FLY, YOU FOOLS! [David/Open]

[David B.]

David grinned- he was tired, but not that tired. He looked to Kiyr, smile fading only slightly.

"Tell you what. How about both of you fight me."

He stared at Kiyr. This was not a request. The girl wanted to be silent and stiff like a corpse, David would make her at least excersize her muscles. Reaching into his bag by the door, he pulled on some MMA gloves and stood across from the the two of them.

"Kiyr, this is Rina. Rina, this is Kiyr. She is Dragon core."

He gestured lazily, waving them forward.

"Now show me ya moves."

[Kyrie Blaze]

"We can easily pick our conversation up later." Kiyr intoned quietly, in polite reassurance to Rina.

If there was any reaction to David's order to fight him, it came as a blink as the blonde moved through the room. The shadows were not large in the gym, but still present. The room itself was somewhat bright, even without electricity. Good. That would help her opening move.

With his final command, the blonde crouched swiftly, hands hovering slightly over the floor for a moment. With a look of intense concentration, a shadow appeared, stretching the somewhat short distance to connect to David's. her hands connected with the floor, the shadow, his shadow.

She disappeared, sucked into the shadow she created, down into David's as the one she made disappeared as she was no longer channelling her creation. She popped out of David's shadow, just behind him.

One hand snaked in front of his ankle, her other striking out for the back of his same knee; torquing her body slightly provided two advantages: adding power to the strike and pulling back her other hand as she started to stand. Careful for her still-healing ribs, but firm and quick regardless.

She braced her arm against the back of his thigh, trying to control the motion of his fall so he perhaps he couldn't strike with his free leg. Both arms were held closer to her body, the main force coming from her core and legs to 'throw' David off-balance and to the ground.

Or so she hoped, but she knew he was still high above her. Not even that stopped her, though.

[Rina Vade]

"Nice to meet you." Rina nodded at Kyir politely.

When David agreed to a sparring match with the both of them, she smirked. He must be really good if he could take on the both of them. As Kyir attacked using shadows, Rina decided to just use basic melee, darting orward with surprising speed and backing up Kyir by moving to sweep David's free leg forward so as to help throw him of balance.

OOC - Crappy, I know x.x

[David B.]

David grinned.

Here we go...
As Kiyr would grip his leg he would whip it upward, intent of throwing the female into her team mate. If she was smart, and let go, he would still likely kick Rina in the stomach, in which case he would dart forward before Kiyr could follow up, intent on gripping Rina and using his vastly superior strength to turn and hurl her into the wall.

"And here I thought we were just using fists...but Qi...?"

[Kyrie Blaze]

Even had she not let go, the rapid motion coupled with David's strength would have broken her grip, anyway. Her thoughts echoed with apology to her would-be teammate, though she did not currently vocalize it.

She'd started taking David's lesson to heart and continuing the fight even as she conversed with him. She may have been too late to save Rina if David's attack succeeded, but she could perhaps keep him busy in the mean time. She cut in behind as he moved on Rina, slower as he knew she would be, aiming several swift punches for his center line through her own, hands moving opposite to one another which would enable her to adjust to defence if needed.

"I did not hear anything stating we could not. Though I did not have my Qi the last time we did this, you had used your own to evade me and not fall."

One thing was certainly clear: when you wagered with Kyrie, take care with your words. She knew there was added difficulty to David using his Qi in this, but she was as ready as she ever would be to face it, even though he outclassed her by far.

Just another odd way of showing...showing...

. o O ( No worries, Rina. Would normally be a smart move, but David's too stronk. We just have to do what we can~ C: )

[Rina Vade]

With Kyire unable to keep her grip on David, Rina knew that he would try to hit her, as she was right in front of him. However, he had never seen her fight, so he didn't know what she was capable of. Twisting to the side j as David's leg shot out at her, aimed for her middle, Rina would reach out and grasp him arm to send him stumbling forward. It wouldn't exactly do much except buy her and her new teammate some time to regain their wits about them.

"Well then...using our Qi are we...?" Rina mumbled, deciding that if Kyire was using her Qi - and if David was probably going to, too - then she would as well. Her Psychic abilities were not very strong. Everything she did was based on speed and agility. Maybe this would work....

Launching herself forward at David (one he'd turned to face her and Kyire of course) she let out a sweep of her power; a sort of telekinesis. She aimed for David's shoulder to send him off balance and distract him and at the same time, she swung her leg up into a solid roundhouse.

If she was lucky, this would work.

OOC- David may be strong, but Rina is fast! XD

[David B.]

David would take the pull the girl made on his arm and instead roll forward, tucking his body in before turning around- and getting clobbered by Kiyr. He grunted as her fists struck home, three times- before the blow from Rina would push him back into the wall.

He laughed.

Using both hands, he would slam on the wall behind him on his right and left side, blowing gigantic holes into them. Then it would seem like a crushing force would slam into both Rina and Kiyr, the intent being to lift then both and slam them into the opposite wall. If it worked, he would run forward and jump, throwing both feet out to try and dropkick Kiyr through the wall and send her into the yard outside, where people scattered.

As he was attacking Kiyr, Rina would have her own problems. Hard, compact clubs of air would aim to slam into her abdomen repeatedly, eventually sending her outside as well.

At least the was the plan. If everything went well, he would step through one of the holes their bodies had made, cracking his knuckles as he gave them a chance to return to their feet.

[Delilah A. Black]

In her quest to become stronger, faster, better, over the course of the last few weeks, Delilah had been deliberately seeking out fights to hone her skills. But she had discovered recently that her skills and those of her opponents did not quite match up, being that she was outclassing them at every turn. She needed stronger opponents, someone who wouldn't let up or just fold in half when she hit them just so, someone she could really test her skills on and learn new ones through adaptation.

She had already spared with "Unfettered" and Kiyoshi individually. The first day she had met Mathew they had fought, and she and Marcus had gone at it once already as well, though some time had passed since then. She was starting to burn through her reserves of people to fight, but there was one whom she hadn't fought yet, though she had been in combat with him, what...three times now? Yes, that sounded right.

Which is what brought her to the Dragon's territory once again, David's sash tied high up on her left arm and two new little additions to her tool belt, rather than her triple threat of knives. She was smiling softly, but there was a spark in her bright blue eyes that gave her otherwise feminine face a harsh edge. It wasn't hard to get her battle lust up, not with the feeling in the air, the one she was following. That skin prickling sensation of impending doom, the very thing that sent her body into fight-flight mode.

In any other nick of the woods, she might have thought this was off...but this was Dragon territory and they were well known for their combative skills. It wouldn't surprise her if there was a training camp going on right now where a whole bunch of new recruits were fighting Mathew or Leon or David all at once and getting their asses kicked.

In reality, she wasn't very far off the mark.

The First Crow had just rounded the corner the Peace Cafe was sitting on, looking onward towards the gym when THE WALLS EXPLODED and everyone who had been milling about before scattered.

Delilah would simply stand there with a slightly raised eyebrow at the appearance of the two young roughed-up looking ladies she hadn't seen before and a shirtless David stepping out of the holes he created in the wall. He appeared to be enjoying himself at any rate!!

She stooped down for a moment, picking up a small piece of the wall David had (or attempted to have) thrown the girls through before chucking it at his head to grab his attention. Just as he dealt with it (or let it ping against the side of his head) Delilah would kick off the ground, closing the distance between them in a blur of motion, pulling her feet off the ground slightly, and aiming a drop kick for his sternum to send him flying backwards, should it connect. If it did, Delilah would pull her knees back up to her chest, the momentum from that throwing her knees over her head as she backflipped in mid air to land on her feet, which is also what would occur if she hit a surface or force hard enough to bounce off of.

If he got out of the way, she would simply shoot past him before trying to regain her balance, feet tapping the ground rapidly as she tried to keep up with her own momentum. In both cases, once she was on her feet, she would twiddle her fingers at him, chuckling lightly and shifting her left foot slightly to the outside.

"Is it 'Everyone Wants to Fight David' day already?"

She drew one of the curious training knives she had brought with her, continuing to smile serenely, her eyes still glinting as her own intent began to pour off her in waves.

"Three-on-One odds...seems fair to me."

Said the ninja.

[David B.]

((this assuming his attacks on Rina and Kiyr work))

His head shifted a little as a rock smashed into it, his eyebrows going up a little as he turned in the direction of the individual who dared throw it he was met by a grinning flying Delilah, who mimiced his dropkick to perfect accuracy, her feet smashing into his chest and sending him flying back into another building, his body indenting there with a grunt of pain. His back, lightly skinned, burned with the pleasure of his new wounds.

He stepped out of the indent his body made, shakking his head a little before laughing his ass off. Wind tore around him at violent speeds as he cackled, his hair flying up.

"Delilah!! Its about time!"

He lunged forward, now no longer playing games. No longer holding back. He had not fought so many at once since his days in 809. It was like... A flashback. He bathed in the nostalgia. Aiming for Delilah, he would move to throw an elbow for her sternum, attqckig her from his left side. If it worked. He shoot at Rina, aiming a cross for her cheek while a cluster of air would come at Kiyr from the right to try and clobber her in the cheek.

((BRING IT ON!!!

Post order:

Me

Kiyr

Rina

Delilah

Lets try and keep to it. Anyone else joins, we will add dem up.))

[Kyrie Blaze]

As Kiyr stumbled off the wall from the first knock back, trying to shield her ribs and finding that they were starting to sting once again. She didn't have time to wince before David was flying at her, jerking her body to the side just before she was blown out through the wall she had just crashed and cracked into, and disappearing into a cloud of dust. She only had time to shift enough to minimize the damage she took from David's attack.

...but that didn't do much for everything else. A strangled set of coughs escaped her mouth, spitting out - with no small amount of distaste for having to spit at all - the dust that collected in her mouth. Her ribs screamed, but she refused to give up.

She would relentlessly get back up.

So she peeled herself off the ground as the dust began to settle, eyes up and surprisingly darker than normal. She clenched her hand, drawing up some dirt into her fist. Slowing her breathing, controlling it to minimize the pain and slip into a rhythm, she stepped from the swirls. She knew someone new had joined the party so to speak, and could see this new woman with the band around her arm was the one that knocked David back.

Delilah.

The name was tucked away in her mind, but she was focused on the attack incoming for Delilah, certain there would be one for her, too, and she strafed to the side. Her expression was set: a quiet mask of calm concentration despite the renewed pain in her ribs. It was the still-settling dust that gave away David's attack, and Kyrie threw herself into a roll, jaw clenched to fight through the pain to evade it.

She popped back to her feet and moved out at a mostly-silent sprint, launching herself off a heavy chunk of rubble to fly at David at an angle, one leg extended for his jaw, but ready for what David would surely do.

'DYNAMIC ATTACK!' Kyrie thought as she jumped, hands raised and held at the ready with her movement.

[Rina Vade]

Rina had never fought David before, and she was simply amazed at his abilities. However, that didn't keep her from focusing on the task at hand; evading his air attacks. She'd smashed through the wall, being sent flying out into the open while people scattered. Twisting like a cat, she landed on hands and knees, skidding back slightly from the force of David's attack before leaping back up in a guarded position.

But she wouldn't need it.

Someone else had appeared to take David on along with her and Kyire.

Surprised, it took Rina a moment to orient herself. After a few moments of watching the new girl pummel David - and he laughed, of all things, she moved forward as Kyire did, executing a second roundhouse that she would alter at the last second to brig down on David's shoulder if he managed to block or evade her attack.

Which of course, he most likely would.

"So...three against on, eh?" she grunted as she swung into her roundhouse. A grin found its way onto her features.

This would be fun.

[Delilah A. Black]

" Delilah!! It's about time!"

She hardly had time to register the glee in his voice before his attack came, his elbow landing against her ribs...and seemingly did nothing.

But now he was close, close enough for a knife. Not that the funny little training knife in her hand had an edge or would actually harm him, per se...but the blunted metal along what should have been the blades cutting surface would hum slightly.

As he came in close enough for that elbow, Delilah would come in for a slash against his lib cage that wouldn't cut...but it sure would feel like one. The electrical current flowing through the training knife would simulate a cut and would temporarily deaden the area, but wouldn't actually harm the skin beyond a small bruise from the force of the object contacting the skin. As this slash finished she would bring the knife upwards towards to 'cut' at the tendon joining his arm to his shoulder, just below his armpit to leaden the arm.

Whether or not these attacks workers, Delilah would shift away as the other two young ladies attacked in tandem. Shifting to flank him from behind, tying to kick his knees out from Underhill to destabilize him as her knife went to stab at his spine....to numb the area and make it harder for him to move.

((Ooc: 1/2 nulls used))

[David B.]

David was no amatuer when it came to fighting enemies who felt nothing. Too many times had he wailed on Amtrum to not notice Delilahs lack of reaction. Her drawing of that blade made him grin. First Qi, now weapons? His own blades, tucked safely away in the gym, Would remain there. He already had a vast physical and Qi based advantage and really didnt need another stepping stone (regardless of fighting three at once).

However, back to Delilahs lack of damage. The blade of hers would slide across his ribs, causing him to let out a loud growl of pain. She wouldn't get the chance to cut or move anywhere else, however, as his elbow would seem to make a gunshot like noise. Instead of bullets, however, a wad of air the size of a cannonball would likely plow into the girls chest at point blank range, it's intent being to lift and smash the stongest of them into the wall of another building, so she could make a cement-shaped outline of her own.

Payback was a bitch.

The world, seemingly in slow motion for him, would spin as he turned to acknowledge the threat of the two other girls. These three were working well together, forming their attacks as one. Lifting his arm on the side Kiyr attacked from, he would grab the leg and lunge backward, pulling the girl in the air with him- so her stomach would be right in the path of Rinas roundhouse.

That was the thing with flying roundhouses- hard to stop, hard to see what you were kicking.

If Rina made contact, David would let go of Kiyr at that moment so the girl could be thrown to the dirt by her own ally. Then David would lunge at Rina and aim a crippling punch for her sternum, afterward turning to see how Delilah was faring.

No sneaky sneaky, dark haired wench....

[Kyrie Blaze]

with the leg grab, Kiyr's eyes widened and she went half-limp, literally changing the shape of her body by bending back, hoping to lower herself enough to either minimize or evade damage from Rina altogether.

Hard to tell how it would go, however, as David was so much faster.

[Rina Vade]

*cackles* I'm loving this!

The moment that Rina noticed that David had grabbed Kyire and put the girl in her way, the dark-haired girl flipped forward, her hands touching the earth as she used her center to swing just enough that she could twist and kick David backwards as he lunged for her.

She looked at Kyire, her eyes impressed. Quick thinking on her part.