Description: Tenma is challenged for a League match by 'Hurricane Hime', in the Boston Public Library! Can Hime's Saikyo skills overcome Tenma being a jerk and using just normals?! FIND OUT WITHIN! (Winner: Tenma)
Welcome to Boston Massachusetts, way up in the northeast with plenty of education and hot weather for everyone! And well, if Tenma likes it or not, he's going to have to be coming all the way over here for a league fight of league fights, because a girl by the name of 'Hurricane Hime' has challenged him! The meeting place?
The Boston Public Library, while not the largest in the world, is a historical library of sorts, which again suits whatever theme the little Hurricane seems to be going by.
There was plenty of warning, at least, the most important thing about libraries is that it's supposed to be, you know, quiet, so the best they could do was set up for the match to be held in it's auditorium somewhere down in the lower levels of the library. It's set up like a theatre,it has a stage with plenty of chairs set up along in rows, and to Hime's request, there's a backdrop of the library itself on the backstage so viewers know exactly where the fight is happening. The picture is mainly the non-fiction section, somewhere in the back, the details aren't really necessary though.
As for Hime herself, the pink-clad superheroine is standing proudly on stage, atop one of many tables scattered along the stage and she's giving a speech explaining the importance of a) staying in school, and b) learning to read! She is a very model individual for the younger fight fans! Which, unfortunatly possibly for Tenma, what a major percent of the audience is.
It's kind of a pain, getting dragged all the way out here for a League fight; Tenma Kiryuu isn't a fan of unnecessary effort, you know. On the upside, it's an 'excuse' to skip school, so here he is representing the pride of Gedo High in... Uh... Boston. In a library, no less, which is the last sort of place one would expect to find the sword-wielding delinquent, who frowns a little as he enters the auditorium from a back entrance, his bokken already unsheathed and leaning against his shoulder.
He's a bit bewildered by the identity of his apparent opponent - or did he come into the wrong auditorium? Nah, the Neo League guys guided him to this one - tilting his head to one side and generally looking confused. And the audience... Looks a little young. "Uh... This /is/ where I'm supposed to be fightin', right?" Tenma wonders aloud, sounding uncharacteristically uncertain. "This looks more like one of those educational plays for preschoolers or somethin'..."
The teenage girl obviously adores the location, and of course a younger audience is always easier to work up than the adults. She probably has impressed some of the older folk with her abilities, but even still with the theme she carries..
Maybe one day she'll become more hardcore and just run around setting things on fire or something. Today isn't that day, though.
Catching wind from Tenma's voice, the girl suddenly turns and her overly-large scarf whips back from an unseen source of wind, "Huh? Ah-ha! My opponent is here at last!" her once calm tone suddenly taking more of a stereotypical 'american hero' tone, and she drops to a crouch on the table she stands at, one hand extended to point to the Gedo student. "Greetings, worthy foe, I'm glad you've decided to accept my challenge, however it should be noted.. This is anything but a play, this will be a fight for your very life! For I, Hurricane Hime, am to be your opponent!"
That said, the pink-clad girl leaps off of the table, flips and lands in another crouch, "That is, of course, unless you've decided you're going to run away and concede.. It's not uncommon for people to cower before a student of Saikyo style! Ha ha haa!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko has started a fight here.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Tenma has joined the fight here.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Tenma
Unfortunately, after Saturday, Tenma's in a bit of a mood. Facing off with Pacific Resistance doesn't do him much good at the best of times, but to have actually /lost/ to them? On /live television/? Ugh, it's galling! So it's no fault of Himeko's that the tall boy doesn't say much during her dramatic speech, instead slowly lifting his left hand to his face, biting into the flesh of his thumb to draw blood. That's a little gross! He traces that bloodied digit down the blade of his bokken, painting a red line there, and then sweeps the wooden weapon through the air to finalise the chi link, a misty aura of red surrounding the weapon.
"Saikyo style, huh? Never heard of it," Tenma admits. "Let's see if it lives up to the name, though!" And without another word, the Gedo swordsman rushes forward at 'Hurricane Hime', grabbing the hilt of his blade with both hands and swinging it quickly down - before swinging it almost immediately back up, trying to hit her with both slashes. "Eat this!!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Tenma's Fierce Strike.
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Himeko 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Tenma
Uh wow yeah that actually is kind of gross. Hime stands up fully and gets a good look at the very tall Gedo student and crosses her arms in a somewhat dramatic stance, a confident smile on her face despite the bit of 'ew!' there.
"That's both nasty and unsanitary!" the little Hurricane notes, drawing into a battle stance more fitting for a boxer rather than a martial artists, a forty page paperback textbook also drawn out from her scarf. The first strike swings and hits HARD into... Hime's book! There's a loud *swap* sound upon contact, the book amazingly not bending upon contact of the first or the second strike! "Oof!"
The girl takes a short hop back to take a moment and roll out her shoulders, then her right hand reaches into her holster to draw out a handful of index cards which she proceeds to whip forward like a whip toward Tenma's ankle. The mysteriously linked paper, should it wrap about that ankle, then is jerked backward to forcefully pull him off of his feet, "Blasphemy! How can you not heard of Saikyo style, do you live on Mars??"
COMBATSYS: Tenma blocks Himeko's Picture Pages.
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Himeko 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Tenma
A... A book? Who fights with a /book/?! Tenma looks rather surprised at what Hurricane Hime uses to block his strikes, but okay. It's not like his own fighting style isn't a little unorthodox, right? Just not quite as unorthodox as the weird girl he's fighting. His ankle is snagged with index cards of all the things in the world, and he gets yanked... But thrusts his bokken into the stage underfoot, pain running through his arms as he holds himself up on it even as his legs are jerked out from under him, swinging himself up and over the weapon to land on his feet again. "No, I don't live on /Mars/," the delinquent replies, pulling his blade free from the floor and sweeping it in the air again.
"I just don't pay attention to crappy styles, okay?!" Tenma once again rushes forward, but this time his attack is a thrusting one, trying to catch Hime in the gut or side with the point of his chi-radiating bokken. He's a little bit of a jerk, but he's actually restraining himself somewhat... There /are/ children present, after all, and even Tenma has /some/ sense of propriety.
COMBATSYS: Himeko endures Tenma's Weapon Jab.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Tenma
The pink-clad heroine blinks in astonishment, not only was the guy really tall, but he was very athletic as well? Hmmn, this could most certainly be problematic! Not just any Saikyo will do here, that much is for certain. The link broken and fluttering to the floor like snow, she can't help but giggle a bit in response to Tenma's insistance that he's not from Mars.
And then is thrown back into the field of battle, in which it's her turn to insist, "It is not crappy, you're a foo-oof!" and the weapon indeed meets her gut, it makes her stagger back, but only by half a step, the girl already was making a step backward you see.. Because this time she was intending on parting the distance just a little further this time around, making with a backflip, and with her left hand snapping out again, it's to deal with another card-whip attack, but this time the paper whip is shooting toward Tenma's waist, "Sounds to me like you need to hit the books!!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko successfully hits Tenma with Mulligan Stew.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Tenma
And the paper link wraps around not once, but twice about Tenma's waist and clinches in.. And with another jerk back cries, "Get over here!!" Obviously she is pulling the entire man toward him with some unseen strength, and Himeko dashes forward as well! She twists around and in an upward chopping motion, slams the spine of her now glowing book into Tenma's gut, knocking him up and back into the air, "Toasty!!"
So, Tenma might've gotten a little overconfident with how things were going so far, as he doesn't even /try/ to avoid Hime's latest assault. Instead, the Gedo boy stands his ground, which turns to be to hid detriment as somebody's been playing way too much Mortal Kombat lately, and he gets yanked and knocked into the air. Ow. He lands with a grunt, but quickly rolls into a low crouch, a bit of his old smirk playing across his face. Looks like this just got to be fun for him!
"Heh, well maybe you don't /completely/ suck," Tenma tells the pink-clad girl, before he suddenly rushes forward, holding his blade back and at his waist, right arm held across his body like he was holding the weapon in a sheath... And then he swings it out in a battou-style attack, putting his full strength and weight behind the chi-charged slash. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaah--!!!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Tenma's Deep Strike.
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Himeko 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Tenma
Hurricane Hime plays up the crowd a little bit, pumping her fist in the air as she cries, "Victory!!"
It's a little soon to be yelling that, perhaps, but whatever gets the crowd going, right? But she knows the battle isn't over yet, and she turns to face Tenma once more, not with a grin, but with a puff of her cheeks, "Mmnnggh.."
Don't completely? He was going to pay for that one! Tenma can swing his weapon as hard as he wants but it's no match for her BOOK! Clasped in both hands, she jerks the mini-shield to the side, and just barely manages to block the strike in time! But the momentum still causes her to stagger a little, but lucky for her, she was wanting to strike from the side anyway, "I'll tell you what, I suck about as much as reading is important! And I don't just mean books this time!" Reaching into the back of her belt, she leaps upward and at the last moment unveils a folded paper fan that she tries to smash into Tenma's face with suprising force, "Read this move!!" and weather the attack hits or not, she drops to the ground and would swing a second time into the ol' ribcage and resheath the fan.
COMBATSYS: Tenma endures Himeko's Medium Strike.
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Himeko 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Tenma
Releasing one hand on the hilt of his bokken, Tenma lets his sword keep swinging until all the momentum is played out; he's actually impressed by Hurricane Hime's defense, though he's not sure how much good it's doing her overall, but he's not going to come out and SAY so. Also, her smack talk doesn't make any sense at all to him... But anyway. When Hime swings her paper fan at him, the Gedo swordsman stands his ground, letting it smack him, stumbling back a step, and then he gets hit in the torso...
"Not good enough!" Tenma chides as the second strike hits home, and he in fact steps /into/ the attack, swinging his chi-charged bokken down in a heavy overhand slash aimed to hit the pink-clad 'superheroine' while she's still on the ground. "C'mon!!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko interrupts Medium Strike from Tenma with Ghost Writer.
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Himeko 1/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Tenma
"Uh oh!" the little Hurricane yelps, she actually has no idea if that strike really messed him up or not it.. It was a mystery! But she wasn't going to worry herself about that right now, this David vs Goliath match was still underway; and of course the crowd is similarly impressed that the small teen is holding her own, but can she /win/ is the question!
Hurricane Hime doesn't have time to think, only to act as she cries, "You may not be from Mars, but I'm from Venus, not too far from Earth, chump!" And Tenma's strike hits true; but he probaby didn't expect the fact that Hime was leaping upward with her back exposed to him, enduring the strike and lessening it's impact from her upward burst. The spine of her book this time is swung squarely under Tenma's chin, a flicker of glow emitting from the paperback mid-swing in an Psycho-sword style uppercut, "HY-oOwww!!"
Unfortunately for Himeko, Tenma is a little too confused by what she /said/ to be impressed by her own attack, which nevertheless hits him on the chin and sends him reeling back. "Dh... What the hell does that even /mean/?!" the Gedo High student demands, rubbing his chin for a moment. That stung! And he's kind of confused! But still, there's no time to stand around, because Hurricane Hime is clearly full of surprises, and she might just turn things around yet, right?
Dashing forward at Hime once again, this time Tenma actually tries to get /past/ the strange girl, aiming to grab her by the scarf as he does so. He's not trying to choke her or anything, though, instead aiming to use her scarf to yank her off /her/ feet, in sort of a parody of the attack she used on him earlier. "Hua-!!"
COMBATSYS: Tenma successfully hits Himeko with Quick Throw.
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Himeko 1/-----==/=======|======-\-------\0 Tenma
Well.. Hurricane Hime thought it was pretty cool, no two ways around that! A classic line, one for the history books! However she's not one to leave a question unanswered, and she replies with a dismissivy wave of her free hand, "Hey, settle down, I'm just saying, that's all."
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Now that Tenma is zooming toward her now, though, it's time for her to get on the defensive and break out with some very hax dodging action! Hime crouches as the taller boy zooms by her, "DODGED!" And then her eyes cross, clutching at her neck as her scarf is grabbed and before she knows it she's flung a bit along the stage and thumps onto the wooden floor. But she's quick to recover, hand-springing to her feet and gives a very Saishu-esque, "Ha ha!" with her hands on her hips.
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And then she drops to a crouch, panting for breath.
COMBATSYS: Himeko gains composure.
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Himeko 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Tenma
That's the ticket; Tenma managed to get through Hime's guard that time. Letting go of the scarf as the girl falls, the Gedo High student turns around to face what is sure to be another attack from the superheroine... Except not, because she's standing there with her hands on her knees? "C'mon, this is no time to rest! Ain't you supposed to be a role model for all those kids?" he wonders loudly, gesturing at the crowd with his bokken. Some of the kids are frightened, some of them cheer; Tenma's good at getting very mixed results from groups of people.
"You gotta give it your all, otherwise... You can't do anything!" Tenma announces further, apparently getting in to the whole 'way too young crowd' thing, as he charges at the resting Hurricane and thrusts his bokken out at her again, aiming two quick slashes from the elbow, both across her torso. Maybe that'll wake her up and get her head back in the game!
COMBATSYS: Tenma successfully hits Himeko with Light Strike.
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Himeko 1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0 Tenma
"Rrgh.. This is crazy.." Hime murmurs to herself, she trying to get back into the game.. This is the first time she's actually really felt worn out before; what could be making this battle so different from the others she's had in the past?
Anyway, when Tenma questions her actions as a role model, Hime simply grins in response, remaining crouched for the moment, "Ha ha! I'm a perfect example! Even when playing video games you should rest your eyes every fifteen to twenty minutes! And the same goes with long study times!"
It's then she stands up, her scarf whipping backward! "You also chew before you swallow, scarfing down food all at once is bad for you digestion system! I think you see where I'm getting at, if you don't believe me, you should stick your nose in a BOOK!"
Now, how she said all of this before he actually struck is anyones guess, but despite her trying to slither away, both of his slashes hit dead on, tearing a bit at her large scarf, "Urgh, rats," she mumbles, in obvious pain here. But she's storming right back at Tenma, and this time she aims to throw her arms about his waist from the side, and scoot a little toward the back. It's going to take all of her strength but she's going to try to give him the german suplex of his very life, "Journal...." she huffs and lurches backward, "SUPLEX!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko successfully hits Tenma with Medium Throw.
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Himeko 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Tenma
Truly, the power of speechifying is a mighty one. Too much for Tenma to contend with perhaps?! Pulling his arm back after his slashes hit home, the Gedo swordsman is apparently ready for whatever Hime might have in store for him next, especially since she telegraphs her next move so much... But apparently not /enough/. Tenma tries to avoid the grab, but to no avail, and instead he gets helluva suplexed, his head and neck smashing into the floor of the stage with a loud noise. That looked like it hurt!
Flopping over in the aftermath of the suplex, Tenma lays there for just a moment, trying to make his vision focus again, before he gets back up into a low crouch. He lets Hurricane Hime get her footing again before he lunges at her, thrusting a kick out at her gut, hoping to double her over with it... Before swinging his bokken down with both hands to strike her across the back, hard. "Hn-!!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko interrupts Heavy Strike from Tenma with Schoolhouse Rock!.
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Himeko 0/-------/-======|=======\===----\1 Tenma
Speeches appear to be the little Hurricane's forte, which one day will become as legendary as Dan's insults. One day! For the present, it's simply insipiration, not for just herself, but for everyone, even her opponents! Well.. Sometimes her opponents.
She swoops and is quickly to her feet, fanning herself with her paperback book that does indeed bend when she does so! Something to think about, kids. When Tenma goes in for the encore, however, the girls guard isn't completely down. In fact she's grinning like a little maniac, holding her book from the bottom and jerks it outward, and two bodies clash! His foot lands deep into her gut, forcing her indeed to double over, and a bit of spittle flies from her mouth, but at the same timme her book is whipped out, held by the spine and pointed toward the much taller mans stomach. It doesn't quite reach, but it doesn't matter, because with a cry, a humming sheet of paper shoots out of the book and into destination with bullet-like force. Which is followed by another and another, rapid firing each sheet like a machinegun that inevitably sends the Gedo punk flying back wence he came! And for those counting, that was twenty of those bad boys.
It's true, it's true. Tenma is indeed sent flying back by possibly the /weirdest/ attack he's ever been hit by. He doesn't stay down though, of course; never that. Definitely looking worse for wear now, Tenma pushes himself back up with his bokken, frowning a bit. That was really strange. How did she even /do/ that? "You're pretty surprisin', ain't you?" he wonders rhetorically. But... Now what?
Giving his bokken a bit of a flourishing twirl with one hand, Tenma watches Himeko cautiously a moment, before rushing in again. Lashing out with his bokken once more, Tenma pulls the weapon back over his shoulder, two-handed, before sweeping it out in a wild, arcing slash, hoping to take Hurricane Hime out of the game once and for all! "Yaaaaaa-!!"
COMBATSYS: Tenma successfully hits Himeko with Fierce Strike.
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Himeko 1/-----==/=======|=======\====---\1 Tenma
"Ha ha!" is Hime's reply. Because she is a little ball of suprises, but much like all fighters, eventually people will not be so suprised by her attacks and it will be sad. Like a red-eyed lolita in the snow. At this point, Himeko is waiting for something big, Tenma's been using some great attacks but she expects him to go 'now it's my turn!' and really rock out with his bokken.
Which he does, it's just at a lower level! "Sheesh, haven't you figured it out yet?" Hime asks, her book held at the ready and thrusts her book in the direction that she didn't quite calculate corectly. There's a fraction of a second where her expression is just hilariously blank, and then CRAK oh my ow does that strike hit so hard and hurt twice as bad! It's almost like hitting a baseball, only Hurricane smashes to the floor, cracking the wood a bit from the impact and flops right off of the stage.
Is this the end of Hurricane Hime??
Suddenly a trap door next to Tenma opens and up spring the pink heroine with an upside down rising kick, "Oshya!!!" the door locks again and the comination continues with a flurry of fan swipes and high and low kicks as she cries, "Ora ra ra ra ra ra rA RA RA RA!!"
And the finale, using that dang book -again-, leaps into an uppercut motion with a tail of papers fanned under it. Should her book smack under Tenma's chin again, this time the papers shoot INTO the book instead of out of it, tagging on another few hits in the finally, "Burai Ken!!!"
But then again, she could just completely whiff. Only time will tell.
COMBATSYS: Himeko can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Tenma blocks Himeko's 3-2-1 Contact EX.
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Tenma 1/--=====/=======|
Man, that was quite the hit! Tenma just about KILLED Hime with that one... In fact, he looks a bit surprised as she gets knocked clean off the stage. Maybe even a little worried. Did he overdo it? Did he just completely destroy some poor girl with that attack?! Apparently not, 'cause Hurricane Hime pops up out of a trapdoor all of a sudden.
"Crap!" Tenma curses, whirling around and getting his bokken in the way of the crazy pink assault, the book and papers striking his weapon instead of Tenma himself, the sheer force of it driving him back, but once it's done... It seems Hime is done as well.
"Mmph," Tenma mutters, as the red glow around his bokken fades, the line of blood he drew on it previously burnt off entirely. "Like I said... Pretty surprising. But I guess you weren't surprising enough, hey?" he wonders, with a cocky, confident grin. What a jerk!
COMBATSYS: Tenma has ended the fight here.
Himeko groans lightly, flopped over on the floor. She'll get him next time for sure! .. Jerk!
Log created on 16:14:52 05/28/2007 by Tenma, and last modified on 06:02:33 05/29/2007.