Description: o/~ On the Boardwalk... let's have some fun... o/~ NL arranges a meeting between Adira Sen'ou of Gedo High and Malin, of parts unknown--and what happens is EPIC BATTOL. (Winner: Malin)
Malin had been on her way to Metro City. But... had run up against several obstacles in getting there anything like quickly. Not least of which was the -complete lack of funds- she was currently suffering. She might be able to skip out on meals and the like, but getting an airplane ticket without any cash? That was... difficult, to say the least. That said, she had signed up with the Neo League lately, and then that fateful call came. She had a Challenge, and all she had to do... was get herself here, to the Boardwalk. The sun is pretty high in the sky, the weather good, and the crowds were out. Especially with the gathering cameras.
And then Malin bursts onto the scene. She'd run all the way here, but, she'd gotten here in time! Haha! The energetic girl leaps in front of the nearest camera, and gives it a big Peace sign, grinning from ear to ear.
"Okay! I'm here! Whew! Let's get this thing going, huh? I don't have all day! My organization don't pay me to hang around chit-chatting!~"
Apparently her organization doesn't pay for transport, either, but lets not get into that! The girl looks around, getting her bearings a little bit more. "Where's my opponent, anyway?"
Well, if it's funds you need, the Neo League will provide. And while Adira isn't hurtin' for cash, a little extra to supplement is always appreciated. Besides... she likes fighting, she likes it a lot. Even when she loses. Though she prefers to win. Man, she just ran up against an improvisatory weapons-master the other day... Malin might not like how Adira feels about that fact... but anyways.
Malin's first there, only because Adira was delayed by a traffic accident that held her cab up... but she gets to the boardwalk, jogging over to where the makeshift arena is set up. "I'm here!" she shouts, as she arrives, neatly hopping the barrier, putting a neat tumble on her jump as she lands.
"Phew, just in time," she notes, going through a quick series of stretches... mostly focusing on her legs. And she rolls her neck, eliciting some pops, before going to her designated starting mark and raising her hands.
"You're my opponent?" she asks, of Malin, giving her the once over... and nods. "Right, then, good luck."
Malin nods to the girl, smiling brightly. "Yup, that's me! The name's Malin, nice to meet'cha! First time I've fought in this league. Should be fun, right?" She winks, extending one finger towards Adira and grinning cheekily. "I might be a newcomer, but don't go easy on me because of that! I intend to win, 'cause I've got a lot riding on this! When I'm done here, I'm going to Metro City, to beat up a bunch of low-life scum called the Mad Gear Gang! Innocent people are being terrorized, and I can't stand by and let that happen!"
Dramatic speeches aside, her other hand drifts to her back pocket, and hooks in the loop of her yoyo, "So... let's get this done quickly! I've got places to be!" She declares brightly, before suddenly her hand whips forwards, and her yoyo spins out at Adira, wicked blades sprouting from it mid-way, turning an innocent childrens toy into a... pretty vicious weapon! Hopefully catching her enemy off-guard and forcing her back!
COMBATSYS: Malin has started a fight here.
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Malin 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Adira has joined the fight here.
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Malin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Adira
COMBATSYS: Adira negates Onigumo from Malin with Dragon's Roar.
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Malin 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Adira
"... Metro? Oh, yeah, the problems there..." Adira trails off. Really, she ought to go back to Metro to do some work there. Maybe on the weekend or something... it's not that she -doesn't- care about Metro. She does, deeply. But she promised she wouldn't do vigilante stuff there for a while... well, ever, but 'ever' really means 'a while'. She's caught thinking about this as the fight starts, but she's plenty ready when she realizes it.
"Sounds like fun! And this should be too!" As she looks up she sees the incoming bladed yoyo and grimaces. That wouldn't be fun. Stomping her right foot down, she triggers her crimson, fiery chi, blazing up around her right foot, from sole to calf... and then she kicks upwards, straight up, a high front kick that unleashes a Adira-high arc of that fiery chi... which races forward, obliterating the yoyo and consuming itself in a bright flash.
Malin blinks slightly, "Wow. Neat trick!" She declares, grinning, "Remind me not to get hit by that!" And then she's dancing back a bit, freeing her finger from the string of her yoyo, which flutters to the ground. Poor Onigumo didn't stand a chance! Ah well. She had plenty more where that came from. Again, the girl reaches behind her... "Still. I've got a few tricks of my own..." She murmurs, and then her hands come forward sharply!
Blink and you'll miss it. Quite -where- Malin got all these daggers is a mystery perhaps best left unanswered. Regardless. Suddenly, she's flinging six sharp knives through the air at the girl and her general area. Hoping to rely on quantity where quality had failed!
COMBATSYS: Malin successfully hits Adira with Thrown Object.
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Malin 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Adira
Adira's already surging forward. She doesn't have time to be pinned down, literally or figuratively. She can't let Malin dictate the pace of the fight or she's lost. So when those knives come in... Adira keeps going. Each knife hits--she is only able to turn her body so that each knife cuts rather than sticks.
Goddamn, no more people with goddamn knives after this. Adira hisses as she's cut, then can't help but say, acidically, "So when're you gonna stop tossing around toys and -fight-?" as she loses a couple of steps--but keeps on coming at Malin anyways, landing in front of the other fighter.
Once there, she feints a low snap kick with her right leg, but the motion is just to draw attention; before the kick can even really be chambered, she's dropping her right foot down, planting it, and spinning forward and to her left, bringing her left heel up and pistoning through a reverse heel thrust kick aimed for Malin's chin.
COMBATSYS: Malin dodges Adira's Light Kick.
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Malin 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Adira
Malin's eyes twinkle at that, a bright grin on her features. The girl dodges nimbly to the side of the fast kick, and reaches into her pocket, withdrawing a flick-blade. "Toys? That's not a very nice thing to say. I don't make fun of how -slow- you are. Come on, show some respect here. It's not -nice- to make fun of how other people fight."
And to accentuate her words, she flicks with her wrist, letting the sharp 'schnikt' of the blade falling into place act as the only warning she would give before aiming to score a thin, shallow cut in the girls back, and dance away a second time. Still trying to judge just what style this girl was using. The energy from early was forbidding...
But Malin didn't have enough information to make a true judgment on just what sort of style she was fighting against here.
COMBATSYS: Malin successfully hits Adira with Weapon Jab.
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Malin 0/-------/-------|===----\-------\0 Adira
Ugh. She's fast, she uses dangerous weapons... this is not a good fight to be in. It's hard to be relaxed when your opponent is jabbing with knives and blades. "Fighting isn't a nice thing," she grunts, as she turns to try and keep track of Malin... and fails. The blade scores a hit, but Adira seems to shrug it off, as she uses that brief contact to home in on Malin again...
But she doesn't -turn- towards her. Instead, she just catapults a leg backward, a quick little reverse horse kick to let Malin know that Adira -does- in fact know where she is.
It doesn't seem likely as though these two will get along, hmm? At least not from this initial exchange, despite their being on the 'same side' as far as Metro City goes...
COMBATSYS: Adira successfully hits Malin with Snap Kick.
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Malin 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Adira
Malin does her best to twist out of the way, her eyes going just a bit wide at the unexpected blow. She grunts as it finds its way home regardless, and takes a deep breath. "Hmph. Fighting may not be -nice- exactly, but... hey! It sure is fun. And you are pretty good. Still. Don't count me out just yet!"
To emphasize her point, the girl takes a step back, and crouches. Tucking the flick knife back around her person, she draws from her boot an entirely different weapon. Much longer, and -far- sharper than the one she had been using, quite suddenly, the girl has leapt into the air, completing a graceful arc, before aiming to bring the weapon down -hard- on Adira's shoulder, and yank down harshly before darting back. She could at least hope. That kick had hurt a lot more than she cared to admit, and she didn't want to be in the way of another one.
COMBATSYS: Adira interrupts Descending Suzume Bachi from Malin with Dragon Hunter.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Malin 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Adira
Fighting -is- putting yourself in the way of things... at least... Adira's style of fighting. The little compliment seems to relax her a little, and she agrees, "Yeah... it sure is fun!" ... God DAMN this girl is fast. Even as Adira feels her kick connect, and subsequently turns to face where Malin was, the other fighter is -gone-... where? Adira looks up, instinctively.
-There-.
Adira grins, wickedly, just as Malin starts descending, and she gathers herself, crouching down briefly, then using her powerful legs to launch her straight up for Malin. Arms brought to bear, she literally parries the weapon, deflecting it away with her arms in the moment before she counter-strikes--her right knee leading the way into Malin's chest.
The knee strikes and there's just half a moment for Adira to go into a two-footed flip kick, her body rotating three-sixty degrees to kick Malin's body away before the girl completes her rotation and lands in a crouch.
THAT gets Malin's attention.
The girls eyes go quite wide when the first blow connects, and she lets out a little 'gack' as she hits the ground some distance away. Forcing herself to get back up to her feet, she's breathing a little harder than she had been before. But can you blame her? That blow had -hurt-. She'd really left herself open for that one, and it shows.
Still. Malin wouldn't be Malin if she let her get it down! The girl smiles brightly, "Geez! You -are- good! Okay! Let's kick it up a notch!" She declares, taking another deep breath to try and steady herself, she comes in quickly, that knife held with the blade facing out, and aims to test the girls defenses a second time, a much harder, more determined blow this time around, she aims to bury that knife in the girls side, and drag it across her stomach if possible. Hoping that she could wear her down through a combination of speed and determination. If she slowed down for a moment... that'd be the end of the match, she just knew it.
COMBATSYS: Adira endures Malin's Medium Strike.
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Malin 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Adira
Maybe she's a little too used to people with knives, right now. Adira stands her ground, biting her lip to keep a shout of pain from coming out when she's stabbed. The tough leather of her top makes it a little harder to stab through completely, and that's the only thing that saves her from an embowelment... but the stab still stands.
Adira's hands come down to grab Malin's arm. "Not... gonna let you get away THAT EASY," she hisses, trying to keep hold of the girl's arm long enough to use her right foot to literally sweep Malin's feet out from under her, to drop her onto her back.
Of course, she'll have to let go then, if Malin doesn't squirm out of the way quickly enough, but if tripped, Malin will find Adira's foot buried in her stomach by way of axe kick...
COMBATSYS: Malin dodges Adira's Slipping Axe.
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Malin 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Adira
Malin is ready for this. The girl took her blow, and Malin had no intention of letting herself get caught long enough to pay for that. The girl continues the strike down in a smooth motion, and as Adira tries to grab her, rolls backwards in an impressive display of athletic prowess, dropping her knife in the process, when she comes back up, she's grinning widely. "Phew! Almost got me! But... not quite~!" She declares, making a mental note. Don't get in close to this girl. It wouldn't end well.
So, with that in mind, she slips her hand down to her side, and in an instant, has another one of those spinning yoyos in her hands. Quite close to Adira, she aims to drive the girl back. It hadn't worked last time, but, this time, the yoyo that flashes out is... subtly different. Twin layers of buzzing blades, it packs a far nastier punch than her regular yoyo!
"Still think I'm playing with toys?~" She asks, somewhat teasingly, as the buzzsaw-on-string cuts its way through the air towards the girl.
COMBATSYS: Malin successfully hits Adira with Short Onigumo.
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Malin 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Adira
This time, there's nothing she can do; she just doesn't have enough time to prepare a response. She tries to get out of the way, but the bladed yo-yo tears into her already-injured side and she cries out. Adira stumbles back... then her eyes flash. "That... hurt..." she hisses, her gaze very very intense, one might say... almost dangerous. "Guess I knew I wasn't going to get out of this without a scratch but..."
Once again, she goes on the attack, regardless of whether it is advisable or not; she ignores her bleeding wounds in favor of taking two steps forward, leaping and tucking her legs in... flying in a low arc for Malin's position, slamming her right heel out in a slightly downward-angled heel stomp kick.
COMBATSYS: Malin dodges Adira's Fierce Kick.
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Malin 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Adira
Malin looks a little perturbed at that, bringing her yoyo back to hand with a -snap- of her wrist, she shakes her head. "I told you! Don't underestimate me just 'cause I'm a newcomer. I'm here to win this!" She declares, standing as the attack comes flashing in at her. The girl twists her way around the kick, nimbly dodging the blow, and as she is twisting around, the girl stomps down heavily on the heel of her boot, a blade springing out from the toe.
She winds up behind Adira, and aims a quick kick at the back of her leg. Nothing with much power to it, just aiming to get another blow in before she can dart backwards and keep Adira at as much distance as she can manage. "You know. If you don't want to get hurt, this -probably- isn't the right sport for you."
COMBATSYS: Adira interrupts Light Kick from Malin with Dragon Slayer.
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Malin 1/-----==/=======|===----\-------\0 Adira
"I never said--" replies Adira, as she lands, her body already tensed, turning around, "--I DIDN'T WANT TO GET HURT!" She shouts the last because she is, in fact, already moving, with speed and force. That kick of Malin's never gets full extension; Adira closes the gap too quickly, and she uses her hands to slap that leg out of line for the kick. And then she bursts into action again.
It looks very much like the last time she counterattacked--a sharp, rising knee. Only this is as knee sheathed in crimson fire, impacting under Malin's chin and throwing her upwards at an acute angle. And Adira isn't done yet. Her own momentum takes her up with the girl and she's already tucked up...
...and then, extending her legs as she flips once, twice, three times, striking Malin with three of those flip kicks, her feet blazing with more of that chifire.
As she lands, once more in her crouch, she shouts, "So DON'T TAKE ME LIGHTLY EITHER!"
Malin's eyes again go wide. Surprised by the girls speed, she's taken completely off guard, and finds herself lifting into the air with a serene blossom of pain echoing in her head. If she could focus her thoughts, she'd probably be thinking something along the lines of how silly it was to have expected not to see that nasty burning fire again. Unfortunately for Malin, she doesn't have the time for self-reflection, because her body is getting utterly pounded by those nasty blows, and when she hits the ground, for a moment, it looks quite convincingly like she's not going to get up again.
But get up she does. Beaten she might be, but she's not down, and she has no intention of staying down whilst there was still an ounce of fight left in her. That cocky grin returns, and she straightens, stretching her shoulder for a moment. And then she flicks her arm, and a knife hidden up her sleeve is snatched out of the air.
"Duly noted!~" She declares, far too chirpy for someone who has just been beaten down so badly.
And then she's surging across the intervening distance, a quick, barely-aimed stab thrown at Adira, her eyes bright and focused. This was going to be closer than she'd thought!
COMBATSYS: Malin successfully hits Adira with Weapon Jab.
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Malin 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Adira
It's odd; it seems that whenever Adira isn't counterattacking, Malin just has the chance to hit Adira whenever and wherever she wants. The jabbing strike is true--but poorly aimed, it almost just skids off her skin instead. That doesn't mean it doesn't cut, but... Adira's getting used to the spikes of sharp, glittery pain, and so she just completely ignores it in favor of kicking at Malin--leaping off the ground a short distance...
And rotating her body through a quick turn, firing a right roundhouse kick then planting her right leg to form a pivot point for a left crescent kick. Both kicks are targeted squarely at Malin's head, Adira spinning back around to face Malin just after...
COMBATSYS: Malin dodges Adira's Medium Kick.
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Malin 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Adira
Malin dodges back nimbly, both kicks managing to whiz through the air. A little too close for comfort, but, Malin was determined to end this fight. The longer it was drawn out, the more likely Adira was to manage to get her hands on her another time, and she really didn't like the sound of that. Getting grabbed by Adira seemed like... well, a -very- bad idea, to put it lightly. Each blow has seriously hurt Malin, after all, and she was pretty confident another couple of hits, and she'd be down.
But! There it is! As Adira descends, Malin sees her opening. She was running out of options, but, as far as they went... this seems like the perfect moment. The girl takes advantage of her speed, putting everything she has into crossing the little distance between herself and the girl -just- as Adira lands from her kicks, Malin is there, smiling.
And with shocking speed, her booted foot comes -straight- up, aiming to slam into Adira's chin, and lift the girl off the ground. Malin strikes a second time, and a third. Pushing her up off the ground and further into the air, before completing a graceful backflip, which aims to connect her foot, again, with her opponents chin.
But that's not all. Should the first blow have hit, and the combo have been set off, the girl lands, and has a blade between each finger, hurling them in one smooth motion at Adira before she can hit the ground.
It was somewhat desperate, and involved getting a lot closer to Adira than Malin would have liked in a perfect world... but... with luck, such a vicious combination should spell the end of the fight.
COMBATSYS: Malin successfully hits Adira with Kagero.
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Malin 0/-------/------=|=======\-------\1 Adira
And, yet again, Malin seems to just have her way with Adira's body--the full combination connects, her body riddled by the knives It should be over; Adira should be out. Malin might think she is, in fact, out like a light. Everyone thinks so, actually...
Until she rises to her feet, bleeding like a stuck pig, hissing in pain as she rips the blades from her body. "Next fight," she swears, half to herself, not really thinking she's talking out loud, "I'm NOT fighting a weapons user... goddamn tired of goddamn knives..." A quick shake of her head and she just... she steps forward, towards where Malin is. And she cocks her right leg up, as if she were in a flamingo stance, balanced on her left.
And she starts -kicking-. Her right leg whips around again and again, seeking to batter Malin's guard, to slip past it, the tip of her booted foot the intended impact weapon, as she assaults the girl with a shotgun-like series of strikes. She's not down yet... not -yet-.
COMBATSYS: Malin blocks Adira's Whip Storm.
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Malin 0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0 Adira
Malin is... stunned, when the girl manages to pull herself up to her feet despite the wounds she has taken. Despite the continued battering that has been inflicted on her body, this... -crazy- girl manages to pick herself up from the floor and keep on going! Geez, who had they pitted her against here? This just isn't right!
The girl blinks, shaking her head, "Why won't you /stay down/?" She demands, sounding more annoyed than she really has any right to be, the girl is, nonetheless, on guard as those attacks come flying in at her. She twists and turns, bringing her arms around to block and turn aside as many of the kicks as she is able. But nonetheless, she is definitely feeling the attacks as they rain down upon her. She takes a deep breath, reaching up behind her.
And then she steps forwards, and produces two familiar, cylindrical weapons, tipped with bronze spikes. She moves as fast as her tiring body is able, to -jam- those weapons into the girls side, and hit the button on the side, aiming to sink home a powerful electric charge. Nothing else seemed to be working! Maybe she'd have more luck putting her down with a nasty charge of good old fashioned electricity!
COMBATSYS: Adira interrupts Electric Prod from Malin with Tiger Hunter.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Malin 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Adira
Oh yeah? Well, Adira's getting tired too. Hell, she hurts more than Malin--bruises are dull aches, but the pain of cuts is sharp and immediate. She's tired, and she's wearing down... but she ain't givin' up. "I won't stay down 'cuz I'm a warrior," she grates out between her teeth... and she backs up. Malin's coming in...
But so is Adira. She leaps forward, thrusting her right leg out through a powerful, stabbing kick, her heel again sheathed in that bright-dark fire, and right then, Adira...
She just proves faster than Malin, kicking the girl away before those prods can even touch her. The girl lands from her kick, gasping, tired... but still up.
"Not... done... YET..." she gasps.
Malin isn't -quite- sure where the truck that hit her went, but, she really hopes the cameras managed to get the registration details. Because that... -really- hurt. She's dizzy, when she manages to rise up from the floor, but, rise up she does. She was right. Another blow like that and she'd be down for good. There was no coming back from something like that.
The electric prods have scattered across the ground. She was starting to run out of options here. Still. She had no intention of losing her first fight! And if that meant she had to resort to mind games, that was just what she was going to do!
The girl grins, wiping a little blood from her lips with the back of her hand. She puts a brave face on it. That was, after all, the best she could do in a situation like this. She grabs another knife from her back, and takes a firm grip on it, brushing a stray lock of blonde hair back behind her ear.
"Geez, you look a real mess there! You sure you don't want to just give up and call it a day? I'm /just/ going to beat you. The only question is how badly you are going to be cut up at the end of this, right?~"
COMBATSYS: Malin gains composure.
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Malin 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Adira
Pant. Pant pant. Adira just stands still for a moment, breathing, letting her body readjust. She's as tired as Malin.. and despite all the pain, she has a strangely joyous grin on her lips. This is it--that edge of life or death... the thrill... this is what she loves. "Give up? You don't know who you're talkin' to... you're gonna have to knock me out to get me to stop... it's the same for you, innit?" she predicts...
"You're enjoying this too.. and you know... nothin's determined until the end... the VERY END..." A few breaths lets her get her feet back down on the ground, more solidly; lets her muscles untense a little, lets her feel like she can move. "You look pretty beat up, yourself... sure -you- don't wanna give up?" she asks, rhetorically... she knows it's not going to be that easy.
COMBATSYS: Adira focuses on her next action.
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Malin 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Adira
Malin considers this for a moment, grinning like a loon. "Yeah. Good call." She grins, "Well. In that case, guess we better finish this up! The viewers at home are waiting, right?" Malin, ever conscious of the camera, gives a wink to said viewer, before she flings the knife she is holding at Adira... and dives to the side, intending to, well, pretty much empty her arsenal at Adira. She'd learnt not to get close enough to let the girl get her hands on her, after all.
What follows is a pretty impressive statement on just how much hardware Malin is carrying around with her. She's not got any of her top shelf equipment left, so to speak (except, of course, those wonderful Onigumo), and so now she's down to throwing penknives, razors, and a variety of other relatively low-budget weapons at her opponent. A hail of metal, each hoping to be the final nail (haha) in Adira's coffin.
COMBATSYS: Adira overcomes Thrown Object from Malin with Large Thrown Object.
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Malin 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Adira
This is... THE END! Somehow those words echo in Adira's ears, spoken in a deep voice... probably from a game she played once. But it isn't the end. Malin is doing her best to turn Adira into a pincushion... but Adira isn't going to take that anymore. "OH NO YOU DON'T!!!" she shouts, and she turns away, as if to block...
But instead she grabs a big trash can, one of those half-human-sized ones. She grabs, she lifts, and she -spins-. Once, twice... the heavy metal trashcan serves as a shield, battering all those little things out of the way.
On the second spin, barely able to control it, Adira releases the trashcan... straight at Malin. "HYAA!"
COMBATSYS: Adira successfully hits Malin with Large Thrown Object.
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Malin 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Adira
Malin's eyes go wide as the girl sends her knives and other sharp implements scattering away with a trashcan. The girl dives in an attempt to /get out of there/ before that nasty thing can slam into her... but... it's all for nothing! The trashcan impacts her solidly and she hits the ground. Hard. The girl groans, she'd /badly/ misjudged that. And that... that'd hurt. And now there were three Adira standing there, and the ground is unsteady all of a sudden. Hey, stop doing that, it's not cool ground!
Yup. Things weren't looking good for Malin. She shakes her head, trying to clear it, and takes a deep breath. Okay. One knife. One strike. Adira -had- to be nearing the end of her abilities. There was just no way she could keep going. And Malin... Malin was going to take a chance.
After all. She had too much riding on this to give up now!
"Okay..." She slurs, patting herself for a second, she pulls a wickedly long knife from her boot.
"Here goes nothing... I'm not out yet! You... YOU SHOULD STAY DOWN!" She declares, feet pounding the dirt, she puts everything she has into one last desperate -fling-.
The girls body arches with deceptive speed, and she /hurls/ herself at Adira with all her hopes behind her. That blade seeking to draw itself right the way across Adira's torso.
COMBATSYS: Adira fails to interrupt Suzume Bachi from Malin with Dragon Hunter.
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COMBATSYS: Adira can no longer fight.
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This truly is the end... Adira has no choice left, nothing left to go on but instinct and what her body wants to do. Her injured, tired body. Despite that, she meets Malin fearlessly--lunging to strike with her knee once more... but this time, finally... she's just not as fast this time, and she pays for it. That blade finally scores a line across her body and she drops, onto her knees, her technique disrupted.
Collapsing to her hands, further... she knows. She's been beaten. But she gave her best in the fight, and that's all she can really ask for. That in and of itself does not douse the burning pain flowing through her body, like molten lava, or the burning shame at being defeated that exists in her heart... but it comforts her a little. She'll feel better about it later.
With difficulty, she rises, only for an official to guide her over to the medic... she'll need to be taped up, at least...
Malin actually flinches as Adira lunges forwards at her. Convinced that the girl was going to prove too quick a second time, she lashes out with all the speed her aching muscles can muster, and lands crouched. When she realizes that she hasn't been hurt, the girl rises smoothly to her feet. Time to put on her mask again, though she does spare a concerned look to Adira. It... really could have been her on the ground, there, and she knew it. Still. She couldn't -afford- to look anything but like this was exactly what she has planned, as she points at the camera, and smiles her best cocky grin, brushing her hair back.
"Right!" She declares, breathing heavily, "Listen up, Mad Gear Dogs! I know one of you is gonna see this, and I've just got a couple of words for you! Watch your backs, the lot of you. Because that's just a -little- bit of what I can do. And me and my organization? We're going to come down on you like a hurricane. When you least expect it."
She winks at the camera then, and, only when it shuts off, does she let it all come flooding back.
The girl sinks to one knee, "Owowowowowow. Geez. That... that's really painful. Ouch. Medic!" She flails, collapsing face-first onto the ground. Exhausted and injured. But at least she'd managed to get her message out!
Log created on 16:02:00 03/03/2008 by Adira, and last modified on 20:57:27 03/03/2008.