<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/3LPMFYF.jpg)<br/></div><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Sharina</span></strong><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Magnolia Town central square<br/><strong>With:</strong>Lyuk<br/><br/>The woman kept her onslaught going, not even attempting to mask the fact that her onslaught of glaciers was nothing more than a distraction while she got in close against him. She was well aware of the fact that when it came to close quarters combat, he had an overwhelming advantage over her. In terms of strength, reflexes, force, and even element matchup, there was no category in which she was going to meet him in a clash of power and win. Yet here she was doing it regardless. Part of her was mystified at her own actions, the good sense in her mind was telling her that she was being foolish, the logic in her mind was telling her to just retreat, play the long game, wear him out with long ranged barrages until he was ready to collapse, and then go in for the kill. However, despite all of those perfectly logical and valid thoughts coursing through her mind, she ended up ignoring each and every last one of them. For Sharina, right now, the only thing that mattered was getting in close to Lyuk, trading blows with him,<em>fighting</em>him.<br/><br/>She was able to read his attack about half a second before he dodged. As such the path of her rapier changed, and she was able to at least stick him in the shoulder while his fist came roaring up towards the side of her head. Again, because she was able to read the attack a wall of ice would suddenly appear in front of Lyuk's fist, shielding the ice mage from the incoming attack. However, the token attempt at protecting herself would be for naught, as the fist came crashing through her shield and met it's mark regardless. The blue haired woman would be sent tumbling backwards, falling to the ground in a heap with a loud thud. Blessedly, at long last the icy arena around the pair of them would start to crack and melt. Lyuk would finally be able to see the city around him again, and even have the luxury of being able to leave the battlefield if he wanted, as the huge walls of ice started to turn more and more into a puddle of water that flooded the streets.<br/><br/>Was that it? Had he finally won?<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/N9CD8Uc.png)<br/></div><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Tsumia</span></strong><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Magnolia Clock Tower<br/><strong>With:</strong>Alice<br/><br/><strong>"Huh? defeat me?"</strong>She said in a bewildered voice, the confusion clear on her face before Alice suddenly went on a brutal offensive. Fragmented bullets and debris were starting to scatter everywhere, and even with her third eye the brunette was only just barely able to dodge everything that Alice was throwing at her. She summoned her arm cannon, doing her best to try and get a clear line of sight on Alice. However, one of her critical flaws was exposed in the fact that she wasn't able to make fast shots while also making them clean and precise. She needed time, she needed to be the one controlling the tempo, she needed to be the one that kept on the offensive, and kept the enemy on the back foot. At this point in time Alice was just throwing too many things at her with the collapsing clock tower to allow her to properly counterattack. Because of that Alice was able to put her scheme into action perfectly, receiving no retaliation as she started to bring down the tower.<br/><br/>Just as the wall started to collapse, and just as Alice made her final shot towards that jewel, Tsumia's eyes went wide. She saw the trail of the bullet, aimed perfectly just as she was at her most vulnerable. Acting quickly she threw herself backwards, desperately flinging herself against the crumbling tower's wall just to get herself out of the path of that bullet. As a result, Alice's shot would bounce off of the wall, and rocket upwards to dislodge a large cog in the clock. The cog would drop from it's disheveled seat, crashing down and slamming itself down right on the top of Tsumia's head.<strong>"GUUUUH!"</strong>the girl groaned as the large lump of metal crashed into her poor, vulnerable noggin. Her eyes hollowed out instantly, her wings went limp, and the girl went plummeting down to the ground floor.<br/><hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/fOLoKmA.jpg)<br/></div><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;">Ralena</span></strong><br/><strong>Location:</strong>Magnolia town outskirts<br/><strong>With:</strong>Shun and ?Ralena?<br/><br/>Ralena obeyed Shun's command, rolling to the right just as that burst of energy rocked through the ground. Along with that came the impressive showing of spears coming down towards Shadow!Ralena, all of them slamming down at her all at once in a furious barrage of blades. Ralena was awestruck, a smile on her face as she got back up to her feet. "Hot damn, Shun. You're the real deal!" She praised, though the feeling of victory was short lived as Ralena looked back forward, spotting out that each and every one of those spears got blocked by what looked to be the front half of a large black dome standing between Shadow!Ralena and the spears. Interestingly, in contrast to Ralena's smooth and sleek gauntlets, Shadow!Ralena's dome seemed almost like it was made by a series of scales, like a dragon's skin. This kind of design took a massive deal of focus, maintaining individual control of each scale and making sure that none of them faltered or were weak. Judging by the awestruck look on the normal Ralena's face, this was no small feat.<strong>"..."</strong><br/><br/>Shadow!Ralena kept that hollow, empty look in her eye as the dome burst like a grenade, repelling the spears in an explosion of pure magical energy as the dome's scales all rocketed towards Shun like so much fragmentation. Ralena acted quickly, putting herself between the oncoming assault and Shun as she tried to erect a defensive dome of her own in much the same fashion. This, however, all seemed to be part of Shadow!Ralena's trap, as the black garbed woman was on Ralena's flank within the blink of an eye, her body swinging around as she aimed an airborne sweeping kick towards Ralena's head. However, it didn't seem as though just blocking it was going to do the trick here, the metal boot that Shadow!Ralena had summoned for the attack seemed scaled in a similar fashion to that dome, meaning even just getting close, or making the tiniest bit of contact, would cause it to explode with devastating effect.