Shi sighed and said "And they say I'm delusional.."

Shi turns to face Dismas, his wings wrapping back around his chest. He then looks down at Legion, and delivers a soft kick "Get your regenerating ass up." and then took his hand off the hilt of his sword. He assumed a relaxed stance, and waited.

Shi smirked and flexed his arms.

The swords on his body flew out of their cases, and began to whirl around him quickly. He then closed his eyes and began to mumble slowly. There was a faint silver light, and suddenly it seemed as if thousands of swords had begun to spin around Shi. He began to walk towards Reeve and Dismas, the blades around him occasionally slicing up the floor. Seeing Legion had the gunman, Shi crouched down, then shot into the air at Reeve, his wings unharmed by the literal tornado of katanas around him.

Shi growls and spits out "Son of a bastard.." and tumbles to the ground, rubbing his eyes, trying to cope with the face he just got shot by a horrible case of bad breath in the eyes.

He stands up straight, keeping his eyes closed for the most part. He waves his hands, and the blades disappear, except for his 5. They shoot back into his sheaths, then he says "I'll gut you later, boy."

He crossed his arms, and he once again split into two..and split..and split..and split, until there was about 10 Shis, and they all began hopping around randomly.

Buying himself time to regain his vision was worth the stupidity of the fact that all of the Shis were blind, falling around like idoits, and all trying to hop like the Superman 'up up and away.'.

Reeve stands, bleeding from gashes over his eyes, chin, body and limbs. "Ridiculous..." He lifts his palms to look at them, a blue orb forms and begins growing. "This isn't going to help you anymore, whatever the hell you are." He lifts one arm into the air and the blue orb turns dark blue, purple flecks spilling off of it. Quickly it grows to the size of a car and Reeve jumps into the air, tossing the ball of destructive mass to the ground between all the Shi's, exploding at the Shi's feet.

"Mother fucking-"

Shi barely had time to yell, before he was blown into the roof. He stuck to the roof for a moment, then spiraled down to the ground slowly, in a mass of black feathers.

He pushed himself up slowly, and opened his eyes. The blast had more or less knocked his eyes into focus..somehow.

He looked up at Reeve and said "You will adress me as Shi, and for your information, Brat, I'm an Angel."

Shi sighed and pulled the kitana out of the sheath on his arm. He raised it to point at Reeve, the tip shining slightly.

Shi's eyes seemed to crackle, and the ground around him cracked, but he never even moved..or did he?

His sword remained in place, but Shi himself was suddenly behind Reeve, his wings flapping madly and his arm positioned to make it look like he'd just run through Reeve. The sword flew toward's Reeve, then went sideways, as if following the way Shi had sliced..

Shi growled as his face was smashed. He spun around slightly, then landed on his knees. He staggered back up, and said "Boy, your really pissing me the FUCK off."

He pulled his sword up, so that the tip of the blade was between his middle and index finger.

A breeze shot past Reeve, and once again, Shi had vanished, but his sword remained. He was now aboive Reeve, and his blade once again followed.

It shot into the air, and went back down in a pointed position, aimed under Reeve's legs. The blade shot up, toward's the middle of Reeve, then suddenly shot to the side, and went towards the middle of his chest.

((remember: wolf = italics, bern = bold))

A high pitched child's laugh rings out. Casually entering the arena through one of the entrances that were still intact, Rose smirks at the scene of Legion and Dismas's battle. "Losing again, Legion?" The child brushes back her strawberry blonde hair and surveys Dismas with the eye of a seasoned warrior. Walking slowly and confidently, she strolls over towards the battle. "Mind if I take a crack at ol' demon breath? I owe him one or two."

Reeve, watching this attack rebutles without a thought instinctivley and shouts, sending another shockwave out in all directions, pushing Shi into the firey bleachers and pushing the sword down into the ground hilt first. Only the very tip of the katana can be seen from the impact it had at so close range. "You think you're angry?" Reeve jumps at Shi, uppercutting him in the throat and pushing him away with a wind powerful enough to break a fairly large house. Not content losing any ground, he soars at Shi once again, this time ducking under him with a flat palm to his lower back, seconds away from shooting off quite a destructive beam of energy.

Shi flies into the air, blood spraying from his mouth. He recovers quickly, and shoots towards the center of the arena.

"You wanna play rough, boy? Fine."

He begins flapping his wings rapidly, and eventully a small dust tornado begins to swirl around him, and then, he split. 3 other Shis shoot out from him, surrounded by minature tornados, all aiming to slice Reeve.

He repeats the process, until about 12 Shis are rapidly flying towards Reeve, all surrounded by dust and aiming to impale the boy.

The orginal Shi flies into the air and throws his arm out, shooting the dagger at Reeve, hoping to end it all in one big blow.

Shi smirks superiorly, before pulling the dagger back, the string attached to it enabling it to fly directly back onto his cuff.

He floats down to the ground, and draws one his Katanas and shoves it directly onto Reeve's neck, pressing enough to cause a sharp bit of pain, but not go deep into the skin.

"Do you give up yet?"

Rose doesn't move. A slight smile touches her lips. "I don't have any wish to fight you. My battle is with Legion." Under her loose, light colored leather jacket, Rose's hand grasps the sword hilt of Fate.

"Well seeing as your on my blade you don't really have a choice... So forget about Legion because your my prey now." He slowly pushes the first blade of the scythe closer to rose. He was waiting and his robotic eyes were scanning the area. Searching Rose for her next movement.

Reeve looks up at Shi, spits, and grabs at his wound. "Bite me.." Coughing, he grabs the katana with his left gloved hand and pushes it away from his neck. He points his finger at the same spot he was stabbed and a thin, red line of a beam shoots into him and out of his spine. As he did this, he quickly grabbed one of Shi's katanas and stabbed him in the thigh, twisted, and jumped from the bleachers back on to the floor.

Shi screamed in pain as he fell to one knee. He yanked the katana out and threw it onto the ground, and watched Reeve scamper away "Little bastard.."

He threw his head back in pain, and his wings wrapped around him again as he tried to stand up, falling back down each time.

Rose shrugs. "If I truly have no other choice." She ducks and pulls the blade out of its sheath. Pivoting on her feet, she swipes at the man's shins.

"Such a mediocre move..." The man yells as he flips over her, Scythe spinning widly without even touching the blue and red haired man. When he lands his continues to swing the double bladed staff with great percision and looks at Rose. "You seriously think you can beat me girl?..."

Reeve struggles to his feet and limps to the wall of the Arena and leans on it, watching the fighting and smiling. He was fine again.

...

A loud shriek of tires are heard as a blonde man tears into the arena on his motorcycle, a giant of a sword on his back. He stops in the center and looks at his son, nods, then to the other combatants. He didn't know who called him but the voice was familliar, he just didn't see him. "Pansies need help with a red bag of puss? Peh, this better pay well..."

"Beat you in what sense? Kill you? No, I couldn't. But I can offer you a fight, and when I can walk away from you to fight Legion, I'm going to. If you follow me, and if you stop me from fighting Legion, then, sir, then I will kill you. Because you're sticking your nose where it doesn't belong." Rose grins. Still in the ducked posistion, she launches forward. She thrusts Fate upwards, towards the man's stomach. Instead of implaing him, however, Rose turns her sword and smacks the man across the stomach with the flat of her blade, then rolls to the side, out of harms way.

Shi pushed himself into a standing position, his leg had stopped bleeding. He used the katana that had been inside his leg as a 'cane', and walked towards Cylas.

"Get your ass off that bike, you smug bastard. And Fight me."

He staggered slightly, but managed to stand straight. The wound on his leg began to close slowly, and he seemed to regain some of the color in his face.

Cylas steps off his motorcycle and unsheathes his sword, letting the heavy steel resto n his shoulder. "You don't look military... I guess I have to settle for a good fight instead of good pay. Bring it." He slightly crouches and holds the blade with two hands at one side in his battle stance, poised to react to any attack.

Rose easily dodges the attack by leaping backwards. "So tell me, metal man. Do you have a name?" She doesn't seem to be too rushed to attack, displaying that she was different from the headstrong Rose of not-too-long ago.

A young, cloaked figure slowly walked into the arena's main gates, slowly coming to a halt as he relized that a battle was taking place. "Interesting..." he walked up the steps that came towards the stands, and he took a seet, watching the fight. He slwoly unsheathed the sword, now within a propper scabard that he had bought for it several days back, the sword's greanish tint semaing to glimmer. "you like this... dont you... you are a weapon that wishes to continue fighting... your old master leaving you behind..." he looked up and shook his head. "I will not fight.... not yet..."

Once again the man speaks and once again the echoed voice rings out. "You can call me S.A.N.E..... and you?" He swings the sythe behind his back and puts his hand out in front of him to provoke Rose to attack. All the while giving a sly smug smile.

Shi lifted the blade from the ground, and staggered a bit, still recovering from having his leg nearly sliced off.

He grabbed the hilt with both hands, and pointed it at Cylas. He rushed towards him, his eyes locked on him. He aimed the blade towards Cylas's face, then dived as he got closer to Cylas, aiming now for his stomach.

She studies him, smirking at his obvious bluff. "Roselenna uth Haun. But you can call me Rose. Now, SANE...is there any part of you not made of metal?" Rose keeps her tone casual, but glances around the arena, scanning it out. She catches sight of Reeve and gasps slightly. She shakes her head and turns her full attention back to SANE, waiting for his reply.

"No parts you could handle...." He smirks a bit and looks at Rose then takes a good look at the commotion around him. After he looks back at Rose he charges after her again but this time the scythe was in full motion. Upon reaching her he throws the first blade low as he punches high.

Shi growled and he lifted his hand and grabbed the blunt end of the sword as it went by, and was pulled along by it. He used the momentum to drag his sword along Cylas's arm.

He shot away from Cylas, and hit the ground in a flurry of black feathers. He straightend up, and said "And thats why Big swords are useless. Next lession class; Skill."

Cylas smirks at the angel. "I've easily ended your kind before. You'll be no different." He begins to run at him and attempts a jumping overhead slash, but overshoots as if on purpose. Everything turns into a haze and he grabs up his sword, getting into a defensive stance, his sword upright leaning diagnoly against his chest. "God damn it.."

Rose is surprised by the sudden speed and velocity of the attacks. She leaps to the side, but the sycthe slices a deep gash across her leg. Rose grimaces in pain and reflexivly lashes out with her blade. The flat of the blade smacks against SANE's hand, deflecting the blow and leaving a raising welt. ((assuming his hands aren't metal))

Shi walked towards Cylas, smiling darkly. He lifts his sword and suddenly is gone.

Then the feel of a blade is felt against Cylas's neck, and Shi's now playful voice is heard..

"Poor man..your not tired are you..that would be a shame.."

He spun around, aiming a kick at Cylas's head.

SANE grimaces from the blow to the hand and steps back a bit. After seeing that he made his mark he continues to swing the scythe in numerous attacks at Rose hoping to hit her while she was in the defensive. "Give me a challenge already!"

Rose grunts, focusing her energy on fending off the whirling blades. "I've no reason to hurt you." Seeing a temporary opening in SANE's defenses, Rose sneaks Fate in and smacks him across the face. Realizing that this wasn't going to work for very long, Rose infuses the tip of her sword with pure energy and sends it blasting at him.

The sword went straight through Shi, and he let out a blood curdling cry as he was literally cleaved in two. The pieces hit the ground, and rolled, blood flowing freely.

Atleast, that is what Cylas saw.

Shi floated above Cylas, his wings making no sound as he waited.

The blast sends SANE stumbling and flipping to the ground. He gets up and brushes off the dust and looks at the small hole the shot caused. "It's about time you started to actually show some effort..." He closes his eyes then starts twirling the scythe on his left side. His robotic arms make it possible for him to spin it at incredible speeds and when it spins fast enough he lets it go. Upon contact with the ground it speeds off after rose with SANE right behind with both hands free now.

"Oh, shit..." Rose dives, barely avoiding being cut in two. As it is, the blades rip open a gouge on her side. She curses and clasps her hand over it, glaring at SANE. Climbing to her feet, she charges at SANE, her anger overcoming her training. The sword crackles with energy as she slashes and hacks at the cyborg, this time not using the flat of her blade.

Shi spun the blade in his hands around several times, and then while the sword was still spinning, Shi vanished. He appeared behind Cylas, holding his arms in a way that indicated a slash. The sword followed his path downward, directly towards the area where Cylas's left arm was attached to his shoulder.

((Ok, all caught up on the battles.))

Legion leaps up for the rafters and stretches out his arm out to pull himself up on a beam. However, the bullets fire at him sink into his back and make him lose concentration, resulting in the Demon crashing down back into the stands and smacking his head on a bleacher. He pulls himself up, and whipes some blood from his chin. "Ow..." Legion turns to face Dismas and smirks. "I wonder how many bullets you have left in there."

Shi lets him grab his ankle, then smirks. His wings begin to flap slowly, then lift Shi into the air, carrying Cylas with him.

Shi begins to spin in the air, eiather attempting to shake Cylas off or make him very, very dizzy.

Shi swoops down infront of Cylas, and smirks smugly.

His wings wrap back around him, and he walks swiftly over ro Cylas and grabs him by the neck.

"Checkmate."

Cylas grins, lifting his left arm and aiming it at Shi's chest. "That's right.." His left metal hand flips down and a cannon ball is shot right into Shi's stomach. Cylas drops to the ground, recovering better now.

"Fuc-"

Shi flies into the stands, black feathers marking his trails. He hits the stands and makes a gigantic dent in them, bleachers and chairs blown into toothpicks.

He dazedly looks down at Cylas, before his eyes roll back into his head and he slumps over.

A sound like the bouncing of keys is heard from an entrance, and footsteps are heard slowly walking into the arena.

The color blue is the first thing noticable on this man. His blue trenchcoat hangs down to his feet, scraping the ground with every step. The entire top and inner edges of it were covered in disks, wrapped in gold cloth. His blue hat sits upon his light brown hair, covering most of it. His eyes are hidden behind a pair of heart shaped sunglasses.

He surveys the fighters, and notices a familar face among them. He calmly strolls over in the general direction, and yells "Hey, demon dude!" at Legion.

"Heeeeere's Johnny!"

At a rather high speed, Hayate plunges through the holed roof above Legion in true villanous plunge style, already prepared for landing on the demon's back

Jango nodded to Legion, and looked around the arena. He pulled a disk off his coat, and smiled.

He watched the man fly in from the hole in the roof, and shrugged. He'd let someone else deal with it.

He walked over to Cylas and said "Thats a big weapon you got there, man."

Legion's head snaps up at Hayate's voice and his eyes widen. The color drains of the Demon's face as the Messenger approaches faster than he could move out of the way. Hayate's sword crash through the Demon's back and stabs into the ground, pinning Legion. Blood drips out of his mouth, and he slowly twists his head back at Hayate. "W-What are you doing here?!" Legion tries to literally rip himself away from the blade and escape before he can be attacked again.

Cylas squints open his eyes, grabs his blade and sits up on one knee, looking at the man. "Indeed it is..." Unknowing of Jango's intentions, he eyes him as he helps himself up on his sword and looks over at Legion. He notices Hayate and grins, knowing that the fight was under control. He looks to Shi's body and flips his left wrist, his hand popping back to it's place.

Jango took a few steps back, and cleared his throat.

"Yo, man. No offense or anything, but your buddy over there appears to be kicking my..uh..pal's...ass, so I'm gonna have to wail on you now, ya dig?"

Jango twirled the disk around his finger for a moment, then tossed it at Cylas's face.

Cylas turns to him as he is talking and barely dodges the disk from ducking. Surprisingly to Cylas, some of his hair is cut from it. "Christ, I didn't think Legion kept pets.." Cylas runs at Jango and swipes at him horizontally, knowing he can't duck those slashes.

Jango smirked at Cylas and jumped over the blade, and grabbed onto it as he did. He ended it off in a handstand on the blade, facing Cylas. He pushed himself off, and landed behind him. He pulled a teal tinted disk off his coat, and threw it into the air. It began to spin rapidly, and eventully hovered over Cylas.

"I got this idea from a buddy of mine."

The air around them began to get colder, and suddenly ice began to fly from the disk, covering the ground around Cylas.

Jango's baton shot from his sleeve, and he rushed towards Cylas, aiming to hit him while he was distracted.

As the demon tries to escape, Hayate pulls his blade free and jumps clear of the creature, that worrying little smile back on his face.

"I heard there was a little rumble going on here and I couldn't just let it pass, could I? And honestly, you're the only interesting thing for miles around, demon."

He shifts to a good left-handed swordfighter's stance and makes a 'come on' motion with his free hand

"C'mon. Gimme your best shot this time."

Jango takes the kick to the chin, and stumbled back, then jumps backwards and in mid-jump, throws his baton down at the blade.

The baton hits the blade and shatters, and thousands of tiny glitter land on the sword and Cylas.

Jango lands a bit away from Cylas, and rubs his jaw.

"That hurt, yo."

Cylas brushes off some of the glitter from his arm, eyeing it suspecticley. "So did that dick to my head... yo."

Jango smirked, and pulled his glasses off. He rubbed them on his coat, and looked up at Cylas, his brown eyes narrowed at him.

"Your about to lose, man."

Jango smirks and presses the glasses back onto his face, then pushes a button on the side of one of the hearts.

The glitter on Cylas and the sword begin to glow brightly, and then a surge is felt. The glitter on the sword begins sending electric shocks through the sword towards Cylas, and the glitter on him does the same.

"Now now, it's not my fault if you under-estimate the competition, is it? personally, i'm amazed your ego has managed to stay as over-inflated as it is."

As Legion seems just to be charging up an attack, Hayate shifts his stance to something more defensive, but still retains the sword-first approach.

Jango throws his arms out, two disks spinning on each. He points both hands (And disks.) at Cylas, and they begin to shimmer.

The disks begin to hum, and then they both shoot a gigantic tunnel of harsh winds at Cylas.

Noting the location of Dismas he turns back to Hayate. Throwing back his poncho as to have better use of his hands, green orbs begin to condense in his hands. "You know you can't kill me, Messenger of Chaos, even if that human there helps." Legion raises his arms above his head and claps them together. The result is a bright green explosion that illuminates the arena. From the central explosion more smaller orbs launch out and explode; like fireworks. When the light show is over Legion is in the air above Hayate with his claw glowing bright red; he's going to try to absorb Hayate. Even if he didn't pull it off, he might at least weaken him.
((Incase anyone forgot what that move does >>;. Just remember he can't regenerate during it, Enlil, so if you want to maim him don't skewer him too bad =P))

Jango growled and pointed both the disks downward, at his feet. They were both propelled into the air, and then Jango aimed one at Cylas and kept one aimed at the ground, trying to blow Cylas off him.

Cylas grabs a disk and lets go of Jango, keeping the disk pointed to the ground. He does a hand stand on the disk and is thrown into the air higher. He aims himself to the hole in the roof and shoots himself out of it. He lands on the outside of the roof and fumbles with the disk before finally shutting it off and pocketing it. "Eat this." Cylas grabs his left forearm and his hand flips down. Aiming at Jango, he fires off a cannon ball at him.

As his blade goes spinning off, Hayate's somewhat less than thrilled. That, and the fact there's an annoyed, annoying archdemon pinning him to the ground.

"What the hell have you been eating!?"

Although his hand's pinned, it's still mercifully pointing Legion-wards. Purple-white lightning crackles down his arm, which he then attempts to ram into the demon's stomach

"Guaranteed weight-loss or your money back...."