Another day's work[@Ginger]

[Ozdin]

Ozdin looked out at the crowd waiting to watch the fight. Today was a one of the big ones, with a good dozen gladiators all going at it at once. Not to mention the wild pokemon that Josh had warned him might be released mid combat. Ozdin wasn't worried about the wild pokemon; He was fast enough to avoid most, and honestly they gave him more abilities to copy anyway. What worried him was the odds...he'd heard the sponsors talking about them. His odds were 1:20, which meant he was going against the tough ones today. The really tough ones.

Sho hopped up on the bars of the gate, and drew a picture of Ozdin with a tail in thin air, and followed it with a question mark. Ozdin nodded, but then pointed with his finger, motioning like he was also drawing smeargle ears and making a notation of size, showing the figure was a little shorter than Oz himself. "I was thinking this too, for ease of focus, and being harder to hit. What do you think?" Sho nodded enthusiastically, and began adding details to the quick sketch, erasing bits and stylizing them to create something more like what Oz had described. "Yeah, there we go. Alright, let's do this!"

As the gong was struck, the gates rose, and Ozdin walked out, feeling himself shrink as he focused on becoming the figure he and Sho had determined, feeling the odd tingling that meant he had a tail, and as his ears grew larger and began to droop. It wasn't long before they had become the full Gijinka, and were ready for combat. Looking around, ShOzdin saw that many of the other gladiators were taking on their own Gijinka forms, although they were more pokemon than human, showing they had less skill with the technique. ShOzdin dropped to all fours, and raised his Ochre colored tail to the air for balance, ready for the second gong that would start the fight...

[Ginger]

The gong sounded and all of the gladiators charged into their closest or what they believed to be the weakest opponents. Instantly attacks where flung everywhere and people in the stadium watching cheering for their favorites. The announcer, a Loudred soul user spoke exactly what was happening as it happened his voice echoing for all to hear. Course he planned to quiet down once the real tough fighting started.

There was seven other gladiators, the first two were actually small twins, they both worked deadly together and were extremely small and fast. With their constant speed and quick electric attacks it seemed their opponent had no chance. Their unlucky opponent was the third gladiator whom had taken the form of a vaporeon with a fish tail and fish fin-like ears. The twins seemed to be using their combined speed and electric attacks to confuse their opponent and seemingly to take him down easily.

Another gladiator was actually constantly changing designs and was, if his opponent knew, a Spiritomb soul spirit wielder. His opponent was actually a psychic wielder and used his psychic powers to focus mainly on balance and sword weilding, which against the spiritomb wielder was having little to no effect. Hopefully he will notice this and start using actual pyschic attacks.

As for the last group of gladiators... One was actually flying and dodging everything with incredible bird grace and speed. His sleek body the gladiator was actually in complete pokemon form and looked like a Swellow. His opponent? A flaming monkey that attempted to hit him with balls of fire only to miss. The opponent was losing terribly and would need to watch the other gladiators in hope of terrain to help raise his defense against this swellow opponent. Well... Because of this the monkey-man started to fled and head right toward Ozdin, he hoped that the guy would be kind enough to help him fight this incredible fast bird gifted user.

The swellow soul user was quickly in pursuit planning to move his special favorite aerial ace, a move that slashed with his claws at incredible speeds. This user depends solely on his speed and attacks, and on occasion forgets to block or use defensive moves.

[Ozdin]

ShOzdin quickly noted the oncoming fire-monkey, being chased by a flying Swellow. Taking advantage of the moment of calm before the storm, ShOzdin quickly sketched on their back with the brush, creating an impressionistic, tribal style drawing of the flying Swellow, and felt their body grow strangely lighter. Fly? That's definitely a keeper! The obvious choice was to tag team the more powerful enemy, and bring them down first. Staying low to the ground, ShOzdin rushed to the right of the fire pokemon, and away from the rest of the gladiators, and then came at the Swellow.

As the Swellow came in, ShOzdin stepped in between him and the fire monkey. The Swellow was obviously preparing some sort of diving attack, but what he didn't know was ShOzdin could now Fly too. As the Swellow dove for them, ShOzdin took to the sky. The attack was so swift that ShOzdin wasn't sure at first if he was fast enough to dodge, but his surprise tactic worked; the Swellow was too surprised by the flying normal-type to correct his trajectory, and slammed into the ground where ShOzdin had been standing.

ShOzdin, still airborne, looked down at the monkey and pointed at the stunned opponent. "Tag team?" Without waiting for a proper answer, ShOzdin dropped down, landing heavily on the diminutive foe, using his size compared to the bird to his advantage. It wasn't a type-effective attack, but he hoped his weight made up for part of the difference. While waiting for the monkey's reply, ShOzdin kept his eyes on the electric twins, not wanting to get caught off guard and have to face them without support. Electric types didn't have enough weaknesses...ShOzdin motioned with his head towards the twins, who were continuing to decimate the Vaporeon. "Might need to..."

[Ginger]

With the swellow's spirit user gone and out of the way, the monkey nodded to have some help. "Any ideas how to fight those little devils?" he asked the gladiator whom was his new partner.

As for the other gladiators.. The water type had been taken out, the twins were now looking for new victims.. So far they have not noticed ShOzdin or his partner... They seemed too hyper to take real notice at all their enemies.

The spiritorb guy was pretty much at the point of stabbing his prey in the heart, he really had no hesitation, he believed all gladiators should just die and he rule this female nation as the last standing male. He was now making his way toward the ShOzdin and his partner, he figured he could take out a stupid monkey and whatever the other pokemon the other opponent was.

The spiritomb gladiator made his first attack to go through the monkey and tempted to stab ShOzdin.

[Ozdin]

ShOzdin jumped back and away from the blade, using their lightness from flight to maintain their balance while in midair. This Spiritomb would be problematic..."Cover for me, I'll be back soon!" ShOzdin used his flight to once again gain air, and examined the battlefield. The Vaporeon had been wielding a blade, but it now lay to the side as the gladiator was defeated. the electric twins were to busy celebrating to notice them, so ShOzdin quickly dove for the blade, grabbed it, and flew back, using the distance to build up speed.

While he had been gone, the Spiritomb had discovered it was a bad idea to pass through a fire-type as though he wasn't there, the Fire Blasting into his insides, the monkey then jumped back, using his own tail for balance. It wasn't super effective, but it was effective enough to give the foe second thoughts. The Ghost type might see him coming, Ozdin was low to the ground so he didn't make the same mistake the Swellow had, but the impact of the blade would make the flying attack all the more painful if he wasn't too busy being burned to notice...

[Ginger]

When the impact was made the ghost instantly faded away in shock. This had left only the monkey, the twins, and ShOzdin left. By this point the twins faced their new opponent and decided to start it off by predictably running right for their enemy. Immediately the monkey split off from his team-mate to attack the red plusle twin in and attempted to push that twin away from her brother. While hoping that his partner the odd flying brush pokemon creature would keep the brother away from the sister. From there the monkey swung his sword but kept missing only to be constantly zapped.

Eventually the monkey was so electrocuted that it actually fainted right then and there, the female twin turned away from the fainted enemy and immediately started on a helping hand spell to make her brother that much stronger and faster. The brother began circling the normal type in hopes of finding a weak spot, he was quite cocky and really started to smile when he noticed his sister had won against the fire monkey. So cocky he felt taunts were just the best answer, "One zap a time, you'll be out like a bug brush-boy." He gave an impish grin then charged straight at ShOzdin.

[Ozdin]

ShOzdin jumped into the air, staying above the reach of his enemy's arms. This was bad. This was very bad! ShOzdin dove over the brother, and went in for the kill on the sister, striking hard and fast. He couldn't afford to let them zap him much, but at least they didn't have a type-advantage on him. He could take a few hits, if he needed to.

But right now he was focused on taking out the support. When he landed, he stayed close, striking as fast as he could from every angle he could reach, moving around on all fours sometimes, wielding the blade with his tail. it was awkward, but he had to move fast to stay ahead of the girl, especially before her brother got back...

[Ginger]

The brother was surprised when his current Target jumped over him and headed straight for his sister. In a quick distraught the brother cried and immediately used quick attack, only to be too slow. As for his sister she was forced to run and dodge the current attack she wanted to turn around and use shockwave or something, but she seemed quite in trouble there was little to nothing she could do. She was not used to this sort of intense battle, was creative enough to find a way out of this. Soon she would be out of energy and possibly faint here and now with one single hit.

As for his brother he kept trying to use his speed to catch up, but without his sister's support he was twice as slow as before and it seemed he was just too slow for this current foe... He was practically to the verge of tears, they were both going to die... and it was his fault... His mind was filled with panic... there was no way to escape, eventually he found himself wanting to quit.

[Ozdin]

The crowd screamed for blood, their thirst unquenched by the two who had gone, more or less, without a fight. The cries were bloody and vicious, and ShOzdin suspected the crowd wanted the blood more than the gladiators below. But ShOzdin didn't care for blood. It was messy, it was vulgar, and it made a horrible paint because the color changed shades when it dried.

ShOzdin saw the two were worthless without each other, and quickly struck the sister in the back of the neck with the pommel of the sword. It was a practiced blow, a quick and relatively painless knockout. The brother, tears running down his face, wasn't even stable enough to resist. But the young man at least had the strength of character to look ShOzdin in the eyes. Man, I hope I don't have to face this kid when he's older...

"Listen, let me give you some advise. there's nothing wrong with teamwork. But if you can't stand on your own, you'll just bring your partner down. If you can't fight on your own, then you'll just pull her back. You're lucky I was the one who got past you today." before the kid had a chance to respond, ShOzdin gave the kid a classic right hook to the jaw. Instant KO. The crowd booed down on the spectacle, unsated as always when they won. But Ozdin didn't care. He wasn't here for them. He never was...

[Ginger]

Unimpressed by the crowd's reaction the Female running the gladiator show gave Ozdin a dirty look, how dare he pull the stunt he always does. She picked herself up and left her main watcher's chair and headed toward where Ozdin will end up after the winner was announced.

Both of the young pichu twin siblings picked made their way out of the ring, one swearing revenge, and one just happy she was still alive.

The announcer was a female with long red hair and a hot sexy body with a simple white tunic wrapped around her body. using her soul pokemon powers she sounded all around "Your winner! Ozdin!" With the winner announce she did not bother to offer a handshake, just merely made her way toward where the guests will be leaving.

When most cleared out, including probably Ozdin, the female from the watcher's chair approached Ozdin, "What was that?! You are a gladiator! You are suppose to shed at least one drop of blood. The fans need the blood, else they will stop coming. Guess what, without the fans you job is lost. Ozdin, you have one more chance to kill the next few gladiators. After that chance, I will be dropping you from our list, forcing you to find work elsewhere. Got that?" She gave him a glare her blond hair falling over her shoulders. She was really mad at how this one man was causing her profits to drop. He was a great fighter, but profits were just more important. She owned and ran this place, as her past family members, losing it because of one guy was not her plan.

[Ozdin]

Ozdin sighed as the woman walked up. Closest thing he had to a boss, and here she was yelling at him for winning. Sho sketched a caricature of the woman on the wall, adding little 'blah blah blah's around her head. Ozdin thought it was a good representation of the original, but the lady was less enthused.

"Listen. I got my own problems alright? This isn't exactly a safe job; I leave myself open for a second, and I'm dead." Ozdin turned and kept walking, leaving the woman behind without a second glance. "If you want me to make money, just have me fight tougher enemies. Think how much the crowd will cheer for my head on some champion's pike!" Ozdin hated asking for tougher fights, but he knew it was that or start playing the crowd's game, and he wasn't about to do that. As he stepped past Sho's drawing, Ozdin pantomimed adding horns to the drawing, not missing a step on his way to his room...

[Ginger]

The women glared at Ozdin's back, fine he will certainly get more dangerous battles. He will die if he does not fight. If the crowd wanted blood, she wanted blood. Annoyed by his harsh manner to his payer, the women turned the other direction and joined the other officials about the coliseum and its most recent battle. As usual they complained about this and that and especially about no blood being spilled by a certain character. absolutely pathetic, talk about making her life harder than it should be. She handled the issues very well, but by the time she finished, she went straight to her room.... Then change then off to the after party... one that fighters were allowed to join, one that ozdin never appeared in as she can recall.

[Fenrir]

//THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED, BY WILL OF BOTH POSTERS.//