"Cowards: Never win," Chertak countered as thorns rattled off his armor. He could feel the human scrabbling at the edge of his mind and despite his Restructerist leanings the thought of a human entering his mind disgusted him.
Figuring that Ryan was the greater threat at the moment, Chertak dematerialized his rifle and exchanged it for his massive Rikti warblade in the same moment. Both hands clutching its curved hilt, he brought the heavy, half-circle shaped blade up to block Akujiki. The moment it was blocked, he ducked down and swung his blade to the left to direct Ryan's fall off to the side.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
"On the contrary," Schizophrenias cackled, still trying to find Chertak's mind, somewhat irritated at how well guarded it was. "Cowards win every day. Sad but true."
With a sweep of his hand, Schizophrenias swept the Rikti warblade out of Chertak's hands and hurled it at Ryan. Figuring the Rikti probably had some hi-tech contraption to get his blade back easily, Schizo turned and assaulted the Rikti with waves of pure insanity. . his true essence. Chertak would resist this, of course. . . but it would stall him, and time was what Schizo needed right now.
Reishi entered the arena and saw the fights break out almost immediately.
She glanced around, sizing up each of the opponents. The Rikti seemed to be engaged in a psychic battle with another combatant.
"Mental battle...puh," she muttered.
Her muscles tightened and she launched herself horizontally at the person fighting the Rikti. She moved into a jump kick pose, aiming for the square of the man's back.
With a move of his hand Coldfire froze the bullet and the barrel of the rifle. "You thought that would work?" Coldfire asked with a grin, "Think again!" Cold grabbed the hitman's arm and flung him at the psychic that was assaulting Chertek. If he was gonna have to fight someone at the end of this fight, he didn't want it to be someone who could predict his thoughts.
(OOC: Poor Schizo has two combatants literally flying at him...)
Edit 2: (*sigh* fine I'll fight the rikti some more.)
Ryan quickly devilvered another slice to the Rikti sword, this time splitting it into two, that sent it up into the air. Then launching himself back at the Rikti with a stab as the Ninja engaged the psycopathic... psycic, kind of reminded him of Phsycologist X, blasted insane psycics.
(OOC: She's not fighting Ryan, she's fighting Schizo.)
((Sorry, fell asleep. . . for some reason am awake now so. . .))
With some distaste, Schizophrenias observed that two people were being hurled at him.
Ahh well, that's what always happens if you fight too well . . . or unfairly. Schizo flew out of the way of the girl leaping at him, but was unable to avoid the hitman being thrown at him. He was at least able to grab him on impact to avoid being hurt too seriously.
"Fight's going pretty well, isn't it," Schizo muttered to the hitman as the two of them went careening into the stands.
Reishi skidded to a stop, and flung herself back at the hitman and the telepath, landing a solid kick on the hitman. She didn't stop there. She planted one hand on the ground and moved her legs to administer a mule-like kick to the telepath. Given her strength, they probably wouldn't be standing...
Coldfire lit up a ciggarette as he watched the woman whale on the two men. As he put the lighter back in his pocket he flew down and slammed his foot into the womans back slamming her into the two men. With a grin Coldfire engulfed his hands with fire and said, "Who's first?"
"Ow," said Schizo, massaging his back, which was bent over backwards. He sounded quite pleased with himself; regardless of what the Rikti might assume, he was not remotely human. "No problem!" He staggered towards the girl who had kicked him. "I can take, er, whoa. . ." Schizo lost balance and rolled down the stands. "Yeah! I can take you guys!"
"No, you can't," said a tournament official, stepping carefully onto the field. "You are defeated already. Don't waste everybody's time. Sheesh." Schizo was dragged away with much fuss.
The fact that Ryan's sword could cut through one of the best examples of Rikti metallurgy was disturbing to say the least. Throwing the ruined weapon to either side, Chertak dodged the stab and then threw a rock shattering punch at Ryan's side. His battlearmor enhanced his already considerable strength to super-human levels. If he connected, Ryan would have a few broken ribs at least.
Statesman said let there be heroes, and there were heroes.
Lord Recluse said let there be villains, and there were villains.
NCsoft said let there be nothing, and there was nothing.
Reishi took the blow easily. She stood up, cracked her back, and turned to face Coldfire.
"Omoshiroi ne..." she said.
Looking into her eyes was literally like looking into the eyes of an animal. Her next attack came quickly, an aerial roundhouse kick aimed at Coldfire's side. Reishi could definately move, small distances meant nothing.
Coldfire grabbed her leg and flipped her over him with ease. As she got back up Coldfire said to her, "Let me give you some advice. Martial Arts doesn't work against me, the Tsoo learned that the hard way. If you want to fight, give me a challenge."
((Sorry if it seems like I'm god moding, but then again, Coldfire has seen his share of Martial Artists and knows a lot about karate.))
The Hitman shook his head slowly.
"Sunnuva..." He murmured before drawing the sniper rifle and aiming for Coldfire's face. He'd loaded depleted uranium bullets - This guy'd be feelin' it.
"So long, freak." He muttered as the arena crack!-ed with the firing of his sniper.
Coldfire heard the crack but it was too late the shell slammed into him, but not in his head. At the last moment Coldfire moved the wind currents and it slammed into his side making him fly accross the arena. Slamming into the wall he coughed up some blood and stood holding his side. He could tell the shell was uranium immediately. Crey used them. Coldfire froze the wound to slow the process and looked up at the hitman as he reloaded. His eyes flickered with flame and Coldfire launched himself into the air at high speeds and wrapped his fists in fire aiming the blow at the mafia goons head.
"Aw, Hell!" The Hitman screamed, ducking the punch but not the flames. His tie flipped up, catching fire and burning quickly.
The Hitman shot off in a random direction, screaming.
Schizophrenias tossed the body of the tournament official aside, impaled by numerous thorns. "Learn to do your job," he snapped, forcing his back into a normal position, which gave a nice painful sensation. "If I want to kill myself fighting that's my prerogative!"
He flew back towards the fight. He better not be disqualified now. Then again, maybe he could "convince" the other judges to let him stay. At worst it could be an exciting chase scene.
Slamming into the wall and using it as a springboard Coldfire came up from behind the Hitman and readied his Ice Sword, if that didn't hit, Inferno sure as hell would.
"Nu uh, no way pal!" The Hitman snarled, diving to the side while unholstering his .50 and emptying it towards Coldfire.
"Moron!" Coldfire said stoping directly in front of the hitman and sending flames flying through the area dissentigrating the bullets and melting the barrel of the gun. As the dust settled Coldfire stood in the same spot eyes aflame staring at the spot the hitman was.
((He isn't neccessarily dead, just saying he was there.))
A water spout erupted from the ground underneath Coldfire. If he did not move in time, he would be thrown through the air and knocked badly.
"Told you I could take you!" cackled the now-visible Schizophrenias, delighted with his own unfair tactics.
The Hitman was a husk on the ground.
The Hitman hanging in the rafters aiming for Coldfire's head was not.
"Can't believe they let us do dis..." He murmured as the arena shook with the sniper's bullet once more.
"HA!" Reishi got up, completely unphased by Coldfire's tossed aside from some dirt on her face.
She mustered all the muscle in her legs and jumped straight at Coldfire. He saw the attack coming, obviously, but to no avail. Any move he tried to make in front hit air...she was behind him already, both hands over her head ready to slam him back down to earth.
(Reishi's abilities use the principle of accelerated recovery time, allowing her body to reach, and slightly exceed, the maximum physical strength for a human through training, including 17 out of 19 years of her life spent traveling the world training. Her 'speed' is in fact related to her great strength: think of it like rocket thrusters. She isn't without her weaknesses, however...not like I'm sharin em right away 
But yeah she can't run at high speeds, only move short distances or jump really high)
"Surprise: Attack: For The Win!" yelled Schizophrenias, appearing out of nowhere and hurling a barrage of thorns at the distracted Rikti warrior. He began searching for the alien's mind; it would be strong, but he could crush it given time.