Once more, with Malice. (Joy/Malice)

[Pride]

Pride was here, and he was ready to punch Malice in the face.  Or something like that. 

[Joy]

Joy was also present! But less ready to punch Malice in the face.

For now.

[Zack Asiv]

Malice was there too! So was a whole bunch of people, they seemed preoccupied however with their own fights or competitions. A few were on vigil watching the border for oncoming challengers. However he himself had a huge grin on his face.

"You came! I'm so happy. Well now that you are here, let's see what you can do. Attack me please."

[Pride]

Pride snorts. "Sure."

He goes to punch him in the face as hard as he could!

[Joy]

Joy passed the other fighters wither her gaze forward, letting Pride take first dibs at the hit on Malice. He'd taken the injuries for her during the explosion; it was a fair trade. She sidestepped her twin, aiming a kick at the redhead's torso with all her might!

[Zack Asiv]

Malice would turn his head from the force of the blow, and bend over the kick a bit, however he wouldn't move much after that.

"Not bad! Decent physical ability! I don't even think you relied on your powers either. I thought for sure you would go to a crutch like that right away. I'm impressed. Now, is that really all you have?"

[Pride]

"I mean, do you want me to use my gifts?" He smirked. "I can if you want."

[Joy]

"We can," Joy agreed, her gaze still on Malice as she continued. She wasn't sure if he meant that about their qi or their ability in general.

"Do you want to go first this time, brother?"

[Zack Asiv]

Malice would raise a hand to his chin in mock thought.

"Yes, I think that'd be more fun. I'll also stop playing around a bit."

[Pride]

"I just punched him, so I kind of already went first. But if you want to just watch and not get your hands dirty I can go again."

He said while playfully winking.

[Joy]

Eye roll.

"Thanks." The bones in her arm crackled and muscles twisted as the bandages fell away, teh skin turning a mottle red and black as the claw grew. She slammed her fist towards Malice's face~ Yay!

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Monstrous Claw - Joy's right arm morphs and cracks into a monstrous claw that adds 3/4 of her energy to her attack star. +8 DEF while active.

"Scorpion Grip!": With the power of 60,000 newtons of force Joy is able to grip adding her full energy stat to her Attack stat.

Qi Uses: 2/16

Atk: 107

[Zack Asiv]

Malice scanned her transformed hand knowing the attack would come from that, however this was a test and he moved to deflect the hand at the wrist, however he under estimated it and before he could correct his defense her knuckles had already made contact and the impact had happened, tilting his head to the side to roll the fist away with his deflection he would back peddle a couple of steps and spit a pink saliva mix on the ground with a huge grin.

"That is much, much better."

[Pride]

"Does that mean I should give it a go?"

He'd ask with a wink and a grin.

[Joy]

There was something very satisfying in his spitting out the bloodied saliva, though Joy had the feeling that she wouldn't have normally managed it.

"He might like it too much."

[Zack Asiv]

Malice would roll his shoulders and throw a couple of mock close range uppercuts to warm up his muscles like shadow boxing.

"That shouldn't keep you from doing it, though, yeah?"

Malice would grin wide as he began to slowly bounce on the pads of his toes raising his heels off the ground starting to spring his legs into action a bit.