Description: Naeo League: Naerose somehow stumbles through the fabric of time and space and ends up in the realm of the Dark Stalkers. There she meets Hsien-Ko who is none to happy to find the Red Witch mucking up the peaceful afterlife, and threatening their entire food supply. Fighting naturally ensues. They said it couldn't be done, but I bring you Hsien-Ko! (Winner:Hsien-Ko)
Vanity Paradise.
A pleasant orange glow perpetually casts twilight over the sky. Never day, never night. This endless land stretches in a serene calm that is peaceful, but lonely. The golden ground spans a large clearing, surrounded by small boulders, a sweetly blossoming sakura tree. Spanning into the endless horizon behind the clearing is the mirror shin of what could be a lake, the surface completely calm with depths that seem to stretch into eternity like the sky. A boat, perhaps a fishing vessel is docked as though poised to sail, but lifeless like the rest of the gentle surroundings. Curling into the sky raises a single stone staircase which approaches a shrine atop an arch perhaps a hundred feet over the water surface. Various apparitions of women occupy this area, with traditional Chinese regalia, some of noble women and others of peasants, each with ribbons that seem to float in the air about them.
Standing alone in this peaceful eternity is one pair of ghostly beings unlike the others. While most of these women do not speak, only these two are even remotely active. One dressed in a long golden jacket with puffy red pants and a yellow hat, stands with her back to the other one, each hand clutching paper wards. While the first woman is fairly plain looking, the other has a ghastly shade of blue for flesh, dressed in a brightly colored Chinese outfit, complete with metal claws. In soft whispers the two girls speak to one another while the peaceful world around them continues to remain unchanged.
That peace is totally about to end. Completely utterly. A wise man once said that a certain walking failure. A certain Red Witch, Naerose Delphine, could stumble literally anywhere. The deepest depths of Shandaloo was not safe. Seishirou was not safe. No one was safe of the random wanderings of Naerose. While she could not choose where she ended up, it was not unusual for her to end up in weird places. Most of the time this went without any notice at all. She might end up in a toilet, locked in a closet, in a gutter, in a forest in the middle of no where, but not this time, no. This time Naerose had somehow managed to wander OFF OF HER GAME. For on this day Naerose staggers into a peaceful clearing and like a record player scratching off of a record, the peace ends.
"Man I'm hungry," whines the Red Witch as she wanders more into the clearing. Probably the only sound echoing for miles, maybe even for eternity. It sounds like nails on chalkboard.
With a start, both women look up and spy the red clad one. Obviously there is something here that just doesn't belong. "Lin-Lin," asks the woman in the violet and purple Chinese outfit, "What is that?" Not who, what. "I don't know Lei-Lei," replies Lin-Lin. The sisters both stare at the stranger in shocked disbelief. Never had someone wandered into their realm like this before. "If I'm not mistaken," Lin-Lin begins, "She's alive."
"Of course I'm like totally alive, what are you a ghost or something?" blurts out Nae-Nae, who is totally thinking like, how come only these two are speaking? No one else is speaking. No one else here seems to be entirely here at all. It is a really crazy place, but something is bothering Naerose. She eyes Lei-Lei very closely, adjusts her shades and then starts digging into her red witches hat, all the while muttering, "Hey you know what, I'm sure I saw this one from someplace." She begins to go through her fighter cards, but of course she doesn't find anything from her SNF collectable trading cards. It isn't until she finds her cosplayer collectable cards that Naerose starts to get a clue.
"Don't call us the living dead, don't you know that scares us?" protests Lei-Lei while huffing and stomping her foot. This crazy woman was beyond overstaying her welcome. "Sister, I think we need to teach this human a lesson." The yellow clad woman gives a nod and swings her hands together, as the two wards held in each connect she vanishes in a puff of smoke, a single ward floating toward Lei-Lei and turning into a hat the moment it touches her forehead. Where there was once two women there is now only one with a hat and suddenly enormous arms with even larger claws sticking out of her oversized sleeves. In front of the blue skinned Lei-Lei's face flaps a single ward.
"Ni Hao" greets Hsien-Ko.
THAT was totally where Naerose saw her before. The red witch nearly loses her shades as they slide down her nose and she has to push them back up. She totally knew this person and pointing her red painted nails Hsien-Ko, "You're Hsien-Ko!" Exclaims Naerose, stating the obvious. Of course Naerose always wanted to be Hsien-Ko, but here, she was standing right in front of her, which means Naerose can't possibly be Hsien-Ko, she already and exists and everyone knows you can't meet your alternate self. It's like impossible. Then there is the threat of a fight, well if Naerose is going to subdue this Chinese ghost and make annex her then she'll need to fight! But first, why waste a fight. "Hold on!"
Hurrying up, Naerose grabs from her hat a couple of super cheap lame video camera's, but hey they work just fine. She sets them up, pulls out a cardboard box and uses a crayon to scrawl "Naeo League". Setting up the sign she says, "Right. Now I'm ready."
COMBATSYS: Naerose has started a fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|
With the range between herself and the crazy witch, Hsien-Ko reaches into her sleeve, her normal sized arm appearing from the oversized sleeve to reach into her jacket and pulls fourth a know which she casually flicks across the clearing toward Naerose.
If it takes force to get this intruder out of the peaceful afterlife than a fight it will be. Hsien-Ko gets into a ready position with her enormous claws postured toward Naerose, ready to tear her apart. The real world may not want Naerose, but neither does the afterlife and Hsien-Ko is ready to prove it. Besides, what would Hsien-Ko eat? Ghosts still get hungry you know.
"I'm not going to go easy on you," Hsien-Ko warns, while standing on her tip toes and rolling her head on her shoulders from side to side and quivering every so often with an inhuman shiver.
With the range between herself and the crazy witch, Hsien-Ko reaches into her sleeve, her normal sized arm appearing from the oversized sleeve to reach into her jacket and pulls fourth a know which she casually flicks across the clearing toward Naerose.
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko has joined the fight here.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Hsien-Ko's Weapon Throw.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
"Woah woah woah woah," exclaims Naerose as she totally realizes that the blue skinned chick just like chucked a knife at her! It was nuts! She never had someone throw a knife at her under handed like they were playing softball. Wouldn't you know? Naerose was even considering just catching the blasted thing, but ooooh no, that would be a terrible idea. So instead she brings her broom up and tries to deflect it - fails - and ends up catching it on her forearm. Yep. It's a real knife. "Snap! are you trying to kill me?" protests the witch. "Well okay, I'll give you something back then, Sagitta Minor!" Exclaims the witch and flings a icy flurry of darts toward Hsien-Ko.
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko reflects Sagitta Minor from Naerose with Reflect Gong.
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Naerose 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
There wasn't a lot of things that could frighten a ghost except other ghosts, or being a ghost, but Hsien-Ko would probably be afraid of needles too if she had ever gone to a doctor. There was no way she wanted to experience the prickling of these particular ice needles so pulling a huge gong out of god only knows where, Hsien-Ko bangs with reverberating vibrations and sends a shockwave toward every one of those needles back at their sender. "I think these belong to you." Hsien-Ko exclaims while shoving the gong back to where it came from.
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko successfully hits Naerose with Reflected Sagitta Minor.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
There was just not any dodging of your own attack. What was a witch to do? She had it sent back at her with a friggin' gong. Man, this just wasn't her day, but no time to be dazed and confused here. Naerose decides it is time to even the score a little and charges at Hsien-Ko. "Alright, here comes something that is probably going to hurt, I'm totally sorry in advance." Except she's not really sorry, she is going to give it her all which is not going to end well for someone (hint: Naerose.). Bringing her broom in a big wide arch, the witch swings it in a cleeeeaaaaaan sweep.
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko blocks Naerose's Clean Sweep.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
It was a good thing Naeroes gave Hsien-Ko so much warning, because who knows where that broom has been. Of all the unusual weapons, a broom takes the cake. Using claws, axes, chainsaws, spears.. ect, Hsien-Ko was used to weapons and couldn't puzzle out why someone would choose to use such a weak weapon into a battle. Wasn't this witch trying at all? Didn't she want to win? Bracing against her shoulder, Hsien-Ko grimaces while being struck with the attack and then quickly returns fire by letting her fingers do the walking. Running her claws along the ground like so many marching feet, the ghost drags herself toward the red clad witch while trying to rake her under the sharp points.
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko successfully hits Naerose with Fierce Strike.
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Naerose 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
Things were totally not looking good for the red witch. At this rate she was totally going to lose. Which was bad. First of all her Naeo League score this season was awful, and no less the season she was expected to win. Surely she couldn't lose this.. On top of this, she had to subdue the Chinese Ghost in order to be able to bring her home and then BE the Chinese ghost. It was time for some more drastic measures. "Okay, try THIS on for size," exclaims Naerose as she mounts her broom. "Cause this one is really my special move!" And with that Naerose rockets off toward Hsien-Ko at a furious rate!
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko interrupts Delphine Charge from Naerose with Guillotine Swing.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
Hsien-Ko could handle the air, even if she couldn't do something quite as impressive as Naerose's broom 'flight' if you could call it impressive. Jumping into the air, the Chinese ghost does a little air dashing of her own - literally. She runs on the thin air and then as she is just over Naerose during her little broom trip, Hsien-Ko sends a chain into the sky and don't ask what it attaches to because that's seriously putting too much thought into it. Swinging back and fourth and across the flying witch, with lots and lots of blades coming from every which place before landing with a skid. "Hi-ya"
Now this is more than Naerose can easily handle, it defied the laws of physics. Running on thin air was impossible, chain extending to nothing was impossible, and those knives coming from everywhere, that was also impossible. Rather than marveling over the fact that Naerose is getting her bottom handed to her, perhaps she should be doing something like trying to win this fight! After landing and having to pick herself up, Naerose decides to do just that. If at first you don't succeed. Even the odds. The witch adjusts her shades carefully and peers at Hsien-Ko carefully.
COMBATSYS: Naerose focuses her next action.
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Naerose 0/-------/=======|=------\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
A break is usually a welcomed break from the frantic pace of battle, but Hsien-Ko was getting into quite the groove. She sure she could handle this and why stop now. Moving up toward Naerose, Hsien-Ko makes a quick motion to grab the witch with both hands and toss her into the air, if she can manage that the witch is going to have a really nasty landing as Hsien-Ko stays right there waiting, her huge claws extended upward and spinning like a blender. If the witch gets tossed up and falls into that, it is pretty sure to hurt. . a lot. One nice thing about getting this fight over with is that ward, blowing it out of her eyes all the time and telling her sister to quiet down is really getting annoying.
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko successfully hits Naerose with Spectral Slicer EX.
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Naerose 1/----===/=======|===----\-------\0 Hsien-Ko
Okay, now Naerose was in trouble, but maybe, just maybe so would Hsien-Ko be, because Naerose was going to totally do something big. After being thrown and heck, her broom even gets knocked away, which is bad news for a broom wielding witch, but for now, it might pay off. Holding both arms out, Naerose begins to summon everything she has in what can only be called a really big attack. Each hand gathers a lot of energy into it and pointing them forward sends a torrent of swirling energy toward Hsien-Ko with a cry of "En Criento En!"
COMBATSYS: Hsien-Ko endures Naerose's End Creation End EX.
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Naerose 0/-------/-----==|=======\-------\1 Hsien-Ko
Without an attempt at getting out of the way, the Chinese ghost sisters have had just about enough of this annoyance. When the energy comes their way, they don't try to get out of the way, instead they charge into it, through it.. And vanish. Appearing again a moment later right in front of Naerose, it is clear that the blue skinned ghost has taken the brunt of the attack and ended up just a little worse for wear, but now she's ready to put a stop to this once and for all.
"TENRAIHA" cries Hsien-Ko and then lowers a huge anvil toward the head of the witch in an attempt to squash her and really if that alone wasn't enough, spikes seem to rain down from heaven, all toward the epic fail.
COMBATSYS: Naerose fails to interrupt Spikes From Heaven from Hsien-Ko with Spellbinder.
COMBATSYS: Naerose can no longer fight.
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Hsien-Ko 0/-------/-------|
Like so many crashing spikes, Naerose is sent barreling back toward the real world and once again in the land of MOTM she will peacefully sleep, leaving the one burning question on the mind of all ghosts, if you die as a ghost do you go back to being alive? Well of course not, a severe beating was just what it took to get rid of Naerose this time. But next time, mark my words, it will be worse.. Oh so much worse.
Sighing with relief, Hsien-Ko blows her ward out of the way of her eyes and slouches forward. That was a close one. People never realized that as a ghost you still got hungry. It was bad enough having a menace like Naerose in the real world, but in the afterlife? Hsien-Ko dodged a bullet. "We need to work together better sister, if we arn't careful someone like that might come around and.. Hey are you even listening to me?" shouts Hsien-Ko. It really is awfully hard to tell if a ward on a funny hat is listening, or if they can even hear you at all.
Log created on 12:12:03 03/31/2009 by Naerose, and last modified on 12:29:09 04/01/2009.