Description: Katelynn, Sada, and Alan visit some ancient Incan ruins for a new twist on the classic game, 'King Of The Hill!' (Draw Match)
The stairlike nature of this ancient Inca location means that SNF camera crews are having to spread out further and faster than ever before! Why, they haven't gotten this desperate since Iori Yagami started using them for blunt objects in order to batter a certain Mr. Kusanagi!
Sada Asai, wearing her uniform since it's a little chilly at this altitude, sits near the designated 'start line', sipping some of the local tea from a handleless clay cup. The kusarigama is wrapped around her waist, with the kama and kusari thrown casually over her shoulders. It rattles occasionally.
Weather conditions are cloudy but with little chance of rain, and slightly chilly. Bring your jackets, fighters!!
Indeed, it gets chilly, even in the Incan areas of Peru. In fact, it can be very cold in the mountains. Then again, the sun does shine at times, but that doesn't mean it's always out in the daytime. It's just like any other place. But we're not here in Peru for a lesson in geography and climates. We're here for a fight, and that's what we're getting to.
Wearing her traditional fighting garb, along with some warm martial arts slippers and socks to protect her feet, Katelynn is off to the side doing her stretching routine, limbering herself up for the fight along with some push-ups and sit-ups in between to get the blood flowing as well. She has already taken the time to meditate in order to clear her mind before the match, and is now concentrating on the physical aspect of the preparation, awaiting the moment that it's time to go.
Alan R.B. was born in Nevada, this whole 'it's chilly' thing is not something he's good with. He's thrown an expensive-looking jacket on, some kind of dead animal, dyed black with yellow hilights. He shrugs in it, unused to the weight, and adjusts the iron rings on his fingers while he waits for the go time. He also takes a good long moment to look both Sada and Katelynn up and down appraisingly and openly. "Hmm... hard to choose." The boxer smirks. Somewhere, at their TV, a man itches his fist, wishing he was right there to punch Alan in the face. He has a punchable face.
It is said that the sun always shines on TV.
Sada finishes off her tea, which she has no idea of the content of. However, while bitter, it sure does have a kick to it. She looks over towards Katelynn and then Alan, unwrapping the kusarigama from around her waist and grasping the kama firmly.
"Hello," she says in English without much of an accent, before grinning widely. "It's good to see you both here! I guess we'll have to become friends, though, after the fight." Aww, how sweet.
Then the declaration comes, followed by the inevitable announcement of: "FIGHT!"
Sada starts running up the stairs - backwards. Of course, they're pretty damn wide-ranging stairs, so this is simple, at least at this low-lying point. Higher up the mountain this would be a much more impressive stunt. Sada spins the kusari at her side for a few moments before hurling it downwards, towards -- Alan!? Aiming to wrap up his legs or at least hit them with a large weight on the end of a chain!
COMBATSYS: Sada has started a fight here.
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Sada 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Alan has joined the fight here.
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Alan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Katelynn has joined the fight here.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Alan parries Sada's Odani Foundation Art!
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/-------|
The boxer snickers, "Friends, sure. Something like that." as he starts sprinting up the stairs. Now, many people have at least heard of Alan now via his SNF matches, and recognized that he was a man capable of moving very fast. However, nobody really realized just how fast he could go. When Sada's weighted chain comes flying at him, Alan crouches down, lets it hit him for just an instant, and then makes one complete spin. The chain glances off, and the boxer flies forward with the spin's momentum. "Whoo!"
Electric chi trails through the air with the boxer's speed, especially from his hands, and he thrusts both hands forward at Sada /hard./ Electricity pools in his fists and explodes outward in a solid yellow sphere, crackling around for a second before expanding and dissipating. "Burst!"
Alan travels past Sada hit or miss, making another spin to divert his momentum and continue vaulting up the steps of the ruin.
As soon as the fight is underway, Katelynn is quick to react to the order to fight. She gets into her fighting stance and prepares to strike at one of the other fighters, only to pause as she sees they seem engrossed with one another already. Like a one-on-one duel without regard to the other person. This should turn out to be very interesting.
Especially when you consider the fact that while Alan is attacking Sada, Katelynn's got an attack of her own coming at him. She goes towards him at a rather quick rate of speed and then brings her right fist up towards the boxer's abdomen.
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Alan's Thunderhead EX.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/-------|
Sada's eyes widen at that hot electric death coming right towards her! Blocking seems pretty retarded considering that it's electricity and she is in fact carrying a large object made up in large part of metal. She thus does the obvious thing, and jumps!
It is a graceful leap over Alan's head. If he looks up he can see Japanese heaven.
She lands on one foot, and twists around, grasping the chain from approximately a meter down on the kama end. She twists THAT around and over her head, horribly dangerous as it might be, and as Katelynn goes for the attack, she runs forwards, to leap up the stairs --
Except for that sudden cry and the twisting 720-degree swing which will conclude in sinking that glittering steel blade into some vital part of Katelynn's anatomy if she doesn't watch out! Fortunately, it is big and obvious to see coming.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn successfully hits Alan with Quick Punch.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/------=|
Alan does not look up - for a man always with an eye out for opportunity, he sure does let himself be distracted by the fist coming at him. Besides, he's American, something so simple does nothing for him! The jacket is too heavy to do much swinging, and it's possible the added restriction on his arms is the main culprit for his failing to bring the backs of his hands up between Katelynn's fist and his own face. He takes a jab, snapping his head back, but recovers quite quickly.
"Hey, babe, better watch out behind you!" Whether Katelynn turns to look or not, Alan dashes close in to her, chi whirling around his right hand as he makes a hard swing at her ribs and awkwardly breaks away to hop up the next step. They're a little under halfway up now, and unfortunately boxing doesn't really give itself as a style to doing much more than moving around a single flat area.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn dodges Sada's Deep Strike.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: Katelynn dodges Alan's Hook Punch.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/-----==|
Dodging one attack is no easy feat, but dodging two in a row is even harder. But when you've trained for years in Shotokan Karate, learning to dodge becomes almost like a second nature to you. Of course you can't always do it all the time, but if your mindset is in the right spot, you can easily avoid an enemy's attack. Case in point, Katelynn avoids Sada's attack and easily moves out of the way of Alan's hook. Meaning that both attacks hit nothing but air, leaving Katelynn completely unfazed.
"Nice try, but--" Katelynn stops abruptly and stares at Alan. "Did you just call me 'babe?'" Her fists clench and her teeth grit a little. "You've got a bit of nerve to call me by that name, you know that?" And to back up that statement, Katelynn brings her left leg up in a swift motion to deliver a snap kick aimed at Alan's chin.
Once she's safely put herself back at the front of the pack, Sada turns around and resumes her backwards jog. She twirls the kusari above her head while eyeing her opponents; the fellow with the electroshock powers is pretty dangerous, but the one with the jumpy leapy karate power is also a threat. This is a tricky choice.
However, the girl is probably faster, Sada reasons, and also likely has a special attack which involves an enormous painful blast. Thus --
She twirls the kusari around with a brief moment of limpness in her wrist, hurling the chain and its weight down towards Katelynn's midsection! Hopefully she'll try to leap out of the way and get it around the legs, at which point she will get to meet that fine Inca stonework -- face first!
COMBATSYS: Katelynn successfully hits Alan with Light Kick.
- Power hit! -
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Katelynn 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/---====|
Alan takes the kick right to his chin, but brings his hand up in time to catch her ankle, a fierce grin on his face as he takes a long, inappropriate look down the length of her leg before releasing and taking a few steps back and up. "I've got nerves to spare and then some, babe." Electricity crackles down his arm, pooling in his hand.
The handsome blonde shakes his head, shifting his jaw with an audible pop. His right hand comes up, chi swirling and pulsing within in a small ball. Alan swings down, snapping his fingers, and a sizzling bolt of electricity cracks across right at Katelynn. "Strike!"
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Katelynn with Medium Throw.
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Katelynn 0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/---====|
COMBATSYS: Alan successfully hits Katelynn with Lightning Strike.
- Power hit! -
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Katelynn 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/--=====|
Double teaming is double trouble, especially for poor Katelynn. Not only does her effort to avoid Sada's throw backfire, causing her to be sent into the air, but she's also hit by Alan's response, which really stings a bit. When Katelynn hits the ground, she lays there for a brief second before using a kippup to get back onto her feet. Apparently the first strikes against her have finally landed, which means Katelynn is now going with more power.
Katelynn turns her attention to the woman who threw her, giving Alan a break for a change. She quickly performs a spin kick, which seems odd given that she's a short distance away from the woman who just gave her a face-first introduction to some of the Incan landmarks here, untill you consider that halfway through, she literally propels herself off of her other foot and flies through the air at Sada with her foot still extended.
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Missile Kick from Katelynn with Asai Harvester.
- Power hit! -
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Katelynn 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 0/-------/--=====|
Sada kept herself facing towards the other two warriors for a reason. When Katelynn leaps towards her, she gets one of those big coprophagic grins you sometimes see on Japanese schoolgirls for no apparent reason. The true reason for this becomes clear when her kama-holding arm sweeps up in a sudden upwards-aimed arc, to both cut into Katelynn's leg and twist her to the side with enough force that she actually tears some of the seam on her jacket's shoulder!
Sada hears the 'rrrrp' and starts jogging backwards again, looking over her shoulder to study the depth of the injury as well as glancing back to call, "Good move! Study harder!" by way of encouragement.
Untargeted for once, Alan decides to use this to his advantage. Watching the two girls have at appreciatively, Alan decides to focus on their little side task of climbing the ruins, hopping up a few more steps. Electricity starts to swirl around his feet and hands, crackling around his skin under his clothes. Little footsteps are left where his feet briefly touch the ground, though after a few jumps he has to stop in order to get any real benefit out of this focusing.
COMBATSYS: Alan gathers his will.
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Katelynn 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 1/------=/=======|
Bad choice of strategy on Katelynn's behalf. She finds herself getting hit very hard by Sada's kama, and not only does it cut into her leg and twist her off target, but it also leaves her on the ground for an extra moment as she tries to soak up the pain as best as she can. As she holds where the kama hit, she finds her hand coming away slightly wet with blood.
"Aw dammit, and just after I spent over two hours cleaning it traditionally too!" Katelynn mutters as she gets back onto her feet, showing a slight limp on her wounded leg as she does so. She gives a nasty look at Sada to show that she felt the attack and heard her remark, and she's definitely not happy about this. It's only a moment later that Katelynn draws her fist back and focuses a cyan hue of chi into it, and then releasing it quickly in a ball of energy the size of a beach ball. And it's aimed right at Sada's stomach, which, unlike a beach ball, will hurt quite a bit if she doesn't do something about it!
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Katelynn's Energy Fist.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 1/------=/=======|
"You mean you hung it on a line?" Sada asks, before her eyes widen at that sudden manifestation and hurling of energy! The Hadoken!? she thinks, before she does the most sensible thing she can -- leap right into the air and let the power of that wave of chi empty itself into good, durable stone! A few blades of grass snap and dust flies up around where she had just been standing.
She lands, slightly behind the other two, and scowls at her loss of position due to reflexive positioning. "You know," she says, flicking blood off the kama, "You should really learn that you need to focus on --"
Abruptly she lunges towards Alan, raising the kama up to try and sink it into his flesh in a most unsanitary way! Hopefully the wooden handle will insulate her from death shocks. "More than one target!!"
COMBATSYS: Alan blocks Sada's Fierce Strike.
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Katelynn 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 1/----===/=======|
The kama part of the kusari-gama (wait a minute) flashes at Alan, and he manages to instinctively pull his arm up in the way. The thick crocodile/leather/snakeskin/whatever of his jacket soaks most of the blade itself, slowing it enough so that Alan can twist his arm and take all the cut on a nice unmuscley part of his arm. It hurts more but keeps him from being at all disabled in the punchey.
The blonde man breaks away from Sada, taking a moment to scowl down at the tear. "This jacket cost like $500 dollars, you know." He comes flying back forward, fists crackling as he makes a quick pair of swings at Sada's body. "It's alright though, I'll forgive you. I happen to like 'em athletic."
It appears that Sada is more skilled in dodging than Katelynn gave her credit for. She avoided that attack easily. And now she seems to have focused more on Alan once again. Rather than pick who to take on next, Katelynn takes advantage of this lull in the fight to take a breather. She figures a quick rest could easily be the difference between victory or defeat.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn gains composure.
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Katelynn 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 1/----===/=======|
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Alan's Medium Punch.
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Katelynn 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 1/----===/=======|
Sada does NOT leap in the air this time, instead bobbing and weaving around the punches as she draws the kusarigama up to her body. It's 'kusarigama' instead of 'kusarikama' because of linguistic erosion! It's rare to have multiple 'k's in compound words in Japanese! ps. lol ramens naruto believe it
Sada crouches with one leg extended, saying with a little flippant tone in her voice, "Thank you~" before she spins around again, this time to run forwards, past Katelynn, at an angle. En route, she throws the kusari forwards at a divergent angle, twisting around to grab it and run another circle around the recovering warrior, aiming to yank her feet out from under her (again).
She also starts laughing, which is a somewhat unpleasant sound, as it tries to be a schoolgirlish 'tee hee' focused through a voice that is clearly well on its way to contralto status.
Alan snorts in frustration as Sada weaves around his blows, but when she leaves to go attack Katelynn, he sneers at the latter girl and hooks a thumb at Sada. "See, babe, that's how you're supposed to respond when you're hit on!" The boxer goes back into his stance, hands up, moving quickly toward the two in a series of fast steps, blurring slightly and leaving a faint trail of chi. He heads right for Sada this time, jumping at her and tucking one foot in. "Ring of..."
In an uncharacteristic move for a boxer, he flips forward, swinging his other leg out wide and describing one, two, three circles in the air, heel driving right at the top of Sada's head. "...Thunder!"
COMBATSYS: Katelynn endures Sada's Medium Throw.
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Katelynn 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Sada
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Instead of trying to avoid the throw attempt, Katelynn simply stances herself properly and readies herself for when she's grabbed. When she goes into the air, she waits for the right moment to do a quick somersault and land on the ground on both feet. She lands pretty close to Sada and decides to repay the favor with a kick aimed at the girl's side.
COMBATSYS: Alan successfully hits Sada with Ring of Thunder.
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Katelynn 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Sada
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Alan 1/---====/=======|
COMBATSYS: Sada fails to counter Heavy Kick from Katelynn with Mount Hiei Reversal.
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Katelynn 1/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Sada
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Alan 1/---====/=======|
Sada stares at Alan for a moment as he executes a /1020 degree twist/ /right in the frigging air!/ When he descends towards her, she tries to take evasive maneuvers, leaping to the side, but that heel smacks her right in the arm! She lets out a brief cry of pain, the rest of that half-torn sleeve ripping.
The sleeve starts sliding down her arm, interfering with her move as she tries to do that twist-and-redirect at the incoming leg, which kicks her in the /side/ this time. She staggers for a moment, blanching, and then straightens as she pants for breath. "Heh heh heh..."
She does not seem to be dismayed. HOWEVER:
The stairs are starting to get steeper now; much further ahead and they get narrower and more cramped, much like an open-air staircase than all this gentle terraced rising. BE PREPARED, FIGHTERS
Alan impacts the ground solidly after his crazy spinning heel, boots thumping onto the stone of the stair, hands in jacket pockets, the man standing ramrod straight as a shockwave of chi spreads about a yard out from his feet. He immediately springs back out, jumping up the stairway to get a good lead on the two girls, more electricity swirling in his hand. "Just about there, ladies. You should probably just step back and let me take this one!" He selects Katelynn this time, swinging his hand at her and snapping his fingers. "Strike!" A lightning bolt cracks out, but this time he brings his hand back up, snapping his fingers and coming to a point. "Twice!" Sure enough, another sizzling bolt.
COMBATSYS: Alan successfully hits Katelynn with Lightning Strikes Twice.
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Katelynn 1/----===/=======|=======\=------\1 Sada
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Alan 1/--=====/=======|
While the attack succeeded against Sada, it left Katelynn open for an attack from Alan. And unfortunately, Katelynn just can't move out of the way in time to avoid being hit by Alan's energized attack. It's real shocking (sorry!) for Katelynn in more ways than one, since now she's pretty much running out of steam and doesn't have much left to go on.
But that doesn't stop her from dropping to the ground and attempting to administer a swift foot sweep on Alan, except just before the sweep hits, Katelynn pauses and abruptly spins around with her other foot, using the extended foot to pivot on, and this time deliver the real sweep kick!
"Haaah!" Sada cries out as she leaps towards the front of the stairs, scrambling up several before turning to face the others once more. Katelynn's sticking her leg out in a feint?! Sada grins to herself, before casting the kusarigama over her head as if it was some kind of twisted chain whip!
Her target in this case is the leg that's sticking out; she aims to wrap it up in brutal cold chains and sweep Katelynn over before she can recover from her strike on Alan!
COMBATSYS: Alan dodges Katelynn's Feint Sweep.
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Alan 1/--=====/=======|
Fortunately for Alan, he was already starting to move back after shooting his lightning all over Katelynn. When the first sweep came he reflexively dodged back - and when the SECOND sweep came, he just kept going, hitting the edge of the next stair and jumping back. "Come on, what was that?" He keeps jumping back, grinning fiercely and keeping both his eyes peeled wide. "Tchh... is this all you can bring to the table?"
COMBATSYS: Alan focuses on his next action.
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn dodges Sada's Strong Throw.
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Even in her injured state, Katelynn still manages to avoid Sada's attempt to deliver another throw. How she did it is anybody's guess. But there's no time for thinking about things like that.
Katelynn takes a moment to step back and let her mental energies focus, allowing herself to to gain a little more chi and hopefully give herself a better advantage in the match.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn gathers her will.
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Sada pauses as she jerks the chain back from her attempt to brutally attack Katelynn. She stares down at the two in a strange mixture of surprise and even disgust.
"What is this, break time in America?!" she shouts. "You aren't supposed to be resting up, you are supposed to be fighting!" She points the kama towards Katelynn: "For you, a kick!"
She leaps from her position perhaps five feet above Katelynn, grasping the kusari and the kama both tightly as she twists around, aiming to execute an axe kick right at the girl's head and/or shoulders if she doesn't continue her record of swiftness!
"Hey, maybe you weren't paying attention, babe, but this ain't just a fight! We're in a king of the hill situation over here, and guess what?" Alan makes one final leap, clearing a last set of stairs, both feet touching down on the very top of the ruin. "Hail to 'im!"
Now up on the top, Alan takes a moment to shrug in his jacket. "Cold up here." He pulls a cigarette out of his pocket, waves his hand near it to light it, and puffs away. "Y'know, it feels good to be the king."
COMBATSYS: Alan gains composure.
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Sada's Strong Kick.
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Alan 1/---====/=======|
How is it that Katelynn is still going strong in this match, despite looking like she's just about run out of steam? It's a strong will to keep going, that's what. And the fact she's charged up her mental energies for the right moment. Which would be right now, after blocking Sada's kick.
Katelynn seems to wince a bit after that attack, but that's only the calm before the storm as one might say. Because a moment after that, an aura of chi seems to radiate from Katelynn, and then she literally rushes upon Sada, delivering a swift barrage of punches and kicks if it successfully strikes!
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Ultimate Kata from Katelynn with Cut Trapped Grain.
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"Wh - what?!" Sada cries out as Alan makes that leap, her head turning to watch where he went. They were that close?! Her eyes widen, before she reminds him with a shout of, "You have to KEEP it up there!" Then her head whirls around towards that brief flash of light, as she lands in a crouch, legs spread in a horse stance. She watches Katelynn as she rushes forwards --
Sada strikes when Katelynn moves, slashing forwards at arms, legs, anything that gets stuck out towards her! She moves with swift, sweeping strikes that aim to cut shallow but bloody furrows, shouting as she goes, "Yare da waaa!" Whatever that means. She continues in English, "GET DOWN!"
She starts backpedalling up the steeper stares after this, bloody kama dripping as she watches the older woman carefully. She might have some kind of trick left!
Alan hangs up out there, watching women go all at each other, smoking. It's pretty relaxing. He flicks his ash all over the ancient ruins with the utmost disrespect. "Hey, if there's anything I can handle, it's keeping it up!" He snickers at his own wit, crouching down and scooping up a handful of crumbled ancient relic. Hey, anything to be doing something. "Hurry up and get done with each other down there, eh? A man could get bored up here!" He tosses the priceless bits down at the group. Who knows who will get most of it?!
That was a real surprise for Katelynn. Her big attack backfired big time, and this time there's no getting back up for her. With a groan, she tumbles down the stairs and onto the grass below, where several medics are lying in wait for her. No last ditch attack from her either.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn can no longer fight.
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Alan 1/---====/=======|=------\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Sada parries Alan's Thrown Object!
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Alan 1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Sada
When Katelynn begins to fall into the clutches of traditional Inca medicine, Sada turns around to see a chunk of ancient stonework flying towards her! Fortunately, she's still holding her kama, currently energized by the shed blood of the American people, which she flicks around in a low arc, knocking all of that crap to the side. "Ass!" she cries, before starting the run up the last few flights of stairs. She goes one circle around and THEN she hurls the kusari up ahead of her, the heavy weight whirring through the air with the savage force of Japan's youth!
And also, right at Alan's big fat smoking face! Especially his cigarette!
COMBATSYS: Alan negates Spite Musashi Art EX from Sada with Thunder Storm.
- Power fail! -
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Alan 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
Though he was smoking and relaxing, Alan is clearly on the ball enough to react quickly when Sada's weight comes flying at him. Chi explodes into his hands with a blue flare, and he swings both hands down, snapping his fingers and hurling two huge bolts of lightning forward. He pulls his hands up immediately after, throwing two /more/ huge bolts and ending with his back to Sada - flexing his butt muscles while the kusari is sent wheeling away. "Your wish is my command!"
Alan has a spectacular butt.
Sada's kusari goes flying over and ahead, threatening to pull her over the edge - no, wait, she's got like bodybuilder muscles. The arm that's lost its sleeve flexes slightly and pulls it back in as she continues running upwards. She can see Alan's ass.
Her brow furrows and her lips curl down into an open-mouthed grimace of frowning rage as she brings the kama up, twirling it in her hand, and letting out a savage cry before lunging forwards and jamming the blade up towards that succulent, tender ass!
COMBATSYS: Alan dodges Sada's Deep Strike.
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Alan 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
Sada probably should've just quietly come up and stabbed Alan in the ass. Now that she's gone and made a war cry, the boxer has time enough to spin aside, his hand coming down to backhand the kama away. His rings contact the metal with a loud ring. "Hey, hey, buy me dinner first!" Alan keeps moving with his spin, crouching low as he turns and rushing forward. "Hoowah!" He comes up hard, electricity whirling around his hand in a maelstrom as he tries to catch Sada with a good, hard uppercut.
COMBATSYS: Alan successfully hits Sada with Uppercut Punch.
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Alan 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Sada
He succeeds and hurts Sada.
More accurately, the uppercut hits Sada right in the left part of the upper chest, her face contorting with a brief moment of agony as she is sent sailing straight upwards. She topples back towards the steeper end of the hill - and falls down, vanishing from sight?
The edge of the kama rests on the very lip of the ancient ruins, caught between two rocks and wedged by sheer force in a joint that a slid sheet of paper couldn't cross.
A moment later, from Alan's perspective, there is a hellish noise - the chain rattles and rises up as suddenly, the battered-looking schoolgirl rises, on a 270-degree arc guided by the chain and pivoting around the central axle of the kama. She lands on both legs, takes a breath, and shouts some word in Japanese which Alan likely does not know.
She is still holding onto the chain, and with another shout, she whips it up and over her head, spinning it down in a descending arc towards the boxer man!
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Alan with Spite Musashi Art.
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Alan 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
Once the sharp thing has embedded itself into the meaty American, Sada yanks, hard, in order to both aggravate the injury and, more importantly, throw him into the ground, face first! Eat earth, American! You wanted it so bad five hundred years ago!
aum namg namg namg that is some delicious ancient ruin there LET ME TELL YOU. Alan's other arm takes the hit this time, a little blood spattering on the narrow top of the ruins - and a few crackles of electricity, too, as though it were in his very blood. His sunglasses come off in the fall, clattering down the stairs, but he doesn't seem to care. It's almost as though he's not like every other guy who wears sunglasses out there! Pale grey eyes now all nice and fully-visible, Alan rolls forward, face serious as he regains his feet and starts moving forward. Chi crackles around his right hand, crackling down from somewhere under his sleeve and gathering like it's time for a family reunion. Small lightning bolts start to strike out randomly, and there's another blue flare. "OVERCHARGE!"
Alan slams a punch forward hard at Sada's abdomen - solar plexus, even - electricity roaring out. Lightning bolts crackle everywhere, creating a field of power all over the place. There's some property damage, yep.
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Alan's Overcharge.
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Alan 0/-------/-------|=======\-------\0 Sada
Sada's SOLAR PLEXUS is safe, because as that fist comes towards her, she crumples - in anticipation of defeat?! No, she's falling down in a low duck to avoid his incredible power, the rubber soles of her sneakers keeping her from getting a vicious shock! OK, the steel-jacketed lead weight and the wooden post on the other hand may have something to do with it.
Sada lets out another inarticulate cry as her skirt bunches up around her hips from the abrupt and off-direction squat. On the negative side (for Alan) she's swinging that kusari up like a giant pendulum aimed up between his overly-spread-out legs! By accident, of course. She really wants to hit his knees. Yes.
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Alan with Fierce Strike.
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Alan 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Sada
Now, this is very interesting, how certain elements of the world all coincide for a single, glorious moment. Deep in the ruins, a secret cult has infiltrated, as they do regularly whether there's a fight or not, and are just now coming to the culmination of their ritual. The grapes have been spread across the altar, the four candles lit, and it is time for the prayer to begin. A robed monk takes a hammer from his robe and passes it down the line of praying men, each equally robed, each sprinking a powdered herb on the hammer's head. When it gets to the end, that man dips the head of the hammer into heated oils, and strikes a gong.
Whonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg.
The gong's blow reverberates throughout the ruins, in a moment that will be put up on youtube and FAITOtube and be spread across the internet and clip shows on TV like wildfire. The gong strike coincided perfectly with the impact of Sada's kusari right in the mean bean machine, and the whongg completely drowns out his bellow of surprise and pain.
Whonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg.
Alan clenches his teeth, pushing up - stumbling - and then flickering through the air. His arm shoots out like a steel bar, and the struck boxer seeks to wrap Sada's neck up in a very aggressive chokehold, electricity crackling around his entire body and into his opponent.
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Dynamo Grip from Alan with Cut Trapped Grain.
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Alan 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Sada
Sada's eyes go wide as she seems to strike Alan with sufficent force to sound an enormous gong. (She is not always very smart.) She takes a step back, her expression somewhere between stupid surprise and wary canniness. She says something, but the WHONNNNNNNNGGGGG drowns it out.
It was probably vulgar anyway.
Then he lunges towards her with those steely arms. She leans back, feeling her battered ribs cry out in protest along with her vigorously uppercutted breast and pectoral muscles. That sleeveless arm comes up to slice with that same efficent twisting scything motion that Katelynn had been introduced in, the grain extending itself into the path of the harvester itself! She leaps back, afterwards, tottering on the very edge of the top of the mountain --
That heavy $500 jacket's sleeves get completely rocked at this point, blood dripping down Alan's arms as he sumbles behind Sada, nearly falling off himself. But he still has enough to go - and he notes that Sada is off balance herself. "Y'know... even if I'm unconcious, if I'm the last one still up here... King of the Hill, baby." Alan twists around, rings of electricity travelling down his arms as he whips his hands out, closing in on Sada and trying to clap his hands together right on her head. The chi explodes into a tremendous burst of sound and concussive force. After, of course, Alan falls to his knees. If this doesn't manage to knock Sada flying, he'll just end up shoved down the stairs.
COMBATSYS: Alan can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Alan successfully hits Sada with Thunderclap.
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"Ha ha! The only thing you're king of is -"
Sada is then suddenly introduced to a world of pain by Alan's hulkamaniac move. The enormous concussive blast sends her flying backwards, toppling over the edge of the mountain and falling!!
About ten feet, at which point she lands limply on the stairs and starts rolling down them, chains rattling as she goes. It seems that Alan may be the winner! If he can avoid toppling down himself.
COMBATSYS: Sada takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Sada can no longer fight.
Alan laughs to himself as Sada gets knocked off the ruin, turning as he falls to land on his back and wedge his arm around a really awesome carved pillar. The pillar has like some elephants doing flips or something, I don't know. "King... of the Hill." He loses conciousness, and the SNF committee immediately starts bickering on how to rule this one. Everyone's unconcious!
The sun is shining. The sky above is pristine; cloudless as far as the eye can see in any given direction, blending together with the sparkling sea into an endless expanse of brilliant blue on the horizon line. The waves roll up lazily on the surf, hissing through the sand in a gentle spray that keeps a soothing mist of seafoam swirling about on the gentle ocean breeze, and cools the sun-warmed sand just enough to make walking on it barefoot not painful. This would be the perfect place for a relaxing vacation...
If there wasn't a small war going on about five miles inland. The beach is far enough down the border that there are no immediate signs of violence, no booms or bangs or bodies, no unexploded ordnance or rumbling tanks. Just barely far enough away that a person could even claim to have been genuinely sightseeing in the neighboring nation, and had no idea how close they were lingering to an active warzone.
Not that the excuse applies to Cross. After all, she's been in and out of the country twice now since the fighting started. This time, she's sprawled out on the beach, wearing a second-skin of a jet black wetsuit that's been unzipped down to just beyond her navel to keep her from overheating in the summer sun. Her arms are folded behind her head and one knee is crossed over the other. A person could honestly mistake her for a vacationer, if her skinsuit wasn't completely devoid of logo or other identifiers; obviously, she had intended to make an amphibious insertion, but probably made land a few dozen miles off course due to navigational error. "Hmm... I really should have brought a map."
Thailand, a place of great majesty and beauty. One of Asia's most renowned countries for many things, including its sights, its culture, and its cuisine. A wonderful place to take a vacation if you're into the things that Thailand has to offer to you. Many people from around the world are known to come visit here for some reason or other.
One of those reasons is the glorious beaches that Thailand has to offer to those who love sunbathing or swimming. Or if you like practicing martial arts in the hot sun. Which is, surprisingly, what Kate Molina is doing here. Dressed conservatively for the heat, with a pair of sunglasses to complement her attire, she is shadowboxing (if you can call it that) on the sand, working up a good sweat while she's at it too. After a few minutes, she pauses to go down to the water to cool off a little, wiping her forehead with a little cool ocean water. She then resumes her workout, not taking any notice of Cross at the moment.
Oh yeah, it was a pretty nice day alright. And being as, well... /obsessed/ with Asian culture as Tessa is, it would make perfect sense for the Strolheim fighter to have come out this way for a vacation. Even with what seems like a war going on pretty much right next door. And then there's also the fact that Strolheim was at one time a band of mercenaries. Just because the leader dropped those kinds of activities doesn't mean all of the members did! Especially not the new ones, or ones who had more military backgrounds.
But no, seriously, all that aside, Ms. Gallo really does seem to be here to chill out and work on her tan. Because her skin didn't get that bronze color from her sitting on her ass working some desc job, or opening up a bottle and smearing on some cheap orange goop. That all came from sunning on beaches like this one, sprawled out on a deck chair and sipping a colada. And let's not forget the best part. That black one-piece she's wearing looks so much like a Doll uniform with the sleeves missing that it's almost like it was intentional. Wouldn't a thing like that probably annoy an actual Doll, or piss off some of Shadaloo's other troops, were they to notice it?
Very slowly, Cross rolls her head to one side, observing the young lady who comes shadowboxing down toward the surf. Her head rolls the other way after a moment, blinking once at the sunbather on her opposite side. Then, she looks straight back up at the sky, the wheels slowly grinding up to a slow rotation in her head. "There was something... going on here..."
Her gaze fixes on Kate again for a moment. Her eyes narrow in thought, and she mumbles, "Martial arts? Fighting? And..." Her attention returns to Tessa as she rumbles down the rails, trying to complete her train of thought. "... chicks in skimpy one-pieces?"
Cross closes her eyes slowly, drinking in the warmth of the sun and sand. Then, both eyes snipe wide open, and she suddenly sits bolt upright. "The Baywatch bimbo! Crap, she's probably a hundred miles from here by now!" As if she hadn't been conspicuous before, that outburst should certainly put her on the map. Especially since she doesn't have a 'quiet epiphany' voice.
Katelynn has finished her sparring and is now sitting on the beach stretching out (much to the amusement of some guys who stop to gawk at her, a lot of whom are hit hard by their wives/girlfriends.) As she complements her workout with a good stretching regimen, she gets the feeling that something's not right. Quickly standing up again, she looks around while trying to look inconspicous, like she's simply stretching her neck.
There's the woman with the shield, which does seem a bit odd, but doesn't bother her. Then she looks at the woman with the wetsuit, and there's something about the logo that bothers her, but she's not sure what, although the first woman makes her look back again.
"It can't be!" She thinks to herself, but she realizes that woman is none other than Tessa, the woman who beat her up rather badly during the ice skating battle in an ice rinka while back. While Katelynn's not one to hold grudges per se, she's still a bit peeved at how Tessa beat her so badly. But with a crowd like this, she's not about to start fighting at the drop of a hat. Instead, she casually walks in the general direction of Tessa...
Yeah, Tessa's not very hard to recognize. There's no sunglasses or hat or any kind of disguise. Just the one-piece that seems like an obvious jab she's taking at Shadaloo. And in fact, with her shield right there propped against her seat it's pretty much impossible if you've seen her with it before. No one else has a shield like that, all chromed and painted with a yin-yang, seeming like it never has a single scratch on it. If she didn't want attention she should've at the very least kept that thing out of site.
But then, she's not really expecting anything to happen, is the thing. Wanting something and expecting it are two completely different things, and as it is she's pretty much off her guard and not paying attention to anything until Cross's little outburst. It makes her sit up a bit and rub at the side of her head, drink still in the opposite hand. "Hey! I didn't come out here to eavesdrop, but since you're being so LOUD about your problem, there's a payphone over that way! Jesus! Cry more why don't you!"
And just about as soon as she's done shouting that, she sees Katelynn started to wander over toward her. "Oh don't tell me.. "
"You!" Cross extends her arm completely, her index finger alone pointed fully out toward Tessa. "Shut your whore mouth!"
Granted, Cross has no idea who Tessa is, but it probably wouldn't matter; she hasn't proven herself especially respectful in the face of power, authority, or royalty in the past. Before she can even fully rise to her feet, however, Katelynn's walked right by her on her way toward Tessa, effectively cutting her off. Cross takes a momentary pause to hastily swipe the sand off her backside while observing the exchange between the two.
The wheels are turning now. Thailand! Muay Thai revolutionaries versus scantily-clad dominatrix assassins! Okay, so Kate doesn't really look much like she's practicing kickboxing, but Cross doesn't know enough about 'formalized' fighting styles to really recognize that. And, sure, Tessa isn't oppressing any peasants or putting down any popular revolts, but she /is/ wearing a costume just like Cammy's. Really, what are the chances of someone wearing a Shadaloo assassin uniform as beachwear? That's just silly!
At this moment, Katelynn's attention is divided. First she's drawn to Cross's whining, which would cause Katelynn to snicker and make a wisecrack. Something along the lines of, 'Would you like a little cheese with your whine?' Naturally she doesn't do that with strangers, but for some reason she's in one of those moods today.
Before she can do that, though, she turns back to look at Tessa, realizing that she just said something, and Katelynn's cheerful mood disappears. "I didn't expect to find you here. But what's with your attitude?" She seems a bit more serious now.
"Wh- " Tessa almost does a doubletake as not just one, but TWO of the other people on the beach go and get all offended when she's not even /trying/ to offend them. "My attitude? Did you not just hear what she said about my mouth? And- oh, oh, is she coming over here too? Good, because I think I wanna kill her." the woman grunts, setting her drink down on by her chair and reaching for her shield at the same time.
There's a brief pause before she looks back up at Katelynn and squints a bit in the sunlight, "Did you really come over here just to say you didn't expect to run into me, though? What is that? It's not exactly a friendly greeting."
She sort of sideglances at the girl after that, and swings her feet around before hopping up out of her deck chair and pointing herself toward little miss wetsuit, looking a lot like she's already lining up a shot...!
COMBATSYS: Tessa has started a fight here.
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The growing animosity and restrained violence in the air act as a sort of Cross magnet, causing the 'infiltrator' to amble her way over to the pair at a rather sedate pace. Her approach leaves them in a sort of triangular formation, each equidistant from the other two at approximately equal angles, none of the three facing one more than the other in that brief moment. One could almost imagine a rapid camera pan from the ground-up, swirling around to catch all of their faces as they stare each other down. Almost... because Cross is blinking dumbly with an almost feline smirk of mischief on her face. "Oooh. You two gonna fight, huh?"
The thought that one or the other might want to beat up /her/ hasn't even occured to her. Because, honest, she wasn't trying to start a fight. Though, despite her 'innocence' in the looming affair, she still laces her fingers together and flips her hands to point her palms outward, stretching her arms straight out in front of her. Then, she plants her legs wider apart and bends down toward one knee, stretching her still-interlaced hands behind her back and above her head slightly for a moment before moving toward the other knee.
"Mmm, hmm, I don't know, that's kind of..." Cross muses to herself amidst the sound of her second-skin wetsuit squeaking noisily along her skin, her chest only managing not to fall out of the unzipped upper portion by virtue of how firmly the material has affixed itself to her skin. "... rubbery."
COMBATSYS: Cross has joined the fight here.
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Tessa 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Cross
COMBATSYS: Cross takes no action.
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Tessa 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Cross
Looks like the fight's about to get started, and Katelynn simply shrugs. "Well, it looks like there's going to be some action here," She mutters to herself. "Good thing I prepared in advance." She gestures for onlookers to back up, since this could easily get ugly if someone were to be hit by an attack or a flying body. Without missing a beat, though, she gets back into her fighting stance and stares at the other two girls with a look that says, "Bring it on!"
COMBATSYS: Katelynn has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn takes no action.
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Log created on 18:11:24 06/03/2007 by Katelynn, and last modified on 20:30:48 06/07/2007.