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Post by Shen on Jul 8, 2009 8:17:03 GMT -5
Seeing these more powerful (on average) fighters, Shiro and Gozu, makes Shen indecisive. He can't decide if he should be inspired or discouraged. True, he'll get his Saiyan desires of a challenge, but the problem is that the challenge is simply too high...
He'd turn and walk to the building outside the arena.
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Post by Shen on Jul 8, 2009 8:38:39 GMT -5
But before he went inside, he turns around. He notices Harvest, meditating like Nai. Hmm... I ought to get to know this guy a little more. Wait... He then realizes something. His ki feels kind of... evil. Evil does run in Nai's family.
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Post by Shen on Jul 8, 2009 8:40:19 GMT -5
He proceeds to pace over to Harvest anyway. He's eventually standing in front of him. "Hey... So what made you decide to fight here?" Shen asks, starting the conversation.
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Post by Project Harvest on Jul 8, 2009 8:40:19 GMT -5
Harvest remained there beside the edge of the arena in meditation, awaiting the time when his battle would come. He didn't stir even a little, but he was very aware of his surroundings.
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Post by Project Harvest on Jul 8, 2009 8:41:52 GMT -5
Hearing Shen's question, he opens his eyes, and takes a breath, before answering... "I wanted the chance to test my abilities and further them. Nothing much more than that."
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Post by Shen on Jul 8, 2009 8:46:09 GMT -5
"Ah, I see, run of the mill sort of thing. I came here because Nai said I should... remind myself of how much I need to train by seeing all these strong fighters. Your next opponent is Julia... she's pretty fast. You know how you're going to handle that?" he asks.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 8, 2009 8:48:37 GMT -5
When Gozu goes to face Shiro the first thing he'd see would be the bottom of Shiro's shoe heading for his face. After recovering Gozu's punch, Shiro had remained in place, waiting to see where Gozu'd end up. After Gozu appeared, Shiro had charged at him and jumpkicked for his face. If the kick lands, so would Shiro, who would, without hesitation, charge forward again, sending his left hand out to grab Gozu's shirt or shoulder, while his right fist went to deliver a punch to Gozu's gut, then swing up to hit him in the jaw, then around to hit him in the right side of his face, and then another gut punch.
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Post by Project Harvest on Jul 8, 2009 8:49:26 GMT -5
"So, you're Nai's pupil? I see. And as for my opponent, don't worry about it. I studied her movements during her battle, and I think I can find a way to overcome her style. Even her speed won't be enough." This may seem slightly surprising that he's able to make such a claim.
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Post by Shen on Jul 8, 2009 8:52:36 GMT -5
"Yeah," Shen responds when Harvest confirms if Shen is Nai's pupil. But his 'yeah' is a proud one, even though Shen is aware of Nai's evil... but he knows that his mentor had to do it, and he was smart enough to take the precautions.
After hearing Harvest talk about Julia's fighting style, Shen nods. He must have some super transformation or something. "Hey, I was wondering... since you didn't get to fight, and I'll need everything I can get, wanna just have a warm up spar?"
If Harvest agrees, Shen would walk to "outside the arena."
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Post by Project Harvest on Jul 8, 2009 8:54:29 GMT -5
"Why not? It was disappointing that I missed out on my first match." Harvest drops down his feet, leaving his meditative position, and follows Nai away from the noise of the crowd and the battle.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 8, 2009 21:58:47 GMT -5
3. As Gozu was stumbling and just turned to face Shiro there was nothing he could do to avoid the jump kick Gozu stumbles backwards bringing his hands up to his face as Shiro lands and grabs his gi around his shoulders. The gut punch lands, as well as the upper cut Gozu's hands are still there so it cushions the blow slightly and the last gut punch hits as well. Using every bit of his Saiyan endurance Gozu fights through the pain and before Shiro could move his hand away from his gut or let go with the hand from his shoulder Gozu would quickly lash out attempting to grab his arms.
Should the grab work Gozu would spin around and couple times and attempt to throw Shiro out of the ring. If the grab fails Gozu will thrust his knee forward attempting to knee Shiro in the gut.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 8, 2009 22:35:56 GMT -5
After finishing his attack, Shiro feels himself grabbed, and spun. After a split second to recover, he fired a pair of Eye lasers at Gozu's eyes, acting at about the time Gozu released him. Instead of trying to fight momentum and stop, Shiro guides himself over the stands to avoid touching out, then straight up once he regains control, in case Gozu decides to pursue him.
Once he stopped ascending, he turned and headed straight back at Gozu, left hand brought up to hover by his right shoulder, ki gathering into it and his right. He'd slash at Gozu as he neared the arena with his left hand, releasing a crescent of pure white ki. Should Gozu leap back to avoid the crescent, Shiro will flip, land, and leap after him, bringing his right fist forward to release a Halfton Punch at Gozu's stomach. If Gozu didn't move, then Shiro will aim this punch at his face or head instead.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 14:04:43 GMT -5
4. Shiro's eyes glowing for that split second alert Gozu enough to move his head enough to avoid being hit in the eyes with the eye lasers but due to the range Gozu can't fully avoid it so his cheek is grazed. He chooses not to go for a follow up hit on Shiro not wanting it to be reversed and then he falls out of the ring. He watches as Shiro flies around and comes back at him swing his arm firing off a crescent shaped ki blast. Gozu jumps over it quite easily. He chooses to hover above the ring as Shiro lands and jumps at him. Gotta get back on offense. Gozu thinks as he waits for Shiro to get closer before bring both hands to his forehead his right hand over his left and charges a Masenko and fires it just as Shiro reaches him.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 14:18:13 GMT -5
Shiro's eyes widened as he saw Gozu's hands go up. Crap! Since he knew he couldn't stop in time, he switched his punch into a quick block, and flipped back with the force of the attack so that, after enduring the beam for a few moments, he was underneath and flying along it, curving down after a few feet and landing on the arena stage facing Gozu. He clapped his hands together, and began to charge his energy. Can't let up for long.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 14:24:58 GMT -5
5. Seeing Shiro clap his hands and begin charging Gozu cups his hands at his side. "Kaaa...Meee...Haaa...Meee..." Gozu mumbles under his breath for some reason it helps to say that every time he does a Kamehameha. He doesn't fire it yet however waiting to see what Shiro is doing.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 14:39:28 GMT -5
Shiro, recognizing the attack from the tournament last year, frowns. Can't let that hit me... He thinks as he vanishes, reappearing a few feet forward and a few feet to his right, then again a few feet forward and to the left of where he just was. He then appeared directly over Gozu, sending a palm strike to the top of the saiyan's head, releasing a quickly charged Masenko at him on impact and, hopefully stunning him for a second. He'd then reappear at Gozu's left side, sending a kick to his face and trying to knock him flying back. He appear behind Gozu then, sending a punch to Gozu's lower back and send him flying forward again. Then in front again, sending his right elbow into Gozu's face. Behind again, kicking between the legs to send Gozu airborne. He'd follow Gozu up, grabbing the saiyan by his head or hair, bracing his feet against Gozu's lower back, flipping back and throwing him back into the ground, before following him back down and driving a fist into Gozu's back.
If Gozu avoided the initial strike, Shiro would after image behind him, punching the back of his head, and then go through the remainder of the combo.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 14:44:33 GMT -5
6. During the time that Gozu was waiting to see what Shiro would do he had been focusing and locking on to his ki signature. Gozu doesn't get the point of Shiro moving to the left and then right. Then Shiro vanishes again Gozu senses that he moved above him and as Shiro goes for his first strike Gozu will vanish transmitting above Shiro and fires a regular Kamehameha at point blank range.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 15:00:28 GMT -5
Shiro grunted when Gozu releases the attack, which sends him flying into the ground. He forces himself out from under the beam as quickly as possible, and dashes away from Gozu. His legs and back are burned from the attack, but his breathing is close to regular. He starts to charge again as he enters a stance like the one he was in at the start of the battle.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 15:05:04 GMT -5
7. Gozu watches as Shiro dashes away getting in a familiar stance. Wait...that was his opening move right? Gozu thinks thinking back to the first part of their fight. I think so, but all he did was after image. Gozu drops both hands and begins to charge ki into his index and middle fingers on his right hand but Shiro probably won't notice anything.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 15:12:44 GMT -5
Shiro decides to let Gozu attack first this time, and instead keeps charging. This is tougher than I thought. He thought with a frown. I might have to go all out and hope for the best.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 15:16:13 GMT -5
8. He actually stayed still. Gozu thinks as he smiles and lifts his index and middle finger on his right hand. Suddenly everything around Shiro will just explode as he is consumed by the Break Storm.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 15:36:10 GMT -5
Shiro recognized the gesture from the last tournament, too. CRAP! He thought, leaping as high into the air as he could, pushing himself up with a weak ki blast from his feet. He escapes most of the explosions, but his feet and lower legs are caught in the destruction. Great cuts and burns appear on his legs, and he grunts in pain again.
As he floated in the smoke cloud created by the explosions, Shiro slashed again, creating dozens of small ki crescents. These crescents would fly at Gozu and, guided by Shiro, slash at Gozu's face, chest, and ankles.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 15:43:46 GMT -5
9. Gozu watches the smoke intently waiting to see what happens. He saw Shiro jump but he's not sure how much of the attack hit him. Gozu's eyes widen as he sees dozens of fast moving ki crescents fly through the smoke at him. Gozu not knowing that Shiro is controlling them with his mind dashes up over them and flies at Shiro as the smoke clears going to knee him in the gut and then smash him down to the arena below.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 15:48:02 GMT -5
Like Gozu, Shiro can also see through the smoke somewhat, and knows Gozu is coming closer. He abandons his control over the blades and instead raised both hands over his head, quickly charging his ki. As the smoke faded, Shiro brought his hands down, firing the Masenko Ha at the Saiyan's face before he has the chance to knee him anywhere.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 15:53:55 GMT -5
10. Gozu's eyes widen as he flies towards Shiro seeing him raise his arms in the traditional Masenko charging stance. And like Shiro earlier he's moving too fast to simply stop so Gozu does the only thing he knows to do. He starts to slow himself as his aura will flare as he activates his Style of the Dragon technique and manages to halfway cross his arms over his face before Shiro fires the Masenko. Some of the beam makes it to his face however aggravating the burn Gozu suffered earlier in the fight from the eye lasers and the parts of his arms that took the beam are burned a little but not nearly as bad as it could have been due to the defensive boost Gozu got from his Style of the Dragon. Gozu was pushed several feet back from the force of the Masenko. OOC: Style of the Dragon defensive boost
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 16:01:44 GMT -5
Shiro cuts off his Masenko as Gozu slows, and, stupidly ignoring how Gozu's aura flared, dashes to the saiyan's side. He sends his right elbow down at Gozu's back while bringing his right knee up into his stomach. Then he sent his left hand into Gozu's kidney, releasing an uncharged Masenko as the fist moves back.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 16:11:18 GMT -5
11. Gozu keeps his Style of Dragon going through Shiro's attacking taking all of them. He grunts as the Masenko hits his side. With his natural Saiyan endurance being boosted by his Style of the Dragon he was able to take those attacks ok but Gozu knows that he shouldn't take many more combos like that. Gozu's aura will drop as he lets his Style of the Dragon drop. Then as he turns to Shiro, Shiro will see Gozu morph into a wolf and a howl will be heard across the arena as Gozu rushes the few feet over to Shiro with the enhanced speed of Wolf Fang Fist and Gozu will unleash a flurry of fast palm strikes over Shiro's chest area ending the combo with a hard kick to Shiro's gut sending him flying back should it hit.
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 16:25:22 GMT -5
Shiro noticed the wolfen aura surround Gozu and knew what it meant. Crap. Again. Shiro tried to block as many of the strikes as possible, only succeeding with about a third of them. One of these was the finishing kick, which Shiro caught. Shiro began to spin quickly, firing eye lasers at Gozu's groin and face to keep him in too much pain to react. Shiro'd then throw Gozu, chasing after him and flying over, sending a Halfton Punch down to Gozu's stomach.
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Post by Gozu on Jul 9, 2009 16:33:26 GMT -5
12. As soon as Shiro catches Gozu's foot and starts spinning Gozu fires the most powerful beam of ki he can fire from his feet point blank into Shiro's hands this of course destroys the boot on that foot but should be enough to at least make Shiro let him go and forgo using his eye lasers
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Post by Shiro on Jul 9, 2009 16:36:51 GMT -5
Shiro releases his hold on Gozu's leg and flies back, but he does use the eye lasers, at least on Gozu's face. He'd then drop back down to the arena and rest for a moment, shaking his hands slightly to cool them.
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