@KatherinWinter@Xiphonic

"It just sort of happens," Jen explained, shrugging a little, before she grumbled, "I've never liked Vampire. Its too long. But I like the idea. Hiding in the night, creatures of lust. Suits me."

@GingerBoi123

Ryouko smirked as Damien took off. He had measured his speed before, when he ran to help Kiiros. But this was even better. He was running straight at him. Ryouko knelt, as Damien was ten feet before him.

Nine...Eight...

Ryouko cupped his hands, by his left side, his grin only widening as a solid line of blood began to form, in the way the handle of a staff would be. His crouch served as a way to keep his stable footing, that way he wouldn't be moved by the move he was about to perform.

Seven...Six...

He then began to layer it, quickly, using his skilled control to harden the blood into a sturdy, solid form.

Five...Four...Three...Two...

Ryouko slammed his hands fowards, the blood spear forming quickly and cleanly as he drove the base into the midpoint of Damien's torso at an upwards angle, using his own speed and momentum from the run against him to curve the pole in a circle, over his head, as he threw him into the wall behind him. This was done by simply letting his momentum against the solid staff carry him up and send him flying, because it was basically...in a way...a forced pole vault. "One!" He shouted, turning to look at Damien...or the hole in the wall...with a large grin. The force alone would have made quite a nice hole in the wall.

@Carlsberg@Xiphonic
Katherin didn't think she had ever had a name. Atleast not one that she was aware of. She wondered what her name would be. She didn't ask though. She was kind of afraid to ask. She was sure that she would hear it sooner or later. She hoped that it was a good one. "What if you don't like the name you're given?"

@KatherinWinter

Jen shrugs.
"Just say you don't enjoy being called that. Most of us are nice enough people, so we'll probably stop. Honestly, I doubt anybody will give you a nickname that is downright mean. They might give you a teasing one, but nothing worse than that," she said.

@Ryouko@Carlsberg@KatherinWinter
Veronica let Jen handle Katherin while she looked over at the fight. Damien's speed was indeed impressive, but the move Ryouko pulled was genius, almost exactly what she had thought of earlier. Damien would almost certainly need to be healed after the fight... even if that was the final move. The way Jen was with people, once she got out of the more shy point, was amazing and brought a smile to Veronica's face.

@Carlsberg@Xiphonic
"It's that easy?" Sure these guys were friendly. Well most of them. She thought looking at Kiiros. But would they really stop calling someone a name because they didn't like it? She didn't see any reason why they wouldn't. But then she didn't see any reason why she would. This whole team thing was new to her. She wasn't sure how it worked.

David sat up watching the fight, wanting to learn what there two could do. Maybe they could be useful in escapign this hell hole. His wounds were healed now

@Ryouko

Damien's eyes widened as the very blood from Ryouko's hands formed into a weapon. When did he even cut himself? Damien was forced to slide under the acrobatic manoeuvre of Ryouko, having to let go of all hope of a solid first attack. Damien twisted his body as he pushed himself up so he's facing Ryouko. The visible charge in his hands was gone. Damien got the electrons in his right arm to travel into a widening ball in his hand, and when it got to the size of a basketball, Damien thrusted his arm forward. An arc of lightning jettisoned it's way towards Ryouko. It would take more than a spear and a pole vault to take out Damien. He had to end the fight fast. Most people just ran from a dude hyped up on electrons and adrenaline so he never been in long fights. The fights he has been in didn't take very long. Damien didn't want to find out if he had the stamina or not, he just wanted to win.

@KatherinWinter

"Yeah, it really is. We don't want to hurt you, especially if we're going to be working with you on missions," Jen said, "I mean, what possible reason could we have for wanting to make someone else feel bad?"
She glanced over at the fight, surprised that Damien had managed to dodge that attack. He really was fast.

@GingerBoi123@Ryouko@KatherinWinter

Kiiros was leaning forward in his seat, watching the fight very closely. Ryouko has good strategy but Damien has fast reflexes. Either way somebody had to get hurt eventually, and Kiiros was crossing his fingers for it to be Damien. 'Payback for that shit you pulled back at the course, you son of a bitch.' grinning evilly all the while. He loves revenge, hell it's his speciality whether directly or indirectly. He'll have to think of something to get back at Jen later for her brief moment of brave idiocy, but for now he's looking to see Damien lose.

His grin disappeared and his focus briefly shifted to what he's deciding to call 'The Sentimental Trio', looking to the one named Katherin. He still felt a little drained from their fight, if you can even call it that. He knew from the beginning he wasn't going to be able to demonstrate his abilities to the facility staff while fighting someone like her, so showing off with his ability to create armour and weapons from fire was his best bet on showing his potential to them. 'Otherwise she's much too weak in battle. She could practically be broken like a tooth pick once you have her.' he recalled back after he basically captured her out of flight and began beating her relentlessly. The memory made him feel... something. It wasn't guilt or sadness, not even close, he didn't care if he hurt people at all whether mentally or physically... but he did feel... something. Something that wasn't right. He chose to forget about it, deciding it's best not to linger on what you don't understand for too long.

@Gingerboi123

It hadn't been that good of a move to move where Ryouko's center of balance was located. As he moved closer by sliding his feet forwards, the end of the spear was clearly shown.

It was in fact, a series of sharp Razor blades, pressed so thinly together that they would cut more skin than would be thought at the end and sides of the 'spear'. The only place without this...was the handholds he had. As he leaned to the left to avoid the arc of electricity that raced past his head, brushing his hair and nearly singing him, Ryouko took the chance of leaping forwards, into Damien's unprotected left side. He sliced through the air with the blood spear, intending to cut across Damien's heart with the jagged sides while knocking him off balance.

He couldn't wait to use an actual sword against Damien.

@Ryouko

Damien was very alarmed. It was like he was fighting some alien weaponry. Damien tried spinning away, but the barbs nicked his skin several times, causing small rips and slices in his shirt and body. They stung like hell. Damien had to drop low, but slammed his palm into the floor, sending out pulsing shockwaves across the floor in very short intervals. Time to play the floor is lava.

@Gingerboi123

Ryouko gritted his teeth as the shockwave began to spread out. 'Screw it. It's time for overhead assault.' Ryouko thought, quickly, as he used the momentum from his spear swing to slam it down over his head, being pushed forwards by the landing against the ground as he pole vaulted off of the ground. He moved quickly, his body twisting upwards as his feet came up in a backflip, and a nicely timed one, aimed at Damien's ducked Jaw.

The blood spear left the ground at the approximate timing that was needed to avoid the electricity, the ends falling off as the electricity hit the cells of blood to make the spear even more jagged and reduce what was lost by the electric conductivity of blood.

It would be a surprise given the close range, and the fact that Damien was ducked and he was in motion meant a lot of things.

@Ryouko

Damien got extremely frustrated. For every maneouvre, Ryouko had a response. For every attack, the blood manipulator had an answer. Damien had one last trick for the overhead charge from Ryouko, it was very risky and very much a gamble. Damien placed his palms side by side, attempting to project a forcefield. If touched, the forcefield could electrocute Ryouko, no matter what. However, it was a race against time, and if Damien didn't make it then that would be game over.

@Gingerboi123

Sadly, it seemed, the fight would be over. Even though Ryouko was hit with the forcefield, the momentum he had would simply not be able to be stopped by an electric forcefield that had just formed from Damien's hands. Created Movement against something that already had gained momentum and speed would not be fast enough to counter it.

Now to explain how it all went down.

Ryouko had still been in motion, when the forcefield was being made. The simple palm movement had costed Damien precious seconds, in which he could have dodged.

But he didn't.

Ryouko Ashborn's feet slammed into Damien's jaw, jarring his skull with enough force to send him flying again, yet this time...The force would be enough to make him unconsious. As Ryouko went to land, however, he didn't account for one thing in mid flip.

The forcefield was now enlarged and progressing to grow larger, since that seemed to be the only primary function. He barely had enough time to flip fully and land, slamming his spear into the ground for a lightning rod while doing so (because he had already planned to plant his spear for when Damien dodged, if he did). The forcefield was drawn into the makeshift lightning rod, slowly being discharged in the ground below, before an arc of electricity shot off of the spear and zapped him, sending him smoking, sprawling, across the arena floor.

It charred his chest, leaving a gaping hole in his shirt, and a visible burn on his chest, while electricity danced along his skin as if trying to fry him. He forced himself up, slowly, as his jaw locked and he doubled over, coughing hard, as the electric paralysis wore off of his limbs. He looked at the Guards, his eyes narrowed and his jaw set.

"Am I done now?"

@Ryouko

Damien felt the pure cracking sensation in his jaw. It hurt like hell. Damien indeed got knocked out by Ryouko's powerful kick. However, as Damien rolled away. The last glimpse he got was Ryouko also hitting the floor. Did it work? Alas, everything went to black as Damien slipped into unconsciousness.

@Gingerboi123

Ryouko saw the guard's eyes glance towards his hands and he sighed, softly, before deciding he wanted no answer.

Ryouko then walked towards Damien, his blood spear all but gone because of the frying electricity. He slowly knelt when he reached Damien, ignoring the pain that throbbed in his chest and made it harder for him to breathe. He gently hoisted Damien onto his shoulders, carrying him back into the audience area as he set him down next to the main group.

Then he went to go and get Damien's things and his own. Ryouko laid Damien's possessions in the seat beside him, slinging his headphones around his neck again. He went to sit in the front row, his throbbing chest causing his breathing to be shallow as he covered up the hole in his shirt, playing a song that he enjoyed to listen to.

'...Another day in this carnival of souls...'

Far from home. One of his all time favorites. Long gone were the days where he would've sang along, but he mouthed the words to himself, in time.

@Ryouko@GingerBoi123

Kiiros was laughing obnoxiously at Damien's defeat. He will never let him live this down. If he was totally honest with himself, he didn't expect Damien to actually lose, but he didn't expect him to win either. Luckily the higher beings have given him this sweet taste of revenge before he had to get it himself in a possibly more gruesome or cruel way.

@Ryouko
Veronica was astounded by the fight. Though it was fast, it was astonishing to see the power available to the two. She walked over to the two. "Hey, need a bit of healing?" She offered to the two; and without much time to respond already began to aid their healing processes with a bath of Infrared light. Damien still seemed to be out so she gave him some extra heals over Ryouko. "I am well impressed with that fight! I wouldn't last a minute against either of you." A smile on her face as she healed the two. Her words were mostly hollow praise, but rang with an echo of truth. Damien's speed would be far too great for Veronica to do a whole lot, even with using some power from his lightning. A fight with Ryouko would be 50/50, depending on circumstances and what was available.

@Varicke

Ryouko turned to look at Kiiros, taking one headphone and sliding it back. To where he could hear. "What's so funny?" He rasped out, trying to form words as best he could with his little oxygen.

@Xiphonic

Ryouko then looked at her, before he shook his head softly. "Don't waste your energy." He rasped out, coughing into his hand softly.