[Preparations: Dao and Rensou versus Vera]

[Rensou Hiruen]

The charred and deadened sands of the Scorched Plains had always been a place of conflict, where only strength survived. There was no room for weakness here. A harsh wind whipped across the landscape, punctuating the tension and cooling the skins of the trio that had assembled here to put one of their own to the test. The harsh Vegetan suns beat down, cascading their shadows across the blackened dirt. It was midday, and the temperature was soaring. Conditions were perfect to put strain on a warrior.

That was the exact hope of Rensou Hiruen as he stood across from the demon, Dao Midnight. Onyx spikes lashed in the pressure of the winds, and his tanned complexion already shined with sweat. A gloved hand reached upward and wiped the stinging sweat from his brow, a precaution to keep it far away from those captivating coal orbs of his.

The Saiyan had requested the Demon's presence in hope of intensifying the training of the hybrid, Vera. Simply put, the woman was lacking in her training and her battle prowess was suffering for it. Under the guidance of Rensou and Dao she would flourish, though. Thus far the woman had not shown herself, and Rensou lifted his impatient gaze upon Dao.

"If she isn't here soon, I'm leaving. We offer the girl training and she's late!" and with that said, Rensou spat upon the earth and instantly the parched sands drank up the liquid. The Saiyan crossed his powerful arms across his broad chest, his boot tapping against the ground with distaste.

[midnightdao]

Dao Midnight was sitting on a rock meditating and using his new power of yami sense to sense out powerlevels nearby. He sold his scouter and light weighted t-shirt for a moderatly tougher weighted T-shirt. He smirked as he was training yet again for his king. "The king needs us to boost up her fighting skills, your gladiator skills and my yami kung fu skills should be able to push her to the brink, and then she'll realize her power. He said after breaking meditation and getting up. He then yawned. I sense a power on it's way here...it's probably her.

Waiting in anticipation for the battle to begin but holding down his giddyness, he stood hard, ready to greet the 4th member of the Solar Saiyan Empire.

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[vera]

The sun was high and the sands seemed to basted in gold, Vera herself seemed part of the sands. She had used her Suko-hone to blend in with the desert, it was a move that was unique and accustomed to her and her alone. In this form she seemed at peace with herself, and it almost made her sad to return to her solid form. However upon hearing Rensou's complaining she felt compelled to prove him wrong.

Vera reformed her body grain by grain in the sands, until she raised up. When she stood before him it appeared as if she had buried herself under ground. Carefully she brushed off the dirt and glared at him, however she had a smirk plastered on her face knowing that his future confusion would amuse her. "I'm never late Rensou Hiruen. I've been here for a very long time." She smiled lightly then looked over at the demon.

"Okay boys. First off, I don't like hand to hand combat... I prefer to work long range." She sat on the ground and started to play with her hair, yawning out of over exaggerated boredom. 'Mhm... I wonder what the demon boy has to bring to the table. Rensou has a pretty high power level, but maybe that's because he trains more than me.' She shrugged it off and thought of what she would like if she were that powerful. As long as she didn't have to gain weight or body mass she was fine with it.

[Rensou Hiruen]

Rensou smirked, hiding his surprise at the sudden appearance of the hybrid female. In all his dealings with her, she had withheld that technique from his knowledge. Perhaps she was hiding it from him in the case that their affairs ever came to blows, in which case it would be a powerful card to play. In any case, she had chosen to show it to Rensou and Dao alike. The fact was evident that the woman had grown to trust Rensou, which could be in itself a wonderful but oft-terrible thing.

Rensou returned her smile before he unfolded his shimmering forearms and worked the electronics of the weighted devices about his wrists. The two bangles quickly chimed with audible beeps and hissed with hydraulic release and allowed the clearance for Rensou to slide them off. The last Hiruen tossed them through the air towards Vera, and it was clear she was meant to catch them.

“Put those on, I believe you'll find them uncomfortable at first,” he informed, but as for Rensou the bangles had become something so ingrained that once free of them the realization of how easily his hands moved shocked him. His figure knelt as he performed the same removal process with the two encasing his ankles, sliding his boots free of his feet to allow those as well to come free. He replaced his boots before standing, and with quick kicks sent the weights meant for Vera's legs before her feet.

“If you have any questions, I'll answer them now; while encumbering, those devices will increase the return of your efforts marginally,” and with that said he turned his attentions to the demon, Dao Midnight. It seemed the Makaio had come into possession of a new set of the weights, but with a grin Rensou noted they were not as expensive as his own.

“Dao, we're going to push her, but not punish.” If either warrior was to hit her at their full strength, the possibility of Vera being greivously wounded was much too great. While Dao was effectively cutting his power in two with the worn equipment, Rensou was completely free of handicap. That made him a frightening power indeed.

The Saiyan lowered himself into the stance of the Hiruen clan and smiled at the two of them, with the impeding burden the pair were under they would be hard pressed to manage a single strike against him without the greatest of efforts. Coal eyes flitted from Dao to Vera. The Saiyan intended to empower them both in this session, and informed them at once.

“Dao, feel free to engage Vera or myself. Vera, the same is expected of you. While your proficiency is ranged combat, it is the complete fighter that wins the day! Without proper preparations, that flaming mouth you've got won't do a damned thing!” Rensou had said this harshly, but it was the truth. If Vera's melee competence could not be brought up to par, she would suffer in battle for it against a stronger foe.

As for Rensou, he simply planned to take a nap, metaphorically. The arrogant Saiyan was confident neither could hurt him in their weakened states, what with the clothing and all.

[midnightdao]

Dao looked at his new medium weighted T-shirt over his gi. sensing rensou's true power from glancing over as he used yami sense. He smirked. "Well this should be interesting. I'll train her in speed and you train her in power."

With that Dao gathered the jin in his legs concentrating the negative energy he had throughout his legs and after a few moments of hard concentration, throughout his whole body. He then shot forward, his pl at 50% as he moved his hands in a very fast and complex motions with his fingers, hands and wrists. His medium weighted wristguards were giving these areas a workout.

As he preformed these movements, what looked like a red wolf was charging at vera, The red wolf ran then started gliding off the ground slightly then the wolf dove headfirst into her chest. This was Dao Midnight flying forward with a headbutt to her chest while using the shadow wolf fang fist technique.

He then smirked, tracking vera's energies with his dark sensing technique as he got to his feet, brushing himself off.

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Vera caught the two bracelets and stared at him, slightly confused at what he was meaning by giving her them. Then shockingly he gave her the ones on his ankles too, she knew she wouldn't enjoy this too much. Reluctantly she put them on and found it amazingly hard to move her wrist or her legs, she was used to being barefooted and being decorated with leather and gold, not this heavy stuff.

Vera rolled her eyes as she realized that Rensou had started to compare his weighted gear to Dao's. More expensive maybe, but that didn't mean it was any better. She herself would be the judge of that one. "I have no questions Rensou. I just loath you." She said glaring down at the constricting bracelets on her wrists. She adjusted them and wondered if it would affect her power, two against one was hardly a problem for her. Yet the two of them were stronger than her by at least a few thousand.

"Dao, we're going to push her, but not punish.”

The Hybrid twitched and looked at Rensou, they intended to push her beyond her limits? What could be so important that it needed to be done so soon?

Vera looked down as Rensou entered a fighting pose, then she seemed to be insulted when he said that her flaming mouth wouldn't work against him. She clenched her fist then got into a lower than normal stance, her chin almost touched the ground but her golden orange aura was spiked to reach her maximum power level. "Fine! I'll have you eating those words soon enough!" She then noticed that he was planning on taking a nap. Arrogance. He knew perfectly well that she wouldn't hesitate to finish him off even while he slept.

However out of the corner of her eye Vera noticed the demon aiming a headbutt at her chest. Bad choice. She smirked then took a deep breath before releasing her honoo blast at him, if her accuracy was correct then it would have hit him square in the face unless he could have changed his direction, however at that speed it appeared highly unlikely. Afterwards she jumped up and headed straight for Rensou, she had a different technique in mind for him. "Kienzan!"A flat disk of energy began to form in her hand, after a few seconds of charging she began to become a subject of gravity and threw the disk downward as she lounged down toward him intending to hit him afterwards.

[midnightdao]

Dao's Yami sense alerted him to the energy technique she was about to use, the sudden spike of energy in the attack triggering it. As the attack was launched it went through the afterimage of the wolf. Now moving faster with zanzoken he used pure speed to reappear floating in the air.

Not bad, but expected. When an opponent attacks, it's better to lock them in a position where it is hard to counter which means sometimes, you have to take a hit to land one. Now we'll see how you fair against my Tri-Shadow technique.

Dao then landed on the ground and focused his ki, his arms crossed infront of him. Apon doing this, his spiritual energy spiked and a shadow warrior was born, one of his three shadows streaching then growing to Dao's height as it became solid.

Now both Dao and the shadow warrior stood there. Suddenly the shadow warrior increased his speed and faded from view. Dao gathered his ki into his right arm, channeling it into his right hand and fired a moderate ki blast at vera. If she were to evade or take the hit, the shadow warrior would then reblur with a hard knee to the left kidney right after the attack, weither she'd dodge or block the assault.

Remember, suki won't be merciful, nor will i, you must use your real skills along with tactics and strategy or else...you will die on this planet when suki comes for his tribute. We have to show him that Planet Vegeta will not bend for any tyrant regardless of how strong they are,"

Dao got back into wolf stance, letting his yami sense be his guide.

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The Hybrid woman looked back at Dao, her amber eyes beginning to brighten with all the excitement. "I don't need to take hits in order to land one. You'll find that out soon enough!" Vera changed her direction from Rensou to Dao, and allowed her energy to spike once more to the maximum that she was holding back. However her best wasn't exactly what she was normally, these bracelets were slowing her down in speed and making it harder than hell to move efficiently.

Remember, Suki won't be merciful, nor will i, you must use your real skills along with tactics and strategy or else...you will die on this planet when suki comes for his tribute. We have to show him that Planet Vegeta will not bend for any tyrant regardless of how strong they are,"

"Dont lecture me about the importance of sacrifice!" She snapped back at the demon and noticed the ki blast coming towards her, but she had also noticed that he was expecting her to dodge it. Vera jumped backwards to dodge the Ki blast, however she spun around and used her honoo as a shield. Soon she straightened her attack so that way it appeared as if a tornado of fire had consumed her entirely.

While she was temporarily hiden from their view, she had made the decision to try out a new strategy she was working on. Vera used her Suko-hone to dissolve her body into sand, and in this climate it would be more efficient. As soon as she was fully dissolved the flame that was concealing her vanished and there was no longer any trace of her since she made sure to let her power level drop to an exceedingly low rate.

[midnightdao]

Dao Midnight was starting to smile, liking the girls atitude The shadow warrior came down and launched a desending knee towards her left ribcage as she was about to begin her honoo technique. Dao Midnight then just lept up into the sky until he was in the sun's path. What came down was a wolf shooting forward apon the decent towards vera. it was really Dao comming down feet first but to everyone else it was a wolf decending. After the shadow warrior landed his attack...

(Face it, you have to take pl into concideration, there's a fine line between rp skill and just plain god modding. I got the speech too.)

...Dao then reached his target (The 10k pl knee to your ribcage should slow you down and break your technique) and began marching on her collar bone, then jumped to vera's left and roundhoused her to the back of her head.

(At most, you can block, don't try to cheat rpers when you don't have the levels to back it up...just train and get strong.)

He then held his leg high, looking at vera. "A demonic technique, aren't you full of suprises." He said with a smile

[Rensou Hiruen]

As soon as Rensou had finished his informative and cocky speech, Dao Midnight had lunged for Vera with all the speed and precision of the honed fighter his efforts had formed him to be.

After Vera had applied the weights and told Rensou she held nothing in her heart but hate for him, she had unleashed her flaming breath directly at the charging demon, and proceeded to form a thin sheet of ki that would undoubtedly cut Rensou severely, and he was well aware of it. The Kienzan was a technique that had spread across the galaxy.

Perhaps something had been misunderstood. Though Vera was masterfully evading Dao's techniques, with the expenditure required it was concrete she would not manage such feats for long. The idea of the training had been to increase Vera's power, and to drain her of such energy at such a quick rate would do nothing but end it prematurely and absolutely negate any notable gains from the Saiyan hybrid. In short, Rensou was unpleased with the Demon's decision to attack Vera as if she had a matching battle power, and besides that, Dao was using powerful techniques to perform such a task.

And as for Vera's decision to attempt to cut him in half, that would not be accepted with open arms. Dao's attempt at "training", and the word was used loosely, served to annoy him to a great extent. To compound that, Vera's attempt at an attack that could possibly kill Rensou was absolutely infuriating.

The creation of a Kienzan was a quick thing for Vera, Rensou concluded. This meant she was an adept at fighting with her energies rather than her fist, as she had stated, but she had proven it. However, the power Rensou was capable of generating as well as the speed he could travel at came with enhanced reflex and cognition. The creation of the Kienzan took an extended period of time when it was perceived by Rensou, Vera would realize.

As it was launched low it would either slice him neatly in half or take one or both of his legs. Rensou Hiruen favored himself in one piece, as would most any other warrior. As the revolving blade came within striking distance, Rensou neatly propelled himself into the air with a sudden burst of Bukujutsu, and stomped the thing with every bit of his strength. The effect was instantaneous. The thing collided with the ground, bounced upward as it continued along the set path and sped through the skies and out into the atmosphere.

Twin boots touched down shortly after the maneuver, and beneath the constricting material of the breeches each and every fiber of muscle was tense, shivering. Closer inspection would reveal that the same held true for all of Rensou's musculature. Clenched fists dug his nail into the palm, and flecks of blood began to flow forth freely. That powerful chest of his rose and fell at a quick rate, and vein materialized from under his hide upon his brow. Canine and incisor alike were clenched and gnashing against the other, nearly to the point of cracking the pearl teeth of the Saiyan.

Rensou appeared to be, by every definition of the word,

[pissed.[/u][/b][/center]

The intensity of his fury only multiplied as Dao continued his onslaught, unleashing a variety of his honed abilities that would, if not for Vera's agile focus, kill the hybrid. Rensou Hiruen was sworn to protect Vera at all costs, and some training exercise gone awry was not going to be her end, not on his watch.

Vera had attempted to meld into the sand by this point after her cyclone of fire thwarted the demon's most recent attacks, but the Makaio was approaching in an attempt keep her occupied with what was sure to be another powerful menagerie of strikes. Rensou applied the Zanzoken and halted the exaggerated movement before the demon. The knee drove directly into Rensou's midsection, at half the current strength of his own abilities. The forward movement and positioning of the crazed demon would hardly allow him to dodge the open-handed shove the angry Saiyan quickly returned to him, canceling whatever Dao Midnight had planned to assail the girl with. As for the knee received in the middle of his torso, Rensou hardly felt it. His current level of emotion barred him from the effects, for now.

“What the fuck are you doing!?” the Saiyan would scream at the demon. This was a training session, not a war, but the demon was treating it as such and attacking with the fullest ferocity available to him. As for that girl whom had become one with the sands, Rensou would chastise her as well when she chose to show herself. She had, after all, fired an attack that could have slain him.

[midnightdao]

Dao's assault was stopped by rensou and the makaioshin's anger fucking rose at the gladiator as he bellowed. I'm pushing her to her limits! and it's working! look at her, shes sweating and straining herself to keep up. Her ki and Jin are being strengthened as she's pushing her muscles to continue! she can take it, stop babying her or she won't get as strong! Your a saiyan gladiator, how would you like it if someone was holding your hand, stopping you from shining? I fired a ki blast at the woman and she dodged doing something i've never seen before. That type of strategy will only occur when you are given a life or death type senario. So if your done babying the little girl. Lets continue our training or is the number one saiyan gladiator going to cry unfair from the depth of training she desperatly needs?

Dao Midnight looked at Rensou and then at vera. Your both saiyans, it doesnt matter if your half saiyan vera, you got the blood to do much more. Now lets go back to work,

Dao and the shadow warrior make 6 after images of themselves each circling vera. Now use your sensing abilities to find the real combattants. They then converged on vera, dao knowing that she'd be able to see though the afterimage technique

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[0oc @midnight Dao. I'm not god moding. You also need to take into account the distance your shadow thing is away from Vera, and that fact that her Honoo doesn't take that long to build up for. she's using her own gravity to spin it and the fact that she can denigrate her body mass into sand quickly gives her evasive advantage. If anything the kick would have connected with her but she wouldn't have reviewed until after she reformed. God moding would be me controlling your character or completely ignoring your attacks or actions *like you’re doing a lot* And I don’t cheat rpers, never have and never will. Besides considering her weighted gear she'll most likely pass out from exhaustion and her maneuvers will become slower.)

Vera reformed herself back to her solid state, sweat and blood entangled her long ebony hair. She was exhausted and the blood was only because of all her body deconstruction and reconstruction. The hybrid knew that Rensou was pissed off at both her and Dao for a couple of reasons, one of being the fact that she had knowingly unleashed a lethal attack at him, two being that if Dao had caused any permanent damage to her, it would only add to the dept. he already owed her his life after all.

It was true that Dao’s maneuvers were a bit aggressive, but it was absolutely necessary in order for her to gain more strength. He was right, she would never be able to hold out long enough if Suki decided to make her a target. Besides, Dao and Rensou’s little chit chat was starting to become annoying. What they were saying about what was best for her and how she thought was completely wrong. She’d fix that little problem first.

The woman got up and brushed herself off calmly, then gave a glaring gaze to Dao and Rensou. ”First of all... Demon boy here could loosen up, and the Inbreed Mutt could be a little bit more aggressive. Secondly...” Her voice was now directed at Dao and him alone, she seemed to be slightly more aggravated as she spoke. ”I’ve never been babied before in my life. My blood is from a proud line of royalty and warriors, mixed in with the vulgarity and lack of discipline of the Saiyan breed.”

She crossed her arms and took a deep breath, she noted what Dao was trying to do and she then used her senses to try and locate the real combatants. She smirked then took her pick, unleashing yet another one of her honoo breaths to try and eliminate it. However if that didn’t work, she wouldn’t hesitate to dodge.

[midnightdao]

”I’ve never been babied before in my life. My blood is from a proud line of royalty and warriors, mixed in with the vulgarity and lack of discipline of the Saiyan breed.”

Dao thought to himself whilst using zanzoken Good, she's hard. This should be interesting....

As the makaioshin's afterimages close in, Vera did exactly what Dao expected, but he didn't dodge. His true image went low really fast then, focusing on the Jin in his legs spun around with a sweeping motion to vera's legs. The one false image went for a jab to the collar bone, another preformed a straight kick to the chest, the other preformed an elbow to the right shoulder blade, the next one preformed a roundhouse and the final image went for a karate chop to the right kidneys. The shadow warriors after images stayed circling vera as Dao's afterimages closed in. The overwhelming number of attack would have off balanced vera as they were all comming at the same time.

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[Rensou Hiruen]

k, appears this thread doesn't need me anymore. Can't keep up at any rate.

Exit stage right.

[vera]

{Bye Ren }

Vera was completely confused about what was happening, the images were making her less and less confident about herself. The one that she thought was Dao had done a sweep kick to knock her off balance, of course that wasn't exactly hard to do. As she fell the other images that were trying to attack her upper body went over her head, except for the one attacking her abdomen had seemed to hit her in the face.

The number of attackers were overwhelming her, some were real and others were just illusions. At any rate she couldn't handle all of them not unless they were in one direction, and she couldn't really fix her position or else she would risk multiple attacks. 'The only logical move is for me to dissolve into sand again... But I would too tired to reform if I did.'

She sat still and looked up at Dao, then blinked. "Can you fight me one on one instead of using parlor tricks?" Vera smirked and got up, brushing herself off as she thought of her next move. Personally she hadn't had enough training yet, but she wanted some close hand to hand combat experience so that way she could fend for herself in case she got too exhausted to charge her Ki.