Burning Brands & Battering Rams(Take Two) -Matrim-

[Aureus]

OOC: PHS 42 continuation.

Matrim's last post for clarity's sake:

The kid had a manic laughter, and a flash of Marquise came to mind. It was much the same as then, when Matrim had him beaten down, he laughed at Matrim before shape shifting into Reira. He began to continue the onslaught. Even as the kid spat and grabbed Matrim's legs he continued to put weight on the guys chest. Only now he wanted to go for the kill, not the destruction or beating. So he put his hand that was punching over the kids mouth, and would pinch his nose shut, all the while his hand still aflame.

Matrim's legs were being scorched, the pain in his thigh muscles growing, but he knew that if he could just knock the kid out that his arms would go limp. Still, Matrim was smiling, eyes alive in manic as he did this, laughing, tuning out the noises of the School Captain, but instead remembering the feeling of being trapped in a safety room, an army of soldiers outside the doors finding ways to blast through it, and Marquise, the sociopath killer, killing people on the inside all the while.

Matrim had gone bye bye.

IC:

As it turned out, Aureus' spit hadn't distracted his opponent at all. Instead, the (then) Varsity Captain shoved his flaming paw over his predecessor's mouth. Controlling his natural reaction, the dull eyed boy swallowed his anxiety and mirrored the manic laughter in Matrim's eyes. His mind, however, was busy running potential plays like an expert chess player. No, inhale the flames. You don't have much of a choice anyway. Alright, good. That'll convince him he's in control. You can't afford to be defiant right now, Levi instructed.

And so the burning flames that the ex-Pillar swallowed shot terror through his body and settled in his wide, tearing eyes. This way, Matrim would be less suspicious when Aureus let go of his legs and began flailing his forearms about, maintaining eye contact all the while to underscore his fright. The flailing was intentional though, as the Senior still possessed enough strength to crack the bluish, green tile beneath them. Desperately, he grabbed a shard of linoleum and attempted to slice open his attacker's femoral artery. Even if he missed that precious target, the laceration should be jarring enough to buy Aureus a few valuable seconds to shove Matrim back and once again swing his legs up around his head. From there, he'd slam the kid's skull into the ground.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim was going somewhat nutso as Aureus grabbed a chunk of linoleum, slicing Matrim's leg. Matrim pulled his leg away enough to avoid the femoral artery being cut open. Luckily he wasn't that far gone, but still pretty far. He immediately would start trying to stop the bleeding would be hard since his own Qi couldn't hurt him. Meaning he couldn't cauterize it.... unless.. Grabbing a chunk of locker with his hand he heated the metal up, watching Aurues shoved Matrim onto his back. He went to slam a foot down on Matrim's skull as rolled to the side before getting onto his knees, the hand holding the metal pressed it against his wound. It burned and he let out a cry as it did.

He pushed off of the ground with his good leg, bringing his left arm over, the point of the chunk of metal below the fist, now pointing toward Aureus, he'd aim to slam down the bit of locker and stab the kid in his jugular. Not as devastating as a femoral artery cut would have been, which would have left Matrim to have to tourniquet himself and possibly bleed out while Aureus could try to kill him. Whether or not the move worked Matrim would follow up by headbutting the kid, not worrying about his hand getting cut by the part of the locker he had to grip onto in order to get a good stab in.

He was hoping that with the lack of oxygen he had experienced a moment ago, some possibly blood loss, and head trauma would allow him to establish dominance in this fight. Then again with the leg cut and the nature of a head butt, Matrim had two of the things on that list already.

[Aureus]

The second Matrim let up, Aureus gulped down as much precious air as his crying lungs could handle. Wearily, he pushed himself to his feet and treasured what little down time he was granted. Good, good, keep it together. That little cauterizing move is impressive. He's definitely worth the trouble, I like this kid. We should be able to win though. He's very emotional, maybe a tad more jumpy after that laceration as well. Steady... the schizo thought as he eyed his opponent.

The Pillar moved in, pulling and leading with the piece of locker that had once been Aureus' weapon. Following suit, the dull eyed boy leaned back to avoid the cut and pushed his right arm up and over to deflect the attack before seizing the locker. Even so, the makeshift blade succeeded in skimming along his cheek, yet another scar to be.

Grabbing hold of the locker with his right gloved hand, Aureus pulled Matrim forward while falling backward and sticking out his foot to slam into the student's stomach and toss him backwards. The foot he used would be on the same side as the Varsity Captain's injured leg because it was possible that he would pull up the other(good) leg to catch Aureus with his knee, somewhat nulling the attack. The falling was also a defense against any close range attacks that would come. It was important that he thought ahead like that, otherwise the fight would end soon.

[Matrim Gallagher]

The guy rolled back, pulling Matrim with him and knocking him in the stomach. Matrim managed to scrape him but that was about it as he was thrown back, doing somewhat of a front flip as he was sent up and over by Aureus, he landed on his back, feet landing away from the kid, his back taking quite a deal of damage, and the movement wasn't helping the legs burn at all.

He rolled over quickly onto his stomach and pushed himself up, his hands empty now as his flames grew stronger he brought his hands up open fisted, waiting for his opponent to come to him, "You're pretty decent I'll give you that. You know medicine well, vital areas and all that. I'm impressed. Show me more."

[Aureus]

Immediately after he had thrown Matrim back, Aureus got to his feet and spun around to face his opponent. He was a bit surprised that the Pillar didn't react right away and decided to go on the defensive. It was possible that he was just trying to wear Aureus out and had done a fair job thus fair. The Senior's breathing was ragged, his shoulder ached, and his eyes would be black and blue by day's end. It was exactly what he needed.

While the Varsity Captain talked down to him in the form of a half hearted comment, the schizo ignited the index finger on his right glove and ran it across the cut on his cheek. Licking his lips, the metallic taste of blood stuck to his tongue. Matrim's words didn't phase the shaggy haired boy one bit, they were so cliche. "Will do..." He answered before dashing ahead.

Once he had gotten about three and a half feet away from his target, Aureus would stop on his right leg and pivot 180 degrees counter clockwise with his left leg bent at the knee and extended behind him. Most people would recognize this as some sort of spinning heel kick and that's exactly what he was counting on. Instead, the ex-pillar wouldn't complete the circular motion and would fall forward onto his hands and spring himself back into a kick with both legs to Matrim's sternum. The idea behind the attack was that it would be lower than a spinning heel kick, and would come half a second earlier. In a fight like this, that's all the time one needed to turn the tables. Hopefully it would be enough to fool the Pillar. If so, he would follow it up by landing on both feet before spinning around a launching a front snap kick with his right leg to the boy's throat/face(if he was bent over from the previous attack).