Getting used to things.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden was now intrigued. Raiden wasted no time once again moving away from the flames. So how these flames didn't seem that hot. Was this dragon holding back? Raiden wouldn't know for sure or not, but Raiden wasn't serious right now either. Raiden dodged the flames sliding to the side and then back up at the dragon.

Raiden wasn't ready to take out his sword yet, something told him that he should save that for later when something big comes out. Raiden simply for the time being kept flicking rocks at the dragon. You would think tiny pebbles could hurt, but at the force Raiden sent them of they could cause damage.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

Igneus hopped back and forth. One of the rocks hit his side on the scales. If bounced off harmlessly though with more ricochet than any thing that the tree let loose. He was getting annoyed and loosed a huge jet of fire about a foot in diameter. The flames here were hot...real hot. The color scheme of fire went: red, orange, yellow, light blue-white, white. Lowest tempurature to highest. These particular flames shot along, mainly the blue color with licks of yellow and orange along the edges of the pillar of flame.

The blazing attack moved at amazing speeds, enough to at least partially catch the demon boy with the stones. Where he was getting all of them was any ones guess but it was getting rediculous. Normally Igneus wouldn't have used fire that strong, but being that he was in his small form it would be fine.


The hunter stood in a light stance that offered little guard without having to move, but then again, when you have an enchanted bullet proof vest, who cares about the defensive quality of your stance. He looked his opponent over, not bothering with the pair high over head as he hadn't gotten any notes from his partner. The kid could take a hit, but he also had glasses, a possible point of weakness.

A nice fireball would heat up those frames to the point where the boy would have to toss them aside, then he'd have decreased vision, or should at least. Tristan switched stances, moving his large arms in an elegant circle as he slid his right foot back so his left side was facing his opponent. The stance the larger man ended up with had his right hand high above his head, arm straight, palm up, it back at around a forty degree angle from above shoulder height.

His left hand was down, arm relatively straight, palm down. The left arm was at about the same degree of shoulder height, except below the shoulder. Tristan's left leg was extended slightly as though in Katate Ichi Monji no Kumae. His torso was bent at the hip slightly, toward his opponent. This was an obscure stance that he wasn't sure of the name, but it would be good for several rapid strikes, more effective if one had claws.

[Seeker]

"So he isn't attacking? Good..."

Seeker was standing still, the red spot on his left cheek slowly beginning to dissappear, and the pain going away at a very small rate, which was just barely noticable to him. Still, with the pain not being too big to begin with, and just being a natural stinging, it would heal up in about thirty seconds without worry. There for, while this guy kept his stance, Seeker was slowly regenerating, and getting rid of the pain that was on his face. Of course, this guy wouldn't know what he was doing since Seeker's eyes remained staring directly at him, his breathing still being at a labored pace. For all he could know, Seeker just healed at an abnormal rate, and that's why the normal toned color on his face was beginning to return.

As you could see, there was no point in Seeker to attack, all he had to do was remain patient. Seeker still didn't really have a stance at all, he didn't really know one to take, he just stood there, staring at this guy. He was waiting to see how long this guy would stay there, and hey, Seeker was hoping to have a longer time to stall. If he could get the pain gone from his jaw completely, he could then focus on something more productive for the fight. Good thing his regeneration technique just required a lot of time, not energy, or he might of been hurting himself instead of helping.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden saw the flames coming and decided to make a jumped backwards to avoid the flames. Unfournately the flames where coming in fast and he had not time to dodge this one. As the flames came in Raiden use the force of his left arm to whisp away the flames. The heat alone shinged the left arm of Raiden. Raiden flinched as he felt the sharp burn of searing flesh. Raiden looked at the dragon with a scowl on his face.

'Damn...I made a stupid mistake of fooling around to much...'

Raiden shook his arm and then moved his fingers to see if everything was fine. 'Nothing special was in that flame...'
Raiden then looked back up and the dragon again. He started to circle below the area he was flying over, and motion the dragon to try something else.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

Igneus shut his maw and the flames cut out with a bit of smoke pouring from his nostrils. He watched the humanoid demon whirl about. How he was flying was any ones guess. The boy made a small motion, but since he wasn't doing any thing, Igneus didn't care. So with a small snort of flame that went no where fast, he plopped down on the branch and kept an eye on the match.


Tristan held his obscure stance for a few moments. The boy wasn't attacking, unfortunately. Instead, Tristan called up his magic and inhaled deeply. A moment later, the hunter exhaled sharply and loosed a huge ball of fire about seven feet in diameter. He didn't keep it a stream, merely a huge sphere of fire that moved faster than Tristan himself could, though not by much. They were now a few meters apart and the fire ball would reach the boy in a matter of seconds.

If that didn't hit, Tristan would turn his body to face where his opponent ran to, but holding the stance firm. If it did hit, Tristan wouldn't move until his opponent was revealed, and would assess the damage he took.

OOC: little crappy cuz im at school.

[Seeker]

Eyes widening quickly as he noticed the fire beginning to take form, Seeker quickly fell backward, going straight first to land on his lovely little bottom! Luckily though, he managed to snap out of the trans that he was in before he did fall, and then quickly used his hands to snap out grabbing the ground, using them to quickly push. Due to complete fear of being burned, Seeker quickly pushed his way off, the fire burning the sides of his ankles, and around his feet, causing his ankles to darken a bit. Luckily his shoes were strong enough not to get melted or something for that little bit of contact. As soon as he did manage to do that, Seeker would quickly make a somersault motion, and go back to his feet in a quick way, spinning to turn to look toward the other man. Due to quickly moving out of the way, there wasn't much when it came to fog on his glasses. It took smoke to actually fog them up, and since it was directed at one path at that speed, the smoke level remaining there log enough to fog them up was pretty much none existent.

With that said, Seeker was now ready again, and the element of surprise on this other guy's side was slowly dwindling away. For Seeker though, well he still had a few moves up his sleeves, even if they weren't too fancy.

[Raiden Matsutani]

OOC: Don't worry Tristian, my character is not flying. Doesn't have the ability to fly, atleast not yet until I add a second form for him when I become a spellcaster.

Raiden cracked his neck and continued to circle on the ground below the dragon. Raiden had motioned the dragon to come at him, but the thing didn't seem interested. Raiden decided to catch its attention once more. Raiden reached into a small pouch wrapped around his leg pulling out a shiruken. He looked back up at where the dragon was sitting and threw the shiruken with alittle speed on it. It wasn't meant to hit anything, but to get its attention again.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

Igneus, with his somewhat telepathic senses, looked down below him to see the Shuriken flying at him. The tiny black dragon blew out a pillar of flame, almost as big and a little over half the tempurature of the last, intense burst. The shuriken was instantly engulfed and the air in the small hole in the center threw the blade off balance. If there was no hole in a shuriken, the flames would have to stop it head on which wouldn't be possible, but the bit of air at the center in the hole off balanced it when ignited.

That was all the dragon had to do before he returned his attention to his partner.


Tristan didn't want to abandon his stance, but it looked as though he would have to. He shot forward in an all out forward stance with his arms down at his sides, and tapped into his chakra. His body sped up to double his original speed as his double time spell was activated. As he came in, his opponent would likely have a look of shock on his face and there was a chance he would be frozen to his position.

A quick series of blows was what the boy would be met with. Finger strikes were the blows, and their number, eight. Tristan's forefinger and middle finger were tensed on both hands and would fly into the boys torso, left right left right left right left right. The attacks were all aimed for inbetween the ribs and would cause a great deal of pain if they hit their targets. Even if the boy moved, there was a high chance one or two of the attacks would hit before he was fully out of the way.

OOC: at school again so it might be a little botched.

[Seeker]

"Interesting."

Noticed the increased speed which was definitely quicker than Seeker's, he knew that the odds of getting away from this one was going to be difficult. Still, there was one bad thing, going at a speed like this would be dangerous unless it was your natural speed. What did that mean? It didn't matter how much this guy practiced it, his footing would be so sloppy compared to normal due to him trying to push past his max speed, this is just common knowledge. That's why when The Flash runs at super speeds in his cool little super hero mode, he trips over the easiest of stuff at times.

Anyways, now that we have that said, Seeker had already thought of a tactic toward tripping him, so this guy did manage to make it to Seeker. Unfortunately for him, Seeker stepped forward, he moved right when he saw the first attack hit, so that meant even if his first hand dug into his ribs, the man wouldn't be able to send a second hit. Why? Well, first he is loaded with equipment, so he is loaded down, second Seeker was sending an attack while the first one was going in, and since he was turned, only one of this guy's hands could actually dig into Seeker's ribs.

Seeker's right leg shot out to hit hard against the left ankle of the other guy's, even if this guy was faster, his reaction time would remain the same. What that meant was since this guy was focused on rib shots, his eyes would be more focused on the upper half of Seeker's body. Being able to just naturally get away from being tripped would be quite difficult.

Don't you have it when skills can just suddenly have their own list of disadvantages? Again, it was chest, lose some to gain some. Plus, if this guy was twice as fast, and was going at the speed he was, wouldn't that mean he would fall down twice as fast too, making it all the more painful? If only he had the ability to react twice as fast, it might of actually been helpful!

Yes, Seeker may not of been the best, but he was smart! That is where this fight goes into terms of equality between the two contestants.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden now grew alittle bored, but who's to say he wouldn't stop pesturing the dragon. Raiden was going to keep trying to press this dragon's buttons until it pops. Raiden picked up a go sized rock abling it to fit in the palm of his hand. Raiden glance back up at where the dragon was post, and then turned his vision back over to where the two where fighting.

Raiden thought back on what happened when he threw a stone at the man in the dark cloak, and the dragon seemed to have spit fire at him. At best Raiden would throw the rock at the dragon's owner first, hopefully diverting the dragons attention on protecting its master. Raiden will then in succesion throw a shiruken aimed straight at the dragon when its distracted.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

OOC: due to a slight screw up on my part, i had one more dex point than id anticipated...so yea >.>

Behind you. Igneus projected to his partner. Which was in perfect timing as the boy had managed to trip the hunter. He'd fortunately scored the one hit, but it appeared his opponent would not be so easily surprised. Tristan whirled around, catching himself on the ground with his right hand after abandoning his following attacks. The rock soared clear past Tristan's head.

"Kamataichi!!" Tristan shouted, making a wide swift arc with his left arm. It was quick enough not to leave him open, but his attentions would be divided until the attack was over. Three blades of solid air flew from Tristan's spell straight at the demon boy. They were prepared to move to different elevations to compenstate and hack the now intruder to peices. Though, since he hadn't done any real harm yet, Tristan, when the blades got within six feet, would say "Ignite." quietly.

The bottom blade would be one meter off the ground, the second would be a little over two meters from the grass, the final and highest would be a little over three meters from the ground. When Tristan said that word however, a small ember would light up in each blade and explode with astounding force. Until the spark appeared within the blades, they would be virtually invisible from the demons point of view. With his double time spell, the blades were moving twice as fast as they usually could and would reach the demon within a matter of two or three seconds.

[Crush what ever is left of him] Tristan told his pet with his mind, then returned full attention to his opponent at hand. He would shoot forward with slightly less speed then before, and keeping a sharp eye out for that technique again, he would throw a quick combo of attacks, a one two with a simple snap kick with his left as the second blow, a right hook, came in.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden watched as the rock flew past man in the black coat. 'Success...' he said silently as without hesitation threw a shiruken at the dragon while its attention was diverted towards protecting its master.

"Kamatachi!"

Raiden's head still looking at the guy watched as the guy swung his arm once looking at Raiden. Raiden just stood there for a second with a dumb look, but that changed into a grimace as suddenly Raiden noticed what was going on. There was a crackle as then an explosion right in front of him. With out a second thought Raiden swiftly did a back flip twice avoiding the unknown second attack as it exploded even closer to him.

As he was flipping backwards a vision came back to him of the guy swinging his arm. 'One swing? But two attacks?' he said remembering how many times the man in black swung his arm. With out a second thought Raiden did a quick draw with his katana and stood his ground. He place it diagonally with his hand pressed against the back of the blade.

Suddenly Raiden felt the presence of energy rush past him. There was a silence and then suddenly an explosion behind him. Raiden looked behind him to see to scorch marks on the ground a few feet behind him. It seemed that Raiden had deflected the incoming spell with his blade. Raiden never even saw the third attack coming, but on intuition he guessed that spell may have had a few more waves coming at him, but he wasn't sure or not.

[Seeker]

OOC: I'm going by stats I saw at the beginning of the fight to be fair for everyone, hope you understand.

Now that Seeker's eyes were used to this man's speed (plus, he was going slower), Seeker was getting much more used to everything going on. It seemed to be a bit bad for this other guy, here he was using all these spells, and Seeker had only truly used one that actually disposed a bit of his energy. This guy was draining his away like a dehydrated man just finally getting himself a quart of water. Now maybe Seeker's calculations were wrong, but when he found himself using spells at an insane rate, he would get tired quickly, though this guy might have a bit more energy. Still, Seeker had been conservative!

That's not the point though, here Seeker was with a slightly labored breath watching this guy charge at him once more. That meant it was now Seeker's time to mess around with this. He felt kind of bad he had the advantage due to someone else always attacking the man, but it wasn't really Seeker's problem. He was just there to get a handle of things, he wasn't caring if he won or loss at all. Still, he wasn't too fond of getting hurt, so dodging was definitely a smart thing for him to do!

And so the guy was closing in, but this time Seeker had a different strategy. Most likely the guy would suspect a trip, but what Seeker has noticed, he continues to go with upper body attacks. It was repetitive, but Seeker was used to it. So, as soon as he came near range, Seeker quickly dropped his knees down to the ground putting his head forward. Since this guy was planning on going for a fist strike first, and since Seeker was dropping right before it would be sent, there for ducking under the attack, before this guy's knee would even be able to lift, Seeker's arms would grasp onto the man's body, and Seeker would through the guy over himself, there for causing him to land harshly behind him. The basic principals still apply from the first time, but this time Seeker made a much more unpredictable, and harder to avoid motion. Once again, it wouldn't deal much damage, but Seeker didn't have an initial strategy yet.

The only thing Seeker was doing right now was trying to buy time, that's all he could do. Still, this move was going to be hard to get around since Seeker was being unpredictable, and this guy's speed was only developed, not his reaction time. Have to love finding a lot of ways to tug at people's weaknesses.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

OOC: yea yea...

Seekers theory was close, but not one hundred percent correct. Tristan's reaction time wasn't exactly explosively increased with his speed, but it was increased by a small fraction, some unforseen side effect of the spell, or possibly even the hint at a new chakra ability. The point was that Tristan's foresight was a little bit better than normal while in this state, only it wasn't enough to make a big enough difference compared to his speed.

The hunter was caught, but his leg rose and, despite the close proximity, would cause a good bit of pain. Why? Because, with the boy's new positioning, the steel toed boot would slam right into it's targets groin, right where it would hurt to. Tristan was slammed more or less face first into the dirt, his vest didn't help him any for some reason as it didn't absorb much force when it was Tristan going into the ground, there was absolutely no explanation for this, perhaps an accidental over look of the enchantment by the enchanter, but it didn't really matter.

What did matter was that the impact hurt, alot. Scraping along the ground wasn't pleasant no matter how used to it you were, and Tristan wasn't used to it. His chin scraped along the dirt, soft enough to not draw blood fortunetally enough. Thing about this was though, Tristan weighed more than his opponent, by a good portion, so the hunter's body would press the boy with the glasses head into the ground, scraping along it with the back of his head, and burying his nose (or what ever part of his head was against Tristan's body) into the dragon hide, then the fairly hard surface of the kevlar forty-nine vest.

With that, he would probably be forced to let go. Even if he wasn't Tristan was more then likely too heavy to lift off the ground, not to mention Tristan's Shireiutz was bare bladed and depending on how the boys arms moved, would slice the flesh along the forearm.


Igneus, following orders, lept from the ledge over where the demon boy was and tripped his abilities. The black dragon burst out in a plume of smoke with little flame, trying to keep it as quiet as possible, and immerged as big as a house. He flipped upside down through the air directly over the demon boy, and dropped like an insanely enourmous rock with several tons of force right on his quaries head, scales first.

If things went perfect, being that the demon didn't move, one of the spikes along Igneus' spine would gore through the demons head and near cleave him in two before being crushed under the dragons gurth. Things were excessively unlikely to happen like that though, but the demon boy would have to move and fast to not get crushed.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden smirked slightly as his plan had worked. He got the dragon interested in the demon. Raiden watched as it once again flew over head him hovering a few meter up in the air. Suddenly the dragon was in gulfed in smoke, Raiden's eyes narrowed as he tried to focus in on the dragon amist the smoke. Raiden was able to see a dark shiloulette of the dragon. He could barely noticed it, but something was going on over ahead. Raiden's eyes widen as the smoke cleared. The small minature dragon was now the size of a semi-truck.

He stood and watched in awe at the dragon's feet. The dragon then dive bombed towards Raiden, probably hoping to crush Raiden under it girth. That move wasn't going to work, Raiden was to fast for that. Raiden simply dashed out of the way leaving a illusion like image of him self standing in his place. He zoomed over to a tree branch standing on it as he watched the dragon hit the ground with so much for causing a crater. If Raiden was slow, no doubt that amazing creature would have crushed him. Raiden jumped down from the tree branch and whistled at the dragon motioning it to come at him.