A finely honed point III (Jaelyn)

[Jokor]

Jokor bit down sharply on the dagger to keep his mind of the throbbing pain in his left side, where the hard wooden shaft of the spear just hit him, grimacing as he couldn't get the damn spear out of jaelyn's grasp. His eyes went wide as she took a step closer and lashed out with that big slab of iron she called a shield. Grabbing the dagger from in between his teeth he released her spear and jumped to the side, trying to avoid the shieldbash. Picking up a slight flash of some emotion he couldn't really determine with his poor auristic's skill in Jaelyn's aura as he did so. Awkwardly landing in a roll, most likely adding a few extra bruises and aggravating his hurt side some more, Jokor clambered back on his feet as fast as he could. He wouldn't be fast enough to stab her in the back though, so jokor just held his dagger defensivly in front of him as he spread his legs, putting most of the weight on his toes, ready to dart out of the way or into an opening.

[Jaelyn Baroth]

Thanks to her helmet and the placement of her shield Jaelyn barely noticed the flash of movement as Jokor rolled by her. Smiling pleasantly to herself she turned around, facing him at his new position. He seemed to be playing defensively, an interesting choice against an armored opponent.

Stepping forward again she brought her spear around in another whistling circle like last time. She was curious if Jokor would try the same tactic, but doubted it. Instead she readied her shield to strike to her left if he tried to roll past her again.

[Jokor]

Jokor pulled back the djed in his eyes as he felt his eyes beginning to sting, he was already bringing up his hand to subconsciously rub against them to try and ease the pain a bit when jaelyn decided to bring the fight to him and attack, swinging her spear in the same way as last time. This time though jokor just fell his knees and curled up and as the spear had passed over him he jumped back to his feet as quick as he could and switched his dagger to his other hand a devious smirk on his face. Not waisting any time he ran towards jaelyn, holding his right arm up to shield against any strike from her spear as he quickly closed in on her unprotected side, as soon as he was close enough he lashed out with his dagger, he didn't have any time to aim for the weak spots in the armor, well not that he knew where those where anyway so it didn't matter much anyway.

[Jaelyn Baroth]

Jokor didn't go left, ducking and then going right, and the moment of hesitation from surprise kept Jaelyn from being able to strike at him with her shield. She had learned her lesson before about those that fought with knives, and so she took a step back with her right, pivoting on her left foot, bringing her shield around to catch Jokor's strike with his dagger.

Mimicking what she had seen from Dimitri before she then leaned forward, and used her weight and legs to deliver a power shove with her shield aimed at Jokor once again. This time she was ready for a move to the right, her spear swinging around in a fast diagonal from upper right to bottom left.

[Jokor]

While Jaelyn's attempt at blocking the dagger was a bit to slow, though the dagger just harmlessly scratched her armor anyway. Jokor was caught unaware by her spin though and barely could jump away in time to avoid getting accidentally brained in the head by her block. When she suddenly took a step forward and slammed her shield into his body before he could ready himself knocking him of his feet and falling with his back on the ground. Letting out an irritated grunt as he tried to scramble back onto his feet, barely having gotten in a crouch before Jaelyn's spear slammed into him and send him to the ground. Jokor grit his teeth as he pushed himself back onto his feet quickly retreating outside of Jaelyn's reach, trying to find any way to get past the reach of her spear how to get past her shield. Jokor scowled as the fact that even if he could get past those obstacles he still couldn't hit her thanks to that suit of armor she wore.

[Jaelyn Baroth]

Jaelyn relaxed her stance slightly as Jokor got back up from her spear strike. While she believed in hard training she didn't believe that just beating someone down repeatedly was a way for them to learn. Raising the point of her spear up until it pointed at the ceiling she called to Jokor, "Perhaps we should just focus on you dealing with the shield at the moment, and then later we can do shield and spear."

Taking up a defensive stance she brought her shield up at the ready again, "What you were trying before is good. With a weapon like the dagger you have to get around the shield with speed or skill. Come at me again," Jaelyn took a slow breath as she waited for Jokor to take the initiative, ready to block with her shield.

[Jokor]

Jokor relaxed a bit as Jaelyn relaxed her stance and pointed the tip of her spear away from him, it was fairly obvious that she wasn't going to attack him, it wasn't as if she needed tricks to kick his arse to the ground anyway and took the opurtunity to rub at his eyes, once again trying to ease the stinging a bit, it was slowly fading away but still highly annoying. “It ain't the shield and the spear I got to much trouble with, I got past it once didn't I.” Jokor shot back, a bit of his pride hurt at her insinuation that he couldn't handle it. The fact that she was right completely overlooked. “Its just that petching suit of armor I can't get past with my dagger.”Jokor scowled before a small grin came on his face as the first fragments from a plan fell into place in his mind, that heavy suit of armor was most likely hard to move in, so if he managed to knock her to the ground she might not be able to get up fast enough for him to plant one of his daggers into those eyeslits. As Jaelyn slipped into a defensive stance he threw his dagger at Jaelyn, hoping that she would be surprised enough by it to retreat behind her shield for a moment as he quickly advanced keeping on the side of the hand that was holding her spear, if she kept her promise then that side would probably be open. When he was close enough he kicked at her legs as hard as he could, trying to bring her out of balance or if he was lucky, bring her down to the floor.

[Jaelyn Baroth]

Jokor's words were a little confusing to Jaelyn, she didn't remember him landing a blow against her armor, but it wasn't worth arguing with the boy over. Especially as Jokor brought his arm forward and threw his dagger at her.

It was easy enough for Jaelyn to bring her shield up and block the flying dagger, and as she brought it back down she caught sight of Jokor charging at her... with no weapon. Frowning softly to herself she kept her shield at the ready, expecting some kind of higher blow. Instead Jokor dropped down and kicked beneath her shield and at her feet. The blow was surprisingly strong, and Jaelyn stumbled back and awkwardly stepped at the loss of her balance. As unbalanced as she was she didn't strike back at Jokor, and instead just focused on trying to regain her footing.

[Jokor]

Jokor couldn't suppress a smirk as Jaelyn fel for the bait and his kick went in, making her stumble back in a desperate attempt to regain her footing. Not going to give up his little victory and let her catch her breath jokor just rammed his shoulder against her shield with all that he strength that he could muster hoping that the push was enough to floor her. In the meantime his right hand want towards the spare dagger on his waist and pulled it out, hoping that his cloak and the shield would hinder her vision enough so that he still had the edge of surprise.

[Jaelyn Baroth]

Already off balance from the kick, the following push caused Jaelyn to stumble backwards a couple more steps before finally toppling backwards to the floor. Her armor absorbed a lot of the impact, but her spear bounced from her hand and went skittering off a ways to the side.

Thankfully years of experience and training kept Jaelyn from being too stunned by the change in her position. Knowing Jokor would most likely push the attack Jaelyn moved quickly to counter. Sitting up, with the assistance of a hard push from her now empty right hand, she swung her shield around in a fast circle at where she expected Jokor to be on his way to the attack.