Starring:
Kiyoshi, Koseitama, Arisu (as Shiryou)
Date: May 22, 2015
Summary:
Koseitama sets a new record for personalities used in a single scene, plus flirts with copyright infringement. ;)
"Steel Soul Tourney - Fighting is Magic: Koseitama vs. Shiryou"
Dammed Arena - Floor [Kirigakure]
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At the foot of the great march of bones that dams this tall canyon of blue-gray granite, under the shadows of the stands: the Kirigakure arena. Rivulets of water still escape the base of the dam and dampen the gravely bed of the dry river. The length of the canyon is limited by a raised platform at the south end featuring the referee's post and a large display board announcing the details of the match.
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They came from all around seeking one thing, and one thing only. Blood. Foreign supporters could deny it all they wanted to without every changing the fact that their cheers for their braver comrades spoke greater volumes. Today it is no different. Although one of the competitors had few if any that knew even where she came from, the goal remained the same.
Kiyoshi shook his head a crowd still charged up from a recent fight, and then regarded the scroll in hand. After taking one last deep breathe to calm down his own building excitement, the blonde-haired chuunin practically bellowed, "People of Kirigakure! Honored Guests! For this next bout, it will be Shirayuki Koseitama, Chuunin of Kirigakure versues…. Shiryou, from parts unknown!!" He sweeps his hand about while turning about, and nods, motioning for another to signal for the two to enter the arena. Of course with how loud he was, the duo probably heard him all too well.
Koseitama makes her entrance, and despite her earlier defeat, she seems to be in a chipper mood. In fact, it looks like she can't stand still! 83 She skips up to the fighting area and waves effusively at her opponent. "Well hi there! I don't think I've SEEN you before and I know pretty much everybody in Kirigakure so that means you're not from around here right OH OH and that means you don't have any friends here so we should do something about that like maybe I could introduce you to everybody WAIT YES THAT'S IT I'll throw you a WELCOME TO KIRI PARTY and then you'll have TONS OF FRIENDS!!!" 8D Koseitama makes as if to run off, but performs a heel-spin turn after a few strides. "Oh yeah but we gotta do this tourney thing first so let's get going!"
RP: Koseitama joins the roleplay.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
RP: Koseitama transforms into MOOD-SHIFT-YELLOW.
COMBAT: Koseitama focuses 7501 stamina to turn it into 9498 usable chakra!
Shiryou, as she was known these days, glided easily into the arena from the little room where she'd been waiting patiently, and moves slowly toward her starting position. She eyed Koseitama coldly for the most part, and arched a single brow at the girl's… chipper and energetic demeanor. "…Perhaps you should hold off on party planning just yet, yes… Not that I don't appreciate the offer." A slight tug at the corner of her lips passed for what could have maybe been considered a smile on her otherwise expressionless face.
Meanwhile, Shiryou began to concentrate, her cloud of freefloating chakra swirling and twirling invisibly in the air around her as she started it flowing… preparing to use it at any moment. "Perhaps you'd like to start us off, hmm?"
RP: Shiryou joins the roleplay.
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
COMBAT: Shiryou focuses 5804 stamina to turn it into 8000 usable chakra!
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
Kiyoshi's half-hearted attempt at a polite bow is almost immediatly abandon due to Koseitama's exuberant introduction… and insult. Trying to make heads and tails of it all just left him wanting to sit down somewhere, and reconsider a few life choices. Fortunately, the miniature giant doesn't get far along that thought train before Shiryou drifts into the arena. Although he tried to hide it well, Kiyoshi cannot completely mask just how taken aback by he was by Shiryou's appearance; let alone her presence.
In hearing her speak, the Kirryu is jolted into a more rigid and focused position. 'Right…' He clears his throat. "Shirayuki-san, Shiryou-san. The rules are simple. You fight until you concede, lose conscious, or have otherwise become to debiliated to fight on. 'Side from that, try not to die, cus' I might not be able to intercede in time. That said—" Near the end, his hand had been raised high, and after only a brief pause, it is brought down.
"Begin!"
Koseitama gasps as though somebody just told her she won Kunoichi of the Year. "OHMIGOSHYES I'd absoluty LOVE to start us off thank you so much for the invitation!" :D Koseitama immediately dashes in to close range, drawing a kunai and enveloping it with wind chakra. She swipes and slices repatedly at Shiryou with it, babbling all the while. "Sorry about the whole RARGONNABEATYA thing but that's kinda what a tourney's about y'know sorta makes me wonder why I signed up in the first place but I guess you could think of it as a PARTY of sorts too I mean look at all these people gathered around watching and cheering I'd have to send out like a million billion invitations to get a party this big together so maybe next time I should just say HEY EVERYBODY I'M THROWING A PARTY WHERE PEOPLE BEAT EACH OTHER UP and then I'd have the biggest party EVER!" ^.^
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with WIND-SHARP with a roll of: 41
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with WIND-SHARP with a roll of: 42
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with WIND-SHARP with a roll of: 23
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "That inner pinkie pie."
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against WIND-SHARP(41) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-CLONE…40
COMBAT: Shiryou loses the roll and sustains 530 damage.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against WIND-SHARP(42) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-CLONE…58
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
«OOC» Koseitama says, "Oh so you recognized it I'm glad I managed to make it come across decently 'cuz I actually haven't seen that much of the show I was just trying to think of something that would match up with fighting a ghost and I was like Ghostbusters? nah not enough personality to make it clear WAIT WAIT GIGGLE AT THE GHOSTIES! 8D"
«OOC» Kiyoshi snerks.
«GHOST» Shiryou forgets… what's the rules on countering? Is there a limit rank-limit now? I haven't done this in a while.
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "Es counter only Es, everything else can only counter same rank, one rank lower, or any rank higher."
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "Hrm. Thought that was phased out with the counter changes. No matter!"
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "Ah, and only one counter per round"
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against WIND-SHARP(23) attack from Koseitama with a RELENTLESS-DEAD…34
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "But that's it, i believe. z.z"
Shiryou stands stock still as Koseitama rushes at her… and then splits into three separate bodies, two of them stepping free of her original body calmly. "That's quite alright. I forgive you. Perhaps we'll just say that this IS a party, and that all these people are our guests… We should do our very best to ensure our guests are entertained, don't you think?" each of the clones say in unison. The clones don't seem to help Shiryou much at first, as the first of the slashes catch her in the shoulder, digging deep… but there's no blood. Just a clean slice across her dress and into strangely bloodless flesh. The second flurry of slashes meet with no resistance, passing through one of the Shiryou's harmlessly… The third however is deflected — But badly.
All of a sudden, the blade is batted upward in an effort to deflect it away from her, accidentally forcing the blade across Shiryou's throat at the last second, and spraying blood in a gruesome fountain. The other two Shiryou's vanish, as the wounded one stumbles back, clutching her rapidly bleeding throat, before falling over… It was a short lived match after all… And then two seconds later, the last body flickers and disappears, as if it had never been there.
Shiryou reappears shortly after, standing just behind the strangely cheerful girl. "I guess that was the wrong one. A pity… it almost looked like you had me." Suddenly, three kunai of Shiryou's own appeared, each suddenly materializing from nowhere to three sides of the chipper one, before shooting forward quickly, attempting to catch her on three different sides, before vanishing again as quickly as they'd appeared.
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with GHOST-SHARP with a roll of: 25
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with GHOST-SHARP with a roll of: 22
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with GHOST-SHARP with a roll of: 32
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
«OOC» Kiyoshi read that as Ghost Ship for some reason…
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "Nope. I can't think of a way to make an attack out of that."
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against GHOST-SHARP(25) attack from Shiryou with a OPPOSING-WIND…53
COMBAT: Koseitama takes 169 partial damage.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against GHOST-SHARP(22) attack from Shiryou with a PRESSURE-INTERCEPT…45
COMBAT: Koseitama wins the roll.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against GHOST-SHARP(32) attack from Shiryou with a PRESSURE-INTERCEPT…31
COMBAT: Koseitama loses the roll and sustains 134 damage.
RP: Name: Condition: Stamina:
RP: Koseitama Good Condition Fine
RP: Shiryou Good Condition Fine
«OOC» Koseitama says, "Oh hey before we get too far into this do you wanna set up a lose condition so we don't keep going forever like first one to go to Several Wounds or worse loses?"
«GHOST» Shiryou will most certainly call her surrender if she gets too low. Can't risk getting dematerialized in front of millions of people. :P
Koseitama flings a hand up toward one of the kunai, and a swift gust of wind goes out to — utterly fail to have any effect, leaving the kunai to slice against her outstretched hand. o.o; Apparently wind does nothing to ghosty chakra kunai. After that painful lesson, Koseitama next tries pulling some water together from the plentiful moisture in the air and slings a blob of it at the next kunai. Phew, that worked better. She doesn't quite have enough time to intercept the final kunai though, and gets jabbed in the back of her shoulder. "Well that kinda hurt but I can't blame ya for it just wish I'd known they were breeze-through guess you learn something new every day huh?" Koseitama sweeps her arm in Shiryou's direction, sending out a scythe of cutting wind. Then she follows up by forming a series of seals that calls down a heavy gust on top of Shiryou.
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with WIND-CUTTER with a roll of: 35
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with MACROBURST with a roll of: 35
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against WIND-CUTTER(35) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-FLICKER…30
COMBAT: Shiryou loses the roll and sustains 1024 damage.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against MACROBURST(35) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-FLICKER…30
COMBAT: Shiryou loses the roll and sustains 0 damage.
The sudden cutting wave pushes Shiryou back, and creates a large gash across her midriff, from which not blood, but a glowing blue mist leaks, only to quickly disappear shortly after it emerges. She frowns slightly, and stands to her full height once more, before a sudden burst of wind keeps her pinned in place. "Indeed. I don't imagine it would do you much good to complain anyway, would it?"
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
Koseitama slumps slightly after bringing the wind down on Shiryou. "I…have you now, my pretty," she breathes. Koseitama approaches Shiryou with a strange new light in her eyes. "I only wanted to make friends with all the cute little critters, but they keep running away. Still, I finally have you now, and there's nothing you can do to get away." Koseitama staggers the final step before standing over Shiryou with balled fists. "You're…going to LOVE ME!!!" >.< With that, Koseitama kneels down and starts pounding Shiryou.
RP: Koseitama transforms into MOOD-SHIFT-RED.
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with PHYSICAL with a roll of: 31
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with PHYSICAL with a roll of: 27
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with PHYSICAL with a roll of: 24
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against PHYSICAL(31) attack from Koseitama with a TENSE…10
COMBAT: Shiryou loses the roll and sustains 355 damage.
COMBAT: Shiryou ESCAPES from Koseitama's stun!
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against PHYSICAL(27) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-FLICKER…46
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against PHYSICAL(24) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-FLICKER…34
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
Shiryou frowns and arches a brow once again at the sudden mood shift from cheerful to… Violent. She takes the first punch, but as soon as the second lands, her body flickers and she vanishes, only to reappear behind the girl, "Love you? I'm afraid not, dear… You're simply not my type. I prefer my girls sane." Suddenly, her wounds begin to rapidly heal, sealing shut almost as quickly as they were made, "But you're welcome to try and change my mind. Come on…"
COMBAT: Shiryou heals Shiryou for 532 with LESSER REGENERATION.
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
RP: Koseitama reverts to her normal state.
Koseitama stands up after her fists start hitting gravel. She looks over to Shiryou with a casual smirk. "Oh yeah? I can take care of it in ten seconds flat." B] Well, that was a short-lived persona, what's this now? Koseitama runs through some handseals, and a blob of water gathers and grows rapidly in front of her. "I think you need to be about 20% cooler." Suddenly the water spews out at Shiryou in a massive torrent.
RP: Koseitama transforms into MOOD-SHIFT-CYAN.
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with VIOLENT-WATER-WAVE with a roll of: 43
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with VIOLENT-WATER-WAVE with a roll of: 35
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
RP: Shiryou transforms into MALEVOLENCE-II.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against VIOLENT-WATER-WAVE(43) attack from Koseitama with a IMPERFECT-INCORPORIETY…78
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against VIOLENT-WATER-WAVE(35) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-FLICKER…39
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
Shiryou stands quietly immobile as the torrent of water comes at her at high speeds… and then she changes. The black of her pupils rapidly switch places with the white of her sclera, leaving a bright blue ring of blue in the middle of her dark eyes. Her arms suddenly lengthen, snapping and cracking as the bones appear to separate from their joints painlessly, and the fingers follow suit, gaining an extra knuckle on each hand. She raises no obvious defense, and instead lets the water wash over her with a multi-toned sigh of boredom. Or rather… she lets it wash through her harmlessly. When the deluge is gone, she isn't even wet, though the ground below and around her most certainly is.
"Was that supposed to take care of me?" A grin crosses Shiryou's mouth, her lips peeling back a bit too far to be natural. Then she opens her mouth once more, as if to speak… but instead of words, all that comes from her hideous grinning mouth is an earsplitting SCREAM, that literally shakes the very air in it's path toward Koseitama. It goes on for much longer than one should be able to maintain a sound like that without breathing, but after a few moments, it finally stops.
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with BANSHEE-SCREAM with a roll of: 63
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with BANSHEE-SCREAM with a roll of: 69
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
RP: Koseitama transforms into MOOD-SHIFT-BLUE.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against BANSHEE-SCREAM(63) attack from Shiryou with a WATER-ENCAMPMENT-WALL…47
COMBAT: Koseitama loses the roll and sustains 520 damage.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against BANSHEE-SCREAM(69) attack from Shiryou with a WATER-ENCAMPMENT-WALL…50
COMBAT: Koseitama loses the roll and sustains 504 damage.
COMBAT: There are no more attacks for you to defend against.
RP: Name: Condition: Stamina:
RP: Koseitama Average Condition Fine
RP: Shiryou Average Condition Fine
Koseitama gathers the water back to herself and forms it into a wall between herself and Shiryou. It doesn't stop the sound attack, but at least it muffles it a little. It also apparently masks Koseitama's next personality shift. The water wall falls down from the middle outward, parting like curtains on a stage, and Koseitama struts forward like a fashion model. "Look upon me, Kirigakure, for I AM KOSEITAMA!" 8D And indeed, Koseitama somehow seems rather sparkling despite the beating she's taken so far…so much so that Shiryou is suddenly being squashed in the midst of a crowd of photographers and fashion reporters, all shoving her down to get a good look at the fashionista. ;3
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with PLAY-WITH-ME with a roll of: 23
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with PLAY-WITH-ME with a roll of: 39
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with PLAY-WITH-ME with a roll of: 28
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against PLAY-WITH-ME(23) attack from Koseitama with a GENJUTSU-KAI…55
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against PLAY-WITH-ME(39) attack from Koseitama with a GENJUTSU-KAI…62
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
«OOC» Koseitama hopes she lasts two more turns to get through all of these. X)
COMBAT: Shiryou counters against a PLAY-WITH-ME(28) attack from Koseitama with a HORRIFYING-REVELATION…39
COMBAT: Shiryou has successfully countered the attack.
«OOC» Koseitama is tempted to tense that one simply because of how she can work failing it into a pose. XD
«OOC» Kiyoshi X)
Genjutsu… Shiryou was VERY familiar with the effects of Genjutsu, and shrugged off those effects with ease, concentrating on Koseitama and ignoring the hoardes of illusory reporters… That is, until she uses her own genjutsu to twist the effects of the genjutsu…
Suddenly the ghastly Shiryou's body cracks… and then shatters into a million bits, revealing… Another Koseitama, in an even SPARKLIER dress! Suddenly, the reporters and photographers turn and start shoving the original down, in their effort to get at the sparklier model!
That's about the time that Koseitama might make note of a sudden prickling sense of foreboding… something — aside from the genjutsu being turned against her — just isn't RIGHT, and something inside her, some instinct, is telling her to move. Move anywhere. Just don't be right HERE. A split second later, if Koseitama doesn't move in time, she'd discover that now… she couldn't move. She'd discover that she was trapped by some unseen, malevolent force… most likely controlled by Shiryou.
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with POLTERGEIST-GRAPPLE with a roll of: 48
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against HORRIFYING-REVELATION(39) attack from Shiryou with a GENJUTSU-KAI…33
COMBAT: Koseitama loses the roll and sustains 0 damage.
COMBAT: Shiryou drains stamina from Koseitama
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against POLTERGEIST-GRAPPLE(48) attack from Shiryou with a VANISHING-GALE…45
COMBAT: Koseitama loses the roll and sustains 0 damage.
COMBAT: There are no more attacks for you to defend against.
«OOC» Koseitama says, "…I actually meant to use Multiple Wind Clones after looking at the stats, but I forgot what I was doing. X) Silly me."
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "Been too long~"
RP: Name: Condition: Stamina:
RP: Koseitama Average Condition Fatigued [STUNNED]
RP: Shiryou Average Condition Fine
RP: Koseitama reverts to her normal state.
Koseitama eeks and goes down to her knee when the illusion reverses itself. She stares in shock at the other self upstaging her while the crowd presses her down. "Of all the worst things that could happen, this is the! WORST! POSSIBLE! THING!!!" ;.; Koseitama curls up on the ground under the pressure, and is caught by Shiryou's ghostly grip. She doesn't even appear to notice, stroking her leg with her hand. "Clock is ticking, Koseitama. Clock. Is. Ticking. Keep it together…" C.C;
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
«OOC» Koseitama would now be in Mood Shift Magenta if the combat system let her. X)
The malevolent Shiryou feels the poltergeist grab take hold, and her creepy grin returns to her face, as she lifts Koseitama from the ground… and then flings her across the arena to smash into one of the walls to one side… then smash into another on the other side.
"Time's up"
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with POLTERGEIST-III with a roll of: 44
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with POLTERGEIST-III with a roll of: 56
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against POLTERGEIST-III(44) attack from Shiryou with a TENSE…11
COMBAT: Koseitama loses the roll and sustains 958 damage.
RP: Name: Condition: Stamina:
RP: Koseitama Several Wounds Fine [STUNNED]
RP: Shiryou Average Condition Fine
«OOC» Koseitama says, "…Oops, could've attempted an escape /before/ that. X)"
«GHOST» Shiryou always forgets too. :P
COMBAT: Koseitama ESCAPES from Shiryou's stun!
RP: Koseitama transforms into MOOD-SHIFT-MAGENTA.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against POLTERGEIST-III(56) attack from Shiryou with a WALL-OF-WIND…66
COMBAT: Koseitama wins the roll.
COMBAT: There are no more attacks for you to defend against.
«OOC» Koseitama thought the rule was you have to tense the first attack after an attack stun, but then it goes on to say 'unless the attack stun was the last thing they did to you on their turn'.
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "That's for Round Stuns."
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "Attack Stuns I think you can attempt to escape from immedaitely."
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "All those rules are confusing and I hope they're redone in 3.0."
«OOC» Koseitama says, "…Actually, even further on it says that with Multiple Attack Stuns you /do/ have to tense the first hit. X)"
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "Indeed"
«OOC» Koseitama says, "Oh well. I'm past the losing point I mentioned earlier, but I wanna get in one more combat round just for completion."
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "I didn't miss something did I? >_>"
Koseitama whacks heavily against the wall. The impact seems to awaken her, though, and as she flies toward the other side, she gathers a thick, swirling layer of wind chakra about herself. It cushions her from the other wall, and she drops down to the ground unharmed (well, no more harmed than a few seconds ago). Koseitama stands up and dusts off her britches. "Well now, that weren't very neighborly of ya. Reckon I'll have to show you how we take care of trespassers in Hidden Mist Acres." Koseitama runs through a set of handseals. "o/~ Raze this marm, raze this marm, one, two, three, four! o/~" Koseitama blows out a thin stream of fire that curls around to entrap Shiryou. "o/~ Put 'er on a blazin' pyre, lickety-split like prairie fire! Cook some sausage, make some toast, we're gonna have us quite a roast! o/~" Koseitama follows up with a plain big ol' ball of fire.
RP: Koseitama reverts to her normal state.
RP: Koseitama transforms into MOOD-SHIFT-GREEN.
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with RUNNING-FIRE with a roll of: 59
COMBAT: Koseitama attacks Shiryou with GREAT-FIREBALL-TECHNIQUE with a roll of: 43
COMBAT: Koseitama finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against RUNNING-FIRE(59) attack from Koseitama with a IMPERFECT-INCORPORIETY…66
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
«OOC» Koseitama says, "Beggin' yer pardon, that'n took me a while to figger. X)"
COMBAT: Shiryou defends against GREAT-FIREBALL-TECHNIQUE(43) attack from Koseitama with a GHOST-FLICKER…47
COMBAT: Shiryou wins the roll.
Shiryou sighs deeply, "What on earth are you even talking about? I've completely lost track…" She watches the flames come toward her, but doesn't seem particularly impressed… at least not about the fire. "I admit… your sheer number of elemental styles is impressive… But it's not enough."
Shiryou steps through the flames, totally uneffected by the circling heat, and as the fireball hits her, her body flickers, vanishes, and reappears on the other side of the fireball all in a single instance. Once she's sure nothing else is going to be coming quick enough, she opens her mouth, and screams that same banshee scream from before, creating cracks along the ground as she directs it toward Koseitama.
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with BANSHEE-SCREAM with a roll of: 53
COMBAT: Shiryou attacks Koseitama with BANSHEE-SCREAM with a roll of: 64
COMBAT: Shiryou finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Koseitama's turn.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against BANSHEE-SCREAM(53) attack from Shiryou with a WALL-OF-WIND…81
COMBAT: Koseitama wins the roll.
COMBAT: Koseitama defends against BANSHEE-SCREAM(64) attack from Shiryou with a WALL-OF-WIND…64
COMBAT: Koseitama wins the roll.
COMBAT: There are no more attacks for you to defend against.
RP: Name: Condition: Stamina:
RP: Koseitama Several Wounds Fatigued
RP: Shiryou Average Condition Fine
Koseitama wills up a vortex around herself, carrying the ear-splitting sound in a curve away from harming her. After that, though, she gives a heavy sigh. "Well shucks, this square-dance ain't gonna do much if you keep usin' yer fancy hoodoo to get out of everythin'. Reckon you kin have th'match, I ain't too keen on grabbin' the blue ribbon nohow. 'Sides, I've had enough fun fer the whole season." ;) Yup, that's it, Koseitama concedes the fight! Guess that's the end of her run in the manemain event.
COMBAT: It is now Shiryou's turn.
COMBAT: Koseitama left combat at 43.5 percent stamina.
RP: Koseitama leaves the roleplay.
RP: Koseitama reverts to her normal state.
RP: Shiryou leaves the roleplay.
RP: Shiryou reverts to her normal state.
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "Huh… It doesn't tell me what my stamina percentage was. :|a"
«OOC» Kiyoshi says, "Were you fatigued?"
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "Nope."
«OOC» Kiyoshi nods, "It doesn't until that point." z.zd
«GHOST» Shiryou says, "I see."
«OOC» Kiyoshi also asks, "Any last poses Shiryou?"
Shiryou pauses… And then suddenly her strangely stretched body snaps back into place, and she adopts a more… normal coloration. "Excellent. You did very well, all things considered… I even thought you had me for a moment… Until you… changed… the first time." She clears her throat, "In any case, I wish you the best. She turns her attention to Kiyoshi, "I assume you have something to say to officially end the match?"
Kiyoshi made a point early on to stand apart from the fighters. That is why as soon as his hand dropped down, little more the rising of a small dust cloud marked his last position. The Kirryu watched from along the wall, waiting again for that one moment in which things went wrong, or so very simple. But as the match continued on, the odds grew greater against the simplier ending.
"That… What did I just…" He shook himself mightily, and made a note to never again get involved any matches involving the duo in the future. Ever. "Yes, I… I do." Turning to the crowd, Kiyoshi gives his head one last shake before bellowing, "The winner is… Shiryou!" Despite a large number of folks being equally if not more so disturbed by what was seen, the whole arena erupts into staggered cheering.
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At the foot of the great march of bones that dams this tall canyon of blue-gray granite, under the shadows of the stands: the Kirigakure arena. Rivulets of water still escape the base of the dam and dampen the gravely bed of the dry river. The length of the canyon is limited by a raised platform at the south end featuring the referee's post and a large display board announcing the details of the match.
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They came from all around seeking one thing, and one thing only. Blood. Foreign supporters could deny it all they wanted to without every changing the fact that their cheers for their braver comrades spoke greater volumes. Today it is no different. Although one of the competitors had few if any that knew even where she came from, the goal remained the same.
Kiyoshi shook his head a crowd still charged up from a recent fight, and then regarded the scroll in hand. After taking one last deep breathe to calm down his own building excitement, the blonde-haired chuunin practically bellowed, "People of Kirigakure! Honored Guests! For this next bout, it will be Shirayuki Koseitama, Chuunin of Kirigakure versues…. Shiryou, from parts unknown!!" He sweeps his hand about while turning about, and nods, motioning for another to signal for the two to enter the arena. Of course with how loud he was, the duo probably heard him all too well.
Koseitama makes her entrance, and despite her earlier defeat, she seems to be in a chipper mood. In fact, it looks like she can't stand still! 83 She skips up to the fighting area and waves effusively at her opponent. "Well hi there! I don't think I've SEEN you before and I know pretty much everybody in Kirigakure so that means you're not from around here right OH OH and that means you don't have any friends here so we should do something about that like maybe I could introduce you to everybody WAIT YES THAT'S IT I'll throw you a WELCOME TO KIRI PARTY and then you'll have TONS OF FRIENDS!!!" 8D Koseitama makes as if to run off, but performs a heel-spin turn after a few strides. "Oh yeah but we gotta do this tourney thing first so let's get going!"
Shiryou, as she was known these days, glided easily into the arena from the little room where she'd been waiting patiently, and moves slowly toward her starting position. She eyed Koseitama coldly for the most part, and arched a single brow at the girl's… chipper and energetic demeanor. "…Perhaps you should hold off on party planning just yet, yes… Not that I don't appreciate the offer." A slight tug at the corner of her lips passed for what could have maybe been considered a smile on her otherwise expressionless face.
Meanwhile, Shiryou began to concentrate, her cloud of freefloating chakra swirling and twirling invisibly in the air around her as she started it flowing… preparing to use it at any moment. "Perhaps you'd like to start us off, hmm?"
Kiyoshi's half-hearted attempt at a polite bow is almost immediatly abandon due to Koseitama's exuberant introduction… and insult. Trying to make heads and tails of it all just left him wanting to sit down somewhere, and reconsider a few life choices. Fortunately, the miniature giant doesn't get far along that thought train before Shiryou drifts into the arena. Although he tried to hide it well, Kiyoshi cannot completely mask just how taken aback by he was by Shiryou's appearance; let alone her presence.
In hearing her speak, the Kirryu is jolted into a more rigid and focused position. 'Right…' He clears his throat. "Shirayuki-san, Shiryou-san. The rules are simple. You fight until you concede, lose conscious, or have otherwise become to debiliated to fight on. 'Side from that, try not to die, cus' I might not be able to intercede in time. That said—" Near the end, his hand had been raised high, and after only a brief pause, it is brought down.
"Begin!"
Koseitama gasps as though somebody just told her she won Kunoichi of the Year. "OHMIGOSHYES I'd absoluty LOVE to start us off thank you so much for the invitation!" :D Koseitama immediately dashes in to close range, drawing a kunai and enveloping it with wind chakra. She swipes and slices repatedly at Shiryou with it, babbling all the while. "Sorry about the whole RARGONNABEATYA thing but that's kinda what a tourney's about y'know sorta makes me wonder why I signed up in the first place but I guess you could think of it as a PARTY of sorts too I mean look at all these people gathered around watching and cheering I'd have to send out like a million billion invitations to get a party this big together so maybe next time I should just say HEY EVERYBODY I'M THROWING A PARTY WHERE PEOPLE BEAT EACH OTHER UP and then I'd have the biggest party EVER!" ^.^
Shiryou stands stock still as Koseitama rushes at her… and then splits into three separate bodies, two of them stepping free of her original body calmly. "That's quite alright. I forgive you. Perhaps we'll just say that this IS a party, and that all these people are our guests… We should do our very best to ensure our guests are entertained, don't you think?" each of the clones say in unison. The clones don't seem to help Shiryou much at first, as the first of the slashes catch her in the shoulder, digging deep… but there's no blood. Just a clean slice across her dress and into strangely bloodless flesh. The second flurry of slashes meet with no resistance, passing through one of the Shiryou's harmlessly… The third however is deflected — But badly.
All of a sudden, the blade is batted upward in an effort to deflect it away from her, accidentally forcing the blade across Shiryou's throat at the last second, and spraying blood in a gruesome fountain. The other two Shiryou's vanish, as the wounded one stumbles back, clutching her rapidly bleeding throat, before falling over… It was a short lived match after all… And then two seconds later, the last body flickers and disappears, as if it had never been there.
Shiryou reappears shortly after, standing just behind the strangely cheerful girl. "I guess that was the wrong one. A pity… it almost looked like you had me." Suddenly, three kunai of Shiryou's own appeared, each suddenly materializing from nowhere to three sides of the chipper one, before shooting forward quickly, attempting to catch her on three different sides, before vanishing again as quickly as they'd appeared.
Koseitama flings a hand up toward one of the kunai, and a swift gust of wind goes out to — utterly fail to have any effect, leaving the kunai to slice against her outstretched hand. o.o; Apparently wind does nothing to ghosty chakra kunai. After that painful lesson, Koseitama next tries pulling some water together from the plentiful moisture in the air and slings a blob of it at the next kunai. Phew, that worked better. She doesn't quite have enough time to intercept the final kunai though, and gets jabbed in the back of her shoulder. "Well that kinda hurt but I can't blame ya for it just wish I'd known they were breeze-through guess you learn something new every day huh?" Koseitama sweeps her arm in Shiryou's direction, sending out a scythe of cutting wind. Then she follows up by forming a series of seals that calls down a heavy gust on top of Shiryou.
The sudden cutting wave pushes Shiryou back, and creates a large gash across her midriff, from which not blood, but a glowing blue mist leaks, only to quickly disappear shortly after it emerges. She frowns slightly, and stands to her full height once more, before a sudden burst of wind keeps her pinned in place. "Indeed. I don't imagine it would do you much good to complain anyway, would it?"
Koseitama slumps slightly after bringing the wind down on Shiryou. "I…have you now, my pretty," she breathes. Koseitama approaches Shiryou with a strange new light in her eyes. "I only wanted to make friends with all the cute little critters, but they keep running away. Still, I finally have you now, and there's nothing you can do to get away." Koseitama staggers the final step before standing over Shiryou with balled fists. "You're…going to LOVE ME!!!" >.< With that, Koseitama kneels down and starts pounding Shiryou.
Shiryou frowns and arches a brow once again at the sudden mood shift from cheerful to… Violent. She takes the first punch, but as soon as the second lands, her body flickers and she vanishes, only to reappear behind the girl, "Love you? I'm afraid not, dear… You're simply not my type. I prefer my girls sane." Suddenly, her wounds begin to rapidly heal, sealing shut almost as quickly as they were made, "But you're welcome to try and change my mind. Come on…"
Koseitama stands up after her fists start hitting gravel. She looks over to Shiryou with a casual smirk. "Oh yeah? I can take care of it in ten seconds flat." B] Well, that was a short-lived persona, what's this now? Koseitama runs through some handseals, and a blob of water gathers and grows rapidly in front of her. "I think you need to be about 20% cooler." Suddenly the water spews out at Shiryou in a massive torrent.
Shiryou stands quietly immobile as the torrent of water comes at her at high speeds… and then she changes. The black of her pupils rapidly switch places with the white of her sclera, leaving a bright blue ring of blue in the middle of her dark eyes. Her arms suddenly lengthen, snapping and cracking as the bones appear to separate from their joints painlessly, and the fingers follow suit, gaining an extra knuckle on each hand. She raises no obvious defense, and instead lets the water wash over her with a multi-toned sigh of boredom. Or rather… she lets it wash through her harmlessly. When the deluge is gone, she isn't even wet, though the ground below and around her most certainly is.
"Was that supposed to take care of me?" A grin crosses Shiryou's mouth, her lips peeling back a bit too far to be natural. Then she opens her mouth once more, as if to speak… but instead of words, all that comes from her hideous grinning mouth is an earsplitting SCREAM, that literally shakes the very air in it's path toward Koseitama. It goes on for much longer than one should be able to maintain a sound like that without breathing, but after a few moments, it finally stops.
Koseitama gathers the water back to herself and forms it into a wall between herself and Shiryou. It doesn't stop the sound attack, but at least it muffles it a little. It also apparently masks Koseitama's next personality shift. The water wall falls down from the middle outward, parting like curtains on a stage, and Koseitama struts forward like a fashion model. "Look upon me, Kirigakure, for I AM KOSEITAMA!" 8D And indeed, Koseitama somehow seems rather sparkling despite the beating she's taken so far…so much so that Shiryou is suddenly being squashed in the midst of a crowd of photographers and fashion reporters, all shoving her down to get a good look at the fashionista. ;3
Genjutsu… Shiryou was VERY familiar with the effects of Genjutsu, and shrugged off those effects with ease, concentrating on Koseitama and ignoring the hoardes of illusory reporters… That is, until she uses her own genjutsu to twist the effects of the genjutsu…
Suddenly the ghastly Shiryou's body cracks… and then shatters into a million bits, revealing… Another Koseitama, in an even SPARKLIER dress! Suddenly, the reporters and photographers turn and start shoving the original down, in their effort to get at the sparklier model!
That's about the time that Koseitama might make note of a sudden prickling sense of foreboding… something — aside from the genjutsu being turned against her — just isn't RIGHT, and something inside her, some instinct, is telling her to move. Move anywhere. Just don't be right HERE. A split second later, if Koseitama doesn't move in time, she'd discover that now… she couldn't move. She'd discover that she was trapped by some unseen, malevolent force… most likely controlled by Shiryou.
Koseitama eeks and goes down to her knee when the illusion reverses itself. She stares in shock at the other self upstaging her while the crowd presses her down. "Of all the worst things that could happen, this is the! WORST! POSSIBLE! THING!!!" ;.; Koseitama curls up on the ground under the pressure, and is caught by Shiryou's ghostly grip. She doesn't even appear to notice, stroking her leg with her hand. "Clock is ticking, Koseitama. Clock. Is. Ticking. Keep it together…" C.C;
The malevolent Shiryou feels the poltergeist grab take hold, and her creepy grin returns to her face, as she lifts Koseitama from the ground… and then flings her across the arena to smash into one of the walls to one side… then smash into another on the other side.
"Time's up"
Koseitama whacks heavily against the wall. The impact seems to awaken her, though, and as she flies toward the other side, she gathers a thick, swirling layer of wind chakra about herself. It cushions her from the other wall, and she drops down to the ground unharmed (well, no more harmed than a few seconds ago). Koseitama stands up and dusts off her britches. "Well now, that weren't very neighborly of ya. Reckon I'll have to show you how we take care of trespassers in Hidden Mist Acres." Koseitama runs through a set of handseals. "o/~ Raze this marm, raze this marm, one, two, three, four! o/~" Koseitama blows out a thin stream of fire that curls around to entrap Shiryou. "o/~ Put 'er on a blazin' pyre, lickety-split like prairie fire! Cook some sausage, make some toast, we're gonna have us quite a roast! o/~" Koseitama follows up with a plain big ol' ball of fire.
Shiryou sighs deeply, "What on earth are you even talking about? I've completely lost track…" She watches the flames come toward her, but doesn't seem particularly impressed… at least not about the fire. "I admit… your sheer number of elemental styles is impressive… But it's not enough."
Shiryou steps through the flames, totally uneffected by the circling heat, and as the fireball hits her, her body flickers, vanishes, and reappears on the other side of the fireball all in a single instance. Once she's sure nothing else is going to be coming quick enough, she opens her mouth, and screams that same banshee scream from before, creating cracks along the ground as she directs it toward Koseitama.
Koseitama wills up a vortex around herself, carrying the ear-splitting sound in a curve away from harming her. After that, though, she gives a heavy sigh. "Well shucks, this square-dance ain't gonna do much if you keep usin' yer fancy hoodoo to get out of everythin'. Reckon you kin have th'match, I ain't too keen on grabbin' the blue ribbon nohow. 'Sides, I've had enough fun fer the whole season." ;) Yup, that's it, Koseitama concedes the fight! Guess that's the end of her run in the manemain event.
Shiryou pauses… And then suddenly her strangely stretched body snaps back into place, and she adopts a more… normal coloration. "Excellent. You did very well, all things considered… I even thought you had me for a moment… Until you… changed… the first time." She clears her throat, "In any case, I wish you the best. She turns her attention to Kiyoshi, "I assume you have something to say to officially end the match?"
Kiyoshi made a point early on to stand apart from the fighters. That is why as soon as his hand dropped down, little more the rising of a small dust cloud marked his last position. The Kirryu watched from along the wall, waiting again for that one moment in which things went wrong, or so very simple. But as the match continued on, the odds grew greater against the simplier ending.
"That… What did I just…" He shook himself mightily, and made a note to never again get involved any matches involving the duo in the future. Ever. "Yes, I… I do." Turning to the crowd, Kiyoshi gives his head one last shake before bellowing, "The winner is… Shiryou!" Despite a large number of folks being equally if not more so disturbed by what was seen, the whole arena erupts into staggered cheering.
