Description: Naerose starts hunting down Jinchuu agents one by one and taking them down, will Zach be able to overcome whit random assault? Find out.
The ship is being jumped. Again. This time, Zach is on board for it. However, Zach is following the instructions of the Ryouhara, and heading for his match.
Glen finds it odd that the agents of Jinchuu are not being tasked to repel the invaders, but that's not his call, right?
Right.
Unfortunately for Zach, or perhaps fortunately, along the way he passes by a shadow. What is the shadow..? It is well.. A witch, hiding in a shadow. A slight glint of her round shades gives the first hint that she is there and then. . and then? She leaps out and tries to look fierce. Instead though she just stands there and leans on her broom, while eating a candy bar. She licks her lips and goes mm mm , while standing in Zach's way. She looooves that candy bar, but omg why won't she move? Doesn't she know the ship is OMFG Crazy?!
A psycho user who can detect mood and stuff might realize though the wash of her being up to no good, trying to not only get in Zach's way, but to actually bring him down. Though she doesn't have an ounce of evil. Odd, it's almost like all she's trying to do is interfere with the tournament.
"Hey!" she says with a big winning smile.
A Sensitive might pick up on these things. Someone like Soma, or Ingrid perhaps. Zach? Not so much. His own power provides too much background noise for him to do such a thing. He blinks twice as he almost runs the girl over. He manages to avoid this, and looks at the 'witch' inquiringly, "Can I... help you?" he asks uncertainly while looking around for a way /past/ this red-clad roadblock.
"Yes, I would like a cheese burger with fries and a milk shake, " She says with a biiig smile. The woman (she's in her twenties unlike you high school teens) decides this is a discussion she likes where it is going.
"There is totally a burger stand right off the boat, all you gotta do is well, go there, buuut if you dont wanna do that, I'll take your shoes and wallet, I mean nothing personal, but a girl's gotta eat and you did offer. Really you have a responsibility now." The witch says while adjusting her shades. Truth was she was just making excuses for trying to take Zach down.
Zach's in his twenties as well. Ain't his fault he looks so young. He looks at Naerose dubiously, as he sticks his hands in his pockets, "I have a better idea. You go find someone else to try and mug or extort, and let me get to my fight."
Zach looks around, he figures a couple of quick jumped, power-boosted, /should/ get him free and clear of this crazy woman.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Zach has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
Not likely, as Naerose gets onto her broom and the thing actually holds her off the ground. How do you jump over that?
"See, I was thinking about this whole someone else thing and I just keep coming back to this same place. and I know call me crazy, but , I am just thinking, what if instead of going after someone else, I go after you." She winks over the top rims of her shades,
"And then AFTER I'm done here I go on to someone else. I'll even be nice enough to get your opponent next.. or eventually." She pulls out a quick note pad from her hat, marking Zach's name next to a picture of him from an earlier fight then nods.
"Right." Then she shoots off, at Zach.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Zach with Delphine Charge.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Zach
Floating broom chicka-wha?
Zach takes the broom full on in the stomach, gasping for air for a moment as he staggers back. He grins, and it is not a pleasant grin.
"Fine then. Guess I could use a warm up, or something." He notes, as a sort of cursory thing, the notepad. So he's a target. To be expected in a way; not many people are capable of what he is. Zach's body is sheathed in purple energy as he charges in. He skids in close, ducking as he approaches before driving a shoulder in an almost explosive upward charge against the flying girl.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Zach's Blast Bash.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Zach
Naerose lands, just in time to skid around and get the attack coming at her. She whirls around just in time to take the broom into her hands and crouch down behind it. She skids against the power of the impact and the craziness of the attack. Wood and shoulder meet, mingle and her body sees some energy wash past the broom. Man that sucks.
"Hey hey hey, lets be reasonable, I'm not like... Trying to do bad things to you, well I mean I sort of am and I'm even sorry about that, but .. Look .. A girl's gotta.. Oh forget it, nevermind, take this."
Adnd with that the witch draws up her broom to make a round about strike mid shoulder on Zach.
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Naerose's Medium Strike.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Zach
Zach pivots to one side, allowing him to cleanly avoid the broom strike. He glances at Nearose for a moment before taking the full-body sheath and focusing on his left fist.
"Hey, You jumped me. Mind explaining what that was about?" Zach asks almost conversationally as he steps in and fires off a quick punch at Naerose's face. However, it is not the fist that is aiming to strike the girl.
COMBATSYS: Naerose dodges Zach's Sting.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Zach
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Zach
Well two can play that game, besides, Naerose hate this sort of thing. When she gets out of the way with a sudden wew. A sudden skint on her broom and she's back just out of reach, staring wide eyed at the incoming punch and then adjusting her shades. OOokkkay.
"Well look er.. wait hold on, jumped you? Dude, I'm jumping you. See. I'm totally not about to stop. Sorry, nothing personal." She flashes a grin but doesn't attack right off.
Zach takes a short hop backwards, putting some distance between the pair. He looks at Naerose for a moment as he catches his breath and takes stock of the situation.
The girl is trouble. He knows that now. But just what kind eludes him for a moment.
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Zach
Seriously? he's not going to attack? Okay, she can take the lead and so Naerose charges up to her opponent and tries to nail him with a kick of her heel.
It was a simple kick, a pretty kick, a.. well okay, not a pretty kick, not an unpretty kick but it was really just her charging up at him and trying to drive her heel into his unmoving form. You know grind a little and then jump back, trying to maintain a hit and run style of attack.
COMBATSYS: Zach full-parries Naerose's Light Kick!
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Zach
Zach's eyes narrow as the kick comes in. He snakes an arm out and catches the would-be witch by the ankle. Zach grins as the wanderer's free hand glows bright purple, casting strange shadows on the strange boat.
Zach raises the open hand, and suddenly there is a sphere the size of a beach ball there, spinning madly in his palm as he drives the sphere at Nearose!
COMBATSYS: Naerose fails to interrupt Impulse Flare EX from Zach with Spellbinder.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Zach
Ugh oh.. Naerose can tell thiis incoming thing is gonna suck. She raises her broom, adjusts her shades and tries to keep it from doing the pain by giving a sudden flash in the air to distract Zach, but the chi doesn't charge fast enough and instead she ends up getting knocked back against a wall and sliding down it. Ugh.
The witch seems for the moment too stunned to hit back
Zach considers. He =could= try to ditch the girl and head for his match. However, she is not likely to be stunned for long, and she can fly after him.
He does not like beating up on people, especially when they cannot seem to defend themselves. So he does what makes sense to him. He waits for a moment, catches his breath, and recenters himself for the next engagement.
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Zach
The witch gathers to her feet and make it clear that she's not letting her opponent flee eat. She grips her broom then pulls a half eaten candy bar out of her hat and starts to munch on it.
"Not bad." She comments and licks her lips. Is she talking about Zach and his style or the nuget. However it is spelled.
"Hey, why are you here anyway?" she asks lazily.
COMBATSYS: Naerose gains composure.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Zach
his question. Again. Zach heaves a sigh, deciding to switch to a more conventional offensive. He steps in quickly, getting in close to Naerose.
"What's it matter? I'm here, and you seem intent on fighting me." Zach fires off a quick punch, an unaugmented one at that, at Naerose's midsection. "So let's fight."
COMBATSYS: Zach successfully hits Naerose with Quick Punch.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Zach
EEe, it gets right past her defense and Naerose is plugged in the nose by a first. Seriosuly not cool. But now it's time to return fire.
"Well that isn't exactly what I'm up to," The witch states and jumps back a bit more to rub her nose. Man that hurts.
"See, this place is kind of cra.. you know what? hahaha , don't listen to me!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Zach
Zach snorts, "Of course it is. Don't need some crazy witch-girl to tell me that." Zach steps in once more, pressing his offensive as he staggers Naerose.
"So if you're done talking, I know =I'm= done talking. Let's just shut up and fight." He sounds irritated for some reason. This might be why he tries to uppercut the witch into rigging somewhere.
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Strong Punch from Zach with Sagitta Major.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Zach
The witch is totally up to something, you can tell as she is causing a biiig icicle to form over her head. It is still freezing when Zach comes in to hit her and just then she points at Zach and sends the small javelin toward and into him.
"Take this!" she cries, "Sagitta Major!"
Wew, she rubs where the uppercut had just started to hit her.
Zach takes the icicle square in the chest, sending him tumbling across the deck. He bounces and skid to a halt in a low crouch. He stares across the way at the strange girl.
He's up to something. You can tell this from the purple glow around him.
COMBATSYS: Zach focuses on his next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Zach
. . . Yeah... Naerose can totally tell where this is going to go and she knows she wants no part of this. She leaps into the air, AWAY from Zach and flings her hand out in a flurry of those little icicles, like the javelin, only smaller and WAY more of them. Meanwhile she hops away from the glowing time bomb with a sudden cry of
"Sagitta minor!"
Worry just bleeds across her expression, the idea that her candy bar might be fried? That would SUCK.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Zach with Sagitta Minor.
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Naerose 1/-------/=======|=======\=====--\1 Zach
Zach grunts as the icicle strikes his leg, sending him spinning off course. He roars to psyche himself up as he charges at the girl, purple pyscho power trailing off his fists and joints and feet. He skids to a halt when he gets in close.
It may be more than her candy bar that gets fried as Zach yells with an incredibly loud kiai, as royal purple energy explodes across the deck on a collision course for Naerose!
COMBATSYS: Naerose dodges Zach's Storm Flare.
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Naerose 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Zach
Wow, okay, that was HUGE, Naerose didn't need any part of that. She quite literally only just manages to move out of the way. It even seems to light her up a little on it's passage. The hair on her ars actually stands up! It's like, give me a break.
"Woah, I didn't know you liked candy bars that much!" she cries and then decides it's time to do something about this guy.
"Okay, I'd love to keep this up, but seriously, I'm almost out of this candy bar!" She rushes to try and nail Zach with her heel again.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Zach with Light Kick.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|=====--\-------\0 Zach
Zach staggers away from the kick, gasping for air. He regards the witch girl, wondering why she is so keen on this fight.
His breathing starts to slow a bit, his movements become a bit more certain as he considers his next action.
COMBATSYS: Zach gains composure.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|===----\-------\0 Zach
Really? She can't believe it, he's still up. Well she would feel bad but ..
"Sorry about this chum, but I have to do something about this Jinchuu, and well the only thing these people care about is their 'agents' provided they still have some left."
And with that Naerose tries to prod Zach in the shoulder. Just to give him food for thought on the whole resting thing.
COMBATSYS: Zach dodges Naerose's Weapon Jab.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|===----\-------\0 Zach
Zach is not where the tip of the weapon ends up. Zach stares at Naerose for a moment.
%"Like I care one way or the other," Zach states as he fires a wrecking-ball of a backhand at Naerose's ribcage. That oughta take some of the fight out of her...
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Blast Bash from Zach with End Creation.
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Naerose 1/--=====/=======|=======\=------\1 Zach
Wow, okay after she takes the first bit in the ribcage Naerose is instantly aware of one big fact. She does not want to deal with any more of that. She winces, hops back, winces some more and is like, screewww that.
Thrusting fourth one hand, winking and then erupting a huuge swirl of unplesant chi looking like a messing torrent of apparent pain, she shouts,
"En Criento!"
And holy hell does it hurt. Zach cries out in sheer pain as the chi slashes against his own inate psycho power. However, he stays the course for one critical moment. Even more power erupts from Glen's body in apparent rage or perhaps protective impulse.
The next thing out of Zach's mouth is a whisper, "Burst." The raging energy collects into his left fist, causing the whole arm to shake. He takes a solid, deep step in towards Naerose. "STRIKE!" is yelled as Zach fires his punch right in the middle of Naerose's torso. This, if it connects, would most certainly take the witch out of the fight.
COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose dodges Zach's Burst Strike.
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Zach drops to his knees after the strike airs. He's gasping for air, and is sporting some cuts and more than a couple of bruises. He doesn't look too good.
"Aw snap!" cries the witch as she starts to get the crap out of there, apparently done with whatever she had come there for the only thing that mattered to her now was.
"He's gonna blow!" cries the witch and turns and BOOKS IT. She seriously runs like she's never run before, because lets face it, who wants to be blown to bits by an exploding psi user? Not her.
Over her shoulder she shouts,
"Hey good luck with your match.. . " then under her breath, "if you don't blow yourself up.. and if you do, then you don't know me." She finds the quickest door to run through and redefines cowardice as Naerose.
Zach blinks slowly as Naerose books it. At least his... explosive reputation does him some good for once. He watches her run, and then drags himself to his feet before staggering off to his assigned match.
"...I swear. I get... all the fun..."
Log created on 13:00:09 10/04/2007 by Naerose, and last modified on 23:19:19 10/05/2007.