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Date & Time: July 11th
Location: Training hall.
Characters: Eridan & Sollux.
Summary: Eridan and Sollux are going to have a MAGIC VS PSIONICS duel because Eridan sure needs to prove himself at every turn for no good reason.
Warnings: Violence. Lazers.

Finally. For too long has he felt dealing with this ignorant lowblood been a problem he should have rectified long ago and he now had his chance. Sollux agreed to a duel, something Eridan wanted ever since their first duel so long ago, back when he relied upon his old weapon. He was defeated and humiliated, but he came back stronger and won. He beat Sollux and proved his superiority back on the meteor in the veil.

Now, though, it's the same old song and dance. Just a peasant from the past unaware of who his superior truly is, so if he has to do it all over again, to prove himself better than Sollux, so be it. He'd do it as many times as he had to. Nothing was more gratifying in his mind. He stands as a lone figure within the training hall, arms folded and wand currently held tightly between his fingers. His new wand the initiative crafted for him. He never felt so self-assured in his entire life.

He was going to make him pay.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUmT07bPfl8&feature=related eridan theme song for this thread

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They say 'those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it,' (-- Troll T.S. Elliot) but what do they say about idiots who know the future and allow themselves to repeat it? Probably that they deserve the culling heading for them. Sollux doesn't disagree. He deserves to be culled if he's this stupid to go through with this. He knows that wand- or rather, Eridan's "magic" burns his eyes out. He knows it kills Feferi, moments after he's knocked out.

Was he really so cocky as to think he could change the future? Probably.

Sollux approaches the training hall, Eridan (dramatic as usual) already waiting for him. He begins to wake up his psionics, and cracks his fingers to loosen them up.

"Okay. Let'th go."

LMFAO it's perfect...

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"An' here I thought you wweren't gonna showw."

Eridan's own powers manifest as he unfolds his arms, both the wand and the hand he so tightly clings to it with engulfed in white light, radiating from it like a flame. This was it. There's a rush of anticipation throughout his whole body before he sweeps his arm out in Sollux's direction and fires a bolt of white magic towards him.

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"I conthidered not showing, if only to leave you hanging here." A shrug, and he's floating a few inches off the ground already, concentrating balls of energy in his hands. "But I figured then you'd get the wrong idea about me not having the globesth to do thith."

And he's not waiting this time. Sollux is striking first, the glowing orbs of energy being hurled at Eridan- one towards his shoulder and the other at his feet.

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Eridan isn't forced into staying grounded however; he's rising up just as Sollux had but with greater speed if only to evade both orbs thrown his way. As he's stopped ascending, now on level with his opponent, Eridan aims his wand and fires a stream of white magic at Sollux.

WHOOPS ICON PACK GONE pretend these aren't all 2D

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When... when the fuck could Eridan do that? Is that another power of the wand? Wow, bullshit. Not that Sollux has much time to think about said bullshit, when there's a blast of power headed for him. And of course, his first thought is to fight it, head on. Eye lasers would be the most obvious choice.

... But that would also be what Eridan is expecting. And he knows, Eridan is very, very determined in the idea that Sollux loses their fight on the meteor. How he supposedly beats him isn't mentioned, of course, aside from "wwhite science" doing in his eyes, but somehow, sticking his face in the middle of this doesn't strike him as a good idea, when this could very well be what blinds him.

It takes a huge spurt of power for him to move the fuck away from where he was in the split second he had of a reaction time, and he tumbles to the ground to dodge, scrambling back to his feet. And he turns, to see the damage left behind in wake of the white magic.

it's cool i think mines running out soon so if i start using out of place icons too then ignore em

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The powers of the wand are much too fitting for Eridan's personality, being beautiful in appearance yet terrifying in terms of destructive power; poetic in a sense, tying in with his theatrical and grandiose behavior. Like lightning, the blast is swift and crackles loudly, yet once it collides with the wall that was behind Sollux it bursts outwards in a small explosion like flames, spreading out across it's surface and burning brightly, searing white fire that consumes everything it touches...it's over the top, sure, but again fits it's wielder to a T.

"I gotta hand it to you Sol; you're pretty good at runnin' awway."

He wastes no time, again aiming the wand towards Sollux and unleashing yet another blast of white magic straight at him.

i'm just hitting random icon now

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Sollux once again has very little time to make a decision after seeing the destruction, and turns back to Eridan in time to see another blast headed straight for him. He dives to the side to dodge, but he can't do this forever. He'll get tired before that wand ever will.

"It'th called thtrategy. Look it up." A weak retort, but he's not really feeling so great about this duel right now. There has to be a way to win this...

Sollux quickly makes up his mind, and begins to fly right towards Eridan, to close the distance between them. Okay, so this isn't a great plan he's got going, but right now, it's all he's got.

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Of all things he didn't expect Sollux to try and get up close like this; he aims his wand again to fire, but if the other troll's quick enough he might be able to close the distance before he can try to blast him again.

If he isn't quick enough however, he's pretty much throwing himself right into an oncoming blast.

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This idea was both amazingly brilliant and amazingly stupid. On the plus side, Sollux manages to get there in time to punch Eridan in the face before he fires another blast.

On the minus side, Sollux is about as strong as a wet paper bag. The punch goes through, but how much damage did it even really do?

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Unfortunately, what with Sollux's lack of upper body strength, the punch probably hasn't as much as an effect as he'd like it to. Eridan's head jerks back once he's punched, though the indignation hurts more than the punch itself. His lips rise accompanied by a snarl and forgetting about any idea of simply shooting Sollux point blank, which would be really damn easy and probably the smart move, instead he raises his free hand and punches Sollux right back. So at least his temper blinding him from making a smart move in retaliation is a plus to that plan.

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And then that retaliation punch leads to Sollux biting his tongue, quite hard, and stumbling back a step to regain his balance. Okay, he's disoriented, but so is Eridan, to a degree. Less in pain and more in anger but what can he say? It worked. If he can just get that wand away...

Once Sollux catches himself properly aligned with the gravitational pull of the Earth, he makes a shove to get up close once again, to distract Eridan physically, while he tugs on the wand psychically, to fling it out of Eridan's grip.

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He loses his balance at the shove, enough of a distraction for his focus to make keeping a hold of the wand difficult, especially when he feels the object being tugged from his grasp. He can see where Sollux is going with this and, admittedly, there's not much Eridan can do to stop it from being pulled out of his hand completely, so instead he decides to try and make his last moment count. He takes one final poorly aimed shot in Sollux's general direction, not even sure where it'd hit if it hit at all, before the wand is flung from his grasp.

He knows he needs to get it back, but his next course of action all depends on whether or not his last ditch attempt even does anything.

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Congrats, Eridan. It does do something. Poorly aimed is an accurate description, and while the wand is flung from Eridan's grasp, across the room, it managed to have enough precision for the edge of the blast to catch Sollux's shirt. Sollux's shirt, which is now on fire. Which is he proceeding to scream about. Being on fire is a good way to panic and completely forget about psionics, as Sollux loses his shit completely and instead tries to rip his own shirt off.

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He's a little stunned momentarily by the display and, to be honest, he'd gladly just stand there and watch Sollux freak out and burn all day if he could, but he snaps back into reality and realizes he can't waste time.

He scrambles off in the direction he last saw the wand fly and starts searching around for it, which he'd find relatively quickly if left uninterrupted. He's just hoping that fire is enough of a distraction.

my goal is for sollux to take off his shirt every log i'm in, also how do we want this to go?

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He manages to get it off soon enough that he's only lightly burned ('tis but a flesh wound) and maybe his hair just got an unexpected trimming through some close encounters to fire, but otherwise he's okay. The problem is... he doesn't know where he tossed the wand either. So instead he just opts to pluck Eridan up from his search, by the back of the shirt, and levitate him a foot into the air. If, you know, he can even get a grip on the guy.

i think a draw by shit-i-cant-find-my-weapon as is now is cool if thats ok with you

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"He-hey, wwhat the fuck?"

He struggles in mid-air, swinging his arms a bit, but to no avail more than likely. So now he's shifting his focus towards Sollux and just glaring.

"Put me dowwn!"

yes, okay.

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"No."

Yeah, he's definitely not going to do that. That would be dumb with a capital D. Instead, he shakes Eridan a bit, but continues to keep him suspended in the air.

"I lotht a shirt becauthe of your thtupid wand. And bethidesth, now I wath going eathy on you inthtead of jutht breaking your writht or thomething." Okay, kind of lying about going easy. This wasn't an easy fight. "Next time I thee that wand though, I'm thnapping it in half."

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"..."

Urgh, seriously. First Kanaya, now Sollux. He really wishes he didn't have to rely on his wand for fighting. If only he could use white science the way Sollux uses his psionics or something.

"Evven if you did they'd just repair it or somethin'. It wwon't change anythin'."

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"Yeah, it wouldn't change anything. Jutht like it wouldn't change me continuing to break it in two ath many timesth ath I need to do tho. Maybe eventually the Initiative will get tired of giving you shit and jutht tell you to pack it up and go home for being such a utheleth little shit." Sollux drops Eridan to the floor, but keeps him pinned there, so he can't go look for the wand. "And now we've fought. And now you've lotht. And now I'm going back to the hive to eat a bowl of circle-shaped puffed oatsth. Bye."

He begins to leave the training hall, sure to keep Eridan's feet pinned at least until he's a safe distance away.