Description: On orders from the Duke, Aranha hits the Southtown Harbor to take hold of some of Kain R. Heinlein's warehouses for the Good Cause. Unfortunately for Aranha, Shadaloo had the exact same ideas and now not only does he have warehouse security to deal with... he also has a date with a Doll...
It would start with little things. Keys missing here. Odds and ends missing there. But as the night wore on strange things started happening with more and more frequency. Injuries from 'accidents' caused by items placed in strange locations causing falls and occasionally desruction of property whether legal or not. Eventually way too many of these accidents were happening all at the same time causing suspicion.
The more superstitious of the workers in this particular warehouse started suspecting ghosts. Among the skeptics, there was the believe they've been infiltrated or they had an inside man. They split up and then one by one they disappear or come limping back to the group.
As for Aranha, he did his job. He crippled their ranks, and made them question each other's loyalty and weakened them enough that they are set up to fail in a defense of this particular warehouse.
When Aranha walks out of the warehouse he looks around. He doesn't think he was being followed... At least not by the people that he caused chaos for. Now he just has to ditch the stolen uniform.
The night was chill one, the dank, salty, sea breeze seemed to saturate the harbor with the repugnant smell of aquatic life. Or, at least, it was repugnant to /her/.
Squatting quietly in the shadows of a large brick fire place, a uniformed woman of asian appearance sat waiting with a rather aged chinese bo across her toned, muscular, legs. Dressed in a navy blue bodysuit with dark pantyhouse and boots of the same material as her suit, her amber eyes fell silently on the warehouse door as light began to flood from within.
She had been content to allow him to do all of the work up until now, staying out of his way until he had managed to dispatch the bulk of harbor security for this area. Whenever she /was/ spotted, she was quick to dispatch the sorry fool who had the misfortune to spot her. Despite her best attempts to disguise these attacks as the result of /his/ handiwork... she was not fully aware of whether he suspected interference yet.
But she had little choice. It was one of her prime directives: no one was allowed to see a Doll and live to tell about it. Thus, some had most certainly died.
As he departs the warehouse, however, she begins to move... springing like an agile cat who had found her prey. She would be attempting to take Lord Vega's dues this night... and he too might well be getting a visit from the grim reaper if he weren't strong enough - or crafty enough - to escape her claws...
Falling from the shadows overhead likea human arrow hitting a target, her soft boots touch the pavement outside the warehouse but make not a sound despite. She rises, sinuous as a snake, from her squat... not even barely measuring up to the length of that flexible bamboo Bo. Her back is to him the entire time, the neatly bound up mass of earthen hair tied into a chinese updo with dancing ribbons and silver earrings would be the first thing he would see, should he attempt to gaze upon her face...
..But then, she turns... eyeing him through an emotionless mask. "...How helpful of you to aid me in my efforts. I cannot let you leave here now, however, my employer has rather strict policies about that..." and with that said, she lifts the Bo... turning it deftly with only her right hand despite its length, and grasping the free end of it with her other hand before taking a stance. "...Once I have dispatched you, I shall take care of the other assets. Prepare yourself." Despite the softness, and youthful energy, inherent in her voice... her tone is as cold as a machine...
COMBATSYS: Jianyu has started a fight here.
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Jianyu 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Aranha has joined the fight here.
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Aranha 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Jianyu
When the Shadaloo doll drops down in front of him, he sighs, quite familiar with the uniform of the Shadaloo dolls. He's been a pain in Shadaloo's ass on more than one occasion. He hisses out with bitterness in his voice,"Fuck... my... life." His hands drop to his sides as he quickly eyes the area around him. The close by ships, dumpsters, lights and the shadows, all weapons in his arsenal. Then he lets his eyes fall upon the staff wielder. He takes in the length of her limbs and the staff, her posture and even the emotionless face. Especially the eyes.
Aranha gives no indication of falling into stance only a sudden burst of speed he dashes towards her and then veers off to leap towards a lamp post. He kicks off of the lamp post and redirects himself feet first right for her hand holding the rear end of the staff.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Jianyu with Sky's the Limit.
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Aranha 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Jianyu
The Doll of chinese descent simply waits, quietly, as the Syndicate mercenary curses his luck as so many who cross paths with a Doll do. Her expression does not change, however, and neither does her stance. She just waits with all the patience of a stone for his reactions. She could attack him, of course, but anyone familiar with Bo fighting would know /why/ she opts not to. Bos are inherently better for defense...
Unfortunately for her, the rather unorthodox and agile method he employs to attack her finds her at an angle she can not easily defend from. Her body is slowly turned, feet shifting silently upon the pavement, and her rear hand is raised to attempt to deflect the oncoming kick but...
...she fails to be swift enough to counter the wily Aranha. And so, the kick makes solid contact with the hand gripping te rear of her bo... and strikes the wrist with force sufficiently to nearly break it and make her drop her weapon...
Nearly.
Her gloved hand tightens, soft features wrenching as the hit impact sends a pain shooting through her left limb that makes her arm tremor. Yet, through sheer will power, she does not drop it. Instead, she shifts her stance once more and then thrusts the hand holding the fore of the Bo forward... attempting to jam the business end of that aged bamboo staff right into his throat!
COMBATSYS: Aranha blocks Jianyu's Throat Jab.
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Aranha 1/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Jianyu
The inherent defensiveness of the staff was the exact reason that Aranha had first of all gone on the offensive immediately with such an indirect attack and secondly had targeted that rear staff hand. He wanted to make it hard for her to manuever that staff around to turn aside his subsequent attacks. That wrist will be feeling that for a good while.
The doll doesn't give the Dancing Spider any opportunity to celebrate the blow delivered to her hand since the staff is heading right for him. He brings up a hand as he rocks away from catching the staff on the palm of his hand with a meaty slapping sound as he spins around in attempt to get back inside of her staff range. He then throws a couple outside crescent kicks that while he knows they won't land, serve the purpose of moving him in closer.
When he gets inside his ideal kick range that's when he attempts to shove her towards an alley with his foot.
COMBATSYS: Jianyu interrupts Medium Throw from Aranha with Cannon Spike.
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Aranha 1/-------/=======|=====--\-------\0 Jianyu
The throat jab is blocked, solidly, by a deft hand from the agile capoerista and she attempts to rectify the situation by jerking the end of it away as swiftly as possible. Despite her managing to do so, his agility and calculated maneuvering sees him dancing closer to her than she is comfortable having him. This is why she immediately begins a backward retreat, attempting to slow and match his footwork speed once she has accomplished a relatively safe deflection distance again.
From there, it's a matter of fending off those first two crescent kicks or swaying around them. Due to her avoidance measures, he closes the distance once more. But, she had calculated that the first two might be feints... she felt they were a bit lacking in the dangerous intentions real strikes tend to posses.
..And so, when the real attack comes... she is prepared. Switching her staff over to her right, non-injured, hand with a deft whirling of bamboo... she leaves the way open for him to attack her front side in full... and drops to the ground right as the kick sails in. Dropping to her right arm with body level to the ground, she deflects the incoming kick with that injured left... the force of which elicits a wince from her. But she does not stop there. Thrusting herself up off the ground, feet first, toward Aranha with only the strength of that surprisingly strong right... she shouts, fiercely, "CANNON SPIKE!" her legs becoming suffused with the violet flames of Psycho Power as she does so!
The capoeirista is hoisted by Psycho Powered kick as if was an explosive. His body spins wildly out of control before he hits the ground and sent into an uncontrolled roll away from her. He works himself back up to his feet, rolls his neck letting out a cracking noise. He glances around for a moment to check to see if the sounds of their fight(especially her shout of Cannon Spike) have drawn the attention of anyone else.
He then moves in fast. She's making too much noise and getting in the way of his ability to have plausible deniability. With a quiet growl he flips into the air with a twist in an attempt to use indirect movement to go inside her staff range and then goes into a handstand. From the handstand he delivers a series of snap kicks in an attempt to drive his feet into her head over and over again.
COMBATSYS: Aranha successfully hits Jianyu with Inverted Flurry.
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Aranha 1/----===/=======|=======\-------\1 Jianyu
Unlike Aranha, Jianyu seems not overly concerned for their stealth. Whether it is because she knows no one else is within earshot, or simply doesn't care is up for debate. Given her prior, coldly unconscionable, statement about dispatching him... it is likely she does not care. She is confident she would kill whoever stood in the way of her accomplishing Lord Vega's directives...
With that signature Doll maneuver having successfully made contact, Jianyu turns a backward flip in mid-air... seemingly defying gravity... and landing upon her feet again a meter or two away with a whirling of pigtails and ribbons. Her landing, once again, produces not a sound and she rights herself measuredly before returning to her prior waiting stance.
And she's like a stone once more, emotionless amber eyes watching him in the darkness like a cat eyeing its prey.
...And with his mid-air flip those eyes go skyward again... moonlight glinting off of them and illuminating her face as she shifts her feet beneath her in preparation for defensive maneuvers. She expects him to pull some manner of aerial kick, disregarding the obvious capoeira handstand maneuvers she's doubtlessly been trained to recognize. That was the only downside to being trained to deal with so many fighting arts, sometimes identifying tricks distinct to one art or the other eludes you.
And she pays for her mistake, by eating a kick to the bottom of her jaw, followed by several more to the side of it as she attempts to turn her head away from the assault..
And it sends her staggering back with a massive headache, several reddened areas across her face from impacts, and an injured jaw. She does not recover from it immedately, either, shaking her head lightly and grasping at the side of it with her Bo held unready in her injured left. The injuries were stacking up, if she did not dispatch him soon... she would have to answer to Vega for her failure. And that was simply /not/ an option. ... Training her amber eyes upon him again, she darts forward before giving her staff a toss into the air with her left as she closes in. She then leaps, performing yet another gravity-defying spinning kick infused with Psycho Power. This one intended to take out his right leg! "Spiral Arrow!"
COMBATSYS: Aranha interrupts Spiral Arrow from Jianyu with Dead Man's Hand.
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Aranha 1/--=====/=======|=======\=====--\1 Jianyu
Aranha's movement goes from high to low and with him going low it allowed him to draw attention low which enabled him to land the attacks high. As she staggers backwards Aranha continues to march closer and closer upside down keeping close to the Shadaloo Doll. Keeping her from getting enough distance to use the staff effectively.
She leaps and that's when Aranha tilts out of the handstand bringing himself into an upright position. Where his legs once were, his torso now is located and the Psycho Power boosted kick plows into his side just as he swings a blue chi engulfed open handed swat from hell right into her back redirecting her flight path. That smack is then followed up with a powerful slamming into her as he tries to redirect her towards that alley between warehouses he had attempted to move her towards earlier in the fight.
Aranha was quickly proving to be just too unorthodox an opponent for this lesser Shadaloo Doll to handle. The chinese assassin is caught completely off-guard as he not only manages to redirect her attempt at taking out his foundation, by moving his sturdier body in the way, but also manages to strike her in the small of her back with an injuresome chi strike. The body check that follows sends the Doll whirling helplessly into the alley and skidding across the paved alleyway floor. The fall sees scratches, cuts, and even wounds opening up in places as well uniform fabic and pantyhose being torn open.
A quiet, pained, groan escapes her as she tries to push herself up off the ground with two injured and aching arms. Her Bo has long since been lost, clattering to the ground outside where she had intended to retrieve it from. Pained, amber, eyes track upwards, the young girl staring at the capoerista for a moment before moving again...
..But lest he should forget that she is, in fact, a killer... she leaps to a squat again and resumes the prior dangerously cold stare of a predatory cat. The momentary shift of innocent, injured, girl to deadly assassin in her demeanor happens near-instantly, as though a demon had come to re-take her soul. She leaps toward him, for her possibly last act of defiance, before dropping to her right, less-injured, hand and spiking her feet up into the air in an attempt to lash out at him with several Psycho Powered kicks. Should these make contact, she'll then leap to her feet and continue her assault of Psycho Powered fury by attempting to batter him into and against the alleyway wall with two more. She'll then finally follow it up with one last leaping, roundhouse kick aimed for his neck before dropping to the ground and attempting to sweep his support right out!
COMBATSYS: Jianyu successfully hits Aranha with Frenetic Flurry.
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Aranha 2/<<<<<<</<<<<<<<|-------\-------\0 Jianyu
No Aranha does /not/ forget that she is an assassin. He has had way too many dealings with Shadaloo dolls nor has he forgotten the thrashings he has been handed both by Cammy and by Marz. His problem however is that she is coming too damn fast for him to react to.
The poor capoeirista gets booted around like a soccer ball before being smashed into the wall and then hammered by the kick before he stumbles further into the alley clutching his throat.
The alley doesn't get much light. Aranha's form fades into the dark and for a few moments there is silence. Nothing but the sounds of ocean can be heard. There is no warning when Aranha finally reveals himself. If Xianyu is aware enough, she might catch sight of a foot coming in from the corner of her eye.
COMBATSYS: Jianyu interrupts Face Down EX from Aranha with Quick Throw.
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COMBATSYS: Jianyu can no longer fight.
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The angle is odd since he's coming in from behind her. He swings the force of his entire body through her as he attempts to slam his foot into her skull. He then follows up by switching feet as he performs a spinning hop as he swings a spinning back heel kick around and hooking it with the intent to pull her face first into the ground. Not everything goes as planned.
Jianyu remains squatted for a few moments after finishing her combination of attacks, eyeing the capoerista's backside as he staggers into the darkness. It's a dangerous thing, losing sight of an opponent - for an ordinary fighter. The eyes were an important tool, if not the most important for most. Yet, Jianyu has other senses available to her that surpass those of ordinary fighters. A dark gift granted in exchange for a soul... her own.
That is why, when the capoerista leaps out of the shadows at her, she's already attempting to turn her amber eyes in his direction with a turning of her lithe frame. The first kick is entirely too fast for her to muster a defense against, slamming into her skull and setting her head ringing with a white hot flash of pain. The blow throws her off-balance, causing her to roll to the side in a semi-lucid daze. Before the spinning back heel can connect, however, she lashes out at the leg - grasping it firmly - before using all of the psionic power she has left in her to attempt to swing him instead back first into a nearby alleyway wall.
After that tremendously draining effort, her brain gives in and shuts down... the girl's face twisting in pain momentarily before she loses consciousness on the concrete pavement in the stillness of the shadows...
Aranha is swung into the wall letting out a pained hiss upon impact and he looks down drawing parallels between that moment that ended creating a rift between himself and his Mestre. He got the job done, he almost is home free and someone with the same exact goal ends up getting in the way. He still gets away leaving the person who ruined it for him behind. And here he is doing this again.
Feelings of self loathing hit him and he manages to swallow them back. He still has one final thing left to do. In his state of injury and fatigue it's struggle but he manages to drag the assassin to the nearest dumpster, lifts the lid and hurls her into the dumpster. A particularly horrible smelling one. Then shuts the lid and turns to the dumpster one last time. "Good riddance to bad rubbish."
He then slowly makes his way out of the alley keeping only to the shadows. He can't afford to be waylaid once more. His sister is depending on him.
COMBATSYS: Aranha has ended the fight here.
Log created on 21:11:45 06/30/2013 by Jianyu, and last modified on 15:32:19 07/01/2013.