Description: [OOC] Hotaru says, "This fight defies explanation!" (Winner: Hotaru)
TV was for sissy kids that didn't have Kung Fu or... Kenpo to learn. At least, that might as well have been the mantra at the Futaba household when Hotaru was growing up. Escaping the young teen years with only limited knowledge of the series that this week's venue was based on, she had to have the gist of it explained to her on sight when she was being fitted for her outfit.
"I see and they wear...- Oh, and talk like... that's kind of-... oh Blanka too, huh? Is he a senshi...? Oh... a monster, huh. Yeah... that's original."
When the girl finally takes to the stage that is the Seijyun High flower garden, she can't help but feel just a little silly. Dressed to the part, complete with the white body suit, blue sailor styled collar, blue skirt, red boots, white gloves, and yes, pig-tails. Though they've been shifted to the sides of her head instead of near her neck, decorated with glittery red hair ornaments.
Clearing her throat, the girl clasps her hands behind her back. Apparently there's going to be a dangerous MONSTER threatening FLOWERS and she's supposed to DO SOMETHING about it... The semi sheepish look on her face suggests Hotaru is having a hard time taking any of this seriously.
Blanka himself, however, takes these things amazingly seriously. After all, he's been asked to dress up quite a lot by the SNF groups, probably due to some wierd fetish that Geese Howard has to see the green guy dressed up in different outfits. Hopefully that's not the case, but if it is, well - Blanka hopes to remain quite ignorant about it. He's giving his all to these fights, intent on displaying his ability at being the best things he's been asked to be, time after time.
After several days at the Dojo, understanding and learning about the genre of magical girls and monsters of the day, Blanka has learned all he needs to know about the subject, or so he thinks. With a plan in his head and a song in his heart, he crafted himself a 'costume', though it's certainly not well-put together, it shows a heavy influence of his effort. He's probably plainly obvious in the flower garden, a sunflower set of leaves around his green mug, and leafy fronds on his hands and legs. He stands up to his full height, and tries very hard to remember his speech that he planned!
"Ar~ooo~! You cannot hope to win, Magical Princess Hotaroo~! We monsters will overrun the school, and steal their energy for our own devices~!" With that, he tugs on his fronds, and several plants in the background waggle menacingly!
COMBATSYS: Blanka has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Hotaru has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Geese must really be laughing this one up right now to see such a proud warrior such as Eiji being stuck in such a rediculous concept of a match. If not for the fact that he has made an agreement not to kill any of the officials the person that tried to approach the ninja to try to get his measurements for a costume just might be decorating the walls of Seijyun at this point. All the annoyances has led to the ninja being quite hard to find till the time comes for the match to start.
Even then the Strolheim ninja keeps his distance as he sits up on a rooftop looking down at the flowergarden with a scowl that is mostly covered up by his mask. Of course Hotaru probably has that feeling one gets when they know they are being watched. Eiji is pretty much glaring a hole right into the girl at this moment. Kyokugen really is just proving itself to be a joke by letting one of their students participate in such a rediculous premise.
Perhaps he will just have his fun with putting the girl through a wall even if she wins. The beast on the other hand. That is an interesting one. A shame they seem to all too readily accept their role in this fight. "Not a monster at all. The fangs must just be for show." he ninja says to himself with a snort. For now the true monster of the matchup remains on the rooftop to see how events will start to unfold.
COMBATSYS: Eiji has joined the fight here.
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Oop. There he is. Sailor Hotaru's eyes widen as Blanka makes his move, rising up to his full flowery and frondy height! Taking a moment to pull her white, elbow lengthed gloves, on a bit tighter, the young heroine breaths in deeply. Delivering lines is a feat she's typically very bad, having a propensity to forget whatever she was supposed to say when actually taking the stage...
But with a 'monster' as eager as Blanka, it's a lot easier to get into the nature of the match. Her mouth curls into a faint smile at first as the apparent villain delivers his dire threat against the prestigious all girl's school. But the smile fades a moment later as the girl assumes a very serious expression. This is serious business after all.
And of course she does what all hero types must do faced with an evil monster of the week. Try to talk it down! Violence is the 'last resort' and all that. Taking a step forward, Hotaru strikes a pose, one hand coming up to point at the moon adorned headband. "A terrible scheme like that has no hope now that I'm here to put a stop to it! You can turn back now and I won't be forced to unleash the powers of love and moon beams on you!" Her hand lowers, stabbing a pointing finger out in his direction, "But if you insist on going forward with your evil plot, I will have no choice but to vanquish you!"
There's that nagging feeling that something seems wrong about this. More wrong than being dressed up like some silly character facing a friend of hers who's playing monster of the week for this little show. The staff did mention something about possible interference, but Hotaru thought that maybe the worst she had to worry about was a crazed fan making their way into the garden during the fight...
COMBATSYS: Hotaru focuses on her next action.
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Very good, Hotaru! Blanka is pleased that formality is being adhered to, that Hotaru is willing to at least play along with this for the amusement of others. After all, for Blanka, he's intent on getting people liking him - showing that he can do 'cheesy monster' quite well, and that he's actually somewhat warm and personable under his rough and deadly exterior. He pounds his chest once after she talks, standing defiant in the flower garden, but careful to not squoosh /too/ many. He howls out afterwards, a defiant sort of reaction to the girl's speech.
"You cannot /hope/ to vanquish... me! Youma... attack!" With that, Blanka pulls hard on the ropes that hold the fake flower-men that he'd had set up above him, the plastic flinging forwards, flying through the air at Hotaru in a well-coreographed sort of attack, as if they were trying to dogpile the Paragon of Justice and Light and ... er, friendship to animals?!
Disgraceful and disgusting. Eiji feels himself almost grow ill from watching the exchange between these two fighters. At least they did bring him in to liven things up a bit. This is not a fight, but if he has things his way the ninja will sure make it one. Probably by the end of this the gardener will be in tears given the fact it is probably going to look like a tornado ripped right through everything.
His interest wanes as it seems like all that is going to happen is an exchange of words and nothing else, but just as the ninja is about to turn away Blanka looks to move into action. That is when a rather sly smile forms under the ninja's mask and he leaps off the roof and sails downwards towards the ground, his body twisting in air gracefully as he aims to land heels first on the top of Hotaru's head and then kick off of it to flip backwards and land on the ground. "Lets see how good you are, brat." he murmurs more to himself than anything.
COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Hotaru with Heavy Kick.
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COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Blanka's Large Thrown Object.
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Alas, peaceful negotiations seem to rarely work out. Hotaru's pointing finger and ultimatum are met with determined resistance by the evil creature as Blanka calls on his pre-placed minions-in-waiting to drop from the sky all around the wouldbe magical girl.
"Then you leave me no choice!" the pig-tailed princess replies, twisting out of the way of some of the youma, pushing other ones aside and kicking one away from her just before it's about to get its grubby petals all over her! Paying attention to the rain of fodder leaves her caught rather off guard by the unexpected double-heel stomp against the top of her head.
The impact is enough to drive the girl to the ground, catching herself with one hand as her left hand reaches up behind the back of her head. "I-itai," she stammers. One of Blanka's fake groupies must've really packed a punch. At least, that's what she thinks at first up until she realizes she heard another voice in the midst of all that commotion.
Rising back up to her feet, blue eyes shift toward the third party to make his appearance in the match. So... that's the interference. Of all the... Hotaru fixes Eiji with a brief stare before glancing back toward Blanka. Pursuing unfinished business would spoil the match for her friend and he seems to be quite into it... Best to stick with the 'script', she tells herself.
"Neutral ground is for those who don't see the bigger picture," the girl rattles off toward Eiji, giving him his proper chiding before she takes off, darting for Blanka, kicking up a small whirl of leaves and dirt as she tries to close the distance between them as quickly as possible.
"Now you'll have to face The Lunar Ladder technique!" The attack comes in fast as the girl tries to get a hold of his arms before using the much taller fighter as a flight of stairs, delivering a series of rapid, small kicks to get up to his shoulders before backflipping away.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Blanka with Shin-Jou Tai.
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Blanka 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Hotaru
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He didn't. Someone /else/ just hit the paragon of Purity, the Lady of Love and Justice! Blanka looks on in surprise as the other fighter drops down and lays a pretty nasty set of heels on Hotaru's melon. And really, Blanka is very upset about the concept of someone messing with a melon that's not him.
He's still looking on in shock as Hotaru rushes him, the dumbfounded look on his face being pummeled in by foot after foot as he's left himself completely open. As she kick-walks her way up, his shoddily-made costume starts to come apart at the seams, leaves and petals flying this way and that. The last kick catches him just beneath the chin, sending him backwards a foot - and here, he finally moves back into action.
Leaping backwards to emphasize the kicks, he flies into the underbrush of the flower garden, his coloration allowing him to at least blend in enough so the cameras can't see what he's up to. His hands rummage through the area for something /else/ that he'd had planned, leaves flickering to and fro as he attempts to prepare for this eventuality...
COMBATSYS: Blanka focuses on his next action.
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"Oh I will play along with your kid games right now. Mr. Howard pays me well to stay in line as long as a fight is going." comes the soft spoken reply from the ninja. His eyes really never do leave Hotaru as she moves to start her attack on Blanka and instead of rushing in himself he waits for a few moments to see how things unfold.
He shifts his attention to the would be monster of this fight though as it seems like Blanka is plotting for some other attack involving a primitive contraption. He gives a soft shake of his head as he turns about and starts to pick up pace again, almost becoming a blur as he speeds up to take to the air as his hand slips into his gi. He remains focused on the bushes where Blanka is at as he quickly starts to toss a small rain of five or shuriken into it to at least flush the beast from his cover. The last star is tossed and the ninja twists about in midair again to gracefully land in a crouch. "Stop being a coward. No reason to be scared of a little girl like her."
The combination assault delivered, Sailor Hotaru is able to leap off into a graceful backflip that places her near the center of the garden. Of course, the second her feet touch down, she's already spinning to face toward Eiji again, not inclined to let the ninja out of her sights for long. What an unpleasant choice for Chaos Agent. It was a lot more fun dealing with Blanka's rain of fruit during her match with Vanessa! Still, untrustworthy ninja or not, he's playing by the rules of the game, even if it means having to put up with his snide remarks.
"Hmph!" the girl states, turning her attention back toward Blanka, "It seems the monster met its due fate. Seijyun High is safe for now." She rests her gloved hands at her hips, looking as confidantly triumphant as she can manage in spite the pain in her head from a rather jarring stomp from Eiji.
But there's no rest to be found for Blanka as Eiji takes to the air to deliver a series of sharp shuriken, and Hotaru gasps, resting her hand over her mouth, "It would seem that there's more to this creature's plans than throwing flower men at me! There's precious little time to preempt the next stage of his nefarious plans." she states, pointing at him as if gesturing for someone besides herself as to where he's slipped over to."
Smiling faintly in spite herself, the girl charges forward, leaping up into the air before dropping down toward the bushes Blanka chose, red boot first. The aim is to deliver a stomp before flipping forward and away!
COMBATSYS: Blanka blocks Hotaru's Koushuu Da.
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COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Blanka with Thrown Object.
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Blanka 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Hotaru
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No rest for the wicked, indeed! Blanka is not recuperating, trying to catch his breath - no, no, Blanka is /preparing/, and as such, he has to focus on what he is doing. Fingers scrabble for carefully prepared bits of cloth, scraps and shinies that he wraps about himself as he's in the underbrush. He tries to eel away from Eiji's attack, the series of shuriken peppering the flowers near where he works, two sinking into his green hide, bringing out grunts of pain. He's focused, though - and no amount of pain will break what he's planned.
As Hotaru leaps in, a red elbow-length glove reaches up, catching the foot in his palm. The kick knocks his hand back down, but certainly seems to sting him less than it could have, were he not prepared. He rises up from the flowers...
And is dressed in a sailor outfit very similar to Hotaru's own! His red hair is poofed out, wraps forcing the giant spiky strands into a dual-ponytail, his body definitely not built for a leotard/short skirt combo, but he's wearing them. He points towards Hotaru first, and shouts out a warning. "Be careful, Hotaroo! The true monster is here! Face him!" With that, he leaps at Eiji, intent on ... well, ignoring his real opponent for now. Noone calls him a coward. His maw opens wide, and he aims directly for Eiji's head with that giant set of teeth. Even if he can't hit, well - it'll be worth it.
COMBATSYS: Eiji dodges Blanka's Wild Fang.
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There are times in ones life where you think you have seen it all. This is one of those times where Eiji realizes he has yet to see everything. He kind of wish he has because the sight of that hulking green beast in an outfit similar to the one Hotaru is wearing is one of those images that make you wish you could just implode in on yourself to get away from it. It is amazing to believe the ninja even has enough wits about him to move away from that beast from the last second when Blanka tries to devour the ninja head first.
With a quick leap to the side and a roll the ninja gets back to his feet and stares for a few moments, and then he just begins to laugh. It is a rather low one that is really more just a chuckle as Eiji shakes his head. "So this is how you want to play....." he murmurs as he takes a deep breath. "You only have yourself to blame for what pain will be induced on you." The ninja then quickly claps his hands together as he ignites with a reddish aura of chi. "Mijin....gakure." No sooner than those two words are uttered the chi flashes out into an almost blinding level and explodes outwards to rain down tiny spikes of chi at both of the senshi as the ninja mostly uses it as a distraction to make is way back to the higher ground by standing on the roof of the greenhouse.
COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Hotaru with Spirit Blast.
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The moment her foot is caught by a giant red-glove clad hand, Hotaru knows for certain that something is horribly amiss. She completes the forward flip to land and spin around, landing in a ready stance with her hands up in front of her, clearly prepared to defend herself against whatever creative plan Blanka is putting into action next!
Little did she know, she wasn't the target of the attack. It would seem the masked interference's verbal barbs have drawn out the monster's... very... disturbingly... secret alter-ego, Sailor Jungle. The girl can't help but just stare in Blanka's direction as he rises up out of the bushes. What... the...
He's going after Eiji though, which is something she admittedly CAN get behind... Whew, this scripted magical girl business sure is hard to follow. Are the episode plots this convoluted, she ponders, hand coming up to rest against the side of her pig-tailed head. But Blanka is calling for her to turn on someone she's more than happy to fight against... How can she pass up an opportunity like that?
"All right, but be careful!" she warns, turning toward the Strolheim ninja and breathing in deeply. Well, this changes things! Darting forward, she sees the surge of chi flashing out in time to try and react. The first few spikes she spins and weaves her way around, but her evasive steps aren't fast enough to keep the girl from finally getting struck, crying out with a gasp as she stumbles, struggling to catch her balance.
Gritting her teeth, a gloved hand tightens as she focuses on Eiji. With the high ground, he has a solid advantage for the moment. He recovered very swiftly from Blanka's jarring surprise to say the least. But maybe he'll have trouble dealing with the two 'plant men' Hotaru picks up and kicks his way? A side glance is cast toward Blanka to see how he's faring. Hopefully he knows what he's doing!
COMBATSYS: Blanka interrupts Spirit Blast from Eiji with Electric Thunder.
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So yes, he's gone far off-script. But really, who can blame him!? Blanka's kinda been typecast for a long time, as the 'monster who dresses up well' and as 'the monster people love to beat up'. Seeing Hotaru get hit pushed him to this, as well as a poor understanding of 'chaos agent'. Admittedly, his own spin at the job was a little rough on poor Hotaru. But enough about that! What's done is done, and he'll take the lumps where they may.
He nods perfunctioirly at Hotaru as she gives her warning, then reaches one gloved hand out and upwards. He's not quite ready to let Eiji run /just/ yet. As he reaches into the heart of the chi-fire explosion, Blanka's own body reacts instinctively, a sparkling blaze of lightning exploding out and around him. He shouts loudly through the flames, just grazing Eiji's foot with his fingers, but certainly enough to give him the shock! "AROOPITER THUNDER!" It leaves Blanka smoking and sizzling from Eiji's fire - but he's still upright, at least. Wobble.
COMBATSYS: Eiji dodges Hotaru's Large Thrown Object.
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The electricity.....was not expected. Eiji had not scouted out this beast well at all so he gives little thought at the rather futile grasp for the ninja as he tries to make an escape. He pays with a rather large surge of energy that goes through him. It staggers the ninja for a moment and almost stuns him enough that in his escape he almost gets slammed by the dummy that was sent his way before he finally makes it to where he wished to be.
He has a bit of smoke rising off of him from where he was shocked and his hair is a bit on end, but the ninja doesn't look too worse for wear. "I like that, a shame you don't have the proper mindset to go with such lovely abilities." Blanka is certainly a fellow he will have to play with one on one in the near future for interferring with this match like he has. In fact why wait?
With a deep breath the ninja jumps forward and becomes an almost blur once again as he first starts towards Blanka, but then quickly redirects his path in an attempt to blindside Hotaru by surprise. He lets out a rather loud yell as his fist ignites with that red chi and he drives it forward to knock the girl off balance as he almost becomes a whirlwind of kicks and punches, chi igniting from both hand and foot on occasion as he intends to use this barrage to down his opponent.
COMBATSYS: Eiji successfully hits Hotaru with Steel Mantis Strike.
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That he made it around her thrown ex-Blanka-minion isn't too much of a surprise. But that Eiji suddenly redirects what seemed to be an attack headed Blanka's way to come take her out does catch the poor girl off guard. She's barely aware of the chi laced fist, trying to focus through the Eiji's remarkable speed to no avail.
The first strike knocks the girl sideways, staggering Hotaru's attempts at avoiding the slam, leaving her an easy target for the following kicks and punches, the small bursts of energy accompanying each strike battering the girl until she finally falls to the ground a little ways off with a pained gasp. Shaking her head, the girl rolls onto her side and pushes herself back up to her feet, looking back toward Eiji with a slightly panicked look in her eyes.
Lifting her hand to brush her hair back over her ear, one of her pig-tails having fallen completely out, she fixes Eiji for a moment, attempting to steel what strength she has left into a big enough attack to give Blanka a solid chance. When she takes off toward the ninja again, it's with more speed than she had managed thus far, a blue and white blur with a surge of chi building up around her as she lunges into a forward roll, coming out of it as close to Eiji as possible. The chi powered flip kick that comes next is the single hardest hit the girl can manage...
"Hotaroo! Look out!!!" Blanka is not fast enough with his warnings to save hotaru from a rather large amount of beatings via chi and fist and foot. The poor girl is... looks like she is getting beat upon very heavily indeed. Blanka bounds towards the two fighters, intent on attempting to seperate them in the best way he can. This time, however, he's certainly not sure how to do it safely. In the end, he does his best, and even remains true to the character he'd decided to play!
"In the name of AROOOOOOO, I will punish you!" Blanka throws Sailor Moon's tried and true little hand signal at Eiji, and then uses the attack that he'd seen in one of Dan's comic book... er, mango. Yes, they call them mango. He whips his hands around in a circle, skirt spinning with him as he rotates. One can almost see the magic in the air. His hands are suddenly carrying two brown-husked orbs, and he attemps to hurl them in the air, then leap after them. "COCONUT... CYCLONE!!!" Hanging in air far too long for human tastes, he comes down at Eiji, feet first, and coconuts second. Let the real monster tremble, the man who would hurt an innocent girl like Hotaroo!
COMBATSYS: Blanka successfully hits Eiji with Tropical Hazard.
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COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Eiji with Ten-shou Ranki EX.
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Blanka happens to be just in time to give Hotaru the chance she needs to land the single solid hit necessary to knock a man of Eiji's stature clean off his feet. But as the two of them rise up, the girl has just enough wherewithall to shift her trajectory into an intersecting course to take the ninja back down to the ground with her.
Whether or not the image of Sailor Hotaru straddling the masked fighter is fit for the episode will be left up to the censors as the one-pig-tailed girl pulls heavily from the world around her, collecting a fierce amount of energy into a single giant sphere centered on her. "aaaaaaaAAAAH!" And then the release, the sphere collapsing, all of the amassed chi channeling back down her arms, funneled into the man's chest. An invisible shockwave of concussive force blasts out from around the two, blowing up dust and flower blossoms in its wake.
The silence that reigns for a moment in the aftermath is punctuated by a tired sigh as Hotaru pushes down against Eiji's chest and begins to get wearily back up to her feet.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has saved the state of this fight.
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COMBATSYS: Lazenca restarts a saved fight.
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Overconfidence can honestly be a good or bad thing depending on situation. Sometimes dumb luck will just make you come out on top and feed that ego. Othertimes it will bite you on the ass and make you look like an even bigger fool than normal. That sort of cockiness might just be the ninja's demise in this case. With things seeming well in hand despite facing two opponents the ninja makes the fatal mistake of thinking he had things already won.
The tenacity of Hotaru along with the rather brutal strength of Blanka combine for quite a beating on Eiji's case. Thinking he could easily the avoid Blanka, Eiji starts to shift his weight and prepare to move out of the way only to be caught up in the attack for the better part of it before he is met with a SAILOR FACE HUGGER. It really isn't like that, but it is certainly one of those images that if Eiji ever sees he will probably be throwing a fit for days. That is honestly the last thing on his mind as he tumbles across the flower garden and catches himself finally with both hands on the ground and on one knee.
He breathes heavily as he tries to get his focus and then he starts to chuckle a bit while he slowly starts to get to his feet. "Next time I won't be following Mr. Howard's rules." he quietly utters as his gaze narrows on the two senshi that stand before him. "It will be on my terms and you won't have someone to fall back on. I won't be so nice when we meet again."
There is no way he has the strength to keep this up. As much as he has the urge to finish off the pair he knows when a fight is not worth continuing. There will be a better time to finish this fight when he can get them one on one where he knows he can win. His hands flare up again with that reddish chi as he leaps up and backwards in a flip. "Finish your pathetic fight. You're both marked and I never forget to collect what I want." he yells out as he slashes about with both arms creating a swath of chi, that almost sounds like a blade being unsheated as a single wave is sent towards each fighter with both the intent to hurt and distract as the ninja tries to use the last of his strength to make with his escape by hopping back up onto the greenhouse and then bolting to scale a school wall and continue off into the night.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru dodges Eiji's Steel Wave Slasher.
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Slow to get to her feet at first, the girl is given a moment's reprieve as Eiji issues his warning. A glance is cast toward Blanka, the girl quietly wondering if he knew what he was getting into earning the attention of someone like Eiji. She knows only a little bit of what that's like from first hand experience herself. Offering Sailor Jungle a supportive smile, she turns her attention back toward Eiji.
In time, it would seem, to notice the build up of chi needed to create the slashing blades of energy being sent hurtling toward the two fo them. "Look out!" comes the warning as Eiji's power slices through the air toward them. A timely twirl to the side leaves her unscathed by that particular assault... and also leaves the poor plants behind her bisected by the wave. Oops!
By the time she's facing Eiji again he's already making his way up to the greenhouse roof once more. Considering how she's barely holding it together by now and the advantage the height gives him in being evasive and dangerous to attack, Hotaru merely holds her ground, extending one gloved hand out to the side to lean against a tree. "Whew, heroing is hard work. That was quite the plot twist!"
COMBATSYS: Hotaru takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Blanka endures Eiji's Steel Wave Slasher.
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Oh noes, Blanka has been placed on 'the list'. This is something that Blanka doesn't quite get. After all, he's probably gone 'off-script', but is that really something to be dishing out threats of? Not to the Blanka, nope! He just stares a little dumbfounded at Eiji's threat and warning, certainly not understanding 'what he's getting into'. This is supposed to be fun for people, and if Eiji can't take a table-turn, well - Blanka will bring the fight back home, to the conclusion that should be done! It's what the fans demand!!
The fuku'd beastman doesn't move out of the way of Eiji's attack, the swath of chi hitting him in an angle along his chest, bringing blood to the forefront in an amazingly horrific display. The beast-man roars in pain, and falls back near where the other Sailor stands. He's laid out on the ground, green and red showing through the white of the outfit, the beastman's green mug coughing up something decidedly unhealthy.
Gold eyes look up towards Hotaru, and to where the camera is - the look of pain on his face is probably anything but fake. He reaches out with one hand towards Hotaru, and speaks in broken words. "... Was... good, for one time... to be a heroine. Thank you for.. believeing in me.. Sailor Hotarooooo..." With that, his head falls back, hitting the ground, his tongue hanging out and his body still.
His /other/ hand, surreptitiously out of shot, though, grabs a small mango, and /hurls/ it at Eiji's retreating form. He's a ham, but he also wants to get in one more shot. >_> Getting up might be hard, after this. That stuff /hurt/!
COMBATSYS: Blanka can no longer fight.
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Eiji 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Hotaru
COMBATSYS: Eiji dodges Blanka's Thrown Object.
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Eiji 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Hotaru
And thus the ninja escapes......with a bit more resistance than he expected. While he was more intent on hoping to eliminate Hotaru over Blanka one out of two isn't so bad. He does look back with one last glance which ends up being a good thing because he almost gets a mango right in the face that would have probably knocked him right over the ledge. Quickly the ninja hits the deck on the roof to avoid the flying fruit and he mumbles under his breath as he gets back to his feet.
Hotaru still stands, but Eiji just doesn't have the energy to take her down as well at this point. While he had planned to take her out from the beginning the interference from Blanka was not expected. With a light tch the ninja leaps out of sight finally to go recover from the rather large beating he took from the pair just moments ago. Once he feels better he will finally take time to get his revenge, the thought of doing so being the source of strength that gives him enough energy to get the hell out of here while fans and officials alike are left confused as to what the hell really just happened and try to make sense of a green beast in a sailor fuku.
Blanka drops to the ground at her side and Sailor Hotaru's eyes widen as she realizes that while she escaped Eiji's deadly distracting dose of destructive power the same can't be said for her new found ally and friend against the evils of the world, Blanka. Dropping to her knees at his side as he utters his final words.
"Oh no!" cries the girl, pressing her hands against the newly created gash across the giant chest of her green, fuki clad friend. "You just wanted to be a hero... ine all along." she sniffs. "At least you got your chance in the end. You were so brave."
With the evil Eiji gone (for this episode!!), Sailor Hotaru leans forward, resting her forehead against Blanka's chest. The forces of good have prevailed, but at what cost?!
COMBATSYS: Eiji has left the fight here.
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Log created on 22:05:10 01/21/2008 by Blanka, and last modified on 20:17:18 01/23/2008.