Description: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JIRO- KAIN EDITION. Really, I can't spoil anything about this one! EVERYTHING INSIDE MUST BE READ TO BE SEEN. The fight. The play. The Kula. The Kain. THE JIRO. That's what you came for, isn't it!? THE JIRO. WELL ENJOY YOU JIRO LOVERS. ENJOY! (Winners: Kula/Iincyo)
It seems to be a couple weeks of extremes for one Kula diamond. The weekend before, the officials had the young ice user out on some hot, sandy beach where it was hard to move quickly, having to deal with K' and Zaki double teaming her every round until the match concluded. This week they have her in an ice arena in a match where she is double teaming someone else while navigating the fighting area on ice skates to boot! From worst scenario to best, perhaps, but for the imposing opponent she's been put against this week and his legendary black flames. Those might be a problem.
At least she isn't alone for this production/play/fight/travesty. Teamed up with a girl only a couple years older looking than herself, Kula has some help this time around, not stuck fending off two fighters at once. The arena seating is packed, as an event staged in a very cool indoor arena is quite a compelling way to deal with the hot late spring weather outdoors. Besides, who doesn't want to see how long before Kain Heinlein has had it and just ends up burning the place down!?
Being attended to off to the side by staff, Kula finds her hair being done up in a pair of red-ribbon adorned twin-tails poking out from the sides of her head. She has waved off having ice skates handed to her, explaining that she'll improvise. And while she's had a nice blue dress fitted over her, she was highly insistant on keeping the form fitting leather outfit on underneath it. It's really the only thing that keeps her from taking physical hits as poorly as she would otherwise. She also put up a fuss when they tried to slip off her somewhat guady yellow gloves. She isn't going to fight without those - all that ice she throws around can cut her just as easily as her opponents and the gloves help keep that from happening. Finally giving into her stubbornness, they let Kula loose to go hit the ice.
And so she does, skating out into the open space on blades of ice, her hair a light blue that matches the wide ice arena's pale blue staging. Left in her wake as she skates around are small blue particles of frigid cold chi. It's no surprise she's a natural at the sport, kicking up into spins, pirouetting at dizzying speeds, and even making the occasional flipping leap only to land flawlessly and go right on skimming the surface of the ice like she was born doing it, hands clasped behind her back. If the fight was cancelled, Kula would certainly feel like she still got her trouble's worth out of the whole to-do with just the skating alone!
Icy!
TODAY, CHAIRPERSON! is not as gaudy. Infact, she's just good old Iincyo. With a cute little red dress. Her hair is done up nice as well, violet and in a red bow, and she's just positively adorable! Unfortunately, Iincyo isn't the very best at skating, but is DETERMINED to learn. "Oh .. I've done this before. There's nothing to worry about." She exclaims, fixing up the scarf about her, and then sliding out onto the ice.
And then nearly eating her skates for a snack as she flails about thinking, 'ICE TOO SLIPPERY!'. But she gets it under control in a bit, gliding forwards on the ice a bit. "Alright.. you can do this." She says mostly to her self, looking towards the wall that is steadily approaching, and aiming to TURN. Come on IIncyo! TURN!
And then she stares at Kula, zipping along and .. THUD.
Backing off against the wall, rubbing her face and nose, she turns to look at Kula. "Woah." But then she remembers something. Because the SNF member where she came from is waving .. a script. DOH! Sliding back over, carefully, she puts it into the clipboard she has, and sliding forwards, looks at it.
There is a prompt.
- BEGIN READING. NOW! -
AND SO.. Iincyo opens her mouth wide, and sliding forwards to the middle, begins to 'start'. "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, CHILDREN OF ALL AGES! We welcome you to the show.. DARKNESS AND LIGHT: The Biography of Jiro Kasagi! The show will soon begin! Wait a few minutes b-" She stops. Before you read the next part. It's marked < don't read >.
Oops.
This wouldn't be the first time Geese has had a fight arranged for the express purpose of irritating Kain. Sure, Kain could have simply refused to participate, but how would that look? Kain R. Heinlein does not run away from a pair of teenage girls. Of course, that does still leave him to deal with the setting for the fight, but that's nothing he can't handle. Backstage, a few crewmembers approach Kain about getting him into costume, but Heinlein isn't as easy going as some of the other fights in the match, and even without a great deal of overt hostility he can make people tell when crossing him is a bad idea. The reputation of his strength does the rest.
Someone does offer Kain a pair of ice skates, however, and he looks at them for a moment. He doesn't, strictly speaking, /need/ them. He has some tricks up his sleeve that would allow him to move about on the ice. But the skates provide a speed advantage. And if anybody might be hoping that Kain doesn't know how to use them properly, they're going to be disappointed.
After strapping on the skates, Kain steps out onto the ice, then with one brief push sends himself sliding out into the open. He doesn't even bother to move his legs, posed as if standing still, with his hand hooked in his pocket. Eventually he slides to a stop in the center of the stage. His eyes follow Kula as she spins about on the ice and, briefly, Iincyo as she bumps into the wall. Yes, the skates were a good idea if he's going to have any hope of keeping up with Kula. If there's any lines he's supposed to be reading, Kain is skipping them. Apparently after the costume attempt, nobody was brave enough to offer Kain a script.
As Iincyo braves the slick arena ice, Kula slows down a little, red hued eyes observing the other girl curiously. She doesn't seem to know how to skate so well, it seems. Skidding to a stop and turning back around, the natural ice princess slides in close to the other girl, before going into slow, tightening circles around her, finally coming to a stop at her side. "Hello. My name is Kula."
And then Iincyo starts shouting the script out and Kula covers her ears for a moment, only lowering her gloved hands once Iincyo has paused. "Nice to meet you. Don't worry, skating isn't hard. It's like walking almost, only easier!" She pushes herself backward, lifting one foot to point her toe toward the other girl as momentum carries her along, "You can't do this while walking around, for example," she points out, dropping her foot back to the ice before zipping back to Iincyo's side.
"If you need any help getting around, just let me know. She brings one hand up to her mouth to stagewhisper to the other girl, "That guy looks really scary, don't you think? We'll have to do our best." She grins a little, "You have a loud voice. You just call for help if you need anything."
And then she's kicking off again into a backward circle around the Taiyo student. "Say, say," she asks Ingrid, "What's this play about?" They didn't bother giving Kula a script. She wasn't any good at memorizing lines and she kept confusing the parts anyway. Given Kain's abject refusal to follow one, this production should go splendidly.
COMBATSYS: Iincyo has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Iincyo has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Kula has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Kain has joined the fight here on the left meter side.
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Kain 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Kula
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Okay! Done reading the .. oh. Something or someone is swirling about her, ready to strike and devour the prey! Oh it's just Kula, as Iincyo looks up and notices. "Oh? .. You can call me Iincyo." She states, looking to Kula as she skates literal circles about her before stopping, and introducing herself. Watching as Kula goes on to make it look so easy, Iincyo is renewed with vigor, attempting to slide after Kula and then-
KER-THUD. Hitting the ground, Iincyo pulls herself up, but not before her hands slide off and she hits the ground again. Raising, she nods to Kula. "Oh ... well I'll .. be fine." She states to Kula, before sliding backwards.. more of a mistake than an actual choice however. "I'm sure skating is easy .. but it's not for me." She adds, before.. When Kula whispers.. oh my. "Yeah.. he's supposedly one of the best of the fight circuit.. if not the best. I'm not sure what I can do to him.. but I'm going to try." She adds in, nodding, before Kula moves away.. and spins about. As Kula continues to ask, Iincyo stays motion immobile.. she stops for a moment before looking up.
"Oh it's time for me to explain anyways! You'll see.. it's a story!"
And clearing her throat, and sliding backwards slightly. "Now.. with everyone here... WE SHALL BEGIN!"
"It all started one day.." And then a light, a spotlight of all things, hovers onto Iincyo. "It all started one day when baby Jiro was born to a loving family. Who promptly kicked him out and had a family of dogs raise him! It's how he became the Stray Dog of Southtown! Unfortunately, the rest of them became captured, including Jiro, when a dog catcher came around! this marked Jiro's first birthday, as well, and he was promptly adopted by..." Wait, it says 'point to Kain'. But this is a fight. There's a fist instead of an arrow so...
"AND THIS WAS HIS FASTER! AND MOTHER! AND GRANDPARENTS!?" She exclaims as she just barrels towards Kain, bringing her fist back and .. she can't stop. SHE CAN'T STOP. HOLY MOLY /SHE. CAN'T. STOP!/.
At least her fist is out and it's towards Kain!
"AND THUS MARKED JIRO'S FIRST DAY OF HAPPINESS, WHERE HE WAS ADOPTED AS THE DOG TO A LOVING FAMILY OF HEINLENS! HE ROAMED THE FIELDS, WITH PACKS OF THEM .. and then there was only one, Kain, in the end, WHO WENT OUT IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE WITH JIRO AS HIS SIDEKICK!"
COMBATSYS: Kain interrupts Strong Punch from Iincyo with Quick Throw.
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Kain 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Kula
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What's the play about? Kain doesn't really care. Hopefully he'll be able to wrap things up before the story becomes important, anyway. At least Iincyo seems eager to start, even if she's also reading from a rather irritating script. Oh, Geese will get what's coming to him one of these days, yes he will. But for now Geese isn't here, so Kain will have to do what he can. And right now, that means dealing with a runaway chairperson.
A quick shift of his weight is all it takes for Kain to slide a few inches along the ice, taking him out of the direct path of the oncoming Iincyo. Judging by her body language, it doesn't seem likely that she's going to be able to steer much. But Kain's not going to let her off so easy as to just slide by him. As she gets closer, he suddenly snaps out one leg at a bit above ankle height in her path. And then it bursts into flames. Iincyo will find herself crashing right into the barrier, then likely hitting the ice face first, on fire, and still moving at high speed. Looks like her skates managed to slice Kain's leg up a bit, but he otherwise seems fine as he resumes a standing pose.
Around and around Kula skates. She isn't really sure when there's supposed to be fighting, nor does she particularly care. Her interests at the moment are just enjoying the nice cool ice rink interior for as long as possible. Iincyo reads from the script and the blue haired girl is content to simply listen. That is, however, up until the Taiyo student goes bravely barreling off toward Kain. Well, that looks aggressive, the young teen ponders, coming to a stop and watching curiously.
Aggressive and painful, as it turns out, Iincyo being tripped to the ice by a flame imbued leg. "Ooo..." the NESTS child marvels. It seems for all the plus column items of this match, she still has to contend with a powerful fire user. That's no fun. She hates that stuff! "That was a pretty fast skating there, Iincyo," she calls after the other girl, though it's questionable if Iincyo is even in a position to hear her.
Well, it seems that hostilities have been engaged now, so it's time to put the pressure on Kain too. Kicking off from her stopped position, Kula slips easily over the ice toward the blond German before leaping out from five yards into an aerial pirouette, her right leg extended, her left leg mostly straight down but for the slight bend at her knee. It's that right foot Heinlein needs to worry about, however, as it comes complete with one of those ice blades she's been skating with on the bottom of the sole.
As her left foot touches down, Kula comes out of the spin with a followup, second spin, this time attempting to slam a large swath of icy chi into the other man at point blank range. She finishes by kicking one more time to push herself into a backward slide, perhaps looking to get a bit of distance.
KAIN! STOP THIS CRAZY THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!
And he does. BUT IT INVOLVES A LEG, FIRE AND ICE. Not only does Iincyo go BARRELING over the leg, she slams hard into it, tripping forwards, collapsing, hitting the ice ON FIRE ( and that red suit does indeed burn well ) and then skidding to a stop as a fireball on the ice. There is steam as some of the ice melts, putting it out as she rolls about, but Iincyo knows one thing.
THE SCRIPT IS SAFE.
And dear god that hurt. She watched the stupid Gedo boys fight Kain before but .. t-THIS is how strong he is!? This is amazing compared to her level. And she knows this is something she'll never ever even come close to attaining. So .. If she's pitted against a giant.. then Kula must. Logic prevailing, and burn marks slightly ignored, Iincyo looks at Kula. Look at that.. a large swath too. She must be strong .. but .. she's .. younger?
Getting up.. SHE HAS A DUTY to fulfill, even when wounded!
And then suddenly an aura of chi explodes around her. "YOU SEE.. NOT ONLY was Jiro the delightful younger member of the two, he was also trained in DARK WAYS to create fire from his body, and that was a sensual massage from Kain himself! YES, you see.. they had to develop close to each other, to develop powers! Unfortunately, Jiro got the stick, and Kain was cheating, becoming a world class warrior by gimping Jiro on his massages, and instead, always being busy. And Jiro let him, the wuss."
Iincyo stares at the script, flutters through it, before continuing on, bursting with chi-energy as she slides across the ice.
"It was a path of very unfortunate circumstances that would begin young Jiro's life ... but Jiro, who will now be played by none other than KAIN, had other things headed his way! Jiro had dealt with a woman handily, infact many had ran from him, but her assaulted them all the same..' Wait this was part of the script THEY SET HER UP TO GET-eeeasy breathing. Ahem. "But could not prepare for the winter ahead, the cold times that would threaten to swallow him up as he grew into a violent, brainless young miscreant! .. Wait what?"
She mouths those two words, staring.
"AND IN THE LOG CABIN HE LIVED, CHOPPING WOOD AND SETTING HIMSELF ON FIRE TO LEARN HIS POWERS BETTER, ALL THE WHILE SMELLING LIKE A WET DOG.. THE STRAY DOG WOULD BE SMELLED BEFORE BEING SEEN, AND HIS FIGHTING STYLE WAS JUST AS REPULSIVE!... but you see, times would change."
"There was a new path he would follow, when spring thawed.. the HIGHWAY TO HELLO KITTY! It lead him straight .. to the jungle."
COMBATSYS: Iincyo gathers her will.
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Kain 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Kula
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COMBATSYS: Kula successfully hits Kain with Ray Spin.
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Kain 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Kula
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|=======\==-----\1 Iincyo
Kain brings up his arm to block Kula's kick, but this turns out to be less effective than he might have hoped. The ice blade on her foot slices into his arm, sending a small splatter of blood down to the ice. And before he can recover enough to defend against the /real/ strike that follows, Kula manages to connect with a freezing kick, knocking Kain back across the ice. Kain slides back a fair distance before he recovers, but once he does it just takes a quick twist of his body to turn about on his skates and bring him sliding back toward Kula.
And now Kain is finally showing some actual skill with his skates. He quickly eats up the distance between himself and Kula before launching himself into the air, moving his body so that he's leading toward the girl with his right leg extended. Black flame surrounds his leg, and the addition of a steel blade strapped to the bottom of his foot only serves to make Kain's kick potentially even more painful than usual.
COMBATSYS: Kain successfully hits Kula with Schwarzer Stob.
- Power hit! -
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Kain 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Kula
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|=======\==-----\1 Iincyo
Her combination of kicks and ice connect, leaving a mark, but her escape proves to be less than impressive as Kula backs away from Kain. Perhaps expecting a natural speed advantage over the German, she isn't as cautious as she should be. But when he picks up speed to come at her as a bullet on fire, she quickly begins to realize that she's got to treat him very seriously.
With his kick coming in, she decides to bunker down defensively, waving her left hand in front of her, painting in the air a solid, thick barrier of ice intended to be her defense against the incoming kick. But while the barrier tears some of the power of the incoming attack, it doesn't hold for more than an instant, shattering to powder and rapidly melting ice as the blade adorned foot crashes into the girl.
Even her leather jacket fails to fend off the worst of it, and Kula is sent sliding backward, a visible gash just below her neck. Brushing at her jacket with her right hand, the now somewhat startled girl looks back toward Kain cautiously. "This is a very painful funny story," she remarks. "I'm not sure I like it." This is going to take more work than she thought. Still, it seemed that she was able to hit him when she attacked, so for now she sticks with that, recovering out of the backward slide to accelerate forward again, arms swinging out at her sides as she advances on Kain.
Her right arm becomes her weapon, a gauntlet of ice forming around her forearm as the girl zips to the side at the last moment and swings forward, trying to plow right into his chest with the strike.
With Kain and Kula fighting it out, Iincyo hangs back only for a moment before she watches Kula get plastered. Wincing for her, she blinks a bit before she continues. The show .. always must go on. And Chairperson is apparently planning .. a STRIKE. But it does not happen yet. Yet.
"AND SO JIRO WAS ON THE PATH OF LIGHT ONCE AGAIN, STRAYING FROM HIS DARK TEACHER, DANCING ALONG WITH SUGAR PLUM FAIRIES AND LARGE CATS WITH PINK EVERYTHING!" She yells out, ignoring what is right, and how it's said.
Yes this is the script.
"AND YET, IT WAS NOT ENOUGH. JIRO HAD FOUND HIMSELF IN THE JUNGLE. AND YET, WAS TEMPTED BY THE FLORA AND FAUNA. THERE, HE HAD URGES. HE RUSHED RACCOONS, FORCED FROGS, OBLITERATED ORANGUTANS, ICED IMPALAS, AND RAVAGED RHINOS. THE LAND CRIED OUT FOR A SAVIOR, BUT NONE CAME, AND JIRO'S DARK WILL HAD BEEN ACHIEVED.. THE LAND LAID WASTED AT HIS FEET. THE STRAY DOG HAD BURNED ANOTHER LAND AT HIS FEET. YES. ANOTHER."
PLOT TWIST.
"HELLO KITTY'S HIGHWAY LAY WASTED, BURNED TO DEATH FROM HIS FIRES.. but there would be .. a RECKONING." UH OH CLIFF HANGER. Iincyo begins to watch Kula.. and then follows her exactly. Running at Kain, she leaps, trying to spin, but failing .. but the script and the clipboard come towards Kain to begin to assault him.. it's rather quick as well, and IINCYO is just beginning! "YOU SEE.. THERE WAS A WOMAN WHOM WAS GIVEN THE POWERS OF HELLO KITTY RIGHT AT HER DEATHBED... HOTARU HAD CLAIMED THEM, AND IT WOULD BE HER MEETING WITH JIRO THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING. AFTER SHE DID THIS TO HIM!"
This? TIME FOR A DEMONSTRATION.
Iincyo launches towards Kain with that clipboard, attempting to strike him more than a few times in the leap, perhaps cut him with the ice-skate, and then leap off of him, backwards! "Hiii-YAH!"
COMBATSYS: Kula successfully hits Kain with Medium Punch.
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Kain 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Kula
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|==-----\-------\0 Iincyo
COMBATSYS: Kain blocks Iincyo's Demonstrations.
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Kain 0/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Kula
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|==-----\-------\0 Iincyo
Kain attempts to skate out of the way as Kula approaches, but this proves to be a poor decision. Attempting to outmaneuver the ice girl when it comes to skating is probably going to require more experience than Kain has, regardless of natural skill. The ice coated fist slams into his chest, sending him sliding back across the ice toward Iincyo. But Kain manages to bring himself to a stop before Iincyo can bring that clipboard down on him, and so she just winds up flailing away with it at his upraised arm. And it's pretty clear to Kain by now who the greater threat is... Although the fact that Iincyo has a copy of the script makes it actually a difficult decision as to who should get put down first.
Still, Kula is the one who's more likely to be able to take advantage of Kain's attention being taken away, so he begins skating back toward her. He takes the long way around, though, going in a wide arc that allows him time to build up some speed for his approach. And by the time he does get close to her he's moving at quite a good clip. There's a spray of ice as Kain lifts up one leg and turns on the other, timing his break to be in the perfect position for his raised leg to swing out and slam a burning foot into the side of Kula's head.
COMBATSYS: Kain successfully hits Kula with Medium Kick.
Glancing Blow
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This is the most bewildering screenplay ever written as far as Kula can tell. She's glad she doesn't have any lines to recite, because that story is all over the place and she'd really have no idea knowing when it is she's supposed to say anything at all. The punch she was aiming to tag Kain with is delivered, but it seems to have only insured that he keeps his attention on her as she comes out of the aggressive punch and continues on.
Twirling around to slide backward as Kain pursues, Kula ends up getting wrangled into a circle by his wider route and at last trapped and forced to defend herself as he closes in swiftly and goes for the bladed, burning kick. No barriers this time, simply Kula kicking down hard with her skates in an attempt to dart to the side. It works, for the most part, as she avoids getting smacked in the head by Kain's foot. It also fails to work in that she still finds herself struck by the black flame in the wake of his kick.
Gasping lightly, the girl spins out of the impact into a skid, her hand coming up to rest against the side of her head, a white, icy aura emanating as she negates the risidual flames that flickered there, fixing Kain with attentive red eyes. For all her motion, she seems to be taking the entire situation a lot more seriously than she had at first. Kain doesn't just look scary. He IS scary. Perhaps deciding to buy a little distance between him and her, she brings her hand to her mouth, palm up, fingers toward him.
The exhale of chilled breath may seem harmless enough at first, but as the super-cooled air bursts out toward Kain, threatening to dash against his flames, frozen crystals form bladed rings of ice that may very well cut into him if he is unable to defend himself in time.
As the assault fails to get the effect she was searching for, the actual beating of Jiro by Hotaru is shown in a 'NOT LIKE THIS' over the screen. Uh oh. An error that will have to be dealt with. BUT IT WILL ONLY BE AN ERROR FOR SO LONG.
With Kula once more assaulted, Iincyo is .. ignored!? What is the world coming to! But it must be obvious why, as Kain is in a matter of strategy towards these matches. Clearly, Iincyo is somewhat .. worthless perhaps. Perhaps. But she has the SCRIPT. It is an important script. It really is.
KULA is back on the assault, and IIncyo continues. "THIS WOMAN, HOTARU, TAMED THE WILD BEAST THAT IS JIRO. IT INVOLVED A WHIP, A LION, A RHINO AND PERHAPS JIRO'S LITTLE PHANTOM, BUT HIS RAVAGING WOULD ONLY BY QUELLED BY SUCH. AND THINGS WENT WELL FOR A WHILE, JIRO LISTENING INSIDE OF HIMSELF AS SHE SIMPLY FOLLOWED THE HEROIC PATH."
But... BUT.
"UNTIL HOTARU WENT EVIL. THAT'S WHEN JIRO ACCEPTED HER AS HIS DARK MISTRESS AND BEGAN TO SERVE HER EVERY WHIM. SHE GLUED MONKEY WINGS TO HIM, AND SENT HIM FLYING OFF TO FIGHT KAIN ONCE MORE, BUT HE WAS THOROUGHLY DEFEATED BY TEENS, GODS AND LARGE JAPANESE MEN. HOTARU WAS NOT PLEASED, SO JIRO WENT TO LEARN THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE ONCE MORE... BUT THEY WERE ALREADY TOO LATE. HOTARU WENT GOOD, AND NOW AN EVIL FLYING ANGER MONKEY, JIRO WAS ONCE AGAIN ALONE. A FLYING DOG MONKEY ALONE IN THE WORLD."
Okay honesty she doesn't get it either.. but Iincyo rushes towards Kain all the same, kicking off the ground and launching towards Kain, feet flying towards him .. and then she goes into a roll. But only at the end does she erupt out of it..
WHAT IS SHE DOING!?
COMBATSYS: Kain blocks Kula's Diamond Breath.
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Kain 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Kula
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COMBATSYS: Kain dodges Iincyo's Heavy Kick.
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Kain 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Kula
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Launching out, legs first.. OOP! KAIN MIGHT SEE IT COMING! IINCYO .. is just TOO SLOW.
When he sees Kula preparing for his attack, Kain draws his left arm back into a defensive position, though he's not entirely sure what she's going to do. It becomes pretty clear once the ice begins to form, however. Black flame flares up around Kain's hand as he lashes out with his arm, smashing it right into Kula's frozen breath. There's the loud noise of ice shattering as Kain's arm slams through it, though at the end of the motion there are several small shards of the chi ice embedded in his arm before they fade into the aether from which they came.
The spin also provides Kain with some momentum, and through a shifting of his weight he's able to make use of that to help himself skate back and out of the way as Iincyo comes launching in towards him legs first. He briefly considers raising his leg and stomping on her as she passes, but the thought occurs to him a bit too late, giving her time to slide away.
Kain then skates toward his elemental opposite once more, but this time he doesn't break as he approaches. Before he can actually crash into Kula, though, Kain kicks off the ground into a sudden backflip. His right leg snaps up, shrouded in fire, and if Kula can't get out of the way she'll find the blade of his skate slicing and burning its way up along her body before Kain completes his flip to land back on his feet, slowly sliding backwards.
COMBATSYS: Kain successfully hits Kula with Schwarzer Mond.
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Kain 1/-----==/=======|=======\=------\1 Kula
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|==-----\-------\0 Iincyo
Another wave of her hand and another ice barrier ends up between her and Kain, forcing him to smash through that on his way to kicking her once again. The collision drains a bit of the momentum out of the attack even as his swift, agile flip kick catches the girl in the chin with another flaming strike. The angle pulls the girl off her feet and but for her own dexterity, would have probably planted her on the floor.
But a quick, mid-air twist has her coming down on her 'ice' skates cleanly, keeping her from ending up too harmed. Still, by now she's trying to figure out how to contend with the likes of the powerful veteran, her hand coming up to wipe at her face, numbing the lingering pain left by his violent flames.
Turning her back to Kain all together, the girl seems to simply decide to run for now, speeding off in the opposite direction, leaning forward, low, a veritable blue blur as she approaches speeds rivaled by champion speed skaters. Around and around she goes, buying time to try and think of a better of way of contending with the likes of Heinlein. Mouth closed, eyes open in concentration, it's going to take a bit of effort to catch up with her entirely.
COMBATSYS: Kula focuses on her next action.
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Kain 1/-----==/=======|=======\=------\1 Kula
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|==-----\-------\0 Iincyo
LAUNCH-wait she's not stopping SHE'S NOT STOPP-oh there. She finally learns how to stop, and with it, Iincyo is able to slow down finally, learning how to control herself. Stopping and turning around, she gets to see Kula.. get NAILED. Boy that didn't look good. Tilting her head a bit, Iincyo shakes herself off, and attempts to look close at Kula as well as Kain .. and then CLINK. She notices two things about the fighters.
And boy does she notices something. Kula's ice wall inspires her, and Iincyo takes a note from Kain. Hmm.. oh dear. He has such control over all of his motions. Iincyo.. in turn.. gains some of it, watching his example .. and copying.
Grinning, Iincyo in her burnt red dress hangs back as well. "Ha.. HAAAAAAAAAAA!" She cries, chi exploding outwards once more. "AND SO THEN ALONE, JIRO WAS FORCED TO DECIDE IN HIS LIFE WHAT WAS IMPORTANT. UNFORTUNATELY, THIS WAS JIRO, AND HE SPENT THE NEXT CHUNK OF HIS LIFE EVOLVING IN HIS ROOM, LISTENING TO EMO MUSIC AND CRYING TO HIMSELF, ANGRY AT THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING." Boy this is not a child friendly script.
"WHEN HE FINALLY OPENED HIS WINGS TO FLY ONCE MORE, THE MONEY WINGS FELL OFF. IN THEIR PLACE WAS LARGE WINGS OF FIRE... and they BURNT THE VERY AIR IN THEIR ANGER! AND JIRO! AND NOW HE HAD SHOULDERS ON FIRE... SO HE RAN ABOUT, ON FIRE!" Her aura grows. "AND SO IT HAD HAPPENED!" She exclaims, nodding. "BUT THE TALE OF JIRO IS NOT OVER. JIRO CONTINUED TO LEARN WITH THESE FIRE SHOULDERS, AND JOINED THE CARE BEAR TRIBE!"
COMBATSYS: Iincyo gathers her will.
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Kain 1/-----==/=======|=======\=------\1 Kula
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Kain shoots Iincyo a withering glance, but she's still not proving to be a real /threat/... even if she is actually serving as a relatively effective distraction. Kain may be good at hiding and controlling his emotions, but that doesn't mean it's impossible to irritate him. But Kula's racing around off in the distance seems ominous. She's moving at high speed, and she's obviously planning something, but it's difficult to tell what. It's also going to be very difficult to target her when she's moving that fast. But that's not as much of a problem for Kain as one might think.
With a short spray of ice Kain brings his skating to a stop, facing in the general direction of Kula's half of the ice rink. He watches her zipping around for a moment, then raises up both hands. There's a flare of golden light from his palms as Kain suddenly drops to one knee, slamming his hands into the ice. There's a pause for a heartbeat or so, then light flares up from under the ice. Then that light bursts through the ice and begins racing away from Kain. And there's more than one spot at which it happens. Energy rips through the ice in patterns akin to what one would see if the ice was fracturing under stress. Except along with the cracking noises there are explosions of chi racing along the ground, turning a good half of the rink into an extremely dangerous place over the next few seconds. The half Kula is skating on, of course.
COMBATSYS: Kula fails to reflect Himmlischer Atem from Kain with Counter Shell.
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Kain 0/-------/----===|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Kula
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She can sense it, when the build up comes, Kain placing his hands against the ice. It's a remarkable chi delivery mechanism, as it turns out, one she's used oft times herself. Which means she isn't particularly surprised by the chi-lines ripping beneath the surface, cascading in on her side of the ice rink. But given the wide arc the incoming disaster is traversing, it becomes a challenge to negotiate it. Skidding to a stop against the back wall, the girl tries to create her own safe spot, sweeping out her hands, first left, then right, then repeating as she starts to paint a flurry of ice in the air in front of her.
The critical component is imbuing the barrier with a reflective property at just the right moment... A moment that she fails to manage. The ice shimmers into a mirror a split second too late, the flame having already gotten too close, preventing her from providing the proper catalyst to the intended reflection. When the conflagration passes, Kula is down, lying in the shallow water that remains of the obliterated ice all around her. Slow to move, but still conscious, the girl plants her hands against the bottom of the arena floor and pushes herself up, her long hair draped down over her head. "Ooo... I don't like this play at all..." she muses. Wobbily, she brushes what remains of the ashes of the dress she had off, leaving her normal fighting armor, and finishes pushing herself up to her feet.
And then Iincyo watches, staring at Kain as she BLOWS UP THE YOUNGER FIGHTER. She's aghast. SCREW THE SCRIPT for the moment, Iincyo stares. That's a huge eruption of energy. All on that teeny girl. And she .. somehow manages to stand? .. Staring a bit, Iincyo's rush over to the icy area stops when the ice is actually water.. and perhaps silly, she stares, turning towards Kain.
"AND WHATEVER JIRO WAS .. WELL, THAT WAS JIRO." Whatever she heard about Jiro, it doesn't really matter now, DOES IT, because she's focusing too much on this script. And this time.. she runs right at Kain, attempting to simply get all up in his grill.
"I .. don't like being ignored this much!" She cries, flipping about to send a punch straight towards his middle. It's got to be something.
Something to at least BOTHER him, compared to Kula.
COMBATSYS: Kain fails to interrupt Strong Punch from Iincyo with Fierce Punch.
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Kain 0/-------/-----==|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Kula
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Kula is down for the moment, and it's not hard for Kain to hear Iincyo's approach. He turns around casually as she comes skating in toward him, looking at her with amusement. He doesn't really consider her a threat, so why should he be worried? Her plan, such as it is, is pretty easy to read. It's just a matter of waiting for the right moment. As she closes into range Kain smirks... then the ice under his left foot crumbles.
Yes, since he turned around, Kain /is/ standing on the edge of the ice damaged in his last attack. And with the structural integrity gone, his weight put more strain on it than it could handle. Sure, all it means is that Kain's foot slips down slightly, since they're not actually over any deep water... but it's at the least moment. Iincyo manages to drive her fist into his stomach, and with the crumbling ice it's enough for Kain to fall over backwards, crashing into the shallow, ice cold water with a splash.
Well, well, there isn't going to be much skating going on on this half of the arena, it seems. Kula stumbles forward a couple of steps, insulated shoes splashing through the puddles of steaming water left in the wake of the destruction wrought by Kain. Hands come up to brush her wet hair out of her face and back over her shoulders just in time to watch Iincyo knock Kain over a little ways off. Oh. Good. This means she has a brief reprieve from the constant chasing and blasting and burning.
Taking a number of steps forward, she closes distance down to about a quarter of the arena and comes to a stop. Realizing that it's getting really hard to keep on going, the girl decides to just use the rest of her stored up strength in one giant attack and leave it at that. "Watch out Iincyo!" she offers tiredly as she begins to channel chi out from everything around her. Surrounded by ice it's trivial for her to create the piller of blindingly white snow immediately about her.
Slowly she raises her arms, drawing up more and more energy, whipping it to a frozen frenzy... Water around her feet begins to refreeze, the effect expanding rapidly as more and more of the melted surface begins to freeze back in jagged form, still no where fit for skating upon. Closing her eyes for a moment, her hands raised over her head, at last comes the moment she puts all that pent up energy to use. It explodes out from the girl, a localized blizzard, ice shards ripping through the air at blindingly fast speeds. Driven by chi laced bursts, for a split second all becomes white as the intensity reaches its peak. And it is within that instant Kain must defend himself from the indoor blizzard.
As Iincyo rushes forwards, she was lucky.. and as much as a threat she isn't, she doesn't intend to just fall over and let Kain defeat them all just like that! But as he crashes into the shallow water, being spared his counter action, IIncyo nods, a bit happy with herself before.. What is that so-
She turns to see Kula.
Diving out of the way, Iincyo rolls to the side once the assault breaks straight at Kain, the girl staring.. but rushing towards Kain all the same, attempting to just plain follow the assault, spinning up and around. And then attempting to grab for Kain's body, icy cold or not.. and leap into the air with him, the chi blizzard surrounding both .. and SPIN.
Him straight into the ground.
"AND SO JIRO FOUND A LIFE OF HAPPINESS WITH HIS NEW DOGGY FAMILY, AND WITH HOTARU, RAISED A LITTER OF THEIR OWN. BEFORE OF COURSE THEY WERE ALL TAKEN TO THE POUND BY THE NEW DOG CATCHER, KAIN, AND WERE TAUGHT HOW TO FIGHT, THEREBY MAKING ALL OF THEM WARRIORS! TO DEFEAT JIRO!"
"BUT THEY COULD NOT, BECAUSE HE MERELY ABSORBED THEM AND THEIR ANGST, BECOMING THE WARRIOR ONLY KNOWN AS JIRO THE RAVAGER. BUT HIS LEGACY LIVES ON TODAY!"
COMBATSYS: Kula successfully hits Kain with Freeze Execution.
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Kain 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Kula
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COMBATSYS: Kain dodges Iincyo's Quick Throw.
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Kain 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Kula
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Kain manages to get to his feet, water dripping everywhere, but not with enough time to escape the coming storm. He tries to turn away so that it at least hits him in the back, but even that doesn't manage to accomplish much. Kain is engulfed by the blizzard, staggering about as he tries to escape, ducking and rolling to try to protect himself. He fails, but his path does take him away from the spot Iincyo last saw him in, leaving her charge without a target in place. This may be problematic, as she's then skating directly toward the new, rough ice Kula has created.
Kain, meanwhile, staggers out as the blizzard fades away, moving a bit stiffly. He was drenched in water when struck by the blizzard, subjected to extremely low temperatures for a short period of time. His clothes and even his hair have iced over, and there are crackling sounds as he moves. For a few moments, anyway. Then black flame bursts out over Kain's body, sending bits of ice flying as he whips an arm in Kula's direction. Some of the flame leaps out from his body, sailing toward Kula in the form of a jet black fireball.
COMBATSYS: Kain successfully hits Kula with Schwarze Flame.
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Kain 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Kula
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Lowering her arms, Kula releases a tired sigh. This fight's been way too much with the burning and right now she just wants to sit down and call it quits. That opportunity isn't presenting itself as Kain decides to retaliate. Still mobile, melting his way out of the entombing ice, Kula decides to give it one last shot before she gives up fighting the likes of him.
Leaning forward, she sprints over the refrozen water easily, her right hand drawing much of the frozen debris up into a swirling, white manifestation of concentrated power around her right forearm. Her course takes her dead into Kain's incoming fiery blast, which brings her forward momentum to a screeching halt. Gasping, the girl draws up her ice laden hand and slams it forward.
More ice comes up to join that already gathered as a literal lance of deadly, sharp ice shoots forth from the end of her arm, attempting to spear into Kain directly. It's all the girl has, however, as she releases her control over the ice and simply collapses forward onto the ice, out cold, as they say.
COMBATSYS: Kula can no longer fight.
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Kain 1/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Iincyo
As Kain is struck once more from the blizzard, Iincyo looks on to Kain.. watching as he, completely iced over, continues to fight.. and that's about when she draws a lance of sharp ice. Iincyo merely tries to follow up to it, dashing towards Kain, attempting to make this one REALLY count! A small hope at best, but she's going to make it matter.. somehow!
"Hang in there.. okay?" Chairperson dashes towards Kain, following the icy spear, "AND THEN, WHEN ALL WAS NEARLY OVER, JIRO HAD HIS LIFE ... RENEWED. FOR NOW, JIRO WORKS AT A SOUP KITCHEN FOR THE CLINICALLY ANGRY, LEARNING TO CONTROL HIS ANGER DEALING WITH INDECISIVE OLD PEOPLE WHO CONSTANTLY GO BACK FOR THIRDS AND ARE ANGRY AT EACH OTHER. IT'S REALLY UNHEARD OF, BUT HE MIGHT JUST LEARN SOMETHING!"
And that's about when she tries to slide forwards, grasp Kain's leg.. and spin up into the air, attempting to reserve.. and drive Kain RIGHT into the ground! "HAAA!"
It's .. something alright!
COMBATSYS: Kula successfully hits Kain with Critical Ice.
- Power hit! -
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Kain 1/----===/=======|======-\-------\0 Iincyo
COMBATSYS: Kain fails to interrupt Tornado DDT from Iincyo with Himmlische Macht.
- Power fail! -
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Kain 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\0 Iincyo
COMBATSYS: Kain can no longer fight.
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Kain attempts to once again skate out of the way as he sees Kula forming the lance of ice but he's not quite fast enough. This is a very bad thing. There's a spray of blood as the spear of ice drives into Kain's shoulder, with a good chunk of it emerging from the other side. Yeah, that's definitely about it for /that/ coat. There's a flaring of energy as Kain prepares to make damn well sure Kula is going to /stay/ down after that... and that's when Iincyo grabs him by the leg.
Although he swings about in an attempt to explode her face, Kain is a bit too slow. Iincyo brings Kain up, then slams him down face first into the ice. Between loss of blood and now head trauma, that's almost enough to take Kain down... but not quite! Unfortunately, all that energy Kain was building up has to go someplace, and Kain isn't in a position to control it. The explosion isn't very impressive, since it's mostly directed into the ground... but the results are clear as Kain, along with a lot of ice, water and rubble, all go tumbling down into a hole in the middle of the floor. Yeah, it doesn't look like Kain will be getting up for a bit.
And then she's attempting to grab for the leg, Iincyo sees something. A fist. It's strong. It's heavy. It's .. going to break her face.
But Iincyo doesn't hold back. She continues forwards, leaping up.. the fist doesn't get to her, and worse, she slams him into the ground .. and there's nothing? She stares for a moment. This giant of the fighting arena. She managed to .. not explode against.
HAHAH YEAH RIGHT.
The ground begins to erupt, and as it does, Iincyo stares, trying to skate away.. and instead, clears her mind, spending all of her effort to prevent whatever damage the explosion about him .. and it's enough to wound her, even as she tries, even if it's not directed AT her she's unable to really prevent it. Launched, she lands near Kula on the little island as the water and ice begin to drain. She keeps Kula from falling into the hole, but she can't save Kain.
.. With no real ice or water, Iincyo stands there win ice skates, a spotlight on her.
Oh .. wet, but the script survives, she picks up up, and reads the last lines.
"JIRO THEN WENT HOME TO HIS FAMILY, HIS WIFE CHOI WITH HIS LIVE IN SERVANT CHANG WERE FOUND IN THE BED... and then ..." She throws the script at the ground.
"I'm NOT DOING IT. This is horrible." She tosses it away and then puts Kula down, safely.. and goes to get something warm, and also obtain a cold ice bag. This really took alot out of her.
COMBATSYS: Iincyo has ended the fight here.
Log created on 18:26:19 05/24/2008 by Iincyo, and last modified on 19:16:35 05/27/2008.