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Wandering Dog The crowd cheers as another exciting MECC battle begins. In the interest of both competitors being mobile martial artists, the 'field' is a series of pillars as platforms, to jump between and use as leverage. Entering the arena, leaping to his starting pillar, and taking place, Wandering Dog nods to Note.

"Good luck!" The 'you'll need it' is left silent.

The martial artist charges up, waiting for the bell to ring, and then, as soon as it does, leaps off the pillar. He glides through the air with a sudden spinning kick, moving to impact into Note and try and knock her off the pillar at the very beginning.

"If you can't keep up with this, you shouldn't even be competing!"
Note     On her own end of the pillar, Note emerges from a gateway that vanishes in her wake. She... comes up, maybe, to Wandering Dog's stomach. her eyes might just meet his belly button. She's OUTRAGEOUSLY short, and with that cute ribbon tied to a bow to hold her ponytail in place, it might be easy to overlook the loose-fitting martial artists combat gear she's otherwise wearing. It might even be easy to overlook the strange monkey tail that sways about freely behind her for those first few steps.

    With the crowd cheering though, she does clap her hands together, stand straight, and bow respectfully towards her opponent. Eagerness gleams in the young girl's eyes. Her whole body's twitching like a coiled spring. She's RARING TO GO!

    "Like--WIIIIIIIISE?!" Before Note's even had much of a chance to say anything, Wandering Dog's in her face immediately. Her eyes go wide. She faces the assault head-on, though, falling instantly into a practiced, well-balanced defensive stance and raising an arm to catch the impact.

    BAM. The leg strikes her raised forearm, and the impact's THUNDEROUS to say the last. It's like Wandering Dog just slammed his foot into a PILLAR. Note's stance doesn't shift at all, despite a strained gasp from her. She's pushed back across the ground, skidding hard. Her arm trembles, certainly in great pain from that impact.

    "Oh please. It'll take way more than that to decide the match. Don't underestimate me just 'cuz I'm small!" Note brings both of her arms to her waist, confidence surging across her face...

    The platform briefly trembles as the air warms with currents of flowing energy. The power she's putting off begins to rapidly skyrockets and then--

    KRAKOOOM! The platform under her SHATTERS into chunks of rubble, half of which are pulverized to dust by an unseen wind. She still hovers atop ground zero of the crater though, with golden energy storming up around her. In an instant it becomes a raging aura that waves this way and that, hoisting her hair skywards and splitting it into an array of spikes that shift to a golden-blonde hue glowing with an inner light. Now-green eyes narrow fiercely at Wandering Dog...

    And in the very next blink, she's right up there in front of him, plunging a perfectly clenched fist towards his gut as though rocket propelled. There were no footsteps involved - it's pretty clear that she is in fact FLYING, if staying low to the platform.
Wandering Dog Well, she's certainly a martial artist like Wandering Dog heard. The old man in his tunic moves to slide down to the platform. "Heh, nice trick!" He needs to see what else she can do, and then...she explodes with golden energy and transforms, destroying the pillar and forcing Dog to jump to one behind him.

For a second Dog wonders if she's a Solar, but it must just be some bullshit off-world transformation. Note narrows at him, and in a blink, is moving to punch Dog in the gut.

Enhancing his body with essence, Dog speeds up, and his arms move to block the hit. Black tiger stripes coat over them, soaking up the damage as he slides to the edge of the pillar. "Alright, now that was pretty cool. But let me show you...Tiger Style."

Black essence creeps through Dog's body, hardening around his fingers into claws, as he leaps off the pillar and moves to pounce onto Note, trying to claw into her. It's a stronger attack, one of a supernatural martial artist. The claws swipe inwards, moving to try and draw blood and break that hard skin with superhuman ability.
Note     When Note's fist meets an obstacle as hard as she'd just presented to Wandering Dog... part of her sings with delight. She can't help it at this point! A big grin plays across her face, with just a few shades of good-natured bloodlust. Even though there's absolutely no malice on display, this girl CLEARLY likes to hit things... and maybe even take a few in return.

    With Dog almost repeating her own skidding maneuver, Note lands in the space he vacated and dramatically takes a guarded stance to show off for the crowd!

    Only to then... frown, as her Ki senses tingle, feeling something WEIRD shifting in her opponent. Not that she can't SEE it too. "Black..?!" She's seen Ki take on several colors before. but BLACK is new! And ferociously worrisome. Still... she inhales in the bits of seconds she has to react.

    Whitish energy whorls around her hands as she opens her fists into claw hands of her own, the energy swirling and coaelscing into a stylistic ethereal wolf's head around her. "So that's how you wanna do it... alright, you're on!"

    Most people would probably RUN if they saw what was coming at Note right now. But Note... dives head-first into the fray with a hand that quite literally HOWLS. "WOLF FANG FIST!" Fingernails gleaming with focused, ripping Ki, she nimbly swerves her body to avoid the worst of Wandering Dog's swipe. It carves a nasty gash across her side, drawing blood - but far from enough blood. That was in no way a decisive strike, despite a hiss of pain from the girl.

    And she lashes out with fierce strike for the gut again, using her tiny size to her advantage for placing that blow!
Wandering Dog Wandering Dog's hits aren't as true as he wanted, but Note's own fingernail ki attack rips into his stomach, damaging the tunic and drawing blood. It doesn't get far into his gut, but it's worse than the blow he just did to her, as the martial artist staggers, breathes, and suddenly, throws his right leg forward, moving to trip Note up.

And then, with a two-hand claw strike, Wandering Dog moves to /tackle/ Note off the pillar, trying to bring her falling off the side and into the side of another one. Who knows what's at the bottom of these pillars, except it's probably not fun, so remaining airborne or on the side of the pillars should be everyone's top priority if this succeeds!
Note     The one-two blow does its job. Note WHUFFS as the knee catches her in the everything, forcing air from her lungs and leaving her briefly vulnerable. The second blow sends her soaring horizontally off the edge of the pillar and towards another. She crashes THROUGH it with a mighty impact that swould break the bones of most people. The column the platform rests on shakes, creaks, and... begins to break over... and yet....

    With another thunderous crack of Ki and a ferocious kiai, Note bursts from the rubble just as it's beginning to fall...

    Floating right there in the air.

    It would seem that this arena, which is a nightmare for any groundbounders, offers anyone who can FLY a distinct advantage. And fly, she very well can. Although bleeding from the claw wounds, and breathing hard, she's still grinning up a storm as she rises higher and higher up until reaching eve level with Wandering Dog.

    "Hehehehehe... pretty good. REALLY good! But what're you gonna do about THIS?!"

    Removing her slightly bloodied hands from the wound, Note aims both of them forward at Wandering Dog... and power grows there. A bluish-white sphere gleams into view, grows larger.... and then--

    Fragments into dozens of smaller blasts that rain down in rapid fire staccato all around and straight at Wandering Dog, exploding on contact with enough force to crack the footing!
Wandering Dog As Note flies, Wandering Dog pushes off her, leaping to another pillar. But as he does so, Note flies up, creates a massive blast, and explodes it into multiple small ones. They impact with Wandering Dog as he moves to block his arms, frying against them, burning holes into him, and eventually breaking his guard and knocking into his chest. He almost falls off, but he spits blood instead, and decides to perform another maneuver.

Swiping through the air, he suddenly leaps up, and then from mid-air, pounces in a diagonal line. It comes straight for Note, moving to grapple onto her in mid air and start clawing into her over and over again and keep up the pressure. "Hahaha, think flying's an obstacle for me? Think again!"
Note     What is this person?! He withstood all those blasts!? That's what's written all over Note's face as she balks in pure amazement at Wandering Dog's fortune - whether by luck or prowess, all of the explosions made it hard to tell!

    "What kind of technique--iiiiiiiiiiiyaghkk--!!" There's no time to question it. Note throws up her arms in a vain attempt to fend off the clawing. Now that he's got a grip on her though, she's just thrashing around as more and more blows strike home!

    In all of that pain... an idea strikes. She GRABS ON RIGHT BACK, lets out a mighty roar... and cranks up her flight speed to maximum, aiming STRAIGHT FOR A PLATFORM. Then another. And Another.

    Yeah. That's the plan. Slam him through everything.
Wandering Dog Note flies. She slams Wandering Dog from platform to platform to platform, tearing him apart, bloodying him up, and eventually, dislodging him at the wall. He lands on it. He sticks to it. He breathes, in and out.

"FACE MY FINISHER! SLIPPERY INK FLURRY!"

Wandering Dog bounds off the platform, back to Note. Oily essence flows through his hands, causing them to almost blur as they start striking into her. They move to weave around blocks or grabs, and hit her as many times as possible before Dog starts to fall.
Note     "Ink?!" What kind of martial arts technique involves INKY FINGERS?! Note's bewildered to the point of not even being sure how to DEFEND against such a thing. Even after rebounding from the final impact and beginning to float away, ready to finish this fight as she's growing ever more desperate.

    Of course, it's just not that easy. It's never that easy. With a shriek, she goes full turtle, pumping energy into her limbs to boost their resilience as she moves like lightning trying to outmaneuver the slippery strikes. Fat lot of good THAT does though. She's pulverized by blow after blow despite moving like a whirlwind, and ultimately flung away from Wandering Dog. Outfit a wreck. Bruised and battered. Breathing raggedly.

    And yet... no, she's NOT done.

    With a heaving deep breath despite the pain, Note braces herself in the air and BRAKES her descent with a mighty WHOOSH of energy. "Not going down... I'm NOT going DOWN YET!"

    A surge of power ripples through her body, causing her tiny frame to beef up ever so slightly with additional muscle mass. It's subtle, considering how lean her physique is to begin with... but her power simply rockets up even higher and her aura billows outwards to five times its previous size, thickening and roiling like a barely-contained thunderstorm. Torrents of opaque golden energy swirl about wildly as her spiky hairstyle splits and broadens further... and she draws both hands to her side, palms opposing one another.

    "Right back at you... with a KAAAAAA MEEEEE HAAAAA MEEEEEE---" Each word of the chant is accompanied by power in her hands growing ever brighter. A bluish-white sphere of compressed energy, crammed down into a tiny point. There's no telling just how hard one has to work to be able to generate this kind of energy...

    "---HAAAAA!!" And, thrusting her hands forward, with Wandering Dog right in the path of them, she unleashes all that power in one colossal OUTPOURING. A pulsing, pumping wave of blinding blue-white!
Wandering Dog Wandering Dog lands on a platform. It's about to explode, though, because a Kamehameha wave is coming. Wandering Dog breathes in, and then puts out his arms in a guard. "PATH FOUR!"

The Kamehameha wave engulfs Wandering Dog. It rips his clothes apart, fries him...and, in the end, doesn't take him down.

His body is entirely metal, when the smoke clears, the man dressed only in his pants, his metal body exposed. Metal skin burns and smokes, as the Wandering Dog, in a ragged movement, leaps up one last time for Note as she flies there, and moves to slam a powerful metal hand into her face and send her careening down to the ground. "THIS IS IT!"
Note     Pouring all that energy into ONE BIG BEAM is quite an endeavor for an adult. When you're half that size and already straining everything with a transformation that demands more stamina than any kid has a right to possess... it leaves Note winded. Her semi-transformation abrubtly deflates, the pumped-up muscles going right back to how they were before and spiky hair locks tightening back up some as she dangles in th e air, struggling to stay aloft for a few precious breaths.

    Because her senses tell her what her eyes cannot: her opponent is still standing, and still able to fight.

    Despite her best efforts though, the guard she puts up when Wandering Dog takes another flying leap at her just doesn't have the strength to fend him off. Perhaps if he was flesh..

    But it's a different story when you're suddenly MADE OUT OF METAL. Note's slammed hard across the face, and her body flies across the battlefield, slamming hard into the ground. Hard enough that there's an EXPLOSION of dirt, dust, and debris, leaving her in a crater at the bottom of it.

    "...Nnnnh.... HNNNNNNGHHH..."

    And yet, wh at's this? Despite ALL that pummeling, the pipsqueak of a girl gathers up to her knees, whole body trembling, struggling to rise and continue...

    But, like a puppet with the strings suddenly cut, she collapses into the dirt five seconds later, and the golden light fades, her hair also losing whatever caused it to shine gold and rise up - it falls right back down as normal black hair again.