[Round 1] Stella Gale vs. Tous Shinjiko

VS.

Description: Located in an open-roof stadium is the ring where the first round fights will be taking place. The sound of wild cheering from the many fans that have congregated here fill the arena in a loud uproar as cameras zoom in on the action to broadcast the fights all over the world. The floor of the arena is a glossy hard floor with the logo of GTB painted in purple and pink upon the white sheen.

Field Measurements: The fighting area is a perfect circle with a 50 yard diameter. The walls that keep the fighters away from the spectators are raised up to ten feet.

Ten Count Boundary: The ten count begins whenever the fighter is knocked out of the bounds of the fighting area, such as into the spectator seats. The flying count out is also in effect, which means, if you stay above ground by your own will for more than ten seconds, you will be DQ'd.

Fight Ends: After 11:59 PM on Jun 22nd. That means when it becomes Jun 23rd, fights are over.

The noise of the crowd died down, thousands of beady eyes centered on the door opposite of Archie's entrance. Every single breath in the stands was bated, hearts racing in the silence of the arena. After a few painful moments of anxiety, the door slid open, billowing with clouds of smoke.

As the smoke cleared, the crowd would notice that the one who came through the door was... no one! It was empty!

The audience went into a wild commotion, arguing amongst themselves. They came all the way out here and paid for overpriced tickets because they wanted to see a fight!

**"HA HA HA HA! WIPEOUT!"**

The crowd was caught astray as the speakers boomed with the Beach Boys, looking around confusedly. If that was a fighter's entry music, then where was the fighter?

A powerful western wind began to blow, making most of the audience hold onto their hair and hats. Something could be seen just over the top of the stadium.

"Up there!" a few in the stands shouted, and pointed to the skies.

It was Stella Gale, surfing over the tall west wall of the arena. Balanced to hang ten on the edge of a giant, open fan, she soared just over the heads of the crowd, skillfully riding her fan like a surfboard on the wind.

The crowd cheered and roared in excitement as she flew, quieting only as she began to descend to the stone arena below. Stella crouched on her fan to grab an end before sliding off onto the arena, across from Archie.

With a swing of her arm, Stella's fan closed shut, and she locked in the tiny surfing fin on it's underside. The blonde fae grinned as she looked at Archie, her ears wiggling with anticipation. Dressed in a cut-off blue shirt and jeans, she cocked her head back slightly, leaning on her 4-foot-tall fan.

"You ready to get this thing started, dude?"

In the silent stillness that the arena had become, Stella's attention was taken by the lone clapping of her opponent. Gracefully, the Summer Fae bowed her head in thanks for his kind applause. Stella's own unique version of windsurfing seemed to be surefire appeal to the crowd.

While leaning on her fan with one arm, she rolled the opposite palm of her hand along her forearm, feeling the smoothness of the string of pearls that was wrapped around it. Stella had three of these long strings-- one on each arm, and one wrapped loosely around her neck. The smooth touch of the pearls seemed to calm the fae's brief nerves.

Enigma20 Wrote:

> "Indeed I am. Lets give these people a good show."

"Exactly what I was thinkin'," Stella answered, with a charismatic wink. Rolling back her shoulders and giving her chest a readied shimmy, the Fae's ocean-blue eyes were centered on Archie.

"Letting me have the first go, are you? Quite the gentleman," Stella commented, as she took a single side-step closer to her opponent. "Have at you, then!"

A charge! Stella took off directly toward Archie, holding her large Tessen Fan with both hands on her right side. Feeling the wind under her stride, Stella's heels hardly grazed the ground, bounding quickly from sole to sole on the balls of her feet. It seemed as if the wind was making Stella go faster than she was naturally able.

As soon as the end of her Tessen Fan would be in reach of his skin, Stella swung forward, sweeping with her closed metal fan from (Stella's) right to left, trying to bludgeon Archie from his left shoulder. She swung it as if it were a baseball bat, pivoting on her feet as she nearly slid by his side on the arena floor.

[Post 1]

Synopsis:

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Equipment Remaining: Strings of Pearls- 3 Fireworks- 8

Enigma20 Wrote:

> As the giant fan started to move Archie was starting a shift to his right, and with that a small correction would be made. Shifting his weight just enough, he would use the force of her blow to get him in front of her. As the swing came up, Archie lifted his left arm in the air with the baton still against it. BANG! The two objects hit each other.

Stella's fan smashed abruptly against his baton, sufficing as a parry from Archie. He'd used the fae's own attack's momentum to place him in a suitable position to attack.

"Clever..." Stella murmured amidst their battle, keeping her strength behind her fan. She slid to a stop on the concrete, and was now met face-to-face with Archie. Stella kept her blue eyes focused on her opponent-- she dare not take them off.

Enigma20 Wrote:

> As his right knee bent, his opponent was right in front of him. "Hello love." Straightening back out his knee, Archie brought his right arm up in a hook type motion for his opponent's face. Of course if it hit there would be the added pain of having a baton smashed into her face since it was still against his right arm.

He'd reared his arm directly in front of her, giving Stella very little time to react. However, it was enough to slide her right hand down the length of the fan (toward the top), keeping her left hand at the base. She raised her right hand, along with the fan, leaving the right side slightly higher than the left, which was about at (her) neck-level.

**"...But not good enough!"**

Stella's fan was both an offensive and defensive weapon, and she intended to use it as such. Pushing her fan with both arms, she took a step forward on her left foot, hoping to meet his hook-and-baton assault with the blunt force of her fan against his right forearm and the length of the baton.

Hoping that the force would knock him off balance directly in front of her, Stella kept her weight on her left leg, and reared her right knee slightly. Pivoting her hips to get a full rotation, Stella thrust her right leg up at his side, hoping to knee him in the ribs.

[Post 2]

Synopsis:

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Equipment Remaining: Strings of Pearls- 3 Fireworks- 8

Stella's knee rammed against the rod due to Archie's last-moment defense, sending a sharp pain through her knee. Keeping her fan in a protective position to defend herself if need be, she stumbled back a few steps, further separating the two fighters. Stella expected to see a bruise there later, but gathered that nothing was broken as she regained her balance.

Enigma20 Wrote:

> "Not bad. But the show is just getting started."

The fae was smirking wide, and twirled the large fan around her hand, making it shrink in size, to the size of a normal hand-held fan. "You betcha~," Stella hummed, with a wide grin on her face. Putting her fan between her lips, Stella's right hand dug into the pouch on the belt of her jeans, pulling out a small orb. Upon closer inspection, it appeared to have a wick at the top, much like a candle.

She raised the orb in the palm of her right hand, and raised her left hand to it. Putting her thumb and middle finger together, she snapped! Focusing her energy in her fingertips to use her Summer Spark, flames surged from the friction on her skin, like a blade striking a flint.

*FEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEW!*

The string of the orb suddenly caught alight, and the orb began to hiss loudly! Gritting her fan between her teeth, Stella reared back on her right foot, before stepping forward with the left and chucking the smoking orb directly at Archie, as if she were pitching a baseball.

Directly after throwing the orb, Archie would be able to realize what it was within a matter of moments. It was a firework, a trademark of the Summer Fae. Stella loved how summer nights were alight with these incendiary treasures, and incorporated that into her display in the arena. However, being so close proved to be dangerous sometimes, and Stella took precaution by shielding her eyes with her arm, and turned her head away.

*KA-BOOM!*

The firework exploded promptly after hitting the ground, directly in front of where Archie was standing. The glowing sparks went flying in a grand explosion, so much light filling the arena that it was blinding.

Stella hoped that Archie hadn't gotten too injured... after all, there was still so much fun to be had. After the light died, Stella took the fan back into her hands, looking back into the smoke and sparks as they fell for any sign of Archie.

[Post 3]

Synopsis:

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Equipment Remaining: Strings of Pearls- 3 Fireworks- 7

For battle reference (if needed):

Quote: Wrote:

> ___Great Fan > Length: Four feet (when at full size) > Weight: 15 lbs (when at full size) > Info: Stella uses the fan as both a blunt bludgeoning weapon as well as the aide for her wind attacks. Normally, the fan is only eight inches long, until Stella awakens it with her energy and allows it to grow to its four foot length, and can just as easily be shrunken back down to its more convenient size.

Quote: Wrote:

> ___Fireworks > Length: 2-inch circumference (orb-shaped) > Weight: n/a > Quantity: 8 (per battle) > Info: Stella keeps a stash of fireworks in a pouch on her belt, each shaped like an orb with a small string coming out of the top. When she uses her Summer Spark to light the fuse, it takes approximately five seconds for the firework to ignite and explode. Stella either throws these at her opponent, or gusts them away with her fan (the light is not put out since the flame is usually inside the orb by that time). > > The fireworks explode in a 4-foot radius from the center of the incendiary into a large sphere that lasts for a few moments before it fades. The effects of being too close to the firework upon explosion could include burns and fire damage, a loud noise that might require the opponent to cover their ears or experience ringing in the ears, and temporary loss of sight due to blinding. > > If an opponent wields fire or incendiaries of their own, Stella may detach the pouch from her belt to keep them from going off while on her person.

Quote: Wrote:

> *Summer Spark* > > Stella is in the midst developing control over fire, but cannot create more than a spark at this time in her training. By snapping her fingers, Stella creates sparks, much like striking a flint. > > She normally only uses this to light her fireworks, which she keeps in a pouch on her jeans.

((So I blew up my opponent with a firework. That should mean I win.))

As the firework's glittering flames subsided, Stella noticed that her previous opponent had done nothing short of vanish. And in his wake stood another, whom the Fae could only gather was her true opponent. Subtly, she dipped her hand into the pouch near her hip. "So, Archie ran off with his tail between his legs, eh?" Stella said aloud, with an amused giggle. "Then let the fun begin again!"

Withdrawing another firework, Stella took the proximal space between them as an opportunity. Holding the wick to her thumb and middle finger, she made a loud snapping sound with her hand. Embers flew from her fingertips and caught the string that emerged from the firework, lighting the wick with her Summer Spark. Just as it had done previously with Archie, the firework began to smoke and hiss in her hand as she reared back to throw it.

*FEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEW!*

Lobbing it high overhead, Stella aimed for it to fall directly in front of the dual-wielding swordsman, hoping to catch him in the burst as she had once hoped for Archie.

*KA-BOOM!*

Stella shielded her eyes from the blinding blast with her wide Tessen Fan, until the initial flash subsided. Afterward, she kept her trusted weapon at the ready for her next attack.

[Post 1 Redux]

Synopsis:

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Equipment Remaining: Strings of Pearls- 3 Fireworks- 6

For battle reference (if needed):

Quote: Wrote:

> ___Fireworks > Length: 2-inch circumference (orb-shaped) > Weight: n/a > Quantity: 8 (per battle) > Info: Stella keeps a stash of fireworks in a pouch on her belt, each shaped like an orb with a small string coming out of the top. When she uses her Summer Spark to light the fuse, it takes approximately five seconds for the firework to ignite and explode. Stella either throws these at her opponent, or gusts them away with her fan (the light is not put out since the flame is usually inside the orb by that time). > > The fireworks explode in a 4-foot radius from the center of the incendiary into a large sphere that lasts for a few moments before it fades. The effects of being too close to the firework upon explosion could include burns and fire damage, a loud noise that might require the opponent to cover their ears or experience ringing in the ears, and temporary loss of sight due to blinding. > > If an opponent wields fire or incendiaries of their own, Stella may detach the pouch from her belt to keep them from going off while on her person.

Stella's eyes widened as her opponent stumbled, the glint in her eye shone as if it were the sun reflecting on the ocean. Pushing off on the balls of her feet, the Fae rushed forward, through the smoke and embers of the firework that were floating to the ground like smoldering feathers. Holding her fan against her right side, Stella charged forward, closing the proximal gap between her and Tous.

Feeling the wind under her heels, the Fae was concentrating her energy on sprinting forward. With that application, she summoned the wind behind her to make her go faster, making use of her Fae Step technique.

Just before she'd be within striking range of the stumbling swordsman, the Fae raised her knee higher in stride, creating an updraft with her energy. It was as if she used the wind as a step, pushing off of the draft to go upward. Once she'd taken two steps upward, she adjusted her trajectory with a jump, letting her torso drop and her legs rise to do a cartwheel (with no hands) directly over Tous.

Pulling with her left arm and pushing with her right, Stella swung her fan at her opponent just after she cleared his head above, trying to strike his skull and back with her Tessen Fan.

Stella, being proficient in acrobatics due to her limber structure and advanced control of the wind, landed on her feet facing Tous' back (should he still have been facing the same direction as previous), letting her knees absorb the shock of the landing. She recovered by holding her fan in front of her, and widened her stance to regain balance.

[Post 2]

Synopsis:

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Equipment Remaining: Strings of Pearls- 3 Fireworks- 6

Elapsed flight time: Approximately 2-3 seconds.

For battle reference (if needed):

Quote: Wrote:

> *Fae Step* > > Fae are able to move quickly or fly for very short amounts of time depending on the sort of elemental affiliations they possess. Stella can direct the wind with her body when she supports only herself, and does not require the use of her fan. > > By manipulating the wind downward, she can support herself midair for a maximum of ten seconds, and cannot travel higher than eight feet above the ground. > > Stella also manipulates the wind behind her to give her an extra, constant push while running. She is usually able to outrun fast humans, but may only equate to or be unable to measure up to otherworldly beings with developed speed.

Cheeky little bastard, wasn't he? Trying to cut her off as she stunned the crowd with her amazing acrobatics? Stella couldn't have that now, could she?

As the Fae began her ascent and witnessed the quick drawing of his sword, as well as the unveiling of his convincing play-acting of being blinded by her firework. "How very clever," she thought.

Stella was not stunned that his sunglasses had protected him from the light. However, she was genuinely surprised that the loud sound had created no auditory discomfort for him, and would later gather that he had not sustained any burns from being so close in proximity to the blast. Perhaps next time.

Anyway-- back to the action.

When Stella previously ran (as mentioned in post two, for reference), she had kept her long Tessen Fan on her right side, and was in an easily adjustable position for the Fae to defend herself-- especially from the right. Thus, Stella did nothing less than that.

Watching his sword be unsheathed, Stella maneuvered her fan in front of her leg (in the blade's path) and pushed against it, wishing to keep her limbs intact. That's all a girl could ever ask for, right?

WRONG.

Stella was the Fae of Summertime, embracing the season and everything about it-- fireworks extravaganzas, blazing heat and cooling winds, surfing, and especially the prized summer bikini. And Tous thought he could come in here and jeopardize Stella's prized bikini bodice?

AW, HELL NO. }:<

So what was in Stella's jurisdiction of things she could ask for? To have Tous be dragged off by his medics by the time this was over, for one. In a body bag, even, if she was lucky. But being modest, after all, she digressed.

--end fluff--

Seeing as he'd cut off her ascent before she could be able to get over his head, Stella opted for less of an acrobatic approach. If his sword liked the Fae's lovely legs so much, she bet his face would adore them. If his nose didn't bleed because of the opportunistic and lewd view, it would be gushing from her assault. She kept the sword at bay with her fan, for the moment.

Directly in front of him, she allowed the wind to subside, letting gravity and momentum carry her forward at Tous, raising her knee to collide with the center of his face.

Let's just say the least of his worries would be needing a new pair of shades.

[Post 3]

Synopsis:

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Equipment Remaining: Strings of Pearls- 3 Fireworks- 6

Elapsed flight time: Approximately 3-4 seconds overall. Flight concluded.

[.:] OoC: Just for clarification and the record. Yes, the sunglasses did help defend against the light, but it was not just the sunglasses. The eyes switched to a 'reverse heat vision' which picks up energy displacement around the opponent and of the opponent themselves. Giving a decent picture of where things are and such.

As for the radius... the blade of my sword is longer than four feet. Blast is only four feet. I cut the firework in half, lessening its power at best. As for the bang... as stated it at that point wouldn't/shouldn't be any louder than a gunshot. Out of the radius is why there were no burns too... kinda goes hand in hand...

Fae, if you need something explained just PM me. [:.]

[.:] You never stated the power of the bang, and yes a gunshot is loud and yes I've shot guns before. I could be a dink and say its the sound of a .22 which is barely anything to get hurt by in terms of sound. I didn't ignore it, you just didn't explain and I can only go off what you post.

I'm sorry its beyond you, but its possible. You didn't say if you threw it like a fastball, or a curveball or simply lobbed it. A lobbing throw is more or less what I went with, and the fact that hitting a small object isn't impossible is why I did what I did. If a small rock can be hit by a thin stick in mid air, A 2 inch item could be sliced in two... and its gaia... a mixture of reality physics and anime physics.

Again, my PM box is always open. [:.]