Re: Teaching the Demons Within You

[Renzenku]

"I suppose it would," Ren replied, "If that was me." Still some houndreds of feet in the air, hovering there with no problem, pointing at the thing that had fire wrapped around it he whispered a few words and it broke apart into light particals, absorbing the energy Ren smiled.

"Perfect copies, ethereal beings and miracles. They're my type of thing." He smirked down at Ezrion, "And so the student has gotten cocky at a power he just obtained. Well, I suppose this might seem easy now, but in about thirty seconds you'll understand why I'm teaching you and not the other way around."

Looping around and flying upwards he spread his arms wide and smirked once again, "Find Me In The Midst." Light refracted around dust particals as they warped and formed near perfect copies of Ren, none of them as powerful, floating there several thousand feet in the air over three hundred copies of Renzenku hovered. "They each have one three hundreth of my power, which is still plenty. Even more then you have now...Now that I think about it...Maybe I should give you a nice little traning mission.

Putting his arms down Ren snapped his fingers, each copy then split into three hundred more, and those into two. "One hundred and eighty thousand copies of myself float above you, each with about half of your currently displayed power." Ren smirked, the sky dark from shadows of the multitudes of Ren's.

Suddenly, the air became extremely bright as light refracted off the wings of the copies. "Ah, yes. The benefits of being the one who should lead the angels." He once again smirked, snapping his fingers a quater of the copies rushed at Ezzrion. "Wave One! The Starter Wave!"

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion assumed his battle position. He open a portal and removed Kuyomaji from it's place in the ground. Holding it in both hands he smash's it on the ground creating a spiderweb of cracks around himself. Out of the cracks came hundreds of tendrils of flame each taller than two men.

He take's flight to engage the clones charging at him, the flames stretching up with him. when he reaches the height he wants he stops and waits for the clones to reach him. When he is surounded he spins around with both swords outstretched. Bringing the flames up and exerting a little energy he releases them outwards to burn some of the clones.

He follows that up by thowing his katana and impaling two clones. "This is sooo much fun!" he shouts with wild exuberance. Reclaiming his sword, he beheads another of the clones. He spins around and slashes one, dodges another, stabs a third in the gut. This is going nowhere. He built up some energy and released it as a wire thin line slicing half of them in half.

[Ezrion Alexander]

He builds up energy in his right hand while dodging most of the clones attacks. setting fire to his sword he retreat's past them all. He makes sure that they are all in front of him. "New move, Blasing Arrow!" he yells while throwing his sword at the center of the mass of clones, using the energy and flames to create a wave like effect coming from the blade to insinerate most of the ones that it came in contact with.

Time for some reinforcements. He begins to summon his demonic army. He summons a total of two hundred imps fifty lesser demons and ten greater demons. they engage the remaining force of Ren's first wave of clones. "Micheal would you care to join them?"

"Of course master, I would be delighted." he replies with a wicked grin while moving in to engage the clones, "I'de thought that you forgot about me."

"That's impossible, how could I forget my own bodygaurd," he comments slightly sarcasticly. There are about fifty imps left as well as all of the others that i've summoned. Hmmm... there seems to be around three to four hundred clones left. "Let's finish this!"

Concentrating power to his sword, which was still floating in the middle of the group of clones, he sent energy through it to create a large explosion to wipe out his remaining enemies. Before unleashing the explosion he has his forces retreat as quickly as possible. The problem with that was that now most of the clones are outside the blast range, unless I make it a bunch of moving mini-explosions. The sword began to move about exploding at random, killing many clones and a few of his own demons.

"What's next?" he yells up to the real Ren, "I'm having fun. Don't ruin my fun, send more."

[Renzenku]

"Very well!" Smiling divinely Ren dived straight at Ezrion, his entire army charging in front of him, "Skipping to the last wave then! FIFTH WAVE! BOSS WAVE!!!"

Hitting the twenty thousand feet mark Ren started corkscrewing at immense speed. Summoning a simple sword of pure energy he used sentrifical force and flipped forward, smashing his sword into the ground, causing a immense fissure straight towards Ezrion. Opening his hand and pushing it upwards a pure white light engulfed Ezrion and his demons, instantly destroying the demons and obviously harming Ez. "Divine White Light: Destuction!"

Elongating his blade he shot it at Ezrion, while making a mammoth ball of energy and sent it spiralling towards Ez as well. "Ball and Chain Manouver!" Clenching his hand Ren yanked backwards, then up and double handed down, causing his ball of energy to mimick his movements, as if it was attached to a chain. Spinning around several times he opened his hands in a release, sending the ball straight at Ezrion as well.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezion jumped up and over the sword and began to acsend. Avoiding all but the last hit of the ball of energy which the black hole in his back absorbed, and changed it into his own energy. He recovers his sword again and charged straight forward, ignoring the many enemies in front of him.

When he reached the middle of the throng he lit his sword and made it explode covering eveything around them in writhing flames. "Blasing Inferno!' he shouts over the explosion. Looking around afterward he could no longer see Ren on the ground around him, nor in the skys above him. Where the hell is he?

[Renzenku]

"Right behind you," Ren whispered into Ezrion's ear. A flare of brilliant white light engulfed him and Ezrion, and the sound of light feathered flapping could be heard. "Taijutsu Style."

Ren wrapped his pair of white feathered wings around Ezrion, closing them tightly in a strangling grip, flipping upside down he used pure light energy and emitted them from his feet and sent them rocketing downwards.

When they hit the 20,000 feet mark Ren started spiralling around, cockscrewing at immense speed. The second before they collided with the ground Ren made a gesture of pushing away, causing Ezrion to shoot downwards at three times their previous speed, and he used the expelled energy to balance out his descent and landed softly on the ground, his wings flared outwards catching the light.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion hit the ground, hard. Hard enough to make a ten foot hole straight down. I'm stuck. He tries squirming out backwards but he got nowhere. So he exerted a little energy to widen the hole so that he could move about freely. "Dude I think you broke my arm," he complains to the other. He picked up his tattered shirt and used it as a sling for his left arm. Damn it now I only half one arm to fight with. He create's a giant spear of energy which he throws at Ren. "Blazing Spear!" he shouts.

[Renzenku]

"I gave him such an opening..." Ren bounced the spear off a small shield he created the moment he felt the precense of energy forming. "Dude, such potential...Just set your arm yourself...Watch."

Walking over to a rock jutting out of the ground he bent down and smashed his arm against it, breaking it violently in the center of the forearm. Grimmacing a bit he walked back over to Ezrion, "Watch," First snapping his arm outwards with a great amount of force, setting the bone back in around the same place, he enveloped his arm in a cocoon of energy.

Setting a faint glow about Ren he focused on his energy, letting it seep into his skin. His arm, glowing slightly, then emitted a faint *tchk* as it finished setting and healing. "See, good as new and no more pain. Of course, I could do that using simple regeneration that would have healed it much faster, but the way you'd first learn how to heal would be the way I just showed you. Try it when you have the time."

Jumping and looping backwards over the hole where Ezrion lay, he folded his wings inwards around his body. The tip of the two wings touching he placed his hands, palm outwards, fingers in a clawing motion with his wrist touching, right behind the wings. "Level One Expulsion Beam!"

Focusing an immense amount of his energy (Immense to any normal human, 1/10000 to him) he set his energy in his palms, focusing it to a small orb. Feeding the orb a steady amount of energy he shot a highly condensed energy beam, enough to slice through a planet like a hot knife through melted butter, straight at Ezrion's chest.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion saw the yellow beam coming towards him. He jumps up and flaps his wing twice to avoid the beam. "Holy, man are you trying to kill me?" he asks with some concern. "Oh, and where's Micheal?"

"I'm over here master," he calls from a hundred meters away. "I was blow away by his ealier attack."

"I see. Well you just rest a bit okay? Let's finish this." he says to Ren. I'm running out of energy. He builds up energy and creates a blade coming off of his arm. He charges at Ren. He release's small amounts of energy around Ren to try to keep him in place. "I've got you now!" he exclaims as he swings the energy blade toward Ren.

[Renzenku]

"Ah, I see. A trap of sorts, if I move I hit a energy partical and it's technically a hit... So I'll do this." Ren curled up in a aerial fetal postion, creating a energy sphere around himself. Suddenly flaring out, standing erect and flaring his wings, he expelled the energy outward in a solid concussive wave. Knocking away the energy of Ezrion's and off balancing Ez himself while he did so.

Flying upwards once again he looked down at Ezrion, "You've really not got much control over that form yet. You can get that training by yourself, as I can't help you there. It's more of a self-control thing..." Then, "Come on man, we've been at this for almost an hour, all you have to do is hit me. Not a complicated task."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion regained his balance, looked up at Ren and said,"Damn, thought I had you for sure that time." He tried to build up some energy for an attack, but didn't have enough left. Damn! Not good I'm out of power.

The demon armour began to receed back into his body, causing him to drop to his knee's in pain. Once the armour had completely disappeared he returned to a standing position. "I'm dry. Got nothing left for now," he commented to Ren. "Sorry to disapoint you."

[Renzenku]

Ren sighed audibly, even from a few thousand feet up Ezrion could still hear him, and started a slow decent to the ground. "Sad sad sad. Immense improvement in a short amount of time, that shows a lot of potential...Not enough for the tournament yet, but it should be far better by the time the tournament rolls around, which could be months or even years."

Ren smiled brightly, landing softly on the ground thirty feet away from Ezrion, "Oh well, plently of time for training. Report back here tommorow for some more training, the same mission applies: Land a hit on me. From there we'll move on, probably to the woodland, the day after tomorrow. When you get good enough, I'll take you to an arena."

Ren started to walk away, his wings 'falling' of his back, feather by feather, leaving a trail of bright white glittering feathers along the ground which then dissolved into the ground. "Lot's and lot's of work to do on you."

[Ezrion Alexander]

"Alright then I'll see you tomorrow." Ezrion said as he gathered up his belongings once again. "Come on Michael it's time to go."

"Yes Maser I'm coming," he replied while running to catch up.

I need to rest up, but I also need to train some more. He tried to solve his dilemma and decided on resting. He wearily began to make his way to his temporary place of living.

[Renzenku]

Ren sat on a rock off in the left of the plains, "Man, this is easier then I thought. Being a teacher and all, simple training, not hard at all." Thinking out loud was a specialty of his, he had gotten himself into a few fights by accidently speaking his mind without actually recognizing he was doing so.

Ren opened one eye and survayed the scene before him, a serene plain with rocks scattered here and there, a few craters from previous training missions and a single tree, Yggdrasil, could be seen from where he was sitting.

Yggdrasil was the giant tree piercing the skies in the center of the woodlands, from anywhere on the island you could see it, it was the thing drawing people of power from all over, it was also immortal - completely immune to everything ever thrown at it, no energy attack could harm it, as it absorbed energy. No sword could penetrate it's bark, it was literally impervious to everything, sometimes when it wasn't sleeping, almost never, it attacks the people trying to attack it.

Yggdrasil also fed the island it's energy, considering the island generated it's own dimensional rift in space and it's own special hell. All extremely interesting and something Ren spent long nights studying since he got on the island.

Hearing a noise he turned his gaze off Yggdrasil, the World Tree, and focused on the shadow of a being walking towards him.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion walked up behind Ren and asked "You ready to start again? I'm completely recharged and raring to go." He looks past Ren and see's the tree for himself. "What;s up with that tree anyway? I could see it the entire time I was at my place."

[Renzenku]

Ren looked at the tree, then sideways at Ezrion, "Really? I just finished telling myself about it in my head and now I have to say it out loud... Whatever. It's the thing drawing people of power from all over, it's also immortal - completely immune to everything ever thrown at it, no energy attack can harm it, as it absorbs energy. No sword can penetrate it's bark, it's literally impervious to everything, sometimes when it's not sleeping, which is almost never by the way, it attacks the people trying to attack it. Yggdrasil also feeds the island it's energy, considering the island generates it's own dimensional rift in space and it's own special hell."

Ren smiled, "There's a relatively detailed explanation, anyways, since your pumped let's get to training. However, for the first little bit, just swordplay -no energy attacks, unless your powering up your sword."

Placing his hand out and dropping his head down, shadows covering half its face, his clenched his hand and his katana's Kata and Mari appeared in his hand. Expertly manipulating them without looking up he combined them, looking up he smiled, bearing his canines. "This is my personally made sword, Katamari, japanese for 'clump' it represents how it's two katana's 'clumped' together."

Using the force he was building in his crouched legs he launched himself up and backwards, flipping backwards and landed on the ground. Holding his sword tip to the ground in his relaxed stance he glanced at Ezrion, "Bring it."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion created a opening and grabbed his Claymore and his katana. "This is Kuyomaji," he said gesturing to the claymore, "And this is Salmathor." He assumed his battle position, Kuyomaji over his shoulder, and Salmathor at his side. "Ready when you are."

[Renzenku]

"I'm standing here at the ready, so what do you think?" Ren smilled politely, leveling his sword with his shoulder and pointed it a Ezrion. Drawing back his hand and raising his left hand up, leveling it at shoulder level. "Yea, I'm ready."

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion charged at Ren and slashed at his midsection with his katana. He stabbed his claymore toward Ren's left leg, trying to at least trip him up.

[Renzenku]

Ren bent backwards and flicked his feet up, kicking Ezrion in the jaw and dodging both slashes, completing a full backflip. "How simple," Standing straight up Ren smiled, and jumped forwards stabbing at Ezrion's left shoulder, just to keep him off balance.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion slightly dazed from the kick, saw the sword coming toward him but realized that he couldn't dodge it in time. So he let himself fall beneath it and stabbed upwards at Ren's stomach and hand.

[Renzenku]

Ren's reaction speed is what saved him the small pain, looking down and seing the slash coming at him he rolled forward and held his blade across his stomach. The ring of metal hitting metal rang across the plains as Ezrion's stab hit his sword, luck mixed with skill and he was safe.

Standing up he heard a small Mmph, looking down he saw he had rolled straight across Ezrion's face and torso. "Shoot, sorry man. But can't help you right now."

Jumping away he summoned a ball of energy beneath Ezrion, lifting him up with it, when Ez was standing straight up again he blew the ball up.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion was knocked onto his face from the concussive force of the blast. After returning to his feet he mumbled, "So that's the way you want to play alright then." He made an orb behind him and stuck his left hand into it and his right hand forward. He began to fire the energy in smaller peices out of his right hand like little flaming bullets.

[Renzenku]

Ren turned around and zipped up his fly, "Whoops...Can't let that get in the way, middle of the fight 'something' gets caught and BOOM owchie." The bullets stopping just before they hit him, hitting the shield he erected behind himself when he turned around.

Turning back around Ren smiled, "If you want to shoot bullet like things, learn to make then travel just as fast."

Standing behind Ezrion, back to back, Ren elbowed backwards into Ez's back, then jumped forwards diagonally onto his hands, his legs bent inwards. Waiting like that for less then a second he used his upper body strength to send himself backwards, straightning his legs out perfectly, in a kangaroo kick.

[Ezrion Alexander]

Ezrion stumbled forward after being kicked. The energy he created was, to a degree, still there so he engulfed Ren in it and lit it on fire. He regained his balance and stood erect, "I finally hit you," he said without turning around.

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