Re: Playground Rules [Lerna, Moe]

Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:21 am

Playground Rules [Lerna, Moe] - Page 3 DDXzSEx

MACHIHARA MOE | The Bubblegum Oni

Working on instinct alone was very much Moe’s style, which meant that diving head first into danger was a little too common an occurrence for her to get away without having no plan. Knocking Lerna onto her back had been a challenge, but she was pleased enough that she hadn’t just bounced off and been left to flounder like a fish out of water. Now, as those beefy arms wrapped around to lock her in place, Moe had to think fast about how to make forward progress.

“I’m weapon enough by myself ya know!”

Her defiant little cry was paired with a sudden twist as Moe made to worm her way up Lerna’s body like she was shimmying along a downed tree trunk. It would have been easy to go for a stranglehold, or attempt to lock something away, but if Lerna just turned her joint into more of those tough scales then Moe would have to tap out well before her opponent. She didn’t make it too far before Lerna got a grip on her though, locking around her hips to hold her in place, and at least for a moment the bubblegum warrior was pinned.

Wriggling and writhing, she struggled to pull her arms free from the sides within which she was contained. There wasn’t much excess to her frame, just bones and sinewy muscles really, so there was little she could compress or expand to try and turn the grapple back to being her advantage quite yet. But she was also far from tapping out, so Lerna would have to decide how she wanted to proceed or wait for Moe’s eventual counterattack.

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Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:52 pm

Playground Rules [Lerna, Moe] - Page 3 G4z9cxavoo7

That grin of LErna's widened as she heard that spunky little remark from Moe as the girl tried to climb Lerna, and it didn't take long before those big hips were snared by the lock of the mod soul's arms. Snorting softly as she promptly tightened her grip and twisted, rolling over and pinning Moe onto her back as she promptly raised her own hips up into the air and straightened her legs, putting her entire weight into her shoulder, and subsequently into Moe's gut as she pinned the woman to the ground, winding one of her arms more firmly around Moe's hip and then clamping those claws of hers into her opposite shoulder, locking her grip with one of the arms so that her other hand could peel free and move up. Grabbing Moe's hips meant that she was hardly face to face with the woman. So she had to sortof feel her way up until she tried to get a grip on the woman's neck.

"Alright. Time to see what you had planned~" She grinned from ear to ear, showing off sharp teeth as she promptly stood up, aiming to lift Moe a few feet off the ground before promptly slamming her back down into the hard sand. Truth be told, she had no idea what Moe was planning, maybe a leglock around her neck? But well, that seemed a little otu of her reach now~ And so Lerna was just going to start beating the seated officer into the ground until she came up with something or passed out.

Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:37 pm

MACHIHARA MOE | The Bubblegum Oni

Moe wasn't one to say that size mattered unless she was being snarky, but it certainly felt like a hindrance when Lerna started tossing her around like a small child. Rolling her over and picking her up like she was hardly even a paperweight, it certainly didn't give her much time to think of witty things to say, so she had to act before this brute knocked all the air out of her lungs. Perhaps some of her division mates might think less of her for it, but Moe wasn't afraid to admit when she was going to need to pull out something flashy.

"Bakudō #8, Seki!"

There wasn't any immediate effect to Moe's spell, just a tiny orb of light, and her butt was still hurtling towards the ground, but that was just enough time for the miniature warrior to shift her hands to place that glowing blue orb beneath her right before the impact. Mitigation was one thing, but, like a rubber band that had been pulled too far, Moe knew that the snapback was coming and promptly burst outwards as the spell flung the pair of them back into the air. She had the energy and the nimble agility to roll her body in the air, and turning her Seki back towards Lerna might give her the final push to make that bid for freedom.

If it worked then the pair would be blasted apart and the duel could continue, if it failed then she was probably just going to end up getting smacked around again. Flashy tricks didn't tend to have the same effectiveness the second time around, and she needed something along those lines to tip the scales in this one-sided beatdown.

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Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:14 am

The sound of ain incantation caught in Lerna's ears and she clamped her palm down, aiming to squeeze Moe's windpipe shut, but too late. Having foregone incantation, Moe managed to recite the name of the spell before it went off with a loud pang of rushing air, Lerna gritted her teeth as the little gal was suddenly repelled from the ground with impressive force! That, ontop of the way Moe was trying to pry herself from. And well, Moe was a little too strong to keep at bay ontop of that Kido jarring them from Lerna's grasp, and so mid-swing, the little pinkette was flung away from Lerna's grasp as the dust and sand settled from that burst of energy, leaving LErna coughing a little before she flashed a grin at the other woman.

"Hey hey hey~ Not bad for a member of Combat." She grinned from ear to ear. Certainly she'd run into some.... interesting members of the division. And also had run into that archaic rule, but it seemed the number of people peeling out of that mold was growing these days. Her own interaction with Armina. The rumors about the Third seat using one ... irresponsibly albeit. Interesting to say the least.

Picking herself up off the ground, Lerna's smile widened as she eyed the tilted her head. "Not just Kido, but a Bakudo spell at that. Color me impressed. I'll offer you, My respects. " She noted, offering a a nod of her head as she lowered her stance almost all the way to the ground. Spirit energy coursing through her frame as she promptly snapped forward. Unlike those previous motions, Lerna shot toward Moe at her full speed, closing the gap between them as she aimed to execute a sharp, straight punch to the center of the girl's chest with enough force and momentum to crater her into the ground. No longer holding back. She could hardly continue doing so after seeing how much effort Moe was putting into this~

Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:23 pm

MACHIHARA MOE | The Bubblegum Oni

Landing in the dirt with an elegant grace that seemed like everything was going according to plan, Moe couldn't help but feel fortunate that her little gambit had paid off. That Kido training hadn't been for nothing, even if Igen would have probably done it a little better, so now it was time to level the playing field. Her sword was still out of reach, and a second spell wouldn't get the same reaction, so this was going to have to be settled with her fists. Shaking off the dust, she tossed pink hair from her face just in time to see Lerna readying to attack.

"Figured you'd be holding something back, so bring it, blondie!"

Smirking, she stomped her foot like a miniature sumo wrestler and prepared to receive whatever Lerna was about to throw at her. That was about the last thing that she managed to do, though, before she felt the sudden rush of air as a fist collided with her midriff. It had been so blisteringly fast that she hadn't even seen it coming, just a flash of black and yellow and suddenly it was hitting her.

The ground gave way beneath them, her modest form soon showered in dust and broken shards, but somehow - despite everything - she kept her wits intact. Perhaps it was the fact that she had suffered the exact same blistering attack at the hands of Shishiyuki, maybe she was still running just a little too high on adrenaline, or perhaps it was the fact that she had just emptied her lungs so there wasn't much left in them to forcibly drive out of her. Still, even as it was still happening, Moe could feel the numbness setting in. This was gonna bruise. Her legs buckled, her body crumpling inwards as she began to double over, before suddenly snapping back into place as Moe launched her own simple counterpunch. All the power that this little warrior could muster was thrown into a return blow straight toward Lerna as she stood right in front of her. It had been a solid hit, Moe would concede that, but this time she was not going down without a fight.

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Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:13 pm

A grin flashed across her lips as she saw Moe taking that hit. Something that should have sent the girl onto her ass, she saw the way the girl braced herself. She shouldn't have. Instinct should have told her to let herself fly, to let that force bleed into the air as wind resistance and to let herself go flying. To just take it all and still stay up? It brought a fiery air to the Blonde's features. Just as that fist snapped straight into her chest, knuckles rammed into those hard black scales covering her cleavage, as her own beastly frame took the hit. But she still felt it~

Thanks to Moe's freakish strength, even through all that armor, Lerna FELT the shock of force plow through her frame. And her knuckles cracked as she clamped both hands onto the girl's shoulders and let out a sharp, barking laugh. [color=orchid]"You're so damn reckless. Members of Fourth really can't help themselves. But I guess you guys aren't built for long term deployments. That's fine though, this is just perfect!

Moe was so very welcome to keep wailing on her. Slamming those fists into her frame, her face, her chest her gut. Lerna would take it all as she aimed to heave Moe up bodily into the air with her own vicious strength and superior leverage. Swinging the woman up into the air as her spiritual pressure flared around her body, a vicious bleed that shunted the sand away from the both of them and bared the stony dirt beneath it all. As a protrusion burst from Lerna's lower back, a long sleek, scaly tail, flecked with veins of yellow gold as her spirit energy bled into thew newly made scales and stained them. As she pumped reiryoku through her muscles and reinforced shell.

She slammed Moe down into the ground with both hands, further cratering the ground beneath them. Enough force that even in that freshly bared solid dirt and rock, it'd be enough to bounce her slightly, and in that instant, Lerna released her grip from the girl's shoulders and wound her fist back. A short hop into the air, clasping her clawed hands above her head. And for just an instant, she had every intention of spiking those joined hands down at full force and speed, as if to pop the other seated member against the ground like a roach under the head of a screwdriver.

In that last fraction of a second, the drop of those hands slowed, controlling herself, and rather than a vicious, brutal spike, she opened her palms over the other woman's frame and barked out.

"Sho!"

That emblematic first Hadō declared with force and energy that doubtless was rarely heard. No less the sheer energy that was poured into the spell as all of the dust and debris that had been kicked up in their fight suddenly dropped within an instant, pinned to the ground as a thick circle of the training area was flattened, a 8 meter radius suddenly flattened down. Rolling uneven sand suddenly pressed into a thin layer of sandstone before cracking as it sunk into the floor. The pressure was much more even and spread out, with much less potential to break and induce trauma, but even so, it would accomplish the task of shunting Moe back into the ground and driving the air out of her.

Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:03 pm

MACHIHARA MOE | The Bubblegum Oni

One punch connected and her opponent kept coming, so Moe reeled around and went with the second, and the third and fourth. A barrage of blows pounded away against Lerna's chest even as she was being manoeuvred into position for a combo attack, a fervent belief in that little pink head that she would bring down her opponent before this got any further out of hand. That belief continued as she found herself being hoisted off the ground again, her legs enjoying the momentary rest after all the damage they had taken already, chopping and wriggling desperately.

That was another advantage of being a mod soul, she supposed. All this fighting wasn't really wearing Lerna down, it was ramping her up. Maybe there was a limit at some point, but Moe had no idea whether she was even getting close or not. Perhaps this was really the difference between them, that Moe had all the guts but her body was holding her back whilst Lerna had no such weakness. Then, as she ran out of things to ponder or complain about, Moe found herself crashing into the floor again.

"Guh."

There wasn't much of a time for anything snarky to reply with as she rag-dolled off the broken ground and back up into the waiting finisher, that she was still conscious was perhaps insult enough as those pink eyes burned with a determination that the rest of her tiny frame couldn't quite reciprocate. Then, with a sickening crunch, she was slammed into the ground with even more force than before. It was a crushing pulse that flattened most of the area they had been fighting in, driving Moe into the dirt until she was practically buried beneath it, and the way she had landed was far from the graceful style that she would have much preferred as her whole body began to scream in agony.

She wanted to leap back to her feet and level this upjumped chump with an uppercut, but even the thought of movement was met with an overwhelming pang of pain. She wanted to cry out but there wasn't any air left inside her after that squashing. All Moe could do was lie there, buried in rubble, and wait to be pulled from the wreckage so that someone smarter than her could assess the damage.

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