Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25268570-20150216024744/@comment-24901923-20150311203903

Kieran heard Aiden's shout, and called a brief halt. He generated a Will-O-Wisp in his hand.

"I didn't use these before because you haven't really been trained to fight while disoriented, and I didn't want to hurt Al and Ricky's eyes, since their Faunus night vision makes them more sensitive. This is basically an Aura-based flash-bang grenade. It bounces off of Aura constructs, such as glyphs, but will detonate upon impact with anything else, so you can only dodge these, not block them. The concussion is harmless by itself, but will knock you around. Let me show you what happens when they detonate. Ricky?", Kieran explained. At a safe distance, Roderick created a glyph angled to bounce the glowing orb his team leader had made into the ground at his prompting, and Kieran threw it. The orb bounced and detonated in a flash, sending out a brief, point-blank range concussion. Albus and Ricky had both made a point to avoid looking, even with their helmets's visors to protect their eyes. Ricky dispelled the glyph, and then they got back to work, with Kieran throwing the occasional Will-O-Wisp. With Albus unable to manipulate the balls of energy, it fell to Roderick to alter the trajectory of the Will-O-Wisps as they were thrown, using his glyphs like before.

Electra, meanwhile, cautiously engaged Aizen with brief exchanges so they could feel each other out and make him more comfortable with fighting on the Plum Flower poles. Once they were acclimated, Electra began more fancy swordwork, showing Aizen more of her arsenal of techniques. When she felt he was ready, she backed off a moment and draped her cloak over her left arm, her preferred way of using it. The swordswoman began using her cloak to block Aizen's strikes, and also using it to hide her sword before a strike. She let him get familiar with the latter trick before feinting with her sword and entangling his with the cloak and jerking him to the side with a tug. Her sword came up, it's point pressed lightly into his neck. She removed the gunblade, unwrapped her cloak, and stepped back, taking a different stance.

"Fatal blow. Electra. Reset.", Arcturus said, calling the bout. "Be careful, Aizen. With only one weapon, she had you dead to rights, so you may want to grab your second sword. That finish was classic, and left her in a perfect position to land a series of thrust-and-fire strikes, a signature gunblade combo." Aizen took his advice, and began using both of his swords. Electra simply nodded, and the two clashed again. Now fully armed, Aizen managed to last longer, but succumbed to Electra's entangling trick again. This time, she wrapped his left sword and blocked the right sword with her gunblade in a reverse grip as she stepped inside his guard, turning so her back faced Aizen's chest, and poked his right armpit with the point. Arcturus called the bout in favor of Electra, and they reset again.

"Fatal blow. Electra. Reset. That was a risky move on her part, Aizen. The bout would've been yours if she had missed your armpit.", Arcturus commented.

The third bout ended when Electra unexpectedly dropped to the ground and hooked her legs around his left before twisting, sending him to the "ground" as she rolled further and onto his back, holding her gunblade up to his neck again.

"Fatal blow. Electra. Reset. That move surprises us too sometimes. Not many swordfighters can grapple to match their bladework, or combine tactics like that.", Arcturus said, calling the bout again. He asked Aizen if he wanted a break, while Rambert used his armor to lay down a layer of ice onto the floor around the poles. Now that the swords were properly iced, Rambert lifted them up with his cryokinesis and gently sent them back to their owner, removing the ice once Aizen had a hold of them.