Description: Hotaru and Birdie both switch places in this really... reallly reallly reallllly short fight. But at the same time, the shorter they are, the more hard hitting and brawling they are! Definitely something you don't want to miss. (Winner: DOUBLE XTREME KNAWKOUT)
Somewhere in her warpath Hotaru must have really ticked off someone with influence within the Saturday Night Fight organization. It's really the only explanation for the fight not far off from starting up. How else could someone possibly wish such unavoidable harm on the small fighter? It is with a slow blink she has the fight parameters explained to her. The official is quite clear, repeating over and over that under no circumstances is she to try and avoid her opponent's strikes. Match Rules!
"That's ridiculous," the girl replies, eyebrow twitching, hands coming up in a partial shrug as she tries to make the best of it, "But I guess it's not that bad. With my strength, it probably doesn't matter much." And then that's when they tell her who she's matched up against and Hotaru's eyes widen significantly. Okay, yes... yes, that's bad.
Swallowing, Hotaru closes her eyes, clenches her right hand into a small fist, and turns away with an annoyed look on her face as she sighs slowly, trying to restrain her irritation with the entire premise. Tell her she can't avoid her opponent and then put her up against one of the hardest hitting opponents she's ever had to fight? Even worse, they do it the very next week after she tried to antagonize Birdie by stomping on his car? He may have a few dents he's looking to put into her for that one.
Her left hand reaches over to clench at her right wrist, opening her eyes slowly to stare at her right hand. She told herself she wouldn't fall back on the Koga technique until she mastered it better, but in circumstances like these, can anyone blame her for considering it all the same?
Fruit Basket For Geese? Check.
Get Well Soon card for Hotaru? Check.
Lots and lots of hair check? Checkaroonie.
Alright, Birdie's ready for tonights match. Coming in on foot into the rather nice fighting circuit, Birdie's grin is as big if not bigger than what it was last time Hotaru's saw him. If you've ever thought that Geese had no sense of humor, obviously he wouldn't be pitting Birdie against others and telling them 'don't dodge'.
But still, it's new to he man, that he himself cannot endure the strikes. None of them at all. He has to try to get out of the way.
To this he pretty much snorts at. What kinda bullshit is that? He can't take her on head on? He's gotta try to get out of the way like a pansy? Well fine, he'll do that, but only because Hotaru is totally asking for it.
Hell, he'll run circles around her ass. Just watch.
Stomping onto the stage, he cracks his neck, lumbering over and leaning forward. "Hey chick-a-dee. I'm here to collect payment for my car! You got the money? Cause if not I'm gonna enjoy this a lot. Hehehe." Birdie is still a thug.
AND ALWAYS WILL BE ONE. Hotaru, uh, do-oh wait, you can't! Take it like a man!
The lavish opera house atrium is lost on Hotaru as she turns to face Birdie, the large fighter occupying the entirety of her attention now. His large grin is met with by that quietly seething irritation in the girl, tight lipped she has nothing to say to him at first. The official explained that the SouthSynd enforcer would be trying to get out of the path of her attacks rather than take her head on with a violent exchange of blows and Hotaru just shakes her head slowly. Once again it would seem she's still not being taken seriously, placed in yet another gimmicky match that does its best to showcase the aspects either fighter is less known for doing!
"If you were concerned about your car you shouldn't have driven it into a bumper car pit," Hotaru replies, her tone chiding, as if she was lecturing the thug as he leans forward. She looks up at the... much taller fighter, taking a step backward as he towers over her, only to remind herself that when it comes to the fight itself that won't even be an option. A cursory inspection over the man, taking in at a glance the size of his arms, the weight of his chains, the magnitude of his muscles...
Someone is wanting for this to be a very short match apparently. She'll have to go all out with the best she has before Birdie gets to make too many swings... "You shouldn't be so confident. You're not getting to fight in your optimal manner either." she remarks, quite familiar by now exactly how Birdie prefers to fight - Like an uncaged, enraged bull!
But Hotaru has some ideas in mind for trying to deal with that. Such as simply getting into situations that make her harder to hit without her having to do anything. Such as...
The match begins and the girl blitzes directly toward the taller fighter. He's seen her try the tactic before - leaping up at him, attempting to hook an arm around his massive neck as she swings in behind him and hangs onto his back from behind. It seems attempting to hang onto the raging bull is better than just standing in its path to her!
COMBATSYS: Hotaru has started a fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Birdie has joined the fight here.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Birdie
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Birdie with Quick Throw.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Birdie
For once, Birdie's going to be doing a simple thing. Yeah, you know what that 'thing' is. He's going to try to milk this as much as possible. So as soon as Hotaru's launching herself for him, moving quickly across the ground, well, Birdie got a grin. And he's shuffling off to a different place. One where Hotaru can't get him. Or so he thinks. "Hahaha! Yeah yeah, details details! This fights already in the bag. You're goin' down, girlie. No more mistah nice Birdie. Heheheh!" The thug states as Hotaru flies by him.
And catches onto his neck? Now that's not right. Once it does, Birdie's waddling backwards, snorting. That sucks. That stunk. The hell did she think she was doing? Birdie only knew that the shits going to be pretty awful. Especially while he chokes, "Hey! HEY! Stop that you little git!" Birdie cries as he thrashes, attempting to get her off.
With no chance to get out of the way, she seems to be really throwing herself into it. Alright. That's exactly what Birdie loves to do. He's got some own tactics of destroying that. Like backing up against a wall and trying to pry her off by aiming to stick his horn back into her chest.
"Riding the bull huh? Hahahahha! Gonna gore ya!"
COMBATSYS: Hotaru endures Birdie's Bull Horn.
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Hotaru 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Birdie
Her arm manages to hook around his neck before he can slip out of the way, and then Hotaru is in for one wild ride, trying to choke the giant from behind before he can find a way to deal with the smlly fry clinging to his back. He clammors for her to stop her little gambit and Hotaru simply grunts from behind him, "See if you can make me!" That might not really be the best thing to encourage the significantly larger fighter. For all his brawn, Birdie's no idiot, and he's got a lot of experience with various tricks under his belt it would seem with the way he immediately backs into a wall to pry Hotaru off.
Impacting the wall isn't too big of a deal as she releases her grip and slides down slowly with a grunt, but when he rears back and then comes back at her hair-horn first, it's all she can do to repress her instinct to get the bloody hell out of the way. The pained wheeze as Birdie's horn impacts her is all the proof one needs to know that one thing Hotaru /didn't/ do is get out of the way. Crushed against the wall, her eyes widened slightly, she makes a desperate reach for one of Birdie's chains with her left hand in order to hold the giant still as she tries to twist it around his arm to bend it some.
She opens her mouth, but nothing comes out, the wind having already been knocked out of her. Ignoring the injury incurred by such a hair-horned impact, Hotaru reacts with everything she has in return, her right hand slamming forward next, a spiraling discharge of red-orange chi aimed to plow into him with savage, piercing force. Really, she just wants to blast the man away. Normally it would be to buy herself some room to maneuver, but this time she just wants a few precious seconds to get her /breath/ back.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Birdie with Maou Satsujinken.
- Power hit! -
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Hotaru 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 Birdie
Birdie's an acrobat. He can dodge. He can swing. He can get out of the way of anything! But tht's when, for no reason at all. Hotaru begins to hold on, and actually take the horn into her chest. What the heck? He's letting him stab her? That's terrible weird. But even still, as Hotaru does, all Birdie knows is that it's getting pretty hard to actually keep it up. "Yeah! I'll make you, hahahah!" Birdie states. This'll be a piece of cake.
And then the strike hits home as he she twists her hand around him. And then, well, the orange chi strikes home, biting into him as it does, sending him doubling back as he grits his teeth. His skin is charred as he rolls, rolls and rolls to a stop. He's none too happy when he looks back up at Hotaru. "You bitch!" He cries, stumbling to his feet. "Oh you really done it now. I'm gonna clobber you!" Birdie states as he begins to move into a jagged run, actualy speeding up as he makes his way towards Hotaru. And he's moving to strike with his HEAD. Even if he's in complete pain.
If she stays in the way, no, does ANYTHING. She's going to feel his massive fists beatingher down. Of course, unless, she breaks the rules. Which would be unfortunate. But Birdie would still beat her! He's comin' to getcha!
COMBATSYS: Birdie successfully hits Hotaru with The Birdie MAX.
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Hotaru 1/--=====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Birdie
Gasping for breath as she knocks Birdie away, Hotaru doesn't even regard Birdie at first as he's sent tumbling, looking instead at the risidual energy coursing over her right forearm. It had been begging to be utilized in spite her hopes not to. But given the situation, it hardly seemed /unfair/ in her mind to fall back on the horrible Koga technique in desperation.
But as he gets back to his feet enraged, Hotaru smirks a little, "For as hard as you can strike with your fists, I can attack with chi. You shouldn't be so sure of yourself-" she begins to rant. But then she has the bull charging right back at her, head first, and all pretense of goading him on abandoned as he's clearly looking to get right back to business. Mouth twitching, the girl breaths deep then quickly exhales, to avoid having the wind crushed out of her this time.
Smashed right back into the wall behind her, powdered marble goes flying out in a cloud around her, but that isn't the worst of it as Birdie then begins bashing on the small fighter with his fists, keeping her trapped there even more. A powerful punch to the face bloodies the girl's nose, and another solid strike into her undefended ribs most definitely cracks something there, earning Birdie a stifled pained yelp. With no where to run, the flurry of blows could very well just take the fight completely out of Hotaru.
Knocked from side to side and back against the wall, it's all the girl can muster as she finally has the wherewithall to crouch down and give her next attack all she's got, rising up into a powerful, chi-laden flip kick aiming for his already blasted chest...
COMBATSYS: Hotaru successfully hits Birdie with Ten-shou Ranki.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Birdie
The chi-laced flip kick tears into the taller fighter as Hotaru takes to the air before flipping forward at the apex of her ascent to dive right back into Birdie in order to take him down to the ground at an angle, landing kneeling on his sizeable stomach. Her hands pressed against his chest where she had struck him once already, she begins to draw heavily from the environment around the two, creating a massive surge of chi visible.
Up close it's easier to see how bad the girl has been hurt as blood drops from her nose onto his chest, the side of her face marred by another solid crushing blow incurred there. Win or lose, she already needs medical attention stat. She seems barely able to focus on the man as the power builds up around the two, more blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. But it isn't going to make her stop what she's doing right now.
"aaaaaaAAAAH!" At last the girl can't maintain the build up any longer and she allows the sphere of blue energy crash back down through her, channeling all that chi directly into Birdie's chest through her arms. And when she's finished, it's all she has left, exhaling with exhastion before coughing twice in pain. Slowly, barely conscious, she begins to try and push herself to her feet in order to get off of the large brute.
Birdie is just one of those pity cases somtimes. You just have to do what you gotta do, and right now, when you're dealing with Hotaru, you have to do all you can do! Be all you can be! Strike her with a lot of fists and punches and got knows what. Just knock her out, but Birdie found out something terrible. Even if he hit her as hard as possible, the girl just wouldn't stay down.
"Yeah!? Well I don't give a crap about your stinkin' chi!" Birdie bellows, saliva exploding out as it covers some part of the girl. Just be happy it isn't his blood. YET. Because it totally is going to be in a second.
But she gets back up. Oh does she, and she flips onto his chest. And even as he raises his arms, the girls too fast. Oh cripes.
And then Hotaru comes right at him. "Augh! What the hell?!" Birdie sneers, "Get the hell off of me!" He bellows, even as he fights to get up, but the little girl is weighing him down?! Yeah. Believe it. And then as the surge of chi begins to explode into Birdie, he's thrown backwards as th chi crashes into him. Well, not even thrown backwards. THrown into the ground, it cratering and surging up. His cloths and chest are both marred magnificently. Blood is beginning to seep through his chest. He's breathing heavil, he barely wants to get up, but he has to.
Why? SHE RUINED HIS GOD DAMN CAR. THAT'S WHY.
So with everything he can muster, Birdie sits up, and starts head butting Hotaru as she's barely conscious. Over and over and over again. And instead of using the chain, he's just going to try and grab her and send her flying off of his chest. Just hurl her across the ground. "Ugh...." Birdie states, letting out with a strained remark as he just lays back and gives into unconsciousness. Wow. She can realy toss them.
COMBATSYS: Birdie can no longer fight.
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Hotaru 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Hotaru endures Birdie's Bull Revenger!
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She's on her feet for a moment as Birdie gets up, right hand wiping at her mouth, coming away blood streaked. The poor girl looks like a wreck as she gasps for breath, barely able to focus on the other fighter as he rises one more time. Damnit, that was all she had left in her and it wasn't enough to keep him down for good, she chides herself. Even if it wasn't the rules of the match that she simply stand still and take what's coming, she would barely be able to move out of the pain train's path anyway in her condition.
The first headbutt staggers her, leaving her an easy target for the follow up strikes, each one sending her sliding further back, her body just begging for the assault to end. If she could even speak she'd simply just say she had had enough and that she was willing to concede the fight to put the assault to an end. But she can't even find the wherewithall to utter anything besides the pained gasped right up until Birdie simply picks the small fighter right up off the ground and slams her back down into it where she lands hard on her back.
It will only be after she's conscious again later that she'll even find out that the match was a draw, because she's out like a light the moment she hits the floor again, sliding to a stop after a yard. She definitely needs to keep pissing everyone off in these fights lately!
COMBATSYS: Hotaru takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Hotaru can no longer fight.
Log created on 13:50:30 03/23/2008 by Birdie, and last modified on 17:41:25 03/26/2008.