1 vs 1 Battle Arena

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The shields buckled, the spear moved forward.

The boy coughed, ad the spear lost focus, swiveled, and dug into the ground as the boy stumbled forward sputtering and gripping his head. He swore and weaved from side to side, the spear forgotten on the ground. He shook, and looked up at Zaubar, and the core user could see motes dancing behind his grey eyes. He let out a scream.

The door opened.
The door vomited.

Books, some ancient and bound with highest honor, other collections of loose paper yellow with age. Weapons, old and new and of ever make imaginable. Cars, ships, plains, spacecraft. Fine clothing, money, assorted jewels. Animals, some defying all description. Odds and ends of every make, and is Zaubar were to look up he would see that the planet had gained a new moon. Billy, tumbling head over heels amid a bunch of flouting little motes.

On the ground, the boy lay on his hands and knees and dry heaved into the grass. That table had been a part of him, a piece of his living soul, not just a spell. Darn it, he should have been careful about rejection.

Billy sat on the grass, looking no worse for the wear and looking around in the confused bill of the ignorant.

[Philote]

Zauber picked himself up off the ground and made his way over to Billy. "Hey are you alright?" he asked as he tried to focus on absorbing mana to heal himself.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

"I think so." he replies uncertainly, rising to his feet. "Should I be hurt? Oh my, Zaubar! I should be asking you that. What happened?"

This was cut off by a wild bellow as something white and apelike exploded out of a pile of swords, mouth frothing, eyes bloodshot and mad. It's body was adorned scars, cutting great canyons in it's white fur, and it's hands and claws were made out of obsidian. It looked around, grunting and breathing in great huffs, before spotting prey.

It shot off like a bullet, leaving nothing in it's wake save a long track in the snot. It impacted it's target with a sound like thunder cracking. The poor elephant like creature never stood a chance, the force of the impact scattering it's insides across the snow like an insane painting. Letting out a victory cry, the creature hunched down in the hole it made, and began to eat.

"The Devil of Hue Ma" croaked a voice from behind them. Billy turned to see the boy rising unsteadily to his feet, before covering his hand with his mouth and falling again. "Ever wonder what sort of god apes would create if they could?" he continued sickly from the ground. "That's it. Vicious, territorial, always hungry, focused only on it's own survival. The only thing it didn't eliminate were the troop of apes who worshiped it. You have to distract it until I can keep something down again. If you don't, it'll run off and kill everything on this landmass."

[Philote]

What to do, what to do, Zauber though. A series of images flashes through his mind as well as a faint whisper of Try This.

"Stay back Billy, and keep an eye on him."

A light welled up within Zauber. "Omni-Cast!" thousands of shield motes swirled around Zauber, all traveling to a point on his right palm. The collective motes are brought up into his chest and the spell is released.

Zauber's flesh fades away to be replaced by an elf-like being created out of the material of his shield walls. This new Zauber travels forward at high speeds towards his new target.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

food...eat..good...

It ripped a bit from the intruders flank, tearing into it with teeth like steak knives.

strong...fight...good...

It easily crunched into the bone, licking up the nutritious marrow. It looked up and saw a shining light.

sun...?

It hit him, and the barbaric god was thrown back across the landscape. The devil dug it's claws into the ground and skidded to a stop, leaving twin gashes in the landscape. It let out a insane scream that echoed for miles.

rival...ENEMY!!!!!

It took off toward the light. He didn't know what it was, but he was going to kill it. He reared back his stone fist and gave his own hit.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-y5ONP_Vsg)

[Philote]

Zauber's new body was constructed out of his shield wall energy, causing it to become extremely durable. Raising up a golden hand, Zauber catches the gorilla's larger fist and brings his light-covered mage tool towards it like a dagger with his free hand.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The god catches Zaubars tool with it's free hand. It rears back it's head and delivers a massive headbutt while pushing with it's legs.

[Philote]

A loud ringing sounds out like a bell being struck as the head connects. Zauber sinks down as the ground below him gives out before his shield does. The force seems to Zauber like an echo coming from far away, but he can tell that its done some damage.

"Lets see how you fight in the air" Zauber speaks out telepathically. Three motes of air circle out from his core and form a gale that causes Zauber to fly into his opponent and lift him into the air.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

Zaubar carries the god into the air. Since this was a feeling it wasn't families with it became, in it's own bestial way, afraid. Then, it went crazy. It rained blows on Zaubar with ever appendage it had available, screaming, biting and struggling with all the spite of a children tantrum.

On the ground, the two noncombatants watched.

"I thought gods" asked Billy, "could fly, and change the weather, and make more of themselves and things like that?"

"It's the god of some apes. To them, god is the strongest member of the troop. I'm sure it could do all those things, but it doesn't know it can." the boy replied, clutching his stomach.

[Philote]

Zauber breaks away from the gorilla because of the blows and lets him fall. Using his speed as well as his ability to fly, Zauber zooms around to strike from another angle and juggle the creature in the air where he couldn't fight back.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It remembered the birds as it fell. Great big birds that came out of the sky like flying death, snatching members of the troop away and carrying them off. They had been so afraid of the birds.

They had been the first thing he had killed.

It spun, the god of apes and savagery and fear, spinning into a ball in midair. The birds wouldn't let an ape fall, not at first. They would play with it first, a game to teach their children how to be quick, and sharp of eye.

The chick would be coming by any moment. When it did the beast lashed out with it's leg, turning into a whirling saw of death.

It had broken all of the chicks this way. Once it had broken enough, the adults had been broken.

[Philote]

The sound of a bell rings out again as Zauber is blindsided by a kick. His body shoots down and he is left in a crater in the Earth.

His body was not going to be able to move just yet after that blow, but deep within his Core, his mind was still active. A brown mote swims out from his body and injects itself into the ground. A tower of spikes erupts upwards towards the path the creature is falling on.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The pillar takes it completely off guard, jamming it in the stomach and sending it tumbling down along it's side, wheeling in the air over and over before slamming into the earth.

[Philote]

Arcane energies build up around Zauber and seep into his shielding skin, binding his body back together so that he can order it to move again. Rising up, he generates more arcane energy to flow around him. He was going to beat this creature with the skills of a true protection student. A red aura of light erupts from Zauber's Core of the Arcane and the arcane energies begin to surge around him. The landscape begins to transform, becoming soaked in mana and taking on an ethereal appearance.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It burst up. The red light, the haze hanging in the air? These things didn't matter. Killing this rival, ripping his flesh, tasting his marrow; these were the only things on it's mind. It wanted, desperately wanted, Zaubar to DIE! It raised it's arms, and slammed them forward.

Force erupted at the core user, a wave of pure hatred that tore across the landscape destroying everything in it's path, punching through the haze and the blizzard. (-3 smite, 7 left)

[Philote]

Zauber opened his hand and his mage's tool charged through stone from where it had landed to return to him. The petals of Titania's prison opened up and five motes flew in. Shielding, Protection, Guarding, Defense, Warding.  Five concepts formed into the energy of his motes. He would turn these energies on this creature to bind him. "Fairy Prison!" The spell traveled out to collide with the smite.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

It wasn't so much a collision. When the powers hit, it was more like the air warped, wrapped in on itself. The exploded.

The explosion, soundless but full of fury, unleashed a wave of force the cracked the earth, pierced the sky, and sent items hurling off to the 4 winds.

The cloud cover hadn't even had time to reform yet when the screaming is heard. It comes screeching through the air, fist clutched in one another, flying fist first at Zaubar. It had hurled itself.

Behind Zaubar, the air rippled. Just once.

[Philote]

Zauber was still within his overdrive created, shield body, but he had taken quite a few hits from this beast and did not want to risk any more. Blue and yellow motes fly out, directed by his mage tool. The ethereal landscape created by the presence of Zauber's expanded power reacts and forms into an elementally charged shield wall. A wall of rain, with water traveling faster than it naturally could, formed and a mote of frost formed in Zauber's hand to complete the combination.

[Gentleman Vaultboy]

The ape cannonball pieced the veil of water, heedless of it, and sailed ever Zaubarwards.

[Philote]

The frost mote energizes and turns into an arcane charged beam extending towards the water that now covered the ape.