Description: Recovering from the night at the museum, Jiro and Jira express their feelings after the loss the only way Kasagi speak truest. Can you feel the Louvre in the air? No more puns, I promise!
It's night time. The fall's atmosphere presents a foreboding presence around the area. With Paris's ever present situation of disappearing children and the looming aspects of the world ending upon people, this adds a rather scary outlook within the city.
It has been about a couple of hours after the incident at the museum.
Just outside of the museum and out around the Lourve Palace, the pyramid gives off that gleaming light. The palace itself is brillaintly lit with lamps and lights while the pyramid remains majestic.
However, why does it feel so dead?
Jiro is walking out along the outside of the palace, wincing until he is stretching. Resting a hand over his head, Jiro grimaces. "...Well, that could have gone better..." Then, he gives an amused look, "...Heh. At least she had a difficult time getting that prize." He grumbles, "Tsch... I was planning to bury the glove with the guy."
Jira had taken a little longer to crack and creak up after Jiro. Her partner had a lot of work to fix up afterall and she- almost lamely- hobbles after her cousin in attempt to keep up. Her expression is hard to read, behind the wincing and huffing.
"Jiiiiiroooooo!" she calls out, a handful of meters behind the stray and huffing up progress. The lack of people and action doesn't phase the girl as much, it's better than the faceless masses in japan.
Squint.
Jiro is taking a moment to stop what he is doing from his musing to hear his cousin calling out towards him. The younger fighter turns his attention to see that she is hobbling over towards him. Admittedly, Jiro feels a bit bad for leaving her on the ground, but he needed to walk himself off first. Besides, she would have gotten up eventually.
Jiro walks over towards her, trying to close the distance with her so that she doesn't have to walk over to her. "Yeah, yeah.. Coming. Coming." He grimaces, "...Heh. Well, the fight did not go as well as I hoped..."
He pauses, "...I take it you're angry at me?"
Jira sighs and continues her wobbling walk back up to Jiro. She is glad that he stops and turns, and even more that he approaches. She takes a second to stop and kick out her leg with a loud pop then resumes walking like a normal person.
"Angry?" she asks. "I didn't expect you to run yourself into the ground like that. We had a shot at knocking that little hussy down -and- asserting our family name." she retorts. "I have half a mind to just kick you in the daddy parts." the woman huffs out.
Maybe it's the light, but her black hair seems a little grayish.
Grimace.
So, Jira is not too pleased with the way that the fight went. Jiro looks over towards his cousin with a frown. A hand rests over his shoulder and he grumbles with an annoyed look. "...Yeah... yeah." He exhales a sigh.
At the comment of kicking him in the daddy parts, Jiro winces. "Sorry, okay?! I wanted to knock her head clean off. I tend to get a bit too focused on wanting to take their heads off." He grits his teeth, "It comes with territory. Strength talks. Power talks. And damnit, I wanted to take her head out."
A wide array of emotions cross her face after eachother, then the woman stomps hard on the ground. She gives a glare at her cousin, and her trigger fingers twitch.
"C-cousin or not.. I'm going to kick your ass. Then we're getting a cab out of here." she growls at him and draws her gun from its resting place on her hip.
"You got that?"
COMBATSYS: Jira has started a fight here.
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Jira 0/-------/-------|
COMBATSYS: Jiro has joined the fight here.
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Jiro 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Jira
So. That is how it is.
Jiro looks over at Jira as her expression undergoes a lot of emotion. His eyes then drift towards her trigger finger. His eyes start to flutter shut and then he gives a slow shake of his head. It was what he expected.
"So, it's come to this."
It is now down to a fight against his older cousin. She is ready to fight him. With that hand on the trigger finger. Even more, she is making her stance known. She wants to kick his ass.
"Heh."
There is a grin formed on his face before he tightens his fist. Tightening his fists, Jiro has a feral grin forming as the canines become enlarged. The sea blue eyes quickly shift to a green slitted look.
"Alright. Let's have some fun."
Jiro is moving quick to close the distance between himself and Jira. As the speed of the young man increases with the distance closing, he uses a foot to spring himself off of the ground.
Then, he twists his foot to bring his leg over to strike at her head.
"Catch..."
Of course, he uses that as a feint for a fist to drive down towards her solar plex.
COMBATSYS: Jira instinctively blocks Jiro's Jab Punch.
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Jiro 0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0 Jira
Definately how it is. Jira just nods to her cousin's statement, gun in her left hand and the right held open and near her vest. She angles herself into a side-facing stance towards Jiro and waits for his change, with a glimmer of excitement and a smirk on her face. He runs and jumps up, and her eyes don't shift. She moves to avoid the kick but her gun suddenly jerks forward and intercepts his punch with the back of her palm. Her right hand glows a bright pink and drops to her thigh, her fingers producing sharp talons of energy. Feeding from the stored momentum of his punch her body twists to the left and swings those talons of energy at Jiro- on contact they'd break off and sink into his body, feeding destructive energy into his essence.
COMBATSYS: Jiro blocks Jira's Psycho Claw.
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Jiro 0/-------/-------|=------\-------\0 Jira
Once the fist comes flying towards Jira, the young man can only respond with a grunt as his fist makes impact against her palm. As the collision of muscles ensure between the two, Jiro looks directly at his cousin to read her expression. It looks like that she is pretty focused.
Off of the corner of his eye, Jiro can see the hand emanate a bright pink color before it drops to her side. Claws form.
"...Tsch."
Once she twists to the left and swings the energy at him, the young man lifts his arm up to have the energy meet with the essence that seeks to rend him. Although he manages to stave off the worst of it, his body shudders in discomfort as a scrape runs along his skin.
"Feh!"
He lunges forward, shooting his leg out to slide beside and then behind Jira. Then, he shoots both of his arms out while sweeping the leg backwards to trip and shove Jira on her back.
COMBATSYS: Jira endures Jiro's Medium Throw.
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Jiro 0/-------/------=|====---\-------\0 Jira
Jira takes that fall, not doing anything to stop her cousin knocking her over. But on the fall she pulls a round out from her vest and loads it with practised speed into the chamber. Her body turns a small amount mid-fall and a loud CRAKK echoes when the trigger is pulled. She'd fired her round a few yards off with measured assistance by her partner to ricochet off the ground, then take out a streetlight and back again off to her cousin from behind. Such large rounds are as effective as her own fists, and would even pose the threat of bruising to a fighter.
COMBATSYS: Jira successfully hits Jiro with Trick Shot.
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Jiro 0/-------/----===|====---\-------\0 Jira
There is a look of satisfaction when he finishes tripping his cousin onto the ground. "There!" He looks over towards her, glaring over at her before he takes a step back. However, his thoughts were cut short when she produces that gun.
"What the...."
Flinching slightly, Jiro looks around to see that the gun doesn't strike him.
"Hah! Missed!" Jiro is lunging his way towards his cousin until...
The round strikes him against the back. "Gaahhhh!!!" He grimaces, then he grits his teeth at Jira, "So you want to play it that way..." Jiro grits his teeth and he lifts his leg up to extend his fist down towards her stomach.
Should she avoid the fist, it'll leave a nice crack on the ground. ...If not? Well...
COMBATSYS: Jira interrupts Medium Punch from Jiro with Thorn Kick.
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Jiro 0/-------/---====|=====--\-------\0 Jira
Jira huffs and finally gets to laying on her back, wincing from the fall. She looks upset, thinking she missed. Until the light goes out aand her cousin's struck from behind. Score! And then there's a fist for her stomach, not good. She rolls onto her side and takes the blow on her hip, and snapping her leg straight up to give him a kick where she said she would. But she just lodges a nonphysical spike of energy there to inject him with her angry essence and backpedals on the ground, breathing heavily and pulling another round out of her vest to load her gun for the next shot.
Both eyes widen to the point of his eyes dotting to saucers.
"Nnggghk!?"
This... is unexpected. See, Jira did something that was completely uncool. She struck Jiro right where she said that she would: The groin. As her boot launches straight over, the non-physical spike of energy injects deep within that spot.
Jiro falls on his knees and starts whimpering. He is trying to bite back his anger.
Oh god, he wants to take Jira's head out right now.
Must. Focus. Must. Focus.
COMBATSYS: Jiro focuses on his next action.
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Jiro 0/-------/--=====|=====--\-------\0 Jira
Jira Kasagi gets up onto her feet and hops back a little distance. She sees she isn't being followed and pulls a few more rounds out from her vest, sliding them in with practiced movement. Then she slaps the cylinder of her firearm and gives it a whirl.
"Alright, get ready.." she murmurs amongst the sparks of pink energy that fire off from the spinning rear end of her weapon and glow from her eyes.
COMBATSYS: Jira smacks her gun, demanding more power!
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Jiro 0/-------/--=====|=======\=------\1 Jira
Gritting his teeth.
Ivory flames ignite within his grasp as he hunches over. His head lifts up to level his gaze at Jiro. While she starts gathering her energy, Jiro has a ferocious expression forming. His teeth grit to expose the enlarged canines and he charges towards Jira.
"It is time for you to get ready!" As that negative energy leaves an after effect on the crotch, Jiro is wincing while he is trying his hardest to ignore the pain. His fist extends towards the ground.
As the fist grinds the ground, flames ignite like a match as he seeks to have the fist launch out towards her.
"Raaarrrrggghhhhhhh!!!" The fist aims to plow against her stomach and then he drives the fist up against her chin.
COMBATSYS: Jiro successfully hits Jira with Wild Ember.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|=======\=======\1 Jira
Jira probably had that coming, having kicked him THERE with THAT technique. Her arms go up to avoid the blow, but the low impact hits her earlier than she expected and routes up behind her defenses- leaving her launched up into the air and falling down onto her face a little distance nearby. She groans and picks herself up from the ground to a staggering stand, then about-faces for a clumsily lined up shot to her cousin. CRAKK! the trigger's pulled and she's still unsteady, just dropping the arm down with heavy breaths... is her vest on fire?
COMBATSYS: Jiro dodges Jira's Long Shot.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|=======\=======\1 Jira
The Stray Dog is not happy at all. In fact, he is pissed. He does not plan to let Jira live the fact of striking him below the belt down. It may take a bit for him to come out of his rage.
It shows that when she spins around for another clumsy about face for the gunfire, Jiro quickly notices where the gunshot is about to come from and he immediately swoops to the side to get away from the trajectory of the shot.
Then, Jiro races over towards the older woman just as quickly. He reaches over to grab her by the arm, seeking to bring her close to the point of pulling her towards him. If Jiro is successful with the grab, he seeks to slam his fist towards her gut, then he'll swing her over to toss her towards the ground.
COMBATSYS: Jira blocks Jiro's Combo Grapple.
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Jiro 0/-------/-======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Jira
Jira's unsurprised at his dodge. Even she could have moved from that one- oh here he comes. She's pulled and moves with it, knocking her against his form and subsequently giving him less room to power that punch. When she's thrown her gun arm jerks out wildly and stabilized her enough to land on her feet with a shiver. A pink glow covers her form and her eyes shine brightly. Even her hair seems a little pinkish in the night, with the colour change.
"S-sorry about that kick.. not totally in control when.. close quarters.." she murmurs in shaky voice. Her hands pick up and aim her gun towards Jiro from the new distance, lower to the ground and definately more levelheaded for her aim.
CRAKK!
Another shot fired off straight and followed by Jira standing up onto her feet.
COMBATSYS: Jiro negates Strong Shot from Jira with Riot Cross.
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Jiro 0/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Jira
Jiro is taking the aggressive stance. It is definitely known that Jiro is known for a more angry, aggressive way of fighting. When he seeks to grab his older cousin, he is trying to plant that fist deep into her gut to knock the wind out of her. However, he is denied the intented purchase and instead manages to get her to jerk enough and she distances herself.
He takes a deep breath, looking at his older cousin with a glare. "Grrrr...." And when she brings her gun to shoot at him, he manifests the chi around him and he feels the ivory flames form together.
As the chi roars to life, he brings his arms outward and he crosses them together to release an X-shaped flame to collide with her bullet shot towards him.
The chi and the round collides, exploding into particles between the two with that thunderous explosion.
It gives a nice fireworks effect within the Lourve Palace.
"...Heh." Jiro notes as he calms down, "... Not as angry anymore now."
Jira sees him charging up and expects to have to deal with an issue. But, her bullet is enough to disrupt his attack enough to just disperse it into the air, and she notes he isn't charging and even seems calm.
Jira clears her throat quietly. "You, want to keep going, or what?" she asks curiously, her brow raised. Still calm and level even with all this happening, perhaps a glean into her character.
COMBATSYS: Jira idly punches at the air, doing nothing for now.
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Jiro 0/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Jira
"Depends..."
Jiro looks over at Jira with a feral grin that has formed. "How badly do you want to kick my ass, still?" He tightens his fist. He is ready to go at a moment's notice. In fact, the posture that Jiro has taken is shown that he is ready to continue. Just because he isn't as angry anymore doesn't mean that he is not going to fight Jira.
"The ball's in your court. What do you plan to do?"
COMBATSYS: Jiro takes no action.
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Jiro 0/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Jira
Jira takes a calm and unassuming stride up to Jiro, calm and staring dead at her younger cousin. Her brisk stride stops right infront of him and she casts a look to him, a rather disarmed and nonaggressive look. Her right hand moves up quickly to his head, grabs his hair, and pulls his face in to his for a kiss. Then drops him. "Your call, I hate going first."
COMBATSYS: Jira idly punches at the air, doing nothing for now.
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Jiro 0/-------/=======|>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2 Jira
Once Jira starts her unassuming stride towards him, Jiro is ready for action. The Stray Dog has wanted to do some more fighting. Sure, he and Jira got trounced by Angel due to his overly aggressive nature and not listening, but he got a good fight out of it. Given that Jira wanted to fight Jiro earlier?
...Jiro is ready for it.
Was not ready for that.
Jira's hand reaches for his hair and pulls him close for a kiss. His eyes widen in shock as the kiss lingers for those few moments. After several moments, Jiro loses the aggression to fight.
Once the kiss is broken and he's dropped, Jiro grunts and he rubs his shoulder.
"...Alright. We're done here." He exhales a sigh, "Let's get out of here."
Jira really lets it sink in, before she drops him. She gives a nod to his reply and flourishes her firearm, dropping the rounds and shells into her hand, putting the former back into her vest and the rest in her pocket. She just presses it to her hip and it hangs there. "Okay. Let's." she replies, pulling that pink glow into herself with a work of will and seeming more recharged, offering her right hand out to his to be held.
COMBATSYS: Jira has left the fight here.
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COMBATSYS: Jiro has ended the fight here.
For those moments, Jiro is turning towards Jira and then he looks out to the rest of the Lourve.
In another day, Jiro would be able to appreciate this place. Maybe. In reality, Jiro doesn't know if he would be able to enjoy the area even if it was restored to to a more peaceful state. His entire presence does not feel right. He has already seen the backlash of his presence here. His sister denied him, people are older and alien to him, the fact that everyone has gotten past grieving.
However, there are those who are glad that he is here. Despite of the fact that he is a memory of the past, there are people who welcome his presence. Alma, Frei... Jira.
Jiro closes his eyes and he turns his form away from the Lourve.
His hand reaches ver to take Jira's hand. His eyes drift towards her with a smile.
... He can try to make the best of where he is at.
Log created on 21:59:13 09/10/2014 by Jira, and last modified on 19:10:40 09/11/2014.