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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[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.

[rebull]

Yeah but a heavy attack like that with a dagger leaves Summoner a little open so Leo manages that disarm well and Lysunder's blade is flung to the side. He quickly hops back and crouches fast to get it, tilting his head forward a little to block his body off with those big horns of his.

[fundemetal]

He aimed for another hit after disarming Summoner, but his dagger met the very solid and very large horn that was suddenly in the way. Leo wasn't sure how it felt to hit a horn against something like that since he didn't have any of his own.

[rebull]

Here's the part where- normally- Summoner twists his head and disarms someone with a blade against his horn, but that probably wouldn't really be fair. But they were a part of his body after all, so the blocking's all right at least. But he doesn't move to try and disarm him, just uses the time gotten to grab up his blade and stand up again.

"Close, close." A smile, and then he stands straight and flips his blade in his hand, other hand on his hip.

"Wanna call that a wrap up for daggers? Take a rest and move to something a little more heavy."

[fundemetal]

"Sounds good to me." Leo sheathed his dagger. "So, should I pull my hammer out or are you going to teach me how to use a lance?"

[rebull]

"Mmm, not sure." His dagger disappears, rubbing his palms on the front of his pants a few times before stretching an arm, hand on his shoulder.

"Think you could handle my weapon?"

[fundemetal]

"Won't know until I try." Leo paused for a moment. "We are talking about an actual weapon and not..." he trailed off, not wanting to finish the sentence.

[rebull]

Summoner just laughs, turning and moving to sit by a nearby tree.

"Yeah yeah, don't worry. 'Sides, my quadrants are fuller than a coiltailed hoofbeast's nutrition sac, and that won't be changing anytime soon." A soft smile, wings shifting a little behind him as he leans back against the trunk of the tree.

"Plus you're- young. So it's all just jokes," smile, "Don't worry about it."

[fundemetal]

"Good. No offense or anything." Leo laughed. Jokes he could deal with now that he was certain they were just jokes. He remained standing where he was.

"So, any pointers before we get started?"

[rebull]

"None taken." A smile, removing a lance from his sylladex. It's a short lance, more like a sweat, though thicker around the hilt just before where you hold it.

"Mm, you ever use a rapier, or any kind of piercing weapon before?"