Description: A pair of Shadaloo agents come looking to take on Ryo Sakazaki. Unfortunately for them, their intel lacked information about Ryo's gutsy pig-tailed student! Each holding their own, teacher and student manage to send the intruders packing.
Nestled on the edge of a large forest north of Southtown, the Kyokugen Dojo is a walled in enclosure. Every facet of this location is dedicated to training, training, and more training. From the plain cement courtyard to the squat but wide dojo building itself, it's clear that there is little else in the way to do around here besides practice, practice, and more practice.
That's what Hotaru has found, at least, during the last month and a half as a student of Kyokugen. But for her, it's been worth every painful minute of it. Under Ryo's tutelage, she has become more confident in combat. And by following Takuma's often inscrutable advice, young Futaba has even become more outgoing, getting to know many students at the various High Schools that she might not have ever met otherwise.
Arriving directly after classes have let out at Seijyun, Hotaru headed inside just long enough to deposit her bookbag and change out of the school uniform in exchange for the Chinese-styled getup that she always seems to prefer. That out of the way, she steps out into the courtyard and stretches her arms out at her sides. She knows the warm up routines Ryo would have her do by heart now, having endured the regimen of situps, pushups, laps, and other exercises for weeks now.
"Yosh," she states, clenching her fist with determination before sitting down and lying flat on her back. Time to start with situps, and then go from there. Ryo will let her know what's on the schedule afterward...
Speaking of Ryo Sakazaki, the day have been ... intruiging so far, to say the least. Let's begin with a brief recap:
6 AM: While eating breakfast, some delicious fermented soybean -- his dirty, hidden secret -- an american football mysteriously broke through a window and hit him upside the head, dunking his face into the bowl.
9 AM: The Haoh Sho Ko Ken test dummy hits him in the face after a too potent blast. Pretty hard, too.
9:30 AM: The dummy explodes. Shards of wood kinda hurts, but that make you stronger!
10:36 AM: A part of the celling, the very one that he spent so much time repairing, collapsed while he was under it.
10:40 AM: On the roof, the hammer breaks. Great.
And now, in the present, Ryo was just getting down from the roof after repairing THAT hole again as Hotaru arrived, still wearing his belt of tools(what was left, it's mostly decoration now) and nails pouches around his waist. "Hello, Hotaru," The Raging Tiger greetings, lifting an hand a little tiredly at his student. "Begin with the warm up, I'll be right back."
Namely, he can't teach with a dirty gi, can he?
OUt in the forest? Well, in a way that does make sense, but the present is all about URBAN dojo's, at least that's to the understanding of the member of Seven Days known as Douyoubi. Luckily, the place wasn't difficult to find, Vendredi was suprisingly good at such things, but it was in fact Douyou and Frida who would be taking the mission from that point. Not long after Ryo has dropped down from the roof, the black-haired agent is standing atop it, fiddling with what looks to be a radio device, and as usual there's a scowl on her face, "Well, if he's anything like his father, it shouldn't be too difficult. I'll be really mad if I'm right," she mutters to herself.
Not too far behind, or perhaps even right there with her is the american partner. The mission would be short, simple and to the point, "Force him to expend as much energy as possible. Which means double-teaming him might not be the best idea.. Easy enough, right?"
She doesn't seem to realize that Hotaru had entered the dojo sometime ago. Not that it really matters in this case.
"This place is such a /dump/."
Really, Frida couldn't be any more disgusted by the Kyokugen Dojo. Say what you will about its 'charming natural feel' or its 'exotic Japanese architecture', the Sixth Day isn't satisfied by it at all. She'd much rather be at a spa, getting a massage from a nice, burly man -- maybe some aromatherapy, relaxing music in the background, a casino waiting for her, just outside. A large bar area! It'd be fantastic, really. In fact, she just might have to call up some of her friends after the mission an-
'Force him to expend as much energy as possible.' Douyoubi's voice has Frida's eyes snapping open, back to full awareness. "Mmn, Dou? I thought boys loved double-teaming? They make -videos- about that sort of thing..." She stands next to Douyoubi for now, thumbs stuck into the belt slung over her hips, an upset, thoughtful look on her face. It's replaced with a far more devious one, only a few seconds later... she adjusts her beret, and drops to her knees, peering over the roof and down at the entrance to the Kyokugen Dojo.
"Anyway, the whole place is made of paper, isn't it? All these Japanese things are. We pop in, rough him up a little bit, steal some of that old fart's karate trophies, and bip out, right? Done deal, I'll even take you out afterwards." Frida runs a hand through her hair, waiting for her more serious-minded partner to give the go-ahead.
"Because really, Dou, you don't get out enough. You'd look really pretty if we did your hair up."
"1... 2... 3...." Hotaru begins doing situps. Early in the exercise, as not much effort has been expended thus far, it's easy to pay attention to things going on around her. Things like Ryo coming down off the roof, looking like he's been wrestling with a woodchipper with splinters and scratches a plenty. "Okay, Ryo-sensei!" she calls out between situps. "... 16... 17..."
She wonders what the training will be today. The roof is damaged, so she's probably off the hook when it comes to cleaning it. And she just cleaned the dojo floor last night, surely it doesn't need another waxing this afternoon. "... 36... 37..." Hopefully she doesn't have to try and move Marco's wrecking ball on her own again. Last time she spent all night trying to move it and the thing wouldn't budge a centimeter.
"I still haven't picked out a school yet," the pig-tailed trainee comments, raising her volume enough to be heard from inside where Ryo had gone. "It's hard to decide." 53... 54... "It's really important to me though, since I only have one year left." 60... 61...
What Ryo have in mind for today is pretty specific, actualy. It is, he feel, time to knock it up a notch. To show the roots of a whole new move. The Fluid Hammer Kata is a great practice, but it is, after all, for novices! The Wrecking Ball is too advanced for her, but perhaps she'll be fine with the Wood Palm and Soaring Ascension Fist Katas will be more of her level.
Unaware of that his previous perching point is now occupied, Ryo is already inside, but not far enough to be out of reach. "You'll need to make a decision evantualy!" Shouts back the teacher loud enough to be heard (which is not too much, all things considered) "But it's good you don't make a BLIND choice either! What are your choices so far?" He asks, now idly wondering if he DO have some darned clean gi left.
Okay, maybe the Cleansing Fist Kata might be a good one to show, too.
Douyoubi isn't even trying to pay attention to Frida. When it comes to pairs, Vendredi and Frida are a lot more compatible. These two? It's more of an odd-couple. Clashing personalities and clashing styles, but hey they must make a good pair for a reason, right? Man. What could that be?
The black-haired woman glances up at the sky a moment and then sighs, wishing that it could at least be raining. That'd be so wonderful right now. And all thoughts come to an abrupt halt when Frida mentions wearing her hair up. Her visable eye shifts and she slowly looks to the American like she was some sort of psycho, "... What is wrong with you?" beat "Don't answer that, just keep your mind on the mission. Let's go."
And how does she plan on entering?
Hotaru Futaba is the first to see the newly fixed roof come crashing in one more time, and the maroon-clad fight drops to the floor hard, landing in a crouch. Much to her suprise, when she looks forward, she sees a girl that actually is not a Sakazki at all, which is confusing at first, but then a rather creepy smile forms on her lips, "... Hello, little girl. Could you tell me where your teacher is?" she asks, her breathing starting to pick up as she settles on all fours.
Frida regards Douyoubi for a moment. Their compatibility comes in their hairstyles - both women only have a single eye to glare at the other with, so it's not quite as bad as a full, double-eyed glare. That would just be silly, see. Nonetheless, Frida simply chooses to ignore Douyoubi's question, and focus more on the obvious. Which is Douyoubi's intriguing glance upwards.
Frida's lips twist upwards into a smile, and she flutters her eyelash(ha ha, there should be an s there because it should be plural but it's NOT, because she has classy hair!). "At least it's not raining. I couldn't deal with /rain/ right now."
Sometimes, Frida acts like a spoiled little girl. But then her Psycho Power reveals itself in interesting, passive ways -- like that uncanny little bit of... uncanniness. Perhaps it's simply knowing her teammate well. Who knows. It's not important, because right now Douyoubi's decided to come crashing through the roof, prompting Frida to adopt a simple, horrified expression on her face.
The woman's full, ruby-colored lower lip twists in derision. "Ugh... how /blatant/."
Hotaru would see a second maroon-clad woman drop down beside the first one, far classier, but in that, probably far less intimidating. She places a hand on her hip, turns away from Hotaru(small fries, see), and states, rather haughtily: "Hm. I'll bet you the first punch that he's in the bathroom right now. Boys are /always/ in the bathroom."
That said, Frida heads for the back of the Dojo, taking on a gait meant for a seductress, hips swaying in practiced grace with each step. She disappears into the back hallway, and starts knocking on random doors. "Mr. Sakazaki~~"
"... 87..." It starts to burn after a while, especially at the non-stop pace Hotaru is maintaining. Every time she gets better at handling the exercises, Ryo just makes her do more and more. She can understand the reasoning behind it, but it's hard to appreciate the gain-through-pain mentality when you're actively ENGAGED in it. "I dunno... I kind of like Pacific High. The kids there are really tough." ...95 ...96 But there was this really awesome teacher over at Taiyo..." 112... 113... "I'd almost consider Gedo, but... I'd stick out pretty funny there, I think!" 121... 122...
And then the roof comes down and Hotaru lies flat on her back, blinking at the young woman that just entered. Her brows furrow a little. Ryo isn't going to be happy about that at all. "Ryo-sensei? Someone is here for you!" Pant. "Came through the roof! ... Yeah, again!" Hotaru would just lie there, taking a breather from the exercises, if it wasn't for the way Douyoubi crouch down on all fours. Rolling onto her side at first, Hotaru starts to get up as a second woman jumps down in then heads off in search of the Sakazaki boy.
Pushing herself up to her feet, Hotaru catches her breath, glancing after Frida, "If you just wait out here he'll-" Okay, and she's off. Not the patient one. The young Futaba heiress looks Douyoubi over now that she's left with her, "What's going on here?" she asks, her body tensing up a bit. Strange things ARE the normal around the Kyokugen Dojo, but the appearance of this duo is pushing it.
There is many things that Ryo Sakazaki, the man that thoses two ladies are apparently searching for, could be saying now. First, replying to Hotaru's listing, then ask if the roof fell off again. Another option is also asking if she's talking to herself, or if he's hearing other voices, too. Last but not the least, he could simply sob internaly, pick back up his tools and go to work again. He can teach AND work on roof at the same time. He's hardcore enough for it.
None of that happens. Litteraly nothing at all, for a good minute. Then two. Then three. Then four.
Ryo had a really bad day, day that he hoped -- he prayed! -- that would end in the afternoon. It just seemed that fate itself was taking it all out on him.
Finnaly, Ryo makes himself manifest. Calmly, way too calmly, Sakazaki comes out of the bathroom wearing one of his trademark sparkly clean orange gi. He closes the door with extreme precaution behind himself and slooooowly turn his gaze around to stare at the woman knocking around doors in the hallway. This man has the gaze of a man that could destroy an entire city if his eyes could fire lasers.
"What. Who are you."
Not questions. Demands.
A really bad day is going to get worse.
'At least it's not raining'. It's a good thing Douyoubi wasn't at a bridge because she's pretty sure at that point she would have thrown herself off a bridge.
From her position, Douyoubi glances to Frida offering the bet, and simply shakes her head, "No, that sounds like a losing bet to me," she replies, and when the blonde struts off, mutters under her breath, ".. tramp."
But her pale expression brightens a little when she notices Hotaru looking a little more tense, and with a slow shake of her head, continues to crawl over to the young karate-student. "Aww, don't be afraid, little girl, I'm probably not going to hurt you, we're just looking for Ryo. And aren't you just the.. The cutest thing, you remind me of me when I was young."
Assuming she gets close enough, she reaches out for one of Hotaru's ponytails, brushing the strands between her thumb and pointer finger, "Only when I was young, my parents didn't let me practice in a dojo, and they didn't give me cute little clothes, or a puppy or anything."
"Well, they didn't after I satisfied my curiosity of seeing if it could fly if I thew it off the top of a building. Do you have any pets, sweetie?"
Frida hardly regards Ryo once he's made his appearance. There's a bit of a delighted widening of her sole visible eye, the hint of a smirk on her lips, but it's all thrown away with an arrogant, unabashed toss of her hair. She strolls -directly- past Ryo, sure to brush against his side as fully as a woman might be able to, and even goes so far as to utilize his shoulder as a lean-to while she investigates the room he's stepped out of.
"Mmn~..."
For a moment, she nuzzles against him like he were a giant calf and she a hungry kitten, but when her lips are close enough to his ear she simply presses them to the thing... only for a moment. This places her line-of-sight directly in line with the bathroom, and like any person might when they realize they've won a bet, Frida's expression brightens intensely.
"...Ooh, poor baby. House wins the hand, I guess. Maybe next time?"
Frida's placed her hand, palm-down, against Ryo's stomach while she's all pressed up against him. Immediately, the woman's outstretched fingers curl into a fist, and she cocks her arm back violently before slamming it forward into the Sakazaki heir's gut.
COMBATSYS: Frida has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Ryo has joined the fight here.
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Ryo 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Frida
COMBATSYS: Ryo fails to interrupt Quick Punch from Frida with Tani Otoshi.
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Ryo 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Frida
A really, really bad day.
Ryo don't even move, twitch, breath, say anything. Just his deep, dark blue eyes passively looking at Frida as she do her little number against him. When she speaks, one of his bushy eyebrows twitch. Just once, then twice. But he's still like a statue.
Then, the punch comes. That's when things changes.
"Get the hell out of my dojo before I hurt you." Ryo's tone is pretty neutral, considering he's just been hit square in the chest before he could get an hand on her to toss the intruder right out. He didn't even SEEM to acknowledge the hit.
Then again, he's not acknowledging much beside the fact he's very, very pissed off today.
Things might go thermonuclear soon.
Frida's fist connects with Ryo's stomach, and she's twirling away from him only moments later, arms to her side while she kicks out with a leg during one particularly flashy spin. The end result is that the Shadaloo member -isn't- quite grabbed by his attempted throw, but she's certainly bothered by the attempt. Why, look at how wide that eye is! And the way she's dropped her jaw at him!
"Why...", she says, quickly smoothing out the front of her bodysuit, "You almost -hit a woman-! And such a pretty one! I come here with nothing but honest, golden-hearted intentions..." She affects a hurt tone, sniffling, and blinking back a few fake tears. "...And you try to throw me out on my rump! I'm only here to see what this Kyokugen can do! Maybe I'm trying to be a student of yours? So many pretty boys working out around here, after all..."
Frida raises a single hand towards Ryo, and curls her fingers into a mock pistol. Pinkish energy manifests around the end of her pointer finger, rapidly coalescing into a single point at the end of one lengthy, bright-red fingernail.
Frida winks at Ryo. "Just kidding. But... I'd love it if you tried to manhandle me, Blondie."
The energy streaks towards Ryo's chest, a malevolent force that would strike the man at his core -- entropy and bad feelings, sourness and hate, all of it.
The 'probably not going to hurt you' is hardly comforting. Hotaru's pensive expression becomes more of a stern frown. Do these two have something to do with the strange ninja that attacked her weeks ago? She thinks that unlikely, as she can't imagine him not being here with them if that was the case. So maybe they're someone else with a grudge against the Sakazaki family? It seems there's no shortage of those types around...
The trainee holds her ground as Douyoubi creeps near. Her arms are at her sides, but when the woman reaches out and begins caressing her ponytail, Hotaru lifts a hand in front of her as if thinking to push her away on reflex. But she waits, listening to Douyoubi's words, eyes glancing sideways at the hand on her hair, then focusing back on her face as she compares the differences between the two.
Oh, and then she has to go and talk about throwing puppies off roofs. And there's a sound of a fight down the hall where Master Ryo is too. The switch from passively intimidated to righteously indignant is instantaneous. "How. Dare. You." the girl snaps.
Her hand that was raised earlier slaps out toward the woman's shoulder as if to push her away. Her other arm comes up to strike toward the base of her neck, an attempt to force her to guard high. Both light strikes are intended to misdirect, however, as Hotaru's final attack is a double palm press right into Douyoubi's stomach, leaning hard into the attack to compensate for the close proximity by lending the strength of her legs and torso to the attack. "YA!"
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Douyoubi has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Ryo 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Frida
COMBATSYS: Ryo dodges Frida's Money Shot.
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Ryo 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Frida
It would not take much for that was of negative emotion and energy to work on Ryo today. While the Kyokugen Heir's heart and soul are not corrupted by any means, today's...events still made them heavily charged.
If anything, that makes him even more focused in this surprise fight. The Raging Tiger is just passively looking back at Frida as she pulls out the 'you-nearly-hit-a-girl! shame on you!' trick. Progressively, his eyebrows narrows dangerously, a scowl forming on his lips, a brief arc of chi manifesting over his right arm for a split second.
Then the Money Shot comes at him, he speaks:
"That's it. That's just /it/." He intones, hearing his student letting out a battle cry down the hallway as well. So there's another one? The Raging Tiger drops down to the ground, landing on his hands and springing himself away from that nasty looking burst of energy. He adds after landing and pointing accusingly at Frida. "You barge in here. You attack me and one of your stooges assault my student. I don't even know who the hell you /are/ or what you /WANT/. But worse...worse of ALL!"
His eyebrows are twitching like mad now, ladies and gentlement. His pointing turns into an all out enraged fist shaking. "YOU BREAK MY ROOF RIGHT AFTER I REPAIRED IT! SO CRY ME A RIVER, WOMAN! MOUKO RAIJIN GOU!"
With a blurr, Ryo charges toward Frida, lashing out with an elbow smash aimed at her stomach and quickly following up with a flying uppercut.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi interrupts Strong Punch from Hotaru with Spilled Salt.
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Ryo 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Frida
Douyoubi isn't distracted, per se, but there's no denying that Frida had found Ryo. And it sounds like he's very very unhappy today. But more importantly for some reason Hotaru seems very upset about Douyoubi's story, and not for the correct reasons. It was herself that was the victim, show some sympathy! Hotaru's strikes, meaning to misdirect or not aren't defended at all by the mildly creepy woman, she's struck in the shoulder as well as in the neck, the second strike making her spit out a bit of saliva. But when Hotaru goes in for the final strike?
That's when Doyoubi counter-attacks, sweeping in low right under the strike, and one hand grabs Hotaru's wrist, the other the girls ankle and she's suddenly hoisted up onto hard shoulders.
"Your anger is misdirected, see, he only went to sleep," she whispers, "So he's in my favorite shoebox until he wakes up. If you want, you can come back to my place," she twirls around once, first releasing the ankle, and then Hotaru's wrist to send her flying off- Preferably toward the direction that Frida headed, "He's got little white friends keeping him company!"
COMBATSYS: Ryo successfully hits Frida with Mouko Raijin Gou.
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Ryo 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Frida
Frida's reaction to Ryo's accusation of breaking his roof is lighting-fast: "It was a shitty roof, anywa-!"
Unfortunately for her, Ryo's elbow soundly impacts her stomach, and his uppercut catches her squarely in the jaw, eliciting a shocked, pained 'Mmf!' while the woman is sent spiraling down the hallway to crash into the far wall, head-over-heels, as it were. She lands in a slump, but manages to kip-up quickly enough that there's no real indication that landing in such an awkward position's even really bothered her. Must be flexible, this one.
While she's quickly gotten to her feet, she's more concerned with fixing her hair than she is continuing her attack, though, to her credit, she's raised one arm and pointed it in Sakazaki's direction, threateningly.
A swirling ball of that Psycho Power, intimidatingly bright, large enough to easily consume Sakazaki's head, hovers ominously in the air before her hand. And after Frida's finished fixing her hair, she brings forth her other hand to join it, a second, also-large ball of that same energy hovering before the other one. Frida smiles at her most recent opponent, and asks, sweetly:
"Feeling lucky? Cramped quarters 'cause of those big manly shoulders of yours, hunk. Guess which hand's shooting first and you might just dodge both shots~~" She speaks before she fires, nicely enough, but there's no lie in what she said. The first ball of that deadly energy shrieks down the Sakazaki family-quarters hallway, tearing trophies and motivational posters off of the wall, followed by a second one that effectively ruins the OTHER wall.
Afterwards, Frida's able to look over towards the fight between Douyoubi and Hotaru -- seeing the girl thrown like she is, Frida offers her teammate a quick, satisfied wink.
Hefted right off her feet, there's little Hotaru can do to keep from getting spun around and flung back off the woman's shoulders. As she comes down, she lands into a sideways rolling tumble, pushing off the floor with her hands to come back up on her feet a few yards later. By the time she stops sliding over the nicely waxed floor, she's facing Douyoubi again, blue eyes fixed on the woman.
Rolling her arm back, Hotaru begins to focus, bathing her forearm in a sapphire blue aura. The focal point of her concentration is the palm of her hand where a sphere of force coalesces. "How could you do something like that..." the girl murmurs as she builds up the power in her hand. "And what do you want anyway? Why are you here after Master Ryo!?" She's gotten used to having to find out what various grudge people seem to have against the young man that seems to be nothing but decent and respectable in her eyes. She can't take the time to see how Ryo is doing right now, but she can at least keep him from getting double-teamed for a bit.
Satisfied that her chiball is sufficient, the girl flings her arm forward, lobbing the shimmering, glowing projectile back toward Douyoubi. While the build up took time, the projectile actually flies fairly swiftly once it leaves her fingers. Should it connect, it strikes with pure force before splashing away, leaving no trace behind. "HAA!"
COMBATSYS: Frida successfully hits Ryo with Double Psychostar EX.
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Ryo 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Frida
That...that do not look like Chi.
Unsure of what to make of that threatening ball of dangerous energy, Sakazaki does what any good warrior must do when they encounter something new -- be on the defensive and observe.
"The only one that's gonna feel lucky after I'm done is going to be /you/!" Shouts Ryo as he slams a feet into the floor of the hallway, bracing himself and waiting for the two fireballs -- wierdballs? Energyballs? Whatever they are -- comes close. His idea was to duck under them. Too bad they were kind of bigger than he anticipated and thus both CRASH loudly against the eldest Sakazaki sibling's face, flooring him.
With a grunt, Ryo kicks himself back to his feet, rubbing his face with a sleeve and glares at the bombshell. Find a weak point, Dragon! Everyone has one, especialy somebody like THAT.
COMBATSYS: Ryo focuses on his next action.
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Ryo 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Frida
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Douyoubi with Hakki Shou.
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Ryo 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Frida
".. Eh?" Douyoubi's eye narrows just slightly. How could she? "We all make mistakes, I was young and stupid, just like you. I'm impressed you could get up from that though, you're no ordinary little girl."
Which apparently is even further proven when, after she's done rolling her eyes at her partner, the flash of chi comes into existance.
".. Eh?" she asks a second time, but then is followed by an impressed, "Oooooh. Very cute." It didn't look like a very big deal, but the creepy-chick finds out it's quite the opposite when she doesn't quite manage to slip out of the way, the energy impacting her body with a heavy thump. It forces her back a couple of steps, teetering backward and then slumps forward once more, her arms limply swaying at her sides.
"We just want to see if he'll die or not. If not, he could be useful," she replies bluntly, "Normally, I'd be pissed that I'm not fighting Ryo myself, but you're such a pretty pretty girl.. You'd be even prettier," Douyoubi blurrs forward, and leaps into the air, with a quick twist she aims to shoot a diagonal jump kick toward Hotaru, but then flickers out of existance in a blurr of violet energy-
And re-appears from behind, looking to kick in the back of little Hotaru's head, "COATED IN BLOOD!"
PSYCHOBALLS, MR. SAKAZAKI.
They are psychoballs.
Frida's laugh is curt, high-pitched, and more than a little bit suggestive -- the way she's looking at Ryo, she might just have been serious about his brawny build. While the fighter's getting to his feet and working out a battle plan, Frida's taken to looking around at the not-demolished portions of the hallway... right now, her fancy's taken to some of Takuma's old tournament-trophies, the precious metal they're made of doing a good deal to draw the blonde's practiced gaze.
Douyoubi's off-hand comment draws her attention, though, and she whirls around to regard the other Shadaloo operative. "Oh, we made a bet!" It's not a very long time she allows herself to be distracted, of course... she's turned back to Ryo in only a moment's time, placing one hand on her hip, and the other on her chin.
"Sweetie... are you trying to figure me out, or are you just -ogling-? If you want, I'll show you more... but only after I've got you lying down somewhere nice and romantic. Maybe you'll show me your room?" She brings her hand to her lips, and... blows Ryo a kiss.
The motion accompanies the sudden detonation of a great deal of Psycho Power around Sakazaki, something that's really only indicated by a sudden hue of pink around the blonde fighter.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru interrupts Friday the 13th from Douyoubi with Tenshin Shou EX.
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After the chiball leaves her fingers, Hotaru lowers her arm, the blue glowing aura melting back into her skin. There is a wince, her other hand reaching over to clamp over her forearm as if feeling a slight burn from the effort necessary to create the attack. But seeing it strike Douyoubi back a few steps made it all worth it.
As she talks about seeing if Ryo will die or not, Hotaru shakes her head, releasing her forarm in order to slip into a ready stance. It's unlike her normal fighting stance as she instead crouches low, feet far apart, arms held straight out at her sides as if for balance. An extremely low profile Phoenix Stance, making her a difficult target from anything air-born.
"If you were fighting Ryo-sensei, he would destroy you," Hotaru replies, her tone matter of fact. "You're no where near his calibur..." She braces as Douyoubi comes at her, her body tensing, waiting for the perfect moment. She almost reacts early, flinching as the young woman comes in at her from the air. But she stops herself just in time to avoid taking the bait.
The second the attack comes in at her from behind, Hotaru unsprings backward, lunging directly into the attack, dedicating every muscle in her body to delivering a forceful blow... Normally she would aim to hit with her shoulder, but given the way Douyoubi is coming in at her, all she ends up doing is headbutting her /really hard/. The jumpkick strikes her, but Hotaru can weather it. She's KYOKUGEN TOUGH! At the apex of her leap, she extends her arms out at her sides and drops back down, landing on the floor in a loose crouch, the fingers of one hand lightly pressing against the wooden surface.
COMBATSYS: Frida successfully hits Ryo with Blonde Bombshell.
- Power hit! -
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Ryo 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Frida
Psychoballs, psychoballs! Do you capture psychos with it? Huh? Well!? It's a VALID question!
At the suggestion of him oggling her, Ryo remains the way he is, his scowl growing even wider. There is a few things he could say to her about that, but only one comes to mind. It's a line that he heard Robert saying a few times, even if it was a little out of character for him to say, in his perceptive. I mean, he's suppose to hit on anything that has breasts and is at least human plus female, right? Right?
"You're so not my type, babe. Get a brain fi--"
Oh yeah. That 'Babe' definetively make it show it's stolen, even more that it was so awkwardly droned out. Too bad he don't get to say the rest due to EXPLOSIVE PSYCHOKISS.
The detonation is enough to make the Invincible Dragon FLY a couple metres down the hallway, sliding almost in view of the dojo proper where the other two are fighting in. The walls, roof and celling are downright destroyed, debrits flying everywhere from the explosion. And more money wasted for repairs.
"Okay, Ryo." Sakazaki tells himself on the floor. "You've let your guard down. Don't let it happen AGAIN. REARRRRRRRRRRRRG!" Jumping back to his feet, Sakazaki rush toward...a door. Is he running away? Is he SCARED!? Maybe!
Or maybe he's just ripping it right off the frame to charge Frida with it, swinging it with all his might.
If the repair costs are gonna be high, just as well go all the way, right?
Douyoubi is starting to get worked up, getting into things already as she plans out ahead of time the fun little things she could do with Hotaru after this whole mess was over with. Perhaps she should be thinking more about the present than the future, though, because before she knows it, a little rocket named Hotaru is shooting at her, slamming into her, and knocks her right out of the air, slamming upside-down and face forward at the nearby wall and collapses into a heap onto the floor on her back.
She lay lifelessly for a moment, but then flops onto her stomach and pushes herself to her knees, "... Not near his calibur? I hope you're lying, otherwise I'll be pretty pissed," she utters lowly, and slips back up into her slouched stance, "Maybe you can destroy me then, that'd be.. Really....."
Once more Douyoubi rushes forward right arm drawn back and then shot forward into a haymaker-like blow toward Hotaru's stomach. It's purpose is to make the girl double over so that the older woman can hoist her up onto her shoulders again, ".. That'd feel so.. Good."
A hop upward would send Hotaru off Douyou's shoulders and over her head, and in the same motion drops to a single knee so that Hotaru can land back first onto the other, ".... break me.. please.."
COMBATSYS: Frida fails to interrupt Random Weapon from Ryo with Sexy Results EX.
- Power fail! -
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Hotaru 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Douyoubi
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Ryo 1/-----==/=======|=======\-------\1 Frida
Ryo's reckless abandon with the Kyokugen Dojo's actual house-parts has Frida snorting like nothing else. "Pft," she says, striking a dramatic, hands-on-hips pose while he rushes her. "You think that's going to work at -all-, little boy? You seem desperate~" She doesn't give him much more opportunity to approach her than that, stepping forward into one solid roundhouse-kick, which... unfortunately, goes a little higher than the door does.
*CRACK*, goes the door. The Sixth Day shrieks and is sent flying backwards, to slam into the wall once again amidst a shower of wood-chips, plaster, and a variety of decorations. Her beret flips out through the short-hallway leading into the one Ryo and Frida are in, and in fact lands somewhere nearby Douyoubi and Hotaru's own battle -- Frida, herself, is looking pretty bad for the wear.
"Jesus," she mutters, attempting to get to her feet. "They weren't lying when they said... guh..." She spits out a little blood, and as a result her lips have an even darker appearance to them. "...You Kyokugen folks are ridiculous. It just... makes me..." Her tongue touches to her lips -- not in the sick way Douyoubi or Vendredi might do it, but in a more seductive one. It's evident in the way Frida makes a 'yick' face after tasting her own blood.
She re-adopts her fighting stance, seeming to finally sqaure up. "Want you -more-..."
COMBATSYS: Hotaru endures Douyoubi's Under the Ladder!!
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Ryo 1/-----==/=======|=======\-------\1 Frida
"I'm not very adept at lying," Hotaru speaks, her voice perfectly level and honest. As much as Douyoubi tries to frazzle her with words, the pig-tailed fighter seems to be holding her focus together pretty well. There's something about the creepy woman that leaves her unphased by the taunts, the teasing, the innuendo. It's as if she has been completely tuned out. All that matters is paying close attention. Don't fall for the tricks. Dismantle her ability to fight, piece by piece. Put everything you have into each blow.
Perhaps not feeling that Douyoubi's attacks have proven to be threatening this far, the young fighter steps into the incoming blow to her stomach. The way her eyes widen as she crumples forward indicates that she underestimated just how hard the woman can hit. Hefted to her shoulders, she tries to wrest her way free by twisting around, but before she can she's hurled back into the air. "Ah!" Air is where Hotaru is often the most comfortable though and she manages to scrunch up a bit so that when she comes down on her opponent's knee, she lands on the side of her hips rather than the small of her back, reducing the damage she would have taken otherwise.
Rolling off her knee to the floor, still standing, and right now oh so precariously close to Douyoubi. "Sou-shou..." Hoturu grits her teeth as she immediately begins to swing out at the grappling woman with her hands. On their own, each blow is fast and light, probing attacks as she attempts to drill through any defense Douyoubi can muster. If she can find an opening, she'll press a stronger attack...
Ryo does not pursues the flying Psycho user after she flies from his brutal strike. Not directly anyway. His frown turning into a scowl, the Raging Tiger drops the now very broken wooden door. They should start using stone doors or metal if they manage to get the money for it. They wont break after you use them as a blunt object against somebody's poor fragile skull.
As stoic he can be in his horribly bad mood, Sakazaki watches Frida getting back up. His fists tightens, his breathing quickens, his teeth grinds. Apparently, he's allowing her to get back her bearings, but not for a gentlemanly reason.
"HAAAH!" He cries out, thrusting out his arms, a shockwave of air and chi bursting out of the sheer strength of the movement, his legs flexing slightly as he readopt his fighting stance. "Then come! GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT! RRREAAARRRRRRG!"
A wellspring of golden energy erupts around the blond-haired Heir, completly surrounding Ryo Sakazaki as he regains some focus. Still angry as before, still mad from all the weathering of this bad day to the cummulation of this. But it is focused anger and rage, just as he was taught! Nothing wrong with thoses emotions -- as long you don't allow them to devour you.
COMBATSYS: Ryo gathers his will.
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Ryo 1/-======/=======|=======\-------\1 Frida
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi blocks Hotaru's Sou-shou Tenrenge.
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Ryo 1/-======/=======|=======\-------\1 Frida
"Mmmmmngh.." Doyoubi's visable eye glassed over, but the downward frown of her lips should be enough to tell that the confession of Hotaru being unable to lie well.. Is rather annoying. Part of her at that point urges the woman then to just ignore Hotaru and go leaping at Ryo before it's too late and Frida goes and has all the fun.
She hears Frida at that moment go tumbling to the floor, but doesn't say anything in comment toward that either. She'll be fine, anyway. And then comes the young students assault, her eye rolling upward as she extends her palms one at a tmie so that each strike hits them with loud slaps, and does little more then send her takeing a few steps back along the way, each deflection alarmingly accurate; and then falls forward into her slumped position, "......."
She doesn't look like she's going to do anything at all, when suddenly out of the blue Douyoubi lets out an ear-splitting screech as she lashes out at Hotaru, similar to a snake striking it's pray. Head extended she hopes to bite down on the small girls neck, wrap her arms around her and then lurch her head back to bite down on it a second time as her body is surrounded by a violet glow, electrical pops crackling from her body. And then the third and final bite is followed with a burst of her powerful energy, 'electricuting' Hotaru with psychic energy, screams bouncing off the walls of the Kyokugen dojo.
"Oh, honey... I'll give you /everything/..." Frida's not one to split hairs when she's been hit as roughly as Ryo Sakazaki has just hit her. She brings forth her hands once again, after seeing that he's rooted himself to a position he's not likely to be leaving, and snarls. "But if you're going to sit there like THAT... well I guess there's not much I've got to show you, is there...?" She smiles, dumbly, and drops to her kneews with a graceful flourish.
The Sixth Day's hand wraps about a particularly large piece of doorframe, and with an equally dramatic lift back to her feet, Frida's whirled about and flung the thing directly at Ryo's own chest. "Tch! Think you've got anything close to what it takes to deal with me! Your little girlfriend over there is getting absolutely /murdered/ while you play with me... it's beautiful!" Of course, Hotaru is -NOT- being murdered... but Frida's taking advantage over the fact that well... she can see, Ryo can't.
Still, he's got other things to worry about. That stick flying towards him, for one.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru stops Seven Days from Douyoubi with Kobi Kyaku.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Douyoubi
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Ryo 1/-======/=======|=======\-------\1 Frida
Swing after swing is attempted, but finally Hotaru has to relent, unable to find a gap in Douyoubi's defense. Slowing down, she seems to have worn herself out by pushing so hard, so when the other woman pauses Hotaru does likewise. The girl focuses on her opponent, eyes watching every movement, every emotion, waiting for the twitch that will give away her next action.
If she had any idea what Douyoubi had in mind for her, it might have been enough to fracture her concentration and make her an easier opponent to pick apart. But right now, the Kenpo artist and Kyokugen student is perfectly composed.
When the attack comes, Hotaru finds herself grabbed, the woman's head coming in with the intent to land a vicious bite. "NO!" the girl shouts back, pressing her hand forward, a flash of chi igniting between the two opponents. She's never done anything of the like before, and she doesn't even understand how it is that the flash of chi brought Douyoubi's attack to a sudden stop, unaware as she is about the possible ways chi and psi powers can interact. For her own part, Hotaru slides back several feet, bracing herself as she recovers her footing. Exhaling slowly, she slips back into a ready stance.
COMBATSYS: Ryo endures Frida's Thrown Object.
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Ryo 1/=======/=======|=======\-------\1 Frida
It's true. Ryo can't see how Hotaru is doing, and that worries him to no end. On the other hand...he can still HEAR her and what he hears reassures him.
The golden chi gathering is interrupted suddenly by the stick crashing against Sakazaki's chest, the reciving end breaking from the impact. He didn't tried to dodge it, taking on the full brunt of the object. He was PREPARED for an attack. That's the whole point when you charge your energy!
"I have faith in my student!" Corrects the Raging Tiger as the wellspring of energy vanishes around him, leaving a single arc of chi coursing over the upper half of his chest and shoulders. "She is no weakling! Now shut up and fight! HIEN SHIPPU KYAKU! KYEAAAH!"
True to the scream, Ryo slams off the ground(creating more broken floor tiles) and flies toward Frida like a blazing arrow, feet covered in a bright orange chi aura.
COMBATSYS: Ryo successfully hits Frida with Hien Shippu Kyaku.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Douyoubi
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Ryo 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\===----\1 Frida
CHI-COVERED FEET?!
Oh, the things our poor Seven Days members have to go through in the name of the Supreme Lord Vega. Frida is, at the moment, attempting to get out of the way of Ryo's screaming and attacks. Her attempt -- a good one, mind you, one that has her lunging towards the walls and attempting a really bad-ass backflip... fails.
Ryo's feet impact the woman's body not once, but twice -- she is slammed back into the wall by that first hit, and popped up into the ceiling for the second. However, to say Frida is at all unprepared would be silly. She's a trained professional, and this is not the first time she's been on her last legs in a fight. Really, it wasn't her -first- choice of outcomes... but she'll make do with what she can. For example, right now...
The woman's body hits the ground, bounces once, twice, and then a third time, and lies still. What's important here is that there aren't just two, but THREE of those massive, head-sized psychoballs floating in the air above her body, hovering malignantly above Frida's body, staring Ryo down. Frida doesn't say anything at all, here.
She snaps.
The three balls shriek towards their target, and if unmolested, will hammer into Ryo's chest twice, and then his -face-.
Douyoubi is probably just as suprised as Hotaru is, if not even more! The force of.. Of -whatever- it is Hotaru is using had put her technique to a complete halt, or rather, completely redirects her so that she's swinging backward instead of forward. Her back for a moment is to Hotaru, a completely perplexed expression on her face as she looks over her shoulder back to the small fighter.
This has to be the most unusual fight she's been in, she's used to being struck with brutal, bone shattering force, and this girls style seems to be anything but! She really doesn't know if she's satisfied or not.
Eventually she decides that she isn't, and scowls slightly, which likely isn't heard over Ryo's mighty and dramatic yell. And how dramatic it is! But geez, no wonder he has to fix the roof all the time, huh? ".. That isn't enough.. The scream was cute, but that doesn't satisfy me!" she sputters in her raspy tone, and this time when she closes in on Hotaru, she attempts to grasp Hotaru by the throat and hoist her into the air, "More!!" she cries, racing forward then to try and slam the girls body into the wall, reel back and then drill her into it a second time! "Aaaaaaaaaaah!!"
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi successfully hits Hotaru with Medium Throw.
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Ryo 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|===----\-------\0 Frida
Listening to Douyoubi, Hotaru shakes her head slowly. She isn't really interested in satisfying the intruder. She just wants to /stop/ her. Then rush to see how Master Ryo is fairing. When she comes in for her again, the girl attempts to lunge out of the way. But the woman's grip is fast, cinching around Hotaru's neck securely. Making a coughing gasp as she is hefted across the room, Hotaru attempts to pry her way free, only to find herself slammed against the wall. The force knocks the air out of her - air that is precious hard to replace when you're being choke-slammed.
As she pulls her away from the wall, Hotaru attempts to kick free again, but the second slam against the wall takes the fight out of her for a second. It takes a few seconds before she recovers her wits enough to try and fight her way free again. Using the wall as a brace, Hotaru kicks out with one of her feet to try and knock Douyoubi away her before she loses too much strength from lack of air.
COMBATSYS: Ryo dodges Frida's 7-7-7.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Douyoubi
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Ryo 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|===----\-------\0 Frida
Normaly, when people start throwing at you huge -- wierdball? stupidballs? flashyballs? Oh, wait, PSYCHONAUTBALLS! Yeah, that work. -- head-sized blasts of pure hatred, you get scared, cautious and want to run away.
Of course, as a seasoned warrior, thoses thoughts don't even come accross Ryo's mind. Okay, well, maybe the cautious, but that's being sane and not suicidal. Difference, there. Strong one.
Whatever the case, the Raging Tiger still have Larry, Curley and Moe, the Psychoball editions, to deal with. By now, a soft pale blue aura is surrounding the senior Kyokugen warrior, crouching down faintly, waiting for the right time. The right time...
It comes. As the trio arrives a mere metre away from him, Sakazaki leaps up and to the wall, immediatedly kicking himself off to charge the psychoballs dead on.
...and pass through an opening in middle of the formation. He lands on a knee, not paying mind to the rather devastating explosion occuring behind him, instead focusing on a much more pressing matter at hand:
Kicking that annoying bitch's ass.
Plus teaching her a thing or two about oversized projectiles.
"HAOH!" Intones out the Invincible Dragon, standing up and crossing his arms, his voice reverbing somewhat due to the concentration of energy gathered into him. "SHO KO KEN!" He cries out, thrusting out both arms violently, firing off an enormous blast of pure blue chi, easily as large than a fully grown man, flying at the Psychopath.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi dodges Hotaru's Light Kick.
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And Douyoubi narrows her eyes slightly, her head tilting slowly to the left and then to the right as she watches Hotaru squirm against the wall, and she wrinkles her nose slightly. Hotaru shook her head no? ".. Pretty please?" she then tries, and it seems to make the kyokugen student respond- But it could be just a big coincidence! Either way, when it's snapped forward, it's easy for her to shift to the direction of the opposite leg, but she loses her grip on Hotaru in the process.
Mixed feelings quelling again within the womans gut, her visable eye widens as she draws back slightly, twirls in a full circle and attempts to slam her foot, rear heel first, into Hotaru's gut, "Come on!! Don't make me beg, it's embarassing!!"
COMBATSYS: Ryo successfully hits Frida with Haoh Sho Ko Ken.
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Oh my, Ryo! You've certainly exhibited a STUNNING show for our Days! And Hotaru seems to be impressed as well! But it's a shame, really -- that fireball slams directly into Frida, bowling her over herself once again and knocking her, rag-doll-like, into the wall once more. She hits the ground hard, steam rising from her bodysuit like she were in some sort of sauna, and it's a long time for her to get to her feet. Willpower, however, is something Frida has quite a bit of. She rises slowly, unsteadily... and it's clear that she won't be able to remain on her legs for very long at all.
Blood streams from her mouth. "Chips're down, looks like... time to show my hand, honey. Think you'll be able to handle it...?"
While Frida speaks, that pinkish Psycho Power begins flickering madly, from person to person, be it Hotaru, Frida, Ryo, or Douyoubi. There's no reason or rhyme to where it lands, and it's not doing anything but shimmering for now, but the accumulation in the room, that negative sentiment, that hateful feel... it's there, and building.
The Shadaloo member lifts her hand in the air, eyes flashing dangerously. "And now... show me what you've got, Sakazaki! I've thrown it all in, it's time to end the game! You were great, sugar, but I'm afraid it all ends here!!!"
The Psycho Power courses around the room, stronger, stronger, stronger.... and Frida's fingers gracefully come together in a single -snap-.
The Psycho Power comes to a halt around her form, and while it intensified into opaqueness, the Sixth Day's face is the last anybody might see of her, contorted, confused, saddened.
"Shit," she says.
The explosion is massive, enough to punch a hole in the side of the Sakazaki Dojo, and Frida, when it's all said and done... Frida's gone.
COMBATSYS: Frida can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Hotaru endures Douyoubi's Light Kick.
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Dropped from the woman's group, Hotaru lands squarely on her feet, the wall behind her back certainly helping her stay upright. When she slams her foot into the young fighter's stomach, the girl just takes it, grunting but not crying out. Her mouth curls into a half smile, her eyes a mixture of disgust and pity as she shakes her head one more time, denying Douyoubi the scream she wants. Her hands reach out to clamp hold on woman's foot in her stomach, hoping to get enough leverage to land another attack.
Hearing Ryo down the hallway calling upon the power of the mighty Haoh Sho Ko Ken... followed by the farewall attack from the crazy woman the Kyokugen Master may have just obliterated, Hotaru focuses back on Douyoubi, a glint flashing in the pig-tailed girl's eyes. "I really think you should run away now," Hotaru whispers before pulling on the leg in her grip and then lunging forward to try and catch her opponent off balance enough to snatch hold of her arms. If she connects, she'll unleash a flurry of strong kicks aimed for her shin, knee, stomach, and chest. In the end, she'll pull on her arms and lean back against the wall, driving both of her feet right into Douyoubi's face.
Throwing out that Haoh Sho Ko Ken was a little tiring for the Raging Tiger, but considering his previous state, it was nothing to do. The son of the Karate Goblin remained in his post-firing stance, arms wide spread, high and low, for a few good moments as that woman get hit by the huge projectile. She fell down, possibly dead.
Ryo relaxed then, lowering his stance to quickly burst it back up as ...she steams away? Nono, that's badly phrased. Whatever's happening to her, Sakazaki remains on his guard, taking a step back with his bushy eyebrows narrowed in confusion. Not answering at first to the Shadolo Agent's gloating(can it be that in defeat? Hm. Ryo, personal note, read more dictonaries of villainous behavior), he lift his arms in protection, shouting. "WHATEVER WOMAN! DO YOUR WORSE! COME ON!"
He just...didn't expected her to actualy /do/ her worse. As odd that randomly floating pinkish thing of energy -- this thing is not clean. Evil, he can FEEL it --, Ryo is unsure of how to take it.
But definetively, he didn't expected her to take him /litteraly/.
The explosion is massive, Sakazaki lifts an arm over his eyes to protect himself, the aftermatch enough to shred a part of his once clean and new orange gi. The appocalypse, as always, evantualy ends and Ryo is left with another enormous hole in the wall. He stands there, not sure what to think of what just occured. "...What the hell was all that about?" He mutters, falling down on his rear to take a breather.
That is, until he remembers of something. Hotaru! He don't have time to rest, he has to make sure his student is alright! Kicking back to his feet, Ryo charges down the alleyway to the dojo proper and spies the two girls fighting each other. Something just snaps in Sakazaki's mind then, something that happens often in unhealthy doses of heroism. Namely...he forget that there is /walls/ in the way of brutal flying kicks.
"HIEN SHIPPU KYAKUUUU!"
As such, dear Shadolo Agent, you now have a battered Ryo Sakazaki bursting out of a wall in a flying kick with a feet covered in destructive energy!
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi dodges Hotaru's Shin-Jou Tai.
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COMBATSYS: Douyoubi blocks Ryo's Hien Shippu Kyaku EX.
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Douyoubi feels that very very familiar spike of energy coming from her partner, and the moment she does, she cringes. Sometimes it works like a charm but other time? Complete and utter disaster as displayed at that very moment, ".. Rrgh, Frida, that never works.." she grumbles under her breath. She's braced herself though, and as a result of being on the defensive early? Well then she's able to read Hotaru's attack, and she slips to the side so that both feet fly by her just barely!
The real wake-up call is Ryo's masseivly destructive collateral damage attack of doom, her visable eye widens again, "What the hell??" and her body gives off another violet glow, making her eyebrow twitch. As if having gained an adrenaline rush at that very moment.. Such power! Such destruction! THAT was what she was looking for and Frida hogged it all! >_<
She's able to shoot her palms forward again, grinning slightly as each kick slams hard into her palm, "Yes.. Yes!! YES! YES!!!!" she shrieks in delight, her breathing picking up again until of course the technique comes to an end. It was very nice, not quite enough for her to want a cigarette, but.. ".. nngh.. I don't really want to, but I guess this will have to do for now. Hopefully I'll see you in Thailand, boys and girls.."
And she hesitantly makes her own exit, bursting forward toward Ryo this time and leaps into the air, arching as if making a diagonal kick and vanishes..
But she doesn't come back.
COMBATSYS: Douyoubi takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Douyoubi has left the fight here.
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Her lunge for Douyoubi avoided, Hotaru stumbles forward a couple of steps before finally falling to her knees, propping herself up by her hands as she gasps for breath. Behind her, Ryo drives his feet into the palms of their enemy and then she attacks him back - only it seems she took the girl's advice and ran for it after all.
Slowly getting her breath under control, she leans back, kneeling on the floor of the dojo as she wipes her brow with her arm. Whew. Always an interesting day around /here/. But what was that about Thailand...?
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has left the fight here.
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Ryo, altought somewhat battered, is still in a relatively good shape. Landing from his flying kick, Sakazaki watches that odd screaming woman leaping away into the distance, frowning. Thailand...? Is that all this was about?
"...I still have no clue who the heck they were." He grunts, shaking his head and kneeling down next to his student. She's still alive! See, all he needed was to trust his student a bit!
"I think..." Ryo lets out, "We wont have any training today."
Log created on 00:28:09 06/07/2007 by Hotaru, and last modified on 14:02:08 06/07/2007.