Description: La Shey finished up some training and stops at a market to get some meat buns. Sadly only one remains and Bao also seeks the filling treat. So rather than argue over the food they end up in a street fight.
The markets you never hear about have the best stuff. The local flavor is always present in them, along with colorful people, curious sights, and all sorts of weird happenings. The most common thing between them is that they have the freshest food, and this one in particular--a small open-air market tucked away in this Japanese town--is known for just that.
At least, it's known by Bao.
It's about lunchtime. The kid in orange is looking for something to eat for it, and he's ventured here to find it while wandering about town in search of... something or other. He's not particularly certain either, but he's pretty sure Master Chin said something about 'finding himself' here.... or maybe he just had too much to drink again and wasn't making any sense. Either way, he's here now, on this unusually warm day in January, skirting between the people crowded around stands and searching for that one thing he needs to add to his accumulated bag o' delicious: meat buns.
Bao squeezes between a particularly large woman and her husband, calling, "Excuse me!" as he pushes past. He reaches out blindly, catching only a glimpse of the desired morsel. Just one, big, plump and stuffed, sitting in the middle of the tray and waiting for someone to pick it up. His mouth waters at the very thought. He brings his hand down to take it... but today, things won't be that simple, will they?
Shey has been getting out more and more since Karin took her in. She's taken to doing various jobs for Karin and the family. However she's got the day off and she's been training all morning she's some in her fighting outfit ofall things to get something to eat before she goes back to it. However there's always a rush for the food. She did have some looks but enough people had suspect she was a fighter of some sort. But rightnow she's trying to get to the food she actually just jumps over one woman making for the last tray of meat buns.
Bao reaches--
--and finds he has competition for the last bun of the morning.
The orange-hatted youngster holds his prize aloft, but he's almost six inches shorter than the girl coming for the same. He peers up at her as she vaults clear over the lady he had to squeeze past, and looks her up and down with a thoughtful expression. Maybe he's wondering precisely why she's dressed like that, or maybe he's curious as to how she jumped someone so easily.
Bao smiles apologetically. "Sorry! I got the last one! But maybe this is what Master Chin was talking about," he muses aloud, tapping his chin with one hand and looking up and around. Bao suddenly sticks out his free hand, pointing at Shey with one finger and looking her in the eye. He raises his voice, declaring, "A fight for the last meat bun," and giving her his most serious-looking nod. He grins again, unable to keep the expression off his face.
"How about it? You look like you know how to fight!" Says the twelve-year-old.
Shey looks at the young boy, she was considering relenting and letting him have the bun, she's not that mean. But when she's challenged to a fight that gets her attention. She blinks for a momner suprised and she says, "I do know how to fight and if your serious? Then you are on!" She glances around. "Though Miss Karin wouldn't be happy if we wrecked the store we may need to go outside." She grins and honestly isn't sure what to expect but the boy seems confident and it's not like she'd actually hurg him.
"I might show you a few things you haven't seen before."
"I knew it!" Bao exclaims. "You look like a fighter!" He's proud of himself, picking someone out in the crowd who can throw a punch without having them throw one at him first. (It helps that she's dressed a bit oddly, like a lot of people who really get into the art.)
Bao nods, waltzing right out of the store. The crowd parts at the notion of a fight, the people around giving them plenty of room and looking forward to a spectacle. Bao steps out onto the stone street, the remnants of the old days making for an excellent place to have a good bout. He looks around, breathing in the cool air, and then suddenly holds his hands out to an elderly man nearby. "Excuse me! Would you hold this please?" He beams at him, causing the fellow to jerk with a start before nodding a little hesitantly. Bao gives him the meat bun, along with a parcel presumably containing the rest of his lunch. Can't have that smashed up.
The boy turns on his heel and loosens up, bouncing between both feet and bringing his hands up in front of him. They swing almost lazily up and down, and the smile he has is almost worryingly carefree. "Okay! I'm ready to go!"
COMBATSYS: Bao has started a fight here.
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Bao 0/-------/------=|
COMBATSYS: LaShey has joined the fight here.
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LaShey 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Bao
The young man wants a fight he'll get one. She will at least show the kid something he's likely never seen before. She's got no idea of what the boy's powers are or just how dangerous the master of pinball can be. She follows him out on to the street and watches the crowd for a moment. She's got a goofy grin on her face now and she's getting ready. She pauses watching the boy as he gets ready and she blinks. Maybe he does know how to fight. So she better start the match.
"Then get ready!"
She falls into a ready stance and with no warning othe than moving her hands she createsd a burst of chi that sprials at Bao like a forceful gust of wind.
COMBATSYS: Bao reflects Storm Burst from LaShey with Psycho Ball Reflect.
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LaShey 0/-------/-------|==-----\-------\0 Bao
COMBATSYS: Bao successfully hits LaShey with Reflected Storm Burst.
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LaShey 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Bao
No warning... except for the hand motions.
Well, now, that's plenty of warning, isn't it?
The chi burst spins through the air, rushing at Bao like a coiling snake or a spinning drill. Bao's eyes go wide for just a second, and Shey may get the impression that he was not expecting that. Defying expectations and complete surprise are, however, two different things. Bao swings both hands up in front of him, presenting them palms forward towards the incoming energy blast. Between and before them, a flicker of blue appears, a distinctly different shade and hue than the chi hurled at him.
The spiralling burst of power almost--almost!--connects with the boy. The blue spark turns into a sudden sphere of blue energy, flashing brightly and catching the spinning bolt before it touches him. Bao twists his hands like he was rotating a basketball between them, bending his elbows and leaning backwards. He swings the ball towards his side and then brings it around in a quick U-turn, hands snapping forward... and pitching the chi blast right back at Shey, the bolt briefly flickering with the same light as the orb he called up.
Bao lets the ball of power fade away, the energy crackling like static electricity and dancing along his fingertips before disappearing in the span of seconds. He looks right at Shey, still grinning. "Wow! I haven't fought anyone who could do /that/ in ages!"
Shey has fought strong people, like Karin who can not project like she can. She's totally caught off guard by bao's counter attack. She's never seen anyone who could do that before. "What impossible?!?" She's hit square on by her own attack, the boy's ability to do that has not only stunned her? It's also impressed her, clearly he /can/ fight. "I have never seen anyone who could bounce it back. But if you think that's all I can do? Well watch this!"
She's moving in quickly to get in close she doesn't think he could actually bounce it back at her up close, or can he? She'll find out in a moment as she forms another gurst od win but this is cylinder really and it's at point blank range.
COMBATSYS: Bao reflects Storm Tornado from LaShey with Psycho Ball Reflect.
- Power hit! -
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LaShey 0/-------/----===|======-\-------\0 Bao
Bao drops into a low defensive stance, waiting and watching. His hands tingle a little with the interaction between the chi and his own psycho power, and he takes a deep breath as he quickly recovers from the effort. "It isn't impossible if I just did it," he calls in a friendly, chiming tone. He raises his fists as she rushes in--
--and the wind suddenly rips into him. The tornado gust of chi hammers into the boy in orange but goes no further, the spinning torrent of elemental energy halted directly in front of him. His arm glows brightly with the same blue light, the ball of energy held between his fingers in the eye of the storm. The wind tunnel gradually subsides, leaving her own grasp and ending up clutched in his, compacted rings of light and wind spinning around that curious ball.
"Wow-wow! That's a big one!" He thrusts his other hand into the storm, exhaling a shout and letting loose a burst of energy of his own--and turns the entire storm right back onto her, again tinged with the different-colored light. It looks like that sort of thing may not work so well against him...
COMBATSYS: LaShey blocks Bao's Reflected Storm Tornado.
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LaShey 0/-------/--=====|=======\-------\0 Bao
Shey has got very good at controlling her Chi, but she still needs to learn more. She has no idea about the power that Bao uses. It's not like her's she can tell that much at this point. But she's got other means she'll have to do this the old fashion way and she doesn't mind at all. But she's got to figure out how to get her hands on this kid. The force of the chinado is blocked, but at a cost, it hurst and it slows her down. Still she's not out of the fight.
She moves in and does something that is. She just tries to get in under the other fighter's guard and rapidly punch him a number of times.
COMBATSYS: LaShey successfully hits Bao with Quick Punch.
Glancing Blow
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LaShey 0/-------/-======|=======\-------\1 Bao
Bao is absolutely worthless at controlling his chi because he can't touch an ounce of it. His skill with this other kind of energy, this 'Psycho Power,' is fairly impressive... but the actual power he can produce with it goes far beyond that. Bao's fatigue from catching and reflecting both those chi blasts isn't from actually producing the psycho power necessary to do it--that he can do almost effortlessly, calling forth bursts of psychic might with a thought.
The fatigue is from having to control the deluge of energy that comes every time he calls on it, like channeling an ocean through a garden hose without breaking it in the process. /That/ is the hard part, and /that/ is something he doesn't expect anyone else to understand. The thrill of a good fight, though...
Shey goes for the old-fashioned strike. She moves in and Bao moves out, leaving the ground with a seemingly gentle push and leaping backwards. He lifts his legs as he leaves the ground, but Shey's quick punches nails him on the way up, grazing him while he flips out of the path of the rest of the lightning-fast barrage. He comes back down and lands on his feet a few feet back, dropping into a crouch and bouncing back up. Bao stops a second--
"Aaatatata!!" He lifts his left leg and hops on his right foot, clutching his shin awkwardly. She must've hit it on his way up. He grits his teeth and hops a few more times, then takes a deep breath and catapults himself up into the air one more time, easily jumping ten feet on one foot. Bao does a forward flip but doesn't quite complete it, seeming to hang in mid-air for just a second, the top of his head pointed down at Shey...
...and then he drops at her like ordinance from a stealth bomber, hurtling down at her in a high-speed flying headbutt!
COMBATSYS: Bao successfully hits LaShey with Hikida.
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LaShey 1/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Bao
Shey has realised the power of this young boy, but it's far too late. The only real comfort she would give him the meat bun even if she'd somehow won. But that's not looking like it's going to be a problem at this point. She does however keep off the chi for the moment planning. The boy just dances out of the way of her attack and follows up. She notices he's hurt but he comes from above she looks up attempts to block as he flying head butts?
SHe hits the ground after the force of the impact but it up, and is going to try to get him qith a quick counter attack of her own. Again keeping to the basics she kicks quickly.
COMBATSYS: Bao dodges LaShey's Light Kick.
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LaShey 1/-------/=======|=======\=------\1 Bao
Bao ricochets off Shey, bouncing backwards as he knocks her to the ground with a ridiculous headbutt-drop. He backflips once and lands on his feet, but he doesn't stay there--the spring in his step catapults him into the air again, jumping up above the quick kick coming at him. The blur of orange stops on the roof of a market stall, arms pinwheeling as he tries to get his footing on the cloth umbrella-like canopy.
The psychic kid shakes his leg, standing on one foot and rolling his ankle. He jumps down onto the ground, bouncing on his feet like a spring. Bao keeps moving, rushing at Shey with intent to attack instead of staying entirely on the defense. He dives at her, fists out at his sides, apparently going for a tackle or something like one. The opening he gives is fairly big; Shey might spot it as he approaches... though it rapidly closes, filling instead with solid light.
The light of the boy's psycho power is blinding, the blue glare abruptly directly in Shey's face. He surrounds himself with a ball of energy, curled up and hurtling at her at immense speed. Bao falls, touching the ground, and the blue pinball he's inside shoots diagonally upwards towards his opponent. The blue ball rushes forward, Bao intent on smashing right into Shey and sending her flying into the air!
COMBATSYS: LaShey blocks Bao's Hontai Kougeki - Bound.
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LaShey 1/----===/=======|=======\=------\1 Bao
Shey seems to be weak to pinball from the looks of things. As gast as she is? The young pscyhic is far faster today as he bounces about like he's on a spring. She's still not sitting still herself but the pyscho power is something that can not be denyed and well? She attempts to block the ball. It ends poorly as he hits her but she manages to gain some control while she's airborn enough that she's dropping back down towards Bao. This time? Her limbs are charged with chi and she's just attacking like she's some spawn of Goku or Kenshiro. Her movements are rapid, as are her strikes, she's not playing around. Is she trying to kill? No, Is she trying to win? Yes she is and the attacks keep comming.
COMBATSYS: LaShey successfully hits Bao with Tempest Hawk.
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LaShey 0/-------/------=|=======\======-\1 Bao
The terrible pinball crashes into the chi-hurling combatant, ricocheting back and starting to come back for another pass. It hits the far wall in another stall, scattering fruit on the way past, and blitzes back to the fight. Bao comes out of it in a roll, springing up--and ending up right in the middle of Shey's ridiculously fast flurry.
Bao falls backwards when its all over, beaten and battered. He stumbles and staggers, wobbling from the sheer intensity of the attack. He shakes his head as if to clear it, laughs like nothing happened, and then suddenly snaps back with a pair of quick punches and a jump kick right across the head. It wasn't much of a pause, but he's got the benefit of a kid's constitution--that is to say, 'tons of energy except when there isn't any.'
COMBATSYS: LaShey parries Bao's Combo Attack!
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LaShey 0/-------/-----==|=======\======-\1 Bao
Shey is suprisngly qiick, in dealing with Bao's attack she moves to redirect each of his attacks against her. The boy will be an utter terror when he's older. Still he's a terror as it is. She know she's not got much left her self so she aims to finish this with one all out attack. She charges chi visably into her right fist and just punches, as the fist moves? It sounds like a howling angry wind.
COMBATSYS: LaShey successfully hits Bao with Tempest Punch EX.
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LaShey 1/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Bao
Angry wind versus orange boy! Bao's quick combination attack gets deftly intercepted, the strikes turned aside with some kind of expertise that Bao hadn't quite thought she possessed. The number of chi-wielders he's faced with any regularity is quite small; the idea that they can hurl that around /and/ fight hand-to-hand effectively is a pleasant surprise.
Painful, but, uh, pleasant. Look, shut up.
The massive release of chi slams into Bao. The elemental energy crashes against the wielder of psycho-power, the light of his soul shining for a brief moment as he dampers the incredible release of energy. The focal point of the strike turns into a blast, a flash of light and a howling wind sending Bao spinning and rebounding like a, well, pinball. He hits the ground and bounces twice before rolling to a near-stop, and then regains control, jumping back up to his feet... and promptly dropping to a knee again.
"Haah... you're really good! I knew I shouldn't have held back!" He gets up to his feet, his stance considerably less bouncy. He twists his heel against the stone, scraping his shoes across the ground as if feeling out a good place to step. "Okay! Are you ready?" Bao grins, lifting his hands, the blue illumination coming back, the same as before.
A spark shines between his hands, growing by the second. "Here..." It grows to the size of the ball he'd been parrying the previous chi attacks with. It pulses with a life of its own, swirling faintly as he concentrates. "It..." He spreads his hands wider, the ball growing exponentially. It quickly outgrows his reach, becoming bigger than he is. Civilians scatter as this occurs, but a few stay within camera range to snap photos. "COMES!"
Bao doesn't do the roar of wind thing, but that psycho ball sure pretends to. It is easily bigger than Shey is, and, fortunately, aimed down the street instead of at a stall. Maybe this is why he wasn't going at one hundred percent before?
COMBATSYS: Bao successfully hits LaShey with MAX Psycho Ball.
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LaShey 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|====---\-------\0 Bao
Shey hits pretty hard but clearly is trying to not harm the boy at least permantely.
$R "Your not bad either, what is that it's not ... what I wield. I have never seen anything like it and bring it on!" People are scattering, they got an idea of what's going to happen. After all in this town there been some pretty strange fighte here before they know o get out of the way. WHAM! The ball hits it's not pretty Shey is looking like a mess but? She seems to have just a little more fight in her. She summons all of the remaining chi she can, forming a formation of what appear to be spears, then she launches all of the chi lances at Bao.
COMBATSYS: LaShey can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Bao dodges LaShey's Storm Lancer Barrage.
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Bao's psycho ball disappears into the distance after it passes over Shey, flickering out and vanishing when it gets too far off. He goes, "Woo!" when she keeps fighting after /that/, throwing himself to the side and rolling past the spear barrage. Spears burst against the front of the stall behind him, two grazing it and the rest harmlessly flying down the street. Bao pulls himself up into a fighting stance again, fists balled and his bouncing resumed... but then he spots that she's not doing so great.
"I win!" he declares. "Thank you! I learned a lot." Pause. "Are you okay?"
Shey is on the ground and one could almost see the squirly eyes she'd be having right now. "I don't want to clean the yard again Karin...." She'll be fine in a moment, really she will be!
Bao walks over, crouching over her. He peers down with a little frown, hands on his knees. His expression is almost quizzical. "Uh oh... I hope I didn't hit her /too/ hard," he murmurs. He hesitantly reaches down and pokes her in the shoulder. "Er... hello? How many fingers am I holding up?" He holds up two. V for victory?
COMBATSYS: Bao has ended the fight here.
Shey looks up looking a little dazed. "Two... I think?" She's still dazed but she's alive at least. "Didn't expect you could fight that well, and I have never seen anyone who could do something like that before. What was that? That wasn't chi...."
Bao brightens when Shey actually comes to. He reaches down and offers her a hand up. While this would normally probably be the other way around, Bao is inexplicably possessed of super strength. It's a psychic thing. "That was psycho power!" he says with a nod and a smile. "I'm hungry... come on, lets get lunch! I'm Bao!" He introduces himself /after/ beating her up. Yeah, thats a fighter thing. Bao goes to pull her to her feet and then to run off and retrieve both his bag and the prized meat bun, still warm after all that.
Shey says "I'm La Shey. Just call me Shey." She's dusting her self off, shaking her head a little bit. "Never heard of that before, interesting." Then again she doesn't know much but she does know lunch. "That sounds like a good idea, I'll cover it. Miss Karin won't mind i'm sure!" I mean Karin and her family may swim in money like a certain /duck/.
"Good fight, Shey!" Bao says, soon as he learns her name. He beams at the offer of a meal. "Okay!" The boy in orange resumes his springy step. He holds up the meat bun. "Do you want half? We could just share," he offers. "I don't get to fight people as good as you very often, so..." He shrugs, still smiling. "Where did you learn how to do that, anyway?"
Shey says, "No keep the bun it's all right you won it and really? As for how I fight like this? It's a very long story that I can't remeber much if any of." Odd thing to say. "To be honest I do and that's enough for me at the moment. So lets go find some food shall we?"
Log created on 02:05:03 01/18/2012 by LaShey, and last modified on 05:52:26 02/14/2012.