Description: Naeoleague match! The wily people ate the NAeoleague try to get rid of an old thorn by putting this fight in a volcano and while Miu tries to back out when pitted against an obviously mentally unstable person; A fight breaks out over a disagreement regarding pie. Who will win?! (winner: Miu)
Things are really starting to ... heat up.
Miu isn't exactly sure what she's doing here. A strange invitation to participate in some sort of 'Naeo'league match? It's not exactly regular, is it? Even more peculiar given that the location seems to be atop an exploding volcano. The schoolgirl is regarding the molten lava with the same cool dispassion that she regards everything else. But truth be told, it is a pretty unnerving place to have to fight. It's really dangerous! She'd have to be careful if she was going to come out of it in one piece.
She's dressed in the same Seijyun High uniform she usually wears, but she is not attended by her usual swarm of ravens. No, they wouldn't exactly be comfortable here. Still. It makes a nice change from the winter chill in Southtown. Maybe that was the idea? Who can say. Certainly not Miu.
That's right. Naeoleague. How did this happen? Well it all started a few days ago . .(The scene goes foggy)
The Red witch is happening past an office when she notices the name. The letters in the beginning, look just like Naeo.. Clearly this is an office that she is meant to go int (of course they don't say that at all). For some really weird reason.. When the witch enters, they all seem to recognize her, as seen by the looks of utter distress that appears on their faces. She doesn't remember any of this at all! Still she starts fixing the misspellings with a red crayon so they will correctly say 'Naeo'
In a desperate attempt to get rid of her sooner, one of the attendants suggest she participate in this league named after her and of course she agrees. . The volcano was their idea though, but now that she's here. .
Off in the distance stands the Red Witch, Naerose Delphine, taking in the wind as it blows up the side of the volcano and totally makes her hat and red dress flop. Man she looks so witchy!
Meanwhile the NL organizers are really really hoping this is the last they see of the Red Witch.
Miu steps a little further along the rope bridge. Naerose looks, peculiar. Pretty much like the kind of person she could imagine organizing a fight in this sort of place. She gives a little nod of her head to the elder, forgetful, fighter, and lets her hands hang down by her sides. She seems disturbingly calm, given the surroundings. But, this is going to be an interesting test! She would have to be very careful not just for her own sakes, but for that of her opponent, too. Miu is, despite the rumors, no killer.
"Hello." She says, "I am Miu Kurosaki."
That thrilling introduction out of the way, a helicopter suddenly comes buzzing up from the side of the volcano, training a camera on the pair below, "Fighters, ready?!"
With the sort of skill that can only come from hours of practicing in the mirror at the local Denny's, Naerose turns to look at Miu, fixes her shades and smiles. Then hold. Volcanic wind blows embers through the air and Naerose smiles. . silently. Then speaks,
"Hey! Welcome to the Naeoleague, this is totally like the best photo shoot in the world. The producers were really insistent that this would look just great. So what do you think? Anyway, I'm Naerose, and I'm totally a witch! <3" Have you ever seen someone speak a heart? Well somehow Naerose finds a way.
"So.. " She's not really sure what is supposed to happen.
"Models ready you mean!" she shouts and then winks to Miu over the top of her shades, then yells, "Models totally ready!"
Miu does not look entirely sure what to make of that. The girl looks at Naerose in the kind of way that just says 'what the hell are you for real?'
After a moment to think about it, she looks from the helicopter, and then back to Naerose. "... I think you are mistaken." She says, diplomatically. "I think we are supposed to fight one another. If we aren't, you shouldn't be here. It seems, dangerous."
She doesn't make much more comment on it. Keeping herself at her ease, she is a pretty hard person to faze. But it would explain the strange spelling. She's certainly no model, though. She's nowhere near enthusiastic enough. Meeting Naerose's undying cheer with absolute apathy.
But Naerose can not be dissuaded. Insead she shakes her head and insists, "No way we're perfectly safe. I can fly after all (citation needed). Oh but that's a great idea, lets give them some iconic volcano duel pictures, you can do that right? Look really cool and do all sorts of neat tricks and I'll use all these cool acrobatics and fishaw, bam, booom!" She throws her arms into the air then grins,
"Right, lets give them a whole lot of neat poses!"
Miu gives the lightest shake of her head. "I'm sorry." She says, "But, I, really do not think so." She doesn't believe that Naerose can fly, and she certainly has no intention of being a model. She doesn't care about publicity or anything like that, and besides, who would want to see a scrawny goth girl pretending to be a model? It's a silly idea. She starts to walk away. If Naerose wants to have a photo shoot, well, she can do that! It's just, Miu isn't going to play into it. The boring girl that she is.
"Waaait!" Cries Naerose, "Don't leave! I mean.. they promised me punch and pie!" She cries. But Miu is leaving. Naerose -has- -to- -stop- -her-! And if there is one way to motivate the red witch, it is the mention of food and free food at that. So Miu isn't getting away that easily. Naerose runs after her, totally trying not to trip or anything because, that would suck.
"Hey, I won't hit you in the back or anything, " Naerose says, because she was totally thinking of doing just that like ten seconds ago. I mean, she has a back to attack.. and punch and pie...
Miu pauses, and turns. Her strangely cool eyes settling on the running witch. "Be careful." She says seriously, tucking her hands in the pockets of her skirt, she gives the lightest of shrugs.
"I don't do photos." She replies, "I think I misunderstood your invitation. Don't get so upset, it's just pie."
Yup. That's right. Miu just said that it is /just/ pie. Who really cares about pie, huh?
"J.. ju.. just pie?" Nearose asks, and then starts to laugh, then cry, then brandishing her broom,
"I'll never forgive you! Take that back now! It's never just pie, Pie is.. Pie is the meaning of life itself!" Now the witch is rabid with hopes of pie and frankly Miu is in the way of her and the punch and pie. Free pie. The best kind. If nothing else Miu is going to have to defend herself because the witch is totally trying to tackle her for some serious shaking sense into the girl, while no doubt foaming at the mouth and shouting something incoherent. This is how these things work after all. . And no photos?
What does Miu think the helicopter is there for? NL doesn't make money off of just whispering about fights that totally went on.
COMBATSYS: Naerose has started a fight here on the right meter side.
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Naerose 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Miu has joined the fight here.
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Miu 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Naerose
COMBATSYS: Miu dodges Naerose's Quick Throw.
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Miu 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Naerose
Stumbling backwards, Miu has to work pretty hard to avoid Naerose's frantic onslaught. The girl steps to the left and right, and she still gets flecks of witch-spit on her blouse. It's rather disturbing, really, how swiftly something as simple as a discussion about photos and pie has turned into a desperate attempt by the witch to get her hands on Miu.
"... I won't." She murmurs, quietly. After all. It /is/ just pie. She's not being tricked into professing some sort of crazed pie-lust on television just because Naerose has gone crazy about it!
With a sudden twist, her fist lashes out. A shower of pretty white and black feathers flutter out all around her, and as she brings her small fist around, one of them is jutting out from between her knuckles, a glowing white feather dagger which aims to bounce off Naerose's forehead and knock her out of her frenzy with some stinging, numbing energy.
COMBATSYS: Naerose blocks Miu's Jab Punch.
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Miu 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Naerose
Not so easy. Maybe it was the attempt to nail her in the forehead. Miu succeeds afterall, hits Naerose in the forehead, but the problem is.. The forehead doesn't make any difference.. None at all. Naerose is totally and utterly and completely not shaken out, hardly even fazed. Talk about empty headed.
"I'll make you like pie!" Insists Naerose. Still Miu isn't going down so easily? Well, Naerose has an answer for that too. She tries to kick Miu in the shin, feeling kind of bad about that, she's basically trying to beat up a young model over pie, but then again. This is pie.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Miu with Light Kick.
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Miu 0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0 Naerose
Miu hisses as she's kicked. The girl stumbles back a couple of paces, and a deep frown etches itself onto her features. Okay. She'd almost lost her balance, there, and that took it from an amusing mistake into something actually dangerous. Not to mention, that had hurt! She was actually bruised!
"... You are insane."
That insightful comment made, she suddenly flings her arm around. Three glowing feathers detach from her sleeve, two black, one white, slashing across in a diagonal pattern which aims to catch Naerose right in the center. If she was going to have to fight this woman, she wasn't going to hold back any more.
COMBATSYS: Miu successfully hits Naerose with Kakure Amagakeri.
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Miu 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Naerose
Unlike the jab, aimed for a forehead, the feathers are more effective and the Red Witch takes that in stride. And by stride we mean she's totally freaking unhappy.
"That hurt!" she exclaims, looking at Miu, "And it just goes to show your lack of understanding about the importance of pie." She unthreads something from her bloom, a wire thin thread and flings it, trying to get it around Miu's neck or something,
"This is what happens when you don't give Pie the love it deserves." The red witch says, with the thread dangerously sparking, surely will be unpleasant if it gets the teen around the neck as intended.
COMBATSYS: Miu dodges Naerose's Threads of Fate.
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Miu 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Naerose
Miu's brow momentarily twitches. She sees the wire coming, and she steps neatly backwards. She'd always been rather perceptive, and that much hasn't changed at all. There's no more words from her, though. Miu is, quite simply, really /bad/ when it comes to in-fight banter. Especially when she's trying to concentrate on making sure she doesn't fall off a bridge suspended across an erupting volcano.
She does her best to close the distance swiftly, her hand reaching out to grip Naerose's shoulder. If she manages this, numbing energy surges from the girl into the witch, and she pivots around to knock her down against those wooden slats. Perhaps hoping that a face-down encounter with the lava will help bring the 'model' back to her senses.
COMBATSYS: Naerose interrupts Quick Throw from Miu with Spellbinder.
?!? Weird Hit! ?!?
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Miu 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Naerose
Naerose will not be stopped, she will not be thrown and she will not be told that pie is not worth this. So when Miu approaches her, Naerose holds out her palm, and a flash of blinding white chi bursts forth, harmless in itself, except for well, the blinding part, which seems to be something Naerose is immune to, as it reflects off her shades instead of into her eyes. She takes the moment of stunningstunness to go for a full on baseball bat swing with her broom to send Miu back. Except well She is trying to pose for the cameras..
Naerose can't help but try to strike the craziest pose for this hit, and lets go of the broom with her off hand to follow through with both arms extending in opposite directions and moving into a crouch. She totally think this looks sweet. Yeah Sweet. Miu might notice the hit losing power thanks to her show boating.
Truth be told, Miu is just glad for it. Blinded as she is, it is hard to see exactly what is going on. But though she's stumbling backwards, the girl's instincts tell her to grab, and she does. Managing, somehow, to remain on the bridge by holding on to one of the ropes, and swinging precariously whilst her eyesight comes back.
Miu doesn't know any more if Naerose is a genius, or a lunatic, or something in between. She does know that the blow had caught her by surprise, though. She takes a deep breath, centering herself before she makes her response.
Running forwards, she suddenly spins, and thrusts one fist out. This is almost like a pose, except, there's no real... attack.
Until, a fraction of a second later, a huge explosion of white and black feathers bursts from her arm, spiraling into a lance of tightly packed energy.
COMBATSYS: Miu successfully hits Naerose with Yomosugara EX.
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Miu 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Naerose
Alright, fair is fair, Naerose gets socked by that. . And it hurts pretty bad. She's sent stumbling back and wincing. She's probably thinking about pie because she does whine, "Who hates pie so much to try and hurt someone over it." Poor witch. She adjusts her shades, raises her h and toward Miu and says,
"You must be crazy!" and extends her palm "En Criento!" she cries, gibberish by any stretch, but the white chi this time is more like a explosion outward. And clearly, this time it's an attack.
"Crazy people never see it when they themselves are crazy," Naerose says, oddly wisely.
COMBATSYS: Miu dodges Naerose's End Creation.
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Miu 1/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Naerose
Miu, to her credit, keeps her head magnificently. When the explosion happens, she leaps backwards, gracefully coming to a halt a good dozen feet away. She takes another, deep, breath. Trying to focus herself and regain some measure of composure.
"You are the one who attacked me." She replies, quietly. "I do not care one way or the other about pie. But I'm not going to let you kick me."
She pulls her hair back up behind her, taking this opportunity to catch her breath and eye Naerose critically. Did this woman actually think she was the aggressor here? Some small part of her thinks that she is being sincere. Maybe she should just walk away again?
COMBATSYS: Miu gains composure.
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Miu 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Naerose
Well it's rude to attack someone who isn't attacking you. . Right Naerose? (who ran up and attacked someone who wasn't attacking her.) She frowns at Miu. This is not going according to plan, no pie no nothing, but she does say,
"You came here though for Naeoleague, why come at all if you're just going to leave and accuse people of attacking you. This is Naeolgeague! That means, expect the unexpected."
Yep, she made that u p on the spot.
COMBATSYS: Naerose gains composure.
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Miu 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Naerose
Miu's composure is a thing of legend. It never breaks. But she is getting rather frustrated. "Nae Oh League." She repeats, sounding out the word. The young woman flexes her fingers for a moment, and then shakes her head slightly. "I think there has been a misunderstanding." She says, keeping her eyes very much on Naerose. Because the way this meeting has been going, would you take your eyes off Naerose?
"I am not a model. I am not here for a Nae Oh League. I thought that was a spelling mistake. I am here for a Neo League fight." She points at the helicopter, without looking away. "I think they are, too."
COMBATSYS: Miu focuses on her next action.
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Miu 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\0 Naerose
"Neo League? What does that even mean. Clearly it is supposed to be N-A-E o league. You know, like Naerose league. Welcome to the Naerose league Miu, there will be punch and pie afterward. " Naerose states and then makes a sudden move to try and tackle Miu.
Yes, back to this are we? Yep, if Naerose manages to tackle Miu, she's going to be shaken and shaken and told all about how great cake is. Wasn't it supposed to be pie? Nope. It moved to cake.
COMBATSYS: Miu interrupts Glomp from Naerose with Psi-Launcher.
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Miu 1/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
Miu is quite certain now that Naerose is mad. But there's no time to worry about it. Naerose is on her in an instant, and she finds herself being crushed against the witch. Shaken and jostled, Naerose might well be surprised by a sudden, rather, sharp pain stabbing into her stomach.
Miu cartwheels upwards, flipping high into the air and taking the witch with her. But... as she remembers where they are, she snares the witch's leg, and the pair of them collide back down to the bridge. Adding, afterwards.
"... Incidentally, I do not like sweet things at all ..."
Fighting to her feet, Naerose is really starting to feel the strain of all of this crazy fighting. Still, there are some things she can just not let lie. Not a fan of sweets? Just what is up with this girl.
"Try that.. again. " Naerose says and swings her broom after Miu, trying to get her to do her best to hit the fast girl while she seems to think she has an opportunity to.
COMBATSYS: Miu dodges Naerose's Medium Strike.
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Miu 1/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Naerose
Miu is very quick, and this is helped by her psycho power. Something which is a little more obvious as, this time, when her feet touch the ground, she slides back over the boards on twin streams of white energy. Helping to counteract the unstable nature of the wood. She comes to a halt with a fair amount of distance between herself and Naerose, and raises her hand.
"No. This is the end." She says, not, because she's a horrible person. But because she wants to stop being hit with a broom, and start helping Naerose get the help she so clearly needs!
Her hands flick out, and with each motion, another of those stinging feathers is unleashed. This time, it isn't just three, however. In sequence, a total of eight glowing daggers is flung towards the witch, what she hopes will be more than enough to bring an end to the match.
COMBATSYS: Miu successfully hits Naerose with Chou Hissatsu Amagakeri.
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Miu 0/-------/-------|=======\=======\1 Naerose
Feather after feather after feather hits Naerose, and she's totally like, ouch. I mean, this hurts and who could get out of the way of a crazy attack like that. Still.. after taking a pummeling like that, and going down, Naerose, who starts to pick herself up, can't help but ask.. "Is. . that it?" She wipes her face with the back of her hand and stands up, shakily,
"Because.. I thought you said something about ending this.." She fixes her shades, her hat and takes a step forward, "But.. this isn't over yet!"
Making her way slowly toward Miu, Naerose brings her broom up and swings, twirling through the air and twirling and twirling. Like a dancer? OR a totally off balance witch who lost her step.
COMBATSYS: Naerose successfully hits Miu with Random Strike.
? Strange Hit! ?
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Miu 0/-------/----===|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
Miu, once again, has a great deal of difficulty reading Naerose. Is this a perfectly placed strike, or a truly random happenstance? Whatever the case, the blow smacks painfully against her nose despite her best attempt to lean to the side of it, and for a moment, the girl's eyes go crossed. That, too, had hurt.
"... You confuse me." She murmurs, quietly. Because, what the hell. Maybe she's /completely/ misreading Naerose, and the witch has a lot more fight left in her than it looks!
She plants her foot down, though, and suddenly pivots on the spot. Bright white light flares around her sweeping arm, and she aims to catch Naerose squarely in the belly. The girl may be small, but there's a surprising amount of strength in her limb right now. Enough to scoop the witch up and swing her around and around... and around. And then, carefully, put her back down.
COMBATSYS: Miu successfully hits Naerose with Shubatsu.
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Miu 0/-------/---====|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Naerose
Isn't it always when you start taking Naerose seriously that she proves you wrong again. Always trying to keep you on your feet, Miu, who starts to think Nae has more fight in her, totally doesn't. . as soon as it counts.. Instead the attack does exactly what it is supposed to. Setting her down to stay down this time. Yep, ended when ending it isn't at any point suggested. And what does the witch do.. she smiles.. Smiles?
Yeah, she's totally dreaming of. .
"Redberry pie.. mmm."
COMBATSYS: Naerose takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Naerose can no longer fight.
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Miu looks very confused. She looks even more confused when she realizes that, one of the cameramen, has dropped down from the helicopter, and seems to be attacking the rope with a saw!!!
"..." Miu says, the very picture of eloquence.
Scooping Naerose up in her arms, which is not easy considering how small the littlest psychic is, she breaks into a run for the other side of the bridge, and leaps into the air just as the bridge gives away into the lava below with an angry sizzling.
The angered cry of thwarted Neo League officials backs her as the scene fades out~
Log created on 13:55:41 12/20/2010 by Naerose, and last modified on 02:00:46 12/28/2010.