Description: GOD LEONA NOT IN THE POOPER
My it had been a wild past few weeks for at least one Ikari Warrior. Being one of the new guys has meant alot of extra duties and on top of that the base has been on a big time lockdown given the death of the leader. Faolan really can't say he feels anything about it. He is sure Heidern was a great guy, but at the same time he never really got to talk to him aside from meeting him briefly once he enlisted. All orders for him have mostly been passed down from Ralf. Either way the death hit hard and everyone has been on edge while waiting to see what is next. Rumors about retaliation are spreading, but there is also uncertainty to who is going to be the true leader. Would it be a joint effort with Ralf and Clark? Perhaps that quiet lass that is Heidern's adopted daughter will take over.
All Faolan knows right now is the latter has asked him to report to one of the training grounds. There are a few other members of the group here it seems and they are all looking at Faolan with big shit-eating grins on their faces. Ho boy, that can't be good at all. Had the Irishman been thrown to the wolves? Glancing about he finds no signs of Leona at the moment at least and he grunts lightly as he lightly taps his bata on his shoulder. "Perhaps a bit too early. You all certainly look pleased as hell about something." he tells the others gathered.
There hasn't been a declaration of who is to take over because in all honesty there is a bit too much going on for the higher ups to make a decision. As of right now the orders for the soldiers are to listen to anything that Ralf and Clark have to say. For the most part Leona has been quiet on the subject when other members have asked her about what is going on. Some say it is really eerie how she doesn't seemed to have changed in personality at all despite the fact that Heidern was not just her commander, but her father as well. Was she angry with what happened? Of course she is. Probably more than anyone, but she is also a soldier. She will grieve once Rolento has been punished for his actions and not any later.
That is why it is imperitive to see how well some of the new recruits can fight. Faolan has drawn some interest just due to the rather brash fellow showing up and doing a impressive job on Saturday Night Fights. His background looks a bit shakey with his dishonorable discharge, but he has also yet to be a problem for the Ikari. "They are just here to watch, Sheehan." Her voice is rather on the quiet side, but her demeanor is nothing but serious as she steps forward. "I wish to see what you can do. A counterstrike is in the works and we need reliable fighters and I heard you are pretty good." Her dark eyes glance over the much taller fighter and she slowly pulls off her dogtags then begins to tie her hair up.
[OOC] Faolan says, "GUYS (New BB message (4/62) posted to 'IC Requests' by Dr.Tran: Hot Dickings! (Well Endowed ones!))"
[OOC] Faolan says, "JUST SO YOU KNOW"
The attention of Faolan is turned to the voice that speaks up. Being that he has seen all of two women on the base it isn't hard to figure out it would belong to Leona. He has yet to really see her aside from a few times on base while training and damned if he ever got to talk to her. She seemed very withdawn compared to the good natured personalities of all the others. A shame too since she would probably have a rather nice smile. That is probably something he won't ever get to see given the circumstances. "I'mma sorry about your father, but I think that is the last thing you want to hear." he says in response and he lets his bata tap his shoulder again before bringing around and slapping the other end down in his left hand.
"And if it is a fight you're wanting I am just fine with that." He lets himself grin at that wondering just how good this woman is. Given that she was trained by ol One Eye he figures he is in for another shitkicking. Of course he has plans of going down easy. He lets himself hunch down some while holding up the bata in front of him, eyes narrowing as he prepares himself before luncing forward and using his bata like a rapier or the like as he tries to drive the end of it right into Leona's stomach. "Hah!"
COMBATSYS: Faolan has started a fight here.
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Faolan 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Leona has joined the fight here.
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Faolan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Leona
Man. MAN.
Running the Ikari is NO FUN THING. No wonder Heidern went off and got himself killed, he was probably tired of the paperwork. Try as he, Clark, and the old man's assistants might, the stack is still standing a foot high on the guy's desk. So, after an hour or three of THAT crap, it was decided unanimously: break time! Clark, he's probably enjoying a beer in front of the television or something, just for a bit before going back to work. Ralf, he really doesn't know. He'd spotted the people gathering together from the window upstairs, and...hell, he hasn't had time to give the soldiers the proper attention they needed for training.
Grabbing a can for himself, Mister Jones makes his way down to where people are huddled, just in time to hear the goings-on. From behind the group of men, Ralf can be heard talking: "She's got a good eye, you better not disappoint her," he says, pointing at Leona with a finger, uncurling it from his sweating can for the moment. "Or the old man, either. This ain't the end of us, so if you can't hold up to Ikari expectations, don't think we're gonna go easy on ya." Of course, now that they're fighting, he tries to yell that last sentence out. The guys around him? They totally agree with him.
COMBATSYS: Faolan successfully hits Leona with Bata Thrust.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Faolan 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Leona
Had things gotten to Leona more than she let on? It certainly doesn't look it. She seems more than ready to begin fighting with Faolan. She takes up her own fighting stance and she seems focused on the movements the taller fighter is making with the half staff that he is using. The weapon seems odd to her, but they also have Whip so people fighting with unconventional weapons is nothing new to the Ikari. Leona might even fall into that category due to the fact she does rather love her explosives.
He finally decides to make his move and Leona tenses up prepared to let that thrust slam into her forearms up till Ralf speaks up and it causes her attention to slightly be diverted for a moment. It is enough to give Faolan the opening he needed and she lets out a grunt as the force of the thrust staggers her back a few steps. She is quick to recover though and soon she steps forward while her hand archs about when nearing the Irishman, her hand flickering with blue as it cuts a swath of blue chi meant to cut across the front of Faolan.
COMBATSYS: Leona successfully hits Faolan with Moon Slasher.
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Faolan 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Leona
Wait, he actually hit? Faolan was more than ready for his attack to not land cleanly since he was mostly trying to see how well the Ikari woman's reflexes were. Yet here is was with the end of his bata firmly slamming into Leona to knock her back. It was enough that he actually looked a bit surprised then he just grins rather dumbly as he holds his bata up in the air. "Thanks sir, but I think I can handle this. Did you just see-OH FUCK ME!"
That scream is let out right when Leona is coming at him in retaliation. Given he didn't have himself properly set up in his defensive stance he instead tries to move out of the way. All that ends up is the rather cocky fighter getting a nice amount of chi to the frontside and sends him tumbling to the ground. "I'm okay...." he mutters and gets to his feet. He isn't even fully stood up when he lunges forward again, his bata being thrust out forward with both hands to slam into the front of Leona's knees in an attempt to down her.
COMBATSYS: Leona fails to interrupt Medium Throw from Faolan with Strike Arc.
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Faolan 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Leona
Leona's movements are fluid as she strikes and before Faolan even gets off the ground she is heading for him already with the intent to keep him downed. She brings up a leg high right as he lunges forward with thoughts of planting her heel right onto the top of Faolan's head with quite a bit of force. His lunging was a bit unexpected and there is little chance of getting to move out of the way when on one leg. She bites back a growl from being hit a growl when she is hit and she hops back a few times before slamming her foot down on the ground.
"Impressive enough. You at least seem to be able to see openings well enough to keep people on your feet." Did she just compliment him? It sure sounded like she did. It isn't often when Leona gives words of praise which is probably why a few of the Ikari watching are open mouthed once hearing that. The time for compliments is soon over though and Leona is in her stance once again as she takes a deep breath and lets herself refocus on Faolan's attacks.
There isn't too much of a dumbfounded look on the face of Faolan when he hears that. Instead he seems to be getting cocky again as that broad grin ends up plastered across his face. "Oh yeah? well I am never one to brag, but I am in the Ikari. Don't think you all woulda let me in if I couldn't be worth my salt in a fight, lass." His tone isn't really insulting, but he seems certainly amused by how things have turned out so far. Now he just has to wonder if the woman has been playing with him to this point despite her not looking like the one that would do so.
He isn't going to sit around and wait to see, though. If he has her on the ropes he is just going to continue to press. He brings about his bata once again with both hands as he barrels forward, his intent is slam the end into Leona's chest and while planted there release a blast of chi from the end to knock her right back and hopefully off balance. This is not a woman he want to have a drawn out match with so he will need to end this quickly as he can.
COMBATSYS: Leona blocks Faolan's Saying Hello.
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Faolan 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Leona
Who is to say the words weren't to allow the man to become cocky? It is hard to say really what Leona's intentions were, but either way it certainly seemed to inflate the ego of her opponent enough to give her a breather and prepare for whatever he planned next. She brings her arms up to let the bata slam into them and she doesn't even budge when the blast is released from it. "I might have to retract that statement. Best not underestimate me."
With Faolan so close she tries to grab onto his half staff with one gloved hand to keep him from pulling away and she brings one hand back before swinging about quickly to driver her fist right across his jaw with a sharp hookshot with enough force to probably dislocate the jaw of some people.
[OOC] Faolan says, "MY WEAKNESS"
COMBATSYS: Faolan fails to interrupt Strong Punch from Leona with Jig Kick.
- Power fail! -
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Faolan 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Leona
When Faolan gets a clean hit on Leona, Ralf just whistles. "You gonna take that, Leona? He's small fry, but he's giving you a hell of a time!" If she truly IS mad, maybe his heckling will keep her from killing him. Or, maybe he'll just throw one or the other off of their groove and ...and oh. By the look of things, no matter how distracting he was at first, it proved to be a good thing for Leona! Well, that's what matters, as she's closer in the whole Ikari 'family'.
"Hey, leave a little left for the mission, girl!" There's a pause as he takes a swig of his refreshing alcoholic bev-er-age, and then he adds, "Pretend it's Whip or something, just so you don't break the poor guy."
However, if it seems that he's totally on the girl's side, he just chose to switch teams. "You stupid Irish bastard, where's the drive you had earlier! Get in there and slip through that guard, what're you doing?!" Rest assured that this kind of two-faced cheering will be happening for a while.
Staff grabbed? Check. Nowhere to really move? Check again. Does she have her crotch unguarded? CHECK! Oh Faolan finds himself in the predicament of being hit in the face so his instinct is to haul off and nail the woman right in the coo-coo and hope it lessens the pain of the blow. That fist just ends up being alot faster than he anticipated and if there was slow motion for this kinda thing it would look like one of those boxing movies where the fighter looses their mouth guard and sweat flies everywhere as they collapse like a bitch. He tugs on his bata and he staggers back and falls right on his ass while looking extremely dazed.
He doesn't even know where Ralf is at this point, but a hand is raised to give him the one fingered salute for a moment as he tries to shake the cobwebs. "Holy fuck you hit like a ton of bricks." He pulls himself back up onto his feet and staggers about as he tries to keep an eye on Leona and her twin to make sure neither of them try to hit him again. That hurt.
Had the kick worked things may have only gotten worse for the Irishman, but it isn't like things are great for him right now period. That punch was enough that Leona is glad she was wearing gloves to prevent skinning of knuckles from the impact. She just glances towards Ralf briefly and shakes her head at him. If it was anyone else she might just ask them to quiet down, but being loud is just what Ralf does. And just like her he is probably just trying to forget about the recent events at least for a little while so nothing is said to him.
Her attention returns to the dazed recruit and she reaches up to detach one of her earrings while watching him intently. "I won't kill him. What he survives will just make him stronger." she finally says in response to Ralf's words and she flicks her wrist to fling that explosive earring right at Faolan. It will hurt like hell if it hits, but thankfully she doesn't put enough powder in those things to make it THAT painful.
....Well maybe this one time she did.
[OOC] Faolan says, "....I don't like the sound of that, missy. :|"
COMBATSYS: Leona successfully hits Faolan with Earring Bakudan.
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Faolan 1/-======/=======|======-\-------\0 Leona
The twin is disappearing right about the time Faolan realizes the Ikari woman is tossing something at him. A....earring? What the fuck kinda attack is that? Too bad no one told him of Leona's little trick because the poor bastard just runs right forward intent on walking through it to attack. *tink....BOOM!* The explosion happens right when it plicks on his chest and explodes. Backwards goes Faolan as he goes airborne and his backward momentum is only stopped when he crashes into one of the people watching him. He and the other Ikari just lay there for a few moments before the slightly charred Irishman rises to his feet awkwardly and he shakes his bata in the direction of Leona. "Cheap tactics....I think I am in love!"
Oh he hopes she knows he isn't serious about that. He does like that he isn't the only cheap shotting bastard here, but he also isn't sure if Leona even has a sense of humor. If anything maybe it was a distraction enough that he can take her by surprise as he barrels forward again. He dives low to roll forward and come out of it while aiming to hit his bata against one of Leona's knees to push it off the ground and back before he spins on his foot to bring the bata across the back of the same knee and swing it back foward with enough momentum to pull Leona off her feet. If she falls down he raises his bata high and brings it down across her stomach to help send her to the ground even faster.
COMBATSYS: Leona blocks Faolan's Carry the Coffin.
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Faolan 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Leona
[OOC] Faolan says, "BOGUS"
Leona having any sense of humor is debatable. There are few people that could really say if she does or not. It doesn't seem like she does in this case since there is no real reaction to the words from Faolan. She isn't going to let him get her riled in any sort of manner if she can help it. He got in some good shots, but now is the time for him to see why he has to prove himself and not think he is on par with some of the other members of this unit just yet.
The force in which he swings the half staff is impressive, but even as he slams it into Leona's knee she doesn't let it budge an inch as she keeps her foot planted firmly on the ground. That leg does finally move, but not in the way Faolan has hoped since it is coming forward to slam right into his kisser and send him sprawling more than likely if it hits.
COMBATSYS: Faolan fails to interrupt Heavy Kick from Leona with One for the Road.
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COMBATSYS: Faolan can no longer fight.
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Leona 1/-------/=======|
Another instance of Faolan knowing he is going to eat a hit right to the face once again. Why must people always want to ruin his good looks(not like he has them)? Faced with a decision to make he has to act quickly and while kneeled there he starts to stand up intent on thrusting the end of his bata into Leona's stomach to heft her up and try to make something out of this. The cards just aren't in his favor right now, though and he gets smashed right in the face from the kick and to the ground he goes again with a bloody nose and a dazed look on his face.
Looks like he is down and out for right now as he just lays there mumbling something in Gaelic as he stares off into the air, his grip on the bata loosened as it rolls out of his fingers. Stick a fork in him because this man is more than done, kids.
A good start for Faolan, but in the end he seems to have had much too trouble in dealing with Leona's speed. It was an amiable try at least. She looks to Ralf for a brief moment before turning to one of the medic staff watching to get them to tend to the downed Faolan. "He is an acceptable fighter. He has alot of training ahead of him." she says to her commander while removing the dogtags from her hair and replacing them around her neck.
"I believe he can be of use if we need him, but I will leave it to be your final say, sir." She straightens up and salutes Ralf before letting her stance relax slightly and she stalks out through some of the gathered men and off towards where she usually trains. He may have gave her a good workout, but Leona has much more to do in preparation for the battle to come. She will not be getting much rest up till this battle is all said and done.
COMBATSYS: Leona has ended the fight here.
Ralf having the final say? Oh, that's a dangerous freedom. The man cups one elbow in his hand and strokes his mouth and chin with the other (having long since finished his beer and given the can to someone else long ago), palm sliding down and pulling skin slightly with it. He remains muzzled and quiet, staring at the downed Faolan as if he's seriously considering!
"Well, he was as much a match as a pregnant monkey, but...considering who he was up against, I'd say he didn't do too badly." Hell, most of the people on the base have a hard time hitting Leona at all. Plus, he stood back up after taking a punch! "Rolento's guys are weak, but he'll be a good addition to the second squad. He should be more than enough to clean up the small fry so we can focus on the big guns."
It's then that one of the windows opens on the building, and someone starts yelling for Ralf. The man's shoulders hitch, and thene he simply sighs. He sounds so sad! "I'm coming! I'm coming, god!" Turning and going back toward the entrance, he waves a hand back at Leona. "An old man's work is never done, huh?"
Log created by Faolan, and last modified on 20:36:05 04/29/2007.