Practice 2 (Lorielle Only)

Like the polearm practice, Jin reciprocated with Lorielle about the usage of these Personas. He hadn't really bothered to try to see what Hashashin could do. But he had some ideas. Regardless, they were here in Iwaigodai once the car stopped moving. As he parked, the teacher left the vehicle with his student. As according to her directions, they found themselves in a warehouse of old cars. It seemed like an old "library" of these vehicles with all these out-dated types.

"Hashashin."

He called for the Persona once they were ready in the clearing. Through the dark bores of the skull where eye should be seen, there was a small tell-tale glint before disappearing into the darkness. Then a small holographic-like screen appeared next to Jin which told him all of Lorielle's stats.

"Well, looks like I'm going to have a hard time," he remarked nonchalantly.

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OOC: Let's go.

Inside the large room, Lorielle would be entering in the only entrance possible in order to meet up with Zong Wu. It had eight rows of cars of average size, yet peculiarly, they all had a truck in each row. Though they were all old models, and most likely forgotten. They stretched about a hundred feet while the warehouse itself gave about twenty at the edge of each row, and in between each row was about thirty. Though one row near the end of the left in the middle had some cars spread out to the next side from the middle, indicating they were pushed by some force. Lorielle would walk in and see Jin ready for battle, even going to far as to analyze her abilities. Which was a bit invading. ‘So this was what Sagami did,’ she thought. She would laugh a bit. “Jeez, gimme a chance first before you beat me up,” she said. Jin seemed to be by the entrance, so she walked to the edge of one row of the first row of cars, giving them plenty of distance, and would grab her head and hiss loudly to call forth her Persona Yhoundeh. Her eyes would turn golden and she would give a grin before pulling out her naginata, her soulbound weapon. Yhoundeh would fly up about ten feet above her and pull her hand out to open it at Zong Wu. Almost instantly, a human-sized icicle would fly up from the ground to strike him. It was not too powerful, but it was right under him, so if he had some fancy flying, he could probably get out of it. Though the icicle would shoot up rather fast. Whenever the attack was finished and she had hit or not, Lorielle would stand ready for his next attack.

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"This is more of your expertise. I doubt we would have a similar result like last time."

And he was right. However, Jin wasn't going to stand still while her deer-horned Persona was going to fly up. No way he was going to be a perfect target for whatever it can do. Through his senses, he felt something cold rising up from below. He jumped and rolled over a car to avoid being pierced by the ice summoned by Lorielle's ethereal servant. At the same time Jin had dodged, Hashashin had thrown two knives at Lorielle.

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Dodging the knives rather easily, being a nimble person, and them being far away, she had plenty of time to run to Zong Wu as he was rolling around twenty feet to a car. It gave her plenty of an opening to strike him with her soulbound weapon. She would make a slash downwards toward him, then after that, hopping back. Meanwhile Yhoundeh was floating lower behind Lorielle in case she was needed.

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Jin had already found it either strange or good luck that Lorielle would come to him. But from his position, it was going to be rather hard to do much as the car is in the way. Once his body was very close to the car, she was going to attack him. He simply threw up a leg to kick the attack to the side which essentially parried the attack away from him as his shin met against the harmless piece of the wooden shaft.

As she retreated, Hashashin already threw another pair of knives at her retreating figure while Jin rolled again to hide behind a car.

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Lorielle, watching as Zong Wu dispelled her strike, would be a bit exasperated, but remembering who she was up against, as fighting Zong Wu with weapons seemed rather pointless. While she was retreating, she would be hit with the two knives, as she was hopping, and at some point she would pause for a moment. While that did hurt her, it did not do much in the grand scheme of things. Meanwhile, Zong Wu had hidden behind a car, and left Lorielle with her own perfect idea. While Lorielle would hop in the small space between the two cars with ease, Yhoundeh would be summoning an orb of pure darkness, thereafter launching it at the first car which would send it flying over to the next row onto another, most likely either hitting him, or at least revealing his location. Yhoundeh would then vanish into Lorielle's subconscious. She needed to remain stealthy in this moment.

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Through the window, Jin could only wonder what Lorielle's next move was. As he watched, both Persona and User hid themselves in the expanse of cars like he did. However, that wasn't it. Somehow this girl was able to force one car to crash into another to force it into a rapid collision to him.

"Oh shit."

Hashashin attempted to pop the tires with the dual knives. But it certainly didn't seem like it did anything. That said, Jin found himself flying into the air from the collision and land onto the clearing, dazed.

"Urgh..."

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Seeing as how Lorielle heard a noise that sounded mostly like an angered teacher, she took it she got him. And while she had a free attack on him, she wanted to get the drop on his Persona, who apparently he had not told to join him. Summoning Yhoundeh, she would fire a crystal of ice at Hashanin, while running herself at the location of Zong Wu, hiding behind an intact car. Yhoundeh would follow soon after the attack.

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Jin blinked and was obviously almost out of it. He had to blink his way out of his consciousness. But at the corner of his eye, he noticed his own Persona would be under attack. Damn. As the ice would come to hit Hashashin, the assassin spirit would at least throw dual knives towards Lorielle's person to buy him more time to recover. Both knives would aim at her knees to cause her to trip. Once the ice hit, the cloaked figure silently lurched in pain from the impact.

The teacher snapped his senses back into reality to quickly get onto his feet. They were going to come. If that was the case, he would run towards Lorielle. It would seem to be a suicidal-like plan. But he did have something in mind.

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By the time she was at the car, she would have enough time to see Zong Wu's Persona attempt an attack. Using her nimble body, she would bound over to the direction away from the area where Zong Wu was most likely, avoiding the attack completely. But again, the Persona was out in the open, so Yhoundeh would again, launch another icicle at him. Though this time, being a rather weak ice spell, this Persona probably had a better shot at avoiding it. While doing this, Lorielle would run up the aisle crouching down to avoid detection, away from where Zong Wu most likely was.

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It had bought both the summoner and Persona some time, but there was another attack coming. While the knives were brought out again, this time there were chains attached into the darkness of the cloak it wore. Hashashin threw the knives right into the floor to propel itself into the air, allowing it to dodge the onslaught of icicles. Jin had taken this time call the Persona back into his consciousness. He rolled again behind a car to hide himself. The soldier had a plan.

Taking out a cigarette, he lit it on fire. Then he left it to the side to allow it to keep on burning longer. As Jin did this, he quietly scurried away into a car as the door silently opened to wait inside. The teacher waited to hear and feel for any movement.

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Lorielle would remain, until she smelled a bit of smoke. In this area, even with all the space, smoke was not out of the question to get. She would look and see that smoke was rising. Did Zong Wu seriously thing that ploy would work? Most likely he is either in the same spot, or running opposite of the smoke. This was actually a similar plan she used on Gabby, but this time it was different. Smoking in combat was so obvious. That in mind, she would see Hashanin disappear, the same way Yhoundeh did earlier. And she would move down, still concealed by cars. And Yhoundeh would fly to the car right next to the smoke. From her finger would come a blade as long as she was, and she would bring it down to strike the car. She could not tell if Zong Wu was there, nor could she look. If anything, this was meant to draw him out. Once the attack was finished, Yhoundeh would fly back and duck under the cars.

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Jin lost this round. He knew as he saw some blade flash through the car. He felt utter pain once it was lashed against him. And obviously he wasn't going to get up from this. This time he just sat in this car that Lorielle slashed through with her Persona power. He simply called out for her.

"Yeah, I give. I lost this one."

He struggled to get out of the car with wobbly legs as he gave her a sheepish grin.

"It looks like using a Persona is more in your field after all. Heh. So, how much damage did I give you?"

Almost at the same time he asked, Hashashin appeared again with the same holographic screen like last time. Jin sighed upon seeing the results.

"Oh really? Dang..."

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So Lorielle made a lucky shot and got him. Though maybe she should take it a bit easy and just try to see how far this man could go in a fight. She would stand up, and look at her Persona. Yhoundeh would nod, gathering her intention, and send a ball of red and pink light over to Zong Wu while at the same time, another ball would go to her. It would heal all of her wounds and much of Zong Wu's. "You alright?" she would ask. After the ball would heal him Lorielle would start to walk back near the end of the row of cars close to the door, calling out to him. "Keep going! I gotta see how far you can push it!" she would say, Yhoundeh behind her. Lorielle was enjoying the tense battle. Especially since for once she had the better end of the stick.

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He felt himself get a lot better now. But despite what she says, Jin's Persona is really a one-trick pony. And on top of that, he was limited in every way. It doesn't help when age does a real good number on your capabilities. But regardless the teacher, or rather the student, would have to continue.

Once she made her distance, the battle would then begin. However this time, in a very strange way. Instead of knives flashing through in the open, they would be hidden right under the row of cars. The space under them somehow provided enough room for these slivers of metal to fly towards her feet where she would least expect it. Jin usually didn't think this was possible, but apparently this "assassin" had enough skills to do it.

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