Jericho
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Elric de Oden: Duel RequestForce Limitations: No Force powers
Weapons: Training sabers
LocationL Training dojo
Jericho walked into the training dojo. He walked to the center of the room.
Jericho stood in the circle in the middle of the room and took in all of the room
the smells, the force within, and the gerneral feel of the dojo. He liked the total
darkness of the dojo. Jericho then knelt and focused on building all his
strength for this training duel.
Jericho's thought went to his past. He let it build his anger, feeling it give him focus
and strength.
Jericho then stood and removed his robe and pulled his mask over his face. He then pulled his
training saber from his belt and held it at his side.
He then awaited his opponant to enter.
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Mage Superior Odin
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Elric entered the dark training arena with silent steps, moving with haste. He examined the place quickly to determine the advantageous spots around the circle. A good warrior was not just who using own raw power, it was who combining everything including own power, surrondings even the natural force flux around.
In the middle of the arena, Elric saw his opponent.
"You must be Jericho my master spoke of" He said while taking off his grey robe. He gently placed it onto a bench next to him and grabbed his training saber from back of his belt.
"So let it be" Elric told seriously, feeling his opponent's anger pumping inside his veins. Despite most of Sith, Elric was aware of what gives the true power. Fear... Anger.... Hate.... were just temporary boosts despite many thought they were the divine source.
He stepped ahead through the middle of the arena where his opponent were standing still. With a swift maneuver, he whirled his hilt around his wrist then ignited. The ignition of his lightsaber had created a light ring.
"Not the one i like to have" He said, complaining about the training saber. He placed back his right foot and positioned his body horizontally, directing his saber to Jericho's head perpendicularly, taking Niman stance.
"Make it a honorable duel... Your move... First...."
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Jericho
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Jericho sensed his opponant approaching and watched him enter. He could feel Elric scanning
the room. Jericho could feel the confidence in Elric.
"Indeed I am Jericho" "A name one will not forget easy"
As Jericho watched Elric ignite his saber he quickly reacted and ignited his own saber.
Jericho gave his opponant a Makashi salute and made himself ready.
Jericho made a overhand slash at the head of his opponant and was met with Elric's saber.
There was a brief lock up then Jericho stepped back and readied himself again. Jericho
then spun to the left and made a slash at Elric's midsection, Elric moved to the right to
avoid the strike.
Jericho stood infront of his opponant and awaited his next move.
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Mage Superior Odin
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Elric was impressed with his opponents first moves and thought that basic tactics were not enough to end this duel. Elric quickly re-planned his moves into more tricky maneuvers. Confusion of the opponent was the key to win a duel.
Elric jumped with a flip ahead, imitating like a direct attack to the head. While Elric was moving towards him, Jericho quickly moved his body to the left as Elric predicted and Elric responded Jericho's defense by throwing himself to the ground. He slashed his saber radially a feet above the ground horizontally but Jericho dodged the attack by a backflip quickly with reflexes.
After Jericho's flip, Elric stood up with haste, taking a defensive stance...
"This wont be easy, huh?" He told.
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Jericho
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"impressive"
Jericho seing the speed that Elric carried to the duel made him see that indeed this will be good session, and that he needed more then basic moves.
Jericho then moved towards Elric unleashing a Makishi flourish making a series of rapid x's at his opponant. Each cross of the x was met by Elric's blade. Jericho then made a feint slash at Elric's head but instead crossed over his head and then made a swipe at Elric's right side. Elric sensed this move and spun to the left. Both opponants then came in with an overhead swing and met in a lock up. Both Jericho and Elric sensed that neither of them were gaining ground in the lock up and at the same time both made a backflip away from each other.
"Your skills are indeed impressive, but do you have the stamina to hold out this pace"
Jericho then took a standard Djem So stance and made himself ready.
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Mage Superior Odin
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Elric took an Ataru stance by holding his saber's grip tightly with two hands, attacking Jericho from right. Jericho easily avoided the attack by blocking the way with his saber but Elric whirled the hilt and then striked from left, trying to break Jericho's balance with quick moves. Jericho took a step back to strengthen his stance and reflected Elric's attack with a powerful slash back to his shoulder.
Two lightsabers clashed in the air with a loud sound, sparkling down. Both opponents' strength was kinda equal and each was trying to drop the counter-guard. Two sabers had started to get close to the ground radially from above their heads. Arms were shaking with power...
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Jericho
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Jericho made a quick spin out to the left. Half way through the spin jericho extened his arm making a swipe at Elric's leg. Elric avoided the swipe by making a quick jump in the air.
Jericho then took two steps back and then unleashed a fury of attacks, striking at Elric's head, left, right, and left again. Each strike was blocked by Elric.
Both fighters reset there stance and faced each other. Jericho made a dash at Elric. As Jericho approached Elric made a left to right slash across his body. Jericho blocked the strike and feined a counter strike at Elric's arm but instead swung his blade over Elric's head and then made a downward swing and made brief contact with Elric's right leg.
Jericho knew this surprised Elric, but also knew that he would not be phased by it.
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Mage Superior Odin
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Elric felt that a hot burning touch on his right leg. The contact was not lethal as usual since they were using training sabers but it was still somewhat painful. Elric realized that Jericho's attack had passed through his trousers and burned his leg, after taking a small look on himself. The pain was not disturbing though.
Elric wrinkled down his eyebrows with a discomfort. He took his Ataru stance once more to counter Jericho's slash. He took two serious steps forward while holding his grip strongly and attacked from right. Jericho encountered the attack by blocking Elric's saber in the air. But suddenly something unexpected happened.
While two sabers were sparkling again, Elric dropped his saber from his hands intentionally and crouched before Jericho's saber went down. With a forward flip on the ground, he moved to the back of his opponent and without giving him a second to react, he launched a powerful kick right in the middle of his back, breaking his balance.
With the pressure of attack, Jericho lost control of his body and leaned few feet forward away from his opponent behind him. Elric qiuckly made a move towards his hilt on the ground and re-ignited just before taking his stance again.
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Jericho
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Jericho felt the kick to his back and made a forward roll to lessen the impact.
Jericho quickly jumped up and tuned to his opponant. As he turned he seen that Elric had already regained his saber and was at ready again.
"Very nice" "A true surprise" "Not one I will soon forget"
"Not always a good measure to drop ones weapon, I wonder if the battle is getting to your head"
"Or did that blow to your leg take more out of you then I thought"
Jericho then gave Elric a Makashi salute and made himself ready.
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Mage Superior Odin
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Elric smirked with Jericho's words without replying. He took a small step ahead and whirled his saber around his wrist.
"The weapon is not just this saber. You will fail if you think like that. The weapon is your whole body and the saber is nothing but extension of your arm"
Elric leaped towards his opponent and swirled in the air, slashing his saber 3 times in a second. First one was to Jericho's left shoulder, second to left knee and the third was to the back of his torso while Jericho was trying to dodge the attack with moving his body continuously. Elric's main target was Jericho's back - other two were just for dissipating his attention. Jericho was able to resist the attacks towards his shoulder and knee, but while he was trying to maintain his stance, he left his back unguarded.
Jericho felt a burning line just below his scapulars.
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Jericho
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Jericho felt the familiar sting of a blow from a training saber.
Jericho regained his stance and made himself ready again. He charged Elric with his saber in his right hand above his head. Elric raised his saber to meet Jericho's, but Jericho stopped short and instead of striking with his saber he landed a blow to Elric's jaw with the fist of his left hand. The blow made Elric take a step back and as he did Jericho made a backflip to distance himself from Elric.
"As you can see I do indeed know that the saber is not ones only weapon"
"Not wise to assume anything about ones opponant"
With that Jericho placed his saber back on his belt and took a fighting stance.
"let us see how you are without your saber as an extention if you dare"
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Mage Superior Odin
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"As you wish" Elric smirked before de-igniting his training saber. With a swift movement, the saber disappeared from Elric's hand in a blink and it was not on his belt though. Jericho was confused about the saber but he knew that it was not the right time to get confused. He was waiting Elric to take his stance.
Elric moved his left foot behind and arised his right arm to the air. He flexed down his body with his legs and directed his hands towards his opponent to form a Jujutsu defensive stance, waiting for his opponents first move.
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Jericho
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Jericho gave his opponant a quick bow.
Jericho stepped towards Elric and feigned a left hand strike to Elric's head. Elric countered with a strike of his own. As Elric made his strike Jericho executed a Osoto Gari throwing Elric to the floor. Jericho then stepped back smirking at the look on Elric's face.
Elric jumped back to his feet and both fighters took their stance.
Jericho knew Elric would be surprised by the move he made but also knew he would not underestimate him again.
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