[centre][b]Phoenix Wing versus Pirate Lord[/b][/centre] The important thing that Trinity was realizing was that, as the heat from the fire magic imparted heat into her shield (as is the nature of fire magic), she was able to gradually convert the heat to energy she could use. She could power up like this! So Trinity waited behind her shield, patiently biding her time while she thought of how to attack the fire mage. The skeleton approached her and made a show of scaring her. He startled her, but she still felt safe behind her shield. Still, the skeleton was an irritating thing, wasn't he? Too persistent. "It's still getting too hot in here..." The minstrel found herself unable to convert fast enough with what she had. She had to expand or counterattack. Bottom line, do something. "Energy Make: Hammer Spin!" The minstrel clapped her hands on the golden ball of energy that formed between them, pushing her palms together and then pulling them apart as though she were manipulating dough. Three smaller spheres merged into the dome shield she constructed to protect herself, and a trio of hammers seemed to grow on the outside. Preparations complete, the minstrel issues the whole dome to spin in place, the hammers on the exterior clobbering anything fool enough to remain near. The skeleton did not seem to care about the attacks, rather continued trying to find a way to break through Trinitys defenses, unconcerned, even as Bellai shouted out "devil skater: chains of fire!" Sending forth ropes of fire to try and bind Trinity, or at least stop her barrage of attacks. The horseman continued to approach rose, blocking any attacks, unconcerned, as soon there was the sounds of hooves, and his horse approached once more, charging Rose from behind "Enough! Energy Make: Resize and Transform!" Trinity had flung her arms up as she began her magic call. She drew them in and the dome she had covered herself with retracted and hugged her body, shaping to it. The three hammers remain floating nearby, and they strike the ropes of fire as they approach. "Energy Boots!" The section of barrier around her feet and ankles transforms at her command, and she makes a charge for Bellal, past Skellington, using the boots to give her a jet-boosted start through the circling inferno. The hammers take turns leading the way, spinning to carve Trinity's path. She jumps high to try and get the sun behind her, flanked by two of her hammers. She sent the third at him with a lot of spin on it for a wide shot, skimming it along the ground. The hammer could hit wherever, but she'd be aiming for his solar plexus. One of the hammers behind her would sweep for his feet, and the other would feint for his head and then try to swing around for his back. Bellai saw Trinity coming, and he twisted so her blows landed on less painful and less vulnerable areas, wincing nontheless. But she was close and that was all Bellai needed to grab her with a rope of fire, and pulled to shove her off her feet. Skeletongton was ready to pounce on her, the two seeming to work together without thought as Blair approached Rose Rose kept her attacks coming at the horseman waiting for the very last second before stepping out of the way of the horse letting him run into his rider at full speed as the shadow horse's rushed at the summoner before exploding into smoke around Blair as when the smoke cleared there was a shadow blade inches from her throat "forfeit and call back your spirits."she stated with her blue eyes narrowed as her shadow twisted and turned as if alive and ready to attack at a single command from her as Rose was fed up and ready for this to be done. Trinity yelped as the rope pulled her over, feigning fear as Skellington leaps toward her. Two of her hammers came careening in from the side to slam against the assailant, throwing him away and allowing Trinity to flip to her feet. The third hammer flew into her waiting hand, which held it up. Another of the hammers flew into her right hand, changing to a sickle for defense against Bellal's rope. The area of Trinity's shield where Bellal's rope touched glowed brighter, and the brightness began to move, rising into the head of the hammer. Trinity crouches and lowers the hammer again, before bursting forward toward Bellal yet again. She would come at him with her floating hammer first, a swing from the right, before she'd follow it up with a forehand swing from the hammer in her left hand. The horseman didn't seem phased as his horse came towards him, in fact he merely shifted slightly and swung himself up on the horses back, and Blair merely laughed, appearing unhurt or seeming to enjoy the shadow attack. "Never!" She said Merrily "I do not surrender!" The horseman once more charged Rose down Skelington fell back, but as Trinity charged Bellai, he came at her from behind even as Bellai shouted "develop slayer: Devils fist!" Flame covering his hands and he threw a punch towards the attack "Then I guess we must finish this soon..I have somewhere I must be."rose commented as the shadow dome shrieked back down as her shadow grew "Shadow tidlewave"she said as her shadows leaped up to five stories high before rose lifted her hands up only to bring them down as the shadow tidlewave expanded and arched towering down on to Blair giving her hit with the force of a tidlewave. Rose hoped this would make the summoner lose focus of her summons or weaken her to one. Rose looked over her shouldrr as she twisted towards him moving her hands to the horseman's direction as once the wave hit Blair or the ground it moved like a water snake as it rushed at the horseman with full force. Blair's cackled echoed across the arena, seeming to come from everywhere, as the little white ghost dog formed, and Blair seemed to disappear, the attack it seemed missing her. "Aw, you hurt Zero. I'm gonna have to make you pay for that" Blair said, appearing with Zero in her arms, stroking the ghost dog. The horseman continued running, once it hit the attack, the horseman leaped off his horse, which disappeared from the attack, and the horseman time his jump to smash into rose. "You again?" Trinity knew she wouldn't be able to get a solid attack off on Bellal with the skeleton on her back. She blocked Bellal's attack with the hammer in her hand, letting the assailant from behind clash against her shell. "Can't get anything done with you around. Scram." The magician stepped forward, and stepped out of the shell, which instead absorbed Skellington before becoming more solid again, and then began to shrink. The last free floating hammer stayed centered on the shrinking shell, while Trinity slashed at Bellal with her sickle. The blade wouldn't cut him, but it would sure feel like it. A nice welt would get left behind, too. With another hammer strike, the minstrel leaped away and use her Energy Boots to slide further, seeking distance without her protective shell. She would take the shrinking, now spherical shell with her, watching it to make sure the skeleton was crushed within. She needed something more inventive... getting close wasn't working. Arrows were too slow. Let's see what I remember... Papa. "So. Fire Mage. You like to burn things before they can touch you, right?" She smirks, taking the sphere in her hands and molding it, elongating it into a long barrel before she draws her fingers down the length. The barrel turns into a set of four, parallel rails. "Let's see you stop this. Energy Make: Railgun!" The three small weapons she had crafted changed shape, reverting to their spherical forms. The first fits itself into the back of the cannon. She could feel the power charging. "FIRE!" With a squeeze of her hand, the constructed mechanism releases a burst of power. The force imparted back at her lifted her off of her feet and landed her on her ass, but what did that mean for Bellal? Without missing a beat, Trinity gets back up, using a small Energy Make spike from her hand to push herself up, before returning it to the cannon. "Energy Make: Anchor!" A brace forms at her waist, and two spikes shoot into the ground. Stabilizers. The next shot loads and she aims for Blair. Without interruption, she'll fire. Skelington disappeared within the Shell as Blair, noticing his distress, called him back, and then at once re-summoned him. Unperturbed by the pause, Skelington smoothed over his clothes, watching as Bellal seemed to be trapped. Humming, Skelington once more approached trinity. "excuse me" He said politely. Bellail rolled onto his back, and quickly moved away, rising once more. "You got to be faster then that" The first shot impacted the wall of the arena and remained there, while Trinity loaded another. She turns and fires at Skellington as he approaches, dense enough to demolish his skeletal structure, if it impacted. It would impact the wall of the arena and, again, stick there. The last round loads and she fires again, at Bellal, but not quite. In truth, she was aiming for the round on the wall behind him. Score or no, it would bounce off the first, and then the second, careening for Bellal again. Following it up, Trinity calls her quiver and reforms her Railgun into a bow. "Capture my foe! Arrow Magic: Net Arrow!" She looses the arrow she makes quickly, hoping to catch Bellal in the steel net and occupy him for a bit so she and Rose could focus down their summoner foe. Blair once more desummoned Skellington, and tried to resummon the spirit, but it took a lot of effort, having used a lot of magic. She cursed lightly, and Let Zero go, the ghost dog hovering around Trinity as if to distract her. Bellai gave a sigh, his flames rising up to engulf the attacks, looking up, mildly annoyed at the net arrow. Wh-... what? It didn't even pass him? And he burned the steel net? So these are the flames of a Devil Slayer... The shape of the Railgun broke down and Trinity formed most of the energy back into a sphere. The The rails of the gun had gotten rather bright, and she tried to focus that energy into her right palm. It formed a band, resembling water, separate currents twisting the shape as it swirled. After a moment, she curseed under her breath and lets it disperse, unable to reign in but one tiny band. She swats at the dog with her left hand. Damn, she forgot how consuming powered systems could be. The rounds that had implanted themselves on the wall pull themselves out and rejoin her. The three orbs orbit around her, as she holds the small, bright sphere in front of her. "Energy Make:" she brings the small orb close to her hand, hesitates, and forms a glove out of it, "Giant's Mitt!" The three orbs form together behind her into a giant hand. Whew. It was really good she got rid of that Skellington. All this jumping around was catching up with her, too. Rose smirked at the horseman did exactly what she wanted as her shadows rushed back as she spun around forming a huge hammer in her hands "Once again, go away already pumpkin brains!"She yelled "Shadow Hammer!" She used her movementum to smack the hammer as hard as she could into the horseman, hoping to finish him off so she could help trinity with the devilslayer Bellal watched Trinity, content to bide his time, gathering his remaining power, he was more then prepared to face both Phoenix Wingers by himself, as Blair seemed to be tiring out. Zero continued to bombared Trinity, as if the ghost dog could distract the energy make mage. Bellai waited, flames circling him. The horseman sacrficed his horse as Amaya attacked. The horse disappeared, and the horse man stopped any further attacks, grabbing Rose's hand, he pulled himself close to the shadow Mage, and pressed a blade against her throat. "My head may be a pumpkin, but I assure you, my brains are not" Rose let out a gasp before she covered her nose with her free hand " you sir need a breath and to go back to the spirit realm you and that dog are from before your summoner passes out from using all her energy...now get lost..."she told the pumpkin as she got herself free from the grip while jumping away before her shadow once again moved like q full force tidal wave smacking into the horseman hoping to send him flying into the devilslayer The horseman merely dodged the attack, and calmly approached Rose, "I do not need to go anywhere. My mistress will continue to fight and thus I shall" he said, moving through the shadows, appearing to glow slightly "Unfortunately, as you can see your skeleton friend was too much for her to summon she resorted to an absolutely cute ghost dog and a pumpkin brain man" She said backing up keeping a distance between her and him as she took in some deep breaths as she needed to figure out how to finish these spirit and Blair so many her and trinity could win without passing out in exhaustion. She could feel the fact she was starting to wear down. She needed to train more. Once she was a good distance away she sprinted towards the pumpkin man. Whe she was a few inches away she spinned around sending a strong round house kick covered with her shadows to add an extra punch to the attack "Enough!" Trinity, with her giant hand fully formed, made a quick flicking motion with careful timing. The hand descended and flicked Zero (at Bellal), mimicking Trinity's movement. She followed it up with a backhand motion, and the hand careens through the air toward Blair, seeking to smack her out of the sky. Using that motion as a windup for the next, she swat her hand down in front of her. The Giant's Mitt sailed through the air, making an overhead slam aimed for Bellal. The attack on the horseman would be blocked, by long, bony arms, and Rose would be treated to the grinning face of Skellington. Behind, a panting Blair could be seen, Zero taking the hits from Trinity that were meant for her, the little dog zooming about, and disappearing as it became too much for him. it was clear this was Blair's last stand. Bellal snarled, and his flames seemed to flash, becoming stronger, "Devil Slayer: Super Nova!" The flames flashed, dancing about everyone, twisting and twirling, blinding. Rose moved back as she sighed "get the hint and leave you are hurting your mistress you adorable skelelton..."Yelled rose frustrated as she was trying hard to not lose but this duo was really ticking her off. Rose took a seat on the ground taking a few deep breaths to calm down as the blinding flashes of the God slayer flames were giving her a headache. She stood back up before lifting her hand in the air "shadow swatter" she spoke as her shadow moved out before lifting up being several sizes larger then rose as she moved her hand in a swatting motion before the giant "fly swatter" swatted at the two summons along with their caster and the devil slayer as she hope to distract the devilslayer to help trinity while finishing off blair "Damn!" Trinity drew her giant hand back, and clutched her own hand in front of her. The Mitt reacted, splitting into three sections: the thumb and forefinger, the pinky and ring finger, and the middle finger. They began dancing around her, pressing the flames out against the ground as they came too close to. Trinity was busy concentrating, and soon thrust her hand into the air, two fingers out. "Split!" The forefinger and thumb, and pinky and ring finger separated. The ring and pinky finger retreated and surrounded her, to shield her, while the remaining three combine again. The partial Mitt flew at Bellal, opening with a slam, extending with a punch, and then comboing into a flick. But it wouldn't end there, either. After opening, the thumb would punch at Bellal, before the whole hand twisted in its place and the middle finger would swing around for another punch, and then the index, reminiscent of a scorpion tail, would lash out before the whole would fall on him in a closing slam. Bellal hadnt yet expanded much magic, and he moved smoothly, flipping back to avoid trinity's attacks, finding the whole thing annoying. Blair was clearly on her last legs, so it looked like it was up to Bellai to win this thing. Fine then. He began to move fast, watching as Skellinngton charged Rose, appearing to tackle the shadow mage. Bellai didn't care. "Devil slayer: Engulfing flames" All around them, flames seemed to fill the arena, givving very little room to move. Rose sighed before she seemingly dissappeared as she just fell into her shadow when the skellington attacked. her shadow moved a bit to the side before she reformed "Honeestly, I am resista=ing the urge to turn you to dust so come on you spirits lets play"she said keeping track of the devilslayers flames Trinity watched the flames engulf the arena, surrounding her barrier. She frowned softly, knowing the heat would catch up with her eventually. The three attacking fingers continued to attack Bellal. For a while, they kept it up with their joined punching attack, Trinity miming the motions for the hand to make. After a while of that, they split again and begin to flop themselves onto the ground in an attempt to crush him, one at a time. They used their number to create a constant barrage, one after another and picking themselves back up again to create a steady cycle of three. After a time of this, Trinity felt the energy gaining too much heat. She had to do something with the intensified energy, before she lost control of it. She couldn't afford to waste any more. "Tsk. Are you ready, Bellal?" The fingers, which shone a bright gold now, suddenly retreated into the flames, back to Trinity. The fingers wrapped around her begin to spin before they expand, turning instead into bands. The three others, as well, spin around her, forming bands and shielding her with their force. "Energy Make!" The bands of energy moved and encircled her, one at each limb and one around her torso. "Shining Valor!" A gauntlet with a shield attached to it formed on her left. In her right, matching but with a small crossbow mounted instead. The two knee-high boots that formed on her legs seemed normal enough, but the long coat that wrapped itself around her had some sort of apparatus on the back, with downward facing slats. "Mnn... it's a little different than normal..." Ch! It must be because I'm getting tired... Bellal figured he needed to try and finish this as quickly as possible, as Blair seemed unable to stay standing, even as Skellington attacked Rose. Bellal's flames danced around them, and he drew them in closer, hoping to made it a little bit too hot for Trinity to handle. Rose kept avoiding skelington's attack. She had to end this before she herself would pass out. She twisted and turned as the spirit attacked. She quickly ducked under a attack before her shadows leaped up "shadow wall."she yelled as her shadow explained and thickened before sending it full force into skellingtom and towards the devil slayer and his flames. Damn! Trinity leaps into the air, and the vents on her back light up, before she vents some of the excess heat she's gathered through them. In return, she gains thrust. The intensity of the light emitted from her Energy Make drains, ever so slowly, as she propels herself. However, as she flew through the air, he flames only followed her wherever she was going. She'd land, and there they'd come after her, threatening to spill over her as they would surround her. She would use the shield to deflect before she'd be forced to move again. Even if she couldn't counter, she had a little time to think, at least. She'd have to fold after playing this card. Make a show of it, naturally, but she didn't have enough magic power for any more tricks. She could make a bolt or two, maybe, but this wasn't looking good for her. If she wanted to come out on top, she needed to think of something. Something with what she's already got. Well, all she had in the field was her Shining Valor, and enough magic for a few reshapings. The shield of her Make was over charged, and she drew from that to power her jetpack. If she could power her jetpack, she could power other things, too. And instead of just venting the heat, maybe she could direct it...? She'd have to concentrate it, somehow... with... A lens! The shield was the perfect shape... She'd need more energy, though, to evade and fire at the same time. So she stopped flying, attempting to deflect the flames in a controlled direction. She'd then roll out of the way before being overwhelmed and deal with the next surge in a similar fashion. When, finally, the shield was radiating enough heat to distort the air around it, Trinity decided it had enough power stored. She'd roll out of the way one last time and then jetpack into the air. "Make!" Her hands clasp together, and both gauntlet, along with the crossbow, mold into a handle that encompasses her hands, and a single cannon. The shield shrunk to fit inside. She'd aim quickly, and unleash an intense beam of red light! "Laser Cannon!" She'd land once more, rolling and taking another shot as necessary. There was no way the pirate lord opponents could avoid the attack, and Skellington leaped in front of Blair, curling his own bony body around hers, the exhausted summoner trying to force his gate closed, and send him back to the spirit realm. The bone spirit refused, and as te attack hit, Blair gave a cry, Skellington seeming to shatter into a million pieces of light. Blair screamed, struggling to rise, finding that she was unable to. the match was over. [centre][b]Jessie[/b][/centre] Jessie shot Ferris a smile, pleased at his reaction. she found it just perfect that he seemed dazed as she kissed him. [color=f6989d]"You're so cute. Bring it"[/color] She used a napkin to wipe her mouth, and brushed her hair back, out of her face as she turned back to the mic. [color=f6989d]"Yet another showing of how celestial mages can have such an amazing bond with their spirits, but I sure hope Skellington is alright! Once more Phoenix Wing shows their power, and their ability to go beyond normal limits, this guild has been making a name for themselves for a while now, both famously and infamously, yet no one can deny their bond and skill in bringing more then is expected of them. Their controversial attack on the magical council lead to revealing the corruption there, and their constant hunting of dark guilds has kept us all safe. One thing is for sure, Phoenix Wing is certainly one of the main players in protecting Fiore, and one has to wonder what would happen if the other main guilds, those being Dragon Fang, Frenzy plant and Riders blade form a alliance to the state of this country! They are all powerful guilds, and hopefully these games can form the relationships required for this, as we all certainly hope! And now, with Phoenix Wing winning, we are led into the fourth and final battle for the day! Can this end battle be as shocking as the first three? Lets find out!"[/color] [centre][b]Master Jamie[/b][/centre] Jamie looked towards the scene, listening with amusement. She leaned against the counter, wondering how many times she would be mistaken for a man in the future. She supposed it was her own fault, for spending a majority of the time in one of her male forms. Crossing her arms as Jack laughed, she allowed Jack to answer, deciding not to speak up just yet. [color=f26522]"Interesting. I suppose its not common knowledge yet about my true gender, although most people in my guild should know by now. I've temporarily lost my shape shifting abilities, and thus walk around in my true form. It's understandable. For future reference, you can generally tell who I am from the birth mark on my hand"[/color] Jamie held up her right hand, showing the bird mark there, and gave the girl a smile. [color=f26522]"There's no need to be embarrassed. There is always room in the guild for one more. I don't have the guild stamp with me, but when we return to the hotel we can give it to you"[/color] [@Zarkun][@hatakekuro]