Description: On the streets of Southtown, Angelo makes it his business to find an up and coming young fighter with an unusual talent for chi. Having located his quarry, a philosophical discussion is attempted, and roundly thwarted by the continual forward motion and determined violence of 'La Shey'. Whether or not anything at all will come of this, is something that only time can tell.
Shey has been training a lot since the fight with Bao, otherwise she's either been involved in fighting matches or doing work for her employeer. One Karin, she's currently away from the home of her employer. Just for what she's doing she's been training most of the day as normal and is now on her way back getting various things on a shopping list. Thankfully Karin was kind enough to do the list in English as she's still working in her Japanese.
If there's one thing Angelo knows how to make, it is an entrance.
The tall, hooded man emerges from an alleyway as Shey passes. True, Kain had told him to stay out of Southtown - but that was during the last craziness. This current craziness? That seems to him to say that all bets are off. Besides, he's not here to cause trouble. He's here to test the resolve of another. Something which he suspects Heinlein would approve of.
"A girl who is nothing in a town which means everything."
The voice is smooth, rich, and though he is speaking English, it is with a slight Italian accent.
"Why are you running around like a lapdog for that insipid girl, hm? I saw your fight. It was, interesting. You, are interesting. Meant for more than this, I would wager."
Shey is aware of the crazyness and is going to be talking to Karin about it. She can't sit here and do nothing. She halts for a moment as something feels weong at the voice. She pauses for a moment and looks at the man for a moment and she stares at him.
"First who are you, and second she's stronger than me." The day Karin develops chi or Pyscho power the world will know fear. For now she folds her arms and gives him a look over raising an eyebrow. I still lost the fight regardless if your refering to my matches in the league."
"You did."
There's the slightest shrug of his shoulders, and Angelo brings his hands up, cracking his knuckles and making the leather gloves squeak. "But almost everyone loses sometimes."
His head is bowed such that his features are in shadow, but the assassin's eyes seem to glint dangerously as he observes the young woman. He dislikes such garish fashion, but it seems to be the norm in fighting circles.
"Is that what you think fighting is for? To lay out a chain of command and follow it rigidly? Do you have no dreams of your own, no desires?!"
Shey is unverved bt this strange man. She looks at him and knows he's dangerous, and yes her fashion is quite garrish, but it also seems to server to leave her free to move when she's fighting at least. You can blame the wonerful minds at NESTS for this outfit, not that she'd know this. "I want to fight, that's enough for me, for the moment. If I want something else it's not the business of a stranger to know."
"Ordinarily, I might be inclined to agree with you."
Angelo flexes his fingers, working his shoulders back as he loosens himself up. "But these are not ordinary times, and I have no wish to let the world fall into the hands of the subservient and weak."
There is definitely a dark edge to Angelo's tone, now.
"So prove to me that you have the spirit of a fighter, as well as some modicum of talent. Or I will kill you."
Chi the color of autumn leaves begins to dance around Angelo's fingers, the shadowed figure stepping forwards towards Shey at a casual pace. "If you have nothing to live for after all, Nothing, then you can't very well complain when I snuff you out."
Shey is about the brush the man off, with most people going to fight them would be akin to stepping on someone whose already down. She understands on some level she's started to ender a world where there seems proof in the old myths of the old world. She's seen feats that should be right out a myth and is able to preform some. She now pauses at the Chi.
"So your not just all talk, and if you think I'm just going to roll over and die?! I don't think so." She throws down what she was carrying and makes a bring it on gesture and makes no sign of the Chi she can use she knows he already.
Angelo continues to walk forwards. He is unhurried, relaxed. "I don't expect you to lay down and die. I expect you to struggle, and if you can prove that you *deserve* to live."
With a sudden, blinding motion, Angelo pivots on the spot, his foot comes up and around, and aims to crash forcefully into Shey's side, as he carries on and puts his foot back down to the dirt, hands resting at his side.
"Then I'll leave here happy. If not, more blood on my hands isn't a tragedy."
COMBATSYS: Angelo has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: LaShey has joined the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: LaShey blocks Angelo's Light Kick.
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Shey style was quite agressive in the fights that have been on TVA. This remains the case, what isn't expected is? She's quite fast as she's moving on Angelo, as he kicks she moves to deflect it as best she can. She's not messing around as she tries to get in close as she can and she'll launch several rapid punches at the man before trying to pull pull away for a moment, she seems to have little want to sit still.
"Who made you the judge? No one that's who. Still I'm suprised you actually can do what you did. But the question is can you match me in that?!"
COMBATSYS: Angelo blocks LaShey's Quick Punch.
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Angelo's gloved right hand finds each of the swift punches. He turns the attacks aside, and there's a certain, energy in him now. He's enjoying this. The girl is relatively unpracticed, unrefined, but there might be something there. If only she could see.
"I am the judge, for I have the power and I am not afraid to use it." Angelo says, "There are others who are much harsher judges than me, but I shape the world in my own way."
His left hand comes up suddenly, and it might confuse the younger fighter because it is not a blow aimed at her at all. The motion brings his hand slicing through the air next to the girl's neck, wreathed in a crimson energy.
The cutting edge extends past that visible spectrum, though. If she isn't very quick, it'll cut into the side of her neck and draw blood. If she isn't very used to chi, this strange and complicated form of energy manipulation is likely a nasty shock.
And there's a rising, energizing feel on the air all around Angelo as he calls upon this power.
COMBATSYS: Angelo successfully hits LaShey with Angel's Trumpet.
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Shey is quick and all things considered is not out of the fight even as she feels the strike at her neck. She feels the blow she's bleeding and she feels the man hasn't opened up yet. She says, "You'd be suprised what I can do!"
She takes a deep breach and focuses the tell tale green energy of wind chi starts to whip about her as she faces the strange man down. She then cups her hands for a moment an lets lose a blast of Chi before she startst to rush at the man.
COMBATSYS: Angelo reflects Storm Burst from LaShey with Autumn Crocus.
-*- DEVASTATING HIT! -*-
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"Is that so?"
Angelo is interested in this girl; he'd seen some of what she can do, after all. As she finally unleashes some of her power, his interest is only piqued further. The blast of energy is strong, and he can respect that.
His hands come up, and as the energy meets him, he catches it. This time, his power is that same sickly-sweet brown that it was when he demonstrated it for show. The energy is caught, and there's a clash from which his power emerges triumphant.
The blast is sent rocketing backwards with incredible speed, a large X of shimmering brown force left for a moment in the air from the point of impact.
COMBATSYS: Angelo successfully hits LaShey with Reflected Storm Burst.
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Shey has seen psi powers, normal fighters who have pushed themselves till they can pull off feats from movies. She's not seen anyone do something quite like that. Bao had deflected her powers back at her but nothing like this. She's hit, it's ugly it's very ugly but she doesn't cry out she just gives the man a look and rushes in she's going for one thing it's simple, it's agressive and she's going to just move to punch the man in the face as hard as she can. No chi for the moment, she's prehaps thinking over her options at the moment. Which may not be many.
COMBATSYS: Angelo counters Meteor Fist Punch from LaShey with Bleeding Heart.
- Power hit! -
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Angelo steps forwards as Shey comes at him again. Her punch goes in for his head, and his hand comes forwards to hammer painfully into the girl's heart. All five fingers dig in deep, and twist. Struck at the instant between heartbeats, the muscle is disrupted; in non-fighters, this technique is instantly fatal. In fighters... well, even in them, it is a disgustingly low blow. It can steal the breath from lungs and bring almost anyone to their knees.
Angelo's voice is just as calm and composed as it had been when he first made himself known to the girl.
"You have some talent."
And then he steps backwards. "But you cannot go through life serving others simply because they are stronger than you. You must find some purpose. Without it, you will never advance, never move beyond ... *this*."
He flexes his fingers idly, making the leather creak and groan. "Do you understand what I am saying?"
Shey makes a very sickened noise she feels her heart freak out for a lack of a better word. She now can't breath the air is crushed out of her lungs. She wonders how many other people he's hunted down his style is clearly made to kill. He's toying with her that much is clear. She tries to struggle, bnut she knows if she panics.
"I wonder...howmany people...you hunted down...you scum."
She closes her eyes is she getting ready to die? Prehaps she starts to bleed chi a whole lot of chi, they even take on a shape, it's green tinted like the blasts from eariler but they take on the form of spears and there's over a dozen of them.
"GO TO HELL YOU SICK SON OF A BITCH! STORM LANCER!"
COMBATSYS: Angelo endures LaShey's Storm Lancer Barrage.
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"Oh, dozens."
Angelo sounds disinterested. But as the girl summons up her energy, he does finally perk. Now this is interesting. Rather than try to dodge or block, Angelo allows his hands to fall to his sides. The oncoming barrage is intense, but he simply focuses on staying close to the girl, refusing to fall back or retreat. When it is at last over, Angelo is still standing, though his hooded jacket has been ripped, torn and burned.
"Does it disgust you?"
In an instant, his hand lashes out to try and grab the girl by the throat, lift her up over his head, which remains bowed. Even if this doesn't work, though, he's going to continue his speech. It is, after all, what he was here to do.
"Do I terrify you, girl? Do you want to destroy me?"
His other hand, if he has her, will slam bodily into her gut. "If it does, then get strong to *stop* me. Because if you spend your life on your knees, you'll never have the strength to stand up when it is important."
COMBATSYS: LaShey parries Angelo's Combo Attack!
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Shey blinks as the man takes the entire barrage, and she's panting hard that took a lot out of her, but she's not down yet and may still have some more fight. She realises this guy is even more monsterous than she thought. "You not in a six by six foot cell does!" She then does something else, she moves like the wind evading every last attack rither by deflecting them out of the way or taking the hit, her right hand is charged with chi and she's going to rapidly punch him in the gut, trying to get in under his guard.
COMBATSYS: Angelo dodges LaShey's Tempest Punch EX.
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"Do you think there is a cell in this world that can hold me?"
Angelo sounds more amused than angry as he slides around the barrage of punches. "No. If you want to end me, girl, you will have to kill me. It is as simple as that."
And suddenly, he is on her. Both hands grip, and twin blades of shimmer red force spring into being, and with a twirling motion, he aims to bury them both in Shey's guts.
If they connect, the insidious nature of Angelo's energy makes itself horribly apparent. The energy continues to cut for several seconds after the initial strike.
COMBATSYS: LaShey dodges Angelo's Hemlock.
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Shey says, "You'd be suprised, and i'll not sink to your LEVEL! Trying to get me to kill you is just another form of control over me." She sees the two blades that come into existance and she then projects a burst of wind again intercepting the baldes and she's already moving once more. She seemns to not be intent to let up as she takes control of the wind again forming it into a cylinder of a tornado and seems to almost wield the wind like it's a part of her. It will cut at Angelo, rip and tear at his flesh if it can connect. Also you almos could swear you heard an eagle in the storm.
COMBATSYS: Angelo reflects Storm Tornado from LaShey with Foxglove.
- Power hit! -
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COMBATSYS: Angelo successfully hits LaShey with Reflected Storm Tornado.
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Angelo catches the tornado, and his hand burns white and strong. "You keep saying I will be surprised." He says, idly, as he rips upwards and takes the energy with him, forcibly tearing it away from the girl's control and replacing it with his own.
"Are you really so dense as to think that I do not know what I am dealing with?"
His voice is a low snarl as he throws the tornado back at the girl, his energy ripping and tearing along with her own, making the whole cylinder burn a bright, agonizing white.
Shey has no words for the man, she's still going to keep comming but her own powers rip into her body she's about done she can't take it anymore. She's just spent but still she launches one last chi charged punch and then just collapses her last thought, it's over for me...and Karin's going to be pissed.
COMBATSYS: LaShey has reached second wind!
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COMBATSYS: Angelo reflects Tempest Punch from LaShey with White Snakeroot.
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Angelo is being pretty merciless as the girl comes at him yet again. Both hands come down, still burning with that white energy that he had used to reflect her tornado.
The blow hammers into Shey's fist, and there is an explosion of power as the two collide, which sends the girl hurtling back into the ground again, and Angelo cracks his knuckles once more. "What a boorish child." He mutters to himself, as he tugs his hood back into place, and walks off into Southtown. "I suppose the world is full of them, these days.
COMBATSYS: LaShey takes no action.
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COMBATSYS: LaShey can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Angelo has ended the fight here.
Log created on 06:09:24 02/14/2012 by Angelo, and last modified on 09:50:53 02/14/2012.