"Up! Right above my head!" Duo called out to Toph, swinging his own bladed weapon at the other that was directly in front of him, already reaching it's smokey claws out to grab. The blade seemed to cut through it like so much mist, but even though he felt little in the way of resistance, it still reeled as though it had been struck hard. He swung again, and it stumbled away from him, eventually jumping back several feet as if it needed to recuperate from the blows.