The great battle between Ace and Marcen

Marcen stands fifteen feet away from his old pal Ace. He knew this would be a fight to remember. He had always looked up to Ace and now he was going to try to defeat him. A feat that seemed near impossible. This realm was different from the others. He could not turn to smoke like he could in other realms and this slightly worried him. He smiled at his friend. “You ready to see how far I’ve come my dear friend.” with those words he smiled a very small smile. He knew he would have to stay on his guard the entire time if he hoped to even have the smallest chance of defeating Ace. His breathing was controlled perfectly. Something the great Rilla had taught him. He had lost to many battle by simply running out of stamina, but this would not happen here.

He slowly raised his hands out to his sides as five tentacles flew out of each hand. The tentacles were the size of golf balls connected at the point of Marcens palm but split an inch out from his palm. They whipped and jerked around in the air next to him, snapping the wind with each whip and jerk, suddenly they all turned and faced you slowly opening there small mouths as they stood bone chillingly still watching you. There mouths lined with razor sharp teeth. Each tooth made of pure diamond making it nearly impossible for them to break.

Without warning each tentacle started to gag. A large ball shape of something could be seen as it made its way out of Marcens hand and up the tentacles. Each one gagged over and over again. With each gag the ball shaped something made its way a little farther down the tentacle until it reached the end. Finely each tentacle bend down looking at the ground and gave on final gag that pushed the ball shaped something out. What they had thrown up was an amazing sight. Under each tentacles mouth now rested balls of smaller tentacles. Ten balls in all.

Each ball slowly grow to a monstrous fifty feet tall and twenty five feet wide. Marcen took a few steeps back giving them the room they needed to grow. Each ball, that was now a cylinder, had hundreds of tentacles coming off of it. It was impossible to see the cylinders themselves for the amount of tentacles coming off them was to great. All of the tentacles on each cylinder started to thrash around at nothing as the ones in Marcens hands retreated back into his palms. Suddenly every one of the tentacles rushed at you at speeds so great the realm itself folded back around them. Half way between you and the cylinders they vanished. Though they were still shooting forward they seemed to sink into nothing half way between you and the cylinders. This was to do to fact they had pushed so much realm out from around them that they had entered the realm between realms. While in this realm they were unseen, unsmelled, and unfelt. It was as if they didn’t even exist anymore.

Even though they were technically not in this realm they could still see you, still touch you, even still hear you. Anything they did in this realm between realms was very real. They jerked at you from every side while still hidden in the realm between realms. They tried to rip at your flesh as they came at you from above, behind, below, and on all sides. If one was to get a hold of you it would not keep a hold. It would merely twist and jerk back trying to rip that peace of flesh off and go back in for more. The saliva of each tentacle was not normal either. A single drop of saliva from one of these tentacles was enough to enter the flow of blood, water, and air throughout ones body and shut down all ties to the energy flow within them, making an energy based attack impossible. Seeing as how each tentacle had gallons of saliva gushing out of its mouth every minutes it would sure mean more than a drop would enter you if you were bitten.

The brightest of grins managed to spread across Ace's lips, knowing that this war was simply a friendly one to see who the strongest one out of the both was. "Hmm I am glad that I will be fighting someone with your skill my dear friend, I am most certain that I will enjoy this battle between us both." he whispered, his hand slowly rising back to the handle of his blade. Pulling it out of its case getting ready for a battle that will be remembered by many in the future. He never really had a teacher for fighting; the only thing that had increased his skills the way they were was the real world. The only way you would know you were good and to improve your skills would be out there in the real world, where the true threats are at. That’s how he managed to increase in power and skill, by watching and personal experience from past battles against great warriors.

Quickly Ace spread his legs apart from one another, his poisonous blood running faster thru his blood increasing the amount of beats his heart gave out every minute. He than observed Marcen's movements, simply studying his body and his set of mind trying to find out how this man would try to hard him. Than he saw the tentacles take off towards Ace, his sense of vision been able to pick up the great amount of teeth that were upon it knowing that he would not enjoy been hit with that. "Hmmm” he said, letting all of the possibilities rush thru his mind, trying to find one that would cause the less amount of damage upon his body. "I shall not fall today my dear friend." he whispered.

Quickly he saw the tentacles stop and turn into balls, wondering what Marcen had planned. It seemed that his maneuvers towards fighting were alien like, something one could not predict or know how it would affect if touched by such object. Once the tentacles were shot out, he saw them knowing once they had disappeared that they were around here trying to hit him and make him weak or nearly kill him. "Not today my dear friend." he said, simply breathing in nutrients from the air into his lungs, absorbing the energy giving from floating nutrients creating energy. Quickly Ace's body transformed that energy into heat sending it thus his hand fibbing onto the sword creating fire upon it. Quickly he gave one strong stroke, creating a large ring of fire around him only to go around and above making a sphere of fire with Ace in the center. The tentacles that could not be seen burning within the fire simply cleaning it off of the saliva or such within it making that affect not work. Most of them had fried to death, but one managed to penetrate clean without the saliva taking one small amount of skin off his wrist. Small amount of blood pouring down his hand and onto the blade shaking his head. Quickly Ace cleaning the blood with his sword looking at you. "Good job. Now it is my turn." he whispered.

Quickly taking off towards Marcen, his sword on hand been carried by Ace as he charged at full speed towards Marcen. Once he managed to reach him just a few feet away from him, he gave one stroke with his sword towards his chest. This was a distraction for the true attack. His free hand simply sucking out all of the energy off the blade that he had given it earlier creating a large ball of fire the size of his fist. Although this small fire ball was ten times hotter than the sun. The energy that was upon Ace's body mixing with the fire keeping him from burning from it. Quickly firing it towards his mid section right after the stroke at the speed of a sniper bullet.

Marcen stood a little disappointed that hardily none of the tentacles had made it through the fire. He knew he should always put an extra layer around them just for that cause, but he had forgotten ace was able to use the elements. His looks of disappointment turned to a smile as he saw one of his tentacles had hit its mark. This small feat was more the Marcen thought he would be able to do. This early in the fight and already doing what he thought would be impossible boosted his confidence a little, though it was still very low. The tentacles that had survived the fire pulled back and hovered around the ten cylinders that stood between you and Marcen. Small peaces of fire that were burning into them slowly went out as the waxy covering around the tentacles killed it.

Hearing your words he smiled. This was it. He doubted he would even make it past Aces first attack and now it was time to see. As you took of towards him the cylinders that stood between the both you and him slide to the side leaving and opening to Marcen. This happened because Marcen wanted you to come right at him. This whole fight was nothing more than a way to test Marcens powers, and he wanted to face the attacks head on. Marcen took off in a run wanting to met you half way. As he entered the path between cylinders he came to you. Seeing your blade push forward at him he turned to the side still running. The blade had missed fully, but Marcen knew it was not over. Feeling the heat from the ball of fire Marcen sighed. He hated fire and he hated how nearly everyone he seemed to fight used it.

As you pushed the ball toward him his enter mid section separated from the waits and pushed upward by small tentacles within his body. The ball passed under his top half and above his bottom half synching the tentacles holding him together. He felt the pain but pushed it to the side for pain was a distraction he could not have at the moment. His body was pulled back together by the tentacles as if it were never separated. Marcen being the one to pull his own self apart suffered no damage for Marcen has cursed himself long ago so that any attack done by him could not hurt him.

He slide to a stop behind you and started his next attack. He held out his arms and slammed them together. This action caused the cylinders that were still very much alive to slam in on you with the same amount of force found at the very bottom of the deepest ocean. If you were to jump out of the way the remaining tentacles on all ten of the cylinders would rush at you and. Half of them would try to rap around your legs and arms and pull you apart while the other half would try to bite into like in the last attack. Knowing from his last mistake you were able to kill most of them with fire the energy in the core of each cylinder circled each tentacle making flame and heat useless against them.

He smiled watching you doge my blade stroke proud that you were able to do so, although that wasn't all, he was going to try again until he was sure he had done a intense amount of damage upon your body. Quickly right before you would move behind me, he stroked his blade harder, this time the blade was much stronger and closer to your mid section making it almost impossible to simply move out of the way with no damage upon it. Although once the attack was made, he was now behind him, trying to smash the cylinder against Ace's back not really allowing it. Quickly moving to the right in circles, as if he was dancing although he wasn't.

The cylinder simply touched his skin but was not hard enough to cause any vibration upon the cylinder. Seen the tentacles take of having enough with them. He would not allow them to attach to him again. Although the air produced by the quickness of your attack brushed against his cheek creating a small amount of pain to form upon it. Nothing to serious though, simply something that could cause a few seconds of pain. He knew that now they were aware of the fire, he would now use something else.

Knowing that every living creature contained blood upon them, he would be able to use that liquid and control it for his own benefit. Although he laughed. Knowing there was another layer of energy upon the creatures that would make them impute to the fire. Simply standing there, letting the tentacles touch him. Although as soon as they touched him, his body absorbed that energy that they had around them and used it upon him covering his body. Quickly making his skin burn in fire killing off the tentacles once more all in a second. This defense maneuver was so fast the only damage a small tentacle was able to do was a scratch on the leg. "Hmm vary nice." he whispered

Having enough of game, throwing his blade towards the ground, raising his hand trying to reach it. Although he did not intend to touch it, making the sword rise up by the element that it was created by. Simply shattering the sword into a thousand needles that were nearly microscopic. Quickly surrounding the area around you, shaking his head as he laughed. "I hope you can protect yourself." he said, making the thousand if not million of needles shoot out to Marcen from every direction slightly faster than the speed of a bullet.

Before he had done his attack you had pushed your blade at him once more. With the speed of a good he slide his right foot back and planted it firmly on the ground. He kicked the ground in front of him with his left foot pushing him back. As he pushed back he leaned on his planted right foot pushing him even faster until he planted both feet one the ground once more. He felt a sharp pain in his cut and as he looked down he saw his stomach cut open. Though the cut ran clear across his stomach it only broke past the first layer of skin. He quickly jumped back a good ten feet and did his attack and watched how you slithered away from it.

He watched with a raised eyebrow as you seemingly danced around in circles. He grinned as you narrowly escaped the smashing cylinders. Each cylinder hit each other and stopped suddenly shaking the ground a little, but not enough to effect you in anyway shape or form. Hw watched as you took his own energy off of the tentacles and used it for yourself. He was very aggravated that his attack had done so little damage, even though it was a level one attack one of his weaker ones.

He watched in wonder as you broke your own sword. He started to wonder why, but before he hand the chance his question was already answered. He smiled hearing your last few words. “O I think I can suffice.” he said chuckling a little. Just then the many number of sword peaces came at him. The speed the were traveling in would have been a problem for most, but to Marcen is was like a fun game. You see Marcen did not have the eyes of a normal person. His eyes were like cameras. Picture after picture popped up before him with each movement of anything around him. This made speed easy to get around. He watched as photograph after photograph popped up. He was able to study each one with as much time as he liked before the next one would pop up. This was kind of like slowly time itself down.

As they came closer an energy started to flow over him. The energy solidified into hardened energy. Hardened energy was ten times stronger than diamond and for the most part it kept the peaces of sword away from him. As they hit it they merely bounced off onto the ground, however a small area just below his left arm was not covered in time and a single peace of sword hit him and caused him to flinch in pain. He reached up and pulled it out the energy turned to normal and was sucked back within his body for reuses later. He looked at it for a second before dropping it to the ground. “Wasn’t expecting that.” he said with a chuckle.

He then stepped back two stepped putting more distance between you and him. He never liked being to close to the one’s he spared or fought. He held out his arms and five tentacles burst from each palm. The tentacles jerked in front of Marcen and rapped around each other forming a perfect circle. In the very center of the circle a small orb could be seen growing in size. The orb grew to no larger than a golf ball and it started to shake and jerk around as if it was uncontrolled.

The orb flow off at you. The speed it traveled made a perfect line in time behind it making it look like a beam when it really wasn’t. as the orb reached about a foot away from you it exploded with enough force to cover three square miles. As the explosion blasted outward it pushed Marcen back. However not being able to hurt himself he was not harmed. Once the explosion reached it full three miles it imploded on itself with twice the power. Once it reached the center of were it firs exploded it once again exploded, but this time with enough force to cover five square miles. This happened over and over again until it was enough to cover the whole realm itself. The explosions and implosions did nothing to harm Marcen. All this came from a single golf ball size of energy.

He laughed, shaking his head towards the whole situation. It was obvious that explosions gave off heat and fire. That was its main source of power of every explosion. Knowing that this attack would have barely any affect on him, knowing the energy he had taken from his tentacles would help him he shock his head. "Seems you haven't learned anything my dear friend." he said laughing, knowing that the small cut upon his stomach was nothing, although the small peace of metal hitting right below his hand must have left a cut since every peace of the sword was sharp knowing it must have left something there to harm. Although right before he would call off the win, he would concentrate on the attack that was been formed towards him right now..

Quickly he reached out towards the small peaces of metal from his unique blade, making all of the metal reattach to one another remaking the sword as it was before. "Didn't expect that now did you?" he whispered, placing the sword with the sharp end of the blade aiming towards the explosion. As the fire and heat rushed towards him, most of it hit the blade making it spread to both sides simply making it go on Ace's sides not with any harm. Although as more explosions happen it started to come from his back, although since fire was his element he would not get harmed at all from it letting it hit him gratefully. "Ahhh, thanks for the power."He yelled, the fire that hit him was quickly sucked into his own body as he was able to do as he wished with any elements. Although the heat the was produced was too great for the energy he was able to receive from the tentacles making him feel a slight burning feeling on his neck but it was not burning at all.

Quickly he turned around to face Marcen, strong red shock waves escaping his body towards the ground and anything near him. Having break threws(sp) as the energy he held within his body was too great. Although he knew he would not have to do anything at all for it since this was the end for Marcen. "Actually my friend, this is exactly what I wanted and expected from my attack." he said, walking around you looking straight at the ground as he spoke. "You see, once my poisonous blood makes contact with anything passed the first layer of the skin it is easy to make its way around your body. For example, my blood particles were brushed off against your second layer of skin; it will make its way around your body as the cells hold a nematocyst. Meaning the blood it self will sting you with its powerful shocks sending the killer poison."

He said this fight been over with as he looked at Marcen. "And if that isn't enough for you, I can smell the damage skin that was brushed against your skin right below your hand. If you know your school work, right below your hand is the sensitive skin. Meaning my infected blade must have at least cut your skin since every corner and edge upon it is sharp. That was the point of the sword shatter, or I would have simply made it clone it self to you. "He said swinging his sword down still in guard just in case he would decide to fight back.”Now, give up now or die in the next few seconds. Make your choice you have no time." he said waiting for his answer ready for anything if it had to happen as the power brake threws(sp) kept going on.

Marcen stood tall and strong as the ground below started to shake and rumble with the waves of energy spewing out your body. He held his forearms up in front of him face and covered them with his own energy. As the waves hit his forearms the energy around him arms split the energy causing it to simply fold around him, just skimming him shoulder taking out the first layer of kin. Though it was painful it was not serious. Listening to his words Marcen curse himself. He forgot about your poison blood and he knew it would soon be his down fall if he stood much longer.

He stood there as you spoke. He grind his teeth together kind of pisses off he forgot about your blood. (I did completely forget the blade was infected lol.) he could fell the poison slowly making its way through his body. The fluids in Marcens body moved slowly than most. The creped there way up his arms and legs to his heart and organs with incredibly slow speed. This was the only reason he still stood. The poison in him that was traveling with his fluids could not move faster than the fluids themselves and this kept him safe for a short amount of time. However he knew that if he did not finish this within his next three post it would be over for him.

He stood before you knowing the clock was ticking against him. It was time pull out the power Redick had given him as he brought Marcen back to life after he killed him in there spar. While bringing back Marcen from the dead Redick had infused his energy supply with the power of the shadows. And now he was going to use the shadows most effective and useful techniques.

A large black blob of liquid slowly makes it way out of the ground and waved around with no real shape. The black blob slowly started to form and take the shape of a person. It then fully solidified making a clone. This clone was not a normal clone. This clone took the form of you. Everything about you was perfectly matched with the clone. The clone skin slowly started to take the same wounds as you had upon your own skin. This showed that anything that happened to you happened to the clone. This also meant that anything that happened to the clone would happen to you. As long as Marcen wasn’t the one doing the damage to the clone that is. The clone also held the same powers you held. Along with the powers of Marcen.

Marcen looked at the clone of Ace and smiled. “Show him what you can do.” the words brought about a smile onto the clones face as the it took off at you. It ran at blinding speeds and held out his arms in a hug type of way. Hundreds of small tentacles just broke through the clones skin. Each one sharper than any type of blade. Seeing as how this was Marcens doing the tentacles breaking through the clones skin had no effect on you. As it got closer it closed his arms in front of him trying to grab a hold of you. If it did each tentacle would cut into your skin and try to push out of the clone and go inside you only rip your organs apart. If the clone were to miss it would quickly turn and come at you from behind doing the same thing.