Description: Long after Jinchuu has ended the scars it left have finally healed, this ship is sunk, the posters faded and peeled and the nightmare is finally forgotten. On such a sunny day Himeko finds herself leaving the library after a particularly pleasant study session to find herself revisited by the horrors of the recent past. Is it truly over? Will it ever truly end?
It's a brisk, partly cloudy day in ol' Southtown, late in the afternoon which means that school is out and, for some people, training is in!! These days there's one particular girl who's always ecstatic about being -out- of school now, a very unusual change for a bookworm, but a change nontheless.
Southtown Village isn't very bustling, there are students headed to the mall or to the tea shop, trying to get to anyplace that's just.. Well. Warmer than out here! But a certain pink-clad girl, the girl known as HURRICANE HIME is just bursting out of the library with a bookbag on her shoulder and dark scarf flapping wildly behind her. "OK! So I need to get onto my training, teach Blanket-san a bit more phonics, and then head home to finish my homework, easy peasy!" Hime cries to herself, almost a blurr as she races past all that are taller than her a big grin on her face. Training has been pretty kind to her, but the holidays have been even kinder, making her perhaps one of the happiest high schoolers in japan! Fo rizzle.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Himeko has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Himeko
"Sagitta Minor!"
A cry, from high above the library. Turning as many on the street much, they would see a sudden flurry of dangerously sharp darts hurtling through the air from an unrevealed attacker. Gasps sound from around the street, but the target is clear, one Hime whom one moment was gleefully parading around her books and then the next, the target for a random assault. Or maybe not so random. The figure, now visible only just from the roof of the building watches their darts fly dangerously toward Hime before vanishing over the edge. It's hard to say who they are wearing an actual black cloak and then..
The cloak flutters to the ground followed by a shadow cast as the figure leaps off the roof and with the broom she is riding on, the red witch slows her descent enough to land without hurting herself. She adjusts her shades to look unreadably at Himeko, her expression even, blank.
"Agent of Jinchuu, IT IS TIME FOR YOUR NEXT MATCH."
COMBATSYS: Himeko dodges Naerose's Sagitta Minor.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Himeko
Zooooooo- SCREEEECH! The young heroine comes to a halt, and then raises a hand to her chin, stroking it lightly. ".. Sagitta Minor? That sounds kind of familia- WOAH!"
Hime twists almost at the last moment to see the darts flying her way, and with a very dramatic LEAP backward, complete with triple-camera backflip action, she manages to avoid the destructive destruction... And how! When she lands, she actually sweatdrops as she sees where she once stood a pretty impressive crater, lightly smoking into the cool air.
Agent of Jinchuu? Was it that time again already? Or wait a minute, "Hold on a second, that tournament is looooooong over, lady!" She jabs a pointer finger to the witch. "There isn't a next match... There isn't a next match at all! Go home, I say, lest I whup thine buttocks in the most nerfarious manner!"
"Pip pip and all that!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko takes no action.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Himeko
"Your match parameters are DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY, that is all, but can you do it without accidentally harming an innocent? Can you ? Agents of Jinchuu?"
The witch asks with a dramatic finger point at Himeko. The gesture is not left to hang in the air. Instead with a sudden jolt the witch springs off her foot and in a street of red launches herself at Himeko, twirling her broom around to bring it finally in a sweeping swing toward the book worm's midsection. No question here, this wide ark is an attack.
"Yeee-ya!"
One thing that can be discerned by this attack, it is aimed with the intend to draw blood, Naerose gives no mercy here as she makes the heavy swing. No grin. no smile. Just a unreadble look behind a pair of round black shades.
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Naerose's Clean Sweep.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Himeko
"Huh??!"
Ok, this has gone from weird to weirder for the young heroine.. She was certain at first she was facing off against the crazy witch Naerose but this time.. This time she seemed different somehow, it was weird, a twist that she hadn't expected!
"H- Hey, I'm not ready to be taking a dangerous test like that, who are you!" Hime demands as she reaches into her bookbag and whips out her trusty textbook. It's a close call but somehow she manages to raise it over her head so the broom slams down onto it, saving her from certain death?
"This is crazy! It looks like this is the time.. That the people need me the most, I'll show you who I am! Take this!" She tears out three pages from her book and tosses them into the air as she springs backward. "Answer me!" The papers take a bright glow, and then shoot down like darts toward the witch!
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Himeko's Art Attack.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Himeko
A slip of paper is not a match for a broom stick, so the witch decides the best defense is to just block the incoming attack, holding her stick across her body, but paper fragments still cut her as it ricochets off her broom. Her red painted lips tighten just a little and one can imagine a glare behind those shades, if they could see her eyes. . A moment later and there is no guessing left, the eyes are still totally devoid of any readable emotion.
"Jinchuu is the revenge, the earthly justice. It is never over. It is time for your match, AGENT OF JINCHUU."
The witch doesn't move though, instead she digs a heel and fixes her shades to watch her opponent carefully.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Himeko
Hurricane Hime sweatdrops a little as she shakes her head, "Man.. You've got to be kidding me this is really nuts!" the girl mumbles to herself, using her book to hide the lower half of her face. She thought it was some sort of trick but.. Now she's not so sure, she wouldn't put it past the Jinchuu director to brainwash people after all! "Shoot.. Well I guess I don't have any choice. I guess there's only one way to really put an end to all of this, and that's through a fight, I'll beat you by any means necessary- Oh and! Get my name right!"
Hime strikes a series of poses, as the group of people just stare at the going ons. "I'm going to need some help! I need Hurricane Power! NOW!" the little Hurricane cries as she reaches up into the air. "HooaaaAAAH!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko gathers her will.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Himeko
Oddly enough, the witch lets Himeko grapple with the reality of her situation, not really bothering to speak. She doesn't seem concerned with the assessment of the situation, is she right? Is she wrong? Naerose gives no indication either way, she just remains tight lipped in silence and then once a bit of power starts to form, as if a statue coming to life the red clad woman moves. First she starts a couple steps quickly darting over the pavement and then she plants her broom and wheels to her side, giving a solid side kick toward Himeko. While not terribly close the kick lacks in power and makes up in range, the point of the attack coming with the heel of her boots, aimed to gouge at the girl's hip. The attack, like all others are serious business.
"Ya-ah!" exclaims the witch
COMBATSYS: Himeko endures Naerose's Light Kick!
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\0 Himeko
There aren't a lot of times that Hime will allow any sort of strike to hit her if she can help it, heck even her tactics need a little work sometimes, but while Naerose's kick isn't lethal? It's fast, and she's seen some fast attacks! She can't get her book down in time so the most she can do is try to get things to work in her favor. "Hey! Snap out of it, will you!" she cries.
The heel lands spot on, she gives a loud yelp of pain is it tears into her outfit and digs a bit into her flesh, strong enough to knock her back; but even as she falls back, she's already making the motions to roll backward once, and then is on her feet again, "Ok, take two!" She gasps with a wince, flinging forth a 'rope' of paper from her thigh holster in hopes of getting it to wrap about Naerose's ankle. If she gets the hold, she'd snap it like a whip, the shockwave traveling forward, and then would sling the witch into the air and back onto the ground sharply!
COMBATSYS: Naerose fails to interrupt Picture Pages from Himeko with Darkness Nova.
- Power fail! -
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Himeko
The rope is sent witch way and she doesn't move, she watches it wrap around her leg and seems content to let the attack do it's thing. She does eventually reach down in an attempt to grab the rope and tug her opponent with it, figuring every rope can go either way. So she pulls and gets pulled and falls over on her backside with a thunk. She lets out a gasp of pain and then starts to kick and try to get the paper off, curling up a little in an attempt to untangle herself. It takes a moment to do anything at all with that bizarre paper.
Meanwhile there is a strange darkness that was gathering in her other hand, almost like a handful of gravity the way it attracts the light, but it's lost in a flash when she hits the ground.
Hime doesn't know Naerose's attacks well, but she does know she's a little disappointed- The witch is a bit tangled up, but she won't be tangled up for too much longer, as the heroine can't keep it bound forever! But she's diappointed about the chi.. Dark? She was expecting something like.. Red!
"Hah! Ok, I'm going to snap you out of it good! Here I come!" She grunts, holding her injury a moment, then breaks out into a dash to close in the distance between herself and the witch. Biding her time, she then breaks out into Blanka-style, leaps into the air, tucks in her knees and then the human ball rockets toward the downed woman, "Justice ROLLING!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko successfully hits Naerose with Medium Punch.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Himeko
The witch tries to roll aside, her shades sliding down her nose enough to show a wide eyed stare before she gets hit straight on the side and gives a grunt of pain. After getting smacked by the attack she reaches out, trying to grab the hand that managed to hit her, but she doesn't try to throw Himeko, instead she just goes for pelting her with the broom across the head.
With the spinning attack the red clad woman uses the momentum to spin herself to her feet and once on her feet she brings herself into a ready stance with her broom held slightly behind herself.
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Naerose's Medium Strike.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Himeko
Oops a bit unlucky, and Hime seems to notice that a lot in her matches.. Though she doesn't view it as unlucky, but lacking skill! "I guess you're learning Saikyo can do a lot, it can protect people.. And it can probably unbrainwash people! It's all clear to me now.."
Hime whips her book up and behind her head, staggering forward a bit when the broom SLAMS up against it instead of her noggin, and there's a gleam in her eyes. "Yeah! This must be my ultimate fight! The ultimate test, I will overcome this dark force, YEAH!" Now she's pumped!
Hime dashes toward Naerose, leaps upward and then twirls almost like a drill; though it's really a butterfly kick, she hoping to smash three strong kicks across Naerose's mush, "Hurricane Kick!!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose dodges Himeko's Medium Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=======\=------\1 Himeko
This time the witch manages to get out of the way with a leap backward, letting the kicks hit nothing but air. Despite the monologue, she is unmoved, the witch is instead preparing for her next attack. A hand whips out toward Himeko as she seems to gather a great deal of energy, looking like she just had jolt.
"En Criento!" she cries and unleashes a flurry of whipping energy. She tries to blast Himeko into next week, it looks an explosion of just pour energy, whipping around and whipping wind all over and making her hat flutter, her dress flutter, her hair flutter. She's still standing there with one palm out, holding the pose after the flutter of breeze stops.
Then her fingers close, wisps of the energy escaping between them into the air around before being silenced suddenly. She lowers her hand and raises her broom and pushes her shades up her nose with the tip of her broom, leaning a little more to continue her assault.
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Naerose's End Creation.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|=======\==-----\1 Himeko
"What the?? What is this power??" Hime still can't say she gets it entirely, but she definatly doesn't recall seeing this kind of power before; in a way it actually looks REALLY COOL. But she will not be enticed; even as energy just whips, flings and just darn well explodes, Hime thrusts her hands outward, and her book comes to the rescue, the energy slamming into it and nudges her back a little, her scarf and hair blow back wildly until it comes to an ends, and she sets it down, looking a little winded, "W- What the heck.. Guess I'd better turn up the juice! Snap out of it, you crazy witch!"
Hurricane runs! She leaps to flip over Naerose as her paper rope is snapped outward again, and attempts to lasso that paper right about the witches neck. Once on the ground, one foot would set onto Naerose's back and she tugs and tugs, choking the girl until the rope breaks!
COMBATSYS: Naerose fails to interrupt Reading Rainbow from Himeko with Darkness Nova.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|=======\===----\1 Himeko
If at first you don't succeed.. Well the witch saw this attack and looks down at the paper rope while gathering blackness into her hand, light stealing blackness before she gets yanked down again and loses the power into a wisp of nothingness but bumps her head. Her hat goes rolling off her head and her shades need adjustment as the fall onto over her mouth. She has her eyes closed instantly, as serious as she is, she still closes her eyes as soon as her shades start to shift, not for even a moment does she allow her eyes to be seen. She fixes her shades, grabs her hat and places it back on her head and starts to get back to her feet.
Hurricane Hime is starting to think that whatever dark power Naerose is weilding, it may be a good idea to somehow avoid it at all costs.. At ANY COST. The rope breaks, Hime tumbles back and is on her feet with her fists quickly raised once more. "Darn that still wasn't enough was it?? I'll make things right, by any means necessary, you just... Wait and see!!"
Hime strikes another pose, this is more Sailor Moon like in manner with a hand on her hip and a 'v' sign over her eyes, plus a beaming grin! But then it was back to action, she kicking up into the air at nothingness. "Ok ok! Now I'm going to squeeze the evil out of you!" With a bunch of cards in each hand Hime springs forward and lounges out her palms, trying to set them on Naerose's hips. If it works, suddenly the witch is spinnig like a tornado, completely mummified by the paper as it squeezes tighter and tighter and tighter... until it explodes! "Uagh!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Himeko's Read All About It!.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|=======\====---\1 Himeko
Defending against this is really weird, there is the cards placed, but the witch only glances down at them, then glances up at Himeko. She finds herself spun around a bit and before long she decides to try and escape the attack by leaping into the air, one sleeve flings through the air while putting some distance between the two of them.
A flurry of ice darts come hurling into the air with a peppering sharp array of icicles toward Himeko, some imbedding themselves into the pavement, chipping concrete and going all around Himeko and maybe into her.
"Sagitta minor" the witch intones before skidding a little on the ground and dropping a little to use one hand to prevent herself from falling too far back. She straightens with a relentless look on her face. It's clear she's going to keep coming after Himeko.
COMBATSYS: Himeko fails to interrupt Sagitta Minor from Naerose with Mulligan Stew.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|=======\=====--\1 Himeko
"That again!!" Yeah the last time that hit, there was a pretty vicious explosion and even nastier results! If she lets this one put more distance between them, that puts Hime at a disadvantage. She's going to have to get hardcore, and get hardcore FAST. So the ice darts are raining down again, and she's swinging her paper rope like a lasso.
But when she slings it forward, it gets caught up in the blast, and the heroine's eyes widen as she's totally overwhelmed, "NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo-"
BWOOSH BWOOSH! Chunks of concrete fly into the air, papers go scattering everywhere and with an explosion of icey energy, there is steam, a thick cloud of steam.. And when it clears, there's Hurricane Hime laying on her back, huffing and puffing, tears in her adorable outfit, burn marks plastered over her form, and a bit of blood trickling from her mouth. It takes a moment, but she manages to open one eye and gasp, "N- Naerose.. S- Snap out of it. .. This.. This isn't you... It isn't... I know it.... You crazy fool..."
If the words have any impact on the witch, they don't show. Not at all. Her hat flutters a little in the aftermath of the little jumping maneuver. Her boots catch and skid just a short distance while she crouches and looks, stares, at Himeko. The full effect of this look, the which on one knee, both hands planted on the ground lightly by a few fingers, her broom under one hand. Slowly, the witch rises to her full height, she is not impressively tall, but with her broom in her hand and the relentlessly ready look on her face, her lips flat and her posture tilted toward her mark. Himeko.
Those people around who had saw the fight break out and at first might of come around to watch what would likely be an interesting match had long since gotten uncomfortable. By the way the witch was acting, like a predator, or worse, a machine. It also seemed just a little too serious, the kind of fight that resulted in people getting hurt. Innocent people. The witch meanwhile says just one thing, her face neutral,
"Are you ready for your next match, Agents of Jinchuu?"
Log created on 20:07:14 01/03/2008 by Naerose, and last modified on 00:57:20 01/07/2008.