A Battle Between Old Friends. (Mathias VonTepes)

[Roy Atenwood]

Roy walked through the training grounds, alone. He weaved through trees for a while, aimlessly, and came to an open field.

He also saw a fammiliar leather-jacketed figure walking around.

Oh...this is going to be fun.

Roy moved silently, until he was five feet from the familliar man. He was going to whap him in the back of the head when......

GLOMP!

"ROY!"

Esiuhoieufe, the young Oxygen elemental, had glomped him from behind! She had assumed a sort of "Chibi" form, as well. She was currently sitting on his head in chibi form, and chewing on the end of his ponytail.

"Umm.......Esiuhoieufe? Get off? Please?"

No dice, she was ignoring him.

Typical.

"Hey! Mathias! That you?"

[Mathias VonTepes]

Mathias moved along, his long white hair swayed in the wind. With every footfall his sword gave a little "click" from metal clinking against metal in some unknown location of the sword and scabbard, most likely at the tip where the sword is most likely to hit the sheaths metal wall. His semi-heavey boots crunched the gravel beneath him with each step. His extended barrel guns glistened in the sunlight in their holsters that were built in to each boot. On his chest sash that connected to his belt there were multiple bottles of holy water and across his belt there were sevral fragmentation grenades.

He heard the unknown man behind him as he neared, and the moment he heard the mention of his name, he kicked a pistol from his boot and held it near point blank to the man.

"Roy? is that you? LONG TIME NO SEE" he still didnt lower his gun. "I take it you were planning on saying hi with a friendly comparison of power?" This time around, he had lead bullets equiped in place of silver for cost reasons. His silver bullet clips were stored in small pouches on his belt.

"Thought you'd try and see if i was still sharp, ey?"

[Roy Atenwood]

Roy laughed, and shooed Esiuhoieufe off of his head. She was wise beyond belief, but a bit childlike at times.

"You're no fun....."

"She" walked off, and sat down, dressed in clothing identical to Roy's. She decided to take a nap on a rock, near where the two men were standing, apparently, at a standoff.

"So.....any reason for the gun?"

As Roy asked his question, he snapped his staff of of his belt, and stood with the foot-long metal pole in his hand. He could have extended it if he wanted, but he diddn't.

"Seriously, dude. Put the gun away?"

[Mathias VonTepes]

Mathias lifted the gun, still on guard.

"sorry roy, i would've held you at another point, but i dont have any non-lethals at the moment. How've you been, old friend. it's been years since we last met. Sorry if i scared you, but i have to be on guard these days, ya know? So what are the chances of us meeting in this school?"

[Roy Atenwood]

"Scared me? This is the most fun I think I'll have all damn DAY!"

With that, Roy seemed to move fast enough to dissapear from sight.

He jumped straight over Mathias, landed, and attemped to plant a boot in his back. If it connected or not, Roy would turn around fully, spinning to take Mathias in the back with his staff.

This wasn't going to be an easy fight for the Dhampire.

[Mathias VonTepes]

Feeling the foot touch the clothing on his back, he instantly turned into a cloud of black fog, leaving Roy striking his staff into the cloud. But so as not to reach fatigue and have to wait his 10 turn regeneration cycle, he returned to his form, both guns holstered and his sword drawn in a crouching stance. He dove towards Roy, attempting a left to right sweep with the flatside of his blade, aiming for the knees.

[Roy Atenwood]

Sweeping attacks to the knee area? Mathias was slipping. Roy retracted his staff, and gave a short hop onto the tip of Mathias's blade, and kicked off, plunging it into the ground.

"Right. Here we go."

Roy haddn't had a smirk this good in a LONG time.

He jumped off of the sword and kicked out at Mathias in mid-air. He kicked toward him three times, alternating "Left, Right, Left" witrh his kicks, and then when he landed, he would extend his staff to four feet, for maximum defence.

[Mathias VonTepes]

Mathias couldnt help but smirk at the predictability of Roy. He followed along with this move, using the push off to add strength to his plunge which planted his sword deep into the ground. Mathias origianly planed to use this move to catch roy off guard, but he saw him go skyborne and the only thing he could think of was using his forward momentum to swing himself around the hilt of his firmly planted sword, realeasing his grip to propel him high into the air. Whispering a quiet and inaudible word, the sword began to growl... this was getting weird. All of a sudden, an eye opened in the crossguard and small vines of blood flew from pommel to grasp at roys first kick. If succeeded roy would trip up, in which case Mathias would take advantage and use his aeroscribe to carve a holding seal into the ground below roy which would keep him planted in his spot. If the tentacles failed to grasp his legs, Mathias would merely wait to see his opponents next move.

[Roy Atenwood]

Of course. It HAD been a while, and Roy had forgottan about this particular move.

"See ya."

BOOM!

With a torrent of wind strong enough to launch the 120 pound half-elf forty feet in the air, Roy was gone.

In mid-air he kidcked the dagger out of his boot, backflipped, and kicked it downwards at Mathias, then directed a burst of air upwards, so that he would fall faster. Putting his staff in front of him, it was angled so he would come down directly on the Half-Vampire's solar-plexus.

[Mathias VonTepes]

Mathias used his reenforced levitate, keeping him suspended, and at the same time throwing the dagger away from him and into the ground 3 yard from his sword. He felt danger was coming and quickly turned to fog for a split second, not long enough to drain much energy at all, but long enough to let Roy through. He would rematerialize in a fetal position, his legs hugged into his chest. Releasing his knees and holding his gun handles, he kicked down hard so as to send Roy flying into the ground at speeds he couldnt controll while at the same time driving him further into the air with his guns drawn. He used the kickoff to turn himself upside down and fired a small volley of bullets to roys shoulders and buttocks, if any of these bullets landed, surely it would render Roy immobile or stunned long enough to keep him from attempting a controlled touchdown, therefor causing him to break bones from the impact.

[Roy Atenwood]

"Eye of the Mind!"

Roy's eyes flashed, then glowed with a strong, white light.

He saw everything.

He turned, blocking the bullets with his staff, and then blasting air toward the ground. He landed, and chucked ihs staff straight at the airborne form of Mathias.

"I see you."

[Mathias VonTepes]

Mathias saw the staff come at him and spun around, kicking the staffs tip aside, causing the back to come forward. Praying to god it wasnt boobytrapped, he grabbed the end that flew at him. Now he was at his apex of the jump, a little higher than he was comftorble with. Before the staff could do anything suspiciouse, he chucked it high into the air and shot a bullet right into the center, blowing it higher, not to come down for a while.

He held his hand toward his planted sword and said the word he had spoken before, but this time the thin tentacles shot towards him and wrapped around his arm as he began to fall. He tore the sword from the earth and swung it around in a massive circle. as he neared the ground he cleaved the earth with it, which would do massive radial damage from the shockwave, and he centered the blow right towards Roy. In addition to doing that kind of damage, it would slow his fall, leaving him unharmed and with energy to spare, if only enough for one last low level spell.

Stats so far:
Bullets in guns-
Right- 12 Bullets
Left- 13 Bullets

Energy left: 1

[Roy Atenwood]

"You're slipping, Mathias."

Roy braced himslef, and smiled. He knew what would happen next. He saw everything.

Roy stuck his hand out, and caught his dagger. He used it to knock aside every peice of debris that came his way.

"Done yet?"

Roy asked, taking a defensive stance.

[Mathias VonTepes]

Drawing his sword back, he did a 360 degree barrell roll from the force of the sword returning to him. By now the staff was at its apex, so mathias decided to send another bullet into it, sending higher still. He took a neutral stance.

"You know i'm not done, i dont quit until theres no choice left. And i'm not the only one slipping, one of us should have gotten a hit on the other by now. It's obviouse we're at a stalemate, do you want to call it a draw?" He grabbed a satchel of what looked like dust from his belt and tossed it into the air. A thick cloud covered Mathias and was soon dispersed throughout the feild by the wind. The dust began to settle into the ground, trees and anything else it could get into.

"You have 5 minuts to decide"

***Countdown initiated, 5 posts until effect takes place.***

[Roy Atenwood]

"I see everything, Mathias. You've already lost, old friend."

Sheathing the dagger into his boot, he smiled. This was FAR from the end.

"Right, let's go."

Roy bolted straight at Mathias, who was exausted. Roy could see that he had nearly no energy left, and he would not be able to fight back very well.

He saw how Mathias was going to dodge his attacks, and trhew four punches exactly where Mathias would move to, effectively causing him to move into them, followed by a sweeping kick.

If all of this knocked Mathias to the ground, Roy would hold out his hand, and say "Draw?"