[IC] A Hero Tale {Complete}

[Jensoman]

Jenso took note of Mikey's bubble in the air and the stream of water he'd launched at Oz. He took aim with his left hand, and launched a small stream of flames into Mikey's water stream, creating a cloud of steam from the heated up water to obscure Mikey's vision on him and his allies temporarily, and launched a flame ball at Mikey's bubble with his right hand. He made a quick circular motion with his right hand, and the flame ball grew in power and speed, taking the shape of a flame saw. He looked at Jeff while Mikey's vision was still obscured, pointing at his attack and nodding at him. 'Do it Jeff...It's up to you now..!' He thought, aware of the fact that Oz readied himself to provide covering fire.

[SuperFlash]

As Mikey leaped into the air, Jeff and his two other copies stopped as the water ball exploded in front of him and he did his best to hide the fact that the left and middle ones were mirages by having him push the blast of water away with a solid burst of wind and having the other two mimic the move and having the wind spreed out to make it look like all three fired a burst of wind. Seeing as Oz seemed prepared enough to tank the blast Mikey had in store for him he then turned his focus to Mikey and the attack Jenso pointed out to him. Jeff couldn't help but slightly contemplate the use of the move as in its track record of failure, but decided to give it a shot at redemption by aiding the attack.

Jeff dispersed the wind clones and dashed into range of Jenso's flame saw where he then spun and kicked a wind twister which aimed to hit the flame saw from behind and fuse with the attack. The inventor then shot both his hands forward and focused on fusing the attacks together making the flame's intensity and momentum nearly double along with making the saw sharper and making smaller wind blades spin around the center of the saw making it much harder to disperse the attack from the center without consequences.

[tex]

Mikey noted Jeff beyond the others, first. When his weakened bubble exploded, all three of the clones used a wind-like technique to prevent any water from reaching them. But instead of sending the remaining water back in a large cone, it was splashed away from the right-most Jeff. So they weren't real clones? Just illusions? Mikey registered the thought and smiled to himself. 'Good one, Jeff,' he thought, proud that the inventor was able to develop something so tricky with his Ki. If he could use more abilities like that, he would be almost impossible to hit in a one on one encounter.

The immediate threat was Jenso's flame saw. At first, Mikey wasn't worried. That technique again? Mikey had been over it many times with Jenso. The flame saw possessed devastating piercing potential, but the way it was formed allowed for easy dispersal by striking the center from either side. Mikey wound his left arm back, but before it came within range, Jeff's wind technique struck it, and made it move even faster. Mikey had no choice now. His battle bubble popped before the flame saw reached him, and unleashed a flurry of ice-spikes in every direction, at a surprising speed. Ice now? Mikey dropped out of the flame saw's path and re-equipped his bubble boot/Geyser Gauntlet combination as he fell, landing on his bouncy boots and hopping in place for a moment. He'd lost sight of Oz from his position in the air, but now he was below the steam Jenso created, and could see the man clearly at the other end of the arena.

[Necrophage]

Mikey was on the move again. Jenso and Jeff's combo attack made good work of the bubble. Hopefully this last one would seal the deal for them. Three small glyphs circled around the shaft of Oz's spear just before he threw it. Instead of doing the most predictable thing it was directed at the ground just short of Mikey.

"Anchor." He stated. As it struck the ground the gravity would spike in the area for a few moments. A sudden increase in gravity meant Mikey would be thrown out of whack with significantly less effective jumping and slowed movement to give the other two an opportunity to pull something. Unfortunately it also meant they would be affected as they drew closer. A double-edged blade but it gave numbers a better chance.

[Jensoman]

Jenso took note of Oz's efforts, and took aim with both hands. He'd managed to get beside Jeff and closer to Mikey now. He launched a wide-spread torrent of flames at Mikey's left side. Naturally, it would harm Mikey if he did not act, but it's main purpose was to use the flames to hide himself and Jeff from Mikey's sight. And hopefully melt any ice spikes that were headed for him or Jeff. With Oz's gravity field in place, Mikey was likely to be forced into defending rather than dodging. He hoped Jeff would be able to land a hit now, with his flames providing cover.

[SuperFlash]

"Well this is normally where I'd use something tech related but this will have to do" Jeff quietly stated to Jenso as his hands glowed blue for a moment as the wind sage slashed into the air towards Mikey placing 2 verticle wind scythes which for some odd reason sat in place instead of flying out to its target.
Not being one to waste time to explain it, Jeff then proceeded to dash at his max non sage speed around the raidus of the gravitational field attempting to get around to behind Mikey where he then fired off two wind spheres quickly at Mikey. As those attacks would near him, the stationary wind scythe would then fly off, slicing through the torrent of flames and then at Mikey, readjusting there aim accordingly if Mikey were to have moved any out of there path.

[tex]

Mikey started by countering Jenso's torrent of flames immediately, with a torrent of water that completely consumed and overwhelmed Jenso's attack. His arm was heavy, but the gravity didn't seem to affect his magic all that much. The water launched at Jenso continued forward, but was totally transparent, allowing Mikey to see Jeff's preparations though it easily. With his other hand, Mikey rose a wall of Water, which was just barely quick enough to intercept the two wind-sphere, despite splashing loudly as they both impacted it. Of course, since the torrent of flames didn't exist anymore, Jeff's follow-up scythes were still totally visible. Mikey took a hard step back and joined his arms together. With a slow heft, he pulled them back, and swung both arms at the wind scythes, smashing through their focal points from one side to the other, with a sudden extension of shining liquid. It's almost like Mikey had created a massive broadsword with his arms. But just as quickly as it appeared, his gauntlets shrank and he turned his attention towards Oz. "At this rate, I might have to.." Mikey cut himself off and launched a thin stream of super-focused water towards Oz.

[SuperFlash]

"So much for that" Jeff sighed as he approached Mikey a tad more reaching just before where the gravity started to affect him. "Perhaps this then?" he mutter as he started to rappidly kick out more glowing blue wind scythes which at first began to fly directly at Mikey for a moment before curving in various directions. Two which flee to the left and aimed at his left side, two from above, and two from his right.

[Necrophage]

Oz braced himself against the wall and caught the stream with a shield shaped like a funnel and pipe, redirecting it straight up to the top of the dome and splashing a fine mist across the area. He was tempted to reflect it back but the potential that Mikey could just move it again at one of his allies seemed too high to bother with. Their most effective attack thus far was the wind-augmented flamesaw. They need to do something like that again. Time to close the gap and give them the opportunity.

Oz started by running toward Mikey, wary not to do so in a straight line and risk getting hit head-on by water again. He clearly had Mikey's attention. The man seemed less concerned with the other two as he was with getting pinned or controlled by Oz. Which was good. Oz started charging a small amount of energy in his right hand and made a big show of putting it forward before hiding it behind him. It was just enough to look like it would be trouble and he would definitely wait to use it. He kept up his run, strafing around the field to limit direct hits.

[Jensoman]

Jenso glared at Mikey as the wide-spreaded streams of water headed for him. He held his body low towards the ground to avoid taking as much of the water as possible, maintaining a sturdy stance as he crossed his arms to brace for the impact, coating his body in flames in order to evaporate as much of the water that struck him as he could. 'Nrgh...If this was a more focused blast, I'd be finished..!' He thought, sliding back somewhat. He took note of Jeff's efforts through the transparent water, and grit his teeth. He made it look as if he couldn't handle the water at all, in the hope to deceive Mikey for a brief moment. 'He counters very quickly with his water magic...which means...' He thought, as a burst of flames erupted from his feet, launching him towards Mikey's left side at top speeds as he broke through the stream of water.

As Jeff attacked from several angles and Oz tried to keep most of Mikey's attention on him, Jenso aimed to wrap his arms around Mikey's as he entered the gravity field, quickly shifting his body to the side to grab ahold of him from his back. He attempted to heat up the man's body to an incredibly high degree by coating his arms in flames and restrain Mikey's arms momentarily in the process, in order to hopefully avoid Mikey from creating any water blades to counter Jeff's attacks. He knew that Mikey was faster than him, but sheer strength was one thing that Jenso had over Mikey. He ducked low while doing this, careful to steer clear of the wind scythes while using his own body-weight, combined with the weight of Mikey's arms, to try to keep Mikey's arms lowered and hanging on his sides by using the gravity field to his advantage.

[tex]

Mikey looked up and smirked as Oz redirected his attack. The entire arena was now saturated with his element. Water that he'd already injected with his own Arcane energy, no less. First, and foremost, Mikey made sure that the water from above fell much faster with a flick of his left foot, forcing a sudden downpour of rain, which wouldn't last any more than a few seconds. It was enough though. Both Jenso and Oz felt the water around them, condense until it was pushing back on all of their limbs, hard enough to slow them both to a crawl. With both of them delayed, Jeff was his only worry. While controlling the way around Oz and Jenso, Mikey did the unthinkable, and charged direct towards Jeff with a bounding leap, using his bubble shoes, allowing Jeff's scythes to collide where he had just been standing. Of course, just as it'd affected Oz and Jenso, Jeff was now weighed down by several globs of water that clung to his arms and legs. Mikey pulled his right arm back, and his gauntlet took the shape of a sea-serpent's head

"Sea Serpent strike!"

[SuperFlash]

Jeff took caution the second Mikey was able to get past Oz's gravity and jump past all the wind scythes that came after him, and it only got worse when the water began to weigh him down and Mikey proceeded to use the chance to try and hit him with what Mikey considered to be his version of Jenso's flame dragon punch. Doing his best to react to the situation, Jeff managed to stop 3 of the wind scythes from colliding into each other and had two redirect to follow Mikey's trail attempting to catch up with him while the third paused and waited.

One thing for sure Jeff didn't want to be in range of this upcoming attack and he had to get out of range now. Part of him considered that his might be a setup of some kind which could potentially be a trap, but for the moment he didn't have many options. As, Mikey closed in Jeff built up the wind around him and released it in a sudden burst knocking off the worst of the water gathered off of him allowing a moment to wind jump at full speed onto the ceiling where he armed his grapple gauntlet and grabbed hold of the ceiling to remain up there without the use of sage flight.

The third wind scythe then boosted off ready to intercept Mikey on the chance that he would try to follow the wind sage to the top of the room.

[Jensoman]

Jenso frowned as he got doused by Mikey's water, along with his allies. Flames bursted out of Jenso's body, to evaporate the water that had covered him. He took note of Jeff launching himself to the ceiling and Mikey being in mid-air, and he stomped his left foot on the ground. A flame wave erupted from the spot that he struck, which moved forwards and grew bigger and wider as it moved at great speeds, aimed to cover the entire arena in flames to evaporate Mikey's water. And by extension, prevent Mikey from landing again. "Oz, shield yourself!" He called out as a warning. Jenso's main goal was to break Mikey's control over the arena, which he had now gained with his water. He didn't want to endanger Oz, but he knew that his barrier techniques were incredibly powerful and that he'd be able to avoid his flames.

He dashed behind Jeff's two scythes that followed Mikey, stopping at the location where the scythes changed course, one second after stomping the ground, and launched a flame whip from the palm of his right hand at Mikey's other arm that wasn't covered in water. He aimed for it's end to wrap around his arm, and yanked his whip twice. If the whip were succesful in lashing onto Mikey's arm, it would reel Mikey towards Jenso, and into Jeff's two wind scythes at top speeds. Jenso prepared to release the whip and dive out of the way however, in case Mikey decided to try his technique on him instead.

[Necrophage]

It felt to Oz as if he were wading through mud. He nevertheless erected his shield. The blast wave wove around him like a rock standing against a tide. This kind of fight made it difficult to fight against a single opponent without tripping up your allies in the process. Oz stood back, the orb of energy still cradled in his hand. For now he would look on and wait for a better opening.

[tex]

Mikey's grin tightened, and his trajectory suddenly curved downwards, below where Jeff was standing, as he bent his sharpened attack towards the ground. It was like his Sea Serpent Strike was pulling his entire body with it! His boot dissolved, and he landed on the tip of his right foot. With his right arm, he curved his entire body to the left, and began to spin around. His movement was fluid, and before anything could strike him, his body shot upwards like a cork-screw. Then, his empowered punch released several streams of Arki that encompassed his entire body in a bubble of water, except it was less rounded, and more oval shaped, like a bullet. Jeff's wind scythes smashed against the side of his rotating shield harmlessly, causing water to splash away from it, but doing little to stop him. Jenso's flame wave missed, and his whip was deflected by the rotating force of Mikey's attack. Following Jeff towards the ceiling was an easy task now. With the Wind sage directly in his path, Mikey kicked his new technique into maximum drive. His entire body began to glow a blueish white as it spun towards Jeff, only moments after he himself had reached the ceiling.

"Supreme!"

[SuperFlash]

"well, your not giving me many options Mikey" Jeff said calmly as he released his grapple gauntlet and kicked himself off the ceilings at an angle where he then aimed his left gauntlet at Mikey allowing the stored up arki wind to expands before firing the blast at Mikey in attempt to redirect his rising attack at an angle away from himself along with using the recoil to launch himself to the otherside of the room. "Wind Cannon!!"

[Jensoman]

Jenso took note of Jeff's situation and frowned. If that attack were to hit, it'd likely do heavy damage to him. He dashed towards the same direction where Jeff launched his wind cannon from, moving right under Jeff's current position. He punched upwards, launching a Ki image impact fist into the sky with great speed. As it moved in the path of the wind cannon, it's speed increased even more, aimed to smash into Mikey at full force in order to either deflect Mikey away from Jeff or to straight up smash through his barrier.

[tex]

It was a good effort, but Mikey's reaction speed was too precise. The tip of the improved attack struck Jeff's lower left abdomen as he tried to fling himself away, sending him off course, and towards one end of the room. Jenso's impact punch slammed against Mikey, but his outer shell of spinning Arki didn't allow it to impact him very much. After the attacks struck, Mikey's attack faded, and his body's spinning came to a stop slowly as he began to tumble down from above. A few flips angled his body so that he could control his landing, but he fell none-the-less.

[Jensoman]

Jenso acted immediately as he saw Mikey falling down, and immediately dashed on the spot where Mikey was about to land. He noticed that Mikey put in some effort to land properly on the ground, which could mean that he'd have a hard time landing if he lost his balance, despite his water abilities. Jenso slammed his fists together, launching a powerful shockwave of Ki at Mikey from below in an attempt to destabilize Mikey and launch him upwards, hoping it would make it more difficult for him to block or avoid attacks from Oz and Jeff.

[Necrophage]

Oz finally took the opportunity that he'd been looking for. Mikey's technique had ended and he was in the middle of recovering from his spin. Time for some topsy-turvy. He pressed the orb of energy forward and it dissipated from his hand. It wouldn't take a very acute individual to sense the sudden change in the room as up became down and down became up in Mikey's immediate vicinity. It would give Jenso's attack a chance to hit yet potentially throw the other two off as well what with them being in the area of effect. Hopefully it would be worth it to land this direct shot.

For the sake of this battle's balance this would be a one-time deal so it was ideal to take advantage of it. Oz used one last trick, twisting his hand through the air and conjuring an acceleration gate near Jenso and Jeff lined up with where Mikey was falling. Falling up? Gliding? Whatever it was.