rakuen | Battle, last day of round -1!

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Battle, last day of round -1!

Suzaku Kururugi vs. Mei Chang
Weapons: Euphemia li Britannia and Gino Weinberg
Location: At the docks
Time of day: High Noon

Unfortunately Suzaku had agreed to this battle with Mei before he had fought Tsuki and lost Lelouch. That meant that since Kotarou was still recovering not that he would use the kid anyways after what happened last time and he had promised Lelouch not to use Nunnally in battle he had to use Euphemia's weapon. He didn't want to, he didn't want to hurt her; he didn't want to hurt anyone. But no one had been rendered unconscious in the last battle, so he was hoping that that was something rare. As long as they were careful.

Suzaku looked at Euphemia, "Are you sure this is alright, we can still forfeit if it's not..."

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Mei folded her arms and floated up... until Gino caught an ankle to keep her from getting farther away. She glared a bit longer, but come on, she was flying. The awesome of that was catching up. She looked around, then down at the knight, then over at the other knight, then around again.

"...ah... I can fly!"

Way to notice that, Mei. Good job.

She was about ready to shake her ankle free and zoom off, but then Gino had to go and say something to make her wary of it all over again. "What." The general 'rawr rawr rage' had faded. "I so have the hang of this! I figured it out in like ten seconds!" Yes. Ten seconds exactly.

"Well then," Gino sat up, transferring her ankle to his other hand so he could pick the halberd up again before standing. "Guess you should go show him what the Chang family can do, huh?"

As soon as he'd gotten to his feet - and Mei was several metres higher than she had been before - he tugged. Grabbed the back of her blazer collar. Hefted.

"Heads up, Seven!"

New technique learned: Mei Missile. Meissile.

Mei's antics even brought a smile to Suzaku's face, the worry of the battle and of Euphemia's weapon forgotten for a brief moment. He laughed quietly as he watched Mei trying to work out flying and Gino trying to protect himself from the tiny angry girl.

Soon though she seemed ready and Suzaku had to duck once again as Gino threw Mei towards him. Trying to suppress the laughter he turned and waited for his opponent to fly back towards him.

The fact that people weren’t supposed to be able to fly… well that was sort of put to the side as Suzaku readied himself to continue the battle.

Throwing Mei at someone would be more effective if she had been WARNED about it. While she did figure out his plan at the last second, it was still disconcerting to be chucked at one's opponent. Suzaku ducked and she flew past overhead, but by now she really had figured out this flying stuff. It didn't matter that people weren't supposed to fly. Someone her age had no problem suspending their disbelief to such epic levels and that made it just so much easier.

She swung herself back upright in the air and dug her heels in... uh, well, into the air, much like someone would dig their heels into the dirt or what have you to stop. This was how she decided flying people used braking. It worked. Mei spun back around and instead of charging Suzaku head on, she zoomed around him again, coming in low behind to grab at the coattails of his uniform, and then continue flying around him.

Suzaku had, for obvious reasons, never fought a flying opponent before. Or rather he had, he had fought plenty of aerial battles, but in nightmares and never when his opponents could fly and he couldn't.

He tried to side step out of the way, and managed to avoid Mei, but she still managed to grab his coat tails, he tried to turn but as she flew around him he found himself off balance and then on the floor.

He frowned; he had to think; think of a way to fight a flying person unarmed without hurting them. He could jump... could he kick that high.

He could try, running after her he jumped as high as he could, spinning round in an attempt to kick her out of the air.

Just think of her like a tiny, adorable knightmare frame, Suzaku. That ought to do the trick.

Okay! Mei had him knocked down. All that was left was to pin him and, who knows, twist his arm until he cried uncle or something. She didn't exactly have plans on beating him into unconsciousness, that was for sure. The girl pulled another hard turn in the air to reverse directions again and...

Got a spinkick to the gut. OOF. See Mei get kicked out of the air. See Mei hit the ground. See Mei bounce. It was just like kicking a soccer ball! The girl caught herself before she could hit the ground again, floating up.

Urrgh that huuurt, but this wasn't the time to whine about that. She didn't hang around floating, she immediately threw herself into a high speed charge. If the timing worked out, the tiny girl would be tackling Suzaku just after he's landed from his kick.

The kick connected and Mei span off, Suzaku instantly felt dreadful. He hadn't wanted to hurt her! He blinked watching as she flew back into the air, hoping that she was all right.

He didn't even manage to get out the way as she tackled into him; he landed awkwardly but was more relieved that he had not seriously hurt Mei than worried that he had once again been knocked to the floor.

Mei's alright! She is one tough little kid and, unlike him, she wasn't getting distracted by the worry of him getting hurt. He was a knight. HE CAN TAKE IT. So there.

With Suzaku now down, Mei wasted no time putting that strength boost from Tristan to use. She hopped off of his chest and, any second now, he was going to find himself being flipped over. After that? The plan was to grab an arm and twist it around to his back, to immobilize him.

It's a pretty basic hold, but effective; she could easily break an arm with it, but she doesn't go that far! Even so, all that extra strength is still something she's getting used to. She might end up twisting that arm a little too hard.

He had forgotten about the strange strength, the flying had made him forget that she had also got scarily strong. But then he was facing the ground and his arm was hurting.

His arm was hurting a lot, it was burning but he gritted his teeth, Mei had strength but she was still only ten, and very light. So closing his eyes he rolled over towards the arm that was pinned and tried to sit up.

It hurt, but it might get her off him.

Ha! Now she had-- okay, nope. Suzaku's right. She doesn't have the weight to keep someone pinned. "Wah!" The knight flips, momentarily onto her before he sits up. It gets her to let go of his arm and he gets a few seconds of respite while she gets over being squished.

And then he gets a child on his back. Look out, the tiny princess is aiming to put Suzaku in a headlock. If that could be called a headlock. Maybe it's better off classified as a headcling...

It worked, Suzaku got up and the pain in his arm started to subside. Then Mei flung herself onto his neck and he was trapped again.

He reached up and grabbed her arms, her grip was strong and so Suzaku wasn't too sure if trying to prise her off while spinning sharply to the side was going to work.

But it was either that or fall backwards to trap her, and he couldn't do that, because he wasn't going to hurt her.

Mei clung onto his neck throughout the spin. Once that was past, though, she switched her vice grip to the fabric of his uniform, around the collar of it. It wasn't so much moving her arms, which he did have a grip on, as switching what her hands were clamped onto.

See, she couldn't leave them around his neck, because then she might strangle him when she zoomed up into the air.

This was ridiculous; he thought he was a better fighter than this. But he had never fought someone who was flying before. As it was, when he found himself being lifted into the air by his coat he really couldn't do anything but laugh and kick his legs trying to wriggle out of her grasp.

It was ridiculous and though his laugh was brittle and bitter sounding it was genuine. He tried attacking her hands again, putting his hands behind him and trying to prise her fingers off him. Hoping that she would let go of his uniform.

"Can you swim?" Mei asked cheerfully while he uselessly tried to pry her fingers off his uniform. Not that the answer mattered, because they were already flying out towards the harbor. Zoooom. They were getting lower and lower, towards the water, and farther and farther away from the school...

So Suzaku's laughter might be bitter, but Mei's? Yeah, hers was so cheerful. She was having fun with this.

"This is so great! I wonder how far out we can get!"

"Uh Mei," Suzaku stopped wriggling, stopped attacking her hands. He could swim... but that didn't mean he wanted to.

So he just hung there, there was nothing else he could do. This battle was already lost; Suzaku tried not to think of the fact the person who had beaten him was ten years old.

"Alright Mei... You win, I lose, now let's go ba..."

Then he was falling, "Mei!" Had she dropped him?

"Huh? Really?!" Mei looked down at him, a huge smile on her face. "You're giving u--" She'll have to celebrate her first win later, because the very second Suzaku forfeited the match, the weapons back on shore vanished.

So did the upgrades that came with them!

Which meant Mei could no longer fly.

"Aaaa!" No, she hadn't dropped him. The girl was falling right after him. It was a good thing she'd brought them down so close to the surface, so the fall into the water wasn't going to be too bad...

So, SPLASH. Hello, water.

Suzaku hit the water with a splash. He struggled to get up to the surface and get his head above water, then treaded water looking around. He noticed Mei wasn't in the air. What had happened?

"Mei?! Mei?" Could she even swim, he swallowed some water as he shouted. "Mei!"

Mei burst up through the water's surface nearby and, after a few seconds of coughing out water and getting some air, she complained, "Ah! I forgot they disappear when you give up!"

Stupid, stupid, stuuuupid, she scolded herself. It looked like she could swim, though, so that was good. The girl pouted and looked back towards shore.

"...oooh no, why did I fly out this far..." She turned back towards Suzaku. "S-sorry. I got carried away!"

This was all his fault! He had forgotten that giving up meant that the weapons automatically disappeared. He was stupid and this was the second time his idiocy of not knowing all the rules had hurt someone, Mei could have drowned!

"I'm sorry Mei," He swam until he was level with her, "I forgot..."

He was an idiot.

"So did I! So! We were both being stupid, okay?"

Mei would seriously have to beat up Suzaku (again) if she knew what was on his mind. Mei, drowning? She wouldn't die so easily! What a doof. She drifted over to where he was and treaded water.

"We should start back!" Despite the abrupt and terribly wet outcome of the fight, she was smiling again. "This is cake compared to crossing a desert!"

See? Mei, Built ~~Ford~~ Xingese Empire Tough.

A third splash, and Gino had dived into the harbour to join them. Seeing as his was actually planned, he'd taken off his blazer before running along the jetty and jumping in.

He surfaced a few seconds later, treading water about a metre away from Mei.

"Did we win?"

No, it hadn't been too clear what had happened from shore.

And then a fourth splash! Euphemia isn't a particularly strong swimmer, but she's worried enough about her knight that she doesn't mind. She's slipped off her vest and shoes and socks before hopping in, shirt and skirt still on.

Swimming out, she goes to Suzaku. "Are you okay?"

Suzaku nodded at Mei; he knew she was tough, but crossing a dessert did not mean that you knew how to swim... Still she seemed to be having no difficulties and they started back to shore.

Just to be met by Gino and Euphemia who had decided to jump in the water as well. He treaded water and gave Euphemia a small smile. "I'm alright," he stayed close, he didn't know how good a swimmer Euphemia was, he looked over to Gino. "Yes you won," he sounded slightly embarrassed about that.

Of course it means you can swim. Deserts are just like oceans, except with sand, right? Yeah, it totally made sense.

When they met the other two on the swim back in, Mei threw her arms up and joyously answered Gino's question. "We did!" Aaand she sinks a little, because she stopped treading water. Uh. Flail, splash. There. Back above water again.

"Um, why did you two jump in, too? Now we're all wet!"

Oh, shoes and socks. Yeah, those too.

"Well do-- ah, don't drown, okay? That'd look bad on the tape." He swam over to Mei, in case she wanted to grab onto something for further celebrating - flailing was serious business, after all - and flicked water at her.

"Because it looked like fun!"

Battle, last day of round -1!

Suzaku Kururugi vs. Mei Chang

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