Match of the Millennium

Description: With the Ides of March come and gone, it's time to prepare for spring. At the ritualistic grounds of Stonehenge, the world famous psychic Rose oversees the rites as she faces two opponents. The first is the world warrior himself, Abigail, bringing his own one-man monster truck show with pure power. With him? Faolan of the Ikari Warriors, the angry irishman with a bata stick beatdown ready in his corner. Will the pair be able to score against the mystic psychic? Or is it not in the cards?

[ABIGAIL]
"Whaddya mean they want me back up in England! This World Warrior thing is over. I gotta get back to balance books!!"

Pause.

"Stonehenge?! I didn't break it!!"

Pause

"I'll be on TV?? I'm on my way."



A day later, the very landscape around this sacred ground begins shaking and rumbling to the tank like approach of a gigantic monster truck the size of a small home and the blaring roaring sound of deathmetal music. Abigail's World Tour has gotten a minor detour and Stonehenge is the target.

Fortunantly the behemoth has the presence of mind to not roll the truck right up through barricades and security checkpoints and into the ancient ground itself, but he does screech the huge truck to a stop at the edge of the gathered crowds and TV cameras and then emerges from the cab of the truck like a huge mountain of meat being squeezed out of a can to small for it! Once free, the goliath stretches both arms skywards and roars, "YEAH!!!!!! KABOOOM!!!"

And it seems World Warrior -has- done some good as there are enough Abigail'fans' locally to respond favorably to the behemoths bravado. We'll just forget about the fact that he and Akuma leveled part of a small town in England during WOrld Warrior for now. Water under the bridge.

[FAOLAN]
While Abigail is more than happy to be here it seems his partner is a bit more reserved. An oddity because Faolan isn't exactly the reserved sort, but it is more about his talk with Leona and their soon to be trip to Japan to look for Yamazaki and some more information beyond that. While he did sign up for SNF to get some combat practice in he didn't expect to be sent close to home and away from where Leona was.

Not to mention Faolan is technically a wanted man at the moment, but he has been surprised how many people seem to be turning a blind eye to any Ikari that decide to make their presence known. While they are labeled by terrorists by NOL it seems plenty of people know the good the outfit has done and so right now for the most part Faolan is walking free with little to no problems.

Idly the Irishman bounces his bata off a shoulder while regarding his much larger partner. He knows little of this Rose woman, but given that she is scheduled to take on a trained Ikari and a mountain it would be safe to say she is not someone to take lightly. He figures it best not to make a show for now and wait to see when Rose arrives and then figure out where to go from there.

[ROSE]
Rose has been standing by in an outfit thoughtfully provided by a local group of neo-pagans, who are hoping to hold up a lot of signs in interstitial shots and crowd pans encouraging people to 'QUESTION EASTER,' 'BLESSED BE,' 'GOOGLE WICCAN REDE' and so on and so forth.

The outfit has honestly been chilly because it's basically a long strip of undyed white linen cloth over the breasts, bound with a celtic-knotted ring and set off with some similarly-pristine skirts around the waist. Rose has been q uiet in part because she is low key using Soul Power to not freeze her tits off. It has helped her occult ambiance no end.

When the Monster Truck arrives, previsaged by the sonic morass of Dethmurder, Rose murmurs, "No Detroit Metal City? I'm disappointed." High Priest Llewelyn (birth name: Arthur), looks at her with concern.

Rose rises up eloquently and slides a diaphanous scarf, also white, over her shoulders and strides in her sandaled feet towards Abigail. "Thank God he didn't back into the stones," she murmurs.

She raises her voice then. "Men of the West! Are you ready to win the sun back? For it has kept me warm all these winter days, and I will not surrender it at your mere say-so!"

Rose winks towards the two of them and her lips form the words 'go with it,' which a subtle whiff of psychic pressure make very clear.

[ABIGAIL]
The Metro City monstrosity plays to the crowds abit more, swiveling on his waist to turn from side to side with his arms akimbo and his gigantic pecs flexing and bouncing a few times before he grinds his heels into the ground and spins about to look Faolon over. "Eeeh? Lighten up! Why so glum!!"

Rose's arrival snatches his attention and he stares blankly at her, eyes roving over her outfit..or..uh..lack of. Either way when she speaks he recoils slightly, throughly thrown off though at her wink he seems to get it. Abigail may be dense but he's a good at show boating. A healthy dosage of over confidence can help a lot when it comes to that.

"Is this it??" he retorts while gesturing at Rose, "One hot woman think she's gonna slow -me- down? Fine! I've got a full tank and taking that sun with me!"

He reaches down and actually tries to shove Faolan forward ahead of him, "Say something!"

[FAOLAN]
It is less glum, but certainly serious. Faolan just tilts his head to look to Abigail. "Didn't you do World Warrior?" he asks. "I figured you would know how appearances can be decieving, fellah."

Then he gets kind of nudged forward and he gives a slight tsk. A hand reaches up to tug some at his hat to adjust it and he looks to Rose. His eyes do wander, but he at least tries his best not to outright just stare. There is a fight to be had anyways and he knows better to let him get too distracted by something like that.

"Uh, well he isn't, but I am Irish so not too far from here." he replies to Rose and he takes a sharp inhale. "But yeah guess we better given people a show huh? Don't know about big lad here but I have to say I won't underestimate you." That is something that is too easy to fall into. What person wouldn't think a match against a woman dressed the way Rose is would be a walk in the park. And while he looks like a bit of a meathead Rose can probably tell Faolan is probably a bit more sound in mind than his partner.

[ROSE]
"Oh, you flatter me," Rose says to Abigail, pressing a hand to her bare collarbone.

I hate England, Rose thinks. I feel like one of those cold alcohol wipes they leave in your takeout baggies.

She shifts herself around, tilting her head back and raising up her hands. There is a luminous glow, solar-yellow - it stands out against the habitual English grayness. (Saturday Night Fight has thoughtfully planned around England's weather!) Rose lets it go gradually - the wisp of Soul Power floating harmlessly in midair, drawing some oohs and ahhs and one particularly dedicated man trying to start a chant in the stands. (that chant: there is only ONE god, he is the SUN god, RA, RA, RA)

"I do wonder," Rose muses with a purse of the lips. "If you do win the sun... which of you will keep it?"

COMBATSYS: Rose has started a fight here.

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Rose             0/-------/-------|

[ABIGAIL]
"Hey. I'm -actin'- here." chides Abigail at Faolon's World Warrior comment, "Work with me here! Sheesh." He tsks at Faolon's performance as he addresses Rose. He then turns back towards the woman, listening and then wrinkling his brow and squinting his eyes as the Soul Power manifests. Oh. Great. That stuff again.

"Hrn?" he rumbles before finally letting his body drift into a sort of combat stance. It turns slightly and his arms lift up just a touch, "What am I gonna do? Hrm..well I've always wanted to build a sauna back at my shop but couldn't find anything hot enough for it. I guess a sun will do!"

With that, he suddenly barrels forward, thundering at Rose while roaring, "BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!" in time with his footfalls which literally -do- shake the ground. The earthquake from his sheer weight and magnitude of his strength sending vibrations that threaten to rock the mighty stones of the sacred ground.

At the last second he pivots and spins, sending a single fist hurtling at Rose like an incoming semi-truck.

COMBATSYS: Abigail has joined the fight here.

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Rose             0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0          Abigail

COMBATSYS: Faolan has joined the fight here.

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Abigail          0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-------|

[FAOLAN]
Acting....sure. Maybe Faolan is just not into it like he should be. Too much on his mind. Just the strange new attitude Leona had as of late and her interest in going to Japan and investigating some weird force or power that Faolan really couldn't understand. It is more he knows Heidern would flip his shit if Leona went on her own so he was going with her.

"Yeah, uh sun. Praise the sun or whatever." he says and holds his arms up and strikes something of a Y pose before bringing his arms forward with a hand on each end of his bata.

While Abigail is more than happy to oblige in charging forward it seems Faolan takes a moment to pay attention to Rose's movements and decide on his own course of action. That and getting in the way of Abigail seems like a horrible idea.

COMBATSYS: Faolan focuses on his next action.

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Abigail          0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-------|

COMBATSYS: Rose dodges Abigail's Dynamite Punch.

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Abigail          0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-------|

[ROSE]
At least the yellow blob isn't gonna hurt you, Abigail! Probably. Is it wiggling at him?

Rose feels the approach of Abigail and murmurs, "Do you smell the blood of an Englishman?" to him, before he spins round and Rose reaches up to place a hand momentarily atop his incoming knuckle -- and throw herself into the air, inverted!

"Be he alive, or be he dead," Rose says as she topples through the air, jack-knifing her legs up as she descends to the ground on a high parabolic arc, "Will you grind his bones to make your bread?" She can see Faolan is looking, and he gets another passing wink even as Rose suddenly jitter-bugs forwards, aiming to snap a foot into the ankle of the man-mountain Abigail.

"So you'd keep the sun all to yourself? That will be your right if you prevail, I suppose," she answers Abigail. "But perhaps your ally has other plans?"

Rose seems pretty open from behind, relative to Faolan. But is it a ruse?

COMBATSYS: Rose successfully hits Abigail with Sliding.

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Abigail          0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/----===|

[ABIGAIL]
It's been awhile since Abigail has had to fight in a team of any sort. Even when back with Mad Gear he was the enforcer and one of their chiefs which meant 'Go do this' and 'Go do that' and 'Aw man, now I gotta stop them.'

Not exactly a team player. So when he notes Faolon hasn't made a move he snaps out gruffly, "Hey....DO SOMETHING."

Rose avoiding him doesn't do much for his mood either - though the shockwave that blasts out from him at his missed swing should indicate just how much strength he's carting around. Indeed as her attack slams into his leg he just grunts, feeling it but not toppling over as most would have.

"Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, babe!" he retorts with a cheerful expression returning to his face.

His body hulks over her as he speaks, lunging out with a massive hand to try and encircle her waist and then hurtle her sky high with a flick of his wrist! Let's hope she can't just up and fly.

[FAOLAN]
He can look a fool. Really Faolan can often be a fool, but when he wants to be serious he does decently enough for himself. That is why he isn't taking the exposed back from Rose for granted. Maybe if he was in a better mood he would flirt back with her, but he is actually a bit more focused and serious than normal. If that helps that remains to be seen.

"Hey, big guy. Know you are a tough one and all, but this lady isn't a pushover."

There is some confidence in Faolan that has built over time. His dealings with the Gear army along with taking on Leona to show he isn't the man that originally joined the Ikari have helped him in feeling he belongs with the mercenary outfit these days.

He also for now lets Abigail get in close and personal with Rose for the time being. Already the black electrical energy the Irishman wields is flowing into the bata and he releases one end to point it outwards towards Rose. A small ball forming at the end that with a thrust fires forward to look to give the woman a bit of a shock if it manages to connect.

COMBATSYS: Abigail successfully hits Rose with Bay Area Sunrise.
- Power hit! -

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Abigail          0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/--=====|

COMBATSYS: Rose fails to reflect Irish Curse from Faolan with Soul Reflect.

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Abigail          0/-------/---====|>------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-======|

[ROSE]
You will believe an Italian woman can fly.

Abigail's hand fits almost perfectly around Rose's waist. She looks down, says 'oh!' and is summarily flung upwards, rising indeed above the 'Sun' itself over there and kicking in midair in a rustle of linen skirts. "H-hah!" she declaims, and as she descends, she sweeps an arm round.

It's probably an effort to send Faolan's electrical burst towards him in reply. There is a shimmer in her scarf!

The electric arc hits her in the leg instead. She contorts in midair like a frog and lands heavily on her ass, with enough impact force to leave a dent in the heath and challenge one of Abigail's mighty footfalls. "oogh" Rose breathes to herself.

Faolan may be validated in that Rose seems to rise up like morning mist after this. She is a little slow but it's the slow of someone being called to stand up from their seat where they had been quite comfortable, not the slow of someone who just fell twelve meters and also got hit by lightning. "You flatter me," she breathes out.

"But if this is the peak of your strength," she continues, raising her voice for the crowd, "then perhaps I should take the sun with me and go home! That seems like a solid plan, doesn't it? After all, does the Sun do you any good, gentlemen?"

[ABIGAIL]
"I KNOW! You think I'm some sort of IDIOT!" booms Abigail at Faolon with all the explosiveness of an abusive manager. He must be a real charming guy to work under. Well of course he is! He's Company President Abigail!!

Either way, he flares his nostrils bullishly at Faolon, "You think it'd be two on one if she was a pushover??"

It's then that he realizes that Rose took a fall from the height of an apartment building along with being shocked by a blast of electrical energy about as well as someone takes..falling out of bed in the morning. Well better actually> She looks rather unperturbed at all that. No pushover indeed.

"Hn, we're just getting started lady." he retorts, unbothered when all is said and done and his bravado boiling to the top. He brings his huge hands together and cracks his knuckles, producing a bone grinding sound that bears more in common with tree trunks splintering and boulders cracking. He then falls back into a ready combat stance, eyes squinting, "Let's push it to the redline!"

COMBATSYS: Abigail focuses on his next action.

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Abigail          0/-------/----===|>------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-======|

[FAOLAN]
Quite the charmer indeed. Faolan at least manages to keep something of a straight face when Abigail shouts at him despite the fact right now he is half tempted to help Rose out, even if she doesn't ened it, just so the big man would stop shouting.

He gives a helpless shrug and looks to Rose. "Sorry, just not myself recently. Got a lot of stuff going on." He tells her though he manages a bit of a mischevious grin. "Promise I'll make it up to you another day when things aren't so crazy.....that might be awhile." When you are an Ikari non crazy days are few and far between.

Abigail might hold back for now, but that is more the reason for Faolan to take his crack at Rose. Leaving her time to formulate a plan is just a bad idea and if he doesn't have to worry about being caught in one of Abigail's wild swings he may as well take a swing of his own. He looks to close the distance quickly and he swings about the bata he wields a bit like a sword, a sideways slash looking to slam the stick against the right side of Rose's torso

COMBATSYS: Rose dodges Faolan's Medium Strike.

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Abigail          0/-------/----===|>------\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-======|

[ROSE]
Abigail is shouting and that means he isn't trying to hit her, which is certainly a plus from the perspective of Rose. "Is that so," she murmurs to Abigail with a lift of one delicately-shaped eyebrow before her eyes snap towards Faolan, who's coming nearer. He's bringing up his weapon. Rose sinks back on her heel - and leans both /towards/ his swing and /backwards/ at the same time. The weapon whiffs over her chest by about an inch, and Rose is left in a rather balletic posture.

That has to hurt if you stay in it. Fortunately Rose does not, nor does she need to. She snaps a hand down and a ripple runs through her body as if it were a whip, with her long gauzy scarf trailing after it, wrapping round her leg as she swings

it
upwards

"Spiral!" Rose declares as the scarf billows out as she throws herself back. It's like a break dancing move, if break dancing moves ended in polychromatic pastel explosions around your scarf-wrapped leg! (So, the Miami scene, primarily.) Hopefully, Faolan is quick on the draw.

[ABIGAIL]
So she wants them to take it up a notch? Then he'll take it up a notch!!

"ACCELERATE!!" roars Abigail. Nope. Sorry, no end to the yelling here. But at least he's not yelling -at- Faolon anymore. Instead the gargantua man begins thundering forward at Rose with more of his earth pounding steps. Faolon's possibly abit close as well just due to the proximity of Abigail's massive size..but his true target is Rose. Still, a nuclear explosion tends to not be very disciminate about who it hits.

Either way, he's coming in like a falling meteor! A thundering and lurching and cratering of the ground and he's airborne. Both of his legs pull inward and then they thrust back out again in a dropkick certainly capable of sending a double decker bus tumbling end over end of if rumor of his strength has any merit to it.

COMBATSYS: Rose successfully hits Faolan with Soul Spiral.

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Abigail          0/-------/------=|>>>>>>-\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/=======|

[FAOLAN]
For the most part Faolan has always been a defensive fighter. Just plant his feet down and use his bata to mostly deflect blows. The problem here is he goes for a strike and Rose ends up being flexible. Oh so very flexible.

To the point Faolan has little room to defend himself when that leg comes upwards and there is not just a kick but an explosion of energy that comes along with it and Faolan feels foot to chin and then he gets lifted up and thrown away from the woman where he lands hard on the ground and rolls a few feet before coming to his feet and staggering a bit. "Yeah.....was worried about that." he mumbles to himself as he reaches up to adjust his hat.

He steadies himself and watches Abigail dash in. Deciding perhaps it is best to keep Rose on her toes he decides to move in too. More to come in at a side while Abigail comes in from the front. He brings the bata in low to sweep at Rose's legs while leaning in to ram into her with a shoulder. Downside? He hopefully doesn't hit her out of the way of the dropkick and eats it himself. Bad end.

COMBATSYS: Abigail knocks away Rose with Ontario Drop.
- Power hit! -

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Abigail          0/-------/---====|>>>>>--\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             1/---====/=======|

COMBATSYS: Rose dodges Faolan's Celtic Crush.

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Abigail          0/-------/---====|>>>>>--\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             1/---====/=======|

[ROSE]
For Rose, life is often a series of contrasts. Let's take a look at the good today.

The good is that when Faolan recoups from his throw and sees Rose whirling her way back to an upright stance with a dazzling smile, he does not see enough to strike the somewhat battered mystic dead-on with his power. And for him, it's good too, for he does not end up getting hit straightaway by Abigail, either.

The bad is that Rose had leapt with gazelle like grace to the side, directly into Abigail's kill zone.

And oh, that would've been one for the SNF Faces of Death compilation if Rose was just some forty-year-old Italian woman who had taken karate lessons. There are several chiropractic pops as she's abruptly thrust down and into the soil of England, at least several inches if not six feet under. She falls forwards, face planting firmly into Solsbury Plain as she makes a noise describable as "ghkgh!" as the blow's power resonates through her and into the United Kingdom itself.

But you see why this is good for Faolan! It's easy to see Abigail and he wasn't quite on an intercept course anyway!

As her mouth fills with the Queen's soil, Rose questions the decisions in life that have brought her to this point of being smashed underneath the mighty thews of Hugo's cousin on his Tren dealer's side. She is able to yield with blows but even she has limits. She curls her toes almost entirely to ensure that she isn't suffering from spinal paralysis.

Then she breathes out.

And the power... RISES!

The mystical ley lines of England were at first proposed to explain a trend in locations whose names all ended in 'ley,' but the term has remained. Dragon flows, telluric currents, call them what you will, but there is a flow of power in Earth - perhaps in other worlds as well, but nobody has yet confirmed Rufus's journey to Mars. Rose does not live in this energy, of course, but the world too has a [Soul]...

And Stonehenge was not built here at random. Whether she draws from the belief that motivated those ancient druids, or the cheering of the local chapter of the Pagans and Skeptics Society who had turned out due to complementary tickets, or merely the strength that she once fed upon, deep within the bowels of Otherworld, THE SUN ALSO RISES -

Two suns!

No wait. That wisp she left hanging in the air, a sparkle of harmless light, is now twinned by a pair of hellacious rising orbs, their motion a thrilling synaesthetic sting to the touch, even as Rose herself pushes against Abigail's weight!

"Pfeh!" she says, to clear her mouth.

"Perhaps the sun of your dreams... is not so far away...!!"

COMBATSYS: Rose successfully hits Abigail with #Soul Satellite#.

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Abigail          1/-======/=======|>>>>>--\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-------|

[ABIGAIL]
Hugo's COUSIN?! If Abigail heard or sensed that sort of thought he'd likely have a pure fit.

Getting hit like this? -- Well this is reason enough.

"Howwaarrrgggh!!!" he roars out, being blasted backwards from the force of the blow and actually full on spinning through the air as he trails energy behind him and then goes slamming like missile back into the ground with a plume of dust, soil and grass blasting skywards from the force of his impact. His teeth grit painfully and his eyes pinch shut, nearly lost under the folds of skin caused by his forrowed brow and crinkled nose. That hurt. More then Azrael. More then Akuma.

However, this Abigail. A human semi-truck. Anyone else would have just laid there after that. Him? When his eyes pop open again, he looks very, very angry.

"You can't run away!" he roars while kippuping to a crouched and then standing position with all the finesse of an earthquake. An instant later and he's on Rose, arm raised skyward as he bears down on the woman violently with an open palm smash intending on flattening her to the ground in anticipation for a follow up attack---

COMBATSYS: Abigail knocks away Rose with Abigail Special.
- Power hit! -

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Abigail          0/-------/------=|>>>>>--\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-<<<<<<|

[FAOLAN]
Perhaps Faolan ended up being in too much of awe in what ended up happening after his charge found him hitting nothing and he has to come skidding to a stop. "Damn she is fast." He says to himself while turning about then sort of just standing there.

Was the Ikari really needed through all this? It is hard to tell because right now Abigail is proving why he was a surprise in the World Warrior and increased his name value. His size just makes every single hit look so brutal and despite Rose's best efforts it looks like she has her hands full with Abigail alone.

"Well hell....." Why get in the way of the two at this point? If anything he might get caught in a wild swing or an exposion of energy from the psychic like he did before. He just stands back and decides it is best to let the chaos unfold as is for the time being unless he is needed.

COMBATSYS: Faolan takes no action.

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Abigail          0/-------/------=|>>>>>--\-------\0           Faolan
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Rose             0/-------/-<<<<<<|

[ABIGAIL]
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!" roars Abigail as he unleashes a flurry of punches on Rose as if she were little more then a human sized speed punching bag suspended in the air by the rolling thunderous force of his punches alone. Each blow seems to shake the area violently, though there is a sense of deliberate restraint so as to not damage or destroy the standing stones.

What, you think Abigail is -that- uncultured?

Either way, when all is said and done, a final palm smash is unleashed on the mystic as Abigail himself rebounds backwards away from her and slides towards a position near Faolon, digging up huge grooves in the ground from the heels of his workboots as he does so.

"YEAH!!"

Despite his bravado and assaults, he's looking rather frazzled, bruised and scorched. A blast of smoke emerging from his ears and nostrils as he wavers on his tree trunk sized legs.

[ROSE]
She certainly didn't see THAT one coming! Ha ha!

Rose thinks that with a certain dry interior humor as she ends up engulfed by that massive hand, that powerful hand, that hand which could command an entire Krusty Krab: a hand that would inspire a thousand panicking ukes into a delirium of delight.

Unfortunately Rose is not most of those things. She can sense Abigail coming and has time for only two things: one, the brief regret that she never took pains to squeeze the art of teleportation out of Athena Asamiya, and two, to relax and go limp.

As such she vibrates, she jitters, she jerks in midair as Abigail pounds her thoroughly in front of everyone. ("No!" cries a pagan in the stands. "Does that mean Jesus wins?!" "Ha ha!" counters a vicar: "HE IS RISEN!")

All this religious debate is rendered somewhat moot when Abigail rebounds and returns to the side of Faolan, his brother from the East, his stealer of the sun.

Except
that
Rose
doesn't
fall down.

Oh by the saints and every arcana in the tarot, Rose thinks, I think he gave me a subluxation. (She continues to float with a subtle sparkle that is lost in the gray English sky.) Her head tilts up with a sudden but satisfying pop, a twitch of one eye - but her voice is commanding even as her arms come up to cross over her front.

She descends, slowly, and says as she does, "Giants of Man... Well done... But will you seize the sun... with both hands? And which sun -"

The two spheres of Soul Power twirl around her, drawing in that little blob she'd produced for a charm point and spiralling round her. "Is the true one," she says as she lands on the ground, and then very gently finishes descending, and by that we mean she pancakes on the ground and isn't getting up for like ten minutes unless they come by for her. Very comfortable, this English soil.

BUT EVEN SO:

Pop quiz, gentlemen. Three glowing yellow orbs flying towards you. They're spiralling together. One of them has the prize - the Sun itself, brought back for a year of growth and renewal in temperance zone, to give us melanomas, free electricity, and a reason to dog on Creationists. The other two are Soul Sparks.

COMBATSYS: Rose can no longer fight.

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Faolan           0/-------/--<<<<<|=------\-------\0          Abigail

COMBATSYS: Faolan reflects Soul Spark from Rose with Screaming at the Wailing Wall EX.

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Faolan           0/-------/---<<<<|=------\-------\0          Abigail

[FAOLAN]
"Tch, too bad you are busy with other things. You'd make a pretty good Ikari." Faolan tells his temporary partner in fight after watching him in action. "Guess that is why you surprised so many of those....uh oh."

His attention shifts to the fact Rose is managing to move after the beating that she has taken from Abigail. Sure she looks like she is on her last legs, but seeing what sort of power she wields means she is a dangerous person right now and it looks like she is has something planned for both Abigail and the Ikari Warrior.

And what he gets is a sun he rather not touch. That looks like a nope sun to him that manfests and is coming right his way. It is pretty fast too so there is only really two options. Be blessed by the sun or.....knock it the hell away.

His bata crackles to life with his own energy and it swirls about the long stick. With a big swing the energy is released to be a makeshift shield that protects the front of Faolan. The attack from Rose slams against the barrier and there is a clash of energies as it looks like Rose might win. "Oh dammit...." Faolan says and slams the tip of his bata into the barrier to reinforce it and finally send the blast hurtling away from him.

"Ahhh hah....ah....too close." he says while slumping forward some and the barrier starts to anticipate. He can only hope Abigail gets so lucky.

COMBATSYS: Rose successfully hits Abigail with Soul Spark.

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Faolan           0/-------/---<<<<|======-\-------\0          Abigail

[ABIGAIL]
Yeaaaah..the answer to that would be no. Nope. So much Nope.

"Ika-wha??" Abigail rumbles in dull surprise at Faolon's compliment and invite to the elite fighting force. He then snaps his attention back to Rose as the light of her powewr increases and casts deep shadows across the craggy landscape of his monstrous physique. "What the hell! She's still revving up!!"

When the soul spark arrives he straightens up, squares his shoulders and reaches out to embrace it as if choosing to try and block the incoming mystic force with sheer muscle immensity alone. It..almost works? For a second or three he seems to wrestle against its blasting force, pushing back against it and gripping with those aforementioned titan sized hands to try and disperse and crush it into oblivion.

He fails, "Yaaarrgh!!"

An explosion of pyschic energy and a shockwave of force peels out from the behemoths position and he himself is sent hurtling backwards past Faolon and towards the edge of the combat zone where his truck is. A tremendous *BOOM* resounds as he slams violently into its sides, shattering windows and nearly tipping the tank sized truck over in the process. It manages to cushion him and stay on all four wheels, barely, and he rebounds back off of it to go slamming to his knees. For an instant he looks like he's about to get up again..but then he slips forward and slowly topples to the ground, dramatically thundering to the earth like a sequioa that's been tipped over. Down and out.

COMBATSYS: Abigail takes no action.

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COMBATSYS: Abigail can no longer fight.

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COMBATSYS: Faolan has ended the fight here.

Log created on 19:35:35 04/02/2018 by Faolan, and last modified on 11:07:06 04/04/2018.