Starlight Training

Under the cover of night, Vee leads Hatsu through the plains until she's found a spot she deems suitable. Flat, open, without much in the way.

"This is, uh. My second fight, ever...? I think?"

She clears her throat, drawing her staff, before setting it onto her back - rather than actually holding it in her hands.

"I'll do my best! I wish you luck, too."

Vee smiles brightly, and electricity begins to crackle around her, surrounded by a dim yellow glow. Her hands come alight in a mixture of exorcism and numbing, paralyzing toxins, rather than the rotting, painful ones often preferred by Poison magi.
(Vee)

Hatsu had followed Vee in the midst of the night, traversing over the grassy fields as she drew her staff. Admittedly, he was reluctant to bring any semblance of harm to Vee, and it showed as he allowed the air to grow frigid around him. Ice gathers along his arms in a protective gauntlet of pseudo-armor, the ground beneath him frosting over and causin a small ripple of icicles to begin forming. Thick mist escapes from his mouth as he looks upon Vee with a look of intensity - one that wasn't familiar with her.

 This would prove to be an opportunity to call upon the power of the Moonlight to guide him, drawing upon the sky above him as he siphoned strength from it. His hand crackles with an excess of mana as he called out toward the cosmos, demanding further power. He could feel the over-abundance of power circulating throughout his body, but only in the midst of combat would he be able to properly emulate that sensation he had felt during those life-or-death situations.

 This would be the finalized stages of his growth, to harness the obscure technique that laid just beyond his grasp. He attempted to continually gather cosmic magic as the battle would begin, surging forward as a path of ice rippled forth akin to a wave!!

"Prepare yourself!"
(Hatsu Wvelven)

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Beginning a fight by dashing forward - Vee recognized Hatsu's tactic as one that she used herself, often, and countered it by taking a deft step back, before taking a slashing motion against the open air with her right hand.

The ground came alight with holy energy, drifting towards him and threatening to pull him down to the grass.

Bitter cold surrounded him, eating away at her and causing her teeth to chatter, her breath to be visible in the night, and light frost to appear on her skin.

She'd been through worse. Flickers of herself paralyzed in the cold ran through her mind, and she wiped the frost from her skin with a wave of static against herself, before rushing forward!

Vee flew through the air at a rapid pace, her left hand bared in a claw, and she narrowly managed to reach Hatsu's face with it. No blood was drawn, but just contact with her venom was enough for the effects to take.

He'd stumble, asbit by bit, his body numbed. She stood back, and flicked her other wrist out to summon a bolt of holylightning in front of him - and he fell, giving them both a chance to catch their breath.

"Good... good so far. That should - wear off, in a minute or two. Just. Breathe."
(Vee)

Something felt a bit off, and perhaps it was this moment of clarity that caused Hatsu to squint at the ground. He felt nauseous to say the least, and he had notably paled as his body struggles to combat the venom running through it. Wincing as he stumbles to a stand, he would invigorate himself with more cosmic energies. He needed more, this wasn't nearly enough for him to be able to use in order to combat Vee properly. He was staggering in the midst of battle, his reserves plummeting as he unleashed waves of destructive forces..but this wasn't the overwhelming burst of energy he had felt previously.

 He inhaled deeply, trying to settle his mind down as he rips the side of his head. Frost appears to scatter around him in a renewed pace, the air growing even colder as he seems to focus more intently on the battle at hand. Both of their lives were at risk when they traveled about on their own accord, and holding anything back would only serve toendanger them both.

 That wasn't to say that he was taking it easy on Vee, however. She wasn't confident more often than not, but he gleaned the power she held. It was more than respectable, if not a bit disconcerting. "Why does an exorcist even have acid magic.." He mutters, trying to piece together the oddity that was his opponent.

 No, he needed to retain focus on himself and the abyss around the immediate area. He could feel the expanse of the cold void hovering above them, drawing upon the magic that remained dormant there. His fists grip as his body flows with excess mana, flickers of sparks and the like appearing upon his back as his teeth grit.

 He felt...so close, but he wasn't reaching that level just yet. He needed more pushing, perhaps.
(Hatsu Wvelven)



Her confidence was growing. Vee fought more dangerously than she did before, playing things a lot closer, more aggressively -

Whenever she fell back to recover her wounds, she made sure to keep a hand free to summon down a bolt - or even an entire cloud of bolts.

Often, she stopped entirely, just... watching for whatever Hatsu's next motions were. He could throw a wave of icicles towards her, and she'd stand and watch, experimenting with how difficult they were to block.

He might've been getting frustrated. Nothing seemed to settle or last that was done to her, and he channeled that frustration into a tornado of shards. Vee gawked in admiration, her expression turning to a smile.

Before she realized her golden opportunity, when she saw how winded he was after the move. She appeared with her next bolt, and caught a hand onto his shoulder, absolutely dripping with paralyzing toxin.

She looked deeply into his eyes, as it started to take root in his nerves, weakening him further and further.

"...Sorry about this. I love you, Hatsu."

And he falls backwards, as it reaches his feet, rendering him unable to stand any longer.
(Vee)

Frustration was a light term for what he felt in this moment, as he had been squandered in his attempts to find what it was that he had been searching for. Regardless of how deeply he dived into the cosmos, he just wasn't doing enough damage to truly impact Vee. His frustration had given way to unleashing a volatile storm of ice shards, but a flash of otherworldly light seems to bring him pause. As if paralyzed by such, he had remained standing in place as he was ruthlessly assaulted with various spells, leaving him subtly smoking as he was maliciously struck with bolts of lightning.

 They singed his skin as he fell back, struggling to maintain vision as his teeth grit together. Nothing was falling into place correctly, and regardless of his efforts, he felt a sense of odd disarray with his techniques. Nothing flowed as it should have, and he felt the discord leading him to this point.

 He's painfully wrenched from his thoughts, dark brooding as they were, as a hand slapped upon his shoulder. It stung horribly at first, but soon meld into his body as he seized up notably. Collapsing backward as his muscles gave out on him, he tiredly stares up at the sky, his mouth moving though nothing came out.

Was he unloved by the cosmos itself, or was he just unfortunate enough to not hear what was calling out to him?
(Hatsu Wvelven)