Pyro Bastard

Just as every other person the surrounding area had been surprised, so had Joker. He had forgotten what such a tactic could do to the surrounding area. To add to that clumsiness was boomerang effect on the user, though no shockwave was applied.

Instead, it was fire that painfully struck back at the user. Due to falling directly from the atmosphere, heat had been created by the bottom point of the trident. That small effect had quickly incinerated the warrior’s shoes and had also decided to attack the man’s pants by starting a fire.

Due to the sudden realization of the fire, Joker quickly turned back into an idiot as he jumped around the air and ran in circles hoping to extinguish the flames. Sadly, and quite expected, the flames only grew and ate up more of the pants which burned against the skin as well creating a light tan skin to become hairless red legs.

The spectators that had come to see a deadly match between contestants seemed to have gotten more than they expected. Between the humor for Joker’s dumb luck, Auron’s magnificent tornado, and the blonde warrior’s powerful shockwave, this was definitely a match to be carved into their mind. Now, even with the desires to kill the crafty bastard, they could not help chuckle at his dances to get rid of the burning pants. Those chuckles quickly ended though as multiple members of the crowd caught hold of the cut up samurai going in for the attack.

Only when Joker heard the laughter die down did he take a look at his battered up enemy. The speed at which Auron moved surprised the blonde haired man due to the injuries that littered the monk. It was then that the trident wielder noticed one thing. He was without his most prized of possessions. Taishaku Kaiten was not in his hands. The item had been left planted in the destroyed arena ground only a few feet away while he had tried to snuff out the fire.

The once usual grin slowly faded as the large blade, Murasame, came at freighting speeds. Using his own speed, Joker tried his best to dodge the blows, but the deadly blade connected with skin every time it was slashed. Blood was sent out along the darkened and broken floor as the blonde haired fighter maneuvered his way towards his own weapon trying to evade as many strikes as possible.

By the time the warrior made it to his trident, two things had happened. First, the flames had been extinguished due to the rapid movement though the pants had shortened to baggy shorts. Second, Joker was littered with cuts all over his body and was still evading. Now however, the clever fool was able to actually dodge most of the strikes and thus lessen both the damage and stress on his bodies. Still though, the constant movement began to take its toll and the male jumped the first chance he could get without losing a leg.

Now in the air, Joker stopped his body from both moving upwards and downwards. Although clearly with the advantage of height, the gravity controller stayed still, keeping far enough away from Auron’s onslaught.

It could easily be seen why the male was drifting in the air as well instead of fighting back. Pants were coming and going just as fast as the blood dripping down to the destroyed stadium. The look on the fighter’s face was one of shock and pain, yet he never cried out. His pride at least held that in.

“Shit, I didn’t expect him to respond that fast.” Joker thought to himself as he tried to slow his breathing. “He’s on a completely different level from most the other fighters I’ve ever seen.” The male thought once again not ever expecting to meet such a fighter here. “Still, there has to be a way to finally put this old dog down.” The warrior thought to himself as he tried to look for a plan.

There was only one technique that trident wielder hadn’t used and originally never planned on using again. It was a technique that had been used only once while in possession of the Taishaku Kaiten. If the attack was used now, there was a possibility countless others would also get involved. With no desire to use the technique, that was the only plan Joker could think up.

That was until a certain item blew against the announcer’s face causing him to stumble around and create quite a few laughs from the crowd. Seeing this, the blonde fighter grinned once more. The single object had instantly given the male a new plan for it was the original holder of the trident. A long strip of cloth. The cloth that Joker had the weapon in when he had entered the match. Apparently, the shockwave had sent the item sky high only for it to come down on its innocent victim.

Immediately, using only the wind pressure from swinging his trident, the blonde fighter literally hovered over to the confused microphone holder. Although somewhat uncaring and accidental, the trident wielder grabbed on to one end of the cloth and pulled. The result was the announcer spinning as his head unraveled at a somewhat dangerous speed. Now unveiled, the black haired man looked up in confusion at his apparent savior.

Quickly, as to not let the samurai see through his plans, Joker kept his back to the monk. After a few seconds, the action was done and the male looked down at the cloth’s victim. “Sorry.” The gravity controller said with a small grin before placing his foot on the man’s head and pushing backwards causing him to hover backwards and the announcer to fall back to the floor.

With a grin, the blonde warrior turned around and lightly stepped down on the arena floor, his distance from Auron already at a certain measure. “Only a formidable opponent? Here I thought I mighta been your best. I’m curious to know if there are any better than you, but that curiosity will have to wait till after this match.” The bloody male said with a small grin as he spun his demonic trident in a full circle.

Some would think the action was only used before going into a defensive position, but in actuality, Joker had twisted the weapon to cause part of the cloth to wrap around his hand. Once that action was done, the male gripped the weapon with both hands and pulled back as if he was about to thrust into thin air. That just so happened to be what the warrior was planning.

While decreasing the amount of mass and gravity, Joker launched the weapon forward. As soon as Taishaku Kaiten left his hands, the gravity increased tenfold what it originally was though slowed the speeding weapon down only a little. At the same time, the once rewrapped trident began to unwind just as quickly. The result was a speeding drill planning to either rip a hole straight through the monk or unbalance him with the rotation and weight.

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