Description: With Nagare on beach patrol (even if he's not on duty) no one will surf too close to the beach itself and cause the water to be pushed farther and therefor take all the small children out to see for sharks because sharks are a kids worst enemy like diamonds hate wallets and such, not even Sergio!
Today, another day, Nagare was busy practicing his routine! And outside, he is! With the weather turning from ice and snow to sun and rain, no longer must he be kept inside of the pool room of the Taiyo High, but instead, he gets to move about, and that includes practicing his swimming on the beach! But not any beach, Sound beach! One of the nicest beaches in South Town.
So where is Nagare? e should be here, right? And he is! But he's taking a swim around the peninsula and back, making his way about it, to one side and then returning towards the other side, only to return back to Sound Beach! Usually this would take a man a great deal of effort, but for Nagare he was used to it all! The water was like a second home during the day! The first second home being Taiyo High!
Nagare's own tide and true Jacket is there too! But it's laying one the beach waiting for him, and right as he begins his walk up the beach to his towel, the former life guard makes his way back, a little tired but smiling at the accomplishment! What a nice day for a swim!
Some people are content to swim in the waters of Sound Beach. But some, unfortunately, are not. Sergio would be one of those in the latter section. Sure it's great to be out and in the springtime sun, which is why he's out here, but swimming alone... it's just not /enough/ for him. Instead he's out there with a surfboard, trying to catch some waves. This... this just doesn't work well, as the waves simply aren't suitable for such activities.
Luckily for Sergio he doesn't need to rely on /natural/ waves. Instead a wave of water washes up from out of freaking nowhere and scoops up his board, which he quickly climbs up and balances on. This is no ordinary wave, it doesn't follow the natural behavior of a wave. It goes towards the beach, but only sometimes, turning this way and that and giving Sergio a ride more akin to a jet ski than a surfboard. And while this if fun for him, "Yaaaaaahoooo!" it's rather annoying to everyone else, a crazy wake spreading out in just about every direction as he whips around the water, gaining more and more speed as he goes.
Nagare was usually a rather nice man. Well, actually, he's almost always in a good mood! Except when people attempt to mindwash other students of course, that really boils his water! And then theres other things, like how Sergio is whipping up wake up on all the beach goers! No one likes to get splashed here and there, and when they're splashed over and over with huge waves of water, well, then that's no good!
Picking up his towel and jacket, Nagare slings his towel upon part of the life guard podium before beginning to fumble through the sand with his flippers on towards the crazy surfboarder that's causing a ruckus today! Slowly but surely the man makes his way out there, pushing away sand even as it becomes wet, wake going everywhere, even as the man gains speed in each direction! Water just seems to go everywhere!
Well, Nagare will have a word with him! Wadling there, a small headband of Japan about his head, he flags down Sergio, or at least attempts to. "Sir! Hey sir! Would you kindly slow down? It's not fair to the other beach goers on this fine day!" Nagare states, "At lest, to the people who want to get a tan and play at the edge of the water!"
Oh Nagare, rules rules rules! At least it's not a pool. This would be definitely illegal.
Why, what is this? Sergio is busy tearing by the beach, about twenty meters off shore, when he sees a man flagging him down. Aw hell, and he was just getting warmed up! He does actually slow down too, the wave shrinking so that he can hop off the board and stop right at the beach and hear what Mr. Nagare has to say to him. "Slow down? Bah! Where's the fun in going slow when you can go fast?"
The Italian gives a huge sigh and a shrug of his shoulders, "I guess I can slow down a li-" He stops mid-sentence, and his eyes suddenly narrow, "Hey, wait a minute. You're not the fuzz at all. You're not even in charge of this place are you? Well fuck! Stop wasting my time." And off towards the water he goes.
What? Did that man just ignore him? Nagare isn't rather happy when the man states his claim, and then decides that following Nagare's way would be better, only to turn around and blow him off completely! Zipping away, Nagare even gets hit with some of the back lash of the water. The swimmer reels back, blinking before shaking his head and putting down the goggles on his head.
Throwing himself forward, there's a splash as Nagare swims after Sergio. The joke is that he's almost catching up to the man as he's surfboarding. "Sir!" Nagare strains, "I may not be the police but I am a part time lifeguard!" Nagare exclaims, one powerful kick after another sending him jetting through the water. "I would request that you pay attention to others around you instead of being self centered!" The man announces.
He really didn't like those kind of people, that just had fun willy nilly without thinking of others! Some times, it's fine, but others, well, it's not too nice! Especially on a nice day like today.
Sergio can respect authority, but only when he believes they're a legitimate one. Sure, Nagare is trying to stop him for the good of others, but it's fear of punishment that makes him worry about what people in charge might think. Not that many of them could stop him, he just prefers to fly under the radar, so to speak.
As he's swam after he takes a moment to look behind himself, expecting to see him a speck on the beach behind himself. Instead he sees him in the water and... shockingly close! What the hell? The words, however, cause him to laugh out loud. "Part time lifeguard? Haha! Like hell I'm listening to you. 't's not like I'm endangering anyone or something like that!" He grins to himself, "So long, sucker!" And with those words he increase to 'maximum velocity', attempting to simply shoot off away from him.
Well... Nagare wasn't expecting that kind of answer! Maybe a 'Oh, sorry! I didn't mean that!' or perhaps a 'Well, alright!' but not a 'I'm not listening to you no never!' deal. Nagare blinks. What's this? Not paying attention to rules or even heeding warnings from people such as Nagare who are just trying to uphold the standard about here? Alas!
"Sir! Sir!" Nagare repeats even as the man attempts to simply out pace him. Well, Nagare allows Sergio to attempt to out pace him. But it doesn't mean that he isn't going to try something himself! Breathing heavily, Nagare disappears beneat the water, skimming underneath Sergio and his board. Like a shot, the man seems to move shockingly quick beneath him. So much that Nagare seems to have been lost in the man's wake!
But beneath the water... Nagare lurks...
The surfing Italian doesn't so much as respond to Nagare's calls, keeping his effort into blazing along the water on top of his surfboard. Soon enough he looks over his shoulder... to see absolutely nothing behind him! "Haha!" His pace slows down and he swerves back around, heading parallel to the shore and tearing up the waves, "Looks like the guy couldn't keep up. Not surprised though!"
And so he goes back to having fun, oblivious to the dangers beneath.
Well, so it worked! Nagare allows for the Surfer to slow down, turn around, and head right towards the beach. But that's not going to save him from... NAGARE. No sir! Nagare's just throwing himself forward, directly towards Sergio without a care in the world. He'll have to teach the man manners, as it seemed that he was only in it for himself, and so, well, even as he goes, it becomes rather simple.
It becomes even more simple when Nagare lifts up one more behind Sergio, only to hurl himself out of the water and land roughly on the board behind Sergio, even going so far to poke the man in the shoulder twice with his finger.
"Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to stop again. It's not nice!" The man continues, "Think of the others that you're going to distract!"
Once again having a blast, imagine Sergio's surprise when out of nowhere there's a double-tap on his shoulder. "GAH!" He jumps from surprise, and actually whirls about on the surfboard as Nagare speaks to him. This... does not bode well for his control of the wave! Once an easily flowing onrush of water, it suddenly turns into a mishmashed dichotomy, water flowing every which way and turning into a chaotic wreck. This sends the surfboard spinning wildly out of control, and the Italian plunging into the water.
A moment later his head bobs up, "God damnit!" Rather than breathing, he curses. "Listen, jackass," He exclaims whether Nagare can hear him or not, "The people could probably /use/ a distraction like me! It's a public fucking beach, and I can surf if I want. So why don't you kindly piss the fuck off and go pretend to give some chicks CPR or somethin'!"
Nagare himself can feel everything getting lost. And it only takes a little before Nagare leaps off of the board and into the water once more. He's a terrible surfer but an excellent swimmer. Upon bobbing up and looking towards the Italian, Nagare blinks, shaking a little about and listening to the man even after the chaotic swath of water had been pushed about.
"You can surf if you want, sir, but you have to do it farther out! You were relatively close and the wake was being pushed farther back to where kids and others were playing. If it was too strong the undertow might have caused many children to be lost to sea and left parents rather sad at the loss." Nagare exclaims, "So I would ask you if you would cooperate instead!"
Sergio is an alright swimmer, but he can by no means compete with Nagare on that point. Rather than tread water he simply holds himself up by the now bobbing surfboard, the artificial swell of water completely gone. "Oh screw off. Give your preachy sermon who's gullible enough to care." He makes to climb back on the surf board, glowering at Nagare. "No kids are gonna be fuckin' ripped under the water from a wave /pushin' them in/. And if they did? That's what your part time job is for, right? B'sides, how do you know someone isn't over there drowning on your watch anyway? Just stay away from me, got it?"
"I think you should care, sir. If you're not going to listen, what if no one listened? Everyone would be crashing into each other, people would be drowning, and there would be a lot of more accidents." Nagare exclaims as he treads water, even as Sergio begins to get back on his board. "I don't like you attitude. You need to learn manners, sir, and if I have to teach them to you, then I'm sorry." The man exclaims as he makes his move towards Sergio, even as he tells him to stay away.
He does a simple backflip! A back flip? Yes! And it's only made for a simple thing. The two flippers scrape across the bottom of the board, aiming to knock Sergio directy off, and into the assault himself! Yep, Nagare's going to have to teach the man a lesson or two! He's trying to teach him it the way Hayato would! Hard!
"I'm sorry sir, but you need to be much more nice about things! Oh, and I'm a part time life guard. I'm not on duty, but I'm still protecting people!" The man exclaims. Perhaps. Perhaps not. It's all how you look at it.
Still, flippers following with Water chi rise up towards Sergio in a circular manner!
COMBATSYS: Nagare has started a fight here.
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Nagare 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Sergio has joined the fight here.
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Sergio 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nagare
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Sergio with Flipper Roundhouse.
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Sergio 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nagare
"Listen? Listen to some crazy ass lifeguard who thinks things can only be done his way and no other? Look, pal, I've been trying to keep away from jerkoffs like you my entire life, and I'm not about to stop now!" Rules- what a pain in the ass! And it's not even like this is a /real/ rule, but just something someone thinks would be polite. Seriously, forget that.
And then things just plain get nasty, with Nagare going into a crazy backflip, his flippers crashing into Sergio's chin and whipping him up out of the water, only to come back down hard and bellyflop- completely unlike the directed descent towards Nagare he had hoped for. "AAAgugrlegurgle-" His scream is cut short by water down his throat, and a moment later he's coughing up water.
"F-fuck! Oh, that's it, buddy, you just messed with the /wrong/ guy!" Lurching forward and rocketing towards Nagare, using the motion of the his own water chi rather than stroking arms and legs to move, Sergio tries to lariat the man around the neck and then swing around behind him, sucking in a hard breath before trying to choke the crap out of him... while letting himself sink underwater!
COMBATSYS: Nagare blocks Sergio's Strong Throw.
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Sergio 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Nagare
Well, Nagare sure started things off with a bang as he sent the man into the water and almost choking oh no! "Sorry sir, I didn't mean to be so rough and to cut you off like that, but you wouldn't listen to me." Nagare exclaims, an expert on water and water things. Still, is he a trustable source on all such water activities? Perhaps! He's had plenty of time to design the rules for his own pool back at Taiyo High!
"Well, sometimes rules need to be broken, and unspoken rules need to be followed! You can't always follow life's stream one way!" Nagare explains sagely as he swims about, looking towards Sergio who looks to be burning up the water around him. Well, he is angry! And when he lurches forward to grab Nagare and lariat the man about before sinking him! Well, Nagare doesn't allow it to happen so much as he can! As he's being thrown about, Nagare kicks free, diving down back into the water, even as Sergio's attempt to choke him fails half way. "Sir, sir!" Nagare exclaims, "Well, I guess there's only one way then!" He exclaims, allowing himself to swim forward, attempting to pick up Sergio as he swims, actually grasp onto him and swim as if he caught his leg in a mouth of a shark before swimming into the air... and tossing Sergio down!?
COMBATSYS: Sergio blocks Nagare's Quick Throw.
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Sergio 0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0 Nagare
Sergio looks confused as crud when Nagare manages to slip free from his grip. It's a rather annoying thing to see it happen, no doubt, but what can you do? Squeeze harder next time, is what his brain tells him. "Slippery bastard..." One wouldn't question Nagare's ability to govern his own pool, but if Sergio was in his pool he wouldn't be responding as negatively. Fact is, to him, that this is open water and free to all. An /off duty/ lifeguard has no right to tell him what he can and cannot do!
As for the man's words? Sergio has no clue what the hell he's trying to say. "Oh just stuff it asshole. Don't think you're bein' all high and mighty when you're just a dick!" His strong words, however, do nothing to keep him from being plucked out of the water and thrown back down. But rather than bellyflopping, he cannonballs, tucking his legs in and holding them with his arms.
The splash is pretty big, but not all that impressive. What might be impressive is how fast Sergio is back at the surface of the water. And what does he have in store? His hand thrusts forward towards the sky, and a powerful spray of water shoots forward, seeming to want to simply shoot the man out of the sky as he swims through air. Sergio does not even want to know how he does that. "Hah!"
COMBATSYS: Nagare dodges Sergio's Alpha Release.
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Sergio 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare might be a little too just and head strong sometimes, but he can understand too! He's not a Justice High Gabriel! That women is rather crazy or so he's heard! However, that's not important here. What's important is that Nagare must continue to swim! And to swim is to live! And to live is good! At least, that's what everyone tells Nagare. And he believes it! Why shouldn't he? Well, there's a large splash of water shooting up!
Uh oh! Nagare's fight or swim sense kicks up. What to do what to do. And then he thinks yes, he knows what to do. As it sprays upwards, Nagare holds off on the side until it passes by before swimming into it. Following it up and riding the last waves of it into the air before it finally disipates and falls. Looking below, Nagare continues to pay attention to Sergio. "Sir, I understand you want to have fun, but if you're out farther then there would be no problem!" He calls, "Surfing is fine!" The man exclaims, even as he comes to the peak, floating mid air for a moment or two before...
He falls? He dives! Nagare sends his body hurtling like a finely toned japanese man, moving at speeds that they can only go, heading down towards Sergio's head, attepting to strike directing on, head to head, like a crazy man! But he isn't crazy. This is a true and tested move! At least... to Nagare!
COMBATSYS: Sergio Toughs Out Nagare's Concrete Dive!!
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Sergio 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Nagare
Sergio is so used to people nimbly avoiding his attacks it isn't funny. Swimming inside of them though? That's just humiliating! He grinds his teeth as he sees Nagare going up and up and up, not a little freaked out at the guy who can apparently fly. "I'm out pretty goddamn far right now! You'd think you'd have frickin' noticed before you went jumpin' on my board and throwin' off my style!"
And then, wait, what? He comes rocketing down out of the sky. That /is/ the natural conclusion to 'swimming' up so high, but it's a pretty ridiculous thing, when you actually see it happen. The man decides to just be stubborn. As Nagare comes down for him he doesn't even move. He just sits there, bobbing in the water. And then Nagare smashes into him head first.
And so they both collide, being crushed down into the water, a huge eddying whirlpool swirling around them as they disrupt the water and are driven downward. Surly Sergio's head hurts like a bitch. But still... he's /grinning/ at Nagare. Grinning wide, because he's just taken the time while he was being dived at to summon up a whole lot of chi about himself. And His hands raise up, and then slam back downward, a huge swath of chi ripping downward at the pair of them from the surface, harmless to Sergio but not quite so much to Nagare. And the worst part of it all? That surfboard is heading right for the powerful swimmer, pointy nose first!
COMBATSYS: Nagare endures Sergio's Whitewater.
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Sergio 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Nagare
BONK. Even as Nagare slams into Sergio's head and bounces off just a little bit, Nagare knows exactly what he's going to do! Well, somewhat. It seems that as everything begins to swirl and whirl the swimmer of Taiyo might have a little bit of problem. "Well, I see that now, but you were going to go back there, and unfortunately it would be careless of me to allow you to do it again without properly telling you!" He states.
But, well, as chi and such strike towards Nagare, he knows what he must do! Swimming into the water itself, moving through it, left and right, unable to really strike against it and do anything else! Nagare will prevail! Or at least he thinks he may. He's going to try hard! And he's able to swim through it all, even as the water races against him. Well, he's never tried it before, but here goes nothing! Even as he's beat up and burned, Nagare seems to float.
And using Sergio's board is the perfect thing! Pump pump pump! Nagare's thrusting his own chest vigourously to pump out all the water and get him back into the game! He's not done yet! In fact, he's just getting started!
Watch it, Sergio!
Swimming slowly towards the water's surface, the man breaks it and shakes the water out of his hair, staring forward at Nagare. "Y'know what? I think I'm done talking with you. You're too goddamn hardheaded like me to change your mind about anything." He rolls his eyes in an exaggerated manner.
When his eyes are returned to normal positioning they find a really messed up sight. Nagare mashing at his own chest and coughing up water? "What the fuck." His hand goes to his head and scratches it a little. "Jesus, this guy's a goddamn loony. Y'know what? Screw it, I'm not stickin' around for this shit."
COMBATSYS: Sergio takes no action.
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Sergio 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Nagare
COMBATSYS: Nagare successfully hits Nagare with Combat Defibrillation.
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Sergio 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Nagare
Nagare coughs up the water, and its successful! You never have to really push yourself that hard to succeed, well, you do! But Nagare's a rather good lifeguard! Still, as he kicks himself back into the water, looking around for Sergio, the man's already leaving.
"Alright then! Have a nice day, sir!" Nagare calls, hovering in the water still, feeling rather refreshed and ready for more wild water! And he can find it if he wants. There's a lot of places to swim!
"Remember! Be curtious of others!" Nagare calls, swimming off as the man seems to not be interested in the fight. He's not going to chase him. There's no reason to!
COMBATSYS: Nagare takes no action.
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Sergio 1/----===/=======|-------\-------\0 Nagare
"You can keep the surfboard!" Sergio calls out as he begins to swim towards shore. It seems that Nagare's attempts to beat him into compliance, and talk him into compliance have failed. However creeping him the fuck out into compliance worked like a charm! So Sergio is going to calmly swim to shore and decide it's a great day to tan on the beach and spy the ladies instead of surfing around. Just so long as that crazy flying fishman doesn't follow him back. "Yeah, courteous, sure!"
Just don't make eye contact.
COMBATSYS: Sergio has left the fight here.
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Nagare has no intention of creeping anyone the heck out, but he sure was able to it seems! If basic CPR is scary then lets hope Sergio never drowns! However, keeping the surfboard, Nagare could give it to charity! Well, Nagare will surely do that. Just after he does a few more laps about the peninsula! The day is young!
COMBATSYS: Nagare has ended the fight here.
Log created on 16:00:45 05/27/2008 by Nagare, and last modified on 19:47:59 05/27/2008.