Nightwhisper vs. Welfo

"A new battle contest is about to begin! Nightwhisper, using a broad sword, dagger, and short bow, will battle with Welfo, who will use a long bow, arrows, hunting knife, and a bandana that can be used as a sling.
"Make sure you read the rules. You have ten moves each. You may begin when ready."

*The black otter kneels lowering his bow from his shoulder, then he scoops up some dirt with his paws and rubs them for grip without looking up he then examines his arrows and knife* "I am ready now" * without standing, he places the bow on his right lying flat across the ground. He then lays his arrows beside it carefully, taking out the knife he holds it in his left hand looks up and waits*

*The black otter with cheastnut eyes brushes a paw over his dagger, in his belt, his sword in its scabered and his bow over his sholder. He nods at welfo, draws his sword and waits.

Welfo looks over nightwhisper carefully watching him and studying the way his opponent waits in a seemingly mirror view, but then without obvious reason, shoves his dagger in his belt, lifts up his bow, snatches an arrow and smartly sets up his bow in a surprisingly short and obviously well drilled time. Carefully taking aim he lets loose a shot, aiming towards nightwhispers left foot paw, without moving he watches as the shot flys towards its target..

nightwhisper quickly steps aside and while doing so sends his heavy broadsword straight through the arrow sending it into thousands of tiny splinters

Staggering backwards with a loud "oof" Nightwhisper quickly recovers and draws his knife and slams it down on theground under the folds of welfo's shirt

Tearing himself from the knife he takes his stand and pulls the knife from the ground and grins.

"Hey now, I have two knifes gonn'a save me some time and hand me your sword, mate"

Hitting him lightly with the flat of his paw under the chin he jumps out the way.

Nightwhisper toally went berserk and chased after welfo with his sword about waist level so history would'nt repeat itself.

"Arrghhh my bow, not a'nurther one ok your gettin' it now!!"

Grabbing half of his thick bow he watches as the other half dangles by the bow thread swinging it above his head like a mace he charges at nightwhisper dagger in one hand spinning bow in the other

*grins* "why you foolish, wretched, blitherin', crumpetfaced, feeble minded, muddleheaded, ragheaded fraud, blisternosed, dungeon-eared....

*stops for breath*

feckless, nitnosed, bag-bellied, fiddlefaced, misbegotten snitnose, blathering, Thick-headed, soggy, Buck-tooth, lousy, ugly antbrain, O chubby one!"

*grins wildly at nightwhisper playing around with his dagger tauntingly*

Ingnoring these insults compleatly Nightwhisper jumps into the air and landing just in front of Welfo whiped around, using his tail sent welfo spawling. Sounding breathless, he held out a paw and helped hime to his feet.

*who trips nightwhisper up in the process as he stands up himself laughing*

"Never trust a corsair mate, their good actors as well as good fighter's and very treacherous"

*laughs*

I reckon it was a close fight but out of the two I'd choose Welfo in this contest. I just liked his style better.

I think they worked well off each others posts and kept the fight flowing nicely. Though I absolutely detest the use of bows in a spar. I don't know if I'm being an old fogey, but I've only come across people using bows in spars recently and I just don't like it. To me it destroys the point of what is supposed to be a hand to hand fight. But that's a personal thing, so moving right along...

Just a couple of other things though (I really shouldn't do this sort of thing when I'm in such a picky mood, I probably wouldn't be much better.)

1. For Nightwhisper. I'm sorry, but chopping an arrow in half with your sword when it's mid-flight, I don't think so. Dodging I can cope with, but slicing an arrow like that just doesn't cut it.

2. For Welfo. You cannot run backwards faster than somebody is running forwards towards you, especially while loading a bow.