Description: Newcomer Intan. Newcomer Xian. Their schools clash--and they continue the tradition in grand style! (Winner: Intan)
The Kyokugen Dojo... with none of the Kyokugenryuu students in attendance! It looks... like a dojo. Typical, really. A bit run-down, even. But Xian's pretty happy to be here all the same. She loves the place the moment she steps in--it doesn't look like her old sifu's place, but the -air- is the same... she can't explain it.
Doffing her coat, she occupies the 'far' end of the dojo, from the door, doing some stretching, warming up... the SNF cameramen get a good seven seconds of her performing a complicated kata, gracefully moving and lunging through the air and along the matting. She wears her Taiyo uniform, but has removed her shoes as befits a dojo, instead just in stocking feet.
As she moves, she's thinking. Intan uses knives, she's told, and, like many, there's some fear of them. Bruises are normal--getting cut up is not. Still... "You've fought knife-fighters before, Xian Wu," she tells herself, sternly, slapping her cheeks twice to psych herself up, and then she walks to a spot marked with some duct tape--and waits, standing in a very non-fighting stance, left hand on hip, right playing with a ponytail.
Intan is just arriving. Unlike Xian, she is not wearing her school uniform. Instead, she has quickly slapped a Gedo High patch on her usual outfit just to show her support for her school. As she approaches the ring, she gets rid of the shoes she's wearing just before. As she looks at Xian, giving a polite bow towards her.
After that display of politeness, she draws her two main knives, ornately decorated ritual daggers, Krisses. She does a backflip, throwing the knives midair and catching them again before she lands, then dipping into a fighting stance, her previous somewhat demure demeanor seeming to have gone out of the window. "Let's go."
COMBATSYS: Xian has started a fight here.
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Xian 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Intan has joined the fight here.
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Intan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Xian
Xian observes her opponent with her dark eyes... and smiles. She can't help but like enthusiasm. And, hey, knives. She's been reassured--if she gets cut up, then, well, they can sew her back together again. She doesn't miss the Gedo patch on the outfit, either. "Gedo, huh? Should be fun. You Gedo students have quite the reputation!" .. as thugs and hooligans, but hey, it's all good.
There's no outward signal that the fight is on--it just *is*, and Xian can feel it, and she bets Intan can, too, and so she doesn't posture more, just drops into her stance... and begins stalking forward, crossing the distance between her and her opponent... and getting halfway before she pushes off into a thrusting, lunging kick, the push taking her into a hop which lets her plant her left leg and throw a long side kick with her right, accompanied with a high, sharp kiai!
COMBATSYS: Intan dodges Xian's Medium Kick.
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Intan 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Xian
"So we do." Intan responds, not bothering to deny nor confirm the rumours, nor even seeming to care. As the kick comes in, another backflip ensures it goes wide. "Let's hope I can gain one of my own!" She calls out in midair, and when she lands again, she offers an enthusiastic grin.
That grin, however, is a sign of things to come, and the Indonesian girl rushes forward, her left Kris lunging out for Xian, and the attack's true intent may not be obvious until the Indonesian girl's blow land -- if it does -- at which moment she would twist it briefly before pulling it out, leaving a dangerous wound.
COMBATSYS: Intan successfully hits Xian with Serrated Stab.
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Intan 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Xian
"Hkk--!!" That is the sound that Xian makes when she is stabbed--and the wound is opened by the twist. It isn't debilitating--but it -is- painful. But Xian is tougher than that--one successful cut isn't going to end the fight. She'd be a pretty poor fighter if it were. She reacts with the utmost speed, shoving Intan away from her to clear the blade--and then seeming almost to fall back...
... only she isn't falling, she's performing a backflip, and her feet blaze with orange-yellow-red chi flame as she attempts to kick Intan right under the chin for her troubles. Of course, the wound is bleeding now--ruining yet another uniform... but she can pay for those.
COMBATSYS: Intan dodges Xian's Blazing Moon.
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Intan 0/-------/------=|=------\-------\0 Xian
A quick dash to the side, and Intan is out of the way of the assault. The girl is pretty fast, that's for sure, and her moves show she's got the experience to count. "You'll need to be a tad faster if you want to hit me." She taunts. Normally she doesn't taunt, but perhaps this will make the fight just a little more exiting.
She takes a step back now, and another. Then she does a backflip, and midair she manages to pick a third Kris and launch it towards Xian, the blade is straight unlike the others, and it goes pretty fast. It seems she's done this before.
COMBATSYS: Intan successfully hits Xian with Throwing the Kris.
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Intan 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Xian
More knives. Well, to be expected. Xian smirks faintly at Intan. "Doesn't do to be so cocky..." But that's another thing about Gedo kids... well, Taiyo kids too. But Xian isn't being cocky at all, especially not with another knife in her. This one she pulls out and tosses aside, stumbling back.. and doing her best to ignore the red splotches dotting her uniform.
"But you're right... I will have to be faster to hit you..." The semi-logical thing would be to wait for Intan to come to her. But that's not how Xian fights. She doesn't -care- that she's bleeding... she's bled before... so she just starts running for Intan, then leaping, throwing herself into a flying roundhouse kick--but that's a feint, intended to miss--and as she lands, she throws another kick, flicking her foot out for Intan's stomach instead.
COMBATSYS: Intan dodges Xian's Light Kick.
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Intan 0/-------/-----==|====---\-------\0 Xian
Recognizing the feint, Intan leaps out of the way of the real attack with a quick backflip, it's a swift and elegant movement. Just because Intan may wish for this fight to be interesting, she doesn't intend to throw her first battle on the SNF! As she lands, she calculayes her next move, and decides on one.
She rushes forwards towards her opponent, and this time she doesn't use any of her knives, instead sliding down before pushing herself up with one of her arms, her foot suddenly going for Xian's stomach. It's swift and likely well-aimed.
COMBATSYS: Xian blocks Intan's Light Kick.
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Intan 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Xian
Well-aimed, indeed--but Xian stands her ground, this time, and lets that foot slam into her forearm instead. The impact makes her grit her teeth, but she forces herself to look--if not impassive, then to disguise the pain. Never let them see you hurt, she can hear her Master say, and she mutters to herself, "I'm /trying/..." And even as she's talking to herself, she's grabbing for Intan's ankle, looking to hold the leg in place for a quick sweep of her right foot on Intan's other leg--to knock her on her butt, and score at least a little bit of a victory. If she is to win this--she has to start -somewhere-... and even if she doesn't, she has to give her all, try everything. Every experience is something to learn from.
COMBATSYS: Intan blocks Xian's Quick Throw.
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Intan 0/-------/----===|=====--\-------\0 Xian
As she is grabbed, Intan doesn't really see a good way out of it, and so she rolls with the throw, landing harshly but standing quickly again. In all, it wasn't too bad, and she is still on the advantage. She has to press it while she can, and as such, she does just that.
The Indonesian Gedo High girl rushes forwards wordlessly, her kriss is lunged towards Xian, and as she aims to strike -deep-, it's not any strike, it's a fierce one meant to deal quite a bit of damage. It's also just a tad reckless, perhaps Intan is trying to provide at least a little show?
COMBATSYS: Xian counters Deep Strike from Intan with Dragon Blossom Kick.
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Intan 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\0 Xian
Time freezes for Xian, for the moment, as she subconsciously calculates and estimates. And then, almost before she realizes it, she's acting. She sinks back on her rear leg--then lunges forward and snaps her right knee upwards. The aim is not to hit Intan--not exactly. Rather, her knee strike is meant to knock Intan's thrust off its line. In almost the same movement, she twists her body away from the strike--and whips that right leg around in a high, reverse roundhouse heel kick, pivoting on the ball of her left foot.
Approximately a half-second before impact, that chi flame blossoms around her kicking leg, just as it crashes right into Intan's cheek, and Xian finishes her pivot slowly, dropping bakc into her arms-raised, wide-legged stance, issuing that strange, unearthly howl-like sound that Fei Long--and The Master--are so famous for. She's putting on a show, too.
That was not entirely unanticipated. Well, some form of counterattack wasn't, and as such when the chi flame hits her in the cheek, Intan accepts the blow. Right now she can't do much else. She too calculates subconsciously, and decides this is the right time.
With her movements calculated, Intan rushes forward, jumping into a twisting flip that's meant to get her over and to the back of Xian, her two krisses striking out at the girl she's fighting, aiming to stick them into the back of Xian and use the momentum of her flip to carve deep wounds.
COMBATSYS: Intan successfully hits Xian with Brutal Strike.
Glancing Blow
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Intan 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Xian
Partial success is better than none--Xian manages to lean forward enough to avoid taking serious injury from the blades, though the searing pain that it brings is not appreciably lessened. With another hiss, Xian turns--not bothering to reach for her back--and crouches.
She's only crouched for a moment before she leaps, twisting, looking to plant the knuckles of her left hand into Intan's face in a punch that drives forward and down. Given the Indonesian girl's agility, it's hard to not feel as if it's futile, but the alternative isn't great--stand there and get stuck like a pig.
No, Sifu didn't teach me to go down like a domestic animal, thinks the Chinese-American girl, and she stiffens her resolve. Win or lose, she'll gie everything she's got and more.
COMBATSYS: Intan dodges Xian's Medium Punch.
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Intan 0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1 Xian
With that punch coming in, Intan steps aside rapidly, and this time without much flash or grandeur, it's just a quick evasive tactic. She considers her options as she maneuvers around Xian, launching a few feints that she does not expect to hit while she settles on a course of action.
And when she does, it comes quickly and nastily. Her strike going fast, but allowing for much room to consider remaining options. It's a jab with her dagger, but it seems to be a defensive, rather than offensive, move for some reason.
COMBATSYS: Intan successfully hits Xian with Random Strike.
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Intan 1/-------/=======|=======\==-----\1 Xian
Just not her night? Fully outclassed? Xian can't tell. The strike rings true and she finds herself bleeding again... and now her vision is going blurry, red at the edges, and she isn't sure if it's pain, blood loss, or shame and anger. She's done -so little- in this fight... how can she possibly consider this a learning experience? No. There's something to be learned here. She knows it. The shame and the anger aren't it. She has to put those away... to channel them.
She marshals herself... and then slings the kris that Intan had thrown at her. It's a clumsy throw, not at all beautiful like Intan's--but she really doesn't care about -that-... And for all that, the dagger probably goes butt-end first. But it's -something-.
COMBATSYS: Intan parries Xian's Thrown Object!
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Intan 1/------=/=======|=======\==-----\1 Xian
Quickly putting one of those Krisses in between her teeth, Intan steps aside the incoming knife in order to catch it rapidly. Taking the knife into her hands perfectly, she uses the momentum in the weapon to sling herself into a pirouette and throw the weapon right back at Xian, using all her skill to her utmost advantage. After that, she draws her Kris back from her mouth, grinning at Xian easily.
COMBATSYS: Xian overcomes Throwing the Kris EX from Intan with Dragon's Soul.
Glancing Hit
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Intan 1/-----==/=======|====---\-------\0 Xian
Xian just shakes her head a little at the ostentatious display--but of course, Intan can afford to do it, because, well, she's dominating this fight. When the knife is thrown back, however, Xian's face hardens and she draws power... hot power, climbing up her forearms as an aura bursts around them... and then she roars wordlessly as she thrusts her hands forward--and a torrent of chi fire gushes out, engulfing the knife and plunging forward, the sound it makes in its passage very like the roar of a dragon as it leaves her hands.
After that, though, she's still wobbling... her lifeblood slowly draining from her, and she hasn't made any efforts to stem that bleeding. She's hardly a medic, barely knows what to do with bandages... and stopping to do anything like that would've just given Intan more chances to stick her anyways.
COMBATSYS: Intan fails to slow Dragon's Soul from Xian with Throwing the Kris.
- Power fail! -
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Intan 1/----===/=======|====---\-------\0 Xian
Seeing her knife engulfed in that flame, Intan tries to stop it by throwing another knive at her opponent. Sadly, the fire was too hot and went right through, causing Intan to take the blow at full force. She grits her teeth in an attempt to prevent herself from howling out in pain as she looks at her opponent, bracing herself for what she fears will come next...
Somewhere, somehow, Xian finds the strength to continue. But she's slowed down, a little, and not thinking clearly. Still, she's right on the heels of that blazing dragonflame, forcing her body to continue operating just a little longer... then pushing off, taking a hop forward.
As she lunges in that hop, she draws her left leg back... and then, landing on her right, she slams her left knee forward, and follows through with a snapping, high roundhouse kick, imitating--or paying homage--to her idol, once again. Her eyes are burning, now, with pain--but also with determination.
COMBATSYS: Intan blocks Xian's Fierce Kick.
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Intan 1/---====/=======|===----\-------\0 Xian
Two arms fold in front of the incoming kick, taking the brunt of the blow. Intan takes a step back, and then a deep breath, as she prepares for the next thing to do this fight. She has to kick this up a notch...
And as such, it seems the girl sudden;y bursts forth in speed, her movements no longer hold back in this flush of adrenalin. She lashes out with a lot of stabs of those Krisses, each of them aiming for pressure points in Xian's body, trying to drain energy as she attacks. Her movements are fluid and quick, as though this was some sort of dance, rather than a fight.
COMBATSYS: Xian fails to counter Dance of the Dagger from Intan with Crescent Moon.
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COMBATSYS: Xian can no longer fight.
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Intan 0/-------/------=|
Xian's attempt at defense is almost token--and when Intan is done with her dance, Xian wobbles... and then simply falls over. She's got nothing left--the only thing she takes with her into the warm, red-tinged darkness is that she fought to the fullest of her capabilities, and that she still has -so much- to learn.
Intan, however, is still standing. She hadn't even entered the danger zone yet as she steps back, then does another backflip, throwing her krisses into the air, then catching and sheathing them before she lands. She lets the medical folks, who are no doubt approaching, take care as she gives a wink at the camera. "Thank you for watching, let's hope I can prove my worth again soon." She tells the audience before she starts to depart.
COMBATSYS: Intan takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: Intan has ended the fight here.
Log created on 22:22:12 11/11/2011 by Xian, and last modified on 23:03:24 11/12/2011.