Fight night. (War. 2.3)

[Brea Cao-Wei]

Brea prepared to raise his blade in defence against the giant lizard. If it was a fight the people wanted, then it would be a fight that they got! The beast progressively got closer and closer but then suddenly leaped over him towards Zaria. The blonde cursed inwardly as he turned, aiming to try and get in an admittedly cheap shot at the back of the lizard, but he managed to catch a sight that completely caught him by surprise.

The lizard-demon was frozen in its tracks, the giant bone it was wielding was stopped in it's track by a dark black and red katana that was being wielded with one hand by a figure with dark blue, nearly black hair that fell in between theer shoulder blades. A plain white emotionless mask covered their face and a black robe covered the rest of their figure. The intervening fighter received roars of approval from the watching crowds, as they slowly shook their head at the lizard, before swinging the blade up.

The club was gone from the lizards hand, before the sword coming back down, left a huge gaping gash in the scales which Brea had been unable to slice through. The figure stepped onto the corpse, and looked from Zaria, to Eli and then to Brea.

Was this person friend or foe..?

[Ramirez De Zoro]

Ramirez heard Yeligar's voice as he regain conscious. He looked and saw the massive demon.
"OH HOLY!" Ramirez said as he dashed out from under the claw. He got a better view of the terrifying demon, and pulled out his book. He made some notes, and then gain some distance from it.

[shanira]

"Well, that's..." Shanira trailed off as her sword started to disappear into the iron beast. She ditched her sword then instead, leaving whatever was still sticking out of the creature as she dove out of Mark's attack's way. As she rolled on the ground to her feet she felt a pressure in her head, something of which she assumed was from the drop to the ground to begin with but as she got herself settled to try another attack she felt a growing pain starting to throb in her head.

' he's really upset...just hold on a moment...' she thought to herself, her attention being pulled back to the iron creature as it launched its spikes at them. This was a very inconvenient time for Alexander to get...angry? Yeah, it seemed angry at someone.

Regardless, she was a little busy and with the pain steadily growing she bit her lip and flipped and dived out of the way of the spikes almost easily, though her forced attention to her headache had a close call a couple of times as they grazed her arms. She prepared to charge again, powering up her fists and made to launch herself straight at their enemy once there was an opening.

[Mark Angelus Fri]

"Well, that was unexpected!" The announcer yelled as the figure defeated the lizard demon in a single swift movement, "Is, that, um - is that even legal?"

Mark hardly even noticed the Lizard's death, he was too focused on making sure Shanira didn't get herself killed. She wasn't focusing completely, something was drawing her thoughts away from the fight.

So Mark needed to finish this fight fast, he quickly drew out one of his blades and rushed along with Shanira. As Shanira charged straight at it, the creature morphed itself once more by making an opening so that Shanira simply passed right through it. Mark swung his blade vertically, yet it came with the same results that Shanira had earlier, the demon caught the blade and held it completely still.

"These attacks aren't going to do anything like this!" Mark called out to Shanira, "Try using magic!" The Demon didn't like that idea and for some reason it thought Shanira was about to dish out some super power magic attack. It moved, fast, using the liquid metal to try and consume her.

[Kodoku Itami]

Itami had swiftly come to a couple of conclusions. The first was that using Susanoo was a generally bad idea, given that he couldn't see a damn thing anymore, the second was that when you're effectively blind, it's surprisingly difficult to break a fall when it's as unexpected as the one that occurred at the start of this whole business. The third and final conclusion that whilst someone asking you to move was all well and good, when you can't see anything it's pretty difficult to realise just whereabouts they want you to move.

Thankfully, Itami managed to get out of the way of both the giant creature and Yeligar's own attacks. His head turned this way and that, trying to pick up sounds over sights, but with all the noise going on and with everything unfolding as it was, he couldn't find out precisely what he was doing or where he was going.

"The enemy!" He shouted out, making handsigns, despite the fact that he couldn't see anything, slowly moulding the energy needed for his attacks.

"Where are they?!"

[shanira]

Shanira bolted through, even attempting to swing several times at the iron beast and missed each time.

'he's fast...' she thought, hearing Mark call out to her to use magic instead. It wasn't really that she couldn't, it was that she never really used magic except as a means to enhance her physical attacks...

She wasn't granted much time to think on it however as the creature came at her.

'REALLY fast...!!'

Forcefully kicking herself into high gear, Shanira tore around the their fighting area, trying to be mindful of the barrier around them but finding it hard to pull off a stunt like this with so little room.
That was when she got an idea and made to break into her famous blink-of-an-eye run and leap, the idea being to bounce off the wall and try catching the enemy off-guard.

when she went to run faster though was the moment a sharp pain stabbed her in the back of the head, and instead of running faster she swayed a little to the right and stopped right in front of the creature, for a brief moment grabbing at her head and still trying to jog along.

"Dammit!" she shouted. she didn't care this thing was about to kill her, she was angry this was the way it was happening...wait, no, she wasn't done yet!! stupid Alexander!

[Zaria DeGantz]

This unknown person had saved Zaria from impending doom...so why did this make her somewhat angry? She'd just been appointed as an Undian Captian, and here she was being unable to defend herself. She furrowed her brows. Her sword would be useless in this ring.

She'd come too far to make everyone think she was weak. Think fast... She thought to herself. She spotted a few members of the audience in some of the first rows with goblets filled with liquid. She grinned menacingly, and dashed towards the outer walls, her gloves glowing as her fists clenched. She ran along the inner walls of the coliseum, and the liquid from a few of the goblets floated up at her command, and she ran back to help her team members. "Sorry!" She called to the audience members whose refreshments she'd..."borrowed". She wasn't REALLY sorry, as this was kind of a life or death situation, but she said it anyway.

She figured if some random person could jump into the arena, she could use whatever she could to try and ensure survival. This stuff wasn't water, but it was still a liquid of sorts, and Zaria was sure she could work with it. After all, desperate times called for desperate measures.

[Mark Angelus Fri]

Shanira was on her A game at all, so Mark needed to pick up the pieces on. Mark leaped up into the air so that he could get the perfect view of the enemy.

Placing the palms of his hands just inches apart he began to channel magic right into them, forming a large glowing sphere in his hand. Mark than raised his hands into the air, letting the sphere shine brightly around the area.

This caught the attention of the iron Demon, knowing that magic was a danger to it, turned away from Shanira and leaped up at Mark. It's fast! Mark thought as the demon approached him, But not fast enough!

Mark brought his hands down to unleash the magic at a near point blank range, but that was until the demon creature thought quickly and tossed an iron spike right at Mark. It flew through the air and collided straight into his shoulder, causing him to shift to the right a bit before he fired.

"SHIT!" Mark cursed as he unleashed the blast. The fiery of light magic still slammed into the demon, but only hit the left shoulder of it. That did enough to send it back to the ground, missing its entire left shoulder.

Mark landed on the ground and yanked the iron spike right out of his shoulder, quickly covering the wound with light magic to prevent further blood loss. He looked over at Shanira and gave her a weak grin, "Something bothering you, Lady Shanira? There seems to be something on your mind aside from this fight..."

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It would be hard for Itami to miss, the giant demon took up half of the available fighting field, after all. It roared as the ice spikes pierced its paw before lowing its head to ground level and opening its mouth letting out a fury of the yellow acid straight at the group, like a wave of water... except, you know - it's acid.

"LOOK AT THAT!" The announcer roared, "This fight is about to come to an end as the great beast appears to be smothering the entire battlefield in acid!"

--

"Look out, you brute!" The smaller demon roared as the larger demon raised its arm to block the incoming blades. They sank straight into the giant demon's arm, not deep enough to cause anything fatal but enough to annoy it.

The larger demon growled in anger, raising its hand high which seemed to gather some sort of magic power into the palm of its hand. It swung its hand fast in the direction of Ingway, unleashing a powerful fire magic that covered the field like water running down a slope - quick and with a vicious intensity.

[Zeke Omoihake]

As if on cue with his mounting worries the dark denizens of Hellious had seemed to wish to pay him a visit, and while their odd demands for Duo fell deaf on his ears, Zeke instead took to trying to buck up the courage to face the creatures.

Come on bud, you told Ingway you'd have his back, and that means getting out their and facing whatever it is that's coming for you. Zeke gave a sickening gulp as he pushed down his fears into his gut. I just really hope it's not a pitfiend.

Rushing up the stairs to the deck Zeke paused for a moment to see Ingway already engaging the beasts in combat. While seemingly insane at the time, a smile of relief crossed his lips. A testament to how relativity played on his mind, the demons before him seemed far more manageable than what his imagination had conjured.

"Ha! A Master Blaster demon. Hahaha, so even Hellious can't escape my stupid cliches. Alrighty, I'm coming Ingway!" Scaling down the ship Zeke unsheathed his chain blades and blitzed his hardest towards the combatants. Taking the chain in his right hand he whirled it beside him, building momentum behind the mass of enchanted deadly steel before he threw it out with a fierce grunt at the head of the tiny demon rider.

[Kodoku Itami]

Itami could hear the sloshing of whatever it was that their opponent was throwing towards them, and decided that it wasn't good. He finished his hand-seals and took in a deep intake of breath.

"Katon; Fireball jutsu!"

He exhaled the breath which launched a large sphere of flame towards the waves of acid. Itami hoped that it would dry the whole thing up before anything too bad happened, but just to be safe, he took a few leaps back and readied himself for whatever was heading in his direction, his hands already working on forming another spell to defend himself.

[Brea Cao-Wei]

Brea nodded across at Zaria's quick thinking as he held his blade forwards in two hands, eyeing up the swordsman before him suspiciously. The casualness of their stance unnerved him, it was something he himself would do. Stand there and look calm, waiting for the enemy to make the first strike before delivering a vicious counter-attack. The emotionless mask worn by this new combatant simply gazed from one to the other, looking at those stood before it, uncertain whether or not to attack. Again, Brea didn't like it...

"Be on your guard!" He called out. "That lizard went down before them like a sack of potatoes... I couldn't even scratch it..." He gritted his teeth as the masked figure locked eyes with Brea and simply muttered two words.

"That voice."

With that, they were gone. Brea blinked hard, wondering if it were some kind of optical trick, but he could see his opponent nowhere. He turned at the last second in order to see a dark black sword swinging down towards his head. He wrenched his arm up in the hopes of getting an effective block in place, but he could do no such thing properly and his blade only clumsily crashed into his attackers, at least they now knew whose side it was on.

Brea dropped on to one knee, using both his hands to sustain the block, gritting his teeth against the struggle.

[Eli Ventus]

"Brea!" Eli roared, as the warrior caught Brea in a blade lock he grabbed the warrior and with a heave of Lunar Knight strength he threw the figure away from Brea and with enough ferocity to crash into one of the walls.

[shanira]

Shanira silently cursed herself realizing her discomfort was being noticed, though she knew that she really shouldn't have been so surprised, it was more than obvious. The sharp pain as quickly as it came numbed down into a pulsing pressure in her head, and as Mark spoke to her she shook her head violently, forcing her gaze towards the monster instead of the archangel.

"N-no, sir!" she lied, voice raised, "I am just a little..."

A little what? Distracted? The pain wasn't there anymore, she noted, not for now anyway. And it was important for her to remember it wasn't Alexander's fault, it wasn't his choice she threw herself onto Allorum instead of being safe up in Heaven and trying to divide her attention several places at once.
She had the choices. She either stay in Heaven, sitting comfortably (ha) in this pain and be with Alexander in the useless fox form, or here she was actually doing something and having to remember that 'OH YEAH, sometimes THIS will happen to you when you're trying to fight vicious beasts and you'll just have to learn to deal with it!'

'So deal with it!' she thought angrily to herself. Shanira bit her lip and tried to push the uncomfortable feelings back again. And before Mark or even herself could question it further, she blasted off to try to round up her sword again, a bright glow slowly surrounding her as she moved, growing as she moved faster and faster.

Magic? Fine! She'd try it, anything to destroy what was in her way. And as the pain started to come back she let out a loud "raaaaaaaggghhhhh!!" to try to combat it, too!

[Ingway Desmodius]

Starting to feel a little better about the situation, I felt my body loosen up, and my motions become a bit more natural as my keen magical sense was all ready painting a clear picture of what was one the way. Culminating the magic for my glyphs almost in time with the giant creature, I called forth a massive one to consume the magical flames as the were vomited towards me. Seeing a clear opening, I prepared myself to use my second strongest weapon to retort; mockery.

"Wow, Rocks and flames? I've seen Roccian and Ignisian traps made several centuries ago that use both better. No wonder you guys are getting your asses kicked; your tactics are beyond archaic."

I felt confident in my abilities to keep the creatures attention and effectively dodge it, hoping that I could keep Zeke out of harms way and provide him with the openings he needed. Aiming to further stack arcane blades into the creature, I flipped backwards, deploying several more clusters of Legion blades, before landing with a sweeping motion of the magic armaments, causing the hovering swords to phase around the creature and dive inwards.

"Here, try blocking these!" I yelled, hoping to further retain the creatures attention and gaud it into continually blocking my blades.

Legion was a devious weapon, and so long as the lumbering creature kept blocking them and thinking nothing of the lack of pain or damage from them, I felt confident that I could stack enough to burst them and render the massive creature unconscious. Mind you, thinking didn't seem to be it's strong suit, so that wasn't a worry, but for a thing of it's size, it was gonna take more blades, way more, before that was an available option.

[Mark Angelus Fri]

Zeke's blade flew through the air with the intentions of killing the smaller Demon, but because the Demon had been keeping a close eye on Zeke it had seen the move coming. The Demon quickly threw up a barrier that deflected Zeke's attack straight into the ground.

The smaller demon leaped from its ride and onto the ground, “You... you have the scent of Duo, yet it's simply like you've brushed up against him.” The Demon got on one knee, holding its hand spread out on the ground, “I don't know who you think you are human... BUT ANYONE WHO IS WITH DUO MUST DIE!”

The Demon suddenly pulled out a blade that was easily as long as his entire body. The blade was dark black, decorated with long angel bones that made up the hilt of the blade. The demon moved quickly, bursting up into the air right up Zeke and coming down so hard that the ground shook on contact.

“You've really picked the wrong place to invade, boy.” the demon hissed before swinging his blade down at Zeke so powerful that in unleashed a powerful wave that shook the entire area.

Before Ingway could even think about helping his ally, the larger demon began moving towards him. Apparently taking great offense to the names it was called, as well as the many swords that was stuck in its side.

“Little human...” the demon growled as its eyes started to glow a deep black color, “Your blades and words are useless against me. You lose!”

The large demon unleashed a dark magic the caused the ground below Ingway to shake before erupting in fiery of dark energy.

---

The iron Demon thought Shanira was just repeating the same mistake as before and this time it was going to make sure she didn't get out of it without a major injury...

...It was a bit too late before it realized that this attack was not like before, in fact the speed she was going at made it pretty much impossible to block it. So the demon did the next best thing – it ran, or tired to run.

Shanira cut through the demon so fast that it incinerated the Demon's last arm. The speed swept the demon up and sent it flying back into the wall.

“...That's better,” Mark managed to make a grin as he watched Shanira send the demon flying. Something was still bothering her, but she seemed to be able to fight well enough.