Mihael"Sorry, Kitty, but you can't touch this" Uriel said smoothly, before gently taking one of Jackie's hands, a soft light emitting from his own palm.
"I do not know what I'll be able to do, but I shall do what I can" he said softly.
Michael shifted, rocking back on his heels, as Uriel worked. Right now, all Michael had to do was maintain the summons, and Uriel would use his own magic. It wasn't particularly hard on Michael.
"The difference is, they weren't in a battle. They reacted, yes, perhaps a bit hot blooded, but they chose to threaten someone else, and I think that would have happened even if they were thinking clearly"Penny@Lunarlors34So she had some family, at least. Or did. What had happened to her, to be here with very little memory? As the food was delivered, Penny took her soup, leaving it to cool down slightly.
"Do you remember where you were last with them?" She asked, trying to piece everything together, to bring Jasmine back to some semblance of normal.
"I don't know who Cody is" she said, testing her soup carefully to make sure it wouldn't burn her tongue.
Carrie@OblivionCarrie was not overjoyed to be forced to an ice cream place, and she thought about saying she was lactose intolerant just for spite, but couldn't work up the energy for it. She didn't particularly feel like eating, her head was making her stomach uneasy, the pound making it seem like if she ate anything she'd be sick.
"I don't think it would be a good idea if I eat" She said carefully, lowering her head into her hands, which were shaking.
Sasha@Crimson RavenSasha sighed,
"Your sisters attitude will get her killed one day, and given that it seems you are rather uniquely....joined that will get you killed too. I could very well leave you to whoever, whatever, wants you. But I won't. Because I don't think you should be punished for your sister's attitude.
Now, why do I have to keep you alive?"Lucas vs Soren battle part twoLucus sighed as he used wind to push back the attacks again before turning to Soren.
"
This is a pain for both of us. You can escape any attack I launch at you, but I can sense your attacks as they come towards me. Thus, we're at a stand still." He said, a smile on his face before it vanished and became deadly serious. "
However, my guild mate's humiliation on her last match still burns in my mind. And like the rest of my guild, I'm not in the mood for games any more. So you get one more attack before I begin taking this seriously and finish you off boy."
Soren thought that there was too much talk going on, and stood there silent as Lucas spoke, watching and waiting for the perfect time to attack. He attacked again just as Lucas finished and launched with an attack that shook the ground, something similar too what had been done earlier by another contestant, leaping across the ground towards Lucas.
Lucus reacted calmly and with efficiency. Kicking up the winds in front of Soren, forming a wall that Soren would find very painful to pass through. However, he was no fool. He was willing to bet Soren was simply going to teleport out of the way and he needed to stay aware of his surroundings. Easier done then said.
Soren didn't teleport, this time, he used his Contain ability, to contain the magic and shifted through the wall, landing with a slightly jarring impact, in front of Lucas. Soren figured that Lucas wouldn't expect that, and that meant he might have the upper hand, as he attacked with fire once more.
"Well, that is certainly unexpected." Lucus said. While he lost his balance, a quick shield of wind blocked the flames before Lucus summoned a blade of high pressure wind behind Soren and launched it at the mage's leg, hoping to cut some of the muscles and cripple him, forcing Soren to reply on teleportation magic, which would rapidly deplete his magic reserves.
Soren did indeed teleport, but he didn't go far, appearing behind Lucas, and threw flames once more at him, teleportign again, this time appearing to not appear anywhere else, hopefully forcing Lucas to physically look for Soren as the mage watched Lucas, looking for any sign of a weakness, as he worked up another magical attack, building it up as the wind slightly picked up.
This time the flares hit home but Lucus had enough playing around. Withing seconds, the wind in the Arena picked up to tornado levels. Lucus knew the stands around be protected, so he was going all out to defeat Soren. And the longer the enemy mage gave him, the stronger this attack would become.
A temper then? Soren could work with that. As the wind picked up even more, Soren teleported again, appearing once more in front of Lucas, throwing a ball of flame again to disturb Lucas's attack, while his own major attack was waiting, ready to use when Soren wanted to use it.
Lucus simply raced a hand and caught the flames in a ball of wind, which quickly caught fire as well before he lazily threw it at Soren.
Once more Soren used contain magic, taking the magic within to stop it, and fired the excess energy back as simply a raw force that if it hit Lucas would, hopefully throw him back.
Lucus was hit and knocked back but the wind kept him in his feet and from going very far. He stopped the tornado though, realizing something. If he launched a big attack, Soren was likely to just negate it and send a similar wave at him. So he had to simply make this match last as long as possible until Soren ran out of magical energy. Soren had been on offense most of the match and using more then he had. So it was only a matter of time.
The battles seemed to change to a game of cat and mouse, and Soren paused a moment, feeling like he was being maneuvered into a trap and that he'd do well to finish this battle sooner rather than later. So that being said, Soren dropped any magic he had going and simply launched himself at Lucas, deciding to go physical for now and work with his fists
"
Fist fight it is then." Lucus said before blocking Soren's first blow. He knew he would need to stay on his toes now, as Soren was likely to se his magic at point blank range in order to land a blow.
Soren grinned, perhaps for the first time, stepping back from the block, before attacking low, watching to see if Lucas would counter. If he did, he would find that flames would reach up to burn or hurt him in some way
Lucus jumped over the attack before using the wind to blow himself away while also sending another blade of wind at Soren, once again aiming for the other mages legs. Due to the wind, he avoided the flames all together and he calmly landed on his feet.
Soren narrowed his eyes, annoyed at this attack and dodge sequence of events. He didn't attack with magic, but did contain the wind, and launched himself at Lucas again, to punch Lucas, at the last moment teleporting, to appear behind Lucas and launch another punch at him
Lucus waited and wasn't all that surprised to see Soren teleport. He also wasn't surprised when he sensed Soren behind him. Kid had to originality. Lucus side stepped the punch and used his magic to have the wind propel Soren further then the boy would be expecting, in an effort to cause him to trip over his own feet and fall to the ground.
Soren rolled and caught himself, refusing to grow frustrated. He just had to think of A way to get around Lucas's abilities. Almost testingly, he threw balls of fire from various directions, teleporting to do so, to see what he would do. If Lucas threw them back towards him, Soren would contain the magic and the push it forward towRds Lucas.
Lucus did indeed blow the flames away, looking bored as turned his head towards Soren to see what the boy was up to. Something told him it wasn't going to be good for him.
Soren gathered the magic, containing it for now, and as Lucas turned to towards him, Soren grinned, as if he had a plan. Which he didn't. He was just winging it. Moving, he didn't stay still, wanting to keep moving and put Lucas I'll at ease. He funneled the contained magic into the attack he was preparing, getting closer to Lucas, appearing calm.
He attacked with a few spats of magic at Lucas, hoping it was distracting him
"
Okay, let's review here. First off, you launched those attacks with the objective of having me reflect them so you could absorb them. So that happened and you did. However, you didn't, and have yet to, launch that energy. I doubt you're using it to fuel these pests. Not only that, you're closing the distance. meaning you're aiming to unleash a close-range attack. So, come at me already." Lucus said, dodging all of Soren's attacks with apparent ease
Soren just smiled once more. He drew closer still, beginning to weave fire around both of them, appearing at ease with the use of these abilities, the fire magic in particular. as he used wind to fuel it. It used a surprisingly small amount of energy, and Soren weaved it between himself and Lucas, hoping to lure the other mage in, hoping to finish this quickly.
"
Impressive wall of flames. So please, do go on." Lucus said, watching calmly
Soren merely pushed the attack towards Lucas, and didn't do much else. There wasn't really much more that he was going to do, at least right then. Instead, he waited to see what Lucas would do, ready and waiting.
Lucus just steadily dodged the attacks, though eventually one finally scored a hit on his leg and brought him to his knees in pain.
Soren didn't consider it a trap, and he pounced on Lucas, building flames around them to create a fire storm, kicking up more wind and causing the ground to shake as well, using the magical energy he had stored
"
Bout damn time." Lucus muttered under his breathe. The moment Soren was too close, Lucus pounce and slashed at the boys arms and legs with blades of wind surrounding his own hands, aiming to cripple the boy to the point that he couldn't move anymore and end the match. The fire was no issue for Lucus. Sure it was hot as all hell, but it wasn't going to bother him. Wind would give him easy control over the flames so he could leave as he saw fit.
Soren let the blows land, closing in the flames, as earth rose over them. That had been a handy addition to the magic he could use, and he thought to thank the boy who he had mimicked it from. The earth encased them, cutting off the wind Soren had confured, the flames now flickering over both of them.
It would be whoever could survive the longest, and that was fine by Soren. If worse came to worse, h and could always teleport out. As Lucas blows landed, Soren was sure to move even slightly so they wouldn't hit valuable areas
Lucus looked around them as Soren proceeded to surround them with a dome of stone. He laughed though. His opponent had made a grave mistake.
"
You know, I like that you can absorb magic, but I do have something to ask you: How much can you absorb?" He said before the wind inside the dome quickly picked up to tornado levels. Even if Soren absorbed the magic, Lucus simply called it up again and again until his opponent couldn't take it anymore and the winds began tossing him around the dome like a ragdoll.
Soren didn't reply, feeling no need too. As the wind picked up, Sorrn began to contain the magic, shooting it towards his dome, strengthening it and building more, making the space smaller, the flames lapping about. There was some strain as it became harder to contain, but Soren refused to give up, even as it became over whelming, he bundled the flames up in a desperate attempt to distract Lucas, throwing it at him
Lucus simply used the wind to blow the flames away and kept at it with the tornados, smiling calmly.
Soren growled, refusing to be taken down this easily, he dispelled the flames, and almost at once replaced them with Ice, the ice cascading down in small, round balls like hail, pounding against everything they hit like bullets, leaving holes in the earth
"
You know, you can't keep this up." Lucus said as the winds picked up the ice and began flinging it at Soren while Lucus remained untouched.
"you keep flinging magic at me, and I'll. e able to keep it up forever" Soren replied, annoyed at this situation. A metal knife formed in Soren's hand, and he flung it towards Lucas
