Match of the Millennium

Description: It's a Golden Angels match between Kelly Mason and Yuri Sakazaki. Who will end up the champion and who will end up all washed out? (WINNER: Yuri)

[KELLY]
The Golden Angel Waterpark. What a wonderful place for those of a more.... aquatic affiliation. The sun shines high through the glass ceiling as orderlies finally finish moving the deck chairs out of the way for the days 'entertainment'. The smell of salt water fills the area, and excited swimmers line up at the side of the pools on all sides, eager to see the battle as close as is safely possible!

It isn't long before the first combatant arrives. As the call is made over the loudspeakers for their presence at the center, Kelly Mason swims her way there, pulling herself onto the deck. Her Golden Angel swimsuit is rather simple in base: a simple white onepiece contrasting her darker skin, with lines at the limbs that swirl around her upper bicepts and upper legs. In addition a pair of lines come up from the chest, along the underside of her neck, and up her cheeks to end below her eyes.

Casually Kelly wipes her waterlogged hair back behind her face, letting the sun dry her a bit as she waits for her opponent.

[YURI]
Taking part in a fight like this, namely at a waterpark, wasn't exactly something that Yuri's father, Takuma, would be approving of so easily. In fact, he balked at the idea of letting his daughter take part in a series of fights like this. Takuma had no intention of letting Yuri take part at all. Fortunately for Yuri, her brother Ryo and her best friend Robert Garcia (she refuses to refer to him as her boyfriend, although others might think otherwise,) they were able to do some 'convincing' of Takuma to let Yuri take part in this battle series. How fortunate for Yuri, right?

Yuri's name is called shortly after Kelly's, and Yuri is quick to arrive in quite the flashy fashion. As she swims towards the deck where the fight is taking place, there's a big grin on her face as she waves to the fans around her. The spunkiness of Yuri is quite noticeable as she makes her way to the deck. For those who know her, it's the normal Yuri they all know and love.

Once Yuri reaches the deck, she proceeds to push herself up into a handstand before coming forwards onto her feet. Like Kelly, she wears a simple one-piece swimsuit as well, only this one is purple with a white stripe going around her waist. Despite being dressed for a swim, she still wears her trademark bandana on her head, as if trying to keep part of her usual attire available for everyone to see.

As soon as she's fully standing, Yuri smiles and waves to everyone saying, "Hellooooooooooooo everybooooooooody! It's me, Yuri Sakazaki, the princess of Kyokugen Karate! You are about to see another demonstration of this awesome style of martial arts! I hope this motivates you to try checking out our dojo as soon as you can! You'll love it there!" She gives a double peace sign before she turns away.

With the sun drying her hair off as well, Yuri takes the time to do some light warming up and stretching to loosen herself up before she faces her opponent. She smiles and places her right fist against her left closed hand and bows, saying, "You must be my opponent for this fight! This is gonna be so totally amazing!" Yuri claps her hands together a couple of times. "Let's get this awesome battle underway!"

[KELLY]
Kelly says, "sure"

COMBATSYS: Kelly has started a fight here.

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Kelly            0/-------/-------|

COMBATSYS: Yuri has joined the fight here.

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Kelly            0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0             Yuri

With a slow nod, Kelly can't help but grin "The fact i'm up against THE Yuri Sakazaki..... im honored". She gives a quick salute "Now lets see if i can make it worth your time!".

She steps back, legs balancing weight, with arms up and palms up, stance similar to Tai Chi. With a smirk, she can't help but add in "Time to roll for initiative.....". Unfortunately for her, the folks all around are a bit of a distraction, particularly for someone who has never really done this in front of an audience. She can't help but feel self-conscience, and her gaze drifts from side to side briefly at a key moment.....

[YURI]
"You actually know who I am?" Yuri grins widely. "Ooh, I'm so flattered! It's totally awesome when someone recognizes me!" She rolls her arms around a few times to finish her warming up routine, then gets into her bouncy stance, where she leans forwards with her fists raised while bouncing on her heels. "You're gonna love this! This is so totally cool what I'm gonna show you up close and personal!" And then the bell rings, signalling the beginning of the fight while the official confirms this by calling out, 'FIGHT!'

At first, Yuri keeps an eye on Kelly as well, expecting an opening attack from her. But Kelly doesn't seem to be interested in attacking just yet. No, she's a bit on the distracted side at the moment. All Yuri can do is shake her head and tsk a few times. "Nope, that's not cool! You gotta stay focused if you wanna be a true fighter like me!" Yuri scowls a little, bringing her expression to an evil smirk of sorts. "If you drift off in a Kyokugen class, my dad makes you do one hundred push-ups with a cinder block on your back! And that's totally uncool!"

A moment later, Yuri simply shrugs and says, "Well, if you don't want to attack, then I'll be glad to do so!" The girl takes off running across the deck, bringing her left fist up. "This is a simple looking technique, but make no mistake, every technique in Kyokugen Karate is truly awesome!" She attempts to sock Kelly in the stomach as she gets close enough to attack.

COMBATSYS: Yuri successfully hits Kelly with Jab Punch.
-* WILD HIT! *-

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Kelly            0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0             Yuri

[KELLY]
Despite Yuris instruction, this IS still entirely new to Kelly. Someone behind her WOOTS! loudly in excitement, making her peer back for a moment from reflex, and that leaves her WIIIIIIDE open!

The strike hits clean, goes under the ribcage, and knocks the wind out of her. Doubled over a moment, she gasps to try to get air back into her lungs! Between the need for air and the intense pain, a brief snarl comes from Kellys lips, coupled with a small flash of light in her eyes. With a look of slight rage, she steps forwards towards Yuri, she brings a hand up with the palm forwards. A bright white orb of psionic energy bursts from and around her palm, striking anyone within proximity of it!

Hit or miss, the anger passes and she seems to step back, taking a breath to calm herself down.....

COMBATSYS: Kelly successfully hits Yuri with Psionic Burst.
! VENGEANCE !

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Kelly            0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0             Yuri

[YURI]
Yuri wasn't aiming for the ribcage personally, just the area beneath it, as in the stomach area, to knock the wind out of Kelly or at least stun her. But the attack hit harder than she planned. As Yuri pulls back she says, "Whoa, I think I overdid it there! Sorry!" There is no sarcasm whatsoever in her apology. Instead, Yuri is indicating she regrets hitting her opponent so hard. "Part of martial arts is showing self-control, I'll admit that."

The anger is visible in Kelly's eyes as she pulls back into her fighting stance, and Yuri can only shake her head again. "Tsk tsk, getting angry isn't going to help you win either! You need to control yourself!" Unfortunately, it seems Kelly has quite a bit of control of herself, as she's launching a projectile at Yuri rather quickly, and Yuri needs to do something. "Uh-oh, this doesn't look-"

Before Yuri can even blink, she finds herself being knocked to the ground rather forcefully. She hits her head and her funny bone on the ground, the latter of which leaves her in quite a bit of pain while the former leaves her dazed for a moment. "Unnngh... what's my next class?" Yuri asks as she staggers around for a moment. "Do I have gym class today?"

A moment later, Yuri slaps her head a couple of times to get herself back with things. "Ooh, that hurt, I'll have you know!" Yuri says with a fierce scowl. "You think you're all that just because you hit me with that chi attack, but trust me, I've got a lot more awesome Kyokugen techniques to show you!"

Stepping back a quick step, Yuri plants her feet into the ground and says, "Now, let me give you a taste of Kyokugen-styled chi attacks!" She rolls her arm back behind her and then shoots forth a fireball at Kelly. The fireball is fairly small, slightly smaller than the famous Hadoken, but it's still pretty noticeable. And it's known to pack quite a punch, too, as Yuri has dealt many an unexpecting person a dose of the Ko'ou Ken, and left them seeing stars!

COMBATSYS: Kelly reflects Ko'ou Ken from Yuri with Repulsion.

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Kelly            0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0             Yuri

[KELLY]
After taking a deep breath, Kelly gives a bow to Yuri with an embarressed expression "Sorry.... i..... sometimes get a bit flustered..... failed my Will save i guess". She straightens back up "Hope you aren't hurt too much". Reassuming her stance, she smirks as best she can as Yuri threatens to use her own chi attack, and with a jovial tone, hopefully conveying that she is joking with the statement, responds "Bring it, punk!".

Keeping her breath even, Kelly watches as the chi orb closes on her, channeling her power to her hands as she practiced. Her hands begin to glow, and with a sharp breath repels the projectile with a two-palmed forwards strike sending it hurtling back towards Yuri!

COMBATSYS: Yuri reflects Reflected Ko'ou Ken from Kelly with Saiha.

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Kelly            0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0             Yuri

[YURI]
"Getting flustered won't help your cause," Yuri says, shaking her head. "And don't worry about me, it's you that you should be worried about!" She shakes out her bad arm briefly before getting back into her fighting stance again. "Because you can only control yourself, not me. Not to mention, fighting gets rough, otherwise it wouldn't be fighting." She smirks a little. "And that wouldn't be awesome at all! No way!"

Unfortunately, Yuri's smirk quickly disappears as she sees that her Ko'ou Ken is being reflected back at her. "What the?" Yuri definitely wasn't expecting that. "Oh no, not this again," She gasps, indicating that this has happened to her before. "I can't let this happen to me!" And then, just as the reflected projectile is about to hit Yuri--

"SAIHA!"

Yuri brings forth a shield of her chi, reflecting the reflected projectile back towards Kelly. As soon as Yuri sees that her shield worked properly, she smiles again. "Sometimes, it's like playing tennis, you know? In this case, though, you don't want the ball to hit you!" Yuri chuckles a little. "Still, I'll admit your fighting style is rather cool!"

COMBATSYS: Yuri successfully hits Kelly with Reflected Ko'ou Ken.

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Kelly            0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0             Yuri

[KELLY]
"Eep!" is about all Kelly manages as she sees Yuri re-reflect the attack back, only even faster than before! She tries to bring her arms up to block, but alas, is too slow. It strikes her full on in the shoulder, knocking her back a step with a cry of "Ouch!". Testing the shoulder, which moves fine, Kelly shakes her head "I do appreciate your honest praise. Lets see if i can take it up a notch!". Arms at her sides in classic DBZ 'power up' position, blueish white energy bursts up around her body, eyes glowing with white light "Here i come! Ready or not!". Moving quickly in close, a feinting punch is sent at Yuri, while the OTHER hand is positioned near her face. A burst of psionic energy is produced from the palm similar to before, though a bit weaker. The force of the effect this time is accompanied by a bright flash of light that may potentially blind or interfere with the eyes briefly!

COMBATSYS: Yuri interrupts Blinding Flash from Kelly with Quick Throw.

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Kelly            0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0             Yuri

[YURI]
"Honesty is the best policy in my opinion," Yuri replies, cracking her knuckles as she prepares for another go round with Kelly. "After all, we all have our potential, it's just up to us to unlock it!" She grins a little, then widens her eyes as Kelly goes into that whole DBZ-style power up thing. "Ooh, flashy, isn't it?" She chuckles. "I wonder what you've got up your sleeves?"

Yuri gets her answer a moment later when Kelly comes at her with what looks like a punch, but it turns out to be a feint, and Yuri is caught slightly off-guard. The key word here, however, is 'slightly.' Because even though Kelly does connect, it turns out to be to Yuri's advantage at the same time.

"Ooooh, that smarts!" Yuri yells, while at the same time, grabbing that arm and flinging Kelly to the ground as soon as she catches it. With that, Yuri steps back and proceeds to wipe her forehead while catching her breath. The flash did leave Yuri a little disoriented, so she did blink a few times and slap her face to get herself with it again.

"Whoa, and I thought getting your picture taken with a flash was bad enough," Yuri comments as she shakes her head out, before rubbing at the spot where the strike landed. "At least that doesn't leave you feeling sore!"

[KELLY]
%With an "OOF!", Kelly slips half-way into a shoulder roll as Yuri pulls her into a throw. Despite practicing, she still doesn't quite have it down, and it quickly becomes a sideways roll.

The damage appears minimal, however, and she pulls herself up quickly, bruised and battered but still combat worthy. "I'll show you what i've got!". Moving back in quickly, Kelly sends a series of punches and kicks at Yuri, the last aimed at distracting as she closes for a finishing throw!

COMBATSYS: Yuri dodges Kelly's Charged Combo.

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Kelly            0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0             Yuri

[YURI]
As soon as Kelly hits the ground and rolls, Yuri smiles a little. "Not bad, you've got quite a bit of skill within you!" She nods her head a little. "This is going to be quite a cool fight, I must say!" She taps her fists together and steps back to give her opponent a bit of breathing room. Yuri does believe in fair play, despite the fact she's quite a brutal fighter sometimes. "What's next?"

Just then, Kelly decides to come at Yuri for a series of attacks. The punches and kicks look like they would definitely hurt, and they could easily leave poor Yuri bruised and battered. But that's only if they were able to connect.

Unfortunately for Kelly, they don't.

Yuri rolls to the side as Kelly comes in with the first attack, leaving Kelly hitting nothing but air. "Ooh, so close there, but no soap I'm afraid!" Yuri says with a slight chuckle. "Still, you showed some great techniques there. I will admit, you've got quite the cool repetoire of techniques!"

Then Yuri advances on Kelly. "But don't think I'm done yet! I've still got plenty more where my attacks came from! I've got a lot of things, ranging from simple to totally awesome!" She lifts her right leg and snaps her bare foot towards Kelly's chin, heel first. "Heads up!"

COMBATSYS: Kelly fails to interrupt Medium Kick from Yuri with Hammer Strike.
- CRAZY Hit! -

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Kelly            1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1             Yuri

[KELLY]
Kelly thinks she has a read on the attack Yuri is using! Moving in, she tries to stop the kick with her arms crossed to 'catch' the attack and leave Yuri in a position to turn the tables!

The attempt backfires.

Badly.

She moves in too late, and the kick goes over her arms. Instead of hitting her chin, it hits her half in the temple and half in the eye! Her hands snaps up to her face, seemingly to check for blood as well as due to pain. Memories flash through her mind, making her aura flare brighter for a moment as she lunges forwards, a very aggressive look in her eyes, sending a palm strike at Yuri! With power behind it, at the last minute, she ducks into a forwards flip, bringing her back heel up towards Yuris head!

Kelly thinks she has a read on the attack Yuri is using! Moving in, she tries to stop the kick with her arms crossed to 'catch' the attack and leave Yuri in a position to turn the tables!

The attempt backfires.

Badly.

She moves in too late, and the kick goes over her arms. Instead of hitting her chin, it hits her half in the temple and half in the eye! Her hands snaps up to her face, seemingly to check for blood as well as due to pain. The strike stuns her a moment.....

[YURI]
Speed or technique?

Whatever the reason Yuri's attack succeeded over Kelly's attempt to counterattack her is irrelevant. The girl's kick hit hard and with great precision. The intent wasn't to hit her in the eye, though, as even her father has told her you never aim for the eyes in a fight. That's dishonorable and dirty. Not to mention, Yuri would mention it's totally uncool.

"I didn't mean to hit you so hard!" Yuri exclaims as she realizes what she's done. "If my father were here, he'd make me do two-hundred sit-ups as punishment!" She looks down for a moment before looking up again. "But Dad's not here to punish me! So let the fight continue!"

Yuri rolls her fists around a few times, almost like she's thinking of what to do next. "Don't take this the wrong way, as sometimes you might think hitting a stunned opponent is not an awesome thing to do," Yuri says as she steps back a little more, giving herself more space between herself and Kelly. "But sometimes, you have to take your chances, no matter how unfair it might seem!"

Yuri brings both of her hands back this time, generating more power than usual. It's almost like she's focusing on something bigger than her previous Ko'ou Ken attack. "You saw my Ko'ou Ken and what it can do! Now you're gonna see the pinnacle of awesomeness!" With that, Yuri brings both hands forwards and calls out, "HAOH SHO KO KEN!" Sending a HUGE fireball at Kelly. What will she do? Will she recover in time to stop it? Will she avoid it? Yuri watches with anticipation.

COMBATSYS: Kelly dodges Yuri's Haoh Sho Ko Ken.

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Kelly            1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1             Yuri

[KELLY]
With a glaring flash in her eyes, Kelly looks up in time to see the fireball coming. The memories come to mind, summoned again by the intense pain. Seeming to flow sideways, she rapidly closes the distance between herself and Yuri, aura flaring brighter for a moment. She sends a palm strike at Yuri, with a decent amount of force. However, hit or miss, she travels with it and uses the momentum to go into a forwards flip. Putting all her power behind it she brings her back heel up towards Yuris head, white psionic energy enveloping her foot as well as the palm strike! No words are spoken as she does this, and afterwards she rolls lands in a roll, coming up a short distance away, ressuming her stance.

Her aura then fades, and the struggle with herself is visible in her eyes "Your pinnicle of awesomeness is lacking the awesomeness, unfortunately...."

COMBATSYS: Yuri blocks Kelly's Dead Man's Hand.

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Kelly            0/-------/-------|=======\===----\1             Yuri

[YURI]
Apparently, Kelly recovered quicker than Yuri expected. Despite missing with her fireball, Yuri is still impressed as she gives a 'whoa' impression on her mouth before saying, "Not just anyone can dodge that! That's mighty impressive!" She smiles a little. "I knew you were a totally awesome challenge for me! Totally awesome indeed!"

Apparently, though, Kelly isn't in the mood for conversation, as she comes at Yuri rather quickly with another palm strike. Fortunately, Yuri seems to be on her game right now, and she raises her hand to deflect the palm strike away. Yet that doesn't seem to deter Kelly, who continues with her attacks. Yuri raises her hands and attempts to either block or deflect the attacks away. Even that final kick towards her head is knocked away, which leaves Yuri in a bit of pain within her hands and arms. "Ouch, I can't imagine how uncool being hit by that would be!"

Bent over and gasping for air, Yuri sucks in as much as she can, eventually slowing down as she realizes breathing too fast would hyperventilate her. Once she gets more air inside her body, Yuri gets back into her fighting stance, revealing the bruises on her hands and arms from those previous attacks. "You did quite well there. I bet if you had hit me, I'd be down for the count." She smiles a little. "But don't get too comfortable yet! I'm not done!"

With a deliberate step forward, and then another, Yuri seems to approach slowly, then begins to pick up the pace as she runs towards Kelly. Once she's close enough, Yuri launches into a rising uppercut, jumping into the air and spinning around as she delivers her own version of the 'Dragon Punch.'

COMBATSYS: Kelly blocks Yuri's Yuri Chou Upper.

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Kelly            0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1             Yuri

[KELLY]
With a forced smile, Kelly shrugs "Considering your still standing, i would hope your AREN'T out of momentum yet". Her arms go up to absorb the shock of the hit, and while successful, Kelly DOES bend with it as her body begins to weaken. All these hits and the pain of them is taking it's toll, physicly as well as mentally.....".

Without missing a beat, as the attack ends she attacks back, attacking Yuri with a strong combination of strikes with full force behind them, again ending in a throw! Unfortunately, she telegraphs a bit too much, trading speed for power in the hopes of inflicting some damage before shes down and out!

COMBATSYS: Yuri interrupts Fierce Combo from Kelly with Shin! Chou Upper.
- CRAZY Hit! -

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Kelly            0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0             Yuri

[YURI]
"It takes a LOT to put me down!" Yuri says with a gleam in her eye. "Kyokugen is totally awesome and it's taught me how to be beyond awesome when I'm in the ring!" She gasps a little. "Even if it hurts at times," She adds, rubbing her sore elbow. "Trade-off, I guess, no?" Although it's obvious Yuri's taken some punishment, as she's got quite a few bruises and she's hunched over a little in her fighting stance. "Could use a drink of water though..."

Unfortunately, Yuri lets her desire for water get the best of her, and Kelly rushes in and puts her into a world of pain and hurt as she starts her combination of attacks. The power is notable and it hurts quite a bit...

At least the attacks that hit.

Midway through, Yuri launches into a variation of her previous attack, this one going up not once but twice! After launching Kelly once, Yuri launches up into the air again, hitting Kelly again, before Yuri drops to the ground... onto one knee albeit.

"Unngh... I... I really overdid it there..." Yuri says, gasping for air. "At least, it was worth it... I hope..."

[KELLY]
Kelly really does try. Unfortunately, it just isn't enough. Yuri outmanuevers her, and in the followup a series of rapid uppercuts connect with her body. The last strikes her under the chin cleanly, causing a burst of psionic energy to pulse from Kellys body in all directions as shes knocked back, temporarily losing consciousness in the process!

She lands with a *SPLASH!* in the water, and it takes her a minute if weak thrashing to realize which way is finally 'up' and to right herself. Pulling herself up onto the edge of the pool, she coughs up the water that was swallowed, recovering from that final hit.

COMBATSYS: Kelly can no longer fight.

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COMBATSYS: Yuri dodges Kelly's Nova.

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Yuri             0/-------/----===|

[YURI]
There's a splash, and Yuri doesn't feel like getting soaked. She jumps back a little, wincing as she lands hard on her sore spots. Fortunately, that means the energy attack from Kelly also misses her entirely. She watches as Kelly struggles to get out of the pool, and is relieved when she forces herself out. But by that time, the official has stopped the match, with the bell ringing several times to indicate this to everyone, including the fighters.

"Ladies and gentlemen, here is your winner by knockout, Yuri Sakazaki!" There is a mixture of cheers and booing, as there were fans of Kelly in the stands too. Yuri weakly stands up and waves to her fans with a forced smile, before hunching over again. She sighs a little as she tries to recover from the blows she sustained during the match.

Yuri walks over and says to Kelly with a smile, "You did awesome! That was a really great fight! I really found you to be totally cool!" She gives a thumbs up before limping off to get dried off and her bruises and whatnots looked at.

Log created on 17:48:49 01/18/2018 by Yuri, and last modified on 18:30:10 01/28/2018.