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Post by Broly on Jan 20, 2021 9:44:38 GMT -5
It wasn't long before the news of King Maverick's offer had spread across the galaxy. Cado, a Saiyan that was relatively unknown, had managed to catch the King of Rarities' eye somehow. It was more than that, it wasn't just the King's eye, instead it was a challenge. A spar that would surely be filled with surprises and rewards for all that participated and witnessed it. Rather it was a challenge or a summon, Cado would have arrived on Maverick either way. Now, there was a fire that fueled him, an excitement that bubbled deep within his soul. Cado stood in the center of a large colosseum, yellow sand evenly spread across untouched apart from his steps to the center. There weren't any objects, structures, or items that could be seen from his current position. A crowd surrounded him, better yet, filled the arena with anxious mutters of anticipation. His head slowly scanned the stadium like seating, the majority were Kekko, the race that inhabited the planet, but it was not void of other alien races. The Titan started to notice a few of the other races; Saiyan, Human, Changeling, and even the obvious Cyborg every so often. This wasn't going to be as quiet as Cado had original figured, in fact it was turning into more of a spectacle. Chains began to slowly chatter, rapidly picking up speed until transforming into a thunderous roar. Paired with the chains an eerie creaking rolled over the relatively empty field. Across from Cado stood a large mahogany door with iron brackets that supported its size and weight. Slowly it began to open, creaking with every inch and hushing the crowd. A small man appeared, dressed in simple attire appropriate for the event. He placed his hands before him, folded gently together on his waist and coughed a single time, clearing his throat. "Allow me to introduce, King Maverick!" He yelled, his voice carrying itself to the tops of the colosseum. After he finished and the crowd began to cheer his arm motioned to the now still door. 345 / 345
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Post by Alex on Jan 23, 2021 17:32:43 GMT -5
Maverick emerged from the innards of the colosseum to uproarious applause to which he paid little heed. The Kekko was not here for the adulations of the unwashed masses. He was here for the experience of competing against a member of the galaxy's most elite warrior race: the Saiyans. There before him stood an impressive specimen of the Saiyan race indeed, complete with tail and all. Maverick could sense his would-be opponent's power level was nearly one million!
Contrary to popular belief, Maverick did not just collect rare and unique trinkets. He took pride in being known as the galaxy's foremost treasure hunter, true, but he also collected experiences. Some experiences could be just as rare as anything on display in his gallery. It had been some time since he had last competed in an arena such as this or against an opponent such as the one who stood before him now. He wondered what surprises this Saiyan would have in store for him.
He raised a hand to quiet the crowd who complied immediately with his unspoken command, save for a hushed whisper here and there. It seemed the people were just as eager for this contest to begin as he was.
"I am Maverick," he stated simply. "I am told your name is Cado. Do not hold back on me. Come now, begin your attack."
With that, he settled into a martial arts stance not indistinguishable from the basic 'Ready Stance.' Without another word, the announcer hurried behind him and through the open mahogany door. As the small man disappeared into the hallway dimly lit with the dancing flame of torches, an unknown force pulled the large door closed behind him with a heavy thud. Now even the hushed whispers had stopped.
---- WC: 294 / 294
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Post by Broly on Jan 24, 2021 9:14:15 GMT -5
Maverick himself stood before the Saiyan as a gentle breeze danced across the field of battle, he introduced himself and slid into his stance. Cado mimicked, adjusting his body into his signature Crush stance. " Alright then," he said confidently. Instantaneously he vanished, his body appearing behind Maverick's with a flicker of electricity that would announce his appearance just before he arrived. As if tugging on the threads of fate, Cado had pulled string from the air; manipulating the natural force around him with his ki. The strings would threaten Maverick with being ensnared, but the real threat was the attack to follow. Harnessing his signature weapon the Behemoth lead with a series of wild slashes and stabs. Nothing meant to hit, but well enough aimed that he could throw off the King of Rarities. Cado threw his right arm into the air, tossing the two handed ivory blade into the skies as it twirled wildly; another distraction. Two hands cupped themselves together, his aura flared with malice and ill intent. Quickly he pulled his cupped hands to right ribs and his aura began to flood into his palms. A single bead of deep purple and ruby red ki began to manifest before his cupped hands. His eyes flashed with excitement at the start of the battle- and suddenly the bead of ki tripled in size. As if he had taken the oath of silence he threw his hands forward, the orb of ki erupted into an immense beam. Enthralling colors spiraled throughout the beam; ruby reds, royal purples, and rich wines blended together gracefully for such a malevolent attack. The force behind the attack was used to be the first true display of power, control, and technique. 285 / 630
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Post by Alex on Jan 30, 2021 9:46:42 GMT -5
Maverick's eyes widened slightly as Cado made his first move. The Saiyan was faster than he expected from huge an impressively sized foe. In the briefest of moments, his opponent was suddenly gone.
Strands of energy wrapped around Maverick before he could even move a muscle, or at least they seemed to. What they actually wrapped around was an after-image. As the ki strings touched his "body," it began to shimmer and evaporate, revealing the ruse.
Maverick reappeared right in front of where he was previously standing, now facing toward Cado once again. Yet without missing a beat the Saiyan had drawn a sword and attacked Maverick with a frenetic whiplash of furious attacks. Maverick parried each as quickly as they came, pushing some to the side and stepped away from others. For the time being, just avoiding being struck was all he could do. The crowd once again began cheering loudly. Each attack Maverick defended elicited another, louder cheer.
As abruptly as it began, the physical combo stopped and Cado threw his sword into the sky. Maverick glanced up, but knew the threat was still in front of him. He guessed right. In the mere moment of his glance, Cado had charged a beam attack and he immediately let it loose. Maverick had little time to react. He crossed his arms in front of his face in an 'X" to defend. The colorful beam engulfed him and the crowd fell silent.
When Cado's attack ended, Maverick was still standing. His sleeves were singed off and his forearms were smoking and burnt. He peeked over his arms at Cado. If he hadn't been able to defend there...
"Close," he said. His body then started wavering again, another Zanzoken. Maverick re-appeared to the left of Cado seemingly attacking with a right hook. Or did he? Another Maverick simutaneously appeared to Cado's right, apparently attacking him with a roundhouse kick - a Double Zanzoken. Yet, still another appeared above him. It was a Triple Zanzoken! This third image, the real Maverick, aimed a spinning bicycle kick at Cado's face.
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Post by Broly on Jan 31, 2021 12:23:25 GMT -5
Maverick lifted his gaze over his cross guard, his arms still sizzling from the brunt of the Dark Kamehameha. He muttered a single word and immediately vanished from his position. It was another after image technique, one that he had previously used to defend against Cado's attack. As if the Saiyan was going to fall for that again! The first of the images appeared on Cado's right, a vicious right hook traveling to his left rib. His eyes darted to the second image that materialized before him, this time on his left. As the round house kick and right hook drew closer to impact Cado smiled smugly and turned to face the one of his right, the real Maverick! Suddenly a third appeared! This time above his head, but the Elite Saiyan had already repositioned himself for an incorrect block. Like a whip Maverick's leg lashed out at his head, colliding with a thunderous crack. His head snapped to the side slinging a small trail of crimson in the rusted dirt. The gash was superficial, not enough to cause any immediately worry, but it did serve as a lesson and reminded. Do not underestimate the King of Rarities. The bear like paw of the Saiyan threatened to latch onto any portion of Maverick that it could. Proceeding to fling either his body or simply impact the ground if he had missed. Using his strength behind his attack instead of his ki allowed for a shockwave of force to ripple across the arena. His aim was to toss Maverick around like a rag doll or at least knock him onto his ass with the aftershock of his technique. 277 / 907 Claw of the Oozaru (attack referenced in RP)
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Post by Alex on Feb 13, 2021 21:57:12 GMT -5
A look of satisfaction washed across Maverick's face as he saw his attack had drawn the Saiyan's blood. He truly was a genius. His expression soon became one of consternation as Cado quickly shrugged it off and lunged toward him, arm outstretched as if to grab him. In a fraction of a second, Maverick calculated the trajectory of the Saiyan and instantly knew how far away he would need to be for the attack to miss. He nimbly flipped a few feet back and saw the brutish Saiyan slam into the ground where he had once soon. The ground cratered underneath the combination of his girth and forward momentum. The Kekko's eyes widened ever so slightly as he noticed a shockwave rippling through the ground.
"Wh-" was all that he could say before the ground swell slammed into him like a tsunami, not only knocking him off his feet but also blasting him backwards into an erratic rolling tumble as well. He skidded to a stop perhaps twenty yards away. His forearms, bloodied with road rash-like abrasions, felt like they were literally on fire.
He hastily got back up to his feet. As he stood, a green beam ball formed within each of his cupped palms. He let them fly at the Saiyan with a velocity that even Aroldis Chapman would envy.
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WC: 222 / 862
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Post by Broly on Feb 14, 2021 20:06:14 GMT -5
The tree trunk like arm was a mere inches from the face of the famous Kekko, but before the Titan could wrap his mitt around the King's face the alien preformed a series of flips to avoid the attack entirely. Cado's blank expression soured for a moment as his momentum cared him to the ground. With an air of frustration he once more threw his weight forward, as much as he could. His clawed positioned hand impacted the ground with an earth shattering amount of voice, creating a shockwave that rippled across the battlefield. " Arugh!" The Behemoth proclaimed as he simultaneously jerked his arm from the newly formed hole. The motion tossed debris into the air, scattering in small chunks to the surface like a fresh snowfall. Maverick showed his experience, recovering quickly and unleashing a powerful pair of emerald orbs. Cado could do little in comparison to their speed, barely managing to lift his arms in a similar blocking position that Maverick had done previously. Steam began to cascade off of his forearms and his bare skin blistered from the scourging heat. A gut wrenching growl of pain escaped the clenched jaw off the Saiyan as the smoke quickly dissipated. They attack had done a fair amount of damage, pushing the spar to a more serious tone. As the scuffle began to to escalate Cado began to weight his options, he could continue the bout and risk insulting or inuring the king, or he could respectfully bow out. He thought for a moment, his arms still raised in the defensive 'x' shape. slowly he lowered his arms to his side, standing to his full height and removing all forms of threatening posture. " You wanna' keep goin'?" He asked, fully prepared to finish the spar, but just as ready to continue. 301 / 1208
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Post by Alex on Mar 7, 2021 13:28:16 GMT -5
Maverick's expression remained relatively emotionless as he saw his beam balls connect with their target in a pair of small explosions. When the smoke had mostly cleared, Cado was peering back at him from behind singed arms, albeit no worse for wear. Mav fully expected the result that he witnessed so it did not frustrate or please him. It had been more of a goading attack, meant to antagonize the Saiyan into another reckless brute-strength attack like before. This time, he would be ready to counter it with a devastating counter-blow. What happened next puzzled the Kekko.
"You wanna' keep goin'?" Cado asked him gruffly as the last tendrils of smoke from Maverick's beam balls continued to dissipate around him.
Maverick grumbled under his breath. Was this supposed to be meant as an insult? Did the Saiyan think that was as strong as his attacks could get and was asking if Maverick were giving up? As if he stood no further chance! Rather than responding in speech, he would let his next attack serve as his reply. He quickly raised one arm straight out, flattened palm facing towards Cado. His other remained at his side, balled into a fist and ready for a follow up if need be. Bolts of electricity began to emanate from his flattened palm for the briefest of moments before a huge wave of ki swiftly exploded out toward Cado.
"Big Bang Attack!" he yelled as he pumped more ki into the blast.
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WC: 247 / 1,109
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Post by Broly on Mar 8, 2021 10:34:11 GMT -5
The King of Rarities screamed his attack's name at the top of his lungs. A Kekko using a Saiyan's attack, cute. A cocky grin crawled over the face of the titan as he cocked back his right hand over his left shoulder. If it was one thing that Cado knew that he had, it was defenses. The ki blast rocketed forward, its devastating aura sparking with electricity. The sand below crackled and crystalized into glass shards from the bolts of lightning that arched off the technique. A single swipe of the titan's arm. An echo of his arm searing like meat on a hot grill. A growl as loud as a lion's. The once perfectly spherical orb bent around the knife hand of Cado. Inertia carrying it forward slightly making it look more like a bean than a sphere. A moment seem to pass on for an hour as his muscles tightened and veins began to bulge. The constant sound of his searing flesh filling the area before finally the orb gave. Cado's arm continued to the right, swinging wide and knocking the blast off course into the sky. Sweat poured from his head and he huffed with exhaustion. " Not bad," he grumbled, his eyes narrowed as he shook out his hand. Like the Great Ape's claw his hands tightened, lightning sparking off his shoulders and rolling down into his palms. Energy began to swirl around him, a thick blood red mist engulfing him until there was nothing more than a silhouette and glowing eyes. The aura abruptly formed into two orbs inches from his palms. The color much darker and more corrupted than the standard person's. The fog no longer covered him, only poured into the spheres until their sizes doubled. The charge was complete. " This is how it's done! Double Big Bang Attack!" 308 / 1516
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Post by Maverick on Mar 12, 2021 20:01:48 GMT -5
It appeared that the Saiyan was finally starting to get serious now. Good. Finally Maverick would be able to better test his own abilities against Cado's raw strength. Two considerably sized bolts of ki erupted toward the Kekko with the velocity of a freight train. Mav knew the arena behind him, and the hundreds of people sitting there watching their little spar, would be obliterated if he merely moved out of the way. Not that he cared, not really. But what test would that be?
Maverick waved his hand in a circular motion in front of him. "Energy shield," he said. A plate of his own ki formed between him and the twin Big Bang Attacks barreling down on him without a moment to spare. The twin blasts slammed into his circular ki barrier causing its greenish hue to turn bright red as steel does when heating up to extreme temperatures. The two energy signatures fought with an increasing level of brilliance. "Yah!" he yelled pumping more ki into his barrier. It thickened the plate and caused the double Big Bangs to explode. As the smoke cleared, the ground was destroyed on both sides of him, leaving a small island of where he had been standing behind his barrier untouched.
At this rate, the Saiyan's next attack would be even more fearsome and he had no idea what the depths of his foe's power level truly was. He didn't want the planet destroyed in its entirety after all. It was time to end this. He dropped his barrier and sprinted towards Cado. Let's see how he deals with a Quadruple Zanzoken.
Maverick disappeared into a blueish after-image of himself running at Cado. He appeared next to him, as another after-image, and then behind him as yet another after-image. The image of a third Maverick throwing a dropkick appeared above Cado, then finally Maverick appeared again, directly in front of the Saiyan. He haphazardly threw a right straight towards Cado's face as a distractionary blow, grabbing the monkey's tail with his left hand and squeezing hard.
"It's over," he stated matter-of-factly.
---- WC: 352 / 1,461
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Post by Broly on Mar 15, 2021 9:19:05 GMT -5
The king had some tricks up his sleeves it seemed, his hands placed themselves out in front of himself and created a rather powerful barrier. It was fast, almost too fast, but he had managed to construct it in the nick of time, absorbing the power of Cado's technique with relative ease. Eventually the blasts died down, smoke tumbling from surrounding areas. Maverick, ever the fighter, rushed forward. Cado smirked, the man was head strong after all, but he wasn't worried. There was many ways that Cado could match or surpass Maverick's speed. Flames of Hell and a Zanzoken combination would allow him to avoid the attacks out right. Instant transmission could get him to the other side of the universe. Hell, even a body shield would give him enough defenses to deal with any physical attack that the king would throw out, at least in some means. Yet Cado did nothing, he was curious to see what the king would do. A psychotic laugh erupted from the belly of Cado, his eyes flushing white and his pupils vanishing. In an instant he tapped into the power of the Great Ape, no moon needed, no exaggerated and elongated transformation, just pure Oozaru power coursing through his veins. His muscles inflated three full and his veins that ran over his body swelled. Sweat turned to steam and he roared out like the beast who's power he borrowed. " Come on! He screamed as the four images of Maverick began to dance around him. Suddenly he felt a shocking pain run up his spine, Maverick had went for the Saiyan's tail! A known weakness.... For the weak. Cado gasped out in pain as he allowed his body to look as if it had froze up. Then he began to laugh, louder and louder before he turned to Maverick, towering over him like a god to a peasant. " I'm no low class scum, seems you need to update your intelligence on our race. That only works on the weak" Cado twisted his body to yank his tail from the grasp, it did hurt, but the pain was crippling like some of the other Saiyans. " Thanks for the fight, it was interestin'" He muttered before placing two fingers against his forehead and vanishing from the arena. 381 / 1897
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Post by Maverick on Mar 17, 2021 19:24:15 GMT -5
Maverick's look of satisfaction and triumph quickly turned into one of surprise and horror as Cado simply snapped his tail from his grasp like an older sibling taking back his toy from an annoying squirt younger brother. Had Cado counter attacked him in that moment of utter shock, it would have served as a devastating punishment. Instead Cado mocked him and disappeared despite his gargantuan size.
Maverick stood there, jaw agape for several moments as he half-expected Cado to reappear in a surprise attack. The crowd that had once been so uproarious in cheering him on was now completely silent. So Maverick stood there, in silence, waiting.
Cado never came back. Maverick finally relaxed and began walking out of the arena. He had learned much during this spar about the Saiyan race. He would be more prepared...next time.
----- WC: 138 / 1,599
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