Cerberus Cup 3rd Round: Selena vs. Azalea

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CERBERUS CUP
THIRD ROUND

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As the fighting continues the first eliminations have occurred. Now, everyone is fighting either to keep their undefeated streak going, or trying their hardest to prevent themselves from being eliminated. The next round features some of the biggest matchups of this tournament, and is sure to house so incredible fights!

Posting Order Azalea, then Selena

End Date: April 7th

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,450,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ After barely making it through her first two matches, Azalea was surprised she'd won again. Though, the competitor had never shown up. It felt a bit cheap, but she was still in the tournament and she was undefeated. She guessed that's all that mattered. The blonde hadn't needed to be healed off stage before her next fight. She had not been injured and was still feeling great. She was ready to go kick some participant's butt! Azalea stretched a bit before moving out into the battlefield again. She looked around, seeing she was the first one out there again. Why did that stupid goat man keep sending her out first. The blonde smiled and waved to the crowd as she entered. It was nice to hear the cheers. Her eyes moved from her side of the battlefield to see who her opponent was. The blonde was still waiting to hear or see Artemis at some point. Hopefully she wasn't one of the first group eliminated. It would be a disappointment to register for the tournament and not face the black haired woman. That's when she noticed the woman entering and the blonde's face lit up. "OH MY GOSH!!! ARTEMIS!! HEY!!! YOU'RE HERE! YOU'RE ACTUALLY HERE! YES! THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME!" The keyblader giggled, clapping her hands together as she jumped up and down briefly. "I'll try not to hurt you, Arty!" She smiled brighter, nodding at the woman before summoning her keyblade. "Ladies first~ <3"

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For the second time, Selena had managed to wreck enough havoc in the previous round to warrant her staggering back to the lobby and falling into the healing waters of the spring, fully clothed and all. She sighed in relief as her wounded thigh healed upon contact in the water and soothed the sore muscles in her body as her strength replenished. The keybearer couldn’t help but relax and close her eyes for a bit until she felt something smack the top of her head with some sort of light-weighted object. “H-huh?” She shifts and turns around only to get smacked in the face again with what looked like a wrapped up scroll and stared at the face of a certain satyr. “What did I tell ya Artie? You stared at ya reflection for too long and now ya in the water like Narcissus! At least ya haven’t drowned!”

The dark keybearer quickly got out of the fountain and sat down on a nearby bench before beginning to wring out her hair from the excess water. Droplets of water fell to the ground. “Sorry Phil. You weren’t kidding when you told me that Terra was a formidable opponent. Just don’t tell anyone else that I fell in. I doubt that they would appreciate the healing water being tainted by another participant who decided to take a bath.” answered the dark keybearer with a teasing edge in her tone as she still wondered what happened to Terra. She had seen the effects of what Xehanort had done to him; it did make him strong but at the expense of Terra’s own Heart. Selena frowned at the memory as she had to use her Moonlit Chaos break in order to pull a win and after promising herself after the previous tournament that she wouldn’t due to its effects.

“I’ll have Herc go clean that while the other matches are in session. Look, Artie. You’re obviously up now but I need to give this advice. Whatever this little trick ya used on the Claire girl and against Terra that nearly killed ya both times, don’t do it. You’re not a hero yet and we don’t need ya acting like one in these tournaments. Got it? Now go get ‘em Artie!” The Nightmare stood up and noted that she was still soaking wet, even her wings were soaked and they felt too heavy to lift her off the ground. “Don’t plan on it…And thanks.” answered ‘Artemis’ as she shifts to her more revealing form, Eblis. Hopefully her clothes and her wings would be dry afterward.

The dark keybearer walked out of the lobby and into the blinding sunlight of the arena causing her to raise her arm to block out the sun from her eyes. She heard the roars of the crowd cheering her on and that made her faintly smile. It was a tragic irony once Selena put some thought into it. Back home on her home world, she had been tormented and persecuted for her strange abilities; but here in this arena, they were praising her for it as if they didn’t matter. The fact that while she never did manage to defeat Genesis Rhapsodos, the well-known champion of these tournaments, but the fans were still cheering her on anyway managed to heal a bit of the damage done to her own Heart.

However that smiled disappeared when her ears pinpointed the high-pitched tone of her opponent’s voice and the dark keybearer almost palmed her face right then. Azalea, of course you would managed to find me here… mentally lamented ‘Artemis’ as she listened and managed to keep her cold countenance. “Uh huh…Right. “ answered ‘Artemis’. If this was an anime, she would be sweat dropping at this moment. ‘Try not to hurt me’? What bull****. She summoned her own Heartsickness keyblade before raising a brow at her ‘Ladies first comment’ before smirking. “What does that make you then? A man?” answered the dark keybearer as she swiftly pointed her keyblade at the girl and releasing Void Extinction.

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[[OOC: How did you manage to have Azalea speak ‘<3’?]]

Actions Used:
1] Fell into the Healing Fountain in the Lobby and gets healed. Hopefully someone cleans that up before the next round.
2] Void Extinction at Azalea
3] N/A unless shifting to Eblis counts meaning that this would have to switch places with 2.

Abilities Used:
Eblis: APPEARANCE
With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 5 Posts]

Void Extinction[/color]: A powerful blast of Darkness shoots from either her keyblade or her hand at the intended target. It may be used normally and in her Dark Form. It can also be used in battle and outside of battle. [Cooldown: 2 Posts]

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HAD TO REPOST THIS AS AZALEA!!!

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,500,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ Azalea was absolutely thrilled. She knew that she'd get to run into Artemis here. She could feel that she'd run into the woman here. She just knew it. The blonde smiled a bit, thrilled that she would have the chance to prove herself to the winged keyblader. Her eyes glanced over this new appearance. "Wow, you know that's way more revealing than my outfit." She commented, brushing her skirt down with her free hand. "Let's try not to make this a fanservice fight. Though in the future you should totally opt towards something more like this than your normal conservative outfit. It's nice to show off once in a while." The blonde giggled. Her blue eyes watched the dark figure in front of her. This was the one person she had met that hadn't completely agreed to assist her in her mission to save the future. Maybe showing her that she wasn't some weak girl would help convince her. The blonde watched her as her expressions changed. Oh, what Azalea would not give to read her thoughts. That's when he 'ladies first' comment was turned back on her. The blonde made this extremely awkward face. "T-THAT'S N-NOT WHAT I MEANT!" She flinched, until she noticed the other keyblader had already moved to attack. The blonde's eyes widened as she dropped to the ground, arms covering her hand, still clutching her keyblade. When she heard the attack fly over her head, she glanced up at Selena with utter surprise. "Y-you aimed at my head!?" It took the blonde a second to get her bearing as she was back on her feet, brushing the sand from herself. "Okay okay! How about a friendly wager? I win, you help me fix the future. If I lose, I won't bother you anymore. That sound fair?" She asked, moving to start her own assault of powers. "Hm....I wonder." She asked herself, aiming her keyblade in the sky, casing Dispel on Selena, wondering if it would get rid of her demon form. Not waiting to see the result, she moved onto her next ability, smiling sweetly at Selena. She leaned forward and blew her a kiss, casting Charm towards the woman. Hopefully it would help to charm the woman so she could start. Actions: 1 - Drops to her stomach to avoid the Dark Void ability. 2 - Casts Dispel to get rid of the demon form 3 - Uses Charm on Selena

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The Nightmare shrugged off Azalea’s comment about her Eblis demon form and merely smirked. Her mind was not something that any faint-hearted individual should read. If the mind-reading Heartless Horsemen Maurelle should read her mind now, there wouldn’t be any doubt that she would berate her for thinking of such things now that Azalea had provided her the ideas to paint the canvas of the tournament match. I could loosen up this fight. She doesn’t even seem to be that much of a threat since her skills aren’t that great especially when what had happened at Twilight Town comes to mind. [/i] mused ‘Artemis’ darkly and her head were forming several mean ideas. I’ll just toy with her a bit before finishing her off.

Hearing her outcry to her remark, the dark keybearer watched her Void Extinction miss her by several feet after the girl dropped to the ground and lightly chuckles. This was the keybearer that wanted to beat her and fix the future? How did she even get this far? Did her opponents even show up, I wonder? pondered ‘Artemis’ as she took flight in the air with her Wings of a Fallen Angel with that same smirk plastered on her face, “Of course I did. I wanted to make sure that you were on your toes. This isn’t some kiddie fight with toy wooden swords.” She listened to Azalea’s proposal attentively and within a heartbeat answered rather cryptically. “Done, but you will explain what you mean by that after this match no matter the outcome.”

‘Artemis’ didn’t wait for Azalea to finish her Dispel spell as she suddenly dove down at her and even when the spell hit her square in the chest as she attempted to slash Azalea across her chest which may poison the girl due to her keyblade’s ability to poison only if she got hit, not only did it startle her, but it didn’t seem to do any physical effect on her because her dark form Eblis was technically a demonic drive form, not a buff. However the Nightmare wasn’t aware of that and didn’t know what exactly just happened as all she felt was a cold magic like a breeze pass through her. It didn’t even take her that long to recognize it as she was a magic-oriented keybearer herself and only an idjit wouldn’t recognize magical energy.

A magic user? That would explain her lack of physical strength if she’s this strong in regards to magic ability. It seems I’ve underestimated her.[/i] concluded ‘Artemis as she slide past Azalea and dug her heels into the ground as she landed, creating a large cloudy cover of dirt and dust. She rapidly casts Umbra Vindicta on herself to grant herself the reflect status. Thankfully her assumption had been correct as the girl blew a kiss toward the Nightmare that thankfully didn’t affect her thanks to Umbra Vindicta and the reflect status that came with it.

Taking advantage of the cover of dust, the dark keybearer ran toward Azalea with the Heartsickness keyblade in hand to seemingly attack her head on. When she got close, ‘Artemis’ feinted to get behind her and attempted to wrap her tail around the girl’s waist while in motion before leaning to whisper into her ear, “Sorry brat, but I don’t swing that way.” The tone of her voice was that of a teasing older sibling and one could practically hear the smirk of her remark. If the tail grab was successful, the Nightmare then whirled around to continue the velocity of the motion as she ended the combo with ‘throwing’ her toward the nearby wall.

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Actions Used:

1] Attempted slash at Azalea’s Chest

2] Casts Umbra Vindicta on herself to prevent future spells [In this case, Charm.] from affecting her.

[OOC NOTE: Azalea and I discussed on Skype that the Charm wouldn’t affect Selena.]

3] Feinted, attempted to grab Azalea by the waist with Eblis’ tail then end with a throw toward a wall

Status:

Reflect [Duration: 3 Posts, See Umbra Vindicta]

Abilities Used:

Eblis: APPEARANCE
With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 4 Posts]

Void Extinction [/color]: A powerful blast of Darkness shoots from either her keyblade or her hand at the intended target. It may be used normally and in her Dark Form. It can also be used in battle and outside of battle. [Cooldown: 1 Post]

Umbra Vindicta: An otherwise dark version of the traditional Reflect spell, it is a spell that grants the Reflect status except that it will grant twice the damage in the reflected spell to the caster and/or allies. [Duration: 3 Posts]

Keyblade Ability: What is special about this keyblade is that it turns the Heart's Blood into a poison that attacks the Heart. It's most effective on Heartless, ironically, but it has no effect on Nobodies. Selena is usually never uses this keyblade to attack people though Black Angel might. The poison will only deplete health until it’s low. No worries.

[Cool Down: None.] [Duration: 3 Posts or until healed with a curative spell.]

Wings of an Fallen Angel[/color]: The ebony wings on Selena's back allows her to fly to great heights and jump higher than any normal human would. Unfortunately, it hinders her ability to physically run [unless she's flying too close to the ground], by making her slow. They are also a nuisance when near water especially since she has little to no ability to swim. [~Passive~]

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,500,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ Oh, if Azalea could read her mind she would have laughed at the Easter Egg* comment. They tend to be amusing tid-bits and memories. It was cute, but the blonde was focused on this battle. She shifted into a defensive stance now. "Well! Of course I'm on my toes!...and I didn't say it was a kid fight." She frowned a bit at the comment. "But this match is supposed to be for fun...not to kill someone. Right?" The keyblader's eyes followed the dark one as she flew into the air. It was good to know that they were also functional wings. This meant Azalea would really need to keep moving if she wanted to avoid getting killed. When the raven haired woman heard the proposal, she agreed to the terms and asked her to explain. "About fixing the future? Yeah, if you want me to. But you'll be forced to when I kick your butt." She chuckled before the darkly dressed blader dive bombed her. Sadly, the dispel did not work..which meant it was probably a drive form. That also meant there was a weakness to it. Azalea would need to find the strengths to determine the weakness. As the keyblade came at her, she quickly did two full fledged back flips in a row to avoid the attack. A smile at how well she avoided that series of attacks. There was moment where Selena paused and the blonde smiled. "What? Can't believe I'm that awesome of an acrobat?" She asked after she had casted her charm. That's when she noticed that barrier and the blonde paled. "Shit!!" She growled, knowing that Charm was going to hit her. Moments before it was going to make contact, the blonde threw her keyblade at Sel, using her Strike Raid. Hopefully that would hit and do some sort of damage. Azalea felt the warm wave of magic hit her, feeling pink and warm. It really was a great feeling, even though she lost all control of her actions. The blonde giggled cutely, smiling brightly as she didn't move for Selena's feigned attack. The blonde's keyblade came back and ended up falling to the dirt floor as Selena wrapped her tail around Azalea and spoke. "That's alright, because I love you no matter want. I only want the best for you." She replied, moving her arms to hug the demonic woman. That's when Selena threw her towards the wall. It did some damage and the blonde slowly stumbled back to her feet. "I don't mind it rough~...<3" She giggled, winking at Selena. Though, she stood there, waiting for the attacks to continue as there was nothing Actions: 1 - Two backflips to avoid Selena's dive bomb/keyblade attack. 2 - Used Strike Raid OOC: Easter Egg* = An intentional hidden message or inside joke. It is pretty much a secret message. In a game, it would be like putting Sora in a Final Fantasy game as a side character. So, her commenting about Maurelle is an Easter Egg since I roleplayed Maurelle.

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‘Artemis’ mentally chuckled as Azalea seemed to have taken her bluff to heart. How naïve this one is, almost a bit like Sora. I got her fooled right away. She probably believes that I am going to kill her which will bring out her hidden potential. [/i] mused the dark keybearer as she only answered with a smirk as Azalea managed to get hit by her own spell right after throwing her own keyblade at her. She still has a lot to learn before she can even thinking about saving our futures.[/i]

The dark keybearer clenched her teeth as the teeth of Azalea’s keyblade catches itself in her right shoulder and barely misses her wing as she flew to wrap her tail around Azalea. She could feel the warm blood trickle in a stream down on her back and arm. Ignore it for now. The fight’s not over yet. thought ‘Artemis’ but the brat’s words caught her off guard and she had to mentally do a double-take on what she just said. It must’ve been the spell that got reflected. The Nightmare quickly attempted to pull Azalea’s arms off her before she initially threw her at the wall.

From there, the Nightmare merely stood there as her mind recollected the events that just happened moments before and then took in what she just said. ‘Artemis’ palmed her face with her free hand then grimacing from the pain that shot up her shoulder. “It’s either the spell that just got recently reflected or drunk in which case I’ll kill Phil next if I ever find out that he gave you wine before the match.” muttered the dark keybearer under her breath then raised her blade, pointing it at the fellow. A dark power began to form around the tip of it and with a smirk, she summons Umbra Wolf’s Fang.

“Don’t be too rough on her. She is just a pup after all.” instructed ‘Artemis’ as the concerned wolf of darkness sniffed her wound on her shoulder and lightly licks its master’s face then the blood off her shoulder to clean the wound. Umbra then ran toward the seemingly helpless girl and leaping at her. However this time compared to the other matches, the wolf wasn’t going to aim to kill. Umbra was aiming to tackle Azalea down and lick all over her face. It would seem that the Nightmare wasn’t completely Heartless and wouldn’t attack the brat when she wasn’t armed and under the influence of the Charm.

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1] Attempted to removed Azalea’s arms off her

2] Summoned Umbra Wolf’s Fang

3] Umbra tackles Azalea then licks Azalea’s face

Status:

Reflect [Duration: 2 Posts, See Umbra Vindicta]

Abilities Used:
Eblis: APPEARANCE
With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 3 Posts]

Void Extinction [/color]: A powerful blast of Darkness shoots from either her keyblade or her hand at the intended target. It may be used normally and in her Dark Form. It can also be used in battle and outside of battle. [Cooldown: 0 Post] [Available Now]

Umbra Vindicta: An otherwise dark version of the traditional Reflect spell, it is a spell that grants the Reflect status except that it will grant twice the damage in the reflected spell to the caster and/or allies. [Duration: 2 Posts]

Umbra Wolf's Fang[/color]: A wolf of darkness comes out of her keyblade and attacks the opponent. It may team up with Selena during the two post duration. It is large enough to be ridden by Selena and/or any of her allies. Can be summoned together with Wolf's Fang. [HP Count: 8]
[Duration: 2 Posts] [Ride-able!]

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[atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: #2F2F2F; border-radius: 0px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 30px 5px 10px 0px;] GAINST THE TIDE ❝ ANOTHER STORM YOU'RE LEFT TO FIGHT ALONE. UNDER THE WAVES WE'RE SINKING LIKE A STONE. ❞

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=cellspacing,0,true][atrb=cellpadding,0,true][atrb=width,500,true][atrb=style,background-color: #EDEDED;][atrb=vAlign,top] █ Azalea was in such a cloud she probably couldn't tell you her name if you asked. This charm spell was horrible, the only upside was that it really dulled the pain of attacks. So, she felt nothing from being thrown back towards the wall. But, subconsciously she was aware of the throbbing pain that'd appear when the spell wore off in a minute. The blonde keyblader could only stand there and wait to be attacked again. She couldn't believe she'd had her own spell reflected back at her again! Did EVERYONE in this darn tournament have that stupid spell? Maybe she should have checked their profiles for abilities before challenging them. It was around this moment that she had realized that her Strike Raid had made contact and drew blood. It wasn't a super powerful attack, but Selena seemed to have taken a lot more damage then expected. Wait, could her drive form lower her defense? She waaaaas wearing less close, which made her look so cute. Oh, cute~ <3 Azalea loved Artemis so much! She couldn't be thinking of these thing! Artemis had to win the tournament and Azalea had to let her win!! It was this moment she started to feel the effects of the charm wear off. She was starting to regain some feeling as he boy began to ache from being thrown towards the wall. She wasn't even sure if she hit the wall or the barrier that kept them inside the battle field. Though, she wasn't snapped back to reality till she was body tackled to the ground and being licked to death. It took a second or two before the blonde was laughing, trying to push the oversized wolf off her. "UMBRA!!!! EW!!! THAT IS SO GROSS!" But all she could do was laugh harder before scratching his chin a bit and working to get free from being pinned. After a moment, she had been able to wriggle free from the oversized dog and patted his head, backing up a bit. She had smile on her face as she tried her best to wipe the drool and saliva from herself, flinging it to the sand the best she could. "Blegh...." She made a face briefly before summoning her keyblade back to her hand. "....This is so not fair, Artemis..." She grumbled. ".....I can't hurt him!!! He saved my life before..." She pouted, stomping her feet before looking back at the dog. She'd have to keep out of it's reach and do her best to focus all her attacks on Selena and keep the wolf out of the fray. "Ok. Hope you're ready for this, Artemis!" She stated, crouching before dashing at Artemis. She quickly casted her Barrier Surge, hoping to catch the woman before she was off the ground. She hadn't had a chance to get any normal magic to be able to reach Selena when she was airborne. Hopefully her attack would make contact! Not waiting to see the result, she swung her keyblade out in front of her, hoping to follow through with two slashes. That is, if her Barrier Surge even made contact. Actions: 1 - After Charm wore off, Barrier Surged Selena 2 / 3 - Two Keyblade swings to follow up her attack.

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‘Artemis’ covered her mouth with her free hand as she watched Umbra successfully tackle the cheery keybearer and lick her face. She had to fight the urge to temporarily remove her mask and laugh at Azalea’s predicament. If the dark keybearer gave in to that urge now, there was no telling whether or not if she could keep herself from doubling over and she knew that this tournament match wasn’t supposed to be a laughing matter. However as Azalea gave a sharp yell at her dark wolf, the Nightmare’s mask temporarily fell as she giggled behind her hand before swiftly putting the mask back on. ‘Artemis’ was thankful that Umbra obstructed the blonde from seeing this suppressed side of her.

Umbra pricked his ears up as Azalea patted the top of his head and a quick glance back at his master told him that he did a good job holding back. He got off the cheery keybearer and after getting patted on the head, trotted back to ‘Artemis’ to await his next order. The dark keybearer patted Umbra’s side with a smirk. “You did well Umbra. After this, you can stop holding back unless I give the word.” stated the Nightmare to Umbra as she answered Azalea with a deadpanned tone of voice, “If I hadn’t told Umbra to restrain himself, you’d of been dead already because you were practically defenseless after that spell got reflected back at you. Also life isn’t fair, Azalea, and you’re just about to find that out the hard way.”

Both Umbra and ‘Artemis’ stood still as Azalea charged at them both to come at them with her keyblade in hand. “How cute.” The dark keybearer then raises her own Heartsickness keyblade high into the air to summon the dark vines of her Umbra Vitis Shield[/color] several yards in front of both herself and Umbra from the Barrier Surge and the two apparent slashes as a shield. While Umbra Vindicta [/color] would have possibly protected ‘Artemis’ from the Barrier Surge and the two slashes, it wouldn’t have protected Umbra from the assault and she valued her companion in order to pull a seemingly unnecessary move. Behind the protection of the temporary shield, Umbra then knelt beside the dark keybearer as she quickly leaps onto Umbra’s back and the two charges at their own shield only for Umbra to leap over the shield and Azalea who would be on the other side of it.

While in mid-air, ‘Artemis’ points her keyblade that was already forming darkness at the teeth down at Azalea. “Checkmate.” She fired Void Extinction[/color] but purposely changed the aim of the blast at the last minute so that it would only hit to the right a few yards away from the girl. If anything, she intended for this to be a scare tactic. When Umbra landed a distance away from Azalea, the Nightmare glances to see if Azalea is alright. I didn’t give her a heart attack did I? I thought I made sure not to aim too close. wondered the dark keybearer.

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Actions Used:
1] Block Barrier Surge and the 2 slashes with Umbra Vitis Shield

2] Leap over the shield and purposely misaims Void Extinction [scare tactic]

3] N/A
Status:

Reflect [Duration: 1 Posts, See Umbra Vindicta]

Abilities Used:
Eblis: APPEARANCE
With the darkness of her heart, Selena takes on the form of a dragon-like demon of the night. During battle, the most notable difference between this form and her normal form is the increase in speed and strength but a considerable decrease in defense. [Duration: 2 Posts]

Void Extinction [/color]: A powerful blast of Darkness shoots from either her keyblade or her hand at the intended target. It may be used normally and in her Dark Form. It can also be used in battle and outside of battle. [Cooldown: 3 Post]

Umbra Vindicta: An otherwise dark version of the traditional Reflect spell, it is a spell that grants the Reflect status except that it will grant twice the damage in the reflected spell to the caster and/or allies. [Duration: 1 Posts]

Umbra Wolf's Fang[/color]: A wolf of darkness comes out of her keyblade and attacks the opponent. It may team up with Selena during the two post duration. It is large enough to be ridden by Selena and/or any of her allies. Can be summoned together with Wolf's Fang. [HP Count: 8]
[Duration: 1 Posts] [Ride-able!]

Umbra Vitis Shield[/color]: Selena can raise up many large, thorned vines of darkness to wrap around herself and/or her allies to act like a strong shield. It can be used normally and in her Dark Form. It may also be used in battle and outside of battle. [Cooldown: 1 Post]

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This battle is over! It will be judged and the winner will be announced here as well as in the tournament standings thread.

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Alright, the judging results:

Judge 1

Damage Dealt: When it comes down to it, each side only took a single real hit: Sel ate a Strike Raid to the arm and Azalea got chucked into the wall. Considering that Selena was in a state with decreased defenses, I’m gonna go ahead and consider her injury the more serious one. My decision goes to Azalea.

Creativity: I’m looking at Selena this time. Azalea’s movements and actions were somewhat general. Selena, on the other hand, was making fun use of her barrier, dog, and variety of vaguely demonic limbs. Selena on this one.

Realism: Really both sides deserve some kind of mention here, considering super casual and undoubtedly unusual nature of this fight. My god, the banter. The playfulness! I feel Selena went above and beyond in this regard though. Azalea was silly as all hell, but Selena never stopped feeling less like a combatant than a sister teasing a younger sibling. Playing with her food may have lost her the damage portion in my eyes, but it earned her glory here. Calling it for Selena.


Overall Winner: Selena

Judge 2

« Reply #2 on Apr 21, 2013, 12:04am » QUOTE MODIFY
Damage Dealt I agree with Nier, except we are supposed to be awarding the member who was willing to have sports(wo)manship and take damage. Because Azalea dodged attacks and only took one when she was apparently 'charmed', I will award this category to Selena.

Creativity I don't really feel either of them was especially creative in the three rounds they fought it, if anyone, I'd have to say Sel for the way she 'toyed' with Azalea before seemingly going all out on her. By casting the reflect Umbra and leaping over her shield to attack. Which in this case I award it to Selena.

Realism This... is by far the weirdest battle I have ever read. I'm pretty sure that status effect spells CANNOT be reflected, but since I have no proof of this because Charm is not in the KH series and I don't know which game it's based off, I can't really approve nor disprove it. I'll give Azalea points for letting it affect her, though.

As mentioned above though, I didn't like how she dodged all of Sel's attacks save for being slammed into the wall when she was Charmed. I felt she could have willingly taken some hits.

Lastly, I think Sel's Umbra shield needs to be modified, as when it was approved at the time it wasn't specific about how many actions/powers per turn it can actually block. Blocking Azalea's Barrier Surge and her keyblade strikes felt a bit overpowered to me because this wasn't defined. But because this is the only instance I can think of where Sel wasn't realistic, and it wasn't helped because the way her ability was written, by contrast I felt Azalea did more things unrealistic. Which is why I'm awarding the winner of this match to be:

Selena

Judge 3 was not needed.

Selena wins this match by decision. Azalea's loss has been recorded.