A Matter of Pride [Amakusa/Takeda]

[Amakusa Takehiro]

Takehiro would not let up, even once Shingen was pushed back. Taking his glaive in both hands, the Demon of Totomi would whirl it around himself, ripping it out of the ground and gaining insane momentum. The weapon would then disappear from his hands, and a doppelganger would shoot forward with it, looking to slam it down on Shingen's head. This doppelganger, however, was purely an illusion, and could do no damage to anything. The real weapon was still being held in Takehiro's hands, though now the 10 foot glaive was invisible.

Right after his doppelganger acted, Takehiro would dash forward, using his new pent-up momentum to slam his glaive into the ground with a diagonal slash from Shingen's shoulder to the floor. He would act once he was close enough that the handle would strike the man's body and send him into the floor, and if he backed up, he would feel the brunt of the powerful blade rip through his skin.

[OoC: Weapon effect: Illusion used. Weapon is invisible, doppelganger used. Active for 1 of 9 posts.]

[Takeda Shingen]

Shingen's eyes narrowing not in anger, but in concentration, as Takehiro's glaive disappeared from view, as a doppelganger shoot forward, Shingen would quickly move to the side, to avoid both the doppelganger and the glaive, which would rip the side of Shingen's hakama instead, as he would use the mirror and magatama he wore in unison. Takehiro, along with everyone else gathered, would find the sun push past the clouds gathered and shine brightly, and controlling the rays of the sun, Shingen would send a flash of light at Takehiro to blind him.

Coating his axe in sunlight and heating the head of the axe up, Shingen would hold his axe in front of him and stand his ground, determined to fight to the bitter end.

[Amakusa Takehiro]

Takehiro would not wait for the sun itself to move before he acted. Forming a small shroud of darkness around his eyes to shield himself from the light, Takehiro ripped his glaive from the ground and whirled around in a circle, flinging his glaive with ferocious momentum at the Daimyo's waist! The glaive would still be invisible, however, and his doppelganger would dash forward and behind Shingen, with his own glaive at the ready. He threatened to cut Shingen in half whichever path the man used to escape. While it could not truly harm Shingen, that was a fact the Daimyo of the Takeda would remain unaware of.

[Morei Haji]

I had been in the sky of Kofu for some time now, my wings of light extended as I floated above the Takeda main camp, examining the situation. As Shingen called the sun out, I would look up to see just what he was doing... only to see a couple clouds parting only to reveal the sun shining through. It was rather underwhelming, and if this had been at night, it might've been pretty impressive.

Looking back down to the battle at hand, I noticed Yukimura was unconscious... was this Takehiro's doing? No, I couldn't interfere in this battle just yet. But I had to stop them. If needed, I would draw my blade and enter the fray myself, planning on stopping both warriors from fighting... or at least trying to. Going up against Takehiro made me nervous, but the Tiger of Kai alongside him, even more so. Nevertheless, I bid my time. I wasn't going to let this escalate into war.

[Takeda Shingen]

Surrounded on both the front and back, if Shingen couldn't move left or right, there was only one clear option: He'd go up. Slamming his axe into the ground and using it as a pole vault to launch himself up into the air as Takehiro whirled around in a circle and flung his still invisible glaive, Shingen would bring his sunlight-coated axe down at Takehiro's head.

If Takehiro countered, he'd use the momentum from the swing and flip over Takehiro, lifting his axe off Takehiro's glaive, and slam the blunt end of his axe into Takehiro's back as soon as he landed behind him.

If Takehiro dodged, Shingen would rip his axe free from the ground, sending chunks of gravel flying in Takehiro's direction.

[Yamabara Shou]

Shou would watch the fight, still morally conflicted in his mind. From the display, he couldn't tell if Takehiro and Lord Shingen were truly trying to kill each out. But what could he do, nothing. Unless he was willing to be punished for questioning his lords orders, or gain some of Takehiro ire for trying to stop his feud over what had happened. Shou would watch in awe as the sun itself seemed to come to his lord's aid. Amateratsu. 

However as Shou looked upwards towards the sun out of respect for the deity, something surprisingly caught his eyes far above. Shou focus on the creature eyes picking out more detail, thanks to his scouts headband. Only to recognise the man with strange wings. However he didn't have a name to go with the man, even though he knew him more then he realised, through meeting him and through word of mouth. 

Shou would scout around the combat, toward the important looking man ahead Takehiro's army. Arm out spear in a obvious non-hostile fashion. "Is he one of your's?" Shou would asked, Toshi not that he knew the man's name, before pointing up at the winged figure in the sky. Because if the man was, that was a serious possible threat from above. 

[Amakusa Takehiro]

Takehiro's fake doppelganger disappeared, and Takehiro whipped his glaive up to a defensive position. Shingen's ax would collide with the handle of his massive weapon, and as the man flipped, he gave Takehiro an opening. Using his superior speed, the Daimyo of Totomi would launch a clawed sabaton at Shingen's back while he was still airborne, intent on ripping the blades through his flesh and preventing his next attack. Should it hit, the poison that coated the sabatons would send Shingen into a hallucinogenic stupor, and guarantee Takehiro's victory.

Toshi made no gestures as Shou asked about the man in the sky. He simply stared intently with the Takehi-bow in his hands.

[OoC: Weapon doppelganger vanished. 7 posts left for use.]

[Takeda Shingen]

Even with his superior speed, given that Takehiro had whipped his glaive into a defensive position, he would still have to adjust his positioning to launch his clawed sabaton at Shingen's back during his flip, which gave the Daimyo just enough time to react to the attack, as sunlight would not only coat the entire body of the Daimyo, but a shield of light would form just behind his back, to protect himself from the sabaton connecting. He was not so foolhardy to leave his back open without having at least a course of action to protect himself. Once he landed, with the shield of sunlight still protecting his back, Shingen would slam his axe backwards as intended, but that would merely serve as a distraction, as he would also fire a hail of lances of sunlight from the sky, raining down on the Daimyo, not to harm him, but to force him to move backwards.

[Amakusa Takehiro]

Shingen would have found that his barrier of light would be crushed, given Takehiro's superior strength. He was able to get away from the kick, but that shield would not prevent Takehiro's assault. Using the momentum from his previous turn, Takehiro would have no troubles whirling around and meeting Shingen's ax with an explosive punch, strong enough to redirect it and send his body off balance, all without hurting Takehiro. He was also able to react to the lances from above in time, holding his glaive above himself and spinning it, using the force of it to repel them with little effort.

Two doppelgangers would step out of Takehiro's body, and his weapon disappeared. The one made purely from light to his right, and the dark one to his left. Dark Tak sprouted wings of darkness and leaped into the air, and the one of light dashed to Shingen's left. Takehiro himself aimed one of his explosive whip-fists and fired the knuckles, forcing Shingen to take the explosion to himself, or dodge and meet the attack of one of his doppelgangers. Wherever the whip-fist struck, Takehiro would use it to launch himself in Shingen's direction, and aim to impale his glaive through the Daimyo's waist. Dark Takehiro would launch himself into Shingen's head the moment the man dodged.

[OoC: 6 of 7 remaining uses for weapon Doppelganger.
9 of 10 remaining uses for musou Doppelganger.]