Poison Through the Clouds. (Ardere vs Amagumo)

Something happened, but Kami wasn't sure what until something dropped into the water next to him. When taking a quick closer look he saw a scale like object and he could tell it was the same spell his enemy had used at the start of his smile. Meaning he must have shot ten scales in total. But what now? Kami wouldn't just come out of his hideout, his magic was reaching it's end and he didn't want to attack a enemy which position he didn't knew head on. After think a bit he decided. He climbed out of the water and shaked his body a bit, to get the water out of his cloaths. Then he jumped.. Kami flew through the air, high up and broke through the head of the cloud with his upper body. He got a clear look at his surrounding, behind him was the grass area and infront of him the forest and somewhere there was Ardere. Before falling down again Kami gave the forest a down looking smile as to say 'come and get me' then he took a deep breath and landed, right behind his cloud puppet...
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35 / 100 Magic
left hand charged

Ardere suddenly saw the cloud guy jump into the air and look at him. They now knew each other's position. He wasn't sure what to do next exactly. He couldn't just run in there randomly. If he ran in there he would most likely run into an ambush. He decided to just sit there and wait for his opponent. He literally sat down with his legs crossed. He would wait until the guy either ran out of magic or he decided to come out. He wasn't going to budge until something happened. He wasn't gonna fall for some guys trap. Not today and not ever. He began to take deep breaths and relax. This fight was now getting boring again. There wasn't really much he could do about it though, without getting hurt of course.

This was so... boring, they would both not get anywhere like this. Kami had to think of a plan of some sort, which was the moment he stared at his copy and held his breath....
A figure came shooting out of the cloud and towards the forest. Kami didn't knew his enemys position so he had just aimed towards the tree he had crashed through at last. He had seen that when he had his head stretched out of the cloud and now he was moving. This would be... VERY interesting.....
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35/ 100 Magic
Left hand charged

Ardere was sitting in the tree and saw some sort of figure charging towards him. He thought it was the man but you could never be sure with all of these clouds around. He didn't want to charge at it not knowing whether it was a trap or not. He couldn't waste his magic on the guy either so he had to think strategically. He unbraided his knife from his hair again and jumped up into the air so when the figure came towards him he would toss his knife at it. If the man was hit by it he would have the knife stuck in him slightly. It was getting a lot harder to make smart moves as things progressed. He needed to think things through more to win. He wasn't going to lose to this guy.

Kami smiled.
His plan didn't properly worked as wished, but still worked good enough.
~a few seconds before~
Kami looked at his cloud copy and smiled. He took it and held it up, searching for the best way to throw it. As soon as his hands let go of the cloud, he jumped after it, jumping up in a low degree so he could just look out of the cloud. Up in the air he could see Ardere jumping out of the tree he had thrown his cloud copy towards, now he knew where that guy was. He quickly spinned backwards, hitting with his feet against a tree and using it as springboard to jump up. He he left the tree through it's roof, coming out behind Ardere. Since that guy had been focusing on Kamis copy, he had used the chance to get himself into position and now that both guys were again up in the air, he had the advantage again. Magic Circles appeared on his feet again and he kicked of the milky cloud wall, charging towards Ardere ready to slam his left, cloud covered fist into him...
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30/100 Magic
Left hand covered

Spoiler:

Ardere had just thrown a knife at a cloudy figure rather than the cloud guy. He then smelled something coming up from behind him it was coming in fast. He quickly turned upside down in mid air and gather a large amount of poison in between his legs. This was the last time he'd get t o use this spell so he better make it count. As the guy charged towards him he spun in a sideways 360 motion about to collide with the man and his cloud covered fist. Hopefully he would be able to overpower him and win this collision. This would waste most of his magic and he would have to rely on his physical skills rather than his magic from here on out.

Magic: 10/100

Spoiler:

Kami was surprised that the guy turned around when he charged towards him, not only were both in midair, no his enemy even noticed him. How could he have found him? All of Kamis' traces had been covered, even his smell shouldn't be as strong due to his bath before. Well it didn't matter before, by now he already knew what his enemy was going to do when repeating the old movement again and his leg got covered in poison. Kami didn't waist his time, his magic was as good as gone and he wanted to finish this already. He striked his fist forward, shooting a lightning from it and towards Arderes chest, the he frontfliped again and kicked the cloudy mist coming from his feet. He jumped up, forward and then again straight towards Ardere, charging towards his back. The kick had almost hit him, but he had been as lucky as to just get half of his kimono ripped away by it. Now he charged towards the guys back and would reach him shortly..
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1 step left
Charges out

Ardere had only enough magic to produce one more spell. He couldn't just waste the last of his magic. He had to make it count. A shot of lightning was coming towards him as he formed his poison kick. His spinning in mid air helped him as he tried to maneuver out of the way but it still scraped the side of his chest burning him. He winced and continued with his kick but it was dodged and he ripped the guy's kimono. Then the guy flew around him and charged towards his back. He quickly did a back flip over the guy and now was going to land on a tree branch. Both of them were almost out of magic so these last few moves would decide the battle.

Kami already thought his enemy would again dodge, with his quickness. So he hadn't aimed for his enemies back for real, instead he was now charging inside the forest. He opened his arm, slowing his fall like this due to the air resistance and landed. Infront of him he found his cloud spiked into the ground by a knife. He had noticed this earlier when his enemy attacked his cloud copy and now he would use it against him. After taking out the knife, the cloud broke off into multiple pieces, unusable for him. So he turned around and ran towards the grass area. Carefull not to be attack from above and therefore not running past the tree Ardere had landed on. As he left the forest behind he would see his cloud had vanished and so the field was open and visible to the eyes now. This would be a heck load of fun and he would then turn around, shouting at his enemy to come at him.
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Got your knife in right hand...

Ardere saw the cloud guy run into the forest and shout at him provoking him to attack. He smirked, this fight was getting fun again but then he noticed something. The guy had his knife. His smirk went to a serious look as he then jumped down from the tree to lower branches until he reached the ground. Why don't you come over here! He yelled. He was pissed the guy had his knife but he had never had this much fun fighting in his life. Maybe the guy would like to train sometime or something. The real fight had only just begun. It was time to kick some ass! He didn't want to run at him head on just yet though. He would probably be ambushed. His first order of business was to get his knife back and that he would do.

Kiyuu started to circle around Ardere. His right hand held on to the round haft of the strange blade, while his right hand held a stone. He picked it up a few seconds ago and would use it, not only to increase his strength, but to increase his attack vitality as well. He kept focusing on every single movement performed by his enemy, having his left should stretched towards Ardere while is right shoulder, as well as the whole arm, was hidden behind his body. His feet slipped over the body, instead of being lifted up to walk. Like this Kami was able to enhance his agility and move fast away into any direction. As he and his enemy stared each other down like this, Kami started to walk towards Ardere, slowly... moving like before, and so he got into his enemies reach....

Ardere stared down at the man as he circled him. What would he do next? He then had picked up a rock and slowly walked towards him. What was he doing? This guy was quite strange but he had to beware of that knife. It wasn't extremely sharp but it would hurt. He waited for the man to make the first move. If Ardere did, he would probably lose the confrontation. Something was bugging him really bad, why did he pick up that rock? That rock wouldn't do much damage to him so why do it? This guy was very peculiar. If they just stood there and stared at each other, this fight was gonna go nowhere very fast. He really wanted to win those jewels and the honor of beating the cloud guy.

Kami stoped moving when he stood right infront of Ardere, having him in reach of his fist. He then stretched forward, performing a palm strike with his left hand towards Ardere, aiming for his face. He wanted to bash his face in with the stone, but he didn't assume his first strike to hit, which was the reason for his next movements. As soon as his strike would be finished he would kick of the ground, performing a spinning frontflip above the guy, having his face directed towards him while his legs would be stretched in the air. He would the strike his right hand forward in a straight movement. Aiming with the blade at the guys shoulder. As the movement would be finished he would land on his feet, right behind Ardere again...

The guy came at him with a palm strike, immediately Ardere stepped to the right dodging and grabbed the man's arm. He then kicked the guy in the gut while still holding his arm limiting mobility. If that worked he would let go of the guy's arm and jump back into a fighting stance. This guy was probably skilled in hand to hand combat, but this was his specialty. The fact that he wanted to fight hand to hand made him smirk. This fight had gone from magic to pure physical skills. This could get very interesting.

Kamis' punch was stopped and a split second later he felt a kick hitting his gut, but Kami moved his upper body a few inches backwards as the kicks power was reduced by this, it still hurt through. But he didn't showed any emotion and just smiled inside of his mind. His arm which was being held performed a quick spinning motion, breaking free of the grab. In the same second Kami was kicking up with his knee, while his left elbow moved down, catching Arderes leg in it's current position. Then he would quickly stab the knife forward, aiming to hurt the food or the leg, depending on how much the guy was struggling...

The guy tried to elbow strike his leg and then stab it. In a split second Ardere quickly jumped back so his foot was caught by the elbow strike. It was minimal damage but it still hurt. He showed no sign of pain on his face but his walking would be slowed down a little bit now. He would have a problem running as fast. He would be able to keep the pain in for the most part though. This guy was definitely skilled in hand to hand combat. This was going to be no easy fight.

Kamis right hand moved on his bodies side again, hiding the blade like this. Then he charged towards Ardere again. As soon as he was in reach he kicked his left leg forward, against Arderes front leg, then jumped up with the right leg as well, spinned and performed a kick toward the right side of Arderes head. Ardere would either dodge or block the kicks, but catching a male man in midair was unlikely. If he would somehow manage to do so through, Kami would land on his hands pushing himself up again in a way his body would spin and get out of the grip again, if that was possible.

The guy threw a kick towards his left leg, he quickly jumped up into the air over the guy's leg. The man had then jumped into the air but so had Ardere making them at equal heights. He then threw a spinning kick in mid air, he quickly caught the man's leg and pushed it away from him as they both fell back down onto the ground. Now that that was done, it was Ardere's turn. He quickly dropped to the ground and swept his leg at the man's legs trying to trip them and if he was tripped he would kick the guy in his legs.

As Kamis kick was blocked he pushed his upper body down, landing on his hands with the legs still up in the air. As Arder now landed, as well and directly moved down into a sweep, Kami pushed himself up again in a fronfflip motion while striking the now, with two hands, holded knife straight towards Arderes body. If the attack would work out fine he would land on his feet again....

The man had jumped over Ardere's legs and tried to slash him with his own knife! He quickly rolled sideways dodging the strike at his legs and then he jumped up waiting for the next attack. This cloud guy seemed to also want to win this competition badly. Both of these two warriors had the same goal, to win. They wanted the jewels and the honor of defeating the other. With even attack strength, speed, magic, and motivations this fight was going to be a crazy one.

Kami landed on his feet again. This guys' movements were abnormal, he could disturb his moves halfway through and just roll away and to get the worst of it, that guy didn't even properly attacked. He only did one move and that was about it. Kami got angry...
"Would you mind attacking once in a while as well? This is getting pretty... onesided.." With that much said Kami made a swung palm strike with his left hand towards Arderes direction, then, together with the strike he rotated, pushing the right arm with the knife forward, aiming at Arderes guts. By moving the blade close to his body and with the extra speed of the rotation it was a quick a hidden move, as the blade again was hidden behind Kamis body and now flashed out like a snake. Kami through was sure that guy would catch his hand once again and made the proper preparations...

Ardere was getting pissed, he didn't appreciate the guy using his knife against him so when the guy ran towards him and tried to use a palm strike Ardere spit a green acidic liquid at the back of his head. This acid would cause the point of contact to itch intensely. While the guy was distracted and if the acid landed he would then punch the guy in the gut. If he dodged the acid somehow and followed through with his strike he would catch the man's hands as they came towards him and then kick him in the gut.

Magic: 5/100

Spoiler:

As Kami was spinning something hid the back of his head, something itchy... but he didn't care. His first quick palm slash missed, but then the knife slashed forward. Ardere did what Kami thought would happend and caught the knife, a big mistake. When Kami had hid the knife behind his back he changed his grip on it and now his hand was reaching through it's ring like haft while grabbing it. As soon as Arderes hand closed around Kamis wrist he moved his fingers, making the knife spin like a rotor around his hand. Ardere who would surely be surprised by this would most probably get his wrist cut open, if he was as lucky to not loose his whole hand. In the same moment Kami striked his left hand forward while moving forward, making it a quick jab against Arderes chin, whose supposed and repeated gut kick couldn#t be properly performed due to the range change...

Ardere's hand rather than his wrist had been cut causing some blood to pour out. It wasn't bad but his hand did hurt. He showed no emotion on his face but inside he was angered. The man had cut him with his own knife, this was unacceptable. He would never let this happen again but this didn't make him let go of the guy's hand and the knife so when the guy came at him with a jab he caught his fit and then he grabbed a hold of the blade and in one motion rose his knee up and extended it to kick the man back a few feet.

This man had insulted him. Cutting his hand with his own knife and trying to slit his wrist. He possibly could've bled out if that had happened. This man's intentions were no longer noble, they were insulting. He would defeat this man no matter what even if he had to lose some blood. This fight had just taken a serious turn.

As the knee came up there was only a few things Kami was able to do, so he kneed the knee with his own knee, changing it's direction so it didn#t hit it's target. The he pulled his now freed hand back which unintentionally made the hold blade cut through Arderes hand like it was cheese. Now fresh blood ran down the blade and Kami jumped up, not very big ar anthing, just high enough so he he could strike both his knees towards the guys throat while he pulled himself towards him with his left hand, which was still held by Ardere...