SNK vs Capcom: A Proposition
Eiji parried a wild rake aimed for his face, courtesy of Vice as he also thrust kicked an aggressing Juni away. As soon as he did so, the ninja was forced to jump over Cammy's Cannon Drill, straight into an airborne Vega's arms, and forced into a painful suplex. Fortunately it wasn't anywhere near as painful as it could have been since Eiji managed to roll, absorbing some of the shock from the slam.
Agonizing from sustained injuries, the shinobi once again readied his fighting stance while he surveyed his surrounding five opponents. He couldn't read much from Vega, with the Spaniard's face hidden behind the mask, but he could sense how much Vega was enjoying this. From his rather posturing stance with his legs were together and claw drawn to his chest, Vega gave a low chuckle.
Juni and Cammy both remained emotionless also, as they bobbed in their stancework, both with complete looks of professionalism and focus. Vice and Mature, on the other hand had no such expressions. Mature swayed to and fro with a giddy and utterly alluring smile on her face, almost hypnotic. Vice was hunched over with her arms dangling, rocking back and forth in a way that almost made her seemed dazed. Her face had a look Eiji had seen before; a hostile look, one of great hunger. It was the very same one that he seen on Iori's face, as the Crimson haired man almost tore his chest in half with his bare hands, and that right now was seriously throwing the ninja off.
He had to get out of this battle fast, but how? Suddenly, he realized, that despite how coordinated they were, none of these people, with maybe the exeption of Juni and Cammy, were team players. If there was just a way of taking advantage of.... Eiji's thoughts were interrupted by a laugh as Mature dove over him, raking wide at his face with her nails.........
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"I do not know is that provoked you, but I am appalled by your lack of restraint. No doubt your own master Chin Gensai would..."
"Gensai-san doesn't matter right now," interrupted a rather agitated Athena in a slightly hostile tone.
"Nonetheless, your attitude over the last few days has gotten even worse, even your aura seems to be gaining a darker air about it. What has gotten into you?" inquired Rose.
Athena unfolded her arms, and dropped one to her side as the other propped her up off a wall at her elbow, "hmph, aura, something you learned from watching playing cards? Maybe I'm just tired of you baby-sitting me. Tired of being ogled by men everywhere I go. I didn't even want to be here in the first place, and the first fight we had, I wasn't even able to participate in, thanks to Gen taking all them without needing our help."
"I'm sorry if you feel as such. I'll tell you I have no intentions of having you as anything less of an equal partner in this endeavor. Also, I empathize with you about men, but there isn't much you can do about that, same as for the last fight. Would it help if you were to be point next bout?"
Rose, though sounding sincere, had no intentions of letting Athena be first, and hoped she wouldn't call her bluff. "It doesn't matter," replied Athena with a sullen look on her face, "you nor Gen, I can see, really trust me with anything important, not as much as Chizuru."
"Chizuru does what she thinks is necessary, we do not suggest any courses of actions to her. We had, though, given you an important task and you succeeded in completing..."
"Yeah, you mean use me as meat," snapped Athena, which drew the attention of Chizuru, who was about to open the door to the room after returning from her local corporate office on a mission of information gathering. Instead of entering to see what the commotion was all about, she put her ear to the door to hear more.
"You knew my... 'appeal' would get them to tell me just about anything, did you think that I wouldn't care about it?" As Rose was bombarded by the angry girl's words, she gritted her teeth and slowly counted to ten under her breath. Her own dark side was threatening to challenge the impudent girl; she couldn't ressurect Bison through herself if she kept control.
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"Well, now, I'm sure you had seen our performance earlier today, why now would we need an addition to our roster," asked Demitri with a half amused look in his face; partially from his victory earlier in battle and his guest's bold proposition.
Gill retained a straight face of a business man, as he continued, "You were earlier paid a visit by Balrog de Grendaza, known more commonly as Vega, the Spanish Ninja."
The Vampire's look of satisfaction melted away and was replaced by seriousness, "yes, that is true, but how..."
"Please, let me finish," interrupted the tall blonde man, "I am not sure what he had approached you about, but he has also been seen in the company of four women, and in contact with other martial artists and warriors around the world. First appearing with no hostile intents, but then him and his entourage attack those who apparently do not agree or accept his views or demands. I suspect he is demanding something involving this tournament."
"And what does that have to do with me," inquired Demitri.
"I myself was approached by a man with a proposition for me. Though I cannot comment on why he did so, I shall say his ideas conflicted with mine. So, I seek to stop him."
"Again, I ask, what....does that have to do with my being," impatiently asked Demitri once again.
"I have reason to believe that Vega may be in league with the man who I am looking for. And I know that you have reason to want to find Vega, since we found at your Castle in Portuegal the remains of your trusted advisor with a stake in the pile of his ash."
Iori barely paid attention to the two's discussion, but remained focused on Gill. He could see this man was well kept, and certainly in peak condition. He could feel a very massive and potent amount of ki radiating from him; like standing in the eye of a small hurricane. If they did let this man join them, he would be indeed a great ally if they were in need of one.
"Well, I guess our fights later on will be more laborsome, but you know too much about me, and I know very little about you. I don't think I could trust you enough to be one of my partners," said Demitri. "Yet, I cannot trust to now let you out of my sight, since you know so much about me. You are a very dangerous man."
"Well, I can assure you I am a man who wholly believes in keeping my word; you can trust me, since I have no qualms against you."
"Well, I've known men throughout cent....years, and I can see you are one I can indeed put my faith into. Now, there is just one thing to be decided upon; why don't all three of us head to the roof, Iori?"
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"Calm yourself, child. I am not here to argue with you, I merely want you to realize your actions," said Rose, after finally managing to calm herself.
"'Child'? See, you don't even consider me anything more than a child!" returned Athena in a raised voice.
"You know I meant nothing of the sor.."
"Oh, then what did you mean? Nevermind, I don't care anyway." With that, Athena brought herself upright, and spun around on her heel towards the door.
"Asamiya-ch... Athena, where do you think you are going?"
Athena grabbed the handle, alerting Chizuru to back away from the door and dart a bit back down the hall to act like she had just arrived. "I'll be going OUT, is that okay with you? Or is it too late past my bedtime?" Athena opened and slammed the door behind her before Rose could reply.
Athena started down the hallway to the elevator as she saw Chizuru coming up. The young priestess already knew about the commotion, so her look of concern upon her face was genuine. "Athena-chan, what's the matter," Chizuru inquired. Athena only glared daggers at Chizuru for the "chan" reference. Chizuru stepped back a bit from the look she was given.
"Sigh, I'm sorry, I'm just tense is all. Some otaku who had recognized me and grabbed me, and I probably just overreacted a bit to it, but I hit him kinda hard."
Chizuru didn't know if Athena was under-exaggerating, but decided not to ask into it, "I'll tell you what, I have to come to this city often and while I'm here I go clubbing quite a bit. Tonight is a great night to hit all my favorite ones."
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Iori and Gill both stepped out onto the roof of the hotel, followed by Demitri, and were met with the chilled night air. The hotel they were staying at had a dimly lit pool on the roof, and a fantastic view of much of the vast Tokyo skyline.
"What is it you wanted up here," asked Iori a bit annoyed about being called up to the roof.
"Well, if this man wants to join our little band, he'll have to prove himself," replied Demitri.
"I thought you trusted me," quizzed Gill.
Demitri smiled a bit, "Oh, I do, but there is just one other thing I want to see." Gill immediately knew what Demitri had in mind, though he was never used to people doubting his own fighting abilities. He tensed, as his suit froze solid and broke off on one side of him, and burned off on the other side.
"Iori, be a good man and test him, please."
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Gen knocked on the door to Rose's and the other girl's room. "*Grumble*, who is it," asked Rose from inside, obviously fuming from her discussion with Athena. Gen twisted the handle to find that the door was not quite closed all the way, and let himself in.
"What was all the commotion about, I could hear you from across the way," asked Gen as he came into full view of Rose in only her lingerie (and very skimpy and lacy lingerie at that). Gen grew a rather blistering shade of red as he turned away, he immediately thought to himself that he knew better than to let himself into a ladies apartment without allowing them time to prepare.
Modesty was the furthest thing from Roses mind, as she was a bit upset and concerned about Athena, "Remember the concern you voiced about Athena earlier? Well, they are becoming quite justified now." Gen just raised an eyebrow as he listened harder.
"Why are you turned around," Asked Rose, before she noticed she was still in her nightwear. A smirk appeared on her face as she asked the Ancient martial artist, "Why Gen, you arn't.... embarrassed, are you?" Gen just held his stature.
Rose let out a soft laugh as she put her maroon robe on. "There, you can turn around now."
"What do you mean," inquired Gen.
"I mean I'm a bit more proper, you can turn around now," said Rose impatiently.
"No, about my concern."
"Oh, well Athena has been getting a bit more hostile as of late, and from what I know that isn't at all like her. I'm going to contact Master Chin tomorrow morning, to see if this is at all normal behavior for her. But I think it has something to do with her not dreaming."
"Ah yes," replied Gen, "REM sleep is paramount to the functioning of the brain. It serves to allow the brain to process and sort mass amounts of information, and to categorize it. Without REM sleep we would become confused and hostile, and eventually we'll cease to function well because of lack of it." Rose had tuned Gen out after 'paramount'.
"Yeah, well, whatever," snapped Rose as Gen grew a smile realizing that what he said had flown well over her comprehension.
"Anyhow, she's gone out with Chizuru, who just came back in for the briefest for a change of cloths, and to tell me what she had discovered while out could wait until the morning. Hopefully Athena will be a bit more calm by then."
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Eiji was being extremely overwhelmed by his attackers. The ninja stepped back a few feet until he felt his heel dangle over the side of the roof.
All five of his opponents were closing in until finally Vice shoulder charged at Eiji, knocking him off the roof. Then Cammy ran to the edge and jumped off into a dart kick straight at the falling Eiji to ensure his demise. Unfortunately for her, she was only met with a shinobi's uniform, without Eiji inside.
In a hastened panic, Cammy tucked and forced some momentum forward; toward the servant's quarters roof, and managed to land with minimal damage to herself. As soon as she regained her footing on a freshly sprained ankle, she ignored the pain and turned to look up to see where her prey had gone, her eyes only met with the other four as they looked down in bewilderment as to what happened to their target.
Eiji parried a wild rake aimed for his face, courtesy of Vice as he also thrust kicked an aggressing Juni away. As soon as he did so, the ninja was forced to jump over Cammy's Cannon Drill, straight into an airborne Vega's arms, and forced into a painful suplex. Fortunately it wasn't anywhere near as painful as it could have been since Eiji managed to roll, absorbing some of the shock from the slam.
Agonizing from sustained injuries, the shinobi once again readied his fighting stance while he surveyed his surrounding five opponents. He couldn't read much from Vega, with the Spaniard's face hidden behind the mask, but he could sense how much Vega was enjoying this. From his rather posturing stance with his legs were together and claw drawn to his chest, Vega gave a low chuckle.
Juni and Cammy both remained emotionless also, as they bobbed in their stancework, both with complete looks of professionalism and focus. Vice and Mature, on the other hand had no such expressions. Mature swayed to and fro with a giddy and utterly alluring smile on her face, almost hypnotic. Vice was hunched over with her arms dangling, rocking back and forth in a way that almost made her seemed dazed. Her face had a look Eiji had seen before; a hostile look, one of great hunger. It was the very same one that he seen on Iori's face, as the Crimson haired man almost tore his chest in half with his bare hands, and that right now was seriously throwing the ninja off.
He had to get out of this battle fast, but how? Suddenly, he realized, that despite how coordinated they were, none of these people, with maybe the exeption of Juni and Cammy, were team players. If there was just a way of taking advantage of.... Eiji's thoughts were interrupted by a laugh as Mature dove over him, raking wide at his face with her nails.........
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"I do not know is that provoked you, but I am appalled by your lack of restraint. No doubt your own master Chin Gensai would..."
"Gensai-san doesn't matter right now," interrupted a rather agitated Athena in a slightly hostile tone.
"Nonetheless, your attitude over the last few days has gotten even worse, even your aura seems to be gaining a darker air about it. What has gotten into you?" inquired Rose.
Athena unfolded her arms, and dropped one to her side as the other propped her up off a wall at her elbow, "hmph, aura, something you learned from watching playing cards? Maybe I'm just tired of you baby-sitting me. Tired of being ogled by men everywhere I go. I didn't even want to be here in the first place, and the first fight we had, I wasn't even able to participate in, thanks to Gen taking all them without needing our help."
"I'm sorry if you feel as such. I'll tell you I have no intentions of having you as anything less of an equal partner in this endeavor. Also, I empathize with you about men, but there isn't much you can do about that, same as for the last fight. Would it help if you were to be point next bout?"
Rose, though sounding sincere, had no intentions of letting Athena be first, and hoped she wouldn't call her bluff. "It doesn't matter," replied Athena with a sullen look on her face, "you nor Gen, I can see, really trust me with anything important, not as much as Chizuru."
"Chizuru does what she thinks is necessary, we do not suggest any courses of actions to her. We had, though, given you an important task and you succeeded in completing..."
"Yeah, you mean use me as meat," snapped Athena, which drew the attention of Chizuru, who was about to open the door to the room after returning from her local corporate office on a mission of information gathering. Instead of entering to see what the commotion was all about, she put her ear to the door to hear more.
"You knew my... 'appeal' would get them to tell me just about anything, did you think that I wouldn't care about it?" As Rose was bombarded by the angry girl's words, she gritted her teeth and slowly counted to ten under her breath. Her own dark side was threatening to challenge the impudent girl; she couldn't ressurect Bison through herself if she kept control.
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"Well, now, I'm sure you had seen our performance earlier today, why now would we need an addition to our roster," asked Demitri with a half amused look in his face; partially from his victory earlier in battle and his guest's bold proposition.
Gill retained a straight face of a business man, as he continued, "You were earlier paid a visit by Balrog de Grendaza, known more commonly as Vega, the Spanish Ninja."
The Vampire's look of satisfaction melted away and was replaced by seriousness, "yes, that is true, but how..."
"Please, let me finish," interrupted the tall blonde man, "I am not sure what he had approached you about, but he has also been seen in the company of four women, and in contact with other martial artists and warriors around the world. First appearing with no hostile intents, but then him and his entourage attack those who apparently do not agree or accept his views or demands. I suspect he is demanding something involving this tournament."
"And what does that have to do with me," inquired Demitri.
"I myself was approached by a man with a proposition for me. Though I cannot comment on why he did so, I shall say his ideas conflicted with mine. So, I seek to stop him."
"Again, I ask, what....does that have to do with my being," impatiently asked Demitri once again.
"I have reason to believe that Vega may be in league with the man who I am looking for. And I know that you have reason to want to find Vega, since we found at your Castle in Portuegal the remains of your trusted advisor with a stake in the pile of his ash."
Iori barely paid attention to the two's discussion, but remained focused on Gill. He could see this man was well kept, and certainly in peak condition. He could feel a very massive and potent amount of ki radiating from him; like standing in the eye of a small hurricane. If they did let this man join them, he would be indeed a great ally if they were in need of one.
"Well, I guess our fights later on will be more laborsome, but you know too much about me, and I know very little about you. I don't think I could trust you enough to be one of my partners," said Demitri. "Yet, I cannot trust to now let you out of my sight, since you know so much about me. You are a very dangerous man."
"Well, I can assure you I am a man who wholly believes in keeping my word; you can trust me, since I have no qualms against you."
"Well, I've known men throughout cent....years, and I can see you are one I can indeed put my faith into. Now, there is just one thing to be decided upon; why don't all three of us head to the roof, Iori?"
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"Calm yourself, child. I am not here to argue with you, I merely want you to realize your actions," said Rose, after finally managing to calm herself.
"'Child'? See, you don't even consider me anything more than a child!" returned Athena in a raised voice.
"You know I meant nothing of the sor.."
"Oh, then what did you mean? Nevermind, I don't care anyway." With that, Athena brought herself upright, and spun around on her heel towards the door.
"Asamiya-ch... Athena, where do you think you are going?"
Athena grabbed the handle, alerting Chizuru to back away from the door and dart a bit back down the hall to act like she had just arrived. "I'll be going OUT, is that okay with you? Or is it too late past my bedtime?" Athena opened and slammed the door behind her before Rose could reply.
Athena started down the hallway to the elevator as she saw Chizuru coming up. The young priestess already knew about the commotion, so her look of concern upon her face was genuine. "Athena-chan, what's the matter," Chizuru inquired. Athena only glared daggers at Chizuru for the "chan" reference. Chizuru stepped back a bit from the look she was given.
"Sigh, I'm sorry, I'm just tense is all. Some otaku who had recognized me and grabbed me, and I probably just overreacted a bit to it, but I hit him kinda hard."
Chizuru didn't know if Athena was under-exaggerating, but decided not to ask into it, "I'll tell you what, I have to come to this city often and while I'm here I go clubbing quite a bit. Tonight is a great night to hit all my favorite ones."
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Iori and Gill both stepped out onto the roof of the hotel, followed by Demitri, and were met with the chilled night air. The hotel they were staying at had a dimly lit pool on the roof, and a fantastic view of much of the vast Tokyo skyline.
"What is it you wanted up here," asked Iori a bit annoyed about being called up to the roof.
"Well, if this man wants to join our little band, he'll have to prove himself," replied Demitri.
"I thought you trusted me," quizzed Gill.
Demitri smiled a bit, "Oh, I do, but there is just one other thing I want to see." Gill immediately knew what Demitri had in mind, though he was never used to people doubting his own fighting abilities. He tensed, as his suit froze solid and broke off on one side of him, and burned off on the other side.
"Iori, be a good man and test him, please."
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Gen knocked on the door to Rose's and the other girl's room. "*Grumble*, who is it," asked Rose from inside, obviously fuming from her discussion with Athena. Gen twisted the handle to find that the door was not quite closed all the way, and let himself in.
"What was all the commotion about, I could hear you from across the way," asked Gen as he came into full view of Rose in only her lingerie (and very skimpy and lacy lingerie at that). Gen grew a rather blistering shade of red as he turned away, he immediately thought to himself that he knew better than to let himself into a ladies apartment without allowing them time to prepare.
Modesty was the furthest thing from Roses mind, as she was a bit upset and concerned about Athena, "Remember the concern you voiced about Athena earlier? Well, they are becoming quite justified now." Gen just raised an eyebrow as he listened harder.
"Why are you turned around," Asked Rose, before she noticed she was still in her nightwear. A smirk appeared on her face as she asked the Ancient martial artist, "Why Gen, you arn't.... embarrassed, are you?" Gen just held his stature.
Rose let out a soft laugh as she put her maroon robe on. "There, you can turn around now."
"What do you mean," inquired Gen.
"I mean I'm a bit more proper, you can turn around now," said Rose impatiently.
"No, about my concern."
"Oh, well Athena has been getting a bit more hostile as of late, and from what I know that isn't at all like her. I'm going to contact Master Chin tomorrow morning, to see if this is at all normal behavior for her. But I think it has something to do with her not dreaming."
"Ah yes," replied Gen, "REM sleep is paramount to the functioning of the brain. It serves to allow the brain to process and sort mass amounts of information, and to categorize it. Without REM sleep we would become confused and hostile, and eventually we'll cease to function well because of lack of it." Rose had tuned Gen out after 'paramount'.
"Yeah, well, whatever," snapped Rose as Gen grew a smile realizing that what he said had flown well over her comprehension.
"Anyhow, she's gone out with Chizuru, who just came back in for the briefest for a change of cloths, and to tell me what she had discovered while out could wait until the morning. Hopefully Athena will be a bit more calm by then."
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Eiji was being extremely overwhelmed by his attackers. The ninja stepped back a few feet until he felt his heel dangle over the side of the roof.
All five of his opponents were closing in until finally Vice shoulder charged at Eiji, knocking him off the roof. Then Cammy ran to the edge and jumped off into a dart kick straight at the falling Eiji to ensure his demise. Unfortunately for her, she was only met with a shinobi's uniform, without Eiji inside.
In a hastened panic, Cammy tucked and forced some momentum forward; toward the servant's quarters roof, and managed to land with minimal damage to herself. As soon as she regained her footing on a freshly sprained ankle, she ignored the pain and turned to look up to see where her prey had gone, her eyes only met with the other four as they looked down in bewilderment as to what happened to their target.