Description: Chris has invaded Seijyun High, and Karin has taken it upon herself to defend the school's honor. However, she's she may need to worry about her own soon enough!
JANUARY 11, 1:25 AM. SEIJYUN HIGH CAFETERIA.
Justin 'Chris' Bieber of CYS fame has been attempting to keep a low profile for these past few weeks. The tabloids have been going crazy with the hearsay and speculation - is the Europop band's hit star feeling under the weather? Does he have a new girlfriend? Is that why he looks so grumpy in recent pictures?? - which has, of course, prompted Chris to keep even MORE to himself. He doesn't need the added stress of stupid questions, and certainly, his irritated responses likely won't help his case in the first place.
The root of the problem is of course the fans - he can't keep them away. As every appropriately sweet social analyst could tell you, the root of all social/fan-based problems are the teenaged girl populace - Chris has, in a flash of inspiration, elected to keep himself hidden in the most maddening way possible. He is hiding /directly in their lair./
The young man's features are feminine enough to have most all students and faculty flashing him curious looks while he sits alone at a lunch table, chewing at his turkey sandwich in the most dismal fashion imaginable. Occasionally, the boy's typically spirited blues flash outwards and upwards to meet curious eyes - almost every time, Chris' curious gaze has been met with embarassment and quick aversion. The truth is quite simple, really - men do not attend Seijyun. Chris is obviously not a girl, but... really? Seriously? Is a BOY going to be so obvious about infiltrating their hallowed halls? It's probably just some first-year dressed up as that Chris kid from CYS. She's got some wicked glutes for being a girl, but... really, the alternative is much more outlandish.
This obviously begs the question of how the hell Chris got away with not getting made. This will likely change soon enough as someone will eventually recognize him for what he is. In the mean time, a small crowd of school girls make their way into the cafeteria, the group seeming to be centered around one girl in particular. Blonde ringlet hair, better than thou attitude, and a laugh that screams 'rich girl'. It was Karin Kanzuki, and she was here for lunch.
Karin's group sits themselves down at a table, as Karin herself starts munching on her own meal, one that was cooked by the finest chefs in her family's employ. It's a few minutes into her lunch that her eyes turn, and she blinks as she notices Chris. "Who's the tomboy over there?" Karin asks innocently enough, which gets her the answer of, "No idea. Some transfer student, I think... She looks like that Chris kid from CYS."
Karin arches an eyebrow as she glances at Chris, not particularly impressed but still curious.. She noms on a piece of shrimp for a bit, before sealing her lunch and standing up, taking her time to approach the 'girl' and greets, "Are you a transfer student? Didn't anyone to tell you to get a school uniform already?"
Christ alive, that -laugh-. Chris isn't the only one irritated by Kanzuki's uproarious, haughty ejaculations - a simple glance around shows him that there are perhaps a dozen other girls disgusted with Karin's self-obsession. The difference between him and them is of course that he's absolutely above that crap - Karin will find the boy she approaches to maintain a perfectly pleasant expression. In fact, the moment she stands, those rabidly blue eyes find a lock on hers, and a slow smile creeps over youthful, androgynous features.
"Hello," chimes Chris, halfway done with his current bite of delicious turkey sandwich. His voice is sonorous, his tones glacial, and his expression immobile. Glibly, the youth lets his gaze roll over Karin's form in an unmistakably male fashion. His eyes rise to meet hers afterwards, expression unchanged.
"I don't go to school here."
Karin's NOT self-obsessed! She's rich! She's allowed to do be like that! Karin blinks a little at Chris's reaction, and for a moment her eyes soften just a bit, before they harden again as she hmphs a little at his response, "If you don't go to school here, then what are you doing here?" Unlike some of the other girls who have satisfied their inquisition by assuming it was merely a tomboy, Karin isn't entirely convinced.
Karin pauses for a moment, before casually shrugging, "Anyway, boys aren't allowed in the school either." She says this with such certainty it's insane. What could have given Chris away? Aside from everything about him.
It was probably the everything about him. There's not much mistaking what Chris is, if one looks closely - it's just that people don't necessarily like looking closely at him when his immediate response is to bore holes into their eyes. He finishes his turkey sandwich, and rises to his feet in a smooth, single movement. Heavy booths hit the floor, and before Karin's finished speaking, Chris stands before her, head tilted to the side, curious.
"I'd gathered." His tone is light and airy, but seeps an understated condescension. Blithely, the youth scans the cafeteria. He realizes that everybody is -staring- at both himself and Karin. Hands fold behind Chris' back, and he turns to face one of the cafeteria doors. With narrowed, almost laughing eyes, he gestures Karin towards the doorway. Again, there's that lookover - and then;
"You're very pretty. I know I can't stay here for long, but would you show me the school on my way out?"
Karin narrows her eyes as she glares at the boy, as she folds her arms across her chest and replies, "Flattery won't get you anywhere, no matter how true it is. If I were that easy to charm, I'd be a joke." She smirks and continues, "It might be much easier on you if you just left before you got in trouble with the faculty."
She then turns and shrugs, "Or I could kick you out myself if I had to, it wouldn't be all that hard for Karin Kanzuki." She loved dropping her name about, especially considering the amount of pull it gets her.
Chris laughs! It's a rich sound, but the narrowed eyes cut mirth with something significantly less pure. "You're much smarter than everybody said you were, Karin~" He flashes another beaming grin, runs a hand through his hair in an almost certainly practiced fashion, and begins moving away from the heiress, towards the cafeteria's exit. This is, to be sure, a thing into and of itself - Karin made a demand, and Chris, like any less financially-secure human being, has followed it. Sure, her lunchmates are shooting dirty glances her way, and sure, pretty much everybody in the room realizes that one of the world's preeminent teen girl heartthrobs is about to walk out of their lives forever.
Sure, it might make Karin the slightest bit of a villain, criminal, or traitor to all women everywhere.
But that's not important - what's important is that Chris carries in his back pocket, rather obviously, Seijyun High's most hallowed historical document, folded crudely into a square but distinctly recognizable in the way it rises from his back pocket. It reads: "SEIJYUN HIGH: OFFICIALLY BOY-FREE SINCE 1933 FOUNDING. NO BOYS ALLOWED HERE, EVER."
Chris is -stealing Seijyun's virginity-.
Karin hmphs a little, smug at having managed to evict the boy, at least until she notices what's in his back pocket, and goes wide eyed as she recognizes it, and immediately screams after him, "HAA?! THAT DOCUMENT!" This definitely gets the attention of the girls, who blink for a moment, before someone else realizes it, "He's got the 'Boy-Free' Sign! GET HIM!" While it wasn't exactly unheard of for the odd male visitors to show up, it was a matter of principle.
Of course this outcry makes Chris an enemy of all the girls INSTANTLY, who promptly give chase after him. Anyone who wasn't in the loop gets alerted and put on the chase.
Karin in the mean time takes an alternate route, instead of chasing after Chris with the rest of the girls, she heads straight for the only exit from this school campus proper. The main gate.
We'll assume the camera's panning out from here, a deliberate attempt to show the -scale- of the problems Chris has created for himself. Golden-tressed Karin stands before a veritable ocean of primly-dressed, prettily-made-up girls, all of whose faces are contorted into a veritable rictus of fury and outrage. Whatever star power the CYS heartthrob might have posessed here -- is gone, replaced with something that transcends time, space, and any sense of invulnerability youth might bestow upon somebody.
Female spite.
Chris smiles.
In a flash he's gone, kicking through the cafeteria door with one solidly-planted foot. From there, he's -- well, nobody can quite tell where he's gone, but the girls chasing him will find their beloved sign tossed to the ground, free from Chris' grasp. Karin, clever enough to take a side route, will find her prey waiting for her, arms crossed over his chest, bright blue eyes flashing in an amused, superior manner. Again, that guileless smirk pulls at his lips, while straight-cut hair flutters over his features.
There's no way he could have gotten here before Karin.
"Oh, hey, you showed up. We're alone now, aren't we, Kanzuki?" Chris glances to the school, offers a brief smirk at the girls clamoring around within, mulling over their sign. He looks back to Karin.
Karin could have sworn the boy couldn't possibly have known which way the exit was, so she is quite surprised to see him there first. Regardless, she huffs a little and points at the boy, "What the hell are you trying to pull?!" She screams at him, before demanding, "And where's the sign!? Give it back and I might consider letting you leave unhurt!"
She then pauses for a moment, blinking at the lack of mob of angry girls, and asks, "What happened to those people? Hmph... Never mind them..." Before focusing on Chris once more, "Seriously, what's your game, kid?!"
Her shrieks rain over Chris like so much water, leaving him positively unruffled, unblinking in the way he simply stares back at her. Her continued speech does little more than inspire that smile to tick upwards, and the Swede pulls his hands from behind his back, fingers extending and curling, again and again, increasingly agitated despite his ostensible serenity. Karin might feel a bit of disease as Chris makes up his mind about certain things. He simply interrupts Karin, voice cutting through hers like a knife through butter, crystal-clear, teasing.
"Heh... don't worry about everybody else. You should be more worried about yourself." If Karin's still feeling it, that disease twists, like a stomachache one didn't know they had. "I'd be more worried about -you-. You should know better than anybody else who's in a position to give and take orders." His eyes narrow, sharply - and then he's moving.
It's a weird thing, like tossed into water, the way Chris glides over land without moving his legs, as though the Seijyun front grounds had turned into some sort of moving floor. Nonetheless, he approaches Karin at upsetting speeds - certainly faster than a dead sprint - hand outstretched. It's angled straight for that awkward place between bellybutton and hip, palm sharply extended, fingers angled downwards. It will hit like a brick.
"Some humility will help you in the long run."
COMBATSYS: Chris has started a fight here.
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Her shrieks rain over Chris like so much water, leaving him positively unruffled, unblinking in the way he simply stares back at her. Her continued speech does little more than inspire that smile to tick upwards, and the Swede pulls his hands from behind his back, fingers extending and curling, again and again, increasingly agitated despite his ostensible serenity. Karin might feel a bit of disease as Chris makes up his mind about certain things. He simply interrupts Karin, voice cutting through hers like a knife through butter, crystal-clear, teasing.
"Heh... don't worry about everybody else. If Karin's still feeling it, that disease twists, like a stomachache one didn't know they had. "I'd be more worried about -you-. You should know better than anybody else who's in a position to give and take orders." His eyes narrow, sharply - and then he's moving.
It's a weird thing, like tossed into water, the way Chris glides over land without moving his legs, as though the Seijyun front grounds had turned into some sort of moving floor. Nonetheless, he approaches Karin at upsetting speeds - certainly faster than a dead sprint - hand outstretched. It's angled straight for that awkward place between bellybutton and hip, palm sharply extended, fingers angled downwards. It will hit like a brick.
"Some humility will help you in the long run."
Her shrieks rain over Chris like so much water, leaving him positively unruffled, unblinking in the way he simply stares back at her. Her continued speech does little more than inspire that smile to tick upwards, and the Swede pulls his hands from behind his back, fingers extending and curling, again and again, increasingly agitated despite his ostensible serenity. Karin might feel a bit of disease as Chris makes up his mind about certain things. He simply interrupts Karin, voice cutting through hers like a knife through butter, crystal-clear, teasing.
"Heh... don't worry about everybody else." If Karin's still feeling it, that disease twists, like a stomachache one didn't know they had. "I'd be more worried about -you-. You should know better than anybody else who's in a position to give and take orders." His eyes narrow, sharply - and then he's moving.
It's a weird thing, like oil tossed into water, the way Chris glides over land without moving his legs, as though the Seijyun front grounds had turned into some sort of moving floor. Nonetheless, he approaches Karin at upsetting speeds - certainly faster than a dead sprint - hand outstretched. It's angled straight for that awkward place between bellybutton and hip, palm sharply extended, fingers angled downwards. It will hit like a brick.
"Some humility will help you in the long run."
COMBATSYS: Karin has joined the fight here.
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Chris 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Karin
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Chris' Slide Touch.
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Chris 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Karin
The whole situation had been bugging her, but Karin really wasn't sure what was unsettling about it. However, those words set her on high alert, as she narrows her eyes and shifts her stance just in time for his incoming attack, which she blocks carefully, before back-stepping and glaring, "So this is what you want, huh? I guess I can oblige you!" She approaches fast and swings a roundhouse kick for his side.
COMBATSYS: Chris blocks Karin's Heavy Kick.
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Chris 0/-------/------=|-------\-------\0 Karin
The block definitely throws him off. It's not that Chris wa- well, ok, yes, he absolutely was expecting Karin to not be able to handle herself once he'd turned the Creep Factor up to 13. She did. As Kanzuki backsteps, she's treated to a rare glimpse of Chris thrown off, eyes wide, hand outstretched. Wisely, she chooses that moment to strike. The Kanzuki scion's foot slices upwards and towards Chris' yet-exposed side; it's all he can do to step to the left and lance one hand downwards, catching her ankle against his elbow.
"Hmf!" One might *SEE* the reverberations shuddering along Chris' form. That hit certainly hurt, but it's not quite enough to put him to the ground just yet. In fact, it's really just enough to get his ire up - blue eyes flash dangerously, and Chris' smile hardens to match it.
"Don't make me laugh! You never had a choice in obliging me!!" A hand shoots towards Karin's school blouse, and Chris seeks to gain ahold of the fabric. If he does, he'll pull her into him to enable himself to simply run - and by run, I do mean that he's slamming heavy boots into first stomach, then chest, then shoulder before leaping off of her and into a graceful, evacuating flip.
COMBATSYS: Karin fails to counter Step Turn from Chris with Yasha Gaeshi.
> Determined Hit! <
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Chris 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Karin
Karin is quick to realize that she should have responded differently to Chris' grab, and had intended to twist him off balance and send him crashing into the ground, but instead soaks the damage as she gets flipped off of, and goes reeling backward. She grits her teeth and glares at Chris, before shifting her stance again, "Don't think I'm that easy to defeat! Don't you know you're fighting Karin Kanzuki!" This time though she takes the time to wait for his move. She was careless earlier.
Chris seems to almost float to the ground after executing a perfect backflip. By the time Karin's shifted her stance his own feet touch lightly to the soil beneath them, while his form simply rises to that same unnatural erect posture it had in the fight's beginning. Again, Chris flexes his fingers, extends them, and eyes Karin with an amused, curious expression, an increasingly joyous grin.
"If you need to remind your opponents who you are, you're not training hard enough," he chides - and then he simply stands in place, idly, almost insultingly looking towards the school and the women milling about within. "So," he offers, glib. It's really almost as though the fight isn't happening - his manner suggests he's lost interest in it. "Have you been invited to the tournament, or were you ignored again? I can see it both ways; it's got to be tough, living in other people's shadows. You're really not that great."
COMBATSYS: Chris focuses on his next action.
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Chris 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Karin
As though it wasn't hard enough to maintain her composure, Karin only gets increasingly insulted by the boy, his every word stinging at her, at which she just screams, "Shut up!" Before charging at him, and thrusts a palm at his chest, then another at his abdomen, before smashing in with a double elbow, "Guren Ken - Ressen Chou!"
COMBATSYS: Chris dodges Karin's Guren Ken.
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Chris 0/-------/-----==|==-----\-------\0 Karin
Chris looks back to Karin, expression unmoved - unlike her, he is as smooth and tranquil as ice, glacial eyes more than simply descriptive in this instance. His expression does not falter as she dashes towards him - instead, his smile deepens, and eyes flash brightly in the last instant he seems to have. Karin lunges inwards with her first palm to the chest... and meets nothing but Chris' extended forearm.
"Boring, old moves. Confidence isn't everything..." The boy has moved to the left, in the same amount of time one might blink their eye. His position is unmoved save for this - but now he's rearing a leg back, reaching upwards -- and tugging at Karin's braids, pulling her head DOWNWARDS, towards HIM. Chris LEAPS towards her, left leg lifting in an absurdly gymnastic fashion, heavy-booted foot angled for her head. It's a flipping, upwards kick, one that flares blue with imbued chi, potent enough to leave a spiralling afterimage as the Swedish youth follows through on his kick to execute another leaping flip.
"...Especially when you SUCK!!"
COMBATSYS: Karin just-defends Chris' Hunting Air!
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Chris 0/-------/------=|==-----\-------\0 Karin
That. Does it. Karin's expression hardens when Chris taunts her, and when he makes a grab for her head and begins his kicking motion, she swiftly bats his hand off of her hair, and shifts her position so that she catches his by the ankle before he gets any momentum at all, and just glares at Chris, as she replies "You talk too much."
And then she reaches for his free arm, and grabs at it for an armbar, and yank him down with a takedown.
COMBATSYS: Chris blocks Karin's Yashiro Kuzushi.
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Chris 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Karin
It does bring a brief pause to Chris - he had a vibe going. It felt -right-, teasing Karin like he has been; especially since he had a lesson to teach her, and nobody'd be around to see. Karin would have her face pushed in for insulting -him-, and he'd get away with it scot-free. It's when the blonde catches his leg so *easily* that the very first flicker of reality assaults the Swede; he shivers, and confusion flashes across his features.
"..." It passes, and eyes harden once more - just as Karin's attempting her armbar. She'll find Chris pulling into himself, shifting his weight so that he's simply rolling with the throw and along the dirt of the schoolyard. The boy lands on his back, apparently winded, only to rise from the ground -as though being pulled upwards by unseen strings-. There is no muscle movement, no attempt at supporting his own weight; one moment, he is downed, and the next he is back on his feet.
"...Heh." It prompts Chris moving once again, but this time with an enhanced alacrity. He's practically unseen - one moment, leaning inwards, and the next, flittering across the distance between himself and Karin, almost a shadow. He comes back into focus only when he's less than a foot from his foe, lunging into her with one arm fully extended, balled fist angled for her stomach.
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Chris' Quick Punch.
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Chris 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Karin
Karin's arms go low in order to block the punch to her gut, taking the brunt of the damage before saying, "What was it you were saying?" She this distance to grab his wrist and hold him still, while her free fist drives for his gut twice, before aiming a last one for his face. She releases him afterwards as she says, "You were saying -I- Suck? So not only are you a terrible martial artist, but you're a low class punk as well, pretty boy."
COMBATSYS: Chris blocks Karin's Combo Attack.
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Chris 0/-------/----===|===----\-------\0 Karin
"Heh," again, is what Chris is saying. Karin's first punch collides with tensed abs, but her opponent proves more than Karin might have anticipated once again - he catches her second attack, twisting her wrist to the point of causing pain before shoving it to the side. "You're still hung up on that? Did I hit a nerve...?" Chris's grin widens, while he shifts to the side, twisting out of Karin's wrist-hold and slipping beneath her arm. Afterwards, he leaps HIGH into the air, easily twice as high as Karin might stand, and angles himself downwards into one HEAVY downwards kick. "Haah!"
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Chris' Glider Stamp.
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Chris 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Karin
Karin's arms rise up and once again take the brunt of Chris' strike, as she smirks, "Hit a nerve? Hardly." She's lying, but she's always been good at keeping up her Rich Bitch face when she tries hard enough. "If any of that were the truth, I would know it!" She once again charges in and aims in for two consecutive palm thrusts at Chris, but at her third she stops and spins about to aim a roundhouse at him.
COMBATSYS: Chris dodges Karin's Guren Ken.
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Chris 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Karin
Again, Karin will find her attack meeting Chris' forearm as he flashes out of the way -again-. There's a very clear irritation beginning to mount in his features - his expression darkens, while that smile only grows sharper. "Pft. You're only any fun when you're mad, aren't you..?" Chris drops to a crouch as he gets to the side, and executes a very quick sweeper-kick against Karin's vulnerable ankles.
"Lying isn't gonna make you any better, you know..!"
COMBATSYS: Karin counters Light Kick from Chris with Yasha Gaeshi.
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Chris 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Karin
Karin's foot that Chris was sweeping for suddenly rises from the ground, as she hops over it, and tumbles to the ground purposely to grab the sweeping leg, and wrench Chris over, and flip him onto the ground, after which she hops back up onto her feet, and smiles, "What's to lie about? I'm not the one on the ground right now! OHOHOHOHO!"
Chris *is* on the ground. It's surprising, but more to somebody else than himself. For a moment, his head rests against the cold Seijyun soil - eyes are closed, expression pleasant despite the pain that must be wracking his form. His chest heaves slowly, and his fingers twitch in and out, again and again - briefly, that everpresent smile contorts, flickers into an expression of utmost disgust.
As quickly as it had arisen, the sneer slips back to the more familiar (but definitely weird) smile; and then Chris' eyes are lashing open. He's practically -breakdancing- limbs inspired to rapid motion beyond his typical ken. Karin will find her feet swept out from her while Chris balances on his hands, whipping his lower body around his form quickly enough to meet Karin - should she tumble - in the stomach with a double heel-drop.
COMBATSYS: Karin endures Chris' Combo Attack.
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Chris 0/-------/---====|=======\-------\0 Karin
Karin narrows her eyes as she's gets swept from her feet, but she shifts her body carefully in order to roll better, and raises her hands to catch his legs even as he strikes home. It hurts, but on the plus side, and keeps hold of his feet and twists in order to slam him back into the ground.
COMBATSYS: Chris interrupts Strong Throw from Karin with Hunting Air.
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Chris 0/-------/--=====|=======\==-----\1 Karin
It's the part where she's holding his feet that she went wrong. Karin's definitely got some pluck - there's power in the girl's anger, be it self-created or inflicted upon her by another, but Chris has significantly more (and worse) things going on. Such things come to a terrible head half-way through Karin's throw; Chris is once again driving a foot towards her chin, terrific force having broken it free from her grip. As he's being thrown, it's not quite as flawless as he might have liked - but nonetheless, he's able to swiftly CRACK one foot into her chin before tumbling into the ground, to break the fall by turning it into a high-impact handspring. At the end of everything: Karin's got a lot of hurt administered to her chin, and Chris' wrists are gonna be sore for at least a day or two.
Karin gets socked in the chin, and groans painfully, before rolling back up to her feet and snarling, and dashing in again, trying not to give Chris the time of day to recuperate, and proceeds to try to slam four consecutive palm thrusts into Chris's body, following with a double elbow to the chest, and then swinging up a high kick for his chin, "SHINPIKAIBYAKU!"
COMBATSYS: Chris dodges Karin's Kanzuki-ryu Shinpikaibyaku.
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Chris 0/-------/--=====|=------\-------\0 Karin
Chris is to his feet well before Karin finds hers, which is just one of the many benefits you gain when you're slowly being devoured from within by a vengeful god-being bent on dominating the planet. He locks eyes with her, cool - if it means anything to her, the insults have stopped, at least for now. There's simple, amused interest in the boy's gaze, unabated by the wind blowing bangs into his eyes, by the chill the world must present his lightly clothed form, and - yes - by his opponent's sudden charge.
The problem with chained attacks is that if the first hit misses...
Chris -BENDS- backwards as Karin rushes inwards like that; her palm grazes over his protracted ribcage, forearm almost resting on his chest while her hand comes achingly close to striking at his chin and head - both of which are now parallel with the ground beneath them. Perhaps insultingly, Chris ducks to the side, curling into himself and beneath Karin's overextended form, to rise up BEHIND her and... back away. He's certainly still amused; and now, one hand is held before his chest in a mockery of the offensive posture, absolutely worthless for defense or offense.
"You can do better than that, right? You're -Karin Kanzuki-."
COMBATSYS: Chris gains composure.
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Chris 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Karin
Karin sucks in a breath as she glares at Chris, and for a moment is ready to come at him once more, but she shakes her head, "That's exactly what you want. Egg me on until I lose my cool?" She smirks and shrugs a little, "As if those tactics would work on me. It's all kinds of pathetic, if you ask me, Ohohohohoho!"
COMBATSYS: Karin focuses on her next action.
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Chris 0/-------/---====|=------\-------\0 Karin
It's not that Chris doesn't think those tactics will work on Karin - it's not even that he KNOWS they will. Amusement slithers across his features, strengthening in nuance until it practically dances in his eyes, malevolent, taunting.
He doesn't break eye-contact with Karin; instead, the hand before his chest begins to move, fingers curling and extending, curling and extending. There's a message in his body language - he's eerily rigid, yet somehow entirely relaxed. It's -eerie-.
"..."
COMBATSYS: Chris gains composure.
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Chris 0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0 Karin
Karin narrows her eyes, before once again dashing for Chris, not giving him the satisfaction of the moment, as she makes a grab for his shirt, and aims to jam her knee into his gut twice, before slamming him into the ground.
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Chris with Arakuma Inashi.
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Chris 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Karin
Chris closes his eyes while Karin rushes inwards. The youth does so in a way that suggests significantly more than steadying breaths or relaxation - his fingers splay, his shoulders slump. He is, in this moment, completely defenseless. It brings Karin's hands to find his shirt effortlessly, enables her - easily - to slam her knee into his stomach, twice, with enough force to cause his eyes to bulge forth, his otherwise cherubic features to contort in unexpected, intolerable pain. He goes limp in Karin's hands, whimpering in the manner one might expect a *proper* 14-year old teen pop star to, and is so much dead weight while Karin whirls him around her form, and SLAMS him into the ground.
He hits back-first, the wind knocked out of his chest, spasming in pain and a nearly certain sign of spinal injury. Legs twist into myriad positions, while fingers clutch at the ground beneath them, and his lips part in a shout that has no breath to fuel it. Just as he begins calming - accepting the pain, really - Chris' eyes shut tighter, and... well. For the second time, the youth is tugged to his feet by invisible strings, brought to a slumping stance that quickly, inexorably straightens into the more familiar, more sinister squared-shoulder, clenching-fingers stance Karin might remember from before. Shuddering, he turns to face her, a wolf's smile on his face, eyes twinkling murderously.
"...Better, but it's still -boring- when you're only good pissed-off. Aren't you Karin Kanzuki?? I'm supposed to be... scared... of fighting somebody so strong, skilled, intelligent, and -pretty- as Karin..." Once again, Chris is sliding forward, propelled along the ground on greased, immobile feet, arm extended before him. His goal is Karin's stomach, his palm extended so the boniest part might dig into her body there - he'll carry her with him for a while, until he's *SLAMMED* her against the fence surrounding Seijyun High.
"...Kanzuki."
COMBATSYS: Karin just-defends Chris' Slide Touch!
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Chris 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Karin
Karin watches as Chris approaches once more, and this time catches his hand once again by the wrist as he approaches, and replies, "I told you... Flattery will get you NOWHERE!" Before thrusting her free palm towards his chest, and then a second one to his gut, before trying to slam a third one right into Chris's pretty face. "Guren Ken - Hou Shou!"
COMBATSYS: Chris auto-guards Karin's Guren Ken!
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Chris 0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0 Karin
It's not very often that Chris is pushed to this sort of a point, but he's tired -- and whatever is pushing him to do what he's doing is anything but. Karin will find her attempt at grabbing him a perfect success, but he's just as quick to grab HER punching hand. It leaves the two staring at one another, Chris' expression stoic, but certainly simmering with subdued frustration. "..." He steps *into* Karin, planting a foot SOLIDLY into her stomach, before pushing down on both wrists and sending himself into a second upwards leap, just as before. There's no variety in the move - again, just as before, Chris hurtles towards Karin's form, foot-first, intending to solidly collide with her in a heavy downwards kick.
"...GUH!"
COMBATSYS: Chris successfully hits Karin with Glider Stamp.
- Power hit! -
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Chris 0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0 Karin
Karin gets pushed back as Chris uses her as a launching pad, and she's still off balance as she gets smashed with the kick, and goes crashing to the ground. She coughs heavily as she groans painfully, before pushing herself back to her feet and taking in a breath. She can't take more of this fight, and the boy probably knows it, so she tries to buy herself some time. "It's all true of course... I'm that good, that pretty and everything..." She sucks in a breath painfully. "I don't know who you're supposed to be, but obviously you've got to be an idiot to just challenge me without even thinking about it. That just makes you all the more a fool, as well as rude and a terrible martial artist. OHOHOHOHO!" Once again with her laugh.
COMBATSYS: Karin gains composure.
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Chris 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Karin
Chris has a terrible poker face in these situations. He doesn't step back to give Karin time to breathe, he hardly even takes the time to recover from his -own- attack. Feet hit the ground, knees bend to better absorb the impact of his landing, and before Karin's even able to curl into a protective ball, to spout out her defensive, time-buying insults -- Chris is laying into her. A hand rises high above his head, to *LANCE* downwards, to strike at her head or shoulders.
"If you're so confident, want to tell me why you're on the ground?? Does the princess need a break?? What's Karin Kanzuki doing, broken and beaten like this??!" There's a spiteful, awful mirth in that voice - it's an ugly sound.
COMBATSYS: Karin counters Quick Punch from Chris with Yasha Gaeshi.
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Chris 1/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Karin
*CATCH* A pair of hands grab the oncoming fist, as Karin smirks, having sprung up from her protective position, before using the boy's momentum against him, and flipping him back onto the ground once more, and takes another back step, in order to keep her distance from him, as she says, "It's called playing possum, foolish boy. If you knew anything about me, you'd know that I have victory in everything! OHOHOHOHOHO!"
Chris' expression contorts when his fist is caught. It is, in itself, as much an admission of partial defeat as it is startling, as the simple fact of the matter is that Chris -never- loses his cool. Rage suffuses him, dark and contorting, before he's even hit the ground. His back arches - you'd think it would increase the pain of his impact - while legs scramble to get him back to his feet. Once there, he's *lunging* towards Karin, even before she's finishes speaking. His eyes blaze, while his run simply stops as soon as it'd started; his momentum, however, does not. As before, he's extended a palm, to strike Karin's midsection, but this time it's -- faster. This time, there's a second press, a rougher impact. A third, a fourth, a fifth. Each time sees Chris flittering back, legs static, while he's quick to sweep back into his foe and drive her -further- into the ground.
"AAAAAAAAGH!"
COMBATSYS: Karin blocks Chris' Chain Slide Touch.
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Chris 0/-------/-------|=====--\-------\0 Karin
Karin grits her teeth as she's managed to egg this guy on enough that he goes all out on her, and raises her arms to block his strikes, barely managing to keep him from striking home completely with every punch, and soon finds herself skidding backwards from the force. She takes a breath once more, before raising her leg up and trying to smash an overhead kick into his head.
COMBATSYS: Karin successfully hits Chris with Elegant Kick.
- Power hit! -
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Chris 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Karin
The kick connects - solidly - but Chris is not yet finished; he's still sliding, and he's sure as hell still touching. Even as he loses consciousness, he lances out that hand one last time - this time his goal is a bit more ambitious. Then again, he's also losing consciousness.
It's really not his fault that he's ultimately copping Karin's chest as roughly as humanly possible, before simply toppling into her, winded, knocked out - both from internal turmoil, and external.
COMBATSYS: Chris can no longer fight.
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Karin 0/-------/--=====|
COMBATSYS: Chris successfully hits Karin with Slide Touch.
- Power hit! -
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Karin 0/-------/=======|
Karin is so tired out by this fight that she's barely able to regain her balance from the roundhouse that she winds up getting struck by Chris's last attack. The impact of it was so hard that it knocks the air out of her chest, and sends her to the ground with Chris right on top of her.
So it is, that she passes out from sheer utter exhaustion that she has no awareness of the fact that Chris has managed to get a scandalous copping out of the deal.
COMBATSYS: Karin takes no action.
COMBATSYS: Karin can no longer fight.
Log created on 02:09:38 01/11/2011 by Karin, and last modified on 21:42:53 01/12/2011.