redhairedknight | Mission 3 [Voice, eventually Action]

[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.]

Where'd he...

[Erza closes her eyes, listening for anything that could give away Adell's position. Hearing something behind her, she turns around swinging her sword. She doesn't turn quite fast enough, however, and gets an elbow to her stomach as a result.]

[With that brief moment of stunning, Adell spins around so his back is touching the front of her armor and goes for a grab on one of her arms. Unless Erza can break that grapple really fast, she's going to get thrown right over his shoulder.]

[Another sword appears in Erza's free hand, and she swings it at Adell. In addition, she struggles in order to keep him from being able to throw her and to keep him in place. He could either let her go or take the hit, it was his choice.]

[He's a real man and basically made of iron anyway. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. He'll wince as he's hit by the weapon, but he's going to follow through on the throw. His inertia's too great for him to do much else at this point.]

How many of those damn swords do you have?!

[Landing on her back, Erza rolls over and get back on her feet. Still gripping her sword tightly, she grins.]

You're pretty good! At least now it makes sense how you can fight demons with no weapons or magic...

You're no easy target either. Gotta say, you're keeping me on my toes. I like it.

[He'll tighten his stance. She's got a lot of wildcards in play... lunging in head-on might be suicide. But he'll edge closer to melee range.]

I'm glad to hear that. I was worried that no matter how powerful I was, I wouldn't be able to cut it here.

[Erza summoned more swords to hover behind her in order to prepare for a counter-attack. Yes, she owns a completely ridiculous amount of swords, but given the sort of people who share her rank (among others, a man who is fast, strong, as durable as main characters from most shonen manga series, and controls lightning), she has to be extremely prepared in order to compensate.]

[Shonen series hero, huh? That's basically what Adell is. So it's a good thing she's very prepared!

Because after a light chuckle when he sees more swords appear, he'll back away to get dodging distance. The incoming blades make a number of close calls, but again, as the wave ends, Adell prepares his counterattack.

Leaping high into the air, he spins his body into a corkscrewing spin before finally leveling out. With a foot aimed right at Erza. And down he comes, rocketing at a 45 degree angle, feet and legs sheathed in flame. Upon impact, the attack will let out a fireburst, which will hit everything within several feet. Best move as fast as you can to get out of the way.]

[Seeing that Adell seemed to have gotten used to dodging the swords, Erza decided it was time to change her tactics, both to see if something else would be more successful and to keep Adell on his toes. Changing to her Flame Emperor armour (http://www.onemanga.com/Fairy_Tail/22/13/) for now, Erza ran to the side to avoid Adell's kick. However, she didn't expect the burst of fire generated by Adell's landing, which knocked her back. The damage done was cut in half, but it was still painful. Skidding to a stop, Erza summons a two-handed broadsword into her hands and runs at Adell, swinging it once she gets within range.]

[Changing armor, summoning weapons... this woman sure has a lot of tricks up her sleeve. ...No idea what that new armor's going to do, but it won't stop him from being ready to fight.

He'll juke away from the initial strike and lunge in while she's recovering from the wide swing, going for just a traditional, strong punch.]

[Upon seeing that Adell had dodged the swing, Erza changes her weapon to an axe in case of a counter-attack; it would be more useful defensively than a sword would. Noticing Adell lunge forward, she uses the head of the axe to block the punch. Satisfied that she had stopped or at least slowed his momentum, Erza pulled the axe back and swung it at his left arm.]

[Okay, she's fast. No time to do anything else at this range... So Adell's going to throw his shoulder into a tackle to try to knock her prone.]

[In mid-swing and with no room to dodge, Erza was forced to take the tackle, which knocked her to the ground. Her only hope at this point, as she tried to get up, was if Adell hurt his shoulder ramming it into her armour. If not, then she hoped she could take whatever Adell was about to throw at her.]

((OoC: How powerful is Adell in-series anyways? I know Erza's really durable (somewhere near "named character in One Piece" level), but I don't know that much about Adell's strength, seeing as I haven't really read much about Disgaea.))

[OoC: In series, Adell's canon strength is murky. However, Disgaea is a game where characters can end up with levels going well into the thousands, and damage numbers into the millions. Even the middling abilities of most Disgaea characters can look like something out of a ridiculous Shonen anime. Most of this is played for laughs.

Laharl, the first game's main character, is canonically around Level 1,200 and has the power to blow up entire Netherworlds. I play Adell around Level 1,000, as most leads in the Disgaea universe tend to get ridiculously strong. In Luceti, his power is halved down to Level 500.

To answer the question more directly, Adell is extremely strong and extremely durable. He fought Luffy to a total standstill (that spar was never completed and we never decided who won). So yeah, he's... a very tough foe to deal with.]

[With the tackle successful, Adell lunges hard at Erza while she's down, and goes immediately for a pin. If unsuccessful, he's going to maintain a grapple with her so she can't easily use one of her heavier weapons if she manages to escape.]

Edited 2010-02-08 01:15 (UTC)

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