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Mortimer Balman      Mort claps his hands to his cheeks. One more to go. Hopefully he can pull this off, have a chance at advancement.. He fears, deep down, that he's getting too old for this sort of thing. Not that he'd ever say or admit it to anyone. But the concern is there, nonetheless. There's a signal for him to go out, the arena is ready, cameras, everything.

     (Music: Babymetal - Karate)

     Mortimer's fiery mane is flared out wide behind him as he approaches the arena, faces flittering through the flames, but it doesn't burn anything it touches. One hand is lazily holding a very well made, ornate pipe that he smokes steadily as he ascends into the arena on his side. The burning mane shrinks until it's more like a wreath than a cape, and he rests his hand on the hilt of a short soldier's katana hanging off of his hip.

     He'll wait until Tomoe climbs in too to put out the pipe and slip it into a pocket.
Tomoe Tomoe has worked on and off with Mort for a long time but she'd never sparred with the old man ever. Which has her interested given she knows he's had a lot of experience and the last time she really saw him was aiding the angry Imperial Ghost ship get one last salvo off at those who had killed it and it's crew. Which had saved a colony in the process she watches Morts' entrance as he doing it quite the entrance all things considered.

She's there towering as she normally is clad in the mix of plate and cloth armour that is her signature look.

She grins at Mort as he's got his pie and his own two-handed blade, today shes' not got a sword and board out.

Nope she's got a Naginata of some sort from the looks of it and bows slightly to mort as she gets the weapon ready.

"Going to be interesting to see what you got, Mort. I only ever seen you in action and I have been curious to see how we measure up."

The arena started to take shape about them and it looked like some kind of ruined old Greek Temple of some sort. Tomoe grins at the appearance and she'll wait to make sure Mort is ready.

"Here we go."

With that She's moving right in on Mort swiftly as she can go with her weapon she won't strike till she's sure Mort is ready and will strike out the weapon in a probing attack.
Mortimer Balman      Mort barely has time to get his sword out- it's not a two handed one, it's too short for that, especially for someone of his height- to catch the naginata before it comes into his face. But.. He's a little slow, and while his sword stops the blade, there's a gash along his cheek. Red streams down against the black fur. "Heh. You're faster than you look, Tomoe.. But then, so am I."

     Within the same second of making this statement he's pushed the naginata back and he is in Tomoe's metaphorical grill, trying to crowd her so she can't use the polearm properly, going into a flurry of carefully controlled slashes that flow together all very nicely and smoothly.. Though, Tomoe might notice- the sword style he's using, there's no 'finishing blow' sort of maneuver. Every slash, every strike, seems designed to line him up for another attack rather than create an end point with which to finish off a target.
Tomoe Well, here they are going.

"I get that a lot Mort."

She'd long been ingo Parkour as a hobby long before the Multiverse knew her and it was the one skill of note she had which she felt was actually her own.

"Let's see how this goes."

She notes to Mort and he's just going off right out the gate she didn't expect him to hold back anything, why would he its a tournament and that would not be a very good idea at all given how hard Mort hits, She's not used to getting hit that hard, it's clear he' in her face and she's doing well to survive the onslaught and know she's going to have to hit mort as hard as she can, as fast as she can or it's going to end very badly for her.

So that's when the magic comes in she'll leap back landing on a partially broken pillar and flare her wings out before moving to dive bomb at Mort.

"Well now, so this is how it is going to go?!"

She's going to try to not sit still as if she keeps getting Mort in her face she knows how this is going to end.
Mortimer Balman      Wait, she has wings? Shit she has WINGS. Mort didn't recall her having those before, so when she flies away she gets away pretty readily.. And then she comes back down, and the naginata catches him in the shoulder and pins him to the ground. "Agh!" Yeah.. That's not fun, that's pretty painful. But.. It allows him to grab the haft of her polearm and keep it in place. "How 'bout this!?" His mouth opens far wider than it looks like it should, and he starts breathing a wide and unfocused gout of flames on Tomoe.
Tomoe Tomoe had just never been in a situation where she could really fly around Mort, such in the warp, what actual natural light. Still, she's in the air and grinning as she does so. Mort is not without option she knows he can do things with fire quite well.

She gets hit, but avoided a direct hit as she keeps to air with the intent to keep harrying mort for the foreseeable future rather than directly engage him.

She'll dive bomb again but that's just the set up she'll land on another part of the temple chanting in Norse.

Golden runes will dance about her body and then comers the lightning bolts from on high. She's also still smouldering a bit from Mort's last attack as well.
Mortimer Balman      Mort grunts and tries to roll out of the way of Tomoe's assault. It.. Sort of works? But some of those bolts strike close enough to him that the electricity jumps to the thing that's conductive, tnat happens to be him! That's very painful! But his boots are designed so that he can feasibly survive being hit by lightning, and the lightning can be seen passing out from the soles of said boots and into the ground. His fur is still fried, though, and he's starting to look a bit haggard! He needs more space..

     Once he's back on his feet, he starts making smoke. Tons of smoke, even. It's greasy, thick, and foul-smelling, and it's coming out of both his mouth and the vents on the back of his neck. So much of it that it darkens the arena and makes the battle difficult to see. So shrouded, Mortimer moves around the battlefield.. Until he sees an opportunity, and leaps up to stab his katana through Tomoe's leg and drag her down into the darkness!
Tomoe Tomoe is keeping on the move here, she doesn't get as much of a hit as she would like. Still, it is going fairly well all things concerned she's not a smear yet against someone like mort and is going to take that as a win.

Mort is still on the move and the attack as he now uses a move she hasn't seen before he does catch her with a hit leaving a jagged wireframe wound in the attack's wake. She, however, is able to break free the hard way. She cries out as she gets clear and Mort would get a full on swing from the Nagaiana for his trouble.

She'll attempt to pull away now and keep to the air trying to use her flight for all she can muster and she starts to look about the temple getting a few ideas as she does so.
Mortimer Balman      Unfortunately for Tomoe, the smoke is extremely good at masking Mort's presence.. Her assault strikes at nothing until finally hitting a pillar. She was chasing silhouettes and ghosts the whole time! But.. Where is Mortimer, then?

     The answer is closer than she thinks. She'll have just enough time to register there's a pair of glowing red eyes staring at her through the smoke, and then.. Everything is fire. First from his breath, which is bad enough. But the smoke roils and sparks and there is more than enough oxygenation..

     A few boiling ripples of explosive flame bubble up from under the smoke's surface, and then quite suddenly all of it catches at once, causing a horrific fireburst that threatens Tomoe not only with burning, but suffocation, as all the atmosphere is being ignited and pushed away at once..

     Fortunately for her, this is a controlled fuel-air explosion, there will not be a vacuum effect once the ignition is over.
Tomoe Tomoe is not out of the fight just yet and she knows Mort is like a ghost in the smoke, she's very good at using the terrain and he's proving to be quite clever in his actions. The attack comes but Tomoe hears something she notice the ripple next and she's already moving, she just get the hell away from it vaulting from the tops of pillars as she goes barely getting clear of the blast which does cause her to push a few of her tanking cooldowns to avoid any of the splash damage.

"Yup, never want you as an actual enemy, Mort."

She notes before she'll fly up if she can't find him? She'll just area bombard the whole smoke area, light and lighting rains down into the smoking where she hopes to by shear volume of fire.
Mortimer Balman      Mort lets out a laugh as the few wisps of smoke either finish burning up or dissipate. "Hah.. I'll take that as a compliment. Yer not so bad yourself, To-shit!" And then he's running like hell, narrowly dodging and bounding off of the pillars avoid being hit by her Zeus-like wrath. "Shit shit shit shit shit shit shit shit!" It's actually rather comical watching him try to outrun lightning bolts and beams of light.

     As he's doing so, he'll puff off small balls of fire at her. They are made of the same sickly soulfire his mane is, and they make tiny screams when they explode.. It's almost more of a distraction attack than anything else.
Tomoe "That's what it was partially intended as!" She will keep moving as she knows Mort has some plan likely to make her life much harder in this fight. She does seem to least be able to make Mort keep his head down even if she doesn't connect with him. She'll fall back and this does keep her back form the strange bills they are screaming before they go up, She thinks it might be some kind of distraction.

She has some more idea to shake up mort and will get to it she'll fly down low by a number of pillars and trigger a sword ar, the blade of her spear glows and she flies along cutting the pillars causing many of them to collapse into the temple below hopefully some of it will find Mort.
Mortimer Balman      Still being just as much of a dodgy little bastard as Tomoe, Mortimer continues retreating from her attacks- and also falling scenery pieces- while puffing out fireballs. This is getting ridiculous!
Tomoe The tow just can't connect, then come the fireball he gets a good hit in on Tomoe there's a burst of flame, but she has an idea of where Mort is now. She takes a moment to recover from it then moves, following up where the attack come fro she head in there, uses her spear trying to just tag Mort before he can move again.
Mortimer Balman      Mortimer tries to break through the various attacks, but then he gets tagged by that spear.. And, briefly, pinned to the ground. "Argh!" Crud. He's getting worn down bad. The spear is sticking through his leg and into the ground, which is a problem for him.

     Trying desperately to make the amazon back off, he starts making wild swings with his sword. It's only a few steps above wild flailing, just trying to get enough room to break the spear so he can pull his leg free and get mobile again. Well.. As mobile as he can be with a crippled leg.
Tomoe The fight is just going on and on, with the smoke, and the terrain it seems Mort and her are just having a devil of a time being able to connect with each other for the most part. She finds Mort is now making another attack on her still he's managed to get lose and forces her to back off enough that he can get away. She doesn't say anything she's too focused on trying to hunt down Mort before he can rally and ruin her day so she keeps the pressure up and readies another sword art. She makes a single charing attack trying to catch Mort again and further slow him down. Still, his hits are slowly adding up and she has no idea at this point who will win.
Mortimer Balman      Okay.. This is starting to really hurt, and wear on. He needs to finish this fast- now, ideally, if he can- and put Tomoe down if he's going to win. And this is a tournament, after all. He's fighting to win.

     So, as Tomoe keeps the pressure up and pushing him harder.. He draws her in. Literally- reaching out to grab and bearhug her so she can't just fly away again. And this time, when his maw opens.. There's not gonna be anywhere for her to go when the flames deluge upon her like the wrath of some ancient pagan god of fire and volcanoes.
Tomoe This is really getting crazy and she knows it, Mort has proven to be very dangerous. This is proven once more as he's got her up close and just lets loose everything he has left upon her. Tomoe seems to vanish in the flames of Mort's fury and then afterward she'll seemingly go limp? Is it over?

She then acts hoping to catch Mort off guard she'll am to slam her head back into him break loose and just moves to take her spear and aim to pin him to the ground with it. As for her appearance it's a mess of wireframes now which kinda if alien looking but unlikely to phase mort with all Mort has been through.
Mortimer Balman      And that hits Mort dead on, despite his best efforts to dodge it. "ARgggh!" The spear indeed, pins him to the ground. But.. He's not done yet, it seems. He hasn't stopped. He's just.. Continuing, as if driven on by sheer spite or pain.

     He kicks one boot up to launch his sword, catching it in one hand, and then tries to shove it into Tomoe's chest like she's done to his abdomen.
Tomoe Tomoe gets Mort dead on she's caught him up close but it was not enough to take mort down, she didn't get as clean of a hit as she'd hoped. She doesn't have much time to regret it though as he pins her to a pillar with his blade she lets out a scream and that's at the point she slumps the match if over and the announcer calls out the win.

The moment Mort pulls his blade out the people running the arena will banish the effects on them and the temple vanishes.

"...Looks like I got my answer Mort."

She notes as she gets up and shakes her head.

"So.... want to come back to my food stall for a bit?"
Mortimer Balman      The fight being over.. Mort huffs and puffs and grimaces as the Shrine undoes all the damage, and then he gives a V sign for the cameras with a wink. And then Tomoe says the magic words: food stall. "Shit yeah, I'm *famished!* I'll follow wherever you go, Tomoe."
Tomoe Tomoe grins "Hope you like sea food as thats most of what I'm serving." She notes as she'll get up pose for the crowd then lead Mort away to the food!