Aries versus Viper II

[Angel Aries]

*There's a moon out tonight. Not quite full, but close.*

*But from behind the wall, spread between two mountainous spires, and hundreds of feet high, reaching up into the heavens, one might think there was no sky at all.*

*The wall screams up from the ground, the entire landscape, including it, cast in charcoal tones. At two stations along the wall, twin bastions rise above like protrusions of bone in a compound fracture, all splinters and edges at the ends.*

*But the battle is not to take place at the bastions, but between them, on a stretch hundreds of feet long, about as wide as three lanes of highway.*

*Aries stands on the wall, looking out over it, leaning on it by his forearms, dressed in a black tunic and pants, a gray cloak draped about his shoulders, his Scottish broadsword at his hip, a pair of glasses fixed on his nose.*

Nice night...

[neoviper7]

*viper some how stumbles in carrying his bearded axe over his shoulder*

it's a good night to die. you can make first move aries

*starts swining his ace around himself*

[Angel Aries]

*Aries looks over and snorts.*

Direct, ain't we?

*sighs, then turns away from the wall and draws his sword, his hand encased inside the basket guard common to eighteenth century Scottish designs.*

Aries likes that.

*He grins, then raises his left hand and detatches the clasp of his cloak, letting it fall into a gray puddle behind him. His sword raises, catching the silvery moonlight as it moves into an attack stance.*

[neoviper7]

*slowly advaces toward aries, the axe almost singing as it swings around his body*

you sure you don't want to use a shield?

[Angel Aries]

*Aries lets his sword whip forth to let the tip flick painlessly into Vipey's chest.*

Against you? How hard do think this can possibly be for Aries?

*lets his sword flick upwards, drawing a gash from Vipey's chest to his left shoulder.*

*He grins, then lets his sword settle back into an attack position.*

C'mon.

[neoviper7]

*th axe strikes aries as he comes into it's striking distance*

you forgot that my axe is orbiting around me very quickly

[Angel Aries]

*Winces as the axe chews into his right hip and lodges in the bone.*

AAAAARGH!

*squeezes his eyes back open and grabs the shaft of the axe just below the head. He looks up at Vipey, then starts faking pain that quite obviously exists.*

Oooh. Ooow. Aaah. Ooow. Oooh. Aargh. Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow...

*'s face goes cold before his sword lashes up to take Vipey through the throat.*

It's best to keep these things short.

[NeoEllis]

Winner: Viper.