Ultimate Fighters: The First Tournament

"AFRAID OF DYING?"

Nightmare pulled his sword out, running towards Rayden. His pure hand grasped tight the sword as he in only a few moments had ran across the entire arena. He leaped to the wall, and with a mighty swipe with his mutated arm he scattered pieces of the wall and threw large pieces of rock towards Rayden, at the same time as he ran straight at the man.
His eyes flashed red for a second and it instantly, trough dark magic knocked Rayden of balance and out of his stance and Nightmare flew trough the air and with a quick smash with his mutant arm, sent Rayden flying.

"I WILL FEAST!"

Rayden successfully dodged the rocks, but was unable to recover in time to defend against the magic, and as a result was flung backwards from the first mostly physical attack of the fight. Rayden recovered his sense of balance in the air and landed on his feet. He was unscathed from the attack.

Interesting. He doesn't rely solely on his physical prowess, as I had originally thought.. this will take a bit more strategy, then.

Rayden drew one of his kodachi's, then ran straight at his opponent. Once in range he gripped his kodachi harder then made a horizontal swipe at Nightmare's chest, but it was a feint. At the last second Rayden tilted his sword upwards, deliberately trying to hit nothing, but kept his momentum going so that he would start spinning. It is from this vantage point that Rayden would attack.

As he spun in place rapidly he released blueish white energy from every pore in his body, and it expanded outwards so that a spinning ten foot by ten foot bluish white dome spread outwards from him. In such close proximity a man of Nightmare's size should recieve the full brunt of the attack. The "whirlwind" was designed to literally shave off and burn the skin of anyone caught in it's wrath outside of the protective bubble, but even if it did not hurt the large man, he would at the last be thrown backwards by the attack.

Laymens turns- Rayden ran up to Nightmare and spun like a top in place, unleashing a whirlwind-esque attack made up of pure energy. While it would normally shred and burn one's skin, it might not be quite as affectiev due to Nightmare's durabiltiy, if so then the most it will do is throw him back.

Nightmare growled as the whirlwind was applied, and he covered his face with his arm, the mutated one.. He tried walking into the whirlwind while protecting his face, and he walked with such strength that his feet was pushed into the ground, causing tiny holes from where he had placed his feet.. Even though he was strong, the attack eventually sent him flying backwards in a roar, having Nightmare fly trough the air and spinning at the same time as an effect of the whirl that he tried resisting..
The energy made the arm that Nightmare protected his face heat up vastly, but it had taken worse beatings than that, and even though it was true, Nightmare did not want to admit the aching in his arm.

Although, as Nightmare was sent flying he grasped his sword tight and he ran the near two meter blade straight into the ground, stopping instantly in the air and landed on his feet with a rumble due to his weight.. He had flown an estimated half arena away and he glared at Rayden who was located at the very end.. He then raised his mutated arm, consentrating to such an extent that his arm was shaking as he smashed it violently into the ground.. The impact was strong enough to launch pieces of the ground up into the air and almost like baseball, Nightmare smashed the pieces with his sword and sent them flying towards Rayden..

At the same time, Nightmare dashed right for Rayden in a combat position and with a huge amount of force he threw his sword.. Since the rules said no killing, he made sure that it was the handle that came flying first, and even though it was the handle, it was both endurant enough and came in enough speed to penetrate a rock, and it came flying towards Rayden, and Nightmare not far behind, ready for some hand-to-hand action, if Rayden was not hit by the shaft of the blade, which could probably be the end of his story..

"AMUSE ME!" He screamed as he leapt up into the air while still being a fourth of the arena away, flying towards Rayden's position.

Rayden jumped quickly to the left and focused energy into his fingertips. He could win this if he used his speed...

Rayden waited until it was almost too late,then again sidestepped and tried to jam his fingers into his enemies waist. If he was successful, the energy would transfer from his fingertips and into Nightmare's body, possibly irritating any organs the "sparks" came int contact with.

((one more post each))

((Gulp! That was short))

Nightmare landed on his feet with a smash, only to be met by the fingers of Rayden. The ground rumbled by the landing and Nightmare's eyes met Raydens with burning rage. The man had chosen to go into close-combat, then that was what he would get.

The man based his attacks as if Nightmare was an actual real human, with flesh, heart and organs. What he excluded from his list, was the fact that Nightmare's body was nothing but a shell. His entire inside could be burnt into ashes, and it wouldnt even bother Nightmare. He had evolved too far into his dark self.
As the sparks went trough Nightmares body, he glared at Rayden uneffected, as small signs of lighting flashed trough his body.

Now..... it was his turn.

With his human arm, he grabbed Rayden's wrist with a grip quicker than lighting, and he threw him up into the air by it. As Rayden was launched upwards, Nightmare jumped and caught up, grabbing his leg with his mutated arm and just threw him downwards with a loud smash. The impact from the throw cracked the ground and Nightmare landed on top of the man, stomping into the ground and had Rayden bounce back up into the air. He grabbed him by the foot, spun around and with amazing speed, threw him across the arena and into the wall.

He raised his fist and his blade came flying back at him and into his hand. He roared, raising his hand to the air and turned to Rayden's direction. His eyes flashed red and energy started whirling around Nightmare, almost as if he was creating a personal cyclone of energy. But not only did it form around Nightmare, but clouds where created in the skies and a touch of darkness covered the entire arena. Nightmare just stood there, as the cyclone slowly started pulling Rayden towards Nightmare with the force of the 'wind'.

By the look of the spell, it almost looked like Nightmare was charging something, as ancient souls from Nightmare's past were pulled out of the ground by the twister, gathering around Nightmare and to eventually enter his body trough the mutation at his chest.

"You shall become.. Part of me" Nightmare grinned, staring with burning red eyes in Rayden's direction, prepared for Rayden's final breaths.

((well given the time it is taking you both to post, the shorter is better in this case 😛))

((damn you blaxican 🙂))

"AND THE WINNER IS......NIGHTMARE! CONGRATULATIONS, YOU HAVE BEEN PUSHED TO THE SEMI FINAL..ALL COMBATANTS MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE LOUNGE!"

john stood up, giving him the immediate height advantage..not that it made any difference to him..even sitting down he was taller than everyone else present, except for maybe nightmare...
"before the ref's unlexplained absence, he gave me some instructuons" the reaper began.."first of all, because the ref was somehow aware certain people's motives, he has made nightmare the acting referee during his leave, and as such, he has the power to "read" the souls of any future losers..
his second instruction was to let you know of the following -
the next 2 matches are 3 player free-for-alls..in other words, 1 vs. 1 vs. 1 matches..the members of each division will be forced to fight eachother..
the divisions stand as follows
the first division (aka winners)
jacopeX
john
ice
the second division (aka the people who lost)
jessy
grace
rayden
the first fight begins immediately..will jessy, rayden and grace make their way to the arena..be careful, as a new secret will be unveiled during this match..nightmare, kindly make your way to the referee's private box"

AND NOW, Ladies and Gentlemen!!, time to unveil the hidden suprise!!"
what? john tohugh instantly...suddenly the ground shook beneath the 3 fighters...the arena was....lifting up?
thanks to our new hover system (trademark), the fighters will be brawling in the sky!! fighters...heres how this will work!!
1. the only ground you are allowed to touch is this floating arena..you are allowed to fly as much as you like, just remember that you can only touch this arena..anywhere else and you are disqualified!! the arena rose rapidly, leaving the stadium far behind...john, even with his enhanced vision, could only just see the stadium as a tiny speck...suddenly, on the edges of the arena hundreds of flying cameras shot out, flying around the fighters....back at the stadium, giant screen rose up, and displayed exceptional quality images from these cameras..
"watch out for planes up there...oh by the way, dont destroy the cameras...you may start on the count....3!...2!....1...FIGHT!!"
john pulled his scythe out...the immense weapon was held easily in johns hand and he waved it around in a traditional salute..."come and get me, friends" he said to the others..

Jacope X quickly shot off the ground and charges at John as he fakes an incoming punch at John and does a spinning hurricane kick into the limbs. He then stomped away from John once that was done and pulleed out a total of twenty blades between his fingers and threw them all at John, knowing he would somehow keep them from hitting him. He kept flying in the air, trying to keep his mind concentrated and away from using his weapon. He kept a perfect distance to keep his sight targeted on both Ice and John.

Keeping his word, Ice immediately switched to Justice. His body glowed white and the intense power being contained within him could be felt throughout the area. Like Jacope Ice also targeted John first, thinking he'd be the toughest target. Ice dashed at John just as Jacope threw his blades at John.

john caught all of the blades with TK, holding them in front of him with his mind alone..he then split the weapons into 2 groups and shot them at both of his friends..he then jumped off the arena while they were distacted, disappeaing from view..drawing on his vast necromancy powers the reaper summoned a tornado made of nothing but bones...riding one of the bones like a surfboard, john looped around the arena, the bone-nado clouding the skies, making things suddenly much darker..john kept control of his new toy with tk and waited for the others to follow him to the skies..

As Jacope dodged his own weapons, he lands on his feet and noticed John was gone. He turns to Ice and quickly used agility to appear behind Ice and gave him a vast combination of painful flaming kicks, giving him all his might into every weak spot that Jacope X knows of Ice's. He then dissapeared from sight, again using Agility. Before he knew it, he was surrounded by a large dome of power balls all pointed directly at him.

Jacope flies above Ice and closed his arms, causing all the power balls to close in on him. He flips back and charges into Jacope XX. He kept an aura around him, knowing that just by touching John will instantly kill him.

Ice sensed Jacope behind him and managed to defend himself from all of his attacks. When Ice tried to counter attack, Jacope dissapeared again. Sensing his presence somewhere in the clouds, Ice looked in his direction, and was confused as to why Jacope would be flying toward him. Then he realized it when he saw the powerballs following Jacope. Ice held his arms up in defense as the powerballs made their impact. However, it was only a moment before Ice suddenly dashed toward Jacope out of the dust they created, completely unharmed.

Ice sped toward his friend and pulled a roundhouse kick, followed by an uppercut. After this, Ice simply touched the ground and two earth pillars suddenly sprang up and headed toward Jacope. Ice Removed his hand from the ground, but the pillars continued to attack Jacope.

With Jacope busy himself, Ice jumped in the air to get a start on becoming airborne and flew up to John's level. Ice never really flown before, so it was a slightly strange feeling to him, but he did his best to ignore the feeling of not being supported by anything solid and focused on the fight.

not giving ice a chance to become acustomed to flying, john immedieately layed into his fried with his scythe, attacking with simple but effective combos..while doing so he formed some of the bones in his tornado into a giant fist, which he aimed at jacope..

Jacope X looked at the giant fist coming at him. His first reaction was quick doubt but he remembers that he always has been in these situations were he is about to be hit by a seemingly stoppable force which is bigger than him. He easily put his fist out, grabbed his wrist hard and then shot out an energy wave at the Fist to slow it down and destroy chunks of it. Jacope Quickly used agility to appear behind John and hammers him into the ground with flame trailing double fist. He then shot hudnreds of Energy beams into the body of John and then as he shot his last energy beams, he charges down at John and landed ontop of John with a heel stomp. Jacope X hops back into the air, and quickly remembers to keep his ground.

Ice, still not used to flying, was hit by all of John's attacks, which had much more power than the powerballs Jacope attacked him with; Ice was actually receiving some damage. Ice recovered from the attacks and dodged a plane as it flew by. Finally gotten somewhat used to it by now, Ice flew back toward John to continue their fight.

john landed on the arena so hard he bounced a good 10 ft into the air before stopping himself.. he dodged ice and teleported into jacope with such speed and force that his friend flew far...john teleported again and clotheslined jacope with the blunt edge of his scythe...the reaper summoned a shadow flare ball and used its fire of jacope, before kicking him into ice..john then used his tornado to swallow them both in a cloud of razor sharp bones..this fight was really taking it out of john..it was time to go take it to the next level...john summoned another scythe, an exact duplicate of soul harvest, contained the same powers as the original, meaning that john's energy returned in a rush of magic, making him stronger than he'd ever been..