Description: Papua New Guinea! Not only is it fun to say, but it's an interesting fighting venue. With the rest of the area down below, the punk princess and the red witch take things to the tip of the highest mountain in the area. Naerose has the advantage for a while... or does she? Things take a turn, and Arika has the advantage... or not. Watch as one fighter nearly plummets fourteen thousand feet to their doom! (Draw Match)
Papua New Guinea.
One of the most diverse countries on Earth with over 800 indigenous languages, and a population of just under six million.
Papua New Guinea.
Home to the Bismark Range, which hosts the granite peak of Mount Wilhelm -- a mountain known for intersecting three different provinces. A mountain, which today, is playing host to Neo League!
That's right. Over fourteen thousand feet in the air! It's a very appropriate setting for a fight, isn't it? Due to the height of the mountain, guardrails have been set atop it so that the fighters don't fall off. Due to the height as well (and a cameraman who fears anything taller than a stepping stool) remote cameras have been set up atop the guardrails at different angles.
As such, there is very little pomp or circumstance afforded to this Neo League match. Just a mountain and a pair of fighters. Which is why Arika is just pacing back and forth, stretching and limbering up her body to prepare for the fight ahead.
Something was wrong though. The other fighter was late. Very very late. This could be any number of reasons, after all, what if you didn't speak the language, couldn't afford to fly places as readily as others or were just stupid. Assume what you will, but it's well past a half hour beyond the start time that a scooter putters it's way up the remaining path to the designated area and Naerose gets off.
Papua Neww Guinea.
There were those in the world who didn't even know how to pronounce the name. Those who couldn't point to it on a map. Those who didn't even know it existed until they arrived there and even then, probably assumed it was just an extension of some other nation.
Naerose had her red on, a camera around her neck and other touristy things, like a dictionary on how to speak the language. Which language? Indian.
She recognizes Arika though.
"Aarrika!" cries the witch, who is not afraid of heights.
Only thirty minutes late?
Not bad, considering who it is that's to be her opponent.
Arika had turned at the sound of the scooter, wondering if it was a fan that was silly enough to come to the granite mountain top. When she spies the witch, she just shakes her head.
"Finally decided to stop with the tourist thing and show up, eh?" Popping her neck side to side, she moves away from the edge of the mountaintop and nods.
"Good, good. Ready to start the foight then, or are ya needin' a minute or two to ditch the camera?"
"Huh?" Naenae says as though this was totally crazy that Arika would say these things. "I'm going to get some great pictures and anyway.." A pause for dramatic effect,
"Have you tried the food?! I mean it's cheap!" (By cheap she means in compare to food elsewhere, where as to the people who live here it's probably getting rather expensive. Naerose clearly doesn't get this at all.
"Besiiides, where have you been all this time?" The witch asks, "I've checked all of the clubs .. I mean the ones with buffet's. And I havn't seen you anywhere! What about pleasant conversation?" Asks the witch and then adds as an aside, "Have you heard about the Naeleague?"
"You'll wind up with a broken camera, mate." But as it is the witch's own choice to keep it around her neck, it's no longer Arika's concern. Though, if she does wind up breaking the camera, she's a nice enough person to at least replace it.
"Ain't 'ad the time to try the food. Been waitin' up 'ere for a while y'know. While you were actin' the tourist." That, and while the diva does enjoy trying new things, eating before a fight is not usually the best thing to be doing.
"Oi've been 'round, y'know. Settin' up me own nightclub, doin' a few other things." Is that enough for the niceties? "And ain't that wot we're doin' all the way up 'ere? Neo League?"
"Aww.. well okay, but then you have got to try this shop somewhere.. over.........." She points and tries to spot it waaaaay down the mountain, "There.. yeah. You have got to try it, the best.. Whatever they eat in this country." Of course there is the risk, that going out for lunch with Naerose will result in having to pay the bill. Very very likely risk at that.
"So umm. right.. lets.. " Pause "You know."
Biggggg smile. Maybe that will win her some points. And then she lifts her broom and .. and..
Waits.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has started a fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Arika has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Arika
"Uhh... sure." Try some shop. That sells whatever. Way down the mountain. Sounds like a very interesting thing to do.
If you're absolutely insane.
Especially with the description as it was given.
"Let's then."
Deciding to take a defensive stance instead of an offensive one this time, the punk princess steps back. Upon spying the big smile, she becomes a little more alert. Big smiles, you see, usually mean something is about to happen. When the broom is raised, Arika slides back another step.
In order to avoid being bashed on the head with it, she skirts to the side then flies forward with a jabby little punch to the arm holding the broom. All this in the hopes that the 'weapon' is dropped, and she can jar the witch back to prepare for another attack.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Arika's Jab Punch.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Arika
Drop the weapon..? Unlikely, seeing as the broom is Naerose's primary form of attack. Suppose someone could disarm her, and has in the past .. Usually around this time she tries to get the broom back, flings a lot of chi or just refuses to keep fighting all together. Sort of like a child throwing a tantrum. This time none of the above happens.
Naenae witnesses an incoming fist, gasps and winces and gets hit in the arm. She doesn't drop her broom, just sort of blinks and then says,
"Ouch!"
Naerose then tries to thwack Arika with that broom in question.
COMBATSYS: Arika blocks Naerose's Clean Sweep.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Arika
Seeing as her attempt to disarm the witch didn't go according to plan, Arika scowls. She doesn't seem half as irritated as she would were the 'weapon' in question a bladed type, but that doesn't mean she's entirely happy about it either.
"Bloody 'ell, Oi didn't even 'it you that 'ard!"
The cry of ouch doesn't distract her from the fact that this is a televised fight, and that she's fighting someone that likes to throw around energy a lot. The punk princess brings her body around a little, sweeping her arm to the side to stop the broom from thwacking her fully. Wood hits bone nonetheless, and gets a grimace from her.
Lashing a hand out to take hold of the broom, she gives it a quick yank. Trying to twist it in such a way as to knock Naerose off balance before jerking to the side and allowing the witch to fall to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Naerose endures Arika's Quick Throw!!
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Arika
Arika knew, it seemed. She knew that Nae would hold onto her broom for dear life. She knew that in doing so her weakness in this moment was that broom. All Arika had to do was use the broom against Naerose and in doing so, there was no way to avoid the attack. It was very clever. It caused Nae to fall, but after falling it gave Nae freedom to act, freedom to try and kick Arika with a seriously strong sweep motion while kicking to get to her own feet, her own footing.
"Wew!" exclaims the witch, glad that the ground was more inviting than it looked.
"This mount.. ain.. air is tiring!" she saays with a which swipe of her hand across her forehead, adjusting her sweet witches hat.
COMBATSYS: Arika fails to counter Strong Kick from Naerose with Diva Allegro.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0 Arika
The foot sweeps out, and instead of getting out of the way or leaping over it, the punk princess hunkers low in order to thrust a fist out to stop it. As her right arm swings forward to angle at the sweeping kick, the left arm begins to glow with a bright violet energy.
Then something happens.
Misjudging the reach of the sweep, Arika finds herself being hit by the foot. The hit so strong that it topples her back to the top of the granite with a loud, "Ooof!"
Twisting and spinning around comes the red fabric of witchness as she tries to work herself up more, but instead chases Arika, holds out her hand, is she trying to help Arika up? Not with that white glow, oh no, on the contrary, she's trying to blast her before she can get up. This was the art of the combination attack, all the while done with the most innocent and big witchy smiles.
"En Criento!" exclaims Naerose as she tries to extend the short range burst onto the Princess.
Also, she gets to her feet.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Arika with End Creation.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Arika
A little dazed from the fall, the diva takes a second to give her head a shake. While her head sways to and fro, her eyes are closed. The very second they pop open, she spots the white glow.
Oh shi--
Arms come up to protect her face, but the witch's energy strikes true despite. Thrust back against the mountaintop, Arika yelps.
Lord. Energy attacks -hurt-.
After regaining a little stability, she pushes up to her feet. Both hands wipe down over face and she just -glares- at Naerose. "And you thought me punch 'urt? Bloody 'ell..."
Ducking down low, she tears her way across the granite toward the witch. Feet kick up small stones and pebbles as she moves. Hands reach out to attempt to grab her opponent by the hips, hoist her up and twist about and about in the air before releasing her.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Arika's Medium Throw.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Arika
Naenae rolls with the throw, becuase it's really her only chance to not get more hurt. She could try to get away, sure, but that would be risky, awfully risky, so instead she tries the safer approach of just taking the impact after getting taken into the air and flopped down. Actually it could of been worse, a lot worse, but the witch seems to figure.. well.. Oh well. The witch scrambles to her feet, tugs a thread off her broom and flings it into the air, trying to nab it around Arika's neck and then give a tug to pull her.
The line is silver thread, almost invisible save for a shine it gives to the air. It's really quite neat.
"Aww, wow, I should do that more often." she commends.
COMBATSYS: Arika just-defends Naerose's Threads of Fate!
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Arika
There is one teeny tiny problem with the invisible thread -- it makes the air shine. Had the shine not been present, Arika wouldn't have been aware there was even an attack being directed at her.
But that shine... gave it away.
As soon as she feels the thread about her neck, she flexes her muscles to ensure that the lasso remains loose. When it pulls her, she allows herself to move with it in such a way that it doesn't hurt. With movement stopping, she reaches for the thread and slips it from about her neck then spins to face the witch.
"Nice try but Oi ain't fooled quite -that- easily."
Grinning broadly, she leaps up into the air, flips backward and twists herself in a three-sixty. All this in order to crash down upon the witch and knock her to the rough mountain surface.
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Shooting Star from Arika with Spellbinder EX.
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Naerose 1/-----==/=======|=======\==-----\1 Arika
The fact was that the three sixty crashing move ws coming at Naerose far to quickly for her to move or make a very good defense. Perhaps it was a coin flip but she wasn't going to stick with those medium chances. Instead she charges toward Arika, takes a picture with her camera (flash included) which is of course, a touch blinding, for like a split second then swings her broom up toward Arika full on heavy style, before being bodied to the ground anyway.
"Oaf" The witch cries as she gets knocked into a sitting position on the ground and looking a little sore from it all.
DAMN IT ALL!
Arika has now decided that she very much -hates- that broom. In fact, if she manages to get hold of the broom during or after the fight, she may just toss it over the edge and watch it splinter below.
At the moment, being blinded by the flash and THWOCKED solidly in the midsection by it, she's got no chance to destroy the broom.
Knowing her luck though, the thing would splinter and a jillion tiny brooms would grow from it and start carrying water up the mountain or something otherwise ridiculous. This -is- Naerose she's dealing with after all.
Then she's being called an oaf. This causes the diva to frown, and she pushes up off of the witch. "'ey! Oi so ain't an oaf! Oaf's are 'uge louts, y'know!" Though her movements are now shaky, she draws up to her feet and then pulls her left leg back. Kicking it forward toward the witch's ribs, she growls. "So -ain't- an oaf! Wot an insult!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Arika's Medium Kick.
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Naerose 1/----===/=======|=======\===----\1 Arika
Naenae for the incoming kick is forced into jumping back with the broom in the way, taking the impact on the stick and then comes a loud crack from the impact. She doesn't realize that Arika is forcing all of her attention on the broom, the very source of her power! So she gets on the broom and shoots off at Arika, flying trough the air like a spear thrown in the air, complete with the crash at the end, though she seems intend on Arika breaking that fall by being charged through. Someone soft like Arika is much easier to crash into than the hard ground.
"Here I come!" exclaims the witch, totally grinning and not realizing her broom is in serious danger!
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Arika with Delphine Charge.
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Naerose 1/--=====/=======|=======\=====--\1 Arika
Apparently, Arika is -very- easy to crash into. She twists to dive out of the way, but the witch is moving far too swiftly.
*CRASH*
Hitting the granite mountaintop once more, she scrapes up the skin upon her arms and shoulders. Wincing from the pain, the diva grits her teeth. Things are not going as well for her as she would like, but she's not down and out yet! Taking a deep breath, and ignoring the stinging pain and blood upon her arms she gets up and locks her eyes onto the witch.
Twirling about to situate herself behind her opponent, she tries to knock the witch from the broom and then wrap a leg around her body in order to lock her in place. Trying to hook the leg around the side, she reaches up to trap the witches head as well pulling her body backward. Then, with her free hand, she forms a clawed shape and grabs for her opponents stomach so that she can apply a great deal of pressure, twisting and pushing downward to force Naerose to the mountain.
COMBATSYS: Arika successfully hits Naerose with Dominant Diva.
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Naerose 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Arika
Therewas no way to get out of that but the thing tht really surprises Naerose is that her broom isn't sought after, it's actually more or less left alone, which is just crazy. It's her main weapon and all this time, well maybe seeking the broom was the problem, what it was that caused Naerose the ability to avoid getting crushed all this time. But the ground, it hurt and the witch hits it dead on with a crushing impact.
"Owwww." The witch states and slowly pushes to her feet, like a dear who just got hit by a car and can't tell how badly hurt they may or may not be.
"My ankle!" exclaims Naerose and decides to use her broom to keep herself off the ground. She sits on it, side saddle, but this really drains her energy, fast. So she makes it into an attack. Naerose shoots off at Arika again.
One hand shoots out and tries to get her hands on Arika as she goes past to drag her into the air, kicking and screaming if she must before letting go. And since she needs somewhere soft to land . . .
COMBATSYS: Arika dodges Naerose's Aquila Charge.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Arika
Poor deer getting caught like that, but Arika honestly has no pity. This isn't because she bears the witch ill-will, but more that this is a fight and as she's already been hurt quite a bit, she can't afford to offer much sympathy to her opponent.
This doesn't mean that she's going to get stupid and just waltz right into another dive attack. When the broom starts toward her again, the punk princess just dives against the ground, flattening herself to it to avoid being hoisted up and dropped.
Somewhere, the very childish part of Arika wants to 'nyah-nyah' at the witch for the near miss, but outwardly she just presses her lips together in a thin white line.
Hands press against the rocky surface and she brings herself up to her feet once more. Her right foot slides forward cautiously. Then her left. Certain that no little pieces of rock will cause her to unbalance herself, she begins to hop back and forth, from foot to foot. Each little hop brings her forward a step until she suddenly whirls around in a complete circle and snaps her foot out at Naerose, attempting to unseat her from the broom.
COMBATSYS: Arika successfully hits Naerose with Rhythmic Roundhouse.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|======-\-------\0 Arika
This fight was dragging on and getting kind of scary. The witch probably couldn't depend on much more luck when it comes to the remainder of this fighting. Arika looked like she still had a bit of gas left too.
"Man, things really heated up up here." Naerose comments and then holds her palm up toward Arika.
"Here .. goes.. En criento!"
She tries to blast Arika once again, it worked okay the last time right? Even if it does seem to be taking her breath away slowly but surely.
COMBATSYS: Arika dodges Naerose's End Creation.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0 Arika
Anyone who falls for the same deceit twice must accept responsibility for their own gullibility; thus, one should be more watchful the next time around.
(Or, in layman's terms: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.)
Being as the white glow catches her attention right away, Arika is easily able to avoid it by dropping into a roll. Flipping right back up to her feet, she grins. "You've gotten a wee bit 'arder to foight, y'know." Then again, it's not like the punk princess seeks out the witch for Epic Battol(tm) frequently, so chances are it's just that she's not used to the moves that are being thrown at her.
Cracking her knuckles and popping her head to either side, she begins to advance. Signs that the fight is beginning to wear on her are now apparent. Her movements aren't sluggish, but she's definitely not moving at top speed. Clasping her hands together, she swings around and attempts to crash her double-fist into the witch's stomach.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Arika's Medium Punch.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Arika
Also getting tired is Naerose, who has to really struggle to get heer arm up and defend against the incoming attack. She manages to get it to deflext off her arm, which actually hurts a fair bit still, but not enough. The witch is still in this fight! She can't keep Arika off at this rate though so instead she brings up her foot and tries to kick Arika back with a jab toward her shin with a heel.
"This.. I .. need a smoothy when this is over." the witch manages and exhales a deep breath, looking exhausted.
COMBATSYS: Arika dodges Naerose's Light Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Arika
As fights wear on, people get tired. At least that seems to be the way of things. If there's a way for people to -not- get tired while fighting, the punk princess would pay a pretty penny for that. Mainly, because she's the type to not stop fighting until it is physically impossible for her to move any longer. So, like the witch, she's still in this fight!
The foot of her foe leaves the granite-rocked mountaintop, and Arika is twisting away to avoid getting hit on the sweet spot of the shin. It's just seconds before she's twisting back toward the witch though, her own foot looking as though it's going to lash out. Instead of it hitting Naerose, it stomps on the ground near her as a distraction. Meanwhile, hands lash out to take hold of the witch by the shoulders and sweep-flip her upward before attempting to crash her back down to the ground.
She makes no reply to the need for a smoothie though.
COMBATSYS: Naerose dodges Arika's Medium Throw.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Arika
"Need.. Smoothy.." The witch pants, looking really really tired and worn and under fed and over tired, you can't compete with the way she whines. Practically crawling the witch reaches out with her broom and tries to get just the lightest of taps on Arika, aiming little more than a jab at Arika.
"Need.. smoothy.." the witch continues to pant and tries to just.. Just get Arika with the lightest but fastest of taps, more like a reach out and poke the dough boy. Not to suggest that.. You know.
Her shades begin to slide down her nose. She sneezes.
"Won't.. Give.." The witch nearly passses out from the effort.
COMBATSYS: Arika blocks Naerose's Weapon Jab.
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Naerose 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Arika
It's a light tap by standards of being hit with a broom. It's not a light tap by standards of being tapped upon the shoulder to answer a question. But even so, the punk princess slows it down by grabbing hold of the broom handle again.
And this is where Arika smiles. Make or break, she's going to use what remains of her energy to try and dislodge witch from broom again. Why? Because it's become almost a challenge now. Though the handle still twocks against her stomach, she twists to th side, giving the broom a slight jerk. Then she lifts the handle up and attempts to flip it and slam the witch to the ground, using the broom as a sort of flyswatter.
COMBATSYS: Arika successfully hits Naerose with Quick Throw.
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Naerose 1/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Arika
It totally works. Arika had learned her lesson and used the broom to get the witch down, which she does, thus enabling her to get swatted, like so many flies. Then.. liquid drains from under her hat. .Is Nae-nae hurt?! And why is the liquid fizzy and yellow, like soda?
"Mmmm.. Red Bull.." The witch murmurs as she tastes some.
"Hey, totally! Red Bull. En Criento!" Cries the witch, making one last attempt to blast Arika before realizing, Energy drinks give you a burst of energy then a crash. She crashes.
COMBATSYS: Naerose can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Arika with End Creation.
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COMBATSYS: Arika takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Arika can no longer fight.
Too bad there's no rule for 'fool me three times'. Looks like Arika's luck has just plain ran out. Though she tries to get out of the way of the energy coming at her, she missteps at the cry of 'Red Bull' and goes flying right to the guard rail.
This causes the poorly constructed guardrail to go FLYING over the side of the mountain, nearly taking the diva with it. With one last little bit of luck, her foot hooks around a rock and she dangles there, looking down at the rest of Papua New Guinea. Staring death in the eye.
By sheer willpower, she drags herself back up to the top of the mountain, but once there she just lays back upon the granite, closing her eyes. All the fight is gone from her in light of the near death experience (and uhh... well the freaking blast of energy that just tore through her body).
And when the remote cameras zoom in on the two downed fighters, the word DRAW will cover the screen in big white letters -- like a video game.
Log created on 12:59:26 06/17/2008 by Arika, and last modified on 20:20:23 06/17/2008.