<div class="floatright">(http://d.facdn.net/art/nuttynut93/1500943414/1500943364.nuttynut93_17._ready_for_action_.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Celeste Bellarose<br/><strong>Time:</strong>10:00-ish AM<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Celeste's Villa, Training Grounds<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Onyx<br/><hr/><hr/><br/>Onyx's choice of weapon was a good one.  Anything that kept someone like Celeste at a distance was a decent choice in this case considering her focus in hand-to-hand and extreme close-quarters combat.  Something Celeste had observed of Onyx was her skill in many different kinds of weapons.  This allowed her flexibility, but kept her from taking the time to get as experienced in one kind of weapon as many of the others were.  If Onyx had, herself, chosen a sword and shield to fight Celeste's the gator would've been confident about coming out of the fight without a scratch on her, but the choice of the pole-arm was one that was going to keep her on her toes.  She had to admire Onyx for that because as much time as she spent memorizing Rose and Izzy's bodies, she certainly knew her stuff in the arena, too.<br/><br/>However, if Celeste didn't know how to handle herself against an adequately armed opponent like this, she never would've made it to alpha in the first place.  As useful as that flexibility was, Onyx was by far not the only one to take that route in the whole of the coliseum and for the gator's part, she'd also encountered those who specialized in pole-arm combat and fighting over that distance.  She made it as far as she did by going that extra step further.  She knew how to fight at a disadvantage.<br/><br/>First, she knew not to keep her eye solely on the hammer.  It was above her and that turned her eyes away from Onyx herself.  Onyx knew as well as Celeste that the actual, physical weapon was not the only one in the fight.  A shield was meant to defend, for instance, but many newbies had found themselves at the bottom of the heap due to a good, strong shield-bash.  So, Celeste watched Onyx's hands instead.  She kept her gaze on center mass, keeping all of Onyx at least in her peripheral, or what peripheral there was with just the one eye.<br/><br/>Celeste started the match by lunging, moving towards Onyx with shield raised and sword at the ready, watching the hammer as well as Onyx's body for hints of a telegraph of where she might be attacking, ready to attack and opening or defend where needed.