Neo League 176 - #193: Mimiru vs Riko

Description: The League's two youngest fighters. One legendary battle. The Super Way of Mimiru is a mighty art...but can it withstand the Riko School of Indiscriminate Property Damage? (Draw Match)



It's been a while since Mimiru had the chance to perform any of the league fights. The last time she went to check, she was way, way, way down the list! Oh no. This is totally uncool! She has to fix it up! How? By gaining points of course! And stopping losing! She doesn't mind losing though, and the more she loses the more she's determined to fight and win! So that's with this renewed burning spirit that Mimiru's decided to settle things in the league fight and give everyone a spanking until she'll get to the very top! Time to make up for the lost time! Booyaa!

Unlike the previous time, Mimiru's on her own now! Without Max... Though it doesn't matter, even if Max isn't on the battlefield, he'll always be right by her side helping her out! Somewhere. She'll just have to double the energy and make Max proud of her! Right in the middle of the beach, Mimiru chuckles softly and she makes an half jog on it, "Ahaha, this'll be a piece of cake, I know this place all too well! And the person I'm fighting is a newbie, no experience at all, so it'll be a sure victory for me!" Mimiru muses.

Maybe even a win by default, at that. Because when Mimiru enters the arena, the audience cheers, in anticipation of the imminent fight. But then...minutes tick by, with no trace of Mimiru's opponent. A low murmur arises from the crowd, the spectators starting to get restless. The moment drags on, but the other fighter fails to appear. Up in the commentator's booth, a Neo League official exchanges a few heated words with the Masters arena staff - it seems nobody has any idea where Mimiru's opponent is. She doesn't seem to be in any of the changing rooms, not in any of the tunnels leading to the fighting ground. There's just no sign of her.

The PA system clicks on, and an announcer adjusts the mike, preparing a hesitant statement to mollify the crowd...but he stops, as a shadow flits across the floor of the arena. An odd one, as if something's blocking the light from one of the huge arc-lamps on the roof of the indoor landscape. A small shape drops down from above, detatching from the steel girders bracing the dome. Landing lightly with a faint splash in the shallow water by the artificial beach.

The new arrival stands, waves lapping against her ankles. A girl, about Mimiru's age, clad in t-shirt, shorts, and fuzzy panda backpack. "Hi, I'm Riko," she says, "sorry about this. Let's go."

COMBATSYS: Riko has started a fight here.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru has joined the fight here.

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Riko             0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Mimiru


Win by default? Nooo! That is unacceptable! She doesn't want free points, it's not fair. She didn't win them. Default is the worst word of the dictionary! Probably just beside giving up. Mimiru has plenty of time herself, so if her oponent isn't around, Mimiru figures she'll simply stretch about idly and wait for her to come. It's starting to take long but Mimiru keeps hoping for the best! There's not a shadow of a doubt crossing her mind that she'll come... And if she's offered a victory by default? She'll refuse!

Mimiru frowns a bit and her gaze goes up as she notices the shadow roams across the arena. She closes her eyes and she turns her gaze away slightly as something lands right in the middle of the water.

Mimiru turns her gaze back over to what has just fallen and she blinks a few times, "Huh, flashy entrance..." Mimiru's lips curl into a smile and she arches a brow, "You sure you alright to start? Not need to rush in, that was quite a fall after all! I want to fight you at your best!" Mimiru says as she slowly gets in her combat stance, just in case Riko might decide to start things up right away! Mimiru's actually glad! She fights another small girl like her! Joy!

COMBATSYS: Mimiru focuses on her next action.

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Riko             0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0           Mimiru


Riko shifts position, her feet splashing in the shallow water. She turns her left side to Mimiru, while her right hand reaches behind her back, below the backpack, fingers brushing against the navy blue cloth she wears as a belt or sash. Closing around something secured near the base of her spine. Riko grins, a sunny smile. "No worries," she assures Mimiru, "on three?"

Beat.

"THREE!"

C'mon, don't tell me you didn't see that coming.

Riko spins round, pulling the kunai from her sash and flinging it towards Mimiru, the throwing dagger darting toward the other girl.

COMBATSYS: Riko successfully hits Mimiru with Sleight of Hand.

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Riko             0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0           Mimiru


"Alright!" Mimiru says with a nod of her head. She's good sport after all, so she'll wait for the count to go to three before attacking! Then... Three! What? Huh... Mimiru doesn't have the time to see anything coming and the first thing she knows is that she gets 'impaled' by the thrown dagger. Mimiru's eyes widen and she winces, sticking her tongue a bit in pain and staggering back a little. "Urg... No fair..."

Looks like she didn't see that one coming. She moves her hand with a grunt and she takes the dagger off from her midsection, her white shirt stained by the cut. She growls a bit and she lifts her gaze up at Riko.. If there's something she hates, it's those who use sharp objects like that!

Not wanting to get another knife hurled her way, Mimiru rushes over toward Riko and she attempts to grapple the girl. If she suceeds, she'll try to make her trip and use her grasp on her to slam her down into the shallow water. Thankfully, the water might help her fall!

COMBATSYS: Riko dodges Mimiru's O Soto Gari.

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Riko             0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0           Mimiru


As Mimiru yanks the kunai from her wound and tosses it aside, Riko's eyes track the movement. She watches where - and more importantly, how - the blade lands, sticking point-first in the sand. She doesn't give any outward sign of this attention, though. Instead, she just scratches the back of her head, looking faintly sheepish. "Hey, I'm a ninja," Riko says, "not -supposed- to be fair."

She's still standing there looking abashed when Mimiru charges. But before Mimiru can get a hold on her, Riko throws herself to the side. In the spray of water droplets, refracting the light...something odd might be visible. The fact that Riko seems to be trailing wire. It's a very -thin- wire, almost threadlike, transparent. Nearly invisible - and it would be, if it wasn't for the splash of water. Wire linking Riko's hand...to the dagger lying on the beach.

Riko raises her arm. And with a sharp -tug-, Riko retracts the line into the spool concealed in her palm, drawing it -taut-.

At the level of Mimiru's neck.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru fails to interrupt Houdini from Riko with Ippon Seoi Nage.
- Power hit! -

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Riko             0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0           Mimiru


Ninja or not... This is league fight and it's supposed to be fair fighting, not some sort of dirty tricks stuff? Still, she proves her point at being 'ninja' by quickly moving out of range for Mimiru to actually get a hold of her. The little girl snorts a bit and she rushes toward Riko, "Come back here!" She mutters and dashes in Riko's direction.

Alas, her eagerness to actually try to get a hold of Riko merely causes her to rush right into the wire that she obviously didn't see coming. Her eyes widen and she coughs as she's forced back by the taut line and Mimiru chokes as she staggers back in the shallow water, making a couple of splashes here and there. She drops to one knee and she coughs a couple of time as she tries to get her breath back.

Riko snaps her end of the wire with a small spark of blue chi, then pockets the spool. While Mimiru's still on bended knee, still struggling for breath in the wake of the clothesline attack, Riko reaches behind her back, yanking on the zip sealing the main compartment of her furry panda-shaped bag. She withdraws a stick of bamboo, twirling it in her fingers as she pulls the zip shut. Gripping it securely, she takes a few running steps forward - and attempts to poke Mimiru in the head with the end of the bamboo rod.

"Like I said...sorry!"

COMBATSYS: Mimiru blocks Riko's Weapon Jab.

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Riko             0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0           Mimiru


Well Mimiru manages to recover at least just in time to actually lift her arm up to block the incoming strike of bamboo before it can hit her head. Mimiru grunts a bit, her facial expression slight distorted by pain. The fight wasn't looking good so far but it doesn't matter! Mimiru'll make a glorious come back at some point and she'll show Riko to be afraid of her might!

"Yeah, well what's done is done, no need to whine on it!" Mimiru says as she rises up and she lets a shout as she hurls her fist to Riko's stomach in an attempt to give her a pretty solid hit.

COMBATSYS: Riko fails to interrupt Strong Punch from Mimiru with One Hit Wonder EX.
- Power hit! -

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Riko             0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0           Mimiru


Riko dances backward, one hand holding the length of bamboo, while her other hand slides into a pocket....but no, whatever she was trying to do, it looks like she drastically misjudged the speed of Mimiru's punch. The blow strikes Riko squarely in the gut, and she gives an involuntary -gasp- as she folds up around Mimiru's fist. Her hand drops from her pocket, empty, as Riko staggers back, retreating onto the dry ground of the beach. She smiles, wanly, and singsongs: "Que sera, sera..."

With Riko dazed from the powerful punch she managed to deliver, or rather, because Mimiru seems to have, more or less unwillingly, hit a sensitive(or weak) spot, Mimiru figures it's just her best chance to actually get the grapple she's been so desiring to have!

Lips curling into a tight smile, Mimiru chuckles a bit and she actually tries to circle Riko, to get behind her. Since she's just barely taller than Mimiru is, she figures she shouldn't have a hard time to perform that one... Mimiru's arms wrap around Riko's waist and she tries to lock herself against Riko. "Here goes!" She says as she tries to lift her off the ground and throws her off over her head by arching her back and sending herself in the water as well in the process. Suplex style.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru successfully hits Riko with Quick Throw.

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Riko             0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0           Mimiru


"Ow," Riko grumps, as she untangles herself from Mimiru and rolls back to her feet, water sluicing off her sodden clothes as she does so. She gives her head a shake, flecks of sand falling from her wet hair. Riko grimaces in distaste as she continues to back away, keeping her eyes focused on Mimiru.

COMBATSYS: Riko gathers her will.

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Riko             1/------=/=======|=====--\-------\0           Mimiru


Mimiru chuckles softly and she rises back from the ground. Her clothes are fairly soaked, though that only helps to actually make the blood stain on her white shirt less apparent. Thankfully, the water isn't really salt water or else that would have hurt. "Anyway... Careful with those pointy objects..." Mimiru says, sticking her tongue out a bit, "We're just here to have a fun fight, not to send each other at the hospital!"

And with that, Mimiru charges on Riko and she leaps as she gets close enough to her, throwing herself at Riko in an attempt to actually give her a hard tackle takedown into the water. "Waaaahhh!"

COMBATSYS: Riko blocks Mimiru's Heavy Kick.

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Riko             1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0           Mimiru


"Okay," Riko replies, breezily, as she meets Mimiru's lunge by standing her ground. She blocks with her bamboo rod, bracing it with both hands - and lets Mimiru crash into her. The shock of the impact jars Riko badly, forcing her back a step in the shallow water. But she stays upright, if a little wobbly.

The collision, though, does something else. In Riko's hands, the bamboo stick cracks. But it doesn't break. Not entirely, at least. But a few splinters fall away, revealing...gleaming metal underneath.

Bamboo's hollow, after all. And it seems like Riko's got a -steel bar- inside that stick.

"No pointy objects."

She doesn't need them. Not when she's got other tricks up her sleeve. In a sudden burst of motion, Riko swings the bamboo-sheaved metal bar towards Mimiru. She attempts to press the tip against the other girl's skin.

COMBATSYS: Riko successfully hits Mimiru with Big Bang Theory.

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Riko             0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1           Mimiru


Now, steel is a conductor of electricity. So's water, for that matter, given sufficiently high voltages. And Mimiru's standing in the stuff. All in all, that gives Riko -two- vectors...to pump Mimiru full of the electrical chi she's been silently and invisibly charging for the past few moments, discharging it all in a brilliant flare of blue lightning. And the smell of ozone.

That was a little reckless of Mimiru, and the girl definately wasn't expecting tricks like that from Riko. How come every one she meets have lots of nifty objects that hurts so much? Mimiru's eyes widen as she notices the gleam of metal from the bamboo and she staggers back, "Heh! What you think you're doing?"

And despite her best efforts, Mimiru gets hit by the tip -- that doesn't hurt but the discharge. Oh god that doesn't feel good. Mimiru's eyes widen and she lets out a shout escape her throat as she gets electrocuted. The water obviously not helping.

After that, Mimiru's a little dazed and she staggers back a little, weakly. She's still standing but after the strain on her muscle from the over stimulation due to the electricity, she's exhausted and definately... Well, out of it, she tries to recover like she can.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru focuses on her next action.

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Riko             0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1           Mimiru


"Um," Riko replies, waving her bamboo zapper, the glowing blue tip drawing circles in the air, "frying you, actually. Sorry," she apologises, again. With a sort of extreme, maniac cheerfulness, and a very large grin. She takes a step forward. Riko doesn't seem inclined to give Mimiru her breathing space, no. Instead, she drives the bamboo-clad lightning rod towards Mimiru, once again, crackling with azure chi-electricity.

COMBATSYS: Riko successfully hits Mimiru with Chaos Theory EX.

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Riko             0/-------/----===|=======\=====--\1           Mimiru


TWell Riko can be cheerful. She's not the one getting fried up! Mimiru doesn't quite have the time to actually recover from the first electrocution that she gets hit again and Mimiru shouts a bit in pain. She growls and her eyes narrow, growling as she looks at Riko as electricity courses through. "Urg... Damn you, that hurts... No fair..." She mutters.

In an ultimate attempt to free herself from the bambo striking girl, Mimiru lunges on her and she attempts to tackle her down by body-slamming her.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru successfully hits Riko with Super Mimiru Body Slam EX.

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Riko             0/-------/--=====|=======\======-\1           Mimiru


And bang, Mimiru hits Riko right on and that's actually enough to send both of them falling down. However, just as they fall down, Mimiru shifts herself so that her feet rest on Riko's chest and just as soon as Riko splashes into the water, a burst of chi comes out of Mimiru's feet to give her a boost and sends her flying away a couple of feet as she jumps off Riko.

Riko coughs, spluttering, as she props herself up on her elbows. Lying down in water isn't a great idea, especially if your nose and mouth are below the surface. Her ribs ache something awful, after that little move of Mimiru's. She manages to force a grin, though, and quips, "Hey, hey, I -told- you, not supposed to be fair."

Springing up, Riko sticks a hand in her pocket. She lost the bamboo rod after being hit by Mimiru - dropped it somewhere in the water. But the ninja girl's got more weapons on her person. Like the wire spool, which she palms in her hand...as she rushes at Mimiru. Past her, actually, brushing by the other girl's side.

Because Riko didn't really mean to hit Mimiru - just snag her arm in a doubled loop of wire, an impromptu snare. Which Riko then pulls tight, trying to force Mimiru's limb in a rather painful direction.

COMBATSYS: Riko successfully hits Mimiru with Houdini EX.

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Riko             0/-------/--=====|=======\=======\1           Mimiru


Well looks like Riko and Mimiru have both totally different views on the league fights. Though it's a little bit late to actually argue on this whole thing. No matter how the fight might have been going so far, Mimiru intends to give her best to the very end! That's the Super Way Of Mimiru after all! She has to live by her own conviction! Beside, whining is for losers.

Mimiru spins around on her heels and she winces a little as her arm gets caught in the invisible wires, "Heh! Huh... Ouch!!" Mimiru growls and she winces, staggering about a little as she gets tugged in a painful position. Urg... So much pain... It's hard to continue... Why doesn't she just give up? She's in a bad shape but... No, no! Fight to the very end! Mimiru growls a bit and with an outburst of force and chi, as the flames flare out of her forearm, Mimiru manages to free herself from the grasp of those wires, "Alright! This is it!" Mimiru shouts, "I didn't want to use this, but you leave me no choice!" Mimiru shouts, her legs up to her knees also flaring up with that bright white chi. At the very least, her own chi doesn't electrocute or do bad things!

Using the chi she has on her legs to give her a boost to her sprint, Mimiru charges on Riko, "Waaaah! Super Mimiru Punch!!" She shouts as she swings her fist right for Riko's midsection, "And take that, Super Mimiru Kick! And Punch, kick!" She shouts as she tries to deliver Riko a flurry of kicks and punches.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru successfully hits Riko with Super Mimiru Combo.

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Riko             1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0           Mimiru


Punch and kick and punch! And after a rush of fast hits, Mimiru kneels down and while Riko's dazed, it leaves Mimiru all the time to leap up in the air and deliver a powerful uppercut under Riko's chin, enough to send her up flying, "SUPER MIMIRU UPPERCUT!!" And just as both of them are in midair, Mimiru flips around and she brings her chi engulfed leg toward Riko, "Super Mimiru Combo!!" And that's it! With the axing kick, Riko gets hurled down back into the shallow water.

And Riko doesn't just splashdown, she actually -skips- like a stone over the water's surface before coming to a halt. After a moment or two, she forces herself up on her hands and knees, coughing up a mouthful of water. Flopping half-upright, resting on one knee, she squints at Mimiru, then quirks a grin.

In a solemn voice, Riko echoes Mimiru's words, throwing her own speech back at her. "I didn't want to use this, but you leave me no choice..."

Riko holds up a hand. She was carrying the wire spool a few seconds ago, but it seems there's now something different clutched in her fingers. A small black box, with a big red button. Which Riko presses, mashing it with her thumb.

Now, despite how it seemed, Riko wasn't actually late for the fight. Sure, there was a huge gap between Mimiru's arrival in the arena and Riko's own appearance. But Riko was there all along. She was actually in the arena long -before- Mimiru. She was up in the rafters the whole time, until she finally dropped down from the roof.

Not because she wanted to make people wait or anything. It just took longer than expected to wire all the explosives.

A rolling -BOOM- echoes round the arena as Riko's demolitions go off, the carefully placed charges destroying the supports holding a bank of fluorescent lamps near the ceiling. The huge arc lamps go dark and shatter, raining glass and debris...before they break free, themselves, dropping down to the arena floor.

Of course, while there's a lot of debris raining down...Mimiru's not in any great danger of being hit. Sure, she might get zinged by a few bits and pieces - but if she just stands still, the main bulk of the wreckage will crash to the ground some distance from her.

So no death from above.

But...

...it's one hell of a distraction, though.

And that's the point. A distraction. Covering Riko's vanishing in a blur...reappearing behind Mimiru, and striking the back of her head with a balled fist. Even as the pyrotechnics rain from the sky.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru dodges Riko's Hidden Tactics.

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Riko             0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0           Mimiru


The whole blast is enough to surprise and destabilize Mimiru, just as much as the rest of the crowd and the officials. There's someone who owns this place who's not going to be happy when he'll learn about the things that happened here! Mimiru growls and she bites her lips as she watches the debris and makes sure they don't fall on her, "Are you crazy!?" Mimiru shouts as she moves her eyes down over to Riko... Eh... Where is she? Nowhere to be seen!

Mimiru blinks a couple of times and she hears something in the water, or rather, she has a feeling that... Quick, duck! And Mimiru follows her instinct and out of luck, she manages to avoid the incoming smack behind her head. "Huh, wow!" Mimiru shouts as she staggers about. She narrows her eyes and she says, "Are you insane!? That was crazy!" Mimiru's fist flares out with chi and she says, "That's like, so dangerous, what were you thinking?! The Super Way of Mimiru can't approve of that!"

And for that, Riko deserves the worse! "SU~PA MI~MI~RU PUN~CHA!!" And here it comes, the fist of ultimate doom.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru successfully hits Riko with Super Mimiru Punch.

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Riko             0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0           Mimiru


The blow throws Riko's head round, the flash of chi momentarily blinding her. She falls on her tailbone - and scowls up at Mimiru, pouting. "Don't insult Seishirou-sama's teachings like that," she retorts.

Then, there's a tiny, almost inaudible -click-.

Still sitting on the ground, Riko snaps her leg straight, foot arcing towards Mimiru's midriff. A tiny razor blade protruding from the tip of Riko's sneaker sole. Sure, she told the other girl no more pointy objects...but hey, this is Riko we're talking about.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru dodges Riko's Weapon Jab.

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Riko             0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0           Mimiru


Mimiru's eyes widen and she takes a step back, "Heh! Careful there!" Mimiru says, sticking her tongue out as she barely avoids Riko's weapon-shoe jab. Mimiru narrows her eyes and she says, "You damage property on just a friendly spar, that's no way of fighting!" Mimiru says, "Well anyway! I'll finish this!"

And with that, Mimiru leaps on Riko and she attempts to elbow drop her while she's stip sitting down.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru successfully hits Riko with Quick Punch.

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Riko             0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0           Mimiru


"It's a fight," Riko shoots back, returning Mimiru's razzberry with one of her own. "Seishirou-sama says..."

She's still on the ground, as Mimiru comes towards her. Riko attempts to roll aside, but the blow smacks her painfully in the side as she does so. She grits her teeth as she's pounded into the wet sand ringing the shore. Breathing heavily, she chokes out a last retort: "...anything goes!"

Then, Riko gathers her chi - and releases the last of her consciousness in a brilliant blue burst of power, her aura flaring with blinding, searing light - hopefully engulfing Mimiru before she can get clear. Regardless, though, Riko isn't awake to see the effects, because the effort leaves her passed out, face-down in the sand.

COMBATSYS: Riko can no longer fight.

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Mimiru           0/-------/--=====|


COMBATSYS: Riko successfully hits Mimiru with Light Fantastic.

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Mimiru           0/-------/=======|


"Waaah!" Mimiru growls and she's forced up to her feet, staggering about a little. She bites her lips and she waves her hands about a little, blinded, "Urg..." She whimpers before she actually knocks herself against a tree and she falls on her back. Is this the end for Super Mimiru!? Well she seems to have passed out! Oh no! Mimiru can't give up, wake up Mimiru! Well, she's knocked out cold.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru takes no action.

COMBATSYS: Mimiru can no longer fight.


There's a moment of silence - aside from the murmurings of the crowd - before the announcer calls the match a draw. Then come the cheers for both girls, the audience showing their appreciation at an incredibly intense match.

The Neo League officials and Masters Arena staff, though, aren't -nearly- as happy. Granted, they cover arena damage in the budget, but it isn't every day that a fighter busts an entire bank of ceiling lamps just to make a -distraction-.

Oh well. At least they got it on video.

Log created by Riko, and last modified on 02:37:09 02/17/2006.