Description: Zach and Aranha have that fight they agreed upon. Zach has a surprise or two waiting for the Runner, but Aranha's agility and luck prove too much for the Wanderer.
When Zach gave the word that he'd be free on Friday, Aranha made sure he'd be available going as far as to refuse any league fights and even unofficial ones that would take place that day.
As a result Aranha's schedule was extremely clear.
When he arrives the timing is precise. Early enough that it would be before students would come in from school. He wanted to make sure the two fighter would have privacy. Of course this wouldn't apply if there were still employees. From the moment Aranha enters the lobby the Dancing Spider eyes get to work, studying the already familiar surroundings noting if there have been any changes since he last was there and waiting for Zach Glen to arrive.
Zach said he had the day off. He meant it. However, he realized a day later that he had forgotten to arrange a 'where' and a more specific 'when,' he decided to head in to the YFCC anyway. He saw Aranha arrive. The place is clean, but that is mostly because people and kids have not shown up yet. "Yo," Zach says in a loud, clear voice even as he gestures out toward the back.
He has just the place.
When Zach finally arrives and makes his presence known, he turns around and gives the other fighter a nod before moving towards the direction that Zach indicated. Taking deep breaths as he gets himself ready to fight. He even pulls out a pair of Oakley Thumps and then he thinks back to the footage he saw of Zach and thinks better of it, sliding the sunglasses back into his jacket. He's gotten enough sunglasses wrecked this month.
Zach /does/ have a reputation for wrecking things. He's wearing his typical shirt over another shirt, jeans and ball cap look as he walks out to the baseball diamond out back.
Zach is thankful there are no kids around; they have been bugging him for a demostration, and he has had to decline repeatedly.
He gets to the outfield before turning to face Aranha. "So how do you want to do this. It's your show," Zach says even as he slides into a fighting stance that resembles jujitsu in a way.
COMBATSYS: Zach has started a fight here.
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Zach 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Aranha has joined the fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Zach
"Just let it all hang out." Aranha says with a smile as he takes off his denim jacket and flings it away from him hanging the jacket on the fence exposing his arms to both sight and the elements. The length of his arms are covered by criss crossing the along the lengths of both arms.
"And don't worry about hurting me. I just want to see what you can do." He then begins swaying going back forth as he makes his approach and then he begins by whipping himself around in a spin, swinging his rear foot in a circular kick that would strike with the outside of his foot if it lands.
COMBATSYS: Zach fails to interrupt Light Kick from Aranha with Zero Stance.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Zach
Zach twists slightly, before firing a straight punch that doesn't quite connect to the kicking Aranha...
...unfortunately for Zach, neither does the swath of jagged purple Psycho Power that materializes just off to the side of the punch. Glen takes the kick in the ribcage, sending him staggering to the side as the wanderer attempts to sight in on Aranha a bit better.
The Dancing Spider keep spinning. Following the kick with another one. It's as if he's a revolver. One bullet fired, and then cylinder spins aligning the chamber with the barrel to fire another.
He swings a glowing blue foot in a roundhouse. The cylinder turns. He then swings off a spinning jump kick, glowing with blue chi as he uses the momentum generated by the first kick to power the second. The cylinder turns once more. He then finishes with a glowing back flip kick driving the foot down on the wanderer's head. And the cylinder turns once more.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Zach with Aggressive Dance.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Zach
Zach is not moving as fast as he probably could be. The kicks smash into him, causing the YFCC employee to stagger under the relentless assault.
Once the last kick ends, Zach leaps clear. "I haven't been giving you a very good show," Zach apologizes, "Let me fix that." Zach assumes a Horse stance, and yells as purple flames sweep up and around his body.
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Zach
As Aranha recovers from the final kick of his Aggressive Dance, he knows he's vulnerable to whatever the Psycho Power wielder has planned for him. Much to the Dancing Spider's relief, no attack comes. Instead he's treated to the light show matching Zach's hair.
Instead of letting Zach gather power and getting away with it he skips forwards as he thrusts a front kick right for his stomach but instead of staying there for the response he leans into a back bridge and throws his hips up and over to bringing him back to a standing position with a bit of distance between them.
COMBATSYS: Zach blocks Aranha's Change-Up Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\==-----\1 Zach
Zach whips a hand down, catching the kick on his forearm. Glen winces from the pain as he is forced back a couple of inches. However, the pain and the push are not about to deter Zach much at all.
All of that light show sweeps to the non-blocking arm, encasing it almost as if it were armor. Almost immediately, Zach yells out another kiai, and slams that mailed fist at Aranaha' chest!
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Zach's Burst Strike.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Zach
The combination of Aranha's natural speed, and the effort he put into putting distance between himself and the other fighter save him. As the purple energy gets swept into his hand Aranha notices something about it that tells him he doesn't want to be there when the fist connects.
As Zach's moves to slam his fist into him, Aranha performs an act that looks on the surface to be insane and foolhardy but timing was carefully calculated based on the various cues he was picking up from the other fighter. He jumps /at/ Zach and the moment right before the other fighter fully extends his arm on the punch he places his hands on top of Zach's head pushes off allowing the traceur to vault up and over both him and the punch before suddenly dropping to the ground to shoot a foot to the back of the wanderer's leg.
COMBATSYS: Zach interrupts Short Kick from Aranha with Third Stance.
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Aranha 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Zach
Zach watches Aranha leap at him. He grins faintly; it might be time to try /that/ out.
Aranha lands on his head, forcing Glen down even as he throws the uppercut that misses Aranha completely.
However, the jagged burst of spikey-looking Psycho Power lashes upward from the ground impaling Aranha like a pike would a charging horse. "San-shiki," Zach murmurs as he shakes his head loose.
Perhaps that was foolhardy after all. Though in Aranha's defense he didn't have information on that particular move to work with. While the Dancing Spider was on the ground he just couldn't do anything about the psycho powered spike coming up from under him and filling his world with pain while flinging him up into the air. The capoeirista lands with a dull thud and in a crumpled heap.
"That hurt... Alot." Aranha slowly brings himself back up to his feet, his lips curling into a smile. He doesn't attack right away but he begins singing and dancing, letting inspiration come to him. Blue sparks fly off of his body as he dances and spins. Make no mistake. Aranha is keeping an eye on the other fighter. While Zach and Aranha draw their power from two different sources and have entirely two different processes of drawing upon their respective sources, he's attempting to achieve the exact same results Zach did.
COMBATSYS: Aranha gathers his will.
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Aranha 1/----===/=======|===----\-------\0 Zach
Zach grins a bit. That move was pretty new. Zach half-closes his eyes, and draws still more power. While he still appears beat-up, as the flames wash over him, he starts to looks significantly /less/ tired.
Zach will be ready for whatever Aranha is planning...
COMBATSYS: Zach gathers his will.
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Aranha 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\0 Zach
Aranha was hoping to see the other fighter come at him while he was dancing and singing. He wanted to see what the other fighter had to offer and while he can see flashes of useful things here and there. He's not exactly sure Zach has shown him everything. And so he decides to test how the other fighter handles pressure.
Aranha performs an outside crescent kick from his front leg which then drops to his rear leg. He shifts back and swings his leg around in a rear leg outside crescent kick which is quickly followed up by a trio of kicks where he touches the ground as he swings the heel of his rear leg towards his opponent's head. On the third of those particular kicks he cuts short and turns his foot as he drops it down on the ground before swinging his other foot at the head in a roundhouse kick-like motion though it's also done with both hands on the ground. The capoeirista then shifts his weight over to the side swinging the unplanted foot up and over which though it doesn't hit, it generates momentum for the other foot to come back across. He performs a handstand and performs a series of rapid spinning handstand kicks. His Timberlands covered in blue chi through out the entire move.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Zach with Royal Flush.
- Power hit! -
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=======\======-\1 Zach
Zach tries to get his arms up and in the way of those blazing kicks. His fighting style has a serious gap in it; his body does not handle direct beatings or chi all that well. This is both.
The outcome... is predictable.
Zach staggers under the assault, the purple flames kicking into overdrive as he readies himself for one last gambit. He slowly puts his hands into the air, even as he takes a stepping lunge towards the Runner. The hands sweep down as Zach yells, "CHOU! KASANE ATE!"
A second later, a wave of psi-spike slash upward from the ground and starts to march towards Aranha, widening and growing as it gets closer!
COMBATSYS: Zach can no longer fight.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Zach's Burst Stream.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
As Aranha drops out of spinning handstand the glow from his feet fades away. He taking a deep breath as he resets himself landing in ginga. Aranha watches and waits to see how Zach will behave in the aftermath.
He smiles as he can see the conviction in his eyes, the knowledge that Zach will see the fight to the end makes him smile. It shows that Zach also has heart. Something he doesn't mind seeing in anyone he fights along side of.
As Zach raises his arms up and calls his attack. "Huh W-wha?" Based on what Aranha was seeing, other than stance reminiscent of jiujutsu, he wasn't given any indication that Zach was a practitioner of Todoh-ryuu and so there's a moment of confusion before watching the wave of psionic energy traveling towards him.
With a fast cartwheel-like motion, he aborts it into a handstand before swinging a hand to spin him further from the wave before landing on his feet again and looking at the other fighter. Appearance of flashiness with utilitarian motivation. "Damn that was close. I see you have strengths that I can use on my team and you'd be surprised at what I learned from you in just this one fight."
Zach gasps for air as he fall on his rear end. His eyes are crunched shut, and it looks like the act of breathing really hurts.
"Y'mean... =other= than I can't take a hit?"
"That you can really dish it out as well. I'm actually lucky that I was able to get out of the way of those attacks." He then moves to his jacket and pulls out a folded up piece of paper with his number on it and tosses it to the other fighter before swinging the jacket back on. "I also noticed that the hesitation is what worked against you at a key point in the fight. Anyway, if you want to join my team, let me know. Take some time to think about it before you reply."
And with that the capoeirista takes his leave walking away as he makes his plans.
Zach weakly catches the piece of paper and looks at it for a moment...
...before flopping onto his back to gasp for more air. Maybe the oxygen will make the pain go away...
Log created on 11:38:33 02/01/2008 by Zach, and last modified on 14:58:36 02/01/2008.