Earth Rumble V (Toph)

[Ignis]

Ignis walked through the crowds of the Earth Rumble V Arena. It looked much like the Agni Kai Arenas back home just a different colour. Ignis once a month would visit the Earth Kingdom. Ignis was dressed in his Earth Kingdom disguise and was wearing an Earth Kingdom hat to shadow his eyes and hair. Ignis sat in the crowds alot of them filled with muscular men, most who woud look quite stupid. "Animals..." Ignis muttered to himself.

Ignis watched the two Earthbenders on the arena duke it out, landslide after landslide being thrown during the assault and battle. Ignis smirked. Ignis could say that he enjoyed any type of fight, even if these people doomed Ignis and his sister to a childhood of poverty on the streets. Suddenly Ignis was snapped out of his 'dream land' phase when he heard the smash of one of the Earthbenders fly out of the arena with a thud. The loser had broken his legs. Ignis would rush down to help but he couldn't risk attention here. Ignis waited to watch the next fight. Ignis folded his arms and relaxed.

[kasui]

BOOM! The sound certainly spooked the crowd. Most knew what it meant. The Blind Bandit was up next. Stepping out of the wall, Toph became a new center of attention. 'The Blind Bandit' owned this underground tornaments, for she was the best. Dressed in her normal fighting attire, Toph Bei Fong took her spot in the arena. You ready? Hope your not 'scared!' Toph said scared in such an intaginizing way, that almost no self-control on the world would hold the fury back.

As the chubby earth bender ran forward towards the Blind Bandit, Toph slide her bare feet out on the floor of the arena. Feeling the overwelming stomping the man produced, she easily slide to the side as the man's fist's, engulfed in rock, tryed to do a face-plant. Quickly, a rock slab erupted from the arena floor, and slid along with the man to the outskirt of the arena. A rock tornato rose the trapped man up into the air, and with a sickening thud, the man was tossed out of the arena. Effortless. Efforless indeed. OH YEA! Toph turned around to soak in the glory the erupting crowd gave the small girl.

A small girl of 12. Leaving the arena, quite on the verge of being bored. It was always the same. She could come in, toss a man around, then leave. It got boring.

[omg i kno what was horrible. no muse at all. scared]

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[Ignis]

((Your post wasn't that bad actually ))

Ignis watched the little girl probably only 12 mabye even 10 by her appearence enter the arena. Ignis didn't think she was weak by her apperence. But then Ignis realised she was blind as he could tell by the appearence in her eyes. Ignis still didn't think she was weak though and thought anyone was capable of great or amazing abbilities. "This should be interesting.." Ignis said to himself.

Then Ignis watched the small pre-teen move her opponent out of the ring and then swallow him in an earth tornado before BOOM! Her opponent went soaring out of the ring and crashed right beside Ignis. Ignis watched the girl and smiled in disbelief and amazement to her powers and earthbending abbility. "Incredible...Impossible..Fantastic!" Ignis excalimed quietly to himself. Ignis just stared at the earthbender who was almost uncconciouss. "Go by yourself, something nice." Ignis said before tossing him a copper piece and then gave him a slow wave as he fell back down the steps. Ignis continued to watch the girl from the crowd, shoruded.

The ref then called out to the audience. "Anyone here thinks they can defeat her!?". Not one soul voulenteered. "No one?!" He called out again. "Let me make this interesting...Three bags of silver pieces to anyone who can defeat the blind badit!" He called out yet again. Everyone silent and even more less willing to face her for some reason. When the ref saw Ignis waving at the man and thought that he was voulenteering. "We have a contestant!" The ref bellowed before earthbending Ignis from the stands. A pillar of earth catapulted Ignis to the arena. Everyone egged Ignis on thinking he was brave when in reality he never asked. "Crap..." Ignis muttered to himself in frustration. The worst part was about this fight was that he could firebend only use aggility and hope he could try and find a non-bending strategy of winning.

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'Anyone here thinks they can defeat the Blind Bandit?' announced a ref. Not expecting anyone to challenge her, Toph continued walking. But soon she realized a man appeared in the right. Amused by this, Toph walked towards the ring once more, the crowd screaming, raised to their feet. As she stepped back into the arena, Toph could tell the man was no earthbender. But his movements, and his stance. The way he was built. It just wasn't Earth Bender. If he wasn't an Earth Bender... what was he?

So, Toph smiled in amusement, are you going to be more of a challenge, or are you going to leave the arena with a broken limb? Toph smirked evilly. The way only she could. Her soul-less blue eyes looked at the man, without really seeing him. Sliding into a stance without another word, she waited for him to make a move, or say something.

...Well? Thought Toph, smuge and confident as usual. He didn't seem to be an Earth Bender, that she knew. What was he going to fight with? His bare hands? Maybe he has a hidden sword? Whatever it was, Toph was smug, and ready for it.

[Ignis]

Ignis smirked in amusement at her overconfidence. "Uh yeah..I don't plan on winning but I can bet you that I'll come out of here with not even a nail broken." Ignis verbally retailated before moving to his side of the field. Ignis gave a small and short curtious bow to the girl, his opponent, and allowed her to make the first move. "Okay we all know the rules, first one completley out of the arena wins. Winner recieves three bags of silver pieces and walks away with the champion belt and title." The ref said.

Ignis continuosly nodded, not even looking at him and not really caring about the ref. Ignis was nervous and sweating and starting to breath a bit heavily. "Let's get ready to rumble!" The ref shouted as everyone cheered in response. Then everyone went silent waiting for the two, well one earthbender and firebender to start. "Ladies first." Ignis joked waiting for Toph to make the first move.

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Uh yeah..I don't plan on winning but I can bet you that I'll come out of here with not even a nail broken. Whatever this meant, it was clearly a taunt about Toph being a girl. Suspicions confirmed as he said 'Ladies First'. Toph didn't care about his nails, or the money. Her family had all the money she could ask for. She wasn't doing this for a challenge. Maybe.

Toph started with a simple testing move. How fast was this guy? This would gauge how fast her attacks needed to be. Shooting up a quick and sudden slab of rock right under the guy's feet, Toph waited to see what he did. How fast he left the rock would determine her fighting strategy. Usually, Toph wouldn't care, she'd just go all out, but she'd never heard of this guy before. She would most likely never do this again. Thinking back on her move, she found it pointless, and suddenly shot many more slabs of rock from all sides of the man.

You're going to wish you never challenged me! Toph taunted. Waiting for a reaction from the man with the rock slabs, Toph waited, there wasn't much else she could do.

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[Ignis]

Ignis eye got the rock slab a few feet away from him. Ignis just detected that something wasn't right. She could blast him out of the arena in a single move if she wanted to. For now Ignis would save his energy and only use a fraction of it on her small moves. Ignis tried to calculate a strategy at the same time of fighting. Ignis rolled out of the way of the slab and got back up in seconds. "Still not regretting it.." Ignis said.

"Come on, I though you would be better than this." Ignis taunted. Ignis at the moment was just having fun and wasn't using much energy up too. If Ignis could firebend right now, he would blast her with a barage of fire, although it probably wouldn't do anything to her as she could easily create a powerfull earth wall to stop it.

[kasui]

No, but you will, responded Toph to the man's 'witty' comeback. Rolling out of the way of Toph's rock slab strikes, the man made an attempt to taunt her. SHE was the taunt master here, and nobody was going try and take that away from her. 'Come on, I though you would be better than this.' This weak boy, he was such a player. Wow. Slamming her foot on the floor, Toph conjured, out of nowhere, a moving tornado of rock, just as she had done before. It erupted under the man's feet, desperately grabbing the man by the feet.

Toph stood watching her newest move continue. Like you have anything on me! I AM THE GREATEST EARTHBENDER EVER! Toph was getting carried away. Calming down, Toph watched the man, waiting for his move.

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[Ignis]

Ignis' eyes widened for a few seconds when he caught the sight of the emerging earth tornado. Ignis ran around in circles when the tornado arrived. Ignis had thought of an idea. Ignis kept sprinting around in circles making sure that the tornado's force didn't pull him straight out of the ground. The dirt and earth cut and bruised Ignis' skin, particularly his face. Some dirt was in his eyes, making his eyesight weaker. When the Tornado had passed Ignis emerged, bruised and dirty. Some of the crowd gasped at his injuries.

Ignis panted, his dirt being washed off by the filthy sweat poring of his body. Ignis stopped panting and looked straight at her. "Is that all you got?!" Ignis said raising his voice. "C'mon, All these people payed good money to watch a good match! Not a girl making moves that can be easily beaten by acting like a spaz!" Ignis said shouting to her and the audience. "YEAH!" All the crowd shouted. Ignis was going to prove he wasn't going to be out taunted by this kid. "This is going to be fun!" Ignis thought smiling.

[kasui]

Hmm.. you don't look so good! laughed Toph. "Is that all you got?!" he said. Not nearly! said Toph, and her foot slammed on the ground, and she began many different positions that are related to Earth Bending. Suddenly a large barrage of rock slabs shot into his positon, mighty quick at that. The barrage didn't stop for several minutes. Toph was trying to wear him out, and if they hit, that'd be a plus.

"C'mon, All these people payed good money to watch a good match! Not a girl making moves that can be easily beaten by acting like a spaz!" said the boy. Ok. Fine. Let's go!! The barrage continued on the man. Each more powerful, and more force put into each one. Drops began to slide down her face as she began to work up a sweat.

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[Ignis]

Ignis jumped side to side, dodging most of the slaps. His injuries growing worse and his stamina fading. Ignis repeatly panting attempting to dodge each assualt. During the last slab, Ignis leapt at it feet first and managed to use it as a 'surfboard' Ignis sprained his feet doing so but if this worked, it might be worth it. Might. Ignis used small sparks of fire from his hands to quicken the slap and steer it. The sparks were so fast you would need complete concentration to notice them. From the audience it appeared as sparks from friction.

Ignis was at that moment inches from Toph while sliding behind her. Ignis then as, if in slow motion, launched a his hand at her back hoping to knock her down to the ground. "Whoops!" Ignis said to her after pushing her. Ignis due to this rolled off the rock and nearly broke his arm. There was blood coming from the arm and his shirt torn. "C'mon!" Ignis said raising his voice.

[kasui]

Why do you continue to fight. I've already won. Suddenly Toph was knocked to the ground of the arena. He must have jumped up in the air and took her from behind. The coward. Playing on her weaknesses. She would end this before he killed himself. Toph barely had a scratch on her. Noticing his position shortly away from her on the ground, Toph took a slab of rock, and was going to attempt to fling him out of the ring. If he dodged, it would only be his loss. Either way.

Toph walked up to the man's current position, and flung an enormous boulder from the floor, up into the air. The top was flat, being that the man was meant to be on it. Suddenly, the boulder made a sickening thud as it landed out of the arena. Waiting for the judgement call, Toph stool still, 'seeing' her way around the arena.

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[Ignis]

Ignis felt himself be thrown into the air by the boulder. The boulder was thrown iches from the roof. Ignis' face was barely an inch away from the ceiling. Ignis was pinned down by the sheer force and felt the blood rushing to his head as it went red. Ignis then fired a small flame to push the boulder down. The boulder then plummeted 30 feet to the ground. Ignis barely was standing as it plummeted and he knew he would have to time this right.

Before it crashed to the ground, Ignis used his hand to grab onto the edge of the arena. He screamed in pain at the force of doing so. The boulder then smashed in to pieces and he realised that he could've been broken, unconciouss or even dead if the boulder had it the ground with Ignis on it. Ignis was sweating like crazy and was about to get up but then he felt his conciouss dimming. "Good Match..I hope we can get a rematch outside of the arena one day.." Ignis smiled before collapsing and falling of the edges. Ignis landed with a hard thud and some saliva spat out of his mouth on impact. Ignis smiled as he was carried away by the medical patrol to the Sick Bay.

[kasui]

[last post]
Watching as the man failed the evade her attack, Toph laughed. She had won, against a smart-mouth, determined young man. Wow. As the rock plummetted to the ground outside the arena, the boy jumped off just in time, btu the impact still crushed him. His final words before he passed out were, Good Match..I hope we can get a rematch outside of the arena one day.. Then he was out.

Nodding, Toph turned to the aduience and raised the champion belt. It had been an intresting day for her. Time to go home now, back to her sweeter life.
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