Description: *Season Three, Episode Sixteen* Next week on "The Android Vampire Saga" during a stop at the hotsprings, our heros encounter Kenshin and his party and both parties scratch their heads at each other and wonder, could they all be trapped in. . .The filler Episode Twilight Zone. The only way to know for sure is to watch the next exciting episode of "The Android Vampire Saga".
The Spider stands at a street corner, reading a newspaper. Sunglasses hide his eyes, and a smoking cigarette dangles from his mouth. He idly flips the page, as he stands there, waiting for his mark. Someone reputed to be aligned with a member of Blackjack - Spider's target. Naerose Delphine. A fighter of some minor repute, mostly in the circuits as an announcer. This should be easy.
And thus brings us to a certain red witch who was doing her best to do the one thing that was most dear to her - eat stuff. As it happens Elle would be disgusted at her insistence to live in poverty despite the ridiculous amounts of money that she's been paid in the past. Is she blowing the money? Saving it? No one knows, but what is clear is that as she rides her busted up scooter at a whooping 35 MPH down the streets of southtown doing.. what? Posing to be a pizza driver. So far no one has bought it, but as she pulls up to one particular chain pizza joint which is way under staffed during the lunch rush she might have lock. Currently dressed in red, as always, she strolls to the back door, unaware of Spider nearby, knocks and waits for it to open a crack.
"Ah yeah, hey ahh, so my boyfriend is one of the drivers here and he sent me to help you know, get the pizza out.." she says, with a winning smile and a touch uneasily while adjusting her shades to wink over the top rims.
'Ya? Whats your boyfriend's name?' asks the fellow behind the door.
"Ahh hah hahh, " Naerose laughs a bit nervously, having not thought that far ahead.
"Umm heh, Dan! Yah, you know Dan."
The fellow looks her over dubiously, but it's just that time that like a hundred other orders comes in and he shoves a pizza box into her hand with an address on the top.
'Don't screw this up!' he exclaims before returning to work and slamming the door in her face.
"Score!" exclaims the witch and starts trotting back to her scooter, not even bothering to speed off before opening the box and starting to eat the pizza.
When Naerose returns to her scooter, the Spider is standing right there, that cigarette still dangling from his mouth. "Naerose Delphine," he states impassionately, taking a final drag on his cigarette before tossing it aside. "Today is your unlucky day. It's the day you die." His hand suddenly jerks out at Naerose's throat, attempting to tap it hard with his fore and middle fingers. He doesn't bother dropping into a fighting position, expecting this to be easy.
COMBATSYS: Spider has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Spider
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Spider's Hand of Samael.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Spider
Woah woah woah, this is like totally the first time she was mistaken for Julia Roberts in Japan. Her eyes widen, but you can't tell cause she's wearing shades and she blocks with the pizza box, causing the pizza to go like totally everywhere.
Naerose, with a slice of pizza slowly sliding down her face with a dead pan look.
"Oh come on, I got like.. two bites!" She cries, looking way unhappy about this and then decides to play things 'safe'. She needs distance.
"Ah, okay, if you wanna play this way, then... En Criento!"
And the words are not alone, it's accompanied by a thrust out of her hand, like a palm thrust, and if this guy was expecting her hand to be the attack he'd be wrong. . . If Naerose was expeecting something in particular to happen thogh at the same time with her hand. . she'd be wrong too. . at first, nothing happens.
"Aww, come on, not now!" she cries, but then the ground rumbles and cracks under her scooter and where Spider happens to be.
"Uh oh." the witch cries and hops on her broom to try to evade her own attack as it destroys said scooter, much to her whining.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Spider with End Creation.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Spider
Spider blinks at Naerose, watching her with a quirked eyebrow. Then, the ground beneath him breaks apart, his leg getting stuck in the hole. He grunts and pulls himself up with a burst of shattered concrete, and narrows his eyes behind his sunglasses. He walks forward without bothering to raise his guard, and grabs at Naerose's shoulders, before attempting to smash into her face with a headbutt that snaps his glasses.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Spider's Mark of the Anointed.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Spider
All Naerose manages to pull out of that is like a tech hit, it totally hurts anyway as she rolls and weaves and most importantly, whines, about being attacked in such a rather unpleasant manner before deciding it is time to get some distance, any distance, on her opponent, who, it seems, likes to hurt people.
"Hey, whats going on, those were nice shades, and umm why are you attacking me?" She protests, trying to buy herself time to frankly, run, and in doing so swings her broom, not so much at her opponent, but at a rock on the ground, like a golf ball to get Spider to back off a little. She's staggering too, this was going a little poorly, the whole get pizza thing and at this moment she was seriously considering if maybe stealing pizza was immoral. . . or. . something.
COMBATSYS: Spider fails to counter Thrown Object from Naerose with Star of Zion.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Spider
Spider gets struck in the forehead by the rock, barely phased by it. The side of his mouth pulls into a frown as he continues walking after Naerose, his hands balling into fists. "You make unfortunate friends. This is the reason for your imminent demise," he says coldly, his brown eyes made of steel and boring through Naerose.
This causes the witch to stop her escape and just stare with a utterly dumblook on her face. Poor choice of friends..? She seems to muse to herself, her mouth half opened before she brings a hand to adjust her hat, her shades and other stuff in order to look, well, cool.
"Er.. You mean like Xiangfei? Is she in trouble with the mob and in hiding? That'd be kind of cool, like Tony Sapprano cool.. Or maybe you mean Shinobu," she gives a winning smile as if she's on top of this at the moment and holds her broom behind her back a bit.
"Well you're right, those two are my friends and I'm not gonna let you have your way with them!" she says proudly, defiantly, then adds:
"But if you have any second thoughts about this whole demise thing? I'm totally flexible."
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Spider
The Spider shakes his head. "Keep guessing." He turns to the side and drops his hand in a fist, intent on blocking anything that comes in low, as his other hand pulls up to the side. He takes two hopping steps forward, before his leg shoots out at Naerose's knee, aiming to strike the side and take her to the ground with a hook of his foot.
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Light Kick from Spider with Wisp.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|=======\===----\1 Spider
Naerose is totally about to start guessing too, before she realizes that Spider is about to nail her with his foot and she instead goes,
"Oh no, I'm so not falling for that, " and fixes her shades, opens up a hand which seems to be containing something? Only then a burst of chi appears, a bright flash like a flash bang, it doesn't hurt anyone, but it would be plenty blinding, good thing Naerose still has her shades intact as it reflects off of them and she takes the leg to the shin before giving a full baseball swing wallup with her broom into Spider's head, following through and brushing off her forehead afterward.
"Wehw." she says and then notices her scooter. Totally destroyed.
"Aww crap! How am I gonna get home now?!" Exclaims, apparently of the mistaken idea that this was just about done.
The Spider gets whalloped on the head by the broom, and stumbles back a pace. He shakes his head back and forth, then raises his hands into a guard. He narrows his eyes with a grim expression on his face, loosening up his muscles with a quick shrug. His right hand motions Naerose on, as he waits.
COMBATSYS: Spider gains composure.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 Spider
But she doesn't. There wasn't pride to speak of, well okay there was LOTS of pride to speak of, but Naerose wasn't the sort to be like 'for honor' and run into an attack or a fight, she was much more the sort to say, 'not in the face' or 'you wouldn't hit a girl with glasses' and take a more opportune strike, the one that didn't involve her getting hurt in t he process. This was one of those times, I mean clearly, she could charge forward and see what dangers were lurking in the seemingly harmless motion.
The candy like motion. .
The pizza like motion.
Sooo tempting. .
Instead the witch hangs back and resumes the guessing game,
"So.. er Yuri? or Wait! You don't mean..." *shock*
"Niesje!?"
COMBATSYS: Naerose gains composure.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Spider
The Spider sighs at Naerose. "Your friends with Blackjack. Do tell them that the Spider is on the prowl." He switches to the other side, one hand low and the other back, advancing foot before foot at Naerose. He suddenly lashes out in a devastating roundhouse, charging forward with the assault as he attempts to take Naerose's head off.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Spider's Desert Sun.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Spider
Kerblink, the shock of hearing those words is so much that Naerose almost fails to even register what she was just told.
"Blackjac- Ouch! Ouch ouch ouch ouch."
She has her broom up in the way of the kick, but it doesn't stop the foot, instead it slows it down and causes her to get waped upside the head with both broom and Spider leg. It's like.. That sucked, hard. She staggers back a little and fixes her shades and holds the side of her head where a broom shaped red spot is quickly appearing.
"Blackjack? Are you nuts? I don't know if they even know the meaning of the word friend, I mean sure they sometimes have punch and pie, and that's awesome, but they're also kind of mean.." she rubs her head some more, looking dejectified about having been hit. Though the staggering thing did give her some room to work with.
"That's so it, you ruined my pizza, you ruined my scooter and now you are being illogical! " cries the witch, a pillar of logic herself,
"How can I tell my 'friends' Spider is on the prowl if you're going to kill me?!" She points at Spider dramatically,
"I mean, that doesn't even make any sense. "
She is so annoyed that she decides to fling a whirl of darts at the man, at first looking like air, then taking the shape of a flurry of sharp ice.
"Sagitta minor..!" she says in frustration while jumping away.
COMBATSYS: Spider blocks Naerose's Sagita Minor.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Spider
The Spider blocks the wave of ice darts with his arm, the sharp edges puncturing his brown jacket and drawing smears of dark blood on the clothing. "You'll figure it out," he says in a menacing voice, before he steps forward and puts the kicking leg down, swinging around with a back kick from his other leg, aimed at Naerose's stomach.
COMBATSYS: Naerose parries Spider's Heavy Kick!
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Naerose 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Spider
"How am I supposed to figure it out if I would be dead!" cries the witch, looking agrivated as she uses her broom to knock the attack aside before mounting it, the broom for it's part actually stays in the air. You can just sense the amount of chi it must take to obtain true flight, even for the short durations. The witch fixes her shades for only a moment, riding side saddle, before rushing off at Spider, her arm outstretched to pick him up along the way,
"You're nuts," she states while doing the classic Vice/Mature drag of her opponent if she can get a hold of him, and if she does get a hold of him, after dragging him she'll pull up on the front of the broom, shoot into the air before dropping him. . and pulling a one eighty to land some yards away. .That is if she can grab him.
COMBATSYS: Spider counters Maha EX from Naerose with Star of Zion.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Spider
The Spider watches Naerose climb on the broom, arching an eyebrow. That's a lot of chi right there. As she rockets at him, he holds his ground, arms at his sides. He only smirks darkly, before his right fist rockets out, slamming right into Naerose chest and knocking her off the broom. He looks down at the witch, waiting for her next attack.
*Whistle of wind* *thud* Meanwhile Naerose' broom continues without her across the street until crashing into some trash cans. As the witch picks herself up there is a clear look of concern on her face as she realizes she's unarmed.
"Ah.. er.." she says, looking longingly at the broom, which sadly happens to be on the other side of Spider.
"I kind of need that.. " she states and points at said broom looking forlorned.
"I don't suppose.. " She begins but kind of has the look to suggest. . then shakes her head,
"Nah, didn't think so."
This leaves her seriously without any great deal of options.
"Okay.. You leave me no choice!" and with that the witch starts running, trying to circle Spider and flinging out her arm to whip another flurry of darts at him, this time they're more like frozen air then ice. . Her chi just can not make up it's mind on what it is.
"Sagita Minor. . Again!"
Clearly beelining for her weapon.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Spider with Sagita Minor.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Spider
The Spider gets whalloped in the chest by the chi, ripping open his black shirt and revealing red blood. He turns to watch Naerose as she runs to her broom, and only stands there watching her, carefully analyzing her next move. This mark is more persistent and tougher than he expected. That at least merits some respect.
COMBATSYS: Spider focuses on his next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Spider
The witch doens't take this for granted though, she continues her circle until she gets to her broom, which she merrily picks up and grips with a sort of relief that just washes over her like a summer rain, like every child smiling up at the sun, like.. erm nevermind.
The witch watches carefully. She wasn't going to forget easily what happened the last time she attacked him heaad on, he knocked her off her broom! So that was out. So instead she picks up a trash can, holds it over her head and chucks it at him.
"Here. . cause umm, you're like a garbage man." she says, weakly hurling the insults, hoping the trashcan would carry more umph.
COMBATSYS: Spider catches Large Thrown Object from Naerose with Barak Zev.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Spider
The Spider catches the trash barrel with a deft movement, and tosses it aside. He begins slowly stalking towards Naerose, not anywhere near a fight pose, ready to use his speed and knowledge of fatal blows to tear her apart.
This is a little frustrating, she knows he can pack a whallup, but then again she also knows that distance seems to be her friend and not his. Still, her chi attacks don't seem to dent him much.
"Geeze, I forget how I deserved this." she mutters to herself while seemingly weighing her options for a while.
"Well.. er.. lets call it a draw?" she offers, helpfully. . or not.
"Umm, maybe you're not really into draws.. Er.. okay."
The witch looks sheepish and starts walking toward her opponent,
"I mean I forgot that whole demise thing, still I dunno how I'm supposed to tell anyone about you if I'm dead, and killing isn't nice, so er.. how about I take your wallet and we call it even?" She gives a broad shiny smile and then thrusts out her hand.
"En criento!" she cries. As ineffective as it is, the burst from her fingers which resembles smoke in a heated swirling torrent as it swirls at her enemy from close range gives her some distance.
"Huh," she says watching the effects, "At least it didn't fizzle completely."
COMBATSYS: Spider interrupts End Creation from Naerose with Star of Zion.
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COMBATSYS: Spider can no longer fight.
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The Spider smashes through the torrent, with a punch at Naerose's chest. He falls to the ground, grasping his burnt chest. Wheezing heavily, there's a sudden burst of smoke...And then the Spider is gone, although a nearby manhole is open.
At first all the witch can do is stagger backward, looking stunned. But then she shakes it out and holds a hand to her chest.
"Friggin ouch!" she says and draws some deep real deep breaths and uses her broom to support her weight while looking around. Her scooter destroyed, her body aching, her pizza.. hey that slice looks okay. The witch reaches down to pick it up, brushes it off a little, pops it into her mouth. That scooter looks okay too.
She walks to one of the other pizza driver's scooter who ran into the shop for the next delivery and stayed there for fear of getting dragged into the fight. Keys, awesome. She putters off with an angry pizza delivery boy running after her. She blows a kiss.
"The hand strikes and offers a rose." she quotes, the office, the pizza boy? Not looking terribly pleased.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has ended the fight here.
Log created on 13:19:48 08/19/2007 by Naerose, and last modified on 14:53:56 08/19/2007.