Description: Nataya and Gabriel meet up in Justice high for a Naeoleague? There must be a mistake and at the time was the witch really second.. or third place? We'll just fix that clerical error (winner:Nataya)
After a rather strange bout with the man known only as Dr. Tran, Nataya is a little more sober about her next Neo League battle. The line at the entry office had been long, and by the time she got to the window, all they had left was two cards. Nataya had picked one at random, not really knowing anything about the system. Otherwise she probably wouldn't have picked the #2 ranked fighter in the League.
But nevertheless, here she is, sitting on a big gallon cooler of sports drink sniffing at the radioactive yellow liquid swirling around in the cup. Geese-Ade tasted terrible, but apparently according to the advertisement, it was 'fortified with electrolytes'.
Nataya couldn't tell an electrolyte from an electric fan if you held a gun to her head, but it sounded good to her, even if the stuff tasted like battery acid.
The camera crew sets up quietly at the courtyard, adjusting so that the view can be seen on the big Justice High television screen mounted in the background. All this is fairly new to the woman, who's more curious about the setup than the fight itself for the time being.
"So, my opponent is.." She peers at the card. "Nay-rose? Is that how you say this?" She points the card out to one of the crew who shrugs at her.
"I dunno, lady. I just film these things. I don't pay attention to these superpowered hooligans."
Well, so much for that. Nataya gets up off of her duff and wanders to the courtyard proper, looking for the woman who calls herself a witch. It says so on Naerose's card, you see. Doctors and witches. What's next?
Naenae is the number two ranked fighter in the league? There has GOT to be a mistake. The Avatar of Failure, Naerose Delphine, never to win, FAILURE personified.. She couldn't possibly be the number two ranked fighter in the league. That's just wrong. But here she is Naerose, the Red Witch. Why is she called the Red Witch? Well she's a woman dressed in red, appearing late and yawning with a broom over one shoulder, a pointed witches hat, black circular shades and and a red dress. If you look at the webpage with drawings of her you get the basic idea of what she looks like (oocfinger Naerose) yeah she's totally going into the realm of ooc. But back into reality.
Witch sense, tingling.
"It's Nay-row-s" the witch corrects.
"Umm, that's now how you'd spell a name pronounced like that," one of the grammar-nazi cameramen corrects. Naerose meanwhile ignores him.
"Er. so.. what am I doing here again? oh right candy.. Er, I was told there would be punch and pie." Naerose starts to look around slowly, failing to locate punch and pie she seriously and quite literally deflates on the spot.
"That's...."
"So wrong," she whines.
O-kay.
You see, when Nataya's master told her of the fights she'd have when she undertook her journey of discovery, he warned her of great perils. Specifically, he said this to her: "Nataya. Never forget, that on your journey, you may face great peril." And while the reserved monk-trained woman hasn't yet discounted that each fight she has might be perilous, there's always a shock when she meets the people that supposedly deliver that peril.
Basically, why would any force in the Universe decide to dress peril in a woman dressed like a road flare whining about punch and pie?
The Universe works in mysterious ways, she resolves, and smiles. "Hi there. I'm Nataya. Nice to meet you. I don't think there's punch and pie. They have this sports drink stuff, but it tastes pretty terrible," she admits, looking into the cup again before putting it on a convenient table.
"Anyhow, looks like I'm your opponent for this Neo League fight," her voice is friendly and relaxed as she jogs a little in place. "So if you could do me the honors of a good fight, I'd much appreciate it."
"Naeo-league," Corrects the witch and then notices that there is a sign that infact reads 'Neoleague' Naerose frowns. She reaches into her hat, rummages around, brandishes a red crayon and attacks the sign until it too reads 'Naeoleague'. The camera crew look nervous and hides their name tags.
"Alright, that's better, lets see sports drink.." Naerose next wanders to the table and terrorizes the nasty sports drink. Watered down? Surely, whateever is cheapest, but that doesn't stop the witch from drinking it all.
"I guess that's good enough for punch, anyone got any pie?" Asks the witch. No one does. She turns her attention to Nataya then and looks her over.
"So.. You're ... " She is obviously waiting for a name to be given as she apparently didn't bother to read any of the information they gave her. The camera crew share a look that seems to say 'it's going to be a looong day'.
"Nataya?" She just said it, although it doesn't look like she's too upset to say it again. "My name is Nataya. I'm new here in town and new here at this League stuff. So I guess I'm sort of the dark horse." She gives a little shrug as if to say 'what are you gonna do?'
"So! Let's get this show on the road, shall we? I'm anxious to see how tough Neo League competitors are!" She does seem pretty chipper about the concept of beating on someone's face. But it's not an aggressive posture she takes. If anything, it's clear that she sees it as a friendly match. No more, no less, and more excited about testing her skills against what she assumes to be a professional fighter.
Almost as an afterthought, Nataya's pleasant smile grows into a pleasant grin. "Tell you what. If you beat me, I'll get you some pie."
COMBATSYS: Nataya has started a fight here.
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Nataya 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Naerose has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nataya
O_O
That was totally a mistake.
The witch is looking suddenly more ravenous than ever and suddenly brandishes her broom and gets into a suddenly ready position? The quesiton mark there because rather than having the standard I'm going to fight position, she still looks quite a bit relaxed, almost leaning back on her broom which she holds in a fairly ready .. sort of position. Everything about her style is weird, no everything about her is weird.
"Umm, okay, so you're new?" Naerose asks, but doesn't wait for an answer.
"I'll let you start this off, since you offered pie. Oh and I want a blueberry crumble with whip cream."
Mistake or not, Nataya smiles, closing her eyes with a laugh. It's a nice laugh, and sounds like it belongs to someone a lot more mature than she looks to be. "Sure, that's fine," she says, bracing her feet on the ground in a modified Muay Thai stance. Her hands raise, and her sleeves slide back exposing the strands of prayer beads wrapped around her forearms.
And with that, Nataya is like a human bullet. Her foot speed is impressive for her apparent build. The woman accelerates with disturbing alacrity closing the distance in nearly an eyeblink. Her shoes almost seem to wear a trench in the pavement as she stops short of the Red Witch.
Using the friction on the ground for torque, Nataya whips her leg around to slam it into the side of the mysterious witch, trying to bowl her over instantly.
As nice as she appears, Nataya plays for keeps, and hopefully Naerose will follow suit!
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Nataya's Light Kick.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Nataya
Perhaps Naerose plays for keeps too, she certainly seems to start off without getting hit exactly. Planting her broom in the ground to take the leg from hitting her head on and while holding onto her broom, the food just catching her on a glancing kick , Naerose extends her other hand, the one not holding the broom to Nataya, holding it opened, palm out and peering over the lenses of her shades.
Naerose grins and says,
En Criento!"
A blast of white pure damage energy explodes out of her palm, it's a close range blast, but it's point is clear: destruction.
Perhaps, Naerse would enjoy herself.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Nataya with End Creation.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Nataya
That was pretty much unexpected. Nataya finds herself stopped dead in her tracks as the retaliationary blast comes quickly on the heels of her own attack. Blasted backwards with incredible force, the Muay Boran user finds herself doing all she can to keep her footing, and fails.
She smashes head over heels, tumbling about until she can finally slide to a halt. "Oof!" Feet scrape the ground as she staggers upward again, brushing her hair out of her face. A lot of damage, but she's still not down for the count yet.
Time to bring out the big guns early, though. Just because this witch looks weird doesn't mean she's not wiley. She starts to mutter her mantras, her hands raising as her sleeves seem to belch silvery mist which falls around her feet and legs. Her prayer beads glow brightly, turning from siple wooden beads to shining silver spheres as they suddenly break free.
Forming concentric circles in front of her, the beads begin to focus and funnel the bright clouds into what looks like a bolt of pure force. Without any further warning, Nataya unleashes the blast at Naerose. The burst shoots towards her like a spear. As for Nataya?
She's gone in a puff of silvery smoke as she appears right next to Naerose, her fists already moving to smash into the Wily Weird Witch's kidneys.
COMBATSYS: Nataya successfully hits Naerose with Six Seals EX.
- Power hit! -
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|======-\-------\0 Nataya
Then it was Naerose's turn to be hammered, but this time, she's less able to get out of the way of that one than the opening assault. It burned a lot and while sending her staggering back a few paces, it also gives her a very thoughtful look. She takes a moment to gather herself and backs up a few hoped paces from where she was, deciding to give herself some distance and then flings out her arm, her sleeve fluttering and a flurry of air darts slinging toward Nataya as she goes before shouting out,
"Sagitta minor!" And the darts, like icy needles pepper the area.
COMBATSYS: Nataya blocks Naerose's Sagitta Minor.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Nataya
Hup! Time to go on the defensive now! Air darts are hard to see, and Nataya's forced to squint. Her hands move quickly. One... two... three... there's no way she can get them all, but in a flurry of punches and kicks, she seems to literally smash the darts out of the air one by one... except for one, which cracks right on her forehead. Nataya's head kicks back from the force, and she's left slightly disortiented.
But that doesn't take long to recover from. Although blue basketballs are still doing to hokey pokey in front of her eyes, Nataya scans, looking for the bright smear of red in her feild of vision.
The beads clatter to the ground, and Nataya jumps on them, using them like skates as she shoots towards Naerose at high speed. As she does so, Nataya raises one hand and four beads rise up font the ground. The mists trailing her seem to form a sheet of power between the four beads, and Nataya charges forward, the reactive sheild up as she tries to ram it into the witch's face. "Nice moves! I heard about people that have multiple-element manipulation!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose parries Nataya's Four Noble Truths!
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Naerose 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Nataya
Just as Nataya charges on, Naerose pivots to one side and tries to catch the woman before she can pass by completely and uses her broom to help Nataya go on her way past. It's then she makes her move reaching for Nataya and trying to put a hand around her neck. All the while trying to speak,
"It's not really multiple element, it's more accurately multiple facets of a single element, if you pay very close attention here, you'll notice all of my abilities have one thing in common." The witch says and winks over her shades.
Meanwhile if her hands can get a hold on Nataya's neck she'll lift her up, hold her there for a moment while a darkness energy grows in her hand and she tries to summon a blackhole right on the spot or a nova of pure dark.
"This is the pain of the universe, Darkness Nova!"
COMBATSYS: Nataya endures Naerose's Darkness Nova EX!
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|=======\===----\1 Nataya
The pain of the Universe? Well, let's see. It sure as heck hurts like the pain of the Universe. Granted, so did Dr. Tran's punching her clean across the town in her last Neo League battle. Naerose's attack lands square, and there's just not much she can do about it except ride out the wave and hope it ends soon.
The attack causes a nearly explosive effect on Nataya, the beads that she levitates clatter to the ground and the silver mists that she seems followed by dissapate like fog lifting in the afternoon.
When the attack is over, all Nataya can do is to twitch, trying to reach her equilibrium point again. It takes a few seconds for her to lurchs backwards, but once she does, it's quick and meaningful. "Aspects of the same element?" she asks, trying to clear her head. As she does so, the mists rise up again, swirling about the beads on the ground. The strange weapons coalesce into long beams of silvery light. With a gesture, Nataya sends the energy weapons at Naerose, but not as simple energy bursts. Instead they act like batons, whirling around the witch to give her a vicious beatdown while Nataya scoots back, trying to recover from the nasty hit she just took.
COMBATSYS: Nataya successfully hits Naerose with Four Stages of Enlightenment.
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Naerose 1/-======/=======|===----\-------\0 Nataya
Letting someone get so much into her face was a real mistake, because Naerose has no where to go when a reprisal comems her way. Each weapon is totally painful and everything, but the end result, is well, wow. Just Wow. Naerose finds the attack sufficiently unpleasant, she can't deny how much she wishes it hadn't just hit her, but.. whatcha gonna do? The witch grits her teeth and manages to pull herself away finaly and then lets out a gasp, drawing a deep breath and letting it out before starting to summmon her next attack, her broom used to trace a circle and some other glyphs, while this may seem like it would take a while, Naerose does it quite expertly, quickly no less and then starts the attack, calling down toward Nataya wave after wave of falling burning wisps like minature falling stars. No explanation need be given except.
"Holy Sh@#, she's out of her mind! Run!"
Yep, the falling stars don't discriminate well.
COMBATSYS: Nataya blocks Naerose's Star Fall.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|======-\-------\0 Nataya
Nataya looks up.
Something told her, as the witch drew her glyphs that it was completely wrong to just stand there and watch. She knew it. She did. But they're pretty and interesting, and Nataya has a very intense sort of curiousity. The kind of curiousity that has her looking up even after the act is completed.
The she hears the shout.
The stars come down from the sky like flaming bullets, and Nataya is at ground zero of her very own Armaggeddon, without the benefit of Aerosmith playing a rock power ballad to give her the motivation to get the heck out.
The thought strikes her right before the things start to hit ground, and Nataya finds herself scrabling every which way. Attacks from the front or the back or the sides... she can deal with those. But what do you do when someone drops the Universe on you? The answer is duck, dodge, dive and block anything you come across.
Nataya is buffeted left and right, tossed about like a rowboat at sea as the stars burst around her. She's not down for the count, having avoided the worst of it, but she's nailed no less than twice by the stars.
By the end of it, Nataya is in a crouched position, breathing hard and smoking from the impact. "Okay... see that's what my Master was telling me about." She smiles broadly. "That was... pretty awesome."
But the race isn't over yet! Nataya still has a trick or two up her sleeve. Clutched in her hands are three beads, magnified by her power to the size of softballs. Jumping back, Nataya flings them at Naerose, and they twirl about, spiralling at the Red Witch. Should they hit, the silver balls will explode with pure force on the witch, hopefully giving Nataya some room to breathe.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Nataya's Three Gems.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Nataya
Those beads were really something else, the witch had to hand it to Nataya, they were no joke. The witch throws her arms up and does her best to deflect them, they end up at best glancing blows. They still hurt though and the witch gives a considerable vocal wince before regaining herself some. She draws back her arm, narrows her eyes and then aims a lower swipe at Nataya, seemingly trying to catch her some off guard with her next attack. Her eyes narrow before she flings at the other woman something relatively small, not too heavy, but aiming a jab with her broom at Nataya's midsection. Long range and quick.
"Man, you better .. buy me really good pie."
Either the witch forgot the 'if you win' part, or she's expecting pie either way.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Nataya with Weapon Jab.
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Naerose 0/-------/----===|=======\-------\0 Nataya
After all that destruction and exertion, Nataya's not really prepared for something so simple as a jab in gut with a broom. As a result, Naerose is able to land a clean hit on the otherwise quick Muay Boran fighter. The wind's knocked out of her audibly, and she nearly soubles over. Given the damage she's taken, Nataya's near the end of her rope.
But Nataysa's beads are indeed serious business! Or at least, she tries to make sure they are. Using the floating objects as means of transport again, she skates back on the balls of her feet, the beads swarming like BBs all around her, tiny pinpricks of silver. The swirl into a spiral shape in front of her, and Nataya projects them at Naerose. The glowing objects shoot beams of energy at the witchy woman, hurtling towards her at incredible speed and following up with smacking into her like a volley of hailstones, trying to put the girl out.
You're gonna have to win that pie first!"
COMBATSYS: Naerose parries Nataya's Ten Perfections EX!
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Nataya
At the incoming energy the witch does her best to react, turning away to try and escape, but not being nearly fast enough. The silver swirl is scary and at a last ditch effort the witch mounts her broom and it picks her off the ground, shooting her into the air. Gripping the handle and leaning down she skips off the top of the energy swirling toward her, sending her on a crash course for Nataya.
One might marvel that she seems to have achieved flight until it is evident that the flight she achieved is uncontroled.. Uncontrolled flight into terrain.. or in this case, Nataya.
"Oh snap, I'm totally gonna crash!" cries the witch. . . into Nataya, if she can't get out of the way.
COMBATSYS: Nataya blocks Naerose's Delphine Charge EX.
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Naerose 0/-------/--=====|==-----\-------\0 Nataya
What the...? The broom actually flies? Is she allowed to do that? What the heck!?
These are thoughts that cross Nataya's mind, if only for an instant. Nevertheless, as the witch hurtles towards her like a comet in a hat, Nataya tosses her arms up in an impromptu defensive maneuver. The broom smacks her aside, but doesn't bowl her over. Even so, Nataya lets out a grunt, staggering back. She's running out of juice, and there's not a whole lot she can do about it. All she can do now is fire off a few more bursts of power and hope one of the dang things hit.
Well, if at first you don't succeed... Setting up for one last pass, Nataya shoots towards Naerose at full steam, scaking across the ground with her beads offering the frictionless surface she needs to maintain this feat. However, this time, the beads on the ground roll forward ahead of her, pulsing with energy and forming strange circular patches. If any of them get near enough to Naerose, they'll explode into a pillar of energy, blasting Naerose up into the sky and tumbling her around a little before letting her slam onto the ground.
COMBATSYS: Nataya successfully hits Naerose with Five Precepts.
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Naerose 1/------=/=======|====---\-------\0 Nataya
This time Naerose's Luck totally runs off, but that doesn't mean she's totally down and out, afterall.. Her opponent started this and as the projeectile energy encounters witch and takes her down for the most part except even the distance won't prevent her final attack, a blast from the palm of her hand, like before, only this time.. With a little bit of a thrust forward along with a cry of,
"En Criento!'
You know the drill.. The palm holds out where the blast which explodes outward with once again.. pure damage.
COMBATSYS: Naerose can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Nataya dodges Naerose's End Creation EX.
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Nataya 0/-------/---====|
Not again! Nataya remembers that thing from earlier in the fight, and she's in no hurry to be on the receiving end of the attack. The blast comes in hard and fast, and Nataya knows in her heart that she can't take the hit, even if she blocks it. Even if her training allows her to take terrible punishment, the woman knows that one hit will cause her to crumple like a tin can in a rock crusher.
So Nataya does what she can: she drops to the ground like someone in an air raid drill. The burst of power barely misses, singeing her hair and burning a bolt of cloth down her back. "Gack!"
And then? And then it's over. Nataya takes her hands off of her eyes, and peers. Did she win? She sits up on her haunches, gingerly touching her back. That's going to leave a serious mark, along with the horrible Tran punching.
It takes a moment, but she settles into her clam, smiling face again, and half trots, half hobbles over to Naerose to see if she's okay. After all, this is a Neo League fight. The only thing at stake here is bragging rights and publicity, and Nataya isn't really a bragger. "Hey. Wow, that was awesome," she says, pulling her hair back out of her face to keep the sweat from getting in her eyes. "You holding up alright?"
The witch gives the barest of nods and seems content to stay where she is. "Err. . Yeah.." She rubs her nose with the side of her hand and adjusts her hat a little more over her forehead.
"I'm gonna need to take a raincheck.." On what? She doesn't say she just sort of starts snorring, I mean whatcha gonna do? wake her up. Better not. And that's all she wrote.
Log created on 22:56:00 08/26/2008 by Naerose, and last modified on 11:12:40 08/27/2008.