Drunk as They Like (Open)

[ShadesofGrey18]

The arena seemed peaceful. The most recent fights had finished, and it was currently empty.


"Hwaaah! Who all wants a piece of this?!"

Well, almost empty. A small girl had jumped into the center of the ring, shouting at the top of her lungs. A much taller, more... 'developed' girl followed her in, shaking her head in a sort of amused exasperation.

"Suika, there's no one here right now. Mellow out a little; have a drink."

"Yugi, whad'ya think I've been doing for the last... oh, I don't know... CENTURY or so? Come on, you know me better than that!" Suika pulled out her purple gourd and took a huge swig from it.

Yugi laughed robustly. "HAHA! I'm JOKING, Suika. J-O-K-ING." Yugi pulled out her sake dish and took a drink from it. "...Could ya top me off, Suika?"

Suika poured some of the contents of her gourd into Yugi's dish. She took another swig, and said, "Someone's bound to come here eventually. If we're lucky, it'll be someone who's a good fighter! I can't wait!" She then started whistling a tune.

[Felix Falora]

He had walked into the arena expecting someone fairly challenging. His Ninetails looked at him and rustled her fur lightly. He chuckled and pet her softly. "Don't worry. No fighter, mortal or divine, is any match for us," he whispered to her. "After all, we're the ones who will take down any evil that stands in our path." He then moved on into the actual center field, where the fights were to take place, and noticed his opponents... two little girls, to his eyes. Rubbing them lightly, he shook his head, thinking his eyes had to be deceiving him. "You must be kidding me," he muttered to himself, yet continued forward, Ninetails following behind, looking quite as curious about the entire situation.

"You two!" He kept a stern voice about him. "My name is Leslie Scott! Tell me... are you fighters?!"

[ShadesofGrey18]

Suika jumped up in joy. "You bet your... hm. I was gonna say 'horns,' but you're not an Oni." Suika took a drink from her gourd. "..Ah, what the heck. Yeah, we be fighters. Shooo..." Suika started slurring her words a bit. "You wanna go a round?"

Yugi chuckled. Taking a drink from her dish, she said, "Cute little fox ya got there. He fight, too?"

[Felix Falora]

Leslie's eyes narrowed. What in the... two little girls who claim to be fighters... and one of them is drinking alcohol and speaking of... Oni? What in the world is an Oni? Still, something doesn't seem natural about them. He looked at Ninetails. She nodded at him. Looking at the two, he nodded lightly. "Yeah. We fight. And sure. We'll take you on."

[ShadesofGrey18]

Suika started swaying back and forth, with a drunken grin on her face. "Yaaaay! You wanna fight us both at once, or one at a time?" Her shackles started clattering as she swayed.

Yugi 'borrowed' Suika's gourd for a minute to top off her dish. "Heheh. Either way works for me!" She cracked her knuckles. Holding her sake dish in her left hand, she crouched into a fighting stance.

[Felix Falora]

Leslie could tell the little one was drunk out of her mind. The bigger one seemed ok, however. What an oddity. "Ninetails, you take on the little one." He took up battle stance, an odd thing for a Pokemon trainer to know, but still rather experienced. "I'll take the bigger one."

[ShadesofGrey18]

Suika struck a dynamic (in her mind) pose. "Alright Yugi, hit the music!"

Yugi just looked at Suika like she was out of her mind. "......Huh?"

Suika giggled. "The music! Use your power to make that happen! Music playing out of nowhere is supernatural, isn't it? C'mon!"

Yugi thought for a minute. "...I guess so. Alright!" Yugi focused for a minute, then a song started playing.


Suika turned back towards Leslie, still swaying. "Awright! Let's go!"

Yugi took her stance again, sake dish still in her hand, and motioned with her free hand, 'bring it on.'

[Felix Falora]

They can make their own music out of nowhere? Meh, whatever.

Getting that thought out of his head, Leslie looked to Ninetails. "Free-for-all battle, hit 'em hard." After saying that, he didn't give any heads-up, just immediately charged in and attempted to sweep Yuki from below. If there's one thing I've learned from fighting people in my world, it's that you never underestimate anyone, even if they look small and helpless.

Ninetails, another one to follow her Master's train of thoughts, did not let up either. With a loud howl, she immediately began to breath fire in a Flamethrower attack, directed straight for Suika.

[ShadesofGrey18]

Yugi jumped back. She thought to herself, 'Hm... this guy seems pretty tough. This'll be fun!' Yugi tossed her sake dish into the air, fired a flurry of danmaku straight at Leslie, and dashed forward to follow up with a kick.

Suika looked at the Ninetails' Flamethrower attack. "Ooh, nice trick! I can do that too. Watch!" Suika chugged sake quickly and breathed a stream of fire out in front of her, meeting the fox's Flamethrower. Suika thought to herself, 'I haven't had this much fun in ages! I knew it was a good idea to come here!'

[Felix Falora]

What in the...?! That was the trainer's thought at the flurry of danmaku. Though he managed to dodge it, doing so left him open for the kick. Naturally the Oni's strength sent him flying into the wall. Any normal human would've been dead.

Ninetails naturally shook off Suika's flamethrower. Being a fire type, it would barely phase her. But as her trainer hit the wall, she took off towards the dust his body would be clouded in and wanted to make sure he was ok. The seeming smirk on her face, however, told that he wasn't exactly down yet.

See, Leslie wasn't a normal human after all. He was a Ditto. And because of what a Ditto was, he was actually more durable. He could also shapeshift. And then the music changed as a slender figure that wasn't the same human Suika and Yugi were challenged by jumped out of the dust.



Another Ninetails. Leslie had shifted while concealed in the dust. "Duel Stance: Flame Circle!" Though he had called this out to his Ninetails, the two girls wouldn't have been able to understand Pokemon speak. It was a strategy he had come up with. Utilizing Ninetails form, both would use Extreme Speed and Flamethrower simultaneously while running around their enemies, thus surrounding them in a a circle of fire. After the wall of fire was created, both would jump through it to strike at the two. The attack... Bite.

[ShadesofGrey18]

Yugi caught her sake dish as it fell back down. A quick check revealed that not one drop of sake had spilled. Yugi took a quick drink and shouted to Suika, "C'mon! Back to Back!"

Suika jumped behind Yugi and they did just that. Suika noticed that there were two foxes running around them. She said, "Yugi! This guy's either a Nue or an Illusionist. He's one of those foxes!"

Yugi muttered to herself, "Can't believe I have to pull this out so early... whatever." A card appeared in front of her, and she declared it in a loud voice. "Feat of Strength: Storm on Mt. Ooe!" Large circular danmaku bullets started raining down from above, slowly on the outer edges of the spell, but more quickly around Yugi and Suika.

Suika prepared a spellcard of her own, to activate when Yugi's finished.

[Felix Falora]

Leslie looked up and noticed the bullets coming down. "Fall back!" The two foxes immediately began bounding around the arena, trying to dodge the bullets, but one hit Ninetails and she fell to the ground with a yelp. He turned and bounded over to her, shifting back into a human as he did so, and as he lifted her up, he found it harder to dodge the bullets. Plus, Suika had her spellcard ready to play as well.

[ShadesofGrey18]

Seeing her opening, Suika prepared a combination attack. "Spectre: Thin!" Suika flipped into the air, then lunged towards Leslie and Ninetails. She struck the ground, causing a crystal to launch out out of it.

She then declared her spellcard; one of her most basic, but one that had served her well. "Oni Sign: Missing Power!" Suika stood still for a second, then grew giant for a brief moment. The force of her growing would launch anyone standing near her skyward (as Marisa had found out the hard way). Suika then shrank back to normal size.

(OOC: I'm not certain if Spectre: Thin is the proper name for that attack, I haven't played SWR in a while.)

[Felix Falora]

Leslie could see Suika flip into the air and managed to jump over the crystal that came out of the ground. Now next to her, he turned and aimed to attack her, but then... Missing Power. The shock sent Leslie and Ninetails flying. Managing to grab Ninetails, he crash landed hard. A normal human being's neck might've snapped at the position he landed in, but he kept Ninetails from breaking apart, so it worked. He managed to pick himself up, snapping his head back into place. "Sheesh. If I wasn't just a glob of slime under this disguise, I'd have been dead already," he muttered to himself, placing Ninetails back in her Pokeball while he still could. "Guess I'm on my own for now."

[ShadesofGrey18]

Suika stopped for a minute, not swaying anymore; her eyes were wide open. She looked over at Yugi for a minute, then said, "What are you? I may be drunk, but it's kinda hard to dream up someone's neck being snapped." Suika muttered under her breath, _{"I thought the Spellcard System prevented stuff like that from happening, anyway..."}

Suika then jumped back to Yugi, and slapped her hand "Tag in! Think ya can handle this, Yuge? She turned to Leslie and said, "It wouldn't be fair to ya if we fought you two-on-one; that's not the Oni way."

Yugi jumped forward, sake dish in hand, and focused her power to make another song start playing.



"Awright!" She said. "Ready for Round Two?!"