Description: A mandatory training session, between two Dolls. The victor is hardly important, but the battle is a test for two like minded members of Vega's army to ready themselves.. Alone at the point in which Shadaloo's base was so rudely assaulted from before, the landscape still scarred! Also, a happy time between dolls :D
The grassy clearing of Point 48106 is such an epic place for a boss fight! ...But there's no real battle of good vs. evil set to happen here today. It's more of a battle between minibosses, really. And it's not so much a deathmatch it is a sparring match.
But that doesn't really take away from how nice the scenery is, or how brutal of a battle it's likely to be. These are two of Vega's Dolls, after all, and anyone who's ever seen the kind of damage Juli and Juni can do know that they're pretty brutal even when they aren't *trying* to kill you.
Right now, Decapre is standing at the far end of the clearing nearest the big statue, with the tall grass blowing around her feet and obscuring her ankle-high boots almost entirely, arms held down at her sides. After a long pause, she gives her partner a little salute, signaling that it's alright to come at her anytime.
COMBATSYS: Decapre has started a fight here.
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Decapre 0/-------/-------|
It's been a while since she had to report 'home'. Her first test was a fortunate one, if nothing else.. and it was certainly a learning experience. She had not done as planned, but the measurement of Oswald's prowess, and skill, was done. But she had been hurt... and before leaving Southtown, had met another doll, albeit one written off as .. deceased. He would be too. Soon.
% Holding her medikit, the doll is dressed in her normal doll attire.. a tight fitting outfit designed for movement and flexibility, even if it's not her forte. But the weighted box is held with only one arm, over her shoulder, and she nods to Decapre... standing away, out in the open, compared to Decapre's position near the statue. Stretching, and bringing it back to the front, she salutes back to Decapre, smiling a bit.. before just getting straight to it.
She isn't entirely happy, while 'working'. Her motions had to be tested, tried, and re-tried. And this time... she's a bit rusty still.
Barreling through the knee high grass, Decapre brushes it aside in her run, before she leaps, spinning through the air, red psycho energy gathering about her feet before aiming to connect with Decapre and send her upwards, flying, with a kick... and maybe into the statue, if angled wrong!
COMBATSYS: Aprile has joined the fight here.
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Decapre 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aprile
COMBATSYS: Decapre blocks Aprile's Cannon Spike.
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Decapre 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Aprile
Well, Aprile ought to take heart for the fact that the masked girl she's fighting is not among the quickest of the Dolls even on a good day. At least as far as reactions go. If it were anyone else they'd probably be trying to dodge that Cannon Spike. Decapre just kind of tries to catch the redhead's foot against her upraised forearms and push her back with her own momentum. Really far back, and really hard, to where she might end up falling and hurting herself if she isn't ready for it.
COMBATSYS: Decapre successfully hits Aprile with Quick Throw.
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Decapre 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
And then .. her assault is caught! "Huh?" The Medic asks, looking to Decapre for a moment, before she's tossed backwards, pushed... and she's launched.
Guess she didn't expect it. Rolling backwards, tumbling, the doll makes a path in the grass, some flying in the air as she rips through it, being tossed away. But she lands... on her back. That heavy bag causing her to topple over onto the ground. Wincing .. the doll, however, kicks upwards, pushing her arms out onto the ground, and launching herself, bag and all, back to her feet, the grass that has been pulled out from her sudden collapse and drag being thrown upwards into the winds, circling as she spins to her feet.
Wordlessly, she rushes again, before she leaps towards Decapre.. spinning around and finally landing, extending the back of her hand towards Decapre. "HAH!" That red guard might just hurt, especially from the amount of force she's trying to put behind it.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Decapre with Power Strike.
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Decapre 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Aprile
Again, Decapre isn't very quick to get out of the way. But she does at least make the attempt this time. She tries to hop back a good distance to move out of the other Doll's reach. This turns out to be good enough to save her from getting struck right in the mask, but it's still not quite enough to keep Aprile's gauntlet from slamming into her chest. The impact sends her sliding back quite a few feet, and puts her closer to having her back to the wall with the statue now even closer behind.
"Mmph. Not bad!" the December Doll shouts back across the windy plain, just before straightening her posture and starting to break into a run. But rather than rushing or leaping as her associate has, she takes her time, and stops within about a meter of the other girl to raise one boot and then bring it down in an axe kick much like one of Juli's. Only her foot comes back up after that, and she repeats the kick several times, slashing at the air with her heel rather wildly so that the path of her attack is harder to predict.
COMBATSYS: Aprile blocks Decapre's Heel Terror.
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Decapre 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Aprile
As Decapre stops within a meter or so, Aprile has been just watching on as she walked closer... it'll be an interesting battle, for sure.. but it'll just be something that will happen time and time again. Training never ends.
It just comes in different forms. As Decapre raises one boot, then brings it down towards Aprile, the other doll stays under it.. it's not a very good idea, in retrospect, but she holds her position, bracers coming up to deflect the full weight of the blows.. even if they're slamming into her over and over.
It actually kind of stings, now that she thinks of it. But it doesn't bother her. This is a necessary feeling. One that will allow greater things to come! "You strikes... are so hard." She responds to her 'sister' in a way. "My arms are almost numb." She responds, smiling, some of the ground under her having been stripped back to soil as she's forced back, the wild heel slamming into her arms over and over.
Finally, she's free of the assault, "And now it's my turn again...!" Except her arms... which are numb, are not used. She dives in closer, swinging a leg around towards the Doll's middle, aiming to sweep it right into her!
COMBATSYS: Decapre fails to interrupt Light Kick from Aprile with Rippling Razor.
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Decapre 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Aprile
Decapre would smile, if her mask was capable of changing its expression. But it's made of cold steel, so that just isn't possible. Thankfully though, Dolls have psycho power and the kind of empathy that comes with it, so Aprile can probably still tell that she's a little bit happy! "I know you. You'll be fine in a minute or two. Like it never happened."
As for herself, Decapre isn't quite as sure. Her chest is still hurting a bit, and since she doesn't quite have time to dig her heels in really good and try to resist Aprile's sweep, she pops the claws out on one of her gloves and tries to swing them down on her at the same time she's falling. But she misses completely, and it kind of looks like it was on purpose. Maybe she just wanted to scare the other doll into backing off.
The happiness is a warm feeling. The doll finds it more than contagious, and ends up smiling back towards Decapre.. although her face is much easier to see, less behind a mask like that. "It will only require my natural recovery.. nothing more." She points out, "But you're not weak by anymeans.. I can still feel where you struck."
And then Decapre pops out the claws on a glove, aiming to swing them at Aprile... the dolls almost forgets she has them, and the blades getting so close allow Aprile to see them, nearly feel them.. and then she backs off alright.
And falls back, a deep red outline on her, and the kit and bag she caries around.. growing more and more red. "Almost... That would have hurt however." She notes. "But I have had a little other practice, recently... Perhaps we should tell Lord Vega of him?" She responds.
COMBATSYS: Aprile gathers her will.
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Decapre 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\1 Aprile
Decapre feels relieved that Aprile took a step back for a minute, since she's currently lying flat on her back and it takes her some time to get back to her feet. Groaning a bit, she kipups and dusts off her backside while staring toward her partner with those glowing red eyes of hers. She knows that trick, so for now she's going to hang back and see what the redhead plans to do with all that power. "Is that so? I hadn't heard."
COMBATSYS: Decapre gains composure.
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Decapre 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\1 Aprile
A training session, in which some .. slower actions are allowed. She would not get this time, perhaps, in a real fight. Some of the others out there are based on relentless offense. It's expected, sometimes, that they will fail.
"It is so... a man with rose tinted glasses and white hair. His weapon of all things.. was a stack of cards." She informs the other doll, whom seemingly is waiting.. and what is she planning to do with it all?
.. It seems like nothing. The glow breaks, Aprile nodding. A smile, "Alright.. time to continue!" Because if she doesn't make the first move .. who will! Running towards Decapre, she takes back the medkit, and drives it infront of her twice, two stroke of red psycho energy burning in the air infront of her .. as she just slams the medkit into it, sending the hard steel weapon, powered by herself, and that burst of psycho energy into her partner!
COMBATSYS: Decapre endures Aprile's Peleative Care.
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Decapre 0/-------/--=====|=======\=------\1 Aprile
Decapre nods her head some, commenting, "It does sound like a rather unconventional choice of weapon. But was there anything more outstanding than that? Master Vega would probably only think it worthy of reporting if he seemed a significant threat to him, or had something he wants."
But that's about all she has time to say before Aprile decides to go ahead and make her move. And after her little breather, the December Doll is feeling a lot braver, it seems, because instead of trying to fend off the heavy metal box, she instead steels herself and tries to take it head on! The result is a loud clang as it strikes the front of her mask, which is also metal.
The blonde can be heard wincing, but what counts is that she stays on her feet, and remains close enough to retaliate. With a sudden burst of speed she turns around and flips backward and hopefully up onto the other girl's shoulders, where she'll squeeze around her head with both thighs till she gets a good hold, and then continue into *another* backflip, intending to take Aprile with her and drive her headfirst into the ground!
COMBATSYS: Decapre successfully hits Aprile with Reverse Frankensteiner.
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Decapre 0/-------/=======|=======\=====--\1 Aprile
The front of the mask is struck, and Aprile pulls back.. but it's not fast enough, having committed herself to a straight on assault. The burst of speed, Decapre flipping about onto her shoulders and squeezing around her head with both thighs.. it's enough to grab her and then pull her STRAIGHT DOWN into the backflip... and with all that weight?
Aprile is dragged straight into the ground alright. And it hurts. "Augh!" She cries out, wincing, pulling herself up carefully. "That .. will not be so easily recovered from..." She notes, rather happily, almost cheery despite the pain she's in. "Very .. good."
But leaping backwards, off the ground, Aprile is back to her feet.. as she grabs the back on her back, and ... hefts out a heavy weight. One of many, perhaps. Spinning it around once, the doll sends the flat, but heavy, object soaring towards Decapre. "Watch out~!"
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Decapre with Large Thrown Object.
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Decapre 1/------=/=======|=======\======-\1 Aprile
Decapre rolls out of her own fall rather deftly after planting Aprile in the grassy soil, nodding in response to the her appraisal of her attack. "There is a reason I use the inverted version." It hurts more than a regular Frankensteiner! That's why!
But oh, whatever pride she may have felt after such a thing is dashed in a moment as soon as she fails to get out of the way of such a heavy object when it's thrown at her. She was warned about it and everything! "Oomph!"
It's really all she can do just to stay standing, all hunched over and with her hands resting on her knees. But her eyes begin to glow a bit more brightly, and the grass around her seems to kind of... start dying!
COMBATSYS: Decapre gathers her will.
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Decapre 1/--=====/=======|=======\======-\1 Aprile
As Decapre is struck, the doll medic winces a bit. "Ah.. ..Ooh.." She can't say I hope you're alright! It's a trianing session. They're supposed to be going at it like they were enemies! And for the moment, it seems they're almost evenly matched.. but Aprile is sort of disappointed. Decapre is standing there.. hunching over with her hands on her knees... the grass .. dies?
Oh. It's without what she's used to. But she understands now.. there's no glow, but her power grows! "It's a good technique... but this is what I have in such a case!" She calls out, running straight towards Decapre.. picking up speed even as she rushes over the ground, grass blowing towards her as she passes. "Spin .. drive.. SMASHER!"
And suddenly, a heavy weighted doll is spinning through the air towards Decapre's legs, aiming to connect with her before spinning her upwards and towards the statue. She's going to drill straight into that guard.. and then maybe right into Decapre as well!
COMBATSYS: Decapre fails to interrupt Spin Drive Smasher from Aprile with Reverse Demon Shaft.
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Decapre 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Aprile
Decapre thinks she's ready this time. All charged-up and in prime position to try and counterattack with what most of the Dolls call the Reverse Shaft Breaker. What the masked one has is really the exact same move, but she likes to call it something that sounds a slightly more evil. But all that is irrelevant right now anyway, since she gets the timing to use it wrong and is drilled into by her partner before she's quite able to launch up out of the handstand she was just dropping into.
All of that psycho energy she had stored up is knocked right out of her as soon as she's smashed back into the statue of Buddha, and even the red glow of her eyes seems to dim a little before the claws on that one hand she drew out earlier retract back into her glove. That's usually a pretty good sign that she's finished. She probably just doesn't want to have to admit to her loss out loud...
As Decapre ends up smacked into the statue of Buddha, Aprile winces a bit. Her sister, well one of them, doesn't look too good.. and the dimming of her eyes is a bad sign. The claws retract, and Aprile nods to herself.. especially when she lands.
Aprile is generally the one to play defensive too. So winning on complete offense sort of confuses her.. but it doesn't make her say much of it.
"Thank you for the practice, Decapre... but let me get that patched up for a bit... even just to practice a bit for later." She comments, smiling to the Winter month's doll. At least, the last of the year. Opening up the medkit, Aprile, gets out .. of all things, a bit of gauze and medical tape, and in a quick motions, rips it out and sizes it, aiming to place it here and there about Decapre.
Hopefully.. she didn't get the sizes wrong!
Decapre would rather try to play toughgirl and tell Aprile she doesn't need all of that, but because she's got psycho power too, she senses her partner's genuine worry and deems it best not to try and argue in the end. "Same to you, Aprile. And if you really think it's necessary, then go ahead."
She tries to stay still for most of it, which normally isn't a difficult task for her. Sometimes she can be as still as a statue.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Decapre with Cut And Paste.
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Decapre 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Aprile
"I know you don't need it.." Aprile answers as she gets to work, doing her best with such speed. She's much better at helping recover over time, then in an instant, but she tries. She does worry as well. It's her fault she's like this .. in a way that's bothering, and yet, Lord Vega would be happy he had such effective soldiers. All the dolls are, after all.
"But I want to make sure, in case of any emergency again, that you do not end up like a doll I had found in Southtown.. he is doomed. So I wish to help.." She repeats again, pulling the materials away and smiling. "There.. that should help hold things together."
Standing up and pulling away, she returns everything to the kit. "And I haven't found Lord Vega yet either.. even after looking about. I'm sure he's still out there." Which is obvious! .. They'd be dead otherwise.
Decapre nods again and is able to stop leaning back onto that statue for support quite as much as soon as Aprile is finished helping her, once again standing on her own power and rolling her shoulders back a few times to try and limber herself back up. She's really only going to come away from this with little more than a few bruises, but it's still going to be a few hours before she'll feel like she could fight again.
"Oh... I see. That sounds pretty serious. /Both/ those things sound pretty serious. Though if Master Vega is missing, perhaps we ought to look together..."
COMBATSYS: Decapre has left the fight here.
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|
As Decapre is able to stand again, she'll understand... Aprile is happier now. She's more content, less worried of the other doll. "Just be careful.. okay." She says, smiling, and putting a hand on Decapre's shoulder. It's .. nice for her at least.. and then she pats lightly, pulling away.
"No... the first is taken care of .. our brother.. the doll... will be no more come a week. Master Vega's soul .. is gone from him. Slowly draining... he will not make it another week." She says, sadly.
"So we must find him soon.. Master Vega .. I'll be able to help him recover quickly.. and I would appreciate such, Decapre." She says, smiling, pulling back and walking a bit into the windblown grass. ".. It's just so lonely, without him around."
Log created on 16:53:07 03/18/2008 by Aprile, and last modified on 00:55:18 03/19/2008.