Post by Stein on Oct 18, 2013 12:17:36 GMT -5
The crowd had been cheering for the next match to begin, but the moment the announcer called Stein’s name they all fell silent, only whispers could be heard “she entered the tournament? What are her affinities even?...I think she has a metal affinity...” Stein took a deep breath, stood up and entered the stage. She was wearing her usual close-fit purple t-shirt and black pants; she was still even wearing her lab coat, but she’d worn an older one, which was covered in countless stitch-lines and had blood stains splattered across it’s exterior.
This will be an interesting experiments, I’m fighting Manco today. He uses his swords and guns mostly, but he does have a darkness affinity Stein pulled out a notebook and a metal pen and was standing in the center of the stage waiting, she was busy writing notes while she waited for Manco.
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It came as no surprise that Manco was late to his match, at least not to most people aware of him. Not only that, he was close to 15 minutes late, leaving Stein standing around with nothing to do but notes while he made his way to the stadium. He didn’t hurry, just casually stroll into the stadium, carrying two things. His sword and the staff he had obtained from Clover after it had ended up syncing with him.
It wasn’t that Manco couldn’t care less about timing, there was a method to his madness (for once). Without knowing Stein was his opponent, he hoped to set his opponent off by showing up late. Upon seeing his opponent was Stein, his hopes were all but shot. Stein wouldn’t get angry about anything, for what Manco had seen. Not that she showed any emotions at all, but that just reinforced his thought that this would be annoying. Well, there went trying strategy for a change.
”Okay, let’s get this over with, Stein, I have a tournament to win and I don’t want to be in bad shape for it tomorrow.” Manco stated standing still, stanceless, waiting for Stein to make the first move of the fight.
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“Hello Manco, I’m glad you finally arrived.” Stein said closing her notebook and looking at her watch. “We’ll be starting the experiments late, but that’s better than never.” She grinned as Manco taunted her some and relaxed into a non-fighting, stance-less stance, he obviously thought this would be easy for him. “Since you don’t want to be in bad shape I’ll try not to beat you up excessively.” Stein turned to face Manco looking slightly over her right shoulder. “I suppose I can go first. Move one.” Stein lifted her right hand and pulled all metal weapons and objects from Manco’s person; his sword, guns, and Clover’s staff, melting the sword and gun into a silver orb of metals, merely tossing the staff from the ring, she’d intended to toss it farther, but since the metal wasn’t bonded to her she didn’t have as complete control over it, she planned on taking time later to more closely examine the metal core, but she had a fight to complete first.
“Move two.” Stein pulled more metal objects from her pocket, melting them as they floated and joined the other metals. She moved the ‘liquid’ metal so that it created a ring around her person about 1 and a half feet from her, the ring was only about a centimeter thick and about 10 inches tall, but it was in constant motion, leaving small holes in it’s barrier as it went shrinking some down to only about 7 inches in places, but it was centered around Stein’s torso, providing a reasonable defense from what attacks Stein thought Manco could perform without his weapons. “Your move.” Stein said grinning.
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Before Manco could do all that much Stein had done something unforgivable. Utterly unforgivable. He stood their, twitching in anger for several moments before he took off his coat and tossed it out of the ring. ”I hope you’re really good at patching yourself up. Really fucking good.” was all he said as he slowly approached Stein, his anger building with each step. Part of that metal ring was his sword. His Sword. The guns were trivial. The sword, THE sword on the other hand was reason enough for Manco to cut loose (so to speak).
Manco stood just a foot outside of the ring, preparing for his next move. After several moments of standing, glaring at Stein, in a burst of movement, Manco seemed to disappear, bursting through the defensive ring and throwing a punch at Stein’s face, unfortunately his fist missed due to the high speeds Manco was moving at. Instead, his fist shifted off course and aimed for the screw on the side of Stein’s head.
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“I’m not that concerned about needing to ‘patch myself’ up after this.......Interesting, your sword must have been very special to you. hmmm” Steins said grinning, pretending to think for a moment “Maybe I will fix the sword after the fight, if you behave and follow experiment protocol.” Stein was well aware Monco wouldn’t listen, Manco’s anger levels had skyrocketed.
Stein watched Manco glaring at her from just outside the ring He’s actually planning an attack, or he’s just just trying to be intimidating, both will be ineffective. Stein blinked as Manco had disappeared, she moved a few inches to the side, attempting to anticipate his attack and dodge it, but she’d miscalculated his control of the punch, which lead to the punch landing squarely on the edge of the screw, and clicking it 4 times backwards and denting it. Stein stumbled back but was quick to regain her footing,
“**** ho-I ma tahw, tiaw .erutuf eht ni stnemirepxe gnitseretni erom rof ekam lliw siht, hcnup dna deeps ruoy detaluclacsim I.” Stein tried to turn the screw and found she couldn’t with it’s current shape, and now was not the time to try to fix it. While maintaining the barrier with one hand she shot 3 bolts of lightning at Manco with the other, she stumbled sideways again, the screw had altered her balance, she probably looked like she was drunk and trying to fight now.
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To say the least, Manco was caught off guard by the results of his punch, so much so the he almost failed to avoid the lightning. Almost. At the last possible moment, he managed to dodge to the right. It helped that Stein’s balance (or lack thereof) had set the lightning a tad off course.
It took a moment for everything to register, but a sinister grin formed over Manco’s face as he slowly realized what he needed to do. He needed to do something very unorthodox for how he fought. He actually needed to strategize.
Thankfully, Manco managed to come up with something. He did something he was very good at, or at least something that looked like something he was very good at. Gung-ho charges. Manco charged at Stein, reaching a hand out towards the screw. At the last moment, before he hit the metal which he expected Stein to concentrate towards him to deflect his charge, Manco did two things. He once again disappeared and dashed, this time diagonally upwards, aiming to get over the ring. Second, Manco called the staff back to him, aiming to force the staff into the back of Stein’s knees. Airborn and intending to knock Stein further off balance, he aimed a kick downwards with one of two possible goals. Either he’d turn the screw further, or at least give Stein a rather heavy kick in the face.
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Stein saw Manco grin and grinned back at him, she was not going to say anything to furthur embarrass herself. She pulled part of the metal wall and formed in into 10 small needles, pulling a vial full of something green from her pocket and filling the needles, they looked kinda dangerous.
As Manco charged her she did concentrate the remaining metal in front of him, but he disappeared and moved up, aiming for her face. She leaned way back over into a bridge. He’d miss her face by about 2 inches and when he landed by her nose she’d be in perfect position to finish her bridge and kick him (just finishing the flip) and hopefully land on her feet and not fall backwards again into him, the staff however had slightly altered her trajectory as she’d flipped, it’d hit her heels, which would cause her kick to be slightly less efficient than planned. She then pointed the 10 small needles at him and they went flying towards his torso.
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Manco tilted his head back as he braced his arms over his chest. He used his dash skill once more and whipped his arms outward to deflect the needles, the darkness coating him protecting him from the needles. That wasn’t his full goal though. Manco was headed on a trajectory for Stein. Manco crumpled his body inward to further decrease the effectiveness of the kick. As Manco finally approached Stein, he whipped his head back forward, aiming to slam his head into hers.
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Stein’s kick was ineffective but her momentum carried her further backwards and she stumbled falling onto her butt, she righted herself and stood as the screw regained it’s proper shape. Her balance was still off, but she should be ok, the screw would need to be recalibrated, it was one twist away from serious problems. Manco’s headbutt was fairly effective, it would have seriously hurt Stein if she didn’t already have metal-supports around patches in her skull. Stein got the headbutt and fell onto the ground, she was sitting there for a moment trying to recollect her thoughts and ability to move; She stood up only to fall over again. She may not have had the balance to stand, but she could still fight from her seated position, she pulled the metal again from her previous barrier and formed it again, but this time she sent electricity coursing through it, if Manco touched the barrier he’d be in for a shock.
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Manco was a bit worse for wear after the headbutt. Namely, there was now a bleeding wound on his forehead from the impact with the metal plates in Stein’s skull. He wasn’t giving up yet. Oh no. Stein had gone and made this personal.
The electric barrier was a small problem. If small problem meant huge detriment. He didn’t think Stein would fall for the same trick twice, and the repeated dashes were starting to take their toll on Manco’s stamina. He had at least one last trick up his sleeve at least . . . he hoped. Do anything beyond what he had been doing so far with darkness was a tad risky, but he had an idea that shouldn’t be any difference than generating an air blade from his sword.
He needed to aim for that screw, that’s all he needed to do . . . and hope to fire enough projectiles in succession that Stein would have trouble blocking them. Manco coated his fists in darkness and aimed a rapid succession of mock punches at the screw in Stein’s head, each generating a blast of air that he hoped could break through the metal barrier and turn Stein’s screw.
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Stein’s stamina was gone, she was surprised that she was still sitting, the metal barrier had the effect of blocking the feigned punches and stopping most of the air blasts, but one strong air blast got through a hole in Stein’s barrier and hit the screw, clicking it backwards once more; The screw’s final twist was near silent, but it’s effect was instant, Stein was knocked out instantly and fell over onto her right side as the metal barrier dropped and spread into a small puddle and the electricity dispelled and disappeared. Stein laid still for a moment before having a small seizure and stilling again.
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It took a moment to register that he had won the fight. He had no weapons other than briefly having used his staff, but he had somehow managed to win the fight. Unfortunately, the fight was rather costly in terms of energy. He didn’t usually exert his powers that much during a fight, and that was only the preliminaries. Maybe he had just gotten an unusually strong opponent, maybe the fights afterwards would be fine.
He kind of hoped not. Outside of losing his sword, that was a good fight. Now he needed to find new weapons though Stein probably wouldn’t hear the end of having ruined that one. Manco trudged away from the arena, not hiding his exhaustion at all. The problem now was where to find a sword as good as that one.
Stein’s body was teleported from the stage to the medical facility filled with trained doctors, nurses and pogo sticks.“
There you have it folks!” A bird-boned boy rushed the stage and spun around. “The Raging Vampire, the Human Blood-sucker, the assailant of the Darkness, the Berserker with no Rules who would strip you down to your birthday suite for a nickel if it meant getting a new sword, Manco has defeated the Great Scientist, the Mad Doctor, the Witch of the Scalpel, the metallurgist, Stein!” Ryan tried to reach out for Manco’s arm, but the tired warrior retreated from the arena leaving him alone to announce. “And what a match it was! We have our winner and we have a conclusion to the preliminary matches! Don’t forget to come back tomorrow and watch the real bath of blood as the greatest warriors in the QiLong nation fight it out with super powered monsters of men and women from your very own Savale Academy of Forgotten Arts, like riding pogo sticks. People just don’t do it anymore.”
This will be an interesting experiments, I’m fighting Manco today. He uses his swords and guns mostly, but he does have a darkness affinity Stein pulled out a notebook and a metal pen and was standing in the center of the stage waiting, she was busy writing notes while she waited for Manco.
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It came as no surprise that Manco was late to his match, at least not to most people aware of him. Not only that, he was close to 15 minutes late, leaving Stein standing around with nothing to do but notes while he made his way to the stadium. He didn’t hurry, just casually stroll into the stadium, carrying two things. His sword and the staff he had obtained from Clover after it had ended up syncing with him.
It wasn’t that Manco couldn’t care less about timing, there was a method to his madness (for once). Without knowing Stein was his opponent, he hoped to set his opponent off by showing up late. Upon seeing his opponent was Stein, his hopes were all but shot. Stein wouldn’t get angry about anything, for what Manco had seen. Not that she showed any emotions at all, but that just reinforced his thought that this would be annoying. Well, there went trying strategy for a change.
”Okay, let’s get this over with, Stein, I have a tournament to win and I don’t want to be in bad shape for it tomorrow.” Manco stated standing still, stanceless, waiting for Stein to make the first move of the fight.
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“Hello Manco, I’m glad you finally arrived.” Stein said closing her notebook and looking at her watch. “We’ll be starting the experiments late, but that’s better than never.” She grinned as Manco taunted her some and relaxed into a non-fighting, stance-less stance, he obviously thought this would be easy for him. “Since you don’t want to be in bad shape I’ll try not to beat you up excessively.” Stein turned to face Manco looking slightly over her right shoulder. “I suppose I can go first. Move one.” Stein lifted her right hand and pulled all metal weapons and objects from Manco’s person; his sword, guns, and Clover’s staff, melting the sword and gun into a silver orb of metals, merely tossing the staff from the ring, she’d intended to toss it farther, but since the metal wasn’t bonded to her she didn’t have as complete control over it, she planned on taking time later to more closely examine the metal core, but she had a fight to complete first.
“Move two.” Stein pulled more metal objects from her pocket, melting them as they floated and joined the other metals. She moved the ‘liquid’ metal so that it created a ring around her person about 1 and a half feet from her, the ring was only about a centimeter thick and about 10 inches tall, but it was in constant motion, leaving small holes in it’s barrier as it went shrinking some down to only about 7 inches in places, but it was centered around Stein’s torso, providing a reasonable defense from what attacks Stein thought Manco could perform without his weapons. “Your move.” Stein said grinning.
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Before Manco could do all that much Stein had done something unforgivable. Utterly unforgivable. He stood their, twitching in anger for several moments before he took off his coat and tossed it out of the ring. ”I hope you’re really good at patching yourself up. Really fucking good.” was all he said as he slowly approached Stein, his anger building with each step. Part of that metal ring was his sword. His Sword. The guns were trivial. The sword, THE sword on the other hand was reason enough for Manco to cut loose (so to speak).
Manco stood just a foot outside of the ring, preparing for his next move. After several moments of standing, glaring at Stein, in a burst of movement, Manco seemed to disappear, bursting through the defensive ring and throwing a punch at Stein’s face, unfortunately his fist missed due to the high speeds Manco was moving at. Instead, his fist shifted off course and aimed for the screw on the side of Stein’s head.
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“I’m not that concerned about needing to ‘patch myself’ up after this.......Interesting, your sword must have been very special to you. hmmm” Steins said grinning, pretending to think for a moment “Maybe I will fix the sword after the fight, if you behave and follow experiment protocol.” Stein was well aware Monco wouldn’t listen, Manco’s anger levels had skyrocketed.
Stein watched Manco glaring at her from just outside the ring He’s actually planning an attack, or he’s just just trying to be intimidating, both will be ineffective. Stein blinked as Manco had disappeared, she moved a few inches to the side, attempting to anticipate his attack and dodge it, but she’d miscalculated his control of the punch, which lead to the punch landing squarely on the edge of the screw, and clicking it 4 times backwards and denting it. Stein stumbled back but was quick to regain her footing,
“**** ho-I ma tahw, tiaw .erutuf eht ni stnemirepxe gnitseretni erom rof ekam lliw siht, hcnup dna deeps ruoy detaluclacsim I.” Stein tried to turn the screw and found she couldn’t with it’s current shape, and now was not the time to try to fix it. While maintaining the barrier with one hand she shot 3 bolts of lightning at Manco with the other, she stumbled sideways again, the screw had altered her balance, she probably looked like she was drunk and trying to fight now.
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To say the least, Manco was caught off guard by the results of his punch, so much so the he almost failed to avoid the lightning. Almost. At the last possible moment, he managed to dodge to the right. It helped that Stein’s balance (or lack thereof) had set the lightning a tad off course.
It took a moment for everything to register, but a sinister grin formed over Manco’s face as he slowly realized what he needed to do. He needed to do something very unorthodox for how he fought. He actually needed to strategize.
Thankfully, Manco managed to come up with something. He did something he was very good at, or at least something that looked like something he was very good at. Gung-ho charges. Manco charged at Stein, reaching a hand out towards the screw. At the last moment, before he hit the metal which he expected Stein to concentrate towards him to deflect his charge, Manco did two things. He once again disappeared and dashed, this time diagonally upwards, aiming to get over the ring. Second, Manco called the staff back to him, aiming to force the staff into the back of Stein’s knees. Airborn and intending to knock Stein further off balance, he aimed a kick downwards with one of two possible goals. Either he’d turn the screw further, or at least give Stein a rather heavy kick in the face.
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Stein saw Manco grin and grinned back at him, she was not going to say anything to furthur embarrass herself. She pulled part of the metal wall and formed in into 10 small needles, pulling a vial full of something green from her pocket and filling the needles, they looked kinda dangerous.
As Manco charged her she did concentrate the remaining metal in front of him, but he disappeared and moved up, aiming for her face. She leaned way back over into a bridge. He’d miss her face by about 2 inches and when he landed by her nose she’d be in perfect position to finish her bridge and kick him (just finishing the flip) and hopefully land on her feet and not fall backwards again into him, the staff however had slightly altered her trajectory as she’d flipped, it’d hit her heels, which would cause her kick to be slightly less efficient than planned. She then pointed the 10 small needles at him and they went flying towards his torso.
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Manco tilted his head back as he braced his arms over his chest. He used his dash skill once more and whipped his arms outward to deflect the needles, the darkness coating him protecting him from the needles. That wasn’t his full goal though. Manco was headed on a trajectory for Stein. Manco crumpled his body inward to further decrease the effectiveness of the kick. As Manco finally approached Stein, he whipped his head back forward, aiming to slam his head into hers.
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Stein’s kick was ineffective but her momentum carried her further backwards and she stumbled falling onto her butt, she righted herself and stood as the screw regained it’s proper shape. Her balance was still off, but she should be ok, the screw would need to be recalibrated, it was one twist away from serious problems. Manco’s headbutt was fairly effective, it would have seriously hurt Stein if she didn’t already have metal-supports around patches in her skull. Stein got the headbutt and fell onto the ground, she was sitting there for a moment trying to recollect her thoughts and ability to move; She stood up only to fall over again. She may not have had the balance to stand, but she could still fight from her seated position, she pulled the metal again from her previous barrier and formed it again, but this time she sent electricity coursing through it, if Manco touched the barrier he’d be in for a shock.
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Manco was a bit worse for wear after the headbutt. Namely, there was now a bleeding wound on his forehead from the impact with the metal plates in Stein’s skull. He wasn’t giving up yet. Oh no. Stein had gone and made this personal.
The electric barrier was a small problem. If small problem meant huge detriment. He didn’t think Stein would fall for the same trick twice, and the repeated dashes were starting to take their toll on Manco’s stamina. He had at least one last trick up his sleeve at least . . . he hoped. Do anything beyond what he had been doing so far with darkness was a tad risky, but he had an idea that shouldn’t be any difference than generating an air blade from his sword.
He needed to aim for that screw, that’s all he needed to do . . . and hope to fire enough projectiles in succession that Stein would have trouble blocking them. Manco coated his fists in darkness and aimed a rapid succession of mock punches at the screw in Stein’s head, each generating a blast of air that he hoped could break through the metal barrier and turn Stein’s screw.
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Stein’s stamina was gone, she was surprised that she was still sitting, the metal barrier had the effect of blocking the feigned punches and stopping most of the air blasts, but one strong air blast got through a hole in Stein’s barrier and hit the screw, clicking it backwards once more; The screw’s final twist was near silent, but it’s effect was instant, Stein was knocked out instantly and fell over onto her right side as the metal barrier dropped and spread into a small puddle and the electricity dispelled and disappeared. Stein laid still for a moment before having a small seizure and stilling again.
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It took a moment to register that he had won the fight. He had no weapons other than briefly having used his staff, but he had somehow managed to win the fight. Unfortunately, the fight was rather costly in terms of energy. He didn’t usually exert his powers that much during a fight, and that was only the preliminaries. Maybe he had just gotten an unusually strong opponent, maybe the fights afterwards would be fine.
He kind of hoped not. Outside of losing his sword, that was a good fight. Now he needed to find new weapons though Stein probably wouldn’t hear the end of having ruined that one. Manco trudged away from the arena, not hiding his exhaustion at all. The problem now was where to find a sword as good as that one.
Stein’s body was teleported from the stage to the medical facility filled with trained doctors, nurses and pogo sticks.“
There you have it folks!” A bird-boned boy rushed the stage and spun around. “The Raging Vampire, the Human Blood-sucker, the assailant of the Darkness, the Berserker with no Rules who would strip you down to your birthday suite for a nickel if it meant getting a new sword, Manco has defeated the Great Scientist, the Mad Doctor, the Witch of the Scalpel, the metallurgist, Stein!” Ryan tried to reach out for Manco’s arm, but the tired warrior retreated from the arena leaving him alone to announce. “And what a match it was! We have our winner and we have a conclusion to the preliminary matches! Don’t forget to come back tomorrow and watch the real bath of blood as the greatest warriors in the QiLong nation fight it out with super powered monsters of men and women from your very own Savale Academy of Forgotten Arts, like riding pogo sticks. People just don’t do it anymore.”