The Coming of the Second Storm [Silas]

Silas when he had first got the challenge would groan. He didn't know it was from someone who already had but really hated this aspect of being a dragon. Why did people feel like claiming the title were important, he had no idea. Too much pride. 

Silas would walking in to the abandoned area, his footstep echoing slightly as empty and abandoned locals normally did. In his hand, as normal a cigarette slowly burned down as he smoked. He would stop about 50 foot away, when he saw the someone sitting on the shipping container as if waiting. The fact they were covered so much, hiding who they were made it pretty easy to assume that they were the challenger. What other reason could someone have to be here. 

With his other hand, Silas would cup it around his mouth as he called out, in a bored tone. "Hello you gonna get up." 

Looking up at Zoe, when she moved Silas would have been expecting her to do something eventually sending a bolt of electricity towards him. While the attack she would be slinging toward him were fast, they were still at some distance from each other which would allow Silas some level a ability in avoiding them. The first blast, the slower of the two would be by a leaping step to the left, and he would continue in that direction, until the second was coming in. Wind would swell around Silas halting his movement and pushing him back, changing the direction of his jump and causing the attack that had been fired in a leading fashion to streak past in front of him at an alarming speed. 

Silas turned with the winds that pushed him back bringing an arm up and swinging it, a blade of air streaking up toward where Zoe sat, however it was purely a distraction, as his own attack moved slower, and the distance again would make it easy for her to dodge, even though she was sitting. Hitting the ground running, now toward the right of where he had been standing originally, he ran as fast as he could for cover, behind another of the shipping crate nearby, his head turned to look up at her for any hint of another bolt aimed towards him, for him to dodge by stopping. He wouldn't get closer, because against that lightning it would take away the one main advantage, the range to dodge those insanely fast attacks. 

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Wind Slash (Tier 1) [Once per 5 INT]: Silas can swing a arm with speed enough to cut air and send it flying at someone. This air slash is about 1 foot in size and deals damage equal to 1/4 INT.
(1 of 10 used)

Wind Step (Tier 3) [Once per 15 INT/One post per 15 INT, see Tier 5]: Silas can create winds around him. This allow the user to double jump, or change his direction mid-air. While this effect is active, Silas can prevent himself from taking fall damage. (1 of 3 used, direction change)

Silas ducked behind the crate as intended near the edge, and poked his head out in order to see how Zoe had reacted to his wind blade, noticing that she had dropped down from the larger shipping container and was aiming his direction lightning crackling and fired. 

Silas would smile as he moved to react to the blast as she loosed it. He always preferred to tired someone else out before smashing them down, and he was good at it. However he had to admit there was some sort of exhilaration to having to react, instead of leading a way a fight was going. Winds gathered around Silas and Silas would slam against the crate. 

While Zoe bolt would indeed have the strength to destroy the crate, Silas slamming into it did not. Instead the thing would dent from the blow and move towards Zoe, it weight making not much but it would slide slightly away stilling the path of the bolt and explode as it was struck. 

As it exploded Silas would charged, and leap forward trying to minimise the area he took up as debris flew outwards from the blast. A sheet of sheared metal flew past, gashing across the side of his left calf, pain filled him. However Silas was glad that that blast didn't hit him directly. As energy would have been eaten up in transfer, even so his leg would bleed pretty badly as he hit the ground running, towards the smoking wreckage of the crate, using it as cover so that Zoe second shot would be hard to aim at him, as he wouldn't have moved in line of sight for her to take it. 

If she still noticed him somehow and fired, Silas would be warned by the fact while smoke obscured him, the amount of light her lightning gave off would still be see-able from the smoke and would throw himself to the left and combat roll, launching another wind blade at her, once she came into view from him jumping clear over the smoke being in the way in order to dodge. 

However through it all and the thrill, when Zoe drew blood, anger would be held back by the coolness, wanting to get out, but it took more then a cut up leg to do that. 

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Str: 70, Dex: 80, Con: 40, Wis: 35, Int: 50

Wind Slash (Tier 1) [Once per 5 INT]: Silas can swing a arm with speed enough to cut air and send it flying at someone. This air slash is about 1 foot in size and deals damage equal to 1/4 INT.
(2 of 10 used, used only if Zoe still took the second shot through the smoke.) 


Wind Step (Tier 3) [Once per 15 INT/One post per 15 INT, see Tier 5]: Silas can create winds around him. This allow the user to double jump, or change his direction mid-air. While this effect is active, Silas can prevent himself from taking fall damage.
(2 of 3 used, used to power Roaring Wind)


Roaring Wind (Tier 5) [Once per 25 INT]: Silas pulls on the strength and speed of the greatest hurricanes. +30 DEX, +20 STR, -15 WIS, -10 CON. While this effect is active, Wind Step cannot be used to double jump or change his direction, instead if it used it changes this power to give +40 DEX, +25 STR. (1 of 2 used, empowered by wind step. +30 DEX, +20 STR, -15 WIS, -10 CON.)

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Silas would see that Zoe was not in sight, obviously moving in order to hide in some way while his view had been block, and as such started to look around as quickly as possible. With the terrain and the such, it made sense that she had hidden in the smoke, but that wasn't a small area due to how big the crate that had been destroyed was to start. As such Zoe would be able to slip out unnoticed and get behind him. However as she tried to close in and get closer, Silas would manage to hear her steps as the distance became smaller and as such easier to hear even though she had tried to move stealthily. 

Silas would spin round on the spot and try to dive aside as Zoe was lifting a hand to fire at him, however she redirected her aim as he moved so that when she fired Silas wasn't able to get out of the way completely. A electric bolt would connect with Silas shoulder as he dived, and his roll as he landed wasn't the best due to pain and the charge passing through his muscles. But he had to act. 

Silas would charge pushing up from the ground, hard as he could and aiming to go right for her, another Wind blade aimed at her arm, to prevent her using that hand to take aim and fire at him again. Making use of the fact Zoe had closed the distance, and to reach her before she could act. He would then try and use a arm to grab her by the neck, much like he had in there previous encounter and slam her down into the ground in a choke slam, and bring up a bleeding leg to stamp on her chest when she was grounded. 

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Str: 70, Dex: 80, Con: 40, Wis: 35, Int: 50

Wind Slash (Tier 1) [Once per 5 INT]: Silas can swing a arm with speed enough to cut air and send it flying at someone. This air slash is about 1 foot in size and deals damage equal to 1/4 INT. (3 of 10 used)

Roaring Wind (Tier 5) [Once per 25 INT]: Silas pulls on the strength and speed of the greatest hurricanes. +30 DEX, +20 STR, -15 WIS, -10 CON. While this effect is active, Wind Step cannot be used to double jump or change his direction, instead if it used it changes this power to give +40 DEX, +25 STR. (2 of 2 used, +30 DEX, +20 STR, -15 WIS, -10 CON)

OOC: Like a idiot I didn't add the extra stats of using tier 3 with tier 5 in previous post  )

Silas growled in anger as pain shot through his hand and down the muscles of his forearm as his made contact with Zoe pushing his arm away. He wanted to follow up with the arm anyway but the arm hung unable to resist the electricity corsing through it. However Silas would not relent.

Instead his other arm would come up, his shoulder aching from the earlier hit as he pushed forward in his run as Zoe tried to get away. Grabs were out of the question if she could have eletricity jump from her skin. However Silas would aim a strike with all he had at her face and that stange mask. Hoping for two outcomes, the fact that non direct contact wouldnt let what she did happen again, and two to smash that mask into sharp shards right into her face.

Silas grinned as his hand struck home against his target, feeling the mask start to buckle under the blow as it connected and fall away. However before Silas could drive the strike all the way home, the was another flash of light. So close it would cause his eyes to close in reaction.

That barely matter as immediately after was sent flying backwards but the blast to the chest and Silas would land hard on his back and sliding across the ground from the force. Spluttering and coughing, lay there and the coughing would turn to a hacking laugh. As Silas would pat down at his jacket pocket and pull out cigarette and light one and casually start to smoke from the floor.

At some effort Silas would toss the box and lighter at Zoe's feet. "Have a smoke." He spluttered and looked up, if Zoe would not have hidden her face by then he would briefly see before just laying down and smoking not really caring at all.