A desperate struggle (solo)

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Considered one of the most mysterious cities in Mizahar, Alvadas is called The City of Illusions. It is the home of Ionu and the notorious Inverted. This city sits on one of the main crossroads through The Region of Kalea.

A desperate struggle (solo)

Postby Almech on November 30th, 2011, 10:10 pm

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Almech's face throbbed as he entered the arena, his cheek was broken and bruised but he was scheduled to fight today and he couldn't exactly back out of something that put food in his stomach, clothes on his back and protection on his body. His hood covered his head and he carried his scythe, leaning it against his shoulder, blade pointing behind him, we walked nonchalantly not even looking up to see if his opponent was here. He didn't really need to look as he could easily pick up on his opponent's scent when he reached the center, and could hear his breathing patterns, Almech was looking rather scary. He stopped suddenly and the audience roared signifying that they were ready to see blood, and they would definitely be seeing some blood this day, Almech would make sure of that. He lifted his head just enough to see his opponent without his opponent seeing Almech's own swollen and bruised face, Almech had to teach Miro about self control, whether or not he took Almech's advice was entirely up to him though. The opponent that stood before him was an incredible sight to behold, it appeared to be human, but it was multicolored and instead of legs, was a gigantic snakelikee tail coiled underneith him.

He couldn't tell how long the tail was, but it was massive, and the thing just sat there, smiling, it seemed to be rather confident that it could win against the young kelvic. Almech paid no attention to the creature's arrogance as he took his scythe into both hands slowly, his opponent was wielding a rather large bronze sword, the size of it, Almech probably couldn't lift it if he tried. So obviously this thing was much stronger than himself, and from his experience the strong were also slow, getting traction on the ground he bolted leaving a small trail of dust as he took off. He slashed at the creature with ferocity in a downward motion, but like a spring the thing shot up into the air, the size of the tail dwarfed Almech without even having a torso attached to it. Almech was surprised with the speed at which the beast moved, it slithered around Almech in circles, he would not make the mistake of thinking it was slow again. He perked his ears, hearing it launch at him, the sound of it's blade swooshing the air around it as it moved, Almech turned around quickly meeting it's blade with his. The force of the attack knocked him backward, it sent his scythe spinning through the air, before finally sticking into the ground a few dozen yards away, Almech hit the ground rolling.

His body skipped on the ground like a stone in a pond before he finally slid to a stop, he could hear the massive creature slithering it's way toward him at a pace of a human at full sprint. He got up quickly, but his opponent was already upon him, it circled him, trying to coil around Almech to squeeze the life from him, he jumped forward and rolled before the beat got a grip on him. He took off running, atleast he had speed on his side as the creature futilly tried to catch him, this thing had alot of energy, but it wasn't surprising with the thing's massive amount of strength to wield such an enormous blade. He was about to reach the wall of the arena, he used his momentum to run up part of it and launched himself into a high altitude backflip, the large dhani caught Almech by the leg, stopping him mid flip. Almech was then slammed onto the ground face first, he focused hard on keeping his life as the dhani again tried to coil it's body around Almech, he put up a furious struggle and broke free once again just before it started to squeeze him. To Almech's surprise he jumped out of it and was right next to his scythe, he pulled it from the ground and turned sharply and swung it hard, catching the dhani's blade he moved with it, like a hand to hand fight.

He spun on the ball of his foot and sliced at the dhani, it moved away quickly but Almech still struck, a shallow cut now trickle tiny droplets of blood across it's abdomen. Almech noticed that the creature's blade had 2 deep chips in it, inspecting his scythe, he realized it was fine, he might be able to gain an advantage in this battle yet. They traded blows with their blades, each time they clanged together it's blade would chip and Almech's wouldn't "You'd think with such a large weapon you'd get a better quality one. Atleast so you could handle a fight like this!" Almech said to his opponent. The dhani simply laughed "I don't care about my weapon, i only use it to make fights more interesting, i could beat you easily unarmed!". Almech scoffed at the thing's pompous comment, it obviously didn't know who Almech was or what he was capable of, with every bit of strength he could muster, Almech swung. The two blades clashed and the dhani's blade broke in half, the tip flew through the air and stuck into the nearby wall of the arena "How's that for more interesting?" Almech asked with an unseen smirk under his hood.

The dhani chuckled with a "Ss ss ss ss" and then taunted Almech "You think you're tough now don't you?" it said followed by a sinister smile, it bolted at Almech with a startling quickness, throwing a fist towards his gut. Almech used the shaft of his scythe to block it, he was lifted up off the ground and he flew, falling on his behind and his head was flung back smacking into the hard ground below. He felt his head become warm, his hair was now wet, he was bleeding, his vision got blurry for a moment before he realized the dhani had lifted him up off the ground and began coiling around him. Almech struggled as hard as he could with no apparent progress what so ever, he wiggled and thrashed, finally he gave up on trying to keep his hood on as he sunk his teeth into the scaley snake like body of the dhani. The dhani shrieked loostening it's grip only slightly, but just enough for Almech to work his way out of the coil that had begun to squeeze him, it tried to wrap around his neck. Almech ducked, the coil wrapped around his hood and Almech fought to get away, the hood tearing off from his robe, exposing Almech's horribly bruised face.

His eyes were all but swollen shut, indeed there was maybe a few square inches on his face that weren't either black or blue, the serpent laughed again seeing Almech's face "No wonder you wore that hood, i'd be embarassed to be seen if my face looked like that". If Almech could've he'd have been scowling at the dhani right now, but he was expressionless, as moving his facial muscles would cause him intense and sharp pain, the hood slowly floated to the ground and Almech ran at the dhani once again. Throwing a powerful punch towards it's face, it caught his fist with ease haulting Almech's fist completely "Why don't you give up? you'll die if you continue". The dhani squeezed Almech's fist and Almech began wincing in pain, which was multiplied by his face's condition, Almech spoke out fiercely "Can't you tell? I don't know when to give up!". Almech ripped his fist out of the dhani's grip and fell back, with great agility he put his palms on the ground, doing a backflip his foot collided with the dhani's chin, knocking it backward and it fell to the ground.

Almech ran as fast as he could toward the dhani while it was down, he threw his fists as quickly as he could, landing blow after blow, he didn't aim his fists, he merely tried to hit the snakeman as quickly and as hard as he possibly could. The creature was stunned, as far as Almech knew, it tried to get away from Almech was on him like like a vulture on a corpse, his gauntlets pounded into the dhani, blood started to spray. He'd busted the dhani's lip, eyebrow, and it's nose was bleeding profusley, it's blood flung off his gauntlets as he pulled his fists away, finally, the dhani retained it's bearings. The end of it's tail wrapped around his foot and drug him away, it was mad now, swinging Almech back and forth slamming him on the ground again and again and agian, finally throwing him across the arena. He slammed into the wall and fell on the ground, Almech coughed up blood as he stood up in a daze, he concentrated hard, trying not to give in to unconciousness, he didn't want to or plan on dying today.

He wobbled slightly and watched as a spinning doubled image of the dhani slithered toward him at top speed, he didn't know how much longer he could last. His body was beaten and bruised, he attempted to dodge but he wasn't fast enough, taking an incredibly hard blow to his stomach, forcing projectile vomit to spray in the dhani's face. It picked him up and threw him, he hit the ground with a thud, he opened his eyes to see his torn hood, he was partially laying on top of it, he grabbed it and bit into it. He tore it so that it was just a strip of cloth, he folded it in half longways and stood up, he hid it within his sleeve, with his last ounce of strength and concentration he watched the dhani come at him again. He stumbled to one side then the other, fighting the fact that his body wanted to topple over, the dhani came and circled him, preparing to coil him up into a death grip. Almech lunged onto the back of the snakelike creature, he wrapped the cloth around it's neck and pulled, as hard as he could, the dhani panicked, trying to grab him and throw him off. Almech was too smart for that, he shoved his legs into it's back, increasing his leverage.

The dhani went into a frenzy as it's windpipe was squeezed shut, it slammed it's back into the ground, trying desperately to get Almech off of it, the dhani struggled and struggled getting weaker and weaker. Finally the dhani ceased moving, too weak to try and wrestle Almech off his back, it fell to the ground and Almech didn't let go until he could no longer hear or feel it's heart beating. Almech just barely stood up victorious, the crowed roared, the sound deafening, Almech hobbled to his scythe and picked it up, using it as a walkng stick he slowly walked out of the arena.
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A desperate struggle (solo)

Postby Cantrip on January 14th, 2012, 5:04 pm

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XP Award: Scythe +1; Acrobatics +1; Unarmed +1; Garrote +1
Lores: Dhani Tactics; Fighting while Hurt

Additional Notes: Bit of a short thread, really, but fighting snakes certainly breaks the monotony of swords, axes, and such. I felt the action was paced well, though your backflips seemed kind of casual. I doubt they’d be quite so easy for the novice level, so keep that in mind. I know you keep asking for meditation, but you don't really deliver any. I'd have given a bit more in general if you'd elaborated on certain details of movements, thoughts, and feelings, or even given the crowd a presence.
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