Chapter 24: Fists!
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"Fists." Rex replied, getting into a battle stance. "Though if you fancy pulling out your Holy Sword during this little bout, I'll be happy to pull out mine."
"Ah, I don't think that would be necessary." Vasco replied, as he got into his own battle stance, and disregarded the gazes of the other Exorcists, who were getting to their feet, and looking upon their Eminence, getting ready to fight.
"You little babies might want to stand back." Rex remarked. "Things are about to get fun."
After about five seconds of the Nephalem and the Exorcist circling each other, Rex was the one to dash at Vasco, his fist raised. After a second, Vasco dashed towards Rex as well, his own fist raised.
When they reached each other, Rex and Vasco swung at each other at the exact same time, and their fists collided with their faces at the exact same time.
Neither Rex nor Vasco flinched from the other's punch, and neither moved from their position until Vasco pulled a quick move, ducked down, grabbed Rex by the leg, and flung him bodily into the air. Rex righted himself just in time to raise his hands in order to block the follow-up punch of Vasco, who tried to jump up and attack him.
The two combat masters landed on the ground, face to face or rather, neck to face, as Rex only reached Vasco's chest, in terms of height, and started dashing around the field.
When they stopped for the first time, Rex tried to throw a punch at Vasco's midsection, but he blocked it, and threw a punch at his face, which Rex sidestepped, and tried to punch Vasco in the side, which he took without flinching, and dashed off, with Rex in hot pursuit.
None of the Exorcists watching the bout had a chance of seeing Rex or Vasco as they moved around the field at top speed. Even Griselda's eyes had a hard time keeping up with them.
Rex reached Vasco, who had stopped moving, and tried to throw another punch at his mid-section, which Vasco blocked with his arm, but didn't see coming the other fist that Rex threw, knocking him slightly off-balance.
Rex then swung at Vasco's face with his leg, and crashed against it, knocking Vasco flying, but the huge Exorcist righted himself in mid-air, and landed on the ground.
As Rex dashed at Vasco again, and threw such a powerful punch that a sonic boom was heard going off for miles around, Vasco, in the nick of time, had pulled out a sword.
When the smoke cleared from the sonic boom that Rex had caused, he got an eyeful of it.
It was a uniquely-shaped broad-sword with a blue blade and golden edge. The sword had a semi-circular guard on the left side of the handle that extended to the bottom just above the pommel, with a small extension on the right side of the handle. The blade looked rather small in Vasco's hands.
This was Durandal, or, to be more specific, a replica of Durandal, that had only 20% of the power of the original sword. Vasco had been given the replica of Durandal by the Pope, as he was the original, and strongest, wielder, and the Church according to Michael had faith that Vasco would be able to draw out its maximum potential, to cut everything without exception, and attain much greater strength than was intended for the replica of one of the Four Great Christian Holy Swords Excalibur, Durandal, Ascalon and Caliburn, around 80%, if Rex had to guess himself.
"Alright, so you decided to pull out that sword of yours." Rex remarked, jumping back as Vasco got into a battle-stance with his sword. "Well, then. Time to pull out mine."
Rex, to everyone's surprise except Vasco's, grabbed his golden hairband, and pulled it out of his hair, letting his silver hair fly free in the wind. While holding it in his hand, the hairband turned into a sword.
The sword had a long, silver blade, just over a metre in length with a middle-part that faded from blue to silver. It didn't have a hand-guard, instead, the sword's blade widened out slightly. There were blue designs at the bottom of the widened-out part of the blade, and the handle was the same blue colour.
This was Excalibur Galatine, a Holy Sword created by Palutena for Rex' personal use, based on the legendary Holy Sword, Excalibur.
The sword possessed approximately all of the powers of, and approximately 75% of the strength of the original Excalibur, though like Vasco, Rex was able to draw out the potential of his sword beyond its intended potential, and attain strength closer to 90% of the strength of the original Excalibur.
"Alright." Rex grinned, getting into a battle-stance himself. "It's time that this battle started for real."
Vasco and Rex both jumped at each other at the exact same time, and landed within feet of each other. Vasco swung down to attack Rex, but Rex blocked his attack with his Excalibur, and made to swing around Vasco, but the replica of Durandal got in the way, so Rex had to change course and backflip away from Vasco, landing to the other side of him.
Rex swung at Vasco's legs, but his attack was blocked, and when he jumped into the air to try and perform a flip-attack on his former protégé, he was blocked again as he landed back on the ground.
Rex and Vasco continued to exchange blows, at blistering speed, with the younger in terms of physical appearance, which gave him an edge over Vasco and more acrobatic Rex jumping and flipping around, Yoda-style, to either dodge Vasco's powerful swings, attack, or give himself a future opening to attack, even if his attacks would be blocked, sometimes narrowly, sometimes easily, by Vasco.
As Rex came out from another of his flips, and landed behind Vasco, he swung downwards at him, but the white-haired Cardinal Priest turned around and swung in turn, with the two Holy Swords clashing with one another.
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