Grimlock: Let the first match of the tournament begin.
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: **The circular dusty arena with pillars of earth and manufactured metals raise into the clouds, around them are strewn scrolls and tapestries of the different elemental techniques. Lance in his black cloak emerges from one of the walls that surround the dusty bowl. He unsheathes the Rift Blades holding them at his sides so that they glisten through the dust in his wake. Lance turns to an open door at the opposite side awaiting his foe to appear.**
Grimlock : **Sits in the Watcher chair, or something..** Lazuli Aldaris : *The dust on the ground suddenly rise and start swirling around like a twister, as a dark portal on the ground appears...Lazuli rises from it...slowly unsheathing his blade as he fully appears, the dust suddenly drops* Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **His hidden smirk widens underneath the hood on his cloak. Suddenly with much haste and eagerness, he darts towards Lazuli maneuvering between the pillars between the two. In one of the strokes between Lazuli's sight and the pillar Lance's body falls back as a hallucinated figure rushes on and darts behind another pillar heading straight for Lazuli. The real Lance on the other hand quickly runs around the pillars hoping not to be seen by Lazuli. He slyly attempts to get behind Lazuli by using the pillars as a slight sight hindrance. If he gets behind Lazuli, Lance's arms wrap around Lazuli's arms and begin to lift him up off the ground, squeezing his body tightly, than with his right foot he puts it in the back of Lazuli and pushes him off of his body and thrusts and hand around quickly to the back where he lets one bolt of his own Nephoria (shadow/holy) Rip through the air toward Lazuli.** Lazuli Aldaris : *He is fooled by this Illusion thing as Lance wants, but instead of sitting there like a foolish Sitting duck, he charges at the fake Lance as he holds his sword out to his right, gathering Shadow energy for his strike, he strikes at the pillar that the fake lance is quickly hiding behind, pretty much destroying it, then sends his claws on his left hand directly at the fake lance, Either dissipating it or have his claws go through it...whatever it does...he quickly realizes its a fake... He suspects the obvious as this trick has been tried on him before, he Quickly turns around pointing his sword in front of him, spotting lance closing in on him, holding his left hand to his waste, gathering dark energy, throwing it at Lance as he is within short distance* Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **Lance seeing the dark entities rush toward him he turns to the door and cries out a stream of ancient tongues that fade into a few seconds. He than rushes his hands up so that his gauntlets catch the dark energy, He looks at it still charging, with a smirk he pours more of his own dark entities into it and throws it at the pillar behind Lazuli. The door he cried at opens up as a servant of the stadium throws his scythe out, miserably missing Lance, the scythe only traveled about twenty feet... Lance shakes his head when he hears the thud., when the dark entities his the pillar he is upon Lazuli just as the pillar is about to fall, Lance quickly bends down to the ground and with both hands on the ground he thrusts both feet up toward Lazuli's mid section.**
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : ((Grim, your call.))
Grimlock : ((pretty big))
Lazuli Aldaris : ((Give me a Foot distance....))
Grimlock : ((At least three times your size..))
Lazuli Aldaris : ((Whoa Whoa Whoa,, I destroyed the pillar behind me in my last attack.....))Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : ((40 foot diameter and 6 kilometers high sound good?))
Lazuli Aldaris : *As soon as Lance throws the blast back above him at the pillar he throws his left hand down at Lances Neck as he Starts to kneel since his left hand is already out in front of him, he also puts a little momentum back to thrust his sword at Lances shoulder as he is shortly in the kneeling position, he attempts all before the kick starts*
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **Shocked at the slight movement by Lazuli, Lance looses his balance hitting his head against the ground with Lazuli's hand around his neck. In a fit of range Lance raises his gauntlets to catch the blade, but searing his cloak. Lance quickly grasps Lazuli's arm in rage letting it burn bright with the Nephorian entities... Lance's eyes glisten with their tint of purple as his mouth opens and the stomach of his cloak glows a dull grey dragon as from his mouth a small raw Nephorian entity dragon emerges to slash at Lazuli in a close range.**
WEBMASTER Scorpion Bluefire Arunsun : ((**Pulls out a deck of playing cards.. Starts a game of solitaire..? **))
Lazuli Aldaris : *since his sword catches the cloak, he grasps the handle, chanting something demonic, as his sword suddenly erupts in a black fire, trying to catch that part of the cloak on fire and burn his skin possibly, he then sends a full scale slash at Lances Wrist that is grasping his arm sending painful energies at his arm*GYAH!!!*he also takes a slash under his eye besides his nose, his neck just above his shoulder and his right side of his chest from the dragon, penetrating the skin as little burn marks are seen where he was scratched*
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **Lance screams as the blade pierces some of the flesh on his wrist, he lets go of the arm and in pure anger he sucks the dragon back in his mouth and thrusts his head up at Lazuli's own head. With a swift motion he pulls both feet up to flip the position (so that lance is atop of Lazuli) he grows in rage as four hands from the undead in the ground reach up to gag Lazuli as Lance unleashes his Nephorian furied fists all throughout Lazuli's mid section.**
Lazuli Aldaris : ((What?! You have things strangling me for you? That’s unfair!))
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : ((Okay, read my profile, I am a half mage (Majoring in Necromancer arts) and half warrior.))
Grimlock : ((Judge) explain how that is fair..ehh))
Lazuli Aldaris : ((Whatever...Fine))Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : ((If he was Holy I see multiple ways out of it, even if.. I still see ways out of it.))
Chris : (I'd say that's stretching it a bit, he's using quite a bit of magic, yet he also seems to have extreme physical power. But, Salient, keep in mind that bone is incredibly brittle)
Lazuli Aldaris : *He pulls back his left hand to his Waist, and as soon as the Hand reach up to his neck he throws his left arm upwards but in front of him at a slant as the bolt goes up and splits into four blade like Shadow bolts as they swing around and slice through the undead arms, and with the slant, the blast helps him move backwards to smack Lance against the pillar hard as he moves back to keep the Nephoria attack from happening*
Lazuli Aldaris : ((The pillar is still there....))
Lazuli Aldaris : *plus He already sustained head injury when he slammed his head on the ground.....))
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **The undead being made of shadow the bolts only rip part of their flesh apart but cause them to fall back into the ground. Lance seeing the attack commence he pulls all his energy out of his fists, he plummets a hand down to grab one of lazuli's arms before too much movement can occur, Lance quickly pulls Lazuli up a bit to thrust his foot directly at lazuli's Jaw. but upon doing so he feels his back pressed upon the pillar. Seeing this while his foot moves at Lazuli a hand moves to the wall creating a quick clean saw like entity that sears the pillar from the ground.**
Lazuli Aldaris : *the arm the was grabbed was his Sword hand, leaving his left hand free, he simply sends his left hand up at the foot, grabbing his heel, he then clinches his claws into the foot, squeezing as hard as he can, trying to break bone, he then, still holding on to the foot, pulls it as far to the left as possible as to try and pain him, he then bends over quickly to get Lance off of him, he then pulls his right hand behind him quickly to have Lance release his grip on his arm, Lance would have to at least be leaning exposing the front of his neck, he then sends his sword in a thrust straight for his neck to try and finish him off*
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **As Lazuli clenches hard unto his foot the claws catch the metallic he has embroided on his boots, the claws only bend backwards not entering his flesh, one however bends up and around to the top of his foot sinking in. Lance screams in pain as the hand on the pillar quickly switches from the saw like entity to a bond of entity that rushes out to grasp the Zephyr Scythe, it quickly reels it in smashing parts of the pillar off on it way. Lance grasps the prod and the base of the scythe hitting it unto the side of the pillar behind him to quickly pull himself up and away from Lazuli before he breaks the bone, but the claw in his foot rips the flesh down between his toes. Atop of the Pillar that is falling upon lazuli Lance stumbles in pain kneeling on it he looks at the sky as it splits revealing a series of Angels and from atop the pillars around demonic being appear... Lance Raises his hands up as all the beings around him throw their strength down at the pillar making it fall much faster than normal and severing the top so that it won't be stopped on the way down. Lance quickly places his hands against the pillars surface letting his own entities tear through the center aiming for Lazuli and the pillar still falls.**
Lazuli Aldaris : ((I forfeit))
Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : ((Um?))
Grimlock : **He claps his hands, causing the ring to suddenly regenerate as if no battling has taken place**
Chris : (Well that makes the decision easy...)
Grimlock : The power of the watcher..heh
Lazuli Aldaris : *Kneeling, on the blank surface so it seams...he slowly rises....sheathing his sword...* Well...that was interesting...Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **Lance falls to the ground, his body torn of all the energy it once had... He lays there, half unconscious with his eyes only to await the verdict.**
Grimlock : Lance)You are the winner. You will proceed on to the next round.
WEBMASTER Scorpion Bluefire Arunsun : ((Womp womp))
Grimlock : **He tosses lance a medium sized leather pouch* Here.. use this to heal or whatever you need to get ready for your next match..
Lazuli Aldaris : You are truly a great fighter, you have bested me, and We maybe shall meet again next Tournament, good luck to you.Lance Grimshaw Charaltan: : **He smirks slowly and closes his eyes... As his own daughter comes in looks at him and the people around.. She puts her arms around him and they both fade from the field.**
Salient: Veneece Ladeda....
