The Search For Mana

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The man's eyes turned to Ember, who's fireball had deterred his sure kill, and whipped his sword arm around, sending the sword and 5 other blades from inside his arm towards her like serpents attacking their prey.

[Vosur Aekira]

He observed the situation, not sure when to attack due to Dante getting between himself and the armor-wearing attacker, so he put away the card to quickly unbelt the sword-and-sheath set to take a better counter-offensive stance. Reacting to seeing him attacking Ember, he ran in and reached an uppercut-strike to knock away the blades before he resheathed the sword to resume his stance as he jumped backwards to give himself more reaction time. "Anyone who uses spells, keep your distance and save your energy. All you'll do is make him attack you." he spoke out to the others. "That armor has to have weak points in it somewhere, but you would have to get close enough to strike them. I can't see any at the moment and the way those blades extend makes it hard for me to get a good throw in."

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

Lazaryos took the opportunity, as the blades were retracting, to make a surprise attack on the human. However, the man's left arm swung over in his direction and five other blades emerged from that arm and headed for Lazaryos. As a reaction, the scythe took control of Lazaryos' body and spun the scythe, striking the tips of the blades to diverge them of their course, and rushed in. Got you now, you sonova.... The man finally turned his head to Lazaryos' direction, the maniacal smile bigger than before, as the deflected blades turned around and headed straight for Lazaryos' back...

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Ember was glad that Vosur blocked the attack heading for her but she growled at what he said afterward. "But if he's attacking me, it's giving someone else a shot to attack him!" She snapped at him. She saw the blades headed for Lazaryos' back and snarled. She sent a fireball at the blades to deflect them from their target. After she threw the fireball, she started to walk to the right around the armored human, waiting expectantly for an attack that she would need to dodge.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono was making his way towards the area that Lazaryos had attacked, and was going to time his swing to be just a second after Ember's to see if her idea was true.Hopefully this guy is really that cocky to think he can deflect three people with just one-directional defense, or we'll need the kind of teamwork our truce shouldn't be able to pull off...

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The man frowned a bit dramatically as his blades were knocked from their course again. The deflected blades retracted and re-emerge, 4 towards Chrono and Lazaryos, and 2 towards Ember.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Ember ran towards the blades that came at her. "I'm not just going to sit back and do nothing!" She declared quickly then went into a slide along the sand just in time to evade the blades. She swung her legs around in an attempt to knock the Normal off his feet, quickly rolling away afterward. After she rolled, she swiftly got up and distanced herself from the Normal once again.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The kick didn't knock the man off his balance, but it was enough to deter his other arm's attack. Lazaryos took the opportunity and used the scythe to pave his way, sliding it against the blades. The man whipped his other hand around, but it stopped short, meeting the butt of the scythe. At this point, the scythe had already taken over his body, and took the sword arm, twisted it, and tried the push the sword into it's user's neck. However, the human was more than vigilant to try to keep the blade from being pushed into himself. "I can use some help here!"

[Vosur Aekira]

"That girl's going to get herself killed..." he muttered as he dashed around to try to keep himself out of direct line-of-sight of the Cursed Armor-bearer while he was looking for an opening to attack or a weak-point in the armor to try to fling a card-blade. Upon seeing Lazaryos locking blades with the human, he rushed the human to try to see if he could end the battle quickly, unsheathing his sword and making one slash to the only weak-point he could see in the armor: between the helmet and the chest-plate.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The human smiled, seeing Vosur rush to try to take advantage of the lock. "I was hoping you would fall for that." He relaxed his muscles and let Lazaryos drive his blade into his own neck. As Vosur's blade reached his neck, the hilt and handle of the sword rotated on the man's neck and blocked the blade. Lazaryos backed out fast, pulling Vosur with him, as the hilt sank into the man's neck and whip-sword blades emerged from his body almost everywhere, even through his armour. "Come! I will bathe in your blood and take your weapon! I WILL have immortality!"

[Srgntcuddles]

Dante was coming at the man from behind when he shot out the blades from all over. He was cut in a few places but didn't notice. It seemed like no one saw him coming and it gave him a perfect chance to strike. He grabbed onto the man's neck from behind and put him in a choke hold. His intention was merely to subdue him without killing him. But it could also be mistaken as him holding him still for an attack by the others.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The man felt the tug and let loose a couple blades from his neck and nicked through the edges of Dante's hands, causing some fairly high levels of bleeding. He then removed his chest armor since Dante didn't seem to let go, so he could let the blades loose from his body.

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

"This guy is insane...and not in a good way..." Ember thought to herself after the human's exclamation. Once she saw the chest armor get removed in response to Dante not releasing the human, a grin moved over her face. "Idiot..." She quickly sent a fireball at the human's chest, being sure not aim where Dante's arms were in case he still didn't let go and had reestablished his grip or something.

[Shinzuu Katame: Her Tolfy]

The blades quickly deterred from Dante and wrapped around his arm, almost forming a gauntlet. The man used his new gauntlet arm and swatted the fireball away and then did a flip onto his back, landing on top of Dante with enough force to make him let go. He then got up onto his feet and rushed to Ember, only to be kicked from the side from Lazaryos, who fell back onto his rear with a large pound onto the ground. Lazaryos growled a bit. "(censored) dammit!!"

[Srgntcuddles]

When the man landed on Dante the wind was kinda forced out of him. He got up to chase after him when he went for Ember. He watched Lazaryos try to stop him and fail. Once close enough he jumped and grabbed his legs with the intention to trip him. In reality he tripped his self otherwise he would have tried again to put him in a choke hold. Dante was bleeding more and more over the course of the battle only just realizing it. Hopefully he actually tripped him s he didn't get to Ember.