Description: Sada wins! Kenji is shamed! Nadine is wet! Chouhatsu Densetsu is... OVERCOME?! (Winner: Sada)
Costumes.
Theme Battles.
His inability to find a girl that doesn't want to tear his head off just for being associated with Tenma Kiryuu.
These problems seem to have come to the attention of the organizers of Saturday Night Fight, and have decided to capitalize on the idea of the passions of youth, love, and fufilling a young man's dream as if this were a much more violent Make-A-Wish Foundation. And on this day, he needs not fly out across the Pacific, he doesn't need to go to the reaches of Wales-- he gets to have a good ol' fashioned hometown brawl in the good ol' Dream Amusement Park.
And so he stands at the entrance to the Tunnel of Love, given clothing to keep in style with the man who will be his legendary love coach, YAHOOIE~! -- in keeping with the master of his self-proclaimed "strongest style". It would look like his usual Gedo uniform, if not for the dominant colors being ... pink... and black. The coat of the student uniform falls down to nearly the knees with a high, seriously starched collar in a manner closer to the visual cliche of a school gang leader from a television show, and matching pants. Of course he has to wear a heavy black shirt, and he has to look as serious as possible doing it. Kanji is stitched into the back of the jacket, their translation firmly obvious to anyone that can read the Japanese language:
'LOVE TRAINEE'
With his parents at the barrier and his sister manning a digital camera, he knows for a fact this is going to be added to the list of things he'll never live down.
Pink.
Oh God, Pink.
The Color of Dan Hibiki, worn by Dan Hibiki, and trademarked even moreso by Dan Hibiki as Dan Hibiki stands ready to be Dan Hibiki over by the tunnel of love. DAN HIBIKI.
How has our glorious savior, Dan Hibiki, who in the mere act of being Dan Hibiki is qualified to be anything necessary from a dime-store physician to a full blown brain surgeon (named Dan Hibiki) come to pass as being a love coach for youths? It's simple really. There's no need for more than two words; Dan Hibiki.
So in the corner of Dream Amusement park, a place Dan Hibiki is intimately familiar with for their delicious cotton candy (pink of course), Dan Hibiki stands ready to teach Kenji with all sorts of things:
Books and baubles, potions in bottles, perfumes and scents. All this evidence pointing to the fact that Dan Hibiki is quite ready to take his job seriously. There is even a black duffel bag by his feet labeled in red duct tape 'Secret-Weapon!?!?!?' And embroidered on the back of DAN HIBIKI's Gi? A deep red heart with white lettering in the middle.... 'C O A C H'
Run, Kenji. Run, very fast.
Nadine debated just blowing off this SNF once she found out what it was. She has limits, tasteful limits. This is quite a bit outside them, especially with the addition of Dan. Seriously, who listens to Dan?
She didn't, though. She came anyway, mostly because she didn't exactly want them to get upset with her and ban her from further events for skipping out on this one, even if it is about to be one of the most embarassing things she can think of.
Nadine is still looking very much as if she would rather not be here; she is not slouching (she never does) but she is decidedly off to the side, as if she wanted to be overlooked, and looking somewhere between bored and irritated at nothing in particular.
Pretty much like usual, then.
Sada isn't terribly enthusiastic either, but unlike Nadine, she knows she's attractive. She has an awesome boyfriend. And a deadly weapon! She hasn't packed up the kusarigama, and while it's the one with a wooden blade scythe instead of deadly sharp steel, the way she idly twirls the ten pound weight may be slightly intimidating to Kenji. AS IT SHOULD BE.
She sighs, looking up at the roof - "We should get on the boat, Kennicot, or else he'll sit in the middle and be able to grope us both." She steps forwards, then, towards the modified floating Platform of Passion. Hm, she thinks: Maybe we can dump him in freezing water and give him hypothermia. Hmmmm.
"Hibiki-san~!!" a girl's voice calls from the barriers... Kenji's sister, in fact. "Don't let him do anything perverted~!!"
Already a little red in the face, presumably from embarassment, Kenji Ashima's face sinks into his hands before he leans back a bit, letting out a strangled noise that isn't quite a sob or a sigh. It's a pathetic noise, piteous and wounded, and it sums up the feelings the student council secretary has on this entire matter. He has aspirations of elevating his position in the council, as he brings his grades up. He has hopes and dreams!
He wants to be Tokyo University Alumni, god damn it
It seems time to board the boat and traverse the tunnels in the name of LOVE, as now he opts to join in and step onto the Platform of Passion! Hands reaching down to the huge slits in the sides of the coat, Kenji crams his hands in his pockets and looks to Nadine first with a nod. Then, looks to Sada with a slightly more upbeat expression. A familiar face! That doesn't want to kill him on sight!
Don't they have a breakfast date sometime?
"Hey Sada, why is it every time we're in an organized event together it involves a boat?" Stupid Jinchuu.
But now... Game face. Game face!!
Slapping his cheeks a few times, Kenji unbuttons his coat to the last two buttons, hopping up and down lightly on their makeshift gondola to check the balance, the tails of his Love Coat catching a bit of wind and billowing in the air.
And so Dan hibiki finds himself at the tunnel of love's platform of passion of of of of dammit what is with everything belonging to everything else these da--oh yes, his face is already looking disappointed as he puts his hands on his hips and pulls his posture into a slight S-curve, looking up and down Kenji before pointing to his coat, "Button that up, mister. There's nothing lovely about getting all eager to take your clothes off that is a sure sign of desperation and no woman on earth finds desperation attractive, also you could likely comb your hair a bit better, I haven't even given my advice yet and you're already failing to take it."
It looks like Dan Hibiki might be the hardest teacher of all. No doubt on Kenji's Report Card in Dan's mind there are several Ds showing up already. Yikes.
He looks towards the two girls he must help Kenji find true love with for a moment, and strokes his chin at them, "After all these are clearly elegant girls and you're running up here looking like some kind of hooligan! HONESTLY KIDS THESE DAYS! And another thing...."
Dan thinks for a minute, "I think you have a fan in the audience, she doesn't want you to do anything perverted you're not a pervert are you that will make your chances for love fall. ...or grow.. But you don't want that kind of girl. ...Not again."
What the hell was that last bit about?
"If he does that, I'll do the same thing I did to Tenma," Nadine says, one hand drifting down to her knife hilt for a moment before rising back up. "Not that I think I'm going to go through this entire match without drawing blood in any case."
She walks toward the platform as well, vaulting up onto the boat and somehow managing to do it without her skirt doing anything untoward. It must be a knack. Nadine looks with vague distaste at Dan, but doesn't bother to actually say what she sort of wants to. More of her attention is on Kenji, although in a cold and somewhat detached way.
"I guess it's just luck!" Sada says to Kenji, brightly. She then nods slightly, once, to Nadine before she hastens up and leaps into the boat. Sada herself, not being a foriegn skeeze, steps into the boat in a ladylike fashion.
She twirls the kusari around again with a rattle of chain. "So," she says, looking over towards the LOVE COACH, "how long until we get started? Are we going to be floating into the tunnel during the fight?" She sounds hopeful, perhaps because this will let her have a better chance of drowning Kenji where the cameras won't have criminally-admissible evidence.
Dan enjoys being the man with the plan and says with confidence, "The event will begin now let's all go in this tunnel and enjoy love the kind of love you can only get from being in this tunnel. This so called. Tunnel of love."
He spins towards Kenji and points with the fury of a thousand lasers, "AND YOU! YOU WILL HAVE A DATE BY THE END OF THE NIGHT! That's right, Kenji Ashima, by the time I'm done with you you will no longer be a boy but a man one of these two fine women will be captured by your charms unless that doesn't happen and then YOU ARE PRETTY HOPELESS."
He reaches into his Gi and pulls out a stack of his famous premium signs, but they're all.... pictures of Kenji? How did he.... uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.................
Nevermind that, he's talking again as he hands the stack over to Kenji, "THESE WILL BE YOUR CANVAS FOR NOTES, WRITE THEM LOVE LETTERS EVERY SO OFTEN IT IS MY ADVICE!"
Well, at least he's an enthusiastic coach.
COMBATSYS: Dan has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Nadine has joined the fight here.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Kenji has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Nadine 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Dan
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COMBATSYS: Sada has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Kenji 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Dan
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Sada 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nadine
COMBATSYS: Sada has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
"Trust me," Nadine says. "If he's relying on this advice, he's already hopeless."
Nadine walks along the length of the boat before taking a position right at the very front, near the point (what's it called? She doesn't know, she's not in the navy). From there she can stand facing back along the boat and see /everyone/, which is her major goal here.
Then she throws one knife. It is not at anyone; it is at the rope holding the boat in place. EVERYBODY ON BOARD before you get left behind!
COMBATSYS: Nadine focuses on her next action.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
Sada's cool. Even if she wasn't, she has a long chain with a hook on one end. She's almost the Bionic Commando.
She looks disgusted at the handing over of photographs. Those are for notes, she thinks, as she looks over at her foriegn comrade. "So," she says, "do we have to actually beat him..."
Her eyes go back towards Kenji and his coach as she twirls the kusari at her side again, more firmly. "Or do we just have to make sure he doesn't get a date?" Who's he going to date if they both shut him down hard -- Dan?!
COMBATSYS: Sada focuses on her next action.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Sada
His expression pales, staring at the gigantic stack of photographs dumped in a stack upon him. Are these stills from other matches he's had in his career since coming to Southtown? Jinchuu? How late did Dan Hibiki stay at the copy store and keep the poor men and women working overtime until the stack had been printed out to the Saikyo-ryu founder's expectations?
Uttering a sigh, his eyes close and his mind starts to wander. What did he do to deserve this, again? Though he doesn't really want to, the young man starts to stuff the photographs into his coat, fitting into the depths without somehow falling out of the bottom of the long pink coat's trails. His chin lifts, and he recites to himself, "Graduate. College. Successful. Girlfriend."
He can't let something like this ruin his chances at having that perfect rose-colored life! Kenji pulls back his right arm and slugs the surface of the boat, letting out a familiar battlecry to only Sada:
"HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--"
His right arm explodes into a feral, wild blaze of white-blue chi that may as well be like looking into magnesium from the severity of the glow; the dim and romantic lighting of the Tunnel of Love becomes bright enough to count the particles of dust on the deck of the boat or see to the bottom of the track that leads through this ride. Reaching up a good foot and a half beyond his shoulder, the roaring blaze continues while he holds his pose, lifting his head to look at Sada and Nadine at once.
"LET'S GET TO IT ALREADY!"
COMBATSYS: Kenji gathers his will.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Sada
Dan pounds his hand into his fist and says, "YEAH! THAT'S THE SPIRIT BOY! NOW LETS GET IN THERE AND WIN SOME HEARTS!"
With that the Saikyo master leaps into the air, and lands slamming his foot down before mimicing Kenji's battlecry stance exactly, pulling his arm and pounding the deck of the boat with the same intensified fury as his charge. Of course, there's no huge flare of chi with Dan's monkey magic. Just a puff of cyan sweetness that ends at the top of his elbow with a heart shape. Love is in the air as the damned fool and his damned fool student scream into the night.
Also, another key diference is Dan's warcry....
"Y'SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA----"
COMBATSYS: Dan gathers his will.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Sada
Great, now everybody's standing around and nobody is doing anything other than glowing. That is one hell of a glow though. Nadine's glasses become moderately tinted just from that - and she thought she'd never get any use out of that feature.
"Well this is interesting," Nadine says, with some dismissal in her voice. "Do we all have to show off? Should I do this?"
All in one motion, she reaches down to her leg, pulls out one of her many knives from the thigh sheaths, and throws it at Kenji - specifically, at Kenji's arm. It's bright, it's glowing, it's making its own target as far as she's concerned. As it flies through the air, winds surround it, accelerating it and making it hit with significantly more force.
What did you do to deserve this, Kenji? You were born. It is your fate, your destiny, your purpose. It defines you, contains you, shapes you, structures every moment of your life. Accept it. Embrace it...!
Nadine's throwing a knife, which means that Sada has a different set of openings to deal with. She whirls around the kusarigama's weight at her side twice more, building up momentum for it before she slings it forwards, twisting the chain at the last moment to put tension on it -- tension that will send it wrapping painfully around Kenji's legs and knock him to the deck! In theory, at least.
Her eyes then flick to Dan as he throws forth the true feelings of his heart - and - was that - her eyes widen. A momentary distraction -- and Kenji's salvation!?
COMBATSYS: Kenji blocks Nadine's Zephyr Dart.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Kenji with Odani Foundation Art.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Sada
Dan provides an excellent form of cover in a time when he's in trouble-- sure, the rules of the match make it sound like a "triple threat" style match, but the reality of it is far less cruel... more like mountain versus the molehill. Similarly, Nadine provides a distraction for Sada. Taking a lunging step forward, the Gedo student turns his palm to the knife and half-smacks, half-grabs the blade out of the air-- the edge lances across his palm and the wind makes it harder to target. Ultimately, it flips end over end to the ground between them, the pain in his hand ignored until--
His legs suddenly draw together from the force of the chain, the pink-clad student of love finding his legs pulled out from under him in a memorable and (still) annoying attack. The glow on his arm finally subsides, though he's forced to crabwalk on hands and feet until he can kick his free of the chain.
Sada is classified as the greater threat right now. Trying to close the gap between the ex-punk and the chainslinger, Kenji takes one last lunging step with his left foot and twists on his heel, whipping the entirety of his body around in concert. With his arm moving like rubber, distorting and bending to an unnatural movement, his right fist comes around with the intent to slug Sada in the chest with the force and feel of a sledgehammer.
Ordinarily it's a punch to the face, but ... unless it's a certain Pacific student, that would be awful rude!
The Saikyo Sensei crosses his arms as he sees Kenji punch at Sada, shaking his head and tsking softly, "You! Idiot! She's trying to draw you close to her and you're about to bruise her delicate cheekbones what is your problem no wonder you can't get a date, you are supposed to hug her not punch her like this let me show you!"
He rushes up to Nadine, the other fighter and gives her an honorable bow before he throws his arms out at her trying to... oh god. Wh.... Dan, please c'mon man don't do that. Don't hug the girl.
There are laws, you know!
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Nadine with Quick Throw.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Sada
'oh god' is right. Nadine is 16! That's not nearly old enough to be grabbed by Dan!
Nadine makes a rather startled sound as Dan comes in, arms out, and is on too narrow a piece of boat to actually get away from him without jumping - which she doesn't have time to do before getting squeezed so hard she feels a rib creak.
The close quarters is good for one thing; she can draw a knife at the same time that she tries to twist around and free herself. Ordinarily she would try to plant it in Dan, but she remembers at the last moment that he's the chaos agent and she's not /really/ supposed to hit him; she flicks it in Sada's general direction instead, although it lacks the burst of wind that Kenji got.
COMBATSYS: Kenji successfully hits Sada with Missile Fist.
- Power hit! -
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Dan 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Sada with Medium Fling.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Sada
The distorted fist slams forwards, towards the daughter of the Asai clan, and as Sada tenses to leap out of the way she remembers the water-- and this distracts her again, leading to her being struck with brutal force in the left breast, sending her staggering back with a deep groan of transient pain. Then a knife sticks in her ass.
This seems to break her out of pain and push her into fury. She whirls around, abandoning the kusarigamajutsu - twisting the kama over her shoulder and stalking directly at Nadine, raising one hand up to draw back with sudden force forwards. The goal? To beat her cheek!
"Turncoat!" she shouts; "Focus on the common enemy or they'll split up and overwhelm us!!" What, the men? Did she read the summary sheet for the evening?
Only after he's thrown the punch and struck Sada with that punch does he stop and think for a moment, 'Say, is it a good idea to punch a girl in the -boob-?' Recoiling hard, Kenji takes a springing backstep to provide himself with a little clearance from Sada... and then, of course, remembers that putting range between himself and someone that specializes in a long-range weapon is a bad idea. His footing continues to shift as he tries to figure out what to do, but-- Nadine does it for him?!
Staring awkwardly at the exchange between Nadine, Sada, and even the hugtastically happy Dan, Kenji scratches the back of his neck and shakes his head... and then shrugs. "I dunno, Mr. Hibiki, getting that physical on the first date seems a little improper."
But then Kenji takes two hard lunging steps forward and tries to keep both balance and stride to continue on and stand between the two girls.
And throw his arms up to try to hook around both their shoulders, no matter what the next exchange of blows may bring. "I think we all agree that the real enemy here is the guy that thought he should put my personal life on display. And I think the three of us should just get off the boat and go get some milkshakes at the stand over in the picnic area."
Kenji says this with a dark, dramatic, and drop-dead serious voice, and while he still stares ahead between the two girls and not quite focusing on either one, he says, "And Sada, don't forget you still owe me a date anyway."
Nod. Serious Business.
-That- is how you do it, Dan the Dan Man Hibiki.
COMBATSYS: Kenji takes no action.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Sada
Dan let's nadine go and turns to Kenji as he hears his advice CRITIQUED, "Wh WHAT? Improper! Kenji Ashima you silly silly man. A hug is never improper unless you're a complete sissy. You're not a complete sissy are you. OH MAN THEY'RE TELLING ME TO TEACH A COMPLETE SISSY! GEEZZZZZZZZE"
Dan shakes his head so hard at Kenji and frowns deep, "Why I swear you kids don't have any respect for proper dating anymore it's all a bunch of ripped jeans and horrible music. And....beer ads.."
Aw. Dan's upset now.
COMBATSYS: Dan takes no action.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Nadine blocks Sada's Jab Punch.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Sada
Nadine holds up one hand and simply stops Sada's slap. But dammit, that stings. She can still feel the tingling on her arm. "We're supposed to be fighting each other as much as him," she says, sharply, "so point yourself - well, where you want, but don't get on my case for it."
She shoves, then, although not off the boat; if Sada goes back, she'll just land /on/ the boat. "I fully agree, Ashima. But in lieu of him being here..."
Nadine looks at Dan consideringly.
COMBATSYS: Sada fails to counter Quick Throw from Nadine with Asai Harvester.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
Sada's kama whips around towards Nadine - there's only one problem with her effort to catch Nadine with the hook of the kama. This is that she doesn't actually have it in her hand.
Instead she's pushed, staggering back a pace as she hears Dan bellow and Ashima lunghing around. Her head whirls and she shouts at Kenji, "SINCE WHEN!" Has she forgotten? Hm, a mystery!
Good! Nadine agrees at least, and ... wait, does that mean she'll agree to go along to get the drinks later, too?!
There's a hopeful glimmer in Kenji's eye, even as the Pacific girl shoves the Seijyun princess right off her feet, the young man clad in pink turning on his heel to look over his shoulder at Dan. He's holding his chin and grinning, even. "Beer is for delinquents!"
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And then before he fully turns to look at Nadine, Kenji is reaching low to grab the blonde around the waist and bend backwards-- trying to half-toss, half-suplex her into the deck of the Platform ... of Passion!
Dan seems to disappear as he moves appearing behind Kenji like some sort of scowling father dowling. "Yes, and you've proven yourself quite the delinquent, Kenji. You are here to make a date not to make head injuries. I'm sorry young Ashima. I'll have to penalize you."
With that, Dan pulls his arm back in a huge motion, before thrusting it right at the kanji stitching on the back of Kenji's jacket, "Maybe this..."
The wind whooshes over Dan's biceps as it speeds towards its target, "Will teach you..."
He screams as he follows through, hopefully not at thin air because that certainly would be embarassing wouldn't it? Well, maybe for a lesser man, "NOT TO HIT A LADY YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE KISSY FACES AT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
COMBATSYS: Nadine dodges Kenji's Strong Throw.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
Nadine goes down for no man!
She leaps, wind gathering around her as she jumps and pushing her higher; she drifts over Kenji, landing behind him and smoothing her skirts down a little. With her non-knife-holding hand, she reaches back, then appears to pitch an invisible sphere underhand.
When it leaves her hand, it explodes into a small tornado, which roars along the ground at Kenji (and Dan, but that's not her fault); it whips up dust and debris and strips the paint from the boat it passes over. "Are you going to stay down all day?" she asks Sada, while she does this.
"Shut up!!" Sada screeches at Nadine, leaping easily to her feet. There are many things she can withstand. Being called lazy, it seems, is not one of them!
Her attention goes back towards Kenji, who is being dogpiled. This, to her mind, is not a negative. When Nadine leaps out of the way, Kenji is left briefly open, and Sada lunges in towards one of the young man's arms. Dan's strike to the back aids her! It means he's going to have fewer places to go.
She attempts, once close, to hook her own arm around Kenji's (awww) and then, with a sharp twist of the waist, aim to yank it out of its socket - or something close. That part, of course, is less endearing.
COMBATSYS: Kenji blocks Sada's Fighting Like A Girl.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Kenji with Rolling Storm.
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Dan 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Kenji just-defends Dan's Kyuukyoku Tenchi Gadou Zuki!
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
With Kenji's brilliant toss, he stumbles from a total loss of balance. Nadine flies, but not in the manner he wants or expects, his eyes wide and his legs shifting wildly in order to find an appropriate position to keep him from falling flat on his head. That's roughly when Sada's arm hooks around his own, the violent pull giving him enough room to stay up on his feet... and, provide enough resistance to Sada's rough-housing to keep her from completely ruining his arm. The problem is, Kenji is allergic to pain.
'Cause that shit hurts, man.
The winds that suddenly blow and rip across the legendary Missile Fist Ashima are brief and still awe-inspiring. His back arches and his feet struggles to stay aground, though he starts to slide toward the edge of the boat. To review:
His sister is getting to watch this entire thing on the monitors outside the tunnel, his parents are here to cheer him on, the SNF organizers have pulled his personal life into the public spotlight, Sada forgot they were supposed to go have breakfast, he's about to get thrown off the edge of the boat in the Tunnel of Love and random debris along the "deck" hurts...
And he's wearing an entirely -pink- student uniform.
"URRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH--"
Turning on his heel, Dan's fist meets sudden, exacting resistance. Unstoppable force has been -stopped-. The hand of Kenji Ashima holds the fist of the experienced fighter in his palm, and his feet have left the ground. A savant moment in the middle of this chaos, the Gedo student has somehow managed to manufacture the momentum to swing on Dan's fist from a dead stop and flip himself into the air, one foot down on the Saikyo-ryu master's shoulder to spring through the air and nearly slam his head into the top of the Tunnel of Love.
Flipping one last time in mid-air, his right leg thrusts outward to try to catch the Pacific student square in the sternum with a stomping step. And ... he stops, almost hovering place.
"HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH--"
A sudden bright light surges from the top of his knee down to his foot, the chi disappearing. Where? Unless Nadine gets out of the way, the tunnel's walls will fill with the muted sound of what is a small chi "bomb" detonating within the knife-slinger, presenting a shockwave that'll do more than just knock her off-balance-- it'll feel like someone just rearranged her innards!
COMBATSYS: Kenji successfully hits Nadine with Rib Crusher.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
That one hurt.
Nadine actually makes a muffled sound, even though she so rarely yells or cries out during a fight - because it's not every day that you have an energy bomb explode /inside/ you. It's half a yelp, and half something lower and quieter.
She lurches backwards, not foward, against the railing at the edge of the boat. One knife appears in her hand as if by magic, and she launches it upward and outward at Sada, who is getting rather left alone from Nadine's perspective.
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Nadine's Power Fling.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Sada
The knife whirls towards Sada, who ducks as it flicks through the air. It clips one of her black locks, slightly, sending hair to the ground as the boat moves into the Tunnel - of Love!
There is a moment of darkness before the SNF filming lights come on. Dramatic! Perhaps this is how they hope to catch Kenji sneaking a kiss on one of the sweet ladies present? Sada uses it to steps towards Nadine and grab at her hair -
And when the lights come on, her knee's already arcing up towards the white girl's breadbasket! Wow, maybe Kenji SHOULD take the evening off and wait for a survivor.
To steal a kiss from one of these ladies results in his winnings in tournament battle and the Saturday Night Fights thusfar end up going to his family and not to the savings account he has set up. He loses the money, the pride, whatever dignity he had left, and ... knowing his sister, she'd insist he gets buried with him wearing the superhero costume from the fight with Himeko along with the pink coat he's wearing now.
Narrowing his eyes, he seems to take a cue from his so-called mentor in this battle, reaching into the depths of his coat and producing one of the photographs-- unbent and undamaged-- that was given to him by Dan, a black marker almost appearing from nowhere in his hand. He scrawls out a quick note on the back:
'Together, we shall race towards the sunset in order to defeat the wicked demon that is lonliness!'
And then rearing up the photo between two fingers, he flings it on edge toward Sada like some sort of violent, throat slitting frisbee. "I can't believe you forgot!"
COMBATSYS: Nadine fails to interrupt Heavy Kick from Sada with Savage Combo.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Sada
Nadine really hopes he doesn't just wait, that's boring.
She does not really have the time or the inclination to tell Kenji want to do because there is a knee coming at her very quickly. Nadine reaches down, attempting to grab the leg, yank, and possibly drive her knife in if she's feeling /really/ vicious about it...
...but she doesn't. Instead she only gets her fingers crunched in against her stomach, which is even more painfult han it would have been had she left it alone. Nadine straightens her (rather sore) fingers and picks up the knife she'd dropped.
COMBATSYS: Sada negates Thrown Object from Kenji with Snare Whip.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Sada
A flying picture?! Trying to get witcha?!
Sada whirls around after she administers a sound beating to Nadine, confident perhaps that Nadine will now know her role and assist in the real goal of this operation: The defeat of Kenji Ashima! "What the hell are you talking about!?" she shouts, brows furrowing in irritation. "I don't remember you asking me about a date! I have an excellent memory - you're just making --"
The chain doesn't rattle until after she whips it up, ten pounds of lead weight snapping like a fish line to knock the picture out of the air. She picks it up, looking down. She turns it over, then, squinting at the handwriting. This does keep her from pressing her assault...
COMBATSYS: Sada has saved the state of this fight.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Sada
COMBATSYS: Sada has left the fight here.
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Nadine 1/----===/=======|====---\-------\0 Dan
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COMBATSYS: Dan has ended the fight here.
COMBATSYS: Lazenca restarts a saved fight.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Sada
His shoulders sag, his expression souring. Does she not remember, for real? But then again, she simply couldn't believe during Jinchuu that Ashima had never had a day of actual martial arts training in his life, that he has no pedigree or lineage to speak of-- nothing like his teammates. Her loose memory isn't too far out of the realm of possibility. "We were supposed t-- oh, -nevermind-."
Fingers digging into the depths of his long pink coat, the student council secretary pulls on it a bit to straighten the collar to the back of his neck and fix how it sits on his shoulders. "I'll just have to jog your memory!"
And so he lunges in at the Seijyun Girls Academy student one more time, running with a hard *clomp clomp clomp* of the obscene sneaker-boots worn on his feet and the wheels hiding in the soles.
"HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--"
Reaching out, he grabs at Sada's collar-- and if he can get that grip, a surge of white-blue chi will erupt upward from his hand and launch the chainslinger as he starts to lift her physically-- and the burst of chi is designed to literally launch Sada upward. But in the narrow confines of the Tunnel of Love, will she slam into the ceiling?!
Dan seems to have been confused for a bit after his attack missed like twenty years ago. He just sort of froze up, unable to spread the love as they say. But it looks like his mind is back in it his head full of ideas.
On the spot he tsks and pulls out one of his remaining Kenji Photos, pulling out his sharpie with the other hand in an over dramatic fashion. It might just be imagination running wild but it's almost like there's a lensflare on the cap when he holds it up in the mood lighting of the tunnel.
In any case he uncaps it and begins to scrawl a poem on it, seeing as Mister Ashima is having more luck with Sada, apparently... It's very personalized.
"Roses are red
Violets are blue
Marathon Dancin'
Me and You?
--Kenji Ashima, some...kinda grade whatever you kids grade are in"
Oh Dan, you're a pretty lousy Cyrano.
Nadine is left alone for a few moments. Frankly, that's good; she needs it to recover.
She recovers fast - not perfectly, of course, but well enough to be functional, straightening up finally despite what are going to be some rather intense bruises across her stomach and ribs from all the beatings they've taken. Everyone is beating on Sada; that's fine, it's better than beating on her.
Nadine moves toward Kenji's side, arms out. It looks like a rather harmless shove, but Nadine's limbs are surrounded in coronas of whipping winds; it batters pretty hard, and it's focused on pushing him back and away more than doing damage.
COMBATSYS: Sada parries Kenji's Sky High Rocket!
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\=------\1 Sada
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Sada with Premium Sign.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/----===/=======|=======\=------\1 Sada
Sada darts her kama up at the last moment, catching Kenji's hand between ring and middle finger. She grins at him with a sudden, rather disturbing fervor. "Yeah?" she says, with a tilt of the head to the side. Her lips purse: "I think you're just /jealous/." Of what? She doesn't clarify, even when she feels a piece of sharp jagged Dan-powered photo paper slam into the side of her head and stick in her tied-back hair.
This makes her face twist into an expression of new fury. "Whatever you're TALKING about, I already HAVE a boyfriend -" She twists the kama away at the same time the kusari rattles forwards, aiming to wrap Kenji twice around the abdomen and get him securely fastened. "And you - "
NOW she lunges back, yanking back as she leaps towards the opposite edge of the boat - aiming to slam Kenji down into the splintery, butt-smeared decking. Will he be able to withstand the force?! She keeps pulling; is she going to tow him into the ice-cold water?!
"Aren't it!!!" Sada screeches, to accent her remark.
COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Kenji with Gale Press.
- Power hit! -
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 1/-======/=======|=------\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Kenji blocks Sada's Avenging Anegawa EX.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\===----\1 Nadine
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Kenji 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=------\-------\0 Sada
His photograph is awe-inspiring. His photograph is stunning. Dan's done a good job with those glossy photos, and surely he'll have quite a collection left for himself when this fight is over, Kenji will. It'll be worse if the SNF organizers tell him to keep the outfit!
With his hand stopped dead with the clever placement of the wooden kama, he stares at his hand with one eyebrow cocked, his mouth open and his general expression something like a D:>. And his wrist is turned aside, giving Nadine the opening to assault him with the twin thrust fists and the raging winds, blown flat off his feet and cracking his head on the deck. "Wah-!!"
Trying his hardest to keep from going off the deck of the boat, the chains that wrap around his body after he's up on his feet elicit a surprised grunt-- and what is this?! Kenji struggles against the movement, though his footing is somewhat shaken. With a most manly,
"URAGH!"
Kenji shakes himself loose of the chains. Muttering under his breath, the Gedo student points first at Nadine. "You, hold on. You," he indicates to Sada, "I could care less about the boyfriend you have or don't have or pretend you have. You rainchecked because of the semi in the side of the boat and almost knocking me off into the harbor in that stupid tournament."
And then he turns hard on Nadine, his left foot advancing to stomp down -hard- on the knife-slinger's foot. If his stomping strike lands...?
COMBATSYS: Nadine blocks Kenji's Gatling Break.
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Dan 0/-------/--=====|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Sada
Dan blinks as he sees his cunning plan is not working out as he hoped. He thinks back to things he brought with him! Ah-ha. The black duffel bag!
He goes to it, and opens it up, producing a small but powerful PDA system and a microphone, "If notes don't work..."
He turns on the microphone and taps it once testing it with his all famous yelling and screaming of words.
"SAIIIIIIIIIIIIKYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Y'SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Yep, it's working. What is he planning while pumping up?
COMBATSYS: Dan gathers his will.
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Dan 1/------=/=======|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Sada
The urge to light Dan on fire intensifies, even though Nadine has no actual way to light anything on fire short of taking a lighter out (that she doesn't have on her) and trying to get his clothes to ignite, or possibly shorting out the goddamn speaker.
Most of her attention is, probably sensibly, taken up with Kenji. Nadine turns just so, thrusting her foot out forward; Kenji's foot hits significantly higher up than he was expecting, and leaves a footprint on her shin. Her foot remains intact, however, which was her major goal here.
She still limps when she steps back, edging toward the side of the ship. Is she going to jump over? Probably not - but she's in a good position to if she wants to, standing just before the banister that is all that's keeping helpless people from sliding off the ship!
Nadine reaches up and pushes up her glasses with the middle finger on her left hand. They catch the light, just for a moment.
COMBATSYS: Nadine focuses on her next action.
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Dan 1/------=/=======|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Sada
Sada's frown turns into a more thoughtful grimace, less of a rictus of disgust or fury. She frowns, and she looks at her feet, pulling up the shrugged-out-of Kusarigama as she does. She did? She thinks back.
She did fight him on that truck, that weirdly positioned, strange, rickety truck. They talked. Didn't they? What did they talk ABOUT? She remembers /it/. Doesn't she? It WAS Kenji, right?
Fortunately for him this keeps her from punching him in his mouth for the moment.
COMBATSYS: Sada takes no action.
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Dan 1/------=/=======|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Sada
It -was- him.
DVDs of the tournament were sold to prove it, even.
But Kenji isn't in a position to argue the situation any further-- at least, not now. His focus is on Nadine, and her attempt to keep him from stomping on her foot. His fist wound back and his leg thrust out, the gambit has been made and subsequently failed-- but at least she didn't capitalize on the opening and attack him.
Nadine moves to the outer limits of the Platform of Passion, and Sada seems to be having a moment to reflect while Dan ... ..
Is Dan.
With the thought of Danta Claus preparing to open up a can of whupass on someone-- hopefully not him-- and with Sada and Nadine having no problem double-teaming him, the Gedo student takes swift, light steps backward to put himself closer to a corner away from the other three and drop into a squat, hands on his knees and catching his breath. Next-- what's next...?
COMBATSYS: Kenji gains composure.
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Dan 1/------=/=======|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Sada
Dan finishing his test of the microphone smiles, before pulling out a CD and putting it in the CD player of the small but powerful PA system.
Suddenly, a calypso beat starts playing. Wh--no, you can't be serious. This music sounds familiar.
Dan grips the Microphone and looks right at Kenji, pointing at him as he begins to belt out his famous Saikaroke style. No... no no no no no no no no. Oh Dan why.
o/~ DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE You see HER!" he motions at Nadine and Sada both, "SITTIN DERE ACROSS DE WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY o/~
R Dan stop...
"SHE DON'T GOT A LOT TO SAY BUT DERE'S SOMETHIN' ABOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUT HERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR AND YOU DON'T KNOW WHY BUT YOU'RE DYIN' TO TRY YOU GOTTA KISS DE GIRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"
Oh...OH God stop it no this is unacceptable!
O/~ YESSSSS YOU WANNNNNNNNT HER! LOOK AT HER YOU KNOW YOU DOOOOOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo POSSIBLE SHE WANT YOU TOOOO DERE IS ONE WAY TO ASK HERRRRRRR IT DON'T TAKE A WORD NOT A SINGLE WORD go on and KISS DE GIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! o/~
The speaker continues to suffer Dan's ministrations.
Finally, the speaker explodes. Thank the lord.
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Nadine with Chouhatsu Densetsu.
- Power hit! -
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Sada
Nadine keeps her head down, slightly, as she simultaneously feels about with her chi. Get ready, prepare, then act. Wind starts to gather up around her -
- and it stops entirely when the music starts to blare, complete with horrible, horrible Dan singing. Nadine immediately drops her position and sticks her fingers in her ears; it doesn't actually /help/ very much but it makes her feel better about it.
She resorts to one of her rare uses of profanity. It's blanked out by the speaker abruptly deciding to detonate. Even Dan does not want to hear her swear, apparently.
COMBATSYS: Nadine takes no action.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Sada with Chouhatsu Densetsu.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Sada
The noise. The terrible, terrible noise. Sada's ears suffer as Dan tortures and murders a licensed Disney musical number, the result some sort of auditory Auschwitz that seems to resonate in the space between her ears long after he's actually shut up.
She turns her head - and sees that Kenji is taking a break. She doesn't move from her spot, beyond raising one arm and jerking it to the side -- but the kusarigama leaps to life, rattling and rolling back as she draws it up over her head! She spins it then, once, twice, the weight nicking the edge of the wall of the Tunnel and throwing some sparks into the relative darkness...
"YOU TRICKED ME!!" she shouts, as she swings the weight down with brutal force towards Kenji! The chain's fast enough to hurt, to say nothing of being wrapped up in it and yanked off his feet, based on how furious her follow-through is!
COMBATSYS: Kenji blocks Sada's Rebound Whip.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Kenji just-defends Dan's Chouhatsu Densetsu!
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
Zen.
A word thrown around far too often these days, used by people that seek enlightenment in one way or another for all too many reasons. A word that people throw around, claiming they can achieve that perfect peace by what they buy, what they wear, what they drink. People use this word in vain far too often.
Kenji Ashima has found a truer form of this than any other.
As Dan's song screams through the speakers, as it echos through the system and to the exterior of the Tunnel of Love with countless members of the amusement park audience outside grabbing their ears and recoiling in agony, there the student council president stands. There, his resolve is firm. His face is almost peaceful.
He looks better for hearing the healing words of Dan Hibiki.
So much so that when the chain comes whipping in, he lowers his center of gravity with such precision that the whipping chain-- though it does hurt-- cannot fully wrap around his leg, his heel hooking out and stomping down for the weight to crash into his shin.
The black-haired student of love sprints in at Sada, pausing briefly in front of her to grin.
And he hooks his arm low, the limb almost distorting as it sweeps in to slug Sada in the stomach with the force of a sledgehammer.
"I DIDN'T TRICK ANYONE!"
Dan blinks in horror as his speakers EXPLODE, "SHA LA LA LA LA LA DO-OH GOD! Waita... No! Crap! Kenji Ashima, my secret weapon has blown up I do not know how to help you win love anymore. I ... Oh geeze. I'm going to try and fix it!"
Dan jumps on the speaker and begins looking at it, poking it and kicking it, fiddling with it and trying to make it so unhurt that it's not hurt anymore. It is true what they say about love, that love is the greatest pain you may ever face. Besides taxes, maybe.
COMBATSYS: Dan takes no action.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
Nadine eventually pulls her fingers out of her ears, hesitantly at first. Oh good, he's actually done. Maybe she should just throw this at /him/.
She does not. Nadine instead decides to get back in the fight, although perhaps not quite as dramatically as she was originally intending to; she picks both of her remaining knives out of their sheaths and throws them at Sada's back. Unfortunately, this leaves her unarmed...for a moment.
That done, she runs over toward where one of her other knives fell, stuck in the wood of the deck.
COMBATSYS: Sada dodges Nadine's Power Fling.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Missile Fist from Kenji with Asai Harvester.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Sada
Sada grins too. It is surprisingly without rancor. This is perhaps because she knows just how efficently they're clashing, how righteous the battle is! Or perhaps it's because she's gotten Kenji to come within her trap card! She takes a half step back, the glossy wooden blade of the kama sparkling in the lights as it raises - and catches his distorted limb.
She twists around, kicking Kenji in the stomach firmly but without a positional advantage to let her REALLY crush his spirit or masculinity. The motion means that the thrown knives whick through the cloth of her long skirt rather than her precious flesh! "Lay OFF!" she screeches at Nadine.
The harsh blow is met with equally harsh resistance-- his low-hooking fist comes in perfectly, the small distortions and wobbles plainly visible to his arm in a way that should almost obscure or fool the eye into where he's punching-- and yet, the hooked kama catches his arm and stops it dead, letting out a deep gasp as a leg is driven into the depths of his gut.
Sprawling backwards a few steps, the young Gedo student ends up staggering right back to fall flat on his ass, knees drawn up and hands used to prop him upright. With one eye squinted closed, the Missile Fist doesn't look all that good-- quite winded, really, and all of the repeated shots to the stomach aren't doing him any favors. Again catching his breath as quickly as he can, his fist drags across his chin before being used to push him back up into a crouch, his pose closer to a boxer about to duck and weave around the next strike. "You seriously don't remember?"
He turns to Nadine. "And why am I the only one here without a freakin' weapon?!"
COMBATSYS: Kenji gains composure.
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=======\=====--\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Sada
"Don't blame us for the flaws of your style!" Sada interjects, unhelpfully.
Dan continues to slap his speaker to death trying to get it to start working until he sigh and says, "AW FORGET IT! KENJI ASHIMA!!"
He points right at the young man, "Since you did not follow my advice, or my song, or any of the good things I have broughten to you. You will feel my justice!"
Picking up PA system he's brought, he hefts it in one hand easily, and with a grunt of awesomeness, hurls it over at the boy to let him feel vengeance at least once this night, "START BEING MORE ATTRACTIVE!!!!!"
"Just pick one up," Nadine recommends to Kenji. "Of course, looking at how you've fought, you'd be most likely to just cut yourself with them; that would be amusing for the rest of us, though."
Other than that, she stands there, looking almost lazy. "If I don't?" Nadine says, still holding in the wind. "Are you going to scold me for fighting in a fight? Perhaps you're not secure enough to fight me and him at the same time - even though I'm fighting both of you at once. What will you do if I do - "
Nadine straightens, cupping her left hand around a point in air. Wind starts to swirl into it, more and more as her chi pulls it in, forming a silvery globe about the size of a softball. Nadine throws it lazily underhand at Sada at about the same time Dan throws a goddamn speaker system. "That? Catch."
There is no opportunity to catch it. As soon as it leaves Nadine's hand it explodes into a horizontal tornado, as impossible as such a thing would be in nature; its base is a point about a foot in front of Nadine's chest, and it widens out toward Sada in a twisting, blasting line of shredding air, backed with silvery chi. Fortunately, it does not last long, but even so...
COMBATSYS: Sada parries Nadine's Screaming Storm!
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Dan 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Sada
"I don't know what you're talking about," Sada confirms to Kenji, before she raises her eyes to look towards Nadine. (Meanwhile Dan throws some crap at Kenji, but she's all for that.) She steps back, putting herself near the legendary master of Saikyo. Then Nadine's hand cups, the air swirls - is she going to throw a hadoken? No, Sada thinks. Her eyes widen, especially when the thrown object becomes a whirling dervish, dust and fragments of water swirling up into it!
No room to leap. No power to endure or to deflect wind that's filled with the power of the soul. There are two possibilities; one is to leap forwards, desperately trying to overcome it with her own burning passion to show Nadine her real heart.
Then there's the Darkside Student Council's way.
Sada grasps Dan's upper arm (the Princess Grasping Point!) and pulls him to the side, ducking her head as she takes shelter behind the Saikyo master. She pulls the kusarigama up as she does, choking up to about half a meter of chain on the kama end as she whirls around Dan's other side. "I'll do," she says, drawing the hook on a chain back, "THIS!!" And then she whips it forwards in tight, scything arcs, advancing on Nadine as she does so. She lets out a rich, alto cackle while doing so; fortunately for the knife-throwing girl, it's just wood. This time!
COMBATSYS: Kenji blocks Dan's Large Thrown Object.
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Dan 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Sada
The failings of his style.
It'd be all the more amusing to the rest of them.
His eyes narrow for a moment, wondering to himself... did these two just try to insult his pride? To fall for such a petty, simplistic taunt would just not be the Ashima way. To lower himself to such tactics is ... so ... so ...
Tenma!
The flaps of his long pink coat billow in the wind, the student council secretary forced to shield his eyes from the onslaught of force. Did she just-- throw a tornado? A typhoon? What the hell was that?! Kenji's eyes are wide with dismay as Dan is used as the living shield in the nick of time, his footing shifting as he starts to run, sprint-- get behind Nadine while Sada occupies her from the front, his hands clapping together and trying to smash the Pacific student over the head with a rather large axe-handle strike. "URRAGH!"
Dan is suddenly found himself used as a human shield and the frown on his face says, 'No Sir, I don't like it!'
He looks at Sada and shakes his head, "You're not supposed to be trying to touch me, you're supposed to be trying to touch Kenji! That is the rule! The important rule you are forgetting!"
He reaches out at Sada attempting to find purchase on her, if successful with that I think everyone knows what's going to happen, he's going to helpfully toss her in the direction of her one true love. You know, that guy. Kenji. Him. D'awwww.
COMBATSYS: Sada successfully hits Nadine with Shinryukan Correction EX.
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Dan 0/-------/------=|=====--\-------\0 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Kenji successfully hits Nadine with Strong Punch.
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Dan 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\1 Nadine
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Kenji 0/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Sada
COMBATSYS: Dan successfully hits Sada with Seoi Nage.
Glancing Blow
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More like a tornado, if someone turned a tornado on its side and let it whip around for about five seconds.
It leaves Nadine drained, though - drained and wide open for when Sada comes in with a whipping blade on the end of a long chain. Even if the blade /is/ wood, that doesn't mean it can't deliver one hell of a solid blow to the side of her head, which is what it does, hitting with a rather loud /thump/.
Nadine staggers back, dazed and nearly unconcious, but still bringing up some wind to defend herself. This is interrupted when the axehandle to the back of the head hits her in very nearly the same place; she drops like a puppet with its strings cut, almost straight down.
The buildup of wind in front of her condenses into one of those spheres, then bursts. It lacks a lot of the force of the last one, and goes vertically, but Sada /is/ rather close.
COMBATSYS: Nadine can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Nadine successfully hits Sada with Rolling Storm.
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Sada is thrown like a cheap ragdoll by the might of DAN "the Man" Hibiki, toppling through the air and trailing chain after her as she cries out in dismay! But it doesn't hurt as much as it might, because of the buffering effects of Nadine's helpful, agonizing, skin-searing whirlwind! She stumbles, finally, as she lands, her skirt flipped up and partly stuck. She forces it down, and whirls around to Kenji. "Heh!" she says, before leaning back on one foot.
She raises the kama, arcing it up to gesture Kenji to come closer. "Show me that move again. This time, I'm not going to let you get through." Has she dealt with it before? Is she flirting?! Is Dan's magic - working? Or perhaps she just wants to show off, or more charitably, see if she CAN manage something good.
COMBATSYS: Sada focuses on her next action.
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Kenji looks at his hands, narrowing his eyes and nodding with a grunt. Yeah! Serves you right.
Still, that wind... it's potent stuff. Filing that away in his mind, the young man starts to step lightly, moving away from Nadine. Fighting right over her won't do anyone any good, and getting her caught up in the collateral damage would be pretty mean...
"Oh, I'll show you a move all right."
"HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--"
His fist doesn't even hit the ground this time, his fist tightening up and his eyes hardening up a bit, the stupidly bright blue-white chi blazing up the length of his arm and trumpeting away from his shoulder. It whisps away in a manner more fierce than fire, brighter than looking straight on into daylight. Kenji continues to build that energy for as long as he can, for as long as Sada allows.
"I'll remind you what I've got hidden up my sleeve!"
COMBATSYS: Kenji gathers his will.
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Dan crosses his arms and frowns sternly at this exchange.
COMBATSYS: Dan takes no action.
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Sada tosses her hair back with a low, bright laugh as the boat starts making its way past a scene straight out of (and possibly too similar for the claim of similar art?) some kind of sappy Disney movie with a romantique ending. Her eyes narrow and she grins, seeing that light. It hurts her eyes, a little.
"Good!" she shouts. "Then you'll know just how far you have to go once you've gone down!" Oh dear.
COMBATSYS: Sada focuses on her next action.
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With this final exchange between the two, Kenji's grin returns again-- not arrogant, angry, or even out for blood... it's playful, to an extent. The blaze of color and light continues, and the Gedo High student lowers his arm, narrowing his eyes and...
"URAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--"
The blaze brightens, extends-- and from both ends of the Tunnel of Love, the light is visible. Chi manipulation isn't one of Kenji's greatest abilities, but he's certainly managed to learn how to pull it out in a moment's notice, drawn up from the depths and focused into a means that's best for him.
His arm whips backwards with one smooth motion, settling into a calmer, more casual stance with his right arm thrown back. Though the "flames" have gone out, the air around the limb radiates that energy still...
"Hibiki-san," Kenji says, his voice almost uncharacteristically low. "I'm going to give her everything I got." A man of men would understand what this means in a heartbeat: A moment like this cannot be interrupted, a moment like this cannot be broken.
"Sada!! Get ready!"
COMBATSYS: Kenji gathers his will.
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Dan calls out, "GET ON WITH THE LOVE ALREADY! YOU JERKS AREN'T BEING LOVING ENOUGH FOR MY DISCERNING TASTES!!!" Oh Dan
COMBATSYS: Dan takes no action.
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"Yare yare da waaaa," Sada drawls, rolling her eyes - but still grinning as she waits. She shifts her stance slightly, tilting her head forwards as she looks over at Kenji. She makes a slight, helpful, inviting gesture with the scythe. "Show me what you've got, Ashima; don't /talk/ about hitting me, come on and HIT me!"
She feels a quavering concern in the back of her gut as the far end of the mouth of the tunnel comes into view. CAN she do this?
COMBATSYS: Sada takes no action.
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The air rippling around his arm starts to sway and ebb, the student council secretary's impressive light show that lasted twice the duration of the usual bright enough to illuminate all the way back to the opposite side of the tunnel. Kenji's arms and legs hurt, his stomach especially hurts after getting that weight and those chains smashed into it... and his hand, he'll probably have a wicked bruise between two fingers tomorrow.
But he starts to walk.
The walk gives way to a quick few steps, and the lengthy modified boat that is the Platform of Passion has the rampant, high speed footsteps of one Kenji Ashima ripping towards Sada Asai as fast as he can muster with all things considered. Don't think about it, don't try to put any fancy skills or lights into it. Don't pay attention to the kusari-gama, don't pay attention to the man in the pink gi, don't pay attention to the unconscious Pacific student.
Just punch.
"UUUUUHYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA--"
His arm doesn't even bend or sway, no smooth tricks of the light or excessive speed. There's nothing too fancy about it, except for the feeling that Sada may not remember-- that she -should- remember. It was the punch that sent her the length of the semi they fought atop of, all the way to the hull of the Suiryuu. With a fist that hits like a small steel god, Kenji attempts to punch Sada square in the middle of the chest as hard as he possibly can.
COMBATSYS: Sada counters Missile Fist Ashima from Kenji with Cut Trapped Grain.
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Doubt leaves Sada's mind as Kenji approaches, screaming. The boat moves into that small darkened area, lit only by the bright light that Kenji's own body is producing. The shadow is garish and monochromatic, and Sada has to wait - wait for that hand to enter just the right place. When it does, she moves once. It's simple and sharp.
But then, the snap of a snake, or the collapse of a hidden trap, or the final leap of a long, slow, tense chase towards the prey is also simple, sharp, and swift. The wooden blade strikes and twists; hard enough to cut through bamboo like steel, but Kenji is sterner than a mere plant. Sada keeps moving, going on momentum alone. For a moment she can overcome that straight line piledriver of a punch, turning the vector sum /down/... and to the left. Kenji will find his fist still moving but inevitably drawn down to -
The side of the boat/platform!? As Sada leaps away, with a clatter of chains, Kenji's fist hits the wood and splinters it, breaking partly below the waterline - good thing they're almost done, because now the boat is SINKING. Sada herself ends up perched on the long-necked swan nose of the boat, letting out a resounding laugh! "Your style's strong," she shouts, "but you go in too many straight lines! How's the water feeling?!"
His fist is stern and angry-- certainly hard enough to punch the kama and even for a moment threaten to snap the blade, though Sada's weapons are made of sturdier stuff than your average martial arts supply store. The forceful swing is turned, his body shuddering involuntarily toward the floor as his right leg gives out and his fist -slams- into the surface of the boat, the makeshift platform cracking and splitting. Blood trickles from split knuckles and a gash across the back of his hand, the blunt force enough to cause an abrasion.
For a moment, he thinks about one of the times he's gone head to head with Preston.
As the boat starts to separate as the ride heads on toward it's end, Kenji grabs the long pink coat at the bottom two buttons, ripping it clear off as he makes a heavy, lunging run not to save himself--
But to grab the unconscious Nadine and act as a sudden, makeshift life preserver until the water either wakes her up or they manage to get back out onto the deck at the other end of the ride-- though the water's shallow and his feet can hit the bottom, people can still drown in only a few inches of the stuff!
Firing off another look back at Sada, soaked as he is, the Gedo student makes for the exit of the tunnel while the scythe-wielding Seijyun socialite can ride the stylized mast all the way.
Because god damn it, he doesn't want hypothermia and it won't help Nadine's case much either.
COMBATSYS: Kenji takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Kenji can no longer fight.
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Dan 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Sada
Nadine is going to be seriously upset when she wakes up and realizes she is now drenched when she wasn't before.
Fortunately, that doesn't appear to be happening any time soon.
Sada leaps to the shore once the ship comes near its port, and before it can tilt more - she glances over towards Kenji for a long moment, perhaps to see if he's come out of it OK. Or perhaps to see that he saved Nadine.
"See you," she calls, before stepping down, to the inevitable laurels of victory!!
Dan Hibik, has failed.
While she walks to the laurels of victory, Kenji is making the climb of defeat-- arms hooked under Nadine's as the operators and safety staff help get the pair out of the water, the local emergency squad already on-hand with some heavy wool blankets to throw on the two of them-- though once the Pacific student is settled with the proper authorities, he doesn't even bother with the SNF staff. He heads right over to where his family stands at the barricade, to the mom and dad clapping for him and the sister giving him the most dismayed stare of all time. What does she do in this moment of crisis for the young Ashima? The teenager clad in pink, with that defeated face?
"God, you suck."
That's family for you.
COMBATSYS: Sada has left the fight here.
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Log created on 20:04:45 01/20/2008 by Sada, and last modified on 19:23:29 01/22/2008.