redhairedknight | Mission 3 [Voice, eventually Action]

[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)

[Erza manages to prevent Adell from pinning her by planting her foot on his chest and pushing him away, although Adell still refuses to let go. Rather than try to force her way out of Adell's grip, she chooses to try and fight her way out. Quickly switching to the Heaven's Wheel armour and summoning swords to appear behind her, the swords swing inward to try and hit Adell.]

[...Okay, so grappling her's not going to work either. Great. He rolls away to avoid getting slashed... well, mostly. Hard to evade at that close a range. So he'll take a couple more injuries to the sword slashes, and Erza will have enough time to get to her feet completely.

She can change attack patterns on the fly... and it seems she's prepared for everything. I guess I'm gonna have to be decisive here...]

[Not having any other options ((OoC: in-canon)) to choose from as far as armour that would let her use ranged attacks, and not wanting to get into close-range combat with Adell, Erza chose to stick with the armour she had on. She was already breathing heavily from Adell's attacks; she didn't want to risk him landing even more when she was winded this much from the few he had landed already.

As Erza gets to her feet, the swords hovering around her rearrange themselves so they are floating in a ring in front of her. The swords begin to spin in that circular pattern, flying at Adell like a razor-sharp disk at Erza's command...]

Tenrin Circle Sword!

How many things can you do with those damn things?!

[He runs to the side, trying to evade the spinning food-processor wheel of death. Unfortunately, he's not able to follow up this evasion. He already used Tiger Charge, and she'd see the surprise attack coming. And right now, he's only got one option, but not enough time to do it.]

[After Adell dodges the swords, Erza makes a motion with her hand, and they stop in mid-air and return to her.]

This is probably the first time in a while that I've actually had a challenge in winning a sparring match!

[Changing the weapon in her hands to a bisento, or "blade on a stick" more or less, Erza runs at Adell, swinging the weapon horizontally.]

Glad I'm not disappointing you!

[That reach weapon is going to pose problems. Normally, evading spear and naginata attacks were easy enough, because Adell would have enough time to capitalize on the recovery. Erza's ability to summon weapons from nowhere negated her need to recover...

So now, he's just going to have to get clever.

When the weapon swings at him horizontally, he'll roll underneath the blade and make a sliding kick at Erza's feet. If she won't give him an opening, he'll make one!]

Edited 2010-02-10 03:44 (UTC)

[Erza jumps into the air to avoid his sliding kick, changing weapons in mid-air while she does so. If Adell is going to try to attack her when she lands, her current weapon wouldn't be very good for defensive purposes. She changes back to a pair of swords, landing in a defensive stance, even though the landing throws that stance off a bit.]

[He'll whip back to his feet after she leaps over him and spin back around. She's skilled, and she covers her mistakes really well. Now... all he can do is press the attack while he has the advantage.

His fist ignites into flame again, and he'll lunge right for her at high speed.]

[Now that she know about his ability to light his fist on fire, Erza isn't caught off-guard by it and manages to block Adell's punch. However, the force of the blow causes her to skid along the ground. Coming to a stop, Erza takes a moment to catch her breath before jumping into the air and shooting the swords that were hovering behind her downwards at Adell.]

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