The training that become a battle, Kageo vs. Setsuna Musuki vs. Majamu

In the open of the green fields, as the modified kaka was certain that this had been no one's training ground, he would use it as one temporarily, hopefully he could make this time worth the effort of coming out this far. "Nya, this will be worth me time! Let's get started!" he called out excitedly to himself, it was of course just something of a 'battle cry' perhaps? Or just Kageo being himself.

As Kageo had recovered from his bout with the powerful Jin Kisaragi, he felt it was time for him to get out there and to try some more. He was aiming to tempt his strength into growth, no...stimulate was more like it. The battle had left him drained that day, and the two that followed. Here on this third day, he would make himself stronger than he was the day before. "Nyuu, its time for my spear to become stronger...come Nihongo (the spear's name when its sealed ^^), we must increase his power if we will help more than we do, nya." a serious point of his focus; as the spear's pole base was grabbed and spun briefly before the rounded end was planted in the ground.

The kaka started slow, practicing a few swings in an arcing motion; bringing the edge of the blade into the air and then twisting the center of it. The slow forms were unorthodox, a strange testament perhaps to his learned form. The spear was a part of his very body, it controlled the power the artifice cores bled; it was perhaps what helped guide him whenever in a fight. The test would begin today, he would have to attempt another resonance. "A power that forces me into a corner..." the thoughts made him frown a little bit, as he remembered how he was pushed into the need of his seithr resonance. This could not be the outcome...not every time.

"A member of Sector Seven... so alone and afraid... waveing around with a toy far too large for his own size."

Setsuna said, entering the meadow he was sparring on, the hands in her pockets, her eyes icy cold and fixed on the Kaka.
Although she was mocking him, her face showed nothing but dead seriousness.

"I`m gonna enjoy that as much as i enjoy squishing a fly, but...even the small fish get fried."

As she stood behind him, a swift movement drew her sword, and she pointed it at Kageo, licking two of her fingers of the free hand whilest aiming at him.

"Come, Kitty."

As she was sitting on the field, Majamu heard something moving. She started looking everywhere, scanning the area with her robotic eye.
There is one thing moving quite strongly... and another standing still... If she thought I would not detect her, she's in for a big surprise.
Majamu did a very high and long jump, right to the point of forming a triangular formation, her fall shaking the ground a little bit. Right after she recovered from the "little" impact, she threw her long cloak away.
With an arrogant face, she looked at the two other persons standing in the place.
"If you want to pick fights that randomly..." She didn't finish her phrase at the moment, but made a sigh with her left hand. "Try and fight me."
Her normal eye, despite looking blurry, pierced the stances of the other fighters.

"Nyoo great, yet another person after my neck." he said this with an idle sigh, hearing the taunt it wasn't that everyone was after him of course; but more that less than a few days ago Jin had nearly seen to his demise. Of course his body was preparing itself, already releasing the first traces of power gathered by the artifice cores. It had taken about 2 days, but they had replenished the energy that had been exhausted against Jin. This...would not be any easier, he could only tell by the way this strange female drew the sword, her taunt, the stance taken: all pointing to someone who had come with the intent of crushing him.

This would not be allowed, he took no moment to practice with Nihongo any longer and twisted the end of the spear upwards as he gripping the center of the M.A.C. (Master Artifice Core) weapon with a snarl, as his tail frizzed up at the threat on his life. Not in anger, but in readiness. "Fine, Kageo needs a good match anyway, come then Miss assassin killer; Kageo-kaka accepts your attempt on his life." this was more of a joke, since it wasn't like he really had a choice in this matter. As the mechanical voice spoke from the center of the spear.

"M.A.C. systems recognize command, threat level moderate to high, caution...releasing 30% strength." while Kageo hated revealing how much of his power he was using, the weapon was not yet awakened and thus could not hide the level of power that he was going to be using. He hadn't wanted to awaken Kagennotsuki just yet. No...he wanted to see if his regular strength was worthy; he would test his pride as a kaka before this woman.

Though...as he had not guessed it, yet another would appear upon the field; it was presently clear to him that he had yet another contender to deal with. Judging by the tone, this would not play out so well; now would it? "Oh boy...Nihongo, we've got another guest, nyu..~" the trouble was simply mounting as he spotted this second female; eyeing her only for a moment before spying the first of his opponents. He would likely now be facing them both.

Setsuna was waiting for a suprised strike by the Kaka, but it didn´t follow... either he had some pretty big balls, or he was just so high on painkillers that he didn´t fear her.

"...You don´t want to strike first, huh? Your loss."

A mighty overhead strike was the reaction, her free arm tightly pressed onto her chest while the blade swung down from the upper left to the lower right, the blade gaining enough mass to split him in half with this first flourish. She wanted to finish this quickly, to have time to engage the other woman which she was unprotected toward right now.

I knew i should´ve learned dual wielding when i had the chance to. Oh well... i´ll manage.

Her pierceing eyes watched Kageo closely, while she was trying to feel Majamu´s moves, if there were any. Her armor could probably absorb the strike anyway if she was dareing to take the chance. If not... well, then this fight would be over sooner than it started.

Majamu wanted to avoid revealing all of her abilities in that fight, though against two opponents she would have no choice.
Seeing Setsuna rush in to Kageo annoyed her. She rushed even faster, the reactor engines behind both her legs made a terrific sign on ignition as she flew as a torpedo towards Setsuna and Kageo. Like trying to hit at random in the midst of the crowd. If she got the first strike with that attack, it would surely result in her taking the head of the fight, or so she thought. At the speed she was flying, a dodge-then-counter maneuver could hardly be possible.

His eyes watched her carefully, as a practiced hand, he managed to bring his spear the horizontal way across, with his free hand supporting the end of the blade against the blow. This power had come a great deal to supporting his body. He felt himself tremble for a moment, before the sudden impact of a body against his side, what best to do after seeing the second opponent. "As the waning moon soars overhead, may thee awaken, Kagennotsuki!" Kageo took no other chances as his body felt the boost of energy hit him. His aim to throw this powerful blade strike off at first, but instead Kageo's body retracted downward, taking a crouching position as he prepared to take the brunt of this new foe's dash. He had not counted on Majamu's presence coming upon them so swiftly.

"Nyo, this is gonna hurt in the morning." he murmured, as he knew his action would cause his first attacker to fall inward, perhaps a little off balance while he had aimed to absorb some damage with his own body right now.

"Heh. This is gonna suck."

Setsuna commented, but unlike Kageo, she meant the fight in itself. The attack from Majamu was blocked with the armor on her left arm, then she took a quick step back as Kageo pushed her off.
The Kaka was down now, in a crouch... a perfectly good chance to make the odds a little more even.

"... Repell~!" She shouted out, activateing her Swordbreaker drive, then quickly went for slash, comeing from below, to strike Kageo in the face.. he couldn´t know that it was unblockable, right...? This was gonna put things into her favor.
Even if he would try to block the hit, the increased force of her sword would just knock the weapon out of his hands like a stick snapping in two...

He couldn't have known this tactic or its level of power and so quickly without a thought, Kageo shot forward, a pounce-like motion aimed away from the attack's path; this all but attempting to get himself the hell outta the way of the attack. Not sure what would be happening, the only thing he had now to absorb any damage? Perhaps the awakened mode with his spear; little else he could've done with his body open to the drive-stylized move. He could only hope that his somewhat enhanced levels would allow him the agility to get out of the move's way without taking something fatal. "Nyo! Bogus!!" was all he could yell, avoiding any actual methods of defense outside of his evasion.

He still hoped to find himself in one piece after this, after all kakas were light on their feet right? And from a pouncing position as he'd been it, it was about as could as he could be for fleeing.

Majamu flipped after her attack passed. She spent a time slowing her speed and standing back up.
"Wait, the Kaka is your ally!", said the voice in Majamu's earphones.
"Screw this, I am training!", she replied as she stood back.
"With an enemy?"
"I don't know who she is and I don't care. I do what I do, final.", Majamu said angrily while throwing her earphones on her cloak.
Upon noticing the attack, Majamu came progressively to them once again, waiting for the attack to hit or miss or whatever could come.

Setsuna blinked as her strike hit nothing, on the contrary, she was pounced by the Kaka... quickly ducking, Kageo flew over her, landing behind her back... she turned quickly and took a step back, her sword raised to defend incomeing attacks, but the attack pattern was as random and as instinctive as with any Kaka so far. Sometimes he attacked, sometimes he didn´t...
So, in a sudden change of mind, she gritted her teeth and tried again.

"REPELL!"

Another overhead slash followed, this time straight, aimed to go from top to bottom through the cat... she wanted to finish this quickly, ignoreing that overuseing her drive could tire her out quicker than what would be good for her.

"Nyo, not again!" this time with no chance but to do anything further, he countered with another attack, she was too close for him not to have to strike back in some way. "The Waning Moon's tail!" the Caeruleus energy had filled the end of his spear tip, flaring out in a wide angle, as his determination to survive backed the attack while he raced forward.

All he could really try to do now, was see that the attack didn't hit him fully; this was aimed for through the pointing of his spear, the Kagennotsuki's aura might just help redirect his body to stay away from that bloody troublesome sword after all! He knew one thing and that was the obvious attempt to cleave him in two. With his body off to the right of his spear, he would be sure that should her attack be stronger (which he surmised it was), her blow would shoot him away from her some distance. Perhaps to a small safety so he could gather his bearings. The grip on the spear was to hope that it was not knocked away; but even he couldn't be a judge of that. "Nyu...I hope this works..."

Unnoticed, Majamu intruded the battle again. This time right between the two fighters.
Her right arm lifted, she unveiled her robotic right arm. That arm started sparkling and the magnetic force slowed the momentum of her opponents.
She drew both her swords, her Rengoku and her older sword, and her swords clashed with each attack. Her left hand and her Rengoku were on par with Kageo's spear attack and her right hand with her other sword blocked Setsuna's attack midway.
Majamu laughed to herself, before saying out loud to Kageo and Setsuna: "You thought you could ignore me?"

Setsuna grinned, seeing how the Kaka was stunned by her movement and wouldn´t move away this time, but was disappointed right then when Majamu made the foolish choice of jumping into the between of them.
Her sword collided with the old sword, the increaseing mass of the Swordbreaker move ramming it out of the way, back towards Majamu, before it struck Kageo´s spear..
Effectively, the intervention gave Kageo more time to react to her move, makeing him able to set up his defensive maneuver, but all it did was force the spear, and with that, him, towards the ground.

"Tss. Screw." Setsuna grumbled as her attack still didn´t hit anything. Pulling up her sword, she swiped it into a backhand and stepped back to the left, faceing Majamu... her cold eyes stared into her human eye, then the sword rushed forward, aimed for the chest of the girl.

"Pick a number, you´re annoying me!"

As the intervention placed by Majamu forced Kageo's attack straight into the earth, the kaka had to account for the fact now that his face was full of dirt. Fortunately for him, he had not been pushing the spear with full force, since this aim was to move him out of the way of the previous attack made by Setsuna; Kageo had a moment of being dazed as he rose. It took a matter of about 10 seconds to recover from the impact of the ground, but the kaka shook it off and cursed below his breath, some likely kaka word that meant something of 'rotten luck' or something to that extent.

"Nyoo...of all the luck, I can't hold back, not again..." he gave an inward sigh as he focused for just a moment, taking notice that the other two were now more engrossed with one another than worrying about him. He had time to do it then, this would increase the strength of his power; but he'd be damned if this wasn't solved in a matter of minutes. He had a maximum of 10 after activating his Artifice Core Defense System, but if he shut it down partway; he'd be just fine. So he would gauge his luck and what he'd learned from the previous clash with the stranger, Majamu.

As his body surged and caused the soft blue aura to turn a dark navy blue, the modified kaka gave off a small hiss; as the power from this mode always made him shudder physically. Once it was complete, the mechanical voice from the awakened Kagennotsuki announced such. "Artifice Core Defense System activated." fortunately for the kaka, it told his other opponents nothing; just that he activated something else in preparation for his next move.

In front of Setsuna's determination and obstinacy, Majamu totally ignored Kageo despite hearing Kagennotsuki's "voice", pointing her two swords towards her NOL opponent.
"The number I pick is zero: you!" Majamu rushed restlessly against Setsuna. "If you want to taste my full power, you're in for big trouble.", she said as she tried to move both her swords for a horizontal scissor-like attack.

Kageo noted that he was being ignored, at least by the initial degree of this. As this was his gamble, he had to make use of it now! Without another thought, the Kaka slashed in the direction of the two combatants; sending a thick wave of the trace energy known as 'Caeruleus', making the first move an attack at a long range. While the indication of being ignored meant he had initiative, he abandoned that chance to see just what kind of power either wee packing.

While the two had attacked aimed for one another, a death knell waiting to happen, they would now have a third option to consider in the instant of their rush. He felt it best to follow the wave of energy, not to surprise attack, but to boldly follow the wave he'd released in hopes of striking some sort of deceive blow with his next move. Of course this would all depend upon whatever ridiculous plan that he'd manage to cook up once in range.

Upon noticing Kageo closing it, Majamu dispatched her old sword from Rengoku, changing the scissor strike destined to Setsuna into a simple solitary slash.
Now she had an option to deal with Kageo, Majamu accelerated and boost her battle ability up a notch. "Jutsushiki Heisou* Rengoku, activate!" Rengoku started shining of a blue aura, its sharp points becoming red due to it having risen instantly to near its maximum level. Perfect, now they will have to use their full power; else they are going down. Both!, Majamu thought while her robotic eye calculated Rengoku's activation percentage.

Note:
• "Jutsushiki Heisou" is Japanese for Ars Armagus.

It was enough of a bother to Kageo, but fortunately for him he had already unveiled the bulk of his power. He clashed with this blade Rengoku without fail, the glow of the Armagus meeting the expanded blade form of the awakened Kagennotsuki. However what he knew she would not count on was the tension created between the opposing energies. Unlike general Armagus and even Nox styled weaponed, the M.A.C. (Master Artifice Core) happened to regulate its own energy; to maintain a constant stream of force.

It would allow her to feel Kageo's slash, it would also likely feel as if it never lost any steam; the blow was hitting hard...as if the modified kaka was still in motion. Did it mean he would break through their clash? Not necessarily so, this would depend on Majamu's ability to cope with the fact that Kageo's spear continued to translate the same amount of force it had as if he were still running. "Nyalright, we'll see if you can handle the potential of Kagennotsuki!" the ferocity bleeding out of his weapon as he hit, for now his focus was upon the one before him; unsure of how any of these actions might be dealt with.

Setsuna, who was in a disadvantage when it came to blocking, was glad that the scissorcut turned into a slash... her blade could take that.
Whacking the sword out of the way, she got into position and concentrated, letting the seithr of the area fill her and let her get engulfed by its power.
The white lines on her sword started to glow, she swiped it through the air, leaveing a light trail behind that disappeared after a second.

"I´mn game. Show me your power and i´ll show you mine..."

But instead of waiting for them, Setsuna took the oppotunity to suprise them once more, attacking both of them at once with a wide, far out slash, the swordbreaker drive engaged to make the sword at least fifty kilogramms heavy and near impossible to block.... adding momentum to the bunch was a danger even to close range Nox weapons.

Rengoku will give me the exact same amount power as that Armagus she has, thought Majamu as she saw the trail of light behind Setsuna's sword.
Outspeeded by a surprise attack, she took a high jump and placed her legs in a weird fashion. Upon activation of her reactors, Majamu started spiralling. Her swords in her hands, driven by the circular momentum, would be able to catch up to Setsuna's speed, no matter each one would clash.
Anyway, both would clash repeatedly, striking the same point at great speed for a total of five strikes before one could hit the ground and Majamu would have to stand back up.

As his eyes widened at the sight of such a ridiculous maneuver, it seemed that he would be getting no rest on this side of things. This new attack once again, put himself and Majamu at risk of taking something with a potential that threatened his life. It was something that he was growing accustomed within the short time, acting with a calm mind set was something that he felt he was capable of. As he chose to push away from Majamu, shoving both of their weapons to the left in order to break off the clash they had been in.

"Oh boy, this just keeps getting better~" he said this in a somewhat sarcastic tone, while kicking off of the ground as fast as he could; considering his options the kaka, with so many systems running now was pushing a nice optimal level. he didn't fear whether he had the right amount of energy, but whether he could apply it towards taking on both opponents.

After a few moments of considering, he gripped the Kagennotsuki firmly, with left hand at the head of the spear and the right at the center. "Kageo has never tried this...but will now! The Waning Moon's Crash!" another odd technique that was employing the Caeruleus energy that channeled through his body; as a light sphere formed around him of the water-like flow of Caerulean-colored energy. He seemed to be becoming as the attack stated; a moon-like sphere. He was emitting enough energy that he temporarily suspended himself in the air while the attack gathered its force, to which despite being surrounded by so much energy; it by no means meant that he was not vulnerable right now.

It was just that so much energy would cause a violent outlash, since it would no longer have an anchor to focus it.
(Translation: He can be hit xD, but all around beware for it goes biiig boom!)