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 Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:01 pm
So far, tonight had been uneventful for the dark-skinned page. Not even the shadow of a youma in sight.
Just when she'd wanted to beat something up, too. Life was so unfair sometimes, really.
She found herself deviating from her usually route toward a place that she rather hated on principle - bars. Unlike teens her age, Hesperis wanted nothing to do with drinking or the party scene, if only out of principle.
It was when that she felt that energy - that chaotic aura she had felt once before. Negaverse.
Probably up to no good.
She eventually found the source after a few minutes, a blonde-haired woman dressed in black and reds.
"Stop right there !" She pointed her staff much like if it had been a sword, down from her vantage point on the roof.
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Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:10 pm
"Oh, my." The blonde glanced up, from where she appeared to be... embracing? kissing? something? another woman, to catch sight of the blue-clad girl above. In truth, she was draining the energy of the flirtatious girl, who'd had the misfortune of picking the wrong [or right, considering many Negaverse agents would simply have taken her star seed] girl to latch onto.
Letting go of the brunette, who stumbled a bit in a swoon and put a hand against the wall of the alley, Lieutenant Howlite stepped away, slipping a small orb of energy into a pocket inside her coat. Wouldn't do to lose it, after all.
"I'll have to catch up with you later, doll. Have an excellent evening." A flash of a bright grin for the confused, tired woman, and the blonde calmly began to stroll away, out of the alley and around the corner, as if the page above was of no consequence.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:51 am
...Chick on chick. Augh. She had nothing against it really, people do what they'd like...
But the idea of a chick kissing her kind of made her skin crawl. But maybe the other chick had no idea she was kissing a chick. She looked drunker than hell. Stupid a** drunks.
...Wait ?
What ?
Now the blonde was heading off like she damn well owned the place. Ignoring her.
Excuse me ?
Hesperis leaped down then right in front of Howlite.
"Not so fast here."
And then she swinged to try to hit the midsection.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:49 am
There was one thing consistant about the 'good guys', it seemed.
They never knew how to leave 'well enough' alone.
A wide grin flashed onto her freckled face as Hesperis pursued her [in fact, Howlite would've been surprised if she hadn't], and the tall lieutenant jumped back, briefly on her tiptoes with her stomach sucked in to narrowly miss a strike from... A glow stick? Or whatever that was.
Senshi didn't carry weapons, as a general rule, she'd been told, which meant that this brightly clad girl was one of those new folk. Knights? Whatever she was, her power signature was on par with Howlite's.
Time to see if her combat skills were, as well.
The blonde aimed a swift, hard-booted kick toward the outside of Hesperis' left thigh. A few of those in a row had been known to crack a femur or two. Of course, that was against a human. Senshi, Knights, and Negas were made of sterner stuff.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:59 am
Hesperis continued her motion even as she missed, but that didn't save her - Howlite's kick hit home with surprising strength and it was only her staff that kept her upright as she reamed it into the ground.
God damn, this girl was hitting like a truck. The other one had whacked her pretty hard, but not like a god damn semi.
It seemed like negaverse agents, much like those of all factions, were not all made equal as far as fighting was concerned.
Maybe it was a little more fun that way. Certainly made her adrenaline rush just right.
She knew she couldn't focus on the pain, so she did her best to ignore it, and tried to mount another assult. Maybe if she could knock the other girl off her feet maybe she'd gain some sort of advantage...
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:10 am
The staff stung, but it seemed that the Negaverse built their agents to stand a beating. Howlite found herself pleasantly surprised, used to being hit on the body [most of her energy went to protecting the head from knockout blows], and wasn't deterred, shifting to try and close the gap between them.
She followed with a jab and cross, sending her fast flying fists directly toward Heperis' exposed areas. Organs didn't like punches, that was certain.
The blonde said nothing, her dark eyes now focused on a new goal: Beating Hesperis into submission.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:17 am
If the situation had been to her advantage, Hesperis would have been more than happy to gloat some.
But she was still testing the waters, so to speak. This definitively wasn't like how her pervious fight with an agent had gone. But then, the other girl had been roughly her age.
This one, now that she was getting a good look, seemed older.
She rose her staff to block one hit, but didn't react quickly enough for the second. but it didn't hit directly where Howlite had aimed it thanks to her target moving.
Still hurt like a b***h. through.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:23 am
Now the girl was on the defensive, blocking rather than striking with her staff. Howlite liked that, a slight, unfriendly smile curving her wide mouth. The staff, of course, was too long to be incredibly useful this close, her fists much faster than the blue weapon.
She continued to follow through, pairing another quick jab, aimed for the chin, with another side kick, to the same thigh. Why aim for a fresh location, when it did more damage to continue and strike the same spot? People were more likely to protect an area already hurt, which opened them up to alternate attacks.
An uppercut, toward the jaw. Girls usually hated being hit in the fact, so Howlite made sure to go for it.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:44 am
The girl might as well have been moving like a blur as far as Hesperis was concerned. She never fought this close if she could help it, and it was indeed harder to maneuverability her staff with that little space to do it in.
There were little warning signals starting to fire up telling her that this might not be the best idea she'd ever had, but they were still utterly drowned by adrenaline.
God damn, this girl was hitting like a semi.
Her staff suddenly vanished - she seemed to have finally figured out that her weapon was disadvantageous, and went to fists herself, through the last uppercut knocked her back before she could do much of anything.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:55 am
"'Atta girl," Howlite murmured as Hesperis did away with her weapon, almost as if they were sparring, and her training partner had just smartened up.
Despite her friendly tone, Howlite's leg snapped out again, as the page stumbled backward, to deliver yet another hard kick to the thigh. It seemed as if she was done with fists, and also done playing.
Go home before I knock you out.
She was young, and overeager. Howl didn't need to win battles to feel content with herself, and if the page made a break for it.... The lieutenant would let her go.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:01 pm
This time, her leg buckled.
It got a scream - both surprise and pain - out of the page, who went down without much more chances. God damn this hurt.
Hesperis liked to think she was tolerant of pain (she's broken herself in more ways that she could remember, after all) but this was a whole different beast entierely. She could take the pain, sure, but when she was falling off a ramp there wasn't someone who could beat the snot outta her right there.
She needed to get away, it seemed evident.
But the question was, would the blonde let her.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:07 pm
Howlite followed her down, instinctually, fist poised to strike the girl's temple and end things. Instead, she stopped, dark eyes flicking over her features, and pulled her fist back.
Rising from where she'd crouched, on one knee, her hand grabbed Hesperis' forearm, pulling the girl up, and speaking to her, quietly. Privately.
"Get out of here."
The blonde glanced away, then, toward the chaos energy signatures they could both feel, and stepped back, shifting to watch the page leave, before turning to run and jump onto a ledge, making her way toward a roof in the opposite direction.
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:13 pm
If she hadn't already been convinced to hightail it, this new aura would have convinced her.
She made her way out the second Howlite let her go, through the buckled leg was limping, and she had to summon her staff again to use as an impromptu walking aid.
Embarassing, yes, but Hesperis was running out of dodge, seething all the while.
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