The Dueling Arena ~The RP~

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When Takamura's counterattack hit, Christie was momentarily stunned enough to be a little slow in getting off another attack, but she did not snap out of it. She stepped back a tiny bit, and next swung her sword one-handed, aiming at her opponent's sword arm.

Raul didn't seem at all able to understand what was going on.
"Christie? We came to help!"

"How did you-? This is not good at all." BillBob in the doorway said, holding his scrub brush. He knew Christie could normally fight better than that, in her right mind she wouldn't have left herself open to such a hit.

And the other BillBob making his way around the room with the pitchfork he'd brought along, was almost to where he wanted to be to try and get closer to whatever was back there,

but it moved farther away from him because Saito was closest to the creature and it turned on him first, striking out with a rough-textured foot with long toes ending in sharp-curved talons.

((If Saito has fairly good vision, then his eyes by now would probably be adapting to the low light enough to see that it looked rather like an eagle's foot, only much bigger, like it could wrap its toes around something like a basketball... or a person's head.))  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Without a moment of hesitation Saito made a horizontal upwards slash towards the foot, hoping to get in between the claws and hit the base of the foot to damage the nerves and possibly any bones he could. "I need a light!" He yelled over to the Billbob that was running foreward, hoping he knew that saito meant he wanted some direct light on the thing he was fighting, so he could have a vague idea of what he was up against and how he could deal with it quickly.

((Just so you know Saito is going to be slower as well, fatigue and what not from his other battles))  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

You Will Never Be A Man

Takamura, stil much faster than the girl, moved his katana to intercept as he swung his saya at her ribs once more. Swining her sword one handed would mean that she would have to streach the other out to keep her balance, leaving her side exposed.

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Saito's slash cut in between the toes enough to damage one near where it connected to the foot, which drew back in pain. At the same time as that, though, another foot that was the exact mirror of it came at him from the other side, scratching at his shoulder.

((btw, Is it safe to assume that Takamura and Christie are both right-handed?))

Takamura's katana stopped Christie's swing a little too easily. There was really hardly any force at all in her attack, and she pulled her arm inward just when he was executing his counterstrike and also swinging his saya at her, balancing out the movement of her other arm, which she pulled in from the other direction to try and grab the saya to wrench it away from Takamura. She had been counting on the chance he'd try another similar move, considering how well his last hit had landed. He was still faster, so if he were fast enough, then he might have time to change his strategy, but she moved faster than she had last time.

The BillBob in the doorway was suddenly attacked from behind, being tackled by someone he couldn't see clearly. "Raul!" he yelped.

Raul's attention was drawn away from the fight between Christie and Takamura, but he was still stunned and it was gonna take him a moment to get over there to try and help.

The other BillBob meanwhile fumbled for a light. He happened to have a pocket flashlight on him, and pulled it out and clicked it on in record time while the creature was in the middle of striking back at Saito. "What the-" He was on the opposite side of the creature from Saito, so the light wouldn't do much to help the swordsman from there and wasn't quite enough to light the entire creature anyway, but BillBob was in Saito's line of sight just enough that Saito could see the way the light reflected off the creature back onto the boy's dropped-jaw expression with a glint that was partway between the look of metal and glass. The creature started to turn on him, noticing the light. What Saito could see from the silhouette, it seemed like it was at least as tall as a male grizzly standing upright, and seemed to have a head shaped like a hawk's.

BillBob tossed the flashlight at Saito as quick as he could, grabbing the pitchfork he had with him in both hands to defend himself, jabbing almost at random at the creature looming over him.  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

You Will Never Be A Man

((Yes, takamura wears his saya on the left, with the katana in his right hand.))

Takamura smiled as he let her grab his saya, slowing it just enough so that she could grab hold of it without too much effort. Once she had it he would pull both his arms towards his body, removing the pressure of her sword, and pulling her arm along with his saya. this would bring her to withing kicking range as he lifted his knee, aiming for her stomach, and hopefully stunning her long enough so that he could restrain her.

Unless You Are A Gentleman

 

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Christie was rather strong and not terribly petite, but being somewhat slimmer than Takamura he was able to use that to his advantage and pull her forward simply because she didn't have the weight needed to back up her attempt to pull him in the opposite direction. Still, she wasn't as easy to pull as he'd thought she'd be, and his knee-kick didn't hit with as much force as he would have liked. But she still was a little stunned, and cringed as though her head was in pain as well. Yet while being pulled, she still tried to twist the blade of her sword towards his face in an effort to superficially cut or otherwise distract him.

Raul meanwhile managed to get to the twin who'd been by the door and had been tackled by someone from behind. Raul tackled the man to the ground, which allowed BillBob to get himself free and take a look at his attacker. "You!" he said, breathless. "It's the albino!" he declared.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito partially ducked, Having part of his right shoulder torn open and he winced in pain as blood slowly trickled down his arm and dripping onto the floor. He shot his arm up out towards the flashlight, catching it and shining it on the enemy while he began his counter attack. He would go forward as the Claw was retracted and strike right for the center of the being, cutting upwards to hopefully do some damage to the entire body.  

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What Saito could see from shining the flashlight from his view of things was that his opponent was, in fact, a very large bird something like an eagle or a hawk with feathers and beak that had a bit of a metallic sheen to them, but it had four legs instead of two. The front legs were the ones that he had been attacked with, one of which was leaving a rather large smear of blood on the floor as the creature had already turned halfway towards BillBob and had been going to swipe at him with its good front foot, but BillBob's pitchfork caught it somewhat off guard and even though the tool had mostly gotten through the creature's feathers to its flesh, it hadn't pierced very deeply.

The problem with the feathers, from an attacker's standpoint, is that they seemed to have cores and ribbing made out of some sort of dark metal, strong but slightly flexible, with the smallest, softest fibers of the feathers being made out of something like a fiberglass, filling the spaces in between. So while the pitchfork was able to mostly pierce its way straight through the feathers, it sort of got caught up in them and didn't go as far as it would have with normal feathers, particularly since BillBob wasn't quite strong enough to make the attempt without putting all of his weight into it and nearly falling over with the follow-through.

As for Saito's strike, he ended up facing the side of the creature and since his cut was aimed upwards it got slowed by coming at the feathers against their grain, and not being particularly good at cutting through metal, the sword was stopped by the feathers before it could really go very far up. But the tip of the sword got through to the skin well enough, and while the upward movement of the sword was being slowed and stopped (accompanied by a horrible sound of metal grating on metal), the creature lurched towards him to move away from BillBob's pitchfork, helping to drive Saito's blade more directly inward to pierce through some of the lower organs, possibly the intestines.  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito was forced back slightly as he changed from a slashing attack to a stabbing attack, pushing forward on his blade as best he could in his condition, he put had dropped the flashlight and put his hand right onto the blade, cutting it open as he pushed forward trying to do as much damage as possible before twisting the blade to have it pointed downwards and changing his left hands position to pull the blade down to try and cut through the defenses, although the feathers might be a problem. Blood was flowing out of his shoulder because of the stressed movement, his shirt and part of his pants became stained in his blood as a small puddle began to form by his right foot where the blood hat trickled down.  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

You Will Never Be A Man

A small cut appeared on the side of Takamura's face as he continued to pull the girl towards him. Once she was in range he would headbutt her, hoping once again to knock her unconscious. If that failed he would try another knee into the stomach. He didn't want to hurt her, not seriously, but it was coming down to that quickly.

Unless You Are A Gentleman

 

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((sorry, guys, I would have posted something sooner, but my brain's been absolute mush lately))

Christie wasn't quite knocked unconscious, but she was stunned and made a sound something like a pained wheeze as she exhaled. She dropped her sword and tried to grab her head, but whether she could actually do so or not would depend on how much she was being restrained.

Saito's change in strategy to cut downwards worked a bit better, but the large bird creature lurched and pulled abruptly away from both Saito's sword and BillBob's pitchfork. It retreated back a few paces, farther into the darkness, but took a swipe at BillBob as it did so.

The boy was working on standing up straight again after having thrown all his weight into attacking the bird, and winced in pain as his back was cut open a bit. He nearly dropped his weapon, but managed to keep hold of it and still stand up, after a moment.

"We need more light." he stated, while his counterpart in the doorway said to the group: "I'll find something!" and made a move almost like he was going to go back out into the cavernous storage room to get something.

But again, everyone in the party felt a strange sensation, like thoughts trying to intrude into their heads. Then that feeling for Saito and Takamura abruptly cut itself off, and there was a sound of a pitchfork dropping and a scuffling just inside the door where Raul and the albino were wrestling, each trying to pin the other. BillBob and BillBob were both standing dumbly, mouths agape.  

[Takamura Kobayashi]

You Will Never Be A Man

Takamura stood ready to knock her out if she tried to come at him, or do anything that would hurt herself or the others. He had it covered and was now more concerned about the creature that Raul had encountered.

Unless You Are A Gentleman

 

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As Raul and the albino guy kept fighting, the latter started laughing maniacally, even though Raul got into position to punch the guy in the face repeatedly.

The twin redheads suddenly both shouted "Argh!" and dropped to the floor, on their knees and also supporting themselves with their hands.

As for Christie, she had her eyes closed and a hand to her head, and started mumbling. "Oww... what was...? She blinked her eyes open. "Ohh... no wonder."  

[SJ3 Lone Samurai]

Saito had stuck his sword into the floor, holding himself up as best he could, His wounded shoulder was damaged further by the quick jerk of the Beast moving away. He took in a few deep breaths , keeping his eyes glued to the enemy right in front of him, Not daring to look away in case it tried to attack once more "Billbob... What do you feel right now?..." He was able to murmur out, Hearing them laugh and then fall down with a grunt. He had a feeling he knew what was going on right now. He slowly brought himself into an upright position and took one hand off of the hilt of his katana, holding it to his side 'I only have enough energy flow to hit it with one strike of my sword or hit him with an orb of energy....' He thought as he tightened his fist and squeezed the hilt of the katana before pulling it out of the ground and swaying slightly, the tip of the blade resting on the ground as he didn't want to try lifting it yet, He was still partially stunned and hazy from blood loss.  

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BillBob and BillBob, both of them in perfect unison, groaned and answered. "Not good... it hurts, but... I'm okay." Both boys got shakily to their feet, making the exact same movements at the exact same time.

Christie made a weak attempt at gesturing toward the twins. "Good thing you brought both of them..." She said quietly, then winced again like her head still hurt a lot.

Raul had the albino pinned now. Even though he wasn't really that great of a fighter, apparently the albino was even worse at it.

"Help!" the albino exclaimed.

Meanwhile, the creature in the shadows retreated a little further, assessing the situation and evaluating its options.