Starring:
Amani, Katsurou, Zetto, Noab, Yuko, Fudo
Date: September 10, 2013
Summary:
Amani and Katsurou face off in a rippling ring.
"Third Promotion Exams - Shakey Showdown: Amani vs. Katsurou"
Fighting Ring [Konohagakure]
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The large central section of the coliseum is sphere in shaped surrounded by large white walls on all sides. The stands extend high up above these walls to ensure spectators are kept safe at all times regardless of which battle is taking place within the center. From the fighting ring one can see the various levels of seating expanding way into the sky. The large walls surrounding has the symbol of the Hidden Leaf village painted largely perfect on the walls.
The ring appears more like a section of nature. There are three large trees scattered all about, in addition there are various different varieties of rocks found in the area with a large cluster set at one side of the arena. There are patches of green grass and sections of brown ground where the grass had been trampled out.
There is only one exit leading out of the arena which leads down to the participant entrance. Participants enter and leave from this exit at all times. During large events the cheers of the crowd echo within the ring.
*OOC*: look stands to see who's currently watching.
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Another match in the finals tournament and the crowds have gathered to witness not only what the contestants may do but what interesting twist the leaders of Konohagakure have planned this time. The crowd hushes as the Hokage steps up to make an announcement prior to the match:
"Greetings! This match is between Yamayuki Amani and Shirayuki Katsurou! Let's welcome them with a big cheer!" A small pause is given while the contestants are shown in from either side and the crowds cheer for the two on the arena floor.
"This match, like all the others, will have a small additional complication that requires the combatants to think on their feet. In this case, that may be more literal than in others!" The Hokage grins as she gestures and Akimichi Noab steps forward to a platform above the arena to one side. "Thanks to the assistance of the Akimichi clan leader, the contestants will be dealing not only with each other, but with a rapidly changing environment, particularly the ground under their feet!"
With this, Noab makes a series of hand seals, and the very earth that makes the floor of the arena starts to shift and ripple, but leaves circles around each contestant untouched, for now. The Hokage continues, "Please be assured that while the honorable elder of the Akimichi clan will be controlling the very ground they fight upon, no one will be given special treatment during this fight, it will be equally fair!"
And with that, the very ground heaves and waves under the two contestants as the Hokage says, "Let the match begin!" And she retreats to her seat, with a smile on her face as she watches to see how the contestants react to this twist.
* The following was paged to each contestant: *
The ground will be constantly shifting and crashing around you during this match. The ooc effect is that you will be allowed one action and only one action each round as you try to keep yourself stable enough to fight. This includes activating a transformation, focusing or any other action as a single action. Other than that, there are no restrictions on normal combat. Please feel free to pose the ground shifting under your character as you deem fit but do not use it as a particular advantage in any of your poses against your opponent.
* A large part of the log here was lost. *
The mist went up over the field and yet, Amani remained calm. This was a distraction and she knew it. She pinpointed him on the field, reading the most subtle of sounds coming from his body against all the irregularities of this shifting field and the noise of the crowd. She took to the rolling hills and jumped over the tears in the ground to strike at him from within his own must attack. She needed to get him to sit still somehow. No escapes. He was good at that, she had to admit. Those clones were good.
COMBAT: Amani attacks Katsurou with SOUND-BLAST…31
COMBAT: Amani finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Katsurou's turn.
COMBAT: Katsurou defends against SOUND-BLAST(31) attack from Amani with a ICE-CLONE…63
COMBAT: Katsurou wins the roll.
The mist might not have completely concealed Katsurou from Amani, it did allow a long enough distraction for him to replace himself with an ice clone. Amani's attack would shatter his form into a collection of ice shards once again. Katsurou was on a segment of rock doing his best to stay steady as he was running through more options to best the girl from Kumo. So far they both had managed to be on par with each other so much that besides his water prison technique followed by his ice clone attack, they had been defending against each other blow for blow. For now he just focuses on his chakra reserves in to prepare himself for another round of combat.
COMBAT: Katsurou focuses 2100 stamina to turn it into usable chakra!
COMBAT: Katsurou finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Amani's turn.
From Stands, Zetto was impressed. He never expected to see such display of skill and bravery. He had heard the same rumors as everyone else and knew a thing or two, but still even taken all that into account it was hard to believe what was unraveling in front of his very own eyes. The two seemed to be perfectly evenly matched. Roar of the crowd was deafening. There was not a single person who was not into this match. The large man took sip of his sake from the jar and leaned forwards in order to get a better view. Local man sitting right behind him spilled some water all over his back. The Yotsuki Jounin turned with rather annoyed expression on his face but did not let it bother him too long as he really did not want to miss a single detail.
Amani huffed. Ice clone. Ice clone. Ice clone. She supposes she can't talk too much. She's been fairly successful against him by cancelling out his abilities with her own. She lifted her bow from her body and withdrew an arrow to utilize. Both near and far, they've been able to defend against one another. Still, this match was still going strong. She made that apparent by taking aim and firing off an arrow of sound towards Katsurou.
COMBAT: Amani attacks Katsurou with SONIC-SHARP…31
COMBAT: Amani finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Katsurou's turn.
COMBAT: Katsurou defends against SONIC-SHARP(31) attack from Amani with a WIND-BARRIER…35
COMBAT: Katsurou wins the roll.
Katsurou watches with anticipation while the girl drew a weapon. Once he saw the bow he quickly began performing a series of hand seals. The wind would pick up around him so intensely that once the arrow neared him, the wind just forced the arrow to bounce off as if it hit a brick wall.
With the winds flowing around him, he thrusts his hands forward in order to send a pulse of wind at the Kumo nin.
COMBAT: Katsurou attacks Amani with GALE-PULSE…30
COMBAT: Katsurou finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Amani's turn.
COMBAT: Amani defends against GALE-PULSE(30) attack from Katsurou with a BOOM-BLOCK…36
COMBAT: Amani wins the roll.
Amani punched that pulse in its windy face…well, she blocked it. But it felt like she punched it. She figures she may have tip take risks, thug those haven't been entirely favorable, but the odds have been unusually even up to this point. She began to move forward and maybe just get herself into some deep trouble with an attempt at closing closing distance with another physical attack in the works. She thinks she may have enough chakra left to pull this off… So, she makes her move to try and drain him.
COMBAT: Amani attacks Katsurou with SOOTHING-TOUCH…50
COMBAT: Amani finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Katsurou's turn.
COMBAT: Katsurou defends against SOOTHING-TOUCH(50) attack from Amani with a ICE-CLONE…56
COMBAT: Katsurou wins the roll.
Katsurou watches as Amani came his way to close the distance. That wasnt really his style of fighting. He was more of a long range guy, so he would leap back onto a nearby earth platform just as Amani would place her palm on a clone that he left in his stead. Creating an icy shuriken in his hand, he threw it as hard as he could at the girl in hopes of nicking her somewhere on her upper body.
COMBAT: Katsurou attacks Amani with ICE-SHURIKEN…43
COMBAT: Katsurou finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Amani's turn.
COMBAT: Amani defends against ICE-SHURIKEN(43) attack from Katsurou with a SOUND-BARRIER…51
COMBAT: Amani wins the roll.
A battle to exhaustion? Looks like it as she just came in contact with another ice clone. Okay, maybe she just might make it through this… She took this time to invest in more chakra to place into this battle. She isn't sure which of them will be standing at the end, but it has to be somebody. Naturally, Amani wants it to be her.
COMBAT: Amani focuses 2500 stamina to turn it into usable chakra!
COMBAT: Amani finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Katsurou's turn.
Gosh, we haven't heard anything about how tricky the footing is to work with lately, have we? ;) Couldn't be because the contestants have forgotten to give the shifting earth mention in their poses, oh no, that would be just silly. Maybe Noab's gone to sleep and the ground's not shaking that much anymore? Somebody give him a poke or something, huh?
*HICCUP!* O.U
…Well that was…effective. A sudden pulse of chakra sends a three-meter-high wave of rolling earth rippling over the battlefield.
"You honor your village with your great skills, Amani." Katsurou wasn't one for speaking during combat but to him this was a match that had earned his respect towards her. In the end, he was truly glad to have helped the Kumo girl back in the forest of death in order to make it this far to represent her village. "You have my respect as a shinobi for what it is worth." He says while still attempting in keeping his footing on the shakey ground as he has been showing trouble with the whole match so far.
Katsurou's hands blur together in attempt to create the freezing whirlwind around Amani once again. She would feel the chilling winds pick up around her once more in attempt to trap her within. If it is successful, the ice crystals within the freezing whirlwind will pelt and erode her clothing and skin as she hovers up off the ground from within.
COMBAT: Katsurou attacks Amani with FREEZING-WHIRLWIND…62
COMBAT: Katsurou finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Amani's turn.
COMBAT: Amani defends against FREEZING-WHIRLWIND(62) attack from Katsurou with a SOUND-BARRIER…41
COMBAT: Amani loses the roll and sustains 514 damage.
COMBAT: Katsurou drains stamina from Amani
From Stands,
Yuko continues to watch, clearly on the edge of his seat impressed with the fight below. A fight so beyond his level of skill it truly awes him. The rippling arena floor is rather interesting to watch as well of course. The pair seem very well matched, so far. But at least Yuko keeps cheering for Amani, waving the Kumo banner as he does his best to cheer her to victory.
From Stands,
Fudo had been in the area for the match, most of it any how. And he had watched the exchange, having faced both of them in the exams up to this point. However, though his sharingan allowed him to easily follow what was going on, he would narrow his eyes at this whole thing. Katsurou especially, was not one of his favorite people, and may even be the person he despises the most at this point in his life. Amani was more neutral. The exams didn't allow for them to truly meet each other on anything but negative terms. She did however assist him despite that, even after the incident with Hiroyasu. S despite all of this, even though he would not get his fight with Katsurou as planned, he would still keenly watch what was happening, sans banners and cheering.
"Thanks…" Amani smirked for the first time since this battle has started. It was nice to hear words of that nature. It was reassuring to her and she wanted to return the favor, but couldn't. He'd initiated an attack against her. That freezing whirlwind which picked her up and trapped her. It was a biting cold inside, one that reminded her of the frozen lands she hailed from. But it carried an unforgiving pain that she didn't feel from her home. This snow was different. Burning away at her clothes and eating up exposed skin. Needless to say, it was terribly unpleasant. Not to mention that wave of earth that came up and pushed her along. In many ways, it made the experience worse.
Katsurou had finally caught her in his Freezing Whirlwind technique. He would almost let out a sigh of relief, however he knew better than to think this meant the end of the fight. Staying focused on the fight, he would weave his hand seals together once more to deliver the second stage of his infamous ice jutsu combination. Once the hand seals were complete he slams his palm onto the ground. At the moment of impact, a small trail of ice shards erupt from the ground. He watches as the ice trail rides up the broken pieces of earth and bridge the gap over small fissures in order to find its way to Amani. Once the trail reached the Kumo nin, it stacked on top of itself and began encasing Amani within its crystal of ice. Once she was fully engulfed, Katsurou held up a hand seal to his chest and calls out, "Kai!" The ice encasing around Amani implodes which causes the ice shards to slice and dice the girl within until finally the ice chamber bursts due to the pressure. Ice shards coated in blood red rain down onto the ground along with Amani's body being left as a bloodied and torn mess.
COMBAT: Katsurou attacks Amani with ARCTIC-SHATTER…44
COMBAT: Katsurou finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Amani's turn.
COMBAT: Amani defends against ARCTIC-SHATTER(44) attack from Katsurou with a TENSE…14
COMBAT: Amani loses the roll and sustains 1128 damage.
COMBAT: Katsurou drains stamina from Amani
From Stands,
The techniques being used by Amani and Katsurou were familiar, but even Fudo had only seen the last ability Katsurou used once. When he used it to combat Suterusu during the assassination attempt. Thus, he was somewhat familiar with what it was capable of, and knew also that Amani was going to be heavily damaged by it. "Hm… this could be the end…"
Looks like she was going to have to save her sentiments for later. Tensing the oncoming attack was all she could do at the moment. She'd watch as the ice crept along the landscape before finding her and trapping her within. Just as she was frozen, her Nejigan faded and she fell from the ice tomb as the shards cut through her clothes and across her body. Landing on the ground with a thud, she raised herself up after a delay from suffering from that bitter cold. Holding some of her wounds, she mustered up the mind and will to say. "I forfeit."
RP: Amani reverts to her normal state.
COMBAT: Amani finishes her turn.
COMBAT: It is now Katsurou's turn.
From Stands,
Fudo nodded to that. It was a powerful attack, and if he could land it, it certainly could take most people out, so he was not surprised that Amani found reason to forfeit at this point. Still, it was bitter sweet for Fudo as well. If circumstances had been different, he could have had some pride and cheer for Katsurou's victory, but instead, there was only the lingering burn of betrayal for him to consider and live with.
Hearing those words come from Amani, the Shirayuki's aura and glowing seals on his body would fade. He takes a knee and lets out a deep breath of relief. That was indeed one of his hardest fought battles of his life. He was physically and mentally exhausted with the constant planning and calculating during the match. He was thankful it was over, but now felt bad about Amani. However, he reminds himself that it was agreed upon that both of them would not hold back during this match.
RP: Katsurou reverts to his normal state.
COMBAT: Katsurou finishes his turn.
COMBAT: It is now Amani's turn.
And there we have it! Noab halts the tremoring of the battlefield, and medics rush inward. This match has been completed, and with it the runs of both contestants. Now only time (and the judgment of the observers of the respective villages) will tell whether they will receive the promotion they came so far to earn.
