Duelist League: Setsuna vs Uta

Two people are going to beat each other up. Will this violence ever end? Fans of the Duelist League hope not.

Uta
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It's summer! Time for fun an joy and frolicing! To enjoy the warm weather, take a few days off adventuring, and most importantly...

Beach party!

Where by 'beach party' we actually mean two people beating each other senseless using a mixture of magic, martial arts, and weapons. Truely, a fine form of entertainment.

Today the duelists' league has scheduled a fight between Setsuna and Uta. A small crowd, abuzz with chatter, has gathered to watch.

The battlefield which happens to be a specially reserved section of the beach. Uta is the first to step into it, walking out of a small cabin. She's, as usual, holding her caduceus-inspired staff, and-

Well, that's new. Instead of her usual gi/nurse's uniform, She seems to be wearing a one piece swimsuit today. Needless to say, decorated with a slime motif. She walks in stiffly, blushing a deep crimson and biting her lower lip.

"Water!", she exclaims as she reaches the starting position. "Why did it have to be water?!"
Setsuna
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    Setsuna looks around at the crowd as he enters the battlefield, and based on his facial reaction he was not pleased with being the center of attention. The man makes his way to his official starting position a and then around him. Given his lack of summer or swim clothing, two things become obvious. One being that he has apparently not caught Gwen's attention and the other that he didn't really expect summer weather to be so accurate.
     The necromancer looks at his soon to be opponent and seems to be hesitating for a moment debating with himself. Finally he speaks up, " I apologize in advance. I apologize for anything I say or do that may be seen as , dishonorable , unmannerly, or all in all bad sportsman like conduct. Sometimes the possibility of victory clouds my manners. I appreciate you taking the time for this duel. " Placing one foot forward and raising his staff he gestures towards Uta. "Ladies first."
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade joins in the crowd's cheering at Uta's arrival, and she seems amused at Uta's blushing arrival. But the bathing suit is appropriate to the beach, and she, herself, at least owns one, though she's not wearing it just at the moment. Well, she's not planning on gettng tossed into the water. When Setsuna steps up, he gets a cheer almost as loud. She's not sure if a bathing suit would have gotten more or less cheer, it's different with guys. But she falls silent as the two square off, she's curious to see how this plays out. She's hoping to learn from this, and so she's watching carefully.
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar finds herself a comfortable spot to watch from. No MCing this time, just spectating. Because she's just as interested in seeing how Setsuna handles a fight outside of quests as she is keeping an eye on Uta's progress.
Uta
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Uta bows back at Setsuna. "I will do my best to take no offense. I likewise apologize for anything I might say or do. Sometimes, my intellect happens to be clouded."

She stares for a few moments at Setsuna, unmoving. And then, out of the blue, "...oh, right. That would be me!" With a sheepish grin, she continues, "...told you. Clouded intellect."

    Without losing any further time, she gives her staff a spin, and charges for her opponent with a scream, swinging it at Setsuna and ready to deliver a mighty blow to his head.
Kauchemar
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"-Sometimes- she says!" That and the braying laugh that follows is the only indicator Uta gets that her Nightmare rival is in the audience. For once she's not trying to be -too- ostentatious. At least for the time being.
Setsuna
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    Watching the slime lover charge him head on he raises his staff attempting to put a wall of earth up in front of him. The problem is that he didn't account for it being sand as Uta's first attack is not stopped, though it is weakened. He gets knocked back on the ground and stands up. " Ok then. Good start." A magic circle appears under him, " Fallen warriors of the deep, rise up and fight for me. " As if they were waiting for Setsuna's call two skeleton warriors leap from the ocean, however unlike normal it is obvious these are some form of half fish half man like skeleton warriors." Get her boys." The two creatures charge Uta putting themselves between Setsuna and Uta.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade and the rest of the crowd cheer as Uta rushes in. The fray has begun. Goldenblade in particular is looking more at the techniques and procedures rather than just enjoying the rush of the fight. Uta beginning with a big swing draws a nod, that's similar to how Goldenblade herself likes to lead in, and she hrms as Setsuna reacts by raising sand and summoning undead. This might not be the sort of fight she can draw too much from, after all.
Uta
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Uta's staff was just about finishing its swing when the Spriggan nurse sees the skeletons coming at her. A slight correction, a twirl on one foot, and back into action she is. Wind magic propelled leaps, fluttering of wings to keep her above the skeletons for as long as possible: sadly flight is not an option -- slow fall, however, is still viable. A few well-placed swings up and down, left and right, and she makes short work of those skeletal warriors. The impact sound even sounds like running a baton over a xylophone, to create multiple upwards and downward scales.

Barely scratched by the whole exercise, she flutters to land close to Setsuna, and studies her opponent for the briefest of times before an abrupt attempt at stabbing him in the chest with the bottom end of her staff.
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar sways a hand back and forth, following the up and down scales created by Uta's impromptu percussion upon calcified corpses. "Yeah, give them your xylobone maneuver!" Then makes a face. "Stick to the ribs and skull though, that femur made a very off-key tone."
Setsuna
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    Setsuna watches his opponent work their way through his creations. He isn't surprised how quick she goes through them, they are simply skeletons after all. However it buys him time, to take the momentum of the fight. Activating a speed buff, he is ready by the time Uta gets to him. A stab at his stomach leaves him dashing out of the way with a small scratch, moving as far to the otherside of the battle field before the buff runs out and then turns around hoping to have put some distance between himself and Uta
    " Who are you attacking all the way over there?" Setsuna shouts as his shadow begins to climb his staff and forms into a thick dark ball of magic. "Really if I didn't know better I'd say you were as blind as a bat." As if his pun is meant to be some form of declaration of attack his shadows finish forming into an orb on top of the staff and the magician flicks the dark orb at Uta.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade cheers as Uta's quick reactions deliver her from danger. That's fast! And the sound is amusing. But it seems Setsuna is pretty capable, himself, and his shadow attack looks pretty deadly. Now that both fighters are getting into it, she leans forward to watch closely.
Uta
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Uta does indeed look confused when she does not find a Setsuna to hit where she'd expect one. She looks around, just in time to spot him far away and-

The darkness hits.

Uta leaps and flattens to the ground, as the front of the expanding sphere washes over her, dealing only minimal damage.

Once the area she's in is enveloped by darkness, with Uta nowhere to be seen, a note, crystal clear, can be heard coming from it. It holds for a few seconds, enthralling some people of the audience. It is followed by more notes, a melody.

A melody which raises and raises in tone and intensity, growing in a crescendo to an untolerably loud volume, to the point it hurts the sense to just listen. People from the audience are covering their ears by now, and it seems like she's not done yet, she keeps going, and going, and going-

And then, three things happen in rapid sequence.

One, an empty glass bottle shoots out of the dark area, headed for Setsuna.

Two, Uta's song finishes with a shockwave, which sends ripples through the darkness, through the air, through the surrounding area; as its wavefront impacts the flying bottle, it shatters the vessel into a million shrads.

Three, a blast of magic follow suit, passing through the shrapnel, and also headed for Setsuna.
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar chuckles a bit to herself. Setsuna is definately playing to his strengths, trying to keep a melee opponent at bay. Though Uta puts on a good demonstration of how she's not -entirely- melee based.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna watches the lady dodge his attacks and yet the cocky grin on his face says it is already to late, a quick inspect shows the blindness debuff. Seeing the thrown bottle, Setsuna charges towards it , letting a dark aura appear around him and is about to catch it and throw it back when it shatters and the shards of glass rip through his protective aura as if like a shotgun. Followed by a blast of sound knocking him back and if it wasn't for the softness of sand it would have been much worse. "Ok fine, don't give up so easily. See if I care. "
     A summoning circle appears under the man as he begins to chant , " To the earth itself I speak, grant me your fangs to use upon my enemy . " As if the earth answers Setsuna a Stalagmite rises from the ground and yet the man looks disappointed. " Stingy , no good, sorry piece of earth. " It would appear Setsuna hoped for more, however he takes what he can get. Wrapping the Stalagmite in magic he throws it towards the Spriggan. "Hey Uta, catch."
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade blinks, then winces as Uta's counterattack causes such intense sonics, even out into the audience. But she seems to have avoided the worst of Setsuna's attack, and this may set the tone for the fight. She's agile and quite versaitile in a way that Goldenblade wishes she were. Setsuna, too, seems pretty resourceful and resilient, and fights on with strange magic which confuses Goldenblade. ALmost anything magic does tend to baffle her.
Uta
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The stalagmite disappearas into the darkness.

Silence.

The crowd watches, murmuring, and then, as the black area behins to dissipate... Uta walks out, confident, like one of those hardcode action heroes who walk away from an explosion taking place behind them, pointendly not looking at it.

"Thank you for the Molotov cocktail," she grins. "I think I'll toast to your face." She does, indeed, take a swig, but the point is, this is a rock wrapped in black magic, not a real drink, so she quickly tosses the stalagmite away and sputters, her whole mouth flashing red for damage. "Ptooey, ptooey! Tastes like pebbles and Dark Magic. Yeuck."

She shakes her head, plants her staff on the ground, and begins singing. It's a quick, catchy jingle; her staff lights up in different spots, in different colors as she sings it, and once it's done, a column of sand rises right in front of Setsuna. At first it might seem like an Earth Pillar which missed Setsuna's spot by being ahead of him by about a meter (or about a yard), but soon it becomes clear that Uta's been shifty and raised the pillar at an /angle/, so, if things work as they should, it'll end up smacking him right in the face.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna scowls as Uta walks out of the darkness holding the rock and looks at the ground, "See this is why I needed SEVERAL teeth." This was starting to become a war of attrition and Setsuna could tell he wasn't going to outlast Uta. Seeing the attack coming he begins to spin his staff generating a shield of air infront of him. The only probably with using wind and air as a shield for a sand based pillar is that it still scatters the sand everywhere even into Setsuna's eye and the few scratches he already had. This was rather unenjoyable.
     " So Ms. Uta, here we are fighting each other. Never really pictured you as a fighter. Do you fight often, someone call one of your Slimes ugly and you have to throw down right?" The conversation was meant to distract while he begins to mouth some words to himself , "That which slithers and slides, come hither now and strike." Maybe the words wouldn't be noticed, maybe the sand viper slithering towards Uta wouldn't be noticed. Maybe Uta would just decide he was right and give up. Lots of maybe.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade cheers as Uta emerges from the darkness, chuckling as she tries to take a drink of stalagmite. She winces as Uta's Esrth Pillar appears to rise off-target, but then she notes the clever angle! Aha! But Setsuna avoids the attack cleverly, and it looks like it's going to be an endurance match. She's familiar with that.
Uta
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"I know, right? I didn't picture myself as much of a fighter either. But then Xander cleverly points out that we're surrounded by monsters and other nasty things that relish nothing more than murdering us, or worse." There is no hint of sarcasm in her voice. She /means/ it. "...so he trains me himself, and sends me to all these other people to be trained. Wasn't easy at first but eeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

The spriggan leaps back, a sand viper hanging tightly to her foot. "Bad! Bad! Bad!", she exclaims. She leaps around on one foot, swinging at the adder with her staff, still shrieking. She mostly hits her own foot, but at long last, one blow strikes true and sends the viper... flying back at Setsuna, with uncanny precision? Was that blind luck, or had she planned the little dance all along?

She swings her foot back, fang marks still glowing, and with a focused expression, she intones an ominous chant which makes the gem in her staff glow dark, and emit a blast of darkness towards Setsuna.
Setsuna
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    "Oh I see. Xander trains you. That explains some things. " Setsuna chuckles and then sees the snake flying at him and catches it as a aura of darkness wraps his hand. "Ha, bet you thought?.OW" looking at the snake it sinks its fangs into his hand and annoyed Setsuna dismisses the summon. "Damn that stings." He sucks the wound out of habit and looks up bracing himself suddenly for the wave of darkness. It doesn't appear to harm him though, or at least that is what he thinks as he begins his attack.
     The ionization in the air could likely be felt even by the audience member as Setsuna's circle of magic shifts to a blue color. Any summoner in the audience worth his or her salt might recognize the incantation for weather. As the clouds darken and then Setsuna shouts, "BOOM!" , and a bright flash goes off over the field. While people are still rubbing spots away the necromancer continues, " You have fallen twice but a third time must be the charm. Rise up and strike." The fallen skeleton warriors from earlier seem to gather themselves back up and go after Uta for revenge.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade hrms as Uta explains the secret of her success. She knows Xander, maybe he can give her a few pointers as well. Though a lot of Uta's resilience seems to be simply raw endurance. She's not sure her 75-year-old heart could keep up. The game's not supposed to push your meat body, but sometimes it feels like it might be. But she's probably past the limits of what's expected in a player. Setsuna seems to be hanging tough, and if his reserves aren't as deep as Uta's, that's not something she has the insight to see. It looks like they're both trading blows without much effect.
Uta
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"Used to," Uta corrects Setsuna when he mentions that Xander trains Uta. "We haven't been around each other much, of late. Nowadays I mostly hang around Rylen. The bulk of my initial training, however, is to be credited to Mr.Starvo's Musical Moles and Master Miyoda. You know, from Master Miyoda's Swampside Used Cart Lot and Martial Arts Doujo."

Uta sniffs the air as it becomes more and more ionized, and is pushed back with a shriek when the flash flares. Sitting on the sand after an undignified impact (as evidenced by the point of impact still glowing red), Uta stares as the skeletons come closer. "Oh no." Once again she lepas to her feet and manages to, once again, xylobone them into submission quickly enough, but her unpreparedness at the beginning, this time, make her take slightly more damage than expected. Expert fighters in the audience might also notice that the poison in her vein is affecting her coordination, not to mention that those two bite marks on her toe still glow every now and then.
Kauchemar
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"They're getting pretty intense now" Kauchemar muses to herself.... and there's the running gag about who Uta got training from. Everything is as it should be.
Setsuna
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    The necromancer blinks unsure what to make of the answers given by Uta, and then blinks again, did she stun him? Nope it seems it was just an idle logic short that took a moment to reboot before things resume. Setsuna tries to keep throwing things at Uta, magic attack, magic attack magic attack. Setsuna keeps trying and nothing, everytime he tries his attack fizzles and dark energy sparks back at Setsuna angrily. "Fine" While Uta begins to attack the skeleton, the summoner does something no one would expect. He runs in as fast as he could, even catching one of the blows meant for the skeleton and reaches out and goes to boop the Uta snoot. Thats right that is all he is trying to do, nothing menacing about a boop.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade knows both Xander and Rylen. She may ask them both for pointers, she needs all the help she can get. She watches as Uta evades Setsuna's attacks, still suffering from the poison, even as he retaliates by ... booping Uta on the nose? Goldenblade watches, puzzled.
Uta
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Whack, leap, duck, whack, roundhouse kick, punch-punch-chop, duck, pull and chop. Quick, precise martial arts motions and the skeletons are taken care of-

And then, it comes. Unexpected.

The Boop.

Uta just stands there, unmoving, eyes crossed to look at the tip of her snoot. The pupils begin rising and diverging, as they follow up the arm and all the way to Setsuna's face.

Uta, at first, says nothing. She just... looks. And goes red in the face. Very red.

And then she begins singing. The melodious tune, tender and soulful, makes pastel tendrinls of light to emanate from her staff. They interwine with the melody, and dance around her, the lights turning into green leaves and multicolor flowers in soft focus, while the song carries the audience into a daydream...

...and once Uta believes the healing song has taken effect, she abruptly swings her staff to whack Setsuna in the face. Going even redder if it was possible.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna begins to laugh as he catches the blow with his spinning staff, creating a shield, as he still has to follow through with physics and is knocked away. " Whats wrong their Uta. You are looking a tad shades of red there." He is laughing but the damage was visible. Setsuna was slowly burning out and anyone really watching him could tell, sweat on brow, wounds and bruises, glowing eyes. Wait glowing eyes, when did that happen? " Come on now Uta, you just going to try to heal away all the fun we have been having? I mean you can probably still feel it, feel the boop on your nose." Setsuna is playing the talk as a distraction technique, as he gathered magic.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade hrms as Uta's self-heal kicks in. That's a thing that played against her as well. Between more health and self-heals, Uta is definitely a tough fighter to face. She has felt how Setsuna feels, or at least she's been in the same situation, but she exhorts him, "Keep fighting, you can do it!"
Uta
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Uta keeps singing the healing song through all this. She swings her staff at Setsuna, multiple times, but it's clear the booping broke her concentration. All of her swings are instinctive, coars, far clumsier and much more predictable. "STOP! THAT!", Uta yells between swings, twitching her nose as Setsuna mentions how she can probably still feel the boop on her nose. Apparently, yes. Yes she can. And she doesn't like it.
Setsuna
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    Jumping back Setsuna watches the flailing and snickers, " Stop what? Stop talking about how you got snoot-booped in the middle of combat. Perhaps instead I should talk about how I am going to do it again. " Not right now of course, right now instead he gestures with his staff as his shadows spread out to swarm and grasp uta, before the magic shadows seem to be trying to bind Uta's shadow with thorny vines. Normally on an npc they would get a cool tattoo print of the thorns if it took effect but Setsuna wasn't sure how it works with adventurers. To follow up as the magic in his eyes fade he begins to summon his sand vipers once again, "Slither and come hither and strike this spriggan." The sand vipers would come from where all summoned creatures come from and make there way to strike Uta.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade watches, smiling, as the tone of the fight seems to shift. That's not to say which way the smart money's going, but Setsuna definitely seems to have won a mental victory, if nothing else. That's the sort of edge she needed to bring in her own tournament fight when she realized how outclassed she was.
Uta
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And indeed, the thorn tattoos begin to form on Uta's skin as the dark tendrils encompass her shadow. It seems like that, at least with this adventurer, the effect is the same. She is too busy going berserker at Setsuna to notice it for now, and when a bunch of snakes come for her, she is caught unawares. The mass of snakes envelop and bite her, and at the same time, her tattoo flashes red. Uta screams and falls to her knees, making little choking noises as, her staff now planted in the sand like a flag, she desperately attempts to rip the snakes off her. But given how bright those thorns are flashing, and how fast her bar is dropping, it's a losing battle.

Among all of her pain and struggling (and blushing still; who knows if all that suffering is due to the snakes or the booping?), she manges, painfully, to intone some sort of song, which seems good enough to make her staff, still sticking out of the sand, glow brighter, and ready to cast... something...
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade boggles as Uta is suddenly caught up in several effects at once. It seems clear she was taken at unawares by Setsuna's tactic, and the plummetting of her health bar indicates how effective the move was. She cheers, it looks like Setsuna has really turned the duel around!
Setsuna
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    The necromancer stands their watching the woman suffer for a moment and feels a bit guilty, enough it would seem to offer the following apology. "I'm sorry ." His eyes glow with more magic as he seems to keep overloading his body with magic. It was a dangerous move, and requires concentration and he loses most of it the moment the bright light goes off in his face and he stumbles back. "Guess that means you don't give up yet." He summons his skeleton warriors once again, "Bring her down." As if to emphasize what he is going for he sends out raw shots of magic to act as covering fire.
Uta
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Once the flash goes off, Uta's chanting veers towards a far more ominous melody, far more fitting her current circumstances. The screams of pains as her HP bar gets docked further end up reinforcing its dark nature, and in a short time, tendrils of darkness seep out of her body, engulfing, enveloping, consuming the snakes, becoming one with them. A writhing mass of dark strings, intertwining into a coating of sort, now cover the spriggan, who stands again, ready to face the incoming blow.

Well, if by 'face' we mean, once again, ducking off to the side and rolling away, mostly avoiding the impact, and letting the coat take care of what little appears to reach her. It seems like defending is taking up all her energy at the moment, and no attack is forthcoming.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna watches the spriggan roll around in sand and shakes his head, "That is going to be hell to get out of your wings. " He adds as he takes the moment to buff his own moment before he moves in quickly towards Uta. " You know what I think would piss you off." He says as he closes the distant and hesitates a moment right infront of her, "If I did it again." He boops her snoot once again and has no doubt killer intent is about to be felt.
Kauchemar
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Kauchemar has seen enough to suit her 'scouting' of other Duelist members, and slips away from the crowd to tend to other matters.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade is now puzzled, and is trying to figure out what sort of attack a snoot boop is. Because last time, it was pretty catastrophic. But. What did he actually do? She missed that again! She concentrates harder, trying to see.
Uta
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Uta's aura of darnkess is almost done dissipating by now. Her fists are still clenched, her teeteh still gnashed, and her face, while having almost returned to her normal tone, is still a bit on the reddish side. That tattoo seems to be gone, but there still are a couple of vipers hanging onto her, and she's still shaking a bit. She is just staring at Setsuna as he speaks.

And boops her /again/.

Uta goes deep red again, and grabs the staff that's planted in the ground. She swings multiple times at Setsuna, but once again, so badly even a beginner fighter could easily avoid the blows. There are two things that are not as easily avoided though: for one, the swinging flings the leftover vipers at such a speed that it's hard to see where they'll land (but they're headed straight for Setsuna), and in addition to that... well, she SLAMS her staff to the ground so hard she sends a shockwave through the sand, and a pillar of sand, once again, rises in the general area where Setsuna is...
Setsuna
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    "Ack." The killer intent was indeed felt by Setsuna as he does his best to avoid all the attacks, "Hey ....wait a moment...it's just a ..." He doesn't have time to finish as the snakes are going everywhere and as one bites into him he sends one back towards Uta again. The poor snakes are probably about to puke from being tossed around so much. It's all Setsuna has time to do though as the pillar comes up from the ground and he actually leaps into it with his own dark aura appearing as he waits for it to finish growing before he lets go and backflips off it. Then drops to one knee, this was a rather rough fight.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade watches as Uta rallies from that massive hit to bring her defenses back up, and to begin her counterattack, forcing Setsuna's response. The leaping and flipping is pretty impressive, and she's not sure where the fight will go now. The crowd cheers for each hit, but there is an air of uncertainty, any previous idea of how it would go now dashed. It's anyone's fight.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade watches Uta rallying and fighting back, her determination clear as she savagely fights back, forcing Setsuna to defend himself again and again as she lays into him. "Go! Fight!" she cheers, though it's not clear who she's cheering for.
Uta
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The yell seems to have obtained the desired effect. Uta does snap out of it. "...no," she simply says, and launches into an operatic aria. She... martial-arts-dances to it, for lack of a better term; her movements pressing towards the Necromancer, her staff glows more and more luminous with each note and each movement, and when it has reached a burning-white intensity, it shoots out a burst of light at Setsuna, only to return to normal and begin the cycle again.
Setsuna
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Darkness vs Light. That is what Setsuna attempts as he tries to focus his dark aura into a single point to protect him from the beam of attack. However the beam still pierces his defense and his shoulder. Wincing in pain he grabs his shoulder and stumbles back for a moment. Taking a deep breath he raises his staff into the air, " I call upon the mother of nature, cast judgement and send me your wrath. STRIKE" Lightning would begin to rain down upon the area trying to not only strike Uta, but maybe lock down her movements.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade is definitely on the edge of her seat, the fight is going down to the wire, both fighters having taken serious hits. Throwing around elements and magic in a way that seems fantastic to her, she watches Setsuna hurl lightning at Uta as she uses light at him.
Uta
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Lightning versus lightning! Uta thrusts her staff in the direction of the incoming lightning, and as it strikes, she holds onto her magic weapon tightly, absorbing as much as it as possible. The energy is massive, and it pushes her back as the crackling bolts surround her. She winces as this exercise docks some notches off her HP bar, but once it's over, Uta stands there, her staff crackling with blue energy. She darts towards Setsuna, and powered by a powerful wind from behind (which, who would have known, has the benefit of blowing that pesky sand off them!), swings her electrically charged staff at Setsuna.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna spins his staff and catches the electrically charged staff head on as the shield buckles and barely manages to brace himself. His wounded shoulder not helping. "Hey this is close enough to boop you. " He comments though the smile doesn't hold up well enough as his wincing breaks it and he has to withdraw himself. "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Rise my minions I still need you to do this, take her to her knees." The two minions stand up and charge at Uta to try and tackle her down.
Uta
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Uta still has some lightning left in her staff to fry the skeletons in a few swings. That, my friends, is an annoyed young woman. Fuming at Setsuna declaring his intentions, she marches up to him, so close he can probably smell her breath. It... smells surprisingly nice. She must have eaten whatever the equivalent of breath mints is in this world. Probably chewing on actual leaves.

Still invading his personal space, her eyes ablaze with hostility she growls, "How about..."

And then /she/ boops Setsuna's nose.

In case she succeeds, she'll exclaim, "I'm good now!" with a smile and turns her back to Setsuna as she begins to walk away, adding "I guess we can all go home and- oh, no! I forgot!", and turn again: in the split second before she'd attempts to jab her staff into Setsuna's ribs, one can see that this was not a planned feint: her embarrassed expression would give away that she genuinely forgot she was about to fight...

And if she doesn't succeed at booping, well, she'll still try to stab Setsuna. Some things don't change.
Uta
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Uta still has some lightning left in her staff to fry the skeletons in a few swings. That, my friends, is an annoyed young woman. Fuming at Setsuna declaring his intentions, she marches up to him, so close he can probably smell her breath. It... smells surprisingly nice. She must have eaten whatever the equivalent of breath mints is in this world. Probably chewing on actual leaves.

Still invading his personal space, her eyes ablaze with hostility she growls, "How about..."

And then /she/ will try to boop Setsuna's nose.

In case she succeeds, she'll exclaim, "I'm good now!" with a smile and turns her back to Setsuna as she begins to walk away, adding "I guess we can all go home and- oh, no! I forgot!", and turn again: in the split second before she'd attempts to jab her staff into Setsuna's ribs, one can see that this was not a planned feint: her embarrassed expression would give away that she genuinely forgot she was about to fight...

And if she doesn't succeed at booping, well, she'll still try to stab Setsuna. Some things don't change.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna gets booped. It was unexpected, unplanned, un-anything as he blinks at her and is even more confused as she is about to walk away did that mean he won? "Oh good in that case.."Oof he barely jumps back from the jab at his ribs and is sure there would be a circular bruise shaped to match the bottom of Uta's staff. " I guess that means the fight is still on. Setsuna begins to gather whatever magical energy he can muster and then cast, "Poison and spite, slither back and bite," Uta should be able to guess what is slither her way next.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna gets booped. It was unexpected, unplanned, un-anything as he blinks at her and is even more confused as she is about to walk away did that mean he won? "Oh good in that case.."Oof he barely jumps back from the jab at his ribs and is sure there would be a circular bruise shaped to match the bottom of Uta's staff. " I guess that means the fight is still on." Setsuna begins to gather whatever magical energy he can muster and then cast, "Poison and spite, slither back and bite," Uta should be able to guess what is slither her way next.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade wows as Uta turns on Setsuna, it looks like she's really mad now, and she means business. The crowd cheers as she attacks, also attempting to counter-boop. If that's a thing? But Setsuna's figting on, and this one's definitely anyone's bout.
Uta
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Snakes. Of course. More snakes. Which Uta gets bitten by.

"Hey!", she complains, "How come everyone considers me the local slime nut despite me not having used one slime in combat, and yet nobody ever says anything about you and snakes?"

She sings again, a spirit-raising song whereby the tendrils of light and magic from her staff envelope her, coil around the vipers, and all at once, RIP them off her body and toss them at Setsuna!

That must hurt...

...for both...
Setsuna
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    Setsuna chuckles and laughs and looks at the crowd and then Uta, " Truth is, besides Xander you are the only other person I have ever dueled. Also it seems to be the only thing to work on you..." He trails off as a flung snake latches onto him, "Us, I meant Us." He dismisses the summoned snakes and looks around before coughing the venom really getting to him. "I plead to the earth to hear my call, strike out " Taking a cue from Uta a giant pillar begins to rise at an angle to try to punch Uta. At the same time Setsuna jumps on the pillar and begins to gather enough magical energy to throw one extra blast of raw energy.
Uta
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Uta shall not be fooled by her own trick, no! A lightning-fast leap sideways, and she's out of harm way- well, out of the /pillar/ kind of harm's way. The second blast nails her to the floor, sending her HP bar into the red and triggering the standard end-of-fight procedure which... involves the crowd going wild? Maybe the two are only marginally related. Maybe.
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade and the rest of the crowd cheer as Uta falls and the game announces Setsuna as winner. She's worked with both of them and dosn't really favor one over the other, but the fight itself was pretty spectacular. "Woooooooo!"
Setsuna
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    Setsuna catches the spriggan in his blast and falls off the pillar on to the opposite side as Uta with a thud. "Ow." He lays there for a moment and watches the clouds, and speaks up finally. " Uta you are still alive right?" He still doesn't move he was just going to lay here for the now. He isn't sure it has even really dawned on him that he won.
Uta
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Uta mumbles something that sounds like "...I am not sure myself...". After a short silence, she asks, "Is there a tombstone in my place or am I still here?"
Setsuna
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    Of course Setsuna would have to sit up, and he does with a groan as he looks at the Spriggan and tilts his head. "No , no tombstone. I guess that means your alive. " Laying back down in his spot on the sand he takes a few slow breathes for a moment before continuing. "You fight good for a simple slime trainer."
Goldenblade
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Goldenblade and the rest of the crowd cheer a bit longer, but the spectacle is over, and they eventually drift off and return to their normal pursuits. Goldenblade, drifts off as well, perhaps she's got something to do. She does seem pretty distracted.
Uta
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Uta moans, "...I... I actually don't tame them... I lack the skills to have anything to do with monsters..." Groaning and wincing, she moves to sit up. "...but I make up for that by taking a lot of damage when dealing with them...", she says, with an embarrassed grin. "...you fight pretty well yourself."