It's rude to laugh at a man with a sword, but hammers and lances-?

[rebull]

Who: The Summoner and Leo Valdez
When: Afternoon today.
Where: The Island
Style: Prose
Status: Closed.

The message was already sent out, time set, event known, Leo was the one who prompted the rematch anyway. Kid's probably gotten good even in this shorter amount of time, but Summoner's just excited to see him again and have a fun back and forth. Fighting against a hammer is pretty fun, but then again, he's always liked fighting against clubs too, and they're not terribly different.

Lysander's eyes are to the sky as he waits, same clearing that had stopped in that last time, with the cold fire pit and the small stumps and such used for seats. His lance isn't out yet and his wings are folded neatly behind him, just waiting for any signs of his soon to be company. As always, he has some communes open, "some", try hundreds, but when doesn't he? Eyes all over the island, eyes and ears and what have you, he'll see when Leo makes his way here but won't jump to action when he does. The breeze is too nice, and so is the cooler sun this planet seems to have.

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[fundemetal]

Since the last time he'd sparred Lysunder, Annabeth had given Leo a little bit of training in Greek-style combat. But he knew he still had a long way to go before he could consider himself good. He was improving though.

They'd found a dagger at one of the stores in the city and she'd taught him how to use that, so he had that strapped to his tool belt today. He wasn't thrilled with the dagger, it wasn't balanced right for him, but it made for a good back up weapon. Leo had won a lot of money at the festival and he planned to spend a lot of it getting celestial bronze to make his own swiss army knife of weapons. He'd sketched out plans for it and couldn't wait to be able to make it.

Leo entered the clearing where they'd agreed to meet, his hammer slung over his shoulder. He couldn't lie, he was pretty excited about getting to spar with Lysunder again, and it showed on his face.

"Sup? Hope you haven't been waiting too long," he said as he leaned back against a tree. He wasn't sure if Lysunder wanted to get right into sparring or not, so didn't want to bother with sitting down.

[rebull]

All that work to prepare for their duels, Summoner would let Leo know how much he appreciates it if he knew. But he can definitely see how excited Leo is now and his own smile widens as he meets the other's gaze, eyes opening finally. Lysunder pushes himself up away from the tree and rolls his arms, swinging them in slow circles at his sides as he steps forward.

"Never too long for you~" A wink, chuckling to himself, putting his hands on his hips.

"You study up?"

[fundemetal]

Leo only rolled his eyes at the first comment. He should have expected something like that given how things went when he'd revealed his fire abilities last time. He wasn't sure if the troll was being serious or if that was just how he liked to joke around. He hoped it was the latter.

"Yeah, a bit." He taps the dagger on his belt. "But I'm still better with my hammer."

[rebull]

IIiit's hard to tell. If Summoner was his younger more flighty self, you could easily assume it was serious, but in his later years, most likely just joking. Who wants to actually be hit on by some old alien dude?

"I'll say, you and that thing have a good connection. Stronger now? Don't want to leave you too bloody again." Smiles. "Besides, you're not the only one who's been polishing up."

[fundemetal]

"Don't know about stronger, but definitely better. Annabeth didn't go easy on me, that's for sure." Being at the other end of her dagger was scary. Not that Leo would admit that out loud to anyone. Especially not to Annabeth herself. He'd been down that road before.

[rebull]

"Annabeth? Ah, tutor a' yours?" He had a tutor himself, a few, but the main one? Yeah, scary, Summoner can definitely relate. Ugh, especially with her being here too.

[fundemetal]

"Yeah. She's a friend from back home who just happens to have a lot of combat training." Speaking of Annabeth reminded him of their conversation over Faygo and cookies, "Actually, she mentioned that she'd like to come watch us sometime and maybe spar you herself. That cool with you?"

[rebull]

"Ah ha, she's here too?" A smirk, raising a brow. "That's either a uh, good or bad thing. Taking it she helped you train for our next round?" Said as he prepares his lance a bit, looking it over in a hand.

"I'd be all right with an audience too, not like we don't always have one, eh?"

[fundemetal]

"Yeah," Leo said, answering all his questions at once. "So, would you rather hammer or dagger first? Or did you want to show me how to use a lance?"

[rebull]

"I could show you how to use a lance, but do ya want this to be a duel or a learning experience?" Granted both will be a learning experience but still.

[fundemetal]

"As long as we're done before dark, I'm up for both. I want to go to the festival tonight for the lanterns thing." If there was any innuendo in what Lysunder said, Leo did not pick up on it at all.

[rebull]

"Oh yeah, there's that. I'll probably take a look." Won't go though, no thanks, he's- not really been comfortable with running into people these days. Summoner sighs, moving away a few steps and putting his lance back. He instead removes a rather large blade, a smaller one, looks like some kind of curved hunting knife.

"Let's stay light this time, eh?" Smiles, adjusting his stance to a move defensive one. Legs wide arm crosses infront of him, dagger held down.

[fundemetal]

"Sure thing," Leo said with a nod. He tucked the hammer into the tool belt and reached for his new dagger. "I'll keep the literal fire to a minimum." He'd say he wouldn't use it at all, but sometimes he didn't have the best control over it. But he'll try his best not to spontaneously catch fire.

[rebull]

"Oh no, not too much, I can deal with a little burn." Grins, jerking his chin up a little. Come at him, bro.

[fundemetal]

"If you say so."

Leo didn't hesitate to move in for an attack, his dagger gripped in the same manner as one of his big hammers. Annabeth had taught him several different ways to hold the dagger, but this one came most naturally to him. His arm was crossed over his body so that he could swipe outwards when he was close enough to do so. He stepped to the left and aimed his dagger toward Summoner's liver.

[rebull]

He dodges the lower attack fast, stepping back and swooping to the other side to make his own attack at Leo's lower side, trying to hook his leg around one of Leo's ankles, aiming to jerk his leg and get him to trip. If he trips it'll be away from Summoner's blade, affectively helping him dodge it, but leaving him open for new attack, or he can take the hit from the dagger and jump away from the trip. Two options are easy to think of, but Summoner's ready in case he thinks of something a little more creative.

[fundemetal]

His natural battle reflexes plus the training he'd gotten from Annabeth is enough to get him out of this situation. He lifts the leg Summoner tried to trip him with, planting it firmly behind him. He turns away from the blade pivoting on that foot and then crouches down and extends his other foot to try and trip his opponent. All of this happens reflexively and within seconds. His dagger is held close to his body, ready to defend rather than attack.

[rebull]

Grabbing that foot then, and yanking, ignoring the opening for an attack in order to do it, still trying to get Leo down.

[fundemetal]

When Summoner grabs his foot and pulls, Leo falls back onto the ground and lets out an "Oof." He keeps his dagger at the ready to defend as he tries to catch his breath so he can get up.

[rebull]

Nah he just wanted to knock him down. He's not going to play that dirty.

Summoner chuckles and backs up a few steps, holding out his free hand to help Leo up.

"You normally lay down like that for all the good looking guys you meet?"

[fundemetal]

Leo takes his hand and gets back up to his feet. As he brushes the dirt off he answers the question.

"No, you'd be the first. I mean, not," Leo sighs. He's feeling flustered because nothing he says is coming out right. "I don't normally lay down like that for anyone but myself." Which wasn't any better. "Just ignore everything I'm saying right now."

[rebull]

"For yourself? Well I think, it's pretty important to love yourself too, so I have nothing against that." Still laughing as he takes a few steps back, patting himself off a little too before readying his stance again.

"Try not to stare at me too much, you need to watch where my lance is going too."

[fundemetal]

Leo just sighs and shakes his head as he gets back into a fighting stance. "The only lance of yours I'm interested in is the one that's currently in your hand."

[rebull]

"Ah, but you're interested." Smirks, darting forward with a piercing blow at Leo's right shoulder.

"And that's all that matters!"

[fundemetal]

"I wouldn't be here at all if that wasn't the case, dude." He evades the attack, blocking the blade with his own. He's nowhere near good enough with the dagger to attempt a disarming at this juncture. But maybe later he'll have a better shot at it.