To Become Stronger [Open]

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After being attacked by Envy, Darkamaru came to the fighting arena. He had to train more. Improve his agility and speed. Had he gotten rusty by being away from his caravan for so long? He had to practice more than ever if Envy could get a blow in on him! That meant that Reita could too...He pulled out his daggers and began throwing them at targets, hitting the bulls-eye almost every time. Then, he loaded the daggers into a machine. It began shooting them at him and he skillfully dodged most of them, only getting hit twice on his automail, and the edge of a blade gliding acroos his other arm. The wound healed quickly however. Now he waited for someone else to arrive.

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Reita had been following Pride for quite sometime, waiting for the right moment. The two had just began to play Pride's game, but now it was Reita's turn. He walked out of the shadows in his military uniform, with his sword, Bloodied Rose, on his back, his sword, Shadows Rose, on his left hip and his guns underneath his jacket. His hair was in it's usual style,m covering his left eye, and he bore a warm smile on his face.

"Let's play my game, Pride."

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Darkamaru looked at Reita. He knew it wasn't the right time to kill him. He also knew that Reita wouldn't kill him yet. "Alright Reita. I need to fight against you anyways, to see your weaknesses." Darkamaru pulled a dagger from the wall and pulled one of his .44's from his cloak. He wouldn't use it to fight though. He would use it to remote control the knife in the air.

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Reita simply grabbed onto his sword, Bloodied Rose, and pulled it off of his back slowly. He then looked at Pride, and his warm smile, became a sad one. He then snapped his hands, and the air around them began to thicken as if friction was buliding between them. After a graceful swipe of his hand, rose petals began to fall from the air above Pride, and with a quick snap, exploded as they surrounded him.

"Don't quit on me, Pride."

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Darkamaru saw the petals, and knowing it to be alchemy, hid beneath his shadow. In a quick and fluid motion, he threw the dagger, shot the handle so as to point it downward slightly, to strike Reita's knee, holstered his pistol, and unsheathed Shatterpoint.

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Reita gracefully did a backflip into the air, however, spun to turn it into an aerial flip and landed gently on the ground as the dagger had missed him comepletly. He then pulled out a wire, and attached it to the hilt of his sword which contained only two blades at the moment. He also took Bloodied Rose, and prepared for a counter attack, however, his only job was to sit back and wait for an opening. He calculated the movements his opponent had made, and then remembered the style in which Pride would use his style. Homing in his abilities, Reita focused on the sounds and the change in scent around him.

"Come on, Pride."

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Darkamaru lunged at Reita, allowing his sword to clash with Reita's. At close range, He forced his shadow into the blade, expelling it to fire shards of the sword at Reita's joints. "You really ought to research your so called 'children'. That's my advice for after this fight."Darkamaru smiled, still blocking Reita's sword with his own.

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Reita didn't even flinch, for he could smell the blood of his opponent from far away. Pride still had blood smeared on his arm even though he had healed his wound, and Reita used that scent to his advantage. Once he could sense Pride get closer, he quickly did a one handed backflip, and then launched his double bladed sword, Shadows Rose, right at Pride. However, to Pride's unfortunate luck, there was more to what he could see behind this attack.

"Try a little harder, Pride."

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Darkamaru, in a truly acrobatic maneuver, did a flip to the side, landed on his hands, and caught the sword by the handle with his feet. "Gotta try a little harder, Reita." He grinned and in another motion, threw it back at it's owner. he then held his left arm out at Reita. Then, suddenly, a missile was blasted from his sleeve at Reita's feet. Moving very quickly and with a powerful blast radius, it would be hard to miss.

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Reita, who had extensive knowledge of Pride's capabilities and artillery, had come prepared for everything. Right when the blades were caught between Pride's feet, sharp little spikes came out of the handle in an attempt to stab his ankles, which would cripple him for that slight moment to create an opening. Using this to his advantage, Reita charged for the missle, placing Bloodied Rose back on his back, and leapt onto the missle and jumped off quickly. He then pulled out his golden gun, and opened fire four times, hoping to hit Pride.

"Be more tactical."

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"You think I didn't expect that?HA!" He quickly twisted and turned, avoiding each bullet. A grenade fell down between them from the shadow of the camp hanging on the ceiling. when it reached them, it exploded, knocking them both backwards. In the smoke however, Darkamaru pulled Slayingblade's handle from his shadow as well as the blade from his sleeve. He connected the two as well as pulling a chain from his cloak, connecting it to his scythe. Then he fell into his shadow, hiding like a cheetah in wait of it's prey...

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Reita had expected this to happen, and shot the grnade while it was in the air, causing it to go off early. Pnce he landed, Pride had went back into hiding, hoping to catch Reita off guard, however, he could still find the scent of Pride's blood. He then decided it was his turn to hide. He snapped his fingers, and a dome of earth had came up around him for protection.

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"Bingo." Pride knew exactly what Reita would do. He reformed inside the dome due to the total darkness inside. Once inside, he held his arm towards what he assumed to be Reita. He blasted several missiles at it and then at several other points. Then he did what no one could have predicted ANYONE was stupid or crazy enough to do. He covered his head with Slayingblade and fired his rocket downward. He was blasted upwards, using Slayingblade to destroy the roof of the dome. It collapsed as he left it, crushing anything inside it.

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Reita watched as the fireworks happened, however, he was nowhere close to them. He was leaning up against a tree, which he created using alchemy, and clapped lightly at the sight. He saw Pride shoot upward, and watched him as he rose into the air, and he shot one bullet, however, he had silenced his gun. Would Pride be able to evade what would come next?

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Darkamaru, a knowledged weapon master, heard Reita pulling the trigger, a simple trick to bypass a silencer. Then, with his genuine skill, he pulled out his .44 again and shot the bullet as it came at him. He landed about 25 meters from Reita. The distance allowed him time to pull a 12 gauge from the front of his robe along with a scope and a bayonet. After quickly assembing his weapon, he took aim at Reita and opened fire on him, shooting 10 bullets at vasrying angles and directions.

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Reita's right eye was meant for tracking projectiles and such for occasions like this. Reacting with greater speed, he managed to block the bullets that came at him with Bloodied Rose before he suddenly vanished in thin air. Suddenly he appeared behind Pride coming out of the earth as if it was water. Reita now had created a similiar trick as to that of Pride's shadow travelling.

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Darkamaru, surprised at the copy of his own trick, vanished into his shadow. "Now time for some fun." As he vanished, every shadow in the vicinity moved to form about 20 or so circles around Reita. Darkamaru then fired his arm-bazooka which caused each hole to become a tunnel for them. But these rockets were special. He had made them into heatseeking rockets.

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Reita simply yawned as he leapt into the air, and snapped his fingers as the ground began to crumble and shift losing any formations for the shadow holes to form. This technique would surely of caused the misssile to explode beneath the earth, and Reita, who noticed Pride disappear once again, simply did the same thing. He landed on the ground and vanished once again in a wavy matter, and prepared for his next attack. His voice echoed all throughout the area.

"Your defeat is inevitable, Pride."

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Darkamaru's voice also echoed as he was still hidden. "Nothing is inevitable. A tactician like yourself should know the solid fact that every movement is a gamble but an ace up the sleeve wins. But we aren't playing poker, now are we? More like Russian Roulette." Darkamaru smiled from his unknown perch, in the shadow of a cloud, using Malice to hover behind the watery mass.

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Reita simply chuckled at the poorly used analogy made by Pride. Everyone knows that someone has a limit, and Pride had obviously reached his. Reita could still smell the blood coming off of the child, and used this to his advantage. He clapped his hands, and suddenly a miniature forest began to erupt from the ground around the two. Right underneath Pride came several sharp rock spikes that aimed to pierce him from behind, and from infront of him, a tree began to rise from the ground.

Reita quickly snapped his fingers gracefully, and rose petals began to fall from the sky, nearly thousands of them covering the entire forest.

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Pride fell from the sky, coated in blood and apparently dead. His 'corpse' hit a tree and rolled to the ground with a thud. He was now in front of Reita, with his chest split open.he was dead as a doornail.

(OOC-just so you know, its an illusion Darkamaru had planned. BUT REITA DOESN'T KNOW THAT! xD)

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OOC: Your kidding me, right?

IC: Reita yawned as he vanished once again into thin air. This was obviously a trap, for Reita didn't even use the attack yet. His opponent tried to go three steps ahead, but tripped on his way forward into his plans. It was now Reita's turn to make his opponent fall for his trap. Reita snapped his fingers as the fake body was torn to shreds by vines which pulled at his body forcively ripping it.

"Not good enough."

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"I see you like my trick?" Darkamaru grinned as his foot came flying at Reita's head while Reita was busy destroying the fake. "I said this was a game of Russian Roulette and so far, my gun hasn't been loaded yet. but you fired yours when you started this fight."

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Reita was kicked right in the head, however, Pride's foot right into his face, and was absorbed into jungle of rose vines that were sure to leave scratches all over his body, however, these vines were covered in a poison along with Opium. Reita, who was still unseen to the naked eye, or any eye for that matter, simply sighed as his opponent had failed once more to entertain him. Reita was obviously the one with the higer skill level, and was obviously more prepared. He then snapped his fingers once more, and caused the raining petals to explode around Pride.

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Pride remembered the petals as he saw the first few. He grinned. "Still a gamble." With that, he pulled a handful of grenades from his pouch and hurled them into the air along with several explosive cartridges. He then blasted them with several dozen rockets, creating a massive explosion that obliterated the forest including the petals which actually added to his explosion.

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