Description: Rockets stream across the ocean as patrol boats and jetskis duke it out around the massive cargo ship. The Himawari Maru, a cargo ship doing shipping and exporting from Japan to South Africa, has been hijacked by pirates led by the ever-graceful Kanata Miyata. Carrying cargo consisting of relics and raw materials stolen from the country under the cover of the rolling blackouts the country is often plagued with, it's enroute to destinations unknown. However, the country's coastal guard is failing against the superior firepower levelled by the group. Their last hope are a pair of stowaways who have unwittingly found themselves aboard the ship. Captain Miyata is very displeased with the stowaways.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has joined the fight here on the right meter side.
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COMBATSYS: Kanata equips Magna Band.
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Kanata drops CARGO.
COMBATSYS: CARGO has joined the fight here as a boss!
CARGO
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Forty miles from Cape Town, South Africa; The Pacific Ocean. 00:32 It's stormy in the South African ocean, stormy, choppy, and more than a little drab. The dim lighting out here makes it impossible to see much more than a few feet in front of you, and truly, you might consider the sound of wave crashing upon keel your only companion.
The Himawari Maru has been missing for two days. Despite an unconventionally thorough manhunt (boathunt??) by Cape Town policemen, this ship has remained out of the public eye and records, considered either scrapped for money, or stolen and out of port. In recent hours, police scrutiny has faded in favor of a tighter hold on the *known* problems with Cape Town customs; once again, drug lords and gangsters find themselves encumbered with the usual scrutiny. The Himawari Maru, like so many other posessions in this crime-addled town, has been considered lost.
Two hours ago, that changed. A recreational yachter saw a suspiciously LARGE ship leaving harbor at a suspiciously late time. Within minutes, customs officials had arrived to investigate the vessel, and in the last ten minutes, sirens and flood lights accompany the sounds of raging engines fighting the choppy waves, of bullhorns and shrieking police officers declaring their cease-and-desists. Law enforcement has found the Himawari Maru, and its current posessors are none too pleased.
The Himawari's crew isn't very pleased, either. Immediately upon sight and sound of the lights and sirens, men have leapt upon jetskis, equipped themselves with rocket launchers and machine guns. A firefight rages upon the unsettled sea; lawman and criminal both erupt in the occasional plume of blood or flame. It sets a cacophanous stage for the real fight yet to come. Of the Himewari abductors, one has the forethought to place herself where the true concern lies.
Atop a large, tied-down box on the Himawari's foredeck, Kanata Miyata sits, legs crossed, cutlass limbered across her back. She watches the distant battle with all the concern of a chess grandmaster, heedless of the rain and hair wind-whipped into her face, across her clothes. She is near the objective, she is keeping it safe. That is enough.
This is where our heroes might come in. For all of the Himawari crew's efforts, one or two cargo boxes have gone unchecked. The cargo room's guardsmen have left their posts to return fire to the approaching law; your opportunity for escape, however ill-concieved, lies in this very moment. Fate is yours to mold; do you investigate what the root of this disturbance may be, or take shelter in your well-concieved hideaways??
FISH MONSTER! Seriously, someone dressed as a fish, climbs onto the boat. It all started earlier that day. A certain Red Witch learned that Lobster was actually something that you caught in cages at the bottom of the ocean and it was free! So she decided to go swimming and what should she find? A totally awesome fish costume! And it fits! Woah, what are the chances. Anyway, she puts on the costume and goes for a little dive... and finds some lobster cages .. but .. The lobster dinners she expected were totally not in there! What the ?!
What is in there? Frigging shellfish! Live! Naerose does try munching on some of the bait, but its not the same as cooked lobster there was supposed to be under the sea. So she pullllls herself up onto the nearest ship.. And dripping, in a fish costume. . She's totally like. .
"What the heck!?" Woah fighting,
"Man I better go .. hide!" The first door is the cargo hold... and no food. Talk about disappointed witch. Needless to say she takes off the fish costume and tosses it out the nearest porthole. Better left to the sea.
It's odd how Antoine found himself in this mess. Actually, it started with doing a good deed. However, thre was a bit of a trade. On one hand, Antoine wanted to get to the next country to do some more exploration on his journey. They needed help with delivering cargo as well as dealing with other situations. Antoine figured that he'd help out, not knowing the situation.
However, within the cargo, Antoine had drifted aleep from exhaustion. Somewhere along the way, he fell into that cargo that was likely taken.
Waking up, however, he can hear the sound of strange noise This causes him to be more alert and he narrows his eyes, "What the...?"
Antoine uses the moment to race forward, gaining his courag to see what is going on to cause this disturbance.
Kanata Miyata is known for many things. Beauty, athleticism, and tact are of course prevalent among them, but no one quality comes near to edging out Miyata's reputation for poise. Even amidst this subtropical firestorm, monsoon, and horrific weather the teen remains statuesque upon her cargo, undeterred by the death and destruction around her. As such, her reaction to Naerose's Red Lobsteriffic introduction might speak -volumes- -- she gives the dripping, disgusted woman a sidelong glance, lips twisting into a practiced sneer.
Of course, just as she's about to speak, Antoine bursts free from the cargo deck, understandably curious as to what's happening above. He'll be delighted to find his clothing soaked, his fade drenched, and the water -isn't stopping-. Storms at sea are about seven thousand times worse than storms on land. Kanata Miyata is all the more royal for her ability to weather them without concern.
She does not move from her perch atop the cargo; her passive, green eyes instead regard the distant firefights, the police tugboats enveloped in blossoms of flame. "You two," she begins, dispassionately, "Are in a terrible spot, aren't you?? I'll offer you a chance to leave now, to head back to land and seek another means to where you'd like to be. A lifeboat sits off of the starboard bow - it is yours, if you wish it. If not..." She does not quite make eye contact, yet.
Those lips pull up into a slight smile.
"There is a single law to these seas. It is barbaric, but I do not profess to be above it."
The red witch looks up, fixes her shades and is all like, thinking seriously, hard. Then she's totally like,
"Hi, I have no idea what you just said. She scratches her chin while leaning against her broomstick,
"So you're offering to give me a boat.. For free, if I just leave..? Is it a good boat? Can I keep it?" Imagines of fishing goes through her head before she finally realizes, "Sounds like work."
Then she glances around the cargo hold and hums a little, looking completely unthreatened by the whole thing, starts to poke around a little before asking,
"Only one law.. Well .. umm can we haggle?"
The arrival puts Antoine in the situation of being wet. The water drips along his clothing, pretty much drenched at this point. It only seems to get worse as there is a commotion of gunfire and the sight of firefights going on. The young man's eyes widen as he gazes out towards the battle field.
His attention falls upon the strange woman, Kanata. When she finally addresses to the both of them, Antoine notes her words and then he offer. He furrows his eyebrows over towards the threat.
"...Is that a challenge?"
Antoine is not without his duffel bag. In fact, Antoine drops the duffelbag and then he steps over to his fighting stance.
"Very well, let us communicate in this single law."
While the witch offers to haggle, Antoine is moving dead on to charge into the fight. She wishes to speak a certain culture, Antoine will abide by the culture. As such, he closes the distance between the bth of them before he launches his feet off of the ground. Spinning in a full spin, he hooks the right leg out to snap at the head. The main attack comes down in the form of the foot sweep to knock her off of her feet.
COMBATSYS: Antoine successfully hits Kanata with Quick Throw.
- Power hit! -
CARGO
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Naerose's attitude prompts an upraised eyebrow from the seated Kanata; she manages to keep a straight face, despite the very real amusement pulling at tight-drawn lips. Wind continues to whip hair in front of her face; in Naerose's distraction, this provides a very real, very -elusive- benefit to her opponents.
Namely, Kanata's right field of vision is obscured, if even for a moment. Words tumble through turbulent air to reach her ear a fraction of a second too late, and by the time the Himawari Maru's current captain has turned to set eyes on the far more aggressive Antoine, it's quite a bit too late.
Foot connects with head, and the other sweeps the pirate queen off of her feet - literally. The Antoine-Kanata complex tumbles to the top of that boxy cargo load like so much dead weight, and for a brief moment, the kung-fu fighter atop of Miyata might feel her -palpable- rage.
"..." Language comes in the form of a quick exhalation; strong legs bunch and tense beneath Antoine's prone form. Kanata's counterattack comes in the lightning-quick release of that force; she seeks to launch Antoine into the air as though she were some kind of spring. If successful, she'll leap up after him, hand upon the six-foot cutlass at her back, and *SLASH* it across his form, sending him shrieking into the ship's poop deck!!
"Woahwoahwoah...!" Exclaims Naerose watcing Antoine attack the woman and the red witch totally just watches for a moment before commenting, "Hey, you know, I think you're taking this too far, I mean you can't just go around attacking people!" Then the cutlass, "Hey, don't you think that's over reacting? You're going to poke someone's eye out.." She looks around and shifts her hat before saying, "Actually this is very piratety.. with an eye patch and a peg leg and that cool prop sword, man.. And I think I know that guy, he ate my punch and pie!" The witch is pretty much just standing there. Then she's like,
"Actually, I wonder if there is food in here.."
She tries to open a cargo box with her broom. You know.. as if it was a crowbar (it's not).
COMBATSYS: Kanata successfully hits Antoine with Higetsugiri.
! VENGEANCE !
CARGO
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COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits CARGO with Medium Strike.
CARGO
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The foot strikes out towards the head, then the motions sweep over across her feet to knock her off. As the complex tumbles to the box of that boxy cargo, knocking him on top of her. As his body is pressed close over towards hers, he cannot help but feel a bit awkward.
Were he a lesser man, he'd ask her if she'd like some black in her. But no, Antoine isn't like that.
Instead, Antoine attempts to roll off of her, but it is too late as he is launched out towards the air with the legs acting as a spring board. Antoine is shot into the air, enough for her to leap out towards him and slashing the blade across his back. The young man's eyes widen as the blood splatters all over the place. A scream cries out from the man before he lands against the ship's popdeck.
Few moments later, he emerges out of the poop deck wth narrowed eyes. He takes a deep breath, coughing up a bit before wiping some of the gunk off of him. He makes is way to close the distance between himself and her, now launching himself forward to dash towards her with his right leg crossed in front of the left.
Then, he shoots out, extending both hands apart at their respective side. As Antoine's left side is facing her, he is extending the left palm out towards Kanata's stomach to send her off of her feet.
COMBATSYS: Antoine successfully hits Kanata with Moving the Mountain.
CARGO
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Kanata's cargo - whatever it may be - is stored in extra-durable containment. Naerose poking at it with a broom is going to accomplish very little. If anything, the witch might find her chosen target to shiver in its placement atop the Himawari Maru's foredeck, find the barest perceptively dint in its metal-reinforced casing. The cargo box is vast, something like four refrigerator-widths worth of stuff; it's going to take quite a bit of force to get through its defenses.
While Antoine streaks towards the poop deck, Kanata is busy landing at Naerose's side, composing herself. While his attack did not necessarily -hurt-, the ship's captain is nonetheless surprised. She stalks towards his estimated position (lodged in the poop deck) with a professional's dispassion, callously tossing her oversized blade to the side - nay, OVER the side of her ship.
It would get there, were it not for the sudden (alarming!) appearance of a surly tiger from the very lifeboat she'd offered her current guests. The hunting cat captures the cutlass in his mouth, and dashes to places unseen; presumably, he is close, but too far to be in any danger.
"Thank you, Torao," begins Kanata's utterance; Antoine is unfortuantely streaking towards her at this very moment, palm outthrust, lips parted in feral irritation. His attack collides solidly with her stomach and sends her into a sudden, spiraling backwards lilt; at this rate, she's going to slam into the ship's foredeck-maindeck separation before she's got her wits about her!
This is, however, Kanata Miyata. A deft hand is moving despite the pain she finds herself in; it withdraws an archaic, flintlock pistol from her oversized captain's belt. While the woman is *still* spiraling away from her foe, now past Naerose's head, she takes careful aim, heedless of the whipping winds, distant explosions, pounding rain, and shuddering cargo. For now, she sees only Antoine.
She finds her mark.
*BANG*
She crumples against the wall afterwards, to scramble to her feet in the aftermath of Antoine's strike.
Decisions decisions. . What will Naerose do about this. Well she may not get anywhere close to what ever is inside this box, but it seems to be getting her really really curious. She decides to try something else. This time she makes a real attempt at jabbing her broom under the crate. Using all of her strength, or at least a lot of it to try tipping the box over with a serious - SERIOUSLY crash. The fight? Hell, she ignores it. NO one is trying to hurt her. She does notice the cat though and pouts,
"Oh man, that free boat was totally a trick.. It had a big cat in it."
COMBATSYS: Kanata successfully hits Antoine with Princess Sniper.
CARGO
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COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits CARGO with Strong Throw.
CARGO
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This actually brings back memories. Not in a good way either. Antoine can recall the situation all too well, considering that he was caught in the dead end of things. Long ago.... he faced a near death experience.
He was gunned down.
That is what causes Antoine to flinch. When the flintlock releases towards Antoine, the young man's eyes widen as he attempts to weave away. His eyes widen as the round pierces against him. Blood splatters everywhere, leaving a nice mess.
Although Antoine is staggering back from the fresh wound that exposes itself, he is not ready to give up.
The eyes narrow as he moves over towards the pirate. The fist clenches tightly. Through the bleeding and the pain in him, he continues on. Through those voices telling him to give up, he presses on.
As he closes the distance between himself and the pirate, he comes forth with the sweep of the leg. Given that it is expected, he actually moves on to the actual maneuver; the right leg steps forward as the right palm strikes towards her stomach.
To finish it off, the young man will move forward to use the left hand to rise up. The rising fist drives towards the woman's chin, seeking to shatter those bones as he brings his entire body in the air. The motion is enough to where he is driving his entire body into the air. "SHAAAAAAAAA!"
COMBATSYS: Kanata blocks Antoine's Heaven Descends to Earth EX.
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Naerose is strong!! Either that, or her broom is hella enchanted. Whichever of the two options YOU choose to believe, she sends the cargo load tipping to its side, at the mercy of gravity and witchcraft! Holding tethers buckle, straps groan, but nothing is quite so pleasing as that wicked CRASH denoting the container's ultimate topple to the ground. It lies there like some kind of forgotten corpse, notably dented, rainfall beginning to seep into its innards through miniscule cracks created upon its surface.
Unfortunately for Naerose, Kanata is quite readily close enough to notice the nonsense happening upon -her- (it's not really hers) ship. The *CRASH* of that cargo hitting the ground is really quite hint enough. Imperiously, the pirate queen lifts to her feet, unconcerned with the hair in her face, or the slickness of her deck; it is, in fact, something she uses to her advantage. Antoine's attack is taken as it is delivered; while the young man puts his heart into it, Kanata's reaction is indicative of her dispassion for his forthright manner. Sweep of the leg is met with a staunchly-bunched heel, while that upwards strike simply meets the bone of the woman's elbow; truly, she does not care for his approach.
"I tire of this. I gave you your chance; why do you persist in attack? Are you both seeking fulfillment of a death wish?"
Instead, she sets a foot to the edge of that now-loose cargo; she does not strike it, per-se, rather, sets it to lurching some five feet -across- the foredeck of her ship. Tiedowns and buckles whip about like flails; Naerose happens to be caught in the midst of all of it. How will she react? Will she dodge before her face meets some thirty pounds of whiplash'd metal?
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Kanata's Light Kick.
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"Hey! I wasn't trying to attack you, that was all mister punch and pie thief, I was just sniffing around for some grub. . And what's the big idea anyway, there was totally a lion in that life boat, you were not going to give me a free fishing boat at all! Man I wanted alaskan cra- what the heck?!" Exclaims Naerose as the buckles and tiedowns flip toward her. Nae does her best to cover the attacks, using her broom to try and shift them away from her, but some still manage to strike. . And that sets the pirate ah person, some distance away.
"Oh-kay, I do kind of want off this crazy, ship, but I don't want to get eaten by a lion, or a tiger, or a bear. So umm.. My only option is taking the key to the ship from you and like sailing it to the docks!"
Yeah, cause Naerose is totally qualified to do that.
"So gimme the key, missy meanie, I was so totally being nice too. Man!"
To close the distance, Naerose jumps on her broom and zips through the air in a collision course with Kanata.
For all of Antoine's efforts, she disrespects the warriors method. This causes the young man to narrow his eyes when she makes the blocking against the impact against the uppercut. A grunt is given when she turns her attention away from him.
This fills the fighter with the warrior's fury.
"Your threat was a challenge. As a warrior, I face your challenge..."
And Antoine moves forward, thrusting both of his hands out to release forth flow of energy. That flow is accented as Antoine leaps off of he ground, now launching his body in an aerial motion to have the legs cut forward towards Kanata's head in a sault-kick attack.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Kanata with Delphine Charge.
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COMBATSYS: Kanata interrupts Splitting the Earth from Antoine with Parley of Blades.
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She's blocked the ad-hoc attack. The effort sets Kanata's face to a diminutive scowl; eyes narrow behind that mask of wind-whipped hair. Naerose's words pull a drastically DIFFERENT reaction from the pirate queen... Naerose behind the wheel of a ship? While she is absolutely focused on other, critical matters, Kanata cannot help the shiver that runs down her spine. This -whelp- acting as the captain of a vessel...
Her father would never allow it.
It speaks to her faith in Antoine's skill that Kanata even flutters an eyelid in his direction; she knows talent when she sees it, and of the two Naerose is doing a considerably better job at drawing her attention. Still, the young man's rush forward elicits a reaction from his opponent - a decisive, effective motion that utterly stops him cold.
Torao lunges forth from his hiding place beneath the cargo, roaring fiercely!! That sault-kick impacts the tiger (with a mane??!) -lion- for the most part, though he is close enough to his mistress that inertia carries through. Still, Kanata retains enough independence of movement to pull a cutlass from her companion's side, thick and strong like a proper English privateer might own. She spins with the impact from Torao's own, and *SLASHES* that weapon across Antoine's chest with enough force to send him sprawling backwards!
"AIYA- NGH!" Naerose *FLIES* in, a moment too late to save her unwitting compatriot. The witch's impact sends Kanata flying against the rails of her ship, eyes fluttering, while without...
The pirates have made victory upon their pursuers. Jetskis and skiffs motor closer to the slow-moving vessel, leering, rocket-launcher-equipped mateys aboard. The precious cargo stands in the middle of the vessel, molested but as of yet unharmed.
Having charged the pirate with her broom, Naerose actually ends up pretty okay for wear and turns her attention back to the cargo.
"It's probably for the best," Nae contents as she winds up for a big broom swing,
"I'm more a witch than a pirate anyway, but could you imagine? A pirate witch? Oh man, I'd totally have to wear an eye patch over one of the sunglass lenses. I wonder which one would be best. "
She's apparently back to whacking the cargo in hopes of ther being food inside.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits CARGO with Deep Strike.
CARGO
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It is a bit unexpected. Antoine found himself in a wounded condition in this fight. It only gets worse when he attempts to strike her until the tiger/lion takes the place of the mistress. This liger is now in the batle. This gives the pirate a chance to counteract Antoine's attack, creating a devastating impact against the form. A wince stirs from the young fighter as the blade slashes across his chest.
The blood splatters all over the place, knocking Antoine against the back before he falls onto a knee.
Never the less, Antoine gets back to his feet, taking a deep breath before he presses forward.
"Nngghh!"
As he lunges forward, he extends both hands out to press out towards her stomach. In fact, the palms aim out with precision to create a powerful force. As if that wasn't enough, the foot stomp likely makes a shudder upon the boat, if not making a nice crack against the surface as he expels the chi out.
COMBATSYS: Kanata blocks Antoine's Immovable Mountain.
CARGO
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IT'S A LION. IT'S NAME HAPPENS TO BE SUGGESTIVE OF A TIGER. This could not possibly indicate some sort of flashb-
THEN:
"Miss Miyata, in addition to the swords, the boat, and life-loyal crew, your father bequeaths to you this lion, A-"
"Tiger." Even at the age of five, recovering from surgery, Kanata Miyata has found that command-tone so valued by leaders. All present cower before her tone, her narrowed eyes.
"It is a -lion-, Mada-"
"Ti-ger." Miss Miyata will brook no impertinence from her staff. The rest is history. Torao is the closest a name can get to being "tiger", despite the lion's mane and substantial musculature suggesting otherwise.
NOW:
Antoine is breaking Kanata's boat. Her youthful face contorts into something akin to fury; it's not enough that the kung-fu man is assaulting HER, and her LION... his zeal towards her BOAT happens to touch upon buttons few people have the resolve to find. Once again, Kanata is lifting her hand, bringing the sword she bears before her, defensively.
His attack sets the female to staggering, but she has not lost her footing.
"Do you have no respect for this woman of the ocean?? She would bend over backwards to ship you to where you like, with no concern for herself, and yet you have the gall to insult her so!!" Kanata Miyata throws her sword to the nearby lion - with veracity, she assaults Antoine! A shoulder-rush becomes a practiced hip-toss intended to send Antoine sailing through the air, to land against the edge of the very cargo container Naerose is attempting to uproot!
To that effort, Naerose will find the cargo container -splintering- beneath her strikes. While there is no clear evidence as to its contents just yet, a certain golden glow is -very- visible, illuminating, enticing. Whatever's in there is *important*.
So important that the nearby jetski-mounted pirates have redoubled their efforts to return to their ship and captain. Look out, heroes!
Yellow Glow, the golden arches. . This could only mean one thing and Naerose is pretty certain, she knows what that one thing is. Yes. The thing is.. FAST FOOD. This crate has a burger and fries in it. Nae Nae always wondered where these things came from and really it's fair game after being attacked twice by a Ligger. Seriously, this is just deserts. So while Antoine is getting himself beaten into a bloody pulp, Nae is totally like,
"Totally don't mind if I do. MMm mm mm." And tries to give the crate another flip with her broom acting as a pry bar. This will surely grant her the lovely burgers and fries which are surely hidden within the wooden container. The ark of the covenant of burger and fries. The ultimately.. Lunch on the go.
COMBATSYS: Kanata successfully hits Antoine with Quick Throw.
?!? Weird Hit! ?!?
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COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits CARGO with Strong Throw.
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Admittedly, Antoine was not expecting to damage the ship. In fact, it was not his exact intentions. The young fighter is always precise with how the techniques go. Just as the way he was thought, the stomp keeps him standing his ground when the chi expels forth with the strike. As such, Antoine is actually baffeled when the lady shows signs of anger. "...Huh? Uh, I wasn't actually trying to ..." --You know, break her boat. However, his words fall flat as she chrges at him with the shoulder rush to hip-toss him.
Damn!
Antoine grimaces as he's pretty much grabbed and is flung over in a hiptoss toards the ground. However, he does reach over to keep grasp of the woman by tugging onto her collar, seeking to bring her into a craddling roll.
That roll will turn to a backwards roll until he can get in the position of flinging his foot over to toss her off of him.
COMBATSYS: Kanata blocks Antoine's Spinning the Loom.
CARGO
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The boat isn't hugely damaged; she's a metal-hulled thing. At the moment her foredeck bears a large dent from Antoine's precision stomping, but this is not entirely his fault, either. A lot of land-lubbers might be surprised by what exactly months of sea-salt exposure can do to a ship, especially if it's poorly cared for. That might be the first sign that Kanata's bluffing in her anger; this is *NOT* her ship.
Even so, Antoine's fingers dig into the richly-embroidered fabric of Kanata's captain's coat - he PULLS her towards him, and those tucked knees help him to appropriately kick out and launch her directly into the battered, tumbling cargo container. This would be a debilitating attack, if Antoine was not dealing with a lifelong pirate, somebody whose hardiness is the stuff of legend in Japanese waters.
Unfortunately, he is.
She tucks halfway through that air-time, bringing her body inwards so that she might land atop the newly-toppled cargo box, not even a foot from Naerose. Her attempt at recovery has her extending her left arm so that she can properly support herself; on its wrist, a silverine bracelet slips free from her forearm. A quartet of gems - red, blue, brown, and green - *SPARK* to life; it's with a brutal *SLASH* that Kanata shifts her weight and stabs that hand upwards!
Ordinarily, the blow would come nowhere near hitting Naerose. With this Magna Band, however - luminescent chi roars to life, blade-shaped and so intense that it cuts a day-bright beam through the rainy, foggy grimness of evening. Three feet in length, it's certainly enough to slash nicely through a witch's face.
COMBATSYS: Kanata successfully hits Naerose with Magna Strike.
CARGO
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Suddenly .. there is a hand of MONTY PYTHON crushing Naerose. Er.. wait, not crushing? Just striking? And boy does it hurt, but as Nae's head goes down under the pressure, when she recovers, she has a sort of weird grin on her face. It says, Man that was crazy! And she is totally like,
"I was.. waiting for you to do that." Yep, exactly that, she is a psychic witch, or trying out the whole, 'I meant to do that' line after something fails, fails bad. Well, we'll never know.
The witch continues, "Because.. Now I'm totally going to do this!"
Kanata should probably get off the crate now, because Nae, who has been smash smash smashing it, totally jumps on her broom, shoots at the crate, which is .. well right there and grabs onto it with one hand while holding onto the broom with the other. You might ask, how? She uses one of the cracks and holds on tight.
At first it doesn't budge, at second. . it doesn't budge, but slowly she gets it into the air and if Kanata is still on it now, it's going to suck, as what goes up, must come down, Naerose is no exception to this rule and having only just started to carry it into the air, (with a ceiling I might add) she's already losing speed.
"Bombs away!" she says, and totally drops it in the general direction of Antoine. (he can probably dodge, especially since only one attack per turn thank you very much.)
But wait! Didn't you say what goes up must come down? Yeah.. Naerose too.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits CARGO with Aquila Charge.
CARGO
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Antoine had hoped to have managed to topple the young seafaring captain. Unfortunately, he was not able to do so as she manages to land on top of the cargo box. As she recovers, Antoine is rolling over to his feet to recover along with her. Antoine does not have too much choice other than to up the ante with his next action.
He regains his resolve, seeking to press on with the attack by bringing both of his arms back. Instead, he launches himself towards the air, moving out of the bomb's vicinity. Instead, he is launching towards Kanata.
With the distance closed, Antoine launches his right leg out to slam out towards her head, then the body quickly twists to launch the left leg towards her form as well, seeking to send her into the air before he falls back towards the ship's floor.
COMBATSYS: Antoine successfully hits Kanata with Sundering Heaven EX.
CARGO
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The cargo's quite done holding up to Naerose's continued pokes, prods, bumps, and eventual tackles. This last assault has its weakest panel shattering - heaps of assorted gems, relics, silica and assorted miscellany burst free, spilling out onto the ship's deck!!
At the same moment, the pursuing police manage one final attack upon the Himawaru Mari - figuring the vessel lost, a newly-arrived attack helicopter launches a barrage of moderate-grade missiles into the boat's hull. Three hit their mark, impacting the ship's aft with a trio of red-orange, blossoming explosions! It sends the pirates into confusion, aborting their efforts at returning to their mistress, while up above...
Well, first of all, Kanata's kicked in the fucking head. It pulls her from her momentary distraction, but does nothing to change her mind about how she feels; the pirate queen regains her balance in a three-point kneel, while the ship *LURCHES* to the aft, surface going from a delightful perpendicular angle to more of a 45-degree one. Booty spills towards guardrails, beneath them, plunging into the torrential sea like a glimmering, golden waterfall.
Through this all, Kanata maintains her stoic expression; it is a leader's impenetrable mask. While her flush may have purpled in anger, her tone remains calm, decisive.
"First Mate Bequel! The cannon!"
"AYE, CAP'N KANATA!"
A ratcheting sound pierces through whipping winds and groaning metal...
"CANNON FIRIN', MISS!"
*BLOM*
Abruptly, Kanata's position is replaced with a gaping, inky abyss, a thirty-foot drop into the ship's inner holds. Casual inspection is impossible - presumably, living through the day is of higher priority to our heroes.
the Enigmatic Captain Kanata is nowhere to be found.
COMBATSYS: Kanata has left the fight here.
CARGO
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The red with is totally left stand there, gaping at the remains and looking. . frankly disappointed. Her head held low, shoulder slumping, and here the tip of her floppy pointed witches hat seems to flop lower in disappointment at the big reveal.
"Really? The treasure was literal treasure?" She looks around wildly, fixes her shades before shouting,
"That's so cliche!"
This is when the cliche police come and promptly arrest Naerose, whose whole premise actually centers on her being the most cliche witch possible. That is. The police that were fighting the pirates have no reason of knowing the difference between the red witch and the pirates themselves.
"Hey.. Wait!" she calls.
"I still havn't gotten my cheese burgerrrrrr!!!!!!!!!" Quick breaths, "ERRRRRrrrrrrr!"
The red witch is totally taken downtown and booked.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has left the fight here.
CARGO
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Antoine is starting to stagger around in the midst of the battle. After the last strike, he finds himself unable to maintain his balance. As the ship continues to move, the police are making the assaul of the boat. Finally, as the explosions go all over the place...
...Antoine is standing over towards the ledge.
For a brief moment, Antoine feels like he can see an older Chinese man, still looking strong in his fifties. Aged yet regal and refined. There is a mirthful smile on his face.
~ ...Sifu?! ~
Soon, Antoine falls off of the ship and towards the water.
*SPLASH!*
As Antoine surfaces and clears the water from his eyes, he'll be sure to notice many things. For one, the police tug headed his direction, sirens flashing, flaring in a water-dampened way, louder as his ears clear up. To the other side, distantly, a speedboat can be spied against the dim horizon - upon it are three silhouettes, two of which are certainly a young woman and her sword-laden lion. They are much too far to chase, which is for the best, really. If Antoine were to chase, he would not see what rests two feet before him.
The bracelet Kanata wore in their encounter floats before Antoine, hovering some two inches above the choppy waters and undeterred by any waves that might impact it - they flow *around* the accessory, split as though part of a Bible story. Each of the bracelet's four gems - red, green, blue, and brow - wink at the young fighter in succession. At the end of this sequence, the bracelet abruptly drops into the waters, to sink slowly to the chill depths of the Pacific.
Or will it??!
This is strange. Antoine finds himself... torn. He was caught in the mess of the depths of the water. Practically beaten. His eyes woozily turn to see the police arriving with the sirens flashing and blaring. Not only that, but he can see the other boat with two silhouttes. Those two.
Damn.
But what catches the warrior's attention the most is the bracelet that the lady wore. He furrows his eyebrow, then he swims over to grab the bracelet. While it sinks, Antoine dives down to grasp out for it.
...His duffel bag is next on the list of things to grab.
Log created on 22:06:30 12/16/2010 by Antoine, and last modified on 16:26:22 01/01/2011.