I'm rusty....*wink* — Sage + one spiriter

Beads of sweat flew from her arm with each attack.

((Gonna do this with Sagey-poo,, since everyone loves Sagey the pooh XD))

Sage flapped his wings as he flew to his destination, eager to fight with Shajde. He hadn't seen her for a few months, and he wanted to celebrate their reunion with a nice bout. He landed on the outskirts of a very quiet and misty cemetery. He walked onward towards a shallow lake that was resting in the center of the home of the fallen and deceased.

"Is it....?" he stopped in awe. There she was, looking up at the sky like a lost maiden. She apparently had some tight looking clothes on or she was nude. He strained his eyes and realized she had armour that fit snugly to look like it was just her and her body. He let out a sigh and the red drained from his cheeks. Fighting naked women was the last thing he thought was on his agenda.

"Shajde!!!" he called out running forward. He stopped a good ten feet infront of her, looking like a kid in a candy store. She was an extrodanary woman, and he had grown attached to her as a fighting partner. She nodded to his presence and he immedatly asked about her partner.

"So, how are you and Shjade? She is still apart of you right?" he asked, taking a seat on a nearby headstone.. Creepy thing was it was blank. He shivered and remebered Romku was supposed to come. If so, and Shjade wasn't there, maybe this could turn into a free for all. He awaited the woman's reply.

((And YES I'm still with Romi/Teddy Shajde! XD lol *pats* I've just gotten better with my intros =3 ))

Romku ran through the fields seeing the two figures up ahead.  He boosted his energy because he was eager fpr a challenge.

"Well, what do you know?  Shajde is back!  How are you?!  It's been a while, what are you up to?"

"I'm beginning my training again.  It's been hard.  Have you improved?"

"Yes, I have, and I am ready to refresh my skills!  Sage, how are you man!  We haven't fought since the Tournament!  How are you?  So Shajde, what do you need from us?  I heard we were both summoned for a challenge?"

((Aye, ye have a bit.

Sage glanced around at his two powerful friends. Happy that she was not at a loss he laughed out loud.

"In any case it would be a fight sooooo...." he let out a grin and crouched down.

"FREE FOR ALL!!!!" he yelled playfully leaping up into the air and throwing a series of simoons down upon the warriors. He spun around elegantly and called upon a typhoon spell and blasted the flames around even more.

"And no sore losers!" he called out throwing up a peace sign. Course he knew he was in for an ass beating. He laughed and waited for their reactions to his sudden barage Katana firm in hand.

Just then, Halo jumps into the scene.

Halo:  "I heard Sage shout 'FREE FOR ALL' about 100 miles away.  What's going on?"

He looks around and pauses, gasping when he sees Shajde.

Halo:  "So you must be this legendary Shajde that Romku's been telling me about!  It seems to be the perfect fight.  But let's see...there's four of us.  That means it's gonna be two-on-two.  Unless, of course, you just want me to watch and/or referee.  What do you think?"

The three talk amongst themselves.

Halo:  "I would be honored if I could fight alongside Shajde.  I've already seen Romku's power.  And top that with Sage...they're a formidable team.  They're virtually indestructible together!  Then again, I've never worked with Sage himself other than on quests, so I have no idea what his raw battling power is, but Romku's is strong enough."

They continue to converse amongst themselves.

I only hope that I can fight.  I AM getting a wee bit tired of the petty competition.  Now maybe we can move on to bigger and better things.  Halo thinks.

((Just then, Halo realized they weren't actually conversing amongst themselves, since trying to do so would likely get them burned to a crisp, what with the many simoons being thrown around at the moment, and were in fact ignoring him entirely!  Free for all in reference to the persons present, [Redacted], not the whole world.))

Shajde's eye twitched slightly.  Good to know you start small as usual, Sage...

Thinking quickly, she tore an arch of stone from the ground in front of her and curved it through the air before the storm of fiery air.  Standing in the shade of the monolithic shield, her back to the stone, she was protected from the brunt of the blasts.  Sensing a short lull in the magical assault, she spun and crushed the wall with a roundhouse kick.  With a blurring rotation, she came around again and punched shards of stone as well as larger boulders upwards at her airborne opponent.

Still keeping the momentum of her spin, she caught up a long stone piece in her hooked leg and sent it spinning along the ground at Romku before rolling away from both of them, deeper into the cemetary.

Romku jumps back to try to dodge the stone Shajde flew, but it caught up to him and hit him in the leg, as he was falling, Sage came up and kicked him in the stomach.  Romku went flying in the air.  He regained balance in the air wand was perparing for an attack.

"Free for all are always fun, even with just the three of us here!  Let's see you skill when you are left in the dark, Dark Spirit, grant me your power and cast Shadow's Curse!"

Romku's clothes changed back and his hair turned red and he was surrounded with a dark red aura.  Romku pulled out his darkness sword, the Darkness Blade.  Dark energy started to float all around them.  The whole area was not emitted in true darkness.  Romku had a grin on his face.

"Maybe this will make the battle more fun!  Let's go for it!  Let's show the world that we are the three best warriors in the world!"

Romku, Sage, and Shajde were all ready for the new challenge...

A dark haze poured over the battle field and left the three warriors in the dark.

"Just like the tournament...." Sage muttered as he sensed Shajde sneaking up behind him. He dropped low and was met with a foot to the jaw, sending him across the ground. He rolled onto his feet and leaped behind a headstone.

"How the hell can I fight?" he aksed then it dawned on him. He thrust his right arm into the air and shot up a shuge sirroco spell. It exploded and left just enough light to see where the others were. He rushed in towards Romku and swung with the blunt of his Katana, being rewarded with a dull thud. He reached out with a punch and nearly broke his hand.

"Ah ####! Its a headstone!" he turned around and set up his sword, ready for something to ram into him.

Knowing Romku must have some strategy of his own to use in the darkness of the graveyard, Shajde's mind raced to find an advantage.  It really wasn't too hard to find one.

A moment's concentration was all she needed to sense the forces of her opponents where they connected to the earth.  At first she thought it would be easiest to simply beat her opponents senseless hidden by shadows, but after noting the substantial lack of damage her kicked dealt to Sage, she decided a different course of action was called for.  Searching around for a suitable hideaway, she located a small tomb and secreted herself inside the marble room.  Thus fortified, she sent out streams of decoy energy to points around her opponents.  These bursts formed into stone and soil dummies of herself, standing menacingly out from the graves and the ground around them.  With these distractions surrounding them, her two opponents would likely do each other much harm before they could even find her again.

Shajde smiled silently to herself.  Strategy is the bane of brute strength.

"Great, I sense the others still in my darkness.  Like Shajde said, strategy always wins.  You guys will love, and hate this!  Shadow Gather and Blast!"

Romku pulled out the sword, Darkness Blade.  All of the darkness started to be obsorbed by the blade.  While the darkness, was being absorbed, Shajde's fake energy sources got absorbed as well, including Sage.  All of the darkness, the energy, and Sage were absorbed.  Shajde came out of the tomb, laughing and smiling with a large grin.  Romku flew up in the air and pointed the blade down.  The darkness turned into dark energy and fused with Shajde's energy sources.  Sage was blasted out of the sword and hit the ground hard.  The dark energy wasn't far behind him.  The energy that followed Sage hit him in the back.  Sage dissapeared into the light from the energy.  An explosion occured and smoke covered the field.  Romku was panting from his exertion, Shajde laughed.

"Hey Romku!  You missed me!"

"####, but what happened to Sage?"

A sharp whistle let loose through the area and the two fighters looked up to see Sage flying unhurt.

"You swear that shooting me through the air helps! These wings always help me out in those situations!" He pointed back to his steal blue angle like wings. He grinned and landed nicely on the ground and looked at the others. He unsheathed his katana and swung it around nonchalantly.

"Bring it." he said but before anything could happen he flew up to Romku and kicked him in the jaw, spinning off and heading towards Shajde. Their weapons clashed as he pushed her back more and more, showing a bust of strength and speed as his sword danced with her beautiful yet deadly moves. Suddenly he let go of his sword with one hand and punched low, getting her inthe stomach. As she knelt forward for a few seconds he borught the bottom of his sword down on her back and leaped back, just in time to see Romku throw a punch at him. He ducked but was tripped by Shajde and he spun in the air but he was cornered. She grabbed abd swung a punch at his chest and Romku brought up his knee into his back.

Pound. Thud. Gasp.

It went so fast. But to simply put it he got jumped. He was tossed aside and the others began to fight. He got up a bit dazed and shook his head.

"son of a.....grrr....." his wings had an aura set go over them and he rushed into both of em, bashing both back, grabbing out at one, Shajde, and began throwing punches at her. He leaped back then grabbed his Katana then rushed back in. He was having a ball.

(Sage is only using his fists cuz he only really uses his sword but he needed something other to do than slash. but yeah I used the wrong character of this battle lol)

Shajde grinned, taking a few blows from birdboy with little trouble.  He had the power of the feathers on his back!  Poor child...she shook her head, laughing at her own thoughts.  Business girl, concentrate on the business!

That in mind, she decided that the only way to make some progress in this match would be to try focusing on one or the other of them.  Watching the winged Sage skim over the ground towards he, she had an idea on how to do so.  She settled in for a powerful kick and waited...waited...there!  Her leg blurred out at the charging warrior, passing through him at the chest as he pressed his attack.  At that moment, Romku took a strong blow to the ribs as the energy of Shajde's kick passed kinetically from Sage's spirit to his own; the energy was transferred from one creature of earth to another.

Sure, attacking this way meant she couldn't defend against Sage's attacks very effectively, but Shajde much preferred being abused by his rather weak blunt attacks to deflecting the spirits of Romku.  She staggered backwards before Sage's assault as he brought out his katana, throwing blurred punches with stone covered hands through him and into her other opponent.

((Tell me if I didn't explain that well enough.  ^.^""))

(Damnit I'm regreting using Sage! =/ I knew I should of brought out Sykel)

Sage was having a difficult time keeping up. He wasn't a good fist fighter.

#### it, time to use what I'm good with! Sage suddenly stopped infront of Shajde and cast a strength spell on him. He rushed up to her on foot and swung madly, stopping to attack with short blasts of fire or wind. She kicked high and he slid low, grabbing her leg and running forward, knocvking her over. He pounced on her and put his hands above her chest, letting lose a huge typhoon blast right on her. He was pushed back and soon was kicked off by Romku. He spun around and waved his hand over his chest. A light heal spell to a new start.

He tightned his grip and rushed back in, blocking the powerfull blows best he could, but it wasn't enough. He never wore anything but tough leather armour, and he was Windian. Even if he had thick bones (Windian's had hollow bones) he still wasn't much for hand to hand fighting. He ducked and rolled out of the spiriters way just as Shajde leaped up, coming down on him from behind. She put her mouth to his ear.

"Gotcha pretty boy." she said and pulled on his wings, she knew how delicate they could be, but she wouldn't rip em out of his body. She pulled a few feathers havbing some fun then stood up, bringing her foot into his back. This battle was not going in his favor.

(Poor Sage.  He was caught by Shajde and can't move.   I have to be a sport.)

"Ok Shajde, you have to let Sage go."

Romku flew up in the air, still in his dark spirit, and kicked the female warrior onside the head, sending her flying through the air, and allowing Sage to be freed.

"Hey Sage!  You have to thank me for this one!  I have an idea.  If you want, I can help you become a fist fighter!  I have a powerup I'll grant you if you want me to.  Think about it!"

Romku flew off, having a little one on one with Shajde.  Romku dealt punch after punch into Shajde's abdomen, but she counteredwith a punch to Romku's face and a kick in the stomach.  Shajde hit Romku to the ground, leaving Romku hurt a little bit.

"I can't do this.  Wind spirit, grant me your power!"

Romku changed from the dark to wind.  His clothes were grey, his hair turned black, and he was surrounded with a silver aura.  Romku flew up with new speed and countered Shajde with multiple punches to the head, multiple kicks to the stomach, and a hammer punch sending her through the air.  

"I know that won't hurt you Shajde, but I had to warm up!  Bring it on!"

Romku was truly ready for any attack.  

(Luckily for me, Shajde doesn't have Shjade with her this time, so she can't trap me like last time, but I also know she became more powerful.  I wonder if I can win this match?)

Romku waited on the ground for any attack.

((*Doesn't remember the trap Romku refers to.  ^.^"*))

Tcha, ungrateful...  Shajde's mutterings faded into whispers as she pushed herself up.  Fine, if he'd decided that was how he wished to fight, she would step up a notch.

It was a simple thing, really, from an observer's point of view.  As she stood, she simply took up a handful of dust from the ground, pivoted and released the dust in an arc through the air, extending her arm straight outwards as she rotated.  It was after, when she cut through the dust arc with her open hand, that it began to look interesting.  The split streams of golden dust seemed to hover a moment in mid-air, then began to glow, brighter and brighter until they were as two tiny stars shining in the sky.  Particles began to explode, first one, then a pair, then many at once, until a wave of small explosions filled the air before Shajde, hiding her from view with a wall of sparks and smoke.

She charged, her earthy armor covered in flames, as though she were a living torch, and while wind extinguishes the weak flame, it causes the powerful inferno to spread.  She struck at the fortified Romku, and even as he blocked with the speed of a great gust, they touch exploded into a great, burning typhoon, the very air around them scorching white-hot so that the world was blotted out by a great layer of light.  Even beneath her earth exterior, Shajde could feel the heat of this great flaming typhoon wind burning away the skin of her hand where it touched Romku's arm.

After causing this firestorm to envelop the cemetary, Shajde flipped away from the spiriter, still covered in her own cloak of flames, and smiled.  All she needed to do to make the storm stronger was touch him again, but even as it was now, surely it could not be pleasant for them to stand in such blazing winds.

((#### need to edit.))
The winds raged as well as the beautiful flames and Sage tried to roll out of the way. An explosion tossed him back and he was flaceplanted on the ground.

Sage shook his head as he got up from the ground. His dragon's tear began to glow a mystical white. This wasn't a color ever seen on it! He looked on in amazement as a weretiger appeared and flashed before him. A green beam shot out of the pendant and flew forward, zipping past the other fighters. It made a U-turn and flew back directly at Sage, a tiger's head roaring out loud. It hit him hard and with a flash of white light it began to wash past him. When he emerged he was no longer the winged warrior everyone knew. He had fuzzy cat-like ears, bright green cat eyes, and a unbuttoned vest-like shirt with white pants. He looked at them contentedly, his eyes watching them. He had dark brown stripes on his arms and face, and his feet were huge claws. He stretched a bit. He looked a bit buffer, and it dawned on Shajde.

"Oh, the Woren side of him I presume?" she said with a half laugh and he grinned. Two gleaming daggers hung at his sides.

"Eh, I guess my small bit of Woren blood has been broughten to light. Shame, I miss my wings!" he said as his tail lashed around, furry and stripped. His hair had a redish tint ot it, and it hung low in his eyes. He eyed Shajde, who had taken her attention of Romku a bit. He grinned and his ears twitched.

"Lets go, I don't have all day!" Sage said, laughing.

((Ok, I know Sage is only 15% Woren, but because he looks like a standard full blooded Windian, at 85%, he has some weird trigger effects, making him 100% of both clans, or one or the other. =) ))\n\n

((Shajde, remember when one of you turned to stone and held my arms and legs so I couldn't move, and the toher one of you had two blades to my neck?  That was the trap!)

Romku was starting to hurt from the flames.  His arm was torn up badly and need a way to stop the burning.

"The flames are hurting!  Wait a min....I have an idea!  Tornado Rage!"

Romku held on to his shriuken, and started to make a tornado.  The tornado was growing and growing.  Sage and Shajde were pulled in.  The tornado was different this time.  The flames that surrounded Romku began to spark through the tornado.  Every cut that Romku dealt, the fire from Shajde's move burned the cuts, causing pain with every slice.  Was there a way the warriors could get out of Romku's flaming, cutting tornado?

((Prepare yourselves for the shortest battle reply ever!!))

Knowing that the flames of the tornado would do as much damage to Romku as his attacks were doing to herself and Sage, Shajde was content to mold her armor into a more pure stone form to deflect his blade attacks.  Stabbing a rock destroys the blade, not the stone, after all.

((Hehe, Flying_Statue_Shajde!  ;p))

The Woren Sage was unlike his normal gentle winged hybrid. He grinned after Shajde's move, and spun with the wind, thrusting a clawed pawed right at Romku's face. Claw met with skin and there was a bit of blood, and Sage flipped back and landed on his feet very elegantly.

"Nice moves you two! Shall we lighten things up?" he thrust out his arms, one finger extended towards Shajde. A series of loud purring like noises that turned into roars were heard and lightning rained down on the warriors. His strongest lightning spell was actually somewhat weak but it atleast stunned them. He drew out his dual daggers and sliced upwards and horizontally at Shajde, her armor deflecting the blows with ease.

((Too lazy to write an actuall ending to my post XD))

Romku is starting to wear out from the pain of the tornado.  Romku falls to the ground, making a crater in the ground.

"Dang.  Shajde is too smart for this.  I have to try something else.  I'll have to wait until Sage gets Shajde out of her stone armor.  I need to recover anyway."

Shajde could not see through her stone shell, but she could feel the rhythm of the Woren's attack: Slash slash pause slash pause, and repeat.  There, the beginning of the cycle, that would be the best time for it, riiight....now!

As his blades closed in on her armor, Shajde shattered her armor with a great bellow, throwing her arms wide.  The stone shell burst into a cloud of shards, flying outward like shrapnel in all directions.  In a matter of moments, she had summoned the Harvest Moon into her hands and tore the sickles from their slots, throwing them with blurring speed at the cat man and taking the swords into her hands the moment the crescents were airborne.

Sage saw this move at the last moment and dived, his left arm taking a hit. He let out a grunt of pain and rolled onto his feet, pouncing the woman from the side. He pinned her and grinned.

"Hey cutie, looks like you let the cat out of the bag." he said, and dug his claws into her sides. He jumped a bit and came down on her stomach with his claws, slashing her up some more. He flipped off of her and heard Romku make a slight move. He turned his attention to his location and ran at him at full speed....

((OOC: ^.^ Yer not getting away Romku!))\n\n

(####, he's attacking me!

Romku saw Sage charged at him.  Romu fell to the ground, grabbed Sage's arms, and threw him over himself.  Sage hit the ground lightly, but was ready to attack again.  Sage got one claw across Romku's face, but Romku gave three punches to Sage's stomach and kicked him back, giving him more room.  

"Take this Sage!  Hyaa!"

Romku started to gather some of his energy.  Then suddenly, Romku blasted ki ball after ki ball (ki is energy) towards Sage.  Sage was dodging most of them with ease, but some hit him, leaving him a little injured.  Romku gathered more energy, and lauched a new attack at him.

"Honor Cannon!"

The honor and sportsmenship of Romku turned into a ball of energy.  Romku was always a fair fighter, so the energy was huge.  He launched the cannon at Sage, but would this move hit?

((Tcha, I guess if everyone else is doing it...*looks at Sage with minor dissappointment*))

From her position lieing flat on the ground, Shajde waited for her crescents to return and caught them as they did so.  Kipping to her feet, she used the momentum of the flipping technique to launch the crescents again, both towards the Woren.

Once her feet reached the ground, she dashed as a blur of black and brown towards Romku.  As he was focused on his attack towards Sage, it was easy to sneak upon him from behind and smash the hilt of her sword into the right side of his neck while simultaneously sweeping his legs from the left, dropping him to the ground quickly after his cannon fired.  Instead of following up her attack, Shajde leaped backwards through the air, skidding to a stop as she landed nearly twenty yards from either of them, a sword in each hand as she readied her defense.

Sage grinned as the Honor Blast came up to him, and he got prepared to dodge when Shajde threw her cresents.

"Awe crap......" Sage leaped straight up into the air but forgot one importan detail.

"No wings!" he came down just as Romku ran up to his landing spot and greeted him with two fists the the stomach and a heel to the shoulder. Sage rolled along the ground and sprung to his feet.

"Gah, damnit! Can't make that mistake again!" he shook his head and looked towards Shajde and grinned.

"Hey good looking!" he said with a purr and got into a fighters stance.

((WTF is this attack you keep doing Shajde? Please explain it! =) ))

Shajde waited for her crescents to return and caught them as they did so, sliding them back into their places with the sword blades and reforming the Harvest Moon.  She grinned at the Woren.  Hey yerself, she replied.

The Harvest Moon spun onto the ground like a top when Shajde twisted it in a quick motion, drilling into the ground in a matter of moments.  Before the dust had even cleared, Shajde dug her hand into the earth and took the weapon by its heart, tearing it up through the soil.  As she did so, minor explosions tore along the ground in a line towards Sage.

While the explosions were charging, Shajde dashed along behind them, her complex yet elegant weapon at the ready for her next attack.

Sage laughed at the attempt by Shajde. He was quite cocky in this form but it was still all good. He spun around and made a dash for Romku. The beam was right behind him when he got right infront of Romku, leaped over him, and kicked him in the back, knocking the already injured warrior forward.

"Sorry bout that! Hehaha." Sage spun around as Spiriter and attack collided. He hopped around then winked at Shajde.

"Is that all you have?" he said in a mocking sort of way.\n\n

Romku was blasted hard with his own attack.

Tcha... Shajde muttered, allowing herself to fly through the air for a moment.  When she had readied herself, she flipped about in the air until her feet touched against a shard of ice, the only bit of substance she needed to shift her momentum foward.  Leaping foward in staggered streaks of motion, she skipped from shard to shard, blazing along the flying ice towards her attacker until she could dive directly toward him, a torpedo from the sky.

As she fell, she began calling a small gust of wind around her, charging some of her strength into one hand.  Just before coming into striking distance of Romku, Shajde released the gust of wind beneath her, throwing her into a sudden hover just a few feet above the spiriter.  Immediately she threw out her hand, blasting a wave of force down into the man's face.

Catch!

Romku gets blasted by the eneryg Shajde made and gets blasted to the ground.

"Nice move, but I'll think of something to get you!"

((Sorry for the shortness))

((Hehe, no problem, gives me a great opportunity! ))

Reacting quickly, Shajde took advantage of Romku's stunned hesitation.  She dropped to the ground beside him, dug her fingers into his shoulder and rolled, picking him off the ground to hold above her.  Tucking her legs tightly in front of her, she set her feet against his chest and kicked upwards, throwing the spiriter high into the air.

Below, she rested an open palm against the earth, sending her control through the harsh wasted ground.  Taking the vision of spikes through her mind, the rough dirt and stone broke itself up and rose into foot-high spikes in a circle ten feet around her.  Setting herself carefully between the spikes, she raised her arms in Sage's general direction and released a weak, seeking blast of wind, one with enough kick to throw her backwards and out of the circle of spikes.

Sage watched amusedly atop a tilted tombstone, watching the two fight frantically. Shajde leaped out of the way of raising spikes and landed into a roll.

Time to get into this again

Sage leaped into a run and right as Shajde looked up he closed lined her and sent her to the ground. Before she hit the grabbed her by the neck and dropped down on her on one knee. He rolled off of her and sprung to his feet, catching Romku on his decent to being impailed. He wondered if he really would hit, and he decided to lighten things up. He made a loud agressive like purr (More like a roar) and a huge set of lightning bolts zapped the hell out of Romku.

Nice.... he said with a grin.

((*Wonders what happened to the homing wind she shot at you...* ;p))

Shajde grinned, not feeling a need to stand up right away.  She merely dipped one of her hands into the ground, then threw it upwards, raising the spikes with frightening speed towards the paired Sage and Romku in the midst of their lightning dance.  The spikes flew at their targets as quickly as missles to the enemy.  Meantimes, the gust she released earlier curled around to hover above them, then dropped swiftly, throwing them all the more quickly toward the rising spikes.

Between the proverbial wind and a sharp place... she thought.

((Well, I was pretty far off, and like, I thought it was meant to keep me away. XD''' Since when was Sage in the air? He has no wings right now, hes a Woren.))

Sage leaped up into the air, dodging the rising spikes. He didn't see the floating ball of wind hovering over him.

Ah ####....not good. Sage tried to spin along with the wind, but it forced him downward. He thrust out a hand and threw bolts of lightning down at the spikes, shattering some. He landed where a few once stood, his posture slanting over one rocky spike. A bead of sweat fell from his forehead and he looked up at the grinning Shajde.

Pretty good......he said, and he let out a laugh, standing upright. She was really good.