Genie and the Space-Man [Anri]

[Delashano]

Jenns mind was racing as she watched the impact of her attack, the arrows had cleared just enough of the gass for her to catch sight of what had occured or at least enough to gather everything important of note the newcomer had brought up his arms in defense against her arrows and for anyone else she was certain that would have been a very BIG mistake, but a few strange sharp noises preceeded her arrows hitting him and shortly after they were sent flying wildly off in random directions haveing expelled the vast majority of the energy imbued within them upon impact, he had been forced back a fairly significant amount but as far as Jenn could tell the damage had for the most part been mitigated successfully there was always the chance that there had been internal damage and that the armor had simply fared better but that was unlikely due to the lack of audible sounds of pain though of course that in of itself could be due to a high pain tolerance. The fact of the matter was that it appeared that he could defend well against her attacks BUT was not utterly immune to them which meant that perhaps she simply needed to wear down the defense, find weaker points in the armor. The arms were likely to be one of the more powerful points on him, he had stated that the armor grew stronger with damage and if his preferred method of self defense was his arms it made sense that they would be stronger and thus also make them even better as a preferred defense.

It became plain that it would become necessary to see exactly how much he relied upon active defense, if the rest of him was any weaker than his arms then she would need to aim accordingly, attack differently force at least one arrow through his defenses. The only problem of course was the every growing and thickening miasma, no matter how far she moved it grew larger and larger concentrating itself on their battlefield, it seemed unlikely that he had direct control over it though as the gass seemed to for the most part simply act as gasses should, it didnt move to capture or consume her it simply spread naturally save for when he pushed his way through it while moving. That was for the most part her only means of directly tracking his movements outside of the heavy footfalls, he was the source of the miasma and where he moved it was at its most dense though if things kept up as they were eventually the fog of probably-poison gas would almost certainly become dense enough to make his movements even less obvious to follow, thankfully when sound and sight failed she still had her ace in the hole. The sense, it allowed her to keep an 'eye' on him even if it provided her no means of actually seeing him to not how he defended or what he was doing, simply it provided a means of always knowing where he was and knowing the fluctuations in his energy signature.

At this very moment all three of her available senses were telling her that something very very bad was incoming, she could see the miasma grow thicker, hear his thunderous footfalls as they drew nearer, and sense his energy peaking as he prepared for an attack. Within a few moments he was near and she could finally see him again where before he appeared to be trying to put some amount of distance between them now he clearly sought a melee confrontation, had her arrows done more than she had thought? It was fairly certain he would prefer the clang of her blades as she sought some meant of damaging him with him over her having the ought right means of causing damage even if the arrows had not done quite as much as she had hoped his fist drawn back Jenn prepared to dodge but then there was another shift a brief surge of energy from him and the area was filled with a new gass it burned her eyes and skin, Jenn barely managed to avoid the blow taking a glancing strike as she rolled out of the new gas' range scowling beneath her mask that with every passing moment began to feel less and less stable on her face to her surprise she could feel the brush of air through what appeared to be tiny holes forming in her clothing scowling beneath the mask again Jenn decided it best to remove herself form the melee and get an answer to her question from earlier.

With a rush of energy Jenn launched herself into the sky breaking through the cloud of poisonous gass and returning to safe clean air once again, the cloud covered at this point a fairly sizable area, she could sense him still in the general area of where he had made his attack and with a quick glance she assessed that yes her clothing was in fact beginning to deteriorate the damage to her normal clothing was minimal enough to not be considered an issue but the mask was another issue entirely, that item was crucial to not experiencing whatever it was that the newcomers inital gas' would do and thus a brief pulse of energy was sent through the mask to reinforce it once more fixing just enough to keep it stable for the time being. Now she needed a plan of attack, with luck she could take him off guard, a small smirk spread across her face as a plan came together. She had a new technique to try out and oh was she more than willing.

To use the technique Jenn felt herself let lose a bit on her control over her anger, a small part of her was growing frustraited with the newcomers combat style, enough so that it found the room it needed to take hold and with that hold her energy began to fluctuate as she came swooping low towards his energy signature, the plan was to use her newest obtained technique the Efreeti Flame Tongue but where was the fun in simply letting loose flames? She needed to inspire fear when her flames graced the battlefield and what better a way to do so then a bit of shifting? Nothing too much anything drastic would take time no her shifts were simple, extension of nails to become more clawlike sharpening of the facial features to appear more aggressive, brightening her eyes so they burned brightest at the moment she released her flame, small adjustments to the skin giving it a almost scale-like quality as her subconscios attempted to replicate one of the most deadly creatures she had encountered with as little time as she had and also perhaps the most appropriate creature for this attack short of a fully formed Efreeti. As Jenn approached his location she would appear in some ways to have taken on the aspects of one of the Earths mightiest predators. A Dragon. And with the minors shifts complete Jenn would let loose a wave of flame across the newcomers general area before arching back into the sky.

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His plan had worked like a charm as he emerge out from the cloud of chlorine that was taking over the field, he had leap within arms reach of the woman blasting the new gas into her. Though not enough to kill her the acid gas ate away at her clothes but more importantly her mask, rolling out and away from the blast he could see the mask as the material began to melt away in chucks. Anri was ready to charge at her once again but before he had a chance to strike she jumped from the ground exploding up and into the sky much out of the reach from his gasses. Though the ground was now flooded with acidic and poisonous gases neither did much to him other than make him sneeze, rubbing his nose he looked up into the sky too where she had gone off to. Spotting her she seemed to taking count of the situation on the ground, even though he wouldn't be visible with her naked eye he was sure that she could still sense his power level.

Though he would fly he still didn't want to show off that he had that ability, it was always best to save whatever you could do until you really needed too. She already knew about the gas he would shoot out as he had told her that earlier and he didn't use his strengthening plates until he had too, but she still had no idea that his plates were currently being reinforced by his Ki, something of which that could play to his advantage down the road. No he advised himself not to fly up there with her, he much preferred too fight on the ground anyway. He would have to figure out some fashion to either bringing her back down here or get up to her level, but before he could fully come up with a idea the woman began to dive down towards him.

Acting quickly he pulled the particles in the air around him into his gills, sucking up some of the chlorine and acid into his body. Contracting his gill muscles he composed another gas but this time it was not poisonous or acidic but methane, a high flammable gas. Having no idea of what she was doing he watched as her body began to change into something that seemed familiar to the Vennor but he couldn't put his finger on it. Rather than wait and see what it might be he released the gas around him in a thick cloud, jumping he created a wave of wind behind him causing the gases to follow him up. Placing one of his hands behide him he launched a small blast of heated energy below him, inginating the gases that drifted below him causing a firey explosion that launched him into the sky. Anri brust through the clouds of gass soaring high into the sky whether he was laughing or screaming couldn't be told but regardless he had picked up quite a bit of speed. Just as he broke through the clouds of fire and gas another wave of fire from above came crashing down upon him, the fire torn at his shielded body but given the heat he was already putting out he didn't do much other than keep yelling at the top of his lungs. The two completing forces would most likely slam into each other given their high speeds and unpredicted launch of Anri into the sky. His hardened plates would most likely protect him from the fast impact but his spiked armor would defiantly cut the woman up if she came in contact with him.

[Delashano]

As she descended Jenn was surprised to find that her target had for the most part kept still, she felt a strong buildup of energy and then as she drew even closer she found him rocketing through the cloud of poison gas to meet her in the skies, still letting loose her wave of fire Jenn tried her best to pull back in time to not crash into him those spikes looked quite nasty and she had no interest in getting a closer look at them,  when it became plain that she had simply too much forward momentum to stop herself there was really only one other option to go with, as he body continued to make it's transition from human to something a bit more draconic Jenn drew upon her energy and manifested a large shield  upon which she would brace herself for impact with the newcomer.

The two would crash into each other with a mighty thump, Jenn briefly noted no look of particular discomfort from him meaning that the tough outer shell had almost certainly absorbed the majority of the impact, thankfully her shield had done much the same protecting her from the spikes that jutted out from every part of him, while she regretted not having worked out upgrading her manifestation of melee weapons the fact that she had developed a means of manifesting powerful shields certainly made quite a difference, normally she would have been far more reserved in her usage of techniques and apart of Jenn knew it was a bit foolish to go off displaying everything that she could do so quickly but the more dominant aspect of her mind, the traits her Efreeti nature emphasized LOVED it she didn't care if she showed him everything she could do in fact it was BETTER that way, it would show him the depths of her power and from that it would create doubt. If she had so many powerful techniques where did they end?

A toothy grin spread across Jenns face as she pushed against her shield allowing her a bit of room as she adjusted her flight pattern, as she emerged from behind the shield it would become evident that her transformation had not halted quite yet, the once flesh toned scales were now beginning to take a ruby red hue, the toothy grin she had flashed displayed a mouth filled with razor sharp teeth, as Jenn raised her arm the claws extended a bit further becoming akin to small daggers more so than nails, even the shield seemed effected by the change it's once blank face reshaping to bear the visual of a raging inferno the final part of the transformation would be heralded by the sound of cloth tearing as two large powerful reptilian wings ripped through Jenn's shirt the torn garment drifting off to the world below, either uncareing or not having noticed her lack of a top Jenn advanced upon the newcomer once again "BURN!" she roared as she let loose a far more focused gout of flame aimed squarely at his face  she would quickly follow up by striking at him with her one free clawed arm slicing and swatting with all the fury of an angry dragon.

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The impact of the two hadn't been a sudden one as the cracking sound of his armor and her shield collided with one another, arms flinging forward Anri took a hold of the sides of the shield allowing too keep himself from falling. His strong arm strength was more than enough to support his rather heavy weight, trying to get his focus back. Though the explosion and fire hadn't done much much to phaze him it did rather shake his head up, head clearing he looked around as too what exactly had happened. But before he could get much information a full fledged dragon face  appeared from behind the shield that was keeping him afloat. Scales running down her body, she looked more dragon than human at this point, or whatever she really was. Teeth prodded out from her mouth he made a mental note not to get those chompers get a hold of him. Yelling at the top of her lungs she shot another barrage of fire at Anri but given the closer range of the blast he had little else too do other than burp.

A large bubble of left over methane broke out from his mouth meeting with the fireball she had shot at him, the resulting impact of the two substances caused another explosion between the two. Knowing all to well what would happen he let his grip of the shield go as the explosion sent him flying away back towards the ground. Breaking through the air he made is way through the rising gases, crashing into the ground chucks of rock and earth went scattering in all directions. Coming to a stop he raised his hand up towards the sky with his thumbs sticking out. Shooting straight up he laughed in joy.

"Ah! That was awesome!" He bellowed out as pieces of dirt clung to his shell.

Getting up from the earthen hole he had lost the dragon in midst of the fire and explosions, it was if this was a Micheal Bay film. The dragon was a new element to the fight as he had finally recalled from where he had seen the creature before. Traveling through a human city he had wondered into street performs who were acting a scene out from a play, the dragon was attacking the village and killing all the knights, broiling them alive with its fire breath. However they quickly learned that the person that was playing the dragon was no match against Anri, who knew someone could lose all those teeth and still eat? Anri didn't.

With no idea where she might be at he prepared another gas attack for her, another aicd based attack, however this time the denisty of the compound would be much hazardous to the dragon. He had no idea how her transformations worked but given what he knew about dragons the creature would need a much higher dose of the stuff to make it squirm.

[Delashano]

Jenn let out a roar of pain as the resulting explosion of her flames meeting the newcomers flames and explosive gas sent her flying, where he had been rocketed into the ground and created yet another impressive image of himself in the ground Jenn only finding herself vaguely aware of that being the likely outcome as while she could not see it occur she had most certainly heard it even over the ringing in her ears from the explosion, she had however been sent through the air and having met no such resistance as the ground Jenn was sent flying much further than the newcomer and only stopped when she regained her focus. That had not been the expected outcome of her attack she had expected to simply blast him in the face with flames but evidently he had a method of producing an explosive gout of flame the explosion was actually quite similar to the one that had propelled him into the sky to meet her in the first place, perhaps an explosive gas? He had already produced what was likely a poison gas of some sort and an acidic gas, but why would he choose to produce a gas that could explode from his MOUTH. Such a foolish idea was just ASKING for trouble.
 

While apart of Jenn wanted to further pick apart the strangeness of such a power the more in-control aspects of her mind screamed out at her to press the attack to continue to burn and blast at the newcomer and Jenn found herself more than willing to oblige the request, she felt the long knife-like nails on her hands slowly recede turning back to a far more reasonable length with her hands back to normal she slung the shield over one shoulder as her bow reformed itself in her hands, Jenn smirked as she pushed energy through her body and into her new wings using them to propel herself through the air faster than she normally could fly, it was an interesting new feeling quite a bit different than her normal method of flight once she was within a reasonable firing distance Jenn would take aim on the newcomer's energy signature finding it deep within the gas clouds which appeared to have shifted in color somewhat likely from the introduction of the acidic gas from earlier, it was quite frustrating that he kept to the gas so often while firing upon him was still simple enough it made targeting specific parts of the newcomer all but impossible.

Regardless of the frustration Jenn pulled back on the bowstring and let loose a volley of arrows the frist two fires would as before ignite as the energy imbued within them took visible form however the next three arrows would while still ignited by clear signs of energy imbunement appear to have far less pronounced auras.

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Anri stood int the plums of gases as he awaited for a sign of the woman, after the large explosion he had lost track of her as he slammed to the ground. He was hoping to blast her once again with another gust of acidic gas but it didn't look as though she was on the ground, casting his eyes too the sky he scanned upwards. Wincing from his eyes caused him to take notice of a streaming light that came from his side, quickly he turned his head just in time to see the new bolts coming down at him. His abnormal eyes were highly sensitive to light and the ignited arrows stood out like a sore thumb to the Vennor.

Already with his skin extra hardened as it was he decided that if he taken the hit once he would well do it again, pull his arms up to protect his neck he took a proper chance to give him the best footing for the on coming attack. Just like before arrows slammed into him with just as much force as the ones before, sliding back in ground chucks of grass were ripped from the earth. Flinging off his body once again they flew off in random directions, bursting from the surrounding clouds. Putting his arms down he cast his eyes back into the sky to where the arrows had originated from. Thinking that she had fired two shots like earlier he didn't notice the extra shots before it was too late to react. Though the arrows hit him they bounced off his plating like they were nothing, obliviously not as powerful as the two she had shot at him before.

"Lucky me, gotta keep focus." He shook his head trying to refocus himself.

Spotting the woman in the sky he now notice that her dragon form had changed once again though her body seemed back to normal, as normal as it could have been, she had kept the dragon wings now using them she held her position high above the battle field. This was no good, she kept flying and needed to keep what few talents he had left hidden, in war it was well kept secrets that won the battle. He need to get back into the sky and then drag her back down here, though he had no way of forcing her to keep to the ground but enough of a force could temporally ground her. The plan was forming in his mind but he was going to have to act quickly before the acid he was about to release damaged himself over her.

Taking a deep breath his gills worked again sucking in more compounds into his body, working the muscles he formed more methane. Jumping up he released both the gases, blasting another heated shot behind him another explosion launched him back into the sky but much higher this time. Because the acidic gas was not flammable instead of burning up it created a towering plume of gas behind him, as he trailed much higher into the sky than before even passing the height of the woman. The gas began to cover the surrounding sky as the winds picked it up blowing it across the area, still soaring above it he was immune from the gas right now. The plan was that the pain from the new more acidic gas would cause her to fly back to the ground were the weaker gases would take her in their hold, where not nearly as potent they would give him the upper hand.

[Delashano]

Her arrow's raced through the air and much as they had done the first time impacted the necomers hide and sent him sliding backward a few feet, the next three simply clinked off him doing little relevant damage much to her frustration as of now he had taken four of her arrows and at least one somewhat spot-on gout of flame and still he appeared no worse for wear, she was certain though that eventually she would find a crack in his armor, wether that was literal or not would only be known through a matter of time, perhaps the most frustraiting aspect of the fight was the gases they inhibited her ability to actually aim at anywhere specific on him as for the most part she wanted to avoid as much time  inside the clouds as possible, she was reasonably certain that the gases were non-lethal as this was merely a spar and not an all out brawl but still how much time she spent inside them could mean a matter of victory or defeat.

Her thoughts were interrrupted as another great explosion rocked the ground as once again the newcomer sent himself rocketing into the sky to meet her, this time along with his trail of flame and smoke was a mixture of the same gas that had been eating away at her clothing and mask, a irritated growl made it's way past her lips as she watched the cloud begin to expand as it was caught in a breeze expanding significantly from where he had rocketed with a growl she pulled back on her bow and let fly an imbued arrow at the newcomer adjusting her aim slightly to compensate for the likely fall that would come from his apparent inability to fly. Once the arrow darting through the sky Jenn reared her wings back and with a few mighty flaps began pushing the cloud away from herself as she began flying backwards knocking another arrow into her bow as she did so.

As she flew back Jenn would take aim on the newcomer once again, assuming he continued to fall she would adjust for such and take fire once again, if perhaps he found some means of keeping himself in the air she would simply adjust her aim accordingly and let loose the second imbued arrow followed by another four 'basic' blast arrows before tossing her bow away in favor of taking up her shield once again, she couldn't very well just keep firing on him like this forever she was well rested and brimming with energy but even still rapid use of her arrows would get tiring quite quickly, she had only let loose those two arrows to see how well he could respond to an attack without anywhere to brace himself properly after this Jenn had other plans on what direction she would take this fight.

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As the gas in his lungs began to run the trail that had been forming behind him began to fade as the high adltuide breezes began to blow the gas away, no longer expling the gas in large enough quantities it would be harmless this high up. With the momentum running out he could feel the pull of the Earth as it began to pull him back to the surface, turning himself back he faced the ground to get a better view of the area. Just as he did though another one of the flaming bolts slammed into his body, with a loud smack like thunder against the planet he spun around violently through the sky. The sudden impact had knocked the air out of his lungs but the second charged shot had just barely managed to miss him.

It became clear that she wasn't going to come down on her own free will and that this fight would have to take place in the skies, though he hated the idea of flying and fighting it didn't look like he had much of a choice at this point. Using his Ki flew out of the way of the incoming arrows, though they weren't nearly as strong as her other bolts he had taken too many hits already. He needed to get a few on her to finely balance the fight out, and that would mean having to take the battle to her instead of countering her attacks. Now that his balance was regained in the air it was time to take the fight too her, powering his aura up he let loose a tower of steam out his back as he flew towards her. As if using the steam as thruster he boosted his way towards the woman.

Pulling particles in the air around him into his hand it began to glow as the particles became charged with his Ki. Glowing brighter and brighter the particles began to spin faster with the ever rising heat build up. When he had gained some distance towards the woman he launched the glowing ball of heat at her, on normal people it would generally burn right through their body with a 4th degree burns, he was interested to see what it might do to her. That was if it had managed to hit her, though not very big the ball put out quiet a large radius of heat and had a lot of speed behind it, as it cut through the air with no resistance.

[Delashano]

Jenn smirked as her first arrow slammed into the newcomer eliciting a reaction far different than the previous hits. Where before he had appeared to all but completely tank the blows NOW it was clear the arrow had done more he'd been caught off guard by the blow as he attempted to right himself in the air and it was only through perhaps a bit of good fortune on his part that the second arrow sailed past him harmlessly. Jenn hadn't entirely expected the first arrow to do as much as it appeared to have done and her second arrow clearly hadn't the proper adjustments made when aiming. As Jenn made plans on how best to attempt to force the newcomer into launching himself into the air he did just as she wanted... except not quite how she expected. Where before he had taken to the air by means of explosions now he displayed the ability to actually fly as she could. Interestingly he was now actively avoiding her weaker arrows what had caused such a change? Before he had been MORE than willing to take the shots and they had very clearly done little to no overt damage, had he used up whatever defensive power he had been using to tank all of her hits? Was it perhaps a technique in the same vein as her shield? Capable of absorbing great amounts of damage but at the expense of the use of energy? That seemed fairly all things considered but then of course perhaps he was simply bluffing as he had clearly been attempting to do by hiding his ability to fly for as long as he had been.

Jenn watched his approach with caution slowly manifesting a long javelin in her free hand while preparing her shield for defense, the way in which he was flying appeared to at first be a dash to enter melee with her perhaps in an effort to avoid taking any more arrow shots as Jenn was sure that at this point he was quite tired of taking as many hits as he had been, she was quite happy with how much damage she had mitigated so far she could feel a certain amount of drain on her energy reserves considering how much power she had been exerting in order to fight him but she still had more than enough to go on and on top of that had only taken minimal damage, a few burns from the acid earlier and the glancing punch she had taken were the only notable blows. Where exactly the newcomer fell was still a curious subject as she was only certain one of her attacks had actually done anything of note. As he drew nearer Jenn noted that what she had thought had been him cocking his arm back in preparation for a physical attack appeared to instead be him collecting energy and quite a lot of it, enough that the flow it gave off was slightly painful to look at directly at least for as long as she had.

The energy gathered by the newcomer quickly took form into a ball and shortly thereafter was hurled at Jenn the ball tearing through the air with surprising speed "Lets see just how much this can handle..." Jenn thought as she pushed forward raising her shield to defend as much of herself as possible as she moved to meet the ball, the clash of the energy ball on the shield sent out a ripple of power as the ball attempted to rip on through the shield and the shield drew upon it's imbued power to hold the line a few tense moments passed as the shield held up against the ball, Jenn let out a growl mixed effort and frustration as she used her shield to shove the ball away sending it flying off somewhere that she hoped WASN'T the castle, once the ball was out of the way Jenn would quickly cock her arm back and hurl her javelin at the newcomer's energy signature, the javelin a few short moments after release would much like the arrows burst into flame as the energy imbued within it ignited, Jenn could only hope that the change in weapon would be enough to take him off guard even for a moment, while she preferred the use of her bow it was not exactly a weapon that paired favorably with a shield as large as what tended to need to combat attacks such as that a bit of testing during and after her escape from UNITY had yielded that she could imbue any weapon that attacked in a ranged manner with energy.

As the javelin rushed to meet the newcomer Jenn took a moment to take stock of herself, her shield was warped and practically glowing with heat the only thing keeping her safe from which was that no part of the metal was actually in contact with herself thanks to the energy coating, the shield was utterly useless as it was for the moment and manifesting a new one would take a bit more energy than she was willing to exert for the moment and to do that she needed to be using her energy for offense with a small sigh Jenn let go of the shield letting it fall from her grasp anda s it did so the shield burst into flame and the fire returned to the inferno surrounding her.

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The ball of energy had launched from his hand perfectly ripping through the air it impacted against the now raised shield of the woman, the crashing sounds rippled through the area as shock waves of vibration. Taking the hit head on with the shield she pressed against her only defense with her arm using all of her strength to keep the ball from ripping into her, rolling the blast off with shield  it went crashing of in another direction. Though the attack hadn't done any actual harm to the woman it did give him a good gauge on how well she could handle it, if it hadn't been for the shield the out come would have certainly turned out differently. As the heat generated from the attack had done quiet a number on her defense as the heated metal warped as heat waves shimmered the air surrounding her.

Before he could make another move though the woman forced a long metal javelin to appear imbuing it with her flame power the stick burst into light. Having used similar weaponry before he knew quite well what the weapon was capable of, medium range but deadly if struck in a vital spot. Chucking the weapon at him the fiery flames grew brighter as the torn through the sky to get at him, though the best plan of action was to run or try to dodge the attack he had a crazier idea. Moving to get out of the way of the projectile, was what she was probably was thinking he would do, and lets face it was the safest route anyone could see that. Clinching his fists he ripped particles from the air, the bits of elements floated around his hands as he sped towards the flaming projectile. Placing his fist out in front of him he met the attack head on slamming his charged had against it, exploding on contact a large cloud of smoke plumed high into the sky.

Bursting though the cloud he pounced towards the woman, the attack had not left his unscathed as his left hand looked to be rather toasted, bits of flames clung to his body but his other hand was still in contact. Letting the other shot rip, it blasted out of his hand at the woman, the plan was that taking her hit full on would have stunned her in awe in that someone could do something so crazy and idiotic. Given the closer range he now had on her, mixed with the quick pace of the attack it should slam into her; he prayed she didn't have another shield up her ass or he was going to try and find a new tacit that did not involve blowing himself up, as much as he enjoyed pain he enjoyed winning more...and drugs, boy did he love drugs. That is a story for another day though....

[Delashano]

Jenn watched as the newcomer appeared to be charing directly for the javeline closing the none too large gap even faster, were it anyone else Jenn would have assumed the man to have some trick up his sleeve something to allow him to slip past the javeline and continue his charge direcltly for her there really was no other logical reason to charge in the same direction as the javeline, but of course her opponent didnt exactly seem to be 'normal' in that respect, he had taken blows much like this before and it was with little surprise that Jenn watched him take the blast without so much as an attempt to avoid it allowing the javeline to slam rigth into his open palm and explode with a great show of power. She knew as well that there was a VERY good chance that this wasn't some foolish show of power that would go horrible arwy as he misundderstood the power behind the attack, he'd tanked similar attacks before from her bow and it was just as likely that he would do so now.

And it was because of this understanding of his combat style that she had gleamed over their... short? She wasn't even sure how long the fight had been going on now, if she thought about it it actually felt as if they had been fighting for ages but everything happened so quickly, he was just as quick to respond with an attack as she was to throw them out even with his unique method of attack. But that was not important, what WAS important was the lack of surprise she had as he emerged from the cloud of smoke that her attack had generated, what WAS surprising was that he was not alone though his 'companion' was not a living being but yet another of those orbs, Jenn had only a few seconds if that to mount a defense there was no guarantee she could even get a properly imbued shield up in time though trying was certainly an option.

Jenn raise a hand quick as she could and with a swirl of flame a shield formed before her... and was quickly met with the orb of energy launched by her opponent the shield however managed to serve a purpose in its few moments it gave Jenn the time necessary to curse loudly before raising her arms in defense as the shield was swallowed by the orb and proceeded to ram into her at just a few ticks below its top speed, Jenn let out a roar of pain as the ball sent her flying back her entire body felt as if it were on fire her arms especially taking the brunt of the blast, her mind reeling in pain she barely managed to shove the ball away as it began diminishing in power having delivered most of it upon impacting her, as the ball was sent flying at the ground Jenn let out a few heavy and ragged breaths as smoke drifted off her now rather crispy arms, she was thankful for the scales as while they had not truly saved her from damage they would however save her from a prolonged visual representation of the wounds.

Everything hurt, and like a switch Jenn's mind ticked over, while throughout the battle only a bit of frustration was directing itself at the newcomer mostly due to his battle tactics she hadn't really been MAD, but that attack had hurt and her Efreeti side demanded retribution it screamed in rage and pain and demanded to be fully unleashed, Jenns power flared as flames began trying to physically rip the braces off of Jenns wrists even managing to draw blood as Jenn slowly lifted her head to cast her gaze on the newcomer, the more logical side of her knew that it would take more than that to get them off much as she wanted them gone and with another roar she launched herself forward tearing through the sky as a javelin formed in each hand, the first would be launched as she approached the midpoint between herself and the newcomer flames quickly exploding around it as it ripped through the air, the second would be launched shortly thereafter a little past the half way point followed by another draconic roar of fury

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Even through the smoke that wafted through the air he could clearly see his attack had landed a hit on the woman, even though just before the ball had hit she just managed to pull another shield out letting it take the brunt of the hit. The force of such a hit sent here flying backwards as she braced herself against her protection from his energy but even with the shield protecting her the heat from the attack penetrated through her only means of defense. Over the screeching sounds of his heated attack ramming against the metal he could hear her shouts of pain as the heat proved to be to much for her. Taking the hit for long enough she had been able to eventually knock the attack off with the shield but either one was completely useless now as they fell towards the surface of the planet. Already her arms seemed to be smoking from the intense heat, the smell drifted across the air too him reminding him he didn't eaten lunch yet.

Taking a few second as the woman yelled down out in anguish and pain he looked down at his own self, but just mostly his hand. Bringing it too his face he looked his over quickly, trying he slowly moved his fingers but the action caused him considerable amounts of pain. Sighing he placed it back down at his side, though it wasn't broken it wasn't likely he would get any more uses out of it during this fight, it might make things more difficult in the long run but it would it defiantly make things more interesting. One handed fighting was something he had been trained in, though it wasn't an extensive program he had learned a few tricks during his lessons.

Hearing the woman yelling out once again his attention turned back too her to see whips of flames tearing off from her body, that attack had more than just piss her off a little. It had been the best hit he had gotten on her yet, he was a tad upset it hadn't hit her dead on but it was how fights went sometimes. Dashing forward towards him again in a fit of what appeared to be rage she pulled out another javelin in each of her hands, the distance between the was closing fast but he still had enough time to react to her attack. During the course of the fight though he had been picking up on certain tactics that she used, whenever she seemed to preform a deadly attack it usually seemed to be in pairs. Two attacks at the same time, and maybe a volley of weaker shots, repeating a similar style over and over again made it easier for him to guess what she was going to do next, however things where never set in stone when it came to war. Given that the javelin was a projectile weapon he couldn't imagine her trying to use it as a close range but then again he didn't know much about her other than what she had shown him. It was all possible that she could change her attack venue and his plan would completely back fire on him, but he weighed the options before him.

Charging another heated Ki attack in his hand he waited till she threw her javelin at him, with her speed and throwing force behind it guessed he wouldn't have but a few second before the second attack, which meant that whatever he did would have to count. Tossing the weapon it lurched forward ripping through the air at him, letting the ball of energy fall down below it met the javelin head on with a explosive force that lit up the sky. Knowing the second attack was going to follow he dropped down in the sky heading for the woman, he could feel that his Ki was beginning to run on low. Though he could still generate a few more of those shots he reasoned it would completely drain him, but he was hoping that it would only take one more if he landed a well enough shot. As they closed the distance between the two she left the other Javelin go free sending it sky rocketing towards him, seeing the attack coming he leaned in towards it letting his plated head take the pull hit. Though the palms of his hands weren't plated his head was rather well protected, with the same thickness that covered his chest he was sure the hit would be similar to the ones he had taken earlier.

The javelin slammed into his head with a explosive force shaking his head up, the ringing of the explosion seemed to melt into his body but he tired his best to keep his focus as the exposed parts of his body burned. Cringing through the pain he push his arms out in front of him trying to grab on to the woman and wrap himself around her. Anri wasn't sure that his spikes would penetrate through her scaled body but that would be only part of his plan, even if they couldn't he still had a charged attack in his hand that he would let rip as soon as he got a hold on her.

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As she tore through the air Jenn watched as he first javelin flew just a few feet ahead a sudden spike in energy from the newcomer heralded the fate of that one as another of those energy spheres was formed and tossed at it the two energy attacks taking a long moment to crash against one another sending off waves of energy as they attempted to overtake one another eventually however there was a great explosion as the two techniques detonated off of one another in a great show of power. Her second javelin however was not so easily defended against she felt no sudden spike in energy as it closed the gap between herself and him and with another great explosion the javelin struck true against his skull, it was surprising that the impact produced no sounds of pain from him even with how tough he had appeared to be unyielding in his ability to maintain a calm in battle, it was a talent that even she lacked perhaps because unlike her opponent her body was not built to be all but immune to damage.

As the smoke settled from the second javelin and Jenn drew even nearer she was amazed to see that for once his expression very readily displayed some measure of pain a definite though slowly fading expression of cringing from the blow he had receive was visible and it brought a vicious smile to Jenn's lips she WAS doing damage he was simply VERY good at hiding it, it made her feel a lot more confident in her present line of attacking even if it put herself at rather great risk by being so close to him. Jenn was so focused on the reaction she had managed to catch on his face that she barely saw as he began to lunge forward arms grasping at her, she tried her best to twist out of his hands range, she wanted to be in melee range but certainly not in his grasp, being THAT close put her in quite dangerous range of those nasty spikes that covered his body. As Jenn twisted she felt a strong hand grasp her around one of her arms and as a reaction dipped lower to avoid the other arm, there was little she could do now that she was caught except attempt to to force him to release her before he made an attempt to draw her into those spikes and if that was not possible she needed to put up a defense against what was to come.

The first step of her quick plan involved turning herself within his grip so that she was a few inches closer to him getting as close to face-to-face as possible as she drew up her energy flames wreathing her free arm in flame as they manifested a shield, as the shield formed Jenn opened her mouth and unleashed a long line of fire aimed directly for the newcomers face and with such close proximity the newcomer would be able to hear a low growl of' burn!' as the flames drew near, now was the time to reveal the second nature of the Efreeti Flame Tongue, the sustained flame, where the first form was a powerful cone of flame this was a constant stream of fire more useful for short range attacks and what better a time for such than this?

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Reaching out he had just managed to get a grip of the woman's arm, knowing that whatever was going to follow it required him to keep a strong grip on her. As he reached out to get a grip on her other hand though she knew what he was trying to do and was able to pull her hand away from his reach before he could do so, but he did manage to at least get a hold onto her. At this close of a range is were Anri truly shined, plated in defense, seeping heat out and covered in spikes, Vennor infantry were some of the dangers fighters when it came to melee fights. Gripping on to her arm even tighter he was going to make sure she stayed with him, the heat grew surrounding them as both of their resonating heat fused together. Doing his best he tried to hold back any pain from showing from his face but as he had his crippled hand clasped onto her it was making it all the more difficult too for him not too be in large amounts of pain.

Twirling while caught him his grip the woman was now facing directly towards him as she pressed a shield between them, no doubt she was trying to protect herself from the spikes that jutted out from his body. Cocking her head back he could see strips of flames dancing around in her mouth, he cursed under his breath as the waves of fire burst from her mouth. He knew the flames would be a costly blow to himself but at this point he needed to stay connected to the woman if he had any real chance of taking her down. Bracing himself the flames struck his face just as he shut his eyes, though most of his body was covered in protected his most venerable spots where located on his head. The flames flowed over his upper body cause him to twitch in pain, but he wasn't going too let her get away with such an act. Pulling his head back he brought it forward slamming his plated skull into her temple, the force of such would be like rhino headbutting someone, it would be a ear splitting sound inside the head of the woman, but not so much to Anri as he was used too it.

This would usaully knock most people out from such a strike but she wasn't a normal person, guessing that it might by him a few second before the flames would start up again. He was wasn't done with her yet though, as his charged hand was still at his side waiting for its master too call upon its destructive force. Arching his hand back he brought it forward with all the strength he could muster, bringing it up and over the shield his plan was drive it straight to her face, hopefully giving her a taste of her own medicine. Both of his previous shots before had been glancing blows at best, even though the second managed to cause a few burns this one would be much more devastating had hit her. But at such a close range post a blinding head butt he didn't think such a hit would miss, then again stranger things had happened before...but that was a different story.

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Jenn had to hold back every instinct her body had to cringe in pain as the newcomer tightened his grip on her arm she needed to keep her aim exact and cringing would only throw her off, perhaps not extremely so but she wanted to leave no room for error, she would keep the flames going until either he passed out or finally conceded... or at least that was what she WANTED to do, what happened however was her armored opponent taking her utterly off guard by plowing his face through the flames in order to slam her in the face with a mighty headbutt causing Jenn to reel her head back the flames would take one last lash across his face before dying out as Jenn let out a gasp of pain, she had expected the newcomer's body to be tough in fact she had felt it earlier when he had landed a punch on her and could feel it now as his hand remained firmly grasped to her arm.

But the amount of power packed into that headbutt, it left her vision blurry, her ears ringing, and really she just wanted the world to stay still for a moment because all the spinning was getting quite aggravating, she could feel that the blow had split a wound on her forehead and even now blood was beginning to flow down her face, idly Jenn could feel a familiar buildup of energy coming from the newcomer and much as she wanted to ignore it in favor of trying to deal with the pain she had come to find that particular amount of energy buildup rather familiar, it heralded what Jenn could only assume to be his primary or only energy technique and she wanted no part in taking another one of those especially in her present state. Dealing with it would be a simple matter, even with blood streaming down her face and a seemingly unending amount of pain from the wound mounting a defense would be simple, there happened to be very little room wherein either of them could maneuver, as much as his grasp kept her here it also kept him just as close and while he was a large man his arms were certainly not long enough to reach entirely around her shield and the speed at which he had mounted the attack likely meant it was not executed with such a tactic in mind. A pulse of energy flowed from Jenn into the shield as the newcomer's attack was released a brief glow denoted the shield becoming more powerful gaining strength far beyond the steel it was made from, it met the blast head on mere moments after it was launched due to the proximity and just as the previous shield had done the bulwark held firm....

But of course unlike its predecessor this shield had nowhere to send the ball, and on top of that was produced in much less ideal circumstances, Jenn was exhausted from the battle having spent far more energy since the last shield and on top of that was rather badly wounded and without the ability to wholly focus on the shield it certainly held firm for the most part and would do a job but it could not do everything and as there was nowhere for Jenn to send the ball it simply detonated right there between the newcomer and herself just a moment after the shield lost the strength to sustain itself before the blast Jenn realized exactly what was about to go on and in an effort to ensure her opponent could not escape the more vindictive side of her Efreeti nature had her twist her arm within the newcomers grasp so that she could latch onto him as well, if she would be taken by the blast then he would go down with her, a far more reasonable aspect of Jenns mind desperately hoped the newcomer had not forgotten that this was not a fight to the death.