Description: A close Neo Development Project fight between Aranha and the newcomer Intan. (Winner: Aranha)
A small crowd gathers at the Metro City Harbor upon not only hearing that the NDP is not only holding a match in Metro City, but that Aranha, a native of Metro would be one of the fighters. It is a relatively small crowd all things considered but considering the location it's not all surprising. Cameras surround the area as well as metal barriers to keep the audience outside.
When the young fighter makes his appearance he comes in quietly. A small contingent of fans start cheering and a few raise signs saying, 'Welcome to Metro City,' in reference to a song Aranha has taken up as his unofficial theme.
With a flip, he clears the barrier and then stretches and waits for his opponent to arrive.
Aranha doesn't need to wait long. Intan arrives within minutes of her opponent, and she takes a leisurely walk towards the barriers, sizing them up before jumping on top, then into the arena, or at least what passes for it, with a spin, landing on her feet with both of her ritual knives drawn.
The Indonesian girl is very much not a native to the region, and she looks it. Her clothes, grey and suitable for combat, proudly display a gedo high logo. "Ready when you are." The girl says calmly, but with a tinge of fire in her voice as she prepares for the fight to start.
The African American rises from his stretching and takes a moment to look over the Indonesian as he paces around the fighting area, studying and waiting. He then says softly, "Alright. Let's see what you've got." Eventually he settles into where he was previously stretching and then begins to dance, swaying left and right in ginga as he waits for the official to start the fight. When he does, Aranha explodes in a burst of motion as he closes the distance between them with a cartwheel before pushing out with a side kick as he keeps his body low.
COMBATSYS: Aranha has started a fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Intan has joined the fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Intan
COMBATSYS: Intan parries Aranha's Medium Kick!
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Intan
When the announcer started the fight, Intan was already in a swift, evasive-looking combat stance. As Aranha attacks, the Indonesian quickly steps aside the incoming kick, her rapid movements allowing her to gain distance and a clear shot as she throws one of those two ritual daggers into the air, draws another -- less ornate one -- and flicks that one towards Aranha, making a backflip and catching the kris she threw up into the sky in one rapid movement, just before landing back on her feet and dipping into her combat stance again.
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Intan's Throwing the Kris EX.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Intan
As Aranha spins back up to a standing he watches as the dagger flies from her hand. Reflexively the capoeirista goes into another spin as he swats aside the dagger and nicks his hand in the process. Using that spin, he attemps to move in closer attempting to not only follow her but attempt to keep the pressure up.
When he finally gets back into kicking distance, he spins around to perform an outside crescent kick using his rear foot.
COMBATSYS: Intan dodges Aranha's Light Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Intan
Sadly for Aranha, the distance means Intan could relatively easily see the attack incoming, and with her own speed, she was out of the way fairly fast. Not as fast as with Aranha's previous attack however. Now forced to fight in melee, the Indonesian calculates her next move in a split second before rushing forwards, her right kris being used to try to strike at Aranha, and it if lands, the girl would abuse the serrated edge and pull out sidewise, likely leaving a naaasty wound.
COMBATSYS: Aranha fails to interrupt Serrated Stab from Intan with Hunting Season.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Intan
The outside crescent was the setup. But just as he recoils from the first kick he readies himself for his follow up. Unfortunately, he just slightly underestimates the speed he would've needed to grab a hold of her with blue glowing hands. The end result is him practically leaping into the stab. The only saving grace being that it only catches him in the side.
Even still it was a nasty wound that forced the capoeirista to back off for a bit.
With her opponent's failed counterstrike, Intan feels the need to press her advantage. She doesn't pause a single moment as she keeps on her assault, lashing out with a quick strike from her other kris -- the left one -- aimed at striking at one of Aranha's pressure points, hopefully draining her of some energy as well as inflicting some level of damage. The strike is swift and well calculated, but of course... nobody is perfect, so success is far from guaranteed.
COMBATSYS: Aranha dodges Intan's Weakening Slash.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 Intan
The capoeirista finally shows the speed that he is known for, bobbing and weaving as the stabs slice into his jacket and shirt but never quite connecting with the man himself.
He then glances at his jacket for just a heart beat, and then he lets it slide off of his shoulders before tossing it aside(though still ringside).
After that he dances in again before swinging his leg in low to lock in behind the Indonesian's own legs then he follows up with an elbow to the stomach before throwing her backwards over that previously mentioned leg behind hers.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Intan with Kick Combo.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Intan
Intan is too slow this time, her attack not landing as it should threw her off slightly, and when she weaved out of the way of the incoming combo, and she soon finds herself on the ground. Not to be defeaten so easily, the Indonesian girl quickly jumps up again and offers a grin towards Aranha. She rushes forwards, trying a very light and quick jab with her right kris, it's not likely to go deep at all, the results of the previous combo making her exercise some caution...
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Intan's Weapon Jab.
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Intan
Aranha doesn't want to move away, not when he has started to get her on the defensive. He ends up holding his ground by bringing up a scarred forearm to guard against the quick stabbing attack as he rocks away from her getting a barely noticable nick on his forearm in the process.
All of a sudden his defense becomes offense as he drops low to the ground and elevates himself into a handstand as he delivers a flurry of snap kicks down upon Intan's head with more carefully applied pressure.
COMBATSYS: Intan auto-guards Aranha's Inverted Flurry!
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|=====--\-------\0 Intan
The kicks were neatly batted away by Intan, who came out of the assault reinvigorated rather than weakened as likely was intended. She looks at the opponent she's fighting, and quickly calculates her next move. She takes the first gap in Aranha's offensive, and uses it to make a quick lunge towards one of Aranha's tendons, aiming to strike at it and weaken her opponent. It's not the flashiest of moves, but it should work well enough... hopefully.
COMBATSYS: Aranha fails to interrupt Weakening Slash from Intan with Dead Man's Hand EX.
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Aranha 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Intan
Aranha attempts to draw his leg away as he puts the other leg on the ground and once again, he doesn't quite get the timing of his movements right and ends up getting caught in the leg tendons with a troubling cut.
There was a bit of a glow from one of the hands but with him not being in position to do what he set out to do, he lets the collected chi go and gets back to a standing position.
Having the advantage, it seems, Intan continues to press it. Her left kris is used to attack this time around, and the knive wielding Indonesian's movements are quite rapid. As she attempts to strike, she twists that knife, hoping to create another nasty wound. While she moves that kris, her left leg also lashes out, trying to tackle down Aranha, hoping to make that wound a little worse as well as forcing the harsh impact of the ground to come upon her opponent.
COMBATSYS: Aranha interrupts Armed Combo from Intan with Strong Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/---====|=======\==-----\1 Intan
The dagger moves quickly however the Dancing Spider doesn't even attempt to move away from the dagger in its bid to inflict another wound in the capoeirista. Instead he moves closer and a little to the side causing the stab to miss its mark. Aranha then sees the leg moving towards his own. Having subtlety meet with mixed results against this opponent, he decides to take on more brute force tactics than he usually employs. He swings out his leg with a powerful roundhouse kick meeting the knife wielder's thigh with his shin. The legs collide together with a loud impact.
The capoeirista steps back before going back into his dance. His ginga seeming to be slightly off kilter due to Intan previously attacking one of his legs.
Intan is hurt by that interrupt, pretty much. So she decides she has to retake the advantage and press harder, taking whatever she can to hurt the man she is fighting enough to take him out of the fight. As such, she seems to speed up and both of her krisses are used to lash out at her opponent, even including a few kicks and elbow punches into the assault she is making. It's all rapid fast, and if it's successful, it'd likely hurt like a bitch...
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Intan's Relentless Assault.
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Aranha 0/-------/-======|==-----\-------\0 Intan
And yet, Aranha gamely keeps up, bobbing and weaving, jumping and spinning in an effort of self-preservation. He manages to dodge a few of the strikes however, he ends up deflecting the strikes. More wounds appear on his shoulders, forearms, and hands. His legs, would probably show bruises if not for the fact that he's wearing jeans. The capoeirista is hurting and it shows.
But he shows the fact that he's also resilient in that he's still planning to bring the fight to the Indonesian by sliding towards her and scissoring his legs about hers before twisting his hips and sending the Gedo student down to the ground.
COMBATSYS: Intan blocks Aranha's Quick Throw.
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Aranha 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Intan
Intan rolls with the throw, falling onto the ground and incurring minor bruising before she rises again, looking at her opponent and trying to gauche how he is doing in comparison to her, as well as driving her willpower into judging her opponent. She doesn't attack right now, merely calculating her next moves...
COMBATSYS: Intan focuses on her next action.
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Aranha 0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0 Intan
Aranha pulls away from Intan when she rolls out of the take down attempt, since he tends to make takedowns an in/out affair. The wounded capoeirista sways from side to side as he comes in to close the distance and then he comes in with a quick inside crescent kick to test the waters a bit.
He knows he doesn't want to go in too aggressively because he will pay for it.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Intan with Light Kick.
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Aranha 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Intan
Tries to step out of the way of the incoming kick, but it's too fast, leading into her being struck in the gut. She coughs once from the blow as she steps back, before moving in again with her left Kris, making a rapid lunge at the man she's fighting, her previous analysis and focus aiding her in aiming this assault. Or so she hopes... It's fasy anyway, and moving towards Aranha.
COMBATSYS: Intan successfully hits Aranha with Medium Strike.
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Aranha 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Intan
The American born capoeirista attempts to hold his ground by taking the lunging stab to the body and spinning around it to keep himself right where he wants to be. In kicking range. The lunge comes in a little faster than he had planned on it being and he ends up not being able to adequately spin around it and finds himself moving towards the barricade instead.
Interested in giving the opponent something else to think about, he takes a small step to his left and then violently swings his right leg in a powerful roundhouse to the head. That same leg never touches the ground as he swings back the other way in an equally vicious, back heel kick that hooks around the back of the neck in order for Aranha to yank Intan face first to the cold, hard, ground.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Intan with Face Down.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|=======\==-----\1 Intan
Falling face first to the ground, Intan is almost out. But she's not done for quite yet. She flips back up rushes forward, lashing out with feet, elbows and weapons at a scarily rapid pace until she just has no fight left in her anymore. This is not just a last ditch effort to even out the score, it's a very harsh and rapid effort to even out the score that may or may not have any chance of succeeding. Nonetheless, she is trying to turn this into a double KO, as she knows that she won't be standing after this...
COMBATSYS: Intan can no longer fight.
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Aranha 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Intan successfully hits Aranha with Relentless Assault.
Grazing Hit
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Aranha 0/-------/-----==|
Something similar happens to the first attempt in spite of the fact that Aranha is putting a significant amount of energy into not getting hit. Elbows and knees barely connect with him. Slashes and stabs just barely wound him. Even still those little nicks and scratches begin to add up and the capoeirista is completely covered in blood from head to waist. His jeans on one leg has blood running down to the calf muscle, and Aranha is just barely standing and for all his resilience looks as though he might fall if a strong wind hit him... or if he suffered from any more blood loss.
COMBATSYS: Aranha has ended the fight here.
Log created on 11:32:40 11/16/2011 by Intan, and last modified on 22:56:35 11/16/2011.