Description: Aranha and Naerose fight at the Dream Amusement park. They have fought a lot before and know each other well, but who will win this NeaLeague? (Winner: Naerose)
Aranha received a call from the Neo League informing him that he was randomly selected to fight Naerose at the Dream Amusement Park. Amusement parks have concession stands, which means food. And having the witch anywhere around food was a dangerous proposition for him. Or rather his wallet.
As a result, Aranha immediately began making phone calls to the effect of 'No matter what the witch may say, I am not footing the bill for any of her food.' Aranha knew from other sources how expensive feeding Naerose could be and wasn't nearly as willing to part with his money as someone like Tessa was.
The time of the fight arrives and Aranha is already waiting by the fighting ring leaning against the rope listening to his mp3 sunglasses as he waits for his opponent to arrive.
The Dream Amusement park was quickly becoming the witches local of choice. She had soon learned that the gates were not designed to stop people from simply going over them as if they paid admission. She couldn't really consider her broom for travel, but for a quick jaunt over a wall was no problem for her and so she spent many a careless day in the park, free of charge. . except.. food. Yes Food.
Aranha was wise indeed, for he would be safe from the vendors accepting Nae-nae's claim, though honestly she hadn't even thought of it yet. This is in part due to her not usually thinking about much. . . . ever.
In the place where the fight is to begin, the witch already has the telltale signs of having spent like all day at the park. She's got her hat all slicked back like she had been riding ride after ride after ride. Yes, all for free. Amusement parks are awesome, just hope no one thinks to witch-proof it.
"Hey Aranha." She says, with a biiig smile.
Aranha pushes himself off the rope with a look on his face that couldn't exactly be described as a smile. There wasn't a negative expression either. It would be more accurate to consider it a relaxed expression. Mainly because while Aranha doesn't consider her an enemy, he doesn't quite consider her a friend either.
Aranha got in for free as well and while he was capable of getting in by more dishonest means he didn't need to. He was invited to fight and with that comes benefits such as free admission. They might've given him free food as well if it wasn't for Naerose. Give one fighter those benefits and you'd have to give the other one the same benefits and putting 'free food' and 'Naerose' in the same sentence without adding the word 'not' right before 'free' was always a bad idea unless you're attempting to trap a witch.
Anyway getting back to the fight at hand, Aranha rolls his neck as he steps towards the witch and when the official gives word for the fight to start, he suddenly bursts into motion suddenly lashing out with a trio of fast kicks engulfed in blue chi starting with a roundhouse, and then spinning jumpkick and finishing with a back flip kick to slam the final kick down on her.
Looks like Aranha's coming out of the gates swinging.
COMBATSYS: Aranha has started a fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Naerose has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Aranha
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Aranha's Aggressive Dance EX.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Aranha
One thing was clear, Aranha WAS coming out swinging. Hard and fast. He wasted no time what so ever in his attacking. Though these are all moves that Naerose had seen a fair bit, you could almost say the pair were starting to get to know each other's fighting style well. The rhythemic dancer and the sorceress had crossed a good many times, and almost with each a different outcome. Aranha would probably deny everything and it would just never occur to Naerose. The kicks, chi infused, require attention. Naerose uses her broom to block the first, her heel sent askid and then ducks to deflect the second off her shoulder and then the third is a amere graze. Not painless defense, but she seems to think, close enough.
"You didn't even say hi!" exclaims Naerose, looking shocked at the speed in which she was attacked. She might of even called it rude, but nah, it wasn't rude, it was just Aranha.
"Okay.. Here comes, I'll be a little predictable, only a little." Naerose promises and flings out a flurry of airborne needles like icy darts with a cry of
'Sagitta Minor!' while twirling away from her opponent to give some space.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Aranha with Sagitta Minor.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Aranha
Aranha being so overzealous in his offense that he pays for it in his defense. He can see her spinning away from him gaining even more distance as she flings a storm of icy needles at him piercing and pushing him away and ruining his attempt to get away.
The pain is intense and he grunts in pain as he pulls himself up. And then he slowly works his way back in before snapping a fast kick at her. "Sorry. Is it okay if I say I hi now?"
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Aranha's Short Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Aranha
Of course he has to kick her first. Well Nae doesn't fret that as she tries a duck to catch the kick a little off one side and then gives the tiniest of winces in response before adjusting her shades and grinning a bit at Aranha.
"Yeah sure, first you kick me though. Ouch.. Really. Not the nicest hello. Hey but that's okay, we can talk when this is over, say over a soda? My treat."
Red Flags should be going up just about now, Naerose NEVER TREATS. But maybe.. she's turning over a new leaf? Meanwhile she isn't attacking - just fixing her shades and hanging back, keeping her hands on her broom and her attention on Aranha so he doesn't pull off anything too sneaaky.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses on her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Aranha
na says, "Lucky ? Patient?"
"W-w-wait." A red flag and several alarms are going off in his head. "Treating me to soda?" He pauses to head scratch as he wonders where the Naerose that he knew and tolerated(formerly hated) has gone. And while he's grateful for the reprieve, he doesn't exactly like the idea of her backing off and so he comes in slowly.
With a relaxed swaying dance, he comes in with one of his moves that has seen least usage of his list of moves mainly because it's a rare moment that he has a chance to pull it off. Though while the situation didn't quite fit, he's relying on the element of surprise to be a factor. He darts in close swinging elbows to the face and ribs before suddenly dropping low to grab the back of the witch's legs pulling them from under her while assisting her fall with a nudge from his head to drop her on her back.
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Bad Beat from Aranha with Spellbinder EX.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Aranha
5tKeeping to her stock responses.. The speed of that attack, the power. The witch knew, she was sure, for a moment her grin was a after image hiding a more serious thought. Aranha knew that was coming. She knew he knew and further knew that it was the best move she has in this situation.. But all things considered.. it was still the best move she had in this situation. The witch, having set a trap, that Aranha set a counter trap for decides to spring all, casts out her palm and as the arms grab her, flashes with chi something blinding, reflecting off her shades and giving her the benefit of vision.
. . . It would only blind for a moment . . .
Then WHAM. A hard swing with her broom, taking the brief moment she had to do it in. The attack worked, though it was a coin flip at best. Aranha had made his choices well knowing hers and she couldn't just hide her intent from him.
Sometimes you know exactly what is coming but still are powerless to stop it, his elbows connect but not how he would wanted them to but he's already in the full motion of the drop down which by then was too late to change his path. He knew what was coming and knew that she knew but did it anyway.
The blinding flash isn't that blinding due to him wearing shades of his own though the benefits of wearing them to deal with that particular move was more of an afterthought. The flash of chi still has a bit of kick to it and forces the capoeirista to release his grip. And once the grip was released, that's when the broom comes in knocking the fighter aside and sending him skidding on the ground and next to the ropes.
The Dancing Spider grabs onto the top rope and pulls himself to a standing position before grabbing onto it with both hands as he swings himself under the rope and twists around before hopping up on the rope which acts as precursor to his leap from the rope to deliver a kick to the witch's body.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Aranha's Sky's the Limit.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Aranha
It would of hurt. . a lot if Aranha had managed her body, Naerose could see where it was coming, but the power was possibly enough to blast through her defense anyway. She had to act. The red sorceress decides chi isn't the answer and meets brute force with brute force. The hit coming and she grits her teeth against the impact,, her brow knotting and somehow managing to curl in the grin as the impact sends shockwaves through her body but still she stands and after a moment of matching strength while Aranha has gravity and force to drive him into her. She decides, hey the ropes might help, keep him on the edge, or something, either way this match of brawn for brawn has gone on long enough.
Naerose gives a simple turn and tries to kick Aranha back with a side heel kick, not really fully intended to hurt as much as push, but it has hurt too.
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Naerose's Light Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Aranha
With his parkour based moves they can be delivered with a variety intents in mind and whether or not Naerose intended it, she stymied Aranha's attempt at a scott free escape after delivering his attack and as a result he's forced to cover up instead.
Aranha's body balls up as the kick lands and while it partially succeeds in pushing him back his covering up plus his ability to quickly drop into a roll allows him to keep much harm from coming to him before he's back on the ropes.
Taking advantage of his proximity to the ropes to bounce off before taking off in a run and then using the momentum to drive his foot in a spinning side kick to the witch's stomach.
COMBATSYS: Naerose dodges Aranha's Change-Up Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Aranha
The rides churn, the people scream, cotton candy sells and red fabric making up the dresses of sorceresses move in the wind and well, said red sorceress getting out of the way. Suddenly it occurs to her,
"Hey you know what would be cool? I could like change it up, use the word witch sometimes and sorceress another. It means the same thing right?" Naerose asks almost as to banish the nerves building from having to get out of the way of what would of otherwise seemed to her like the most unpleasant move she had to get out of the way of this week! Seriously, it was just that unpleasant looking. Then of course Aranha is going to want to hit her again. Mmm.. What is a witch to do.
"Well lets give other children a chance to play too.." she muses and then flings her hand out, palm extended.
"En Criento!"
Her palm bursts fourth with a bubble like of white power and which explodes outward. No range, just a can of whoop bottom.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Aranha with End Creation.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Aranha
Aranha is put in a situation where none of his options are that good. As a result, Aranha has to make the best choice he could make given the situation. He tries to get out of the way. Unfortunately getting out of the way isn't an option. Though he sort of has himself to blame because of his use of such a brazen attack.
Aranha is blasted back once more his body ending up hanging limply from the top rope as an agonized groan is released from his lips before he lets his body drop from the ropes and back to his feet. He's been paying for his aggressiveness all fight and so he decides to change things up by backing off for a moment to see if he can figure things out. Through it all, his lips curl into a smile just a moment before he takes a moment to laugh at his own performance.
COMBATSYS: Aranha focuses on his next action.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|=======\=------\1 Aranha
Apparently Aranha is gearing up for something big. That he was taking a moment, leaving Nae with the option of making her own choices was evidence enough to that end. She wasn't going to keep him waiting, but approached carefully. Really carefully. Really really carefully. Almost like she was going to give Aranha some breathing room and then. . .
The witch picks then to make the most unusual of attacks. Just winds up her broom and sort of strikes straight at Aranha, the unusual part being the wind up followed by apparent poke. She even says,
"Poke,"
Incase you were wondering.
COMBATSYS: Aranha fails to interrupt Random Strike from Naerose with Colossal Kick.
- Power fail! -
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Naerose 1/-----==/=======|=======\===----\1 Aranha
And he had been laughing and laughing so long that Naerose poked him til his mind was gone. Aranha stops laughing when he sees the broom stick making a b-line for his body. But he doesn't quite react as quickly as he wants to with a powerful kick.
The resulting poke that Naerose even did the favor of calling ends up slamming into his body driving him backwards so hard that he finds himself stuck between the ropes his pants covered butt sticking out between the ropes.
Aranha won't be attacking. He'll be busy pulling himself free of the rope.
Things were going very well for Naerose, very very very well. She didn't really have a lot left she needed to do here, except well, finish this off. Aranha took the hit and was sent to the ropes and she could lay more heat on, in fact, that's exacty what she'll do. Something simple and direct, a sweeping swing of her broom. Chances are someone like Aranha would recover in time for this, but maybe not. There was risk and she knew it. Luck could keep going her way and she wasn't about to see if they'd stop.
The attack, as he's seen probably before, encompasses a wide range of motion, all intended to do one thing. Hit Aranha.
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Naerose's Clean Sweep.
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Naerose 1/-----==/=======|=======\===----\1 Aranha
The swing of the broom misses but only because dumb luck finally goes his way. There was no skill involved at all. With the constant wiggling to escape causes him fall out of the rope ass backwards and hits the ground ass first. With a somewhat humiliating roll backwards he finally pulls himself back to his feet and leaps back into the ring before whirling around with a blue glowing outside crescent kick to slap the witch with his foot.
That was only the beginning, he then whirls around with kick after kick from one direction before suddenly and seamlessly changing direction to deliver more chi enhanced kicks before he finally tilts into a handstand and whirls around as he attempts to slap the witch about with hurricane of chi tinged kicks.
COMBATSYS: Naerose endures Aranha's Royal Flush EX.
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Naerose 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|-------\-------\0 Aranha
The state of a fighter, their very body, even that of a witch, it was a tool, to an end. This was probably not what Naerose thought but even as she charged through the kicks, taking all of them, there wasn't much point in playing coy now. The damage she took, it was a certainty that if she could hold her location, it would be worth it. Worth getting close, worth a chance to throw an attack to end this once and for all.
Naerose brings her arms back, lets go of her broom, clutches her hands apart and forms balls of energy like the end creation attack, only these two hands are brought together, the attack combined and hurled with a torrent of destructive energy at Aranha accompanied by a cry,
"En Criento En!"
For a moment it looks like Naerose is going to blast Aranha with the over powered attack, but the torrent doesn't burst force, a fizzle and then an explosion indicates failure. Where Naerose meant to throw the attack is instead like holding onto a firecracker after lighting the fuse. It totally explodes uncontrolably and ends up doing a fraction of the power she put into it, having spent and taxed herself too much.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Aranha with End Creation EX.
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Naerose 1/----===/=======|====---\-------\0 Aranha
Because of the two fighters experience against each other, Aranha knew what resources the witch could bring to bear in that attack and knew that there was going to be an overload and a fizzle before something else comes out. But because of the all or nothing nature of his own attack he's not able to do much about it.
"Oh sh--" is all he gets out before he finds himself flying backwards away from the witch and he finds himself bouncing off the rope before he barely finds himself stumbling blindly before swinging a strong telegraphed elbow to get her dodging before spinning once more with a glowing elbow to attempt to catch her with it as she's coming up in an attempt to take advantage of her movement to deliver a stronger attack.
Aranha's so tired though that his plans might not work out and regardless how everything turns out he's going to end up kissing the ground.
COMBATSYS: Aranha can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Aranha's Malicia.
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Not thrown off too much by her own failure, being used to it and apparently contagious, Naerose can get a block up pretty fast to stop herself from getting hit. Aranha, less lucky is given a look over and then she remembers,
"Soda my treat!" Except.. "I don't have any money.." This is a problem of course and results in Naerose having to renig her offer.
"But wait, I totally got this one covered." The witch, leaving Aranha where he is, runs to the various crew who had the dubious job of running this event,
"Hey, can I borrow a five spot?" She asks again and again, eventually managing to bum some cash. Soda's arn't very expensive after all.
"Wow, that totally worked!" she exclaims, dangerously close to being escorted off the amusement park grounds.
"So. Sodas?
COMBATSYS: Naerose has ended the fight here.
Log created on 11:39:24 08/21/2008 by Naerose, and last modified on 14:27:01 08/23/2008.