*Phillis vs. Erika*

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis walked into the arena, he was a bit nervous as he had never fought anyone before. Well, maybe he did, he didn't remember. Either way, he hoped luck was on his side. He gripped a sword he had received from a random old woman in the audience, she had felt sorry that he didn't have a weapon and gave it to him, free of charge. Some of the people here are really nice. It's not the best quality sword, but it's something and it's definitely going to help me. I need all the help I can get at this point.

[erika]

Erika walked in with a smile on her face, she loved to fight. She looked at the boards, "Phillis and Erika." she frowned a little, wasn't Phillis injured? She shrugged it off and did a warm up in the area for warmups. She noticed Phillis and walked over to greet him, "Hey how are you doing? How's the head?"

[Phillis Von Christ]

"Oh, hello, Erika!" Phillis said, smiling warmly. " I've been doing well, my head feels much better. Although, I really shouldn't be participating in this, I just feel like it was something I would have normally done, given what people have told me about myself." he laughed awkwardly.

" How've you been?"

[erika]

"Oh I've been fine, just relaxing before this." she laughed. "So how does this thing start. I think we are up soon."

[Phillis Von Christ]

"We're up in a few minutes, better get ready." Phillis warned her, he wanted the fight to be fun but he was still heavily nervous.

[erika]

((hey sorry for me nnot posting alot, have to write a paper too :/))

"Oh ok. I should stretch some more than I guess." she began to stretch for a few moments before Jack came over. 'Are you two ready?' he asked.

"Uh ya....I am ready. How about you Phillis?"

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis nodded, extending his hand for the pre-fight handshake. " I'll try my best. Good luck to you too."

((No problem, I'll also be going off and on again alot.))

[erika]

She shook the man's hand and walked to her corner of the arena.

'Ok. Begin when ready!' Jack said as he clear the way of the battle.

Erika drew her sword and cracked her neck before slowly making her way to Phillis.

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis grabbed the sword the old woman had given him. He gripped it tightly, he wasn't sure if he was holding it correctly, but he walked forward anyways, with all the confidence he could. He held the sword in front of him, as to insure his safety and defense. He wanted to give Erika the first move, maybe he could learn something from it.

[erika]

Erika couldn't help but have a look of disgust on her face as she watched Phillis hold the sword. As for right now he held it very improperly. She hoped he would remember a few things as the battle progressed. She got close enough to him to attack. She look a deep relaxing breath and began with a quick light slash. She swung from her bottom left towards Phillis' left shoulder.

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis had poor instincts, he moved his arms in the wrong direction to try to block the attack. Erikas sword hit his shoulder. "oops, ouch. I'm sorry, I'm not very good at this." He said, he didn't actually want to hit Erika with the sword. It didn't feel right. But he did it anyways, aiming for her stomach.

[erika]

Erika was glad she didn't swing hard, but then struggled to jump back from Phillis' stab. She decided it was his own fault for joining the tournament. The crowd began to boo them. Erika swung her sword to bat his away and gave a hard punch towards his face. Instantly she felt bad, but pride stopped her from saying anything.

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis held back Erikas sword with his own, his swings getting faster and more aggressive. He remembered one of the rules, Anything goes. As Erika was focused on hitting him with her sword, he extended his leg, aiming at her with his sword in a way where if she dodged, she would be forced to trip over his foot.

[erika]

Erika tried to dodge Phillis' sword but tripped on a well placed foot. She used the fall to roll over and swung at his legs.

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis jumped back, Erikas sword managed to knick his shin and he nearly fell over. He somehow was able to keep grounded as he sighed a breath of relief. He had watching how Erika grabbed her weapon, and he did the same. It felt much more natural and easier to swing now. His shin began to bleed, but he didn't notice, he was beginning to get more focused on fighting.

[erika]

Erika used his jump back to get of the ground. Phillis seemed to be getting progressively better,'Must be remembering', she thought to herself.

She twirled her sword in her hand and charged Phillis with a series of side to side diagonal slices. (her signature move)

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis was impressed by Erikas moves. He didn't know how to counter the attack, he held his sword, waiting for a good moment to strike. He didn't want to wait too long. After a seconds hesitation, he jabbed his sword out, it landed about an inch in front of Erikas face, if she moved any further forward she would run into it. Of course, he didn't want to kill her. He didn't even want to hurt her, he just wanted to spook her into forfeiting or something. He didn't even care about winning.

[erika]

She was surprised with Phillis' well placed stab, but it was the one place she trained to get beat on. She spun the sword up to knock it put of her face and spun her body around with a powerful swing of her blade, she normally did this to cut enemies in half, but held back so that wouldn't happen.

[Phillis Von Christ]

Phillis attempted to dodge the swing, but miscalculated his steps and fell back on his behind. He kept a good grip on his sword, determined to not give up. He took this as a good opportunity to do a ground attack. He did a somersault forwards, quickly sat up on his knees and jabbed the back of Erikas knees with the handle-end of his sword, to make her fall over.

[erika]

Erika was surprised by his quickness. She felt a hard shove in her knee and she feel to the ground. Rolling over she made sure Phillis couldn't finish her.