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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 17:56:05 GMT -5
Clyde, having engaged himself into a fight with the vizard by the name of Drake Bryant, leapt from building to build, eventually leading the two to a deserted junkyard. It was closed up for the day, being rather late into the night by now.
Damage down here would be unnoticable to others, and would have little effect on the city. This worked for Clyde, it was why he brought the Vizard here. The boy landed in the center of the junkyard, patting off his dirty legs and awaiting Drake's arrival, who wouldn't be more than a second behind him.
Despite having had a battle earlier, the boy's wounds were mostly healed now, what little there had been. Luckily he had been strong enough and fast enough to avoid many injuries. "So then, you said your name was Drake? Mine is Clyde." The boy offered his name with a calm demeanor, his pole twirling in his right hand. "...You could have attacked me enroute to this place, but you didn't. I guess that means you meant what you said, which is why I want to ask why you would want to train with a human like myself? Surely you have other Vizards willing to do battle with you." The boy proposed with a slight tilt of his head. He still watched the Vizard cautiously.
"I'm just curious really, and I'm ready when you are." The boy finished, holding the pole forward with both hands like it were some sort of sword. He was ready to fight, and he wasn't gonna underestimate an opponent that Ryo had warned him about.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 18:08:15 GMT -5
Drake followed effortlessly behind the human boy as he kept notice of where they were going by looking at the surrounding skyline. He was also forming a battleplan in his head as he knew the human was abnormally strong for his kind. He spotted the junkyard up ahead and figured thats where their battle would be. It was a smart location, Drake admitted to himself and as the human, now known as Clyde jumped down to the yard, Drake decided to leap on a tall stack of rusted, metal bars overlooking the yard.
"Even if I was looking for a death duel, attacking from behind isn't my style and it wouldn't be much of a duel. It doesn't matter who I train with honestly as long as they're powerful. Plus I've already battled an Espada earlier, so fighting a human will be a different type of pace. I'm sure you don't want me to go easy on you, but I will concede to any rules or regulations you would like to make."
He would learn a tad bit about his opponent's will to fight, and attitude depending on his reaction to his last statement. He placed his hand on the hilt of his blade as he watched Clyde's pole gleam in the moonlight. He didn't have to be familiar with the weapon to know that one strong blow could cause major bruising and internal damage.
He began thinking to himself awaiting for Clyde to respond and make a move towards him. Hopefully I won't be pushed to have to release...if so then I may be way in over my heard. My wounds are minor now after using Bankai though. I can win this fight I'm sure of it...
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 18:19:48 GMT -5
((Music for our battle if you're interested.))"Fair enough, I suppose you wouldn't get much out of the battle if I fell in one hit." The boy nodded slightly as Drake explained his lack of attack on the human. Clyde held his stance as Drake reached for his blade, and stated proudly. "Rules and regulations? That never even crossed my mind; my body is one of battle. I don't really expect you to understand me, because I don't even know who I am or what this world is...but since the beginning I have always fought like every battle was my last. I use every ounce of my strength, I've never been able to help it, my body is compelled to, but Ryo-sensei once said that nothing could be gained if nothing was lost. You should use everything you have against me, as I will be doing the same." He admitted, hinting at his own past and little knowledge of the world he was born into. "I am human who is tailored to battle, if you're looking for a powerful opponent then I will not disappoint you!" As he finished his words, he lowered the pole and leapt up towards his opponent. Once he was about halfway to him he released his power in his right arm, causing the pole become engulfed in his gray reiatsu. The reiatsu manipulated it's shape and power and by the time he had reached his opponent it had changed into his iconic spear of energy. He swung the spear horizontally, sending a crescent shaped blast of energy to escape it and hurdle towards the vizard. After the Crescent Slash escaped his spear he continued his ascent towards Drake, stabbing his spear forward towards his opponent as well.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 20:28:53 GMT -5
Drake smirked at the comments of Clyde and nodded his head slightly impressed by his determination and desire to fight Drake at full strength. He wouldn't disappoint him. He unsheathed his blade and twirled it as he watched Clyde's rise towards him. He took two steps back and placed himself in a defensive stance awaiting to see what Attack the human could possibly be use. The pole began transforming and Drake's eyebrow cocked. He decided not to simply dodge the attack.
He flared his reiatsu around his blade and sent it towards the energy blast and watched as they collided and a small explosion occured masking Clyde for a second until he saw his spear tip glaring at him through the cloud of smoke. He took a step back and pulled his left hand off the hilt of his blade as he used his right to guide it. He took a side step and attempted to simply knock the blade aside and make Clyde lose his balance. Combined with that he extended his free arm out and brought it in a clothesline swing to hopefully knock out Clyde.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 20:37:18 GMT -5
((thankfully, my internet is working now))
As Drake lifted his sword to swat away at the spear he would be surprised to see that his blade miss the spear he wanted to swat away, as it's size changed to a smaller build, his blade had hit air. Clyde had purposely manipulated it's shape to avoid being parried so that he could continue his attack. It would not take long to realize the boy had a strong power of manipulation with his weapon.
With Clyde's spear shorter he quickly spun himself around to intercept the clothesline coming his way, he would strike at the arm with the now 'one handed' spear. As he spun he would try to deliver a kick into the chest of his opponent pushing himself away from him as well. He would land a nearby pile of equal and hold his right arm forward, which held his weapon tightly, waiting for Drake's counter.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 20:41:26 GMT -5
Drake was impressed with his weapon manipulation, but remain focused on his task. He quickly recoiled his sword and quickly moved it to intercept the spear from hitting his arm. He took the kick to the chest and slid back to the edge of his metallic pile of pillars. It was an unique power, and would be difficult to deal with. Parrying would be suicide, at least Drake knew that. He vanished using a Shunpo to appear above Clyde and grinned.
He didn't know how fas the human was, but this was the quickest way to tell as he sent the tip of his blade towards Clyde's right shoulder hopefully disarming him. His left hand brought around his sheath, aiming towards his elbow. It brought enough force to possibly break his arm.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 20:54:27 GMT -5
Clyde had watched his opponent carefully, his eyes widening as he seemed to disappear into thin air. "This technique, Ryo-sensei used this one on me in our training. It allows the fighter to move at high speeds! I have to think quickly!" Clyde looked up hearing a small "booming" sound as Drake appeared above him, the boy barely moved his right arm out of the way, causing the side of his shoulder to still be cut. Luckily, he managed to hold onto his weapon as the cut was not that deep.
The human did not falter though, and with his free hand grabbed Drake's left arm, following through with him as he swung the sheath downward, using the vizard's strength against him, he guided his sheath into debris they stood on, causing it to easily get caught in the middle of it and avoiding the hit himself. Then with his right hand he shot his spear forward, causing it to grow in length aiming to pierce through Drake's right shoulder, using the close range between them to his advantage.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 21:33:24 GMT -5
Damnit.. was Drake only thought as he actually landed the blow, but also lost his sheath. He decided not to shunpo away and watched as the spear pierced through his right shoulder. The pain at first was excruciating, but Drake soon over came it as he had the boy where he finally wanted him. He grabbed Clyde's right wrist with his left hand and smiled.
His blade was now free, with great struggle and pain, Drake moved his right arm through the pain and sent the blade towards Clyde's triceps. The closet possible muscle and the easiest to hit while Clyde's spear was lodged inside of his right shoulder.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 21:43:06 GMT -5
"Perfect..." Clyde thought with a grin crawled across his face as Drake grabbed his right wrist. Drake would notice the spear retract from his shoulder the moment he had grabbed the human but what he would find more interesting was that it's entire shape changed within an instant. In that instant his blade would be countered by a large shield instead of a spear, the weapon had transformed creating a barrier from his right knuckle onward, protecting everything past were Drake had grabbed him.
The barrier had stopped the brunt of the attack, but the sword had still managed to pierce into his triceps somewhat before being repelled, blood began seeping out from the wound but the human kept his confident look. ""Now's my chance!" Clyde thought as he quickly rose his left hand and placed it up against the shield, "Crescent Slash!" he yelled as a crescent shaped blast of energy fired out of the entire weapon at point blank range at the vizard.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 22:05:35 GMT -5
Drake cursed and was becoming annoyed by the shape shifting weapon and he watched cautiously as it transformed into a shield and blocked his attack. He cursed and became wide eyed as a full glow of an energy attack was sent at him before he could properly react, he encased his body with reiatsu only staving off some of the damage as he was sent flying backwards towards a wooden fence which he crashed through effortlessly.
He coughed a little bit and stood back up panting from his wounds a little bit, but he would see what even though he was slightly stronger than the human, the shape shifting weapon gave him a distinct edge. He let his reiatsu flare now as he was gaining some new power from the intensity of the fight.
Lets keep this going."
Drake appeared right beside Clyde and let his full power flow through his blade as he was now ignoring the pain in his shoulder which was now wearing off. With a icy blue reiatsu surrounding him he lunched a full strike towards Clyde's shield seeing how strong the weapon was. He shunpo'd a few meters back to see what would happen now.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 22:27:45 GMT -5
Clyde waited atop the debris, watching the vizard fall down to the ground below and rolled to his feet. The human breathed in slowly, trying to pace himself. This man was easily going to be one of his toughest opponents yet, but he wasn't about to back down yet, he would give this Vizard a fight to remember. "Let's keep this going." The human said in tandem with his opponent as his reiatsu flared with his power as well, the two seemed to match in their released energy.
Drake would charge at Clyde with a mighty swing, and the boy held the shield up concentrating it's shape into a smaller buckler around his right arm. He rose the buckler up to meet the blade head on, condensing the weapon into such a small shape aloud it to hold back the sword before the Vizard would shunpo away again. The hit managed to push Clyde back far enough that he went passed the pile he stood on falling into open air.
His weapon changed again as he fell, this time the reiatsu covered over his entire right arm, top of his chest, and left arm and hands. "The Soaring Bird..." He said calmly as a pair of wings would sprout from the back part of his "armor," the wings were made of his gray reiatsu and spread themselves wide allowing the boy to stay suspended in the air. With a single flap of the wings he went soaring towards his opponent at a much higher speed then usual moving to deliver a powerful punch with his reiatsu enhanced right arm. If the punch made contact with the vizard another blast of energy would be released from it.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 22:46:24 GMT -5
He's about the same speed as me, but I think I'm a little bit stronger than him. Drake refused to back down from a challenge as he flared his reiatsu again and decided to charge right back at Clyde, holding his blade two handed. He matched the speed of Clyde and was impressed that were nearly the same on every level.
As the the fist came towards Drake he grinned wildly, and sent his blade encased with his reiatsu towards Clyde meeting the blast of Clyde's reiatsu with his own. He was sure his strength was cause his blast to win, but he wasn't sure. The after affect of the explosion sent Drake soaring back some, but it kept distance between the two. He began twirling his blade around slightly awaiting to see Clyde's next move.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 22:53:52 GMT -5
Clyde's right fist met with Drake's blade head on, causing an explosion between the two, however the reiatsu that surrounded the first remained, as it was his weapon, the blast of energy was just one of the human's abilities; this protected him from the blade before Drake was pushed back. Clyde himself would have gone flying backward as well but by spreading the wings he stayed in place.
With another flap of the two wings he followed after Drake not giving him a moment to spare, before the vizard had even recovered he was right up in his face. The boy would send a series of punches his way, however at the end of each knuckle blade tips seemed to grow from the reiatsu giving his punches cutting power. With every punch the wings would flap to send him around the vizard, he was doing circles around him as he continued his assault.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 23:02:37 GMT -5
Drake prepared himself as he saw Clyde charge towards him. As the onslaught began, Drake had no other choice, but to match every single blow with his blade as he constantly shifted his body constantly following the motion of Clyde's body. He continued to little dance until finally after a well timed Clyde blow, he shunpo'd backwards giving him some room. He wasn't about to let Clyde continue his offensive.
He shunpo'd once again behind Clyde quickly before he could close in and attempted a diagonal slash across his back and his wings, which would hopefully slow him down.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 23:08:49 GMT -5
Clyde felt Drake appear behind him, and quickly dropped his spiritual wing downward to take the swing of his sword head on, causing the two to be cut off in return fro protecting the humans back. It mattered not to him, it was simply a spiritual manipulation technique related to his power. As the wings were cut the boy let himself drop down and preformed a sweeping kick to the vizard in the same motion at his legs, hoping to trip him up.
He would follow up the attack by gathering up his "armor" back into his right arm and creating a blade of his own, in the same likeness as a zanpakuto accept made of pure energy, to cut at Drake's chest as he fell.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 8, 2010 23:22:36 GMT -5
As Drake was suddenly knocked off his feet, he disappeared using his Shunpo again to get away from Clyde avoiding his hit. Though they were the same speed, but Clyde couldn't move meter in an instant like he could. Thats where he may have found his key at. Clyde had the manipulating weapon and Drake had his shunpo.
He readjusted his blade and kept gathering his breaths. They had both landed solid hits on each other, though Clyde had done more damage. He had to find a way to deal out more damage though.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 8, 2010 23:41:40 GMT -5
Drake had used his technique again to maneuver away from Clyde again, avoiding any serious injury. The boy was catching his breath, again keeping his eye on the Vizard. The vizard was strong but Ryo had trained Clyde well, even with the enemies shunpo technique, the human had managed to do some decent damage on him, but if he wanted to win this battle he needed a way to counter that ability more effectively.
"So then..." he began between breaths, "Why do you work with the other Vizards? Do you seek destruction and power like they do?" He asked his opponent, returning his weapon to the original shape, a spear.
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Post by Zakura Kessin on Apr 9, 2010 1:55:17 GMT -5
Ever since Clyde came into his awareness, Zakura had been keeping an eye on him...not just for Ryo's sake but for his own personal interest as well. The human had gotten himself into quite a few scraps lately and his strength had been growing. Zakura felt it was time to witness him in battle first hand and see how far along he really had come.
He followed the flares of reitsu to an old junkyard where Clyde and someone unknown to him were fighting. Kessin shunpo'ed up to the top of a tall magnet crane that was in the junkyard and watched the fight. As he watched and listened he learned that Clyde's opponent was a Visard by the name of Drake, who was skilled in his own right. Kessin was a bit impressed with Clyde's growing aptitude towards tactical thinking. "He would be a great candidate..." He muttered to himself as he watched on, squatting down on the top of the crane's uplifted arm in perfect balance. He then pulled out a cigarette, lit it and began puffing contently as these two were amusing him.
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Post by drakeb on Apr 9, 2010 6:29:58 GMT -5
"Don't stereotype my people. I'm only looking to get stronger and more powerful. I mean if I wanted to fight you for mallicious reasons, I could've released my shikai and be done with this. Don't you agree?
Drake looked off towards the side as he saw another visitor had joined up with them. Interesting, and he felt a dark, hollowish reiatsu off into the distance. Probably Abel. He refocused back and Clyde and began charging up his energy, he was sure the human was now thinking of ways to counteract his Shunpo, so it would be interesting as Drake ran towards Clyde at full strength, two handed grip on his blade. As he approached Clyde he would attempt a horizontal blow across his torso.
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Post by Clyde on Apr 9, 2010 9:24:47 GMT -5
"Don't misjudge me, one of my strongest allies and friends is a vizard. However, he's not openly attacking humans and shinigami like the others do; he understands the responsibility of his power!" Clyde replied back, referencing Zakura who unbeknownst to Clyde was actually watching over the battle field. The human respected Kessin, he worked with Ryo regardless of the power within him, he did not let it consume him. "To what end do you search for power? Are you like me, are you trying to find something by gaining more power? Power and strength is the only thing I have to my name, I need to use it if I hope to find anything. So then, what do you search for?"
Drake continued his attack attempting to bring in a strong horizontal slash. As he approached the human, however, Clyde swiped his spear across the ground creating a reaction with the dirt which soon exploded upward and hid the boy from view. Using the distraction he moved to the side of the Vizards slash stomping on the blade to keep it held to the ground as his foot released some of his energy to keep it pinned to the ground, again using the enemy's strength against him. "I have strength as well, Drake, do you think me so weak that I couldn't stand up to your shikai? Do not underestimate me, your sealed form will not be enough!" The human boldy claimed as he would send a powerful vertical slash down on the Vizard. He would proceed with a hard kick to his chest as well, releasing the man's blade and creating some distance between them.
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