Description: Going to downtown Southtown means it's laundry day for the Kyokugen Dojo. Apparently it's also destructive rioting day for Mad Gear. Though that's probably every day. When laundry day and destructive rioting day collide, Hotaru is stuck facing off against the Mad Gear madman, Katana. FOR THE SOCKS!
The work of the students of Gedo and Pacific High has kept the area clean of evil, miscreants, and general very not good people! THIS WILL HAVE TO BE RECTIFIED. It was not long ago that a truck had passed through the Park district, with wild colors about it after a brutal and short battle between the leader of a gang and an old man.
That old man had DEMONS though, and he could do little. But this time.. there will be no OLD MEN to stop Katana and the gangs push into Downtown South Town, if just to grab whatever they can and maybe THEN make a place for themselves. The normally rather quiet Downtown sector is changed, what can only be a swarm of rather fat guys, scantily dressed women and a few people with bad haircuts that are generally known as thugs world wide. They begin to not only try and loot places, but stop traffic, mug little old ladies, and punch cars for BONUS POINTS.
Those points are important.
Between them all, though, a man with two short swords, a blue mask and a Japanese symbol on the front of his chest and various samurai armor, raises the weapons. "KONO-DESU-WAI-HA!" He knows what it means! Which means he doesn't. "Take it all for the Mad Gear Gang! This time, I've checked, there aren't any old men with staves! Nothing will stop us now!"
He made sure. Really.
There aren't a lot of reasons for Hotaru to go to downtown Southtown, but she does often pass through the vicinity when handling the Kyokugen Dojo's laundry duty, or the Cleansing Vortex Kata. Ryo says that's part of her training too, though he says that about pretty much any chore, so that doesn't really carry a lot of weight by now.
Thus it is that the girl finds herself traversing right through the middle of the sudden explosion of pandemonium as a truck load of gang members spills into the streets, causing havoc and rampant damage in every direction. Two large, cloth laundry bags hang over her shoulders as her pace slows to a halt. What /is/ it with this city? If it isn't marauding destructobot day, it's apparently Zoo day, since that's where half of these people look like they escaped from.
Now there's a chance that she might have just passed right on by... after all, isn't dealing with rampaging riffraff the responsability of law enforcement? Or, in this case, maybe the responsability of the army for crying out loud. But all chance of that goes right out the window the moment one of the wouldbe looters tries to steal the laundry bag from off the girl's back. It's anyone's guess what he hoped to find there, but his hopes are dashed as the girl's grip ends up being remarkably strong for her size and while Hotaru is pulled a little off balance by the yank, she stays standing all the same.
"Hey! Hands off!" she exclaims, turning around to greet the thug with a roundhouse to the face. *crack*
The thug grabs the laundry, trying to wrench it from her hands! Yet Hotaru is JUST TOO STRONG. It ends badly, the thug being kicked back in a heavy roundhouse kick to the face. The Thug actually looks more presentable with a foot in his face without, so this is no major problem, really, infact it's better than just letting him go without such important foot based surgery.
But as she kicks the thug in the face, things slow down. Where as the thugs and women and fat guys were going around and kicking cars and the like, Katana had been LEADING THEM TO VICTORY. And victories don't have a small little girl beating your members around like they were just .. well, nothing! The large man, bulky shoulders, Japanese helmet and then some looks towards Hotaru.
"A worthy challenge!" Katana greets Hotaru with, the swarm of gang members surrounding Hotaru on the street, her in the middle with Katana pushing through the crowd. Motioning to the truck, it backing away, Katana looks on to the child once again. "You have stumbled, unwittingly, into the Mad Gear takeover of Downtown! There was said to be strong warriors to oppose me, but I have seen none of them! You will not stop this takeover, not while the leader of the Mad Gear Gang is here!"
The wakizashi are grasped by the hilts as he steps a bit into the middle. "You don't have a chance, little girl! DATTEBAYO-KUN!" He poses, one leg in the air. ... Is he serious?
Yes.
A worthy challenge? Hotaru blinks, turning her back on the man she just kicked. He was kind of slow by her standards. If he lunges for her again, she'll have all the time in the world to deal with him. Her attention now is focused primarily on the primary instigator of this street-wide agitation. It's pretty easy to pick him out. He's friggen /tall/. And while the freaky hairdos and strangely dressed minions beneath him are certainly an eyesore, /his/ getup stands out as being extra 'special' above and beyond the rest.
The mask, a fallback to the more traditional times that the girl has always been a fan of, manages to look both imposing yet ridiculous at the same time. It's mostly scary to think of what kind of person would /wear/ something like that these days. But now she's caught his eye and he's advancing on her, the rest of his people forming a makeshift ring around them as their leader prepares to deal with this pint sized interference.
Gritting her teeth at being cornored into something like this, Hotaru glances around her, realizing that she hasn't been left with much of an out here. She /knew/ she should have gotten laundry out of the way earlier. This'll teach her to procrastinate. "I-I- wasn't trying to start anything. He was just trying to take my stuff!" she protests with a nod over her shoulder toward the thug that got introduced to her foot, for the greater good, a moment ago.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has started a fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Katana has joined the fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Katana
Yes! A worthy challenge. Katana is the mightiest warrior of all of Mad Gear, and he is to take care of some little child! .. But she is an amazingly skilled child, at least, she can take out one of the many thugs of Mad Gear just in a kick! The other guy lays down, bleeding. But he's not blinking out of existence though! So all is well. At least. To a point.
It certainly is easy to see Katana, and to know his might and power! She'll find that out soon enough, but for now, she must only gaze upon his greatness, the leader of Mad Gear. As she tries to get out of it by speaking, Katana will have none of that! "Hah! Of course he was trying to take your stuff, he wanted it! And that's the kind of go getting behavior that I like in Mad Gear. And you just got in the way of it! You will feel my blades now!" There is no greater good, especially not in the Gang, Hotaru!
"Enough talk, there is battle to be had! You've got in the way and you won't talk your way out of this! Give into the gang or get beaten by the gang!" Starting towards Hotaru, Katana takes the wakizashi's and advances upon the girl, spinning them in his hands.. badly, but they don't fly away, before thrusting both forwards, trying to catch the school girl between the blades!
And, well, scrape her as they slash by!
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Jigoku Scrape.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Katana
She would back away if it weren't for the teeming throng of Mad Gear behind her... Wait, Mad Gear? "I- I thought you guys were only over in Metro," the girl stammers, remembering the conversation she had with one Kyle Travers just recently. Their kind pollutes Southtown as well?! Well, that's just inexcusable! It seems he's intent on not letting her out of this one just by talking though if those... awkwardly twirlled wakizashis are any indication. Does he even know what he's doing with those?
Not enough to strike her, it seems, as Hotaru turns her side to face him, presenting a thinner target, allowing the twin blades slice dangerously through the air right past her. There is the matter of the heavy laundry bags on her back though. The blade that skims past her stomach is harmless enough, but the sharp point of the one that narrowly misses scraping her back ends up puncturing straight into the white cloth bag, causing a whole pile of freshly laundered karate gis to spill out onto the sidewalk.
"Why you- I just cleaned those!" Hotaru retorts, shifting from somewhat scared to mildly miffed. The emptying bag is dropped to the ground behind her feet while she suddenly slings the other bag into her opposite arm... turns around once while gripping it tightly, then lets the cloth laundry bag go FLYING directly for the gang leader's chest. Only after it slips from her fingers does she blinks, "Oops.", realizing that hurling the rest of the recently cleaned clothing around like a weapon isn't really helping things at all.
COMBATSYS: Katana dodges Hotaru's Large Thrown Object.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Katana
It's more like their kind WILL pollute South Town! "You can't just stay in one place and make it big, you have to expand!" Katana responds to Hotaru with, his wakizashi's lancing forwards and .. Hotaru turns on her side, becoming not only thinner, but thin enough so that the blades pass right by her body... hey wait, where did all that target go that was there a second ago!? Well. It's not here anymore!
"Ahaaaaa! You are quick of body and of mind, young-kun! But your training is not good enough to defeat I! Now, face y-..." Oh look, the blade hit something. And it's not moving easily. Why. He'll have to rip the blade out of the way! Jerking the sword free, he raises it. "Now then, face your destin-well you should have just handed them over. Then there would never be such waste! It is you who have caused the waste!" The other bag is launched towards Katana, cloth laundry bag hurling for his chest.. and then Katana, oddly enough, is able to react to the oncoming ball of clothes! Stabbing his swords into the ground, Katana pulls himself from clothes ground zero, and makes some decent speed, puncturing sword after sword into the ground as he heads towards Hotaru ...
ON SWORDS! "My Wakizashi will fly straight and true, unlike your dirty clothing! You cannot blame me for such wasteful cleaning, not when you simply let them stay on the ground! Ooooooh young-kun, you will learn! The hard way! The hard metallic way! ORAAAAAAA!" He flips forwards, giant body mass coming forwards with double swords aimed down towards the girls shoulders.. who are NOT as bulky as his own! "The might of my Japanese Ancestors will provide me the strength to defeat you!"
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Medium Strike.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Katana
Her laundry goes flying, but the bag ends up just plopping harmlessly down to the ground as the very tall stranger demonstrates far more speed than Hotaru took him for having after evading his initial attempt to stab at her. Not only that, buy this guy really likes to talk! About funny stuff. Destiny, waste, striking true... He's really into this stuff, isn't he?
"If I just let them take everything, then that would be just as wasteful for me anyway. Why are you more entitled to my stuff than I am??" When he advances on her again, Hotaru plays hard to hit by leaning forward and taking a step in order to allow his twin swords to whistle down to where she /was/, but being too far out for where she is now that Hotaru is in close to him. Up in close against a monster of a man like him isn't where the hit-and-run styled fighter likes to be, but it does give her a chance to snap her hands out and try to grab hold of his extended, blade weilding arms.
If she can snag a grip, he might be surprised to find just how hard that evasive little thing can strike as she twists his arms a little to gain leverage, before stomping right up the front of him with a series of rapid, ever escalating kicks. If she makes it all the way up to those massive, padded shoulders of his, she'll backflip into the air from off him to land back down in the makeshift ring she's stuck fighting this guy in. "Ya, ya, ya!"
COMBATSYS: Katana counters Shin-Jou Tai from Hotaru with Shiraha Catch.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Katana
Oh, Katana is into the way of the Rorunai, you see. Exxcept he's a combination Shogun Rorunai ninja! Hence the dual weapons. He is the ULTIMATE JAPANESE WARRIOR! And whom else better to lead Mad Gear into a new era than the one known as Katana! He will do his best! For HONOR.
As Hotaru responds, Katana has to agree. "Yes. Mad Gear is far more important than whatever you have it for!" He honestly believes this. And it looks like, however, that Hotaru's going to come out on top here!
As she takes a step forwards, blades cutting through air. Katana is honestly surprised. "Amazing, you must be a ninja!" He says, almost in disbelief, before she attempts to grab a hold of him! She does too, but the armor on it prevents an easy grip, him resisting, but it gets rather bad when she lashes out with a kick.
That's when Katana kneels down, a foot lashing out for him. And like a sword descending towards his face, he clamps his hands against the foot. "Now I have the upper hand! Spirits, I shall not disappoint you!" He grabs her, bringing her in close before lashing her behind him with that foot, twisting it, and then tossing the school girl forwards towards the pavement!
The circle begins to cheer and whoop, Katana apparently showing them why he's the boss! He raises the wakzashi's once again, readying himself. "You... will learn of my might!" However good or bad that is!
"Ya-" Ack! Hotaru finds her foot caught between his clamping hands, earning her a chance to see how strong this guy really his. Sometimes height and build can be deceiving, as she's fought other large folks in the past and found them to not be as tough as they looked. But his hold is good enough to keep her from twisting her leg free in spite her efforts, hopping on her other foot helplessly for a moment as he shouts his promises to the Spirits...
And then he's pulled her in close, giving her foot a painful wrenching, then tossing her onto the ground where she lands with a gasp on her stomach. Grr. Hotaru doesn't lie still for long, pushing down with her hands and feet in order to perform a forward roll away from Katana before spinning up to her feet. She tests her grabbed leg and finds that she's doing all right still.
"I'm not a ninja!!" she protests, hands clamped tightly. "I hate ninjas!" she insists. All ninjas do is cause her nothing but grief. Besides, most ninja don't dress up like a little Chinese girl like Hotaru does even though she's a Japanese native of Southtown! But his might isn't nothing, she has to admit, much to her chagrin. She'll have to be extra careful to avoid being caught like that again.
Glancing over him, she looks to be analysising him, as if trying to figure out how in the world to attack a slightly armored foe like him. Well, there's always going for where the armor seems thinest! Charging forward, the girl hops at Katana this time, spinning around in mid-air to deliver a shoe-clad jump kick toward his stomach. While the footwear itself is soft, the impact behind it might not be! "Ha!"
COMBATSYS: Katana endures Hotaru's Light Kick.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Katana
The shoe clad kick slams into Katana's stomach, and succeeds in slamming into him, but it doesn't catch him off guard in the least! He readies himself for being slammed into, and boy, is he slammed into! The shoe clad jump kick strikes hard enough, causing Katana to backpedal as he's struck, the bulky body taking it rather well, but not that well!
The kick is rather effective in what she wants to happen at least, and it causes Katana to go on the defensive for once, pulling himself back, wakizashi's being held ready. When Hotaru protests, Katana looks onto the girl differently. "You .. DARE INSULT THE JAPANESE?!" Apparently he takes it rather badly. If she only knew what was .. no, of course not! She will never know! "Ninja are an important tradition, much like paper fans, and ramen, and rice!"
Overcome with PRIDE and RAGE, of course, pride more than rage, Katana, in a better position, having stood his ground for the most part, lashes out towards Hotaru. His body moves rather quickly, albeit, telegraphed. She would be able to see it before she'd feel it, and hopefully, prevent that from happening.
Both blades comes forwards as the armor clad man rushes towards Hotaru, the blades slashing through air, a frenzy of slashing as he rushes towards Hotaru with both blades. "You will pay for insulting such a tradition, beyond just getting in the way of Mad Gear! IPPEN NO ICHI-ICHI.. DESU!" He punctuates each slash with ICHI and ends, yes, with Desu. Whatever that is! Not that it's actually effective.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Fierce Strike.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Katana
Landing after her jump kick, Hotaru has a chance to get her footing thanks to the rant Katana launches into... She knows how that goes. Sometimes she can't help but say something in a fight too, which gives her opponent all of the time in the world to prepare themself for whatever attack she might try to inflict upon them next. Fortunately, it works to her advantage here, even though her expression shifts to a visible glower as he accuses her of hating the Japanese.
The pride and rage filled missle of blade-death comes rushing at her and Hotaru reacts with the same speed that she has demonstrated thus far in their exchange. Cheering thugs be damned, she's going to best this nutcase! "I," she retorts, leaning to the side to avoid a deadly slash that misses her shoulder, "AM," she continues, ducking down low, a sharp blade cutting so close as to seperate her from a few strands of her hair, "JAPANESE," sucking in her stomach the first blade whistles past her again as she arches her back just in time, "YOU," another lean, this one in the nick of time as his blade stabs her poofy white sleeve but leaves her skin unscathed, "FREAK!" Finally she takes three steps back to put a little distance between them, putting her effectively out of range of the rest of the slashes.
But it's only just enough to give her a little bit of space as she literally leaps at Katana, trying to wrap herself around his right arm before he can recover from his extended slashing. If she can get a hold, she'll plant her legs against his chest while trying to yank his arm backward, applying a potentially painful amount of pressure, all in an attempt to diminish his slashing capabilities going forward. Careful, rabid schoolgirl attack!
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Katana with Quick Throw.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Katana
As Hotaru backs up and leaps at him, wrapping herself around his right arm and plants against him, his arm being yanked, and causing him to be chucked forwards. Well, Katana is certainly grabbed alright. And apparently, she won't let go. Well. As Hotaru hangs on, pulling his arm for all she's worth. It hurts alright, but nothing compared to Haggar! And her rant hits home.. sort of. Oh who are we kidding, it bounces off completely.
As she speaks, Katana eyes Hotaru. The helmet, even as his arm is being rather painfully grappled and wrenched, focuses on her still. But it doesn't respond in words. If she was Japanese, she would RESPECT her history. How .. HOW SHE GOES AGAINST HER OWN NATIONALITY!
Why, Katana would have given anything to be born as such. He watches it. He sleeps in it. He would almost bathe in it if not for some of the weird Japanese things! And here, this woman, DISRESPECTING HER NATIONALITY. Why, it drives Katana to be just angry! And in an action of rather simple acts, and more or less, actions speaking more than words, draws back the other wakizashi.
"Then you are hardly a true Japanese person." As stupid as it sounds, Katana makes sure this is driven home.. with what better than .. A HEAVY SLASH. Yes. He pushes forth the wakizashi, attempting to almost impale the young girl with the sword, slamming it straight towards her as she continues to wrench his other arm.
That just means .. she's in a better position to stab! Even if that arm may be going numb!
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Deep Strike.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Katana
Geez. What is it with this guy. "Who are you to tell people whether or not they're true Japanese. Do you even know what you sound like? Half of your words are gibberish!" the girl replies through clenched teeth, trying to yank his arm back and give it whatfor!
This comes to an abrupt end though as he swings that sharp weapon of his at her with his other arm. While nothing he's done with the wakizashi so far suggests anything resembling formal training, a pointy object is a pointy object, and Hotaru isn't inclined to get stabbed by them if at all possible. "Eep," she squeaks, releasing her grip on his arm as he swings for her, dropping to the ground safely, landing lightly on her feet. Hopefully he doesn't stab himself in the arm or something!
"If you respect Japan so much, then why are you here looting all these people? They live here you know. These are Japan's stores and cars, and you jerks are just ruining them all!" Hotaru replies back. Trying to make any sense of the fanatical leader's logic is probably a precarious objective to say the least, but it doesn't mean she won't try.
But the chatting is only to buy her time as she rolls her arm behind her side, bathing her forearm in an aura of blue energy while concentrating a fair amount of energy into the palm of her hand. "You're just like Kurow Kirishima! ... Except a lot bigger, with a mask, and swords... and an uglier gang..." Hotaru begins to realize that, well, he's not really just like Kurow. "But still, you both claim to care so much for this country, but then only end up doing things to hurt it!" The chiball charged, Hotaru swings her arm forward, lobbing the small object from her fingers - a pulsaging sphere of blue, powerful energy, on a crash course for Katana's chest. "YA!"
COMBATSYS: Katana blocks Hotaru's Hakki Shou.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Katana
As Hotaru lets go before then having her leap back, and away, she asks about why she does this. And then fires a blue pulsing sphere towards him. Holding himself, putting his arms in the way, he takes the blast with his armor head on, before the blast causes him to skid backwards a bit.
She asks about why he's doing it. She asks about a lot of things. But the same thing is, Katana doesn't really respond towards Hotaru. Simply, he looks onto Hotaru as she even goes to say that he's some idiot he's never heard of. The nerve! He doesn't even know who that person is, but he already thinks the name isn't true Japanese anyways.
"I'm not helping the country. I'm helping the Mad Gear Gang. Something more important. AND I FIGHT FOR IT WITH ALL MY SPIRIT."
The wakizashi's are a little burned, but he doesn't mind, as he rushes towards the woman, and leaps into the air. He's done with arguing, and being rather beaten up, he's just deciding, in the end, he'll just do his best to beat up on the child. Beat her? Oh. He wants to. But it's looking far more grim that all of his effort will fail the Mad Gear Gang.
Well, this here KICK TO HOTARU'S FACE, is going to hope otherwise. Even after the blue light smashes into him. He'll still try!
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Light Kick.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Katana
Hotaru lowers her arm as the little chiball splashes against the man, the residue vaporizing eventually, leaving no trace of its existence besides the damage it was able to inflict against him. Now he's felt a bit of the power the girl is able to draw upon, but that took a lot out of her to do. Even as she lowers her arm, the blue aura melting back into her skin, she winces a little. She'll have to pace herself against this guy. He's pretty durable... if not the brightest foe she's ever faced.
"Hmph!" she replies, leaning to the side to allow his jump kick to miss her poor, delicate face, staying quick on her toes as she has been the whole fight. Adrenaline and a small amount of fear at being surrounded by this angry gang certainly brings out the speed in the young fighter. "Then all your self-hype is pointless. You're not true anything!" Hotaru yells back as he lands after his kick.
She tries to punctuate her exclaimation with a stern kick toward his rear just then, foot snapping out to strike with the same kind of force he felt her deliver earlier on. "Ya!"
COMBATSYS: Katana interrupts Light Kick from Hotaru with Tengu Walking.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Katana
Apparently Hotaru certainly likes to keep talking about how he's not a true anything. Or how he's just not cutting it. Or .. well, she keeps going on and on. And he's fuming. Heck, Katana is almost blowing steam. As she kicks his rear, Katana moves with the motion, flipping over Hotaru, his wakizashi flipping out as he begins to cut into the ground, moving one after another as he goes.
The blades cut into the ground as she still kicks, and before Hotaru could react, Katana is behind her, blades leaping at the back of her legs as he continues forwards, slashing and cutting into the ground, suspending himself with just the blades. That's alot of weight on the blades, and maybe even on Hotaru as he continues it!
Cutting through, Katana leaps off, forwards, and brandishes them. "YOU ... I am the BEST! Not only am I Japanese, but I fight for a reason! Everything that I do is for the Mad Gear Gang! And you are in the way. And if I have to crush you under me, then that's something that I will do! HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
He slashes the air.
For some reason.
Again Katana manages to prove himself a lot faster than the girl is giving him credit for. She's managed to avoid a lot of his attacks, but now he's just rolling with her kick into a flip behind her. "W-what-" the girl blinks, snapping her foot down and trying to leap forward into a roll that would take her away form the determined gangleader.
But he catches her before she can make the jump, knocking her to the ground, leaving her vulnerable to the strange attack as he plows right over her with his stabs that leave holes in the concrete and in her clothes where the blades manage to puncture skin in a couple of places. "Ow!" the girl squeaks, rolling to avoid the most dangerous of the stabs, but not faring too well all the same as she gets back up onto her feet, stagging a little as she turns around just in time to see Katana posing again... for no reason. Kind of reminds her of Joe in a way. The useless, energy wasting gesticulations all just for show. "Mad Gear gang, huh," Hotaru replies, a quick glance over the ruffians that answer to Katana around her. "Well, if you're in charge, then if I beat you, you should pack up your buddies and hit the road!"
As much as she doesn't like the idea, staying in close to Katana actually seemed to do some good. Which is why while he spends time posing, Hotaru lunges forward, leaping at him again like a crazed flying squirrel! Or, maybe more like an agile acrobat, as she tries to plant her hands against his shoulders and land in a handstand there. If she can pull it off, she'll swap hands in order to turn herself around, then drop down behind him so that her feet plant against his upper back all in an attempt to slowly wear down his ability to keep fighting.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Katana with Ten Ranku-Tou.
- Power hit! -
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|=======\===----\1 Katana
The throw catches Katana, and as her hands go against his shoulders, she's able to do what she's planned, launched upwards and then slamming head first against the cement. It looks like he's not getting up. Not until, that is, he actually does and pulls himself up from the ground.
Wakizashi's are held loosely, he stands there, loosely, breathing heavily. Yelling out, Katana lets out a cry to the world. "KAAAAAAAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" He screams, and arches his back a bit, blades doing the same, as he stops, looking at Hotaru. "I'll NEVER GIVE UP! A JAPANESE PERSON, TRULY, NEVER GIVES UP!"
And in perhaps a faster move than she's seen before, Katana begins to rush towards Hotaru, charging straight forwards, helmet leading first, wakizashi's held close to him. That's about when the Mad Gear Leader literately charges about as fast as he can, blades being brought upwards, attempting to slash and gouge the small ninja like girl.
"The only way you will best me, OF THE TRUE JAPANESE," He accentuates this point, "Is through a miracle!"
He slams forwards with a wakizashi, and attempts to bring the other around, a lower, rushing slash. And he's going to keep that up, too. It's likely not going to be too enjoyable if he has his way.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Meido no Miyage.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Katana
Katana's roar echos off the walls of the street, shaking people to their very core as the oh so very true Japanese warrior shares his nationalistic pride with the masses that probably all want pretty much nothing to do with him. Hotaru frowns a little. Well, it's at least easy to figure out how to push his buttons. Maybe by getting him so worked up, she can keep him from being able to fight at his best. People certainly pull the same stunt on her all the time, anyway.
"Right," the girl murmurs as he comes at her again, driving strength into his slashes that would do her serious harm if they were to connect. She'll need a miracle, or just really fancy footwork. The dangerous attacks are avoided by the girl who's exceptionally quick on her feet. Even though there's a few close calls, it would seem the wounds he already inflicted on her aren't enough to slow her down for good.
The truth is, though, he's wearing her out even by not landing a hit. The girl starting to look a little fatigued as she's been attacking him pretty much non-stop and he just keeps coming back for more, refusing to be deterred. Finally she completely sidesteps out of the way of his onslaught, sparing herself a severe amount of pain again. "A true Japanese wouldn't be so obsessed with stealing and taking everything for some gang of misfits!" the girl calls out, realizing only afterward that irking the audience of this kind of fight might not be the best idea.
Her voice is a bit haggard due to her breathing, and she realizes that she needs to save her strength for fighting, not yelling. When she comes for Katana this time, it's a lot slower than before, leaping into the air with a lateral jump kick, right leg snapping out in front of her... is she aiming for the mask? She just might be! If she connects, her left leg will swing forward as a follow up blow, while she tries to use her forward momentum to right right over the top of his massive shoulders and leap down behind him. Hitting and running, like an angry gnat, seems to be the Hotaru way.
COMBATSYS: Katana fails to counter Heavy Kick from Hotaru with Shiraha Catch.
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Hotaru 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Katana
As Hotaru leaps towards Katana, Katana tries to clamp his hands down around the slow moving foot against. Kneeling, once again, the man waits, his hands raised in the air as he opens them. But then, as he waits, something happens. Hotaru jack knives right through it, and simply, her foot slams into his body alright.
He's launched backwards, rolling against the cement. But she didn't hit the mask. Katana, instead, let his body take it. He would not let his ceremonial mask be so easily broken! .. But at this point, he stops, hitting a fire hydrant, and wobbles to his feet.
His wakizashi raise, but it's obvious the man can't keep going. He tries though. Even if he wobbles, and he wiggles, and jiggles like jell, Katana will fall only when you render him inoperable.
You're going to need to really hit him hard to keep him down Hotaru. He just doesn't want to fall.
Her daring jump kick manages to get through, allowing the girl to deliver a pretty strong sequence of kicks, even if Katana's mask goes unstruck in spite her intentions. Landing on her feet in a partial crouch, Hotaru turns back toward the Mad Gear gang leader, small hands tightening. His words have failed him now, and he has nothing else to say. That he's even getting back up at all is a testiment to his own determination... she's peppered him with attack after attack, but he stands back up all the same.
Reminds her of a couple of the more durable opponents she's taken on in recent months. Even if his offensive techniques lack a certain finese, there is is something ot be said for his ability to take hits. Panting for a moment herself, Hotaru finally stands up straight. Well... her jump kick did a number on him. Now she just neesd to bowl him over and make it stick.
"This is for the laundry I'll have to redo!" the Kenpo artist exclaims as she charges toward Katana with direct, brute force that one would really find unlikely from a fighter of her stature. Once she's close, she leans forward, legs bending, before leaping into a shoulder slam, spinning into the air as she tries to collide against him, "Tenshin SHOU!" While some might not consider all ninety pounds of schoolgirl flying at them to be all that scary, Hotaru's attack combines her leg and torso strength to deliver a blow that might hit far harder than anyone would probably expect.
COMBATSYS: Katana dodges Hotaru's Tenshin Shou EX.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Katana
As Hotaru charges towards Katana. He is one with the breeze. He is one with the spirits of nature. He is one with ... that old ramen that he ate. Oh god it's starting to get back at him. But seriously. As Hotaru leaps towards him, legs bending, he follows through like he was striking her before, but right under the shoulder slam. The collision never happens. Katana sweeping in a quick, powerful, motion around her. And he stands. Silent for a bit, raising both blades once more.
"I already said ... I AM THE BEST! My spirit... It's strong! My spirit is the Mad Gear Gang's spirit! And if you attack me half heartedly, YOU WILL FAIL!" The Shogun leader of the Gang says once more, before charging right back at the schoolgirl. He's a bit winded, but the man will regain in time. He wasn't as tired as he once was. He's much better now. And he's going to show this girl what happens when you mess with the Mad Gear Gang!
Both Wakizashi spin around once more, before they try to intersect around Hotaru, not very strong, but a decisive strike nonetheless if it contacts! "BURNINNG KALIMARYY-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
His wakizashi they ... do not start on fire.
Phew.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Medium Strike.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Katana
The girl launches into the air from her lunging attack, but Katana's response is surprisingly effective as he avoids the girl in a way she certainly wouldn't have expected. Landing on her feet again as he takes a moment to come at her with those sharp pointy things, the girl reacts by leaping right up and over Katana all together, landing back down closer to the center of the mob-enforced ring. Whew. This guy just keeps going and going, the girl muses, perspiration starting to cause her hair to stick to the sides of her face and back of her neck as the breakneck speed she's had to use to stay one step ahead is starting to take its toll.
Whew. Once again having avoided a close call with his blades, the girl looks uncertain as how to best go at him again. Hey, that attack had just as much chi behind it as Burning Shingo does! Which, well, is none at all. She's starting to feel way too tired to fire off another one of those little chiballs of hers, which means she's got to think of something else.
"Excuse me," the girl pipes up as she hops back a little bit in order to reach out and snag a lead pipe from a gang member who's marauding has been put on hold while his boss tries to deal with this pesky girl. "Thanks!" Hotaru chirps, gripping the makeshift weapon with both hands as she charges back toward Katana. If he wants to keep trying to hit her with weapons, then she'll do likewise! "HAAAAA!" Hotaru exclaims, leaping into the air, arms bent back up over her head, both hands gripping the pipe tightly like some kind of, well, sword. "AAAAAAAH!" The weapon comes bearing down on Katana with all of the schoolgirl's strength behind it. The only problem is her fairly poor weapon skills and the long windup for this mad dash for the man. If it connects, she'll use the leverage to flip right over the back of him even as the attack lands. If it doesn't, well, she'll just have to be quick on her feet!
COMBATSYS: Katana counters Random Weapon from Hotaru with Shiraha Catch.
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Hotaru 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Katana
OH NO LITTLE MISSY. As Hotaru grabs the lead pipe, leaping up into the air with it, Katana .. well.. lets just say he's been at the business end of a lead pipe... about fifty times. As when Hotaru comes barreling down with it, Katana claps his hands around the pipe, the RIGHT way the catch is supposed to be used! And with it grabbed, he lunges forwards, grabbing for Hotaru and then ... flipping her and introducing her figure to the ground.
Holding onto the pipe, he tosses it to the side afterwards. "You .. YOU MOCK ME! To use a weapon of my own gang against me. I would almost be ashamed if it had not been from my own .. but it had proved to be deadly in the wrong hands.. yours!" He points a single blade towards Hotaru as she lays on the ground from the throw. "If you stay any longer I can not guarantee your safety... actually, your safety isn't guaranteed at all... You're just doomed now!" Katana muses. "While I have paced myself, like the patient hunter, you have worn yourself out, like the berserker! How could you let such a simple victory fall from your grasp!"
Yeah, give him and inch and let his ego take a mile. "FOR MY ANCESTORS, I WILL ACHIEVE VICTORY!" POSE.
POSE POSE.
BLADES IN THE AIR WHILE HE STANDS ON ONE LEG, IN CRANE STYLE, ON THE LEAD PIPE.
She thought he to be as on the verge of collapsing as she's starting to feel. That he not only has the wherewithall to snatch the incoming attack out of the air and then drive her to down the ground again but to also rant and rave like that means that her impression of his condition wasn't so accurate after all.
Hotaru rolls over onto her side, wincing a little after having been smashed against the concrete again, the pain starting to add up. She is looking pretty tired as she lies there, staring up at the man who is happy to mock her so, fueling his ego at her inability to take him down. Gritting her teeth, Hotaru sucks in her breath and scrambles back up to her feet.
Her next attack comes without much warning at all as the girl takes to the air, driving her foot down hard toward the top of his helmeted head. If she can connect anything, she'll flip forward in order to put space between them when she lands. "Kya!"
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Katana with Koushuu Da EX.
- Power hit! -
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Katana
And it turns out, simply, that Hotaru does put her soul and her effort into the last strike. The next attack slams against the top of his helmeted head, kicking off of him .. But .. GASP. Look on, Hotaru. It seems .. it seems that you have done something rather important!
Katana's face, finally, is kicked. The head eats heavy boot, and she slams into him with such force that Katana can do little but gasp! The helmet... SHE TOUCHED THE HELMET. And suddenly, the metal slams against Katana's head, causing a double whammy, as it were, and striking him on solidly. He staggers backwards, blades held still, as he turns to face her ..
"You are indeed ... a skilled warrior. I am honored to face .. you! Konnichwa..." Hello?
He collapses onto the ground. The gang gasps, and they scatter. But why for they scatter? Hotaru is victorious! She has proven she is among the best! At least, against the Mad Gear Gang!
.. Maybe it's the motor that's coming from off in the distance.
Ripping.. THROUGH THE AIR, the Mad Gear Gang truck has been notified already of Katana's fall. They have the Katana Hook (dm) out, and plan to take care of the bothersome flygirl, Hotaru!
.. But how, you ask!?
Welll.................
COMBATSYS: Katana can no longer fight.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Katana's Run Your Ass Over.
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Hotaru 0/-------/----===|
Hotaru lands on her feet after her evasive flip forward, feet already prepared to get some distance between him and her in order to avoid any follow up. Yes, she's already doubting that even that solid heel kick would be enough to take this mighty gang leader down...
But the girl slides to a stop, turning around to face him as he... well, greets her. "Does this guy even know what he's saying?" the girl murmurs beneath her breath. The mob disperses rapidly and Hotaru is left to turn around and see a mighty truck bearing down on her. That it is connected to Katana doesn't occur to her in the span of time that she realizes she needs to just get the heck out of the way.
Leaping to the side into a roll, the girl evades the mighty vehicle that would have done just who knows how terribly much harm to the fragile fighter. But alas, the laundry bags weren't so fortunate. The laundered gi's that had spilled out of the skewered bag get run right over, caked with black tread marks that will never come out. . o O ( Erm, we'll use those for the newest students... it will teach them humility... ) Hotaru muses.
The other bag that had been spared a stabbing earlier in the fight explodes as the truck barrels over it, scattering cleaned linens and, well, yes, some of Hotaru's unmentionables into a small cloud. A fact the girl realizes a moment later, eyes widening, cheeks reddening. "Gah!" she flails, scrambling forward to try and collect the debris up into her arms. "Stupid, no good, wretched, annoying, Mad Gear!" she mutters.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has ended the fight here.
Log created on 15:53:05 08/29/2007 by Hotaru, and last modified on 02:15:25 08/31/2007.