Unfortunately for Auz, Xaviers footing had been secured a few moments before. Upon his prior movements Xaviers right foot had been cradled by the puddle both men stood on. Ontop of this his left foot would be back on the ground by this point. So when Auz pulled the sword towards himself Xavier stood firm. The tugs power swayed Xaviers upper body only slightly before he returned the power. Utilizing his superior footing to allow him to pull back on the sword. Xavier was not trying to pull Auz into him. Rather he would be hopefully preventing Auz from gaining or losing an inch of footing by. Leaving him almost no remaining time to dodge the impending spike which would still be careening for his taint.
Xavier had guessed that Auz would attempt a counter and Xavier never let his gaze falter as he watched for it. When Auz swung his sword in Xaviers left arm moved in a blur, positioning itself between the blade and its target. Rather than take the damage of the blades edge, Xavier had positioned his arm in line with Auzs hilt.
The metallic rods and the coating which held them there took a significant amount of the impact. Reverting momentarily to a liquid state to allow the blades hilt to bury itself with its impact. Xaviers forced his right arm against his left at the same time. The blow had pushed the two together and he used this to stabilize his arm. The metal would than attempt to leap back across the hilt in an instant. Solidifying just as quick with the hopes of trapping the blade in place. Xavier hoped that it would either force Auz to remain where he was for even a second longer to allow a full skewer or force him to momentarily part with his blade.
Well first you will need to find the rules. I don't know for sure if they have a sticky post for the rules in the Arena thread or not.
Once you know the rules you can make an Arena Interest Check post. There you can show what charcter you would like to use and people can post theirs for a challenge.
Alternatively you can look for a post that someone else has made in the Arena Interest Check thread and take their offer.
Xavier landed delicatlely on the ground, his knees bending to cushion the fall and assume position. His left hand was resting flat on the ground, the rods on that arm vibrating in anticipation as Auz began his sprint. Xaviers right hand holding his sword across shoulder. For a moment Xavier seemed to do nothing as he watched Auz. Xaviers eyes darting to and fro from Auzs legs to the ground as he calculated. Xaviers legs tensed as his the toes of his boots and the fingers on his left hand dug into the earth on Auzs 3rd step. Legs, toes, arm, fingers and rods released their tension as the step landed.
In a plume of dust Xavier was mobile, making use of his unbelievable acceleration capabilities. Surely Auz would be able to keep track of Xaviers movements, however Xavier would be moving much faster than he had so far. In this same instant the rods on Xaviers arm had come to life, sending 4 through the air. They would be flying directly infront of Xavier and would land just the same, infront of him.
On launch Xavier had began to right himself, maintaining a forward leaning angle without being so low to the ground. This allowed him to step with his right foot at the same moment the first rod would land. The rod would turn to a puddle beneath Xaviers foot as the remaining 3 rods hit the dirt. Xavier stopped dead in his tracks much like before, though this time the blood cradled his foot rather than anchoring it. Xavier willed the puddle to extend in an instant, shifting from 6 inches all around to 4 inches wide and 8 inches long. The following 3 rods which impact shortly after underwent the exact same change as they made impact. Creating a 2 and a half foot puddle that strecthed across the dirt towards Auz.
The goal was to either cause Auz to step on the puddle which had been put directly into his path midstep or to distract him with it. If the first plan was a success and Auz stepped on the puddle then Xavier would shift the metal. Creating a pike that would tear through the air towards Auzs groin. More specifically the taint, taking advantage of the lack of armor plating their in hopes to run him through from anus to brain.
Meanwhile Xavier swung his sword in a diagonal fashion towards Auzs neck. Another multiuse tactic meant to take use of the distraction the blood would create or to create a distraction for the blood to make contact.
I am currently in the process of re-writing Xaviers CS. It's been a few years since it was written but it should get the job done for now.
Name: Xavier Bloodbayne
Physically Appearing Age: 25 Actual Age: Undetermined.
Race: Bloodbayne - A human who has survived the prick of a Bloodbayne flower*. Undergoing a physical transformation which eventually twists the mind as well.
* The Bloodbayne flower is a genus of the Monkshood or Wolfsbane flower. They are the only floral life that has been able to live around the Black Pond-a place of great evil from Xaviers world. They produce an alluring aroma to passerbies and when they go to get a closer sniff they are sprayed by toxic spores.
|Xavier originates from within a realm that had once been ravaged by a war between humans, gods and demon like creatures.
The time that he had spent in that realm and fighting the war with his brothers in arms had taken its toll on the man. He had grown only by a few years since his birth when the demons of his world known as the 'Diseased' took his parents from him. Since that day when he was child Xavier held a very melancholy state of mind and body. This made him the perfect target for one of the gods of his realm, whose name was Mitsurashi.
This particular god held control over chaos and death, and was essentially evil. So much that in the beginning of their realm, while the other gods and goddesses worked to create life and a beautiful place to love, Mitsurashi could only see how to cause death and mayhem, and so he attempted to ruin their plans and destroy the planet. Though he gave it his all, it mattered not in the end and he was imprisoned within the planet itself the gods were creating.
It was Mitsurashi who created the Diseased, one last hope of bringing about the destruction of the planet. Which meant that he was indirectly responsible for the death of Xavier's parents and Mitsurashi was able to see when it happened, and from that day forward he made sure to keep an eye on the one child that survived the attack.
As the days went on, Xavier's anger only grew and Mitsurashis fascination with him did as well. The young boys growing anger and his past with the Diseased made him the perfect target for one final shot at revenge, and it would work better then he expected.
Throughout the boys life, Mitsurashi gradually fed the boys mind with Chaos energy, speaking to him in his dreams and attempting to influence the boy.
While the Chaos energy did take to Xaviera mind and body, it began to gradually change, evolving in a way, while it lay dormant inside of him. This was not something that Mitsurashi was able to know until he began to see Xavier, now a man, battling against his creatures and wielding a new dark red energy. The energy was a spawn of Xavier's unbridled anger and the chaos energy that had been slowly building in his body.
The Chaos had infact fueled his rage, stripping away his motions through the years until he could feel only the anger. He shut out all others from his world, living a life of solitary training and missions.
There came a time when Mitsurashi used his own stored up energy to approach Xavier in the form of an apparition, telling Xavier a lie that the gods had sent the Diseased to his house that night long ago, and now had their eyes on his death as well.
The knowledge and the means to reach them and free Mitsurashi were given to Xavier and he set on his way to their destruction, feeling at this point they could not beat him.
The gods did not fear this man, they had yet to need a reason to fear any man that had approached them, but they had not anticipated the energy this man held.
One by one the gods stood against this man, and soon found the danger that he truly posed to them. The chaos energy had changed, became more powerful and it simply continued to change through each fight and with each new energy he came into contact with.
While he faced the gods of Thunder and Darkness, they found that his energy would clash with theirs and hold against theme as though they were one in the same. With each clash of their energy, Xavier's gained more and more attributes from the opposing ones. Soon what was only a dark red mass of energy, was being focused into bolts of thunder, lightning and shadows on the battle field. The energy's were the same, but still drastically different, even as they tried to grasp what was remnant of their own powers they found only further suffering. They would have to fight through the madness that overwhelmed the energy, having even to worry about the same maddening effects while encountering the energy regularly.
Of the 3 goddesses, only one could be taken into his growing power and that was the goddess of ice. The others held the powers of light, and the powers of life. The two fought and rejected against the chaos energy and the darkness already inside of him.
When he finished with them, he then set Mitsurashi free from his prison within the core of the planet. For his work with Mitsurashi, he gave him one final gift of knowledge and told him about the 4 orbs of raw, living elemental energy that stabalized the planet and realm.
When he finished his story, Xavier seized the moment that he was weak and defenseless to strike down the god where he stood. He did not kill him however, when the god was at the last of his strength, Xavier embraced him tightly to his chest. Tendrils of the raw energy inside his body gripped around the gods body, and consumed him into Xavier's body.
With the last god deceased, and no power for the planet itself to sustain life, it began to shrivel and die away, caving onto itself. Before the planet was destroyed, Xavier took what he knew and went to the core of the planet, retrieving the Fire, Earth, Air and Water orbs that stabilized the realm.
At first, it seemed that he could absorb them with no problem at all, but it was on the last orb, when the raw energies combined inside of him that his body began to split, bulge and then implode on itself. He died that day at the age of 30, and it would take over 100 years for his powers to build and a good body for him to stabilize for more years and perfect his powers.
Abilities --- [Level 3] By spending many years fighting wars, creatures and even others with powers like himself, Xavier has gained a vast knowledge of battle in various styles and with different weapons. It has allowed him to become an expert with all melee weapons and primitive ranged weapons. As well giving him great natural reaction speeds, which increase as he gets warmed up in battle.
[Level 5] Speed and strength - The Dread Energy has set about a very drastic physical change within Xaviers body granting him a physical prowess well beyond what one would expect from a man of such small stature. The most powerful of his hits has been given the name 'Moon Crusher' however his body requires a sort of build up to such force. At any given moment however he could swing his fists to deliver a whopping 3000lbs of straight impact force. This type of swing is made all the more destructive with the additional weight and rigidity of Xaviers Dread Metal infused skeletal structure. The same essential thing could be said about his speed, the energy within his body has molded his muscles beautifully and while his motion is not a blur his acceleration is a sight to behold.
[Level 6] Ice/Water - Should there for any reason be moisture present in the air or on the battle field, Xavier is able to take control of it, going so far as to be able to turn the moisture to deadly attacks and weapons of a thick red ice.
Flight - With the help of the energy that remained from the orb of air that he had absorbed, Xavier is able to move through the air freely and quickly, focusing torrents of air from the bottom of his feet and the palms of his hands.
[Level 7] Dreadful Shadows - Much like the use of typical shadows, Xavier is limited to controlling only what shadows are already present. Unlike typical controlled shadows, the shadows Xavier controls become laced with Dread Energy. Should these be allowed to grasp their target they would send pulses of maddening chaos energy through the nerves directly to the brain. The shadows are relatively easy to break and escape from, but it would need only a few seconds before the brain could suffer from hallucinations. ----------Sub Skill: Shadow Step - By angling his feet or body to the perfect lighting position, Xavier can solidify the shadows from his own body to create a surface to stand upon or use as the situation would need.
DREAD ENERGY β This energy has many shapes and forms, but at the base it is comprised mainly of chaos energy and feeds off of the pain and suffering deep within Xaviers mind. On its own the energy is known to be relatively harmless, working as a sort of ultimate energy defense. It is capable of slipping through even the tiniest of weaknesses and spaces between energy at an atomic level in order to strip apart foreign energy or weaken it significantly. The chaos energy combined with Xaviers truly saddened state of mind causes the energy and all of it's sub-categories to send off close range pulsations of concentrated chaos energy which if exposed to enough can cause hallucinations and eventually madness.
[Dreadful Flames] - The flames that Xavier wields are fueled by the overwhelming anger responsible for twisting the chaos energy inside of him. They burn nearly 3 times the heat of a natural flame and the flames do not spread, they only burn in the one concentrated spot they would land in. Burning until there was simply nothing left to burn.
[Dreadful Shadows] β Should the shadows that Xavier creates, through any means, grasp and ensnare the opponent they would begin to pump chaos and madness into the body. They are not very hard to break, but do not need to stay on very long to cause long lasting hallucinations. They also leave sickly burn marks where they touched.
[Dread Metal] β While Xavier slept he contemplated the different things he could do with this energy, wanting to focus its entire power onto one power. When he was reborn, he focused on fusing every bit of the earth energy with his blood, changing his blood to a thick liquid metal, which he can will to any part of his body at any time. It, like the energy itself, needs to be worked out and powered up before it can do too much. But the possibilities are endless for both physical and defense.
[Dread Lightning] β The lightning stays a thick steady bolt of lightning up until the very point of impact, where it spreads out wards with multiple stands, aiming to strike the body and send jolts of electricity and the maddening chaos energy directly to the brain. It is able to travel through the ground, though itβs not as strong and potent afterwards, depending on the distance. Other various skills are able to be used and achieved depending on the different wants and needs of the battlle.
The rod which anchored Xaviers foot to the ground had yet to be created when Auz moved. The creation of this rod had been timed alongside of Xaviers swing, which he had been unable to reach.
Xavier had never taken his eyes off of Auz as he was sliding along the dirt. So as Auz darted in low and quick Xavier thrust against the ground with both legs, floating just above Auzs blade. In a last ditch effort Xavier would twist his body, aiming a flying right knee towards Auzs face as his attack missed. The impact would be less than Xaviers full power since it was enacted midair, it was still double that of a normal man. Bone shattering in the least.
Hit or miss Xavier would torque his body afterwards so that he would do a 180 degree flip in the air. Landing so that he would be facing Auz. During this flip 6 of his rods were flung from his wrist, careening high into the air before angling back on the earth. They would land in a wide partial circle behind Auz, creating a collection of puddles there like the three infront of Xavier.
As Auz changed his pace and direction Xavier began to take larger strides of his own. Before too long he was ontop of the closest puddle he had created and upon contact with his boot it wriggled to life. Xaviers boot seemed to act like a sponge as the blood disappeared around it, the vast majority it being recollected. The exact same would happen with 4 of the remaining 6 puddles as Xavier approached before he switched up again.
Xaviers strides would still have been rather slow and calculated up to the 5th puddle. Xavier landed within that puddle on only the ball of his right foot with his left arm stretched out to his side. His right arm draped across his waist while holding onto his sword. In an instant the puddle sprang to life, creating a perfect launch mound beneath Xaviers heel. The ground surrounding this puddle fractured for a moment as Xavier exerted great force against it, launching 3 rods from his left arm in the exact moment he began to accelerate. Giving the rods a speed boost before launching them so that they may make contact ahead of him.
The rods initial trajectory would make it seem as though they would fly off into the forest. Though a sudden drastic turn would bring them back around towards Auz, or more precisely behind him. The plan would be to have them land in a way that would coat the ground surrounding Auzs flank upon impact.
Meanwhile Xavier tore through the air towards Auz, the tips of his toes barely skimming the ground to push him faster. Xavier would plant his left foot first, a good 8 feet out from Auz still so his momentum would allow him to slide the remaining distance. This would kill the majority of his speed but allow for his stance to be regainined faster. When Xavier neared proper striking distance the blood within his blood came to action, sending a single rod through the heel of his boot into the ground. Xavier anchored himself just a moment before enacting a wide, diagonal strike that would be intended to hit from Auzs right hip to left shoulder. This allowed him to focus the majority of his forward momentum into his swing, allowing for a much faster and more force filled strike.
Watching Auz kill himself brought a small smirk to Xaviers face. There would be a few deaths still to come before Auz would find himself on par with Xavier. However, the fact that it was closing as fast it was sent a chill up Xaviers spine. As Auz returned to life, the blade in Xaviers hand began to ripple and sieze as its form shrank. In its place stood a sword almost equal in length but significintally thinner.
A small portion of the excess metal which was gained from this made an appearance on Xaviers left wrist. A mound of glistening red metal connecting itself to the collection of metallic rods on his forearm. This piece was left more pliable than the others, allowing Xavier to spin his wrist while maintaining contact of the two.
As Xavier dropped his left hand back to his side the mound came to life. One of the rods on Xaviers forearm into his skin with a blur before lurching from the mound on his wrist even faster. At first glance the rod would be targeted at Auzs face, though as it would reach within 1 foot the rod would suddenly shift tracjectory. The angle change was quick and drastic, the rod sinking itself into the dirt at Auzs feet before losing form. Creating a thick red puddle 6 inches across on the dirt.
6 more exactly like it had been fired as Xavier dropped his arm, all of these sinking themselves into the dirt in a path from Auz to Xavier. As the rods lost their form they would create 6 puddles over the roughly 10 feet between the two men. The puddles were dispersed upon the path, leaving plenty of open ground to walk on for the moment. Xavier began to slowly march towards Auz as well, taking the same careful half steps as before so as to remain within his stance.