Boss Battle #9 - LucianDreamer vs. Inkjet Printer [CLOSED]

Leaning against a tree, I exhale a puff of smoke and set aside my thin wooden pipe.
Stepping forward from beneath the cover of the tree and I become slightly illuminated by the moonlight
"There are great evils amidst, but you are a mere irrelevance in comparison."
"Come, let me take your head -- for it is death you wish to get acquainted with correct?"
I place my hands on the hilt of my katana and the scabard that contains it readying myself for the inevitable fight that is about to unfold.

(OOC): Sorry for being a bit late to the party, mentions don't seem to alert anymore so I hadn't noticed with how busy I've been. Thank you Sakuya for bringing this to my attention! First time having ever done something like this, so please let me know if I overstep my bounds Lucian!

seel wrote

(OOC): Sorry for being a bit late to the party, mentions don't seem to alert anymore so I hadn't noticed with how busy I've been. Thank you Sakuya for bringing this to my attention! First time having ever done something like this, so please let me know if I overstep my bounds Lucian!

(OOC): You did nothing wrong. :3

Lucia: "I'll take you on by myself, then. Beat it!"
She unleashes her katana, and she too prepares her readiness. Both sides are evenly matched, she thinks this could last longer than any other battle she ever had done before.
She breathes hard, takes a step forward and begins a rushing attempt. It is an honored tradition not since the Warring States period.
Lucia: (to herself) "I can do this... it's my lifeline."
Lucia charges forward, but so too her opponent, and upon convergence, both swords collided at the same time with a big clash, doing no damage to each other.

Lucia's HP: 100%
Seel's HP: 100%

"Hakaze." I whisper quietly under my breath.
As we break apart and before a moments respite I begin bearing my sword down upon my opponent.
The blade, glowing faintly with a blueish hue, strikes my opponents sword and slides off having not caused any damage.
Without delay I circle my blade around to finish the assault and slice from the left, only just knicking my opponents right arm before being deflected.
Though the damage was minimal, I can tell by the way my blade glows a faint pink hue that it was enough to give it a taste.

Lucia's HP: 99%
Seel's HP: 100%

Lucia: "You'll feel the hurt of that one in a moment." (She taunts as she receives a scratch wound)
She thrusts her sword at her opponent, twirls it upward to give it a little spin and then strikes her chest downward for minor wounds.

Lucia's HP: 99%
Seel's HP: 93%

As I pull my hand from my chest I notice a small amount of blood. Though nothing life threatening, it causes me to be aware of how powerful my opponent actually is.
Whispering quietly under my breath "Shifu."
Grasping my katana with new resolve, I slash upwards landing a small knick on my opponent's left shoulder.
Using the momentum from the upwards slash, I bring my sword downwards slicing the same general area of my opponent's shoulder.
Neither hit is particularly damaging. I can feel my sword almost humming with energy as it glows a more intense pink.

Lucia's HP: 95%
Seel's HP: 93%

Lucia shrugs it off, she tries to hit her opponent from the right side but her attack is blocked, she then tries a different move by raising her sword above her head, and once again, it didn't work. She backs off a little to counter the swing before giving a little kick to open her up and doing an attack-throw to push her away.
Lucia: "Now I'm really PISSED, back off of me!" (As she kicks her away at the end of the attack-throw)

Lucia's HP: 95%
Seel's HP: 86%

For a brief moment I grimace at the pain, but immediately launch myself towards my opponent and unleash a flurry of attacks. These attacks aren't aimed to inflict damage, but to create an opening.
After several quick succession attacks I notice my opponents balance is off and seize the opportunity to strike.
Concentrating on where I want to land my blows, I utter a single word "Kasha."
With precision I slice from the left hitting the right side of my opponent's torso, and before my opponent can react I slice diagonally landing a strong hit from their left shoulder to their upper torso. Each slice sends a flurry of petals into the air.
As she regains her balance she manages to strike me with her fist right in my ribs, causing me to jump back and distance myself from my opponent. As ethereal glowing petals fall and surround my opponent, I can sense my sword strengthening and quite noticeablly part of the tsuba is now pink and has a breathing glow.

Lucia's HP: 85%
Seel's HP: 84%

Lucia notices the eerie glow of her opponent's sword; she takes caution of it, and attempts to sidestep around her next blow. She hits her left side with a downward swing, and while her opponent is facing up on the ground, looking at the dark blue sky staring at the cherry blossom tree, Lucia then proceeds to beat her senseless by raising her sword up against her face.
Lucia: "How do you feel that when going up against the most powerful leader of the home islands, huh!?"

Lucia's HP: 85%
Seel's HP: 79%

"You're their most powerful? Pity, I expected more." I snarkily remark as I shove you off and get back on my feet poised to strike immediately.
"Show me what strength defines the most powerful! Hakaze!" I shout as I quickly close the gap between us, our swords clash as we engage in combat. My sword begins faintly glowing blue again and immediately you react with caution by backing away
"Jinpu!" I shout as I leap forward slashing my sword downwards diagonally hoping to hit your torso. Our blades clash as you defend yourself, quickly I pull back and then lunge forward. The attack surprises you as I land my mark in your lower torso.
I hop back and prepare to defend myself. I hold my sword up at the ready, it now shines with an intense purple hue.

Lucia's HP: 81%
Seel's HP: 79%

Lucia grunts for a second, she is taking minor damage from the impact and is briefly down, but she performs a backward ukemi to get herself back up.
She looks at her opponent, now having a darker purple hue, as if almost fully charged. Because of the repeated clashing, both sides' defenses are significantly reduced.
Lucia misses being hit when she slides under her opponent and kicks her high into the air, then follows up for a guard-breaking attack with a brief lightning hue that sends her flying towards the grass, facing down. The blow struck hard enough a large gash on her opponent's right hip is shown.

Both sides' defenses are a bit crippled, showing yellow. Seel has taken major damage.

Lucia's HP: 81%
Seel's HP: 67%

Hooboy, this is gettin' good! I ain't seen a battle like this in months!

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Lucia: "I swear I will destroy you if I really want to! Now come at me!" (She beckons her opponent as her sword is still clenched tight)

I get up off the ground, quite winded from the blow dealt to me. "You hit hard, but not hard enough."
I dash towards my opponent and as the gap closes my opponent lashes out a series of attacks. Though close to landing their mark I dodge them, ready for the attack and utter a single word. "Gekko."
I raise my sword above my head and with quick precision I slice in a crescent motion. The hit lands, but it is not nearly as devastating a blow as I had hoped.
Without time to pause I strike again and miss, my opponent seeing their opporunity lashes out a strike that hits, but only just. With a smile I say "Yukikaze."
Before my opponent can brace their defence I twirl around so my back faces them and lunge my sword between my arm and body -- the strike lands and as it does crystal ice forms and shatters at the impact. Being close my opponent notices that my tsuba is now engulfed in three colors: dark blue, cyan, and pink.

Lucia's HP: 71%
Seel's HP: 65%

Lucia can feel her opponent's katana glowing intensely. It sounds like she's ready to use her ultima, a sort of a signature move.
She prepares her defensive stance, her two hands trained to block such a move with eyes narrowing.
Lucia: "Hit me all you want, but that sword, is truly a rare treasure I want to have when I'm done with you!"

Seel's charge meter is full and is ready to perform an ultima.
Lucia's HP: 71%
Seel's HP: 65%

It is clear as the night sky above us that my opponent has opted to prepare a applause worthy defense. I think to myself "Lets see if we can't break down that defense a bit shall we?"
I rush forward to meet my opponents defense and offer only pitiful strikes before finally seizing an opportunity to grab my opponent by their clothing and half-heartedly tossing them into the air, noting that my opponent is much heavier than she looks.
With my opponent in the air, and only just, I spin in an upwards motion using a technique known as "Oka". As I lift from the ground and my sword slashes the air, ethereal glowing petals begin to erupt and lightly drift downards -- my opponent, though heavy, drifts down slowly as if light as a petal now.
Thankfully this techniques magic does not effect the user and I land gracefully moments later. Before my opponent has time to grasp the situation I shout: "Hissatsu: Shinten!" The air becomes warm, my blade now engulfed in a roaring magical inferno.
I lunge upwards aiming for my opponent and successfully landing a direct hit. My opponent, whose face is twisted in agony, notices the petals begin to burn away and she begins to fall faster to the ground. Landing on her side while grasping her wound, she stares at my sword in disbelief as it has remained unchanged.

Seel's HP: 65%
Lucia's HP: 55%

Lucia felt the full force of Seel's biggest move, but that didn't stop her from being capable of defeating her foe.
Lucia: "I have you know... you are only moments away from seeing what I am truly capable of."
As her defenses are nearing critical, she gets up, minding the heavy wounds she sustained, and delivers two big strikes that sends her careening forward close to the tree, and just when her opponent is getting back up to retaliate, she makes a large cut on her opponent's waistline to slow her down.
Lucia: "You can run no faster than me anymore now, you foolish one. I will make you truly suffer not from pain, but from pestilence within me."
Lucia's body begins to ooze with a purple aura now that she is ready to make an ultima. Seel's charge meter has been used up.

Lucia's HP: 55%
Seel's HP: 50%

Pauses battle for a moment

OOC: It looks like my opponent has changed avatar, I have no idea who am I fighting against right now. :c

OOC: Oh, is that who was representing me? Cause this entire time I've just mentally pictured this as who was fighting you. I didn't realize, I'm sorry for the confusion! 🙁

Also I'll have my next bit posted tomorrow. Had a project due tonight, sorry again!

Noticing my opponents aura my heart begins to race, panic begins to creep in and I begin to shake where I stand. Before it could get worse I straighten up, pull my sword and begin meditating. To my opponent it looks as if flames are engulfing my body and sword, however it is my aura strengthening for the fight to come.
The moment I finish meditating I dash towards my opponent and clear the gap within seconds and stop right before my opponent. Standing before my opponent I begin to slowly unsheathe my katana and as I do I can begin to feel a third presence in this fight. To me this presence is familiar, but to my opponent it is definitely strange.
Our environment has changed, we're no longer fighting on Mt.Fuji -- We're surrounded by cherry trees in full bloom, the wind has picked up a bit and it's midday. As a blue aura engulfs me and more prominently my sword, ice begins to form and hold me and my opponent in place. The ice begins to crawl up my opponents legs holding them in place, they stare at me frozen in horror.
"It's been too long old friend, will you help me once again in my time of need?" I say aloud to no one in particular. As if a reaction to what I said my aura begins to flare up in gold and blue, ethereal flames dance around me. It is the confirmation I needed as I finish pulling out my sword swiftly aimed to striking down my opponent.
"Midare Setsugekka!" I slash at my opponent from bottom left to top right, across and then from top left to bottom right. The strikes send out resonanting shockwaves, with it the ice begins to dissipate, the scene begins to unfold and the third presence begins to fade. I look down at the tsuba of my sword noticing the colors have disappeared and aloud I say: "Thank you friend."

Lucia's HP: 30%
Seels's HP: 50%

OOC: I apologize for how long this took. I wrestled with the idea of posting this or posting one of my rewritten versions and it felt better to post the original. This was intended to be my Ultima, I wrote it up in anticipation -- unfortunately it's kind of flashy in comparison and might seem out of place now. I'm sorry for that, but I'd rather have this out then the other version I wrote up. Thank you for your patience. 🙂

Having her movement crippled and heavily wounded, Lucia can barely hold on to her life. As if her opponent has far more magic power than she currently has, she conserved her ultima until the moment is right.
She decided to remove her long white gloves, revealing the terrible stench that even making physical contact on her will do massive damage.
Lucia closes her eyes in a blink, and then utters her ultima.
"DEATHLY... SUNFLOWER!" As she shouted, she pulls her katana back, jumping high as she strikes her opponent into the air with purplish-red flames signaling the start of her ultima right before grappling and striking her down to the ground again. The grapple might be weak, but the poison from her body makes up for it, passing quickly into her bloodstream. Though it may not kill her outright, it will linger for a while before it goes away.
Lucia then puts her gloves back on to prevent her poison from spreading out of control.

Seel has taken critical damage, a few more hits will likely end her. Her defenses has returned to normal as well.
Lucia's charge meter has used up.

Lucia's HP: 30%
Seel's HP: 25%

Both contestants are no longer in the Mt. Fuji stage, but rather somewhere in China, triggering a change in music.
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Battle Theme 2: https://youtu.be/0YfC1K1yv_0