[Last Time, on Battle High: Study study study! Midterms are coming up, and along with the midterm battle, that means major tests! And since your placement is based partially on your test grades, let's hope your preparations are enough!] [It's just after noon, two days from the last session, which means that Kento's team fought last night, and you guys fight tonight at midnight. Lunch has just finished up, and it looks from the morning's classes like your teachers aren't letting up at all on the academics as midterms approach. You're gonna be tested on stuff that you learned the day before the exam.] [For now, though, it's time for recreation. Since your fight isn't until midnight, you've got the afternoon off, and so do all the other teams. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, skies are blue, the air is crisp, and at least half the students have already headed for the city, though more than a few are still up here studying for midterms and just blowing off steam in fights. [We open on our heroes just as they're exiting the cafeteria, and just as Alexander 102, all five of them, walk in for lunch looking as though they just woke up.] [Session... START!] * Battle High students, and the occasional professor, flow by out the doors as they finish lunch. * Mariah spent lunch with biology flashcards -- more practice never hurt anyone, right. "... man." ~What's wrong?~ * Ao-Lang is heading out of the cafeteria, stomach filled with... not really delicious, but probably nutritious food. She looks ever the schoolgirl with a textbook or two and her notes in her arms, and she raises an eyebrow as their neighboring team passes by. "Long night?" * Kento yawns and stretches as he he leads his team up to grab the dregs of lunch. What she said. They look totally dead to the world. * Marcie seems almost as peppy as usual, unlike the rest of her team. "Hell yeah. Exhausting." * Noreen yawns in reaction to Kento, which triggers a new bout of yawns in the rest of the team. -- Hope the cramming helped, though... * Ao-Lang grins at the fire chick. At least she's not trying to kick her butt for taking Atsuko's place again, whoever that is. "Did you win? I heard you took out one of the other team early." * Hope grumbles about stupid tests. ~I hope so too.~ * Kairi is tagging alongside Isaac, still looking like he'd much rather not have to worry about the horrors of both studying for tests and trying to determine what he just ate. "I cannot wait until this is over..." ~Sure you can!~ * Marcie smirks arrogantly. "Of COURSE we won. They were down a man. I can't believe that stupid bastard tried to ambush me in bed." Yeah, you and me both. .. yeah, what was up with that? ... in bed? * Kairi raises a snowy eyebrow. Turns out that freak by the name of Spider was using some sort of illusion technique to disguise himself as a team member so he could just walk in, punk someone in their sleep, and walk out. * Isaac snickers in your heads. ... well, that's not at all fair! I assume he got what for? * Greg walks right through Isaac on his way to lunch. * Mariah frowns. "I'm glad you caught him, then." What an idiot. He's not out of the infirmary yet. If I had my way, he'd be dead. If you had your way, half the school would be dead. I dunno about 'dead', but 'taught a lesson' works. * Kairi puts on his best 'please don't hate me' smile. * Ao-Lang can't help but laugh at that. "Aww, being dead's like not only having a lesson taught to ya, but making sure it doesn't happen again." * Isaac doesn't care at all. He's gotten used to it. ... Ao. The point of being taught a lesson is that you learn from it. * Kairi scowls, just a bit. .. well, I dunno. I just hope justice gets served. * The principal speaks up from behind Ao. He wasn't there a moment ago, but he's definitely there now, in all his aging bishie glory. "Actually, Mister Spider has withdrawn from the school." Damn it, can't you just walk up like a normal person? * Ao-Lang smirks at Kai and seems about to say something, then spins to see the principal. "Hey, didn't see you sneak up. I guess I gotta perfect my Eyes In The Back Of My Head technique." -- oh! * Kairi snaps towards the principal as he magically appears. "Gyah! Well... at least it seems he did learn his lesson." * Mariah puts on her Addressing Authority face. * Quentin looks down at Hope. "I did walk up like a normal person." * Isaac looks back at Quentin, then ducks behind Kairi. * Hope shrugs. "Whatever." Easy, Isaac, he's not going to eat you or anything. So does that mean Wukong 101's down a man? Permanently? * Kento takes a seat near where you guys are talking and begins shoveling down food. ~Yeah, but he's still creepy.~ Yes, it does. [Last Time, on Battle High: The cafeteria was a blast, metaphorically speaking. Really. But time flies, and soon, so will fighters, from the top of Fight Tower, some eight stories above the top of the mountain.] [It's ten minutes to showtime, and thanks to upcoming midterms, you don't even have much support coming from the friends you've picked up along the way. Time for the moment of truth.] [We open on our heroes as they're just finishing preparations for the fight. Now it's time to head up and get down.] [Session... START!] * Ao-Lang is ready and willing to go, actually, pacing as she rebraids her hair. Same outfit as always: long-sleeved, gray silk shirt, jeans, and those high and shiny, black leather boots. She looks agitated, though. "Where the hell is Karasu? Bad enough he was skipping class." .. I don't know. It's starting to worry me, too. * Hope leans back on her sword, dressed in her usual t-shirt and jeans. "Bastard probably ran off." * Kairi is also ready and able, in his usual overall-and-turtleneck combo. At the moment, he's busy inspecting his bo for nicks and scrapes with a careful eye. "... mmmn." * Mariah is dressed in her normal casual-ish fighting gear, binding her hair back into a tight ponytail and with her glasses strapped on. She's not bothering with jewelry. * Isaac flies around. ~It's worrying me too...~ * Ao-Lang finishes, flicks her braid off her shoulder, and looks to the others. "Yeah. It means a four on five." Well.. at least we had advanced warning on them. ~I bet they did on us, too.~ .. probably. We really can't think about it now. It's go-time, either way... but that he cut out on us like this... ghn. ~It SUCKS!~ * Ao-Lang shakes her head. "Yeah, which means Earth lady's gonna be out for my blood. Everyone remembers the strengths and weaknesses, right?" I think so. I recall that they weren't a particularly clear team in terms of their weaknesses. ~They got two non-elementals, the two people who like throwing stuff.~ I... kinda remember them, yeah. Damned Karasu. * Kairi finishes inspecting his weapon, then tucks it away, bouncing on his toes. "Ready ready ready... I hope." And the Earth fighter, who isn't very weak against air.. and then the girl who was very weak against lightning, wasn't it? * Mariah grabs her staff. * Ao-Lang shakes her head. "Diana's lightning and weak to Earth; we met her before. And Cye - that's the guy in the armor - is weak to Ice. If you ever feel like hitting a weakness, Mariah, go ahead." The big lady's weak against air, actually. Well, I do like to try -- and I'm sorry, I've been spending so much time with that biology book...have to get my mind back on the fight. * Ao-Lang stretches and starts heading out. "Cye's also water, if anyone's got a problem with that. We've got to get going. I'll do what I can do her if I get a shot. * Kairi nods Ao's way. Let's go. ~S'okay, we'll do fine.~ * Isaac smiles and floats with the rest of the group. * Ao-Lang grins at Isaac. "Of *course* we'll do fine." We can do it. Heh. One of us is worth two o' them. That's the spirit! * Kairi pumps a fist in the air, then waves Isaac's way. "... and that's the spirit, too. Hey, Isaac." ^^ Any of you guys good at knocking people off roofs, or are you gonna leave that to me and Hope here? I.. well, I could do it if I had the chance, but it's not a particular strength. * Ao-Lang grins. "I just figure that if they fall that far, they won't be coming back up." I've got something that might do the trick... but we'll see. So long as they survive, of course... But I'll do what I can. Don't go assumin' that Ao. * Isaac sits on Kairi's head. ~I am a spirit.~ ^^ * Ao-Lang sighs dramatically. "Yeah, one of them might be able to fly." .. well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. * Five minutes. * Kairi is definitely walking. * Mariah is walking along, staff slung over her back for now. * Up, and up, and up she goes. And he goes. And they go. And then they're on the fifth floor balcony of fight tower, and the window is nice and open. Soft murmurs of voices drift down from above. * Kairi helps himself to a looksee outside. "Man, what a view!" * Hope is walking, for sure. * Ao-Lang snickers. "Come on, Kai." She keeps heading up. * Mariah glances over but just keeps going. * You'll have to get outside through the window, since there's really no stairway up to the roof itself. Okay, okay... * Isaac pushes Kairi up. ~It looks better further up!~ * Ao-Lang blinks as there's no stairway. "Okaaaay." She steps out on the balcony and looks up. "Guess it's the harder way, then." * Kairi notes the lack of 'up', then slips out because apparently he lacks a fear of heights. .. oh boy. * Isaac floats over and looks around, taking a floating position a good portion off the roof. This is going to be.. fun? ~Sure!~ * Hope goes up after the others. "Yeesh." * Kairi is doing everything within his white-haired power to start on up. Man, is he smiling. * It's actually pretty easy to get up onto the roof. The material along the edge seems almost made for gripping while you pull yourself up, and it's mostly a measure of acrobatic skill how easily you get up there. The really good ones don't touch the roof with anything but their hands and feet. * Mariah climbs up -- not gracefully, per se, but she gets there. * Isaac floats up. * Kairi makes it to the top, and immediately turns around to just look. "Wooow..." * Your opponents are already present. Sakai, in his red uniform just like his picture, Cye Torrent already in his deep blue armor, Diana Wood in tight, almost spandexy running clothes, Louisa in shorts and tee stretched so tight across her massive frame that it shows more than spandex would, and Kaga, dressed in clothes more befitting a victorian courtier, or maybe a stupid french vampire. * Ao-Lang looks up, gauging the distance, and then shrugs to herself. She hops onto the railing and then jumps up, clearing the roof with remarkable ease. This is followed by a flip at the top of her arc and a handplant, which puts her back on her feet. "Wow what?" .. okay, here we go. Hmph. * Ao-Lang looks their opponents over and smirks. "Hey Diana." * Diana waves halfheartedly. "Hey." Don't suppose you've seen our idiot brooder, huh? * Isaac waves to Diana. She probably can't see him. * Kairi turns around to note the others finally, then waves. "Heya! Ready to go?" ^^ * Diana doesn't appear to notice Isaac, though Cye sees him and nods gravely. * Ao-Lang stretches. "Ref's gotta show first." And then she blinks at the Cye/Isaac exchange. "Hrm." Yeah, where the heck *is* he... * Kaga walks forward, extending his hand to Kairi. It emerges from fold upon fold of white lace, clearly drawing attention to his hands in the dark. * Isaac blinks over at Cye. * Isaac 's eyes flash red briefly... * Kairi smiles and quite happily accepts the hand, shaking it firmly. "A pleasure to meet you." * Mariah shrugs and raises her head to smile. "Ah, well." * Isaac looks about and frowns, sending only to our team. ~Guys, they're gunning for Kairi.~ * Kaga's hand tightens a bit on Kairi's hand. ~They are? Any particular reason why?~ ~Think it's 'cuz he's a shaman.~ * Principal Quentin appears at the peak of the roof just as a bell somewhere begins to toll. "FIGHT!" ~Kairi, merge!~ ~... ah? Why me? Oh, right!~ * Kaga turns to one side, his slim hand tightening painfully on Kai's hand as the second bell of midnight tolls. He whips Kairi around and cracks him like a whip, letting go at the pivotal moment and sending him flying all the way across the roof. He lands several feet short of the edge then rolls once... * twice... * and falls over the edge. * Kairi lets out a pained cry as his hand's half-crushed, then goes tumbling off and over without further delay. "N-No!" -- Kai! Bastard! * Ao-Lang curses and dashes forward, running straight for... Diana, actually. She flicks both tessen out of her sleeves and snaps them open as she brings them forward, lighting and water blasting forward when they meet in their slash. "Chaos Stream!" ~Kairi!~ * Isaac flies after Kairi, trying to catch up to him before he goes all the way off. ~Don't you dare!~ * Diana crosses her arms in front of her as the barrage of charged water washes over her, pushing her back. She skids quite some distance, then finally overcomes the last squirts of water and is thoroughly soaked. Good thing her outfit isn't white. * Diana raises both arms in the air and spins. From the clear sky, a bolt of brilliant lightning strikes directly down through her, leaving electricity dancing over her wet skin and clothing. She stops in place and points dramatically at Ao-Lang and screams "THUNDER DRAGON!" * An enormous serpent of lightning erupts from the pointing finger and lunges for Ao-Lang. * Isaac looks in deep surprise and speeds down the side as fast he can, vanishing from sight. * Ao-Lang 's eyes widen and she brings both tessen before her, crossing them and shielding her face in a way similar to how Diana handled her earlier attack. The lightning hits her, goes through, and past, leaving a singed, electrified Ao-Lang. * Hope dashes towards Diana and slams her sword into the ground. "BATTER.. UP!" * Diana is still recovering from the afterimage left behind by the thunder dragon and is launched violently upward. Some ten feet up, she finally stops rising and begins falling. * Hope lifts her sword up and SWINGS. "Mega HIT!" * As Hope's massive sword slams into Diana, leftover electricity floods down the blade, crackling along the edge straight into Hope's hands. Diana is pitched across the roof and doesn't even drop enough to roll. She's going... going... GONE. A home run hole in one field goal. * Mariah lunges forward and brings her staff up in one twirling motion, a crackling corona of energy forming around it. She breaks into a run, trying to overtake Louisa before she can recover her senses and slam the staff into her chest to drive her back. "Thundering Staff!" * Louisa blinks as Mariah screams, then turns and instinctively reaches out and grabs ahold of the staff to keep it from slamming into her chest. Her teeth are nearly rattled out of her head, but she's not driven back at all. In fact, it looks kinda comical the way she's staring down at Mariah and trying not to vibrate. * Cye backs away across the roof, keeping the center of the roof between himself and Ao-Lang. He's out of her sight by the time he stops. * The air begins to smell distinctly of sea water. * Sakai turns away from where Kairi fell, resolved to pay more attention to the battle at hand, even though now he has no real purpose in the battle. Still, better to do SOMETHING, he thinks. With a slightly strangled cry of "CIRCLE CUTTER!" he sends a disc of spinning metal whirling across the roof at Hope's back. It looks as though it's going to connect quite strongly, so overextended is she. * Then a half dozen stone tiles from the newly repaired roof jump from their mountings, roofing nails and all, and though they shatter as the cutter slams into them, the spinning metal disc falls to the ground, its momentum spent. Hmph! Not that easy. * Sakai gapes. "That was not in the briefing!" * Louisa doesn't seem to be paying much attention to that whole interaction. She's still looking semi-stupidly down at Mariah. Then she raises her right hand, as her left is still holding the staff, and slams it directly into Mariah's jaw as hard as she possibly can. * Mariah is hit firm in the jaw and knocked back some; she wrenches her staff away, and now it's her turn to stare dumbly. "mmf." * From somewhere in the lace of one sleeve, Kaga produces a brilliant yellow pepper. He throws it at the ground at Ao-Lang's feet, and it erupts into a cloud of black, irritating smoke that burns like FIRE. * Kaga shouts triumphantly as the pepper bursts, "PEPPER BOMB!" * Ao-Lang watches Diana go, then turns towards Kaga as the pepper bursts around her. She starts coughing uncontrollably, followed by very unladylike swears that may or may not translate well into your language of choice. * The swears translate quite well, as a matter of fact. * They are not, however, localized, and thus are not entirely comprehensible. * Ao-Lang keeps spinning, though, and with another cough, she's off on a blind charge. Despite not seeing where she's going, she jumps up to the point of the roof, landing and throwing one tessen and another at Cye, even as she coughs again. * Quentin takes a quick step to one side as Ao-Lang lands where he was standing just a moment ago. * Cye doesn't even blink as the two tessen fly straight for him. He stands there and takes it even as the fans strike into the joints of his armor and come away bloody. * Ao-Lang catches them at the last moment as they wing back to her. She wipes one hand across her watering eyes. * The burning in Ao's eyes intensifies. * Ao-Lang shuts them tightly and grits her teeth. * Hope dashes towards Mariah, aiming to implant her sword into Louisa's head. * Louisa reaches out with one hand and stops the massive blade, though it takes some effort and pushes her back just a bit from Mariah. "You shouldn't interfere." * Mariah takes the opportunity to scramble back; she stays silent, but her facial expression broadcasts clearly that she is absolutely *fine* with Hope interfering. She keeps moving back to give herself a wide berth from Louisa, looking behind her.. and then wheels, flipping her staff forward to thrust at Cye. Her attack call is more than a little garbled, but it sounds a little like "Frostbite!" * The icy blue energy around the staff grows and lances out in a bright bolt of ice in Cye's direction, trailing snow... * Cye doesn't move at all and the icy beam washes over him and into the wave behind, freezing a significant portion. Cye's armor is left hanging with icicles and his teeth are chattering, but behind him, the wave continues building. * The wave grows, and grows, and grows. It now dwarfs the castle, and possibly the entire mountain it sits on. It obscures the castle below, for those who care to look down, and when it hits, it may well take the entire tower with it. * Sakai runs forward, vaulting over Louisa and Hope to land between Mariah and Cye. He holds his hands out to each side as if summoning something from the ground and says gravely, "Circle Mold." A massive metal wall springs up around himself and Mariah, thin but probably quite strong, and very tall. -- mm! * "... now's our chance!" ~Mwehehehe.~ *** Isaac is now known as Isaackai *** Kaissac is now known as Kaisaac * Kaisaac pretty much sails up and over the edge of the roof, bo and blade held and ready to strike at Cye. After a moment of indecision, he chooses the sword, screaming not-so-bloody murder. "Llamda Strike!" * Kaisaac pretty much sails up and over the edge of the roof, bo and blade held and ready to strike at Cye. After a moment of indecision, he chooses the sword, screaming not-so-bloody murder. ~Llamda Strike.~ * The sword cleaves straight through Cye's armor, sending a spurt of blood high into the air. The wave begins to quiver with antici... ... ... ...pation. ... but wait, there's more! ~Dude, that's lame.~ * Kaisaac spins, and stabs outward once more---"Llamda Strike!"--- before switching to his bo and drilling it wind-helix-first at Cye's face. "White Spiral!" * Isaackai spins, at slashes once more--- ~Llamda strike!~--- before switching to the bo and drilling it wind-helix-first at Cye's face. ~And White Spiral!~ * Isaac's sword is left buried in Cye's gut as the switch to the bo goes exactly as planned. The white spiral slams into Cye's face, catapulting him straight back into the wave of his own creation, which collapses downward and disappears to wherever it came from. * Ao-Lang coughs and barely makes out, "What do ya know. Some people can fly." * Louisa throws both arms strongly out to her sides, hands spread wide, and SLAMS her hands together straight for Hope's head. "HEADSPLITTER!" * At least a dozen of the roof tiles leap directly inbetween Hope's head and Louisa's hands, but the sheer force behind the hands drives them inward, slamming together on Hope's poor head. Luckily for Hope, her head doesn't quite detonate, but she's got a splitting headache and can't hear a damn thing now. RAAAAAA. * Kaga jumps high into the air and produces pepper after golden pepper from his sleeves, hurling them all over the roof. "PEPPER SPRAY!" * Clouds of peppery napalm explode all over the roof as the bombs detonate on contact. It burns like FIRE. They may look like bell peppers, but they burn like habanero. * Ao-Lang screams as another batch of peppers explodes around her, and the screaming dissolves into an angry, coughing rasp. She bursts from the cloud with incredible speed, springing off the side of the pointed roof and flying through the air to land right in front of Kaga. "You lose," she rasps as her tessen cross, Wave becoming a rippling blue-gray, and Bolt trailing lightning and sparks. * Ao-Lang 's eyes remain closed, tears trailing down her cheeks, but a bright and angry thunderclap booms as she releases her tessen, sending them in opposite directions. "Eye of the Storm!" * Kaga raises his hands in a futile attempt to defend himself as torrents of water hit him followed by bolts of lightning. When the storm finally dies down, he's kneeling on the ground almost insensible, clearly reeling from an undodgable attack. * Hope pushes forward with her blade, eyes red and burning, head a bloody mess. "RAAAAAAAA! BREAK AND SHATTER!" * Diana raises both hands, obviously attempting to stop the blade's descent as she did before. A moment later, there's a sickening sound of bone cracking and flesh tearing apart as one arm gives way and the massive blade tears straight down through the shoulder, lopping the entire arm off. Louisa falls to her knees in shock, her left hand reaching down instinctively to clamp over the spurting wound where her arm was once attached. * Kaisaac can't help but wince, growing pale rather quickly. * Isaackai doesn't look. Not looking. * Ao-Lang can't see it, and even if she could, you get the impression she wouldn't exactly jump to Louisa's aid. * The pain appears to finally hit Louisa, and she screams. It's a scream full of pain and absolute terror, and reminds you rather of a badly hurt baby in its sheer emotional intensity. * Hope looks a little sick. * Mariah has been stuck in a metal cylinder and has not seen any of this, but she's blanching a little -- whether from the noises outside or the pain is an open question. She leans forward and spits out a mouthful of blood before turning to regard Sakai. ".. tred of thus." She brings her staff out, letting the corona of energy build again, and lunges forward and *low* -- aiming to bring the Thundering Staff up into Sakai's stomach and slam him against the metal wall * Sakai is slammed up against the wall and rattled mightily by the blow, but he's still looking down at Mariah with fire in his eyes. * Sakai catches himself as he slides down off the now vibrating wall. He produces a handfull of plates from nowhere and flings them, one after another, at Mariah as he screams, "Perfect Presentation! Five courses!" * Mariah backs up as far as she can, knocking a few plates out of the way, but shards of porcelain and plates she can't dodge leave little lines of ripped shirt and blood. Her eyes go steely, even though her sickly broken-jaw expression doesn't change. She brings her staff up from a block, beginning to twirl it, slower first, then faster... * "I'm ending this. GUIDING THE WHEEL!" The twirling of her staff hits a fever pitch, the motion almost a blur... and a broad cone of coruscating, near-deafening sound explodes from the twirling staff towards Sakai. * The solid metal wall shakes a little, as if from an impact, then with one mighty shiver and twist, it shatters and out comes Sakai, propelled on the breath of a thunderous cone of noise that momentarily deafens everybody on the roof. * Kaisaac claps his hands over his ears, the momentary distraction making him forget about the bloody mess nearby. * Mariah blinks.. and manages something approaching a smile before she half-closes her eyes and slumps back against the intact section of wall. * Isaackai claps his hands over his ears, the distraction temporarily jerking him. * Hope is thankfully deaf, and so has no worries. ... this fight needs to end! ~Then finish it already!~ * Kaisaac all but flows towards Kaga and just brings his his bo down at his head firmly... and repeatedly. "There!" * Kaga drops limply to the roof, whatever little strength he had left now gone. * Ao-Lang hears that, then catches her tessen and falls to her knees, gasping and crying. * Hope sits on her knees, gasping and barely awake. That blow to the head took a lot out of her. ... * Isaackai listens for the call from the ref. * Quentin gazes over the... carnage and announces calmly, "Winner, Alexander The Great 103." * The principal walks over to Louisa's still trembling body and picks it up, heedless of the blood being spread all over his nice coat. ... will she make it? ~I really really hope so...~ * Mariah slumps a little further. * Quentin levels his gaze at Hope. "That depends entirely on her." * The principal disappears. Make what? * Ao-Lang sneezes, then coughs again, and rasps, "I'm the last person to find out anything around here." * Hope stares at Quentin, obviously not being able to hear what he said. * Isaackai de-merges from Kairi. ~We should help everyone else back to their room?~ We... we really should. * Kairi looks Hope's way for a moment, then walks over to Ao, offering her a shoulder. "C'mon." * Ao-Lang just barely notices Kai there. She opens her eyes, trying to blink tears away, and gives up as she shuts them again. * Ao-Lang reaches up and grabs Kairi by the arm, hauling herself to her feet. * Isaac checks over each of the fallen team, making sure they're not in immedeate obvious danger. * Mariah is unconscious but, aside from the now fairly obviously broken jaw, looks to be in decent condition. ... mmmn. Water would only really make that worse. * Hope just kinda sits there. It doesn't really look like she can stand. * Kairi frowns, realizing he's the only person there with relative mobility. "... Ao, I'm going to get some of the drinks. I can't get you all to the room at once." .. nnn... huh? Yeah, go ahead. I'll... listen for anyone coming. * Mariah opens her eyes, head moving to her face, and pushes herself off the wall. "whas goin' on?" * Ao-Lang snickers, which turns into a coughing fit. "We won." .. thas good. 'm glad. ~We won very hard.~ * Mariah takes a few steps out of the metal can-rubble, leaning heavily on her staff. Yeah, we won. I'll be back... ~Go Kairi, I'll stay here.~ * Kairi gives the group a look, then slips over the roof's edge and climbs down to the window. Off he goes, like a shot. I.. I dunno 'f I can get down th' wall. ~Wow, you guys did really good. Any of you really hurt? There's nothing I can really do, unfortunately...~ * Mariah 's speech appears to be slurred in equal parts from exhaustion and the broken jaw. * Ao-Lang sneezes. "'m pretty okay, outside of the damn pepper stuff." * Hope shakes her head, and winces, instantly regretting it. "Don't think I can stand up." I.. th' jaw's.. pre'y bad. * The smell of blood IS pretty disgusting. [Fight... Win by Utter Destruction]