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It's a cold night in Southtown and most people have opted to stay inside to get away from the freezing weather. Aranha has personally decided to beat the cold by hanging out in a sports bar hustling at pool. It isn't his best game but Aranha hasn't been doing too badly for himself. Unfortunately Aranha's in the process of losing some of his money to a real pool shark.
Normally the bar keep would ask Aranha to leave due to his young age but Aranha doesn't cause trouble and doesn't drink and occasionally can't make the bartender laugh. He can't be too bad in his book. The night much like the Dancing Spider is still young though.
It's Southtown. And really, Katana had just had his baby fixed. Fixed because Katana is not a member of the Southtown Syndicate, which causes Mad Gear to not only have presence in Southtown, but also NOT be beaten the heck up for existing there.
Life is good.
As Aranha is plain losing to a pool shark, and Katana, meanwhile, is near enough to see this. Much like he is, Katana cannot simply just stay out of the situation, and moves forwards, nearby the game of pool. "Hohoho.. it seems one of the warriors upon this fair game is clearly suffering a defeat.. a horrible defeat that shows their lack of skill, as well as their inability to adapt!" Katana, also, is a bit dunk from sake. But such is how it goes!
"Why, it seems the young one still has much to learn!"
Aranha for his part is fairly serene as far as taking Katana's jeers with a grain of salt. And so he smiles as the leader of Mad Gear says his piece. Aranha's opponent misses his shot but leaves an almost impossible that would require a major trick shot to even keep the game alive.
Aranha sees opportunity in this to both turn it around on Katana and soften the loss on this particular game. He turns to the opponent and says, "I'll give you the money for this win." He then turns to Katana "As for you, Samurai guy, If you manage to pull off a win from this position there's some money in it for you." "You still get an additional amount for finishing this game out on top of your winnings."
Looking on, Katana is just that, an annoying observer! A bit drunk, as well. "Hahaha.. to think that I, Katana of Mad Gear, would have such ability in a game naturally.. I enjoy the finer games, such as fishing fish out of water with scoops of paper! But I will humor you, and then take your money!" Katana moves his way into the position, and raises the cue upwards as he lines the shot up. He doesn't know exactly what he is doing, but he knows .. hit the ball, but not that one!
And then he hits the ball rather hard, knocking it forwards, bouncing randomly, but somehow, NOT touching the other balls. The white ball continues to bounce, and then it.. somehow.. strikes that one ball. The ball rolls, moving closer to the hole... and then hits the black ball, which is hit in. Only after, of course, the white ball bounces against the ball that Aranha's opponent needed to sink.
Effectively winning the game for the OTHER guy. "Hmmph! Such a pointless sport, why should anyone try such mockery!"
Aranha watches as Katana takes the shot with analytical eyes. Granted his eyes could see what needed to be done but not enough skill to make victory a reality and so Aranha decided to put it on Katana since he had such a big mouth. As the ball rolls around Aranha instantly recognizes that not only the shot is going to miss the ball he needs to keep the game alive but the 8 ball and the opponent's ball in.
Aranha's jaw drops open. He remains silent as he tries to stifle laughter and then it suddenly happens Aranha drops to the ground laughing loudly. He just can't seem to contain his amusement at such a bad shot.
The Dancing Spider gets to himself together. Taking deep breaths with tears of laughter in his eyes.
Aranha watches as the ball fails, but worse, Katana pulls together a MASSIVE failure, and the shot goes quite awry! Katana is not the luckiest person. With such luck in combat, it should not be unexpected that his OTHER luck ends up FAILING. HARD.
Aranha begins to stifle his laughter, but Katana, his PRIDE CRUSHED will NOT stand for it! "You... You wish to mock me? While I had failed, I had at least attempted such a feat! And while the feat had been difficult, and I had not done well at all, I, KATANA, SHALL HAVE NO ONE LAUGHING AT MY EXPENSE!"
This is about when Katana unsheathes two wakazashi in a smooth motion, and jams them about Aranha's head. They don't aim to strike, they're aimed to startle. "Now .. you shall retain silence, or I shall silence you myself!" His armor, and his blades, are quite ready, and it seems the towering man is prone to VIOLENCE of many kinds.
And it looks like you just hurt his pride, Aranha!
Aranha has come fresh off a few attempts on his life, he's not quite as startled as the Shogun would like but Aranha does remember how damaging his attacks were in their last fight so instead of fear there's a healthy respect for his capabilities if not respect for Katana himself. "Heh heh heh... Hey now... If you're gonna draw those things let's take this outside... I actually want to return to this bar one of these days."
Aranha tosses the money owed to the pool shark and then he begins to stroll out the door as he waits for the Shogun. The crowd flows out of the bar waiting to see the two fight it out. And for the record: Is it actually possible to hurt Katana's pride?
COMBATSYS: Aranha has started a fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Katana has joined the fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Katana
COMBATSYS: Aranha focuses on his next action.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Katana
Letting him up, Katana watches as Aranha makes a good point, before taking his time, strolling out of the door and then waiting for him. It might not take long, and there's a crowd that follows Aranha. So where is Katana?
That's pretty obvious a few seconds later, as wooden sandals are heard echoing out from the bar, moving quickly, and plowing anyone out of the way that he possibly can .. most just move out of the way, although at least one person is forcibly moved, and Katana, it seems, is going to take it STRAIGHT to Aranha.
"Now that we are outside .. PREPARE YOURSELF." He doesn't slow down, and is caught in his blind charge! But his wakizashi are not held out infront of him, instead, Katana aiming to grapple Aranha, twirl him once with his strength, before bending, twisting, and then chucking Aranha behind him, to the ground! "DAIMYO THROW!"
OHO, IT STARTS.
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Katana's Daimyo Throw.
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Aranha 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Katana
Aranha had watched the way the leader of Mad Gear was moving the moment he stepped out of the bar. He just knew that he couldn't get out of the way Katana but the movements give Aranha an idea of what he's doing an as a result a way out even if it wasn't the ideal and so Aranha goes up and over but instead of landing on his head, he lands in a handstand and while it prevents him from receiving as much pain as Katana might've wanted, it's still somewhat jarring(and painful).
With his arms as shaken up as they are, it's quite impressive that he still is able to hold himself in that handstand and moreso that he's able to spin rapidly at Katana striking him with his feet like a human hurricane. "Almost got me."
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Katana with Inverted Tornado.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Katana
As Aranha is raised and goes up and over.. it seems Aranha is able to get out of the way, landing in a handstand and then prevented himself from the pain! But it seems Katana is unable to recover from his charge, and as shaken up as Aranha is, he is in that handstand, and then suddenly his is KICKING HIM, while he spins.
It might make Aranha a bit unhappy to learn that, despite the effectiveness of the assault... Katana is merely launched forwards a bit, armor making a racket as Aranha slams against it with feet. It hurts.. but more will be required to fell the Shogun! "Do not worry, my friend.. there will be FAR more chances for me to get you!" And in a quick attempt, Katana spins about with the wakizashi, aiming to slam them into his spinning legs! "HIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
OH NO. WATCH OUT!
COMBATSYS: Aranha fails to interrupt Medium Strike from Katana with Sky's the Limit.
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Aranha 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Katana
Round and round Aranha goes. When he stops? No one knows. Maybe when he gets slashed by Katana. Aranha had planned to abort the spin the moment he saw him spinning the wakizashi. The Dancing Spider drops out of the handstand in a low crouch but he must've spent too long in the spin because he mistimes both the crouch as well as the launch toward the bigger man attempting to use him as a wall to launch himself towards a sign.
Whatever Aranha had planned becomes moot as he gets sliced up and gaining new scars to add to his growing collection of scars. With the pain he feels, he ends up going to the ground where he finds himself climbing back to his feet, slowly shaking out the cob-webs.
As Aranha drops out and low, Katana watches, and seems to be ready, because the wakizashi are able to slash into the Dancing Spider, and carve up the important legs to the spider! The shogun is most pleased, and watching Aranha get back to his feet, Katana is impressed at least, in his ability to keep it up.
"Yes, this is far from over.. we are just beginning!" The Shogun exclaims, before taking both wakizashi, spinning them once, and then thrusting them both forwards with all his might. Rather slowly.
But that's the problem! Aranha may not WANT to be caught in this thrust. Because it could mean some /very/ bad things. "KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONAAAAAAARAH!!" He yells out, randomly, as he just simply THRUSTS towards the younger man! "Face my blades!"
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Katana's Deep Strike.
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Aranha 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Katana
And avoid it Aranha does. As Katana telegraphs the move with both his battle cry and his motions Aranha simply cartwheels bringing his body completely out of the way of the run away train with a pair of blades. It is Aranha's hope that he can take advantage of the lapse in defenses by the bigger fighter.
Aranha spins as he gets to his feet throwing a first kick which though it doesn't land serves as not only a feint but allows for the Capoeirista to generate an extra bit of momentum on the second kick which is the real kick hoping strike his torso and maybe knock him a little off balance if he can.
COMBATSYS: Katana endures Aranha's Strong Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Katana
As Aranha cartwheels, Katana is quite impressed! And then as Aranha spins, getting to his feet and throwing that kick, Katana smiles to himself, behind the mask, and rushes towards the two kicks, his body being struck hard, and on target, by both strikes.. but Katana is far from off balance!
The strikes have impacted, but Katana has rushed towards the spinning man, aiming to grab Aranha, pull him up and off the ground, before grabbing him and then just leaping into the air.
"BUTSUMETSU!" He cries out, before he aims to slam the Dancing spider into the ground with all his might, before tossing him forwards. "BUSTAAAAAAAAAA!"
Aranha MIGHT be able to squirm out of it!
COMBATSYS: Katana successfully hits Aranha with Butsumetsu Buster.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Aranha 1/-----==/=======|======-\-------\0 Katana
Aranha was woefully unprepared for his first kick to land as a matter of fact landing that first kick was quite possibly the worst thing that could happen for him. Aranha was able to compensate by tilting himself to land the second kick at nearly the same amount of power that he would have if that first kick cleared the way it was supposed to.
Aranha is punished for his overcompensation as he lands off balance and just ripe for the picking. Where Aranha would usually be able to leap out of the way of the attempt to grab him, Aranha is gripped up andr driven into the ground where his body hits the ground and goes limp for just a moment. "Oh god... That hurt... Alot." That was the understatement of the century.
Aranha slowly rises to his feet as he tries to gather himself together. After a moment he practically throws himself at Katana, whipping out a roundhouse followed by a spinning jump kick and then followed by a back flip kick to finish, each kick glowing with blue chi as he attempts to bring himself back into the fight.
COMBATSYS: Katana endures Aranha's Aggressive Dance!
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Aranha 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\1 Katana
Slamming Aranha down, Katana lets go, laughing a bit. "Hahaha! you are quite amusing, fighter, but the Shogun is far from an easy opponent! I have given you much, but I am not yet satisfied..." Which changes, as Aranha throws himself at Katana, a roundhouse, and a spinning jump kick, and a BACK FLIP, slamming into Katana as they glow with chi.
Oh god. He has chi.
Katana basically IMMOLATES, except while doing that, Katana keeps pushing against each kick, body hitting head on, but he powers on through, and raising his wakizashi, Katana is rather happy.. his mask, however, does not allow him to show it. "It was an amusing fight, warrior.. BUT NOW WE END THIS! DAIKYOU!"
Wakizashi aim to catch Aranha's shoulders and body, before driving him into the ground and rushing him forwards, charging him into the ground like some kind of bull, as he runs forwards, before flipping him up and off to land on the ground. "BURRRRNINNNNGGGG!"
He will go through all pain to get to the warrior, and he will fight until the END!
COMBATSYS: Katana successfully hits Aranha with Daikyou Burning.
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Aranha 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=======\=------\1 Katana
With Aranha's study of Katana's attack, he was sure he would be able to get out of the way of the pair of wakizashi. Aranha's style is just not suited to taking impacts like that in such rapid succession and while he's also somewhat tough he'd rather just get out of the way of Katana's attack. Aranha's speed and agility ultimately fails him.
But Aranha isn't going to let his enemy off without something to remember him by plus he was able to note that Katana had a bad reaction to his last attack. He wobbles, barely having enough power to get to Katana and then the intended onslaught begins.
Keith performs an outside crescent kick from his front leg which then drops to his rear leg. He shifts back and swings his leg around in a rear leg outside crescent kick which is quickly followed up by a trio of kicks where he touches the ground as he swings the heel of his rear leg towards his opponent's head. On the third of those particular kicks he cuts short and turns his foot as he drops it down on the ground before swinging his other foot at the head in a roundhouse kick-like motion though it's also done with both hands on the ground. Keith then shifts his weight over to the side swinging the unplanted foot up and over which though it doesn't hit, it generates momentum for the other foot to come back across and slam into his opponent's side. He performs a handstand and performs a series of rapid spinning handstand kicks. All kicks in this sequence are engulfed in blue chi.
COMBATSYS: Aranha can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Katana endures Aranha's Royal Flush EX.
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Katana, of course, is allergic to chi. It makes him break out in HORRIBLE PAIN. And as Aranha goes for it, body wobbling but able to continue on, Katana watches as Keith performs kick after kick, swinging them around, and slamming all over him.
After each kick, Katana continues to push forwards, his body wounded, but he doesn't care! It hurts LIKE HELL, but Katana keeps walking into each assault, forcing himself forwards into each blow, each heavy kick engulfed in chi. Katana just doesn't seem to want to back down.
And it seems he won't have to continue, because Katana does not fall.. while Aranha does. "You have fought well." Katana says, simply, as he catches the boy and then leans him against the bar. "Someone see to it that he gets taken to a room. I have regained my pride, despite suck a lack of my skill earlier.. and this one was able to fight against odds that were not with him! If none are, then all will be responsible!" But afterwards, Katana merely begins to walk off.
While the HORRIBLE BURN of chi still slides off of him. Oh the pain, the pain. The kicks were nice too, but the chi? Well, you know the story. AND SO THE SHOGUN DISAPPEARS INTO THE NIGHT.
COMBATSYS: Katana has ended the fight here.
"That won't be necessary," grunts the injured Capoeirista. "I'll be ok." He wobbles to his feet once more. It's clear to him that while his odds of winning were against him, he was capable of giving a better fight and he was pretty sure that from a tactical standpoint he was also sure that Katana only /allowed/ the fight to be so close by making decisions that were questionable. He wasn't sure if it was because he was doing so to make the fight look good or if Katana is insane. Aranha had significant leanings toward the second one.
Aranha limps back into the bar where he can lick his wounds and /watch/ a game of pool.
Log created on 20:51:09 11/25/2007 by Katana, and last modified on 20:04:30 01/01/2008.