"Are you sure about this?" Kaname asked. "What if one of the teachers or someone comes around?"
"Nevermind, Miss Chidori," a cultured voice said from behind an embroidered fan. "The challenge has been made and it must be resolved, and the teachers will not move to impose upon our autonomy."
"Uh, right," Kaname said, wondering again at the president's rather blase response to everything that should have seen as being on outward side of insanity.
"I'm ready whenever they are," Naiki said.
"This little girl can't be thinking to take all three of us at the same time," the Karate club said.
"Are you backing out on the challenge then?" Eija asked hopefully.
"Never," another member said. "No member of the Amateur Karate Club would ever so dishonor the honor of our group."
"Then come on," Naiki said waving for the karate club to attack.
"We're waiting for Vice President Chidori to start the match," the third member said.
"Well, um..." Kaname said hesitantly. "Is everybody ready?"
"Hai!" the karate club members declared.
"Oh yeah," Naiki said confidentally.
"Oh kay," Kaname said, shrugging. "Begin!"
At the sound of the word, Naiki launched herself forward, grinning as widely as a shark.
"Now you'll see why I'm named after the goddess of victory," she shouted loudly as she charged into the karate club, her hand flashing out to make her first strike. "Dokuja Tanketsu Shou!"
Her hand snaked past the first fighter's guard to strike him, slightly off target, in the abdomen. Instantly, the huge fighter was doubled over in surprised agony as Naiki, ignoring her accuracy problem on that strike, whirled about in a flashing roundhouse strike that her next target barely ducked under.
The third fighter, no longer hesitating to attack launched forward at the airborne and therefore, to his mind, vulnerable Naiki. Unleashing his foot in an efficient and power-building arc, he smirked as he imagined this girl and her sister serving him and his compatriots everything they requested.
To his surprise, Naiki threw herself upward, anchoring against her own forward momentum. The heavy roundhouse didn't hit solidly, but it still hit.
Grunting as the impact threw her off course, Naiki brought herself to the ground in as graceful a manner as she could before launching back into the fight.
The first fighter was still recovering, and she had to press her advantage now, before they geared up.
One of the two still active karate club members came into her moving low with a feinted snap kick that provoked Naiki into jumping up off the ground and into the path of the reverse backfist.
Eija winced as her sister was slammed in the jaw and forced down into the dirt. Instantly, Naiki was rolling back to her feet, but she was getting angry.
"Oh no," Eija said. "They're better than she thought they'd be."
"She's getting reckless again," Deimosu agreed, sighing.
Eija gave him a look that spoke volumes about what she thought about the irony of him making that comment.
A near-perfect sidekick from Naiki projected the third karate club member more than half the courtyard away, and she followed it up with a flipping dodge leading into a sweep that was geared to take the feet out from under her opponent, but, in her anger, she telegraphed her intent and the karata-ka was out of the way well before she landed.
Then her first opponent was moving into the fight, reaching out to grab Naiki's arms in an attempt to grapple with and nail down the fighting girl's motion.
Naiki growled, and started to pull out of the hold, but immediately noticed that she was going to be too slow to avoid whatever attacks the other two would be coming in with.
"I can't lose!" she thought to herself. "Then Eija and I would be at their command."
Her eyes flashed watery blue as she roared.
"She's not..." Eija said, sighing.
"She is..." Deimosu said nervously. "Hope Mom's nowhere nearby."
Kaname had been watching in outright shock as the girl had been manhandling the three huge fighters, not easily, but certainly showing that she had more skill and power than any one of them. Now, however, as the karate-ka's converged on the momentarily restrained Satomi, something clouded her vision...
~hybrid biological system, intense psychokinetic potential.~
...then she shook her head and it was gone.
"What did you sa..." Kyouko started to ask when it happened.
A quick flash of liquid blue energy erupted outward from Naiki, throwing back all three of the karate-kas and half-blinding all the witnesses.
Immediately in the aftermath, Naiki was standing in the middle of a small circle of charred ground and the three karate-club members were laid out around her.
****
"What was that?" Gauron wondered curiously as he watched the result of the fight.
****
"Ummm," Kagome said, uncertain what to do at this point.
"I believe now is the point that you should call the match," Sousuke said politely.
"Right," Kagome said, getting a bit nervous again as she remembered that the military maniac was right there. "Winner, Naiki."
"She...cheated," one of the karate-kas moaned before passing at.
"Like hell I did," Naiki said, taking a moment to spit some blood out of her mouth. "Now, let's get to class."
Gauron waited quietly and patiently as the students filtered inside and then moved stealthily down to the courtyard, aware of the invisible AS that was somewhere nearby. Acting as quickly as he could, he bent down to take a sample of the blood he'd seen the green-haired girl spit out.
"Could be interesting," Gauron said, leaving the area as quickly as could do so without attracting attention. "But can't get distracted from the Whispered."
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(Posted Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:57)
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