Description: Two girls are taking inventory of items in a place they likely shouldn't be, when a TRUCK suddenly crashes into the Suiryuu. Coming back up into the library, Eva and Arika are joined by Blanka, Birdie and Yamazaki and are left to figure out what's going on and why the other two are demanding evacuation of the ship. Alliances are quickly formed, and the two Shooting Stars help defend the ship... but for what reason?
PURE CHAOS. This is =totally= not something Sakura wanted to do at 2 in the morning, but... well, at least she's getting the fight on this ship she desired so much! ... At significant disadvantage! Scowling, she looks back... and sees Blanka bounding over to her on all fours. ... Assistance?! Sweet! "Oh, hey, Blanka! Just in time!" Poking her cheek for a moment, she points up to the promenade deck stairwell. "Can you do me a =huge= favor...? Can you go up to the Promenade deck and stop =anyone= from getting anywhere close to the bookshelves? If you see =anyone= there, take 'em down. Got it?" Smiling, she bows curtly, adding, "I'll toss in a few dozen bananas for you, promise!"
Orders given, the Taiyo student dashes down the stairway to the main deck, approximating about where the folks would be. She finds water sloshing about on the floor -- sure enough sign as any. Following the water, she finds the truck right where she'd expect it to be... along with a huge hunk of twisted metal! Terrible stuff, really! But she also sees folks getting out of the boat... which is a bit of a problem! Narrowing her eyes at the truck's occupants, Kasugano's aura flares, her form silhouetted by brilliant cerulean blue flames. "I'd ask you to get the heck off my ship, but I s'pose I'm gonna have to educate you guys the hard way!"
And so this brings us to Blanka - obeying the request of the person that had the ear of one Dan Hibiki, who brought both Dan and Blanka onto the ship when they should have just been in trouble for sneaking in. He's going to do the best that he can, the hardest work he can do to defend the bookshelves for Sakura - no matter who or what comes, no matter how much gets thrown at him, Blanka will be there to stop them. His fingers dig into the wood of the deck, and his teeth clench. Time to go all out, and certainly time to surprise whoever tries to come in here! Let them all know that /Blanka/ is here, and he is not going to roll over and play dead!!!
COMBATSYS: Blanka has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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Having been awake all night, Arika is well aware that the ship has made dock. What's worse is that she's well aware of -where- it made dock, and that's making staying aboard and taking care of what she promised to even that much more difficult.
Sound Beach really isn't -that- far away....
When the library finally cleared of other passengers earlier, she slipped into the hidden dojo in order to take inventory of the arsenal that these crazy ninjas seem to have on board. The diva, with her trusty sidekick and teammate are just jotting the last few numbers down into a small spiral notebook which is then carefully tucked into one of the larger pockets on her cargo pants. "Right then, got everythin' we need right 'ere..."
Screeching metal can be heard below as the collision happens, the ship rattling and sending her off balance as she re-enters the library. Grabbing a table to stabilize her footing, she shoots a glance back over her shoulder. "Eva... you'd best get up 'ere n--"
*WAKE UP AND GET TO THE MAIN DECK, NOW!*
"Quickly!" Exclaiming this as Sakura's voice comes over the PA system, the punk princess bolts out of the library and stops just a few feet from the door. While it's quite dark out here, she can see the shapes of others and so she sets herself up in a defensive stance, putting herself on guard and waiting to see if the high-and-mighty Chief of Security has any other orders to bark out to those aboard.
COMBATSYS: Arika has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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"... These weapons... It makes me very nervous to see them all in one place." Eva purses her lips together, tucking her own notebook into her own capris. Yes, carpris. Her uniform has been throughly coated in the strench and grime of the garbage disposal she had to fight her way out of, so it's her other outfit that she's wearing.
"G'AH!" Eva *slams* into a wall as the sound of screeching metal reverberates throughout the dojo and the library, only to be followed by Sakura's loud command. ".... What the..." Stumbling into the library now, she looks at Arika. "... What's going o-" Stopping as Arika switches into a defensive position, Eva echoes that action in spirit, positioning herself by her. ".... I guess we''re going to going to find out soon, aren't we..."
COMBATSYS: Eva has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Even with Blanka up in the Library, being offered banana's by Sakura to keep the operatives of Blackjack out, Birdie isn't going to let that slow him down. The beast was just like him in ways. A normal man, but with their own beastly flair. Blanka however would be easily known for being a beast. Birdie was just an average thug.
Pulling himself up the stairs and powering forward, making his way towards the Library, Birdie isn't slowing down. Even if he might be a larger man, he's acting like a warthog, charging forward and pushing whatever he can out of his way, making a bee line towards the Library.
The distraction should keep most of the people off of his and his allies back, making for an easy, run of the mill insert and destroy mission. The weapons would be destroyed.
But this wasn't a normal mission, as Birdie would find. Still, Birdie had the advantage in this field. He was a black man, earlier in the morning. He blending in perfectly. When he initial comes there's just powerful footfalls until they stop uneasily at the door. Seconds go by before Birdie busts them open, stomping his first steps into the library. "What the bloody hell do we got here? Telling camp fire stories to each other? Get the hell out!" Birdie calls towards the three in the library.
"There's a truck in the damn hull!"
COMBATSYS: Birdie has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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While he didn't particularly know Birdie, he had to admit, the man knew how to clear a path. Typically, it was Yamazaki that had to cut a swath through the rabble, but the chain-wielding thug was doing a good job of mowing through the garbage. The black-clad enforcer would simply hold an amused smirk as he walks through the hallway, keeping a few steps behind Birdie all the while all the way through the hallways leading up to the library.
Then, they reach the door. An eyebrow arches on Yamazaki's face before Birdie makes his own key and smashes right through the door. A low chuckle rumbles in the Syndicate thug's throat before he shakes his head. "Kid knows how to make an entrance, I'll give him that." The door swings back shut, giving it time to slam closed from sheer momentum before it's kicked open a second time. This time, there's enough impact from the foot behind it, along with the previous damage, to send the entire thing off its hinges and clattering to the floor. The bulk of Ryuji Yamazaki fills the doorway as he steps inside, ducking his head down just a bit to keep his hair from brushing the frame in the process.
"You heard the man. Get the hell out."
COMBATSYS: Yamazaki has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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From one side, two women - the smell of sweat and surprise on them. From the other, two men - confident and raging. Both are unwelcome in this domicile, Sakura's words echoing in Blanka's bestial brain. 'Keep /everyone/ away.' It's his mantra, and his motto, and as he looks between them, he raises himself to his full height and shouts at all four with all the volume he can muster, an alpha male claiming his territory.
"This... MINE! You stay... I make you leave. You leave... NO TROUBLE!!"
Slamming his hands against his chest, the raging beast howls, and the lights flicker in the room, as electricity charges around him. It's just a parlor trick, but if he's lucky, it might make someone pause.
COMBATSYS: Blanka focuses on his next action.
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"A truck? Is that wot it was? 'ere I thought it was the captain rammin' us into the dock so that we'd be forced to fight under water." Arika rolls her eyes, but doesn't budge at all. Looks like she's not intending to just let anyone waltz past her. "Give it up, Jolly Green," she says with a grin to Blanka. "Looks like I'm on your side."
The 'for now' isn't said, nor is it entirely implied, but seeing as how the diva isn't striking out -against- the man-beast that injured Drake, she may just be calling something of a truce.
The other two are fair game though.
"I'm my friend and I need to be leavin' so do you, so wot say you turn 'round and 'ead right back out that door?" And, well, Arika being Arika decides it might be best to help them along. Getting the weapons off the ship are a good thing, for sure, but since she's not sure what the bloody HELL is going on, she's going to take action now and ask questions later. Springing into action, she leaps up onto a chair and uses it to surf across the room. Before reaching Birdie, she hops off and chambers her right hand into a fist which is then jabbed out swiftly toward his face. Immediately following the jab, her left hand strikes forward toward his chest with a palmheel imbued with a bright violet burst of energy.
What do they find out? Three burly somewhat scary men, each frightening in their own fashion. Eva looks to Arika with a frown, waiting to see what the elder member's plan of action. When she recieves an indirect answer, she nods and looks to Blanka, almost as if to translate Arika's words. "We will leave here, but, it's only proper to not leave you to take care of a mess yourself. So, we will leave wh- Arika...?" Turning to see Arika grab a chair, Eva rubs the back of her neck. "... They might just be warning us to get out of danger..."
Scary they may be, but Eva is always the optimistic one. "We'll leave if you leave," she says to the two just arriving. "We have no clue what's going on, and for all we know, both of you could be looking around for things to steal."
COMBATSYS: Birdie blocks Arika's Diva Allegro.
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COMBATSYS: Eva takes no action.
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Arika 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Birdie
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Two girls and a giant... beast which /bleeds/ electricity. Birdie stops, if only for a moment, to look towards Blanka. He sure doesn't want to get on his bad side. No waaaaayyyy. "Hah. Yeah. Whatever Beast. I don't see no damn beauty, so you're gonna have to die for you castle. Villagers already getting the bloody picks and torches." Birdie smirks, only for Arika to come after him.
And not just COME AFTER HIM, leap up on the chair and literally surf across the floor at him. Hopping off the chair, she literally leaps at the larger man, trying to strike Birdie right in the face with a burst of energy.
Birdie stops this, holding his hands up to try and stop the shot, letting it wash over and distribute, and when he can again, move. "Don't think we goin' anywhere missy. Our names on this damn floor," Birdie begins as he tries to grab Arika's arm and literally use her inertia to pull her up and over him and into a book case, "and if you're going to say it ain't. We'll put it there."
He likes the other man already. He does things right from the thug book.
"And we were gonna be all nice about comin' in here, and you had to go gettin' angry, little girl. Now we're gonna have to defend ourselves." A low chuckle starts up in Yamazaki's throat, slowly rolling its way into full laughter as he looks through the three people distributed across the room. "The hell are you thinking!? Do you have no goddamn idea who I am!?" The right hand slips out of his pocket, and the blade of the switchblade -klik-s out for a moment as it's put through a few slow twirls between his fingers. But then, Arika decides to go gliding across the floor over towards his assignment for protection. "Alright, enough screwin' around."
After Birdie has a chance to react to the strike, he waits for a moment to see where she ends up. Once the other thug makes an attempt at depositing Arika into a bookcase, the left arm of Yamazaki suddenly snaps up from his side. Moving faster than the average eye could possibly follow, the limb seems to stretch out beyond normal proportion, slashing across the library to try and slam the knuckles of his hand in a whip-like strike right upside the diva's head.
Well, then. Four people threatened, and one agrees to leave 'later'. At least that's something - Blanka should know his displays of ferocity do not work in the human world /nearly/ as well as they do in the jungle. But even then, he can sense a time to act, and his Blankabrain knows which way to go - for now. This will undoubtedly change in mere seconds, but at this point, his path his clear.
"Said... LEAVE!"
Blanka's giant hands reach for Birdie's shoulders, but only as a distraction. If he can get a hold, he'll bounce off onto the deck, and buff it to a bright shine with his hair, spinning his body in a speedy circle. After that, he'll come right towards Birdie, attempting to fake him out, and instead crash into his partner, to give him a little something to be surprised by.
COMBATSYS: Birdie successfully hits Arika with Quick Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Yamazaki successfully hits Arika with Snake Tamer.
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Self defense doesn't usually see two extremely large men DESTROYING one very small woman. So, does anyone ELSE now think that something is up? If not, Arika can handle it, she may look small but she's a mouthy little firecracker when she needs to be. Slamming against the bookcase, she's -extremely- careful to not dislodge the book she knows will open the secret way to the dojo. Groaning, she staggers back up to her feet just in time to see an elongated limb flying toward her. Arms shoot up to try and keep those god awful knuckles from meeting up with her face, but crash against her cheek they do. One of the knuckles catches the side of her lip, and causes the punk princess to brush her thumb along the edge of it quick enough to wipe away the blood that splashes out.
"Don't know who y'are, don't really care either," she spits to Yamazaki. "Two big burly men, and you're concerned with the likes'a me. That's a lark and a bloody 'alf." And yet, the vast amount of pain that has been forced upon her isn't stopping her from retaliating at all. Ribs might just be cracked again, head sure is spinning... but she's not going to let a little thing like that keep her from trying to defend the ship she doesn't even give two wits about. Staggering forward, she glances at Eva and attempts to motion her to join in the 'fun', just before she leaps up toward Birdie once more, with another quick jab.
"God, that's...." Eva knows who Yamazaki is. He's that... guy. On the TV. The very scary one. ".... God help us all if this is a misunderstanding...." Eva worriedly looks at Yamazaki as he whips that blade around... then looks to Blanka. And then she feels relieved again. The beast is on their side right now. Somewhat, at least. "Please... Do be patient with us, sir. We'll leave here, but from the looks of things, these people won't be so willing...."
She's scared, but she can't stray if Arika's here. And when Arika's body is pummeled by those two punches, Eva's will is strengthened. "I don't know what's going on here, but a true gentleman would not use that as an excuse to fight!" Don't worry, Arika, she'll be there for you!
Timing her actions to go along with Arika's own response, Eva takes the cotton shirt tied around her waist and rushes in, attempting to flick the coat towards Birdie and, if it works, follow up with a fist to the gut amidst the confusion.
COMBATSYS: Birdie endures Arika's Jab Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Birdie fails to interrupt Sfumato Punch from Eva with Murderer Chain.
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Birdie gets beaten by multiple opponents at once. The first one, he's ready for. The jab punch flies through the air and strikes him right on the face. But he's preparing for it. Raising his guard for the littlest moment, he's pushing his way through the punch to get trough. "Yeah. Haha. Just keep talkin' and I'll smash that pretty little face of yours into the dirt." Birdie grunted as he backed off.
But then Blanka rolls at him, and it causes him to unroll his chain and and get ready for him. But then Blanka spins off course?! Birdie's confused for a moment, and there is where Eva dives in for the strike!
But then a coat comes at him! Birdie literally rips back with the chain, and aims to strike right at the coat... and he does! But it leaves the punch to go right through and into his gut, causing him to back pedal with a sneer on his face. He grunts in pain as he sits there. It's like an angered bull.
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Yamazaki with Rolling Attack.
- Power hit! -
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"Concerned? Che. No, I just take out the trash first. Not worth the goddamn time to keep you around." Yamazaki cocks his head off to the side, then spits towards the bookcase before straightening up again. ... and then... is Blanka throwing.. himself? There's a rather surprised look on his face as he brings his arms up at the last moment, only to have the jungle beast slam into him and send him stumbling hard back into a wall. He hits hard enough to spiderweb the point of impact, and it's only at that point that a loud, angry growl starts to rumble in his throat. "Alright, to hell with you, you stupid freak. Once I'm done..."
It's then that Yamazaki shoves hard off the wall, charging forward towards Blanka... no, he shoves off to the side at the last moment, sidestepping past Blanka and charging straight for Arika. ".. with her..." Once he's within striking range, his right arm snaps out of its pocket in a fierce, sudden uppercut aimed to bring her up off her feet and into the air..
"I'm comin' for you!"
COMBATSYS: Arika blocks Yamazaki's Yondan Drill.
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The uppercut doesn't hit with quite the angle that Yamazaki was going for, but there's enough momentum behind it that he can still manage to follow up. He snaps his left hand out and grabs onto the first bit of Arika that he can get a hold onto, then he pulls her forward. Blocking or no blocking, the Syndicate enforcer rears his head back and starts to rain headbutt after headbutt after headbutt. He slams his head against whatever presents itself in front of him, a good ten solid headbutts before he pushes her back and away, off towards the wall.
So they ignored his declaration of alpha male-ness. They returned to attacking each other, intent on a giant barroom brawl that would probably eventually cover the room in chaos, including the ground that Blanka had been tasked to guard. He's too slow to keep up with Yamazaki, the large man swinging adroitly under Blanka's gripping followup grasp, allowing him no chance to keep to the headbutting bad guy fighting the other bad guy. Er, girl. This is too confusing for a jungle-adapted brain!
Letting out a howl, Blanka leaps at the largest thing there, his arms and legs splayed out wide as he tries to set them on Birdie's back. If he is so lucky, he rears his head back, and just tries to sink his teeth into the giant's shoulder and neck - that should get some attention. He's starting to get a bit ticked off, if the light glowing in his eyes is any indication!
Ignored is a very strong word. Arika didn't -really- ignore Blanka, she just chose to throw herself into the fray of things without prior consent. Dropping back to the floor as she tinks her tiny fist against Birdie's face she mutters to herself. Well, doesn't look like things are going all -that- well.
Then things get decidedly worse. With a bit of warning, she's able to get her forearms up to block her skull from being bashed in by the flailing head. As she's pushed back, Arika actually bites her teeth down into the cut on her lip and gets a slightly wild look in her eyes. "Maybe it ain't worth keepin' me 'round, but you think I'm all that's gonna want to stop you?" This time, she doesn't bother to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth, she just sets a steely gaze upon Blanka. "Listen. Know we 'ad our differences in the past, mate... but do you -know- what these guys are up to? Why're they tryin' to get into this room instead of evacuatin' like they want everyone else to?" 'course, those words are coming out mighty slurred at this point. Diva's a little punch drunk now.
Even in that state though, she's pushing herself back off the bookcase and trying to swing herself around and in behind Birdie. This should in no way interfere with what Blanka is intending, but work with it a little. Reaching around Birdie's body with her left leg, she attempts to hold him in position for the monster-man to take a little nip, and then tries to set her arm around his head (never mind the fact that he's a good foot taller than she is!). Should she be even -remotely- successful at -that-, she uses her free hand to claw into his side and continues to add pressure until she can try to force him to the floor.
It's not really 'ignoring', for Eva. She's just glad that Blanka is on their side right now, and not attacking both groups. Alpha-male, beta-male, beast, man, plant, bacteria; she'll take all the help she and Arika can get in order to get out of this alive.
As for what's on her mind *now*, with Eva playing matador to Birdie's bull, it may appear she's being calm. Not so- it's clear that she and Arika are stiffly outclassed here. Yamazaki is high up on the 'food chain' so to speak, and it shows in his brutual pummeling of her teammate. ".... Arika!" Darting away from Birdie as he steams in the corner (also so she is no longer in the way of the charging Blanka), she nears Arika in a protective manner, almost as if to keep Yamazaki from resuming his attack after Arika yet the wall.
Of course, she realizes that it would take quite a bit more to stop him if he decided immediately to pursue Arika, but, thankfully, it isn't immediately tested. Deciding to jump on the bandwagon and go after Birdie, Eva faslls into place, trying to time her attacks once more between the interplay of Arika and Blanka's own with a simple roundhouse kick aimed at the thug's massive jaw.
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Birdie with Wild Fang.
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COMBATSYS: Arika successfully hits Birdie with Dominant Diva.
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COMBATSYS: Birdie fails to interrupt Medium Kick from Eva with Murderer Chain.
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Birdie is shit beat. Beat shitless. Whatever you want to say. Aiming to throw himself up against Blank as he comes for him, futile. Blanka throws himself at him and literally takes a bite out of crime! The larger black man is destroyed as he stumbles backwards, grunting from the huge piece taken out of his arm. They're all going for him. This is going to end horribly.
But then Arika comes in, holding him into position and literally forces him down to the floor while clawing at his side. This still hurts, causing the man major pain. He can't do a damn thing to them. It's a horrible assembly line of pain.
And then once more, Eva tries to throw a kick for Birdie. So Birdie lashes out with the chain once more... but it doesn't work. Instead, the chain fall flat against the deck as the kick smacks him right in the kisser. Birdie's on the ground, just laying there. He's none too happy, as you might imagine. "Gahhh... Bloody helll... damn you blokes..."
After watching the beating that Birdie takes, with all three of them concentrating on his partner in crime (so to speak), Yamazaki can't say that he's extremely pleased at the moment. He's here to beat the unholy hell out of people, and they're more concerned with Birdie? "That's how it's gonna be, huh?" Yamazaki chuckles low in the back of his throat, then shakes his head. "T'hell with th' three of you." With all the time that he's been given, there's more than enough room for him to walk over to the other side of the room and snap his hands onto one of the bookcases. "Hraaaaaaaagh!"
Thankfully for those defending, it's not the bookcase in question. Literature goes flying hither and yon as the Yakuza strongarm lifts the heavy wooden bookcase off the ground and right up into the air. "BIRDIE! Pull up your goddamn socks!" Hopefully, the thug actually answers to one of the few bits of british slang that Ryuji remembers. Because a second later, Yamazaki staggers away from the wall, turns to face the room, and heaves a great yell of anger and effort as he hurls the bookcase across the room.
COMBATSYS: Blanka blocks Yamazaki's Large Thrown Object.
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After making a face and trying to get the taste of Birdie out of his mouth, Blanka looks for a few seconds like one of those dogs that have been fed a bit of peanutbutter, mouth moving in that smack smack smack kind of way. It's an ugly look, on an ugly face, and the giant beast is distracted from the goings on until he hears that bestial yell.
He knows what that is! That, dear friends, is an attempt to be bigger and badder than Blanka is, and Blanka is not having any of it tonight. After all, Sakura is depending on him to defend the bookcases... which Yamazaki has just cracked and thrown at him and the others. He's moving forwards before he even thinks about it, and his arms move to cover his head and face, slamming into and through /part/ of the shelving. As he comes close to Yamazaki, he brings both arms up and back down at the man, trying to fake him out as he suddenly flattens himself against the floor /right/ in front of the man and explodes in lightning. Hopefully some of this power will go into Yama, and make him nice and sparky!
"Said.. LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!"
COMBATSYS: Arika dodges Yamazaki's Large Thrown Object.
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"Blokes?" Arika blinks at the use of that word and glances over at Eva. Well, if she and Eva are male, that's news to her. Chalking it up to the fact that the extremely large man has just been quite pummeled by the trio of attacks, the diva looks back at Yamazaki. "Yeah. That's 'ow it's gonna be." About to ask if he's got a problem with that, she blinks again. One of the larger bookcases in the room is suddenly hurtling toward them. "Eva! Get down!"
Dropping to the floor, she watches Blanka just -tear- through the shelving and her eyes widen. Now, that right there? That's some sort of scary. She could never hope to just burst through a large shelving like that. Closing her eyes, she takes a deep breath and hopes against hope that Eva manages to get away from the shelf and the flying books. She -would- try to grab the other girl, but she's certain her teammate has the fortitude to handle it. Without bothering to get back to her feet, she wrenches her body around and attempts to slam both feet against Birdie's jaw before he's able to get back up to his feet.
COMBATSYS: Yamazaki successfully hits Eva with Large Thrown Object.
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Arika 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Birdie
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Eva 0/-------/-======|
Eva could have gotten overconfident because of the amount of hits she was landing on someone as massive as Birdie, but instead there's that look of concern. Not for Birdie, of course, but for the situation at hand. Scratch Eva being optimistic; here, it's went the opposite direction.
The bookcase doesn't help.
"Grhk!" Eva is overwhelmed by the bookcase as it comes crashing towards her. Even as she tries to dodge, it only succeeds in making sure it doesn't land directly *on* her, instead throwing her against the wall with its massive momentum. Coughing and wiping the spittle from her mouth as she gets up, the girl avoids approaching Yamazaki directly, especially since the area around him is.... rather charged. Is this what Frei referred to when he talked about elemental chi? This man.... beast... whatever he is, he's extremely powerful!
But admiration is best saved for another more peaceful hour. Arika needs her help! Gathering her wits about her, Eva charges her fists and wrists with chi and rushes at Birdie from the side, arms crossed in front of her like some sort of human barrage. "Ngh!"
COMBATSYS: Birdie endures Arika's Light Kick.
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COMBATSYS: Eva successfully hits Birdie with Cerulean Bullet.
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Arika 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Birdie
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Birdie goes down hard. First the light kick comes and strikes him head on. He's fighting against it, but in the wash of the attacks, it's all not really working too well.
Even when Yamazaki throws a bookcase at the people, he can only lay there and take it. And now, when he's being struck at even more. Birdie takes it to the jaw, lying there, but not defeated. Not yet, at least.
But that's when the fists from Eva finally break into him, strike after strike after strike. They hurt, pain, and sting. But Birdie's not done yet, but yes he is. He's going down, but hell, he'll take someone with him.
"Bloody gits!" Birdie calls as he literally tries to run into Arika, stabbing his hair into the mans chest, and throw himself towards a side of the library. He's trying to stab the woman and trap her, burrowing her under a pile of fists.
Birdie breathes heavily. He really got hid. Hard. But he's still going after it all, trying to do the most he can.
COMBATSYS: Birdie can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Yamazaki with Direct Lightning.
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.. lightning? What the hell is this crap? With the limited distance, it's not easy for Yamazaki to so much as get a decent chance to defend before he finds himself electrocuted by the green-skinned beast. "SON OF A BITCH!" He staggers backwards after a few moments, then takes a deeeeeep breath in before slapping his hands together. "Alright, that's it, you goddamned mutant." After shaking those final tingles out of his limbs, Ryuji's right hand slips back into its pocket. "I'm tired of letting you run around like a goddamn freaking loose zoo animal."
It takes a moment for him to push forward again, but when he does, he's charging, getting as much momentum behind him in those few steps before he brings his leg up. He wheels around, throwing his entire body into the strike as he aims to plant his foot square into Blanka's face at high velocity.
COMBATSYS: Blanka endures Yamazaki's Heavy Kick.
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Eva 0/-------/=======|
Blanka hasn't been told what a 'mutant' is. Noone's mentioned that around him, he's not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing. The one thing he /does/ know is that the tone it's said in is one of disgust, anger. He's heard that tone before. It's the same tone that people shout 'Monster'! and swing at him. And really, deep down.. it's starting to really, /really/ piss him off.
Ignoring the rest of the battle for now, Blanka stays in his low crouch, growling under his breath in his best 'I am very unhappy with your presence here now, and I would suggest that leaving would be smart.' As Yamazaki brings his leg up, around, and the foot comes in, Blanka doesn't flinch one bit. Instead, he waits until the last possible second, then opens his mouth wide, letting the heavy boot slam past his teeth, skimming and breaking a few, and impact his palate. Eyes glow white as he soaks in the pain of the impact, but his mouth quickly attempts to close, to trap the limb at the ankle with razor-sharp teeth. He moves from his crouched, wary position in a burst of strength, bringing his hand up in a grab at Yamazaki's jewels, clawed fingers going for a twist, a turn, and then a throw, spitting the foot free at the same moment.
"Not.. MONSTER! YOU!! Monster!!"
COMBATSYS: Arika blocks Birdie's The Birdie.
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Run into by approximately two-hundred-and-eighty some odd pounds, Arika is just lucky not to be SQUISHED against a wall and flattened like a pancake. The diva manages to get her right arm up to block the stabbing motion and the fists, but DANGED if that doesn't hurt anyhow. Taking a deep breath, she exhales slowly and attempts to ensure she's still standing before she nudges her foot against Birdie and tries to swing out from under the barrage. "Been called worse, mate. If git is the worst you can do, I'd call this a rather good night."
If she can't have a sense of humor after being nearly beaten senseless by these two men, then she's in worse shape than she'd like to be.
Finally managing to get away from Birdie, she tries to hop back and forth from one foot to another. This causes a sharp wince, because let's face it, she's been thrown across the room, had her cheek nearly caved in, had a head crashing against her body repeatedly and finally stuck under extreme punches. Still, she does it again and again, building up a fast-paced rhythm as she moves forward. Several feet away from Yamazaki, she throws herself into a perfectly executed pirouette. Body twirling gracefully despite the staggered movements just moments before. As the last revolution has her facing him, she unfurls from the dance move and rotates her hip to the side and flings her leg out in a quick roundhouse aimed for his torso.
"Arika!" Eva shoots a worried look over at her companion as the other gets pummeled by her fellow Brit's last stand. She is then rewarded by Arika's comment, alleviating her worries temporarily. .... Temporarily, because now they have to deal with the other half of the duo, and who *knows* what will happen after that.
".... Eli, please forgive me for this..." Mumbling that plea underneath her breath, Eva steels herself and raises her voice as Blanka attacks. "He's right, you know..." The shirt comes into play again, only this time, it's to be used to a different purpose entirely. The only animal I see in this room-" she begins, rushing into the fray, whipping out that shirt like a net in order to snag Yamazaki's head, "Is you!"
... Well, if she's going to get pummelled, it might as well be for a *reason*. Besides, he insulted her new comrade! Someone's got to stand up for the guy besides himself! ..... Even if her teammate would disagree somewhat with her accessment.
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Yamazaki with Strong Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Yamazaki endures Arika's Rhythmic Roundhouse.
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COMBATSYS: Yamazaki interrupts Black Hook from Eva with Bomb Headbutt.
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Ah, and Birdie drops already. It's a bit hard to pay attention, though, with Blanka's hand coming up where it sure as hell doesn't belong. Yamazaki twists his body around just enough to get the claws digging into his leg instead of his balls, but sharp claws dig right into his leg. He's sent for a turn, skidding across the floor right at Arika. Rather than put up any guard, he just turns his body again and takes the kick right in the side, which brings him face to face with Eva. "Impossible to get good goddamn help these days!"
"You want to call me an animal? To hell with that, I'll show you a goddamn monster!" When the coat comes flying for his face, the momentum from getting a leg in the side sends him barreling right for Eva, and he just throws his hand up and shoves the coat aside. That hand, just as quickly, manages to tangle his fingers into her hair. Once he has that grip, he twists his hand around and gets a good grip before yanking her forward by the hair. His head rears back just for a moment before he throws himself forward, and he slams his forehead as hard as he damn well can right into the center of Eva's face. Right at the point of impact, the gangster's energy focuses itself in the forum of a hot, fiery explosion that ignites right in front of her eyes. He releases his hand at that moment, letting the bomb go off and take care of the victim while he straightens himself up to full height.
"Alright, come on, then. Time to act like the lot of you little bastards even matter. Stupid bitch can't even send me decent reinforcements, expects me to be able to keep that useless sack of shit on his feet when he can't even defend himself.. Fucked if I'm not takin' at least one of you useless shits with me. COME ON!"
OH CRAP FIRE!!!
Blanka still has those instincts, those things in his brain that are more animalistic, more primative. Things like 'stay away from fire because it burns and hurts'! He has to try and get past that sensation, as he watches Yamazaki become something like a demon out of the tales his mama told him before that fateful plane crash, and attack Eva.
He's made his decision - they aren't the threat that Yamazaki is. He could take theeasy way, and attack them - but they might listen, and if he can talk them down, it's bound to be better than any answer that he could get from Yamazaki. So he moves again, forcing the fear down and away. After all, he couldn't do that /twice/ could he..?
The plan is simple - to get him out of the room, off the ship - and as fast as possible. Blanka clenches the ground, and then rises up, walking like a man. He rushes Yamazaki, and tries to grab the crazed monster by his biceps. If he can, Blanka will fall backwards, putting /every/ bit of strength he has into his legs, trying to knock Yamazaki in the stomach and lever him towards an outside wall.. and hopefully, through.
There is only one thought that goes through Arika's frazzled mind; fire and books don't really work well together. She knows the ship could survive a breach like that, but a lot of those books looked rather old -and- handwritten!
Then again... if they're weird ninja-cult books... does she really care?
Not so much, but she does care that there seems to be explosives going off in a small space and she really doesn't want to get trapped in the library with a madman, and who knows what else is going to follow him? Eyes dart around the room, trying to locate an extinguisher of any variety and finding none (the library is a bit of a mess at the moment) she takes hold of the fallen coat and uses it to beat out some of the nearest flames.
(Sorry, Eva! Arika will buy you a new coat if the Suiryuu stays in port after this security breach!)
With some of the issue being taken care of, she follows after Blanka. This is where the punk princess might actually try and grab Yamazaki, but it would seem that the Jolly Green Jungleman is taking care of that bit. Deciding to help him along, she winds her tired body up and swings in toward Yamazaki's head with a double-fisted punch.
In a nutshell, things went boom, and Eva got hurt. Very badly. Her coat is thrown to the side by the faster Yamazaki, and her hair is painfully intermeshed between his fingers which he uses as leverage. And horribly so. Eva cries out with a helpless yelp of a sound before she's send back by the blast of the bomb, skidding against the ground.
"ha...... ha....." It's not laughing, it's panting, Eva cups a hand to her face as she stumbles back up, trying to get her thoughts back together.
The thing with chi is, Eva's not as good as some are with it. She's too mechanical; her ability to wield chi came after many grueling hours of practice to get some sort of weird flicker, only to go for days with no hope of achieving the same result. She needs to loosen up before she can effectively wield her most powerful attack, and, well, getting the you-know-what pummeled out of her is pretty much the best way to make her stop overthinking and overanalyzing and just *do* it.
"I need my coat..." Grabbing the smoldering remains of her coat, she looks at Yamazaki in horror, squeezes her eyes into slits, and rushes forward, the charred remains becoming awash with blue chi as she rushed back into the frightening man. "Chiaro..." She then whirls the chi coat (though mostly chi, the coat's mostly gone) like a dancer with a ribbon, circling it several times against the his body, if it lands. "-SCURO!"
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Yamazaki with Wild Shoot.
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COMBATSYS: Arika successfully hits Yamazaki with Medium Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Eva successfully hits Yamazaki with Chiaroscuro.
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COMBATSYS: Eva has saved the state of this fight.
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Eva 0/-------/-----==|
That was a sad attempt at defense on his part. When Blanka comes up to grab him, he attempts to simply slip out of the monster's grasp, but it results in him getting a pair of feet in the gut for his effort. He doesn't quite make it into the wall, but it does send him towards Arika, who responds with a pair of fists in the head. This sends him staggering backwards again, right towards Eva. Both arms come up as the coat starts twirling, but the guard wasn't quick enough. It smacks against him each time it circles around, and finally, the tired Syndicate thug stumbles backwards against a wall. He takes a deep breath in, then a low growl starts to rumble in his throat.
"Heh. Fuck this, I'm done with this shit." Slowly, he straightens back up, then just simply turns towards the door.. his left hand reaches for the doorknob, but then he stops, and the growling fades to a chuckle, which quickly rolls into loud, hyena-like cackling... ".. but I couldn't possibly leave.."
With speed unusual for a man of his size, Yamazaki whirls around and pushes off his back leg. He barrels in right towards Eva, and the right hand snaps out of its pocket. Much in the same fashion as before, he brings his right hand up in an attempt to drive an uppercut underneath Eva's chin and send her airborne.
COMBATSYS: Yamazaki successfully hits Eva with Guillotine.
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When Eva goes airborne, Yamazaki is following just a moment later. As he rises, his hand snaps across Eva's face, oversized leather-clad mitt covering her face up as gravity starts to exert itself. The thug brings his right arm down, angling himself so that as they fall, the first thing that hits the ground is the back of Eva's head. It's driven down hard, cracking the floor in the process, and when Ryuji himself lands, he hits the ground running. Dress-shoe heels click against the floor as he drags Eva by the face across the floor, running her across the carpet all the way to one of the bookshelves, which he slams the top of her head into at high velocity. From there, the gangster straightens up and starts slamming the heel of his right shoe into her ribcage. A series of six hard stomps crash against her ribs before the foot lowers, finishing the combination off with a hard football punter-style kick right in the stomach.
And throughout it all? Yamazaki is cackling, cackling like a hyena, overwhelming even the noise outside with the volume of his laughter. "Think you can beat me!? YOU SEE WHAT HAPPENS!? YOU COME AT ME, I FUCKING BREAK YOU! AHAHAHAHAHA!"
He can't enforce his will on the trio, one having gone but the others still brawling on. He's pretty sure he knows where people stand now, and that if he has a second to tell them again after Yamazaki has fallen down, that they'll listen, leave, and give him the ability to fufill what he needs to do. But first..
First, Yamazaki actually has to /stop moving/.
Blanka is tired, too slow to stop the rushing momentum of the crazy man, unable to intercept the leg coming in to impact Eva. But he can be there right after, following Yamazaki as he pushes Eva along the floor by leaping and bounding, to try and force the big man down with a wild swing of his paw towards Yamazaki's temple. It's not a flick in the forhead, but harder - if he's lucky, it'll be enough. There's a roar as he does it, attempting to assert dominance again - though he's certainly not the dominant one tonight! He's not ready to get broken - no, not him! "BREAK... THIS!"
Seriously sleep-deprived and running on fumes, Arika glances toward Eva as she goes airborne. Crap. This isn't how it's supposed to go. Eva isn't the one that should be dealing with these beatings. Then again, Eva -is- a big girl and it's not like the diva twisted her teammate's arm to join in on the fighting. Murmuring a quick prayer that Eva manages to make it out of this alive, she glances over her shoulder. "Eva, if you can get up... get up and keep fightin'. If not, as soon as this wanker 'its the floor, we'll get you to the infirmary."
Much as she'd love to get Eva to the infirmary -now-, stopping this goon has a higher priority. As such, she settles a tired, icy look at the cackling hyena. "Think you're the king of all -that- do ya? Think you're the best shit in the pile? Got news for you, jackass... you just broke a little girl. Congrats." Though Eva isn't a 'little girl' by normal standards, considering Yamazaki looks to be nearly thirty years her senior, it's an apt description.
Following Blanka, the punk princess swings in with a jab of her own -- this directed to the opposing side of Yamazaki's temple. The jab is quickly followed by an energy-riddled palmheel strike, the violet chi coursing over her arm as it reaches full extension. "'sides, don't really give a shit if we beat you or not. Slowin' you down is good enough. Security'll be 'ere soon, I'm sure..."
So. Who knew, when Eva was about to get that letter that fell from the sky, that within a couple weeks' time, she'd be... well, thrown into a dumpster, and, er, dragged across the ground like some sort of mop. Next time, she'll choose to stay out of things. Next time!!!11
That is, if there *is* a next time. Well, okay, there *will* be some sort of time, because she does get up. Not immediately. No, first, she had to crumple into a ball like a dead insect, sputtering and coughing blood. ".... wank.... er....?" What was that that Arika said? Something about wanking floors in the infirmary? What is a wanker, anyway? Where did her lungs go? Did she just cough them up or something?
"..." Right, she can't go to sleep right now. Hence, she gets back up. "..... notta lil.... girl...." The world goes blurry and blood dribbles down the side of her mouth. ".... Eli..." A fist grasps around that shirt of hers, charred all beyond repair, but, in her state, it's just habit. A placebo. A toy gun that makes you feel like you can take on anything. "GAUUUH!" She screams at Yamazaki in rage, the shirt charged again with blue chi and she attempts to sear it across the grinning mafia man's face.
COMBATSYS: Eva can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Yamazaki dodges Blanka's Fierce Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Arika successfully hits Yamazaki with Diva Allegro.
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COMBATSYS: Eva successfully hits Yamazaki with Chiaroscuro.
Glancing Blow
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After the attack is over, Eva goes limp in mid-action, and falls to the ground like a limp doll.
Even in his battered state, his mind is still functioning well enough to tell him that moving to the side would probably be a good idea right about now. He barely manages to pull his head back and off to one side, just enough that Blanka's fist goes wide left of his head. But he's not quite with it enough to remind him that two other people are there until it's too late, and the other arm goes straight into his temple. This sends him staggering backwards, with enough momentum that the chi-charged coat just barely tags him upside the head before he's back against the wall again. "Heh.. 'little girl'? Fuckin' pathetic excuse. That dumb bitch Kasugano's just a schoolgirl. Age ain't no damn excuse 'round here." Ryuji slowly rolls his head back, spitting a fair mixture of saliva and blood off to one side. "Congrats to you, too, you noisy little bitch. Your punches match your comebacks. Pathetic and weak."
It's at that point that Yamazaki pushes himself off the wall again. There's a visible stagger in his step, slow to move at first as he crouches down and grabs Birdie by a wrist. He straightens up, then lifts the thug off the ground and throws him over one shoulder. "Waste of my goddamn time comin' here. Pardon if I don't want to stick around here for your fucking tea and crumpet party, you tarted-up faux-British whore, but I've got other places to be." His other hand takes hold of the nearby doorway, and he pulls the door open and just walks right through the doorway. He stops just as he's about to exit, though, and turns his open shoulder back inside.
"Ciao." The arm not holding Birdie snaps up in a strike similar to the one that Arika experienced earlier; the arm elongates as it blurs forward, knuckles coming up in a second whip-strike attack, this time aimed to bury his knuckles right into the middle of her face. Regardless of whether it hits or not, at that point, Yamazaki is out the door.
COMBATSYS: Yamazaki can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Arika blocks Yamazaki's Snake Tamer.
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COMBATSYS: Arika takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Arika can no longer fight.
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Gone - like a jungle storm, fierce and sudden - now left aside and there is nothing. No sound, no motion - just the sudden exit of half the combatants, and the remnants being watched by one green giant. Blanka doesn't move to attack, somehow sensing that it's throwing good money after bad. He can't break his rules, no - he knows what he's supposed to do. To keep people away from the bookshelves. But, um.. just being in the library isn't so bad, right? As long as they don't make a move towards it, it should be alright.
So instead, Blanka hovers at the edge of the battle that was, looking back and forth between Arika and Eva, unsure of what /really/ to do - pacing back and forth like a cat presented with two bad choices. ".. Take girl - leave for safety. I stay.. in case more come."
"Pathetic and weak? Enough to make you bleed, and that's good enough for -me-," Arika quips back to the man that's old enough to be her father (and for that matter, has much the same attitude). "Tea and crumpets ain't me style, mate... and I'll 'ave you know that unlike you and your mate there, I don't 'ave to whore meself out to the 'ighest bidder to make money." The words are steady and even, the only hint that the insults actually managed to get a rise out of her is a burning hatred that just -seethes- from her pretty deep blue eyes.
This time when the arm strikes out toward her, she manages to get her arms up in front of her face. While the blow forces her back against one of the tables and she crashes down onto it, causing it to snap down the middle, the block allows her face to remain somewhat pristine.
Coughing, she tries to push herself back up to her feet to pursue the fleeing thug, but she only gets herself to a seated position before she groans and falls back. "'ey... Jolly Green..." Sluggishly she motions toward Eva (or where she believes Eva to be) and squeaks out, "Get 'er... to the... infirma--..." Another more pronounced groan is forthcoming from the punk princess and she nods when she hears Blanka. Rolling off of the broken table, she crawls toward Eva and then steels herself. Hands brace against a nearby chair and she winces while she forces herself to her feet. Reaching down, she drags Eva's unconscious body up and onto the chair. Good thing it's got wheels. This enables Arika to lean against it and push her teammate toward the library door.
COMBATSYS: Blanka has ended the fight here.
Log created on 20:30:12 09/14/2007 by Arika, and last modified on 21:53:04 09/16/2007.