Mt. Everest Smackdown

Well, it was a normal day for Xaner, and boredom arose in him. He wanted to do something that most people don't usually do. And what he decided was between jumping in a volcano in Hawaii to see if there are differences between lava in hell and in the human world AND the other being to reach the top of Mt. Everest and see what the world looks like from such a height...

Xaner chose the latter and decided to go to Mt. Everest...

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Well, it was probably around the 12:37 in the morning on Mt. Everest. It was blowing snow around on this oxygen-deprived mountain. The winds blowing more snow onto the mountaintops and things like that. Then a man appears out of nowhere out of a portal, walking into the +1 foot deep, cold snow. The man was wearing a strange attire of an executioner's mask with a white X on it, and a fur-necked coat on top of his gray tank-top, with black boots and pants to go along with it. On his back lay a fat sword that is about 2/3 his height.

The silver eyed Diablo smiled behind his mask as he gazed upon the world below him... This land of beautiful blues and lucious greens, that lay spread out across as far as he can see, would soon belong to the Sinners. That's if a plan he is currently making works. He turns his head to look at the smoothness of the snow, intriguing him in how much beauty this world has compared to hell. Hell itself is not so bad, but the Human world is heaven to him and probably to most sinners as he would guess.

He cocks his head to the left as he turns to his left, and looks in the general direction of someone else that he sensed was atop the mountain along with him. It was definitely not a sinner or human, but something a little purer than that. Something that conflicted a sinner's reiatsiu...

"Someone up here as well? Quite interesting," he mused aloud.

"Not many people bother getting up Mt. Everest these days.." Came the echoed voice muttering back at him over the wind picking up a bit more. Slowly but inevitably a black shadow appeared in the blowing snow and formed into that of a female who looked more like she belonged in a long lost era of Barbarians wielding a large sword over one shoulder and having two spear heads showing on her back though their true length was not yet visible. Her short black hair easily noticeable in the white snowy winds.

"You are not human..?" She said as she brought the large greatsword to bear while noticing he was not anywhere near as bundled in this cold as a normal human would be..the blade hummed with intense and powerful magic but nothing further happened just yet. Her energy seemed the total opposite of Xaner's.. instead of being hellish is was highly saturated in divinity and goodness..it washed over the area and every point in which it made contact with xaner's sinner energy it caused minor sparks in the air as if the two energies were trying to kill eachother all by themselves.

Akiko could not actually sense the fact her energy was attacking his with a imbred hatred of the hellish energy. So she had yet to actually do anything further hostile towards the man until she determined what he was and what his purpose was. She only killed evil. If he was not evil she had no reason to kill him.

Xaner watched as the woman came out of the blowing snow, all clad in barbaric leathery armor, weilding a giant sword, bigger than his own Munbasuta. Once she came into his view, sparks and very tiny/miniscule explosions and sparks appeared in the space between the two of them, as if two forces were fighting each other in a duel to the extreme deaths... She had mentioned the facts that not many come to the top of Mt. Everest and also brought the question of him not being human.

Silver eyes gleamed with excitement, as his blood seemed to crave this person's death. He held back his bodily greeds and tries to maintain himself, but agrees (and gives in slightly to the crave of killing) that this woman would need to be dealt with because she 'is intruding his alone time', when it is actually inherent nature for Sig Dei and Sinners to fight each other. Xaner cracks his neck and pops his knuckles, noticing this woman drawing her blade. His skin practically as pale as the snow itself...

"You are right to assume that I am not a human. In fact, I am a Sinner, a Demon, whatever people call them in this time and day. And I am here to overlook the world that I am going to lead the army of sinners to one day, to return and take back the land we once lived in..." Xaner says, then moves a hand to his mouth as if he said something he shouldn't have said, then says a little creepilly, "Oops, I shouldn't have said that to someone I've just met. Well, there shouldn't be any loose ends, so I guess I will have to cut this one off..."

He pulls out his Munbasuta sword and holds it with his right hand alone. Then he rips his left sleeve off, revealing his demon arm. In a fluent whippin motion, he flings his demon arm at the woman, aiming to slash her face downwards. It was a good coat too. Shame he had to rip the sleeve off so soon...

She instinctively slammed the side of her blade against his demon hand trying to hit her and knocked it aside. Though she felt how solid it was and was truely surprised that her smack didn't seem to damage it in the slightest..she'd have to be careful of that later..

"Demon.." she recalled her past and how a demon was responsible for the deaths of two of her comrades as well as maiming another. They had killed the powerful beast but at a high cost, "I will return you to the foul abyssal plane from which you came!" She said with a righteous tone as she pulled a Javelin from her back and hurled it at him..the second it left her hand it turned into a bolt of lightning the same size as the Jav itself trying to burn a hole right through his head.

Right after the Javelin left her hand she had rushed him with her large sword in one hand..making it seem effortlessly light to her even though it was incredibly heavy and swung it at his torso trying to cleave him in half. The minute she missed, or was blocked, her other hand would sling an axe from her side that was made of pure kinetic force right for his face from a downward angle. After that she would just continue with a flurry of sword strikes trying to overpower him with her sheer demi-god might.

After the slash, Xaner quickly retracted his arm back to it's normal length. He can even feel the slam, just slightly, still ringing in the part of the arm she had hit. Not enough to put a small break in the arm in the slightest, but it was notable.

Then he listened to what the woman had to say to him, acting all noble and high-and-mighty because she was gonna kill a sinner. That made Xaner have lesser respect because becoming a little high and mighty just because she was going to kill an evil being, but at the same time piqued his interest in her just ever so slightly due to her having the good vs evil mindset, seeing the world in black and white. Something he himself can't do since the world to him was nothing but shades of gray.

She then had launched a projectile at him, a javelin. Xaner quickly grabbed his sword and brought it up to smack it out of the way, but instead decided to block it after barely noticing the javelin turn into a bolt of lightning. His sword, Munbasuta, absorbed the energy of the javelin, but the electricity traveled through his sword and up his arm, shocking his arm into some decent amount of pain.

Lowering his sword so that he can see his enemy, since he had to bring his sword up to block, Xaner sees the woman swinging a large sword that seemed a little larger than his. In response, he swings the sword upside down, the tip of the blade facing the ground. The initial swing collided with his, with slight stagger in his step. Next, a downward slice came for his face, which he narrowly avoided by a half-step backwards.

Then the woman started swinging at him multiple times, which Xaner blocked with his own sword a couple of times. After blocking 4 of her sword swings, Xaner steps backwards so that a 3 foot gap was formed between him. Barely out of the armslength of the woman, Xaner aims a punch for the womans gut with his demon arm, and along the way activates his acupuncture ability, making needles 2 feet long extend out of the arm itself.

Then, Xaner immediately retracts the needles and makes a vertical upward swing with his one-arm that was holding Munbasuta, aiming more towards the woman's shoulder. Afterwards, Xaner would blinken 10 feet away. After blinkening, he stood and waited for the woman's next move... Curious, to see what the next plan of attack could be.

Akiko used her great sword as a shield as his demon hand came forward in a sudden punch after nearly all of her attacks did nothing. With a tiny shift her weapon was brought over to block his next strike that came for her shoulder and she pulled the weapon up and brought it to rest on her shoulder continually making it look like the heavy weapon weighed nothing.

"Yer holdin back on me.. Ah dinnae think that be wise"

She had no sensing ability to speak of..but she wasn't a fool either.. She knew when someone was holding back against her..it was pretty obvious considering how easily he made it look to avoid all of her attacks. Sure she had a few tricks she hadn't used yet but that was because at first she didn't think it would be necessary..and because she believed in sheer strength being the mightiest power as opposed to tricks.

She gripped the axe on her belt, ...which seemed to have returned at some point, and hurled it again at him except this time it turned into three axes of equal power to a maxed out Hadou no 31 and each one "homing" in on him even after he would eventually move or block. They would bounce if blocked and come back around for another try at somewhat decent speed and while doing so Akiko herself would be gathering energy within herself for a moment before shouting at such a high volume that unless Xaner could protect against the shockwave of sound that had just been induced..he would feel like he just got hit by a sledgehammer from Akiko.

She crossed her arms as her tail and dragon wings appeared from her back her tail now grasping her sword with such skill you would think it was a hand. She started to hover just a little bit..but did not move just yet.. No..she needed to time it just right..otherwise he'd just get out of the way..

So she waited while her force axes would continue to circle around Xaner trying to hit him until he did something to cause their destruction..

"Being Careless wouldn't be wise either," Xaner replies as he cracks his neck. He also knew that the woman was using full power either, but her reasoning wouldn't be for him to know. His reason, though, is that if he went full power, he might show her all of his cards and if she survives them all, then he wouldn't have any surprise that would give him an advantage.

Well, his thought process ended as the woman threw three axes, two more than last time. He was about to just knock them out of the way when in reach, but the axes turned into energy balls. He felt the current energy that is currently flowing through Munbasuta, and felt that the sword can only absorb one more time before it reaches its max. Xaner then smacks the energy balls with his Munbasuta, absorbing the first one that came into contact with the sword. The other two energy balls bounced off in different directions.

Xaner smirked behind his mask, thinking something on the lines of 'is that it?' However, that thought process ended as he senses the balls coming back towards him. He was too late to notice the first one, as he gets blasted in his back by the 2nd energy ball, which stung a decent amount and singed his overcoat a little.

As his attention was focused on the ball, the woman shouted a soundblast at him, blasting him back a good 13 feet into the air. Thoroughly surprised by this unprecedented attack, Xaner barely manages to gain some footing again by airwalking. The world still spinning from that shout, Xaner pulls back his Munbasuta. His sword starts giving off a black aura, and then, with a wide-horizontal swing, a wave of black energy destroys the energy ball and continues onward at a cero speed towards Akiko, with the attack strength of about a Hadou #67.

As the woman deals with his energy attack, he would land and then manipulate the energy within his blade, melding it into a different form within his mind. All the while, the blade in reality starts thinning out and elongating itself, with the metals of the blade melting into a liquid zanpakuto metal, sliding to a different part of the blade, and hardening. In the end, the blade became as long as the man weilding it.

When the snow dust settles and Xaner sees the woman, he would charge at her with sword in his right hand. In mid-charge, he blinkens so that there would then about about 10 feet distance between the two, and continues charging at her. When there was about a 5 foot difference, he swung at her. But in the same motion of swinging at her once, a total of 8 strikes came at her from different directions and speeds. Watching this, he would become a blur as he goes around her and swipes with his sword, and finishes the Omnislash attack behind the woman.

Knowing this wouldn't be enough to keep this battle-hardened looking woman down, Xaner spun around and aimed a stab with his long blade at Akiko's chest.

(OOC- they weren't energy balls they were still axes of pure kinetic force.. Also Instant Hell Murder counts as a grapple you can tell me if you do not approve of it connecting..but since I recall asking and you said you didn't mind once already i assumed it was okay given the way i set it up to happen)

she countered his energy blast from his sword with one of her own. Equalling it in power and cancelling out both blasts in a semi-decent explosion. He had apparently changed his sword while she did this and rushed her something she was happy for at the moment because it meant she could manage to hit him with one of her best attacks..

However when he swung at her..which was blocked by her sword..she had to contend with several sudden and quick attacks at once..something she couldn't manage fully but gave it her best regardless. With her free hand she gripped and slammed a lightning javelin into the first one..her tail grabbing and repeating the process against the second and her body spinning as she managed to block two more with her sword..however she couldn't regain her composure after spinning fast enough, because she herself wasn't a speed person, and was hit by the other four..though after the first one gashing her side nicely she did manage to get her footing and slightly avoid dangerous blows from the other three..though still getting a nice cut on her forearm of her right hand and her left thigh and her left shoulder.

..but because of her spin she was facing the direction he had ended the attack..

..and that meant horrible news for him..

Suddenly she tripled in size, causing his stab for her chest to end up being in between her legs and thus ineffective and hovered/rushed towards him at her max speed with her arms crossed and without moving her legs.. because he was so close in front of her to begin with and she had increased in size..he easily became in range for her ability to activate.. which was even better because with tripling of her size came the 40% increase to her strength..

"Instant Hell Murder.."

In a flash of white light she had managed to strike him roughly three dozen times with her body, not her weapons, which included her hands, knee's, feet, elbows, and even a few headbutts. Because of her sheer strength alone this would probably hurt the sinner very very badly..unless he was made of steel or something..

After the flash of light and all her "damn near instant" attacks happened. She was behind him..still in her increased size..however the wound he had inflicted on her had increased with her size to remain proportional to her.. and it still hurt like a bitch..so she turned to face him again and placed her free hand over that wound and took up her sword in her other hand and kept it up defensively.

"For someone that just lectured..on being..careless..you sure as hell.. got careless.." She said slightly panting because of the pain from the wounds inflicted on her. She didn't want to heal it yet because she figured she would need to save her capacity for healing for a little later down the road.. as much as this hurt it wasn't going to keep her out of the fight.