Description: Amidst the towering structures of children's toys and building blocks forming Legoland's replica of the New York skyline, Ayame, Nadine, and Katelynn have to deal with flying weapons, chi, and smashed lego buildings to come out on top in this city destroying mayhem! ( Winner: Ayame )
Legoland, huh? It's definitely a first for Ayame. She's never been to anything quite like it before. When she read about it on paper she hadn't expected much. A fake city? What's so interesting about fighting amidst a bunch of ankle high lego buildings?
And then she sees it for herself. The replicated New York skyline, with some of the taller buildings stretching a good twenty feet up into the sky. The streets are lined with tiny little cars and people no bigger than her Doc Martin boot clad feet, and there's even a park on one side of it. Normally people are forced to view the city from a safe, non-destructable distance. It took a long time to make it after all. And it will probably just take one fight to break it all down! Resting her right hand at her hip as she inspects the remarkably convincing buildings, Ayame shakes her head idly. "Someone must be paying through the nose for this setup," she ponders outloud.
But she's not on a site seeing tour. She's here to fight, and for a moment, the girl prepares, slipping her left hand into a pouch affixed to her belt and pulling out a half-foot long metal tube. Applying pressure to a hidden button results in both ends of it expanding out swiftly into a full length six foot long metal staff. Shiny titanium, the weapon is light weight but highly sturdy. The girl flicks it with her finger, causing it to resonate with a metallic ring before resting the weapon against her shoulder before turning away from the skyline to glance around at the SNF staff getting everything ready. "So, uh, it's not our problem if we smash anything, right?" the girl asks with a shrug only to get a shrug back from the official. Hey, it's Geese's dime. Geese gets what he wants. "Sweet."
Legos never were Katelynn's thing. Then again, neither were Barbie dolls and things that most girls were into. She was more about Hot Wheels and GI Joe and other stuff that the boys played with. She never was ashamed to be a tomboy, and she always will be proud to be a tomboy. But this isn't time for walking down memory lane. This is where a very important fight will be taking place. One in the SNF league, no less.
Katelynn's dressed in her best, which is naturally her casual attire, and she's admiring the amazing design of the New York City skyline in Legos. Whoever did this must have a lot of time and patience on their hands. Katelynn may be patient, but she doesn't always have the time. Of course, that skyline could come crumbling down during the fight at the hands of Katelynn-zilla, as well as the other fighters who will possibly put King Kong and Godzilla to shame!
For now she simply stands off to the side, warming up in an rather open area.
Legoland, Nadine thinks, is kind of an unusual place to fight. Do they have something against theme parks? She remembers the fight at Seaworld last week, even though she wasn't at it. Perhaps it is SNF's purpose to destroy everything else even vaguely entertaining in the world, leaving nothing but fighting behind.
Or maybe they just like seeing people break stuff. This seems like a more logical answer to Nadine.
After a quick walk through it, Nadine waited for the fight itself by taking a spot next to the 'lake' in the park, about two feet from the gazebos. She hasn't bothered to draw either weapon, leaving the knives in their thigh sheaths for now. She glances over at Katelynn, remembering her but not caring enough to bring the details to mind, and focuses more on Ayame, the mystery. NIce staff.
COMBATSYS: Nadine has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Ayame has joined the fight here.
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Nadine 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Ayame
COMBATSYS: Katelynn has joined the fight here.
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As the other two fighters get situated, Ayame glances over them both. A relative newcomer to the fighting scene, she doesn't really know much about them. But cursory inspections can at least reveal a fair amount. The two sheaths on Nadine's legs stand out, for example. Katelynn is studied for a moment as well, Ayame's expression neutral. Now that the fight is about to begin, it's hard to tell what she's thinking about the whole thing.
Slowly she stretches, propping her staff up on the back of both of her shoulders and resting her hands lazily over it at the wrists. Another three way FFA. This is her second one since entering the leagues. She learned a couple lessons from the last one that will definitely factor into this one though.
"Heya," she offers with a nod of her head, lowering her staff back down to her left as the cameras get rolling. She seems amicable enough at least! Hopping back as the start of the match is called, Ayame leaps up on top of one of the medium height buildings nimbly. Her empty right hand reaches up behind her shoulder, pulling a foot long metal tube from a sheath angled along her back. It looks almost vaguely like a flute, with a number of holes running along its surface. But this thing isn't for playing music...
Turning toward Katelynn from her height vantage, Ayame gets a somewhat unplesant smile on her face as she brings her mouth to the top end of the tube. Blowing into one end of it, a soft whistle accompanies six metal darts launching out of the holes, bearing in on the karate user at great speed!
COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Ayame's Medium Fling.
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A fighter who likes to whistle while she works. Something interesting, but then again to each their own. Nonetheless, Katelynn raises her guard and deflects the incoming darts, barely feeling anything as they strike her forearm. As soon as the last one hits the ground, Katelynn shakes her head.
"Nice try, but no cigars," The Shotokan fighter says with a sly smirk, but she doesn't attempt to attack Ayame. Instead, she turns to face Nadine.
"I always say, move in sequence, so from her to me to you," She says with a grin as she immediately brings her left leg up at a fast rate, aiming the heel of her boot at Nadine's stomach.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn successfully hits Nadine with Light Kick.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Nadine
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Katelynn 0/-------/------=|
Interesting trick. Nadine can definitely see the value in concealed weapons like that. She tends to stick to just a couple, of course, but extra darts or knives is always a plus - that, and it was an interesting piece of equipment.
"I don't," Nadine says, her face shifting into a slight scowl as Katelynn approaches. She shifts to a more alert stance, bringing both hands up, still unarmed.
She attempts to interpose one of those arms between Katelynn's foot and her stomach, but it whistles past her guard and strikes her reasonably hard - enough to back her up a step or two toward one of the buildings. Nadine doubles over from the blow - but it's at least partially a feint, and she comes up fast, one knife leaving her hand immediately. A gust of wind follows it, hard enough to strip leaves from a tree; it propels the knife straight toward Katelynn as well as hopefully driving her back.
Katelynn's ability to defend against the darts is studied as Ayame pays close attention to her blocking pattern that manages to account for each of the six projectiles. "Hn. Not too bad." she admits. "But I'm not here for cigars." Not wanting to expend the only remaining volley in the weapon just yet, the girl flips the pipe back up over her shoulder and back into its sheath as Kate goes for Nadine with a kick instead of trying to get her back just yet.
The exchange of attacks between Nadine and Katelynn are observed and she thinks she sees an opportunity present itself to slip in something through the brown haired girl's defenses after having observed them in action against her dart.
Hopping down off the tower to close ground toward Katelynn, the girl slips her now empty hand down to her belt, pulling out a butterfly knife from a concealed sheath sewn into her wide belt and flipping it open smoothly. By the time her feet touch the ground, the weapon is already glinting in the sunlight as she stabs outward, aiming to give Katelynn a little surprise in the side of her ribs at the same time she's having to deal with Nadine's incoming blade. "How's this try?" she asks mid-stab.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Ayame's Quick Strike.
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn catches Zephyr Lance from Nadine with Palm Blaster.
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As the knife comes at Katelynn, she raises her arm to deflect it away from her, aiming more for the hand that Ayame is holding the knife with rather than the actual blade. The impact still gets her, but just barely. Right after doing that, Katelynn twists her upper body to the side while sending a chi-powered palm strike at Nadine, which pretty much nullifies the incoming attack while returning the favor a little. It seems Katelynn's on a roll right now.
Nadine used the delay to get some distance between herself and Katelynn. She's not sticking around for Katelynn to slap at her knives, something that she thinks is less than intelligent at the best of times.
Instead, Nadine hits a small building at a run and ascends it, flipping up to perch at the top like a giant monster. She just stays up there, looking down and letting the others go at it for a few moments; from here she has an unrivalled view of the battlefield, unless she wants to climb up to one of the /taller/ buildings.
Hmm...
COMBATSYS: Nadine focuses on her next action.
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Again Katelynn's defenses hold solid, the karate fighter doing plenty well at fending off attacks from both directions. "Che," Ayame grunts, pulling her right hand back to flip the butterfly knife closed and return it to its sideways sheath in her belt.
Nadine gets an opportunity to take to the high ground that the buildings offer, but Ayame is closer to Kate and convinced that trying to fall back would leave her open to an attack from potentially both directions at once. Better to hold her ground for a little longer.
With her right hand now freed, it joins her left in gripping that long staff that has gone unused up until now. Whipping up one end of it, the girl plows over a whole forest's worth of little trees as she tries to catch Katelynn in the stomach with it before using the rebound to hop back with a spin and try to slam that same end into Katelynn's upper back in hopes of sending the other girl reeling!
COMBATSYS: Katelynn endures Ayame's Medium Strike.
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Seeing the incoming attack gives Katelynn an idea. It's gonna hurt more than it should, but that's all part of the plan. She braces herself for the impact, meaning that when Ayame hits her, she's hit with full force, but the impact causes her to twist to the side a little. Again, all part of her plan, since as she's twisting around, she attempts to grab Ayame from behind and throw her across the room, maybe into a building or two.
Nadine stays up on the building, perching there rather dangerously.
She watches unmoving for a few moments before deciding to join into the fight, although not with her own knives - she only has a limited number of those to throw, but she has plenty of other junk lying around. She grabs the top of the building, which comes to a rather severe point, and disattaches it (along with the ceiling, but who's counting) from the building.
Then she throws the whole thing like a javelin, straight toward Ayame's back, right at about the level of her shoulderblades.
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Ayame with Power Fling.
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Ayame 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nadine
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn successfully hits Ayame with Quick Throw.
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Ayame 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Nadine
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Katelynn gets struck by her staff just as Ayame had intended. So much for her rock solid defenses now! It's only at the last second that she realizes the girl was willing to take the hit in order to strike her back with something fast. Stepping back swiftly, the girl tries to get out of range only to be caught off guard by a hurtling building top that stabs her hard in the back, provoking a pained gasp and leaving her easy for Katelynn to catch and slam backward into the side of one of the buildings, smashing in a side of it and sending legos flying out in a shower of plastic rubble down around the street as Ayame slumps a little.
Landing on her feet still, the girl reaches over her back and pulls the sharp object out, hissing in pain as she leaves the wound to bleed severely. Tightening her hands around her staff, the girl bunkers down against the building, glaring up over her shoulder toward Nadine, but not ignoring Katelynn entirely either. She's still stuck somewhat in the middle, which is pretty much the last place she wanted to be, but for right now, she stands her ground.
COMBATSYS: Ayame focuses on her next action.
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Katelynn 0/-------/---====|
Seeing how Ayame is on the defensive right now, Katelynn decides to turn her attention back to Nadine. Having just succeeded in a double-team (albeit indirectly,) Katelynn decides to remind the assassin that there are no real teams in this match, and anything truly goes. Bringing her right hand back, she focuses her chi into it, and then thrusts it at Nadine in the form of a bluish sphere.
COMBATSYS: Nadine dodges Katelynn's Energy Fist.
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Nadine is not really an assassin, although she might be some day. You never know with Kurow.
Nadine drops down behind the building when she sees the energy ball coming at her, and it passes through where she was only moments ago. She stays hanging on the back of the building, hesitating for a couple seconds as she considers her best plan of attack.
The entire building sways a moment later as Nadine throws herself away from it, twisting in midair to get her feet on another building and push off. That entire building falls apart where she gets her boot on it, but Nadine herself rockets toward Katelynn, holding a knife in each hand as she dives.
Left on her own, the long haired girl watches the exchange of attacks thoughtfully. She's thus far observed a manipulation of the air currents from Nadine and a pulsing, non-descript energy strike from Katelynn. Hn. Nadine's tactics strike her as somewhat similar as her own, whereas Katelynn follows more traditional techniques that Ayame has seen elsewhere.
Pushing away from the building as the other two go after each other, Ayame follows Nadine's trajectory through the air as the blonde foreigner goes for the other fighter with a bladed dive. Tightening her grip on her polearm, she presses another concealed button near the center and from the high end three blades slip out with an accompanying hydraulic hiss. Rotating into positions ninety degrees from each other, they form a sort of small bladed cross at that end.
And while they slip out, the Asian teen is already charging forward, attempting to slip into Nadine's trajectory just behind her in order to lash out with a powerful, two handed swing aimed to slam and stab the bladed end of the staff into the knife user's side the moment her feet touch down if she isn't able to correct for it in time.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn interrupts Fierce Strike from Nadine with Energy Fist.
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Ayame 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Nadine
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As Nadine comes at Katelynn, the Karate fighter is already bringing her fist back for another Energy Fist, apparently momentarily forgetting that she just did that and her opponent dodged. But in this case, it actually does some good, and her attack hits its mark, although Nadine hits Katelynn as well. It leaves her feeling dazed and a little bloodied too.
COMBATSYS: Ayame successfully hits Nadine with Fierce Strike.
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Katelynn 0/-------/---====|
Simultaneously, Nadine is hit with two things she'd rather not be - a flying ball of energy, although she manages to strike Katelynn with her knives first, and a bladed staff.
Nadine does not recover from this well. She rolls, hitting the ground and plowing a trail through the tiny Lego men until she hits one of the buildings. The whole thing vibrates, but does not fall. She scrambles to her feet, somewhat dazed but not stopped yet.
She does not hold her fire either. Nadine comes up with a knife in her left hand and flings it at Katelynn despite the distance; a gust of wind picks it up and accelerates it, spinning through the air.
Her staff strikes as intended and Ayame leans back, taking a couple steps to backup as Nadine is forced to cope with the double strikes she's had to deal with this round just like Ayame had to previously. The three blades are retracted into the pole, returning it to its normal, non-bladed state. She can do a lot more with it in that mode... the blades are usually more for scare tactics than superior technique with her mastery of the bo.
The blades retracted, Ayame takes up a position next to one of the buildings. Slamming one end of the staff hard into the side of the plastic replica, she wedges the weapon in tightly and lets go of it, freeing up both of her hands for a moment.
Her right hand slips to a reel affixed to the right side of one of her belts while her left hand slips into her pouch to pull out a pointed metal weight. Left alone for a couple of seconds, the girl has time to quickly assemble a rope dart - a pointed weight at the end of a six foot long wire-thin cable.
Twirling it over her head a couple of times, it isn't long before she swings it out /hard/, aiming to nail Katelynn in the side of the head at the same time as Nadine's spinning knife is going to have to be dealt with. This fight has weighed heavily on reacting to two things at once, and this moment is no different!
COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Nadine's Zephyr Dart.
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COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Ayame's Medium Fling.
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Sometimes the best offense is a good defense. Just ask Katelynn, who utilizes her defensive skills against both projectile attacks, deflecting them, albeit slightly painfully, away. She then steps back a little and realizes that she's overexerting herself a little. She pauses to use a little chi for a personal trick she's learned: She uses the chi to quench her thirst and help her regain her breath.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn gains composure.
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Nadine finally speaks. "Taking a break?" Nadine says, inching around the building she was standing in front of before finally moving all the way behind it, using it as cover for a few moments. "I don't really approve. You're really rather uninteresting to fight - generic style, there's nothing to learn from."
She bends down, hidden, feeling at the base of the Lego building. There's only a few really important support locations; Nadine very carefully dislodges all of them. The building vibrates a little. There is little other sign of what she's doing as she stands up, holding her arms wide before snapping them forward.
The building explodes as Nadine lets off a tornado in the center of it, blocks exploding outward before being caught in the wind and pulling back in, individual pieces bouncing off one another and conglomerations of blocks breaking apart in the windstorm. With a grunt, Nadine pushes forward, and the tornado rockets forward, shredding at Katelynn with winds and tiny chunks of Lego.
Again Katelynn manages to defend herself with admireable precision, much to Ayame's chagrin. The rope dart is spun over her head into a tight coil which she then hangs from a hook on her belt, leaving the weight to dangle against her leg. Her hands once again freed up, she keeps a wary eye on Nadine, watching for what the other girl is up to, listening carefully to what she might be doing behind the concealing building. Setting up something, but what?
She laughs lightly at Nadine's analysis of Katelynn's style and shakes her head, "She does have a point. Tired already?" she asks, glancing toward Kate briefly. And then the tower explodes and Ayame braces to hop to the side, only to find that it isn't necessary. Whew!
Pulling her own staff out of the tower in which she wedged it, Ayame charges toward Katelynn, careful not to place herself in harm's way of the whirling wind storm. "Impressive," she mumbles thoughtfully. She's going to have to watch out for Nadine's capabilities in a bit, but for right now, she's dead set on getting a clean hit on Katelynn for a change.
The staff is what the karate user has to deal with once again as Ayame swings low for the back of her knees, trying to break her stance, then swings it back around again for a slam against her stomach before hopping backward and jabbing it out like a long, dull lance, attempting to shove the butt of it into Katelynn's side. If successful, she ends in that pose, with the staff held out at length, pausing for a second.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Ayame's Random Weapon.
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COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Katelynn with Iron Cyclone.
- Power hit! -
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Absorbing the staff attack from Ayame is no problem, but Nadine gets Katelynn good with that tornado style attack. She's sent sailing across the room and knocks over a few buildings. Good thing they're just toys, otherwise it would be a nightmare to clean them all up. Still, Katelynn dusts herself off, albeit a bit bloodied, and shakes the dizziness from her head.
Without wasting a single beat, Katelynn steps over to Nadine and attempts to drop and deliver a foot sweep--
Oh oh! Watch out Nadine, since just before the sweep hits, Katelynn pauses and then pivots around to deliver the actual sweep with her other foot!
COMBATSYS: Nadine dodges Katelynn's Feint Sweep.
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Some of those blocks went a /long/ way - up, along, whichever. A few continue to rain down erratically around Nadine and Katelynn as the karateka approaches.
"No words?" Nadine asks, backhanding one of the falling chunks away from her, backing up. "Fine. I don't see a point in wasting time on /you/, you're barely worth my effort - "
She runs forward, leaping over the feint and sweep - right over Katelynn entirely, in fact. Nadine lands just on the other side, keeps running crosswise to Ayame, and tosses one of her two knives at her side.
Whether it hits or misses, it vibrates alarmingly for a moment, then flies back to Nadine on a gust of wind, although it did not accelerate due to one in the first place.
COMBATSYS: Ayame overcomes Medium Fling from Nadine with Large Thrown Object.
- Power hit! -
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Finding Katelynn's defenses holding up even more, Ayame back peddles away from her just as the assault from Nadine strikes the karate user who then goes back after her. Whew. The long haired girl retreats back to the skyline then, feeling more comfortable with trusty buildings at her back rather than, like, a knife, it lets her follow the other two fighters without having to watch out for back attacks.
And when it comes time to deal with the incoming knife... The girl decides to fall back on total overkill. Gripping the metal staff tightly, Ayame steps out and to the side, no longer even in the blade's path, then takes a meaty swing at the top half of one of the skyscrapers, scattering legos in every direction. But a large chunk of the upper half stays intact and goes flying right back at Nadine, more than handily deflecting the dagger from it's path as well as threatening to strike her solidly if she's caught off guard by the city destroying attack!
Katelynn is not having that great of a time right now, especially when her favorite attack is dodged fully by Nadine. And she's starting to exert herself more and more. She decides now is time for another breather, seeing how if she keeps this up, she's likely to pass out...
COMBATSYS: Katelynn gains composure.
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COMBATSYS: Nadine dodges Ayame's Large Thrown Object.
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Throwing knives? Typical.
Having knives dodged? Equally typical.
Having someone smack the knife away by using a staff like a baseball bat to send half a goddamn skyscraper (admittedly, made out of Legos) at you? Priceless.
Despite her best attempts at looking cool under fire, Nadine's eyes widen when the building is batted at her, and she ducks low, rushing forward and under it. It almost isn't enough; the chunk comes close enough to ruffle her hair and nearly bounces off her heel as she continues to run forward. Not at Ayame, though.
At Katelynn, who doesn't seem to be taking this seriously at all. Nadine throws herself at the woman, holding one arm straight out so that she catches Katelynn's neck at about her elbow; she uses this lever to attempt to swing herself around while choking the woman, driving her heels into the small of Katelynn's back.
Plus, maybe this means Katelynn will be used as a shield for Ayame's next attack.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn counters Savage Combo from Nadine with Palm Blaster.
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Whew. Ayame wipes her arm along her brow. That was a pretty nifty defense, if she does think so herself. Even if it was kind of over the top, sometimes it's fun to just play giant monster and wreck a building or few! Even if it doesn't hit Nadine, Ayame got what she wanted out of the action anyway, which is reflected in her quiet, satisfied grin. But now it's back to other matters.
The blonde speeds toward Katelynn, and like usual, Ayame decides to use this as an opportunity to get an attack in if at all possible. Concentrating for a moment, the girl finally channels chi into her staff, demonstrating her energy manipulation for the first time in this fight. A muted, green, earthy color courses along the weapon before solidifying for a moment into a non-translucent, weighty mass.
It's about that time that the girl begins swinging the now heavier weapon at Katelynn, going for a strike against each of her elbows and her knees, before slamming the weighted staff into her gut, trying to take her down for the count if possible. Either way, the green energy fades away after the combination, leaving the staff its ordinary shiny self once again.
COMBATSYS: Katelynn blocks Ayame's Requiem For Fallen Blossoms.
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Utilizing careful defense, Katelynn blocks the incoming staff attack, after interrupting Nadine's effort with a palm blaster. She steps back and lets out a 'whew!' She then makes a remark to herself about how this really gets the heart going.
Nadine does not launch very far this time, even though the impact is quite painful. She drops almost right in front of Katelynn, breathing hard - and steps back, giving a slightly mocking salute with one hand while the other holds across her stomach. That /hurt/, more than she's going to let on.
"Have at," she directs Ayame, gesturing with one knife at Katelynn. Well, it seems like she's already doing that; she barely needs the direction!
COMBATSYS: Nadine gains composure.
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Again Katelynn proves to be impervious to the attacks Ayame has sent her way, fending off the series of staff strikes without getting dropped like the girl had hoped, while also dealing with Nadine's assault. "You don't say much, and you do just stand there a lot, but I can't deny the fact that you're rather rugged." the girl admits, tapping her staff against her shoulder thoughtfully.
Means she's just going to have to pick up speed against her, Ayame decides, whirling the staff down and around again as if to strike Katelynn, only to wiff intentionally and spin her entire body around into a swift kick to the girl's side instead, attempting to get something in past her guard for a change.
COMBATSYS: Ayame successfully hits Katelynn with Light Kick.
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Katelynn is hit in the side and sent staggering across the room, crashing into a model of the Empire State building. She hits her head rather hard, and is a bit dazed. Not to mention she's also bleeding from her head, which is why several SNF staff doctors quickly enter the area and check on her. After a brief examination, she's helped out, apparently declared unable to fight anymore.
But it was still a good fight on her part while it lasted...
COMBATSYS: Katelynn has left the fight here.
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Nadine 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\0 Ayame
"Well," Nadine says. "It looks like you're better at this than I expected." Big words, given how battered Nadine is by now - but she's still concious, she's feeling a little better than she was just a few moments ago, and that's all she needs to at least try for victory, no matter how unlikely it seems at this point.
Nadine holds one knife up, edging forward and back a couple times as if about to attack - but she doesn't, at least not for a few seconds. When it does come it's rather sudden, a jerky thrust that somehow expels the knife and sends it blasting across the area at Ayame, winds picking up behind it and accelerating it to new heights.
COMBATSYS: Ayame fails to counter Zephyr Lance from Nadine with Weapon Jab.
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Nadine 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\1 Ayame
The kick for Katelynn wasn't really intended to be fight ending material. Mostly just trying to slip an attack in to work her down slowly. But sometimes results don't turn out as intended, and that's the lesson here as the karate user gets clonked out after stumbling into the building. "Huh," is Ayame's response, sounding a little bewildered as she turns to face Nadine instead.
Lowering into a defensive stance with her staff, the girl watches the incoming knife and aims to deal with it like she does so many other objects thrown her way. Deflecting it away with her staff. But the movement isn't a natural trajectory, manipulated by wind as it is, and her timing is thrown off just enough to fail in deflecting the attack at the last moment, leaving her gashed hard by the energy laced weapon. A red streak torn across her torso, Ayame winces a little before bunkering down a bit. Hmn. Energy in projectiles... she'll have to keep that idea in mind.
Wind counts as energy, right?
Nadine lets the knife arc back to her hand; she picks it out of the air almost delicately, flipping it back up before holding it the right way round instead of pointing backwards down her arm.
Maybe she does have a chance after all. Nadine inches forward, leaving the ranged attacks alone for a moment. She looks like she's going to thrust with her left hand, keeping it held point-first.
She does not. Instead Nadine moves forward and grabs, righthanded, for Ayame's arm; she moves in such a way as to twist it painfully, forcing her to move with the backwards bending of her elbow to a more advantageous, less comfortable position.
COMBATSYS: Ayame interrupts Medium Throw from Nadine with Harvest's Reaper.
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Nadine 0/-------/-======|=======\==-----\1 Ayame
Bracing herself, Ayame is ready as Nadine comes in to deliver a more direct assault, bringing the fight in close and personal. A versatile fighter, the long haired Asian is comfortable at fighting at nearly any range in the battle field, which she proves with a decisive retaliation. Her defense isn't perfect. There's certainly holes in it, as Nadine gets a hold of her right arm and tests it painfully.
It makes the first retaliatory strike somewhat awkard, but Ayame is comfortable using her staff one handed when she has to. Even left handed. Red, bright chi flares along the weapon, glowing with enough force to reflect a red hue off of the two girls as Ayame swings it upward and then to the side at an angle, jamming it against her opponent's stomach with enough force to pry herself free.
A second swipe comes from the other end of the weapon with enough force to take the two light weights into the air. Rising up with the European girl, Ayame hefts her staff up over her head before slamming the whole length of the weapon down on Nadine's shoulder to drive her back to the ground.
Dropping into a forward flip herself, the girl lands in a crouch, head bowed, staff held out at her side as she exhales slowly, having had to exert a lot of effort into the chi laced attack. The red begins to fade, dimming swiftly as she stops channeling power into the metal weapon. Slowly she raises to standing, her back aching fiercely from the hard gouge Nadine landed earlier on.
Nadine goes up - then down, planting into the ground face-first as the lift stops and she's slammed back down by the club on her shoulder.
She stays down for several seconds, looking as if she is going to stay there indefinitely, possibly unconcious or nearly so. Only after five seconds on her front, an uncomfortable position, does Nadine roll into her side, winds dancing around her.
Nadine pushes herself the rest of the way up slowly and painfully, winds still rising and tugging at her hair and skirt. She flicks her hand in Ayame's direction, an almost lazy motion, and the winds move away from her, the small tornado picking up discarded Lego and gathering it into itself. Doing this almost knocks Nadine out, and she staggers back, barely upright.
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Ayame with Rolling Storm.
- Power hit! -
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Nadine 0/-------/--=====|=======\====---\1 Ayame
Ayame takes the time Nadine is down to try and catch her breath. The fight has gone a long time by the young fighter's standards, and by now she's really starting to feel it catching up with her. When the energy storm comes whirling toward her, she braces behind her staff, trying to fight against the driven, whirling wind, but it wraps right around her weapon and bashes against her all the same, sending the light weight girl stumbling backward, falling down atop a poor collection of trees meant to represent Central Park.
It wouldn't be so bad if some of them don't break so easily beneath the girl, and instead jab up into her back, aggrivating already aching muscles and the wound Nadine caused earlier. "A-ah!" the girl gasps, rolling over to her side with a wince and getting back up to her feet to whirl around and face Nadine.
"I admit I wanted to see more of your style in action, but I'm afraid I'm going to need to finish this fight now..." As she speaks she begins spinning the staff in front of her, red, vibrant energy coursing along it once again. Faster and faster she turns it, the chi begining to blur, forming an opaque, red shield in front of the girl.
But it isn't a defensive technique for long as eventually the girl unleashes the entire built up collection of chi back at Nadine, sending it streaking out as a wide crescent swath of red, angry energy for the nimble fighter to deal with.
COMBATSYS: Nadine dodges Ayame's Final Sunset.
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Nadine 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Ayame
Nadine is on the verge of collapse. She is mostly staying up by sheer will at this point, that and stubbornness; Nadine is not about to let some no-name karateka and a low-class thug (because that's what Ayame looks like to her) defeat Nadine Kennicot without some serious effort.
Nadine's reaction to the projectile is to immediately take cover. The only things to hide behind are Lego, of course, but there's plenty of that; she half-darts, half-staggers to the closest building and presses against it, letting the energy blast into it and shower her with debris. They're going to /hate/ cleaning all this stuff up.
Still hiding behind the ruins, slouched over to present a smaller target, Nadine cranes around to flick a knife around the corner. A tiny push of wind corrects her aim and makes the weapon tumble in flight, spinning end over end over end.
COMBATSYS: Ayame dodges Nadine's Medium Fling.
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Nadine 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Ayame
Releasing the massive wave of damage, Ayame exhales, feeling exhausted. She poured the rest of her channeled chi into that final attack, convinced that it would do what was needed to resolve this fight once and for all. And as the debris of the destroyed structure rain down admist a cloud of smoke, the young thug, for that IS what she is, watches, expecting to see the other girl lying on the ground in the aftermath.
It is with a blink that she realizes Nadine somehow slipped out of the range of fire, in spite her trying to time it JUST right to keep that from happening... Brown eyes stray toward the skyline just in time to notice the little knife following a very unnatural out and around the corner before spinning her way. Gritting her teeth, Ayame gets to the side just in time to avoid getting struck by the flying blade. "This is getting out of hand," the girl murmurs.
While her left hand remains on the staff, her right hand goes to her belt, slipping out the butterfly knife she tried to stab Katelynn with earlier. Flipping it up, the girl charges forward, slamming her staff down to use it as a pole vault to help her leap up and over the building Nadine is hiding behind before dropping straight down and attempting to sink a final stab into the first viable target!
COMBATSYS: Nadine dodges Ayame's Quick Strike.
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Nadine 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Ayame
Nadine, by the time Ayame gets there, is no longer there.
She is on the move again, although she cannot go far anymore; she has only gone to the next building over, and even that hurt her. There certainly isn't much left in her.
What there is left in her is enough energy to bring her arms up, thrusting forward and releasing another burst of air. This one is not a tornado as such; it /is/ a spinning mass of air, but it is parallel to the ground instead of perpendicular, more of a beam emitting from Nadine's hand than anything else.
"You can give up if you want," she manages to say over the sound of it, having caught the 'out of hand' comment. Barely.
COMBATSYS: Ayame dodges Nadine's Rolling Storm.
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Nadine 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Ayame
Landing after her small, sharp blade slashes through only empty air, Ayame exhales a bit. Yeah, she's running out of steam here. Chasing Nadine around isn't really what she had in mind. And really, unlike what most fighters might consider, the prospects of just giving up are weighed heavily. Victory really doesn't mean much to her other than a ceasation in getting hurt or having to run around anymore... and giving up offers the same nice perks!
But thinking and moving are two things she can handle just fine, eyes narrowing as Nadine charges up another burst of chi for her to deal with. Erk! This time Ayame puts on more speed to avoid it than she was even sure she had, hand pushing out to press against the building in order to shove herself into a roll /away/ from the building and out of the way of the incoming spinning air mass. "That's a very generous offer..." the girl replies.
Coming up on her feet in a crouch, the girl drops the butterfly knife and staff to the ground at her sides, freeing up both of her hands as she leaps up on her feet and CHARGES Nadine, attempting to slam her left arm across her neck like a bar while slipping in behind her and locking her into a sleeper hold, clasping her hands on top of each other to cinch it in if possible. "...only fair I make the same gesture to you!"
COMBATSYS: Ayame successfully hits Nadine with Quick Throw.
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Nadine 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Ayame
Nadine is, as much as she doesn't want to admit it, about out of it, and concentrating to maintain the blast of chi is difficult and rather attention-consuming. She weaves to the side, but it's too little too late; Ayame catches her in a sleeper hold.
Red-faced, Nadine realizes she doesn't have much time to either break the hold or knock Ayame out - just a few seconds, in fact. She twists around slightly, bringing up her foot and then brings it down solidly toward Ayame's instep. That's really a distraction for her to twist the /other/ way and elbow her in the gut.
By the end of that, though, Nadine is fading...she falls, although whether Ayame still has a grip on her is open to debate.
COMBATSYS: Nadine can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Ayame dodges Nadine's Light Kick.
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Tired, perspiring, gasping for breath, Ayame manages to cinch the hold, catching the otherwise remarkably fast girl in a moment of weakness after having exherted so much energy into generating the storm that would have done the long haired bandit in for sure.
Behind her, she locks the hold tightly, backing her feet up to avoid being an easy target for retaliation. Expecting maybe a desperate stab backward or some other last ditch attack to leave her bloody, she predicts Nadine's movement in time to avoid the foot stomp and when Nadine tries to elbow her, the girl shoves the Brit forward and hops back out of range of the strike, landing in a crouch, one hand and knee pressing against the ground.
Brown eyes watch the other fighter intensely for a long moment as if expecting even more attacks. Nadine had proven herself to be a thinking fighter. A challenge to face both mentally as well as a test of skill and speed. Just how Ayame likes it. "Not bad," comes her version of a compliment as she slowly pushes herself up to her feet. Nadine's dexterity with knife throwing definitely exeeds her own, she ponders, walking over to collect her staff and knife.
The staff is collapsed back down to a harmless looking half-foot long tube and tucked away in its pouch and the knife sheathed as well before Ayame rests her hands behind her neck. A glance to the side and a mischievious grin are the precursors to the girl kicking out hard into the side of one of the buildings, knocking the tower over on its neighbors before she saunters off. Hey, how often does one get to be a destroyer of cities, huh?!
COMBATSYS: Ayame has ended the fight here.
Log created on 21:42:27 12/28/2007 by Ayame, and last modified on 18:59:14 01/01/2008.