Description: ITALIANS FIGHT, one has CHI, the other has PSI, but both know only ... that they aren't ever gettiing hooked up. COME FOR THE CHURCH, STAY FOR THE SHEEP AND SHEEP RELATED WEAPONRY. ( Winner: Horatio )
ARE YOU READY, FIGHT LOVERS, FOR ANOTHER THRILLING BATTLE?! Today, the theme .. is wide .. open space... WIDE.. open spaces.
And there are lambs, but Neo League just has them there because they wanted them there. The sheep is merely, mostly, background. Unless used as a weapon. THEN IT'S NOT. But most importantly, the scenery is the Church.. fighting inside was not cleared by the owners, due to the owners ( Hotaru Futaba and Jiro ) just cleaning the darn place up! So the church is in the background, but the path infront, as well as the field, isn't!
There are cameras all about, and for the moment, the Neo League is readying everything .. alright. Fighters? CHECK. Lights? None. SCENERY? CHECK. Alright, get the fighters in!
The first one happens to be the doll, Aprile.. why she joined? To help lord Vega. To get stronger. To be something more worthwhile to him than just sucked up to replenish him with the Psycho Energy that he already is abundant of .. she is part of her soul, after all.
And that is, simply, why she is here. But in a nurse outfit this time, complete with hat and skirt, she also has a medkit and a bit of a large bag on her back, as she stands on one of the steps infront of the church. She looks about, waving.. oh where is her opponent? "Hellllo! Is there anyone nearby? .. I'm ready for your challenge! Please come out!"
Hey it's important!
Come out? .. Of where? The field of sheep!? SURE! -- Because that's just what happens. At least not right away anyway. The other end of the fight, the polar opposite if you will of one Aprile the Doll, is Horatio the scholar! ... The SCHOLAR! ... Clap? Fanfare? ... Well, a couple sheep open there mouthes and let out a long braying sound. Probably due to the fact that he was out there among them, squatting down in front of one in particular and grabbing it by the ears while it freaked out and attempted to flee. Pulling it's face close, he smacks foreheads with it and looks it in the face. "I never saw a sheep up close... ... Do you really taste good? People say you taste good." It rares back and attempts to bite him, but he shoves the thing away and hops back several steps. "Cripes! ... -I- wasn't gonna eat you. I was just asking a question you testy son of Tuesday Night Special!" ... Was he fussed? Not particularly.
Turning completely around, he jogs up to the church and slides to a stop on the walkway before it, his hands tossed up high in the air, throwing peace-fingers out at Aprile. "I'm here! And I'm not a lamb!" Dropping his arms, he crosses them over his chest and becomes all too suddenly serious with a short sigh. "... But not that any of that matters." Did he intend to take it seriously? He wasn't quite sure... It had been so long since he was actually in a fight. He'd taken the time away to train and to stick to his classwork which had been slowly slipping because of his attention to just this very thing. Hyo wasn't pleased with him. He'd had to make up for it all by being exceptionally dutiful... Especially since it seemed he'd been the one 'selected', if you will, to be Hyo's rather placid footstool. But if fetching dry cleaning and coffee were the least of his worries, he supposed he didn't have much to complain about. Shrugging, he shifts to face his flank to the Doll and crosses his arms over his chest, "Ready..."
The scholar, eh? Like some kind of Ling? Anyways, as Horatio makes his position known .. Aprile stares a bit. He's busy .. squatting near sheep and .. grabbing the ears, pulling free or trying .. and then headbutting them.. and then he shoves one away and ..
Staring, Aprile watches as he jogs over, sliding to a stop before the walkway, tossing hands in the air with a peace sign .. and .. Aprile is momentarily stunned.
"Yes .. I can see you're not a sheep but why does that... never mind!" She calls out, smiling wide, and then bowing, hands holding onto the box infront of her, the doll taking a few steps back and falling back .. yep. That's RIGHT Horatio! You're fighting a nurse!
"Okay! So if you're ready I'll let you take the first strike! How does that sound?" She asks to him, smiling. It's a false smile, but the nurse doesn't really care.. let Horatio believe what he wants.
"I promise this will be quick.. you'll hardly feel a thing!" During the operation.
OF THIS FIGHT. She readies herself, waiting!
COMBATSYS: Aprile has started a fight here.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Horatio has joined the fight here.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Horatio
Positioned with his arms crossed over his chest, staring at Aprile through a side-long glance, he returns her smile with one of his own, "Yup... Not a sheep. Glad you noticed!" He calls back, sticking his tongue out in a chiding manner, laughing through his cheesy little smile before he returns to a deadpan for a moment of dramatic silence. Then, he lowers his hands, lifting but one to draw a rosary across his body from head to torso, shoulder to shoulder, "En nomine padre, et fillet, et spiritus sancti," .. -- Now that the respects were out of the way, he shoves a finger out at Aprile, pointing almost accusatorily.
"Of course I'm ready! .. -- I can!?" He balks as she offers to let him go first. Turning, squaring his shoulders to her, he lifts his hands slowly, palms upward in a grandious fashion, as if some type of statue of a greek God, holding the world up above his head, "Thought you'd never ask!" -- His arms drop and he hops once, falling into a ready stance, fists clenching before him as he takes a few steps in, "Go quick? Why would you want it to go quick? Then it'd be boring..." Shrugging the notion off, he anchors his right foot, digs the toe about on the concrete, then bursts into motion... but it isn't a charge as would be expected. Instead, his left hand whips forward, near instantly exploding to life with crackling orange and gold energy, as if he'd just thrown the sunrise itself from his fingers. It travels out from his body then sinks like a rock, cracking open against the ground and forming a large buzzsaw like oval that rushes towards Aprile with an alarming kind of speed.
COMBATSYS: Aprile dodges Horatio's Ten O'Clock Sunset.
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Aprile 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Horatio
And then as Horatio makes sure that she notices, she nods. "MhmmM.. wait what's that supposed to mean?" She asks, tilting her head. HEEEY. He's making fun of her, before he draws a rosary.. wait she remembers this. ".. Wait .. .. Oh! You're from there too." She comments.
Yes. Aprile is from Italy too.
"Mhmm! You'll need it!" She exclaims, before the man raises his hands up, palms upwards in a fashion .. and then they drop.. this is odd.
Finally, the man charges, bursting into motion! .. The left hand whipping forwards, Aprile notices it.. and that oval of orange and gold energy bothers her alright. It's rushing as fast as he can make it .. and Aprile, the doll, runs straight forwards, towards it.
And then kicks off right before the bladed edge slices into her legs, the nurses dress flying up a bit as she lands, leading with her right hand and the medkit in it..
Before she swings. "Okay .. not fast.. but it really depends on how well you can take .. THIS!" The swing's miss him entirely, two red lines crossing this way and that as she slams her medkit forwards, between the two lines.. and driving the psycho energy forwards, the red burning energy .. very, very bad.
If Horatio is hit? .. He might remember some .. rather bad memories he tries to forget. Master Vega's Psycho energy .. is anything but enjoyable.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Horatio with Peleative Care.
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Aprile 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Horatio
"From where?" He asks... but then, he supposed she was talking about where he was from. But... he figured that would have been obvious enough, he had a mild accent. Greater than light, lesser than thick, but mild nonetheless. The speed in which he spoke, the succinct way he addressed certain letter combinations, and the way some syllables were drawled, while others were sharp and to the point. Definitely Italian. There could be no other conception. Indeed his arm had swung out with a frightening speed, sending that ring of energy rushing at Aprile, but she'd skillfully enough avoided it entirely.
Eyes moving up to intercept her motion as she takes to the air, he sees it in real time, sees the motion, even anticipates a way to move out of the way.. But there was no direct attack. All he saw was-- wow.. Her nurse's dress flying up a bit. And without even bothering to lie to himself, he'd looked. In that time frame, the crossed psycho energy that was drawn into the air comes rushing in on him and he takes it full force in the chest, throwing him back a number of stumbling steps before he moves forward, left hand coming back, up and over, the heel of his palm rushing down to try and intercept Aprile as she lands.
COMBATSYS: Aprile blocks Horatio's Phantom Cutter.
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Aprile 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 Horatio
"AH, do you not recognize? From Italy! You must not have realized it yet! But there is no problem with it. I don't make a big deal about it! Nationality isn't that important to me!" And there's a reason for why. Why care? Master Vega will take care of it. And then tell her what to do. He was important.
But then, as her skirt seems to distract him, it distracts HER as well, and pushing it down, the nurse is almost late at throwing an arm up to prevent his assault! It withstands the strikes, weathering the heel of his palm over and over.. before she can break away for the moment, and leap back. "Hah! So you're not just a lamb.. you might still be a lion!" She exclaims, smiling as well. "I hope you'll enjoy this as much as I will!"
And with a kick, she's off again, bounding towards Horatio, before she does a far smaller, longer leap, spinning around, bringing a heavy red guard .. under the sleeve.. around towards Horatio's face in a painful backhand!
"I really don't like it when it drags on though!"
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Horatio with Power Strike.
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Aprile 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Horatio
"Really!?" He exclaims, likely far, far too excited to hear that someone other than himself was from Italy. You'd thinks he'd brought him free food and a book of free passes to Dream Amusement Park or something. Face lighting up with a smile, he slams his heel down on her blocking arm, then she steps out of the way, making some distance. Turning, his face darkens just a bit when he realizes she had moved nearly into his blindspot. With a shift of his upperbody, feet working beneath him to attempt back peddling, he tries to put some distance between them as well.
By that time however, the girl was skipping in, hopping, bounding in on him until she took to the air with a short hop and a turn. Knowing it was coming but not having the reaction time nor the wherewithall to attempt to stop it, he tries to get out of the way and only succeeds in getting his dome rocked by the crashing forearm. Head snapped to one side, he's nearly spun completely around by the force of impact, spittle flying from his mouth as he staggers far out to Aprile's right. Hopping back once, again and a third time, he parks himself a good distance away from her, his eyebrows knitting as a surge of orange energy goes off around him like fireworks.
It coils up from the ground, over his figure and upward before disipating.
COMBATSYS: Horatio gathers his will.
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Aprile 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Horatio
Yes, perhaps Horatio IS a bit too happy to hear such a thing.. but this does not stop Aprile from mentioning it. "Yes, this is true!" She quips, but first.. slams the back of her hand straight against him .. and he seems to weather it rather poorly. He staggers away and everything, before he parks away from her .. energy going off about him. She has fought this type before.
She hopes it will not go the same way again.
"Oh.. holding back for now? ... You really don't wish to do this. Just a word of advice! It won't help you if you're planning on using it... It really won't." And there's a good reason for it, but she's not saying.
Again she moves, heading on the offensive.. something she generally might not be seen doing, before bounding in a flip straight towards Horatio!
To land on his shoulders, thighs about his head. He might be unable to respond well enough .. with THIS.. but the attack is necessary for it. ".. But I guess this is what you wanted, Hmm?" She taps his head.. and sliiiides off..
And the legs catch his head, and then she tries to immediately wrench his body straight to the earth, to pile drive his face, and body, into the earth below. She has some strong legs!
COMBATSYS: Horatio endures Aprile's Hooligan Suplex.
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Aprile 0/-------/-----==|=======\==-----\1 Horatio
Damn right he wasn't prepared for that. Standing back and continuing to gather energy, using the distance between them as a way to take the time needed to draw on his own inner strength, he sees her moving in on him... doesn't say a word in reply, not at first anyway. He just continues to charge, as if he needed it, like it was a necessity for him... perhaps she'd taken more out of him with that hit to the face than he let on? Whatever the reason, he certainly didn't do a thing when she came on and threw those thighs around his head.
Okay, no, that's a lie. He said something then, "Oh my..." his eyes moving down... cheeks reddening severely. But he doesn't have much time to linger on it before he's literally whipped heels over head, body torn from a standing position to come rushing towards a quickly rising ground. Instead of looking up to get his face mushed into the pavement, he ducks his head down and lets his head take the brunt of the assault full on with a yelp of pain as he's driven down and slammed into the earth. "NNGH!" He coughs in complaint... slowly rolling over to one side.. and finally to all fours. Getting slowly to his feet, he's left to stumble back a step or two, frowning at Aprile with a determined and severely upset expression on his face. He figured if a girl was going to wrap thighs around him...
It could have at least not hurt so much.
Not at all stifled by this, the collected energy he had drawn upon before, he reaches out with... and it filters out from his body in unseen waves of his inner fighting spirit. As it begins to build in the air around him, an orange halo of light can be seen vaguely in the air... Before it shatters, rushes in on Aprile's position and seems to, for the most part, be completely inaffectual. That is, until it all implodes, and then explodes, lighting her entire area afire with blazing firework like orange energy that pops and bursts in a series of large explosions before fading entirely.
COMBATSYS: Horatio successfully hits Aprile with Fat Buddha.
- Power hit! -
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Aprile 0/-------/=======|-------\-------\0 Horatio
The blast seems to, well enough, break through her defenses at least.. and as the orange halo of light shatters, rushing in on Aprile, she's only got enough time to stop such a thing from happening completely.. her body readying herself for the shock she's about to endure.. and then it explodes, her guard blown wide open, lightning the area with a blazing firework.. the pops an cracks are painful.. but in the end.. Aprile pulls herself off the ground slowly, but surely. If only he knew what she's going to do to him for this.
Shaking herself off.. she's found it hurts, but it's not entirely crippling. Good. "That might have helped .. if you've .. picked a better time for it." She comments with a smile. There's something she has to say about such things.. but that comes for another time. So that strategy worked this time .. of course it did, she thinks.. it has to eventually.
Taking in a deep breathe, however, the nurse, scorched, is on the offensive again, erupting out of the mini-crater that was made. Grasping for his arm as she slides over to him, she tries to wrench it around, and then toss him towards the ground, before bending it in ways it shouldn't.. medics know their anatomy.
It REALLY shouldn't bend this way.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Horatio with Quick Throw.
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Aprile 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Horatio
There are videotapes and recordings the world over of people expressing their anguish.. their pain.. their loss. It's not all that uncommon even. People record such macabre things all the time, but even still. Never has there been quite an unsettling sound of pain than the one that comes from Horatio at that moment. This crazy lady just tried to -break his damn arm-! ... And he lets her know it with a loud, coughing yell as he's wrenched off of his feet, thrown like a sack of potatos then has his arm near expertly broken by a woman who knew enough about the body to snap things in all the right places. Thankfully, he had the smarts to roll away from her as she tried to break his arm at the elbow, enduring only the painful impact against the ground, his face having bounced off of it, drawing a small line of blood from his nose that leaks down the flank of his mouth.
Pushing himself off of the ground, he turns his attention on the blood on his hand after he wipes his face, then clenches those hands back into fists. Hopping in, Horatio lifts his left foot from the ground. There's a short sparkle of orange energy, then that foot comes down, stomping against the ground and sending off a series of orange, firework like geysers, one after the other til the count of three, ripping up from beneath Aprile, trying to toss her back and let her ride atop the blasts to put some space between he and her.
COMBATSYS: Horatio successfully hits Aprile with Rebellious Raven.
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Aprile 1/---====/=======|==-----\-------\0 Horatio
As Horatio lifts his left foot up, wiping his face.. and then a stomp, Aprile attempts to dive out of the way of the firework geysers, watching as they toss her back, launching her away .. and that's about when she's tumbling away from Horatio, crashing into the ground.
Breathing heavily, wounded more than just 'a bit', the nurse looks to Horatio.. and winks. "Well if that's how you want to play~!" And suddenly, she raises her medkit.. the sparkling energy, red in color, beginning to form around her, spreading .. before a giant cross, red in color, erupts under her.
The wounds from the geyser, the wounds from everything, begin to undo. In a blink of an eye.. the nurse is going to go from hurt.. to something else.. and that is going to be her greatest asset.
She's been tossed around by chi and the like before.. but there was something more than a no name that this guy had, it seems.
You'd have expected to actually see something with his name in it or something.
But the doll, as always, collects information. Master Vega will be pleased to hear about .. more targets.
At first he even flinches... he expects that red cross to come at him as it had before. But when it doesn't move... when he reaches out with his senses- the ones woven into the very being of a fighter, he realizes that attack is in no way one directed at him. He didn't even feel the precursor of a sting, yearning need to move out of the way... that near precognitive notion that a fighter got when they were in trouble... the kind that came from experience. But as she does that, as she begins to heal herself, not quite sure what it was but knowing it couldn't spell anything good for him, he takes off after the woman.
Cutting the distance between the two of them with footspeed alone, Horatio hops into the air, spinning about to clear the rest of the distance, only to land before her, one foot first. The other, that left foot, lingering in the air as another sparkle of orange energy bursts from it.. Jamming it down against the ground, he repeats the first attack he had bathed her in before, that trifecta of geysers exploding upward like an all-orange fourth of July celebration, the sheer force and speed of the blasts sending his hair billowing back behind him like orange streamers, his clothing doing much the same.
COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Aprile with Coffin Dodger.
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Aprile 0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0 Horatio
COMBATSYS: Aprile blocks Horatio's Rebellious Raven.
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Horatio
As Horatio cuts the distance, this time, the girl is ready. Aprile watches as he clears the rest of the difference.. and she immediately watches as he .. repeats the first attack. The glowing red energy dissipates, and the nurse stares. "Master ..?" Perhaps he's weak, but as Horatio tries to repeat the performance, the nurse brings up her guard this time.. the assault slamming into her arms as she fights off against the trifecta of geysers.
When Horatio stops, however.. or tries to.. something different will be seen that simply the force. He's crashed enough geysers in that something from the ground pops loose.. and
There she is, the nurse, gritting her teeth.. and running towards Horatio.
With a SHEEP. Aiming .. to BLUDGEON HIM. WITH IT.
It's a winning plan .. as any!
COMBATSYS: Horatio dodges Aprile's Random Strike.
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Horatio
Standing back against the glaring light of those explosions, his vision blurred slightly by the burn of brightness that for a brief moment clouds up his reasoning. Stepping back with one foot, he spins on it, drawing a bit of space between he and the impact point, coming to bare once again with fists raised, prepared to take anything that came. But it seems as the light from his attack disipates... "HUH!?!" Horatio balks in disbelief, eyes wide, head tipping to one side, his lip curling upward to accentuate the sound that came from him. "Y-- YOU'VE GOT A--... HEY!" He screams out, pointing at her, absolutely disgusted with what she's doing. "PUT THA-- WHOA!" He has to dance quickly out to his right, spinning away from the sheep as it comes screaming through the air, repeatedly!
Skipping back a step, leaning hard left, then hard right, ducking... even -jumping- over the wild sheep attack, he's all wide-eyes and inability to comprehend just what's happening. She was attacking him with a poor, defenseless sheep. One of God's creatures wielded like some kind of ... party favor or gag gift. "Put!" Lean! "That!" Duck, "Down!" He says and finally hops back completely away from her. "Why would you do that!? Why!? ... Why would you take that poor animal and involve it in a fist fight! ... That isn't fair at all. Don't you realize that animal has enough problems as it is!? ... Someone's probably going to -eat- it one day. Isn't that enough?" The sheep 'BAAAAA's as Aprile whiffs it about through the air. Tsk, tsk.
Not wanting to attack too soon, he wanted to wait until the sheep was out of harm's way and thus he lays low, drawing on that strange orange energy once again, letting it wash over him as he exhales a deep, contemplative breath.
COMBATSYS: Horatio gathers his will.
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Aprile 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Horatio
As he dances to the side, Aprile .. DOESN'T put the sheep down. You better believe she's going to keep the sheep up, and as he jumps over it, the baaaaing going on well enough. She doesn't honestly have a clue what this could actually do .. "Because it's a weapon!" She exclaims, before shrugging, and dropping it to the ground ..
And then rushing towards Horatio once more, dropping the poor sheepy and making a break for it. "Of course I'm not going to!" And to make this important, of course.. she rushes at Horatio.
And then attempts to ... what's this? .. Grab for his legs and arms, before trying to twist them.. red psycho energy about them.. aiming to bend, wrench, and perhaps even break his arms and limbs as she aims to twist him in ways that just SHOULDN'T happen!
"What is with you and hiding! Come at me!"
COMBATSYS: Horatio fails to interrupt Code Azure from Aprile with Strong Punch.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Horatio
It wasn't that he felt so -badly- for the sheep, no. He understood that there were things in life that pretty much existed to be eaten, or destroyed in some manner by the dominant species. But he didn't see the need for her to brazenly make a joke of that notion by swinging the poor creature around, no doubt scaring it so badly it's white blood cell count jumped through the roof. Hell, if it died of natural causes, it would probably taste bad anyway. And then who was she helping? That aside, when she comes rushing in at him, he really wanted to do a lot more about it than just take a swift mutilating, but unfortunately, the way in which he chose to stop her... was lacking. He cocks his left fist back, waits to time it perfectly and moves to swing, only she'd closed the distance much quicker than he'd expected her to.
Yelling out in pain, he's grabbed up and twisted, first his arm, then his leg, then she treats his limbs like marionette strings, practically crumpling him up in that moment before he hits the ground hard, body writhing in pain, clutching himself as he fights back the desire to scream at aching joints, sore muscles and sprains. Grinding his teeth, he manages to roll over onto his stomach, and attempting to pick himself up, he manages it, but drops back down shortly there after, pain shooting through his upper arm and nearly crippling him with the urge to yell out again. Finally, he manages to make it up onto his hands and knees, panting as he looks up at this woman from the pit of -hell-. "Who the hell are you? ... And what's with you and trying to -break- pieces of me off!?"
Once he picks himself up, Aprile stands before him .. smiling. It's something she's done quite a bit already, but it's for all the wrong reasons now. "Hmm? Oh .. well you can't fight in pieces!" She comments brazenly, grinning, and then looks at him carefully. "You see.. Master wouldn't like it if I didn't try my hardest.. and that means I can't go easy on you either!" She adds, nodding.
"You're just someone else I'm practicing with! And defeat or not .. I'll have completed my objective in the end!" She stresses, sliding a hand in a salute upwards, across her head, and literately just saluting him. "What? .. You seem a bit surprised! It's a fight.. what else am I going to do?" She asks. "Oh you thought I'd hang back like you .. no remember I said I HATE long fights! So it's going to have to end earlier!"
Plus, one of her gambits .. failed. It had never done that before. How horrible! But she still has a chance.. and she will not hesitate to take it, and while he looks up .. she runs over.. and simply tries to SLIDE into Horatio, the dress being pulled upwards.. but there's something under it. Some other set of clothes.. that blue isn't panties, that's for sure.
Although he should, instead, be worrying more about the leg that's currently sliding across the ground for him.
"So just lay back and lose .. or die if you prefer that! Okay?"
COMBATSYS: Horatio blocks Aprile's Light Kick.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Horatio
What was possibly the most messed up part about the whole thing was the fact that she was playing on his sensibilities. True enough, he was a dutiful young man, dedicated to his school work and even more dedicated to his religion... But he was human. And fanservice sometimes just wasn't fair. What was he supposed to pretend like he wasn't -going- to look? Lust was a sin. He needed prayer. Period. There was no other explanation for it. As the girl comes rushing at him, his head lifts again to watch her.. Figuring she'd come in high, he pretends to try to stand but drops low again anyway.. -- but that's where she was coming! And her skirt was up and try though he might to not look, his eyes dart quickly to the movement of clothing... Only to be shutdown.
TWICE. First by the fact that he saw no panties. Bummer. Then by the fact that this girl's foot was rushing in on him and the only thing he could do to stop it was bring his arms up in front of his face and be roughly booted away again, rolling over the ground for a few yards. -- Immediately snapping back up, his hands and feet digging against the ground as he rushes her, he has no pretentious thoughts of hitting her with anything nicer than what she'd just thrown at him and since they were already fairly close, he didn't see a need to spare the horse power in getting to her. Half crawling, half running to her, he pushes off of the ground and tries to land full atop her, bringing his fists down, one after the other with two light, fast rabbit punches before continuing his momentum to roll away.
COMBATSYS: Aprile fails to interrupt Quick Punch from Horatio with 10th Floor Transfer.
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Aprile 0/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Horatio
As he run/crawls, she begins to swing back .. but it doesn't happen. Instead, the fast rabbit punches rip past her guard, as she tries to drag him up with her.. it's unfortunate, but she collapses backwards at the end of both strikes, falls back.. rolling away.
But that's just the beginning of it, because when she looks at him.. whom is currently standing there and actually better off now. That will need to be taken care of.
"Well.. that .. could have went a bit better. But it's not as if you have a chance." She comments, smiling bright all the same.. but a bit more ragged than she would have preferred. It's not like she won't have a chance.. even a small one.. "Heh .. so you're not worthless as I thought! But you're still going to run yourself out soon .. so wouldn't it be much nicer.. to lay down? .. To just lay and enjoy your time .. on the ground? Without anyone wailing on you?"
She leans in. "Hmmmm?"
True enough, he was breathing a little harder, but what probably had escaped her... was the fact that while she had given him quite the punishing.. he wasn't down and out. He wasn't exhausted.. He was just sore and aching... but then that probably mattered a whole lot more than exhaustion. There was no way he could keep taking such a sound beating from her without doing something drastic to counteract her forceful attacks. He had plenty left in him to keep wailing on her, but would he be -standing- when it came to that? That was the question. Chuckling at her words with a genuine smile, he lifts a hand, gives her the thumbs up and says.
"Oh, no... -- thanks for the concern.. but I.. I think I'm okay, y'know? ... Couple bandaids, some stridex pads stuffed in my nose so I don't blackout... I'll be a-okay!" Then a broad grin spreads out across his face as he stands and falls into his fighting stance. Energy once again washing over his body as he prepares to go on the offensive once more. "So let's go ahead and wrap this thing up, huh? What'd'ya say afterwards you and me go get some ... -french fries-, huh? ... Girls love french fries, right?" .... Hopeless. It was almost -PAINFULLY- obvious he'd been in church all of his life. /FRENCH FRIES/? ... The sad part is. He doesn't even think he was -lame- for saying that!
COMBATSYS: Horatio gathers his will.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 Horatio
"Oh ... It's really not concern." She states, looking to Horatio carefully as he decides to stand in place.. "Wrap this up? Oh alright! We'll wrap it up!" She concedes.. but she doesn't mention french fries. She goes one up. "Oh no.. I can't, unless it's as friends." The nurse comments, the white clothing, burned, looking at him. "Hmm.. How to say this .. you're not my type...? You're missing a little on the top .. ah .. Right! You aren't the right sex!" She comments, nodding. "So I'm sorry but it really isn't .. that easy."
At that point, however.. she decides to change things around, and this time, raise up a heavy block of the ground. The chunk of stone that Horatio has displaced is nice enough .. and it's nice enough to make an important statement about as well! Which is, the nurse hefts it up, slowly.. wincing .. sweating.. all of the above. And then slowly began to spin.
Yes. Aprile, whom is currently only happy with just doing what she's doing ... which is growing stronger through testing herself.. is this way because of a certain Master Vega. She was abducted for her interest in medicine at such an age, and her efforts in it .. and suddenly.. this is what she is.
"Here .. take .. one of these .. and..." HMMPH. "Call me in the morning!"
The slab of concrete goes flying towards Horatio, attempting to bash through his arms.. and just keep him at bay!
COMBATSYS: Horatio blocks Aprile's Large Thrown Object.
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Aprile 0/-------/-======|=======\=------\1 Horatio
"Not your type?" He asks, standing straight suddenly, completely forgetting about the fact that they were fighting. He brushes one of those long hair tassels out of his face. Lifting both hands, he roses his wrists one over the other and rests them atop his head as he speaks, "Well, what -is- your type? ... Off the top? I.. I don't know what you mean..." Then she lays that last part on him. His eyes go a little wider, eyebrows tightening with concern. He wasn't quite sure what she meant. He was trying for the life of him to make sense of that satement but nothing was working, "Not the right.. -- I don't... I mean, what do you mean? I .. -- what is.. what is the right sex? How can I be the wrong sex? ... I.. I'mma boy..."
Ladies and gentlemen, Aprile has just broke the acolyte's brain. "That's the only sex you can possibly-- OH MY - ..." But instead of fear and disgust and anger... his eyebrows lift and his expression brightens... just a litle, "Really? .. So, like you and another-- OH! -- WHOA! .. /WHOA/!!" He shouts, pointing as the woman just /whips/ that large chunk of concrete from the ground like it was nothing at all. "Wha.. YOU'RE NOT HUMAN!" And then it was flying through the air. Freaking out but too shocked and surprised to move from the spot, he flails his arms a bit... then quickly formulates a plan. Running two steps towards it, he pushes off of the ground and uses his body to bluntly knock into it, it turning over in the air.. large enough to hide his small stature behind it as he'd curled into a ball nearly to hit it with his side.. When it turns over, he's crouching on it in a three point stance, pushing off of it and leaping towards Aprile, his hand snapping out, trying to grab her by the wrist and use her body as a focal point to spin around her and land.
Should he get his hands on her, that familiar orange energy will burst out around his legs as they move into a blinding series of punishing kicks, his grip on her arm holding her in place until the moment he releases, tosses his lower body into the air, literally turning upside down and rushing upward with his heel aimed at her chin. Should it all go as planned, he'll vault back onto his feet, then proceed to pump his arms, one after the other, hurling blast after blast of orange, gleaming, explosive energy, all of it rattling off like brilliant, all-encompassing fireworks, seeking to claim her in a cloud of exploding energy there in the air above.
COMBATSYS: Horatio successfully hits Aprile with Chaotic Clutch.
- Power hit! -
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Aprile 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Horatio
As he comes forwards, hurling blast after gleaming explosive blast.. Aprile doesn't respond to his words. There's not to it, honestly, and she's not going to simply let it bother her.. but that's about when all the spinning stops, as she's slams, blasted, and crashed into the ground ..
Getting up slowly, the nurse staggers a bit from the assault. She's unable to fight .. What are the chances?! But she staggers backwards.. forwards.. and then runs forwards at Horatio, two crosses of red psycho energy, swinging her medkit will all her strength..
And then just erupting forwards in a blast of effort, trying to take him with her.
She doesn't particularly pay attention to what he says.. because most of it has been random irritation... she is also a bit punch drunk. There's nothing more to say as she lunges and then collapses.
It just hasn't been her day.
COMBATSYS: Aprile can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Aprile successfully hits Horatio with Cross Of Red.
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COMBATSYS: Horatio takes no action.
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After the last blast rips free of his hand, he stumbles back himself, nearly falling over onto his rear end when Aprile hits the proverbial wall. ".. Ah? ... Aaahhhh? -- aaahhh!?" He says, watching her like one might a rubber duck circling the drain in a sink... his head moving to follow her wobbling.. But she doesn't fall again! "Huh!? -- " As she comes running towards him, he lifts both of his hands and backpeddles, running backwards as she runs forwards, his hands patting the air consolingly, "Hold on! Wait! Wait- wait-wait-wait-wai--AUGH!!" -- The two crosses of energy slam into him, the first bowling him over and throwing him through the air, the second buffeting over him, sending him spiraling further on and to the ground, rolling away to lie in a heap on the ground.
That hurt like he couldn't even begin to describe. He even stopped breathing, wheezing all of the air out of his lungs, trying his best -not- to scream. When finally the nagging sensation of pain settles enough for him to get some type of sense of himself... he -gasps-... and lifts a hand! "I -- I'm okay! ... I'm okay!" -- No he wasn't. "I just..." Pushing back up to his feet.. he stumbles a couple times, then solidifies his stance. ".. Now I feel kinda bad... Wonder why nearly every girl I ask out has some ... paralyzing reason why they can't go out with me..." .. Think about it Horatio. "Lessee... I've heard: My hair's too orange. I'm too short. I don't look enough like Kyo Kusanagi... that one just hurts my pride... yeah... how am I supposed to be as famous as -that- guy... Umm... oh- I have a dentist appointment that day... Heard that one a lot. I don't like mormons... I'm not even mormon. I didn't even offer her a bible... And now this! 'I'm the wrong sex'! ... Dear God, what am I doing wrong?" Sighing.. he hangs his head. "Oh well." -- And that was that.
Log created on 18:13:34 04/20/2008 by Aprile, and last modified on 00:15:34 04/21/2008.