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RPG World of Remnant => Amity Colosseum => Old Tournaments => Topic started by: Dr. Gustave on September 27, 2016, 07:05:59 PM

Title: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on September 27, 2016, 07:05:59 PM
{This was supposed to be Juno/Verdant V Nathan/Stella, but I found out that they were not on a team, they've been replaced by Malina/Carmine)

"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!" A Booming and energetic voice explodes through the speakers set up around the enormous stadium. A deep and gravely voice, like someone who spent too much time smoking and decided now would be a good time to start screaming for their entire life. "WELCOME TO THE VYTAL FESTIVAL'S FIRST ROUND OF PAIRED MATCHES!" The crowd erupted into a ceremonious cheer, whoops and hollers came from all corners of Remnant as people tuned into the match from home. "I AM YOUR ANNOUNCER, VULCO DENTRES, BUT I THINK AT THIS POINT, YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT. I MEAN, REALLY, IF MY VOICE HASN'T BEEN HEARD BY ALL YOU F ҉   ҉ KERS-" A loud, annoying BEEEP filled the arena. Of course, this of all events was kid friendly. "- ALREADY, i WOULD BE SURPRISED.ANYWAY, ONTO THE COMBAT! PREPARE YOURSELVES, IN THIS FIRST ROUND, WE'VE GOT TWO PAIRS FROM BEACON- HEY DO YOU GUYS FIND IT SUSPICIOUS THAT BEACON HAS WAY MORE COMBATANTS THAN ANY OTHER ACADEMY? YES, DEREK, I KNOW I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT... NO I'M NOT GOING TO STOP... YES, I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE FOR YOU TO F ҉   ҉ K OFF, DEREK. JESUS, SOME PEOPLE, AM I RIGHT!? ANYWAY, OUR FIRST PAIR IS JUNO VERT AND VERDANT COWL, MEMBERS OF TEAM VCVS. GOD DAMN, THAT'S AN EXPLOSIVE TEAM NAME! AND THE OTHER TEAM, WITH A SIGNIFICANTLY LESS EXPLOSIVE NAME, MALINA NAHUALLI AND CARMINE SANTIAGO! THAT GIRL HAS A SCORPION TAIL ON HER ASS AND THAT IS NOT OKAY! THAT IS BREAKING THE RULES OF NATURE AND TO BE HONEST, I'M A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE. DEREK! GET ME AN ADULT! WHAT? I KNOW I'M AN ADULT, GET ME A BIGGER ADULT.... JUST DO IT! ANYWAY, ENOUGH ABOUT THEM, LET'S GO TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL SPINNER! NO, DEREK, I WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME JOKE TWICE. WHAT AM I, SOME LOW RATE COMEDIAN?" After a brief moment, the crowed cheered, albeit halfheartedly.

A large holographic image of a lottery machine appears on all sides of the arena, with two spinners. The spinners spun so quickly, making it nearly impossible to make out the passing words. It ticked through the options slower and slower until it finally stopped on Lava and Mountain.

A loud laugh came from the speakers. "LAVA AND MOUNTAIN, HOW FITTING IS THAT, AM I RRRRRRRRRRRIGHT!? I'M A TIGER-MAN!"

The floor of the arena lowered and, in its place, arose two new floors. Juno and Verdant's half was a mostly intact floor of cracked cooled off lava, with lava pools littered around, and Nathan and Stella's half became a large mountain with a few trees littered around. Though now, instead of a waterfall, the mountain was spewing lava and most of the trees had caught fire. (Malina and Carmine will start atop the mountain)

Just then, the doors on each side of the arena opened and, from them, out strolled the combatants.


(A coin flip decided Juno and Verdant get the first posts. The arena size is that of the 2v2 arena in the show, and features scaled down biomes. Good luck, contestants.)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on September 27, 2016, 08:00:43 PM
Mountain and Lava.

How impossibly perfect of an arena for two members of VCVS to do battle upon.

Juno passed his teammate a glance as they strode through the hall toward the field. It was quite the honor to actually make it into the tournament. Sure, you could apply, but to successfully enter? Amongst the improbable number of applicants, the fact that VCVS managed to represent in all three first year brackets was a feat in and of itself. Especially given Juno's own personal failures, a chance to redeem himself upon the world stage was brilliant.

The armor clad teen exhaled as he stepped onto the rocky surface of their side of the field, the difference in heat being a noticeable change. They could probably tough it out, though. The ANUBIS suit had cooling measures to prevent accidents, and Verdant's outfit wouldn't lend itself to overheating. However, they were on the wrong side of the mountain. Well, they could work with that.

Juno glanced up at his opposition and rolled one of his shoulders before tapping one side of his headset. "Mic Check. Verdant, you good?" Juno asked as he drew the DMR and scanned the mountaintop for their opposition.
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on September 27, 2016, 08:19:57 PM
Verdant looked out upon the arena he and Juno were going to be competing on. The areas were mountain and volcano "really" he thought. Verdant then heard his partner and team leader Juno speak into the team radio, "Mic Check. Verdant, you good?"

 "I don't know if a volcano and mountain area could be more on the nose for a team of our namesake." Verdant jokingly replied as he notched a basic arrow to his bow.
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on September 28, 2016, 04:41:44 PM
Malina looked down from the top of the mountain. "Pretty steep drop, Carmine. We could probably hold out up here and just fire down..." She looked to Carmine and then to the crowd surrounding them. "Probably wouldn't be that interesting though, so..." She grinned as she pulled a dust vial from her coat pocket and slid it into her weapon. Manticore swayed behind her and she held out her weapon in front of her and began to build up a fire ball between her weapon's pincers. "Might as well start off with  a blast, right?" With that, Malina fired off the fireball, sending it rocketing toward Juno and Verdant, landing and exploding in between them

(5 points of splash damage)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on September 29, 2016, 06:18:09 PM
Carmine smirked at her friend, shrugging as she pulled out her guns. "Yah, and we 'ave to give the audience a nice show, or we'll never get our faces on Pumpkin Pete's box." She giggled, and pointed Shining One and Bright One at the two below. "... Okay, and given my semblance, this is like the best arena EVER in the 'istory of arenas."

Lava arena. Heat-draining recharge semblance. It was a match made in... well, okay, it wasn't a match made in any place of goodness, light, and decency, but it was okay to be a little naughty now and then. A cute devil was still as cute as a cute angel, right? Of course it was. Cute is cute.

She waved out the corner of her eye as Malina prepared her weapon. "A blast?" Flicking to grenade mode with her thumbs, Carmine giggled again. "I was thinking many..."

Al-Maisan and Al-Nayyir were not subtle weapons in grenade mode, and an unholy racket to match the fiendish nature of their fortunes sounded as she aimed the two guns to the sides of where she projected the fireball to land, showering the area with explosive impact microgrenades.

(5 points of splash damage)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on September 29, 2016, 06:46:08 PM
Of course ranged weapons would be at play. The field was huge, and they were up top. However, explosives and fireballs were not on the list of weapons he had expected. Quick to react, however, Juno deployed his shield and grabbed Verdant's arm, pulling his teammate behind the wall of metal as it soaked up damage from the explosive weaponry. While it didn't cover everything, it was enough to block the fireball.

"That was an interesting way to say hello." Juno remarked under his breath as he advanced, flicking his wrist to construct three disks, one stacked atop another. "Notch an explosive arrow. Take out the one with the gun, I'll engage the one with the staff. Synch?" he ordered, not even waiting for a reply before moving the shield aside and lobbing the disks, watching as they moved together halfway through their flight path before splitting off into their own respective arcs, converging on Malina.

[Aura 95%]

[Disks: 5 points of damage each]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on October 01, 2016, 01:33:45 PM
Verdant heard Juno's order and put away his basic arrow and pulled out one of his explosive arrows from his sheath. Verdant ran from behind Juno's shield and slide into cover behind some rocks. Verdant notched the explosive arrow and aimed up at the fighter named Malina and used his semblance to aim right for the her face, his goal was to disorent the her so Juno could move up and attack Carmine.

[Aura 95%]

[Explosive Arrow: 20 pionts of damage]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on October 02, 2016, 09:26:40 PM
Malina smirked as she stared down range at the explosions before quickly switching to a canister of repulsion dust. "What can I say, I'm not good with long range." She said with a shrug as she gripped her staff, waiting for the counterattack... and there it was. Out of the fading smoke, three glowing disks shot outward into the air. In an instant, she held down the trigger on her weapon and began to wave it rapidly in front of herself and her teammate, as if she were haphazardly painting a large wall. A flash of red light came as the disks converged and slammed into the wall of floating repulsion Dust. Immediate following the flash, the arrow similarly connected with the Dust and exploded, though the explosion was directed the opposite direction. Under the cover of the smoke, Malina swapped out her Dust canister for a propulsion canister. "Go for the one in the suit, I'll take the one with the arrow."

Suddenly, out of the smoke, came Malina... riding her staff like a broomstick, with her tail wrapped around it. 'Fuckin worth it.' She grinned stupidly as she came speeding down the mountain, finger held firmly against the trigger, letting out the constant stream of propulsion Dust. As she approached where the two had been standing at the start of the match, she pulled upward, sending her flying into the air. From above she spotted Verdant and quickly uncoiled her tail so she could lift her staff upward. With one last pull of her trigger, she was sent flying down toward the boy from above, staff raised above her head, ready to bring it down upon him. (7 Points)


Up in the stands, several familiar faces sat on the edge of their seats. "I didn't know it was Halloween already, Fleetwood!" Graviton spouted boisterously as he stuffed another handful of popcorn into his mouth.

"Oh my g..." Fleetwood simply sighed in response, placing her hand over her face.

In the row just below Graviton and Fleetwood, sat Zabar, watching intently as the match progressed.
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on October 02, 2016, 10:26:20 PM
"Feh. Hunters..." Nonus Decimi Anguis crossed his arms in his seat in the stands, glancing at the massive suit of power armor occupying the two seats next to him. "Why did you have bringings to this, Patriarch?" The Frumentarius looked back at the match, as the young man in power armor projected a shield.

"Because... Ayla wanted to see the Alapelagian fight..." Leo's visor turned to his right, at the heavily augmented girl sitting next to him, before looking back at the arena. "... And because... there should be... a familiar face on that stage..."

Juno. During the conflict with Graviton. "... Patriarch, I apologize if I had misunderstandings of my instructions, when I had punching of the boy in armor in his-"

"Not him..." Leonius smiled under his helmet. "Think closer... What kind of people are on that field..? Perhaps... I don't know... a Musafiri girl..? Perhaps in the eleven-to-twelve age range... six years ago..?" His metal-clad fist clenched. "Familiar circumstances... aren't they... Decimus Anguis?"

Nonus did not answer, but was suddenly much, much more interested in the fight.





Carmine frowned when Juno threw up his shield, and lowered her weapons until the disks and explosive arrow struck, negated by Malina's dust casting. Useful.

"'Kay, flankin'" was all she said to Malina's target calling, and paused before heading down to the lava fields. Was she going to- She was. Carmine watched Malina mount her staff like a broom, and resisted the urge to squeal right then and there. It was cute! It was super cute! But they were not here to be cute, however cute they were being!

Carmine focused as she ran to the side. She was the object, the rock under her feet was the point of reference, and with an exertion of will and minor drain to her own aura she launched herself forward, repeating the process as she descended, kicking off of rocks to continue her momentum and keep control of her course. The Shining One and Bright One rose on her final kick after descending, a hail of microgrenades leaving their barrels to create a thick cloud of thermal smoke that she vanished into on her final descent.

The heat was oppressive, and just what Carmine needed as her aura began to recharge from her exertion. Al-Maisan started to charge, as she switched Al-Nayyir to flechette fire and started peppering Juno's last position with shots.

[Aura: 98% and rising]

[Flechette fire: 10 points]





Ayla smiled watching Malina's descent, her silver fingers crossed as she hoped for the best. "Come on," was all she said, a soft phrase of hope escaping her collared throat.
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on October 02, 2016, 10:53:54 PM
"... Goddammit, Verdant." Juno grumbled as his partner ran out of cover of the shield, attempting to hide behind a series of rocks for a better shot. Which was great. Perfect, actually, since all of their projectiles had been blocked.

No, Juno wasn't salted in the slightest. He couldn't do much but watch and recall his disks as the two girls flanked them, and was about to head over to help his teammate when he noticed where Carmine was headed. Well, at least until she had covered her position with smoke.

Brilliant.

Juno was quick to move the shield, shaking his head as the rounds clattered against the wall of titanium. They had Verdant locked in a close combat scenario, and he needed out of whatever this mess was. Raising his arm, Juno constructed and fired a grappling dart at the rock Verdant had used for cover. Once the dart sunk into its target, Juno then leapt into the air, repositioned his shield, and reeled himself in, hoping to use his momentum to bash Malina away from his teammate.

[Aura: 95%]

[Fastball Shield Bash (https://youtu.be/QpP7gMPzC78?t=3m5s): 15% if connects]

[1 slot charging, 3 slots active]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on October 04, 2016, 09:59:49 PM
Verdant recoiled as Malina struck him with her staff. He saw what looked like Juno's grapple hook hit the rock behind Malina. Verdant knew he had to get away so he reached into his quiver and wrapped his fist around an ice arrow. Then he attempted to jam the arrow into Malina's foot he would then release the arrow and attempt to jump out of her reach.

[Aura: 88%]

[Ice Arrow 5 Damage and freeze]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on October 05, 2016, 02:46:34 PM
Malina whipped her head around to see Juno hurtling toward her. Before she could move out of the way, however, she felt something freeze over her foot. 'Fuck.' Was the only thing that went through her head as Juno slammed into her, breaking her free of the ice, and sending her tumbling across the ground.

Malina grumbled as she quickly lifted herself up from the ground. "I guess we're playing like that." She said as she brushed dirt off of her body. She gripped her staff with both ends and pointed the pincers away from Juno and Verdant. Her face was more focused now, her brows furrowed and eyes focused. With a pull of the trigger, she flew forward, stopping right between Verdant and Juno. As soon as she came to a halt, her aura erupted from her body, sending a concussive wave of aura outward, knocking both of her opponents in opposite directions and into the air. (7 points + Major knockback) "CARMINE, NOW!"

Malina paused for a moment to catch her breath. After a moment to give Carmine time to launch her half of
the attack, Malina turned on her heel and used her staff to shoot toward Verdant.

(Aura: 80/100)
Autohit granted by Rush and SirZinger.
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on October 06, 2016, 11:42:01 PM
"So," Nonus said, watching the Musafiri girl vanish into a cloud of smoke as her partner engaged the archer, "those scar-markings you are thinking are of my work?" The Frumentarius crossed his arms, looking down at the young pink-haired teenager sitting next to him. "I made sure to... confirmings... of every target..." He turned, looking up at Leonius. "I swear to you, Patriarch and cousin-kin of my beloved Vita, I did not fail you!"

"Dominus..." The small woman, Pia, put her hand on Nonus's lap, and joined her master in looking up at the massive power armor. "Patriarch, I have studied the files of my Dominus. He speaks truth. Confirmation was made for-"

Leonius raised his finger, and the female Frumentarius shut up. "I am not saying... that you failed... Nonus... I am saying... that you succeeded..."




Carmine bared her teeth as the arena readout on Malina's aura dropped sharply. The smoke was already clearing from her movement, so when Malina exploded and yelled, she was ready. Al-Nayyir was switched to explosive fire, but it was Al-Maisan that took center stage as she whipped it around and unleashed a charge shot at the ground under Juno. "I 'ave you now," she screamed, surging her aura to leap out of the cloud at the armored combatant.

(10-15 point AOE, depending on distance to the center.)




"... You are aware that I sent you... against a single particular target..." Leonius steepled his fingers under his visor. "To cover your tracks... you selected many additional targets... and then forgot which was the primary..."

Nonus was silent, stewing in the reminder, until Leo chuckled.

"The fact that this girl... this Carmine Santiago... is with us today... is proof you performed wonderfully... and took down the original target... I sent you after..." Leonius was not smiling under his helmet. "I can think of few other people... who could survive having their brains... splattered across the pavement... and their arm severed..."




Both guns belched a stream of explosive hell at Juno, now that the charge shot had hopefully softened him up, switching to flechette fire when Carmine was getting closer.

(10 damage)

(Aura: 105% and rising)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on October 07, 2016, 12:21:36 AM
[The following Grab combo was granted by Vox]

Once Juno had landed his strike, he had let down his shield, preparing to wail on the scorpion tailed combatant. Of course, such action never came to fruition, as soon enough, she was between him and his teammate. One ear splintering boom later and he had found himself hurtling toward the mountain, flinging the trio of disks at Malina in a desperate attempt at a farewell "fuck you".

Juno had expected to hit the ground. Instead, he was launched into a completely different direction by an explosive round, the force twisting him toward the gunslinger. He had forgotten about Carmine, a mistake that had left him in an unfortunate position. By the time he had finally hit solid ground, he was on his feet, his back to the mountain with his shield back up. He needed to turn this arou...

105%?

How in the hell could someone hit 105%?

Glancing at the top right of his HUD offered more disappointing news. His decision to keep his disks up left him with only one construct left for the next six seconds. Brilliant.

Well, he wasn't going anywhere with his back to a wall, but she was definitely in range to bring her to him. Waiting for her barrage to subside was taking too long, however, and he didn't want her to get closer. So he dropped the shield and braved the assault long enough to fire the line, hooking the girl by the waist and reeling her in. Since she had been so kind to harass him with gunfire earlier, Juno decided to greet her rather personally.

The first punch to her jaw was just to get her attention. The hook to her gut was more for catharsis, holding her there long enough for him to wink before throwing her over his head and against the wall. After that, he disengaged, turning and dashing off to help Verdant.

This match was quickly going against their favor.

[Aura: 70%]
[Disks: 5% each. Grab combination: 25%]
[5 slots charging]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on October 09, 2016, 04:37:29 PM
Verdant hit the floor with a hardy thud which made him drop his bow. He was dazed from the concussive blast that knocked him and Juno away from each other. Verdant looked around and saw Malina running his way, he picked up his bow and drew an explosive arrow from his quiver ready for a fight. He saw the path that Malina was taking to get to him and fired the explosive arrow at where her feet were about to be.

[Aura 81%]
[Explosive Arrow 20-15 AOE points and slight knockback]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on October 10, 2016, 06:16:37 PM
Fortunately for Malina, who hadn't even noticed Juno firing off his disks again, she already gone when the disk arrived to where they had intended to slam into her. The joys of already using her propulsion Dust.

Meanwhile, Malina was focused on her opponent. From the aura meters set up around the arena, she could tell his name was Verdant. She could tell he was somewhat slim. She could tell he didn't use a close ranged weapon. She could tell that as far as she could tell, he was purely long ranged. And most importantly, she could tell that he'd only used explosive Dust and ice Dust so far, which meant when she saw him land and begin to ready his bow, there was only one winning move.

Malina quickly twitched her staff downward and shot another burst of propulsion Dust, sending her flying into the air once more, nearly avoiding the explosion that followed. (-9 Because she avoided most of it but still got his by the edge) "What's wrong, Verdant? We should get to know each other a bit closer!" At the apex of her launch, the dust chamber in Manticore spun, landing on the fire chamber. As she began to descend she ejected the propulsion canister from her staff and quickly replaced it with a fire Dust canister, just before whipping Manticore to the side and sending her into a spin.

As she came down, she lead into her attack with a swift spinning kick (7 Damage) before following it up with a slash from Manticore. (10+3 Damage. No venom inserted) As soon as Malina's feet touched the cracked and broken earth, she quickly gripped onto her staff, prepared for the counter attack.

(Aura: 71/100)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on October 11, 2016, 05:11:03 PM
(The following grab was authorized by Rush when I authorized Juno's.)

Carmine had not been sitting idle after Juno grappled her, but the punch to the face had momentarily stunned her. The punch to the gut had winded her a little.

Being thrown face-first into the wall, where she could clearly see the new crack in her visor from Juno's fist, pissed her off. "Oh 'Ell no," she growled, whipping around as Juno was withdrawing, firing her own grapple line from Al-Maisan and hooking onto the other student's back. "Like 'ell I'm lettin' you get away with that one!"

The heat around her, from the hot rocks and lava, cooled as she pulled as much out of the air as possible. Even so, her aura readings ticked downward with the sudden force of throwing Juno into the air and threw him down with a second, even stronger burst of aura. Condensation began forming in the air around her as she drove Juno back-down into the ground, the rock around her armored opponent shattering and crumbling under the force.

(20 damage from impact.)




Nonus remained fixated on the match. "So am I to finishings?" He gave only the barest glance to the Patriarch sitting next to him. "You have but to give voice to commandings..."

"I am... aware... and if I had desire to... see her dead," Leonius resisted the urge to add "again" to that statement, "I would command it... or take matters... into my own... bone-crushing hands..." Leonius reached over to Ayla's seat, feeling her shiver as he placed his hand on her thigh, just under the bottom edge of her shorts where she had skin instead of metal. "This visit to the arena... is nothing more than a treat... for our Servi... and a chance... for me to spend time with my cousin's... husband..."

Nonus scoffed, but a smile tugged at his lips. "You stand a Patriarch. Nothing is ever so simples with you, good Leonius Regulus."

"Of course..." Leonius chuckled, "and by the same measure... your attempts to find out what I'm... really doing... will fall precisely in the plan I do have, good Nonus Anguis..."




Retracting Al-Maisan's grapple reel, and looking at the steaming crater she had made with a Juno-shaped kinetic impactor, Carmine decided something. And announced her decision. "I'm not finished with you!" She shook off something at the back of her mind, and fired Al-Nayyir's grapple reel back at the mountain.

Another surge of aura drained out of Carmine as kinetic energy tore a chunk of rock from the arena, and she none-too-carefully threw it onto the Juno-hole.

That... That needed a better name. She was very glad she hadn't used that out loud. But she winced when it landed, suddenly very worried about her opponent. And the arena, as the cracks from the crater spread enough to reach the edge. And the lava. "'Ey... do you, uh..." She cleared her throat. "Do you surrender?"

(10-30 damage from the boulder and heat)

(Aura: 70% and rising.)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on October 11, 2016, 08:06:31 PM
Juno didn't have a chance to help out his teammate before he felt a sharp tug at his back. Apparently, this girl had a grappling line, too. The sudden pull was jarring enough to distract him from the fact that he couldn't quite feel the ground, only for that oddity to be remedied once he crashed back down at a significant velocity.

The initial impact was forceful, harsh enough for him to crack through a significant layer of the rock. It was jarring, really. Everything that had just happened was unexpected, and now he was beneath the stadium's rocky crust. He had just reached out for the edge and pulled himself up when he saw the boulder come at him, prompting him to duck back down into the now expanded hole.

It was bright when he opened his eyes. The boulder's impact had shook him around the hole, and he could see small trails of magma seeping through the cracks of the crater. Brilliant.

He could hear his opponent ask if he surrendered from outside. Was this happening? The entire world just saw him get launched into a crater, and have his opponent drop a giant fucking rock on him. And now she was asking if he was okay? Well. Now he knew how Xanh felt.

"No, I'm fine. Just... Gimme a minute." Juno yelled from inside the hole, pausing as Phi into existence and shook her head before disappearing.

Seeing as Carmine was still within range of the suit, Phi had no trouble in blinking in front of her, the pseudo AI's smaller form leaning on an invisible wall and nonchalantly checking her digital nails. "Yeah... There's lava in the hole. He's not gonna be fine."

[Aura 40%]

[4 slots charging]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on October 12, 2016, 10:00:17 PM
After Malina dodged Verdant's explosive arrow and flew into the air, Verdant saw with his semblance that she had to manually reload her staff with dust.  He had been searching for a weak spot against his opponent and now he had one. He saw he her foot starting to come toward him and he rolled backward out of the way. As he rolled he drew two concussive arrows from his quiver and fired the first between him and Malina to separate the two of them. As he sailed through the air he fired the second arrow at the reloading mechanism of Malina's staff attempting to knock the staff out of her hand and hopefully damage the mechanism. 

Once he hit the ground he drew two basic arrows and prepared for his opponents next move.

[Concussive Arrows: 5 damage + knock back]

[Aura: 76%]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on October 13, 2016, 11:37:11 PM
Malina smirked as she saw her opponent reach to draw his bow. She was right, just a long range weapon. Not very smart, in her opinion, but hey, it put her at a significant advantage. This was simple and clean. Close quarters combat, just a few feet away and Malina's specialty, against someone who was purely long range. That was too easy. As long as she stayed close by she'd be done with him quickly. In the meantime however...

She could feel the SCF mingle with her aura as it quickly flared around her. She wouldn't have time for a short gloat or quip, so she forewent pleasantries. As soon as she saw that hand go for the weapon, she let her aura explode out of her once more. Though, it was different this time. The SCF in Manticore had let her turn her simple concussive burst to an explosive wall of flame. (13 Damage + Knock back) As the dome shot outward, the cracked and broken ground beneath the two finally gave way to the immense force and splintered.

Below her, Malina felt the ground give way and begin to fall downward as magma shot upward into the air. A resounding "Shit!" was the only thing she could muster before launching herself backward. Away from her opponent. 'This is some bullshit! Next time I'm near him, I am not holding back!'

As she flew backward through the air, she held down the trigger on her staff and quickly fired a fireball in the direction she assumed her opponent had been sent. (8 damage if direct hit, 5 if splash damage)

(Aura: 71/100)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on October 17, 2016, 01:13:18 AM
The following conversation was worked out between Rush and I for the sake of saving time. Also, apologies for my post being late, I've been quite sick lately.


It was a... thing. A tiny, humanoid, blue thing.

A CUTE thing, made clear as Carmine gave an excited squeal. "'Oly shit, you're adorable, what are you!?" Flicking Al-Maisan and Al-Nayyir back onto her belt, and starting their reload cycles was almost an afterthought.

The blue thing did not seem amused. "I'm your conscience. Telling you to let that guy out of the hole. I dont think he has much air in there, either."

"'E 'as big enough air 'oles. ... But the lava... nnnn..." She let Al-Maisan and Al-Nayyir hang in their holsters, flicking their mode to charge shot and letting them build power while she approached the blue thing, and started poking it. It was solid. Warm. Like the disks but different. "So what are you, really?"

The adorable hologram girl rolled her simulated eyes at the repeated question. "I'm mostly an AI. Juno is my handler." A tilt of her head indicated t he rock, or more likely the young man under it.

"... Tell 'im to say sorry for cracking my sunglasses!" Poke. Poke. Poke. The hologram lady seemed to flinch, but didn't otherwise respond. She could feel it, but was probably trying to be stoic. "'E got lucky an' got me while my aura was cyclin' thanks to my Semblance..." Poke. Poke. Carmine's finger continued prodding the adorable little cyber pixie. "... An' I can let 'im out if 'e surrenders..."

"First one, maybe." The hologram swatted at her finger. Carmine felt that and pulled her finger back. "Second is no deal."

"Well, if I go lettin' 'im out, 'es going to go back to tryin' to wreck my shit!" Carmine stopped, and looked past the computer fairy at the boulder. "Buuuuuuuuut... lettin' 'im cook is no good either..."

The hologram rolled her eyes again. "That's called murder, yes."

"Naaaah," Carmine waved it off, turning her gaze back to the cute computer, "There's safeties in these tourneys, 'e'll be fine..." She sniffed, and frowned. She crossed her arms, looking at the boulder again. "... But lettin' people cook under boulders ain't CUTE..." It wasn't. There was precisely nothing cute about roasting under an enormous rock. Unlike the hologram. That was cute. That was super cute. She looked back at the glowy girl in question, and grinned. Big. Happy. Creepy. Carmine started to giggle. "Buuuuuuuut I'm getting an IDEA..."

That little glowing blue bundle of adorable was clearly no simple computer algorithm as she began fidgeting nervously with the collar of her simulated suit under Carmine's gaze. "... I dont like how you said that." The collar moved under her adjustment, like real clothing. It cemented Carmine's idea. Her grin got broader, and broader.

""... That's not a permanent part of your model, is it?"" The giggling resumed as Carmine watched the cyber fairy move. "That's a separate part of your model, or whatever. You can change clothes, can't you?"

The cute hologram looked around the arena, as it looking for a place to escape to, but she answered, nervousness obvious in her voice. "... Yes..?"

Carmine's grin vanished. Her giggling stop. In a moment, she had snapped into a look of seriousness and focus. Flatly, her voice laden with purpose, her holy purpose, Carmine spoke to the hologram. "I want to dress you up."

The glowing blue girl seemed taken aback. "Oh." She looked at Carmine. She blinked. "Ooooooh." The hologram seemed to think about it a moment. "So if I let you do that, you'll let Juno out of the hole?"

Carmine restrained her excitement, clearing her throat and glancing aside. "... Depends... 'Ow many outfits do I get to pick out for you an' 'ow standard is your renderer... thing?"

"Hmm..." She seemed to think a moment. "Five. And it can do color, if that's what you're asking."

Carmine's response was immediate. "... Eight, an' I was talkin' more about standard models."

Her soon-to-be dress up doll rolled her simulated eyes again. "Fine. Eight. And you can pretty much make whatever models you want, just get rid of the rock." Annoyance dripped from the hologram's words.

As cute as she was, the hologram wasn't the only one in the situation, and Carmine looked past her, at the rock. What was his name? The guy under the rock, not the rock. The rock didn't have a name. Yet. She deflected that train of thought, before she gave the rock a cute name. She couldn't think of the young man's name, and she hadn't bothered to give his aura reading on her (now-cracked) visor's overlay his name. Janus? Junebug? Jackass? Carmine couldn't think of it. Something with a J. Didn't matter, she had a name. A fitting name, and cute!
""'Eeeeey. Pancake," she yelled, cupping her hands around her mouth like a make-shift megaphone. "Did you 'ear all that? Is all that fine with you? I get that rock off you, an' I get to dress up your AI after the match? Promises all 'round?""

Under the rock, came a muffled reply. "Yeah, yeah. Go for it," the young man said while his AI sighed. Carmine thankfully could neither hear nor comprehend the "... bitch..." that followed.

Carmine started to look around, trying to think of how she wanted to remove the rock. Throw it off of him with her semblance? Smash it with another rock? Shoot it with a charged shot? So many options. But she had forgotten something. "Oh yeah! An' say sorry for crackin' my visor!"

"Rock first, apology later!"

Carmine had not heard Juniper (or whatever) call her a bitch. That had gone in his favor, as that sort of rudeness would have gotten that rock picked up and dropped on him. But putting a condition on an apology? Rude. Very rude.

Carmine had her solution as she took her guns off her belt, and fired Al-Nayyir's charged shot at the boulder, which was now named Snuffles, sending its pieces flying around the arena as Snuffles was pierced by a bolt of white light and exploded from within. Carmine didn't point Al-Maisan at Junkrat just yet, tilting her head.

"Rock's gone, can I 'ear that apology now??"

(Aura: 85% from heat recharging)
(Charge Shot Explosion and Shrapnel: 5-15 damage.)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on October 17, 2016, 03:14:45 PM
[Imminent grab combo granted by Gus]

So. Apparently, flying people weren't exempt from the Valish Air Traffic laws. A note Rho made a point to file away in case her handler had forgotten about it. To be frank, things were much easier in Atlas; wave around proper clearance and you were good to go. As an operative of SET, clearance was never an issue for Nebu.

What was an issue, however, was that an old SET asset had popped up outside of Atlas. ANUBIS and Phi had been stolen roughly four years ago, and were assumed to have left the hands of the thief, one "Juno Vert", shortly after the heists. However, it appeared this was not the case. Juno had kept the suit, adopting it as his weapon. Now the thief was enrolled in Beacon, and slated to participate in the Vytal festeval tournament.

The operator of Unit-RA now had both a location and a time. Now she needed an approach...

The RA suit was covered in a white and gold cloak as the girl waded through the crowd to find her seat. From what she saw, the ANUBIS operator was unimpressive, pitiful even. The suit was built for defense and close quarters, yet the boy had been knocked around like a pinball on multiple occasions.

"Is that him? Is Phi there too?" Rho inquired, using Nebu's headset as a medium for communication.

"They've made modifications to the suit, but the tech is still SET. It must be him. And if the generator is running, then your sister is with him." Nebu replied before drawing her scroll, snapping a picture of the boy as he was thrown into the ground, and sending it to a contact labeled 'Leonard Princely'.

"You were right. I'm set to engage once the combatants leave the stage."



Juno was relieved at Carmine's gesture of removing the rock, but the second he heard the gunshot, he panicked, deploying the shield and holding it between him and the boulder keeping him away from the fight. While the shrapnel bounced harmlessly off of the wall of metal, the sheer force of impact threw Juno against the wall, forcing his cheek against a searing hot patch of magma.

The boy's pained scream apparently went unnoticed by Carmine, who still demanded an apology. Yes, it was a condition that allowed for him to continue the fight, but she just shoved him into a wall of molten rock. Glaring at the girl as he climbed out of the hole, his suit letting off a faint trail of smoke, Juno turned toward the girl, brushing a bit of ash off of his shoulder. "I'm sorry for breaking your visor. " he stated flatly before planting the shield between the two and searching for the girl's teammate.

He couldn't engage Carmine with the kind of firepower she was apparently packing. Not to mention that he was in the worst shape out of all of the fighters. He needed to get himself back in a comfortable range, but Malina was too far away for him to charge her. Of course, he had other options...

Thanks to the length of Phi and Carmine's conversation, all of Juno's constructs had recharged, allowing him to fire off a dart toward the Scorpion girl's leg. Once her ankle had been ensnared, Juno stepped on the line and set it to retract, boucing her across the ground until she was in punching range. Soon enough, the line ceased to exist, and Juno drove a powerful right cross into the girl's jaw, bouncing her off of the ground before kicking her to the side.

Once the girl had been launched, Juno picked up the shield and fired a dart into the ground nearby Verdant, pulling himself toward the archer. "Shoot them. Shoot them both." he ordered, frustration and annoyance clear in his tone.

[Aura: 35%]

[Grab: 5%, Punch: 15%, Bounce: 3%, Kick: 10%]

[1 slot charging]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Glow on October 18, 2016, 09:20:59 AM
Lazily waving a miniature flag emblazoned with the letters VCVS over a volcanic background, Samuel watched the chaos that was apparently his team's 2v2 round. After careful consideration, he was more grateful than ever he hadn't been chosen to move on - this seemed like an immense amount of effort for no return but vague promises of MORE fights in the future. Juno had to be a masochist to want to keep moving.

I mean, you gotta be somewhat freaky to get along with Caja that well, after all.

"Yay, you can do it Juno, you can do it Verdant." The faunus blandly stated. Verdant had wanted in on dat glory and - well, to be honest he wasn't particularly sure, there was a lot of explosions and arrows and stuff. He wasn't paying too much attention to either, to be honest. Little bit more attention on their enemies, good to get information to use and all that, but he was bored. If only he could find anything to do. They'd confiscated his gaming device because they thought it was a security threat or something! Admittedly, they were totally right, but that's not the point.

Giving a quiet sigh, he laid back, scanning his eyes over the crowd. There were a helluva lot of people here, bit too many for his liking. Too much noise and- oh? Spotting an odd figure in the crowd, he narrowed his eyes slightly. They seemed to be glaring a hole in the back of Juno's head. They looked kinda constipated with the focus they had on the poor guy. Who was currently being toasted a little.

Maybe an ex? Either way, perfect time to initiate plan S, the only plan. Plan Shenanigans.

Heading over to the woman who had created a bit of the gap in the crowd around her with the focus of which she stared at the competitor, Samuel sluggishly walked over to her, hands in his pockets. "Hey, is this seat taken? Thanks." Not waiting for a response, he sat down next to the girl, leaning back casually on his chair.

There was a pause.

"So. Who you rooting for?"
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on October 19, 2016, 12:07:45 AM
Verdant hit the ground hard, a surge of pain rushed through his spine. As the shock wave had hurled him across the field.  He saw a fireball go to his right striking the ground and exploding into a huge plume of fire.  He then looked up to see Malina's foot get pulled out from under her by one of Juno's grapple hooks. Verdant pulled out two ice arrows and saw that Juno was pulling Malina across the ground. Reading Juno's tells with his semblance Verdant saw that Juno was going to kick Malina away, seeing an opportunity to help his teammate Verdant had already notched an arrow, he saw the right time to fire to help out Juno was right after Juno kicked Malina. Seeing, this Verdant fired his arrow right before Juno's kick landed, aimed where her center mass will be after taking Juno's kick.

Verdant then quickly turned to Carmine and yelled, "Hey" to get her attention and  fired an ice arrow at her leg to try to keep her in place. After firing the arrow Verdant drew a basic arrow and continued from his previous comment ,"We haven't really talked during this fight, have we?"

[Aura=63%]
Ice Arrows= 10 damage each + freezing]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on October 21, 2016, 06:46:50 PM
"Hey"

Carmine had looked at Verdant, noticing the arrow before it had been loosed. "'Ey," was her only response when she darted to the side, the arrow impacting about a foot to her right and barely brushing her with ice crystals. She heard something about not talking much during the fight, and shrugged, raising Al-Maisan at the archer. "Nah, we 'aven't. But we can talk after this if you want."

It was a friendly enough exchange with someone who was suddenly facing a burst of kinetic destruction as Carmine loosed her charged shot at him before turning to snag Malina with Al-Maisan's grapple line.

"Fastball."

It was the only warning she gave Malina before she used her semblance to fling her teammate at Juno.

(Aura: 95%)
(Charged Shot: 10-15 point AOE)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on October 24, 2016, 06:54:25 PM
(Sorry for the late post, work was busy over the weekend.)

Malina's head rang as she laid on the ground, ice encasing her chest. This was not how it was supposed to be. These kids, the one with no close range weapon and the one with the armor. They weren't going to win this. Not this. Not now, not ever. Not if she had anything to say about it. And she knew she did, mostly due to her being ripped out of the ice and launched toward the enemy. Fastball.

As she raced through the air, the dust chamber in Manticore spun quickly and stopped with a quiet chink. It didn't take long for Malina to take in what was going on. speeding toward Juno, but not toward him. Just enough out of the way to pass by. But he wasn't an idiot, he might try to catch her... but that didn't matter. Catch or no catch, the plan was in motion and she would be in range.

Malina's teeth clenched with anger as she past to the side of Juno, she quickly swung her staff across his body, sending the pincer like blades dragging along his aura. (7 Points Damage) As soon as Malina's feet were planted on the ground, she quickly bounced back toward Juno, diving low underneath a swipe at her and putting Juno's body between her and Verdant. She glowed for a second, but only a second, as her semblance expelled aura from her body. This was different, though. This wasn't a burst of concussive force, instead a wave of thick ice quickly formed over the ground around her, starting just past Malina's feet.

With Juno now locked in place, she quickly shot Manticore out and wrapped it around the boy's right arm, slowly cooling off and freezing the armor. She quickly held down her second trigger, starting to form a fireball at the end of her staff, as she swing her staff to block a swing from Juno's free hand. As soon as the fist connected with the staff, Malina jumped upward, and kicked off of Juno's chest (3 points) as she unraveled her tail from his arm and cycled the chamber through to the empty dust chamber. As soon as she kicked away, she could feel Juno grab a hold of her leg. It didn't matter. The fireball was charged and aimed. She quickly took her finger off of the trigger and let lose a fireball directly into his chest. (8 Points damage) (5 splash damage to Malina)

As Malina landed on the now dissipating ice, she quickly smiled and thrust both of her hands forward and activated her semblance once more, sending a wave of concussive energy rocketing into Juno, sending him flying back toward Verdant. (7 + Major knock back) (10 damage to verdant if they collide)

As her opponent's flew backward toward her opponent, she took a moment to collapse to her knees to catch her breath. She trusted Carmine to distract him long enough. She just needed some time to to recuperate. That was four times total she's used her semblance this match and twice within a short time. She needed to slow down.

(Aura: 23/100)
(Damage done: 25 Points of Damage)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on October 27, 2016, 12:17:11 AM
Verdant saw Carmines' blast and he dived to get away, however, he was cooked by the explosion. If he hadn't any aura that would have seriously burned him instead the heat was dispelled across his body and damaged his aura, the pain clouded his mind for a few seconds. By the time he looked up he could see Malina with Juno frozen at her feet. Before Verdant or Juno could do anything Malina had fired an explosive shot between her and her opponent and then combined into her semblance. This caused Juno to fly through the air toward Verdant, he saw his friend coming from a mile away and was easily able to roll out of the way and drew an explosive arrow to attack Malina, who was now collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion.

[Auto hit granted by Gus]
As Verdant aimed his bow at Malina ready to knock her out of the match he thought of something to say for his first knockout of his tournament career. Verdant quickly looked up at the scoreboard to get the name of his opponent.  "Malina, you just got Ver-,"  before he could finish his stupid one liner he accidently released the drawstring too soon and nailed Malina in the chest. The resounding explosion cut off the boy's line, "Oh man I screwed that up!" the boy shouted in frustration.

He turned around to face Carmine drawing an ice arrow as he complimented the girl. "Let's take a moment to acknowledge how great this fight has gone, may the best Huntsman or Huntress win," he said still ready for an attack from his opponent.

[Aura= 53%]

[Explosive Arrow= 20 Damage]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Zwei Not on October 28, 2016, 04:43:17 PM
Nebu simply raised an eyebrow at the response she got on her scroll, an annoyed scoff escaping her lips as she read what Princely had to say.

"I could have sworn your orders were to be discrete and low profile. Showing up in full armor does not, to me, seem to be within the word or spirit of those instructions."

"Discretion went out the window when ANUBIS' handler was found. SET wants their AI and prototype back, and we have the opportunity."
The armor clad girl furiously typed in response, her frustration only amplified when one of the onlookers disrupted her train of thought with his request to sit next to her. As if she needed someone taking a peek under her cloak. To be frank, it was a wonder that Leonard himself knew that she had the RA unit on, and as much as she disliked the guy, he had a point.

"So. Who you rooting for?" the spectator asked. To be frank, Nebu didn't care who won. Her eyes were on a recently KO'd ANUBIS as she mulled over ways to engage. Yes, Amity had numerous hallways and maintenance routes that could be used to control the direction of a fight, but getting the boy down there could prove a challenge. Fights were rarely predictable.

"Who wins is not important. So long as there is something interesting to watch between the beginning and end. And, to be frank, I haven't seen much to catch my eye." she replied, returning her attention to the scroll as it buzzed in her hand.

"SET's priority is survival. Overt, and might I remind you illegal, action threatens that survival. Follow your orders."

"Then why would you tell us it was here?"

"Perhaps because I had assumed SET's most elite operative would know the importance of having a plan beyond going in as loudly as obviously as possible. Clearly, assuming competence on your part was my mistake."

"Funny. Next we speak, SET will have that suit."

"Cute. Next time we speak, you will learn the value of listening to your betters. Do not engage ANUBIS. Those are your current orders."


Nebu couldn't help but let out an exhasperated sigh at Princely's last message. Who was he to underestimate her skill as an agent? From what she had just seen, ANUBIS' handler didn't pose any serious threat. She and the DUATs could easily catch him in the locker room and contain the fight there. SET would have their suit, and she would have something to rub in the bastard Princely's face.

Hopefully she wouldn't have to wait long.



[Juno has been deemed unable to continue the fight, Aura: 10%]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Glow on October 29, 2016, 07:35:14 PM
Having to suppress a grin at the brief and somewhat exasperated response, Samuel gave a light chuckle. "Well, each to their own I guess. Personally, I think that VCVS are the cooler team, despite the disadvantage they have right now. Probably won't win, but gotta support the team you like more, right?" He questioned, turning to look at the figure. Now that he thought about it... that whole cloak think was a little bit suspicious.

The phrase was cloak-and-dagger, after all.

"So, uh, bit too bright for you huh? I know the feeling." The teen murmured, referring to said item. "Sometimes it's just all a bit much, huh?" Less so that time. He turned away for a moment, fingertips slowly drumming against his leg. "Ah, how rude of me. I'm Samuel. Don't think I caught your name, uh, miss...?" He trailed off, looking back at her.

Whatever the cause of her looking rather pissed off at his teammate was, better to distract the person as much as possible. He didn't look in much of a state to fight right now.
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on November 27, 2016, 05:01:58 PM
I'm really sorry about the delays. A lot of pain, several bad medication reactions, and five hospital visits later, here I am. Still not 100% so I'll be kind of phoning it in. Sorry about that. Delays were okayed by all parties. Only Gus was bullied into accepting them, but that's more out of habit than anything.


Time stretched out for Carmine as she saw Malina get hit, a moment seeming like a month as one thought ran through Carmine's mind. He shot her in the tit. A second thought. Also, he fucked up his one liner. That was a less important thought, so she went back to the first. Poor Malina. That looked like it hurt. Note to self: don't get hit in the tit. Or anywhere else super sensitive. Ooooh hell, if my aura fluctuates when I get hit, it might cause a wardrobe malfunction. The whole world might see my boob. Her awareness was dragged to her arm. Or my scar. ... Don't know what would be worse. At least my boob is cute? But eeeeeeeeee-

Malina. Shot. Pain. Carmine's wandering train of thought snapped back to the present. Some primal, buried part of her took her by the head, forced her to look at the threat Verdant posed, and forced her to do what it said.

FOCUS.

Verdant had turned to Carmine as her train of thought locked on to the battle, one of his ice arrows drawn. "Let's take a moment to acknowledge how great this fight has gone, may the best Huntsman or Huntress win."

Carmine just nodded, and fired Al-Maisan and Al-Nayyir between her and Verdant, explosive and smoke pellets kicking up a thick cloud to block line of sight between the two combatants. "Yeah, an' no 'ard feelings either way for 'ow this goes. Sound good?" Her message delivered, she ducked to the side, rolling and  using one gun to expand her smoke field and the other's flechette fire to pepper Verdant's position. (5 damage)

(Aura: 115%)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on November 29, 2016, 07:00:23 PM
Verdant waited with his bow drawn and aimed at Carmine waited for a response from his opponent. Carmine seemed deep in thought and she turned to look at him and gave a nod of agreement at his sentiment. He saw her raise her weapons to fire. However, Verdant was expecting this and he let lose the ice arrow he had already notched if it found its target it would land in Carmine's chest.

He didn't wait to see if the arrow would reach its target. He turned and sprinted to the right drawing more ice arrows. Firing them at the ground in internment locations around their area to create cover for himself to lose her in.

[Aura= 53%]

[Ice Arrows= 10 damage each + freezing]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Vox Machinae on December 15, 2016, 06:15:09 PM
Giving Zinger a hit as an apology for this taking a while. The post will also be kind of shitty, since I'm sick and this is the FOURTH TIME DOING IT.


Luck was not on Carmine's side.

One of Verdant's arrows landed right below her, the ice Verdant had been planning to use for cover bursting upward. Right under her.

There was something about not getting hit somewhere sensitive I was supposed to do, wasn't there? The thought came just before Carmine's position took a sudden vertical adjustment , courtesy of the ice that had just punted her in the cu struck her in the crotch.

Pain. Lots of pain.

Carmine staggered back, whimpering and clutching herself, or at least holding her guns over the area as a measure of comfort. "Aw fuckin' 'ell, right on th' fuckin' bean..." It couldn't get worse. Her clumsy positioning could not have been any-

Carmine used to be a mobile combatant like Verdant. And then she took an ice arrow to the knee.

And yet, as the ice spread up her leg, trapping her temporarily, there was only one thought going through Carmine's mind through the haze of pain. At least it didn't hit the- COLD COLD COLD COLD COLD FUCKING COLD COLD COLD.

(Aura: 90%)
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: SirZinger on December 17, 2016, 10:50:09 PM
Verdant ran behind one of the ice pillars he had made, to avoid any retaliation. He waited for a second, and when nothing came, he peeked out from behind the pillar to see where his opponent was.  He looked out to locate his opponent, and a saw that her leg was encased in ice and she was nursing her private area. Verdant did a double take and then realized that he could make this a huge advantage.

He jumped out from his cover and drew three more ice arrows ready to encase her completely in ice. While he ran counterclockwise around her, he fired the first two arrows at her legs, hoping to cement her in place. Verdant then fired the last arrow and her right arm to limit her ability to fire back at him.


[Aura= 53%]

[Ice Arrows= 10 damage each + freezing]
Title: Re: First Year 2v2 Match - Round 1: Malina/Carmine V Juno/Verdant[Limited: 4/8]
Post by: Dr. Gustave on May 01, 2017, 02:25:49 PM
As the arrows approached Carmine, she steeled herself and began to pullback on the trigger of her weapon, sending a micro-grenade directly into the ground below her, exploding and breaking her free from the ice. The blast knocked her backward into a tumble, stopping just before one of the streams of lava that flowed down the volcano.

The girl paused for a moment. She shouldn't but... she'd had enough. Enough of this match, enough of the arrows, enough of playing on the safe side. It wouldn't hurt to just finish him off quickly, it couldn't. It's won't.

These thoughts raced through Carmine's head as she kicked back off of her feet and launched herself into the molten rock.



Malina, now on the sidelines and leaning on her staff, watched in horror as her teammate willingly flung herself into the lava. She knew what was coming. Carmine knew. Carmine should have known not to. But it was late, way too late, to stop her. She watched as the aura gauges positioned around the arena marked Carmine's aura shoot up past the 100% mark, higher and higher. Verdant didn't know any better, he was still closing in on Carmine.

This wasn't good. This couldn't happen.

Malina unceremoniously lifted herself up with the help of her staff, and began to run toward the lava stream, growing faster and faster as she went along and ignoring the yelling from Vulco or the security staff.



A figure began to rise from the stream of lava, the molten rock slowly dripping off of her and falling to the ground, soon to rejoin the greater whole. She slowly lifted her arm and fired a shot slightly ahead of the encircling opponent, sending out the grapple reel and grabbing him by the chest. Verdant didn't have any time to react as he was jolted off of the ground and strung through the air to Carmine. As he approached, he finally got a good look at her face as the lava dripped away from it. Eyes full of hate, anger, fury. There wasn't a drop fo remorse, pity, or mercy in those eyes and those eyes were the last thing he saw before CarmineFayza lifted her arm up and struck him directly across the face, faster than he'd seen her move the entire match. The blow sent him rocketing down into the rock below him and as his head bounced off of the rock, his hearing became muffled and accompanied by a low ringing noise.

He heard the muffled yelling of Vulco screaming something about interference, a group of male voices, and the voice of his other opponent yelling Carmine's name. As he opened his eyes, he could see a pair of legs, Malina's getting closer and closer and as she approached, the ringing got louder and louder. A sharp pain shot through his body as he tried to lift his head higher up and simply let it fall to the ground instead. He saw a staff, a weapon, drop onto the ground behind the pair of legs running toward him and Carmine, he saw the pair of legs leap upward and knock into Carmine. As the ringing became nearly deafening, he saw the two pairs of legs falling down to the side.

And then they were't.

Suddenly, Verdant found himself midair, loosing the final arrow of the match and sending it flying directly into his opponent's chest, dropping their aura gauge to 13%. As his feet planted back down into the riverbank that the two pairs had been fighting around the entire match, he had the sudden thought that something wasn't right.



In fact, the whole of the people watching, and many around the world, had the same feeling. Like they had a plan to do or get something but as soon as they set off to complete the task they completely forgot what they were hear to do. It was right there a second ago, they could still feel the thought in their minds and they knew it had to have been important but as hard as they tried, there was nothing there. Those recording the event even rewound to check to see if they had missed something important but all they found was what they remembered.

Juno and Verdant had squared off against a pair of Mistrali students, a boy and a girl. Their environment was a riverbank that was fed by a stream coming from on a large mountain in the southern quarter of the map. The two Beacon students had beaten them handedly, wiping out the other team in a show of skill.

After all, there was no such people as Malina Nahualli or Carmine Santiago and there were no such places as Alapelagias, Shaula, or Pilum.

And somewhere, an older Rose than Big Rose smiled.