<div align="center"><strong>Team Shinobi Sect vs Team Temple, Round 3</strong></div><div align="center">(http://i45.tinypic.com/2ynqfxj.png)</div><div align="center"><strong>Reiko Gozen, The Surgeon</strong></div><br/>Mona watched Toya take to the ring as she'd expected. She nodded over at her green-skinned ally and remarked, "You know the plan, Reiko. No death. I'm counting on you to win this one. I've got business to take care of." The Detective slid her hands into her pockets and started walking out of the ring. Medusa grinned and tapped her nails against her chest, "If you fail, Reiko, let me take care of him. He's rather cute." The darker-skinned demon shook her head and stuck her tongue out, "No failure. Plan is perfect." She lept into the ring and stood across from Toya with a grin on her face.<br/><br/>"...and fighting for Team Temple, Reiko!" Juri raised her hand, eyed both fighters, then stepped backwards. "BEGIN!"<br/><br/>Toya started as he always did; by concentrating and turning the entire ring to ice. The air around the ring was even chilled and little flakes of snow danced in the air. "I'm not taking any chances with my opponent this time. Prepare to die." The shinobi remarked as he raised his left arm and ice began to form over it, freezing in the shape of a long and deadly blade made of ice. Across from him, Reiko seemed to grin. "Oh? You have a weapon? Good. Now it's fair," the demon remarked, "won't feel bad about hurting unarmed opponent." Reiko summoned her own weapon out of thin air; an enormous blade that resembled a hand saw. It was almost as tall as she was and had unnervingly large teeth. She grinned and dropped into a defensive stance, "Bone Carver is ready!"<br/><br/>Toya started at the strange weapon, but he never broke stride on his dash across the ring. The ice ninja was exceptionally fast and he started attempting slash after slash with his ice sword, but the green demoness' strange weapon was large, flexible, and she was skilled with it. She parried and countered strike after strike, the center of the ring a maddening blur of slashes and slices. From the sidelines Koto narrated, "I've never seen such skillful use of such absurdly dangerous weaponry! You just know someone is going to get sliced and diced any moment now! I want to see some blood, people!"<br/><br/>"I've got you now!" announced Toya, the ninja disappearing from sight, leaving Reiko wondering at where he'd gone. Suddenly, he appeared behind her and dashed in for a strike. She turned and raised her arm to block but it was too late. Toya's strike connected and took her arm off at the elbow, both it and her saw clattering to the ground. Purple blood spurted from her stump in a torrent. She screamed and hopped from foot to foot, "OoooOoooOOowww! Owowow!" The shinobi turned and flicked the blood off his blade before closing his eyes and murmuring, "One down."<br/><br/>Koto gasped and stood up, "Full on amputation! Now that is<strong> GLORIOUS,</strong>people! This is what we came here for!"<br/><br/>"Hahaha! Hah! Ah, I got'cha!" came Reiko's voice.<br/><br/>"...What?!" Toya turned, wide-eyed.<br/><br/>Reiko was picking up her arm again, grinning. "Did you like my performance? Perhaps I should take up acting as well. Or do you think I chew the scenery too much? I watch too many human soap operas, perhaps." She pressed her arm to the stump and the cut seemed to heal itself in an instant. The surgeon rolled her shoulder and flexed her fingers, then bent to pick up her saw.<br/><br/>"Whoa! I haven't seen regeneration like that since Elder Toguro! Let's hope Toya doesn't know how to make a fly swatter out of ice!"<br/><br/>Toya grimaced and narrowed his eyes. "One cut won't do? Let's see how you handle a thousand!" He raised his free hand, cupped it and blew. One of his signature attacks; Shards of Winter. A thousand razor-sharp ice crystals flew at Reiko at high speeds. She didn't dodge and instead walked through the storm. Cuts opened all over her body, but they healed nearly as soon as they were inflicted. Reiko closed in as she endured the hailstorm, droplets of purple blood spattering the ring the entire way. Toya ceased his attack as she closed and raised his ice sword to strike, but it was too late. Reiko lashed out with her saw in a whirling strike that shattered Toya's icy weapon and sent the shinobi sprawling. She stood over him and pointed her blade down at him, "Surrender."<br/><br/>Never one to give up, Toya vanished from sight and re-appeared in the air, sending more shards at her. The demoness looked up at her airborne opponent and charged her free hand with demon energy, then flung tiny, scalpel-like shards of energy the ninja's way. Shard met psychic scalpel and collided in mid-air, the area filling with tiny blue and red explosions. As Toya landed, the surgeon met his gaze evenly and spoke, "You cannot win. This matchup has been planned perfectly. Eventually, you'll tire. You don't have anything that I can't out heal."<br/><br/>Angered, Toya lashed out again. He charged in and formed a sword around either of his hands. In rage, he slashed at the demoness, hoping to do enough damage to kill her. Reiko countered every attack with a dodge or slash of her own and for quite some time the two went back and forth on the ring. Toya landed the occasional slash but, as always, it would heal within moments. He eventually started to get sloppy and made a mistake, leaving himself open. It was enough time for Reiko to get in a long and grisly slash, opening up a diagonal cut across his chest. Toya went pale and toppled to his knees as his blood spilled on the ring floor. The surgeon willed away her weapon and leaned inward, "I kept my promise to the Detective, Toya. You will not die. I missed your vitals. You should pass out from blood loss in three... two..."<br/><br/>Toya collapsed. Juri counted to ten.<br/><br/>"Winner of the third round, Reiko Gozen! Winner, Team Temple!"<br/>