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Post by Blazewind on Dec 27, 2017 16:21:33 GMT -8
Legacy stood motionless in the midst of the arena, largely ignoring others around him. There were a few observers, curious about his rather uninviting design, but few people would spare a thought for someone that didn't seem interested in them either. Yet, he wasn't merely napping, Legacy was scouting out a worthy opponent through feeling.
Perhaps it came with his age, but Legacy found that looks more often lied about the power of a navi than it didn't, so he was scanning based on another feeling. He wasn't sure exactly how to phrase it, but his best estimate was "Fighting Spirit". Whether or not other navis realized it, ones who enjoyed the challenge often radiated this, and Legacy would respond to it in kind, although he wasn't exactly the best challenge at the moment.
"Now, what kind of navi will respond to my invitation I wonder?" He thought, feeling someone approaching.
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Post by Nightshade on Dec 27, 2017 16:30:41 GMT -8
The ground trembled slightly as the sound of claws tip tapping about slowly grew near...er...est. A feline looking silhouette approached, Legacy's challenger revealed. Wearing a black catsuit with glowing neon green markings, grey armor, open toed boots that allowed a set of claws free to move around and a tail, Nightshade entered the arena.
The audience quieted down. His power was...immense. if it weren't for the protocols inside the arena equalizing power levels the fight would be over in a single blow. But most important of all, it was the ancient power dwelling within him. The public was asking itself: Will he use it?"
The cat navi was calm and collected. Stopping short of a few meters from the opponent and with his tail drawing slow low arcs just grazing the floor, the Juuka raised his hand at his opponent...boring his sapphire blue eyes into him. Not a word was spoken.
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Post by Blazewind on Dec 27, 2017 17:53:26 GMT -8
"This feeling of pressure..." Legacy's "eyes" glowed open as he looked as his approaching challenger. This was a feeling that he knew quite well since he had experienced it up close before. The power could only be described as feral and monstrous. Legacy had done some research before, it was apparently known as the power of a Cybeast, taken in by a navi.
"So it's you then. Ka-ka-ka, an interesting opponent. Very well then." Legacy spoke with a level tone as he probed into his challenger's power and intentions once more. Interesting that Nightshade decided to come in this form, perhaps he wanted to see how Legacy would fight all out when the playing field was leveled. A cloud of emerald green particles began to emit from Legacy's armor in kind, responding to the Cybeast's power and Legacy's own brewing excitement, however on the surface at least, he was tranquil.
Legacy readied himself as Sefirot particles formed his rifle. His four Orbital Familiars also detached themselves, hovering around him in formation and ready to attack at a moment's notice. "Let us begin." Legacy declared the start of the battle as his familiars quickly surrounded Nightshade, each firing a small bolt of charged plasma from Nightshade at varying angles. Legacy prepared in the mean time to respond to Nightshade's next move.
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Post by Nightshade on Dec 28, 2017 13:22:02 GMT -8
"Eh...Sorry, I couldn't resit. I wanted to see what you could really do." The cat navi replied. "Now. Come at me!"
With that said, the juuka sprung into action with amazing speed. Backflipping a good three to five times, he avoided the small blast with style. He stopped low on the ground, grinning behind his mask. His feet claws dug into the dirt as he propelled forward with their added traction. Zig zagging he dodged every one of the blasts by just a hair. It seemed that his first objective was to entertain the audience.
He even used one of Legacy's friends as a trampoline to leap in the air. Spinning on himself, a black sphere with a green line going down the middle materialysed and was promplty launched at the opponent. A roll softened the fall, but the little cat navi wasn't finished. He didn't even touch the ground fully that he was already belly to belly with Legacy. A tail twitch and he attempted to plant his feet paw flat into Legacy's chest. He did not seem to be trying to kick using his claws, as if he really didn't want to hurt him.
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Post by Blazewind on Dec 28, 2017 14:04:32 GMT -8
"Fast as expected." Legacy thought as he continued firing with the Orbital Familiars. He had been controlled them mentally and led the shots enough, but each time Nightshade managed to slip out of his trajectory by a hair. He prepared to take a shot with the rifle, but was surprised by the speed Nightshade closed the distance. Legacy just backwards and received the kick with his arm and a grunt, blasting him backwards, but minimizing the damage.
"So that's the power of Greiga...Or was it Gregar? A heavy blow indeed!" Legacy thought. Was he able to move that quickly in succession though? The Orbital Familiars had continued to track Nightshade through the exchange and had already surrounded him once more, firing off more rounds, not to hit him, but to limit his movement. In that moment, Legacy fired off two bolts of searing plasma at Nightshade's position before hitting the floor, his metal boots screeching and sparking from the friction. It didn't hurt too badly, but even being on the receiving end, Legacy was surprised at how far he had been knocked back. He highly doubted that was any more than a lovetap either.
"As expected, even at top form under these conditions, I cannot picture myself winning." Legacy stated logically. It seemed today was the day he tested whether he could surpass his own limits.
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Post by Nightshade on Dec 28, 2017 14:36:09 GMT -8
"Tsk, I am only getting sta-" Nightshade cut short to avoid one shot of the pesky flyers around him. He didn't really want to destroy them, so he would have to think about a plan to render them innocuous non lethally. He kept on dancing around, fast as ever. He almost made it past the barrage whn the two projectile that had been fired by Legacy himself hit their mark mid hop.
A rather large explosion happened, black smoke covering the view of the area and sending the audience into a "Oh!"
The suspance didn't last for long. The smoke was cleard by a shockwave. A shockwave created by Nightshade's powers manifesting. The cat navi's appereance seemed to have changed drastically, his power spiked beyond the limiters in place for this battle. His body was now translucent with a tint of bluish purple. Red veins pulsed all over inside the gelatinous, see through mass...all connected to five oval shaped cores...all of them glowing red in color. Nightshade armor had taken on a darker shade, turning deep black with red highlights. The navi's helmet had changed the most. More pointy and covering the navi's face like a mask.
The attack seemed to have caused some damage, but litte if none. The semi solid body seemed to be incredibly adept in absorbing shocks. Nightshade stepped forward, proud of that form, before he snapped his fingers. The black sphere he threw earlier exploded, releasing arching bolts of green electricity, aimed to overload and incapacitate the flying familiars. Nighthsade himself pounced at Legacy, ending on top of the buly armored navi and using his weight to pin him down.
"Hm. It almost looks like you're hollow inside. You look cool though, and we're roughly the same size. I wonder if I could wear you as armor..." The juuka chucled, his tail wagging happily at Legacy. IT seemed that he had no intention of hurting his friend. For him, this was more of a game. He sure was having fun.
"Aw come on, Legacy. Don't underestimate yourself. I know you can actually fight rather well. And beating your opponent isn't necessarily a victory. The audience decides who wins. Just have fun, explore your potential! We can both grow stronger this way!"
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Post by Blazewind on Dec 28, 2017 16:33:25 GMT -8
"Tsk!" Legacy made a irritated noise as his Orbital Familiars fell to the floor damaged by the explosion. He had hit something, but Nightshade emerged from the blast none worse for wear, and in an entirely different form from before. "Again?" His eyes seemed to narrow, which was interesting considering that prior to then, they had never actually moved before, only glowed. Just how many transformations did Nightshade have? In the moment he wondered this, his balance was broken by Nightshade suddenly pouncing onto him, knocking him onto the floor.
Legacy laid motionless as Nightshade wondered to himself aloud. While he was talking, Legacy's armor began cracking from the bottom up before reaching his head. Then his entire body shattered into green crystals like a glass statue struck by a large hammer.
"Errors corrected, FIRE!" A short distance behind Nightshade, Legacy's real body had reformed and finished charging his Twin Sefirot Launchers, firing two beams of intensely concentrated Sefirot particles at his opponent. The force had been enough to push Legacy backwards slightly after firing.
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Post by Nightshade on Dec 29, 2017 13:52:57 GMT -8
Legacy's move caught Nightshade off guard. Still, the navi seemed to have no problem in not avoiding the beams. The strike hit, but the navi stood on his two feet, grinning. Two gaping holes were present on his body, yet he did not seem to feel any sort of pain. The various veins in his body began puslating at slightly faster rate, the woulds slowly closing up.
"Ehehe...I like this form." He told the opponent. "You'll have to try something else. Attacks like that don't work on me."
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Post by Blazewind on Dec 29, 2017 17:01:46 GMT -8
"Figures." Legacy thought. He had felt his attack connect once again, but could tell it did little in the way of actual damage and Nightshade was busy enjoying it. "How patronizing." Legacy's wrist flicked slightly as a spinning ring of charged energy flew from behind Nightshade at a blind angle to cut into the areas Legacy had blasted before. The Orbital Familiars that were disabled on the floor from before had disappeared during Legacy's previous attack in order to combine and continue his attack.
He was fairly sure that his attacks were relatively ineffective, but he was absolutely certain that hesitating in his assault would lead to far less. He had to keep pressing to accomplish anything. As Legacy thought this, he fired another round from his Sefirot Rifle at Nightshade.
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Post by Nightshade on Dec 30, 2017 3:22:35 GMT -8
The half daemon would still keep his paws planted on the floor as the shot went through him like nothing, the hole made by the shot closing up just like the plasma beam created ones. The blade took him by surprise, he managed to raise an arm to block any major damage, but the blade still sunk into his gelatinous body, cutting a couple of the veins. Nightshade flinched in pain. That was the first attack that really had deal a considerable amount of damage.
He created yet another black sphere and pulled the ring blade out of his forearm. He knew that Legacy would take that opportunity to strike again, so he prepared as best as he could.
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Post by Blazewind on Dec 30, 2017 21:03:11 GMT -8
Small as the reaction was, Legacy did not miss that the Banishing Slasher was more effective than his other attacks prior. "Perhaps this warning is meaningless, but holding onto that is dangerous." As Legacy mentioned this, the ring split apart back into separate components, firing continuously at Nightshade point blank from various angles. It wasn't very damaging, but it certainly served well for a distraction.
"It seems this is going nowhere fast however. I can only assume that Nightshade will lose his patience eventually and go on the offensive. How shall I respond in that situation I wonder?" He thought to himself. Finding a vulnerability was a mere microstep in the right direction, especially because those kinds of attacks weren't exactly his specialty.
"Very well. It seems I have to try a different approach." Legacy once more pointed his Sefirot Rifle at Nightshade, however rather than aiming, he seemed to be focused on something else.
"Calculating according to impact error...Sefirot Materialization!" Legacy uttered as particles gathered to the barrel of his rifle. Rather than becoming a charged bullet of plasma particles however, they condensed and compressed further into what appeared to be razor sharp crystalline disk, similar to the size of a small chakram. If normal methods weren't going to hit properly, then Legacy needed to change himself and his attacks accordingly. Legacy fired the Sefirot Crystal at Nightshade, curious as to the results of this experiment.
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Post by Nightshade on Dec 31, 2017 5:54:40 GMT -8
Despite the annoying flies barely even scratching him, Nightshade's eyes focused on the most threatening attack. If that plasma disk hit he could very well be cut in half. That was not going to happen.
Hurdling the spere at the spinning plasma ring, Nightshade shielded himself as the two attack collided and resulted in a huge explosion. While under the cover of the smoke he created, he used his feline abilities to silently slip past unnoticed and close the gap between him and his opponent. Legacy seemed to be almost exclusively a ranged fighter. Which meant that as soon as he snug up close the guy would have difficulty fighting him.
He had figured the opponent out.
Jumping out of the smoke just five inches from the strange navi of the past, Nightshade allowed gravity to pull his body down. Once on all fours he pivoted around his left to deliver a sweeper kick aimed at trampling his opponent. If the attack were to be successful, he would need only to touch the enemy to deliver a powerful shock. His claws sparkled with electricity. He was really enjoying this fight.
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Post by Blazewind on Jan 2, 2018 22:38:00 GMT -8
"Here he comes." Legacy thought as the attacks connected, somewhat obscuring his position. Regardless, it wasn't that easy to make Legacy lose track of someone, even with superior speed. "Straight from the front, eh?"
Legacy kept track of Nightshade's, more or less unaffected by the smoke, however he kept himself from attacking back. Just a moment before the sweep connected, Legacy hopped backwards, his two Sefirot Launchers folding over his shoulders aimed directly at Nightshade within point blank distance. Instead of firing the beam cannons however, he fired another ringed blade of Sefirite at his feline opponent while the newly recombined Banishing Slasher was flying at Nightshade from directly above. Perhaps it was an act or something, but Legacy would exploit any possible weakness seeing as his normal attacks seemed ineffective.
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Post by Nightshade on Jan 4, 2018 19:25:06 GMT -8
All the attack connected with their designated target. However, the result was...not the one he had anticipated. The ground shook hard, cracking as Nightshade's energy spiked. Purple flames erupted from his position as his appereance changed again, shifting to a more known form. looking like Greiga if it turned into a navi, the juuka stepped forward. He looked at Legacy.
"Well then. What will you do now?"
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Post by Blazewind on Jan 4, 2018 23:48:41 GMT -8
"Well...! That's some power!" Legacy watched with a trace of amusement and admiration in his voice. It was limited, but this was more along the lines of the power of the Cybeast. Still, while that previous rendered his attacks largely ineffective, this one seemed to emerge completely unmarked. He did have to wonder if Nightshade was feeling pressure, or displaying arrogance by showing off.
"Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one— himself. Very well, allow me to try and conquer myself... By giving everything I have and beyond." Legacy stored his rifle away and his Orbital Familiars returned, reattaching themselves to him. "Unlike you or other navis, I'm incapable of transforming. This of course leaves me a bit of a gamble. I won't be a bore and tell you wait however."
Sefirot Particles stopped flowing from Legacy's armor, however it was clear that he hadn't given up yet. Instead, what appeared to be electrical sparks appeared around him and plasma crawled along Legacy's body from charging since he couldn't fully contain the amount of power his reactor was containing.
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