tampered | Log: Complete

Log: Complete

When; July 10th, Night
Rating; PG-13
Characters; Eve

baneofmyexist
Summary; Having nothing better to do, Bane and Eve decide to sparr once again.
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Eve slowly made her way to the forest area where she and Bane had battled before. It was in a nice clearing, so they wouldn't have to worry about burning down anything. Atleast she hoped so.

At first, she wasn't very serious about Bane's challenge.. but now that Aya had arrived, she felt it would do good to become stronger and to let out some frustration. For once, she was thankful for having someone of equal power to fight against. ~~And he'd make quite a suitable mate, as well.~~

Eve reached the clearing, she waited for Bane to arrive. But despite his warning/suggestion, she was wearing her favorite dress. Was she trying to mock him?.. or perhaps she had a little trick up her sleeve.

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Bane hopped down into the clearing from a tree and landed lightly on his feet. Slowly, he rose to his full height and faced his opponent. "I see you overdressed for the occasion, despite my advice," he said with a smirk. "I mean, honestly. Who spars in a dress?"

"I do." She smirked as well, "but who says I'm going to keep the dress on?"

Eve stripped of her dress, placing it under a nearby tree. She closed her eyes, concentrating as her appearance started to change and she slowly began to float off the ground. She was quite surprised.. even after dying and with the City's power limits, she was still able to perform liberation.

Once finished with her evolving, Eve turned back to Bane, "Is this more suitable?"

Bane was not prepared for this woman to simply disrobe in front of him, and it caught him off-guard for a moment. Her transformation was not unpleasant to the eye, though the extra pieces and claw-like hands detracted from her beauty somewhat. "Did you come here to fight or to show off your body?" he said. He began a transormation of his own, more metaphysical than physical, as he channeled the power of the Dark Side through him, the air around him dimmed and he began to crackle slightly with electricity. "Before we begin, I should ask you, how serious a battle do you want this to be?"

"My physical apperance means little to me. I cannot fight to my full potiental in my human form." Eve felt herself getting goosebumps from Bane's power. "I would like a serious battle. It would be a waste for me use my liberation and not have a challenging fight."

"I was hoping you would say that," Bane said with a grin. He reached out and enveloped a nearby tree in the Force, and with a swing of his arm he uprooted it from the ground and hurled it at Eve to start things off.

[OOC: Sorry for the delay, busy day around here. :\ ]

Eve managed to avoid most of the tree, causing some of it to combust as it flew towards her. Unfortunately, she wasn't fast enough and got hit with a few of the branches.

After recovering from the blow, she flew up higher and pointed her arms downward as she charged up an energy arrow. Once the arrow was fully charged, Eve fired it at Bane.

With the heightened awareness provided him through the Force, Bane could see the arrow coming to him almost as if in slow motion. It was a simple matter to dive to the side and let it pass him harmlessly. The resulting explosion when it hit the ground, however, he was not prepared for, and the shockwave knocked the wind out of him and threw him down. "I hate these flying creatures," Bane muttered to himself as he tumbled to his feet and hit the ground running, sending Force-hurled projectiles Eve's way as he tried to think of a way to get her back to the ground.

Eve began to fly around Bane in a circular motion, closer to the ground now. She tried to dodge the attacks but was hit by a few, causing her speed to faulter. Changing directions, she began to fly towards Bane, hoping to get close enough so she could use her hair-made-hands to attack.

Hurling one last good-sized rock at Eve, Bane stopped his forward momentum as she came toward him, he considered activating his lightsaber but decided against; he didn't want to damage her too badly in this duel. Instead, as she came at him he enhanced his strength with a surge of Force power and made a lunge for one of her strange hair-claws, in an attempt to wrestle her to the ground.

That last rock hit her in the legs, not that she really used them in this form.. but it caused her to become unbalanced, which gave Bane the time he needed to grab her hair. Eve yelped and hit the ground with a loud thud, her free hair-claw began to surge with purple electricty as she swung it at Bane.

With both hands busy with one of her claws, all Bane could do against the other was shift his weight so it caught him in the back instead of somewhere more vital. He clenched his teeth and grunted in pain as the charge coursed through him. Sinking into the Force, he did what he could to lessen the pain and absorb some of the energy coming at him as he reached around with his free hand and tried to grab hold of her other hair-claw and subdue it.

Both hair claws were putting up quite a protest, thrashing around, the one trying to get out of Bane's grasp, the other trying to avoid it. Eve's normal hands were somewhat useless, as they felt soft and rubbery. The only thing left that she could use to attack was her eyes or the tip of her tail.. if she could bend her legs up far enough.

With only two hands, it was all Bane could do to keep the rest of her from harming him too much. He threw a blast of Force Lightning at her legs to keep them from moving too much and lunged for her other hair-claw, trying to pin both of them to the ground.

The lightning blast was enough to keep Eve still for just a few moments, allowing him to grab the loose hair claw.

She stopped squirming and looked up at Bane, with a blank look on her face, "..."

Surprised that she had stopped struggling, he met her look and smirked. "Does that mean you yield?" he said, amused. "No more tricks up your sleeve?"

"You think I would give up that easily?" Eve smirked and brought a hand up, gently poking Bane on the nose.

.. She did ineed have one more trick up her sleeves. Eve felt like a fool for forgetting she was capable of attacking with her weaker hands. She placed her hands on Bane's chest and sent an energy shock into him.

You fool!; the thought that screamed in Bane's mind as the blast coursed through him and knocked him away from her. The pain of that full-on hit coupled with his rage at himself for missing something so obvious fueled the power within him, and he abandoned all pretense of holding back. With a snarl of rage he unclipped his lightsaber from his belt and activated both of its blades, the red and blue bars of energy glowing in stark contrast to each other as he charged her recklessly.

Eve slowly flew up into the air, surprised her energy blast had worked so well. Now, she had fought Aya who used guns.. but lightsabers? They had nothing like those in her world.

The woman arched her eyebrows, flying up higher in hopes to avoid the blades, "You should learn to control your temper, my dear."

Bane skidded to a halt and stopped, holding his 'saber at his side and glaring up at Eve. Again she takes to the air, he thought to himself, annoyed.

"My dear," he said in a tone that was more than a little mocking, "if I controlled my temper this duel would not be nearly as interesting." He stood there staring up at her, the air around him darknening and shimmering as he slowly gathered energy around himself and waited to see what she would do next.

"I suppose you're right, but don't let all that rage blind you. But if you're allowed to use weapons.. then the same rule applies to me, right?"

"Of course, we've been using them since we started," Bane replied. "The Force and your energy manipulation techniques are as much weapons as these blades," he said.

"Hm.. then I hope you don't mind this.." Eve giggled, a bone crunching, flesh ripping noise coming from over by a group of trees.

Out came a monstrous looking rat, about the size of a dog, and prehensile tail with three points at the end. The mutated rat roared and skittishly headed towards Bane.

"I could have liberated more animals," she said casually, "but that wouldn't be any fun."

Bane answered the rat's strange roar by lifting his hand and levitating the creature several feet above the ground. It's little feet flailed in the air in vain as Bane smirked up at Eve. "Weapons are one thing," he said, "allies are quite another." He clenched his fist and twisted his hand, and with a sickening crunch and a yelp of pain it's head twisted at a completely unnatural angle. He smiled up at Eve and, with a wave of his arm he hurled the corpse of the creature in her direction.

Eve crossed her arms, resting her chin on her hand and combusted the rat' corpse before it could hit her, "Those things were never very strong," She sighed.

"But you.. Your powers are amazing. To control things like that with your Force.." She began to descend, "I'm sure if you wanted to, you could twist my neck right now and be done with it, couldn't you?"

Bane watched her carefully, keeping an eye out for anything tricky she might try. "I could," he said, "though there are ways of negating the ability, if one is sensitive and knows how to do so." He smirked. "Besides, you have a lovely neck, I would hate to damage it if I didn't have to."

"Then again," he said, "I'm sure if you really wanted to, you could combust me the same way you did that corpse. Unless my abilities prevent that particular trick from working?"

"I'm flattered," Eve smiled, a few inches off the ground now. "My victims generally don't survive if they combust, whether it be a burnt corpse or completely melted away.. I don't think I have the heart to do that to you."

She looked down at the bruises and scrapes, wiping away some of the blood, "You are the only person, besides my sister, that has been able to injure me. I'm quite impressed."

The thought of making another Ultimate Being crossed her mind. With Bane's power.. Eve was certain it would be stronger than it was before. But it surely wouldn't last in this city..

"You don't have the hart? Somehow I doubt that," he said. "Thank you though," Bane said in that mocking tone again. "Not many people I've gone up against put up as much of a fight as you do."

Bane noticed a strange look on her face and reached out with the Force, trying to get a sense of her emotions. There was something odd there, though he couldn't put his finger on what. He held his arms out to his side, deactivating his blade for now. "Shall we continue? Or did you have something else in mind?"

"I'm going to have to decline on continuing. I'm sorry." She sighed, "I've become distracted with pointless thoughts."

"You win this round. If I had not started my idle chatter, I'm sure you would have cut me up with those blades."

"Very well then," Bane replied, "we shall save it for another time."

"I can tend to your wounds if you wish," he said. Why he said them he couldn't say, they merely came out before he could stop them.

"I will be alright," Eve smiled, "but thank you for the offer."

She moved away from Bane and liberated back into her human form. Although the injuries looked more severe, they were slowly beginning to heal. Slipping her dress back on, Eve decided it would be best to float back to the Opera House, rather than walking. She turned back towards Bane, "I'll need to strengthen my powers for our next fight."

When she had been covered in spikes, rubbery appendages and other such unsightly modifications, Bane had found it a simple matter to ignore her nudity and do what needed to be done. When she reverted, it was all he could do not to stare. Not bothering to hide it, he watched her dress, and it was all he could do not to simply take her right then and there. Patience, he thought to himself. There is a time and place for everything. "I look forward to the challenge," Bane replied.

"Take care." She waved her fingers playfully at him and floated off towards the city.

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