redhairedknight | Mission 3 [Voice, eventually Action]

Oh, I'm good to go any time! The barracks works well. Outside of it works, as does inside. Whatever you'd feel like doing. Should I meet you over there?

That sounds good to me. I'll see you there!

[Erza walks over to the Barracks, which takes a few minutes. Once she arrives there, she looks around for Adell, only roughly knowing what he looks like based on what she saw through the journals.]

[She'll probably catch sight of him outside stretching, shock of red hair fully visible. Right now he's wearing a heavy coat and gloves, so he probably doesn't look like too much. And well, he does still have those two scars on his face too.]

[Seeing as he's the only person present, Erza walks over to him. At this point, she's wearing her usual armour; although not to the same extent as Gray does, she doesn't let the cold air bother her.]

You're Adell, right? Glad to meet you in person.

Erza? Likewise.

[He'll offer his hand to shake once he finishes the particular stretch he's doing. Gotta get loose if he's gonna spar. And no, it doesn't look like he's wearing any armor either.]

[While waiting for Adell to finish stretching, Erza figures she could use this time to clarify on a few things.]

So what kind of weapons do you want me to use? I mostly have bladed weapons, but I can stick with the few blunt ones that I have if you'd like.

Use whatever you'd like. I'm used to fighting against people with blades. And nothing a little healing magic won't fix, anyway.

[He'll straighten up, looking like he's finished.]

Good. I'm much better with swords, anyway.

[As she says this, a pair of fairly large swords appear in her hands.]

You can attack first; I'm ready whenever you are.

[Adell's smile widens.]

Dual-wielder, huh? This should be fun.

[With that, he'll throw aside his coat. ...Yeah, his outfit looks kind of ridiculous what with the tie. But he does look quite strong. He'll crack his knuckles.]

How do you want to do this? Fight until yield or unconsciousness?

[At the dual-wielding comment, Erza smirks slightly.]

Trust me, you haven't seen anything yet.

I'm not really used to setting terms like that up; the few people that want to spar with me back home refuse to give up regardless of how outmatched they are. However, might as well go with yield. If one of us gets knocked out before we can yield, it's the same result either way, and if there are healing mages here, then we should be fine regardless of how this ends.

All right, those terms work for me. And if I haven't seen anything yet, I'm looking forward to it!

[He shifts into his battle stance and his expression turns to intense determination.]

Ready! Let's do it!

[Erza swings her swords through the air before getting into her own fighting stance.]

I'm not going to hold back!

Then I won't either!

[And Adell will flash forward extremely fast and attempt to trip her with a sweeping low kick.]

[Although Erza isn't particularly fast herself, she is at least capable of reacting quickly to speedy opponents. She jumps into the air to avoid Adell's kick and raising her swords above her head, she swings them downwards at the tie-wearing young man.]

[He'll deftly avoid the sword swings by slipping around to Erza's side in a roll. He'll counter an instant later with a punch directed for Erza's side.]

[Upon landing, Erza moves as quickly as possible and manages to use the flat side of one of her swords to deflect the blow. Meanwhile, she swings her other sword in an attempt to catch Adell off-guard.]

[A good move and parry, but Adell will backdash away when his blow is parried, causing the sword to miss.]

Ah, you are good!

[He smiles, and moves in for another attack... moving in to attack with a left hook. ...But odds are, Erza, being experienced at fighting, might be able to see that it's a feint attack.]

[Rather than block, Erza decided to jump back so she was out of Adell's range and throw her sword. Once the sword left her hand, she conjured a new one to take its place in case Adell had something up his metaphorical sleeve.]

[Sword! Adell dodges the thrown weapon rather ungracefully, but keeps his footing. ...And sees she has another weapon readied, despite throwing one of them at him. ...Some kind of magic? Who knows. He resumes a defensive position for the moment, unsure if she's about to pull something.]

You can dodge one sword, good; but can you dodge...

[Now that she had time, Erza's flair for theatricality came out slightly. She pivoted around in a circle as her armour disappeared, replaced moments after with this particular suit of armour (http://www.onemanga.com/Fairy_Tail/14/11/), which had twelve swords floating behind her. The floating swords aimed themselves at Adell and shot towards him.]

...all of these?

Holy hell!!

[Adell will move and evade with supernatural looking speed, dodging away from many of the swords. A couple of them will knick his arms when two of them fly in close together, but otherwise he manages to avoid getting shredded.

But now's the perfect time to launch an attack of his own. As soon as he avoids the final sword, he lunges forward with the same speed he avoided the weapons. Partway through the charge, his fist ignites on fire. It looks like it's going to hurt a lot if it connects.]

He's pretty fast...

[Erza prepared to dodge the punch, but the spontaneous combustion of Adell's hand caught her off-guard enough that she couldn't react in time and was hit by the blow, which sent her flying back several feet. After a few moments, she gets back up, more irritated than anything, even though her lip is bloodied from the impact and the part of her body where she was hit was burnt.]

You didn't tell me you knew how to use magic!

[He remains in a guarded position, just in case.]

It's not magic. Not where I'm from, anyway. Just an extension of myself and my own power.

Where I'm from, being able to light your hand on fire without anything to set it off is considered magic. I guess we just have different criteria for that sort of thing.

[Erza briefly considered switching to her Flame Emperor armour, which cut fire-based damage in half, but she decided against it for now; now that she knew about Adell's ability (or so she thought), she would be able to avoid it, so she might as well stick with the armour that's been working so far.]

You know, you remind me of my friend, Natsu. He used a lot of fire attacks and fought with his fists, but he could never beat me. Let's see if you can do better!

[With that, more swords appeared behind Erza and she continued her assault, sending her weapons flying at the young brawler.]

I intend to!

[With that, he'll much more gracefully dodge the incoming blades. But partway through the barrage, he'll head straight for Erza. But as he approaches, it looks almost as Adell phases out of focus. Mirror images begin appearing in a V formation as they draw closer to Erza. Which one's the real one?

The one that pops up right behind her and tries to deliver an elbow to her back.]

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