Getting used to things.

[Seeker]

When the man had gotten to where Seeker needed him, everything was going to plan when it came to getting him thrown over, and Seeker definitely directed the force to make sure Tristan would fly over himself, and not land on Seeker. It was like Seeker was pretty much throwing him off him like a catapult of some sort. When it came to the kick though, to be honest, there was no way Seeker could dodge it, but you have to remember momentum here. Since Seeker was flying him from the head first, naturally this guy's legs would go backward, since Seeker's entire body was going to be ramming against them. So sure, the kick might work, but it will be so lightly touched compared to the full momentum it could actually because as soon as it got to the target, it would be quickly forced back forcing the guy over Seeker.

Still, a kick to the groin was never comfortable. Think of it like a soccer ball being kicked, and nailing you in the balls. It doesn't hurt as much compared to something like a baseball. It was pretty much a soccer ball nailing him there, and not even at fall force. It just meant Seeker would be restricted for awhile. Anyways, Seeker got him over his head, and quickly began to raise himself to a standed state.

Advantage. Seeker was now beginning to regenerate his groin muscles because honestly, that really hurt, even if it wasn't full force exactly!

Oh, but the fight was having a toll on Seeker, his breathing was labored, and sweat was pouring down his face. Plus, even minorly regenerating himself drains him a bit. The brain power he once had once beginning to decrease a bit.

It was definitely getting tough, still, Seeker didn't know how to compare this guy to someone else. For all he knew, he could be going against one of the strongest people at this strange place, or... one of the weak ones. Which would definitely be sad, cause if he's weak, and Seeker is having this much trouble, how weak is Seeker?

[Tristan Knightrhode]

Tristan pushed himself onto his hands and knees and shook his head. He blinked a couple of times and stretched his jaw. "Chikushou (damn)...that hurt." He went to push himself onto his feet, but instead whirled around to his left saying in a soft voice while swinging his hand around, "Kamataichi." His triple bladed wind attack shot out from his hand. One went up, high above, another went far to the left, and the last went far to the right.

Tristan used that whirling motion to stand and face his opponent, making it look like he did nothing more than that. His voice, being at that level, was unlikely to be heard by any thing with a normal humans hearing. He would then clench his armored fist, and the three blades whirled around to randevous at a center point of the boy's body. When they were each about ten feet away from the boy, "Ignite." was spoken in that same low voice. As with the demon boy, the blades would spark a tiny orange flame then explode with a brilliant force.

With Tristan's energy usage, and having not wanted to kill the boy a ways infront of him, the blades weren't as dense as they usually were, and therefore had less explosive force and would only catch the boy with the outer bits of flame instead of pure explosion. He could still dodge it if he'd had great hearing and a bit of anticipation, but it wasn't very likely.


Igneus landed hard, causing the area around him to shake. He twisted about, and wrenched himself free of the dirt and rolled over onto his feet. With his almost telepathic hearing, great black eyes locked onto the sorce of the whistle. With no warning what so ever, his maw shot open and a huge blast of yellow and orange fire shot from it. A little over ten feet in diameter, this would be iritating to dodge if the demon hadn't much insite.

Even if he were to move out of the way, the Tree would be incinerated and would soon burn to the ground, leaving one less place for him to run.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden watched as the dragon scramble to it feet and turned it attention over to where Raiden was. A huge fire ball emerged from the dragon's mouth heading straight towards the tree Raiden was standing next to. Without much thought Raiden used his speed again to jumped out of the way of the huge flame. The flame impacted with the tree and the lnad around it causing a huge explosion. That dragon certainly packed a punch, in no way was he going to underestimate this dragon's powers.

Raiden decided to get attacking himself. Raiden jumped off of the ground leaping into a tree making it look like he landed in it, but infact bounce of the tree hitting high speeds. He reappeared over head a huge amount of feet in the air. A thin line gleamed from Raiden's waist as it appeared to be attached to the tree, but it would be invisble to the naked eye. Raiden simply pointed a index finger at the dragon like a gun. His finger sparked and then electricity started to form on his finger tip. Suddenly in a flash a lightning bolt spewed out at a highspeed like a flash of lightning from the sky to the ground in an instant. This attack was aimed towards Ingeus.

[Seeker]

Seeker dropped to the ground quickly, letting the weapons explode as he rolled away from the one who made the attack, getting himself away, and taking very minimal damage. Once he was a safe distance away, Seeker would kick himself up onto his feet, and then would adjust his glasses letting them get fixed during the down time that they had. He would position himself once more toward the other person, not a changed look in his facial expression. Though his breathing was definitely heavier, Seeker was running purely off physical endurance right now, if he needed to do so, he could easily explode his energy, and have the physical combat ability. It was also confusing on rather this guy's speed was still increased or not, but due to the range motion, Seeker could only assume it was probably ran out, or close to it.

Now the question is, what cued Seeker off about the attack to make him avoid it with only a minor darkening of the skin, and a slight stinging pain surrounded on his body? Well, the answer was easy, Seeker could use wordology see. With that said, when he heard the guy say 'ignite', which isn't a common word to use, and completely random, Seeker knew something was going to happen. Now once more, from experience, Seeker has seen this guy only going for upper body attacks, except for the one time where he went for a kick, but that was because he was forced to do so. It was only natural it would most likely be an aerial move. With that said, Seeker quickly went for the duck, and then rolled his way from serious harm.

To simply put it, Seeker was running off logical thinking, he didn't have the ability to predict stuff per say, but once you can get the repetition down on something, you know how to react. So another score for Seeker! And there he was, standing tall, ignoring the pain biting at him.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

This was getting tiresome. Tristan reached up and took off his blade. He stabbed it into the ground then took off his coat. It was time to throw in his full on hand to hand style, unhindered by any equipment. The hunter put his coat on the handle of the blade, and took his obscure stance once again. Closing his eyes, he took a deep breath and pooled his chakra to get squeeze out the last of his spell before it wore off.

His eyes snapped open and he was off at top speed. Tristan came in on his opponent and went for a wide right hook. It wasn't intended to hit as Tristan whirled about and landed on his hands. His feet lashed out making a quick double kick to the boy's face before Tristan finished his maneuver and was back on his feet. It was similar to a cartwheel and could be performed on one hand so as to have less chance of being thwarted. Not to mention the boy's foresight was no greater than Tristan's so he wouldn't be able to cope well with the new style of physical combat.

A quick hammer strike would follow with the left hand before Tristan's right foot shot up to make a hard rising kick. If that rising kick missed, Tristan would attempt to turn it into an axe kick to land heavily on his opponents head or shoulder. If this rapid attack didn't work, Tristan would have to rely on his normal speed for a while, until he could use his double time once more, as it wore off a moment after the axe kick.


Igneus was hit on the back with the bolt. It wasn't strong enough to send a huge shock through his gurth but it still hurt and numbed the area under the scales where it had impacted. Now the demon boy was in the air and it would be impossible to dodge. The black dragon then craned his neck upward, led his target, and loosed a flame the same size as the last one, and a little greater in intensity. It would hit dead on in a matter of moments and with the heat, any metal on his body would be heated up to great levels and cause further damage.

OOC: quality might be a little lax...

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden was high up in the sky from his huge leap. The electicity that flowed through his veins constantly kept Raiden charged at a high pace, so normal human standards wasn't going to apply to this demon. Limits for him would always be broken. Raiden smiled at the hit was dead on. No matter who the target is lightning would give a terrible effect to him. If Raiden cranked up the notch any further and fired a few more shots like that, the dragon would have a hard time breathing or even moving its body. One lightning strike can reach an heat intensity that surpasses the Sun's might itself. *true fact*

Raiden was still high in the air still rising slightly. After awhile he slowly came to a stop...and then started to slowly drop back towards the ground. As he was falling the dragon spat an intense fireball at Raiden. It was indeed a hot one, and Raiden had no way of dodging this one...unless he could sprout wings. Raiden knew what was coming to him, so as he was falling he grabbed his knees pulling them into himself curling into a ball. The fireball hit Raiden while he was curl up in a ball ingulfing him. Since Raiden was falling the fire ball collided with him, but only for a second or two it was heading up and Raiden was going down so it passed him.

All that could be seen was a smoking ball of ash. Suddenly the ball unfolded showing Raiden's full body. It was covered in ash and a few burns apparent all over his chest and back. His eyes opened showing his ruby eyes again. He's...alive? It was a total shock how anyone can survive a fireball, but to Raiden it wasn't. The intensity of lightning is extremely hot as well, all the years Raiden has used this hot attack, has grown a moderate immunity against flame base attacks. That attack was extremely hot, but just enough to give Raiden a few burns. Nothing serious, nothing to stop him from fighting this intriging creature.

Raiden was now close in range to the dragon being directly over it. Raiden qauntlet was hot as well carrying the intensity the fireball Igneus spat at Raiden. Raiden decided to use his flaming clawed gauntlet to his advantage. With his other hand would point back up at the air and shoot off a lightning bolt propelling Raiden at a high velocity towards the dragon. With his clawed gauntlet arm pointed at Igneus, Raiden would dive bomd into the house sized dragon claw first digging and gashing with his heated claws.

[Seeker]

The same mistake made twice, that's what Seeker was thinking when he noticed the initial right hook which was being used. From pure instinct, knowing almost every move this guy has made in the past, Seeker had fell flat on his back, letting the real move, a kick aimed for Seeker's face soar above him in a wasted attempt. Meanwhile, Seeker did his all famous little roll away like rolly polly type person, and getting himself to safety. It was very doubtful that this guy would make anymore attacks in thin air while Seeker was rolling safely away, but since he had to recover from this quick escape artist move again, Seeker would be able to go back into a standing position by a quick jump before this guy reached him. You see, this guy may of modified his attacking style a bit, and he may of had that speed advantage which Seeker couldn't keep up with, especially since this guy knew the weakness Seeker was exploiting earlier, but the initial attacking spots the man used were the same since the beginning of the fight. With that said, Seeker knew exactly how to dodge every single time for the time being, and this was with second hand guessing, not using his awareness of battles. It was great!

[Tristan Knightrhode]

Igneus blew out his fire and while he did he was hit in the back with more intense bolts of lightning. But they didn't hurt....What was up with that? The black dragons eyes flickered a bright yellow color amidst the black and tiny bits of red and all the spikes down his back flashed, becoming a golden yellow. His magic that was usually thrown in with his fire had taken in the energy of the lightning.

A huge, crackling set of lightning bolts shot from Igneus' mouth and followed after the fireball, nailing the demon head on after his decent began. Nothing like that had ever happened before. Hell what had caused it had never before occured. Igneus was not only a black dragon, but an element dragon, or rather, a dragon capible of using various elements, having known magic. The black dragon himself was shocked at this and had hardly any time to shoot to the left, avoiding the flaming claw attack narrowly and spinning around to tailwhip the demon.


Tristan, having missed on all accounts, stood again to see the moment of lightning his partner. [Since when can you do that?] He demanded, slightly awed by the new ability. Just now... He answered distractedly. Tristan pulled his attention away from his partner and shot after the opponent at hand, back to his original speed.

He threw a tight left hook that angled down to hit the collar bone. A stomping kick would follow, aimed at the boys right hip using the left foot. Even if the punch was dodged, that kick was more or less sure to hit as it was in position to no matter where the boy dodged. A roll to the left had a chance to avoid it but another fall back would just get him stomped on the way down, a back roll similar, and a roll to the right would walk him right into it, only it wouldn't hit the right hip (possibly in the groin or left hip).

If both of those missed, he would probably abandon straight hand to hand in favor of mixed, magic and melee, style of fighting as his energy was still rather high, but his stamina was dropping.

OOC: crappage -.-

[Raiden Matsutani]

In a split second, something crossed Raiden's mind. In that flame attack, he felt a small evidence of electricity. Do this dragon know how to use lightning as well? Raiden eyes widen for a second and then went back to normal again. 'Well, its not going to matter much in this fight...I'm the veteran when it comes to lightning...' he said to himself. He snapped out of his thoughts when he finally noticed he missed the dragon, Raiden had gotten to distracted that he strayed off course.

Suddenly as the dragon had dodged it came back at Raiden with a tail whip. Raiden made some quick hand signs just as the tail hit colliding with Raiden or it seemed it did. Raiden was knocked back into a tree almost breaking through the trunk. Suddenly there was a poof and the smoke cleared to reveal a log that Raiden substituted, abling him to get out of the way of the dragon's tail. Raiden was behind the dragon and threw five shirukens at the dragon.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

OOC: Raiden and I have decided to finish our little scuffle, dragon to demon. The man to man aspect, Tristan Vs. Seeker, is hereby called to a draw unless Seeker comes back and has something els to say about it.

Igneus' scales flickered a golden sheen, and his eyes changed color, throwing golden specks in with the red and black. Those eyes saw the smoke clear and the log that had been put in place of his opponent. The Dragon then whirled around, tail out, as was instinctual for him to do when he lost sight of what he was fighting. His tail would whip around and most likely nail the demon unexpectedly, unless he saw it coming. Igneus seemed to move faster now, the lightning surging through his veins, so it wasn't un-thoughtful that the demon wouldn't see this tail swipe coming.

His little weapons made small dings as they were wailed by the scales near the base of the black, now elemental, dragon's tail, and soared into a nearby tree and the dirt around it. It was a simple move, but would end up having Igneus face where the demon had just been standing, whether he was still there or not.

OOC: getting back into the feel of this fight.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden watched as the shiruken bonced off the dragon. I guess knocking off a few scale cell is uneffective. Nah, well... Raiden saw the tail swipe coming, but indeed the dragon's movement were getting a little quicker. This one as a little to close for anything in that manner...but he wasn't going to use substitution. Instead Raiden dove sliding on to the ground as the tail passed over head.

Safe...

Raiden quickly do to his feet and watched as the dragon flew off towards a tree facing him. Did Raiden move from his original spot? Nope. He watched as the strange lizard landed a few meters in front of him. Raiden decided to stop running so far. It was a waste of energy really. He needed to focus on getting off more attacks. And so...it starts now...

Raiden stood in his original spot and faced the dragon. Come on...stare at my eyes... Raiden was planning on using Iris-Flash Lvl 2 to slow down the dragon some. It seemed it can afford to lose its speed at least. If so things will get a lot easier...hopefully.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

OOC: sorry for the wait

Igneus did stop to face the demon, though he didn't exactly look into the boy's eyes. The Iris flash set off, and blinded the great beast. Igneus closed his eyes and thrashed his head about, looking to side swipe his opponent and send him flying a few miles.

A couple of seconds later, Igneus could see, but he felt slower. Not too much, but what he was before he'd been struck by the lightning. A claw swipe was the next thing to be thrown at the demon, after moving toward him (if you went flying from the head butt sorta thing).

Even if he avoided the claw, the foot was still damn close to half a ton, and would cause a good ammount of blunt damage. Not to mention it would send the one hit flying into the dirt at a few hundred miles an hour. Exagerating of course.

[Raiden Matsutani]

((OOC: Since the Iris Flash was successful, Igneus's Dex is subtracted by minus three.))

After the Iris Flash occurred he watched the dragon thrash about blindly. The bad thing about that was the fact that moving about blindly meant you couldn't predict its movements. So with that Raiden was hit with the unexpected headbutt. The hit was low enough though to send Raiden flying backwards through the forest than into the sky.

Raiden hit the dirt landing on his back. He rolled a few feet before he gained composure and rolled to his feet. Raiden wiped the blood dripping from his mouth. That was definitely a hard hit. Its sent him back a few meters away from the dragon. Raiden stood up straight and stretched his legs right quick. Now the the dragon was slower ranged attacks were going to be easier...hopefully.

With that Raiden circled the dragon from a 15 meter radius of it. He used Hype-speed to increase his speed by 5. This had a kind of zoom effect leaving a thin kind of shadowy illusion of himself. Following that, he shot of several lightning bolts while circling the dragon. Lightning bolts would be flashing from every where. Also with tree all over the place the movement of the dragon within this cramped space would land it in some trouble.

[Tristan Knightrhode]

OOC: i know.

Igneus missed with his claw swipe, though he was pretty sure that his head butt had hit. He looked around as the demon zoomed about, forgoing trying to follow him. Igneus could see his movements, though not well. Then the lightning. Crap. He thought to himself, looking for a way out.

He was indeed restricted in his movements in this area...He would have to fix that. In an instant, gone. Thats right, Igneus was no longer on the ground as the lightning bolts converged on where he just was. Now, nothing but a change in air pressure would reveal where the dragon was. He'd gone 'between' and teleported high into the air, a single beat of his massive wings aimed him where he wanted to go as the enourmous dragon dive bombed.

He didn't expect the demon to stay in place to get nailed by this, but even if Igneus didn't hit him, he would hit the nearby trees, toppling them with relative ease. Getting back to his feet, Igneus would make a powerful tail swipe, taking out two more trees at the trunk. Hopefully one or two of these plants would aim their decent right at Igneus' opponent, burrying him under their girth.

[Raiden Matsutani]

Raiden watched as the dragon decided to pick 'up' as an escape direction. It was to be expected really. If no one could figure that one out well then they're just plain stupid. Raiden was curious though on what it would do now. Maybe a fire attack again? Or a divebomb? It was really hard to tell at the moment.

Raiden used second sight by chance to see what the dragon had in mind. Of course Raiden saw the dive bomb attack and then the trees toppling down as well. Raiden in that instant decided to pick a consuming situation for the dragon to respond late to. Raiden of course dodged the dragon's dive bomb. Then as the trees fell he substituted again for another log.

The way the substution happened was that he was a last minute one. If the dragon was watching in any way possible, would probably think Raiden did indeed get buried under the numerous trees. If its distracted in any way possible Raiden would take advantage of it by substituting behind to its side while air born and use his Power Lightning to hopefully lash out at this giant several time with searing heat and electricity.