let a lot of the actual damage fade away. He isn't able to see as well that he normally would.
    He does not like that, all the same he knows that it's all part of the duel and it will recover, "Nice, alright it looks like we are to see who will win." He does not know what the next move will be. It might win it all for Wynfei, if he doesn't manage defending from it. He then places that shield back into inventory, while he draws up two red and black blades, which he swings along at the man with twin dragons!

    You never underestimate your oppponents. It's something he learned in the real world and it's what he applies now. With his Dark ball hitting he grins a little and goes back into his fighting stance getting ready. He does notice the divine shield Merek was using did help him a little but that Darkness is a pain in the ass.

    As Merek charges in with those red and black blades, he grins as he steps into the attacks, parrying the attacks away and as he does this his eyes flashes red again reading his movements and seeing where he's weakest at and Wynfei pushes both of Mereks arms away from his body and throws a combination punch and palm strikes to the weak points of his body which was the chest and a punch to the face.

    "Things are coming to a head here folks, we're seeing some great fighters laying it all out. Will it be magic or martial arts, steel or flesh? Lets let them know we're watching and let me hear you!" Wisteria shouts, the crowd chanting both names back and forth.

    Merek looks then to Wynfei while he comes at him, then he sweeps about, lifting a hand to build a wall of flame shield, next flashsteping away while he begins to weave the magic of the fairy healing upon himself, then he nods a bit, spinning both of the twin blades about while he speaks, "Alright, a wonderful show for all of the people watching!"

    "Ok!" he calls back to Merek. Seeing the flame shield come up, he grins. 'So you wanna turtle up huh?!' he thinks to himself watching those blades move about one another. Focusing himself and allowing himself to fall into combat and the ebb and flow. He rushes in towards Merek, again those eyes of his flash red again, and he is able to see how Merek moves and he weaves through the blade, throwing a jumping spinning kick striking his right side. As he attempts to land the kick, he can feel the heat at the same time he has to keep up with is flash step and Wynfei doubles down throwing an knee strike towards his chest.

    Wisteria watches the fight "Wow this is turning into more of a waiting match folks. Some turtle time to heal seems to have gotten under Wynfei's skin, and he's on the offensive. Let's see how this turns out... I'd bite my nails but what if I shifted? I might lose a finger." she says to the watching crowd.

    Merek looks then to Wynfei while he notes the man coming to him with that combo of assault, then he swings about his magic to create a rock formation, taking the strike for one of the swings, then he comes about with an electrical fuzz that begins to shower along that light in front of him, wrapping his sight up a little.

    Merek would keep on fighting along with Wynfei. He does not have the same general combat ability that the opponent does, though he does put up what looks to be a wonderful fight.

    Wynfei was excited about his matchup, but he knew he had to start thinkiing tactically. The fight was going on way too long and as they continued he saw that there were places that Merek should've attacked but he didn't. So Wynfei capitalized on the situation which resulted in him throwing his finisher the Dragon's Roar energy blast which slammed into Merek dropping him. He saw the Winner notification flash in the sky, "Nice fight Merek." he pants as he walks over to check on the human.

    Merek would nod a bit when he's then taken from that fight with a look to the crowd as well as the announcer. "A wonderful fight," he notes to the man, "I wish you the best in the tournament." He smiles a bit while he waves.

    WINNER pops up over Wynfei's head as Merek's hitpoints fall into the RED and a spray of RAINBOW FIREWORKS. "THERE WE HAVE IT! Wynfei the monkey Cait Sith has taken this round. Good fight both of you, hey guys if you see Merek about ask him about the things he and his guild offer for sale and see about getting what you need. When you see Wynfei buy him a beer or twelve so it's less likely I'll have to face this Stone Monkey in the Arena!" she says in a playful tone. "We'll be moving on to the next bracket shortly so enjoy the short break get yourself something to eat and drink and get back to your seat. You might have paid for the whole thing but you're going to only need the edge!"