Description: Hurricane Hime meets a relative newcomer to the Neo League for a match atop the Giesel Library in San Diego. What she doesn't know is this gives said newcomer the home field advantage. Oops. (Winner: Nikita)
This edition of League Fight excitement brings two fighters back to the United States of America. How about that! However the specific spot is the University of California San Diego at the quite famous Geisel Library. It's a breathtaking structure, especially as it heads toward evening!
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However it's a little different than one might expect for a battleground, instead of the ground floor, the battle is to take place on the roof; two seperate lifts available to raise the fighters. The first, it'd seem, is the black and very pink clad Hurricane Hime, her hands raised in the air in V's while her mildly otaku fanbase cheer for the crazy, tiny, dark-skinned fighter! "OOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!" she cries reaching the third to top floor and leaps onto the gravel with her signature entrance, her flying backkick and a cry of, "mmmMMMORTALS!!"
Her opponent.. Well, she's not really sure who they are, but she seems to be more interested in striking poses for the Masters League cameras, Johnny Bravo-style, "Hoo! Hah! HOAAH!"
Man, that's kind of weird! Nikita joins this Neo League deal on orders from her counselor, and the first place they send her is back to the city she was born in? Way to throw off her game! ...even though, the building chosen as their arena does itself look more like something you'd find in Japan. It'd fit right in next to a shinto shrine, or perhaps the Komiket building.
Not that any of that is enough to console the Seijyun Samurai. She doesn't want to be here right now, since it seems like she only just got back from a brief visit mere weeks ago. Standing on her own lift with her arms crossed until it reaches the top, she shouts, "Tsch, let's get this over with, then!" and steps out onto the roof to join Himeko, placing one hand near the hilt of her katana.
At that point, the members of the NL crew shrug at each other and decide to call for the match to start. And as soon as Nikita hears the words, she draws her katana for what seems like only a split second before sheathing it again, quietly uttering the words 'Sonic Sword' under her breath as a visible blade of amber-colored energy goes flying out in front of her, twisting through the air as it careens toward the Saikyo girl opposite her.
COMBATSYS: Nikita has started a fight here.
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Nikita 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Himeko has joined the fight here.
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Himeko 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nikita
COMBATSYS: Nikita successfully hits Himeko with Sonic Sword.
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Himeko 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Nikita
Swords? Well, those do beat knives and rapiers, Hime thinks.. Though she actually finds this to be a very good opportunity as practice against her arch nemesis of sorts! Although that doesn't really look like a rapier but how different can swords be? The tiny fighter's scarf flaps back widly, as she drops into an ansatsukenish stance, "All right, but I personally don't think you're rea- WHAT THE??" 'D:' face as the energy seems to come out of nowhere and toward her! She shifts a bit to the side, but that isn't quite enough to keep her safe as she's hit dead on and ends up falling onto her back.
"Oof.." she kip-ups to her feet, and then goes dashing at her opponent, one fist extended, "Interesting delivery, but lacking in flash! Watch .. THIS!!" she cries, the girl leaps into the air, twists her hips and fires another flying back kick.. But this time up at Nikita's gut! She's.. Really tall. "Immortal Kick!!!" VERY cool pose! Well, if it connects!
COMBATSYS: Nikita blocks Himeko's Light Kick.
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Himeko 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Nikita
Nikita draws her weapon up out of the jacket that's tied around her waist like an obi, holding it out level with Himeko's foot so that all she strikes is the decorated scabbard. "Soo... is that some sort of cosplay you're doing there? I mean I like the scarf, but--" ...she doesn't seem to have any problem with cutting some of the other parts of the bookworm's outfit! Because the very next thing she does is unsheathe her sword and turn it sideways to whip out a quick, backhanded slash while her opponent is close.
COMBATSYS: Nikita successfully hits Himeko with Power Strike.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Nikita
"H- Huh? Cosplay??" Hime sputters back to Nikita, more suprised about that than the tall schoolgirls ability to block her kick like that! It might even be the reason the sudden slash of the sword meets its mark, causing the girl to stagger back again with a slice across her uniform and.. Is there something white behind it? "No way, do you need your eyes checked??" She didn't fall back far, she's actually able to move fast enough to try and grab that sword-swinging arm, hopefully getting a tight grip..
So she can twist to the side and slam Nikita to the ground with a one-arm seoi nage! Hime adds then, one hand clenched into a fist and the other lowered so she can touch the gravel floor. "I am a bonified genuine real-deal SUPERHERO! Hurricane! Himeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
COMBATSYS: Nikita blocks Himeko's Quick Throw.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0 Nikita
Nikita takes a bit longer than she probably needs to put her sword back in its sheath, twirling it elegantly and flicking it out as if to clean blood from it before sliding it down into the scabbard and jamming the whole thing back down into the jacket she uses for a belt.
It's really not much of a surprise to see her get grabbed by the other fighter while she's in the middle of such an unnecessary display, but she doesn't allow herself to be brought all the way down nevertheless. The black samurai schoolgirl ends up catching herself on one knee instead, hissing as she scrapes it a bit.
"What, seriously? You're not just an actress that plays one on TV or something, are you?" she asks, wrenching her arm free and hopping away to a clear distance, where she places one hand on her scabbard, and the other on the hilt of her sword. A subtle amber glow begins to radiate from her as she does so, with her eyes narrowing and her lips pursing a bit.
COMBATSYS: Nikita gathers her will.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Nikita
With a light hop back, Hurricane Hime seems to be more readily in a defensive position.. At first! However from Nikita's suprise, the small fighter could only grin and grin quite big in return. "On TV? You mean like get paid for it? You're not just an actress that gets paid to fight on television, are you?" she offers back with a wink.
"But you see, I am the defender of knowledge! I am she whom does not allow illiteracy!" The amber glow of Nikita seems to be duplicated by the heroine, taking a more whitish glow however as she rushes to her taller foe.
once she's in close, she unsheaths her fan from behind, the tip ablaze and trailing similar white energy which she first swings overhead to slam the chi over fro-girls head, "HYAAAH!!" and then she crouches and rockets upward, trying to hit her a second time with it.
COMBATSYS: Nikita interrupts Ghost Writer from Himeko with Bloody Sunday.
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Himeko 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Nikita
Nikita blinks a few times, shaking her head. "I'm not, but... I'm not the one saying she's a superhero! I *am* a samurai, though..." the Seijyun student goes on to proclaim in response, just before Himeko strikes.
"Ow!!" she ends up crying, with the lit-up fan pushing her snow white afro down enough that she can feel it hit the top of her skull. But the fluffy head of hair seems to poof right back out the way it was afterward, but before it can quite become a two hit combo, she draws out her sword and spins up at about the same time the Saikyo fighter does, slashing at her and sending powerful waves of sound energy out in wide, slicing arcs. And in this case they happen to be red in color, hence.. "Bloody Sunday!"
"YEOOOW!!" Hurricane Hime has to get that out first, because the energy most certainly makes its point with its partner the sword that ends up messing up her costume yet again! Though there's kind of a neat little 'x' there now, but the white behind it appears to be soaking up a bit of red. That was really quick!
Though the red is not form the chi, that much is for sure and after a quick tumble along the gravel she's on her feet in a crouch to screech to a halt. She stands up, brushes off her knees and then gets into battle stance! ".. What? A samurai??" she says with a frown. But.. But there's no armor? And on top of that.. She's american. Probably african american at that. ".. Um.. Are.. Are you sure about that?" she asks scritching her cheek. But then she's back in action, rushing toward the other while reaching at her thigh-holster and whips out a handful of collectable trading cards! They link togeather as she drops into a baseball slide to try and tag Nikita's ankle. If she can, the paper wraps about the area and when she's on her feet she snaps the rope like a shockwave that would sling the other upward into the air and sharply back on the ground!!
COMBATSYS: Himeko successfully hits Nikita with Picture Pages.
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Himeko 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Nikita
Nikita gives a firm nod after landing, clicking her sword back into its sheathe and taking a slow, calming breath, closing her eyes so that she doesn't have to see the frown on Himeko's face. "Positive. It's in my blood. But I mean... what's someone like you think they're doing judging books by their covers anyway?"
She looked like she had a little more than that to say, but it seems that her feet aren't quick enough to avoid getting tagged by the Hurricane's card trick. The ropelike thing loops around her ankle and launches her up in the air before she knows it and she falls on her rump. "Ungh!" the girl grunts, pushing back up to her feet and taking a more guarded stance while she waits for another good opening.
COMBATSYS: Nikita focuses on her next action.
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Himeko 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Nikita
As Nikita settles back after her fall and seems to be gearing up for.. Well.. -Something-, Hime is still seeming pretty NOT convinced of her opponents expertise. She can't help but laugh to the question though, she thrusting her pointer finger at Nikita, "It's funny you say that, didn't I tell you that I'm the defender of knowledge? I am the master of books and all that are in them! There's probably no one in the -world- who can judge a book by its cover better than I can! Ha HA!!!"
Hime thrusts forth a thumbs up at her opponent and withdraws a text-book from her scarf with the other. The book is held by it's spine in the air and takes a bright glow, which she then uses to chop at the air in front of her, a barrage of glowing white papers flying out of them, probably about twelve. She twirls around and unleases two smaller barrages, ending on one knee with a dynamic pose! "Hey, I'm just saying! I look like a superhero! You don't look like a samurai! ... Uh.. At all, actually. Check out my awesome pose while you ponder that!"
COMBATSYS: Nikita dodges Himeko's Schoolhouse Rock!.
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Himeko 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Nikita
Nikita errs, and gives Himeko an odd look. That made absolutely no sense. "So you're saying... you don't *read* the books before judging them? You just look at the cover and-- Fine, just nevermind." the swordwielding schoolgirl remarks, giving an exasperated sigh and shaking her head.
It's then that all the pages begin to fly out of the book Hime brandishes, and as they come spinning at her like shurikens, Nikki rolls quickly to one side, then the other and back again, narrowly avoiding each and every single one! Then, when she's finally clear of all of them, she draws her weapon and lifts it way up high over her head, staying down on one knee and gathering all of her chi into the blade before swinging it toward Himeko, stopping only when the metal strikes the roof they're battling on. The energy pours off the end of the katana like some kind of laserbeam until it either makes contact with the other girl or exhausts itself.
COMBATSYS: Nikita successfully hits Himeko with Sky Render.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|=======\==-----\1 Nikita
"Wa ha ha h--- Erk.." Hime just.. Blinks as she watches Nikita very very athletically get through her barrage of papers.. Ok, she has to admit that.. That was pretty samuraish.. Though maybe a little more NINJ-ESQUE. The attack that follows, however, just looks -dangerous-. She quickly withdraws her textbook, thrusting it forward to engage in a brief clash with the energy.. But it doesn't quite hold up as slams Hime down onto the ground, she grunting as she hits the gravel one more time. Just.. Ow!
"That's one crazy sword though, I gotta admit." she mumbles from her face down position, in which she then curls up into a ball, rolls backward, and holds out her arms like airplane wings. "I'm going to have to start pulling out my REAL DEAL poses! Try some of this!!!" she cries, ignoring the comment about book judgery at this point!
COMBATSYS: Himeko gains composure.
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Himeko 0/-------/----===|=======\==-----\1 Nikita
Well, the tradeoff is of course that it took a lot of Nikita's energy to use such a technique. She looks pretty winded afterward, and none too happy about it. She still wants to be able to get out of here quickly when this is all over and how's she going to do that if she doesn't leave herself enough energy to run without taking tons and tons of breathers? She needs to try and conserve more energy.
...but that's a little hard for her to do when her opponent would rather pose at her like a Power Ranger than attack, so she just ends up having to draw out her sword and take the initiative again anyway. Even if she does use more conservative movements, like jabbing at Hime's shoulder instead of doing one of her wider slashes.
COMBATSYS: Nikita successfully hits Himeko with Quick Strike.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|=======\==-----\1 Nikita
Oops, Nikita doesn't look very intimidated! That's. That's a bad thing! "Woah.." Well, Hime has ways of dealing with people who won't be intimidated and that's by getting hit in the shoulder, which is exactly what she does, grimacing from the more than annoying attack. SHe staggers slightly, but then lashes back pretty quickly, as her opposite hand is clasping her oversized harrisen again. This time she intends to swing up and try to slam the energy that bursts from it's tip under Nikita's chin to send her upward.
A burst of energy sends her scarf flapping upward as she then slings the weapon, making the end extend to grab the samurai's ankle and whip her back down onto the ground with another pose, "HYWAAAAAH!!"
COMBATSYS: Himeko successfully hits Nikita with Mulligan Stew.
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Himeko 0/-------/---====|=======\======-\1 Nikita
Nikita has more important things to do than get scared. Such as... go home! Which isn't to say she's ready to forfeit or anything, as she plans to stay in this fight to the end. She just wants to make sure that end comes soon.
"Wh- not this again!!" Sure, there's a lot more to this attack than just the leg-lasso thing from before, but the end result is the part that sucks the most, and she's not able to catch herself even a little bit this time.
"Oh that is *it*!!!" Yeah, when her temper flares up she just forgets all about saving enough energy to run back to the airport. She's ready to use every last ounce of it to pay Himeko back for all the bruises she's gonna have later. As soon as she kicks back up to her feet, she shouts, "GenGoKen...!"
And then the Seijyun Samurai goes gliding across the rooftop for several meters, seemingly on a collision course with the other girl, and when she's within arm's length she slashes upward with both hands gripping her sword, the blade vibrating with so much invisible force that it's capable of stunning a person. If such a thing happens to Himeko here, then she's about to find herself surrounded and assaulted by what seems like an army of Nikitas as the iaidoka circles her faster than any normal person's eyes could track.
COMBATSYS: Himeko blocks Nikita's GenGoKen.
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Himeko 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Nikita
Hime closes her eyes a moment.. She's sure she looks very... VERY cool right now after that move! But when one eye opens due to Nikita's yell, the girl hops to her feet and gestures to come hither, "Then do your worst, Samurai Girl!" as her other hand resheaths her fan. But things get crazy really.. REALLY fast. She reaches for her book, but when the first major slash slams into her book, she ends up dropping it for some reason, and spits a bit of blood. That.. That was kind of weird!
But it seems she's still able to move, and Hime tumbles forward, probably not giving the samurai much reason to continue her assault! Panting heavier now, she ends up dashing forward again leaps into the air; and with a bit of air she curls into a ball and BARRELS toward Nikita like a pin and black bowling ball, "Justice.. ROLLING!!!" she cries, looking to slam into and bounce off of her!
COMBATSYS: Nikita dodges Himeko's Strong Punch.
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Himeko 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Nikita
Yeah, it doesn't really work if Nikita loses her momentum in the middle of it like that. Maybe it's the sword's fault, or maybe it's hers, but the fact remains that she just doesn't ever get up enough speed to do anything cooler than cut a textbook! ...and make her opponent cough up blood for some unknown reason!
"Damn!" she mutters under her breath, regretting her wasted efforts even as she dives out of the way of the barrel-rolling Saikyo student. But almost as soon as she hits the ground, she rolls back to a crouching position and pushes off into a dead run, drawing her sword and trying to pass by the shorter girl and hopefully cutting her about thigh level in the process. "Hnn...!" Okay her own legs are really feeling tired now.
COMBATSYS: Nikita successfully hits Himeko with Power Strike.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Himeko 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Nikita
Hurricane Hime unrolls, screeching on her heels and turns around juuust in time to see Nikita sprinting toward her? She rubs at her lips with the back of her glove and she leaps upward, her obvious counter to a low strike but she's just completely unlucky in clearing the strike as the sword slams into the shins of her boots, cuts straight through that and into her shins, causing her to flip right over the weapon and crashes head first into the gravel with a very very painful sounding crack.
Hime flops onto her back, twitches a bit, and then slowly sits up, slapping a hand over her left leg. ".. O.. Ow. What the heck." But she can't see the damage, so she's pretty much good save for the searing pain in her legs. And so she stands once more, grinning while rubbing the bridge of her nose, and then sprints forward one more time, seeming to be running on pure adrenaline! "Ok! Here I go!" cards in hand, she shapes a pole which she digs into the ground to vault herself, and then slam the weapon down onto the girls noggin! The paper would then bend, wrapping about Nikita's neck and she slips behind back-to-back tugging sharply in a choke hold. Then she musters enough strength to high kick Nikki hard enough to send her upward, and proceeds to twirl and twirl until the 'rope' breaks! Sending the heroine crashing onto her back, looking completely dizzy!
COMBATSYS: Himeko can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Nikita blocks Himeko's Tensai Terebikun MAX.
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Nikita 0/-------/--=====|
It was a desperate move, so Nikita wasn't really expecting to catch Himeko with it, let alone do that much damage to her. But she wasn't messing around, either, so there was a serious amount of effort put toward making the hit count on the off chance that it *did* land, so the result isn't pretty. Even she winces at it a little.
That doesn't mean she drops her guard any, though. In fact, as soon as the Saikyo superhero gets back on her feet and starts fashioning that weapon out of cards, the taller samurai girl shifts to an even more defensive sword stance.
Like this, she's able to deflect the descending pole with her sheath. And though that doesn't seem to stop the weapon from finding a way to wrap around her neck and start choking her for a minute, there comes a point where the paper noose ends up getting cut in two, leaving Himeko with nothing left to tug against. "Nnph! That's enough!"
COMBATSYS: Nikita has ended the fight here.
Himeko pants a bit, trying to push herself up but. She's way too tired at the moment she just doesn't have it in her! "... Oof wow, that was a tough one.." she groans, turning onto her side and looks up.. Waaay up at the samurai ninja. She slowly raises one hand as she says, "You... You... You....."
And the motion jerks to a THUMBS UP as she yells, "You are ALL RIGHT!! A little saikyo to you're style and you'll be INVINCIBLE! .... Whelp, time to take a nap." And she does. She curls up into a ball and just snoozes as the winner is declared.
Log created on 19:31:02 06/27/2008 by Nikita, and last modified on 11:48:14 06/30/2008.