Kasei stood alone near the border to Tantari desert, he had just spent the last hour searching for Sovelis. The rebel flame wasn't mad, but he was getting annoyed. Sovelis had just tried to date Aria, and then he yells at Kasei and runs off. Not very polite in Kasei's eyes. "I know your around here, Sovelis, come out so I can teach you a lesson in respect." He said, his hand on his scimitar.

OOC: kay, this fight can go two ways, stat or RP, if its stat, i'll be using my alternate stats, if its RP, your screwed.

OoC: RP...
Sovelis was sitting in the shade of a sand castle he had made while out in the desert. "What is your problem Kasei? I'm not trying to date your grandaughter. Maybe if she was ten or twenty years older, but not now." Sovelis said from the top of his large sand castle.

Kasei's rage instantly washed away. Then something else crossed his mind. "Y'know, we never really did have that fight. Wanna see who'd win?" Kasei asked, drawing his scimitar. The rebel flame now looked eager, something not usually seen on his face.

Sovelis looked down at Kasei, and jumped off the sandcastle. "Its hard to make one without any water...But not immposible..." he said as he threw his cloak and staff aside, The Tempest Blade apearing in his hand as if it was summoned there. "Why do you want to fight me anways?" he asked the Rebel Flame.

"Because I am told you could be a potential threat to this kingdom, and I want to determine for myself if that assesment is true." Kasei stated, getting into an all-too-familiar stance, the one the other Kasei had used in the alternate timeline. Sovelis had no time to think about that, however, as the air moved slightly as Kasei appeared beside the tempest, preparing for a strike backed up by incredible streangth.

OOC: I shall give you but one post to control how you survive this attack, after this, I shall GM, or find someone to do it if you'd prefer that.

Sovelis reconized Kasei's technique, and knew how to counter it. Sliding slighty to his right, Sovelis spun on the ball of his foot, and brought his mechanical hand up. The steel-like fist struck out, open-palm, for Kasei's SolarPlexas. If he conected, he would knock the ai out of him, if not, he was wide open, and a dead man.

OOC: Dude, I failed biology. I think you aimed for my chest?

IC: Kasei's attack missed by a second, and Sovelis had the element of suprize, Kasei was thrown back a good distance, cluching his chest. The mercinary quickly recovered, however, and a thin ring of fire appeared, keeping Sovelis in the area and turning some sand to glass. Kasei got inventive, and formed a pillar of flames in the center of the ten yard wide field, so that Sovelis would be kept on his toes. The rebel flame attacked again, this time by manipulating the flames with his mind, three fireballs shot at Sovelis, the first two cought on his metal arm, but the third hit him square in the back, lighting his clothes on fire.

OOC: If ya know me at all, you should have realized I give my characters ingenuity, simply hitting him with a sword won't get him down, long, but he will be bleeding!

10 rupese if you cam guess where I got this idea...

OoC: No idea...sorry.

IC: Swearing loudly, Sovelis ripped the flaming robe off, and cast it aside in the sand. He now stode in the firey ring, with his tunic and pants on. "Those were new robes Kasei. Not some cheap cotton robes, but fine silk from the south! That cost me five-hundred rupees!!!" he said, leaping into the air, high enough to see over the pillar. "I'll take payment for my robes...IN BLOOD!!!" he roared as he threw a ball of shadows from the metal hand, that was blackened from the fire.

Kasei smiled, and the pillar of flames rose higher to stop the attack. It didn't work. The orb of darkness rushed at Kasei, who simply help out his hand, grabbed the orb when it got close, and crushed it in his fists. "Shadow and flame will be of no use here, tempest. Attacking me with such spells are futile." He said, then manipulated a few more fireballs. This time, however, Sovelis apparently learned, and cought all three on his arm.

The other-worldy metal was rather resiliant, but not enough. The heat that had slammed into it had heated it to a rather high temprature. "Grrr...Dammit!" Sovelis groaned in pain as he detatched his arm. The conections between the arm and himself could be unlatched by thought, or physicaly; making arm-locks rather usless in the case of Sovelis. It also made it easy for him to loose any extra weight; andin THIS case, a rather hot piece of metal attached to him. The hot metal arm hit the sand with a rather quiet THUNK. It was rather light, but still, heating metal up could be bad for anyone in contact with it.

Sovelis landed and looked at Kasei. "Darkness and Fire, eh? what about Water or Light? I'm not to good at manipulating the basic elements, but the two higher elements, Dark and Light, seem to come to me naturally, since I am the light...and Sovel is the Darkness within me..." the Tempest said as his katana glowed with a pulsating light. "Let's continue...shall we?" he said, holding his sword in a one-handed stance.

"You are too confident." Kasei said bluntly, then attacked. As usual, he used his speed to appear in front of Sovelis, and attacked with a jab to the stomach. The tempest blocked it with his sword, barely, by knocking the rebel flames blade aside. Kasei jumped back for fear of a counterattack, and became content with creating a wall of flame between himself and Sovelis, all the while sending fireballs that the mage barely blocked.

He had seemed to move without thinking, his sword blocking Kasei's, then deflecting the fireballs. I need to stop defending...draw him in close and strike... Sovelis thought as he slashed at the firey wall between the Tempest and Rebel Flame. "Now I'm through running!" he shouted as he used his own powers for once. His mind bent the fabric of time around him, speeding up his own reaction time. To Kasei, it looked like Sovelis had sudenlly gotten VERY blurry. Sovelis couldn't hold it very long, so he ran at Kasei with his amplified speed, and struck at his head with the dull side of the his katana.

A spark flew at Kasei's blade barely collided with that of Sovelis. The rebel flame looked at his opponent with amazement, this was the first time he was outmatched in speed. This would prove a very interesting fight. Kasei took the moment of Sovelis's strike to jump back, and fade into his ring of fire, becoming the flame itself. No matter how fast Sovelis was now, his speed didn't give him sight to counter Kasei as he was struck numerous times by fireballs that seemed to come from nowhere. The pillar in the middle of the ring vanished, Kasei in its place. The mercinary was charging a spell, and then released it. 8 small orbs of white magic flew at Sovelis, each one hit into the tempest with increased force, though they seemed to do nothing else than hit him hard.

The rebel flame looked on at his opponent, a smile on his face. "What say you, if I should reveal myself?" Kasei asked, but did not wait for an answer as a dark shroud enveloped him. The cutain of darkness lifted moments later, revealing an old man, clad in a brown robe wielding a scimitar. The new Kasei had long, gray hair and a beard to match. Even though he was old, he looked as strong as ever. "You see before you now my true form, one that I only show to the best of opponents." Kasei called out, then struck. His attack was to fast to see, and it left sand in the air. Sovelis now had a fresh cut across his middle, Kasei was behind him, looking very tired.

"I have no true form, my friend." Sovelis said as he spun to face Kasei, and aimed a kick at the Rebel Flame's stomach. "All I have is a demon whom I have no want to have!" he said as he wrapped time around his leg as it speed for Kasei's guts. I hope this works...if Mitcheal can kick through Kasei's gut, then so can i!!!

A smile formed on Kasei's face, and he cought the leg of the tempest, all power it had drained away. "You seem to think that you are on the same level as Michael. You have no such power." Kasei says, then picks Sovelis off the ground by his foot and tosses him close to the ring wall, burning more of the tempest. "Michael is . . . unique, while you are not. It takes more than a withered demon to defeat me!" Kasei yelled out as he appeared at Sovelis, lifted him up with an arm, and punched him in the gut, all the while looking older. "Let us see how you face 'darkness', Sovelis"