Description: Mister Jones is /such/ a cool guy, that he finds time to hit the clubs even if there's a war going on. After soundingly beating some Shadaloser butt, Jones takes the opportunity to visit the Duck Pond while he's in Japan to work on his moves. Imagine his surprise when he finds much more than that. Bullets, bombs, fists, claws, swords, it doesn't matter /nothing/ seems to get through Jonesy's groove. But this Capoerista girl just might, oh, she just might indeed.
With Japan momentarily safe from the forces of evil, Mister Johnny Jones decides to take a short break from dislocating bad guys' jaws and punching psychotic pretty boys in the face to concentrate on his other hobbies. He has been neglecting dancing a whole lot late, can't do much of it when out there fighting a war, but even then he still finds the time to break away from his duties and find something fun to do! He can't be all super serious super hero all the time, that just ain't him.
Once he had been sufficiently recuperated from getting eviscerated from Balrog's claw, Johnny Jones staggers to check up how his old stomping ground is doing, namely the Duck Pond. He doubts Duck King is participating in the war effort, the dude has a good heart and definitely has good intentions, but he's too much of a free spirit, even more than Johnny Jones. He is however, an insanely skilled fighter meaning that even if the Duck Pond is just a dance club, it's probably the safest place to be in Japan while the invasion occurs.
He finds that just as he though, the Duck Pond is alive and well even holding a party celebrating Japan's recent victory against Shadaloo. Even if he walks in limping, Jones has a big ol' grin in his face when he is greeted by the flashing lights of disco balls and loud music. "Yo! Duck! What's going on brudda man!?" The super hero movie star greets his fellow dance fighter as the two exchange high fives. Much to his surprise though, Jones is not given the hero reception he expected, instead seeing that there's a big crowd gathering around in the dance floor cheering about something.
"Now..what's going on this time Duck?" His eyes narrow, drawing a nervous smile from his break dancer friend "Um, there's this really kickass capoeira chick..and--"
"ANOTHER ONE!!?" Jones shades /flare/ with anger, he knows this scenario well after what happened with..oh.. Momoko, Pupa and Aranha, it seems that every capoerista ever sole purpose is to try and steal his thunder. Jones pushes past Duck heading directly for the crowd, rolling his sleeves. "Ain't nobody gonna steal Mista' Jones' spot light again. Ain't nobody!"
Elena whips her lower body around, alternating arms to support her as she spins on the dance floor, the crowd is having and hands and feet clap and stamp along to the beat of the music and her dance. Sweeping her entire body up into a handstand she holds her body upright and aloft with legs spread wise and just one arm in a display of strength. Hoots and appreciative whistles from the crowd, Her anklets rattle a little and shift on her leg with the effort of holding the pose and balance and dropping one leg back at a time she lets that momentum level her body back upright as her other leg reaches the ground.
Clapping along with the beat she bounds away, a light skip and is smiling broadly a scruffy looking kid steps out of the crowd to demonstrate a pretty impressive looking 'robot', Elena claps and along with the crowd, it's been like this most of the time she has been here, everybody is getting into the spirit, showing what they can go and urging each other on. Sweat is beading on her brow and she takes a moment to wipe her forehead, her head turning toward the new face making his way into the crowd.
He moves well. Another dancer? The teen dancing centre stage executes a robotic bow and backs up into the crowd where people slap at his back and joke with him about his performance. In a few quick strides Elena leans through the crowd to take the new strangers hand, a bright smile and gently pulling she tries to bring him out of the crowd. Her grip is light and coaxing but still has some real muscle behind it.
"I want to see your moves."
Its a good energy and real enthusiasm, he doesn't appear to be an amateur but the move is bold and sweet. She does indeed want to see his moves but also to include him in the fun. Things were far from perfect in the world at present; it made having a little fun even more important.
Johnny Jones need not muscle his way through the crowd being a staple figure in these here parts. He didn't need to save the world to be recognized at the Duck Pond seeing as how everyone knows tha' Jones and how he works that funky music. It actually may be a little disconcerting for Elena, since the crowd parts like the quintessential red sea giving way to a tall man on a bright yellow jump suit. Elena might see that this fellow is a very distinguished character judging by the looks people give him, but Elena, being Elena, couldn't care less about someone's reputation and reaches right for Jones to grasp his hand gingerly.
Jones' blood, or at least the one that wasn't spilled by Balrog just yesterday, rushes directly to his face when Elena shakes his hand vigorously and for the first time ever the Groovy jive talker is left completely speechless.
"Ah...." Jones' mouth opens as if he were trying to say something, but nothing but a few grunts come out. His shades even go askew totally breaking his groove and just /stares/ unable to move, unable to talk..is he even breathing? "Gah..."
"Hello? Earth to Jones?" Duck King slides next to the two and starts waving his hand over the groove master's face trying, to no avail, to break him off his trance. He's completely hypnotized! Maybe Elena knows vodoo too? "Yo!!" Duck just ends up jabbing him on the side and that /finally/ manages to snap him out of his trance, shifting in his spot and straightening out his shades. What just happened?? He even reaches for his nose to check he's not bleeding from there.
"M-my moves? Aah uh..heheh" Jones completely went from being the coolest dude ever to an awkward nervous wreck. Get it together Jones! Still unable to comprehend what just happened to him and realizing that he's been holding to Elena's hand /this whole time/ Johnny pulls back and clears his throat assuming an overly cheesy disco pose.
"Sure babe! I'm always looking for new dance partners!" He spins on his own axis, finally managing to compose himself and makes another flashy pose, body tilted slightly sideways whilst his arms are crossed, shades reflecting the disco ball light. "I do make it a habit of knowing the name of my partner. I'm Johnny Jones! And who would you be...?" He doesn't think she's seen the tomboyish girl before. He would recognize that face for sure!
Still expectantly looking on; Elena focuses on Mr Jones looking him right in the eye though all she can make out is the reflection of herself looking right back. A faintly questioning aside look to Duck King whos return signal she cannot decipher, was that amusement? She does stop insistently pulling as hard when the tall man freezes and instead ups the wattage on her smile in an encouraging manner. As he pulls his hand back she skips backwards a step, unsure he will indeed join in but gratified he seems to be she resumes clapping alongside the crowd, there is some real enthusiasm in the room the noise of all the people enough to drawn out much of the music itself. But not the beat, not the rhythm Elena is dancing to.
"A pleasure to meet you Johnny Jones, I am Elena."
Her accent is unusual but sweet and clear, though her voice is almost lost in the roar of approval as Jones strikes a pose. Elena's smile blossoms into a gentle laugh and applause though her foot taps out a beat separate from that. She can't help but adopt a gentle swaying back and forth motion while watching like she might just be about to join in, is his groove catching?
"You DO have /some/ moves!"
Alot of the people here knew a few styles and dance moves but she had yret to see anyone her she could say she thought Lived their style. Up until now, Elena cheers him on as hard as anyone else in the room.
He hasn't even begin to dance yet and Jones is already feeling winded. To his credit that /may/ be because of the Spanish claw he took to the gut a day ago, the wound has not yet healed and there's just a tiny hint of a bandage under his not fully zipped up yelling jump suit. Of course, Mister Jones is far too groovy to let a measly iron claw to the liver affect his rhythm. Others would take the day off to try and recuperate, Jones? Shoo, he hits the clubs! And he's glad he did too! Otherwise he would not have met this groovy Nubian princess that turned all his disco lights.
"Elena.." Mister Jones repeats the name as if to savor it, his lips spreading into a wide wiiiide grin, the groove masters' eyes shining from under his flashy shades. The crowd doesn't know what to make out of this reaction. As far as they know, Mister Jones' reaction to any dance fighter that shows up at the Duck Pond is to either totally humiliate them on a dance off, or just flat out punch them, he's a groovy guy, but not when it comes to defending what he considers his territory. Why then is he acting all buddy buddy with Elena? Sure, he just challenged her to a dance off, but he's acting much too friendly to a rival dancer who isn't Duck King.
"Oh you gotta be kidding me." Duck sighs as he recognizes all the signs. The goofy grin, the dumb look on his eyes, the way he swags ever since he put his eyes on her.
Home boy has a crush.
"Alright!!" Johnny Jones raises his hand up dramatically up to the air, snapping his fingers to deem the lights and turn on the disco ball, ready to get this party started. "I've seen many Capoeristas in my time here Miss Elena." Doth says the Groove Master, making a dexterous back flip to give the other dancer some room, the crowd spreading out to form a circle between the two. "But I have a feeling you're gonna be special."
Mister Jones sways to the beat of the music, his head bobbing and foot tapping letting the rhythm of the song guide his movements.
"Let's boogie!"
COMBATSYS: MrJones has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Elena has joined the fight here.
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Stepping out at the same point the crowds sweep away to give the pair room Elena accepts the challenge. Arms swings back and forth she stops clapping and transfers more momentum into her hips, swinging them back and forth as she left and right sways occasionally turning her body and alternating between rotating hips and swaying her body with her arms constantly moving to the rhythm the style strong reminiscent of the rumba but is Soukous; Native to her homeland.
Elena sweeps her fringe with a pass of her arm, combing away a loose tendril of hair form her eyes and face. Johnny Jones was seemingly more than just pretty good but she wasn't one to back down from a challenge just because it was hard; this just made it more fun as much attention as she can pay his moves she focuses on her own, she's already pretty warmed up but the rhythm of her dance is a gentle thing she is beginning to build upon.
COMBATSYS: MrJones interrupts Body Slam from Elena with Slide Double.
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Elena 0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0 MrJones
Elena will be unfortunately up for a rude awakening if she thinks a gentle beat and swaying of her body will be enough to cater to the needs of the crowd. Those that frequent the Duck Pool are used to faced paced bouts of extreme dexterity as participants of the dance present their full acrobatic powers. The rumba is aesthetically pleasing but it lacks the flair, the flashiness necessary to win.
In what can be considered a 'douche' move, Jones decides to let Elena know what is the crowd looking for exactly. As she begins to sway to the beat with elegant traditional moves, Mister Jones jumps into the stage not waiting for his turn and lands on his hands making rapid spins with his legs extended imitating helicopter blades. The amazing hand spin flows transitions to a back spin where he just lays on his back curled into a ball coming to a full stop right at Elena's feet, head resting lazily on his hand giving her a smug grin. As stated before, it's a douche move, but it's obvious Jones is not trying to impress the crowd with this movement.
"You're good!" Grins he as he rolls backwards landing on his feet, dance moves and Jeet Kune Do martial arts merged into a single crazy style.
"Show me more!"
Watching Jones exhibition of skill she gets a clue for what is really going on, this isn't just an exhibition of dance moves like it had been there is much deeper meaning and power to the man's moves. That large afro and speeds dance moves, it would take some real skill just to avoid flattening it out with such a daring spinning manoeuvre. If anything she feels like she should applaud the technique but as opponent only offers a definite head nod conveying the fact she had indeed received a message form the flashy movement.
Now that had showed her up, Elenas performance shifts up into the next gear with even more energy and increase's the speed of her footwork and adding twisting her body and wider steps to her exhibition of prowess, her rhythm changed and a little faster than before but focused more on building her momentum now. Jones was seemingly formidable an opponent, her counter to his moves terminates with a leaping back somersault that whips her head down past where his is lying and looking right at him in midst spin.
"Thanks"
That head whipped by so fast but it was easy to see her grin as close as Jones was and the crowds gives her a cheer, this was just getting started.
COMBATSYS: MrJones blocks Elena's Scratch Wheel.
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Elena 0/-------/-----==|===----\-------\0 MrJones
Now that's more like it! The crowd had certainly been impressed by Jones flashy performance, as they always are really, but it is Elena's energetic response what really draws cheers and applause from them. The Capoiera princess had been one upping all the regular dancers there and they were eager to see what could Elena do against Mister Johnny Jones Damon.
Naturally, they are not disappointed. Jones responds to the fancy footwork with a cheesy grin, he recognizes the movements done by Elena as Capoiera, but there's something different there, it's a lot more graceful focusing more in dexterity than strong strikes like the Capoeristas he has seen. "Not bad Miss."
Mister Jones decides to play Elena's game for now and stick to footwork rather than power moves. Spinning on his heel like a top, the Groove Master re-enters the stage by taking his regular disco stance, his limbs moving so fast they sound like whips. His moves are a sharp contrast from those of Elena, Jones speak of flashy lights, crazy music and industrialism whilst Elena is more traditional, tribal even, civilization versus wilderness. "Now yours is not regular Brazilian Capoiera from what I see." Jones speaks never missing a beat, he can usually jive talk even whilst fighting skilled opponents, so having a normal conversation in mid dance off is no problem from here. "And that groovy accent you got ain't South American either. Where are you from babe?"
Mister Jones begins to speed up his foot work, arms moving in unison with his feet moving from side to side ala MC Hammer to end with a leg split followed by a double piston like punch. Dancing and Fighting are one and the same for Jones, he gleefully mixes in his martial arts with dance moves and this is what makes him so popular with the crowd.
COMBATSYS: Elena blocks MrJones' Gaudy Punch.
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Slowly swaying back and forth while she watches the tail end of Jones's performance the tall African Princess is beginning to feel that sense of fatigue coming over her even if the spirits are soaring. Bright blue eyes analyse regard Jones style as admirable and beautiful in its own way, she actually never seen anything like those moves before. The crowd is definitely leaning more in Jones favour now, in fact so is Elena but that just challenges her to try even harder.
%f"Africa is my homeland."
Dropping to her hand and knees and holding her body weight with her arms she switches it all to a single arm and sweeps her legs out and around whirling her legs around ina constant scything and circling loop like she was breakdancing. Spinning she suddenly drops onto her buttocks and completes another half revolution to drop into a similar stance to one Jones had used earier, cheek resting on her palm and elbow supporting her head while she lies on the floor, one leg crooked and seeming casual. By way of reply she curiously asks in return.
"But my heart belongs to many places. Has japan claimed a piece of your heart as well?"
This club, in this place. The crowd of people cheering them on and the world outside these walls. A person is can call the place where they were born and where their home and belonging are home, but it is more important where you choose to leave your heart. Meaningful places.
COMBATSYS: Elena successfully hits MrJones with Lynx Tail.
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Mister Jones may have the home advantage because frequents the Duck Pond all the time, but he knows that he will have to work hard to win this dance off. In Elena he can see something that he had never seen in anyone else; and that is no easy feat to accomplish as Jones has traveled far and wide meeting people from all sorts, to say that he sees something Elena that can't be found anywhere else is not to be taking lightly. He sees in her gentleness mixed with strength, a joy of life with the will to defend it if she must. Even though his experienced eyes saw that right away, it took the crowd a bit longer, though once they do they of course begin to cheer and clamor for Elena slowly shifting the scales in her favor.
"Oh..my heart's been claimed alright.." Jones crosses his arms and just sighs almost dreamingly, lost in his own thoughts.
"Jones...Jonesy.. AYYO MJ!!" Duck once again finds it his duty to snap Jonesy out of his love struck trance by smacking him repeatedly on his back. The Groove Master comes to full attention remembering suddenly where he is and shaking his head, his ears hearing the music once more. This dance ain't over.
"That's pretty funky babe! But lemme show ya how brothas do it in America!" Flared once Elena copied his own move, Mister Jones leaps into action with a forward somersault landing on a leg split. He's pulling all stops now fo' real! Kicking his feet sideways, he uses the momentum of his legs to propel himself to his hand where he continues to spin wildly to then transition to his head. There he crosses his arms, even while upside down, balancing himself entirely on his skull while he spins rapidly, legs extended making it look almost casual. Somehow, he stops abruptly even if he isn't using any hands and pushes himself up in the sky, twirling in mid air too, before landing on his feet. Arms still crossed!
Dude is a pro.
COMBATSYS: Elena dodges MrJones' Retro Knuckle.
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Smoothly rising Elena shifts form foot to foot a little uneasily as Jones has suddenly stopped dancing, was it something she said? Maybe she had said something unnecessary or hurtful just now and she waves her hands back and forth in front of her just a little agitated.
%"It's alright! You don't have to answer."She stepping from side to side alternating steps forward and back the limber Kenyan smiles a little uneasily midst her ginga and maintains her momentum. Draaats, she shouldn't have been so familiar. People in japan were so reserved and she hadn't really been particularly sensitive with that last question.
The proprietor of the establishment walks in to rouse the stricken man and she shoots him a very grateful look while increasing her own momentum and and doing a couple of twirls keeping the crows attention, she does feel relieved when Johnny Jones begins to recover his composure, it wouldn't be right to stop just let, they hadn't decided for themselves who had the best dance! Her head cocks to the side and he leaps back into action, America he had said, she wonders wheter he is a professional dancer or fighter form that country but quickly quashes though thoughts, he mind loves to rush onwards and tangent but she must stay in the moment to give her best effort and finest dance. Jones dance is smooth and what was that word, kind of Funky as he steamrolls right back into his grove, but Elena had never stopped letting hers flow, shes got an advantage going.
"That is very wonderful, in my homeland, it goes more like this."
By way of example Elena explodes into action, every time her food touches the ground she is spinning or somersaulting, her momentum even while spinning her in place gently keeps rotating affording the crowd a view of her style.
COMBATSYS: MrJones blocks Elena's Brave Dance.
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It's not you baby! It's me! Or at least that's what Mister Jones wants to say when Elena starts to wave her hands like that. Tha' Jones currently has his back turned to her making him look all brooding and ungroove like, but he's actually doing that to hide his deeply embarrassed face. Every movement that Elena makes just hits him the right way to throw him off balance, all his groove is outta whack and it's showing in his performance.
In this case, the head spin maneuver wasn't as fantastic as it could have been due to one problem he failed to consider because he was too busy thinking about the Kenyan princess. His afro got all messed up!
"Oh shi--" A faithful fan shows Mister Jones a mirror with his flattened curls and he quickly takes a comb out to poof it out back to it's normal natural shape.
It's this casual movement that draws him the support of the crowd as he turns around to face Elena's spirited dance. Just in time to witness all those graceful movements that make him quiver.
She's good..
She's really good.
As means to let her know that she didn't offended him none and to get back to the dancing. Jonesy sliiiides his way back to the stage just as Elena is finishing her movement to grasp her by the hand and twirl her around her heel like a ballerina. Nothing in a dance off says that you can't use your opponent to enhance your own moves, plus in a way it makes them both look good.
"Well well!" Mister Jones grins as he sets Elena back after her spin, dipping her to curve her body backwards almost as if they were dancing tango. "Maybe we could learn from each other's cultures!"
COMBATSYS: Elena blocks MrJones' Aggressive Strike.
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The exuberance has a price, Elana is definitely beginning to tire, she could really use a drink, threads of her silver hair plaster to her forehead where the first droplets of sweat capture the stray threads of her bob as it lashes about with her spins. Her smiles is back now she's playing for the crowd and relived Johnny seems to be right back into the swing of things, the crowd is going ballistic for both dance fighters and this is an experience Elena will always hold dear as a REALLY fun time.
As Jones sweeps in and takes her hand she can't help but look startled as her gently guides her into a spin and pirouette, not quite the ballet one as intended Elena does keep up with some quick foot work. This was a new move, she'd danced with plenty of people but never like this, it's a far cry form the usual dance battle. Perhaps how things were done here now, last time she was in japan she was younger and hadn't seen this side of japan.
Elena does her best to keep up with Jones but clearly has no experience with the tango, she recalls having seen it before, perhaps this was a new level to battle on. If anything, she suffers her first moment of indecision in the dance battle before opting to follow his lead through a few steps before dipping him the same way he had done for her. The heights are comparable and then she reverses the pirouette form having seen Jones do it to her.
"Mhm!I think I would enjoy that very much."
A bright smile and the girl positively glows, but shes not losing focus. Dance Elena, Dance like you want to win!
COMBATSYS: MrJones blocks Elena's Medium Throw.
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Elena 0/-------/----===|=======\==-----\1 MrJones
Well that's rather unexpected, Jonesy assumed that because Elena is a prodigious dancer she would surely be able to handle a few Tango dance steps. Nothing too fancy, all she needs to do is go with the flow! Yet, it would appear that Elena is only proficient in her own style of dancing. How strange, it complicates a few things with the maneuver since she gets all stiff suddenly. It doesn't impress the crowd as much as he hoped, but he is certainly..intrigued by it.
She's so cute he can barely stand it!
"Whoa mamma!" The counter dance move is certainly not something he expected either. If Elena wasn't proficient with ball room dancing then logic states she wouldn't be trying to use that against Jones. But her spirit surprises him by attempting the same maneuver, drawing even bigger admiration from Jonesy if that were even possible.
She's cute and smart!
Even if he's feeling quite exhausted now, the rhythm of the wild dance keeps him in the game. Since he does indeed nose Tango, the retro dancer twirls along with Elena resting his back on her before she tries to dip him. As she goes for this technique however, he smiles, he has a surprise for her~
"WHOHAA!" The dance fighter flips backwards and lands on his hands, legs kicking up and down staying with the flow of the music. The dreaded bicycle kick turned into a dance move.
"ATATATATATA!"
COMBATSYS: MrJones successfully hits Elena with Bicycle Kick.
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"Your style is very enjoyable to watch, you must have worked hard to perfect it."
Elena leaps into the hair fingers spreading to touch her toes with the splits kick but as she descends she lands on and absorbs the impact with her hands, standing and swinging her heels down to rain blows down in the same tempo as Jones upward strikes. Holing her body aloft like this isn't too difficult, it took some effort to learn how to do it without straining too much and her balance and artfully arranged limbs aim for a real niche style bonus with the crowd. The coloured anklets and bared skin of her legs attract a portion of the crowd but Elena is more focused on her form and grinning the whole time."
Foot swinging back and toes planting to begin the ginga again Elena has to will herself to keep going instead of stopping to applaud that dance move, applause and cheering greet Jones's showy display of skill and Elena actually is grateful for the reprieve; in the time it takes to die off and attention to turn back to her she's finally getting going again. That was a good trick he had played on her like that, If she had known about that rule maybe she could have gotten him first!
"Your style is very enjoyable to watch, you must have worked hard to perfect it."
Elena leaps into the hair fingers spreading to touch her toes with the splits kick but as she descends she lands on and absorbs the impact with her hands, standing and swinging her heels down to rain blows down in the same tempo as Jones upward strikes. Holing her body aloft like this isn't too difficult, it took some effort to learn how to do it without straining too much and her balance and artfully arranged limbs aim for a real niche style bonus with the crowd. The coloured anklets and bared skin of her legs attract a portion of the crowd but Elena is more focused on her form and grinning the whole time.
COMBATSYS: MrJones endures Elena's Kick Combo.
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The respect is very mutual! No sooner had Jones flipped himself back to his feet, the retro fighter just /has/ to take a step back and stand in awe at Elena's performance when she keeps the rhythm up and takes to the air. He may be trying to out dance her but he wants to see her perform too dang it! He wouldn't miss a spectacle like that for the world! "Dayum..."
Jones' shades flash as Elena's figure goes up to shadow the lights of the disco ball, but in that moment he gets a certain knowing smile indicating he has another plan under his funky yellow sleeves. "I reckon I've trained as much as you babe!" Cheers the groove master as he too takes to skies, passing right across Elena to copy her exact same movement, feet upwards with his hands touching his toes as he makes an acrobatic backwards flip and lands on his hands too. Showing off perfect synchronization with Elena even if it's the first time the two meet.
"WOOAATAA!"
Of course there's certain 'key' differences between their styles.
COMBATSYS: MrJones successfully hits Elena with Way of the Groove Master.
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"You have good form."
It's true they even had similar lights and the same long limbs, it was not entirely unexpected but she is gratified to see it. It's a proof she really is up against someone of really high skill and proficiency. It's not over yet! Throwing her arms back into a furious somersault and leg strike repeating in over and over before launching herself into the air with that same overhead rising kick and gently dropping lightly to the ground in a three point crouch, sweat freely beads on her brow now and she can feel the fatigue weighing her down."
The most sincere form of flattery. Elena is impressed even if she is breathing hard, Jones seems to be still perfectly in form. She is chagrined, back home some of the older men could run three times further and work for hours longer, 'the advantage of youth' they used to joke was in its quick recovery and vigour. But a body honed to perfection had no need to rest as often. As a child she had even used to be carried by those same tireless men, she still has a long way to go.
"You have good form."
It's true they even had similar lights and the same long limbs, it was not entirely unexpected but she is gratified to see it. It's a proof she really is up against someone of really high skill and proficiency. It's not over yet! Throwing her arms back into a furious somersault and leg strike repeating in over and over before launching herself into the air with that same overhead rising kick and gently dropping lightly to the ground in a three point crouch, sweat freely beads on her brow now and she can feel the fatigue weighing her down.
COMBATSYS: Elena can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: MrJones blocks Elena's Spinning Beat.
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Ain't never too old to get down with the groove, is what Mister Johnny Jones always says. Elena may not realize it since he's so spunky and full of life but Jonesy is probably older than her and even though he's showing clear signs of fatigue it doesn't look like he's slowing down any time soon, the Groove Master just dances and dances and dances, like a man possessed. Possessed by the Funk that is!
"Woo! Yeah!! Work it baby!" As he always does in any dance, Jones enjoys himself greatly, yet this one in particular holds a special significance to him, it's not every day that he gets to dance with such a groovy lady. "'M still working on it." Responds the Groove Master once Elena finishes her own performance and the music comes to a stop signaling the end of the dance off. The crowd bursting with applause and cheers. When it comes to dancing at the Duck Pond everyone is a winner as far as Jonesy is concerned and he gingerly goes over to grasp Elena's hand to help her up.
"That was amazing."
"WORD! It was totally badass!" Duck King suddenly slams against the dancers adding to the hype of the crowd causing Jones to chuckle somewhat nervously as he nods.
"It was very enjoyable actually, we should...um...definitely dance again ma'am." It looks like he wants to say something else too judging by his expression, but can't quite spit it out. Probably wanting to see what Elena has to say too.
The crowd is applauding and happy, and they are the complete focus of attention, It was a good match and Elena did indeed give it her all. A Feat that left her with no regrets in walking away and lets her recognise her opponents true skill over and above her own. She had never seen the like of those moves before in her travel, the are uniquely 'Johnny Jones.' Helped back to her feet breathes out a relaxed sigh and graciously accepts the help back to her feet. Acknowledging the win she conversationally remarks 'I lost" In Japanese she stands in front of him and after a second begins to shake his hand after wondering why they were still holding hands.
"It is always better to dance with friends and someone from who you can learn much, it would be my pleasure to dance with you another time."
The girls seems to have absolutely no concern with having both Duck and Jones so close or in fact both touching her, appearing like old friends rather than people who have just met. Depite the sheen of sweat Elena is plenty overwarm form all that exercise and could really go for a drink of water or something.
"I could use a drink, would either of you want one. Loser Pays!"
She feels she owes them both something for the fun, both as the owner of the club where she had this fun and the opponent who defeated her. That carefree and friendly attitude which bears no grudge;that reaches out to people.
"I think we could all use one after all that dancing."
Even Duck King.
Why it breaks Jonesy's groovy heart to see Elena's disheartened face and say those words. Didn't he already say it? Everyone is a winner here at Tha' Pond! Except if you get totally thrashed at a fight..kinda hard not to be a loser when laying on a pool of your own blood as some had such misfortunes when facing Johnny in their SNF matches.
But that ain't the case tonight. Tonight, they all party! "Ohoho aaalright!" Jones obviously gets the wrong meaning when Elena says they should all get drinks and starts to rub his palms in expectation. This suddenly got a lot more fiesty than he was expecting! Except of course that, Duck, being just a little bit more savvy on these affairs and having the advantage of not being totally blinded by Elena's good looks and charms as Jones is manages to get her real meaning.
"She's probably just talking about water, dawg."
" Aw nuts!"
As the trio of dancers prepare to make the trek to the bar however, it is revealed that Jones still has something left to say. Elena's words seemingly gave him enough courage to go through with his plan, but not quite enough to pull it off. It takes one look at Duck excitable face as he frantically gives him the thumbs up to get his groove back.
"DoitDoitDoitDoitDoit!"
"So!!" Mister Jones manages to grab Duck by the face to shut him up and fling him to one side before he ruins everything to concentrate on the tall Capoerista. "In that case, how about taking this." Jones flicks out a card from his breast pocket, quickly signing it for Elena to give it that extra 'oomph' to the card with all his numbers and contact info. "Feel free to call me any time ya wanna dance babe."
Shades: Lifted
Wink: On
Oooh yeah, Johnny Jones still has it.
Log created on 13:06:15 03/04/2012 by MrJones, and last modified on 21:45:49 03/04/2012.