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kyouko sakura || 佐倉 杏子 ([personal profile] seeksherownsalvation) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2013-03-03 07:31 pm

here's my fist, where's the fight?

WHO: Kyouko Sakura ([personal profile] seeksherownsalvation) and Kanaya Maryam ([personal profile] glowsferatu)
WHERE: Downtown, by the High Line.
WHEN: Backdated to the night of February 13th.
WARNINGS: Violence between teenage girls.
SUMMARY: Kyouko succeeds in goading Kanaya into a fight.
FORMAT: Prose to start with.

The food court near the northern end of High Line Park is a medium-sized plaza partly penned in by a tall fence and covered on top by the underside of the elevated park itself. A more narrow walkway and stairs branch off the main body of the park and lead down to the ground level, providing some higher ground nearby. Not far away, buildings crowd in. In other words, it's a mix of moderately open spaces and obstructions: a good place for a mid-range fighter. Kyouko isn't always the sharpest tool in the shed, but when it comes to a fight, she knows what she's doing.

Right now she stands atop one of the picnic tables lined up on one side of the plaza, clad in jeans and a baggy sweatshirt, with no weapon in sight. There's a cocky grin on her face. Or at least, there's a cocky grin on her face when she's not too busy munching on the bag of chocolate-covered pretzel chips she holds in one hand. Either she doesn't take this very seriously, or she brings snacks to every fight.

Actually, it might be both.
glowsferatu: smile (Leave Me Alone Because Im Alright)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-04 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
When Kanaya drops in through one of her portals, it's a little ways off, on the roof. She wants a chance to stalk around, to familiarize herself with the area. She gave her opponent the advantage of choosing the location, but she isn't going to let her anger drop her into a trap. She stays dark as she does, keeping her presence secret until she's ready.

Finally, Kyouko may notice a figure in the dark dropping off the wall nearby as the troll finally marches in, hands balled in fists at her side, head down, glaring ahead. She stops just inside the fence to look Kyouko in the eye, her lip curling slightly. She's got no use for words right now, the look says everything she needs it to.
glowsferatu: smile (Did You Expect Me To Be Impressed)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-04 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanaya straightens her posture, tucking a bang behind her ear. "Think of it as fashionably late. You determined the space, so I decided I would choose the time. But, in so doing, I would hardly think it proper to arrive unprepared."

And with that, she charges in. "Let's hope you've made similar use of your time!"
glowsferatu: smile (Poised For A Confrontation)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-05 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Littering. She won't forget that, not a neat freak like her.

Her charge stalls when she sees Kyouko move, but the transformation is too quick to take advantage of and now a spear's heading in her direction. She holds out her hand to the side and her own weapon suddenly fills it, seemingly from nowhere. There's no need to start the engine, she won't be cutting anything, just knocking the blade headed for her away.

"It certainly does nothing for your manners!" No sooner does she say it than she spreads her hands, pulling glowing green threads from the air, from the ground. She drops through the resulting portal, launching out behind her opponent and aiming a kick at her back.
glowsferatu: smile (Default)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-09 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not especially fond of it in this context, no," she proclaims, sidestepping the lance. Kanaya is fast, very fast in fact, but she's expecting a single point, not the variety she's met with, so two of them on the side come a little closer than she's comfortable with. She swings her chainsaw to deflect them, but that leaves the blade as bound as Kyouko had intended for her.

She gives the cord a few tugs to rev the motor. If she can get the teeth spinning, it may dislodge or even tear through the chain.
glowsferatu: smile (My Love My Anger And All Of My Sorrow)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-10 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanaya pulls the weapon back into her specibus, she doesn't want to use it for much more than defense, and one can't remain on the defensive forever. That isn't easy when her opponent is so unrelenting in her attacks, when she's keeping her distance so insistently. Even as a Hero of Space, Kanaya is much more comfortable fighting in close quarters.

"I was talking," she begins as she sprints forward, hunched down to duck under the approaching spearhead, "about staying still!" Once she's darted close enough, she pulls back her fist and leaps for the tabletop, releasing the blow once she reaches Kyouko.
glowsferatu: glow, rush (Sweet Dream Of Dancing Through The Night)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-14 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
But Kanaya isn't about to lose her advantage. She wants it close, uncomfortably so if she can. She works best when there's something she can hit, something she can grab. She's quick enough to barrage and overwhelm if she tries. Use her opponent's daze, stay in control.

The spear is still an obstacle, grazing past her shoulder so the edges opens a wound. Nothing serious, she can push past the pain. She'll have to go around it in its current defensive configuration, dash to a new angle of approach. She strikes low, a quick jab aimed at Kyouko's ribs.
glowsferatu: fangs, mean (As You Savor The Flavor Of Murder)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-16 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanaya has no intention of slowing. Keeping her assault constant is her best chance of wearing Kyouko down before she can put distance between them, keeping her too busy being knocked around to put up an adequate counter.

She wasn't putting enough thought into the fight to even consider it might have been a feint, her lip is caught right on that hook. Everything powering her right now is adrenaline and fury, her only strategy is hit where there's an opening and keep hitting. It brings her charge to a dead stop as her legs fall out from under her and her chin scrapes against the ground, leaving a green streak.

It takes her a moment to recover, but she wastes no time trying to get to her feet again. She doesn't like being vulnerable, leaving such a window open to be attacked.
glowsferatu: rude (pic#3973568)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-22 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Once Kanaya's back to her feet, she gets a bit of distance to recover, knowing she'll regret it once Kyouko comes back at her. As she wipes the blood from her chin, she can already feel the flesh knitting itself back together. It had been a close miss just a moment ago. She isn't entirely sure whether that was luck or not.

"And just what is that supposed to mean?" she asks and she begins moving again, dashing about plaza in quick bursts, both to make herself a more difficult target and to find a good opening to attack.
glowsferatu: smile (Darkening Of The Light)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-26 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
She tries to skid to a stop, but the barrier's too close, approach it like that and she'll only crash into it. So, instead, she jams up one foot against it to halt her momentum (is that a crunch she feels?) as she kicks off it into a backflip.

It works, for the most part, but when she dashes away from the barrier she seems slower, favoring one foot, teeth gritting every time it hits the ground.

"Who said anything about justice?" she shouts, and if she had the presence of mind to do so, she'd wonder what Terezi would think to see her now, thinking about vengeance again. That's what this was all about, wasn't it? No real lesson, she just wants to make Kyouko hurt because she'd hurt others. Because she was herself hurting. Terezi was gone again, and there's no one to tell Kanaya to stop that she'll actually listen to anymore. "I told you that being 'all messed up' isn't a condition I retain!"

She balls her fists and moves in Kyouko's direction. "Is that where your fears truly lie? Letting others be hurt because you may yourself be harmed in attempting to do anything for them? That anyone would be?" She zig-zags as she closes the distance, trying to disguise her real angle of approach, but it's less effective when she's not at full speed. She's still moving faster than most people ever could, but something in it feels lazier, hardly an impossible target.

"Maybe that's just a weakness on your own part!"
glowsferatu: fangs, mean (People Said That You Were Virtually Dead)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-03-31 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanaya's too focused on her own attack, hurtling her fist toward Kyouko's stomach. She's too close to parry, too preoccupied to make as effective a dodge as she needs. She makes an effort to twist, at least as much as won't take any of the strength from her own blow, but it isn't enough.

The spear tears through her side, leaving a green spray in its wake. The most Kanaya's twisting did was further opening the wound, splitting it to the point where she passes around the spear's point as she collapses to the ground. Huddled on the ground with her fists balled, her teeth gritting, her eyes shut tight, trying to hold back the jade tears that the pain brings. Her whole body shakes.

She can't stay like this. She can't lose, she can't let the pain stop her. The blood is still pouring down from the severe split in her midsection as she fights her way back to her feet, but the furthest she makes is her knees, fists against the granite to hold her steady.

This one won't heal on its own, not quickly.
glowsferatu: fangs, sad (My Throat Was Dry With The Sun In My Eye)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-05 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
Slowly, but surely, she drags herself up, her legs shaking under her, unsure if they have the strength to hold her weight. The wound still pours out, though the pressure has lowered considerably, slowing more to a thick leak than the steady stream it was before. Finally, she manages to summon the strength to put forward to left leg, while her right, painted in a heavy coat of jade, drags behind.

"You...haven't..." She spits her words through gritted teeth, words from a week, rasping voice. She takes a deep breath to gather it again, her lips curling into a mad smile. "You haven't won yet."

She can feel her the flesh and gristle try to stitch itself back together, but it doesn't have the energy it needs, there's not enough power. It needs blood, and she knows just where she intends to get it. Slowly, menacingly, she staggers her way toward Kyouko again.
Edited 2013-04-05 06:17 (UTC)
glowsferatu: glow, mean (Mcfussyfangs It Must Be Then)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-09 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
The hollow feeling in her chest, the throbbing in her side, that same old pressure of addictive hunger in her throat are the only things leaving her standing now. She needs to feed if she's going to keep going, and there's only one meal in sight.

"Elegance...was never...my intention!" she shouts as she sidesteps the spear. Twisting to the side in the process proves to be a mistake, as the difference in direction between her torso and her legs disagrees at the waist, tearing open the small efforts already made to close her wound. The pain travels throughout the right side of her body, and despite her determination to push past it, her hand is a numb mass of pins as it grips the shaft of the weapon extending in front of her with no strength behind it. She compensates by bringing in the left to assist it.

The feeling passes quickly, but as her body overclocks itself to keep her going, the hunger only quickens. Tightening her grip on the spear, she pulls it toward her, hoping to bring its owner with it.
glowsferatu: smile (Barbarism Begins At Home)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-12 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
The spear's sudden slackening doesn't really take Kanaya by surprise, it's a possibility she had considered. The followup is another matter entirely, and she doesn't have a chance to move for a block.

She twists back with the hit, but catches herself with a foot on the good side, the one that isn't throbbing in pain. A hiss rattles through her throat, as she snaps back toward Kyouko, her hands shooting for the upper arms of her opponent as she opens her mouth wide, fangs aimed at her neck.
Edited 2013-04-12 17:44 (UTC)
glowsferatu: smile (Bleaching Your Teeth Smiling Flash)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-16 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
If there's anything wrong with the body itself, the lack of pain, Kanaya has no complaints. It still bleeds the way it should, it still provides the meal she was looking for, slicking her throat and giving her a new vigor. The nerves along her side seem to all fire off at once as she takes her fill, her wound quickly coagulating while the flesh begins to knit itself back together, the tendons in her ankle fitting themselves back into place.

She feels like a new troll again, never so alive as when she revels in her undeath. She's never fooled herself about being a monster, it's just how she directs it that has always been her main priority. It's the stopping that's the hard part, burying the hunger again once it's been set loose. There's always that temptation to keep going, to drain the victim of life until she's taken it all in.

She's fought Kyouko enough, right now she doesn't feel strong enough to fight herself.
glowsferatu: fangs, mean (As You Savor The Flavor Of Murder)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-19 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanaya flies back into a flip to land crouched on all fours about ten feet away. She lets out another hiss, this one higher-pitched than the one before, more vital. An overt threat rather than the last gasp of a dying body she'd made before.

Her eyes are wide and pinned, the look in them wild and mad above with her bloody-toothed snarl. The light she's giving off is the brightest it's yet been, but concentrated and intense, not extending far beyond the edge of her skin. There's no elegance anymore. Her wounds have all healed, but she looks more animalistic, more monstrous.

The only thing keeping her from pouncing in renewed attack is the barrier between them, she's lost herself too much in instinct to even think about using a portal.
glowsferatu: smile (Default)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-23 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
She leans backward, her legs bending, readying. But she doesn't strike yet. "Don't pretend to know what I should be doing. What I am, what I do, you're too small-minded and self-interested to comprehend!"

And then she springs forward, the chainsaw appearing in her hand and roaring to life and she strikes the barrier with it again and again, trying to tear apart the spears that make it up individually if she has to.
glowsferatu: smile (Darkening Of The Light)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-25 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"It's too late for that!" Kanaya continues, shouting through clenched teeth. "I've been a monster and worse for far longer than you've known. I am only what I have to be!"

The weapon is wrenched from Kanaya's hands, and she lets it go. It shattered the barrier already, serving the purposes she had meant for it. It flies across the plaza, embedding its blade into on of the support beams, engine stalling as the teeth try and fail to tear themselves free.

Kanaya then uses her now empty hands to duck into a handplant, flipping into a kick launched toward Kyouko's chest.
glowsferatu: smile (My Love My Anger And All Of My Sorrow)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-04-29 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanaya doesn't seem to notice, her focus has narrowed too tightly. Once her foot connects with its target, she finds herself flipping behind, legs going wide to skid her to a stop before shooting her back again. She brings in one fist to swing as she closes in, the other coming in right behind it. She'll pummel her if she has to.

The creaking only worsens into a groan overhead as the two pillars start leaning against their own wounds.
glowsferatu: thought, wait (pic#5727988)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-05-02 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Kanaya has only moments to respond, but she wastes them taking in just what's happening. Later, she'll look back on this and think about how she could have better responded, how she could have opened herself a portal or even just run, or, better yet, paid some damn attention to the damage they were doing to the environment around them.

She will think all of this, but not yet. For now, she'll be too busy getting caught under the rubble of the falling High Line.
glowsferatu: smile (Default)

[personal profile] glowsferatu 2013-05-05 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a few minutes before Kanaya's able to dig herself out, and by then Kyouko's long gone. She's sore everywhere, but particularly in her arm, hanging like a length of taffy at her side. Taking a look around the park, she thinks that she could have probably managed this much better. Maybe if she'd actually planned this somewhat instead of just charging in headfirst.

There are sirens moving in her direction. She'll take care of Kyouko later. ...Some time. Hopefully something will have been learned from this other than just how crazy Kanaya herself is, though there's little confidence that this lesson really served any ultimate purpose.

Kanaya pulls in her glow and disappears into the night. This whole thing has just been a mess, and she has an arm to attend to.