Emilia Crohil's Secondary Magic Training (Private Emi/Mashyuu)

Mashyuu couldn't believe that Emilia was still standing after he smashed a stone covered fist into her jaw again. He was just as amazed that her jaw wasn't laying on the stone and dirt ground. Her slurred words made Mashyuu's blood boil with anger at the entire thing. "For the love of god will you just drop down already!?" He shouted and started to run forward while he called up stone slabs from deep under the ground. The rocks slammed around Mashyuu's body creating an "Armor of Stone!" With the only part of the brown haired Wizard exposed being his head Mashyuu let his unique ability to rocket forward like a train carry him into Emilia's attacking range. He ducked one blow while allowing her hammer to smash into his stone armor, barely chipping part of it away. His body twisted and his left arm came up between Emilia's legs while he twisted his torso hard. The momentum flipped Emilia over Mashyuu as he dropped to a knee. He spun on his knees just as Emilia would surely hit the ground and brought his right arm up before dropping it as hard as he could atop Emilia's chest, trying to break bones and drive the air from her lungs. The moment his arm connected with her chest Mashyuu's jacket sparked under his armor and from his palm another bolt of crackling golden electricity lanced out and spread through Emilia's body. With any luck the blow would have knocked her out but to be sure Mashyuu transformed into a bolt of lightning and moved backwards nearly the length of half a football field. Slowly he came to a stand, the wounds his body had absorbed were starting to take a toll on the young Wizard. His eyes started to shake and his blood was clearly running thin out of the wound on his leg.

WC: 310

It seemed the boy had finally figured out a decent strategy. Unfortunate that her lesson to him in the use of a hammer had to be completely abandoned to defeat her. In one swift, and qutie impressive maneuver, Mashyuu had managed to use the woman's momentum against her, flipping her onto her back before slamming down on her in his heavy stone armor, painfully cracking her ribs and sternum. Her body convulsed as she was shocked by Mashyuu's jacket.

She lie on the ground, unmoving. Bleeding, broken, and in pain, she began to feel cold as she felt something familiar coming to her; death. Yes, that was it, death was coming, but not to take her away, no... it was embracing her. She felt it, a sort of giddy chill spreading through her body. From the distance, it would seem to Mashyuu that she wasn't moving at all, either because she was unconscious or dead, though in reality she was giggling. Her body shook with laughter, bringing more pain to her chest and lungs, which only brought on more laughter. Despite being nearly dead, she had never felt better in her life. It was as though life and death were two fields, separated by a wall. She had scaled it, and now, rather than fall onto one side or the other, she would remain atop the wall, enjoying the wind and the view. She would take the best of both worlds. All this went through her mind as she lie there, twitching with silent laughter.

Mashyuu was starting to get wiped out. His gauntlets were starting to crack and crumble, his magical hold on the stones were wearing thin but his armor... or what was left of it had seemed to hold up well. The Earth Wizard glanced down at Emilia from his distanced position while she started to laugh with pain. If it wasn't for his enhanced hearing he was sure that he wouldn't have heard her. The way she giggled and laughed made his eye twitch. The blue hue of his eyes darkened with resolve while he considered going for a near killing blow. It was then that he decided to err on the side of caution, this woman was still very much alive even if she seemed like she was dead. He cleared his throat and called out. "Feeling anything aside from pain right now?" Mashyuu's goal was to help her gain new power not kill Emilia. Carefully he took a series of ten steps forward to get a better look at the woman while checking his surroundings.

The Earth Slayer decided to at least nudge the laughing woman with his foot when all he heard was laughter. How could he know that the woman was on the edge of life and death, her magic changing her in strange ways that Mashyuu couldn't actually understand. He got within four feet of her and picked up a rock, gently tossing it at her to see if her body moved at all. At first he didn't notice anything as the small stone landed on her breast but soon enough the rock rose up then fell again due to her breathing. "Ah thank god. Alright pick yourself up off the ground." Mashyuu said while walking over to the hammer Emilia had let him use then picked it up.

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Emilia was in bliss, unaware of what Mashyuu was saying until she felt something hit her chest... a stone. Her eyes shot open and she looked down at the object on her chest. Grinning as she picked it up. She squeezed it, gripping tighter and tighter, cutting her hand on its rather dull edges before it cracked in her hand. She chuckled as she tossed it away. She had regained her composure, but still felt the same mixture of pain and joy, life and death within her. She rolled onto her stomach and brought herself up to her feet, cracking her neck, then grabbing her jaw. Still broken, but it seemed to be a bit better than it was before. She wasn't sure how or why. Perhaps something having to do with the new magic. With a swift movement of her hand and a rather sickening crack she shoved it back into place, giving her some control over it again. She chuckled at the jolt of pain that came with it. "God had nothin' to do with it, kiddo." She said, a crooked, wretched grin on her still heavily damaged face.

"I think you got it workin'." Another chuckle came forth. "And you know what that means, I gotta test it. No worries, though, I ain't gonna hurt ya like I did before." With the sound of cable sliding over metal, Trauma's cable retracted, and there was a small metallic click as the head was secured onto the handle. "Let's see if you learned anything extra about using that hammer, shall we?" She grinned, a strange blue tint came to her eyes as she did so. How she was still standing and ready to fight would probably be beyond Mashyuu at this point.

Mashyuu's eye twitched with a strange quiver when his friend and current partner actually started to talk. The Earth Wizard had no idea how the woman had gotten up or placed her jaw back into place with seemingly no sort of pain. Was that her secondary magic? Some sort of buff or support power? Mashyuu carefully walked over to the hammer that she had let him use and kicked it up with a swift flick of his foot into his left palm. With a swift flurish of his hand the hammer passed behind his back and into his right hand. The Earth Slayer had grown used to the weapon in a relative short amount of time. He grinned ear to ear at his handy work. He apparently had nearly killed her and gotten her magic to work swimmingly. "...Alright come at me. Why don't you tell me how you aren't feeling pain and show me some of those spells." Mashyuu suggested while taking a series of swift steps forward. He tossed his left elbow forward to fake a tight strike at her neck then he swung his hammer up and drove his left foot forward to slam his boot into the woman's cracked ribs and chest. Mashyuu wasn't sure if the woman had any actual new spells or if she could move faster but he was excited to see what she would be capable of. The brown haired Wizard felt his jacket crackle with energy, showing that it was ready to activate again. If she made an attack at him Mashyuu was ready to change to a bolt of lightning and sail away to a safe location.

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Emilia swung her mace about as she watched Mashyuu rearm himself. "Pain? I'm in a lot of that actually. I just don't give a damn." She chuckled. "As for what my magic does. Well it's tied in with necromancy, but focused on myself. The closer I am to dying, the stronger I get." She explained to him. "That and well, stealing my opponent's life." She grinned, "So basically, the more you hurt me, the more I can hurt you back. And the more I hurt you, the more I heal myself." She readied her weapon. "Don't worry though, I ain't doing this just to heal back what you did to me. I'll be sure to kill some vulcans or something on the way home." She said. "Now get ready, kid." Her eyes seemed to glow soft blue color now as she approached him, ready to fight. As the two trained, Mashyuu would definitely be able to notice that she was significantly stronger than before she had been nearly beaten to death. Over the course of their training, each hit she scored on Mashyuu would seem to improve her injuries a bit, causing her strength to decrease slightly at the same time. Still, her injuries were lending her a massive strength boost. She had to be careful during the training to not break Mashyuu's weapon, though that turned out too difficult. After about another 20 minutes of training, with one swing, she hit Mashyuu's hammer with a powerful strike, shattering. She stopped at that moment, seeing the pieces of the hammer fall to the ground before backing off.

"Heh, well I guess that ends training eh?" She said with a grin. "Come on. Let's get the hell out of here. Oh and by the way, if you liked using that hammer, I have a better one I could sell you..." She said as went about collecting the other weapons she had brought before starting to drag the small sled out behind her, expecting Mashyuu to follow. She hadn't used any of her new magic's spells, but that wasn't so important to her. She could feel it passively changing her body and soul, allowing her to tread the line between the living and the dead.