Match of the Millennium

Description: Kazuki Kirigana and the mysterious Azumi duke it out atop a moving train!

[AZUMI]
The sun sits low in the horizon, casting a pleasant orange glow across the entirity of Southtown. For all intents and purposes, it looked to be a calm summer evening.

Azumi had been given the memo of meeting at the train for her next Neo League fight, to which she seemed confused by. How do you have a fight on the train? Wouldn't that make the ability to dodge rather difficult? Where were the people going to sit at? How would this be recorded? Normally the darkstalker preferred to not be filmed but these fights paid money and they had a couple of stipulations to go along with that.

The werewolf rests on top of a tall telephone pole as she watches the bullet train start to leave the station. Not seeing her opponent immediately and deciding to not miss her ride, she leaps gracefully from her vantage point and performs a lazy front flip before landing effortlessly on the metal tin of the exterior of the train, her arms folded cross her middle.

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki Kirigana had boarded the train like a normal person would. The league gave him a ticket, and he boarded where he was supposed to. His opponent had not shown up, so he was in the dining car sipping on some water. The aikidoka was taking in the sights, but mostly sounds, of the train and its passengers. Things were fine until another tune added itself to the medley. Looking out the window, the Gedo student realized the train had not stopped.

Taking a deep breath, Kazuki gets on his feet and starts to follow the new tune. He quickly figures out that the song is not anywhere in the train proper, and stares at the cieling with a deep frown. The volume of this particular song, a bit of rock and roll with some more traditional Japanese instruments mixed in, gave Kirigana enough information. The new guest was a fighter, and they were on top of the train.

A minute or two latter Kazuki is atop the train, his student jacket flaring in the wind of the train's movement, as he stares the stowaway down. It takes him another minute to spot the cameras. A fight. On /top/ of the train. Fantastic. His parents are going to flip right the hell out about this.

Kirigana makes his way towards Azumi, first at a slow stride, then picking up into a jog.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki has started a fight here.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|

COMBATSYS: Azumi has joined the fight here.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Azumi

Fireworks go off, seemingly to signal the start of the fight, as Kazuki closes the distance. At this point, visual details become clear. Whoever this person is, they are clearly not standard human, and is enough to give the young man pause. He skids to a halt, trying to figure out just who or what exactly he is looking at. There is more confusion than fear on Kirigana's face at the moment, as he tries to take it all in.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki focuses on his next action.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi heard the muffled music of her opponent before she actually saw him. She's standing with her back towards the front of the train, which ruffles through her fur quite convincingly. A quick survey of the area made the werewolf realize that her typical elemental usage would be...difficult to say the least. Her voice however, doesn't sound entirely too unpleasant despite her appearance.

"Before you ask, no it isn't contagious, it's very real and very annoying to dry and I'm not going to bite your face off." She starts to perform a few practiced hand signs before before she offers the male a wink. The ninja disappears from plain sight but a quick glance up would show that the werewolf is coming in with a narrow angled dive kick, her footclaws extended towards him to inflict more damage.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki dodges Azumi's Heaven's Claw.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki turns his face to watch the werewolf's descent, seemingly less fazed by disappearing act than by Azumi's appearance. "You will have to excuse me if I play it safe," Kirigana murmurs as he twists to let the foot sail by. He is speaking in formal speech, for whatever reason.

The young man steps in close, and fires off a quick left jab to Azumi's midsection in an attempt to test the woman's defenses!

COMBATSYS: Azumi blocks Kazuki's Staccato.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi had a feeling he might dodge, so just as she passes by him, she curls herself into tumble to end up back on her feet again. She raises an ear at his sudden want to get close and spies the jab coming towards her. She reaches out to deflect it with an arm, sending the blow off course, but not without taking at least a small portion of the hit. Her hands start to glow with a faint blue energy as she retaliates, the werewolf driving several blows right back into Kazuki's chest, intending on pushing him out of her immediate melee range. Her facial expression seems quite disappointed, not so much in the attack but more because of what was said.

"And here I thought you being a bit younger might make you a bit more open minded."

COMBATSYS: Kazuki instinctively dodges Azumi's Charged Combo.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki bobs and weaves through the series of strikes, rocking back in a low almost-crouch to avoid the shove. He then uses the recoil of the movement to drive an elbow into Azumi's muzzle before reaching for one of Azumi's arms to transition into a classic hip-toss.

"The world has its dangers, Miss," Kazuki says. "I would prefer not to take chances if I can help it." An odd thing for a /fighter/ to say, never mind a fighter fighting atop a moving train. "I do not mean any offense to you about the statement, but better safe than sorry, yes?"

COMBATSYS: Azumi parries Kazuki's Forza!

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Kazuki           0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi blinks as the male slinks down beneath her flying fists, ready for the next attack. As the elbow comes up towards her muzzle, she draws one of her hands inward, carefully throwing the elbow off it's intended hit-zone. As she's grabbed for the hip toss, she wraps an arm around Kazuki's side and copies his motion, transferring his force into her own and throwing the kid straight up into the air. She vanishes from sight while he's airborne, but while he's up there, hits impact him to force him to spin helplessly. Just before gravity starts tugging him back down, the werewolf appears, grabbing him by the sides and driving him back towards the ground in a heavy slam.

"Then fine then safe kid. No more witty banter for you."

COMBATSYS: Kazuki blocks Azumi's Azumi Drop EX.

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Kazuki           0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki rides the toss, floating there for a moment as Azumi comes in for the follow-up. He curls into a ball to catch the first strike on shins and forearms, which hurts but not nearly as much as allowing the rest of the technique to go off. Her disappear-reappear tricks don't seem to fool the aikidoka; he does not seem to be relying on his sight to follow his opponent. He twists, and shoves hard with both feet to force the woman away from him before she can make the grab. The impact won't hurt Azumi at all; there's not enough resistance on either end for that.

He flips once, then twice, before landing on both feet and waits for his opponent to land before charging back in. Kirigana attempts to shove hard on Azumi's shoulder while tripping her feet to dump her on the roof of the train car. If that works, Kazuki then drives a right straight directly into her face before hopping away!

COMBATSYS: Azumi blocks Kazuki's Combo Throw.

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Kazuki           0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi winces as she feels him tense up properly to avoid taking more damage. She lands a second after he does and he's about on her immediately again. She curls an arm up to block his incoming shoulder charge, pirouetting lightly on her feet to avoid whatever he was about to do next. Her foot claws dig into the train's metal surface a bit to keep her feet properly centered while she focused on harder hits. She whips her hand back out to grab onto the underside of his arm, pulling it up slightly while she drives several hard blows to his side before following up to a heavy kick to drive him back out and away from her.

"Aren't -you- full of surprises?"

COMBATSYS: Kazuki counters Charged Combo from Azumi with Cambiare.

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Kazuki           0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Aikido revolves around a few things, really. Redirecting momentum, and terminating incoming attacks. Kazuki demonstrates both principles by stepping in towards Azumi's torso, pivoting as he gets his shoulder under Azumi's. A faint glimmer of green slides along the young man's arms as he calls the wind, and rotates into a movement that sends Azumi over the small of his back in time for a seemingly freak gust to send her further down the length of the car!

He regains a loose but ready stance. "In what regard," he calls out inquiringly.

[AZUMI]
Azumi is caught off guard by the male's technique, so much so that she's tossed over his shoulder in anything but a dignified way. The burst of wind was also quite unexpected, as she suspected that she'd go a small distance, but with that, she has to channel some of her own wind-infused chi to avoid a dangerous landing. Blue winds surround her in mid air as she slowly halts her unfocused flailing, getting the upper hand on her positioning. She hits the top of the train with a hard three point landing, pushing herself back up to her feet. She takes a deep breath composes herself, reaching two fingers out towards the male and curling them inward, suggesting he bring the fight to her.

"Little of column A, little of column B."

COMBATSYS: Azumi focuses on her next action.

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Kazuki           0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki tilts his head to one side, seeming more to listen to than to actually /watch/ what Azumi does to arrest her movement. "I am not sure that I follow," he says before dashing back in to close with the Darkstalker.

He attempts to throw another quick punch at Azumi's midsection, almost as if he wants to see what she does.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki successfully hits Azumi with Quick Punch.

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Kazuki           0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi attempts to simply grab the fist as it's incoming, but it connects with her belly despite her best effort. She smiles at him as he's brought close again, her gleaming teeth seeming quite dangerous this close.

"For example; you aren't the only one with wind elemented chi."

She disappears from in front of him entirely, her form melting away into smoke that'd likely blow through him. She reappears behind a small ways behind him and starts to sprint towards his backside. Coating her body in a blue aura of wind she leaps at him like a bullet, attempting to shoulder charge him hard enough to bowl him over.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki blocks Azumi's Tempest Cannon.

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Kazuki           0/-------/---====|=======\==-----\1            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
And again, Kazuki seems to follow Azumi's movements with almost bizarre clarity. He thrusts his arms out, green werelight flicking across the extended limbs as he catches Azumi squarely on the shoulders. Pain jolts up his limbs from the impact, forcing the young man to skid on his heels across the train roof.

"It would stand to reason," he comments as he shakes his hands violently to get feeling back into them. "Most people utilizes some kind of elemental when they manifest chi." As if to illustrate this, Kazuki throws a simple palm thrust at Azumi's chest. As it closes, however, a tightly compressed sphere of wind spins into existence in the palm!

COMBATSYS: Azumi parries Kazuki's Ruvido!

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Kazuki           0/-------/---====|=======\====---\1            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi is once again, unable to break through this young man's defenses. She recovers from the all in shoulder charge with another roll, just in time for him to toss another attack his way. She grins as she sees the wind orb forming in his hand and the werewolf seemingly copies his technique. She thrusts her own wind orb into his and cancels it out, negating both of them while leaving his hand cradled into her own clawed one.

"True. But let me show you how it's done."

She performs a series of hand signals with her other hand, Kazuki feeling something weird...close upon him. The air had shifted around him in some way but to the naked eye, he couldn't quite see what. Azumi vanishes from sight again though this time there would be nothing for him to follow. Nothing for him to see. But a sudden sensation of weightlessness overtakes him as he slowly hovers a few uncontrollable inches from the ground. From there a nexus of wind forms around him, obscuring his vision in nearly every direction. The air pressure inside of the turbulent sphere of wind mounts rapidly, pressing in upon him from all sides. With a snap of unseen fingers, the tornado pocket bursts, likely sending him flying up and down the train some, presumably disoriented.

Azumi reappears in the same spot she had been before, almost as if she'd never left.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki endures Azumi's Zephyr's Domain EX.

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Kazuki           1/------=/=======|-------\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki is already charging in when the projectile hits him full-on. There is an odd lifting, then an intense amount of pressure that hurts like hell before dropping him on the ground. He lands lightly on the balls of his feet before blitzing back into action.

He slides in low, scooping for one of Azumi's ankle even as he throws a high chop aimed at unbalancing the taller woman to dump her to the roof of the train car once more. Throws are largely what he knows, it would seem.

COMBATSYS: Azumi auto-guards Kazuki's Strong Throw.

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Kazuki           1/------=/=======|-------\-------\0            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi's surprised by Kazuki's immediate retaliation to that technique, sprinting straight back at her. She engages him, copying his high chop with one of her own, colliding with the move to halt it it. She digs her foot claws into the train to prevent the sweep from moving her. Her free hand comes down on Kazuki's chest, channeling more of that blue wind energy into a point blank projectile.

COMBATSYS: Azumi successfully hits Kazuki with Gust Shock.

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Kazuki           1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki caught staring at the point blank shot, and sent bouncing across the car. And then bouncing /off/ of the car. Kazuki throws a hand out, catching the lip of the roof in both hands with a whoof of expelled breath. After a long moment, the aikidoka pulls himself back onto the railcar, his eyes narrowed as he watches carefully.

The young man tilts his head ever-so-slightly to his right, and his left hand twitches to an unheard beat. He's waiting for something, but it is hard to tell what that would be.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki focuses on his next action.

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Kazuki           1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0            Azumi

[AZUMI]
Azumi's panting a little bit from her efforts, the werewolf fighting on the ends of her stamina now...or at least on the frayed edges of it. Still though, knowing what her opponent was capable of, she doesn't give him much space. She rushes in directly towards him before spinning on the pads of her feet and delivering an elbow to the small of Kazuki's back.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki counters Medium Punch from Azumi with Cesura.

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Kazuki           0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki's hands fly out and grab the front of Azumi's cloak even as the Aikido Prodigy falls backwards. He hauls hard on the garnment and jams a foot in the woman's midsection to launch her skyward with such force that Kirigana goes with her when he does not let go of the cloak.

Kazuki spins with the werewolf once, then twice, before hurling her towards the roof of the train with enough impact to dent the roof!

[AZUMI]
Azumi hits the roof of the train hard, the werewolf whining in pain as pure muscle memory forces her to recover. She rolls back onto her feet and shakes her head, trying to endure the pain of yet another attack that seemed to just play right into his hands. Her feet scrabble against the train's metal coating as she rushes straight back in, taking a moment to spit a little bit of blood from her muzzle. Rather than resorting to any martial arts, she simply bites him in the shoulder. If that connected she rips her fangs back out of him in a fashion that'd spin him in place just long enough for a rather vicious looking haymaker to connect with his jaw.

COMBATSYS: Azumi successfully hits Kazuki with Fang Over Fist.

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Kazuki           0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0            Azumi

[KAZUKI]
Kazuki roars in pain as the woman bites him in the freaking shoulder! Blood is now everywhere, and then the haymaker connects. The world starts to spin, and Kazuki tries to shake things loose. It doesn't work.

He reaches for the arm that just punched him. The wind surges around the young man as he tries to force the taller woman off of her footing long enough for Kazuki to plant a foot under Azumi's arm and haul with enough force to dislocate the shoulder before passing out from the pain of it.

COMBATSYS: Kazuki can no longer fight.

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Azumi            0/-------/-======|

COMBATSYS: Kazuki successfully hits Azumi with Cambiare.

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Azumi            1/-----==/=======|

[AZUMI]
Azumi is a little surprised at just how effective that last attack was, if only because Kazuki had done such a good job following her movements. Still, she sinks her teeth in and gives him the haymaker, the werewolf panting as she turns to look over at her opponent. At just that moment she tanks a shot to the shoulder that lifts her off of her feet, rattling the area severely and burning through her fur. While it doesn't quite dislocate it, it's..almost broken. She hisses loudly in pain as she takes a few steps back and sinks to her knees, holding her afflicted shoulder. She tenderly runs a hand over her shoulder, her muscles spasming at even the slightest touch.

"God, I've heard of wanting to win but...c'mon!"

COMBATSYS: Azumi takes no action.


COMBATSYS: Azumi can no longer fight.

Log created on 16:17:44 06/18/2016 by Kazuki, and last modified on 20:29:34 06/18/2016.