Description: It's a graveyard. It's three fighters--each thinking they see zombies--or at least, initially. It ends with one standing atop the rubble of the world!! (Kinda.) (Winner: Lili)
Sometimes, people need to not take things so literally.
Because when one hears 'Graveyard Shift', they usually don't expect it to literally mean working at a graveyard. And yet here they were, SNF's curious sense of humor sending their scheduled fighters into what seems like your standard graveyard. Plenty of headstones and tombstones, with the occasional large crypt looming in the dark twilight. And if it wasn't bad enough, those fighters were tasked with a strange charge: to make sure the dead weren't rising from the graves, like the apocaplypse of old. It was strange for sure. Even with cameras around to capture them and give them some weird assurance that they weren't alone in the graveyard, it was still quite the spooky atmosphere.
At least it was for a certain Brett Neuer, the hockey fighter fiddling with his stick, a thickly gloved finger fiddling along one of the corners of his favored weapon. Sitting on a relatively stable-looking tombstone, the Minnesotan boy looked around warily, the overcast moon making him uneasy. Then again, it wasn't the dead he was worried about, so much as the living things that go bump in the night. "Ma always said bad things came out at night around places like this..." he muttered, worried more about crooks and wolves than anything else...
"Th' hell..." Senna sounds grouchy. That could be attributed to the fact that they're -in- a graveyard, but for those who know her--or know of her--it could easily also just be attributed to, well, being Senna. The bare-knuckle boxer looks around at the graveyard, shaking her head. She's fought in some weird places before, but nothing like -this-. "Shit. If zombies and shit come up I'm outta here, prize money ain't worth -that-," she mumbles.
As if to deliberately be disrespectful--establishing her own dialogue with the scenery--she chooses a tombstone to put first one foot up on, then the other, checking and tightening the laces on her shoes. That done, she breathes out a gusty little sigh and shakes her head.
"This is some fucked up stuff," she says, not really aiming the comment at anyone in particular. Moving a bit further into the graveyard, Senna finds a spot where she can watch her opponents and settles into a waiting stance. Already she's scouting the area a little, to see what there is to use...
COMBATSYS: Senna has started a fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Brett has joined the fight here.
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Emilie De Rochefort. Perfect little princess. Heir to the Rochefort Fortune. Accomplished fighter. ...Exorcist? Well tonight she just happened to be that! As it turned out, Lili, in all of her unending boredom decided to alleviate said boredom by looking into the rumors that were originating from the graveyard here.
Now, a refined, brilliant lady such as herself surely had better things to do, but sometimes...sometimes a genius needed to use her skills to aid her lesser man. And tonight, she would do just that. "Ah, my kindness and generosity knows no limits!" Speaking in an excited, yet somehow still haughty tone, the blonde stepped past various graves.
"I won't hold it against you if you choose to fall to your knees in reverence right now. Mhmhmhm~" Chuckling to herself, she couldn't resist much longer and then brought a hand to her face and let it all out. "Ohohohoho~!"
This girl...
COMBATSYS: Senna has joined the fight here on the top side.
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Wincing at the cursing from one of his prospective opponents, and again at the rather...strange behavior from the higher-class girl, who he assumed was ALSO another one of his opponents, Brett felt even uneasier. Mostly due to the attention that they were likely attracting in their own ways. It was certainly a far cry from the kind of folks he knew in Duluth, or even Sault Ste. Marie. Then again, it probably IS more like the kind of people he met before in Metro and Southtown. That...didn't exactly help ease the earnest midwesterner's fears.
"I hope to god we don't run into any kind of graverobbers," he mutters to himself. Looking up at the sky, he sees the continued overcast sky and sighs. He could certainly use some light right around now. Pushing himself up from the stone he sat upon, he slowly started to pace along a rank of graves, if only to occupy himself. He rubbed the underside of his nose along one thick finger of his glove. The temperature was fine, but the must, mold, and other dank smells around the area just did something awful to him, to the point that he....
"ACHOOOO!!!" A deep, loud, reverberating sneeze erupted through the graveyard, just as the moon finally crept out from behind the cloud cover, the full moon shining down on the entire graveyard just as Brett's eyes were closed and his head tilted down with a sniffle. "Ugh...I hate musty places like this. They're just so..." He lifted his head up, glad to see the light shining on the area now....and.....
"GAAAAAHHHH!!" he shouted, stumbling on his wheels and falling back over a particularly tall tombstone. Upon the crack of his helmet upon the ground, he groaned, skatewheels sticking up from behind the tombstone he tumbled over. "UHghnnnn...." The pain at least told him he was still ok....still, he swore that the other two were looking....kinda....nahh, that's silly. This isn't a horror movie after all....right?....
When Lili makes her appearance on the scene, Senna gives her a side glance. One of -those-... a rich-bitch type. Full of herself. Just the kind of girl Senna loves to tear apart. Living in Metro, she doesn't see the kind too often--they're something of a rarity in the rather down-home population of the City. Brett looks like he'd be right at home in some of the middle-class areas of Metro, so there's somewhat less dislike for him for Senna to express...
But how is she supposed to take a guy on rollerblades with a hockey stick seriously?!? For gods sake. She's up against *kids*. Losing here would just be embarrassing. It's that, not the real potential of the supernatural, that occupies her mind as she steps up, stepping into the lights and fully revealing herself.
She has no truck for the 'atmosphere' of the fight, just clenching her fists together and bringing her arms up into a boxer's stance. "C'mon, let's do this," she calls, managing to sound both annoyed, bored, and dismissive all at once--quite a trick for her.
"I wanna get home and have a _drink_..."
Ignored. Or at least, not given a satisfying response. Lili cleared her throat and smiled a tad after that, letting her arms fall to her sides. "Well now. I suppose that we would get started, shouldn't we?" The girl stepped forward as she said so, glancing about at the tombstones with mild interest.
"Now imagine if those horrid rumors were actually true! That the dead were rising up from their graves!" She giggled to herself, a hand coming to her mouth in the process. "Prepostrous, don't you think?"
That said, she turned her gaze away from the graves and back to her fellow occupants just as the full moon was beginning to shine over them faintly, only to find. "WHA-!" Jumping a tad in shock, Lily stared at what seemed to be...no. No way. She was seeing things! She blinked a few times and then looked again. ...Nope, they were still looking as grotesque as of a few seconds ago.
"AHA! So it was you two who were behind these rumors!" And then she got into a fighting stance. "If you undead think you can take me without a struggle, then you are in for a terrible surprise!"
...What? What was going on here?
Kicking his legs, Brett tried to right himself a bit. Seeing that he couldn't simply push himself back over the tombstone, he chose instead to roll to the side. Big a frame as he had, he's forced to swing his arms a bit to get the necessary momentum to turn back onto his side. From there it's just a matter of pushing himself back up and dusting himself back. Sweating a little, he tried to throw his mind away from the sight he thought he saw before. That's silly...they're not zombies...right?"
And it's that thought that prompts him to turn back around when he hears Lili with her accusatory tone. "What are you talking about?! I'm not behind anything! I....GAHHH!!" As he turns around, he sees the same sight he saw before: the walking dead, shining in the moonlight. "Z-ZOMBIE!!" he shouts out, an instinctual kick up of the ground toward the nearest of the two, who happened to be Senna. Not that he MEANT too, mind. Falling over has that kind of consequence as he falls flat on his back again in shock.
COMBATSYS: Senna dodges Brett's Small Thrown Object.
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"What the--" Suddenly, rock! Senna ducks, instinctively, as the rock, hurled by Brett's falling-over kick-a-ma-jig zips through where her head was. Okay. Fucking zombies. But that rock.. that wasn't no coincidence, was it?
"Fuck -this-," she growls. Forget the zombies. She's zeroing on -Brett-, now. "Fucker tried to kick a rock into my head? Fuck you!!" she shouts, taking two, three, four steps then leaping up and forward.
This is definitely *not* a traditional boxing technique, but it should prove to be quite painful, if she lands right, plummeting down with a very intentional aim--
--to bury her fist right into Brett's face. Wake him up, so to speak. It's just a little love tap, really...
And now they're fighting one another! "I-Is this some sort of ruse to lul me into a false sense of security?" Lili demanded, keeping on guard as she watched the two engage. Or rather, watch the angry zombie lady attack the hockey zombie. This was all sorts of surreal!
"W-Well, it's not going to work! I'll bring you both to justice and put an end to these ridiculous rumors once and for all!" Decided, the blonde leapt into the fray, lashing out with a kick towards the two, but in this case, since Senna was on top, she'd be the one taking the hit if it connected.
COMBATSYS: Brett blocks Senna's Medium Punch.
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Pushing himself back up after his rather ignominious fall, Brett tries to get himself braced again, hastily finding his discarded stick and grasping it tightly. He still looks all the nebbish cornfed midwest boy in half-padding that he was when he arrived here, even more so now that he was seeing ZOMBIES in front of him. And one of them was swiping out at him, trying to attack him!! The other one seemed to be lumbering toward him as well, though panicked as he is, he couldn't really tell what that one was doing.
"Wh-where the hell are the girls I was supposed to f-..." he calls out, until the fist sails toward his face. Eyes widen until he leans forward, trying to catch the punch on his helmet. The crack of his helmet rattles through his head, the force shaking through him....and by the time he lifts his head up, he scowls. Gameface on. Narrowing his eyes, he pushes himself back, trying to gain some distance, though not too much. Just enough to be at stick's length so he can hook one of the zombies. He sees that one 'misaimed' and struck out at the one swiping at him, so that stick tries to hook at the blonde one's neck, and tug her down to the ground by some force.
COMBATSYS: Senna blocks Lili's Medium Kick.
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"What? Are you crazy?" Senna's punch lands, but not as squarely as she wanted it, but the force rebound lets her pop back up--just in time to catch Lili's kick on crossed forearms. The force of it forces her back a bit, letting her fade out of hte way of Brett's stick--given what he's doing (would that be considered high-sticking?) she muses, distractedly--she doesn't want to be anywhere near that.
But she can't let an opportunity pass by, so she shifts her position a bit, finding another clear path, then ducks in, on an angle oblique to the one Lili is taking, and fires a mid-level hook punch for Brett's ribs. It bends her knees, making her twist at the waist to achieve the power, but it's a nicely-thrown punch, for all that.
Zombies? Already forgotten. She figures they're just background noise--at least, she'll figure on that until one of them tries to *eat* her. Then it's all bets off.
COMBATSYS: Lili blocks Brett's King's End.
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"Whoa-!" Hooked around the neck by that stick, Lili was forced to the ground after having the other defend against her kick. But in a bout of quick thought, she thrust her arms out to catch herself once she hit the ground, and then manuever herself in a way that freed her of that tiresome sports implement, and out of the way, just as the zombie she'd tried to kick moments ago came barreling by to attack the one in sports gear again.
That was REALLY confusing! Why were these zombies fighting one another!? Well, nevertheless it made her job a fair bit simpler! "You think such paltry toys will work on me? Nonsense!" Focusing on Brett this time, Lili dove back into the fray, aiming to grasp the front of his shirt and send him toppling into a tombstone!
COMBATSYS: Senna successfully hits Brett with Hook Punch.
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COMBATSYS: Lili successfully hits Brett with Quick Throw.
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Crazy is as Crazy does, and right now, at least TWO of them are pretty crazy right now, seeing things like zombies where there shouldn't be. The moonlight playing tricks on them? Maybe...but right now, the crazy is not helping Brett, not when he finds himself beset upon by two seeming zombies, and unable to handle the double assault, ends up crumbling under both, one shot to his ribs, which hits deep even through the padding, and a sharp tug and toss directly into a tombstone that makes him crumple against the stone.
Mind, he doesn't stay down for long...panic is helpful for that. But what it does prompt him to do is hastily scramble away, trying to get even MORE distance now. These zombies were STRONG. "Stay away...STAY AWAY!" he shouts, bringing up his stick and then slicing at the ground, an arc of blue chi racing across the ground from the path of his stick and sailing toward the one that's been attacking him most. The black haired one...whichever. It's kind of hard to keep track at this point.
COMBATSYS: Senna slows Shark Crest from Brett with Small Thrown Object.
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Brett thinke -she's- a zombie? Pshaw. As if. When he flings that burst of energy at her, she whirls, smashing her bare hand through a tombstone. It shatters quite nicely--and in mid-turn, Senna snags one of the larger fragments, roughly the size of her fist, and completes her spin, hurling the fragment at the arc of blue chi.
It at least takes some of the impact out of it--but not enough, as the blue chi, diminished but still active, takes Senna amidships. It flings her backwards, over the broken tombstone, but she makes a quick flipover, pushing back to her feet.
She definitely doesn't look happy about that, but for the moment, she's out of position--can't close with Brett -or- Lili.
"Hmph! Begging for your unlife already? How unsightly." Lili spoke in an unimpressed manner as Brett doubled back. Of course, she couldn't actually understand him, having only heard groans and gurgles, but she could infer from his actions. She made no moves after having thrown him, and then her eyes slowly glide over to Senna.
And then back to Brett. What should she do? What was the best way to take down both of these opoonents? They may be zombies, but they seemed to be eerily skilled despite. In the end, the blonde chose to focus on Senna. You know what they say about cornered animals now.
And so while the other was busy dissipating the energy attack with the stone debris, Lili closed it, leaping forward with a flying knee into an uppcut kick with both feet, should it connect.
While it was clear the Shark Crest got blunted a bit after that toss of a stone fragment into it, the attack still managed to bear back the dark-haired zombie. That's a small mercy. And when the blonde-haired one started to move, he...wait, unlife? HIS Unlife? Wait, huh?! "What are you talking about, I'm not a zombie, YOU ARE!" he shouts, pointing a stick at the Lili-zombie, even as she flung herself at the Senna-zombie with that knee-kick. Scowling a bit, he frowns. What's going on?
Right now, he can't really afford to figure it out in his head, not when he's getting attacks thrown at him and he's taken as much damage as he has already. For now, he just tries to barrel through things for now, swiping his stick out toward the back of the blonde-zombie and trying to strike her with the blade.
COMBATSYS: Senna blocks Lili's Angel Knee Ascension.
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She's not being beset on by both sides, but Lili's moving fast enough with that flying knee to worry Senna a little. But she's a tough woman--she doesn't >fear< much. So when Lili comes at her, Senna sets herself, gritting her teeth, and she takes the impact of knee and flip kick on her forearms and shoulders, first one, then the other, turning aside the majority of the impact.
And then she sets her lips in a little grin, as she takes the opportunity to--well, it's pretty simple, actually. She's just going to try to punch Lili square in the nose, taking a step forward into it to try and ensure as clean an impact as possible. It's not a particularly skillfully-thrown punch, but Senna's betting on Lili not being very sturdy...
COMBATSYS: Brett successfully hits Lili with Medium Strike.
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COMBATSYS: Lili counters Medium Punch from Senna with Feisty Rabbit.
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All Lili could hear from the zombie with the stick was GURGKLRGUGARGH-- Which amused her greatly. Of course amusement came with a loss of focus. Her knee combo was blocked by her target, and then she was struck in the back with that damned hockey stick.
But it would be over her dead body if she took a fist to the face! Swiftly, Lili caused Senna's punch to come up short, having gracefully leapt aside. And then she countered with a fierce kick to the woman's side, forcing her over in Brett's direction.
"Hmph! You undead fools may have distracted me once, but not again!" We'll see if that proclamation held up.
Unlike Lili, Brett seems to at least understand the 'zombies' around him. The problem is, they still SOUND like zombies. So it makes it weird when he hears the Lili-zombie calling the others out for being undead. It's a curious thing that causes him to pause for a while....thankfully, the other two are engaged enough that he doesn't really have to intervene while he's sorting things out. "This is....what's going on..." he mutters...for now though, he waits to find an opening....
And when he thinks he sees one, he dives forward, somersaulting toward Lili and trying to crash into her with his skates in a dangerous looking heel drop.
Tch. Should've guessed the girl would have a trick like that up her sleeve. Kicked in the side, Senna stumbles back, touching the spot where Lili kicked her briefly. But her philosophy is--if at first you don't succeed, get right the -hell- back in there and keep slugging away. Brett isn't forgotten, not by any means, but she's hit him. Now it's Lili's turn.
With Brett rushing in high, once again Senna goes for the middle, trying to give Lili a tough choice to make--whether to try and get out of dodge or whether to tough it out. She darts forward, lowering her shoulders, and from that lowered position, she fires a quick four-punch combination, alternating left and right jabs and straights.
COMBATSYS: Lili instinctively dodges Brett's Falling Star EX.
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COMBATSYS: Lili blocks Senna's Rapid Combo.
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"Oh my. I see I have become quite popular..." Lili mused to herself, glancing up as Brett came barreling in from above with that fearsome looking strike. And then towards Senna who seemed to be capitalizing on the center.
...She just smirked and kept her calm. A swift sidestep took care of the flying heel, leaving the sportsman's foot to crash into the ground perhaps rather impressively. And then with Senna, she met her head on, blocking and diverting her four punch combination. The blows certainly made an impact even as she dispersed most of the damage.
She definitely didn't want to get hit with that directly. "Hmph! You violent apes! Attacking a refined lady such as myself all at once? For shame! For shame!" She spoke as if she were innocent of the same crime. She wasn't. Nonetheless, Lili set her sights upon Brett, whose attack was rather fearsome. She could overlook Senna for now. That man needed to be repaid in kind!
Closing the distance, she got right up into his face and grinned. "Hello~" Right before grabbing at him once again, attempting to throw him to the ground, and then follow up with a rather insulting stomp to the chest, should it land.
COMBATSYS: Brett blocks Lili's Combo Grapple.
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Violent Apes, hrm? That's...a step up from being a zombie at least...still, there's a certain amount of frustration when Brett ends up flipping past Lili as the blonde sidesteps. THe 'zombie' ends up turning her attention toward him in the end and tries to toss him and stomp him. The toss is fine...the stomp only finds a padded glove, her heel pushed aside while Brett scoots away and tries to gain some distance again. Frowning a little, he holds back. "What's going on..." He knows he sees zombies...but at the same time, the more he thinks about it, the more they're not quite...acting like zombies.
Looking up into the night sky, full moon shining as clouds pass by...he decides to roll back and take stock of the situation. As much to get a breather as it is to figure out what the hell is going on in this cemetary...
COMBATSYS: Brett circles, trying to pick up speed and momentum.
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This little girl... is -really- starting to get on Senna's nerves. One punch. -One- good punch, that's all she wants. One good punch to smack that smirk off her face, to shut that annoying voice up. Senna's fists tighten. She can -feel- it, the crunch of bone and flesh under her knuckles. She isn't sure she hasn't wanted something more than this in a long time.
She sets up her approach again, closing in on Lili, firing off several left jabs--mostly feints, meant to distract the blonde. Suddenly, Senna cocks her right hand back, and, with a half-step forward, drives her fist from the hip, looking to blast Lili right in the ribs with it--surely a damaging punch, if it hits.
COMBATSYS: Lili fails to counter Body Blow from Senna with Feisty Rabbit.
- Power fail! -
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With Brett hanging back, looking oddly inquisitive for a zombie, Lili spared all of her attention for Senna. As she closed with, Lili parried most of those thrown jabs, turning them aside with quick hand movements. But she wasn't prepared for the hard right that suddenly came exploding right into her ribs.
"......!" She let out a surprised gasp of pain, and it almost seemed like Senna had managed to briefly lift the girl into the air with that blow. Surely it must have been like music to her ears.
Coughing and clutching her sides, Lili quickly backed off. If she wasn't already an experienced fighter, she might have lost a rib or two from that! Thankfully, her ribs were intact. Though they certainly had to have been bruised from that. "You...You...vile...wench! I'll have you pay for that!" The blonde spoke in a low tone, barely keeping herself from snarling in anger. No. No. A lady must be composed at all times. At all times....gah! She wanted to tear into her so badly!
But no. Wait for the right opening...Wait for it.
Hanging back and watching the fight, Brett sees the 'zombies' fighting...and clearly, they don't FIGHT like zombies. Relaxing a little, Brett seems to realize that something is remiss...especially as he pays attention more and the blonde one is talking in that haughty way that the blonde girl that SNF brought in with him to 'work' this shift did. That seems to explain one mystery. He's hallucinating, he thinks...but at this point, he needs to test to be absolutely sure.
And with that decided, when the dark haired 'zombie' drives a hard shot into the blonde 'zombie's ribs, Brett moves into action. Dropping his shoulder, he charges straight toward Senna's mass, trying to slam into her, then lift her up with his stick to flip her over onto her back. Clearly the exact opposite of graceful, but he's hoping he can at least get her down and clear the air about what the hell is going on...
COMBATSYS: Senna fails to interrupt Armed Combo from Brett with Hammer Through.
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Landing -that- hit was particularly satisfying. Maybe too much so--it leaves Senna feeling a little cocky. It's not that she doesn't sense Brett coming--she certainly does--but she's sloppy as she spins around to face him, and a touch slow, so her forearm block is off. That leaves her open for the shoulder rush into the flip--she lands hard, flat on her back, a cloud of dust flaring up around her.
Coughing, she rolls onto an elbow, then curls her legs underneath her, pushing back up to her feet. She looks... unhappy with that. Very unhappy. As in, now she has *two* people she wants to murder unhappy. Her eyes tighten, narrowing as she tries to figure out the best way to lay pain and waste upon these two kids.
Oh, Lili is looking at you the same way, Senna. Taking a few short breaths, she let her arms leave her sides, taking a guarded stance again as Brett stood on both of their ways, almost serving as a wall between them. How irritating. She wanted /more/ of that woman!
Narrowing her eyes, the girl stared at the zombie warily, not yet taking any sudden moves. "What is this? Have you suddenly become a merciful pacifist?" Like her father. The thought caused Lili to pause for a spell. ....No. No time to think about him now!
She continued to stare, waiting to see just what this one had in mind. She occasonally spared a moment to glare at Senna and make sure she didn't make any funny moves either.
COMBATSYS: Lili gains composure.
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Well...that worked, somehow. Brett managed to stop Senna's attempt at a counterattack fold, flipping her over and taking her out for a few seconds. With that done for now, she looks back toward Lili, and frowns. "I'm....just trying to figure out what's going on. This whole zombie thing....you guys look like zombies right now but...definitely not acting like them, you. It's weird, you know?" he says, backing up a little and letting Senna get up, since Lili doesn't seem to be attacking for now. It's probably not good TV, and he doesn't know if they're going to go and deck him with this opening, but he wants to know what's going on right now first before they try to get to fighting again...
COMBATSYS: Brett takes no action.
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A snarl. "Kid, you haven't learned, have you--you don't just -back out- of a fight!" She may have been stopped by Brett's attack, preemptively, but she's not going to let that -stop- her. She'd already turned towards Brett, so she just continues in that direction, clenching her fists. Her walk is deliberate--she's not running, far from it--but it isn't lazy, either--there's an inevitability to her walk.
When she closes in on Brett, she reaches for him--intending to simply, well... beat him up. To grab him by the shoulders, stun him with a headbutt, then whale on him for a few moments, pounding with hardened, calloused fists.
The longer Brett spoke, the more his unintelligible garbling started to sound like actual words. "....?" Resting a hand against her cheek, Lili listened more. '...you guys look like zombies...not acting like...wierd...' Frowning then, she stared at Brett a bit longer, and then glanced at Senna, hearing her as well.
'Kid....learned...you don't just...a fight!'. Her frown deepened. "....Could it be?" She mumbled to herself thoughtfully, even as Senna began to wail into the sportsman meanwhile. "Hrm...are we perhaps...hallucinating?" And the cogs in the girl's head finally began to turn.
"Well no matter!" And all at once, Lili tossed the possible revelation aside. "That wench and I have unfinished business! And I will see that she pays her debts!" Welp. So much for that. Lili broke out into a run, doubling around to Senna's back. Once in range, she leapt into the air, unleashing a furious flurry of kicks upon the woman's unguarded back!
COMBATSYS: Brett interrupts Violent Clinching from Senna with Hurricane Check EX.
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Brett 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Lili
Well, it seemed like he was getting through to Lili in some way, judging from her response. But Senna...well, that was a different story. Either she never was hallucinating to begin with, or she simply didn't care. And that leaves Brett facing down an angry woman who he already knows has pretty heavy fists, and she's creeping closer and closer and....suddenly trying to grab him.
It's here that instinct takes over, and when she tries to headbutt him, he ends up meeting that headbutt with his elbow, crashing into her and spinning about as ice-blue chi surrounds his elbow and his stick. After that initial elbow shot, his revolution takes him around a full 360 before he charges forward, smashing his stick into her with a energy-charged high check to bowl her over. He looks a bit mortified afterwards, but hey...she was attacking him first!
COMBATSYS: Lili successfully hits Senna with Moonsault Alstroemeria.
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Brett 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Lili
Now Senna -is- beset on both sides by these... these -kids-. And despite her anger, her utter rage at it, there's really nothing she can do about it. The two of them pummel her quite thoroughly, and it leaves her only to decide who to expend her anger on. But it really isn't even a question--she wheels around, an angry light burning in her eyes, and just lunges straight for Lili.
An inarticulate yell bursts from her mouth and she just throws a flurry of punches, right and left fists blurring as she rushes Lili down. The long combination of punches is finished with a particular ending combination--left jab, right hook, left hook, right hook, and a final right uppercut, a truly pounding series of blows.
Of course, her reflexes are slowed, as her brain is already starting to shut down, if at least briefly... but the last thing she feels is anger -- at her own impotence and her own lack of skill.
COMBATSYS: Senna can no longer fight.
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Brett 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Lili
COMBATSYS: Lili parries Senna's Gatling Knuckle!
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Brett 0/-------/=======|===----\-------\0 Lili
Grinning in satisfaction as her assault hit it's mark, Lili landed onto the ground, and then immediately was beset upon by Senna in a furious rage. But she kept her calm in comparison. With the flurry of blows coming her way, Lili rapidly met each one, turning it aside and rendering it harmless. The final uppercut was brushed aside and then the girl simply sidestepped and let the woman pass, likely exhausted from her wild attack.
"Oh my. So she reveals her barbaric nature to the world~" Giggling to herself, Lili turned away and then stared straight at Brett. "And now for you." She rest her hands upon her hips, not looking all to eager to continue combat. "Do you wish to continue this charade? I mean, I suppose I am willing, but something /does/ seem amiss here..."
She brought a hand to her chin, returning to her previous thoughts on the possibility of this all being a hallucination.
COMBATSYS: Lili gains composure.
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Brett 0/-------/=======|==-----\-------\0 Lili
Watching Senna get pummeled about, first by himself, and then by the thorough assault of kicks by the blonde 'zombie', Brett sweats a little as SEnna falls, her final assault turned aside despite her best efforts. Looking back to Lili, he swallows a bit...she still looks like a zombie to him, but at the same time, he kind of...knows better at this point now? Or at least he thinks so. Rubbing his face a bit, as if it'll help brush the hallucinations aside, he settles back into his usual stance, stick grasped in both gloved hands.
"I think we should keep going...we were brought here to fight for SNF anwyays, even if things got...really....weird?....so...you know...get ready?" He says, his usual earnest, good natured personality seeping out before he outright smacks himself in the head with the butt of his stick. Shaking his head, he looks back with harder eyes, focused eyes, eyes that tell her that he's coming straight for her...and straight for her he comes, charging in and striking sharply with a low sweep of his stick toward her legs.
COMBATSYS: Brett successfully hits Lili with Random Strike.
-* CRITICAL HIT! *-
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Brett 0/-------/=======|====---\-------\0 Lili
"Wait, what now?"
FWOOSH! Totally not expecting that, Lili found herself thrown off her feet and hitting her back to the ground. She didn't stay there too long though and rolled back onto her hands before pushing off and landing back onto her feet.
"Very well. Then allow us to continue this little dance!" Smiling in excitement, the girl closed the distance lashing out with a familiar series of kicks that had helped take out Senna. An aerial combo of kicks ending with a reversed backflip into a final kick aimed to the top of his head.
COMBATSYS: Brett endures Lili's Moonsault Alstroemeria.
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Brett 0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0 Lili
He didn't quite expect Lili to be caught so flat-footed, and...well, it's clear from her reaction she wasn't expecting him to come on as aggressive as he did. But hey, it's a fight, right? And even if Senna was kind of mean about it, she had a point about not backing out of a fight.
And even if it's clear that the storm of kicks is going to do some serious damage to him, he doesn't back down from it either. As Lili charges in and hammers him with kicks, he leans into it, wincing and gritting his teeth with every blow. But he doesn't stop, and when she slams that final kick into the top of his head, he takes it despite how much it rattles him...and hopefully before she leaps away, his stick raises up, the hockey kid spinning it fiercely above his head like a helicopter to try and smash it into her repeatedly.
COMBATSYS: Lili dodges Brett's Blackhawk Down.
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Brett 0/-------/--=====|-------\-------\0 Lili
And somehow, despite Brett's valiant endurance of her fierce attack, despite how he had taken it all to deliver his own, Lili somehow found the opportunity to dodge. Twisting her body in mid-air, she used his shoulder as leverage before pushing off and sailing over him entirely, rendering his attack useless.
"Oh dear, that was close..." The girl mumbled faintly, resting a hand against her cheek in a manner that was rather irritating. She soon smiled and then dashed forward again, aiming to quickly grab and throw the boy once more.
COMBATSYS: Brett blocks Lili's Quick Throw.
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Brett 0/-------/-======|-------\-------\0 Lili
Welp, that didn't help. Unfortunately, for all the pain that Brett took, he unfortunately had nothing to show for it, his helicopter spin attack missing as Lili sails high over him. Feeling his head swimming after all the battering its taken, his helmet well and cracked at this point, he looks over toward her, watching as she approaches and tries to toss him over. The attempted toss is mitigated as he catches himself on his hands, but the landing is still jarring enough to rattle him...
Groaning a littke, he tries to push himself back up to his skates...and rather than get upright, he pushes hard off the ground, trying to roll straight into Lili, and slam the butt of his stick into her stomach point blank.
COMBATSYS: Lili counters Power Strike from Brett with Feisty Rabbit.
- Power hit! -
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Lili was prepared this time.
With a graceful sweep of her body, she was spinning through the air and out of the way of Brett's strike...and then she landed. What followed was a fearsome screw dropkick into his side, aiming to send him flying off his feet.
Once the strike had hit it's mark, the blonde landed back into her feet, smiling in amusement once again. "Oh dear. I certainly do havr to give you an A for effort~" And to support that statement, she brought her hands together, clapping animatedly in celebration of Brett's...failure?
Well, that worked out spectacularly for Brett....for the one pushing the idea of continuing the fight despite the weird....zombie....hallucinations, he ended up being handled quite thoroughly once it got to just him and LIli....as he tried to slam into her, he ended up eating a dropkick to the face instead, slamming him backward and nearly crashing right into a tombstone. Small mercies....
Feeling the weariness start to overtake him, and struggling to stay even concscious, the skater kid tried to give it one last go, swiping up with his stick before fallin over, out of it. Of course, that last big slash of his stick ends up creating a huge wave of blue Chi, one racing straight toward Lili as a final act.
COMBATSYS: Brett can no longer fight.
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COMBATSYS: Lili dodges Brett's Blue Line Special.
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Lili was slippery. Seeing the wave of power coming hurtling towards her, she crouched slightly, and then leapt backwards into the air, tucking into a backflip while the wave passed harmlessly below. And then she landed.
"How rude." She huffed and crossed her arms, looking between Senna and Brett. "...Oh?" She blinked a few times and looked again, realizing that where she saw zombies before, there were now human bodies. "...Wait. Was that perhaps the truth after all?"
She brought a hand to her cheek, looking slightly worried. "I shall have to apologize later. Perhaps." And then with a flip of her hair, she turned and strode off. "For now, I believe I will deem this mystery...solved~"
Sure, Lili. Sure.
COMBATSYS: Lili has ended the fight here.
Log created on 18:18:49 08/10/2014 by Senna, and last modified on 09:21:12 08/11/2014.