The Games of Saberhaven
Dalkar Stonebiter vs. Kushari Walkorn
The ninja-mage steaps forward, slightly glowing form a fireshield, surrounded by a flurry of 15 images. If not for his blurred countnance, spectators would swear hey saw a grimace on Kushari's face.
Finishing up a spell, Kushari cocks his head and views the crazed onrushing of Dalkar. About 50 yards out, a huge translucent hand appears in front of the dwarf, fingers open. A shocked look runs across the face of the dwarf as the hand grabs him and squeezes.
Dalkar looks a bit anoyed as he is stoped by this big magical hand and exclaims "Why Krushy, what big hands you got?" and procceeds, with a primal scream, to beat this hand into oblivion. He takes a chunk out of the force hand with three punches, but continues to get the squeeze.
Continuing his blurringly fast assult on the "Hand of Death", Dalkar grunts as he's squeezed ever tighter. He lashes out and destroys the hand of force with one more blow.
Dalkar looks around quikly to see were his opponent is, points to him and says, "That wasn't nice Krushy, let's try it my way!"
Dalkar doesn't detect anyone invisible so advances towards the group of 16 Kusharis. he enters like a madman, hacking through the illusions lke nobody's business, taking out 5 images.
Dalkar goes into a fighting frenzy surrounded by all these mages. At the pace he is setting, these images will be gone soon, and it will be Dalkar and Krushy, Mano a Mano.
Suddenly, the unexpected happens. Reaching out at another image, the dwarf twists his arm in an unnatural way and loses control of it.
Kushari takes advantage of his damages opponent. the images of the mage all seem to sumon energy from within, then they let loose with a barrage of hundreds of magical missles into the dwarf (though only one of them is sending actual missiles).
The damage is done, however, and the dwarf, in his crazed state, seems dazed - and crazed.
"KILL!" screams the dwarf. Spitting and chanting, Dalkar lets all the little Krushy's have it. Three images disappear before the dwarf stmbles, falls off balance and bumbles ot the ground, stunned.
The face of the mage - and the images - doesn't change, he simply finishes his spell, summoning four 20-foot burning spheres, all coming together on Dalkar.
The battlerager stands little chance against the meteor swarm. His weakened state leves him vulnerable, and his magical protections don't do enough to thwart the heavy damage from the powerful spell.
As he falls to the ground, the crowd cheers and the fight is declared over. Kushari and all his images disappear and the real Kushari appears off to the side of the action area, having worked his magic from hiding all the time.
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