Duelist League: Setsuna vs Xander

Setsuna
Alne - Scale Emblem Alliance HQ - Training Grounds


    The training grounds had been properly prepared and the referee from the Duelist League has appeared as some of the alliance members have gathered to watch. Setsuna makes his way into the center of the training ground and stretches. Nothing to be said for the weird bite marks in his robes or the scuff marks on him, his hp does look full though so he is declared ready.. As he retrieves his staff from his Inventory he getss ready and awaits his opponent.
Xander
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    Setsuna's opponent walks out from the shadows. Those draconic eyes glowing from under a helm that gives him the look of having draconic horns to the side, along with a 'mane' that rolls back to blend in with his visible dark hair in the back. The armor is a mix of fur, leather, and mostly though metal all made from mammoth hide and parts.

This is Xander Scaleharth, who unsheaths his sword and gives it a twirl, before equipping his ol' faithful shield. He gives Setsuna a smirk. "Ready for round two, Setsuna?" He asks with a grin. "Only this time, it is going to seriously count." There is a wink with that. A friendly tone in his voice, but the stance he takes says he is all serious.

    He waits for Setsuna to make himself ready and for the countdown to begin. Once it does he waits, those eyes slowly narrowing, as his tail flicks behind him.

Once it hits zero, the Salamander pushes off with his armored boot. He slides right in with his sword to try and impale the sword directly at the Mage.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna waits cautiously as the moment the countdown hits 0 he begins to throw down a buff to raise his attack strength but instantly has to revert to being on the defensive. As dark flames appear around him as he rolls away from the sword coming at him and feels it nick him. " Damn , no small talk huh?" He moes to put more space between the two as he looks at Xander for another moment and then takes a deep breath, " So thats it huh, whoever wins the duel simply wins the duel? No crazy request as a side deal?"
Xander
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    Xander chuckles lightly as he watches Setsuna move on the defensive. While the flames do cause a little bit of burn. The mage may notice a glow that surrounds the Salamander, quickly healing the darn tank, along with giving him a tick of extra health; That can't be good!

"You know me." His sword lights up with golden runs. "I don't ever small talk." He then slides his foot around, before raising his sword up. Setsuna would get the warning of the earth rumbling before it tries to suddenly crack and rise right under him; It even tries to chase him for a bit!
Setsuna
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    Setsuna was tryiing new things it appears as he is trying spells he had never used before. First fire moves, and now he surrounds himself in a bubble of water before the earth literally tries to rise up and strike him and knocks him into the air and he lands with a hard thud as his bubble pops. He spits some blood onto the ground as he whispers into the dirt and grins standing up. "Now now Xander, at least proper manners. Lets start again, How are you?" Hopefully it would be enough distraction to distract from the viper that he had summoned into the ground. It should be pupping up to attack any moment
Xander
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    The Salamander goes back on the move, though it isn't a fast pace. It is a steady, encircling walk. Like a predator stalking before the strike.

His heavy scaled tail flicks gently, as Setsuna raises back up and tries to distract the Salamander with a question. "Great." Xander says simply, before he suddenly goes on the move directly for te mage once more. "You?"

The snake does leap up, but while the armor flickers with its enchantment, increasing his defense, the poison debuff does tick on, chewing away nicely at that extra HP that Salamander had. Though the part that Setsuna would have to look out for is the sword that is not only burning with fire, but has a chilling trail of blue with it.

The Salamander swings it not only once, but twice, where the air almost /freezes/ over on contact, along with has a chilling burn on what it may touch. "Gonna have to do better than poisons, Setsuna!" He quips out quickly with a smirk, before he rumbles lowly, ".. even if they are annoying as hell.."

Ah poison-- the bane of tanky tanks.
Setsuna
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    "Well you know I am just trying to ease in to things. " The necromancer grins as he channels some dark energy into his hand. "Also I've been ok, you know doing things that people would frown on but ok. Created an undead grunty today." The attack was coming, he was trying to time this just right and flicker away, however he misses the chill factor and is frozen in place for a moment but does manage to get away. When he reappears he quickly moves with his glowing shadowy dark hand and attempts to touch the Salamander on the nose, with a audible "Boop" to go with it. The why would be revealed shortly.
Xander
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    Setsuna brings up he created an undead and the Salamander raises a brow, ".. You did what?" He says with a flat tone, only to get 'booped' and then suddenly 'smacked', in essence, by dark magic that causes him to stagger back.

Forcing him to shake his head a little. He lets out a low growl, before he uses his shield to send out a brilliant flash of electrical charge.

After the blinding charge, he rushes in and swings his sword up, cutting to the side, downward and in essence making Setsuna have to dance between the slashing and the ignite of flames. All while, Xander grits his teeth as sometimes the curse tries to take hold and freeze him up a little. "RAHHH!"
Setsuna
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    Setsuna was , off his game it seemed , or maybe he was really just mocking Xander by playing around with him. The ball of electricity goes off in his face however and he curses as he reacts defensively throwing up a wall of wind around him. However not being able to see whats coming he can't really control it to focus the strength and when he thinks the attacks lets up Xander hits him and he slides back. " Well fuck , you react like Uta to that." He still was having trouble seeing but there was a blur as he takes a deep breath and begins to cast, " Mother of nature, I summon your vines to imprison my target." Thorny vines would erupt around Xander wrapping around him, but they would not really delay his movement.
Xander
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    The thorny vines go to wrap around the Salamander, he uses his blade to cut one, but another finds its to way to snake around him, before he has to spin his blade about and slash that one free.

During that his armor flickers and one of the cursed debuffs seems to vanish off of him, just about the time he is able to draw a rune with his index, and slams his foot down.

The ground shakes, before a vine leaps out under his control and attempts to latch around Setsuna, to infect him with poison and drain some of his strength, while he goes to back to trying to deal with the vines of doom.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna smiles at the vines catching their prey but they do about as well as he can hope. A wall of fire appears in front of him severing the vine that wrapped around his own foot. " That the best you can manage one ...measely...oh it was poisonous." He steps back for a moment as he considers his movement and then goes to his old favorite as his eyes glow with magical energy, pulled up from the earth itself before he sends it back down. A skeleton knights pop up out of the ground and look at their summoner , before one flicks his thumb across his missing nose and they charge in to attack and clash swors heads on while Setsuna recovers.
Xander
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    Here come those undead as Xander at last breaks the last vine that is trying to hold him. He growls lowly, a bit of smoke emits from his nose as he snorts a bit of air out.

He then uses his shield to knock away one of the undead's attacks, while twisting around to try to cut another down, then another. One giving him a nice cut along the arm, before he drives his sword into that one.

His eyes meanwhile always glancing to where Setsuna is, moving his way, bit by bit closer to the necromancer.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna was moving indeed and it was that eh was trying to move in to get closer to Xander...no reason obviously. " So what about you? What have you been up to?" He was trying to get the conversation up and as Xander puts his undead down , Setsuna reacts to the incoming attack by bringing his minions back up. His hp dropping due his minions going down. His revived minion runs back in to the attack the tank, while Setsuna...runs right behind his minion. His hand covered with that same energy as before as he doesn't go for the face this time. Instead he tries to go for the shoulder and adds in the words, "Tag you're it."
Xander
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    Getting close to Xander may not be the smartest thing that Setsuna might choose to do. Because once the undead come, the Salamander tries to cut them down; Even as Setsuna lays another curse on him.

Those draconic eyes almost seem to glow, as one could swear there was fire starting to flicker out past the Salamander's closed, gritting teeth.

    "ENOUGH!" He roars out with a draconic growl in his voice. He throws his sword at one undead and bashes enough, before he extends his arms up, and then straight down to the ground. Massive flames ignite upward, creating a massive fire wall that threatens to burn everything.

Then as Xander rises, his eyes look directly at Setsuna, as the fire dances around him. He huffs out a bit of smoke, as his tail flicks to the side a little. He extends his fingers, claws being seen against the embers of the fire. He then rotates his hands, as the fire wraps around him, before becoming two orbs of fire in his hands.

Then with another roar, he turns his body and hurls one fireball at Setsuna, before raising up his foot and like a pitcher, throws the other directly at the necromancer.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna smiles as he sees the anger in Xander, " You know in the real world they say the first one to raise their voice loses. So by that logic you just lost. I except your defeat. " His impish grin may seem that he is in complete control but truth be told he is aching from all this. As the undeads fall the necromancer extends the dark aura from his hand around himself and does his best to deflect the fire. However he stumbles back, "Fine I will bring the heat too." Rocks float around him, sharp pieces pulled from the earth as they begin to heat with flames. Wrapping the fangs of the earth in flames he then launches them towards Xander. "Catch."
Xander
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    Each of those flaming rocks hit the Salamander, but he doesn't say a word back to Setsuna. Those eyes staring directly at him. Eyes that have seen death. Eyes that lack any light in their glow.

Each hit takes a nice tick off the tanks HP, but Xander continues to move, slowly toward Setsuna. He raises up one hand and /catches/ one of the rocks. It burns his armored glove, before he then turns his body around with a roar and hurls it, turning into another flaming ball right back at the Necromancer.
Setsuna
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    Setsuna tilts his head a little, apparently the game of duelist league was no longer a game. He spins his staff to protect himself from the firebolt, his residual dark aura mixing into the air strengthing it and he shakes his head, " You ok there Xander? Still having fun?" He asks as he doen't let the weird mood stop him instead knocking on the earth and letting a viper begin to slither its way to Xander. Maybe it would snap Xander out of whatever.
Xander
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    Xander suddenly charges directly for Setsuna, not even responding, as he does he catches the snake; which does bite him, before he hurls it around and throws it right back at the Necromancer. As he does, he slides down load to pick up his sword, before sending a flash of brilliance at Setsuna's face.

The next thing that happens, Setsuna will have to act quickly toward, as the Salamander is moving back in and swings his sword several ways trying to catch the mage with the blade.
Setsuna
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    "GOLEM!" A hand made up the size of rock, rises out of the ground protecting Setsuna from the snake as it splatters on the hand as it seems to turn into a wall protecting him. However Xander's blade breaks through the wall of stone and sends shards , covered in the snake poison at Setsuna. However behind the rock wall would be the undead minion that Xander keeps having to beat as the wall of rock disappears and the minion rushes Xander trying to put the rusty dilapidated sword it holds. Setsuna shakes his head as he watches the man at the rate things were going Setsuna would have to hope that the duel system would hold up.
Xander
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    The undead comes once more and the Salamander ducks under one attack, trying to move around it to get to Setsuna, before he takes a strike to the backside.

He lets out a snarl, as the poison also slowly eats at his draining health, before turning around to cut down the Undead, before raising up a flame barrier once more to deal with whatever remains.

His eyes quickly look back at Setsuna once more, before he rushes back after the mage and goes to drive that sword directly into the other man! About this time though there is a crackle in the sky, clouds starting to move oddly as the two continue their dual. Surely it is nothing foreboding to what is to come...
Setsuna
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    Setsuna really was starting to feel dizzy as his hp gets lower and lower, best he could guess, he wouldn't be able to hold out much longer. He manages to raise a bubble of water around himself stepping back as the sword pierces it and his arm. He can only reach into one of his cantrip spells and tosses another snakeright at Xander's face. Where he keeps stashing the snakes, no one knows, not even himself. Taking a deep breath he waits now, "Xander buddy, you still in there?"
Xander
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    Xander goes to slap the snake away, as fire flickers around his hand like a shield. Oh yeah, that snake bites and yeah, it does some poison damage, but the Salamander does not let off.

He swings his sword once more for Setsuna, before he twirls in it his hands and goes to point the blade point directly at his face and goes, "... Yield Setsuna." Was he there? It looked like it, but whatever mode he turned on, it was /not/ the normal friendly face he shows-- but something else that lurked under that known mask.
Setsuna
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    The summoned minion whisking into flames causes backlash as Setsuna feels the burn and yet Setsuna doesn't move he knew when he was beat. He holds up his hands to show surrender and shouts to the referee, " Xander Wins!" He takes a step back from the blade and looks at Xander, "So you can turn off berserker stance now." He adds as he looks at the man infront of him not wanting to move to quickly till Xander calms down.
Xander
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    "I was always calm." Xander says with a low rumble in his voice. His eyes started to retain some of that look that Setsuna was use too. "Just went to... an older mentality I was trained to have." Whatever that means.

Though with another crackling of thunder and strike of lightning, the Salamander gently tsks ans looks toward the tower. "What in the hell is even---" Then he stops and just stares.

"... That... That isn't good." As the Salamander stares up at the darkwave and starts to hear the chimlink chatter. "That isn't good at all."