Scene #4084: A Clash of Legends

Owner	Pose
Nero	It was time for legends to clash. Nero, otherwise known as Scarlet Saber in ALO, has issued a challenge to Cirra Constantine over Union radio. And now here she is, standing atop a plateu on one of the many floating islands surrounding the city of Aarun. Her Avatar......looks just like her. Except instead of blonde hair, her hair was a deep red. Still fastened into a bun. She wore extravagant adventuring gear. A chestplate, a red dress, and she wielded a black blade with red edging. There was also another, smaller blade sheathed at her side. This was Scarlet Saber. Self proclaimed Emperor of The Infinite Skies. And she waited. Waited for the one who would meet her challenge head on!
Cirra Constantine	Cirra Constantine has only ever engaged in this kind of thing with one other person before. Dueling with her political rival back home in Galandia. Nero however... Cirra thought she could ignore the woman until she went away. This has proven to be decidedly implausable. So Palmira, the purple haired Imp lands on the mesa outside Aarun, the Capital of Alfhiem. Her hair pinned up in back and a maroon and brown long coat on - she uses the cosmetic slot to hide what kind of gear she's really using instead of showing something flashy. (poke her mush player to write a real desc and not be lazy) Palmira has no doubt that Nero has extensively superior equipment, but Cirra is some kind of rules lawyer, and has found the balancing point between over level gear penalties. She holds in her hand a two headed assault spear that looks a bit more fancy then the rest of her outfit since there are no weapon cosmetics in the game. "Nero." she says befret of inflection as she looks around the flying mesa. Not much chance of her Imp abilities helping her out here. She'll have to try and stay ahead of Nero through speed. "I understand this is just a game. But you're cutting into the time I could us to find a Thunder Spear."
Nero	Scarlet Saber smirked, regarding Palmira with amusement in her eyes. "Mhmhmhm! So you arrive! Excellent." She pulls her main weapon from the ground, and points it at her arrived opponent. "Truly, if you wish to obtain a storied 'Thunder Spear', then there is one simple thing that you must do." She brings up the duel prompt, with basic settings, and then transmits the menu to Palmira. "Defeat me in single combat and be on your way! I shall decide here and now just how far along you have come!"
Cirra Constantine	"You do realize." Palmira says as she lifts her hand towards the accept prompt. "We've never actually met before." and presses the 'accept' button. Causing the timer window to appear over both peoples heads. "Though I must admit, I thought you'd have picked a more public venu. This seems almost secluded." she stands still, almost relaxed in stance as the timer continues down, only one hand on her spear. "Unless there are invisble bleachers in these flying islands."
Nero	"Foolishness! We have been on the field of battle at least once or twice. ...Perhaps." Scarlet Saber tilts her head. "...I think. Maybe." Haven't they? Have they seriously never actually met in person? No way. That was prepostrous. Regardless, the prompt is accepted. And the duel is initiated with a message in both of their views. "Never mind the venue! Now is not the time for roaring crowds and screams of excitement. Now is the time you and I to clash!" The timer counts down. 5...4....3...2....1... And she launches forward. "Now! Let us begin!" She declares, lashing out with a normal attack, two swings of her broadsword. One from the side, and then an uppercut!
Tomoe	SO Tomoe had to see this fight, she really did she was fond of Cirra and was curious about what Nero could do in a game where she hopefully couldn't bring her powers to beat. She wanted to see how good both of them were as players. She was curious to see just how good they were at using full dive so here the towering purple haired Salamander watched with rapt attention. "Oh don't worry MMO Today may very well get a feed of this fight. Thinker always keeps an eye on us we're a scource of a lot of content." She's hovering there in the air with her wngs out and a big old grin on her face.
Cirra Constantine	Palmira looks over at Tomoe as she speaks up. Well there's one observer. "No idea who that is." She puts her eyes back to Nero, watching the counter tick down. When Nero announces the start of the match, Palmira leans forward slightly as the Scarlet Saber charges forward, she elects NOT to go for the agility dodge, and swings the double ended spear around in her hands, parrying the first strike to make it swing wide, and bringing her double ended weapon across horizontally to block the upper swing. "Whats my real hair color?" She asks while in weapon lock with the Redheaded Nero. Palmira leaps back and drops down, sweeping her legs to quickly follow it up with her spinning spear!
Nero	Weapons clash, and Scarlet Saber locks eyes with Palmira, blinking at the question posed. "....Ah....well! ....I mean...perhaps..." She smiled and averted her eyes. "Ah...Ah ha ha ha ha!" She didn't know. Have they seriously not met face to face before? Bah! They would have to take care of that some other time! And so the salamander shook her head and broke the deadlock at the same time as Palmira, yelping at the sweep kick which she jumped over, and then the spinning spear which she brought her own blade up to guard against. Her HP guage went down a little, but it was still green. "Trying to distract me with idle talk! A foolish tactic!" Her wings formed and she leapt back, ascending into the air about two meters, and then she stopped, one hand held out. Orange runes formed around her body as she spoke the arcane tongue, several pertinent sections being chosen and placed in front of her. "Inferno!" A plume of flame formed, and then exploded into a furious whirlwind, aiming to barrel right into the imp! "Ah ha ha ha ha! Yes! Feel the fury of my magics! Ah ha ha ha ha ha!" ...Nero please,
Cirra Constantine	"If it's foolish and it works." Palmira says as she gets back to her feet, "It's not so foolish." But Nero is already up in the air, arranging words of powers. Palmira staring up at her with fist clenched anda frown etched on her face. The Imp woman isis envolped in fire. Which bursts out into a streak as Palmira breaks out of it, her health bar having only depleted about one quarter of what a full hit should do, as a charm on a chain held in her fist turns to dust. A fire protection item, only good for one use. Does she have more? It makes ssense to be prepared for fire against a Salamander. "I'd rather not." Palmira holds out her own hand, "Kalc born is!" as the purple words surround her, a portion of the air seems to split apart, and thorns of darkness grow out, weaving a thick bramble of dark thorns between hte two duelists.
Tomoe	Tomoe then is hit they likely don't know who thinker is. "He's an old friend who surived SAO and runs a news sights about goings on in VRMMORPGS." She keeps it at that as the fight is now well under way she's going to sit back and watch she'll answer more questions once the battle is over and things are just starting to heat up.
Nero	"Kh-! A fire protection amulet! Well played, Lady Consta- Palmira! Well Played!" Scarlet Saber says with a hint of irritation. Her brilliant red rose of flame, denied! But that was fine! Her wings flared to life and she turned, bursting forward into flight. "You will have to do better than mere parlor tricks in order to best me!" Once a respectable distance away, she veered around...and then shot forward, right towards her opponent. While doing so, she drew out her secondary weapon, dual wielding. And her main weapon, the broadsword took on a red glow. She was preparing a Sword Skill. "Vertical Square!" The salamander unleashed a furious four hit combo that slashed right through those dark brambles, cleaving a path right to Palmira. Some of them scraped at her before dissipating, lowering her HP into the yellow, but that was fine! Normally, there would be a wait after using a Sword Skill, but... Scarlet Saber smirked and her second sword, a long, thin one, lit up green. Another Sword Skill! "Horizontal Cross!" Now right in front of the imp's face, she unleashed two deadly slashes in a cross, aided by the wind, before spinning and adding a third diagonal strike to shatter the wind cross to pieces!
Cirra Constantine	This is what Cirra had to fear the most in fighting a higher level opponent in a duel. Sword Skills. Without enough time or experience to find and develop her own collection of moves, her attack power is lower then Nero's. The Brambles still manage to do their job, slowing Nero for just a moment and inflicting more scratch damage as she flies through them. With the red glow of the bastard sword, Palmira brings up her spear - which have a higher active defense then most weapons, and puts as much effort as she can into deflecting blows as she flies backwards, trying to keep Nero from getting close enough to deliver a telling blow. But as her health bar steadily drops, that's exactly what happens. A second sword skill. The Horizontal Cross catches the Imp dead on, caught in the wind. "Nhh!" The third strike sending the Imp flying backwards through the air, and her health bar droping to just a touch above the red line. "Tem Kor est!" Palmira throws out a hand as words of power rotate, and the remains of the brambles catch her from her fall - a support spell cast on herself. Palmira banishes her wings and turns, running up and along the brambles as she mentally counts to herself in one inner voice, and chides herself with another. Foolish, Foolish. Of course someone with more experience playing the game would have more powerfull attacks. One, two, three, four- She leaps off the brambles and spreads her wings again, wheeling around through the air to come back on Scarlet Saber. "Lance Eclipse!" But that doesn't means she hasn't develope /some/ Sword Skills. The Imp rolls in the air, wings tight to her body, as for four seconds - the sun goes dark, it doesn't stop others from flying, but for four seconds she flies faster then others for burning her wing timer three times faster. For four seconds Palmira zips around like a black lightning bolt, and comes down on Nero, her spear - a trident really with sharpened sides, slashes at Scarlet Saber with speed difficult to track.
Nero	"Hmhmhm!" Scarlet Saber chuckled once Horizontal Cross landed, sending Palmira just a touch above red and sailing downwards. But that was not the end, no. She righted herself with a support spell and began to mount a countr assault. And unfortunately, for some seconds, she would be immobile. It was the perfect chance. And it was a chance that the Imp took fully! Lance Eclipse. The name of her Sword Skill. It was quite something! Even the Salamander was impressed at it's movements, being struck this way and that with no chance to defend. Her HP dropped and dropped and dropped, until it dipped into the red. But eventually, it ended, and Scarlet Sabet came out of that storm...alive. Barely. She had red virtual wounds all over her avatar, but she merely smirked. "Mhmhmhm...! Not bad, Lady Palmira! However!" She pointed her bastard sword at her opponent. "You have failed to defeat me when you had such a prime opening. Now..." She twirled her main weapon, hefting it onto her shoulder. It glowed a burning red. "...I shall show you my strongest Sword Skill!" Her secondary weapon took on the same glow. And then her entire body flared up into flames. There was a moment of stillness... And then a blur. "Laus Saint Claudius!" What!? No! That was one of her sword skills in real life! Did she really bother to spend the time replicating it in ALO!? She did! And like lightning, she bursts past Palmira, unleashing a fiery dual bladed slash at just the right moment. And it ended in an explosion of flame, tousling her hair and clothes from behind.
Cirra Constantine	Just barely short! Damnit, she under estimated Scarlet Saber's defnse power - which is impressive since she had considered her to have a defese of 'yes'. Palmira lands on the flying mesa, skidding backwards as she comes to a stop. She looks up at Nero as she prepares a third Sword Skill. "Tch-" Cirra is aware that the 'rules' of ALO can be broken, or at least there are built in caveats for those that can find them. She hasn't come anywhere near that position though. Those secrets are for people capable of seeing an entire system at once. "Nor brin kas!" Palmira shouts, one hand out in front of her. A self heal? A defense spell? No, Nero's finall attack lands, a large red wound appearing across Palmira's side and she drops to her knee. No, Palmira was suddenly less interested in winning then in testing something else, the limit of Nero's ability. The Darkness Mine generated at her feet and limpieted on to Nero suddenly explodes, even though Nero likely won the match. Palmira wants to see if that health bar will still budge that last few pixels.
Nero	What is that girl doing? A heal spell? No that was for Undine. Defense? Hmph! It hardly mattered. And so Scarlet Saber blew right past! And once the smoke cleared, she smirked and turned around. "Mhmhmhm! Well, Lady Palmira! It would seem tha-" BLAM She doesn't get to finish her sentence. The explosion knocks out the rest of her HP, and her avatar dissipates into a remain light, joining the Imp in death. ....Welp.
Cirra Constantine	It's a small comfort to know, that Nero's avatar is not invincible. "It seems I can still lose, yet win at the same time." Palmira's remain light surges as she speaks. "But now I'm out two days of skill leveling. I hope you're willing to take responsibility for that."
Nero	The red remain light that made up Nero's avatar rumbled with her laughter. "Hah! Foolishness! This was a trial! And it was a trial that you have not yet overcome!" That flame began to dissipate soon after though. "We shall meet again, Lady Palmira! For it has not been decided! Ah ha ha ha ha ha!" And then she logged out. Well then.