Description: THE LIGHT IT'S BLINDING. Also restricting. It's a blind fight and if you can read this YOU ARE BLIND (Winner: Aranha)
COMBATSYS: Aranha has started a fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Mary has joined the fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Mary
The two fighters in this fight about to take place today have carved out reputations for themselves. And while it's true that Aranha carved his out of Neo League, there's a reason behind it. Aranha had trouble fitting his schedule around the SNFs while with the Neo League, they fit fights around his schedule when they could. An opening finally came up in his schedule and he registered right away.
Just outside of the fighting area, Aranha gets informed of the conditions of the fight by one of the staff.
"Aranha, you're going to be fighting in blinding lights."
"I should be ok. I'll be wearing my---"
"No you won't be allowed to wear your Oakley Thumps in this match."
"Damn! Do I at least get an ipod or something?"
The staff member shoves the mp3 player into his hand and then sends the capoeirista on his way into the blinding light. Aranha elects to close his eyes when he gets in the room (No point ruining his eyes) and as a matter of fact takes a few moments to walk around the edge of the room to get an idea of where the walls are. After that he pops an ear bud into his left ear and leaves the other ear music-less so that he may hear his opponent. He also turns his music low so he can hear his opponent with his left ear as well.
It's an odd thing to witness. To believe she truly deserves this treatment.. she doesn't understand why she gets such renown.. Mary has never made an effort to be know .. simply to enjoy herself. And yet they would claim some importance over this. The world is a funny place.. isn't it? Mary lets this go on, however, more interested in just how they set the fight up.
Blinding lights.
Mary's told of this, and her white clothing, save for the black umbrella, will not help Aranha's vision .. but neither will it her, apparently. "You can't fight with the parasol open." She is informed, Mary closing it.. and wrapping a bit of line around it, keeping it closed..
Meanwhile.. she won't be able to use clouds, either. It's troubling to Mary. This will be a .. trying match.
Her white eyes stay open as she slowly walks out into the light filled room, her iris, nearly white, widening as her sight's robbed from her for the most part.
She taps the parasol against the ground to signify she's inside. "What a .. bright day..."
Aranha doesn't need to the parasol to signal that she's inside. The footsteps could only mean that his opponent has arrived. And then there's that familiar voice. The voice of someone that Aranha has faced before and he begins to rub his chin. "Funny how things happen, eh?"
His lips curl into a grin which while his opponent may not be able to pick up on due to those lights the cameras can definitely see. "I suppose we should get things started."
That's about the only warning Mary gets before Aranha is on the move quickly covering ground. He's not bothering with stealth just yet, instead wanting to feel out his opponent with a quick kick to Mary's side before spinning away from her.
COMBATSYS: Mary endures Aranha's Short Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Mary
As Aranha begins to move.. Mary doesn't know just where, or how, Aranha will move. She just knows .. he IS moving, and that's always a trouble.
But she can guess where his movement will lead him. Straight towards her.
It works rather well. Especially as Aranha covers ground.. and then aims to kick her in the side. Mary doesn't move, instead allowing Aranha to crash into her, legs first, before spinning away .. but it doesn't actually work like that.
Once Aranha crashes into Mary, she uses it to begin spinning herself.. and that parasol, closed, begins to move as well.
It whips around her, Mary just skidding on the floor after taking the assault..
But her own, a response to that assault .. may be just as nasty.
Mary says, "Yeah Darlin' .. but these .. are some of the best ones! AIn't never gonna be the same!"
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Mary's Element of Fun.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Mary
Aranha rocks away from his own assault with his arm covering his body and it's good that he handled it so carefully since had the attack landed he'd probably be feeling pretty bad, even if he is fairly resilient. However, he still needs to devise a strategy as to how handle the matter of lack of eye sight.
Aranha's ears follow the skidding sound as he moves to chase after it. After getting into range he swings a sweeping roundhouse which would have a blue glow if the light of his chi wasn't overwhelmed by the lights of the venue or wasn't dimmed by the shades on the cameras for the viewers at home. However for those who are chi sensitive and in the room they would be able to feel that energy as he sweeps his foot around at an angle from head level to hip level.
COMBATSYS: Mary fails to interrupt Aggressive Dance from Aranha with Beg Your Pardon.
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Aranha 0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0 Mary
And that first chi enhanced roundhouse kick was just for the purpose of finding where the Southern Belle was. "There," said mostly to himself before he spins around with the momentum of the first kick to follow up with a spinning jump kick right where he would estimate her head to be before finishing off with a chi enhanced backflip kick to drive Mary right down to the ground.
As the chi begins to build, Mary does something one might see as .. sort of unqualified. She actually runs towards the sweeping roundhouse, and attempts to drive the parasol straight into Aranha.. but it unfortunately tends to work differently, because the flash of chi certainly makes things different for her.
The kick comes around and then simply she's launched upwards with the backflip .. and then slammed into the ground.
Couching, Mary tries to pull herself upwards and then away .. but who knows just what is a good idea at this point, anyways.. Mary will just have to keep going. "Oh now that was just lovely... but it's not quite finished yet."
She brushes herself off.
Aranha spins away for just a moment after the back flip kick to get more distance away from parasol wielding Southerner and to turn himself to face her again. Once that is accomplished he begins to go into ginga swaying to the beat of his own music while his own foot falls are light.
He then performs a quick hop launching himself forward with one leg extended in a front kick directed to Mary's stomach. As he changes his kick locations in an attempt to keep his opponent guessing.
COMBATSYS: Mary blocks Aranha's Colossal Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/--=====|====---\-------\0 Mary
As Aranha spins away .. and then moves in .. attempting to launch upwards, attempting to REALLY slam the foot into her. Mary's at the end of it alright, and staggers back from the rather strong assault.. but there's not much she can do to change it.. It's quite the strong one. The parasol is there to soften it .. but only a steel bar this time.
But when Aranha comes about, Mary spins once, attempting to scoop up Aranha with the parasol.. blades erupting from the sides, trying to cut him as she throws him upwards, spinning it around as well.
The light burns still, and the shadows created by the fighter's movement dance as well, intertwining as every assault is made.
Perhaps it may work in the end.
COMBATSYS: Mary successfully hits Aranha with Mary Maypole.
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Aranha 1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Mary
Aranha put so much into that front kick that there's not much he can do to other than get caught by the other fighter's bladed parasol and launching him into the air before leaving bruising from the fall and assortment of cuts from the blades.
Aranha growls slightly as he pulls himself to his feet his fingers touching the wounds that will soon be new additions to his scar collection. A laidback tone touches his voice as he says with a smile that would only be picked up on the cameras, "Further proof that it ain't over yet. Good."
Aranha's body begins swaying again before he pushes himself forward towards Mary's flank and then twists before he goes into a cartwheel at her pushing out with a kick before landing on his feet.
If Aranha's mental measurements are correct, there should be a wall close by in the direction he's attempting to maneuver the other fighter.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Mary with Medium Kick.
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Aranha 1/------=/=======|======-\-------\0 Mary
As Aranha pulls himself up, Mary watches as he goes into a cartwheel kick .. the woman being knocked away rather effectively as she's slammed against the wall .. if it wasn't over before, however, it's starting to become now.
But pulling herself back upwards, the woman continues to brush herself off, unknowing where the others are, before she simply gives up to where things may be. "No darlin', it was over before it began." She comments, but decides to at least humor the man.
Such as raising the parasol... and just firing out quite a bit of weaponry towards Aranha and the room.
The little bladed shots are fired outwards, a bit randomly .. perhaps what Aranha needs as she staggers away.
COMBATSYS: Aranha interrupts Power Shot from Mary with Joker's Wild EX.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\===----\1 Mary
Aranha's plans come to fruition the moment he landed with the cartwheel kick. The kick pushes her to the wall and Aranha pulls out of it and begins making a rapid b-line for the wall where he kicks off it launching himself from the wall towards Mary's head while the entirety of Aranha's body is covered with chi.
That is just the beginning as Aranha bounces back and forth between the wall and Mary as she fires wildly grazing him as he delivers his own attacks from a variety of angles and directions before he makes one final chi enhanced kick before rolling away from him.
It's when he lands that he truly understands the situation. He thinks back to the conversation he had with the staff member. With him it was his shades. With her, it was her abilities. And he has no words to respond to the situation.
As she tries to fire, Aranha's instead bouncing about, before she's kicked about, even as she tries to blast him over and over. It just doesn't work so well..
And it leaves Mary in a rather poor position as well.. with Mary quite wounded, and with Aranha doing far better.. well.. nothing that May can change, at least. She'll just have to keep rolling along .. that is, after, of course, she's knocked against the wall, leaving a rather nice red smear where she landed.
Perhaps she really doesn't like being dried up with all this light.
But when she staggers to her feet.. she attempts to just take care of this trouble.. going for a completely different attempt .. dashing towards Aranha and trying to slip the chain around him, before pulling harder and harder.. and then releasing, trying to send him against the wall .. and also remove most of his breathe as well.
What's there to say?
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Mary's Sleeping Time.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=======\==-----\1 Mary
Without his eyes, Aranha has to depend on his hearing to give him information that his eyes normally would. He can hear the foot falls of Mary dashing towards him. Then there's a telltale sign of when the attack will come. The moment he hears a pause in the foot steps, he starts moving. He leans off to the side and away from the other's attempt to grab him.
With his body low to the ground he plants his hand and then uses it as a pivot point as he slips behind Mary with one leg behind both of hers as an elbow is placed on her abdomen and with a sudden pop of his hips upward he attempts to send the woman onto her back.
COMBATSYS: Mary fails to interrupt Medium Throw from Aranha with Practically Perfect.
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Aranha 0/-------/----===|
COMBATSYS: Mary can no longer fight.
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Aranha 0/-------/----===|
As Aranha slides out of the way, Mary attempts to grab a hold of ARanha.. and yet it's just not enough. Slipping behind her with a leg, she's sent to her back, and she doesn't get up. "Darlin'. This is your game it seems." She exclaims, before she staggers up to her feet, wounded more than a bit, and begins to walk for the door. "I'm done!" She cries out, before heading over to the door and opening it.
She really doesn't particularly like it, that's for certain, and will have to take some more time off.. but such is how it works.
She's had enough of being blind .. if she would have preferred to be blind, then she would have had the scientists MAKE her blind, but then, she didn't .. as such it deeply bothers her .. and clearly doesn't seem to work with her style rather well.
All in all though .. thoroughly defeated.. she just leaves.
Aranha backs off the moment she said she was done. Aranha shakes his head. He can absolutely see that the conditions hosed his opponent. And truth be told if he was going to be put in a situation where he was going to be temporarily blinded he would've rather being blindfolded than bright lights for two reasons.
First he would still be able to wear his Oakley Thumps. The other reason is that it wouldn't have sealed his opponent's abilities.
"Yeah, Mary," he says mostly to himself since she already left the room. "You got a bum deal on that one."
Poking her head out from the door, not that it matters, Mary shakes her head. "Oh no, darlin'.. you don't understand .. it's fine and dandy if they want to throw bells and whistles onto these darned thin's .. but they should just enjoy the fight.. cause next time, I ain't interested in participatin' in any of the bells and whistles.. they're tryin' ta fix an already unbroken thing.. sa'll the same trouble!" She mentions.
"But next time darlin', maybe I'll make it interestin' for ya then."
She leaves afterwards.. or intends to.
COMBATSYS: Aranha has ended the fight here.
Log created on 13:06:29 08/15/2008 by Mary, and last modified on 22:25:06 08/26/2008.