Description: Mary Mary quite contrary was walking about the street, but it just so happens there was Gabriel whom presence she did meet! The two did talk for a small while but then devolve to blows, and whether or not it's truly over, no one really knows! But Mary certainly has a plan that she just cannot tell, because a secret isn't a secret if it's out of it's shell!
The Crusader of Light, Kai Gabriel, had a few things on her mind. She had to consider what was going to happen with the team she formed with Ingrid, which could still use additional members. She was ever concerned with the state of the world, and faith, yes faith and she was concerned with the city round her. So full of grime and filth. All of it needed to be cleansed. The only way any of this would ever show on the face of the self proclaimed goddess-send, was her perpetually disapproving gaze. The policeman on the corner with a gut, he did not take good care of his health, that was a sin. The business man walking down the street was drinking coffee from a disposable cup, a sin. The child kicking a ball down the street, should be studying, a sin. It was everywhere. Sin was everywhere.
Stopping now in front of a building, Kai Gabriel decides to stop walking. She needs to clear her head. She would sit on the bench and occupy her mind with something else. Her violin perhaps. She opens the case and then removes the carefully wrapped instrument and ignores the long shard of glass.
There was much wrong with the world, wasn't there? But Mary was happy with what the world was for now.. because she knows it's only so long until Urien would change many, many things. But that will come in time. She has plenty of it, she believes, and actually feels a bit sad for the random civilians moving about, embracing their short lives while not even thinking of it.
Walking down the street, Mary carries a rather over-sized umbrella, keeping her head mostly out of sight. What little skin of her face that is pure white, and her outfit is white as well, except for the black umbrella that is currently placed over her, slightly to the side, allowing that bit of skin to be perhaps seen.
As she walks on, Mary does stop, her somewhat puffy dress moving even if she's not. Glancing towards Gabriel, she wonders, exactly, what the Asian girl is doing with that large shard of glass, however the wrapped instrument is easy enough to understand.
"Oh, play me a song, would you please darlin'?"
Most people who knew about Gabriel's violin playing would of known better than to ask her to play. Mary doesn't know her, she doesn't know Mary, so this is entirely lost in the exchange so far. Mary doesn't strike her it seems as so terrible, the frown on Gabriel's face does not grow for the umbrella wielding woman and therefore well, it was a start anyway right? So far not so much out of the ordinary, except well, the previously mentioned shard of glass, slightly longer than a forearm, very sharp looking and relatively narrow. Of one didn't know any better, it could be mistaken for a weapon.
To respond, Gabriel does not commit. She gives a nod, a small nod, and pulls out the violin, closes her eyes and tunes it.
The 'music' is terrible.
As Gabriel listens to her, Mary tries to get comfortable against the side of the building, but not actually leaning. Why, that would ruin most of the dress a bit! It doesn't take long for Mary to suspect there is something more to the white vested, black wearing woman. But she isn't quite sure of what's to come until Gabriel actually begins to play.
"Darlin'.. maybe you need to practice with that there instrument. Either it's a bit rusty o' you are." She playfully explains, raising the Umbrella a bit, shaking her head. She does add. "But of that blade, within the shade. Why purpose does it serve?" She inquires, wondering, certainly, what must be about Gabriel.
She is certainly far from normal, this is to be true.
Walking a bit about the bench, Mary looks pointedly on that, eyeing it up as well as Gabriel. Even if she .. doesn't really know just what to make of her yet.
Lowering the violin took longer than it probably should of. All the same Gabriel doesn't look offended so much as perplexed. She replies simply, softly and literally, far far to literally,
"The instrument is made out of wood and therefore does not rust." That is all.
Then the shade of glass is brought into the discussion. Gabriel takes care in putting the violin away, but does not pick up the shard of glass, it looks sharp, you'd cut yourself handling that thing.
"It is glass," Gabriel replies,
"Tempered, I believe, but I replace it fairly often when it breaks. Glass breaks often." She comments, as an aside. She looks back at Mary, searching for a moment then gestures to the glass.
"You may pick it up if you wish." Though clearly there is no dull section of glass, this shard would cut someone, anyone.
"Ya'll can't take a joke, can ya?" She responds simply enough, smirking a bit to herself under the umbrella. Of course it doesn't rust, she thinks.
But as Gabriel mentions it is glass, and that it's replaced quite often, she can assume it's used for something beyond looking nice. Glass, when cared for, can last any number of ages. But here, this woman is talking about replacing it very often. Mary definitely sees something up.. but doesn't pry, really. "I'll pass, but thank ya' very much."
Eyeing it a bit more, she does wonder, and this wondering is stemmed for what possible use something like it could have. She has only one belief of what it could be indeed used for. Rolling the umbrella off her face, and over her shoulder, Mary stands with the white bonnet over her white skin. Although, it's debatable which is whiter.
"Now here I wonder just what you're usin' that for, or carryin' it around. Doesn't seem to be much help with playing that there instrument." She states, a hand at her hip, the other on the umbrella over her shoulder.
"So what's it for?"
"Glass is pure and very sharp," Gabriel replies, her voice a little harder now, as though breaking a honest but difficult truth now. She gestures to the glass and then looks back up at Mary.
"For the purification of the world, this is a weapon of grace." Her green eyes are very cold to communicate the unwillingness to back down, even a little in this belief. She then puts her violin away, wrapped in a cloth, probably to protect it from the sharp edges of the glass.
"You seem to wonder a great many things." Observes Gabriel and gives Mary another once over. She seems proper enough. The Crusader looks back to her case which she begins to close.
She listens, and she is interested almost immediately. Her observations went rather well this time, and Mary just can't hide that. "So ya'll use that as a weapon, don'tcha?" She says rather loudly, and bluntly. "For savin' your world? I haven't seen nothin' change." She adds as well, tsking and sticking out her tongue. Why she does this is her own reason.
"By golly.. you even know how to use that? I don't know .. maybe you ain't normal, and maybe you ain't one that's useful when thing's change." She makes a point of saying that, because simply, a part of her wishes to egg Gabriel on, see just how far she can be pushed.
"Young'ns always thinkin' they're up to snuff." She chides, turning her back on Gabriel, before turning back around once more.
"But it can't be helped.. so lets play a game, yes? Ya'll will like this. It's a really fun one!" The umbrella, already opened, points towards Gabriel. "After all, why not make all work play? Makes it faster, why yes it does."
For some reason, it doesn't really work. Gabriel wasn't that easy to egg on it seemed and usually did the egging on. Plenty of people knew of her and considered her a relatively dangerous baddie. Maybe not in sheer damage potential, but in willingness to cause harm. The cues and the suggests though are lost on her as she watches Mary with slightly narrowed eyes. After all, there was one large question that had yet to be answered.
"What have I got to prove to a person like you?" Gabriel asks, simply enough, even though she does rise to her feet. She's dressed a little nice for fighting, her outfit is silk! But that doesn't stop her, not even give her pause.
As Gabriel simply watches her, instead of moving, Mary ponders this for a moment. What was she doing? Truly it was a troublesome thought. But it's washed away. Of course, she does this for what she has been given, and nothing will take that away from her. Nothing at all. So she will do this .. weeding out those who will be useful and those who are not through tests.. and then making sure to revisit both, with added interest to those whom fail the test.
Urien couldn't have any weak in his perfect world.
"Much. Darlin', I look at you and see potential, but I don't know just what you're a doin' with yourself." Gabriel's outfit.. now that's quite a sight, and Mary notices it as well. A pity to ruin it.. so she'll just try to cause physical harm when it may hurt her clothing less.
"And it's not for me, darlin'. But sometimes you just got things to do...better not dilly dally, idle hands aren't very nice things!" She keeps trying to prod Gabriel forwards and up, taking a step or two back to give Gabriel some room.
"I'd really hate it to have to just assault ya'll, but I'm going to anyways!" Looks like there's not much choice from the woman with the umbrella still pointed at Gabriel.. even though why is still unexplained!
COMBATSYS: Gabriel has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Mary has joined the fight here.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Mary
"Tsch." Gabriel grunts and reaches for her pendant around her throat, squeezing it in what might be a prayer before falling into something of an open handed stance. One clear thing, she'll be fighting with palm thrusts primarily, or exclusively as the case may be. Her eyes narrow just a little as she eyes Mary.
"Goddess ..." Gabriel begins but then lets it go and decides, if Mary really wants to let Gabriel hit her first.. Gabriel will hit her first.
"I will not apologize," the self proclaimed crusader states simply, and with that, attacks, no hesitation and no punch pulled.
It's a double palm thrust, stepping forward to give the attack forward momentum of her entire body, her hips, legs and shoulders, all into it as Gabriel aims to put all of this force into Mary's sternum.
COMBATSYS: Mary blocks Gabriel's Strong Punch.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel reaches for her pendant and moves into her stance, Mary is busy twirling the umbrella around her, waiting for the other to get to the real thing. At least, get ready! But Gabriel does far more, her eyes narrowing as she comes towards the parasol wielding woman. And then comes the double palm thrust. Which is intercepted with a combination of the umbrella itself and an arm, the fabric slowing the strike a bit, so that it's capable of being taken. It still hurts, far from it not to, but it's far less painful now.
Jumping back a bit, Mary swings the umbrella about some more, spinning it. "Oh, goodness no. I'm not looking for a single apology darlin'! This is just what you have to do sometimes!" She claims, before pointing the weapon straight at Gabriel, pulling a bit on the umbrella handle..
And firing the sharp top that's used for decorations for some umbrellas.
It'll still, but certainly, it's not the worst.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel blocks Mary's Medium Shot.
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Gabriel 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Mary
That was unexpected, but not especially harmful, no not yet, Gabriel brushes it aside with relative ease with her arm, though it still impacts, this doesn't slow her down much. A little, to be sure, but she keeps on goingg, headed for Mary and reaching to grab her, by the wrist and to twist, but the attack isn't just designed to throw her, it is additionally seemingly to get Mary on her back, knock the wind out before moving back again.
Though despite it being a fight, Gabriel looks serious, not offended, not angry, just somewhat cold. She doesn't speak either, makes no notice of even hearing her opponent speak. Only perhaps the calculating eyes of someone watching their opponent's every move.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel successfully hits Mary with Quick Throw.
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Gabriel 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel brushes aside the impact, this interests Mary to a point. How unpredicted. But it does touch on quite a few things that would explain why she was just a bit odd to her. When Gabriel heads towards her anyways, Mary is watching, and when her wrist is grabbed.. Mary tries to react.
Unfortunately, the wind is knocked out of her as she lands on the ground, causing a bit of pause from the woman. "By golly, don't that just beat all." She exclaims, but doesn't get up just yet, taking the time to wrap the handle about Gabriel's leg, and then kick to her feet. Oddly enough, the umbrella follows.. but only the parasol. The hook only follows when Mary yanks it.
Intending to pull, and yes yank, Gabriel off her feet, running her against the ground a bit, before thrusting her into the air, sent spiralling!
"Not a talkative one, are ya'? Ain't fun that way! Lighten up!"
COMBATSYS: Gabriel blocks Mary's Go Fly a Kite.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Mary
She does get yanked up and off her feet, but Gabriel is careful to control her fall so that there isn't a great deal of damage dealt when she starts to come down with the force of the impact. She instead manages to keep herself mostly upright and then makes a move toward Mary, there wasn't anything to say at least Gabriel didn't seem to think so.
"This is not a game, " Gabriel replies, keeping her tone even. Though not particularly seeming to take it too terribly badly. It isn't as though she seems to mind the chiding, rather, appears to focus more on the fight at hand.
"Repent." Gabriel says and then aims a palm at her opponent, with an added bit of chi.
COMBATSYS: Mary interrupts Palm Snap from Gabriel with Beg Your Pardon.
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Gabriel 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel controls her fall, moving towards Mary, she might not be in the position to really understand the complexity of what the G-Subject is doing. The move wasn't simply tossing her away, it was a set up.
And Gabriel walks right into it, Gabriel even replying that the game .. is far from one.
"Hmm? By golly .. Gee, you think that, don't you?" Mary is quick to respond, but snapping the chain away, Mary grins, red easily seen compared to the white skin. "I do declare.. anything can be a game if you put some thought into it. A little step to make something more enjoyable." She adds, before the palm snaps towards her.
And Mary's set up is realized. The chain slips off Gabriel, snapping back, as Mary spins about the parasol and then thrusts it towards Gabriel as the palm comes forwards. It slams into her, but the parasol, blade and all, connects with Gabriel, tossing her into the air .. where she's bopped a few times, over and over, before being bopped away, done being juggled.
"I do hope ya'll not angry with me enjoyin' this. Makes me feel so much diff'rent."
That was actually kind of impressive. Clearly Mary was going to come out the better on that exchange. Gabriel's attack was fast, too fast to be really damaging but the counter attack was very solid and smooth and it hurt a great deal more than the initial palm strike. Being tossed into the air emits a silence hiss and a wince from the crusader whom then catches herself - barely - on the ground. Slowly and shakily she works to her feet.
But she goes back to the silent treatment, not having anything in particular to say in response to that. Oddly also despite being hammered pretty well with that last attack, Gabriel continues forward at Mary, without any great concern for the possibilty of a repeat performance, another double palm strike.
COMBATSYS: Mary blocks Gabriel's Strong Punch.
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Gabriel 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel came towards her once catching herself.. well.. and her attempts to assault her have stopped.. they begin anew, Mary taking the time to play a few games with Gabriel yet. It was actually kind of fun, to a point, and this is no exception! As Gabriel once more piles towards her, she changes about .. without thinking. But it works as well, the chain catching the bunch, the handle and metal smashed against her arms, the dress billowing from the force.. and the bonnet coming off, resting on the ground.
Above, little clouds begin to form, spreading out, covering whatever light that was above them and drowning it out, covering the two of them in darkness.
Even if the performance was a repeat, Mary's certainly won't be. The arm is attempted to be wrapped around, before she pulls hard, the chain hopefully holding on.. and whipping Gabriel towards the ground behind her. The whip would then be pulled farther away, and release to slam Gabriel into the wall once more!
It's .. quite important you see, she plays keep away with a warrior like that!
COMBATSYS: Gabriel reflects Rebound Whip from Mary with Mimic.
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Gabriel 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Mary
How do you take an attack and reverse it? Easy, Gabriel grabs the chain, almost as it was intended to go around her wrist only she pulls harder, a purple flare of energy added to the whole mess as she tries instead to give Mary the yank and tug, her expression one almost of amusement as she does so, her silk a little torn and smudged, but no worries, her closet is full of this while she draws one foot back, digging herr heel into the dirt and trying to turn the attack around on the attacker - namely - Mary. Her eyes widen but only for a moment before narrowing again and she tries to give the final tug to win this tug of war, though who is to say who will end up on the ground and who not.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel successfully hits Mary with Reflected Rebound Whip.
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Gabriel 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Mary
And yet, it works rather well. As Gabriel grabs the chain, digging a heel and tugging back, Mary gets yanked, and ends up flat on her back. Shaking herself off, Mary yanks the chain completely back in, ignoring the uses that Gabriel has done with her weaponry, and stretches a bit, pulling her arm this way, rubbing her arm another way, and taking a nice, long breathe.
That was certainly unexpected, but it was going to set her back a bit more than she had already had hoped for.
Now this wasn't much fun, if only because Gabriel seemed to be as personable as dirt, perhaps a little less, she notes.
"However your parents raised you, they must just be kickin' themselves."
COMBATSYS: Mary gains composure.
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Gabriel 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Mary
"I can not comment on my parents current state as they died many years ago, but I imagine they would be quite proud of how proper I have become," Comments Gabriel, and then she waits. . . and waits. She watches Mary and then decides to fill the emptiness with some talking, which is by the way very rare for her, but since Mary insists on speaking she'll speak too.
"It has been said that speaking during a fight can be considered tactics, distract your opponent and force them to focus less. I have witnessed some take great umbridge to such a tactic, but I expect it is in the end no better or worse than simply hitting someone. Ultimately it is all the same, an attempt to overcome others. The question I have is not about how or what tactics you employ but why. Why do you bother to fight in the first place?"
COMBATSYS: Gabriel focuses on her next action.
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Gabriel 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Mary
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"Oh bother, do you really think I'd do such a thing darlin'?" She asks Gabriel, as she explains it's tactics, and in response, Mary shakes her head. Far from that to be tactics. Oh no, she's got something else in plan, an idea as it were, as she watches Gabriel sit back and just watch. Asking her about why she wishes to fight is odd as well.
"It's a feelin' I just don't get with anythin' else darlin'. You know, somethin' you enjoy doin', a game or somethin', and you just keep doin' it." It's somewhat true, as what she's been given is certainly something different than what she started with.. and it's not very important that she even have a reason anymore. Urien would expect her to grow stronger, of course.
"Ya'll an interesting idea of the word proper." She claims, sliding the weapon about again, and trying something different once more. Or perhaps the same. The U shape whips out, sliding away, towards Gabriel's leg, in an attempt to snare it and then pull back, to yank her foot completely off the ground!
It's certainly something, and she's playing keep away for a reason.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel fails to interrupt Snare Whip from Mary with Random Weapon.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Mary
The whole thing about game takes Gabriel somewhat off guard, but that's no excuse. Her move was far too complex. Run to the instrument case, grab the shard of glass out, charge at Mary with it. Ignore the snare, which gets her ankle, catches her mid charge and causes her to fall over onto the ground. Stunned.
One thing that does occur here though is that you get to see what the glass is all about. It's a shard of glass, she wields it like a sword, that much is clear, and in addition to that, said shard of glass cuts her hand, you can already see it decorated crimson from cutting into Gabriel's flesh where she holds onto it, her palm bleeding freely. None of this seems to bother her so much as getting pulled to the ground by that chain though.
As Gabriel is taken off guard, at least due to the somewhat simple dumb luck, things look up a bit for Mary, and as Gabriel does make it to the case, Mary does get to see what it does. However, the woman watching on is curious only to the point where the sword is held.. and the shard of glass cuts her, even while being dragged along the ground.
Let go, Mary .. stares a bit. "Now, what's that you're doin' there? That ain't right at all.. Hurtin' yourself?" That's just a bit weird, even for her tastes, the pure white looking woman shaking her head. "Youngin's these days.. always doin' such things... come on, stop bein' so darned serious!"
"Skip Skip skip to my lou, skip skip skip to my lou, skip skip skip to my lou .. skip to my lou~" She sing songs as she takes the whip grabs a tree branch with it.. and then pulls herself over, assaulting Gabriel with her legs, first, attempting to plow straight into her! To a degree, at least.
It's a bit of a swinging motion, to be true!
COMBATSYS: Gabriel blocks Mary's Light Kick.
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Gabriel 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Mary
First thing that needs to be done is getting back to her feet. Gabriel manages this with a twist of her legs, the next thing she needs to do is avoid being hit. Not so much avoid but rather not get hit as hard as probably intended by the attacker. Gabriel brings her shin up to catch the incoming attack, but the antics of Mary are still putting her off sorts a little bit. This was the first time a random person attacked her like this, she realizes and acted in such a aloof manner and of such an age, yet she still couldn't finid anything particularly wrong with her.
Still, she'll demonstrate her sword.
With a serious wind up that is the sort of thing that says, with no uncertain terms: THIS WILL HURT, Gabriel unleashes a slash toward Mary, putting her body into it, blood dripping from her cut hand off the glass shard to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Mary dodges Gabriel's Random Weapon.
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Gabriel 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel brings her shin to catch the heels of the woman, Mary ends up not letting go of the whip immediately, and she's in luck, the sword coming around, blood dripping from her hands. The blade comes close, but Mary swings up and around the branch, letting go and kicking upwards.. the umbrella opening and allowing her to slightly glide away from the assault.
It's good enough, at least, to let her pass over the blade. "My word.. doesn't that hurt? It's like holding a knife by the base!" It's somewhat amazing and somewhat like a trainwreck you can't look away from. At the same time, however, she lands, eventually, and brushes herself off.
"Quite alright .. I just hope you beg my pardon! I'm still getting a few kinks out of myself." What ocmes next is a few shots, firing from the umbrella, two bladedtops spiralling through the air towards Gabriel again.
This just .. might be getting old to poor Gabriel!
COMBATSYS: Mary successfully hits Gabriel with Strong Shot.
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Gabriel 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Mary
The shots each hit Gabriel, sending her skidding back a little farther each time. Though her expression tightens, there is no real show that this has been a great inconvenience to Gabriel, instead she is looking at mostly just focused, a little agrivated but not as of yet angry. But despite the fact that Mary should be annoying her, the begging of a pardon gets a response.
Gabriel bows politely toward Mary after getting back toward her feet and charges at Mary, this time making a kick for the shin.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel successfully hits Mary with Light Kick.
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Gabriel 1/------=/=======|=======\-------\1 Mary
As Gabriel is sent skidding back, Mary finds she is having some trouble with being able to move into the shin kick, as it comes, and the bow takes her just a bit off guard. Nothing incredibly difficult to deal with, no, as the pain is passing. but she could have lived without it. That's quite for sure. However, she isn't completely doomed.
As Gabriel's kick strikes, however, the umbrella suddenly switches about, the U catching onto Gabriel's leg .. or attempting to.
The clouds above begin to rain down, finally, and Mary isn't any the wiser as she deal with Gabriel in a rather pleasant manner. "Quite a kick.. but darlin, mind the rain!" And if Gabriel's not ready, she's going to be swept off her feet and suddenly yanked into the air, sent to spin around, released bit by bit away from her as the rain pours down .. and somewhat burns.
The chain itself begins to react to the rain, which happens to be Mary's chi.. and her ankle might be burning a bit more.
That is, until she possibly gets whiplash, being let go! "Around around the Mary go round!"
COMBATSYS: Gabriel dodges Mary's Singing in the Rain.
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Gabriel 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Mary
"Your advice is well received," comments as she gets out of the way of the incoming chi and avoids the chain too, which is absolutely a serious risk. But there is more to worry about, this is after all a fight. Does Mary want to see Gabriel use her sword more? It is hard to say what anyone wants. Gabriel for that matter, on the street, might not want to get too serious. She looks at the people around her, calculating. Well whatcha gonna do.
"It shall be engraved opun your soul." Gabriel intones, raising the shard of glass high,
"Divine assault..."
"Avenging Angel!"
And with a rush, Gabriel starts to slash and slash and slash at Mary with the sharp glass, still cutting herself and probably breaking the shard in the process, thus meaning she'll be forced to replace it.
"Such is your fate."
COMBATSYS: Gabriel successfully hits Mary with Avenging Angel.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-------|=======\====---\1 Mary
As Gabriel bears down upon her, there's little that Mary is capable of doing with the blows upon her. The blade, a sharp of glass, cuts through the dress and into her skin over and over again. Unfortunate as it is, the shard not being stopped by the umbrella.. mainly because she can't get it down in time.
Staggering backwards and getting caught in the end, she shakes her head, smiling a bit, as she looks to Gabriel, red staining her dress. "Ya'll gone and done it .. I just can't stand when you cut that! It'll take forever to mend!" Angry a bit, she uses the rain to help her as she just .. begins to spin. Oh yes, and how! She spins around and around, faster and faster right nearby Gabriel..
With an ending intention to send Gabriel just plain flying with the strike!
And of course, attempt to catch her on the way down with the tip. The bladed tip. "Ya'll talk about this goddess this or angel that.. what're ya'll about anyways?" She asks, genuinely curious.. of course, there are other, important things here.. beyond the deep slash.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel blocks Mary's Element of Fun.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-----==|=======\=====--\1 Mary
Gabriel meanwhile hunckers down to take the blow head on and let her body distruput the force of it, she's no longer in any rush here, more than happy to let things progress it seems, you can tell by her general lack of outward annoyance, really takes it out of you to make an attack like that, at least takes it out of Gabriel who is now looking far more calculating.
"I am about saving the world from itself. The sin of the people has grown so great that the only thing that can possibly save it now is a cleansing of all things, that is what my quest is to accomplish.
Gabriel then shifts entirely and goes on the offensive, but hardly more than a quick charge and palm strike.
COMBATSYS: Mary interrupts Quick Punch from Gabriel with Cookiedough Creme Banana Cupcake!.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel hunkers down to take the blow head on, Mary hits directly on .. and in the end, not much altogether happens. Gabriel just takes the blow. It's not unexpected altogether, but the success was not part of the effort, the effort was part of the success.
"The world from it self. Why, now, I'm tryin' ta save the world itself as well.. just prepare it for later. You're passin' the test just perfectly darlin'. Just watch yerself..." She trails off as she mentions 'cleanse all things'.
"Oh like cleaning a dish, or washing a shirt? Heehee.. by golly! What an idea. But .. you still ripped my dress, darlin'." And the quick charge and palm strike comes! .. Mary, seeing how things are going, has put it upon herself to be .. far more offensive at this point. "And I gotta repay ya! So let's play something new!" The fist strikes, but the U shaped hook is attached, then locked around the chain. "Now .. just sit back and enjoy the ride." Her eyes, white iris' gleaming in the darkness created by her own clouds, might become obvious. The rain begins to pour down as Mary literately almost slides across the ground, using her chi to keep her moving. She yanks first away from Gabriel to send her flying into the air, upwards, the rain now burning, much like acid, but not to Mary.
Oh, on the contrary! Mary is doing fine, the chi dripping down her skin as she reverses direction, causing the line to taught as she uses the chain to whip Gabriel around once, and then to grate her against the ground, kicking up the rain.
One more quick pull releases Gabriel.. into a puddle of the chi, and leaves Mary swinging the end opf the chain, before she slides it away.
"Teeehee... the weather's just so random some days, isn't it?"
She used water. Gabriel purified people with water.. And swords and well faith based chi, but this, this was something else. Despite that it hurts.. A lot, she actually does kind of enjoy it. This was a power she could apprecaite after all, it was .. water.. Water based Chi. Her idea of purifying the world did generally consist of doing so in a rather large flood.
"I do not think it is..." she says with a small gasp for air, after picking herself up slowly with the water chi dripping off her too, only far less pleasantly.
"I do not think it is in the Goddess' will that I destroy you," Gabriel says, bracing herself some while focusing her attention on Mary.
"Therefore I shall not do so unless you force me to, which would be a pity." She's tired and breathing more heavily, watching Mary's every move.
"As it is impolite to demand of someone else their name first, I shall introduce myself, Kai Gabriel, Crusader of Light." She gives a small half bow, never taking her eyes off Mary.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel focuses on her next action.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-======|=====--\-------\0 Mary
"Perhaps.. it ain't. But it's not not not not random, what do y'say?" She concludes, twirling the chain around and around, over and over. Yet as Gabriel explains that it may not be in the will for her to be destroyed. "Really? But I still want to see the outcome. We can't just leave it on such an edge.. fight to the end for part of the game, what do you say, just no deaths... that's what I want to see!" She explains, somewhat energized.
"It may not come out in my favor.. but I want to see which of us is going to make it out of this! How 'bout that darlin'? A friendly finish .. and my name's .. well, it's Mary. Mary Contrary, that's who I am.." Well, who she is now.
"I really don't have a nice title like y'self, but I like to think it's more in actions than what's said!" Which explains why she takes off a moment later. The chain spinning in her hands is replaced with the Umbrella, a single lunge towards Gabriel as she stays put, attempting to crash through whatever she's planning and straight into the woman! "How 'bout it then ... let's see who comes out of this!"
It's a straight dash on the remaining water, almost sliding.
The end is NEAR!
COMBATSYS: Gabriel blocks Mary's Well Begun Is Half Done.
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Gabriel 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Mary
The slash wasn't so unexpected, Gabriel draws back when it comes in and lets it deflect off of her some, her eyes narrowing just slightly before she turns the force back the other way and charges at Mary, giving a spinning open palmed back fist in response, the purely physical rebuke aimed at putting a stop to this fight once and for all it seems. Somehow she finds time to speak,
"So be it then."
That is all, but lethal force is clearly not her intent. She doesn't replace her shard of glass or use a whole lot of energy, she only tries to give back what she got.
COMBATSYS: Mary blocks Gabriel's Divine Retribution.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Mary
As Gabriel draws back, letting the Umbrella deflect off her, Mary is growing desperate. She's unable to deal with the assaults for much longer, and as Gabriel turns back the physical rebuke towards her, aiming to end the fight once and for all.. the umbrella comes up.
Struck through it, Mary is caused to slide back a bit, the rain helping her absorb the blow. But it's not doing so well. "Yes.. so close. I wonder who's going to end this? Fun game.. I haven't felt like this .. ever. I could get used to something like this." It's still new to Mary, the rush she gets from being able to compete in such things like this. Part of her enjoyment is making it a little game.
Work, after all, doesn't need to be unpleasant.
"I'm glad youre gettin' into the spirit of it darlin'!" Clearing out of breathe, Mary tries something .. a finale, if you will. The umbrella isn't whipped, but the bottom of the Umbrella does swing out towards Gabriel, intending to grasp on.. And then Mary yanks, putting her shoulder into it, and Gabriel..
And if Gabriel slips over, she'll be finding some heels on her, even if she doesn't, and they're oddly sharp.. perfect for digging deeper!
COMBATSYS: Gabriel dodges Mary's Steppin Time.
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Gabriel 0/-------/-======|======-\-------\0 Mary
One step two step and Gabriel steps with Mary, so close is their proximity and the importance of the moves that it almost looks like they are dancing rather than fighting. Hardly a hair's breath away from the older woman, and her eyes never leave the others. Very much like an intimate dance. She uses those eyes to read movements and if she misreads.. It's good night. But then for a moment she has an opening in the step, she can attack now, her bet bet..
"Is now!" exclaims Gabriel and sends a palm at her with a bright flash of purple chi.
COMBATSYS: Gabriel successfully hits Mary with Palm Snap.
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Of course.. it ends! Oh, and how it ends. But it's not enough to stop her at this time .. or is it?
Gabriel steps to the side, and Mary staggers, unable to pull away, the palm slamming into her chest and causing her to fall back.. yet at the same time, she whips around the end of the chain, attempting to grab her leg..
Because as she falls backwards, she yanks with the last of her effort, attempting to pull, and heft her up.. up .. and then crash her against the ground.
Meanwhile.. she's unable to keep going, falling back in the 'water' as the clouds part. "Hah... Hah.. now that .. was certainly somethin' darlin..."
COMBATSYS: Mary can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Gabriel dodges Mary's Utter Nonsense.
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Gabriel continues to 'dance' around the chain. And ends up keeping close proximity to Mary. Perhaps thiis will free her from being grabbed by the chain. Chains were probably harder to use at any range or distance and maybe with a little hop at the end. Gabriel takes a few steps back and then when it seems like maybe Mary is done tryinig to hurt her, Gabriel drops down and plants herself on the ground. Looking over at the rather unusual woman with a rather perplexed expression, though remains utterly silent.
As Gabriel ends up out of the way of the chain, Mary smirks, clicking something on the umbrella. The J shape of the hook attached back into it's hold, as Mary lays there for a moment more, Gabriel dropping down. Opening an eye, the pale woman pushes herself up.. slowly and surely.
"That was the end then .. another one out of my grasp and so close. But you passed the test." She exclaims, clapping a bit, before twirling the umbrella, putting up back over her shoulder. Oh, she was hurt, but in the end.. she could survive to a point.
"Quite a good one. Hadn't had anything like that in .. ever." She claims, before starting off.. But she does stop.
"Anythin' else? Don't want to jus' run off, but I'm busy at times.. and I need to fix this up." The red mark that she's staggering due to.
Gabriel was pretty ragged out herself, but she opens her palm where the glass shard had been and it's clear the cut is already mostly closed. Another moment and who knows what will happen. But she closes her hand, not giving away just how well her hand may or may not mend.
"You intend to leave then. Very well.. Do as you will, I think I am content for the time." Gabriel admits. She's not about to get up though, she will take some time to catch her breath and then perhaps head home, to wherever that is.
It's no small feat that Mary pulls herself to her feet, but to keep pushing on .. it's an effort that is a bit silly in the end, although Mary is quite content with it. "Alright Darlin'.. I'm sure I'll se ya'll around another time." She exclaims. Oh, and how she might. There's plenty of times to test and re-test. Who knows exactly when one might be necessary?
And plus .. she'll have the time to speak to Urien of what she has found so far. One of a healing woman.
And away she staggers, slowly but surely.. back to report.
Log created on 15:12:17 06/20/2008 by Mary, and last modified on 20:39:14 06/20/2008.