Description: A battle between two fierce competitor-Hahahah yeah right. WATCH AS MIGHTY MAIDEN MIGNON FIGHTS THE SMILEY HAPPY CHERISE TO THE CLIMAX OF THE VERY FIGHT! What could .. possibly go wrong in this fight!? Cherise .. also might be related to Golbez( or was that another one..)! SHOCKING NEWS INSIDE! ( Winner: Mignon )
Metro City is no stranger to battles legal and shady, from the streets above to the sewers below, to the platforms of the subway station. Which, today, the arrangements with the city have been made to do just that. The 10th Avenue station at the Green Line has been commandeered by the staff of the Neo-League, leased out for as long as it takes for the crew to set up, have their event, and then get the fudge outta town.
Cherise Bouchard knows this city fairly well. It was one of her first stops when she made the hop across the Atlantic from her remote little home in the south of France, where she took so many pictures and met so many brand new people. She stopped at nearly every store, it seemed, too. Metro City was also where something else important to her happened:
The very city where she first met her partner, Shihong Mao.
Pleasant and skippy all the way to the station, greeting security and the League staff, she cuts beyond the cameras and down to the platform where temporary barricades have been erected in front of the yellow warning stripe on the ledge, a sort of 'out of bounds' warning in the event a train passes by in the two tunnels on either side of them. The staff is set up at two points on the platform, next to the staircases that lead back up to the terminal level with extra cameras on temporary mounts set up on walls, support pillars, and the ceiling itself.
Dressed in much her usual, the zip-up black minidress and the knee-high black boots, Cherise throws her arms behind her back and weaves her fingers together, nothing but smiles and amusement. And who was it they were going to set her up against, again?
Metro City is certainly some place that has a baaaad track record, but people are doing things to help places get better! And today, it seems like some good, in some degree, shall eek out and into the subway of Metro City!
Okay, so Mignon's visited Metro City maybe once? And she really only went there because of .. another Neo League! But Mignon is not scared of any any ANYTHING so it's not hard to expect she'll show up .. she's just late, that's all.. which is sort of normal for Mignon, once you meet her.
As Cherise skips towards the platform, another member of the fight skips forwards.. and it happens to be, obviously, the other fighter. Except the other fighter is painfully different from Cherise in so many ways that it's like they went 'who doesn't have the track record of this lady, and wears bright clothing. Alot of it.'.
AND VIOLA, MIGNON. Pink hair that is curled up so tightly that it seems to be a mass of pink hair trailing neck high, and two side curls to her head, Mignon bounds in, wearing space boots, black stretch pants, a white formal shirt ( lacy ) and then a red coat like thing that trails down to her space boots. She also happens to have lacy arm coverings, covering everything from the elbow up.. and on her boots and in her hands? .. FLASHY PINK THINGS!
"HIIIIIIIIIIII~! Mignon hopes she's not late! Mignon was hungry so she had a bit too much to eat .. but that's okay because Mignon will work it all off as she uses this fight in order to fuel Mignon's fight against evil!" She exclaims, running down the stairs.. and tripping. "A-AAAH!" She rolls down the stairs, quite a bit actually, before coming to a stop within the platform. "Aaah.. Mignon's alright, Mignon's alright! She'll be up up uppity in no time!" And leaping up, more loudmouthing. "YAAAAaaay! See, Mignon's up again!"
Oh, and she's definitely smiling too. And she seems just happy, doesn't she? THEN she notices Cherise. "Hi missy, you're here for this too? Oh... did you come to cheer Mignon on!?"
Ah yes, out she goes, the massive bundle of pink and black. The bright colors! The fancy costume! The comical tripping! The whole way that she carries herself! Perhaps some people would be horribly embarassed to be associated with a fight like this, but...
"Ha ha ha ha ha, oh~!"
Hand on her stomach while the other wipes the tears welling in her eyes, the French girl's bouncing shoulders and the shift from one foot to the other makes it clear she -isn't- a lot of other fighters. "I was told I would be meeting someone unique, but I see this was quite the understatement!"
Rubbing her thumb and tear-stained forefinger together after making sure her cosmetics don't get all smudgey and runny, Cherise gives a sharp flick of her wrist, glints of silver swishing through the air before settling. In the unnaturally bright artificial light of the subway, the glaring flourescent bulbs may shed light on what just happened: Around her, laid out in a near perfect circle around her, is a length of silvery wire.
"I am Cherise," she says, the smile wholly amused. But then her head tilts a little. Not quite 'evil,' per se, but something about the girl is certainly off, from the wide, bright blue eyes and smile that only seems to get larger.
"Make me feel good, okay~?"
Mignon blinks a bit. Unique? Mignon's heard a lot of things before, but unique? "Oh you like Mignon's .. self? YAAAY! Mignon's liked!" She leaps upwards, arms stretched, as she leaps upwards, up and down, up and down, her space boots making little PIKU PIKU sounds as she moves .. any movement that will cause enough rattling into the pink bauble.
She does have her own style, that's for certain.
And then Mignon notices something .. there's some shimmering in air, and then on the ground, and Mignon oooohs, looking at it. "Oh Mignon thinks that's really pretty, so what is it for?" Mignon asks once she puts her hands behind her back and takes a few steps in the same direction. "Oh, Mignon's happy to meet someone new!... Huh?" Blinking for a moment, Mignon has yet another question cross her mind, and leans forwards.
"Pssst! .. PSSSST!" She notes. And then whispering, she asks Cherise something quite important.
"Mignon's not sure what you like so Mignon can't make you feel good! Mignon's not sure how you make someone feel good while fighting! .. It hurts, Mignon knows that."
End whisper! Bouncing back, Mignon's a bit too dense to understand completely. Yet at least!
Far be it from her to rag on someone else for the way they dress, or how flashy and showy they choose to make themselves during a battle. Cherise has her own style, from the flashy executions of energy to the way she manipulates her wires. But the look on her face is genuinely priceless when Mignon claims to not understand what she means, before it turns into something like a kid in a candy store. Could she really be -that- green? -That- new to the ways of the world?
Her arm reels backward, the wire singing through the air and reeling back a good distance. "I will show you what I mean," she says, her body language screaming that she's about to start. The cameras have been rolling for the whole time-- they know the French girl well, and her unpredictability making her predictable enough to know to keep the tape rolling as long as they can.
The self-proclaimed 'mere guitarist' springs to motion, sprinting at Mignon with speedy, pounding footsteps before whipping her arm around and leaping into the air, aiming to get herself over Mignon and behind her back-- behind her back long enough to hook the length of wire around her neck with both hands, pull it taut, and then in a throw that bastardizes all concepts of Judo, pull the pink-haired superheroine over her shoulder and spike her into the ground. She's strangely cautious as she does it, too-- after all, this is a whole new opponent she knows nothing about.
COMBATSYS: Cherise has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Mignon has joined the fight here.
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Mignon 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Cherise
COMBATSYS: Mignon blocks Cherise's Argent Filament.
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Mignon 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Cherise
Well.. the world is always new for Mignon! Whether that be a good thing or not, it still seems to be .. what it is, really, and that's faaaantastic!
Unfortunately, her day plans didn't actually include women in skin-tight black suits leaping over her, springing like some kind of wild elk, before she ends up behind her! "W-WOAH!" Mignon exclaims as Cherise vanishes from her sight. "Where'd she go!? Mignon lost her already!?" Mignon begins to say, but it's .. choking time! The length of wire around her neck is pulled, Mignon seeing the shiny thing! She loves them you know.
"Oh Cherise, Mignon found you-GACK!" She cries, hands grasping the length of wire, sliding quickly under it and then resisting when she's pulled about. Instead, Mignon is slid across the ground on her feet as her hands hold on tight to the wire. Nooo she doesn't want to fly through the air without air that's bad!
And finally, she pulls it off, hacking a bit. "A..Ah.. Mignon thought .. thought she was done for!" She exclaims, before pointing towards Cherise. "Oh .. now I see.. you like THAT! But Mignon doesn't .. so Mignon will have to play your game! Even if Mignon is a bit confused and scared .. Mignon doesn't know how someone could like that!" Apparently she has a habit of announcing things.
Which would explains Mignon suddenly kicking off towards Cherise and extending her hands outwards, spiralling like a Mig-top, baubles held outwards as she spins. "Spinning loop~!" She adds in of course.. and begins to spin a bit towards Cherise, spiralling around, baubles first .. But then staggering out of it, dizzy.
"Heehee, wow .. that's fun!"
COMBATSYS: Cherise blocks Mignon's One Revolution.
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Mignon 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Cherise
For as loud as she is, she's a little more deft and alert than she claims. The speedy squirm-about that frees her from Cherise's wires is telling enough in that respect, fighting her way out of the throw in a clever manner. When the wire's grip on her neck is broken, she lets go of it and twists her wrist, hand flicking back to clear the slack and keep the line from getting tangled on itself.
The way she announces things and bounces around suggests that she's as naive as she looks. And the spinning lariat-style attack that comes in at her, well, that means she's going to have to do her best to stop it. Twisting herself around, bringing up her left arm, she soaks the blow against her forearm and lets the strike sweep the guarding limb back, pushing off from the ground and landing a short distance back. Treaded rubber bootsoles squeak on the concrete platform as she drops into a short crouch, letting her right palm turn outward... toward Mignon.
"Will you like this?"
Bringing her hand up as she stands upright, her fingers fan out and release blades of paper-thin silver energy-- energy that screams over the distance between the two and tries to bite, shred, cut, and tear into Mignon on impact. The strange force is odd, like it's attacking her "on the inside." Still, the energy does try to do some external damage: By literally being sharp enough, even for energy, to shred clothing and draw blood.
"Ha ha ha ha ha~!"
COMBATSYS: Cherise successfully hits Mignon with Argent Claw.
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Mignon 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Cherise
And as Cherise comes back, twisting about, Mignon watches as the paper-thin silver energy objects come screaming towards her, intending to tear and cut and shred poor poor Mignon! And when Mignon picks this up, her eyes go wide. "Heeeey is that magic!?" She calls out, before she kicks off the ground, "Aiee! Too close too close Mignon's too cl-Whaaah!" And then stab! The blades strikes her alright, and are quite sharp, some internal damage and external damage indeed done.. but really.. there's something else that's noticeable.
Thud thump rollroll. Mignon .. gets up afterwards, kicking to her feet in a matter of moments, even with the drawn blood, and the energy. "Owie ow ow owwwww! Now that reaaally stung, so Mignon doesn't like it miss! But Mignon not sure that's magic.. because Mignon knows about magic! .. But Mignon's sure that's not magic so what is it, huh huh huh?" She asks, before shaking herself off.. bleeding indeed, but still not very much.
And then she flips forwards, one leg and then the other, before launching right at Cherise! "MROWW!"
The Mignon is on the prowl!
COMBATSYS: Cherise interrupts Strong Punch from Mignon with Argent Striker.
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Mignon 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Cherise
"Magic? ... Are you serious? Ha ha ha, oh, you're so cute. Do not change, ever!" Cherise exclaims, hand coming to half-cover her mouth as she laughs. And as she tumbles and the energy dissipates, it reminds the French girl for a moment-- she really doesn't know what it is, either. And Mao doesn't know, either, but Suzume and some of her other friends, it-- well. It's hard.
As Mignon comes streaking in toward her, Cherise's stance lowers a little, legs separating further and her arm wheeling upward. "That is--" she says, all while the fist slams down into her face, and even taking the blow straight on to the jaw. But then she distinctly starts to -move-, her hands gripping Mignon's offending wrist before she's just not even there-- sprinting past the bouncy girl and coming to a halt in a blur of motion. Wire hisses in the air before closing down on Mignon's wrist, and Cherise adds in a fierce -tug-.
Pulling the magical girl off her footing, the silver-haired assassin lunges back in and thrusts her left fist in, driving her knuckles up into Mignon's ribs under the arms-- and releasing a massive burst of silver energy, one that releases her wrist from the wires -and- carries the force to send her flying.
"-- My own business!"
Huh? Why's she laughing? Mignon's really not sure what all the laughter is about but it REALLY must mean something! In the same vein, Mignon's only being laughed at as she charges, rawr, and then she's .. kinda slow it's true. Before suddenly the blow is taken to Cherise.. and Mignon is then grabbed by the wrist!
"W-Woah hey, what are you doing to Mignon?!" She asks, flailing, before Cherise is just gone .. and oh hey it's that silvery thing agai-YOINK.
You ever felt like it feels to be bait? Mignon has, and Mignon doesn't like feeling like bait ever! Especially now that she knows how it feels now. "Mignon ISN'T FISHY BAAAAIT!" She cries as the assassin drives those mean knuckles into her ribs, a burst of silver energy causing Mignon to be sent across the room and then BAM, bounce against the wall and fall off, the girls eyes blinking. "Woaaah Mignon flew fa-"
Waait for it. "AIIIE! OwwwwwwieeOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" She cries, rubbing her body and head and chest and everything. "Mignon ... needs .. a breathe.... no wait!" She leaps to her feet, and points to Cherise. "Mignon needs to get back into this fight, that's what Mignon needs to do! FIRE!"
What follows it literately a gunshot sound, but what erupts from her hand is anything but. It's .. a fireball. "You better watch out .. Mignon's a WITCH!" She cries, "But a good one, so don't worry!" You know how fireballs are, round, burning, and this one's a teeny bit faster than some other fire balls.. but it's just that!
COMBATSYS: Mignon successfully hits Cherise with Fire Ball.
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Mignon 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Cherise
Alas, Cherise never went fishing. It wasn't that there wasn't ever any water nearby. Ponds and lakes, of course, but she grew up doing a whole slew of other things. Things that... we won't get into, right now.
Letting out a bit of a laugh at the reaction taken by Mignon to the strike, Cherise seems to be completely shrugging off the fact she took a solid punch to the chops, content with the results of her actions. Still, when the blazing ball of flames is literally shot at her, Cherise finds herself unable to dodge away from it as quickly as she'd like.
And wham.
Thrown off her feet, though not launched across the terminal, the young Bouchard lets out a sharp, 'kuh!' before falling back to the platform and hitting hard-- arms and legs limp and not out and alert to catch her.
"Heheheh... ha ha ha... ha... hahahaha!"
Hands sweeping behind her head, Cherise's legs kick up high and then her back snaps, leaping to her feet and batting off the singed parts of her dress, smoothing down her skirt and everything. "I see you hit a little harder than I first thought. I suppose I will have to change my opinion of you, little girl~!"
And then her head tilts a little, her chin lifting and staring down at the pink-haired girl. Her gaze is penetrating, like she's just trying to utterly see -through- Mignon, and see what little secrets she could be hiding... in a proverbial sense.
COMBATSYS: Cherise focuses on her next action.
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Mignon 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Cherise
Woah.. did she really hit her that hard? Mignon blinks for a moment, looking on, and tilting her head over. "Ah.. are you okay Cherise? Mignon didn't expect to hit you THAT hard!" She exclaims, and boy, does she mean it! But it's far from important right now, because Cherise is thrown off her feet! And not even able to catch herself.. wow that's something alright..
Uh . what is going on? Mignon looks on to see Cherise kick up.. with a back snap, ooh, painful, before she seems .. alright? "Well Mignon's a witch! Mignon didn't want to surprise you early on. It wouldn't be nice!" She sticks by her guns. And those are some mighty fine guns to stick to nearby.
"... But why are you laughing Cherise? Mignon doesn't think fire tickles.. well maybe it does? .. Mignon's never found that out.. Ooooh who is Mignon kidding YOU'RE JUST SO WEIIIIIIRD!" Mignon accuses Cherise, flailing her arms up and down as she bounces in place.
"Mignon wants to be nice but Mignon can't get over that! Mignon thinks you're far too happy to be hurt.. Mignon knows you can enjoy it but Mignon doesn't think that it's healthy to enjoy it that much!" She nods to herself.. and then takes in a deeep breathe as Cherise aims to simply see through her.
"Hey .. HEEEEY!" Mignon calls out to Cherise as she just stares at her. "Mignon knows it's NOT polite to stare!" She points at Cherise, and tries to make a wall of hands infront of her.. but she only has two. "Stop it! Stooop it!"
COMBATSYS: Mignon gains composure.
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Mignon 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Cherise
*honk hooooooonk*
Lights flare in the distance as one of the tunnels fills with one of the mighty Metro silver bullets. When the horns blare, there's not even a blink from the wide-eye girl, her head tilting now to the side. Lightly, slowly. "Am I? Here we are in a roasting subway in the middle of a sanctioned fight, on camera, and yet... you are the one that stands there, laughing, shouting, and speaking in third person."
Walking forward slowly, lightly, her hands lift a bit, out to the sides. "I am dressed for the weather. You are dressed like a clown. Do you not see an error in this, even just a little bit?"
The train roars by on the tracks. Cherise goes silent, allows it to sink in. As the wind blazes by, her hair rustles and the hem of her short dress flutters, briefly flashing the strap full of knives secured around her right thigh. In that moment, as the train speeds by and rattles the makeshift barricade, Cherise sprints forward.
Springing into the air, her legs thrust forward and her hand reaches out to grab at Mignon's head. Regardless, her legs scissor up into the air and attempt to lock around her head, the silver-haired girl's weight falling low to swing like a pendulum-- and the ultimate attempt, the ultimate result, will end with trying to throw Mignon off her feet and fling her across the platform.
COMBATSYS: Cherise successfully hits Mignon with Strong Throw.
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Mignon 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Cherise
What? Cherise is talking kind of weird again! And there's a loud noise and .. "Ow ow ow .. Mignon doesn't know what that loud noise is oh it's the train?" And covering her ears, the witch .. can't hear Cherise for a moment, before she takes her hands off her ears for a moment, when the horns are done blaring, and the train is done passing.
"Huh? .. What were you saying? Mignon couldn't hear because of the train!" She pipes up, still a bit deaf. "BUT THAT'S OKAY, MIGNON CAN STILL SORTA HEAR!" And that is her thinking she is using her indoor voice. And then that's Cherise shows the KNIFE THIGH STRAP and Mignon staggers back. "Wh..." And then suddenly the Mignon is GRABBED, scissored and swung across the platform.. and she lands like a heap.
"Ow Ow OWwwwww!" Mignon calls, rubbing her bottom a bit and wincing.. "Mignon .. didn't really know you were .. only bad people have weapons BAD PERSON!" Mignon cries out, rubbing her heiny, before staggering backwards. "Mignon ound a b-bad p-persssonn....." She shakes a bit before.. "BUT MIGNON CAN'T LET THEM GO UNPUNISHED!" Yelling out, she thrusts a palm forwards. "DIVINE WIND SPIRIT!"
Papers, trash, and perhaps a bum are suddenly flying across the platform .. all being dragged by a mini-tornado of chi, spinning about the battlefield to suck in Cherise!
COMBATSYS: Cherise blocks Mignon's Windstorm.
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Mignon 1/-----==/=======|=====--\-------\0 Cherise
Riding the momentum, Cherise's hands touch the ground, her palms arched up and balancing herself on her fingertips. With every muscle she can muster working in concert, her legs release Mignon to the God of Flight and allow her body to twist to the side, half-cartwheeling her way back up to her feet. "Ha ha ha! You would almost be cute if that logic was not so backwards," she says-- considering the amount of fighters in the world that use weapons, don't use weapons, and all of their moralities and alignments in-between.
But when the tornado of chi comes tearing toward her, Cherise flings her left wrist forward, casting out a second length of wire from her other bracelet. The weight hits the ground with a *pak!* and digs into the concrete, and the French girl spreads her legs and roots her feet. Squatting down a little, she uses the wire, leaning back a little, and her own weight to anchor herself down from the furious winds and stand her ground, though she has to close her eyes and hold her breath for a moment.
Once it clears, her right leg twists back with a new squeal of rubber treads, her stance shifting. Both hands jerk upward sharply, flits of silver filament screaming back into their respective bracelets and hitting the golden casing with a *ting* from both.
Pulling on the collar of her dress, the silver-haired assassin seems to be taking a break to just give herself a little air in this stuffy, stuffy subway. "Next?"
COMBATSYS: Cherise gains composure.
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Mignon 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Cherise
With Cherise already so quick on her feet.. Mignon's not sure just how to feel! She'll have to do something to stay in the fight, that's for sure.. but what.. she.. Oh.. OH! She should call on that.
What, you may ask? Well.. Mignon's a white witch alright, but she has a bit of dabbling in a few things. "Huh? .. Mignon's NOT backwards Mignon's forwards!" She cries, pointing at Cherise. "Mignon isn't just some kid, Mignon's a hero! And .. And Mignon knows when people are lying to her!" .. Mignon actually is only guessing, but that creeeeeeeepy looking smile and that clothing .. which good person goes all around in skin tight black clothing!? None that she knows! Not even Ninon!
But then Cherise .. what .. she .. "Wow Mignon's actually surprised about that... huh? .. OH wait why are you waiting for Mignon.. ah well.. Mignon WILL SHOW YOU THEN WHY SHE'S A WITCH!" And spinning around once, there comes a little faint POOF of energy. "Mignon isn't here to amuse you.. Mignon's here to show you Mignon isn't going to take this sitting down! .. Uh .. " .. What was Mignon going to take anyways?
"Mignon's explosive METEO!" She cries, "FIRE!"
A huge chunk of what looks like .. a meteor.. appears in her hands, burning and steaming, before it's launched off like a rocket towards Cherise!
Mignon? "WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" She's being launched /backwards/ spiralling away from the launch, rolling and then coming to a stop. "Owwieeeoweieeeowieee..." And that's upside down on a bench. "That always huuuurts." She notes.
COMBATSYS: Mignon successfully hits Cherise with Meteo-Strike.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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'She's a witch,' she says. Still, Cherise laughs, wholly amused by this turn of events. Her energy didn't feel like the sort that she or some of her 'friends' use-- it was closer to what she thinks most everyone else uses, the funny, strange stuff that's just way too showy for her own tastes. The 'burning rock' that appears in her hands is still, regardless, stared at. What kind of whacked-out...
And so, she fires. Cherise bears down, grits her teeth, and drives her hands forward in an attempt to catch the object against crossed, slightly angled forearms.
Briefly, her eyes start to tingle and burn. "Khh-!!"
The timing, the angle-- whatever it is, whatever she claims it to be, that burning ball of force smashes into her arms with absolutely no mercy, crushing her arms to her chest and sending her -flying- from the force. She ends up hitting one of the concrete pillars along the sides of the platform, close to the barrier, and lets out a choked gasp.
She doesn't even fall immediately, as if the impact were still slamming her spine into the slab of concrete. Arms falling to her sides, the silver-haired girl lands on the ground with a wet packing sound, like raw meat getting spiked onto a counter.
"... ghh... heh ... ha ha ... ha ha ha ha..."
She sputters, breathing deeply and hard, but her hands find purchase on the floor, her feet press and dig in. She's rising to her feet like some kind of automaton, bloodied mouth still spreading into a big wide smile.
Starting off slow, her body has a bit of a lurch to it-- her arms whip out, swing in front of her, back out again. Her harsh footfalls pound in like she were one of the trains that frequent the tunnels. Cherise leaps, twisting around in the air and whipping around her leg in a broad arc-- and tries to set the balls of her feet against Mignon's chest.
If it makes contact, she may just feel the pain, the strike-- the literal -spike- of silver energy that seeks to skewer her through the chest and give her a mighty fierce jolt.
"FUCKING SWEET!!"
COMBATSYS: Mignon stops Argent Raid from Cherise with Water Shield.
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As Cherise is struck against the slab of concrete, Mignon's eyes perk up, watching in horror.. what is she doing did she JUST HURT THAT POOR WOMAN THAT BADLY!? Especially as she lands on the ground with that .. that horrible sound. Mignon's eyes close, her ears closing as she holds them. "No no no no no MIGNON DIDN'T WANT TO KILL SOMEONE!" She cries out, before .. what .. what's THAT sound?
It's laughter.. it's .. it's LAUGHTER. Mignon looks over to see Cherise breathing deeply, pulling herself up .. and then .. what .. that mouth smiling blood. Mignon watches as she comes closer.. and closer.. and then like a woman attacking prey, leaps in.
Mignon doesn't like this suddenly. "Mignon wants to go home .. Mignon ... Mignon... WATER UP!" She cries at the last second, the girl kicking to her feet, before the spike of silver energy just stops.. something wet holding it back.. and a literal funnel of water stops the foot, Mignon protected by the funnel for a bit longer, holding it...
And then everything stops.
W-W-What.
"Y..Y.. YOU SAID A BAAAAAD WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORD!" Mignon cries out, pushing out the water, and forcing Cherise to back off a bit. She's breathing hard .. is Mighty Mignon done for!?
Strangely, it's like Cherise doesn't even feel the pain-- instead, she just keeps coming, her eyes wider and wider and her grin larger and frankly, crazier. It catches the lights just right, the flourescent bulbs setting her gray hair to a brilliant shine and leaving her face somewhat obscured, only leaving the glare of her bright eyes and pearly whites to stare at her like some kind of movie psychopath.
Mignon's sudden defense would leave Cherise shocked, but she seems far too amused by the entire situation to properly react. With the funnel of water holding back her attack, the French girl arches backward a bit and uses the force of the attack as well as a little of her own leg power to push off-- flip backwards and get some clearance.
Landing in a crouch, her right arm lashes backwards, though low to the ground. A glint of gold darts back a good distance on the platform floor, a smooth line of silver running up to it on the floor. And then Cherise -points-.
The violent thrust somehow translates into a whip-like reaction from her wire, the metallic filament screaming toward Mignon, weight-first. Her hand curls inward at what seems to be the last moment, as the weight attempts to fly over the girl's shoulder-- and then arc -hard-. It tries to wrap around her neck painfully tight, and if it lands, Cherise will have a whole lot more for her.
"Hit me again."
COMBATSYS: Cherise successfully hits Mignon with Argent Sniper.
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The wire strikes home, wrapping around Mignon's throat and clamping down like some sort of vice. Cherise makes no attempt to be merciful with the tensile strength, even pulling that right hand back-- pulling on the wire to drag Mignon just a little closer while her left hand reaches up and grips the wire between her thumb and along the side of her forefinger.
And plucks.
A burst of silver energy sizzles down the length to directly blast Mignon in the face. A second blast, a third blast, each pluck resulting in a more and more painful attack. Fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, now.
Cherise steps over the wire, stomping her right boot down on the length to short-line the amount that leads to Mignon-- to literally pull the girl down a bit, to her knees, and let out one last brutal pluck of the wire.
The last burst is the worst of all, letting one last brutal burst of silver force off into her face. After that, the wire seems to loosen up as if it's got a mind of her own, slacken up enough that Cherise can pull her arm back and let the line slide right off Mignon's neck.
"Ahn~, that looked fun."
What.. as Cherise flips off, Mignon watches her as she makes something flash.. but she can't tell! Not until Cherise's whip like reaction causes the metallic filament to scream towards Mignon, and then flies over her shoulder.. and arc.. and then as Mignon leaps back..
The neck is suddenly really tight on the Mignon, who collapses to the ground. "Mignon doesn't like this... Mignon REALLY doesn't like this!" And then she SHUTS THE HELL UP as Mignon is dragged closer, and then the wire is plucked..
And then Mignon's suddenly getting a lot of silver energy, blasting her in the face, over and over, they do.. and then stepping over it, the boot helps her be pulled to her knees.. and BAM, that silver force is off in her face.
Mignon doesn't move, and one might assume from the count, that she is quite down. Little duckies above her head a quack quack quacking.. "Mommyy... Mignon just wants some hot breakfast.. Like pancakeees....." She asks, to no one, before 'coming to'.
"Mignon .. did NOT have fun..." She rubs her throat, shaking her head.. "But Mignon WILL enjoy this!" She exclaims.
And then BAM, she's off like a rocket! "Mignon never gives up.. so watch out! Heehee,,, Diddly dee, Mignon's going to show you just what witches still can do!" And flipping upwards, she comes down towards Cherise feet first, spinning. And up. and down.. and up.. and down.
Like leaves, falling. "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~! Oopsy daisy!"
COMBATSYS: Mignon successfully hits Cherise with Defoliation.
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Mignon 1/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Cherise
With Mignon on the ground and blabbering like a freak, Cherise's eyebrow cocks. Is this girl, this brat, serious? With the way she's talking and acting, is she really old enough to be doing these fights, or did she just get away for a day with no medication? The French girl's thoughts are suddenly cut off when Mignon's back on her feet, and leaping through the air to kick her-- and kick her-- and kick more.
Cherise lands one more time on her back with a stiff grunt, laid as flat as one of the pancakes Mignon expressed wanting. Actually, crepes wouldn't be too bad right now...
But the French girl is absolutely relentless. Shuffling up to a sitting position, weighting herself on one leg, Cherise's face looks a little blank.
*tip-ip-ap-pa-pat*
Looking down, bringing her hand up, she sees a bit of blood trickling away from her chin. Some of it's on the floor, other drops spill across the palm of her hand.
"... ... Heheh..." Well, she's smiling again.
Hand balling into a fist, Cherise takes one more lunging run toward Mignon, looking to drive her fist very low into the girl's stomach, hooking it up if it strikes. And if it does-- a burst of her energy is put through the blow. It follows with a thumb driven into her at the solar plexus with a similar result-- a four-finger thrust to the throat, a stiff toe kick to the kidney, a backhand across the side of the head. Driving the heel of her hand toward Mignon's chest, that last burst tries to rattle her through the chest. The final blow comes in the form of her hands trying to clap onto her head and boxing her ears as hard as possible, the silvery force blasting through her head like it were an echo chamber. She doesn't say anything this time-- she doesn't want to, and she doesn't need to.
COMBATSYS: Mignon blocks Cherise's Vital Striker.
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Mignon 1/-----==/=======|=------\-------\0 Cherise
Wow... Cherise gets up from that too? Mignon watches as Cherise .. actually gets up .. why .. why doesn't she stay down? Mignon is certain that when you hit someone they stay down.. and now she's getting back up again! And now she's bleeding. ".. Ah.. Mignon thinks that if you're bleeding it's good to see a doctor!.. Maybe stop what you're doing too. Unless you're Mignon." She states, nodding, as if she had knowledge.
But that's alot of blood.. Mignon's not sure why she's doing this. But when Cherise lunges right at her, Mignon's kind of on edge.. wow.. she's getting there! .. And then BAM, the fist strikes into her baubles, Mignon crying out. "Yow! You're stro-There's more!? Mignon's not-" But there's no more to say, as a thumb drives to break through .. and then a four fingered thrust.. and then a kick and then a backhand.. and more. The heel of the hand drives her away, staggering her.. but the final blow is ducked under, allowing Mignon to stay in the fight.. albeit barely..
"Gah.. M-Mignon needs .. a pick Mignon up!... .. Oh.. MIGNON KNOWS!" She cries out, before spinning around, as something begins to form.. Sparklies.. really bright sparklies spin and spin around Mignon, beginning to take care of any boo boos, fixing up this, healing that, and undoing and taking some of those nasty ouchies right away.
And much to Cherise's chargrim, she's spin right around, and beam. "OKAY! All better!"
he keeps blocking-- defending it-- what!! There's got to be a way to stop her from doing this, keep her from guarding and saving herself from the onslaught she's trying to pour on. After her combination attack ends, after Mignon's proved herself to be a whole lot more resiliant than she had initially planned on, the young enforcer shifts her stance and takes a springing step back. Twisting her wrist around and bringing her arm back, she waits for another attack--
-- And she doesn't?!
No, Mignon starts to do something she didn't expect, causing the wounds on her body to start healing with no explainable means. No, she can't-- no way! That's just not fair!!
Then again, it means she can get hurt -more-.
"Keh ... heheheheh... heh heh heh!!"
One more time, she asserts to herself. One more time! One more time, Cherise swings her arm down low and hooks it up into the air, blades of silvery force appearing at the tips of her fingers. Swinging off, away from her hands as Mignon continues to repair herself with whatever 'magic' she claims to be using, Cherise is going to make this girl fall if it's the last thing she does!
COMBATSYS: Mignon successfully hits Mignon with Magical Healing.
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Mignon 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Cherise
COMBATSYS: Mignon dodges Cherise's Argent Claw.
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Mignon 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Cherise
It might not be fair, but Mignon is never 'fair' she doesn't understand what fair is!
"Huh? Why are you laughing? Mignon's not sure what the point of that is .. HEY are you laughing at Mignon!?" The energy takes full shape, twisting around the girl, healing some of the worse wounds, giving her energy to continue fighting, as well as making her slender, and rather spunky body .. back the spunk it so needs.
Which means when Cherise swings her arm around, hooking it into the air and swinging them.. Mignon's THAT more revitalized when she sees them coming, and this time.. it's a bit different! "Oooh. You mean about the healing! Mignon's a GOOD witch, remember! So Mignon helps people! .. But it's really hard for Mignon to do and.. EEP!" She cries out, "Up and over!" She chimes in, skipping over the silvery force, then flipping and landing infront of Cherise. "Skip Skip skip to my lou....Hiiii~!"
And then she plants her hands about Cherise. This is one of the more humiliating aspects of Mignon, at times. "HORSIE!" And up she goes, flipping up off Cherise's body, before landing on the other side, hooking her arms around Cherise's and..
"Giddey-UP!" She pulls Cherise forwards, aiming to roll her over her body and straight to the ground!
COMBATSYS: Cherise dodges Mignon's Filly Throw.
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Mignon 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Cherise
"... Ha ha ha ha..."
She doesn't seem to mind that Mignon's stepped clear of her attack, the silvery blades of energy screaming one more time before fading off. She doesn't seem to mind that the girl's bouncing around, moving closer, and then singing her little song about skipping! No, Cherise seems to be wholeheartedly amused by the entire display.
Mignon's grasp meets nothing but thin air while the French girl leans herself back with an equal half-step backwards, shifting and alternating between legs-- zigging, zagging, getting herself back further and further. Once she clears the distance, though, she starts to evaluate her own position. Mignon's used whatever ungodly energy trick to fix her injuries. Mignon's bouncing around as chipper as ever. Mignon is one of the most naive girls that she's ever met. Mignon also seriously needs to be shown how to dress.
Alas.
Cherise moves back in with a heavy run, shifting herself to the side-- a light step, a dash, and then she tries to flip over Mignon's head one more time, sweeping her arm out in the air. Wires emerge and attempt to loop around the so-called 'good witch's' throat while Cherise twists to face the pink-haired girl's back when she lands. If the wires snag her neck, if she can get it on there, Cherise grips the slack of the weighted end and what's on her bracelet with her other hand, lifting up her left leg high and stepping down on her back-- going for a rather effective strangle!
COMBATSYS: Mignon dodges Cherise's Strong Throw.
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Mignon 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Cherise
It may become a pattern that Mignon is capable of avoiding assaults through speed, grace, and LOADS OF LUCK.
But Mignon's not ready for Cherise to pull away, and the bopping teeny-bopper comes to a teeny-stopper, bouncing in place. Woah, look at Cherise move, zig, zag, ZOOG! Smiling once more Mignon is just HAPPYNESS. If you knew about what happiness is you would .. understand.
But As Cherise actually runs towards her, a dash, trying to flip over Mignon, Mignon's able to duck under the wires as they slide out.. Mignon's really really really good at seeing things coming when Mignon is back into her happy and healthy mood! "WOAAAAAAH! Low bridge!" She cries, ducking backwards, as the wires slide over her neck. "OOP! Mignon thinks that was close.. but Mignon's getting all sleepy so Mignon better finish this thing with you because Mignon thinks you look all hurt!" She then stops, tapping her head a bit.
"But then Mignon thinks she'd have to hurt you more and you sound like you're happy and having fun so Mignon's not sure about what to do but that guy over there is telling Mignon to actually do something BUT MIGNON DOESN'T LIKE being told what to do ... buuuut Mignon guesses that the nice man still has a family so OKAY!" She cries out, thrusting both hands into the air.
"Mignons KITTY ATTACK!"
It doesn't take long for Mignon to leap through the air towards Cherise, and thrusting her hands out! .. Like a cat, pawing at Cherise over and over! "NYAAAOO! NYAAAO! NYAAAAH~!"
COMBATSYS: Cherise dodges Mignon's Quick Punch.
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Mignon 0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0 Cherise
The wires swish in the air, swirling around in a smooth and fluid way before they're pulled away. Cherise doesn't seem to be upset by the whole thing at all, taking a step back and then throwing herself into a backward handspring, getting a little more clearance-- enough clearance that Mignon feels she's ready to launch into another diatribe and talk about this, that, and the other thing.
Cherise, on the other hand, doesn't want to listen.
When the girl in the bitchin' moon boots comes flying toward her and starts pawing around like she were a cat, the silver-haired assassin merely takes a step off to her right, Mignon's left. It's put on a bit of a spin, one designed to give her enough speed to throw her leg up and kick at the side of her opponent's head to ring her bells, and possibly give her a little more leeway in this festival of madness.
COMBATSYS: Mignon blocks Cherise's Light Kick.
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Mignon 0/-------/----===|-------\-------\0 Cherise
As Cherise steps away, Mignon blinks. "Ny.. Ah?" She asks, blinking a few more times, before suddenly Cherise just .. steps.. and then WHAM, SPINNING, and a leg thrust at her head! Mignon's staggering backwards from it, and her baubles held upwards to take the blow.. and what a blow it is, with such power!
.. But Mignon is now spinning. "WEEEEEEEEEEEEE~!" She yells out, spinning. "Around and around, wee hee hee! WeooooOOOeeeeeeooOOOOoeeeooooO~!" Really she's having too much fun with this .. and then suddenly.. Mignon's spinning stops.. "Okay Missykins, Mignon's had her fun too but it has to end now!" She exclaims, before .. she spins..
LEFT.
Spinning around, Mignon's hands aim to slam into Cherise as she goes around and around, glowing pink baubles first!
"ZOOOOM~! Spinny!"
COMBATSYS: Mignon successfully hits Cherise with One Revolution.
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Mignon 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 Cherise
Once her leg hits a defensive end, even with Mignon spinning, Cherise draws her leg back in roughly the same path that it came, her battered body shifting and staggering around off-balance. The damage paid to her so far does seem to have had a profound effect on her body physically, but mentally? Still going strong, clinging with every inch that she's got.
Mignon's twisting, spinning twirl approaches, and Cherise shifts her footing with the intent to flee. THe timing is misjudged, and a sturdy set of baubles and fists crack against her head until the momentum she carries is gone, whipping off to the side and eventually sending her staggering.
Twisting back around, a bit of blood dripping from her mouth again, Cherise has that huge smile. Taking two more large steps, Cherise springs one more time back at Mignon to whip her leg around in a broad arc, her heel thrust out with the intent to make contact: Make contact, and one more time try to send a massive spike of silver force through the girl's chest and give her the most brutal jolt that she can possibly muster up.
COMBATSYS: Cherise can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Mignon stops Argent Raid from Cherise with Water Shield.
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Mignon 0/-------/----===|
Mignon's spinning makes her tired.. and dizzy. Both tired and dizzy, the little girl looks on at Cherise.. her eyes flash open as Cherise's huge smile, and her movement causes her to bounce backwards.. but the woman isn't done.. Mignon watches as she whips her leg around, the magical Mignon hitting the wall of the subway. "OOF!" She cries out, stuck in the corner. "Ahh.. Ahh.. MIGNON DOESN'T LIKE BEING STUCK IN A CORNERRRRRR!" She cries out finally, unsure of what to do.. the heel oh no, she can't avoid it! SHE CAN'T!
"WATER UP! QUICK, HURRY! Go goo WATER!" She tries each, and the fountain of water responds to each, shooting up multiple times, first taking the leg and pushing it away through pure force.. and then another coming up for the massive spike of silver force.. again Mignon fights with Cherise's strength, her power .. just too much to force back!
"Diiiii-SPERSE!" And the water erupts outwards, taking with it Cherise's leg and perhaps, her body, Mignon then leaning against the corner she's stuck in.. "Hah.. Hah.. Mignon doesn't know how long she can keep this up .. Mignon ... Hah.... Is so tired.. she feels like she's going to give in.." She leans forwards a bit. "Is .. this the end of Mignon's efforts!?" She asks herself..
And then is poked on the shoulder, and whispered too.
Her eyes light up.
"Mignon .. MIGNON DID IT!?" She cries out, surprised, looking left and right and clapping. "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH! MIGNON'S NUMBER ONE! WOOOO MIGNON KNEW SHE COULD!"
And then of course, she goes to help Cherise up! Skipping over. "Oh it was so much fun, and you helped Mignon get better! Mignon's sure she'll need to do that when she fights crime, evil, and badness!"
Her foot strikes, the energy surging forward.
Cherise's eyes narrow, perhaps in irritation for the first time since she took the powerful strike earlier-- that huge burst of energy. With it stopped one more time, with the silver force digging in and eventually being scattered, Cherise pushes off one more time to backbend into one last handspring. Landing on her feet, her body shifts hard, her weight unsteadied and staggering left, right, and especially backward. Dropping down to one knee, her eyes are veiled by the silvery hair, but the girl's mouth drifts back into a wide, leering smile. The drips of blood continue to fall on the subway platform, even as another train blazes by with the horn screaming over the two of them.
Cherise stays down, breathing hard and with one hand reaching down, pressing against the floor to keep herself steady.
Mignon did it, yes. She won, yes. And ... the French girl is, still, stuck halfway in utter disbelief. Have her skills waned that much? What will Mao or Suzume say to her for this?
Ah well, who gives a fuck.
Rising slowly, Cherise moves partially with Mignon, though she staggers herself out of the girl's grasp and starts lumbering toward the stairs to leave the girl be in her victory.
And ... she's still smiling.
COMBATSYS: Mignon has ended the fight here.
Log created on 01:19:47 07/23/2008 by Mignon, and last modified on 15:50:52 07/29/2008.