Scene #6627: =Getting back to the Basics

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Touta Konoe	"Alright, I think this space shouldn't have too many people around. I heard there was a big fight with King Arthur and King Gilgamesh so all the attention was over there. We should be able to go a round or two here without too much trouble." Without so much as an explanation as to why they had to come out all this way to train, why they had to train, or why in God's name he looked like he just got out of a burn ward, Touta dragged Evangeline McDowell all the way out to the Shrine of Adversity. The stadium didn't seem much at first, it was big enough to perhaps to give off a gladiator colosseum vibe but at the moment it probably didn't give off any 'wow' factor that Touta had seemed to give it when talking about it on occassion. "Just need to put in the the field type and...." Without another word the whole field shifted. Instead of being within the confines of a stadium floor walled off by immense stands. They were on a beach. In fact, they were back on Fairyland Hall's Beach. The wind, the feeling of sand and water, everything that needed to be here was, and everything that remained of the stands was gone. Even the walls that were there but a moment ago seemed to have faded as though they never existed in the first place. "Hmmm...Sorry if you were hoping for somewhere more foreign but thought it'd be easier to set it up this way. Anyway, I heard you've been sneaking off without telling Jeanne or Yukihime where you're going. So I figured since you don't have your magic it'd be a good idea to get you back into the habit of fighting with a spar. So Kitty, what do ya think?"
Evangeline McDowell	"Evangeline is dressed for the occasion - that is to say, she is still in that black dress that Touta had first seen her in, days ago in that burned-down convention center. At least she's traded the platform heels for much more sensible mary janes. The fire-singed hems shed a few grains of windblown sand as she steps forward and leave three short footprints in the sand - appearing from nowhere like she had fallen from the sky onto her feet. "I'm really glad that you've offered, Touta." Evangeline brushes a sidelock of blowing hair out of her face and tucks it behind one ear. She turns halfway to her side, presenting the narrow profile of her left shoulder towards Touta, and grinding a circle in the sand with her leading shoe. A tiny, startled crab unburrows from its newly destroyed home and scurries away, never bothering to look up at the monstrosity towering above. "I haven't thanked you properly yet for taking such good care of my hand, and what you've done leading up to that. Do you think you'll be able to control your own strength?"
Touta Konoe	"Well that's the thing. I don't know how much I need to hold back till you start swinging. I mean, I remember being told when you were sealed you couldn't use magic. But I never heard anything about whether it stopped you from using Ki or not. So I figure we'd just see take it one step at a time and go from there." He'd start walking over to her and takes hold of her hand without any warning as she turned to her side. "Anyway, there's nothing to thank me for. If anything I'm just returning the favor from back then. If anything I'm just trying to help you get back to how you use to fight. Still..." And with that, the hand he had been holding gets pulled on as handholing turns to a grip on her wrist. Kitty can start to feel her body getting raised into the air out of nowhere. "If I know one thing about Yukihime and you, it's that you guys believe that in a fight, anything goes!" The other hand reaches for her elbow as he attempts to launch her over his shoulder into a throw!
Evangeline McDowell	Evangeline gets thrown. In fact, she helps herself get thrown, jumping up and leaving two soft-edged craters in the sand. Touta sees a brief flash of grinning teeth as she passes over his shoulder - faster than he had tried to throw - before Evangeline's hooked leg blots out the sky and the earth on its way towards his face. With the help of Touta's own momentum, Evangeline goes to grab Touta's face with the back of her knees. She simultaneously arches her back and reaches for the ground, aiming to immediately cartwheel-leg-throw that damn upstart who thinks he can out-grapple /her/ to make a new sand angel! "Anything." Evangeline laughs, breathlessly, from somewhere near Touta's waist.
Touta Konoe	Touta's takes notice of that quirky grin the moment she gives it, and he expects a counter to come any moment. Just not a counter that comes from his own throw. It becomes a reversal as he feels the back of her knee cusp his neck. The forward momentum just sweeps him up and ends up having him land right into sound without a word. Of course the moment he hit's the ground, he's already doing everything he can to re-position himself. He kicks up back onto his feet as he shuffles back to put a proper distance between the two. His hands come up as he adjusts his fighting stance. "For someone who's been locked up in that school for all those years still seems like you got your instincts. You sure you didn't hang out with the Karate club or something every now and then?" Without waiting for an answer he shuffles forward into a side kick before attempting to follow up with a jab-cross combination just to see how she managed when he started to change up where he tried hitting her.
Evangeline McDowell	"Go Club, actually." Evangeline sways backwards, hiding her upper body in a cloud of floating blonde hair as she starts the short process of falling over. Touta's fists find... something. It's soft. It's smooth. It's warm. It yields easily under his knuckles as they glide against with agonizing, tender slowness. Evangeline's back hits the sand, but her feet had left it already. Again. She scissor-sweeps towards Touta's feet, timing to cut those out from underneath him before he can finish pulling back from the cross. Evangeline's feet slip between Touta's otherwise solid stance and... splits. The sand will offer little traction in this direction - and if Touta falls over on top of her... well... that's a problem for later.
Touta Konoe	Touta has no idea what he hit, but it was shallow regardless. On the other hand, Kitty's sweep get's his back leg's ankle just as he was shifting his stance. With knowing to support his hind leg it looks like he really is gonna fall over right on top of her as his center of mass begins to shift more and more and just as it looks like he's about to land right on her. He doesn't. With just one leg planted in the ground he seems to be comfortably balanced. "Sorry Kitty, gonna need more oomph than that to knock me off my feet." It looks like for a moment he's just gonna back up again to give her room to collect herself. But...There is no mercy in this dojo! The foot that had been swept out from under him tries to stomp into her gut while she's still in the sand. It's mean but kicking someone while they were down was in fact a way he was raised to fight...
Evangeline McDowell	"SHI-" The rest of Evangeline's words are quite literally stomped out. She spends the next few moments wriggling about trying to remember what it felt like to have her insides in their proper places and getting half of the (virgin) pina colada from ten minutes ago all over the sand and maybe part of Touta's foot. But she was not going to get stomped again. Oh no. Evangeline has decided to go and try to get herself wrapped up around Touta's stomping leg, like the clingiest, most petulant child you can think of, or maybe a dog very excited to see you again. It's almost affectionate, except neither of those two would be cocking their elbows back... and swinging it forward and upwards right at the fork of Touta's legs. It's mean but going for the nards was in fact a way she had learned to fight...
Touta Konoe	At first, Touta feels bad that he just knocked the colada out of her. If it wasn't being expressed enough by him having to watch her heave. "Sorry Kitty, but the Multiverse isn't such an easy place. Even for immortals like us. We gotta stay on our feet just like everyone else. If you can't handle- " It's at that point she ends up clinging to his stomping foot like some kid. "Kitty, if you're not gonna take this seriously than I won't either... Huh, almost sounds like a Ki based. Wonder if I could do something- AAaaah!" And that's what happens when you decide to take a call in the middle of a fight. "Kitty...That's...Ahhh...Cheap...Oh god that hurts worse than the burns..." Yeah that's a nasty enough blow that he ends up forced down on his knees without much arguement. Even when you heal from that sort of thing it's still pretty...Excruciating. He doesn't really feel that he can give a full powered attack after that but it's not like he can just do nothing. So he just tries to have the knee of the leg she's clinging onto just collapse into her as he falls.
Evangeline McDowell	"Serves..." Evangeline coughs, a bit more coconut and syrup flopping out onto the sand, "... you..." Touta gets his leg back from the clinging, free to knee the sand all he likes, while Evangeline rolls snake-like to the side, up to one knee, and reaches for Touta's hair. His stupid, spiky hair that stays stupid and spiky and oddly soothing to the touch. Even if he's just gone swimming in the damn ocean. With Touta finally down around her height, Evangeline wastes no time in grabbing for a firm hold of his hair, scrambling up towards his back, and trying to choke hold him with both legs wrapped around his middle and both arms locked and barred across his neck. It's not certain if or even HOW one can choke out a -vampire-, but damn if she's not going to try!
Touta Konoe	His knee fails, but since it was barely even an attack he can get over it. Though what he now needs to figure out how to get over is this lock she's trying to put him in. Catching his breath now he finds himself able to get back on his feet since this lock doesn't really effect his lower body at all. She's still got a good grip on his neck and while he isn't sure if he can or can't be choked out, the sensation of having your throat collapsing is still not fun so he's gonna try to figure this out somehow. The first thing he does is try to grab onto one of the wrists that was being used to lock him out. And when he thinks he has a good grip. He reel his head backwards to headbutt Kitty right in where he assumes her nose is. When she recoil a bit to give him some breathing room he'd try jamming an elbow into her ribs from behind before trying to extend out that wrist once more to try and fling her like he did the last time. He really hopes this works cause if not...Well, he really does want to breath right now.
Evangeline McDowell	Evangeline's nose is exactly where Touta thought it would be, only she follows his reel forward and fills the space right behind his head with her entire face, giving him no room to build up any speed. This tightens her grip on his neck - which is still of dubious use, mind - and leaves her breathing heavily against his neck, cheeks and nose smushed into his stupid spiky hair. And then she's thrown. Again. Evangeline's wrist comes loose with Touta's tug, giving her the room she needs to slide against his back to the side, letting his elbow hit just cloth, and she goes with the fling with zero resistance. In fact, with negative resistance, because she jumped into the throw AGAIN. Touta sees Eva's manic, upside-down grin pass just in front of his eyes, before the hand that she's left gripping Touta's collar runs out of connected arm and she launches into a forwards somersault to try to throw him by the scruff of his neck.
Touta Konoe	If it didn't work the first time, it probably wouldn't work the second time. that was to be expected. But it wasn't like Touta couldn't learn from his mistakes either! When he uses Touta's momentum to throw him from the scruff she realizes something...He's giving negative resistance as well! In fact, he's even throwing her a smirk of his own and a wink as he gets flipped. And that's when it happens. Still holding onto that he yanks her up near the end of the arc of his throw so that she'll be brought up once more, but this time he's making sure to guide it. He's not releasing that wrist at all, he's using it to guide her descent of his choosing which appears to be a head-on collision course with the sand!
Evangeline McDowell	Evangeline thuds flat into the sand while wearing a surprised expression. There's a moment of stillness, then she covers her face with her other hand and sighs, long, and deep, and with a coconutty scent. "Haven't got it. I'm way too used to having... that. Ahhhh, it's no use wanting what I can't have." Without lifting her hand, she asks, "Touta, I want to go find my old training aids. Interested in making a trip to school?"
Touta Konoe	"That? I don't mind heading over with you, but what kind of training aid you talking about?" It's the first he's heard her say something like that. He walks over offerring her a hand taking this as a sign that this was a good place for the two of them to stop. Though as he takes that hand and brings her back onto her feet he can't help but blurt out the realization coming to mind. "Wait, Kitty, when you say school...Do you mean to the Mahora Academy in your world?" That'd be a bit of a shocker.
Evangeline McDowell	Evangeline leans on Touta completely unnecessarily, wrapping and locking her arm around his once she's gotten to her feet. Her other arm idly flips her hair and starts batting the sand out of it (how horrible). "That's right. I have a... magical training aide. It's also a nice place to relax and spend some time playing. I don't know if Yukihime has told you or shown you those. Sort of like a big glass ball with a diorama in it?" She looks aside, "And since it's my Mahora, in my world... I can't go."
Touta Konoe	"Hey Kitty..." Before he even says anything else the sandy beach they're on returns to the arena and while it's not many... "...I told you this was still an arena right?" People were still in the crowds as Eva decided to cling to his arm in such a fashion. Some were 'oooooing', some whistling, basically teasing gestures. Though to be fair, it's probably better than hollering and yelling that they didn't finish the fight. One way or the other Touta seems oblivious to it. "Man, you'd think these guys would be asleep by now. But naw, Yukihime's never talked about it. It's getting late though, so why not tell me more about these on the way back alright?" Without saying anything else he just directs her out of the arena while letting her hang on his arm. Truth be told it still kinda hurts from that holy water from a few hours ago. In fact, everything still hurts from a few hours ago but he did promise to bring Kitty out here to train and who knew the next time he'd get an opportunity before something crazy happened. At least now he knew that at the very least she could get out of trouble if she needed to.