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Sometimes you got let em fight it out

Who: Alexei (

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What: DUEL TO THE DEATH--Cept it's for the Training School
When: Sept 14th, afternoon
Where: The barracks
Summary: Yuri wants to use the Training School for Brave Vesperia, Alexei wants to test his abilities first before making the final decision.
Rating: PG...13? /shrug.

Yuri and Alexei have finally settle on a day and time to have their match now that things have calmed down in Luceti, for the most part. Today was that day and Alexei had already gone down early to the barracks to wait for his opponent. This wasn't exactly the first time he had fought Yuri, but this will be the first time where they would be fighting one-on-one. He didn't believe he had anything to be concern about with this match. If anything, this was an opportunity to gauge Yuri's actual abilities.

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[That last line earns Alexei a rather cold look, which really shouldn't be surprising. Like he needs a handicap ...

But whatever.]

Fine. [A few seconds to ready himself, and--] Let's go!

[Charging now, sword at the ready.]

[Alexei raises his blade before him to defend himself. He doesn't know what to expect from Yuri yet, so he'll stand his ground and wait.]

[Once he's within range, Yuri makes a decently basic first move - a horizontal swing. ... He's just swinging rather hard, is the only real difference. Sure, it's kind of a waste of a "first move", but considering this isn't a "real fight" and all, he'd rather just get the make-a-swing-that'll-obviously-be-blocked part over with.]

[Blocked it was. There was good pressure behind it that move though, he'll give him that. He makes a quick forward motion, attempting to push Yuri back with a parry. If that succeeds, he'll raise his sword to the right and return with a downward diagonal swing towards Yuri.]

[This is indeed successful! Although, Yuri is very quick to react, swinging his own blade in an upwards diagonal motion to meet Alexei's. It's not as strong a swing as before, thanks to Alexei's parry throwing him off a little, but it's definitely not a weak or half-hearted one either.]

[~~Press Triangle for reaction time~~. It was enough to stop the attack. Impressive, he'll give him that. Letting Yuri believe he had stopped him, Alexei will attempt to "roll" his sword under Yuri's blade, using his strength against him and then swing his sword upward to deflect Yuri away and probably make him even more off balance.]

[Also successful! Mostly, at least. As soon as Alexei "rolls" his sword under Yuri's, he decides trying to strong-arm his way around that manuever could just make things worse. It's around the time when his own sword is forced upwards that Yuri ~~backsteps~~ jumps back, making some space between himself and Alexei. Although, even if he wasn't thrown off balance, it does still take a second or so for Yuri to get his sword back into a usable fighting position.

So, no getting totally thrown off! ... But Alexei did force him to back off, at least for the moment.]

[Alexei won't give Yuri that much of an opportunity to return with an attack. He's taken the offensive this time and coming forward, aiming a little low this time with a horizontal swing.]

[Wow rude. But Yuri was expecting this to happen, more or less. He's quick to move his blade in the path of the swing, not having enough time to make a proper parry right away.

... But he does put some extra force behind his blade shortly after, trying to swing in a bit of an arc (starting horizontal, moving upward near the end).]

[When there's an opening, you take it. He's not holding back...or well, he is holding back enough so he doesn't end up seriously injuring or killing Yuri. Yuri managed to direct Alexei's sword away and he backs off momentarily.]

[When Alexei backs off, Yuri rushes in a second later, this time with a vertical swing. He's thrown enough horizontals around for the moment. Might as well switch things up a little.]

[Alexei will not block with his sword, deciding to dodge it instead. He dodges to Yuri's right, and makes an attempt to elbow him in the side. Not hard, but enough for him to feel that sting.]

[Yuri had a feeling Alexei would try to pull something during that dodge, but as he's not psychic or what have you, he doesn't get out of the way in time and does get elbowed.

Jerk. Maybe he should start punching you :|

But whatever, it wasn't that hard anyway, so he'll move away just a bit, making a horizontal swing as he does so. Although, it's done more to make sure Alexei doesn't try to do the same thing twice in succession than for any other real reason.]

[Alexei backsteps, raising his blade so that it collides with Yuri's from beneath to try and knock his off course. Think he lost a few hair strands from that return attack...nothing too serious.

Alexei will be taking a moment to recover his bearings so he won't be attacking back anytime soon.]

[It takes Yuri a moment as well to get his sword back into a usable position again after Alexei knocked it off course like that.

But it's only a moment. He'll be coming back at Alexei again with a downward diagonal swing as soon as he's done with that.]

[Alexei side-steps to avoid the attack and returns with the same move Yuri had done to him previously, a horizontal swing from his right. He'll keep going though should Yuri not block that one and make a downward diagonal swing.]

[The first swing, Yuri doesn't have the time to block properly, so he tries to dodge instead - this leads to a small cut being added to the sleeve of his shirt. Thankfully, the sword missed his arm, so a small rip in the material is all that happens there. Hell, Yuri doesn't even really notice it, and probably won't till the fight is over.

The downward diagonal swing, though, is something he manages to raise his sword against in time, blocking that blow.]

[Alexei doesn't notice he had done any damage until they were stuck in stalemate with their blades. It won't last for very long though as he steps back and turns so that the blade just slides along Yuri's as he turns back round for an upper horizontal swing.]

[Not wanting to get hit by a swing like that (especially an upper one; he likes his head where it is, thanks), Yuri is quick to step back when he sees that swing coming. Though, he does lose a few strands of hair from having to suddenly jerk back like that. ~~You're a dead man Alexei. Double-dead.~~

Right after that swing passes, though, Yuri's coming in with a downward diagonal swing.]

[Why does this attack look familiar....oh right, you did the same thing up on Zaude. He didn't have much time to react to the attack, but he manages to avoid the blade...or so he thinks. He'll find that Yuri made a cut near his shoulder by the end of this.

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Which eventually it does. They may have seem almost evenly matched, but Alexei manages to get the upperhand easily enough and ended this match by disarming Yuri. Alexei doesn't really say anything after Yuri's lost though. He expected to win, but Yuri was stubborn enough to actually make it a little difficult. Just a little...and that's something he didn't exactly want to admit. Give it a few more years of training and Yuri may just become an impressive fighter.]

A good match. You managed to last a little longer than most recruits.

[After all that, Yuri definitely had no qualms about looking annoyed after Alexei manages to disarm him. Although, he did have to admit - it wasn't a bad match, and he did yards better than the last time he faced Alexei on his own (even if he can't really remember the details of that clearly anymore).

But that annoyed and frustrated look only lasts a few moments before he settles for just looking mildly aggravated. ... Or in other words, the way he usually looks when he sees Alexei. He'll settle into that look right before making a move to pick his weapon up again. No sense in leaving it on the ground, even if it wasn't his.]

Right. Aren't I lucky.

[... He could have said much worse, all things considered.]

[...]

I'll give your guild a chance to run this school. For the time being. [There's still some reluctance there, but he's trying and maybe he's a little curious to see how things will turn out.]

"For the time being", huh.

[What was that supposed to mean? Whatever, he's probably just being ~~tsun~~ a dick about it. He'll throw in a non-nonchalant shrug after that.]

Better than not at all.

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Sometimes you got let em fight it out

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Hello Yuri. Did you miss me?

I thought this was a spam message at first, fff.

Wow. Rude

Well that'll teach you to use comment titles that usually show up on dating site spam emails B(