Description: In an epic battle between delinquent students and authority, there can only be one group winners. Those winners are anyone watching. Also, authority hits like a truck. (Winners: Tenma/Pas/Nadine)
The Justice High School Auditorium is dressed up as it usually would be for a Saturday Night Fight - the podium and chairs removed and pulled aside, a few rows of chairs near the front blocked off by ropes from the spectators, and spotlights and assorted other TV Things set up all around the fighting space to allow the SNF crew to create the highest quality entertainment possible!
And there, standing in the middle of the dais, arms crossed and dressed in one of his fightin' suits - which is to say, a relatively cheap business suit that he won't miss too much after it is inevitably destroyed - is Raizo Imawano, the storied Principal of Justice High.
For those seeing him for the first time, it may be a shock to find that the rumors are in fact true. He bears a more than passing resemblance to a wild bear.
Nadine does, just for the record, not like this event. How did she, an actual genius, get put in with the delinquents? She's never met Pas - although she's heard the rumours - but /Tenma/ she remembers, and she didn't like him then, either. Crude. Unintelligent. And, just as important for something like this, weak.
Thus, she is a little irritated when she shows up in the auditorium, although she manages to hide it under her usual self-satisfied, I'm-better-than-you expression. The fact that /that/ is why she made it onto the delinquent side is, of course, something she does not and never will recognize.
She has seen Raizo before (in photographs) and the fact that he looks more like a werewolf than a person is something she can ignore. It does make her wonder how long it takes him to deal with his hair, though. Hers took long enough when she wore it longer.
Nadine walks up onto the auditorium dais, where Raizo is. She does not bother to introduce herself, because he's Raizo. He will already know who she is.
Justice High is probably the last place anyone would expect to see someone like Tenma Kiryuu. The tall, lean Gedo Gang member probably couldn't even pass for a member of this school's student body if he tried... And honestly, he's certainly not about to do /that/. Continuing to eschew the Gedo uniform even under circumstances where a display of that sort of defiant school pride would no doubt be more than merely suitable, Tenma continues to wear his old school uniform, with his dress shirt untucked and unbuttoned to reveal the red t-shirt he wears underneath, the Gedo logo large on the front of it, his long-sleeved, high-collared blue-grey uniform jacket - his old school's collar pins replaced with Gedo ones - slung over his shoulders more like a cape than anything else.
This look, combined with the bokken he hefts carelessly in his right hand, makes him look more like a gang member than he ever has before.
"All right then," calls the strident voice of the Guardian Kings leader, and even if one weren't looking right at him, they could /hear/ the smug, inhumanly cofident smirk he wears, in the tone his voice. "Where's this sad sack old guy we're supposedta be beatin' up?" Tenma wonders, sparing a brief glance for Nadine. He'd say she looks familiar, but he's not looking up high enough to see her face. Then, he looks at Raizo, and for a moment - a brief moment - his surprise is obvious. That is a LOT of principal. But he doesn't stay out of sorts for long, letting out a faint 'heh' and lifting his chin to stare down his nose at the taller man. "Hope you got your insurance paid up, gramps."
Then the last fighter arrives, wearing more skin than scruples. Her heavy black hair pulled into a high ponytail, her feet completely bare, the Pacific High fighter is all promising flesh and deep inviting curves, wearing a pair of boxers and the scrap of a top boldly emblazoned with a logo that reads S.C CORINTHIANS PAULISTAS, no doubt representing some foreign football club. She seems to luxurate in her total immodesty, something that has, very, very readily, contributed into her delinquent status.
Her dark eyes switch between the congregated fighters, staring at the Infamous Principal before sliding a glance on Nadine. Her lips purse with appraisal.
"Hallo!" the Brazilian then chirps, one eye creased into a playful wink. Suddenly grinning, she singles Tenma out, giving the boy a happy little wave. She strides closer.
And as she gets closer, something is looking strange on her boxers. The Corinthians Football Club isn't the only logo she's wearing for tonight's televised event; there's another logo, a smaller one, but a very familiar one, saddling right below the curve of her hip. It shares a remarkable likeness to those that are splashed proudly around the auditorium. It's that of Justice High.
To someone familiar enough to realize it, Pás is wearing someone else's clothes. On her delinquent, disrespectful, unprincipled, half-dressed body are Justice High's Hyo Imawano's enhanced weave silk jet black boxers with superior aeration for improved morality and perseverance. Who knows how she got them.
She's been waiting for the right occasion to wear them.
Raizo Imawano merely stands there, rock steady, awaiting as the group of delinquents appears. He has heard of them - of course, as an administrator he knows of the woes of many of other schools around Southtown. He knows of their natures, of their...peculiarities, of how desperately, desperately they need some moderation in their lives!
And oh, he intends to give them moderation until they cry uncle, yes indeedy.
Raizo's eyebrow arches highest at the appearance of Pas. That girl is not wearing nearly enough. And what she is wearing...
His gigantic bear lips turn slighlty downward. It would appear that they all intend to make light of the occasion. And, given Pas' unusual choice of attire...him, as well.
He's quite confident they won't be taking him so lightly in about a minute, so his pride is not as wounded as they perhaps want it to be. Indeed, he doesn't even give Pas the death-ray eyes she's surely expecting; he turns his attention instead to Tenma, allowing himself a small smirk. "Young man!" he says, the first worsd he's spoken - deep, baritone, thundering across the entire auditorium without a need for anything as pedestrian as a microphone. My insurance should be the least of your worries. You should, for instance, be concerned more for your own." The mighty principal of Justice High strides away from the collection of fighters, explaining, "At Justice High School, we understand that order, discipline, morality, modesty, and excellence in all fields are all essential to shaping the future into a world fit for our children and grandchildren. We also understand that certain individuals lack the...character, necessary for such a lofty endeavor."
He reaches one end of the stage, spins on his heels easily, and crosses his arms again.
"I have been asked today to demonstrate the purity of Justice's goals - and of any decent society's laws - by beating these notions into your young skulls until you beg for mercy. Do you have questions?"
Nadine glances over at Pas. Her lip curls, just a little. Yes, the rumours were apparently quite true in this case; no real surprise there. She doesn't recognize whose boxers they are, but even she wouldn't show up just in underwear, and as far as she's concerned, that counts.
She totally ignores Tenma instead. If he doesn't look at her face, she's just going to pay no attention to him at all. It almost worked last time utnil he smacked her book.
"In that case," Nadine says, "I have no need to be here. I suppose I will, though - your sponsors won't have a very interesting fight if this 'team', for lack of a better word, is down a member." She stretches her arms out in front of her for a moment, stepping over to the side of the stage that Raizo is not on. She does not draw her knives.
COMBATSYS: Nadine has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Tenma has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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|-------\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Pas has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|-------\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Raizo has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
"Oi, Dakini," Tenma says towards Pas, the character of his seemingly omnipresent smirk changing slightly as he looks at the Brazilian. Not even an eyelash batted at her uh, relative lack of clothes, though his attention does linger on her perhaps longer than strictly necessary. In fact, right up until Raizo starts talking, loud enough to make the Guardian King jump a little. Otherwise though, he seems to weather Raizo's speech with a noticeable lack of affect, remaining pretty silent - perhaps overawed by the mountainous ninja principal - until /Nadine/ speaks, and then the arrogant boy snorts quite loudly.
Dark blue eyes turn towards the blonde girl's face this time, Tenma's whole stance and expression full of challenge. "Whatever, crazy, you're way worse than I am." And maybe even /more/ arrogant than Kiryuu too, which is an accomplishment. But, taking his own place on the stage, Tenma shoulders off his jacket, already lifting his left hand, the one with the bracelet of prayer beads at the wrist, towards his face. The 'why' of this gesture is made clear as his teeth sink into the flesh of his thumb, drawing rivulets of red, red blood. "But... Children, grandchildren or whatever, I can't think that far ahead," Tenma directs at Raizo now, drawing his bloody thumb down the wooden blade of his bokken, red drops spattering on the stage underfoot. "An' I don't care 'bout modesty or discipline, or whatever you think 'morality' is." Sweeping the slightly curved, long wooden sword he carries through the air, Tenma's chi links with the weapon, surrounding it in a misty red aura, blood and chi mixed together to the point of being the same thing. "Instead, I'll just show ya a thing or two 'bout 'excellence'. Presumin' you can remember later, gramps!!"
And then, because you can't just follow up this sort of talk by standing around doing nothing, Tenma takes off like a shot directly at Raizo, crouching low for a moment, sword arm held low across his body to hold his bokken behind himself, before he lunges into the air, twisting into a rising, whirling strike at Raizo that has every intention of lifting the larger man /with/ Tenma, then drive him back towards the ground. "VAJRA!!"
Momentarily, Pás' eyes meet Nadine's. And, very sunnily, the nearly-naked Brazilian grins back, not a trace of malice on her face. Her dark eyes slide back to Tenma, and catching him looking, she plays along, clucking her tongue wryly and swivelling her hips like a samba dancer. She's acting like it's all a game to her. If someone thinks this fighter wears little clothes... she wears less seriousness.
And when seriousness dares to encroach, she suffers. It hits her out of nowhere. A speech. Her nose crinkles. Her already-drooped eyelids sink farther. Pás finds herself faced with her mortal enemy: boredom. She lets a burdened breath go in an airy little sigh, letting her attention wander to other things. As Principal Raizo makes his impassioned declarations of the sturdy ideals his school works for, the Brazilian plays with Hyo's boxers. She looks amused as she pokes at the front of them, poking a hand out through the buttons and letting it wiggle.
She laughs a little to herself, biting her lip.
Then, as the Principal's stern words receive Tenma's rebuttal, Pás looks back up, her attention caught, reaching up both her arms to indulge in a lazy stretch. And, through her slothfulness and quiet yawning, a grin pops to life out of nowhere when the Guardian King takes the first move. Oh, Pescador.
A moment later, the half-asleep Brazilian is exploding into quick and darting movement, all serviced by Hyo's helpful boxers. She rushes forward, seeking to steal an interception upon the aftermath of Tenma's strike. Wherever Raizo may land, she seeks to meet him swiftly, leaping off the ground and twisting, cracking one leg up in a high round kick.
COMBATSYS: Raizo blocks Tenma's Fierce Strike.
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Raizo dodges Pas' Medium Kick.
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"I do not believe there has been a mistake," Raizo replies to Nadine, offering only a smug, probably rather annoying look. She is not the only one here who can present an ego.
And then they are coming. Whatcha gonna do about it, princibear?
He doesn't move, for an instant - he watches Tenma come, watches Pas continue to be scandalously Pas-darian, and then...
One mighty hand comes up, catching the brunt of the blow on one arm. And then he surges backward, leaping away to land neatly on two feet while Pas' kick goes flying through nothing but air. Raizo grins, just a little, flexing one of his hands, letting the students get a glimpse of his massive, razor-edged claws. "I don't think you'll need to worry about me remembering, young man. As to your own perceptions...I respect your inability to gaze so far into the futuer. Not many can."
And then he moves, pushing off the ground and surging forward toward Tenma, arm cocked pack for a record-breaking slug. "However, what you should worry about right now is the present!" the old man thunders, crashing toward Tenma and unleashing a single, simple punch that he will find to be not at all pleasent in the least should he fail to get the hell out of the way.
But then, that's what happens when you get hit by a fist the size of your head.
"Really," Nadine says to Tenma, several moments after he rushes. "After a stunt like that? At least I /think/ before I act, which is rather unlike most of you."
She lets Pas and Tenma rush in. They can be stupid and charge. Nadine can keep her distance and act smarter, not harder. Ducking down for a moment, Nadine pulls out her broad knives from their thigh sheaths, then smoothes the skirt flat again in the same motion she straightens up with.
Nadine circles around at quite some distance, trying to keep out of reach. Only once she's gone about halfway around the edge of the auditorium does she act, and that only simply; Nadine whips one of the knives at Raizo's side. In flight, it curves slightly, twisting so it comes in more toward his back than the side, with the power of a sudden gust of wind to steer it and accelerate it.
Hit or miss, it twists once and then comes back at the end of its flight, back into Nadine's waiting hand.
COMBATSYS: Raizo successfully hits Tenma with Strong Punch.
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Raizo 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
But, Tenma is a bit busy to come up with any snappy replies to Nadine, because he's trying to fight Raizo over here. Trying, unfortunately, being the operative word. His attack is blocked rather resolutely, leaving Tenma himself to rebound off of Raizo's mighty arm and land in a low crouch. Starting to straighten up, he sees that punch coming, his relative inexperience compared to the Justice High principal leaving him wide open to the attack. So, he doesn't even try to avoid it.
This proves to be a poor plan.
Getting hit full on in the face by a giant fist, Tenma is sent flying backwards, tumbling arse over teakettle and skidding along the stage on his shoulders before he finally comes to a stop and flops onto his back. That... That sucked, yo. Sucked bad. But Tenma starts to sit up, pushing himself up with his left hand, spitting another gob of blood onto the pristine stage. But, as he looks up at the rest of the match, he grins broadly, wolfishly. Oh, yeah, this is gonna be fun. "Old man," Tenma says over towards Raizo, irregardless of how effective or not Nadine's attacks on their opponent are. "I'm just gettin' STARTED!" As he gets to his feet, he sweeps his bokken through the air - harmlessly distant from Raizo - and leaving a wide arcing trail of red in the wake of the slash. But, from that arc a crescent of roiling, bloody chi springs to life, tearing forward across the stage and aiming to blast Raizo with inextricably linked gore and energy.
Seeming unconcerned with how her lashing foot meets only open air, Pás smiles on in her careless way. She lands back to her feet, turning in time to see Tenma get force-fed a hearty knuckle sandwich. The Brazilian doesn't wince. Doesn't look the least bit sympathetic. On the other hand, she grins brightly, looking delighted and very, very expectant. Something probably just isn't right with her.
As her eyes and attention return to the fight at hand, the lazy Brazilian girl seems able to keep a distinct attention at hand. For all her impulse movement, she's actively trying to synchronize herself with her opponents. Careful of the trajectory of the thrown knife, and watchful of Tenma's familiar bokken, Pás lets a loud, enthused laugh go and rushes forward once more, deciding this time to try the low road. She pushes herself off her running feet and slides, skidding across the floor and towards Raizo by her hip. As she gets closer, she turns her body, propping herself by one elbow and bringing both feet together, attempting to try to crack both heels against one of his knees.
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Raizo with Zephyr Dart.
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Raizo dodges Tenma's Dharmapala.
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Raizo 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Pas successfully hits Raizo with Short Kick.
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
Against three opponents, it's small wonder Raizo is only able to dodge so much. Still - he tries. He can't keep his eyes on everything, though, so silent Nadia scores a free hit, her knife slashing into Raizo's body while he's not able to evade. He turns, slightly, glaring back, but then he has to move already. "Good!" Raizo jeers, as Tenma bellows a warning. "I'd be terribly depressed if this was the best someone of your reputation could manage!" That gorey chi...it's a little unnerving. It distracts Raizo just enough that he can't quite move in time to escape from Pas' low kick, which smashes into his knees and does...not a lot, to judge from his expression, although he does wince some. It has been a while since he fought several people at once - he has to be cautious not to let his guard down too much just because they're clearly not /that/ amazing. Enough ants can bring down even a powerful predator, after all...
Which is why Raizo rounds on the person still in range, locks eyes with the bouncy Brazilian, and instructs her in the finer points of horror, as he rears back, baring his claws at long last, and then SURGES forward! Fist flying right down toward Pas, he is trying to catch her between his beclawed straight punch and the auditorium floor.
Nadine would like to think that she is that amazing.
She really isn't, though.
Nadine picks the knife out of the air almost absentmindedly as it returns to her, holding it between two fingers as she considers for a moment. He's awfully big and not all that fast; she thinks /she's/ more agile, even though he's the trained fighter. He lunges fast, but that might be it.
Nadine comes in from the back, leaping as she does to deliver a mighty two-footed kick toward Raizo's shoulderblades, ideally propelling him forward and down to the ground; she'd settle for just rocking him on his feet, though, to leave him a little bit open for the others. She springs off if she manages it, landing on the ground.
If she /doesn't/, she probably looks a little silly as she tucks into a roll along said ground instead, moving on and away rather than sticking around to get punched.
Of course Tenma is that amazing, and he knows it with the sort of absolute convinction one rarely finds in anyone about anything. Nothing - not even clear and obvious emperical evidence to the contrary - can disabuse the Guardian Kings' leader from this notion. Nobody, not Geese Howard himself, not Kain Heinlein, not Ryo Sakazaki, not even Seishirou Ryouhara has been able to convince Tenma otherwise. Not even the big bear of a Raizo dodging his bloody projectile can do it, however discourging another might find it.
Tenma? Tenma just gets all the more eager.
As Pas finds herself in a dangerous situation with Raizo, Tenma hardly seems to bat an eyelash at that either, whatever might be going on between the two of them. Instead, even as Nadine tries to kick Raizo in the back, Tenma rushes at the principal and drops down to skid forward on one knee, slashing right at Raizo's ankles in the hopes of helping to topple the mighty princibear flat on his face.
COMBATSYS: Raizo successfully hits Pas with Roppu Zuki.
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Raizo 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Pas
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
Despite any amount of fist or claws, horror seems lost on Pás. Her pretty face is all grins and little else. Left sprawled along the ground in the wake of her attack, she seems either lazy or pliant enough to remain there, as if hoping that her trouble will earn itself a prize. And it does. She can see the punch coming, and her grin widens. Either stupid or just plain crazy, the Brazilian looks fearless. She makes no move to try to get out of the way of that fearsome attack, instead bracing her arms and pulling in a knee, looking apt to defer it-- but her attempt to block it comes a moment too late.
He hits her hard. Really hard. The ground creaks threateningly, barely able to absorb the impact of her body, the force enough to make her go limp. Those mean claws draw blood up from her skin. And, for the longest of times, Pás can only see stars. That hurt. She doesn't remember anything ever hurting like that.
...What a man.
She coughs raggedly, bringing up blood to her lips, opening her eyes to find her body much more of a mess than she left it. She reels from the pain, trying to fix her eyes on the first thing she can. Oddly, she fingers at the dangerous tear the principal's claws had shredded out of her tiny little top.
"Hum," Pás says, her voice foggy with pain but never without its amusement, "what is this, are you trying to have me naked? Che," she admonishes, theatrically, "Justice boys... they are very dirty."
Her grin returns, this time paired with a playful wink. Then, the Brazilian suddenly forces herself to move, quick to recover, suddenly pushing herself into a handstand. Her legs scissor in, trying to snag Raizo while he hopefully remains in range. If she succeeds in trying to hook her ankles on his neck, her skin there gets noticeably warmer, as a hot, fiery blast of chi explodes straight from her soles.
COMBATSYS: Tenma successfully hits Raizo with Quick Throw.
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Pas successfully hits Raizo with Sanduich de Calabresa.
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Raizo interrupts Heavy Kick from Nadine with Heavy Kick.
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Indeed, Raizo can be rather impressive. The attacks come in fast, and Raizo only has so much ability to evade it, alas; Tenma crashes toward him, and as his ankles are smashed by Tenma's weapon, he goes toppling downward, right into the path of Pas' feet. His eyes widen, and there's that peculiar smell of flesh burned by chi as he finally, finally tears his body away - but even then, even though he's beginning to show some signs of weakening, he's not nearly as bad off as he SHOULD be after an assault like this. But perhaps he should be focusing a bit more if he intends to actually take anyone down?
Well, he doesn't do it this time. Raizo merely replies, "Young miss, if you wore some decent clothes to a fight like this, perhaps the nudity would not be an issue?" before rounding now on NADINE, sensing her coming through some damn ninja super power, and he leaps up in midair, somersaulting in mid-go and then coming down with both feet aimed squarely at Nadine's belly. He's not quite able to do it perfectly - some of the opposing force disrupts his momentum, sending the principal bear sprawling after he connects.
Still, that probably hurt Nadine a lot more than it hurt Raizo.
Bears shouldn't be allowed to be ninjas. That's a restricted dual class and Nadine, for one, is not standing for it.
Instead she hits the ground with a rather pained sound, having had a foot driven into her stomach with all the force Raizo could put behind it. Nadine doesn't even roll with the impact; she's too busy being embedded into the stage.
She does a situp about five seconds after hitting, getting back to her feet with her knives in hand. That hurt more than she's going to admit. Nadine can't hide the growing stiffness in her movements, though. Rather than rush right back in, she takes a moment to prepare herself, rolling her head on her neck to undo one of the kinks and then keeping an eye on Raizo. He's going to make a move, she knows it.
COMBATSYS: Nadine focuses on her next action.
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For all his success in toppling the giant Manbearpig, right into Pas' attack no less, Tenma can't shake the feeling that something really bad is going to happen. Worse than his nearly getting his face smashed in right there. But luckily, not right now - at least not to him - as Nadine is instead the one to bear the brunt of Raizo's fury, getting kicked most impressively. Sucking air between his teeth, Tenma /almost/ appears sympathetic to the blonde's plight. A little bit.
Maybe.
But there's still a battle to be fought here, and a Raizo that needs to be defeated. And Tenma knows that just fighting as three disconnected, disparate martial artists probably isn't going to do the trick against their mountainous opponent. So, Tenma reaches out, in an attempt to grab Pas by the wrist, in order to pull her closer to him. Rather closer, in fact, than is really proper at someplace like Justice High, or indeed anywhere else in public, right there in full view of the cameras and Raizo and Buddha knows who else, letting the moment linger as much for his own amusement as to irritate Raizo and all of Pas' teammates who are probably watching this from somewhere. Scandal!!
Except that what he'll do then, with a big grin on his face, is turn about and suddenly throw Pas right at Raizo, with malicious intent. Malicious intent for Raizo, that is. "KICK HIS ASS, DAKINI!!"
COMBATSYS: Tenma assists Pas.
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Following her landed attack, the Brazilian fighter flips smoothly, back to her feet, crouching lazily on the spot and allowing herself a moment's smirk. But she doesn't even get that long. "Wha--?" Before she knows it, her wrist is snatched, and dragged up to her feet, she finds herself pulled up against a little too much Tenma than she was expecting. Their bodies and faces closer, her dark eyes blinking owlishly for all the television cameras to see, the visibly surprised Pás does something new. She colours a little in the face.
Apparently even naked Brazilians can fluster.
Fortunately, for her own sanity, it's at that moment Tenma does the grateful thing and punts her right at the gigantic bear principal. And, for a fleeting instant, Pás looks appreciative.
Her wildness returns as she is flung mid-air, and her grin finally returning, she twists herself aerially, attempting to meet Raizo with vicious kick suddenly turned at his head, her striking foot sputtering with sparks as her hot chi returns. Either striked, blocked, or outstepped, the tricky Brazilian soon reveals that she's far from finished. Ricocheting off her own attack, she hits the ground with her hands and returns to her original handstand, balanced inverted like such a position were completely natural for her. Her grin is there to stay. And, suddenly, she's moving, walking hand over hand as her circling feet cut arcs through the air, attempting to lash kick after kick at the principal. Chi burns brightly off her heels. She turns faster and faster, and with a whoop and a sudden push, hurls herself into a handspin, twirling faster and letting her arms go, one after the other. Finally, off the very top of her head, Pás spins, as her pinwheeling feet attempt to land strike after strike in all her crazed velocity, that hot energy unleashing off every strike in fiery explosions.
COMBATSYS: Raizo interrupts Catherine Wheel from Pas with Yasha Guruma.
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Raizo's great big huge terror eyes lower in CLEAR DISAPPROVAL as Pas and Tenma engage in a little too much closeness for teens to ever be allowed to engage in!
And then she gets thrown. And she's...hmmm. Raizo hurls himself clear of that initial assault...but then she's coming with a different angle, a crazed, spinning tornado of heat and feet and fists...
And there Raizo stands, unmoved.
"Not enough!" Raizo declares, and then he plants one foot, and LEAPS forward, his entire body sheathed in bright chi energies, his claws lashing and tearing and slashing and smashing - ripping into Pas as she rips into him, bearing the brunt of her offense even as he batters into her like a wrecking ball, tearing a bloody swath right through her.
Excellent. Nadine got left alone for a few moments to 'prepare'.
She keeps some distance when Raizo is covered in sharp, sharp chi; she's seen Kurow do this before and wants no part of it. The similarities are there, if you know how and where to look...although they're not nearly as pronounced as some of the fighting styles she's seen before.
Nadine can recognize when it's safe to go in, though. She darts in, using her rarely-seen full sprint, and attempts to grip Raizo around the waist, something her arms are only barely long enough to do. She strains, attempting to lift him up with him pressed against her chest.
She's not strong enough to do that. The winds that pick up, forming a visible tornado around her, however, are; the area around her is scoured free of dirt and dust as the tornado stretches upward a good ten feet, blowing around her hard enough that it actually makes her hard to see. /She's/ in the eye. Raizo, if she's managed to grip, is not.
Eventually she lets go, and the tornado becomes a straight gust to launch him as far as she can manage.
Okay... That totally didn't go how Tenma had worked it out in his head, you know? Not in the least. "PAS!!" the Guardian Kings' leader shouts in alarm as the Brazilian - a member of his rivals' team no less! - gets handled rather brutally by old man Imawano, and truth be told he's actually rather shocked himself by how much it ends up bothering him. It is, after all, a fight. And in fights... People get themselves hurt pretty bad. As the insane technique that batters Pas and stops her own attack finishes, in the hairsbreadth of time as Nadine is dashing at the Justice High principal, Tenma himself comes barreling towards Raizo.
Will he get there in time? Who knows!
But the point is what happens when he /does/ get there, as Tenma leaps off the ground to aim a vicious headbutt to Raizo's facemeats, dropping to put his feet on the ground just long enough to swing that chi-charged bokken around in a wide, ferocious arc at the old man's neck, the crimson aura around the wooden blade honed to razor sharpness. What happened to Pas there was kind of his own fault, he thinks, since he did pretty much throw her into it. But he'll vent his fury on Raizo instead. "EAT THIS!!" he bellows, his voice somewhere between laughter and anger.
And poor, poor Pás never even had a chance. Her first brush with Raizo's claws, painful as it was, is only an entree to this main course. He barrels right through her assault, as if keenly able to sense every opening in her movement, ever mistake in her technique, about as good a learning experience as there ever was one. As fast she is, as hard as she tried to land her attacks, the infamous Justice High principal makes shreds of the lot of it. Soon, her attacks are felled in the wake of his, broken up under the strength and frenzy of those claws, and there is little the Brazilian can do but take the brunt of it, and just stay conscious. Raizo rips into her in countless places; where there was so much dark skin now there is only blood.
Finally, the onslaught comes to an end, and freed, Pás has only the mind left to hitch one staggering step, start to grin again with her bloodied lips, then she collapses on the spot, a windy breath exhaling out of her.
In these moments, as her teammates in this fight rush forward to impart their attacks, Pás heaps along the ground, feels herself bleed, and uses all her energy just to stay awake. She can't fall asleep. Because she's not ready to be finished. This is new, she thinks. She doesn't think she's ever hurt quite as much as this. So it's time to see what she can still do. Coughing up blood weakly, she lifts her head, her foggy eyes trying to fix on the dizzying world. Where smart fighters, sane fighters would use this time to catch their breath, to clear their minds, and to find their centre, she's already planting her hands against the floor, testing the strength there, and trying to see through the blood drooling from her split temple so that she can watch Raizo. Breathing raggedly, her mouth twitching, she's tensing up in preparation.
COMBATSYS: Pas focuses on her next action.
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Raizo 1/--=====/=======|=======\==-----\1 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Raizo dodges Tenma's Deep Strike.
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Raizo 1/--=====/=======|=======\==-----\1 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Raizo endures Nadine's Twister Hurl.
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Raizo 1/-======/=======|=======\==-----\1 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
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|-------\-------\0 Nadine
Raizo bounds to one side as Tenma crashes toward him, the massive behemoth of a man easily evading Tenma's fury. "You know, young man," he notes. "You should probably think twice before doing things like that, you might--"
Nadine grips him, and Raizo looks down, and...rolls his eyes? He brings his arms up, guarding some of the damage - his suit still is badly torn, his tie shredded, some cuts and nicks appearing on his body, but then when he's THROWN, he literally lands on both feet, barely even outside of arms' reach.
The winds dissipate as a similar force of wind rips away from Raizo's own body, what little chi that the mighty Principal of Justice High employs suddenly bursting away from him as he draws in what he can. He's wounded - he needs to start playing serious, or this will get bad, fast. And he really does want to get to edjumicate at least one of these whippersnappers!
Which is why blazing chi light suddenly snaps into being around Raizo's gloved right hand, and the man suddenly roars, "...end up in a bad situation!!" He LUNGES forward, toward Nadine, in an attack similar to the one he used on Pas at the start of the fight, except THIS time his fist is glowing, and so are his claws, and he's following through more, and oh golly it sure is fast...! "IMAWANO ROPPU ZUKI!!"
COMBATSYS: Raizo successfully hits Nadine with Imawano Roppu Zuki.
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Raizo 0/-------/------=|=======\==-----\1 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
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|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Nadine
Nadine attempts to defend herself the only way she knows how: MORE CHI.
Wind gathers around Nadine as she attempts to use it as a shield, pushing away Raizo. It doesn't do a damn thing to stop him from grabbing her by the face, although it continues to build anyway as Nadine's frenzied attempts to escape become more frantic. She grips Raizo's hand by the wrist, trying to shove it away from her, while she attempts to get away.
They stop entirely when the claws impact her, causing Nadine to literally go flying across the room. The chi she was attempting to build explodes away from her violently, possibly catching Raizo in her last explosion of wind and roaring air.
Nadine hits the wall headfirst - and sticks, having literally been embedded up to the shoulders, shattering the decorative wood planks with her head. She stops moving entirely, except to breathe, and even that's a little erratic at first.
COMBATSYS: Nadine can no longer fight.
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Raizo 0/-------/------=|=======\==-----\1 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
You know, Tenma just really hasn't been doing that great this match; Raizo seems largely untouchable for most of his attacks, and his attempt to be strategic largely resulted in one of his teammates getting pretty soldly rocked by old man Imawano. Frustration and irritation are clearly visible in Tenma's expression, as Raizo avoids him, but luckily the principal's lecture is cut short by Nadine taking him into the air. Unfortunately... That doesn't go so well for Nadine, either.
Tenma seems less bothered by that than what happened to Pas though. Go figure!
In the aftermath of Nadine's last desperate assault against Raizo, Tenma goes back on the offensive as well, trying to keep some kind of pressure on the crazy old man. With both hands on his bokken, the Gedo Gang member swings it up over his head and then slashes downwards, aiming his attack across Raizo's torso; at the bottom of that slash, he suddenly reverses the blade, swiping back upwards in a shallow V-shape, clearly trying to take a solid chunk out of Raizo.
It always comes in threes. And it seems the dead has arisen to complete this triad of attacks, as Pás pushes herself back up to her feet, gritting through the pain and leaving a trail of blood across the polished dais. She's on her last legs, breathing audibly, focusing ever last little bit of her control into keeping her throughts straight. She knows she's not going to last long. So she's got to play her hand right now, fast, while she can. With her last bit of strength, she pulls back on her sleepy, perpetual smiling, something that doesn't match her sudden footwork. In the wake of the swirling wind chi that brushes through her dark hair, she injects herself into the fray, following up Tenma's attack with a sudden roundhouse swung towards Raizo.
But the Brazilian isn't finished. Pushing herself on, every attack feeling like agony for her, she suddenly twists, her kicking leg brought in and down to support her, as she lashes out the other leg in a second strike. There, Pás turns endlessly, almost twirling as she weaves continuous kick after kick, before suddenly bracing herself and hooking her last strike, infusing power into the last strike in the attempt to force distance between them. Then, swiftly, she seeks to close it, taking a running leap and turning aerially, spinning sideways to the ground as one long leg tightens, thrusting overhead and down at Raizo in a vicious arc.
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Raizo with Screaming Storm.
Glancing Blow
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Raizo 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
COMBATSYS: Raizo dodges Tenma's Ungyou.
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Raizo 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
COMBATSYS: Raizo parries Pas' Dama Branco!
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Raizo 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Pas
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|=======\-------\0 Tenma
Threes indeed. But this trio won't be finishing a fight like that. It is Nadine's attack that works the best - Raizo standing right next to her as the explosion explodes outward, ripping the remains of his suit right off his body, but leaving him only in a ragged dress shirt and a ruined tie. But Raizo maneuvers just so, canny old ninja bear eyes sighting a path through the air and pain that will minimize damage.
And as soon as Nadine is sent away, Raizo turns, eyeing both Tenma and Pas' motions, and he can SEE the path he needs to take...and he seizes it. The old man surges to one side, slipping right past Tenma, evading his assault entirely. He trundles rapidly into the path of Pas' assault...and then his hands blur, claws catching and deflecting every kick and every attack, before Raizo suddenly lunges past Pas' final attack.
And then spinning back on his heels, still moving at full momentum, directly toward Pas and Tenma, now nice and close, right in range for Raizo to suddenly bare the claws on both hands and bellow "COMING THROUGH!!" as he swings rapidly, literally shredding anything unfortunate to be between him and the other end of his sprint.
Such a region happens to include, at the moment, both Pas and Tenma.
COMBATSYS: Tenma endures Raizo's Kyoujyuu Reppa EX.
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Raizo 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Pas
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|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Tenma
Poor Tenma, he really can't seem to catch a break here. Stumbling a bit as Raizo avoids his attack entirely, this once again leaves the Guardian Kings' leader wide open for Raizo's counterattack, as the bear of a man comes rushing through the space where he and Pas are both standing. Tenma's blue eyes go wide as he sees those claws come his way, and he heaves a faint, faint sigh, followed by a muttered: "Aw, shi--"
But he never even gets to finish being vulgar, because /that's/ when Raizo collides with him, claws and all, shredding his way through the Gedo swordsman, blood everywhere. But blood... Blood is the ally of the Kiryuu family, and shedding his own hardly seems to affect Tenma at all. The claws going through his body though, he those have some effect. But soaked in his own blood from the slashes, blood spattering on his face, Tenma smiles, dark hair falling in front of his face.
Good.
Tenma's left hand is pushed forward, lightly contorted in a mudra position, red prayer beads seeming to glisten fluidly like the blood that appears to be everywhere on the stage now, and his right arm swings back behind him, holding his bokken horizontally, the arc of it visible behind his head. The red glow intensifies, deepens, seems to blot out the wooden blade entirely, as though Tenma were holding a sword of blood instead; the blood around him, on the ground, on him, begins to steam faintly, as chi rises out of it, collects, focuses.
And then, with startling suddenness, his preparations all happening in barest heartbeats after Raizo's attack, while the Justice High principal is hopefully still recovering from his clawed attack, Tenma springs into motion, lunging at Raizo and swinging his bokken in a mighty one-handed slash. If it hits, it hits with what is likely for someone of Tenma's 'caliber' a vicious amount of power. But the real bite of the attack is not that; as it hits, if it hits, Tenma's chi passes /through/ Raizo's body, disrupting the very flow of life there, stealing the old man's vitality and leaving behind a chilled numbness. "YOU AIN'T ENOUGH, OLD MAN!!"
COMBATSYS: Pas just-defends Raizo's Kyoujyuu Reppa EX!
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Raizo 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Pas
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|====---\-------\0 Tenma
Pás makes sure to remind herself that, sometime, she's really gotta learn that whole exploding-clothes maneuvre.
For the moment, she recovers from her attack, huffing with exhaustion but wearing anything but frustration to see her attempts all but brushed away. She doesn't look disenchanted in the least. On the contrary, she's smiling crookedly through her blood, feeling all the more energized, more focused to prove to herself that she can hurt an opponent of this calibre. She knows she can.
Left standing at Tenma's side, they both play front row audience to Raizo charging lethally towards them. Tenma mutters something. And Pás just starts laughing.
"HA HA HAAAA!" she whoops as she tenses herself, that enthuiastic spark coming back to her as she becomes ready to receive him. And this time, she finds her speed. Swinging up one forearm, she stops one clawed arm from reaching her, suddenly cutting quick footwork as her hands work to keep those killing hands away from her bleeding body, but at the same time, she's gaining momentum, seeking to try to get close enough to Raizo, out of the frying pan and stepping right into the fire with a triumphant grin... and reaching forward to try to snag the bear principal by his tattered tie.
Then, while bleeding, grinning, and laughing like she's truly mad, Pás tries to rein Raizo in tight, like a makeshift beartrap. She attempts this for two reasons: to try to tether him long enough for Tenma's attack, and, at the same time, so she can try to crack her head sharply against his.
Meanwhile, in the background...
Nadine appears to be concious again, given she is attempting to un-embed her face from the wall by reaching up and pushing on it. It is taking some time and is meeting mixed success.
COMBATSYS: Tenma successfully hits Raizo with The Sealing Sword.
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Raizo 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|====---\-------\0 Tenma
COMBATSYS: Raizo dodges Pas' Zidane's Revenge.
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Raizo 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|====---\-------\0 Tenma
Raizo almost made it. His body is already moving, as he sees that not only has Pas cleverly used his attack to her own advantage, but Tenma is barreling toward him...but no, Pas GRABS him, the girl anchoring him in place just long enough for Tenma to smash home - that attack hits home, and Raizo feels an impact right on par with a warrior of his own caliber for just an instant, his eyes widening, crimson irises dilated, and then he FLIES away, rolling rolling rolling across Justice High's auditorium floor, escaping Pas' headbutt but eventually getting a more painful impact in the form of THE WALL.
He lies there, for a moment, breathing deeply, struggling with heavy limbs to stand...and then with a wry grin, shakes his head. "Close," the old man rumbles, voice tired now. "Close, but...no. I don't think I can stand."
He glances up, looking first Tenma, then Pas in the eye. "Good show, both of you. You do your schools proud in fighting, if nothing else."
COMBATSYS: Raizo takes no action.
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|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|====---\-------\0 Tenma
COMBATSYS: Raizo can no longer fight.
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|-------\-------\0 Pas
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|====---\-------\0 Tenma
See? Teamwork. It pays off eventually. The enormous amount of energy involved in his attack leaves Tenma winded, taking a few moments to recover even as Raizo is left laying against the wall. But, finally - slashed and battered as he is - Tenma straightens up and swings his bokken up onto his shoulder, the aura of blood and chi around it vanishing as he does so, dissipating with a sound like a slowly exhaled breath. "Yeah, well, moralise all ya like," Tenma says to the fallen principal, tapping himself in the injured chest with the thumb of his free hand. "I toldja I'd show ya somethin' 'bout excellence." Wounded as he is, soaked in blood - mostly his own, but some of it Pas' - as he is, that smug, overconfident smirk pulls at his face again, and he lifts his chin.
"'cause it's me," Tenma explains. No, he didn't learn anything from all of this. Why do you ask?
COMBATSYS: Tenma has left the fight here.
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|-------\-------\0 Pas
The attack -- the one that counts -- hits. Teamwork sure did make it happen, and Pás is wearing pride in lieu of her missing clothes. She stands near Tenma's side, breathing heavily, her stance teetering with a fraying rope of control, one that is overclocking itself merely just to keep her on her feet. She's bleeding heavily, battered much too hard for someone who should be gloating.
But as Daigo congratulates them, informing her and Tenma of his defeat, the Brazilian lets her guard down, suddenly, gratefully, like someone who's been holding their breath. She sags on the spot, the fight melting out of her limbs, bending as she braces a hand against one knee. She beams across the dais at Raizo, a new respect dawned in her sleepy eyes, before she turns a glance on the Guardian King leader. Then Pás just looks proud and impressed, something that his ego really, really doesn't need. She winks at him.
Then she just slumps right down to the floor, coughing again, no more strength left.
COMBATSYS: Pas has ended the fight here.
Log created on 18:21:16 12/01/2007 by Nadine, and last modified on 15:04:10 12/03/2007.