Description: Few thought it possible, but it just goes to show that dreams can come true, if you set your mind to them... (Winner: Dan/Taiyo High)
Athletic Field
Justice High's athletic field is nothing so large as Taiyo Dome or so
spacious as Pacific High's beachfront property, but just like everything else
at Justice, it's of the highest quality. There are no football, baseball, or
soccer fields here. Instead, there are tennis courts, strips of concrete for
fencing, racquetball courts, archery ranges, and so on. If it's a sport
enjoyed by the elite, it can be found here.
In the Justice Arena, the crowd mills as it waits for the next fight of the
tournament to begin.
From the entrance, a man in pink gear walks into the arena. He isn't more than a
few steps in, however, when he throws himself forward to the ground as if
someone had shot a Hadouken at him. He doesn't simply lay there, though, but
instead shoots forward to the center of the arena in a fast roll, his roar of
"ORARARARARARA!" filling the arena. At the appropriate spot, he bounds into a
standing position, thrusting his arms into the air with a happy "YOUSHA!" It's
good to be fighting.
Though Dan Hibiki's gi is usually solid pink, for this tournament he wears the
logo of Taiyo High on the back of his gi. Go team spirit!
While Akira feels ill at ease on the grounds of Justice High for several
reasons, on this occasion it's not so bad. She's not here to save anyone or
investigate some freaky conspiracy now, just have a seemingly friendly
tournament match.
She spots some of her friends on the sidelines after walking out into the sports
arena, and tosses her bike helmet over to them to hold onto for her before she
starts to get herself ready, stretching her arms back behind her and twisting at
the waist a couple of times. A look at Dan't pink gi as she regards him makes
her smile a bit, as it reminds her she talked her way out of having to wear her
school uniform out here for the sake of Seijyun. She was really worried about
that, but it looks like she gets to wear her usual leather outfit, albeit with
an armband around one arm of her zipped-up leather jacket.
Dan seems perfectly happy wearing the logo. Taiyo's where he gets most of his
students, and in many ways it's his favorite school. He struts around a little
bit, showing off the back of his gi and his muscles in various Saikyo-style
poses as Akira walks onto the field. It's his way of limbering up, doncha know.
Dan finally settles down long enough to give Akira a wink and a thumbs-up. "Give
it your best, kid, and let's make this a fun fight!" He relaxes into his
fighting stance, bouncing lightly on the balls of his feet.
Akira gives a firm nod of her head in response to Dan's statement, but doesn't
have any words herself. She's never much for speaking, whether her opponent
seems friendly or otherwise. At least she knows how to give genuine smiles
though. Without that, all the black leather and studs and skulls would be a
little more misleading as to her demeanor.
Rolling her shoulders back once before dropping into her familiar taikyokuken
stance, the Kazama girl takes a deep breath, and then starts slowly inching
forward cautiously after the signal is given to begin. Doesn't look like she's
underestimating the Saikyo fighter just yet.
COMBATSYS: Akira has started a fight here on the left meter side.
COMBATSYS: Dan has joined the fight here.
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Akira 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Dan
On the other hand, Dan looks ready and eager to go. Once Akira looks ready to
start, Dan is off and running. Bare feet pound the ground as he covers the
distance quickly. "SHAAA!" Midway through, he kicks off into the air, snapping
his foot out on the way down in a textbook jumpkick aimed right for his
opponent. "Feel the might of Saikyo's Mighty Kick!"
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Akira with Heavy Kick.
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Akira 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Dan
As careful as Akira tries to be, there's a certain factor that sometimes keeps
her from reacting fast enough even to the most obvious of attacks. She gets a
little shaky, shivery, and it throws her off. It's the rush of adrenaline that
causes it. Combined with her timidness, it really screws with her sometimes,
usually at the beginning of fights, like now, with Dan's first attack as it
catches her in the shoulder even as she tries to move aside. "Urgh.. " She's
taken halfway to the ground, but catches herself on her gloved hands and pushes
herself back up to hop away and take a moment to try and calm herself down, make
sure the shaking stops.
COMBATSYS: Akira focuses on her next action.
Dan flips backward, landing solidly on his feet. Say what you will about Dan,
he's quite the acrobat. He gives Akira a brief concerned look as he catches the
nervousness. "Hey, cheer up, huh? Not every day you get to test your skill
against the master himself." Before anyone has time to ask "Master of -what-?"
Dan's already moving again - he may be concerned, but until she says uncle, the
fight isn't stopping. He throws himself into another roll, "ORARARARARARA"ing
his way all the way up to directly in front of Akira. He pops up into a kneeling
position, an open palm flying forward. Even then, he's a little too far for that
to hit, but it's more than close enough for a "GADOUKEN!"
The burst of blue chi flashes forward from his hand. It looks inimitdating
enough, but if Akira can slip out of its way, it'll dissipate harmlessly a mere
foot from his hand.
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Akira with Gadouken.
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Akira 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Dan
Just as the younger Kazama sibling gets over her mild shivering fit, shaking her
wrists out to get rid of the last of the odd feeling, Dan comes rolling up to
stop in front of her and throw that low and smallish projectile of blue chi.
Hadoukens and any kind of fireball that's enough like them are known to give her
trouble, even the small ones Sakura tosses, so it's not too much of a surprise
to Akira when this one catches her despite her attempt to block in time. It does
hit a little harder than she would have guessed it could though. She grunts just
a little, and takes another step back before surging forward to retailiate, an
elbow held out and aimed for Dan's chin.
COMBATSYS: Akira successfully hits Dan with Gate Elbow.
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Akira 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Dan
Dan clenches his hand into a fist, ready to continue the Saikyo Assault Of
Power, but the sudden resolve on Akira's part interferes quite harshly with that
plan. The elbow strike connects solidly, lifting Dan off his knees and knocking
him back several feet. He rolls once or twice, coming up on his feet - a touch
unsteadily, but well enough. He rubs at his chin and beams at Akira. "That's the
spirit! Now we can start fighting!"
Dan adopts a horse stance, thrusting a fist in Akira's direction. "Huwoooaaah!"
The Pinkish Aura of Saikyo Strength flares around him briefly, lifting his
ponytail for a second in a flare of pink. "OUSH!"
COMBATSYS: Dan gathers his will.
Out of the many "GO TAIYO! FIGHT!" banners being held aloft by the spirited
Taiyo High supporters, one of them is a participant of a previous Schools
Tournament match. Taiyo hasn't been doing so well in the tournaments --
especially where Seijyun is concerned, oddly enough. So... while Sakura might
want to support Akira, she's rooting instead for her former sensei: "C'mon, Dan!
Show 'er what Saikyo-ryuu's all about!" Her voice is but one among many
cheering on the long-haired dojo master, but it can likely be heard just the
same...
Akira slides back at what seems like a much slower pace once the elbow is
delivered sucessfully, but she's actually moving pretty fast. The rush from the
gate elbow was just so much faster is the thing. The girl in leather from
Seijyun adjusts her stance just a bit now, making it look more like t'ai chi
than what her brother taught her, and she doesn't hesitate for even a second
once she sees Dan's chi start to flare up. From the way he acts, he's definitely
got a lot of /some/ kind of spirit, so if he were allowed to turn it all into
chi, that might be kind of troublesome for Akira.
Launching herself high into the air, Akira flips forward once, a foot extended
as she tries to bring it down hard onto the Taiyo representative's head while
he's busy concentrating, her heavy metal-reinforced heel slashing downward with
enough force that it whistles through the air for a brief moment.
COMBATSYS: Dan blocks Akira's Leaping Smash.
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Akira 0/-------/-======|=======\===----\1 Dan
The fist Dan had thrust forward comes up in an overhead block as Akira flies
down at him. The horse stance was a good one - the kick slams into him with such
force that his feet are actually pushed a couple centimeters into the ground.
Amazingly, his arm doesn't collapse under the kick, though his face becomes
stony with effort as he holds it off.
Two arms up obviously would have been much better at holding off the attack, but
there's a good reason for his using only one. His free arm cocks back, hand
clenched into one prepared fist. In the split second following the blow, Dan
retaliates with his own assault. Pushing against Akira's leg, Dan leaps into the
air, his fist shooting upward to try and catch Akira on it, hopefully sending
her flying into the air with his patented Saikyo Killer Koryuken. "KORYUU!"
It doesn't stop there, though. When he lands on the ground in a crouch, Dan's
momentum carries him forward and up again, spinning into a second strong
uppercut. "REKKA!"
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Akira with Kouryuu Rekka.
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Akira 1/------=/=======|-------\-------\0 Dan
Akira doesn't even have time to bounce off of Dan's blocking forearm with her
boot before he comes at her with his own attack. When his fist comes flying up
and he lifts up off of the ground to catch her with it, her eyes go wide. She
should have expected some kind of dragon punch attack from this guy, but she
didn't.
The biker girl is sent up into the air by the uppercut, and then juggled once
more by a second to come tumbling back down to the ground. It takes her a moment
to get back up, but she seems alright for the most part when she does. She just
breathes a bit heavier now, and has to roll her shoulders back once more before
she drops back into a stance more like what her older brother taught her.
The Seijyun student shakes her head a bit to try and calm herself again, but it
only takes a split second before she dashes back toward Dan and aims a series of
three kicks at him, high low and middle all at once.
COMBATSYS: Dan dodges Akira's Triple Kick.
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Akira 1/-----==/=======|-------\-------\0 Dan
Dan's Saikyo Aura is obviously on fire tonight. He does a flip backward, yelling
"YAHOO!" as Akira recovers from the attack. "The spirit of Taiyo burns bright
within me, 'cause I'm kickin' ass!" As he comes up for the roll, though, he lets
out an "Eep!" at seeing Akira charge him. Crouching for an instant, he bounds up
into the air, jumping over Akira's head and landing hard on the ground behind
her. He twists around, hands shooting out for her shoulders. If he can grab her,
it leads into a very simple but effective over-the-shoulder toss. "OUUUSH!"
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Akira with Seoi Nage.
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Akira 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Dan
Akira is left at a bit of a loss for words when she sees Dan dodge her kicks so
handily, her mouth dropped open like she wants to say something, without
actually getting anything out. And then, in her moment of confusion, she's
grabbed by the shoulders and tossed just like that, landing with a thud and
sighing a bit as she wonders what's wrong with her today before sprining back up
to her feet. Her reflexes have seemed to be lagging this entire match, and so
she thinks she should try and jumpstart them. She moves what looks like a crane
stance, standing on one leg with the with her arms raised and wrists limp at
either side to mimic wings, and there's a flash as she shouts, "Ougi!" and goes
into a flurry of kicks and elbows, a sampling of most of her style's special
techniques scattered throughout the long chain. However the surge of chi she
called up wants to make her move reflexively is exactly how she moves until the
energy is all spent.
COMBATSYS: Akira successfully hits Dan with Reflex Barrage.
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Akira 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Dan
It's time for Dan to perform the Saikyo-exclusive taunt of a bare-shouldered,
bare-armed fist shake at Akira, his muscles bunching dramatically as he
powerfully taunts his worthy opponent. "SHAAAAAAAA! Is that all you got?"
...Apparently not. Dan's arm is back inside his gi in a flash, and he looks
ready to run for it as Akira settles into her stance, but once the barrage
starts...well, there's nowhere to go. Every hit connects with Dan, juggling him
like a fish out of water before it finally ends, sending him backward several
meters and now looking pretty battered.
It isn't long before the Saikyo master pushes himself to his feet, though. He
sways for a moment, hair mussed and falling over his slightly-crossed eyes. With
a shake, his vision clears, and he focuses on Akira. "Don't worry! When I win,
I'll make sure everyone knows you're a worthy opponent!"
And with that, he launches into a full-out run at Akira, just as when he opened
the fight. This time, though, the jump begins from much further away, and the
flight arc is almost flat. Dan shoots straight toward Akira, spinning around to
deliver a Triple Flying Roundhouse Badass Kick...
...or as Dan more affectionally calls it, "DAN DAN BOOT TO THE HEAD!"
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Akira with Dankuu Kyaku.
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Akira 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Dan
When Akira is finished moving at the behest of her strong aura, she finds
herself quite a bit more tired than usual, likely because she was already
breathing hard before it began. When Dan comes flying at her with those spinning
roundhouses, she can already tell she's not going to be able to get out of the
way in time. Regardless, she does *try* by leaning to one side and trying to
duck out of the way, but just as she anticipated she isn't quick enough. Still
though, being hit by the attack points out to her just how similar it is to one
of her own, and before she lets herself go down, she makes sure to show Dan the
likeness it has too. She lets the momentum of the spin his kick sends her into
flow into her own spinning roundhouse, and it's one that she repeats two times
after the first before dropping to the ground on her knees and keeling over to
one side.
COMBATSYS: Akira can no longer fight.
COMBATSYS: Akira has left the fight here.
COMBATSYS: Dan dodges Akira's Dancing Cyclone Kick.
Alas, there will be no retaliation against Dan today. Dan pushes off on the
final kick, springing away from Akira and landing a few feet away, just far
enough to avoid the Cyclone Kick. Panting heavily, Dan watches as Akira falls to
the ground, waits that heartbeat for whether or not she'll get up again...then
leaps into the air, slamming a fist upward. "YAHOO! I WON! THE STRENGTH OF
SAIKYO PULLS THROUGH AGAIN!" Once he lands on the ground, the waves his fists at
the crowd, pulling the applause from the Taiyo crowd ("Taiyo rocks! Taiyo
rocks!"). The Gedo crowd only begrudgingly cheers, and mostly boos - after all,
it's -Akira- that went down. Dan doesn't seem to hear it, though, caught up in
the swell of one of his rare victories.
COMBATSYS: Dan has ended the fight here.
A short while after Dan is declared the winner, Akira stirs and manages to sit
up. She never fell unconscious, she just couldn't stay standing after the abrupt
landing which followed missing Dan that final time with her kick. While he's
still celebrating and accepting his applause, Daigo's little sister gets shakily
to her feet and stumbles over to a different section of the crowd, stopping in
front of a throng of Seijyun girls, the ones with her helmet, and beckons for
them to toss it to her with two fingers. Once they oblige her and she slips it
on, she rolls her shoulders back once more, popping a whole lot of joints and
then starting to walk off as if she hadn't even broken a sweat, let alone taken
a hit.
Log created by Kobun, and last modified on 18:02:55 12/06/2005.