Description: *Season Four, Episode Four* What ever happened to episodes two and three? If you really must know I'll tell you. Maybe they were named something else, but maybe, just maybe they were eaten by the thrilling return of the fish monster. Whats that you say? Not if Nagare has anything to do with it? We'll see. We shall see!
For Nagare, sometimes he has to leave Taiyo High. And this is one of those times! Leaving if only to practice what he's best at, Nagare Namikawa has travelled across the Southtowns into the Harbor, a place of arms dealing and drug trafficking, business and theiving! Of course, Nagare's not here to do any of that.
Oh, his intentions are much more sinister. He's here to swim! In some of the more disgusting water, yes, but it's close to the ocean, and to swim in the harbor will give him a great ability, more so than a wave pool! So Nagare stands by the side, putting his towel on the ground, staring down towards the water as he stretches out.
"Ah! What a perfect day to be swimming." Nagare states with a smile, looking towards the watr with a smile. Today looks like a very good day to do this. And, with the Team Tournament coming up sooner or later, it'll be very interesting! Nagare has to practice!
Dun Dun.
Swimming is a perfectly safe thing to do right? Well it's gotta be, it's something that everyone likes doing, especially professional swimmers.
Dun Dun. dun Dun.
A fin pierces the surface and it starts to slowly make it's way toward the place where Nagare is looking into the water. Ripples escape outward. Yes, this beast is coming toward the shore, toward Nagare and whatevr it is.. A fish head breaks the surface of the water with a huge gaping maw (and a flash of something reflective from deep in the shadowy mouth) There is danger here. The air swims with it, the fish monster swims with it.
But is it dangerous? And what is that thing making the Dun Dun sound?
At first, Nagare doesn't notice the terrible horrible water monster. He just doesn't pay attentiont to it! He hears a plink plink plink but there's a lot of things in these waters he's not sure enough.
But, Sure enough, as the fin pierces the surface Nagare blinks, lowing his vision towards the fin and where it actually pieces. "A shark?" Nagare states, looking closer. "I didn't think they came here." And, well, obviously they're here. It's quite impressive to even imagine how he got here.
But then another surprise! It's making its way to shore, a huge gaping maw and something reflective beneath it, but Nagare is just surprised to see a fish like monster on land. "Hey, you're not a shark! What are you?" Nagare asks, bewildered by the fish like monster. This is completely weird! All his time in the water but this is his first water monster!
"Uh. Hi! I'm Nagare! Taiyo High swimming instructor. Can I help you fish monster?"
Do fish monsters talk? Apparently not. This comes toward the side of the harbor and starts to climb out. It's covered in seaweed and it is really smelly and very slimy. Instead of saying hi, or doing anything even remotely related to what Nagare is saying. It instead goes straight for his Jacket, opens it's maw and attempting to just take the entire jacket into her mouth with a sloppy kiss like thing, actually it just tries to injest the jacket whole. It makes a sound now. The sound.
"Bllaaaaaeeehhh.."
Nagare made the mistake of thinking this is a friendly fish monster! Instead, it's obviously and evil fish monster as it climbs out. Smelly and very slimey. Instead of actually giving back Nagare's friendly welcome to the world above where it isn't wetter, it just opens its mouth. Well, alright. I guess it must be hungry.
But then it grasps for Nagare's Taiyo High jacket upon the ground. Hah! It wants to put it o- eat it whole. Nagare's eyes light up. "Hey wait a minute, that's not yours sir fish monster!" Nagare calls, moving towards the Fish Monster now.
And once he gets there, horrible fishy sounds of blaaaeehhhh, Nagare attempts to get his jacket back, the easiet way possible. Of course this means that Nagare's attempting to grab his jacket even as he tries to ingest it.
"Give that back Mr. Fish, please? It's my best jacket! We went everywhere together!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Nagare has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nagare
Well there was an answer to that too. Nagare was getting in the way of the Fish Monster's lunch and it was going to be damned if it let him take the jacket back. It needed to eat something and though the big bug fishy eyes don't do anything to show surprise, the mouth opens a little more, the fish monster leans over and Nagare will likely have the misfortune of having his head swallowed if he isn't fast.
Does it make a sound? No it's mouth is full of jacket and maybe even full of Nagare too. The arms.. Yes it has arms, which comme out of it's side, flail a bit as it seems to be choking on it's attempts to swallow Nagare and jacket whole, but fish never were that smart! Not Fish Monsters either apparently.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Nagare with Quick Throw.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Nagare
It seems Nagare is weak to being eaten like an anchoive! An oversized anchovie at that! Even as Nagare's pushing himself against the eating, swallowing fish monster, Nagare is attempting simply to get his jacket, when the fish monster attempts to suck it up, and does! Nagare finds himself giving into the suction also, getting half stuck in the fish monsters stomach. "H-hey!" Nagare calls, finding the inside to be just as slimey.
"Aack! Hey! Mr. Fish, this is not appropriate in any culture!" Nagare calls, his flippers useless on the outside, thrashing wildly. Now, half stuck inside of the fish, there was only one thing to do. Not panic.
Pump. Putting both hands together, the swimmer goes for the fishes giant uveula! The giant hanging punhing back, and well, he attempts to do something weird!
Which is code name for pumping it like a back with both hands, attempting to respirate the inside of his mouth!
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Naerose with Artificial Respiration.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Nagare
"Flurrggdgdglblblble"
The fish makes that TERRIBLE sound before spitting out all of Nagare and jacket and a whole lot of slime. It is knocked back, but are you happy, do you think you actually succeeded? No that's a terrible thing, because you are probably full of grossness.
The fish doesn't stop there, it continnues to spew, only now it is salt water, fish bones, rocks and all of this in a projective vomit storm of ickness. The attack sends the fish back toward the water, while also well attacking Nagare with the nastiness. Eitherway the fish monster goes SPLASH. But can you truly allow that thing to pollute your waters Nagare? CAN YOU?
COMBATSYS: Nagare fails to slow Thrown Object from Naerose with Large Thrown Object.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare is spat out! Hurrah. The swimmer is free! And now, when spat out, he can do a great many things against the fish monster! But he's disgusted by it. Horribly disgusted, gross! Even as the fish monster spits him out, he's sticky, slower, and rather stinky.
"I think some one needs to teach you some manners!" Nagare states, "And brush your teeth. You really need it! No offense." The swimmer calls, even as the fish continues to vomit up stuff. Nagare just isn't too happy with it, not at all. He doesn't want any of that! So the first thing he does is attempt to feed the Fish Monster soap! Lots of soap. A BARREL OF SOAP.
Before the vomit and bones strike him, making him slip and have the barrel of soap land on him. "Ooof..." Nagare announces. "Gross..."
Meanwhile the fish monster just circles in frustration within the water. It isn't seeming to understand english but it doe understand the need for food and Nagare, you, or at least your jacket is apparently fish food. That is what the fish is saying and if you are going to argue with that then you are going to have to coe and get it. The creature circles, ripples form and then other fish turn belly up. The fish nastiness is so bad.. Real fish can't survive it, not to suggest this fish is a fake one of course. But the eyes.. well they stare blankly and the fish outh opens and look points the gaping hole at Nagare. What is it doing?
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Nagare
Getting up even when the fish circles in the water, Nagare's shaking off the fish vomit. Ugh... that's gross! Nagare most certainly had no idea that fish could be completely disgusting, or at least this one could be so disgusting. Still, even as the fish monster thrashes about, Nagare leaps into the water after the fish with a dive.
And as he dives, he crashes through the water perfectly, penetrating the water and the skanky, disgusting smell and ooze coming off. And from there, Nagare no longer attempts to reason with the fish monster. No.
Instead, he tries to knock it out so he can move it somewhere more well! Like somewhere it cannot kill all the fish. "Hold still!" Nagare asks forcefully, throwing a fin even towards it.
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Naerose with Strong Punch.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
The fish monster is totally hit head on and blows out a whole lot of bubbles that just goes toward the surface as it goes down and all the while the fish makes a sound of
"Blurglglglglglglglgle."
But if you thought the fish monster is down and out you have another thing coming. It swims up toward the surface, kicking it's tail and everything and tries to grab Nagare from below, it tries to get him in it's gaping maw and and...
"Blurgle." it goes.
COMBATSYS: Nagare fails to interrupt Strong Throw from Naerose with Heavy Kick.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare smashes the fish out! Ho ho, he's like Aqua man but cooler. But wait, what's this?! Wheredid the fish monster go?! Nagare's uncertain as he swims away, and it's like jaws. It's terribly like jaws. Nagare can feel the blurglelelel beneath his legs, his fins.
There's a terrible fish monster below! Oh no! Nagare continues to kick, kick hard and fast and everything! But alas, he is beaten by the fish monster! It grasps him, pulling him under water as he thrashes with his fins. Nagare's giving as much as he gets, but the fish continues to try to grab him!
Nagare responds with a "Blub." Towards the fish monster, his wild thrashing not enough.
But what is a fish monster to do, what is it to do indeed. It could attempt to swallow him more, but there is not really a stomach to speak of, instead it is forced to do the next best thing, attempt to kick toward the surface of the water. It is afterall, a weird fish monster, one that seems to sort of not be able to breath underwater? Come to think of it, the gills appear more drawn on than actually functional, but then again whose watching? This is a fight, fish monster vs non fish monster and what do you do when you are drowning? You grab onto the nearest not drowning person... Nagare is that person.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Nagare with Glomp.
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Naerose 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Nagare
What's this?! Nagare finds out, quite unexpected, that the large fish like monster upon him is no longer eating him?! In fact, Nagare doesn't have a chance at all to deal with the large fish like monster as it comes at him as he holds his breath. Instead, it actually comes for him. With a sort of shock and awe, Nagare's figure is grasped too tighty!
Wait... a fish grasping tightly?! That's pretty odd! But at the same time, who's counting. Nagare begins to kick upwards, kicking mightly as he forces himself and the fish monster to the surface, pushing and kicking as he rises to the challenge!
And then when he's about to the surface, he kicks harder! So hard that water chi as he swims exudes out, causing him to swim up!
Yes, swim up! And breathe!
COMBATSYS: Naerose fails to interrupt Splash Kick from Nagare with Deep Strike.
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Naerose 1/=======/=======|=======\==-----\1 Nagare
Finding itself in a very sticky situation and being kicked by the kicking swimmer attempting to get to the surface the fish monster only tries to kick harder itself, only it isn't as adept with that big fish tail at kicking, and it only fails to do so fast enough. The fish monster finds itself barreling down toward the depths of darkness, unable to keep up, Nagare is free, free to reach the surface, free to break through, free to breath air while the fish blows out a whole bunhch of bubbles.
But Nagare will not be completely free! He has other things to do, even as the fish begins to fall fall fall into the darkness, Nagare takes a deep breathe... and begins to follow it after the giant fish! After all, the fish, if anything, deserves another chance! Perhaps it was just hungry and angry, and Nagare was the closest outlet!
Even as he goes, Nagare hurries after, to try to make friends with the fish! How?! Underneath the powerful currents of water and blubbing glubbing, Nagare finds the fish! And from there, Nagare attempts to pump life back into the fish. Yes, how else! Through powerful lifeguard training!
Glub glub blub.
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Naerose with CPR.
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Naerose 1/=======/=======|=======\===----\1 Nagare
How do you give a fish CPR? You put your mouth to it's mouth? But what is going to happen, what is really going to happen. Only one thing could possibly really happen here, not a good thing, a terrible thing. In this case, the fish could decide to eat you. That is exactly what the fish tries to do. It opens it's gaping maw and then.. it tries to eat the swimmer. Yes, that's right, youre are in trouble now, those huge fishy lips make their way toward Nagare, opening and there is the flash again and a sound, bad breath and,
"Blurguglelgugleuglegle!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Nagare with Quick Throw.
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Naerose 1/=======/=======|=======\====---\1 Nagare
There are some things that should never come to pass! And this is a second time a slimy, stinking fish should come up and devour one whole! Nagare finds it simply as the fish swallows him with his huge gaping maw! Obviously this fish was not doing this as a mistake, so in turn, Nagare decides that he'll take things a little more seriously!
And that's when, in the fishes mouth, Nagare begins to dash into the fish, yes into it! Kicking harsh and grabbing the instead of his mouth, Nagare moves to drill the fish backwards into a brick wall, or perhaps one land itself with a furious charge of fruiousness! %
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Naerose with Underwater Dash EX.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0 Nagare
Perhaps Nagare is kicking the fish monster off of him, perhaps it can't possibly try to eat him again, right? Right? Well guess what. WRONG. There is one thing that the fish monster can do it is try to eat something, or someone, or in this case Nagare. The fish monster totally gets knocked back and spits up a little more, goes blurgle and then pushes forward again, it tries once again to grab him, before the you know unlocking the jaw thing and tries to devour him, but first it needs to hold onto him. Grab him. Force him down it's Gullet.
Viva La Fish Monster!
COMBATSYS: Nagare fails to interrupt Glomp EX from Naerose with Quick Punch.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare forcefully attempts to push himself into the fish monster, and it succeeds right, cause the fish Monster is busily attempt to spit up and stuff, but then it comes right back towards nagare, attempting to eat him. And Nagare knows only one thing.
Throwing a punch towards the mouth of the fish, nagare allows himself to get eaten, like anything else! A terrbile punch towards the gullet which... well, send him down the gullet! Whoops! Nagare thrashes! Oh my, watch out for the soft parts!
Nagare needs to stop struggling and the fish monster needs to do something, anything to make sure that he fits down the gullet. Wait a moment, has the fish monster really thought this through? The creature isn't that big, not really bigger than Nagare, how could he possibly fit down it's gullet, how could he be eaten. Either way one thing is for certain, the thrashing must stop and to stop the thrashing, to end the thrashing it must. Stare at home, with that large gapng maw and decide. Are you fellig hungry..? Well are you .. punk?
On.. So the fish monster attacks with it's big red hat tip.. huh?
COMBATSYS: Nagare fails to interrupt Weapon Jab from Naerose with Dog Paddling.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare should really stop struggling and the fish monster needs to do something for sure but either way, even when they are poth evenly matched in strength, or at least seems that way, Nagare continues to throw himself towards the monster as it comes, attempting to stop it before it even has a chance to strike!
But this time, with its big red hat tip!? Nagare doesn't even see it coming as he begins to swim right at it, bouncing off as the red hat tip stops him completely, knocking him off course as he swims in a weird direction.
Wuuuhhhoooooo!
The hat quickly vanishes and the fish monster swims in a different weird direction. Bubbles expel as it tries to position itself for this, the final showdown, the last midnight. The fish turns around in its swimming and turns to face off with Nagare. This was time, but like your typical western, it doesn't just attack, it prepares to attack and waits.. Waits for the oppertune moment. Aquaman would totally be there if he was real. But he isn't, fish monsters, they are real.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|=====--\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare is there, floating now even as the fish monster disappears, leaving the final showdown to come! He awaits, looking about as he looks for where this final show down is, or if the final show down will be coming soon. Nagare looks about, unsure of where or how the fish will be coming, especially after that last head butting that it gave! nagare only knows one thing, he's tried, so he's going to take a breather.
Underwater?! Well, no, not really. But he'll still rest in his NATURAL HABITAT.
COMBATSYS: Nagare gains composure.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0 Nagare
There must be a way to end this, there must be.. The witch coming and charging and trying to ram Nagare with it's big head. The attempt, perhaps to sink him, once and for all. It doesn't do anything short of swim as fast as it can toward and hopefully into him. Now you ight wonder, how likely is this to actually work? Very unlikely. Considering it turns out that though this is a fish monster and should be a good swimmer, it is actually a horrible swimmer, but what are you going to do..? What? The world may never know.
COMBATSYS: Nagare dodges Naerose's Fierce Strike.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0 Nagare
Even as the fish comes back to actually throw itself into Nagare, it doesn't. And that's because Nagare is too busy throwing himself up and over it in a zen like manuever that only the water can truly answer. And even as the fish goes underneath him, Nagare gives chase, attempting to swim into the back of the fish, and once there, lash out with flipper kicks, attempting to finally put the fast swimming fish down, even if it's going to float up and not down if it dies.
Or something like that. %
COMBATSYS: Naerose full-parries Nagare's Light Kick!
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|===----\-------\0 Nagare
The party of failure ended .. with the greatest of success. A huge success and what did this lead to? The fish practically bouncing off the foot and then toward the surface where it fights to get toward Nagare and then.. Something weird happens. Fish Chi . . No Fish Monster Chi causes a spray of sprinkles of falling starness to come down all over into the water. How could a fish possibly summon this? Actually it's probably just chance because the falling stars seem to have just as much of a chance of frying the fish as they do of frying Nagare. Who will go face up ? Who?!
COMBATSYS: Nagare endures Naerose's Star Fall EX!
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\1 Nagare
Nagare almost wonders entirely how the fish had did that?! The fish chi was entirely unexpected to Nagare, bouncing off the surface and then stars coming down, raining like meteors as they come and strike the water! Nagare's completely unsure of what to do at first, but then it becomes clear! To beat the fish, you have to be the fish!
And that means that Nagare has to start throwing himself head first into said beams of light as the fish summons them, moving to simply ram himself into the fish in the most brutally and easily way ever!
The most common of techniques! Defeater of fish! The paddling of the dog, "I'm sorry, fish!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Naerose with Star Fall EX.
- Power hit! -
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Naerose 1/---====/=======|=======\-------\0 Nagare
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Naerose with Dog Paddling.
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Naerose 1/=======/=======|=======\=------\1 Nagare
Thee fish is so fried, there is just nothing to do for it, just.. Totally.. Fried. Even if it had managed to avoid one thing the other hits the fish.. Just as falling stars happen to hit the water and then a kick and then and then, the fish floats belly up at the surface, huge X's for eyes and smells oddly of burnt plastic. Seriously, plastic is becoming a chronic problem for the world's ocean. This unfortunate (truly unfortunate) fish probably just ate something it shouldn't have. But now. It will never eat again. Woe is the fish!
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose can no longer fight.
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Nagare doesn't even turn around to see if the fish is gone. He can hear the thing surface. As he goes, he moves to pick up his jacket, moving to tower himself off as much as possible. Wow, that fish was sure one hard fought fight! Still, Nagare had come out like Aqua Man always does! On top! Or at least some part of such.
Maybe he's aqua man +, but that's not for him to decide. Nagare just turns about, smelling fish. Man, that fish chi must have really toasted the fish. Maybe it needs some chips?
Nagare does't know, he just heads back, half eaten and beat up.
COMBATSYS: Nagare has ended the fight here.
Log created on 21:59:18 04/24/2008 by Naerose, and last modified on 21:22:05 03/31/2009.