Description: This venue is a lesson in how to take an already EXTREMELY violent sport, like dodgeball, and make it worse. Just add four violent females, two of which are easily classified as psycho, a court full of rubber red balls, some whacky, arbitrary rules, and you have a recipe that can't possibly go wrong. ( Winners: Ayame + Aprile )
There is a court here. It has been dolled up rather nicely. The court has been waxed. The light shines in the court, and there are two boxes, on on each side... and guess where the teams are supposed to stand?
The lights go to each section of the court, and for both of them, there is a massive amount of something spherical around them. DODGEBALLS.
You see, these dodgeballs are AMAZINGLY ROUND AND RUBBERY AND RED. Dodge balls that are beyond the normal types.. they are .. advanced dodgeballs.
AND TODAY, OUR FIGHTERS WILL BE ADVANCING THEIR DODGEBALLS OUT OF THE HIZZOUSE.
Currently on the other side, Aprile is dressed in a .. nurse outfit. Oh, surprise. She looks like one of the nurses registered in Geese's SNF file.. wether or not he remembers ever hiring her.
But still, the nurse this time is there, carrying her box of good smily things! Which has nothing to do with frowny things, but actually are medical supplies including the smiling bandages just in case.
For the moment, she walks in, waving, and then looks all over. Hmmm.
The person she was paired with was a women, right? Hurrah! At least it will be easier to help them later.
AND THEN THE SPOTLIGHTS COME TO THE OTHERS.
The rules are explained to the three girls fighting. Combat as usual, but with a twist. Tag someone with a dodge ball and they can't attack for ten seconds. Has to be a clean hit though. Otherwise all other standard SNF rules apply (what rules?!). Ayame looks fairly amused at the rules as described. It beats slipping around on an ice rink tripping over floppy Godzilla shoes like last week's at least.
Her partner is a new face as well, the girl not recognizing her from anywhere before now. "Ah, hello there." she regards the other girl, her hands at her hips. "What'cha got in that box?" she asks immediately, eyes already lighting up at the prospects of something neat inside.
The girl rubs her chin in thought while regarding Aprile, "So the outfit... a fetish thing or are you actually licensed?" She's never heard of a fighting nurse before. The goals seem... mutually exclusive, kinda. The girl takes a couple steps back and slips her foot under a dodge ball to kick it up into her hands before turning to face the side where the opposing team is being introduced. "Never played dodgeball before, but I think I get the idea."
On the opposite end of the dodgeball court is none other than Kasumi Todoh, currently in gym shorts and a matching T-shirt; this is in part to actually be able to play adequate dodgeball, and in part to spite the intense cultural education she has that keeps her, when she's around Southtown, in that god-awful super-Japanese outfit that, in spite of being unable to stand it, she wears nearly every day.
She seems pretty enthusiastic about the whole 'dodgeball' thing, though that may in stead be a function of getting closer (at least in her tortured mental logic) to catching up with her father again. She does a few quick stretches on the court, going through what looks like a fairly standard, consistent routine.
It's kind of weird, she thinks, how she's stuck fighting /against/ the girl she did so well /teaming/ with last time -- kind of weird how SNF works that way sometimes, but considering it also lets her travel around the world pretty much for free, she'll take it.
... dodgeball... fighting. Isn't there a game like this...? Adira's sure she saw something of the like on a video game system once. Well, whatever. Now it's real. She's decided to go with her traditional karate gi, reasoning that... uh, well. It's comfortable! And that's... 'bout it.
Dodgeball. Well, Adira isn't -terribly- dodgy, but she'll definitely try to do something interesting here... as she walks up to where Kasumi is, nodding towards her. Doesn't know much about the girl, really; the name Todoh was mentioned, and... well, Todoh means crazy. Hopefully she isn't.
"Nice to meet you," she remarks towards the blue-haired Todoh, nodding towards her partner. She doesn't know much about Aprile...
... but Ayame gets a finely-burning stare. Oh, -her- she remembers. The b**ch with the knives... oh yeah. Adira might... might like this. Or she might hate it.
Responding to Ayame, Aprile smiles rather brightly. "Mm? OH! I've got alot of things.. gauze.. scissors.. bandages and a few drugs." She responds happily, before Aprile looks forwards.. and Ayame then speaks again. Set off a bit, Aprile recovers easily.
"Welll..." She looks at Ayame carefully, up and down, before winking slightly. "For you, it could be both!~ But really, I'm actually licensed! At least, enough." Enough? Whatever. But with the other comment, Aprile nods, looking at the spherical objects, and leaning down, before she picks it up.. and then looks over to the opposing team, tilting her head. "Well.. It's just picking up and throwing, right?" Well, it seems easy enough, and Aprile rolls it in her hand.. her free one, at least, before winding back and ..
FLING, right towards Kasumi. "OOP. Watch out!" She staggers forwards on one foot, having thrown it a BIT too fast... oops?
Well, it seems that GAME IS ON.
COMBATSYS: Aprile has started a fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Ayame has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Kasumi has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Adira has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Adira
Kasumi is observed doing her stretching. She looks like a standard martial artist high school girl. In fact, everything about her is somewhat ordinary. Standard features, nice but simple hair, average build. Ayame switches her gaze over to the fourth participant, brown eyes coming to rest on Adira. Now that girl she recognizes from a back alley beatdown not too long ago. "Looks like you got better. Too bad I'm going to put you right back in the same condition all over again." she remarks with a smirk.
Turning toward Aprile, Ayame studies her a bit more intently, "That's interesting... but isn't that stuff mostly just useful /after/ the fight?" she asks, having a hard time figuring out anyone would do with scissors in the midst of a frantic match.... Then her mind gets to working at the problem and all the sudden Ayame has half a dozen ideas of what ot dozen ideas of what to do with scissors in a fight, none of them at all related to mending injuries. "Actually, yeah, nice thinking," she seems to change her mind with a nod toward Aprile. The wink throws her off just about as much as her comments to the other girl threw her off, "Both, eh... licensed at such a young age, you must be really good. Hope you're good at fighting too," she grins.
And then... off goes the ball headed for Kasumi. Looks like Aprile is good about getting started, that much is certain. And Ayame decides she should do likewise, spinning to face Adira with a smirk, "So looking forward to this." Not starting off with a dodge ball launch of her own, the rogueish girl dressed in black and red darts straight for the girl in the gi.
For Adira it probably comes as no surprise that Ayame draws a pair of butterfly knives from her belt, flicking the weapons open in the very act of drawing them. A leap forward from a couple yards out has Ayame spinning in at Adira, aiming a swift, distracting horizontal slash with her right before coming back around to try and plant the real hit with a sharp stab into the other girl's torso with her left.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi fails to slow Thrown Object from Aprile with Kasane Ate.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Adira
The younger Todoh snaps to attention as the fight begins, and is instantly on her guard; she knows better than to let a fight get away from her in the opening moments, unlike her father. She picks up a dodgeball, tossing it into the air to get a feel for the heft and speed of the balls; unfortunately, /this/ is what lets the fight get away from her.
She doesn't notice Aprile throwing a ball at her up until she's just caught her own; reflexively sweeping her hands downward, she calls out, "Kasane Ate!" Unfortunately for Kasumi, having a ball in her hands does not make this a terribly viable option -- no energy comes out, and Kasumi is left with a split second of confusion.
Then she is left, of course, with a bruise on her face from glorious dodgeball impact. She doesn't look particularly pleased with the situation, and her right eye doesn't seem to be opening again particularly well.
COMBATSYS: Adira blocks Ayame's Medium Strike.
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Ayame 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Adira
Right. Dodgeball. Adira notes, immediately, that Ayame does NOT bother with the big rubber balls, instead going for those knives... She begins dancing, bouncing on her feet like a certain master (and creator) of a martial art by the name of Jeet Kune Do, and as Ayame comes in with that distracting slash Adira doesn't fall for it. She waits until the very last moment to evade, waiting just a little too long; the blades scrape her side, drawing a hiss from the girl as the knives tear through her gi and then slice her flesh.
It's a stinging pain, but nothing too bad; nothing she can't get around. With Aprile and Kasumi currently engaged, that leaves Ayame to her--something that Adira is _Just Fine_ with. She draws back a half-step then takes a quick step forward, firing her right leg forward in a driving knee combination that flicks upwards to combo with a high kick aimed to tag Ayame right in the chin with her heel.
"C'mon, girl, I got a -score- to settle with you," she hisses, perhaps too low for the cameras and microphones to pick up...
"Oh.. you don't have to worry about that!" She mentions, smiling wide, and saluting. "He made sure I was well able to defend myself!" What? Yes. Whatever.
Moving on, Aprile watches as Ayame launches herself forwards, and just waves. Have fun you! Turning her attention back to the younger Todoh, Aprile skips through the balls, especially as a burst of energy slams into .. nothing. And then the dodgeball smacks into Kasumi!
Oop! Well, as she doesn't immediately respond .. Aprile does it for her, grabbing that steel medkit and swinging it before her... and then just dashing in, spinning about, legs burning with psycho energy, a red glow.
"CANNON SPIKE!"
She plans to simply bowl into her, drill up, and then kick her .. out of bounds! HAHAH! "HAH!"
COMBATSYS: Adira successfully hits Ayame with Medium Kick.
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Ayame 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Adira
Adira proves swift to defend herself from the pair of nice strikes, sparing her any particularly painful blows. And Ayame proves to be a bit too slow to recover from her spinning assault, getting her tagged in the chest by the rising knees and subsequently smacked hard in the chin by Adira's heel as the other girl finishes the combination.
Driven back several feet before catching traction once more, Ayame brings her right hand up to rub absently at her chin, "Well, well, looks like karate girl's got some moves. No matter." A second, larger jump backward gives Ayame some quick space as she backs off from aggressing so hard against the other student, her knives disappearing back into their sheaths by the time she lands.
Freeing her hands to reach up to her neck, slipping off a series of chains that appear to be linked at the center by a small ring, each end of the chain sporting a small metal weight. Spinning the makeshift bolas around over her head for a moment, "Don't let one lucky hit get you too confident," she laughs, sending the whirling chains back toward the other girl with remarkable force.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi blocks Aprile's Cannon Spike.
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Ayame 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Adira
Kasumi isn't picking up on any of the weirdness in Aprile's comments; she hasn't heard the entire conversation, and as such some of the seemingly suspicious things don't really register with her. She's a little more focused on the task at hand, especially after that embarassing shot to the head -- she throws up her hands, letting the advancing girl knock her back and then rolling out of the way of the upward drilling.
"You're pretty good," she pants, extremely impressed with her opponent; she didn't expect a girl in a nurse outfit to have that kind of talent. "But you're not going to stop me from finding my father!" ... where did /that/ come from, exactly? It must be yet another one of those comments that only really makes sense in Kasumi-vania.
Picking up the dodgeball she was struck with earlier, she puts those good reflexes to good use, rolling it around on one of her arms in an awkward pattern for a second before flinging it full-speed at Aprile, hoping to similarly stun her for a few seconds. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, isn't it?
COMBATSYS: Adira slows Hijacked from Ayame with Dragon's Roar.
Glancing Hit
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Ayame 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|====---\-------\0 Adira
Cocky? Yeah, Adira could be seen as cocky--but she's just self-confident--particularly with that kick combination striking. What's the difference? Well--it's the line between confidence, and self-confidence. Note that Adira didn't say 'I'm going to beat you'. She merely said that she had a score to settle--which is true--she did not make any boastful remarks... although probably it seems like that to Ayame.
As the girl begins whirling those bolas overhead, Adira stomps down with her right foot, crimson, fiery chi flaring up from foot to knee; it remains for a moment before she kicks straight upwards, firing off a tall arc of that crimson-red fire to intercept the bolas...
... but the arc is odd. The energy only catches the edge ofthem, sending the bolas into a wobbly arc as the chi projectile collapses in on itself, leaving Adira to throw up an arm to prevent any more serious damage as the bolas hit their target; the hit makes her stagger back, but she's far from down.
COMBATSYS: Aprile blocks Kasumi's Thrown Object.
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Ayame 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Adira
With Ayame busy, Aprile is busy as well.. and then Kasumi looks upon her, the girl is knocked back, Aprile landing on her feet after being caused to be sent back. "Thanks! And you're not too bad yourself..." But when the object, the thrown dodgeball comes for her, Aprile looks on and bats it out of the air, smiling. "But you could work on your throw!" She mentions to the girl.
It stings just a tiny bit. One would also think that she should hold back, and do something beyond oh .. fighting!
She could but .. well.
Okay so she does, her medkit raising upwards, glowing brilliantly red with that psycho energy. "I'll just make sure over here, okay! I'll be with you RIGHT in a moment.. I'm just taking care of this and that... the nurse will be ready to serve you in a moment, please take a seat!" She mentions, bowing, as she charges her batteries!
".. I don't think they like each other." She mentions about Adira and Ayame.
COMBATSYS: Aprile gathers her will.
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Ayame 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Adira
Adira's skilled defense provokes a faintly raised eyebrow from Ayame, the girl a bit impressed in spite herself. She didn't realize the girl had it in her to pull off something like that. "Che. Nice trick," the street rogue snaps back at the girl, settling back into her normal routines of incessant belittling. Out of the corner of her eyes Ayame observes Aprile. The girl seems... nice... but kinda not... she isn't sure what to make of her teammate for this one. "Guess I'll have to be the sane one here," she observes, shifting her focus back toward Adira.
Grinning faintly, the girl clenches her fists before she begins to draw in heavily from the world around her. Chi, manifesting itself as visible blue whisps at her feet, begins to build up and around the girl, becoming more red in color the higher up it gets.
"But I hope you got more than to show for yourself," she continues as the visible power builds up around her, much of it seeming to absorb into her skin, giving her strength for additional attacks to come.
COMBATSYS: Ayame gathers her will.
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Ayame 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Adira
Her attempt at rampant dodgeball success thwarted, Kasumi makes a little bit of a face; she doesn't like to be told she has to work on things. She's too busy being too rad to have to work on things, after all!! "... I don't think so, either," Kasumi replies to Aprile, cracking her knuckles and giving Aprile a split second break. She /really/ doesn't know what the deal is with that weird energy.
So, naturally, she does the most intelligent thing she can against an unknown quantity: run right in at it! Speeding in, Kasumi tries to do something that she will almost definitely regret. Grabbing Aprile as she bows, Kasumi tries for a fairly unsubtle technique to take her down; she starts by slipping an arm under her shoulder and trying to swing her downward.
If she manages that, she then drops her knee into the prone girl's back as many times as she can get away with before letting her go. It's nowhere near subtlety, but then, Kasumi is not /always/ the most technical person -- part of good technique is knowing when /not/ to be technical.
So, they're both hanging back... and both're doing something with internal energies. That probably isn't good. She'd like to disrupt that if she can... Adira lunges forward, heedless of any distance that gives Ayame any time to set up. Hey, she's headstrong, right? This is only natural.
"It's not going to be THAT EASY!" she shouts, dipping low to grab a pair of dodgeballs from the ground. In fact, she dips, tucks herself into a shoulder-first tumble, then comes up whipping her arms across her body--releasing the two dodgeballs in a curving arc towards Ayame's position. It's rather pictureseque, if somewhat ridiculous to a mundane point of view on physics... but hey.
Fighters are known for doing strange and apparently impossible things, right?
COMBATSYS: Aprile interrupts Combo Throw from Kasumi with 10th Floor Transfer.
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Ayame 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Adira
As Kasumi replies to her that 'she doesn't think so', well.. that's just too bad. Because Aprile is sure the other girl definitely needs to work on a few things. Including, well.. something else. With Kasumi giving her that split second break, it's all that Aprile needs.
With Kasumi speeding in, grabbing at Aprile as she bows.. the doll has no reason to let her guard down, in such a situation. Instead, she has the box drawn back.. and with Kasumi swinging her downwards, onto her back, the swing, however, propels her upwards.. and moments before she gets kneed, Aprile slams the medkit, glowing red with an evil flare of psycho energy, into Kasumi. Spiralling upwards, Aprile drags Kasumi up with her, before spiking her down with another flare of such energy.
Much like Vegas.. it has the .. fun aspect of making you think slightly worse of yourself, dredging up past memories of things that you don't enjoy. Surely Kasumi has some of those situations she'd like to forget.
But smiling, Aprile bows. "Okay, the nurse is here now! How may I help you?" She asks, almost mockingly. "Because you might need some!"
COMBATSYS: Ayame interrupts Large Thrown Object from Adira with Harvest's Reaper.
- Power hit! -
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Adira
Ayame allows the chi to flow into her, empowering her a bit more as she becomes in tune with the strange environment for this match. Of course she's watching the other fighters, but for a moment she remains stock still. Her intent was to build up her power and save it for later, but her sharp eyes detect an opening as Adira spends the time collecting dodge balls and spinning forward to send them hurtling through the air, each in their own curved trajectory.
The opening is too much to pass up on for the opportunistic girl as Ayame darts forward in a blur of red and black, the sound of her staff being extended to its full length almost missed in the flurry of attacks she unleashes on the other girl, slamming the weapon upward into Adira's chest to knock her off her feet into the air at the same time the two dodge balls bounce off of Ayame's sides.
The ascent is accompanied by the now staff wielding girl as Ayame rises with her, smacking Adira a second time, her entire polearm igniting with a surge of red chi that blurs out behind the weapon almost like a scythe of energy sharp as any blade. Finally the strawberry-blonde hefts the staff up over her head and brings it crashing down for Adira's shoulder to drive the girl back down to the dodge ball court with a small explosion of chi to add to the strike.
Ayame lands a moment later in a half crouch, exhaling softly at the energy dispensed, her staff held out at her side. The chi flickering along the weapon's surface condenses, looking almost like a liquid as it drips off the lower end of Ayame's staff, vanishing before it quite reaches the floor, the color of crimson victory. It's her signiture technique for a reason, bad news for anyone struck by the powerful combination.
Slowly Ayame rises back to standing pausing to flick her hair back over her shoulder with her right hand, her left hand keeping a tight hold on the staff itself as she regards the other girl.
Kasumi has done few things that she personally regrets, but has a great deal of loathing for things that /other/ people do. When it comes down to it, she's kind of a brat; the negativity shoved into her mostly brings her to thoughts of her mother, and how much she loathes having to -- for lack of a better term -- girl it up so much whenever she's within a few hundred miles of her.
This is also a convenient distraction that lets Aprile drill her upward as hard as she can, rather than letting Kasumi slide out of the attack midway. Eventually hitting the ground hard, Kasumi growls under her breath, slowly pulling herself up to face Aprile. "I don't need any of your help, you stupid skank!" she replies, in a moment of surprising anger; any /one/ of the numerous factors at work she'd be able to shrug off, but all together...
Forced back into classic Todoh tactics, Kasumi raises her hands high, rushing in at the nurse yet again, too focused to think of helping out her teammate. Swinging them down full-speed, she shouts at the top of her lungs, "KASANE ATE!" Like father, like daughter -- always with the Kasane Ate.
Oh, -wow-, did that hurt. That... is... that's painful. Adira is sent flying by the chi explosion, tumbling rather gracelessly through the air and landing in a crumpled heap on the outside edge of the court. Throwing things? Not really her forte. 'You have to use the dodgeballs', they said to her, before the match. Well, fine. She used 'em. Not anymore, though. She twitches, for a moment, then rises up, her green eyes fairly burning with a fine mix of anger and intense emotion--something more pure than anger and yet more undirected.
Call it passion; Alma probably would, not that Adira's ever met him. But it burns in the soul of her being as she regards Ayame for a moment. Her plan of attack? Right now, it's... not much of anything, really; she just stands there. Mastering her emotions, focusing that vibrant, internal energy into something more dangerous to Ayame than to her--perhaps. She just took a big hit... but she's not scared. She's taken worse. She -will- take worse. That is her lot, as a fighter...
COMBATSYS: Adira focuses on her next action.
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Ayame 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Adira
COMBATSYS: Aprile dodges Kasumi's Kasane Ate.
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Aprile 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Adira
As Kasumi, the brat, gets on Aprile
As Kasumi, the brat, gets on Aprile's bad side, the doll just smiles all the same. Especially as she pulls herself up, facing her. Aprile tilts her head, and gasps, fake gasping, holding a hand to her mouth. GASP. She .. She's not .. Not .. "I am NOT a skank! Or stupid." She frowns. "I can practice medicine JUST like anyone else if not better!" She comments, and with an effort to PROVE THIS, points at Ayame. "ANOTHER COMMENT LIKE THAT.. and I'll make sure she's as good as new!" What a threat folks. WHAT A THREAT.
But shaking her head, Aprile then realizes .. there's a blast of energy flying towards her... that Aprile immediately leaves under her, running towards it and bouncing over it at the last second, flipping up and over the Kasumi-Ate, and landing right infront of her.. before bounding, spinning around, and thrusting a backfist towards the girl.
"Hah! Don't you DARE call me that again!"
CATFIGHT. "Just because YOU weren't chosen by him or anything like that!" She comments. She must mean something!
Her savage combo delivered, Ayame holds her ground as Adira is given the chance to get back up. Perhaps she's suspcious of charging into a trap if she just runs right at the antagonized Gedo student. She's good at reading people. A real knack for it. Too bad she almost never puts it to use for /good/ purposes. "That hurt? I took you for the type that likes to play rough. Figured you'd appreciate that." the girl grins, her tone teasing. The angrier she gets her opponents, the more often they tend to just screw up. She meets Adira's burning glare with a beaming, teethy grin as she collapses her staff back down to a small bar and slides it into its pouch.
"Heh," the girl grunts, becoming idly aware of the chaos going on between Aprile and Kasumi, "They're getting along just as well as we are. Guess everyone loves dodgeball, eh?" Her foot kicks down, knocking one of the dodge balls up into the air into her hands with ease, shifting her focus back toward Adira. "Enjoy!" she remarks, taking a step forward and slamming the red rubber ball back at Adira with all the strength she can muster. Not the scariest attack in the world, but you can only do so much with a air filled, large rubber ball.
As if to make it worse, she wags her finger after hurling the ball, "Don't forget the rules about getting hit. Wouldn't want to break the rules!" Yeah. There's a reason everyone always beats Ayame up first in every fight.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi fails to counter Power Strike from Aprile with Sasshou Inshuu.
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Aprile 0/-------/---====|=======\=------\1 Adira
Kasumi narrows her eyes at Aprile as the girl throws a full-speed backfist at her; she tries to reach out and grab it, but unfortunately comes up just short -- the girl slips through her hands, and the girl's hand hits her dead-on across the face. She goes sprawling, tumbling to the ground from the force of the fist. She sniffles a little, her nose bleeding.
"Chosen by who?!" she asks, a little shocked at the comment; she has literally no idea what Aprile is talking about, or for that matter why she would /want/ to be chosen by whoever chose this creepy fetish nurse girl for /anything/. She slowly pulls herself back up off the ground, swearing at herself under her breath; why can't she /focus/ today, she wonders.
COMBATSYS: Adira Toughs Out Ayame's Sudden Fling!
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Oh yeah. Kasumi and Aprile, BFF. Really. Adira's gaze withers not in the face of Ayame's cheery blase-ness; completely focused now, she simply begins walking forward. Slowly, at first; her steps deliberate, precise, measured. Even as Ayame talks about the other two combatants in this 'team' fight, which hasn't been much of a team effort yet, though who can blame Kasumi and Adira--they've been pretty beleaguered by their opponents--she's moving forward. Even when Ayame stompkicks the ball, she's moving forward. Faster. Leaning into it. And just as that ball is thrown... she bursts forward, lowering her head.
"WHAT THE <BLEEP> DO YOU KNOW ABOUT PLAYING BY THE RULES?!?" she yells, as the ball literally smacks off her forehead--and before it can go up so much as a foot, Adira's left hand shoots out, catching the ball, 'nullifying' the hit as per dodgeball rules.
She's still coming forward, mind you, literally leaping forward just after the catch, ball still in hand as she tucks, her curled body forming a low, flat arc; at the top of the arc she shoots her right heel out in a shallowly-angled heel drop kick, the leg aflame with crimson chi from sole to knee.
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As Kasumi is struck hard by the backfist, Aprile smiles sweetly. The look one might want to wipe off of her face, honestly. "Oh? Chosen by my master.. that's who! And he gave me everything I have.. so it's only important that I help him .. and that means testing myself. So JUST because you aren't like me DOESN'T mean you can just be SO CRUDE! And cruel!" She says, shaking her head as Kasumi simply pulls herself off the ground.
Aprile is quite happy enough, at least.
And then that ends again, the girl trying to grab for Kasumi, grab her by the arm, and then whip her up and around, towards the ground, after bending a limb or two, trying to pull it to her and the wrong way.
"Really... ...." And then she stops afterwards, perhaps giving time for an interruption of some sort, as she listens to the yelling by Adira. "Oh.. must you use such strong language? Even if she killed your family, she must have had a good reason!"
And she's pretty.
COMBATSYS: Adira successfully hits Ayame with Tiger Hunter.
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Aprile 0/-------/---====|=======\=====--\1 Adira
Ayame lowers her wagging finger the instant she realizes Adira has no intentions of slowing down, dodgeball flying her way or not. Hefting up her staff in front of her with the intent of using it for defense. But Adira is coming in too fast for the weapons user to react in time and while the polearm is shifted toward getting in the way, the girl gets caught atop the head with the dropkick with enough force to drive her down to her knees as she loses her balance.
Catching herself with her staff clanging against the dodgeball court, Ayame pushes herself back up swiftly to avoid being an easy target for follow up. Her eyes are a bit wider now, Adira's aggression having caught her bit by surprise. She knew the Gedo tough girl had a temper, but this was more than she was anticipating. Rather than make her flail about ineffectively it's only made her worse to deal with!
Ignoring the ache in her head from the repeated blows she's taken from Adira's forceful kicks, Ayame steps forward, trying to mount a swift counter attack to force Adira to back off. The staff in her hand whips around as Ayame spins, the weapon coming up intentionally short - the intent being the opening she's trying to create for the swift side kick she launches immediately afterward, leg coming up and snapping out toward Adira's chest. "Eh, rules, guidelines, suppressive environments. Guess I'm no good at those," she admits as she spins into the strike.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Kasumi with Quick Throw.
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Ayame 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|=======\=====--\1 Adira
/That/ is creepy -- so creepy, in fact, that Kasumi gets distracted enough to let Aprile get her hands on that arm, wrenching it and tossing her in increasingly unpleasant ways. She seems to maneuver with the bends all right, but even with that to her advantage, she seems to be in a pretty impressive amount of pain. "Your... master?" Kasumi asks, a little incredulous; she at least picks up on the fact that that isn't the Master in the 'kung-fu' sense, but doesn't know what the hell else Aprile could conceivably be talking about.
She probably slept through most of that whole Shadaloo-takin'-over-the-world thing.
She staggers back once she wrenches her arm out of Aprile's grasp, trying to piece together what she's been doing wrong, taking slow, deep breaths. Come on, Kasumi, the fact that you're doing this badly is just /stupid/, she tells herself. It is about then that she realizes how little she's doing to keep the pressure on -- all she's doing is waiting and reacting. Even her rushes in are just to capitalize. She keeps coming in and presenting a target at all the wrong times.
The goal, then, is to never present a target. Coming right back in toward Aprile, Kasumi begins a rapid-fire series of palm strikes, elbow strikes, and wide, full-arm chops, all of which are hard enough to leave nasty red marks if they actually land. "Quit-- being-- so-- /creepy/!" she shouts, each word punctuated with a different strike.
COMBATSYS: Adira interrupts Light Kick from Ayame with Snap Kick.
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|=======\=======\1 Adira
The *crack* of her heel striking Ayame in the head, well, that's one of the most satisfying things Adira's had this week--far better than scoring the last steamed pork bun at school every day for three days straight. When she lands, she's -right in front- of Ayame--just in time to hear the girl admit to her propensity for bending, nay, snapping in half, the rules. Suggestions. Etc.
Adira's visage twists into a disapproving, disdainful sneer. "If you can't play the rules," she snaps, "then don't play the game!" This is said as Ayame feints--and once again, Adira refuses to be drawn in by the feint, letting the weapon slash by unopposed. That kick, however... Adira raises her arms, like a Muay Thai fighter, and just as Ayame fires off her kick--just as it makes contact--she's kicking with the opposite leg, sending her foot crashing against Ayame's midriff in a swift kick.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi successfully hits Aprile with Senkou Nagashi.
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Aprile 1/-------/=======|=======\=======\1 Adira
With Kasumi suddenly going on the offensive, Aprile has to watch herself alright.. and the goal is to never present a target.. apparently, and as Kasumi fires rapid-fire series of palm strikes, Aprile sees something.. tiiiime to try and get out of the way.
Instead, the doll attempts to prevent the damage, bringing her arms and other sorts up in the way, to prevent a direct on strike.. she doesn't want to risk being CAUGHT in it.. but that's just what happens, the palms slamming into her, beating against her.. well. She's not doing THAT well.
Or is she?
"Well! I really shouldn't do this.. but still. I'll quit being so creepy then .. but you promise me you won't go anywhere, okay~?" She asks.. after being beaten the hell out of, rapid-fire palm strikes slamming into the doll, sending her rolling back.
Right nearby Ayame. "Oh poor DEAR you look hurt!" You can see where this is going.
Raising her medkit upwards, Aprile smiles, waving to Kasumi. "I'll just give you some time to compose yourself to be a NORMAL person again." She jokes, grinning.. and then a glow of bright red psycho energy pulses into the air, a cross, almost, fired upwards.
Which lands onto Ayame.. the psycho energy, red, of Vega's soul sorting through her wounds, massaging them, and .. just removing most. "Operation .. success!" She salutes to Ayame afterwards. "Cutie!"
And then winks, turning to face Kasumi again.
Ayame might realize, of one important thing .. that ain't chi.. and it ISN'T like the psycho energy she met before. This one has a taint to it, and even though it's heal, and makes her feel better.. there's a trade of calling up some .. bad things once more.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Ayame with Coffin Dodger.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 Adira
When it comes to trading kicks, Ayame has just been taught an important lesson. Don't go trying to kick someone who /specializes/ in kicking. Adira's swift strike catches Ayame in her stomach, provoking a grunt of surprised from the comperatively more fragile fighter. Grimacing, the girl slides back, her hand coming to rest on her stomach as she glares back at Adira with a new found level of caution. "Well said," she smirks back, "And in a moment you're going learn that I don't really play anything at all."
It's in that moment that Ayame becomes aware of assistance from her teammate in quite an unexpected way. Sensitive now days to the kind of energy Aprile utilizes, the girl spins toward her partner, eyes narrowed as she detected the build up of psycho power. "What are you..." she begins to protest when Aprile unleashes the cross into the air back toward the girl. Her gut reaction says stop it. Defend herself against the energy of the other girl. Another psion. Well, she just keeps running into those types, /doesn't/ she.
But her instincts suggest to her that for as crazy Aprile is, she isn't trying to harm her. And for the first time in her life, Ayame feels what it's like to have energy rushing through from someone else, mending injuries, restoring utilized strength. The bumps and bruises and even the headache seem to fade away for the girl, her eyes wide with some surprise at this powerful manifestation. "Nice... trick," she stares back after Aprile. She can keep calling her cuttie all she wants as long as she's able to pull miracle saves like that more!
Whirling around to fix her attention back on Adira, the newly restored girl grins malevolently, darting forward with her staff out to her side before she gets close, leaping into an aggressive, overhead slam for Adira's head, both hands on the polearm in order to give it the maximum possible impact! Maybe she's trying to give the other girl a headache as payback!
"... Won't go anywhere?" Kasumi asks, a little confused by this particular demand. Still, it seems... /relatively/ innocuous, so she's willing to go with it. "Deal," she says, before fixing her stance a little and getting back into the groove of the battle. Aprile's left Kasumi's team with a potentially very useful momentary pause, and one that she has every intention of taking advantage of -- even if she's not paying much attention to her teammate. She never did like those Gedo kids.
Keeping her focus on the nurse, Kasumi tries to figure out just what to do to Aprile to put her down -- and decides that the best way to handle her is probably to finish her off in one fell swoop. Leaping in toward the nurse, she swings her legs out to wrap them around the girl's head and arm; she then, if she can land them on her, proceeds to whip Aprile downward in a vicious Cammy-style Frankensteiner. It doesn't stop there, though; she continues that whipping motion, putting /herself/ on the ground and whipping /Aprile/ up into the air again. To finish it all off, she'll then grab her and fling her right down into a dodgeball; it doesn't count as hitting with a dodgeball, but it likely doesn't help it hurt any less.
COMBATSYS: Ayame successfully hits Adira with Medium Strike.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Adira
Ayame is a lot more than a headache. She's a full on pain in the ass. Well, in this case, in the head. Aprile's 'little' technique... probably wasn't really necessary, all things considered. But with Ayame looking more chipper and better, well... Adira raises her arms to fend off the attack, but the staff crushes right through her defenses, dropping her to one knee with the force of the strike.
"NNNNGH," is Adira's rather eloquent comment; her head is suddenly throbbing like it's twice its size. She won't, however, give Ayame the satisfaction; a moment later, she's standing up again, ignoring the blood flowing down her face. Ayame, and Aprile by extension... she definitely doesn't like iether of them. She wants to beat them into the ground. But they're a bit much for her together... honestly, Ayame did for Adira alone--having Aprile 'help out'... well, Aprile has certainly earned a black mark or two in Adira's book.
But, first. Ayame. Can't have the girl looking quite so chipper, can we? Adira lunges forward, aiming a low right roundhouse sweep for Ayame's legs; just after, she sweeps her right leg up and drops the heel down in a chopping axe kick aimed to hit a downed Ayame in the stomach.
COMBATSYS: Aprile dodges Kasumi's Rebound Throw.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 Adira
It really should work.
"Hmmm! Yep! Don't go anywhere!" And then as Kasumi fixes her stance, giving a momentary pause, Aprile looks back to Kasumi .. JUST IN TIME. After helping Ayame, of course. "I TOLD you I'm a nurse!" She says, smiling. "And that's what I can -It's NOT a trick!" She protests, frowning. "After all the energy I put into it too.." What did you think it was all she could do?
But Kasumi is coming forth, leaping in towards her, swinging her legs out.. that's where she ends it. The heavy bag of items on her bag, and the medkit on her front .. well. She's a target for such things. "Hi!" She beams to Kasumi as she comes close.. but as all dolls, she has some spunk in her.. which involves kicking up and over Kasumi, flipping around to the girls back.. and running forwards some distance, scooping up one of those red balls..
AND THEN CHUCKING IT STRAIGHT AT KASUMI! "Hah! Take this!"
FLING.
COMBATSYS: Ayame blocks Adira's Slipping Axe.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 Adira
Her staff strike successful, Ayame takes a step backward, bracing herself, her polearm coming up in front of her at a defensive angle as she prepares herself to go on the defensive. She smiles faintly at Aprile's reply back at her. "Ja, ja, not a trick. Stunt? Hm, power? Nice power." That should keep the crazy nurse happy, right?!
Adira comes back on the offensive, intending to dampen Ayame's mood if possible with another solid kicking combination. The roundhouse goes for her legs, but that infernal weapon of hers in the way, the titanium pole absorbing the worst of the impact other than a solid jarring of the girl's arms, but she stays upright and un-stomach-crushed, at least!
Brown eyes stay focused on the Gedo student. She's taken some lumps, but she's a tough girl, Ayame remembers that quite well. She's going to have to aim for harder hits if she's going to beat her. Or maybe just more savage strikes. Grinning faintly, the girl presses a button on her staff, causing three blades to extend from the end of it, forming a small, bladed cross as they lock into ninety degree angles from each other.
"About to get a lot worse for you. Just cry out when you're ready to give up," the armed girl smirks. She isn't really sure why the SNF officials let her keep bringing an entire armory into her fights. Would think someone would insist that she fight her opponents cleanly for a change... Maybe it's just really good ratings?
Either way, with that bladed spear in hand, Ayame charges for Adira, drawing the weapon up and stabbing it outward like a lance, aiming to skewer the poor student with the bladed end. Drawing it back quickly, Ayame will attempt to spin into a follow up smash with the side of the staff against Adira's knee before pulling the weapon back rapidly in order to deal a second pass of slashing damage on her leg with one of the side blades.
In the end, one final slam of the opposite end of the weapon will be brought around as Ayame spins forward, attempting to drive the edge of the staff hard against Adira's neck, intending to take the Gedo girl out of the fight completely.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Kasumi with Thrown Object.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 Adira
Well, that's one way to get Kasumi to not go anywhere. This time, when the ball comes, Kasumi's pretty dizzy -- and being really dizzy makes it really hard to react appropriately to an oncoming ball. As a last-ditch effort, Kasumi tries to bat the ball aside with another ball... but it doesn't work, and it beans her right in the head. She falls right back down to the awkward position she put herself in after that series of failed tosses.
"... right, not going anywhere," she groans, dizzily; her head /really/ hurts, and her coordination is shot. She seems to even be having a little trouble getting back to her feet, whereas usually this would be the sort of situation she solves with a quick kip-up; a few of her more diehard fans, what little she has, start calling for precisely this in the stands. Unfortunately, she is in /no/ position to whip her body around again.
She falls back down after the first attempt. This is not what she would call good times.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi takes no action.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 Adira
COMBATSYS: Adira fails to interrupt Deep Strike from Ayame with Dragon Slayer.
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Ayame 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Kasumi
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Adira
Sometimes, Adira is too stubborn for her own good. Really, she should just go down; her attempt to deflect the initial strike to open Ayame's guard is a failure, and so she is subsequently stabbed, she has her knee crushed, and then her neck smashed. She goes down, pretty much, like she was bricked. Bleeding from a deep wound--*again*. Courtesy of Ayame. *Again*.
Adira will, maybe, someday, be able to back up her words with strength and superior skill. Until that day, she has the skills she has and she has pure cussedness. That's it--until then, she'll have to make do with what she has. Her gi is ruined--again--but that's okay, she really has a lot of them. Most martial artists do. (Exception: Ryu). Adira rolls onto her back, her eyes glazed with pain... and yet she rises again.
Wasn't she just in this kind of position a couple of days ago, against 'Angel Papillon'? Gritting her teeth, she presses her left hand against the wound, her face a half-mask of blood.
She smiles--but it's more like a snarl, a fierce baring of teeth. "Not done yet," she hisses at the weapons-user. Not done--but clearly just about there.
"Yep! That's more like it!" She nods to Ayame, before Kasumi is POMF'd by the dodgeball. "Hooray! Master will be pleased at this showing." She exclaims, nodding to herself, before using this time to ... YOU GOT IT... do nothing.
Her medkit raises above her head once more, red psycho energy trailing about her, spiralling, as she lets it wash over her, the energy pooling up from her, focusing.. and Vega's soul helping as well. It was so nice! Master Vega gave them all this power!
A pity for the others really. "Well.. You seem to be doing well! And she doesn't seem to be happy." Lucky for Kasumi, Aprile .. IS giving her extra time. Again.
Does she just abuse that ball or something, or what?
Perhaps .. she won't break from this this time?! ".. Oh she doesn't look good." Aprile thinks for a second, before just ripping the medkit from the sky, and skipping over to Adira.
And uncerimoniously begins to ... cut .. and rip and work.
And well..
No. Adira is not done yet. "Get up get up! I can't see more if you're lying down!"
Her vicious strikes delivered, Ayame hops back a little to guage the results of her savage combo. Satisfactory, she decides, but the girl was /supposed/ to be unconscious after that, and she's clearly not. "Che, guess I miscalculated your capacity to endure. I thought I was done with you now."
Breathing in Ayame exhales, sounding mildly put out. Pesky Gedo kids. They make them deceptively /rugged/ over there.
And then Aprile comes running over toward Adira, "Nah, don't worry about her, I've got this one-" Wait, she isn't attacking. She's performing surgury in the middle of the fight! Well, first aid at least. "What... are... you..." Ayame begins to ask before finally shaking her head, right hand coming up to rest against her forehead. The things a girl has to weather in these zany matches. Yes, her partner must be clearly insane.
Shifting her attention over toward Kasumi, Ayame leans her head to the side. She fought alongside the Todoh-ryuu user to trounce some guy who thought he was the God of Battle or somesuch, so she knows Kasumi's tough. But she's been having a rough time this fight as well. Too bad Ayame's loyality for previous partners is... well... non-existant.
As Aprile gets in her way to attend to Adira, Ayame just ignores the two of them, heading after Kasumi instead, staff in hand. The blades retract as she's halfway there. While the blades are vicious, Ayame doesn't have a lot of practice fighting with them extended, which is why they're usually sheathed, lest she just end up cutting herself more than her opponent or something disasterous.
For Kasumi Ayame levels an aggressive strike toward the shoulder before spinning around to swing for her legs and sweep them out from under her. If successful, she'll finish by lifting her staff up and dropping it down with an overhead slam toward the back of Todoh's daughter. "So, been a while, ne?" she remarks disturbingly casually as she goes about her assault against the poor girl experiencing what might be described as 'Not great times'.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi fails to counter Medium Strike from Ayame with Kuzu Otoshi.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Adira
This is really not Kasumi's day. She pulls herself off of the ground, spotting Ayame coming at her quickly; she knows the girl's fast, but the last time she teamed with her, she wasn't as fast on the offensive. A little too telegraphed... and so, Kasumi tries to catch that aggressive strike at her shoulder, extending her hands and trying to get her into position for a nasty scoop-slam.
It doesn't work that way. Ayame's attack is trickier than anticipated, and it catches her right across the arm, snapping a bone. Shrieking in pain, Kasumi leaves herself wide open for the subsequent attacks; she takes the sweep awkwardly, landing on her back, and then takes a sickening smack across the breastbone to finish the combo off.
"... yeah, it's been a little too long," she says, groaning and turning over on her side. "I... I think I need to not take time off ever again."
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Adira with Cut And Paste.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Adira
Adira has the presence of mind -not- to freak out as Aprile skips over. Because frankly, it is just -weird- that the nurse is patching up her opponents in the fight. Well, one of them, at least. There's only so much that can be done for the bleeding, but that, at least, is stopped before Adira pushes Aprile away--not rough enough to hurt, just enough to set her back.
"Look, I appreciate it, but that isn't the sort of thing you should be doing in a fight like this." She looks at Ayame, with a grimace. "Maybe she'll hit me so hard that I die--I doubt it, I'm a tough little thing. But in a fight, even a fight like this... you should be doing your best to win. Win -or- lose, what matters is giving your best..." She smiles, though it's really not that friendly. "Though I admit that I do want to pay her back for... things..." Adira turns towards Ayame.
"So thanks, but... you should focus on helping out your partner." And with that, Adira takes off for the weapons-fighter again, getting to within three long steps before twisting her body to the left as she goes into a whirling spin, spinning a full three times before hooking her right leg out in a crescent kick for Ayame's head.
Smiling, Aprile finish-wait. She DOESN'T get to finish, it seems, as Adira pushes Aprile away.. this and that in her hands. "... Oh no. I don't think it matters if I win or lose! I'm doing this so my Master can see I'm getting better! And you just haven't given me enough time!" She exclaims.
And then with Adira turning to Ayame, Aprile turns to Kasumi. "Alright then!" She smiles, chipper, cheerful. "Where were we? .. RIGHT!" And then she skips over to Kasumi, who is groaning, turning over on her side.. and grabs her legs.
And then folds them then wrong way, stepping onto her stomach/chest with a foot, and WRENCHING the legs to one side, red psycho power helping her.
She's humming as she does this. "You won't feel a thing! I promise. ESPECIALLY not after this!"
She's happy at least!
COMBATSYS: Ayame dodges Adira's Fierce Kick.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|=======\=------\1 Adira
"Yeah, gotta keep it up. Easy to fall behind," Ayame offers Kasumi some helpful advice after her brutal combination floored the other fighter. It's then that she whirls around, brown eyes shifting back to Adira. Aprile should be done doing... whatever it is she was doing. Oh, yes, patching her opponents up. Ayame shakes her head. Crazy girl.
Adira comes charging back at her, clearly intending to inflict some pain on the weapons fighter, but Ayame is ready to avoid her this time, ducking down just in time to avoid the spinning kicks. Downside for aiming for someone's head - sometimes people duck in time.
Crouching low, Ayame drops her staff to the ground all together, instead chosing to lunge up and literally try to man-handle Adira, both her arms reaching out for the other girl's wrists as she comes out of her spins, before leaping up into the air over Adira in an attempt to slam her back down against the floor by use of momentum.
If successful, she'll release one of Adira's arms while keeping her hold on the other one, spinning around to the side herself as she's lying on the floor in order to try and armlock the Gedo student with her legs over Adira's chest, "You're going to make me break something to get you to quit, aren't you," the ruthless strawberry-blonde whispers.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Kasumi with Code Azure.
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Aprile 0/-------/-----==|=======\=------\1 Adira
Kasumi has been put in nearly every hold in the book. After all, she /knows/ nearly every hold in the book, and /someone/ had to teach her. This does not make it suck any less to be /in/ any given hold, and when her legs get wrenched and folded, she shrieks in agony. "Stop! Stop! /Stop/!" she yells, eyes widening, trying to get herself out of the vicious hold.
Nothing seems to work, though, and eventually, she shouts, "That's enough! I give up! I'm /done/!" She feels like she could kick out at her one last time, but what'd be the use? They got /trounced/. Nothing's going to change that. "I give up," she groans, flailing her legs ineffectually.
She closes her eyes, looking down. She gets a /lot/ less talky when she isn't one of life's winners.
COMBATSYS: Kasumi takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Kasumi can no longer fight.
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NO. Not like this. Ayame gets her grip, briefly; she causes yet more pain for Adira, but the half-Israeli girl--the Gedo tough girl, wrenching Adira's arms as Ayame does her artful leapover... but then, Adira simply wrenches her arms apart, forcing Ayame's grip with pure strength.
But she does -turn-, to face Ayame, as the girl is landing.
"You just don't --nnh-- get it, do you?!?" she shouts, as she is suddenly lunging, firing her right knee up into Ayame's chin, that knee covered in blazing red chi fire. The impact is more than enough to throw Ayame up, off her feet; Adira's knee turns into a jump that launches her up, tucked into a ball, following Ayame.
Just a couple meters off the ground, Adira suddenly extends her legs and flips a full three sixty, kicking Ayame with those outstretched feet, still afire--not just once, but twice. The second flip finds her falling back to the earth, landing in an artful three-point stance for a moment.
"I don't -ever- give up."
And as Kasumi tries to prevent it .. in the end.. it's not enough. Happily, almost cheerfully, the girl looks down, tilting her head after the loud screams, the shouting and such FINALLY getting the dolls attention.
I mean, once you've heard the screams of a few dying men you heard them all, right? Right!
Letting go, and kneeling down, Aprile nods to Kasumi. "Mmmhmmm! Alright. If that's what you want!" She admits.. and then turns around, watching as Ayame and Adira clash, Adira kicking Ayame over and over again.
Wandering over, Aprile takes a few steps towards Adira from behind.. brings a hand forwards..
ZOT.
A bright burst of red psycho energy from behind Adira should end this well enough. "Maybe not, but you lost! And that's all I needed to see .. so nurses orders.. get some sleep!" She smiles still. IT'S OBVIOUS WHY.
Erk. Adira's got more fight left in her than Ayame took her for. She figured the girl was pretty done for, the attempt at locking her arm was just to drive home the point in as cruel a way as possible that she was washed up when it came to trying to beat the street rogue.
Adira has something else in mind though, wresting herself free from Ayame before the tricky girl can lock the hold in completely. And the next thing she knows she's being kicked and pummeled across the court by a series of chi laced kicks. Oh jeez, is all the girl has time to ponder as she's slammed back down to the court, landing hard and sliding several yards.
Rolling onto her side with a wince, she glances back at Adira, glaring at the surge of defiance presence in the Gedo youth. Smirking as she pushes herself back up into a crouch, Ayame holds her ground for a moment, brown eyes shifting back over to the staff she left behind when she tried to grapple the girl out of the fight. Well, there's no way she's getting back to it now. Of course, it's not like it's her only weapon, either.
Rising slowly to her feet, the now irritated, ruthless youth starts to stride toward the crouching Adira. Waving her right arm out to her side, a two foot long, narrow blade suddenly extends from beneath the cloth covering her forearm. "Well, you really should have. Now you're going to make me have to force you." She sees Aprile coming at Adira as well but Ayame doesn't hold back, charging forward, that blade extended from her right arm as she draws it back with the intent clearly being to skewer the Gedo youth.
As she gets nearer, the blade itself crackles to life with black, crackling chi that coats the sufface of the hidden shortsword. And with that, Ayame slams the weapon forward, trying to spear the poor girl with a ruthless stab, "Better listen to the nurse," she adds with a smirk mid-swing.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Adira with Pathology Consult.
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COMBATSYS: Adira endures Ayame's Dream Crushing.
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Aprile was kind(?) enough to keep Adira going a ilttle while longer. Then again, that could have just been some sort of masochistic tendency on her part. Like torture--keep the victim alive a little longer...
The shocking burst of psi courses through her body, and while it does in fact hurt kinda bad, Adira shrugs it off for the most part. Because frankly, that shock is small compared to Ayame's attempt to stab her, again.
Adira plants her feet, which probably means she doesn't intend to -dodge-... and that in fact is what does not happen. Adira gets pierced again. But she shifts to the side, to avoid any major organ damage, and she uses the moment of her stabbing to grab on to the polearm's body. Her smile is still fierce, though the light in her eyes is fading--the light of consciousness, anyways.
"Call it my character flaw... I'm as stubborn as you are ugly," she spits, at Ayame (perhaps literally, watch out for bloody spittle!) Keeping her grip on that polearm as best as she can, Adira seeks to sweep Ayame's legs out from underneath her, again--but instead of following up with more kicks, she'll try to rip that polearm out of Ayame's hands and complete a full-on spin to strike Ayame. ... and, coincidentally, Aprile, unless she can get out of the way of a spinning titanium pole. Which, given the way Adira's starting to fall near the end of that spin, could be entirely possible.
COMBATSYS: Adira can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Ayame counters Random Weapon from Adira with Random Strike.
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Adira takes the attempted stabbing quite well. Too well for Ayame o cause the kind of injury she had intended to. And that's when the other girl gets a grip on her arm, holding Ayame in place for a moment, her right arm tied up with keeping the blade in the other girl and held in place by the kicking fighter's hold in spite efforts to pull backward.
"You're finished, no sense in-" Ayame retorts, only to shut the hell up the moment she gets spit on with bloody spittle from the skewered girl. With her left hand free, the girl draws another weapon, her hand going to the top of her blouse and coming out with a folded, iron fan that she slams into the path of Adira's attempt to wrest her other weapon from her, stopping the endeavor short, finally pulling her blade-equipped arm free from the other girl and hopping backward, a fair amount of the poor girl's blood dripping from the hidden sword, the chi that was coursing over is surface now gone, having served its purpose.
At last the stubborn student is dropped with the combination of Aprile and Ayame's attacks. "Wow, you're really different, but pretty good at what you do," the girl remarks to the nurse fighter as she retracts her hidden blade, folds the fan and tucks it away, and turns to stride over to her dropped staff to retrieve it.
Collapsing the titanium weapon back down to a smaller size, she stuffs it into a pouch on one of her belts. Another time she would have stuck around to find out more about the psycho power user. Where was she from, did she know others like her... but that job is, well, pretty much permanently finished now. A wave over her shoulder is offered to the red-orange haired girl and with that, Ayame takes her leave.
COMBATSYS: Adira successfully hits Aprile with Random Weapon.
- Power hit! -
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As Ayame tucks it away, Aprile watches as Adira goes .. TO THE END.
But it's just not enough, apparently, as Adira strikes nothing, Ayame preventing it. Aprile smiles onto ti, and then waves goodnight to Adira. "Good .. Sleep well!"
And then winking to Ayame.. Aprile skips off.
Master would be pleased!
COMBATSYS: Aprile has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Ayame has ended the fight here.
Log created on 19:07:44 04/06/2008 by Ayame, and last modified on 00:32:52 04/11/2008.