To fight or not to fight? That is the new question

[Rinoa Heartilly]

Rinoa jumped into mid-air as an orb the size of a table came flying towards her, crashing into the ground she had once stood upon. This battle was something else, even for her standards. In fact, this clone was performing exactly how the real one would. With little mercy and deadly attacks. It almost scared her that it hadn't taken the opportunity to freeze time around, but then, Rinoa hadn't given her any time to do so.

Dashing through the air, the young mage continued to keep her attacks distant, but rapid as well. Along with throwing her Blaster Edge, she kept up her long range strikes with blast of fire magic and holy. But none of these attacks could get through the crystal Ultimecia's own magical defenses. For that moment, it appeared that two of them were on equal standing. But perhaps, that could be changed.

Stopping her movement to catch her breath, she could see the hovering figure laughing as she looked down upon her. It was just toying with her, knowing well that she could block anything that was thrown at her. At least for now. It was last resort time, even though she wasn't willing to try this so soon. After all, Rinoa could say if she'd be able to stop herself or not. But sadly, she was out of options in this.

Clasping her hands together, and closing her eyes in focus. Her body began to glow in a bright light as white angel wings appeared upon her back. Flapping gently, she then opened her eyes as she launched herself towards the witch, stopping half-way before firing off a blast of Firga magic. The crystal was sent reeling back from the attack, firing a barrage of spikes as she descended towards the ground. But before the assault could reach Rinoa, the girl vanished in a flash of white appeared under the witch with the help of Gideon's previous haste spell.

"Tornado!!"

Stretching her hand forwards, a large spiral of dark wind surged from out of the clouds, collecting the crystal witch within it's vortex. In this, Rinoa fly into the twister herself, deciding to finish the battle within its confines. In the end, only one of them were getting out.

[Blint Basael]

He didn't get much time to prepare himself because as soon as his feet touched the ground the crystal man, Gabranth, the name supplied itself rushed him. He weaved in and out of most swings and parried others with his arm. If it wasn't for haste he wasn't sure he could keep up. The man was deceptively fast. Finally, after a few cuts, he saw an opening int he pattern and Blint took it. He raised his knee into Gabranth's stomach but it didn't have the desired effect. Instead he got back handed by an armored fist and was sent tumbling back.

Blint rolled out of it and jumped to his feet only to be greeted by another shockwave. He swore and put his metal arm in front of it so it would take the brunt of the force. With a curse he braced himself as it hit. The shockwave tore through his shirt and pushed him back a few feet. Luckily his arm wasn't to damaged but he knew it couldn't take much more, he hadn't designed it for combat. This wasn't going as well as he thought. It seemed the only way he could damage the crystal was to hit it with his stronger prosthesis. 'This is going to hurt.' with that thought Blint started to use his accelerator ability, hopefully he wouldn't have to use all of it.

A ball of fire formed in his hand as Blint casted Fira. He tossed it at Gabranth then rushed right behind it. Gabranth crossed his swords in front of him and blocked most of the blast, but it was just a distraction. Blint jumped through the smoke and in the wake of the explosion he blasted him with a strong hit to the head. Blint smiled as his fist made contact and he heard the sound of cracking. He didn't let up, the crystal mas was surprise by the new speed and he was going to use that fact to finish this fight now.

Blint landed and spun in place, slamming his elbow in the crystals stomach. This time there was more cracking and it had the desired effect. As the crystal version of Gabranth double over Blint shot up and grabbed it by the throat. Using the extra momentum and the strength in his mechanical arm, Blint lifted Gabranth off the ground and brought the clone over his shoulder smashing it, headfirst, into the ground. It crumbled into pieces as he stood up and took a deep breath.

Before he disengaged his ability Blint looked around for the other two. The first thing that caught his attention was a large tornado that looked like it was were Rinoa should be. He knew she said she was good with magic but he didn't realize that she could conjure stuff like that. At least he hope it was here that was making it. Next he noticed Gideon laying on the ground. Shaking his head, he hurried over to see what was wrong. It seemed like the man had passed out from the fight. He was damaged but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Blint casted cura on him and hoped for the best.

[Gideon]

Gideon's eyes fluttered a moment then snapped open he shot to his feet and almost struck the boy before seeing it was Blint, "sorry," he murmured. He let his arm drop and instantly felt the pain in his arm, he ignored it and looked for Rinoa. He was then surprised to see a large tornado spinning it's destruction across the area. He saw flashes and glances of white inside, he wasn't sure what was going on but he had took a couple steps forward before stopping. He sort of smiled to himself when he pictured the look on the girls face if he were to interrupt the fight. she'd probably be likely to use the tornado on him.

There was a small question as to whether or not she had created it, but it just had a different feel to it. "Nah i think I'll stay outa this one actually," he weakly smiled toward Blint. " besides in that vortex I know i could try to judge it correctly, but i couldn't risk hitting her. You'd easily have better chances with one of your guns, but I think its best to leave this fight to her unless events force us to do otherwise, yes?"

He suddenly felt a searing pain next to his rib, he jerked and rubbed the spot the pain had originated, this was when when he realized his wounds were closed, he'd have to thank the boy once he pulled what was probably a crystal shard out of his ribs. He pulled a small knife out of his boot and used it to make a small slit and stuck his fingers in it to pull out the shard. he twinged from the pain as he jerked it out from in between the bones. He held a two inch, three pronged shard up to analyze it.

"Warning," he said to Blint with annoyance, "they blow up... by the way, thanks for the medical attention." He smiled as he had looked around again and saw the crystal pile on the ground, the kid had done good. He then saw his chest plate on the ground. He just shook his head and checked to see if he could find and more shards. after pulling out five more of similar shape he stood up and looked around he was getting worried as that vortex had been going for a while by now. Not a horribly long while but enough to make him feel fidgety, he stopped and cleared his mind he was determined to stay out of it unless the girl needed it.

Instead he just took a quick look to thoroughly analyze his surroundings. There were a few more trees now, but they were all quite distant from their current battlefield. He also noticed farther along the path they had been headed down was what looked like a glyph almost in the form of a twisted looking tree. He made a mental note to check out the twisted black and red crystal when the battle had been won.

[Rinoa Heartilly]

The twister continued to rotate within that one space, collecting dust and blocking whatever was going on within from view. Though flashes of light could be seen in random places inside the vortex, it was still impossible to see where they were coming from. Either way, there would be no way of telling who was winning from outside. That was, in till the tornado began to slow down in rotation.

It's form began to dissolve as soon there was nothing in its place exact for a girl with white wings. Descending towards the ground, she landed within a kneeling position, eyes closed as her angel like features vanished, leaving her in a normal state once more. Releasing a slow breath, Rinoa rose up and smiled as she winked towards the two boys while walking towards them. Of course, as she did so, she realized that she had a crystal hand within her own, causing her gasp before dropping it from her grasp.

I guess I'm starting to get the hang of it now...That's good...I was worried I might have went out of control...

"Are you guys ok?!"

[Blint Basael]

He stretched as he let Accelerator fade away. Luckily he didn't have to use it to long so the damage to his body was pretty minimal. It was going to be awhile before he could use it again though so if they came across anything else he was going to have to rely on his guns a little more.

He nodded as Gideon spoke, but kept his attention on the tornado. "No problem." As he watched the wasn't to much that he could make out, except for the silhouettes that a few bright flashes gave off. He wanted to help but he wasn't sure who was who. Besides bouncing bullets was one thing but it was another to shot into a tornado and hope to hit something.

Blint chuckled at Gideon's comment "Yeah your probably right." There wasn't to much more he could do for his new ally, he was a mechanic not a doctor, so he just let the big man take care of himself. Instead he watched the swirling wind slowly die down and in it's place he was glad to see an angel winged Rinoa. 'Seems like I'm going to want to stay on good terms with both of these guys.' With that thought he smiled to himself and patted Gideon on the shoulder. "Come on, lets catch up with her."

He took his time, watching the ripples form and move away form him with each step. This would be a beautiful world with the crystal trees and their images being reflected off of the water like ground, but it's peaceful illusion was shattered when you realized that everything here was trying to kill you.

As he got closer he put a kind smile on his face. "Well I'm fine, but the old man is a bit beat up. He should be fine though with a little first aid, and what about you? Anything that we need to worry about?"