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The orange and yellow leaves fall gently, floating to the ground and coming to rest, for the moment, at the feet of two humans. They appear ready, circling the clearing, looking for an opening. One stands flat footed holding a long bladed sword with both hands; he is all covered in steel plates, ready. He seems steady, like a rock or mountain, prepared for anything short of a meteor. The other is dancing on his toes, back and forth, kicking leaves in all directions. He holds in one hand a cruel ax, and in the other a deadly looking short blade, his green leather armor is in sharp contrast to the orange and yellow oak leaves that fall around him.

The green armored man lunges quite suddenly at the rock like man. Green thrusts with his blade, a low strike aimed at the less armored legs of Rock, who jumps out of the way at the last second, but not quick enough. Green brings his ax down towards the skull of Rock, but with a fast flick of his hands turns the ax away; sparks shear down towards the ground and a horrible screeching sound erupts out of the relative silence from the two weapons colliding. With a shout of anger, Rock counters with two handed swing towards the wrist of Green, aiming to dismember the smaller man, however, Green is far to nimble for a simple slash to reach his flesh. He ducks and twists while bringing the short blade around for another slash, this time at the chest of Rock. The power behind the swing is to great for Rock to parry another attack, even though he sees it clearly. The blade connects with his chestplate, gouging a large scrape across the front, but hardly causing a flinch in Rocks positioning. With a shout, he bringing the large sword around and down, this time trying to cleave Green in two; Rock slams the blade into the spot the nimble man once was. With a loud thunk, the blade hits dirt.

Green had already rolled away after the short blade had connected with his opponent and now he stands ready and rolls his ax in his hand, and grins. Infuriated, Rock charges at Green and swings his large blade, held in both hands over his head. Green stands his ground until the last possible second, and parries the heavy blow with his ax, moving the blade with deft expertise; Green stabs into Rock, around the heavy chestplate and into the softer chainmail at the joints of his shoulder. The blade sinks into flesh and an intake of breath signals the painful wound inflicted on Rock who tries to push Green away and disarm him at the same time. They exploit fails and Green lands another blow against Rock, but this time with his ax against the large mans right forearm.

The blow causes a howl of pain, as Rock stumbles away, blood falling to the leaves in splatters of crimson on the yellow and orange. Green follows in with a killing blow, but is stopped short by a flash of light and heat near his face. A man with spikes on his shoulders, a leather strap with spikes covering his eyes, and robes covering his slender frame has stepped out of the trees towards the clearing. Spike takes another step forward, and even though he has his eyes covered by a strap, he looks at Rock, nods and readies his hands. Rock, grinning, looks into Greens eyes, and shouts, swinging his blade in fast and crazed arcs towards the legs of his opponent. Green jumps back easily, and as he hits the ground a few feet away, Spike makes a nimble gesture with his fist and a bolt of fire shoots from his knuckles towards the quick man, who is forced, again, to dodge away. The bolt of fire explodes a tree into cinders at the edge of the clearing, the remaining leaves and the tree itself falls to the ground into the circle of battle. As Rock continues to charge at Green, Spike fires more and more bolts of energy, forcing Green to dodge more, repeating the cycle, however, he appears to be to quick for either blade or fire to catch him even once. Upon closer inspection, Green is sweating with exertion, his breathing is heavy, and his grip on his weapons is only for the purpose of fearing the loss of his weapons.

They circle twice around the clearing, causing more trees to explode and more leaves to be crushed under the boots of these three men. Rock forces Green to dodge to hastily and is rewarded by seeing the quick man fall to the ground harshly on his stomach. Spike capitalizes on the opportunity and sweeps his hand in an arc towards a prone and vulnerable Green. A wall of force pushes the leaves away and flips green into the air, the wind knocked out of him and a nasty looking bruise forming on his face. Rock and Spike grin, and close in for the kill, when out of the woods some slender object slams into Spikes left leg, causing him to shout in agony and spin to the the ground himself. Rock spins to stand over his fallen companion and to face this new threat.

A woman is leaning out from the trees notching another arrow into her large bow. She is wearing similar armor to Green, but instead of a sharp contrasting color, it is a camouflaged and hooded cloak with yellow and orange leather underneath. Hood leans forward and aims at Rock who raises his left shoulder to cover his head. The arrow slams into the heavy pauldron, causing Rock to stumble almost onto Spike. By the time he is able to steady his feet again and look over his heavy armor, she has already pulled another arrow from her quiver. This time it is Greens turn to grin as he sees an opportunity to strike while his two opponents are fumbling from this ranged assailant. As he charges, Spike leans up from behind Rock and fires a series of lighting bolts towards Green, Hood misses with her arrow at Rock, who, oblivious to Greens charge, also charges at the woman at the edge of the clearing... (continued later)