Kikimi Ketsueki vs Bartholomew Verega

It was a class like any other. Barth sat next to Aria as two students duked it out on the central platform. They were two pretty standard fighters; the fight wasn't that interesting. It ended with one hell of a hit, and the guy went down, his opponent moving over him, and Goodwitch called the match. A few people clapped, but then their trainer went on to instruct both. He then head something that made him raise his eyebrow. "Our next match will be... Bartholomew Verega vs... Kikimi Ketsueki. Please come up now." Barth gave Aria a quick kiss, and walked up towards the front. Kikimi Ketsueki? What an odd name... Kinda fun to say, but odd... He then saw her coming towards them.

She had this... huge smile, it was vaguely unnerving... She gave "Excuse me"s and "Oh, pardon me, sorry!"s as she moved, then got up to them. Barth held Reverend on his shoulder, looking at her. She... did not look combat ready. She looked like she was dressed as some kind of dancer more than like a warrior. Barth had shown in clases prior that he was one of the strongest in their class, but he'd never really seen this girl... Oh well, he'd figure it out in time. Barth adopted a stance and focused on his opponent. She then drew two scimitars, getting into a bit of a bubbly, bouncy stance. For a moment, his inner guy stared, then he sighed, ready to start. Professor Goodwitch gave the command, and it started.

She was... Just looking at him. She took a few steps backwards, so he immediately pondered the possibility of her being a ranged fighter. He dashed forward, closing the distance quickly as he made a quick spin for her leg. She seemed to have acted pretty quickly though, as she was already jumping when the hit landed, slamming into the ground as she made a quick swing at Barth's arm that was holding Reverend. His aura took the hit, but the attack hadn't done that much to him. Barth was a known tanky fighter, it'd take more than an arm slash to put a dent in his aura.

The warrior quickly gripped his sword's handle with great strength, hoisting himself around to try to spin kick her in the head. His eyes widened though as she was already on the ground crouched when he had finished the half rotation. She smiled up at him, swinging her sword into his legs as they soared through the air. Immediately, Barth knew something was wrong. "Hee hee! Mister Barthy, you're never going to hit me moving like that!" He landed, ripping his blade from the floor, immediately flicking on Reverend's dust function. Almost immediately, Kiki tilted her head, holding her scimiars at her side. "Huh... What's that do...?"

Barth waited a few seconds, smashing reverend downwards, knocking up a thick chuck of the floor, using his sword's side to smash it towards his enemy with another green dust burst. "Ohhh! Power swingy!" Was all he heard, seeing a glow of white slash the thick stone in four, an X giving Kikimi a spot to leap through. Barth was surprised, already charging his next swing, simply spinning to send a blast of green energy at her. Kiki had long since taken to the air though, landing after the danger had past. She dashed at Barth, swinging from the left, and as Barth twitched his arm to have Reverend tilt to block, she sat her second blade against where he was just starting to move, keeping his torso still as the ex-soldier was forced to use just his arm to move his massive sword.

It made for one successful block, but her sword that was resting on him drew back, going for a stab. Barth was just starting to move left, away from the hit, but her used her hand that had just finished attacking to once again hold him in place the instant her started to move, a white dust powered stab knocking Barth back, away from reverend. He winced, putting up his arm defensively. He looked at her. Were her eyes gold now...? He could have sworn they were something more normal before. Was it her semblance maybe? The hell cold it have been, she was dominating this fight...

She moved towards him once again, but his new speed without reverend let him swipe his palm along the side of her swing, putting it off to the side. "Oh cool!" She said, swinging more with both her weapons. "More!" Barth moved his hand to do it to the next hit, but it drew in at the last moment, slashing at his arm once more. He was getting shaky on aura... But Reverend was over there, accumulating energy... If he could get to it, he may be able to take her out with that... She stopped, twisting her sword for a moment, then smiling. "Yeah, that's right... It looks like your sword get stronger and stronger while it's down!" He used that opportunity to tug his flashbang from his pocket, pulling the pin with a finger and tossing it up as he dived back.

Kiki, never having seen a flashbang before, looked up at it, tilting her head childishly. The thing went off, and Kiki was staggering backwards. "Eep! Eeeeeep! Kiki can't see! Omigosh..." Barth Immediately lunged forward, and at full strength, punched the girl in the face, sending her soaring several dozen meters away, landing on the ground and standing back up, her hands above her head, though she seemed dizzy. "Woahhhh! I'm okay! I'm good. Wow, that was a... Hit. Jeez baweez..."