It's Been A While {closed}

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"Perhaps now that you are void of emotion nothing blocks you from the ever present skill level that I have reached." He stated, "Your potential may finally be unlocked." With his responce he seized his circling and within the same fluid motion of the abrupt stop pushed her blade downward and bashed his shoulder into her to knock his opponent back. As his body curved with the shoulder bash, he spun counter clockwise. His blade unleashing a ghastly screech as it cut through the air towards his opponent.

The slash aiming for her head missed only a few inches for some unseen reason. This fight was starting to boil over much like the one he and his rival Gabriel Valentine once shared long ago within the ruins of Kyoto. Perhaps she might even be able to rival his speed perhaps? Possibly seening as how the shockwaves of their blades colliding once more carried with a magnitued powerful enough to shatter every stone that rested above the graves that surrounded around them. Their shared empty gazes agian as the two held large smirks across their features. "I am rather impress my dear Elizibeth."

[†The Blood Countess†]

Amoura chuckled, ”I’m not completely void, Vicious. My emotions now have a switch that I can turn on and off when I so please. However..it has a tendency to stay off and rarely does it switch on.” Breath escaped her lungs as he shouldered her back. The Countess lost her footing and began to fall. Surprisingly enough, gravity didn’t have control this time around. Amoura stopped herself from hitting the snow, arched her back and snapped back to her feet. Luckily that move kept her from being injured. ”Though without emotion clouding my judgments…it seems I am finally a challenge to you. This night will indeed be one I shall never forget.”

By now their little nicks from earlier had fully healed but neither didn’t care to notice. With that compliment thrown in her direction, Elizabeth allowed a small grin to appear, ”Thank you, Animus.” The Countess raised her weapon and tensed up her body, preparing to attack Vicious. In all honesty, she didn’t know how fast she was for she never had too much use for speed. Might as well test this out and see if she can keep up with “The Pureblooded Killer”.

Onward she went, swiping across. Right when weapons made contact…a sonic boom issued forth. The walls around them cracked, the ground below splintered. A shocked expression appeared on her face. How on earth…? Nevermind. The shock melted away, ”Well…it seems I’ve discovered something else in this state of mind.”

Her weapon playfully slid up and down Vicious’, ”Things are getting interesting are they not?”

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"indeed they are." His smirk, everlasting upon his emotionless and stone face. As Amoura' blade scrapped upward from his, the sound of grinding metal echoed through the air and in the same moment, with a flick of his wrist he smaked her blade away and charged in for a thrust which was avoided easily. However the thrust was not a main objective of the attack, simply a starting move to a perfected combination. With a spin he turned towards the left, blade slicing through the air as it whistled coming for Amoura's Jugular but from once was a straight forward attack, morphed into something more...

With quick and presice flicks and darts of his wrist, Vicious moved his blade in a manner of circle and counter-circle jabs that was soon pulled back and unleashed in a spining uppercut with a jump. If blocked, the force of the attack would be one to push the two into the air. Who knew what could happen now...

[†The Blood Countess†]

The attack came and as expected, both were now in the air, still exchanging blows. Right when it seems one would fall from the sky, the other would form another attack that kept them airborne! A fight like this was rarely done and seen all the same. The ancients’ blades met once more, sending another sonic blast. Snow dashed away, glass from the nearby buildings splintered and fell apart, sending down a rain of fragments. Despite all these distractions, they continued with their fight. Every time they counter attacked at the same speed, the buildings around them continued to crack. How long will it be before they collapse?

Boom! Boom! Boom! They shook upon the foundations they stood, even started swaying! To think that these two could cause so much destruction from attacks and blocks! Believe it or not the two continued to climb up higher, sparks flying and dying down continuously. How long until they decide the ground was the best place to go? Neither of them felt fear nor doubts about what will happen eventually. There was a goal, yes, but for now this was a test.

”Ready to give up, Pureblooded Killer? You cannot hold out forever!” she swiped down, trying to force Vicious to fall from his current level.

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That sinister smirk never swayed from his face. The airborne battle that ensured was one that he had only partaken in once before. The fearocity of their blades colliding sent sparks and devisating sonice booms off in all directions as it seemed the mere magnitude of the fight destroyed everything within the path around and below them. As their blades locked they began to spiral towards the ground rappidly before Vicious pushed away roughly sending them both in opposing sides than the other. The Pure blood found support as his feet braced agianst a sturdy stone wall that now found itself crumbling away as he leaped off of it soaring at Amoura with his blade ready.

"Come, Come, dear blood countess. When have I been one to decline my pleasures of fun?!" He exclaimed with a maniacal and bone chilling laugh as the two crossed attacks knocking each other up in the air as they regained their lost altitued and countinued in their arial bout. Sooner or later Vicious would present her with an opening but only once their feet touched earth once more.

[†The Blood Countess†]

What a fight this had turned out to be! To think that the Countess could last so long against The Pureblooded Killer! This truly was history in the making, at least for these two.

Once Vicious broke away, she landed atop one of the buildings that had swayed continuously from their blows. With her added to the already weakened construction, it collapsed but not before she could leap back up towards Vicious.

"Point taken, Animus. There's many hours before the sun rises so let's have as much fun with this as we CAN!"

CLING! CLING! CLING! CLING! The two were airborne once more, neither seemed determined to lose!

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Every chance and oppurtunity closed through this relentless battle, neither side wavering to fatigue nor anything else. Not even the fact that their feet touched the ground vacated them from their fearce battle, it was if the legendary titans themselves were fighting amidst one another in an all out battleroyal. The immortals clashing their blades at such speeds and strengths that sparks fell to the earth below like rain, the echoing of metal clashing with metal resembling the sound of one thousand chirping birds.

This arial display of skill was soon coming to it's climax. The two ancients firmly placed within the sky clashed blades once more as they spiraled towards the ground at an alarming pace. Though neither seemed to give away or recead, it was if they were playing chicken with one another until the ground was there only five feet apart from them. It was then the pure blooded Killer pushed away, counter balancing his body in a flipping spin and landing to the ground, his feet sliding across the oveturned earth as he stared at Amoura.

Beyond the wall, now rubble of stone laid a vast forest. Dense with trees all around the hills and mountainus area. What come next? The pure blood smirked as he leaped backward, the pure strength that was released within his coiled legs broke apart the earth below his original resiting place as he sailed backwards towards the lush timber.

[†The Blood Countess†]

The Countess landed after their airborn fight and snapped her head up towards the male, watching him rush back into the forest. Slowly, a smirk spread across her lips, a wild expression in those crimson eyes. The heat of the battle was finally getting to her, exciting the vampiress! Gradually that emotional display died down and she dove into the trees after the male.

"Bad move..." She muttered into the thicket. By now the moon was high in the sky, illuminating the forest and sending down spotlights of silver to the dry earth.

With her now entering, the trees of the forest bent back to create a path for her. "Olly Olly Oxen free! Where are you Animus, dear?" she called out in an eerie tone.

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It wasn't long before the Pure blood was upon her, his blade whistling once more through the air as they collided once more, the sheer magnitued sending a howl through the air as the mere force of the duo's power made the thick timber crack and bellow as they fell, bowing at the vampire's feet as they countinued their dual. This reminded him much of his night when Gabriel and himself crossed blades, their power reached their extend as every mere scratch of their blaes destroyed everything around them. Vicious remembered that night so well as if it were burnt into his memory banks for all the ages. It was a fight to the death before him when agianst the azure slayer and he had succeeded in pulling victory from the jaws of his own insuring demise, defeating the ancient slayer and leaving his body resting within the soil underneath the ruined city inwhich their battle had fought.

Dead memories remain...

But now he faced the same joust with this female, their blades clashed and connected with such ferocity that the wilderness around them were unable to escape the quickening of their destruction. Mighty trees that had stood more than hundreds of years now cut down by the sonic waves that becokened from each attack and parry. The earth beneath them becoming uprooted and cracking, splintering into many, many bolders as their swords clashed for another time, both stood face to face, that wide grin ever present within the pure blooded killer. "Collect my blood in three viles instead of two, your power is promising, with my blood it could asend that of the gvery first vampire Dradoulse." He spoke as power flowed through his very veins, the power of what was once though to be the lost blood of his family, the true scale of the vampirian clan of the Neronumus family was being beckon to his call as history was once agian being made by the devisation that ensured the demise of all around the epicenter of this bout.

[†The Blood Countess†]

Amoura’s blade shot up, catching his attack before it could strike her. Instantly thereafter another sonic boom shot out and damaged the wildlife around them. When this fight ends and all is prepared for the male’s slumber, she’ll fix this mess up. Right now that didn’t matter for her attention was elsewhere. The two continued onward with their deadly dance, trees and other sorts of vegetation toppled over. ”I will do as you ask. Perhaps when you return you and I can have a few spars?” she smiled and raised her blade, dashing towards him. It’s amazing how many times both were able to block without suddenly losing track!

But what came next was completely unexpected of the vampiress!

For a good while she had been meaning to try a certain move and now was the time to test it. With her doubts and fears melted into nothing, it probably could be accomplished. Once more the male swiped down at the Countess but her right hand did not move to block. Instead, her left hand shot up and grabbed the blade! Surprisingly enough it did not even reach her palm! Fortunately this attack wouldn’t have broken the sound barrier, otherwise her hand would have been gone!

Empty eyes stared at the male, fingers still clenching his weapon tightly…then she smiled and slapped her right hand, batting his weapon aside and shot for his throat!

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The hand that cloutched nothing soon swooped in. With a counter circle block her attack towards his throat was redirected aimlessly away. From there he spun foward towards his left, his blade screaming as a thrust was driven towards her but at the same time deflected. More attacks and counters were flung at one another, each opponent keeping their ungodly focus as their clashing of instruments cuased devistation to fold over into the thick brush of the forest. The sparks from their blades colliding and falling upon the dried underbush below their feet cuased a sudden uproar of flame to envelop their area of combat. It mattered not to the vampire as his attacks pressed on. "When I awaken, and Regain my lost strength then yes we shall."

He responded to her request as the sudden fires encircled them and enclosed them within a ring of fire, as if the flames themselves were trying to contain the damage that these two could bellow with their swordplay alone. A clash of the blades, and explosion of wind soon dashed away the flaming leaving the vegitation around them in a scorched manner. Yet through all this devistation nothing seemed to matter to him besides the ensuring clash. His focus intent upon his opponent as he began to bring this battle to it's enevatable climax.

[†The Blood Countess†]

Fire engulfed the area, sending sparks into the sky, consuming the life all around them. Elizabeth and Vicious continued with their fight. The heat from the flames caused sweat to bead upon her pale forehead but she didn’t pay attention to such a small thing. SLAM! SLAM! CLING! CLING! Amoura dove over the male, flipped and dashed up one of the tallest trees. This squabble would be far more interesting if they were at the treetops. With skill and grace she leapt from branch to branch, finally near the top. Now the scenery of this area was perfect and they were at least a hundred or so feet off the ground.

Elizabeth turned to find Vicious following in hot pursuit! ”Come and get mee-e-e.” she taunted. Right before he could score a hit, she leapt over him once more and stood against another tree trunk, ”Come on, Vicious. You’ve got to do better than that and best of all? The night is yet still young!” A sharp laugh surged forth from her vocals, echoing through the treetops.

How shall they go about this now? They cannot exchange blows from their katanas forever!

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The vampire stood upon the canopy of the forest, his grace and balance showing diligently under the pale moonlight that illuminated this clash of power. The wind that kicked up was a natural breeze as the scarlet hue of Vicious' eyes deepened and the breeze metamorphisized into a gale that made the vampire fly towards the female as they once agian clashed blades. Though it seemed the night was so young, the moon was already directly above them, within six more hours their sun would fall and their moon would wise. The clanging of blades and the now everpresent and controled gale of the vampire lifted them into the air higher than their previously gained alttitued as their epic struggle continued took flight once more for a second time.

And so the clash of blades continued, this time as they departed their commonly resolved blade locks the control of air that the killer presented kept them in the skies instead of allowing gravity to take it's toll, thirty minutes of arial battle seemed to come and go as once agian they were upon the tree tops, the pure blood dashing gingerly across the canopy of timber as they locked blades for what many spectators would deem as the millionth time.

[†The Blood Countess†]

Now atop one of the tallest trees nearby, the Countess fixed her crimson gaze upon Vicious. Right hand which held Bloodbane stabbed it into a thick branch in hopes of taking a moment’s break. Vicious can go on for hours but the Countess had one disadvantage: her body burned off blood at a rapid rate.

A few more hours was all that was needed and she’ll probably pass out or worse, die by Vicious’ blade. A few animals wandered these woods and if worse comes to worse, she’ll have to degrade herself and get a drink. The relief was momentary but it will keep her strength up. It hasn’t come to that yet.

Snarl curled up from her vocals and she snapped up her weapon. The fight had ensued once more between the powerful beings. Their movements were blurred to any human daring to watch this spectacle!

What an awe strucking sight this was! Their blades moved in swift circular motions, thrusts, swipes...things were really getting interesting.

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Indeed things were getting interesting, their fight had also countinued all night without a single opponent gainin the upper hand however it was time for this battle come to a close, as their blades kissed once more the never fading smirk upon Vicious' lips became an even wider grin but then soon turned to a look of disapointment. The cool night's air was slowly fading away as the air grew hotter, the dew upon the trees quickly evaporating and the awakening of small and large animals. Dawn was approching, with an abrupt push the two parted their bladelock. "Dawn grows close... it is time." He stated dropping into an old stand in which he had never used before, he felt no use to waste it upon the weak however Amoura had received the pleasure of now finally seeing a form long thought forgotten. Normally this attack had no openings however... He would open himself up to let her take advantage of it.

"Get ready... Strike true and hard." he responded lowly as he stationed his feet agianst the swaying canopy. with a suddent and hard jolt he exploded from his position, his katana's grip held reverse of it's usual placement within his hand as it stayed closely behind him. It would seem that a single tear was flung from the eyes of the pure blood, sadness? No... joy of a battle well fought. He moved swiftly, the towering trees in which he stood upon and the ones behind it now nothing but chips of wood flutering down to the underbrush below as he came towards her slashing towards her skull.