I'll Make a Man out of You

[Lux]

Lux flicked the rotten blood from his blade and slide it back into its holester, seeing as how a scabbard was practically unuseable. He looked the god over and laughed with him. "You weren't ugly by far, let's just say I can't look at geishi girls without feeling like their is something more beneath their robes." The light tone continues on as Shinda describes the training. He nods as he finishes before asking a question. " I noticed you didn't specify weather or not we would be covering magic, I know it's not exactly your forte but it makes a good weapon." As he finshed Lux held his arm out with his hand acting like he was going to catch a soft ball. Soon a green liquid seeped from his palm and started to form a sphere in his hand. Soon the sphere was the size of a baseball and had tendrils of green floating around it. He pointed it at the zombie and let it fly. It launched from his palm witg the speed close to 85 mph. It collided with the zombie hard enough to knock it over. It's face melting before it died as the acid seeped into it's brain. "See what I mean? Anyway, lets get startes. What do you wanna start with?"

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

Shinda did smile when he saw Lux's display. "Well well I didnt think you cared to use magic but yes we can implement a magical aspect. Whether or not it becomes an extension of your weapon or is a weapon on it's own is up to you." the samurai drew closer with steady steps. "We'll start out simple for this lesson. Pick any weapon that is not your usual weapon. We will train with it until you are proficient and do so through a variety of weapons, ranged, bludgeoning,and so forth."

[Lux]

Lux looked at the god smile but no change registered inside of him. "I just want to be thorough. If I'm going to train under the god of war I'm going to do everything in my power to get training for everything. So if your giving me a choice for weapons then we're starting at the fucking bottom." Lux took off his sword tossing it to the side. He stood stretching for a moment. " The name of the game is fists Shinda, you of all people know that when your weapon breaks and your opponent goes for the strike That your most reliable weapon starts at the wrist." Lux found himself in a fighting stance resembling little mac against a veritable piston honda. "Bring it Shinda"

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

The samurai nodded. "Bludgeoning it is." he concluded sheathing his sword. Hee had to really reign it in to knock knock Lux's head off. It was easy to forget just how strong the gods were. Shinda would not be unfair though, he wanted a real fight after all. A samurai's gloves were soft, but Lux was going bare fisted so he pulled his off and set them down. He was lean and quick like a cat, running in low he would start with a straight up uppercut. "In war you must always be quick, on your feet!" he would shout seeds of wisdom throughout.

[Lux]

Lux took a deep breath as the god prepaired for the up coming spar. He hoped Shinda would take it easy on him and not kill him like he easily could, but on the flip side he hoped that shinda would still challenge him. He saw him drop in low charging. Lux knew that he was most likely going a sweep or an uppercut. Both held the same basic solution. As shinda got close he began to side step but not following through with it until he saw the war god going for an uppercut. He would finish his side step and plant a tight hook right into his side that was blatantly open. He would have, had he not slipped on the blood of the zombie head he had carved open just minutes ago. It wasn't much, but it was enough to delay him long enough for the opening to close. If he was going to spar with the god of war he was done halfassing it. Lux arched his back for a moment and before long two skeletal arms erupted forth from it. Quickly muscle began to weave around the arms, before finally skin grew in splotches completing the arms like they were always there. He had been practicing usung them and now it was time to prove it. He launched his bottom right arm into a hook to the stomach and his top left into a face jab.

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

Shinda didnt often make use of his extra limbs, they were usually a sort of insurance policy if he found his were occupied, but this was an irresistable opportunity to use them so they burst from his sides, a rather loud chaotic, and swift event. He used the second set, a bit slower and less responsive than his own arms to catch the shot to his face, remarkable he took the shot to his stomach, bracing himself for it so he could swing with both of his real arms i na one-two combo at Lux's face, and held the other arm up to block.

[Lux]

Lux took the two shots in the face and somewhere in the distance another level of his subconscious realized that he was hurt. Though all lux could feel was his mind slipping as another two arms sprout from his back and his vision went red. Then it was over, any analytical powers lux may or may not have had before disappeared in favor of strength and speed regardless of the damage it would do to his own body. Those barriers were gone and now lux was feeling the most primal urge hurt, to kill. He launched blow after blow in rapid succession. Instinctivly his fist became Scaly with the stone that covered them. Bones cracked, muscles tore but lux continued the onslaught. The intent to kill burning through his veins.

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

Shinda recognized the berserker mode when he saw it. He couldnt even get a shot in once the assault began, his arms carefully and delicately blocking blow after blow, and while it was easier on him to take hits, with his armor. Tt was difficult to reach his head which he knew would be what took him down, so using the sweeping techniques of northern shaolin he slid one leg forward and followed with the other to maneuver around Lux to aim a kick to his back, working off the tremendous momentum he had to try for a shot to the back of his neck

[Lux]

Lux was done through with the games. Right now he was tapping into the most primal of emotions, but what lay beyond that? What lay beyond death and destruction? Nothing does, amd nothing is what lux descended into. His skin grew black and harder until his body was pitch black and harder than stone . Shinda struck his neck but the affect was minimal. Lux's eyes open revealing the glowing orange orbs that triggered something with in him. Nine fox tails black as night grew. As before with the Katana and the markings, Glowing orange ruins and patterns forging their way through his oynx skin. Opening his mouth with a horrific laughter, you could see the needle like shark teeth that extended into the glowing infero that was the same color as his eyes and the raging aura around him. He turned his head to look at Shinda with crooked, staccato movements and a smile of his face. Lux grabbed the god pinning his arms, or trying too atleast from the direct front. He opened his mouth and just as before a sphere of green liquid formed inside, before lauched it at the god.

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

Shinda was elated. He hadnt had a challenging throw down sort of fight in a long time and Lux provided it. He knew the kitsune for what it was right away as they were native beasts of japan and how superb that this was Lux's coup de gras.Shinda was unable to stop Lux from snatching his arms and he struggled against being thrown down. to play at Lux's level did make him have to think more carefully. Shinda had to think of how to subdue him and use his strength and energy against him. But then it dawned on him. This place he picked, the ambience of it. He planted his hands into the earth and a tree burst forth from the ground just beneath Lux.

[Lux]

Lux was thrown up and back from the tree loosing the ball of acid into it's blossoms. He skitted across the room. He picked himself up and held out his arms. The building began to shake as lux pried the nails loose from boards with his powers. The nails converged and morphed. Before a minute had passed they formed long jagged claws that extended from his six hands. He ran torward shizu, jumping and grabbing the branch swinging himself into a batman esque pose before lauching himself blade first into the god of war. Laughing that dead, Souless, and hollow laughter. The eyes burning and tails swishing about in random patterns as if they lived in a world of their own.

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

Shidna flashed a sadistic looking grin. Oh the rush of battle was spectacular and it took all he had in him to not feed off of it. If he did he would oblitherate Lux and Nadja would be mad and it jut wasnt fair. He was impressed with the kitsune's quick thinking, using the metal of the large home's nails to create claws, but he could wield metal too, and so he changed it from iron to osmium, a heavy metal, a quart of it was 50 pounds but he wasnt simply trying to weigh Lux down, he was far too powerful for that, he turned the metal back into Lux to pierce him as they collided.

[Lux]

Lux didn't notice when the metal turned to osmium and pierced his own body, but it slowed him down. Though his punches certainly gained the added benefit of the heavy weight as Lux collided with Shinda. He let fly punches that had bone crunching force on both sides of the attack. Unfortunately Lux was tiring fast. He couldn't go much longer before he simply collapsed on himself. He would finish it with this strike weather it finished him or perhaps persuaded the God to make it a tie. With the collision Lux turned himself and jumped off the god himself creating distance. He stared down the god and used his patented Sutoraiki o oe shadoukurōn sakkaku, making the god see Lux's demented form multiply into 10,20,50 and finally 100 of the twisted black monsters that stood and matched the original in appearance and movement. Icluding the action of pulling giant blade from the wall and melding it into his flesh as a giant black blade extension. Suddenly Lux charged the god of war with every ounce strength and power he could muster. The wave of the illusion washed over before lux officially threw himself in and struck the god, before collapsing on the floor his ghastly appearance, arms, and stone fell away leaving a broken and bloody lux. "Ow" he said lying on the floor.

[Kage no Shinda Uta]

Shinda had not even able to stop the barreling Lux as he came down on him, fists swinging, but Shinda was far happier than most warriors to be, to have this hell rain down on him. This was a real warrior. This ability to think in a battle to throw everything he had into it, and to wear himself down so far was spectacular. And maybe pure luck allowed Shinda to withstand the fury of blows, but he was an experienced warrior and had probably been in similar scenarios before, like when he pissed off his wife or father in law. So amid the punches he used his extra arms for blocking and implimented a harsh one-inch punch to the man's temple aiming to stun him, but no sooner had he slipped free than Lux finally ran out of steam. Sittin there breathing heavily the warrior just about lit up. "well well you have some fight in you, care to call that a draw?"

[Lux]

Lux looked at the god above him and realized he done goofed. His entire body wad plagued with intense pain and the was a sword sticking out of his arm. Though he wasn't done. Lifted his free arm with all his strength, and through the pain, so Shinda might help him up. He betting if they could find a bone that wasn't broken that they could break it. He chuckled at the proposition of a draw. "Not on your life sport." Lux conjured and fired acid spheres in rapid succession. He didn't like to lose, but he hated draws more. To him it wasn't a sign of mercy but pity. He wouldn't be pitied. He rose slowly and forced the metal out of his body. He staggered towards the god unsure of what was driving him forward. He continued to fire the acid blasts