Description: Close-quarters Combat rules return in a battle of the blondes as Blue Mary Ryan takes on Karin Kanzuki and Ingrid Holmann inside Rome's Coliseum (Winners: Karin and Ingrid).
Talk about delusions of grandeur. Right inside of the old ruins of the colosseum, where great gladiators once fought to preserve their right to live, where the crowds were cheering for more violence and more stunts. No glaives, no net and no lions today, though, and considering the historical interest of the location, the crowd that has gathered in the stone enviromnent has been limited somewhat.
The sand pit offers plenty of room for the opponents to move about freely and the premise is not only Blue Mary's field of expertise, but she also has experience with the rules since she already had a match with a similar setting. Though this time, Mary's going to be the one fighting on her own against two other women.
Out in the pit with the rest of the Howard crew, Mary's doing a few stretchings while she waits for everything to be in place for the fight to begin.
Rome. A beautiful city full of history and amazing archeological sites, a place where you can simply walk around and see the grandeur of the past and remember how long this one relatively small city controlled the world with no one who could dare hope to oppose it. Or maybe, that's just what happens to someone who's been studying ancient world history lately, like Ingrid has.
The young woman walks in from one of the entryways onto the temporarily constructed floor with her head tilted up looking around at the large walls and imagining what it must have been like for someone to have done the very same some two thousand years ago. Spectacular. Her viewing done, she sets her eyes upon the person that will be her opponent, sending her a smile as she approaches to a close distance, as the rules will dictate she must maintain. "Let's have a good fight, okay? It wouldn't be right to fight here and bore the crowds, would it?"
It's been some time since Karin participated in the Saturday Night Fights, but her concept of showmanship has in no way diminished for the absence. As the lights in the arena fill the 'false' floor, the roaring of the crowd suddenly begins to quiet... or perhaps it's that other loud noise drowning it out. Like an onrushing tornado, overhead the rotors of a private helicopter marked with the Kanzuki logo descends toward the top of the viewing area in order to keep from blowing the sand every which way, and a figure in red and black drops from its cargo door with catlike grace, landing at the top of the steps. It is indeed Karin Kanzuki, dressed in a red silk blouse and black trousers in the Italian style, half of her golden curls pushed to one side and a brilliant red flower pinned in her hair.
With a wave of the hand, she dismisses the helicopter and begins her descent toward the floor, waving to the crowd as she does so. As far as the billionaire schoolgirl is concerned, this is fabulous free advertising, and she plans to make the most of it. Finally coming to the arena floor, she nods once at Ingrid and Blue Mary as the crowd's cheers redouble in her wake. "Well, then... shall we begin?"
COMBATSYS: Ingrid has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Karin has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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|-------\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
Here comes her opponents... Mary spares a glance in Ingrid's direction and she tilts her head to one side. She narrows her eyes and assesses her for a moment. She doesn't particulary look tough or buff, in fact, she'd almost fall in the 'schoolgirl' archetype of fighters. And from experience, those are pretty good at throwing fireballs. Just the thought make Mary smirk, since she knows those are forbidden in this match. God Bless Full Contact Rules. However she does look a little special... What with those hair? And those eyes? Maybe she'S just imagining things. Mary just shakes her head and she smiles to Ingrid, nodding to her, "Yeah, let's have a good fight."
Then all of a sudden, gusts of wind are picking up and Mary has to take a step backward and lifting her arm up to shield her eyes a little from the sand as the helicopter comes above them to drop the other participant for this fight. Clearly a much more flashy entrance... And another schoolgirl. Well she looks like one. Just Mary's luck. Not to mention Karin's stealing all of the spotlight. That'll just have to change. Yep...
"Of course, let's not make everyone wait after you've given them such a teaser," Mary says with a soft chuckle. The helicopter thing's going to be pretty hard to beat in question of something spectacular. Since everyone's there, the announcers take care of the proper introduction, and once that's done... With the 'Let the battle begin', Blue Mary lunges at her opponents.
And her target? Well since Karin has been such a showoff, she might as well try to steal her the spotlight. She charges at her and tries to swing her fist right for Karin's midsection. If that connects, Mary will then try to get a hold of Karin's torso and sweep her legs off the floor, to spin her around and slam her down to the ground.
COMBATSYS: BlueMary has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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BlueMary 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Karin
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Ingrid's hair begins waving around in the wind, just like all the sand goes flying everywhere, and she covers her eyes while looking up at the helicopter that approaches and deposits her ally down on the ground. Once the wind dies down she's able to get a much better look at Karin, who looks to have taken up the local fashion admirably. "If you insist, I think we should, but don't be in too much of a hurry!" She gives her a small wink, and then turns to face Mary, who is now coming forward and looks to be ready to hit Karin. Hum hum, what to do. Well, if she's going to fight with a partner, she'll do the opposite of her last Saturday Night Fight appearance, where they split into two smaller fights and left each other alone for quite the while, and rushes straight in for Mary and... attempts to run straight into her shoulder and shove. But no, not in any meaningful way that might actually cause harm; she isn't strong enough for that to work, but instead she's simply running interference, cramping the style of 'Blue' Mary Ryan and possibly throwing her off balance enough for Karin to make something of it.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid assists Karin.
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BlueMary 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
COMBATSYS: BlueMary successfully hits Karin with Combo Throw.
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BlueMary 0/-------/------=|===----\-------\0 Karin
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It would appear Ingrid did not run quite enough interference, though Karin just as much blames herself. As Mary comes in for her initial distracting punch, Karin tries to twist out of the way and doesn't quite make the right decision; she turns herself to the side but doesn't put enough distance between herself and Mary, so the other woman's grab works perfectly, dropping the wealthy schoolgirl to the sand with a muffled thumping sound.
However, Karin springs to her feet with admirable aplomb and brushes some sand from her face as she falls back into stance. "I can see you have some experience with grappling," she says warily, circling Mary a bit. "I shall have to put that much more effort into this, I suppose." However, it doesn't look like the Kanzuki heiress is ready to begin throwing her weight (or others' weight) around just yet. Instead she tests the waters with Mary, ducking forward and aiming a kick at the older fighter's midsection. "Hyah!"
COMBATSYS: BlueMary blocks Karin's Light Kick.
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BlueMary 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
Ingrid manages to be at least a little troublesome for Mary. Not enough to prevent her from performing fully her throw, but enough to catch her attention. Mary groans and she takes a step back once Karin's down, not wanting to give Ingrid an opportunity to strike her, "Don't worry, you'll have the chance to see plenty more of them," Mary answers to Karin, a faint smile spreading on her lips.
Mary lifts her right forearm up to intercept the incoming kick and block Karin's leg before it manages to hit her midsection. The impact is a still fairly solid, enough to make Mary wince a little. From professional fighter, that's to be expected after all. She then tries to push Karin's leg back the way it came with her forearm, just to give herself a second or two so she can dash straight for Ingrid. She hasn't forgotten about her, that's for sure -- and considering how Mary's rushing toward her, the woman attempts to give her a rather violent and harsh shoulder tackle to her chest, not just meant to hurt her, but with a bit of luck, if Ingrid's not holding her ground, Mary might be able to give her a hard shove and push her back some.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid counters Light Kick from BlueMary with Sun Lower.
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BlueMary 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
Hmm, maybe she should have tried something a little more powerful than just a simple shove, but it is at least a good bit of knowledge for the future, isn't it? Ingrid has very little time to try and contemplate what she should have done instead as Mary deals with Karin's kick simply and then rushes forward to take her down. The picture of composure, Ingrid simply leans forward towards her and then reaches out with her left hand and points at the air in front of her. A swirling golden disk of energy appears in front of her and Mary slams straight into it and is held frozen in the air for the tiniest movement before Ingrid stands back up and swings her arm up in a wide arc, standing on one foot for a little bit of extra height. The energy disk seems to completely disappear; the energy wrapping itself around Mary and suddenly throwing her way up into the air and letting her slam back down into the sand. Ingrid, meanwhile, looks over to Karin and winks at her, "Now's your chance for payback!"
Karin had actually, in point of fact, forgotten that Ingrid was there for a moment, and the other girl's sudden shout (and deft interception of Mary's attack) reminds her of it. Clearing her throat, she chuckles and nods at Ingrid even as she is planting her feet and leaping upward. Hopefully she can catch Mary before she has a chance to recover in midair; if she can, the Kanzuki heiress reaches out to snag Mary at the shoulder and then tuck her under Karin's own body, driving both fighters toward the sand with Karin on top, her elbow driven right into Mary's sternum for a traditional takedown with a twist.
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits BlueMary with Yashiro Kuzushi.
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BlueMary 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
With new schoolgirls come a new type of 'fireball'. It's all the same thing, and that did really surprise Blue Mary. Wasn't that supposed to be illegal? Well, doesn't seem like it since there hasn't been a call from the referee. Though whatever that golden disk was, Mary's more or less stuck into it... And when she's freed, finally, Mary is thrown away... Only to be caught in midair by Karin and driven straight into the ground.
Sand has been kicked up from the impact, and people probably didn't see Karin's elbow smash in Mary's sternum, but that merely added to the pain. Oye... Looks like she'll have to be more careful now with these two. Since Mary's hardly in a good position to actually retaliate, she attempts to actually reverse the situation in her favor, since Karin's over her. She groans and tries to overpower her, to roll her about in the sand and get a hold of her arm to hold her in a submission grip. With a bit of luck, she'll get Karin just where she wants and manage to work out the joints in her arm, while lying atop of her and holding her down by having her legs curled up around said arm to prevent it from being able to do much.
Simple shoves don't work; and Karin is in a situation that if she doesn't know how to grapple, she's going to end up getting pinned and wrenched without being able to do anything about it Ingrid had her own experience with that not too long ago, and it's not something she'd subject any of her teammates to. And so, she does the best she can in this situation. She jumps in and begins twirling around with her elbows sticking out, gold, sparkling energy erupting gently out from her and leaving a glittery trail. Normally she'd try and smack an opponent with her elbows, but here she has to improvise. Since Mary is attempting to get on top of Karin, she'll try and smack her with her whirling feet while actually jumping over the pair, relying more on her energy to knock her off than the impact. But once that's completed she'll land and then bend down quickly and do a low flipkick, her legs whipping out underneath her as she performs a backflip, a stream of energy flowing out behind them before she lands back down on her feet.
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks BlueMary's Mary Spider.
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BlueMary 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
Rolling off to her feet, Karin brushes her mass of golden curls over one ear and faces down Mary as the other woman gets to her feet. The match didn't start well, but it's beginning to turn around a bit. However, that doesn't mean she can slack off... especially since Mary is coming right at her from the front. Thinking quickly, Karin weighs her options and, just before Mary makes landfall (as it were), she hears the rustle of Ingrid in the sand behind her. Reaching up, the blonde does the best thing she can think of: she snaps out a hand and catches Mary's grip, fighting with the other woman for supremacy briefly. Despite her appearance, Karin has a grip like a steel vise, too... of course, Mary's no slouch either, and keeping up the effort is putting some strain on Karin's muscles. Still, it might give the other young fighter the opening she needs...
COMBATSYS: Karin assists Ingrid.
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BlueMary 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Karin
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|-------\-------\0 Ingrid
COMBATSYS: BlueMary fails to interrupt Sunrise from Ingrid with Vertical Arrow.
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BlueMary 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Karin
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Had she been alone, Mary's pretty sure she would have had no trouble at all taking care of Karin and neutralizing her with her submission. After all, Blue Mary's a master when it comes to her martial art. She does offer some resistance, enough to be annoying but in the long run she'D get her. Though that struggle for who'll be on top isn't helping Mary to get an eye out on Ingrid. In the end, when she notices the other girl'S heading for her, it's that little annoying grip Karin has over her that slows her down to actually counter Ingrid's incoming strike. She rises up and is just about to lift her leg up to catch Ingrid and kick her backward but... Ingrid's own kicks are already on her when it happens. And bang-bang, the kicks knock Mary off from Karin, allowing the other girl to be freed at last, thanks to their teamworks.
For Ingrid, this is when the rules get annoying. She'd likely take a little bit of time to orient herself, or possibly rush in and bathe Mary with energy. However, she doesn't have either of these choices due to the rules set; they specifically say that she must either attempt to grapple or throw her in one way or another, and that limits her number of options quite a bit. First off, she looks over to Karin, "Thanks for the help, that worked like a charm!" And then she moves quickly up to Mary and simply tries to grab one of her legs while she's on the ground, then attempting to spin around in a circle to build up momentum to release her. It's a rather crude tactic; it really tells for how little of an idea Ingrid has of what she's doing here.
"Don't mention it," Karin says crisply, shaking out her hands... she took a gamble on being able to fend off Mary, but it paid off... not without cost, however, and as Karin knows, everything that can be received has a cost. Despite being her opponent, the wealthy schoolgirl winces as Ingrid's attack hits home... it looked painful, and Karin has never been fond of energy attacks herself thanks to a long association with A Certain Someone. However, she steels herself. This is SNF, after all.
Glancing at Ingrid's improvised giant swing, Karin gives the issue some thought, and then... takes off at a run, mentally calculating distance and speed against what she knows of the other two fighters, letting her natural inner strategist take over. When she hits a point she feels is appropriate, Karin suddenly spins on her heel and holds out both hands, ready to catch an incoming Mary and drive her into the sand. Of course, if Ingrid's attack doesn't work out she'll have to run in, making this a risky proposition.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid successfully hits BlueMary with Quick Throw.
- Power hit! -
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BlueMary 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Karin
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COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits BlueMary with Quick Throw.
Glancing Blow
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BlueMary 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Karin
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Things are definately not going well for Blue Mary. Perhaps she's taken too much of a beating right now and her two opponents aren't even leaving her a second to catch her breath and get her bearings back. Even as she tries to be more on the defensive to actually recover, she's not even able to get a second for herself. Mary is spinned around and before she can even think of trying to smack Ingrid's hands to have her let go, she's thrown off right with quite an amazing amouth of strength in Karin's direction.
While Mary doesn't manage to slip out of her grasp, as she's caught, she at least manages to 'soften' the landing somehow, or perhaps the awkward way she's brought down lessen the impact.
If they don't want to give her a second to breathe, Mary will have to force them! She growls a bit in annoyance -- even if those schoolgirls aren't flinging fireballs they're giving her a real hard time. Mary forces herself back to her feet and she tries to get a hold of Karin, not wanting to let go of her. With a bit of luck she'll manage to wrap her arms around her belly and hurl her over her head and suplex her.
Ingrid seems to have managed that better than she had initially anticipated she would, flinging Mary into Karin, who promptly faceplants her into the ground. Quick thinking on Karin's part definitely made that work better than it should have. But once gain Karin is forced into a position where she's going to be caught in a one on one grapple with Mary, something that she really doesn't deserve any more than Ingrid does. The white haired young woman decides that she needs to intervene on her partners behalf once more, and sprints quickly up behind Mary and stops. She twists to the side and brings her left leg up and back while rotating her body, turning to face her opponent before swinging her leg down hard, twisting to give additional force as she attempts to bring the back of her heel down on top of Mary's head in Ingrid's stylized version of an axe kick.
COMBATSYS: BlueMary successfully hits Karin with Medium Throw.
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BlueMary 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Karin
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Perhaps Karin simply expended too much energy trying to capitalize on Ingrid's momentum and paid too little attention to herself. As Mary grabs her she tries unsuccessfully to duck out of the grip and finds herself dropped headfirst into the sand, rather unpleasantly. Rolling to her feet, the blonde grimaces, clutching her arm. Ingrid is fresh as a daisy and she's been taking a beating... but that's hardly Ingrid's fault. Deciding she'd rather get this over with sooner than later, the Kanzuki heiress surges forward as Ingrid goes for the axe kick variant, stepping around her and attempting to grab Mary's shirt. If she can find purchase, Karin first drives Mary into Ingrid's kick if possible, then slams her knee into Mary's back before flipping her down to the ground by her wrist in an effortless-looking judo takedown.
COMBATSYS: BlueMary dodges Karin's Arakuma Inashi.
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BlueMary 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\0 Karin
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COMBATSYS: BlueMary counters Heavy Kick from Ingrid with Reverse Facelock.
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BlueMary 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Karin
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|=====--\-------\0 Ingrid
At long last, Mary has a bit of time to breath for herself now. Just give her a few seconds to recover and she'll be able to break the momemtum those two have been pulling out on her. Unfortunately for Karin, Mary doesn't give her the opportunity to get close her to. She avoids her grasp, only by rushing toward Ingrid, head on, though she doesn't intent on letting Ingrid's kick drive into her. Nope! Instead, she catches the incoming kick with one of her arm and she attempts to destabilize Ingrid with that grip she has over her, sending her headfirst into the sand, quickly going into her back to straddle her.
Straddling Ingrid's waist, on her back, Mary's hands curl up around Ingrid's face and she pulls her forcefully backward, keeping her into a facelock grip, letting the pressure from the pull hurt her right on her spine and give enough strain that it'll hopefully make it a bit harder for Ingrid to keep on fighting afterward. Thankfully, Mary decides to be wiser than the last time she got someone into submission and she lets go of Ingrid before Karin comes to the rescue and she gets smacked like last time.
By the time she sees that Mary has dealt with Karin and avoided the retributive strike, Ingrid doesn't have time to abort her kick, and her leg is easily grabbed from the air expertly and smash her into the ground face first. Any noise she makes there is muffled by a face covered in sand, and subsequently by Blue Mary herself, as her face is grabbed onto and her head tugged in a manner that would make a chiropractor scream. Luckily the grip is let loose rather than used to gain even more advantage over Ingrid.
Unfortuantely, once again Ingrid is going to be forced to use methods unknown to herself to deal with Mary. When the grapple is released, Ingrid reaches up to try and snag Mary by the shoulders after rolling onto her back, and then attempts to drag her up onto her coiled legs and then simply launch her away with a hard shove of her legs. That should fulfill both the requirement of the rules, and give Ingrid some room to breathe with.
There's not enough time for Karin to get sufficient distance from Ingrid to think of a complex counterattack. Instead, she improvises on the fly, cocking one arm back toward her chest and driving the other straight forward in a simple and unelegant forward punch toward Mary before Ingrid has a chance to toss her anywhere. If she times it right, the Seijyun student's blow should add force to Ingrid's toss and send Mary flying. Of course, as both sides on this fight have discovered, the best laid plans of mice and men frequently fall to ruin by the vagaries of chance.
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits BlueMary with Strong Punch.
- Power hit! -
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BlueMary 1/--=====/=======|=======\-------\0 Karin
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COMBATSYS: BlueMary dodges Ingrid's Quick Throw.
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BlueMary 1/--=====/=======|=======\-------\0 Karin
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No luck for Ingrid, alas, since Blue Mary managed to get away from her fast enough to prevent her from getting a hold of her. She staggered back fast enough to prevent her from grappling her. That was close though, and Mary's efforts not to let Ingrid get a hold of her merely gave Karin all the time she needed to catch Mary purely off guard.
Once Karin's fist connects with Mary's midsection, the blonde woman growls a bit in pain, the wind knocked out of her. She winces and bites her lips, lifting her gaze up and glaring at Karin. Things aren't looking good for her it seems. Though she doesn't retaliate, nope. Her eyes return on Ingrid and in a flash, Mary dashes toward her and attempts to catch her off guard, since she might have expected her to attack Karin.
Mary rushes at her with incredible speed, going around her and smacking her around back and forth a couple of time as she dashes back and forth, hitting her front and then back, and after a few rounds like that, once she's right back in front of her, she swings her arms about, smacking her high up in the air and finishing this up with a nicely delievered kick to her midsection.
COMBATSYS: BlueMary successfully hits Ingrid with Splash Rose.
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BlueMary 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Karin
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Ingrid appears to be as 'on guard' as she normally is when Mary comes at her, getting up and simply standing there as she's rushed at her attempt to fling Mary away from her failed. Something must be a little off about all this, though, because for all her calm Ingrid doesn't seem to be making any sort of defense at all as she's rushed. Whatever plan she might have had quickly evaporates, though, once Mary begins to hit her. She takes each blow painfully, her body being shoved all over the place from the power of the energized blows. She twists this way and that in pain, and then is finally thrown up into the air from one of the blows and then gets kicked harshly in the gut to finish it off, leaving her to fall to the ground in a heap. After a two second beat, though, she picks herself up and dusts herself off, her motions a little slowed from the pain that's covering her. "I surely wasn't expecting that." She ponders for a moment or two, and then rushes straight back in at Mary, and swings her right hand out in what looks to be an open palmed slap to the face with her gloved hand.
For most of this fight, Karin and Ingrid have kept Mary in a sort of pincer maneuver. Tactically advisable, after all... Mary can only watch one opponent if they stay on opposite sides, and thus it's harder for the older fighter to manage the simultaneous attack of her opponents. It's also wearing Karin down a bit, though... the footwork required to keep it up is prodigious.
Wincing with sympathy as Mary tears into Ingrid, the blonde rushes forward and attempts to do the only thing she can think of: reach forward and all but shove Mary right into Ingrid's attack. It's a very, very weak grapple -- Karin's looking to do no more than move Mary's weight around -- but if it works, it should aid Karin's teammate and perhaps draw this fight to a close.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid successfully hits BlueMary with Quick Punch.
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BlueMary 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Karin
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COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits BlueMary with Quick Throw.
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BlueMary 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Karin
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Seems the two schoolgirl's tactics have worked well since aside from a few moments, Mary has been having a hard time folllowing up with them. With Karin's grapple and hold, Mary's just all the more vulnerable to Ingrid's slap and that more or less seals the end of the fight. Mary groans a bit in pain and before she has to stop due to the beating she took, she tries to deliver Karin a high kick under her chin, to get her off of her and probably her last effort to do something as well.
COMBATSYS: BlueMary can no longer fight.
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That ended up being a mite more useful that Ingrid had thought it would, but it really was nothing more than a simply distraction attack. It did work, though, and gives Karin enough time to deal with Mary enough to take her out. Or almost, because Mary seems to be coming for Karin one last time with a nasty kick that looks like it'll cause quite a bit of pain if it hits. Ingrid has half a mind to try and shove Mary off balance again, but according to the rules she would have had to try and grapple or throw her again, and that wouldn't count, so she can really do nothing more than stand there and wish for the best.
COMBATSYS: Ingrid takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Karin dodges BlueMary's Vertical Arrow.
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With an almost lazy-looking efficiency, Karin turns to the side and lets Mary's kick slide harmlessly through the air where she used to be, exhaling a breath she didn't know she had been holding. Presuming that the sand is soft enough that Mary will not have hurt herself in the fall, the blonde heiress glances down to make sure she's down, and then nods with satisfaction.
Flipping her golden curls over her shoulder, Karin gives Ingrid a nod before turning to the crowd and raising one hand in an almost royal wave. She's a person used to keeping her bearing regardless of the situation, and despite slightly rumpled clothing and being dusted with sand, she is every inch the classy lady. She glances at Ingrid one more time, then walks over and extends her hand. "Well fought," she offers. "Perhaps we'll see each other again." And with that, she makes her way out of the arena.
And after that miserable attempt to get rid of Karin, Mary stumbles about and she falls down to the ground, lack of balance. She winces a bit and since she just lays there, the officials call for the winner. That was harsh. Mary pants and she just stays there, in the sand. It may be hot but she needs to catch her breath. Owned by schoolgirls. "Ahahaha..." Mary just closes her eyes and she laughs. Looks like she's truly out of it.. Then again, she figures that it was just what Geese was hoping for, especially after that last encounter she had with him. Yeah, that must be it. And it makes her laugh. Though it might sound like she blew a fuse or something, but nah...
And it looks like whatever interference Ingrid could have run wouldn't have mattered as Karin deftly avoids the kick sent her way by Mary. She laughs just a little bit at the wave Karin gives to the crowd, and walks up to her and accepts her hand, shaking it lightly, "And you as well. I do hope that we do, we seem to make a fairly good team." Especially for having never even met before this day. It looks like Karin has her mind set on leaving though, and Ingrid walks over to Mary and leans over her, looking down and waiting for the medics to arrive. "I don't -think- either of us hit her in the head, did we..?"
Log created by Karin, and last modified on 17:07:43 10/31/2006.