Subj: [ffml] [HD] Hiryuu vs. Akuryuu part 1 Date: 01-01-11 00:47:11 EST From: hiryuu@ffml-irc.org (Hiryuu) Reply-to: ffml@egroups.com To: hilliondynasty@egroups.com (hilliondynasty), ffml@egroups.com Hiryuu awoke to a terrible stench. Lifting his head he saw he was on top of the floating tentacle creature he knew to be Akuryuu. Slighty coughing and spitting seawater, he looked around and saw no sign of the ship or the storm from last night. "Rise and shine, jerk" Hiryuu emphasised by punching the creature where he knew its body to be. The tentacles twitched slightly and Akuryuu was slowly revived. Hiryuu hit him again. "Whats the big idea, attacking us like that?" Hiryuu struck it a third time. "Because of you, my friends are god knows where, while I'm in the middle of nowhere with smelly squid boy!" Hiryuu shrugged the tentacle off his back and stood up. "Look at my beautiful white fur coat, ruined!" Hiryuu gave a final swift kick. "Start swimming and we might live through this one." The monster obediently began making long powerful strokes with its tentacles. It was dusk when they found land at last, a fishing town on the imperial continent. The moogle and monster pulled themselves on shore and walked into a nearby eating establishment. The waitress along with the rest of the clientelle eyed the pair seated in a booth. "We have a special on kupo nut pie.." The tentacle monster was solving the puzzles in the kids section of his menu. Hiryuu looked up, his antennae swaying slightly. "No, just coffee." Once the waitress had arrived with the coffee, Hiryuu grabbed it and splashed himself. He clawed at his now red face and yelled "HOOOT!!!" After calming down he threw the rest at Akuryuu. "Thats boiling you idiot!" Akuryuu screamed. "Don't be such a baby. Now are you going to tell me what prompted you to try and kill me and my friends?" Akuryuu rested back. "You know I'm kind of hungry after that long swim." Hiryuu sighed and slammed the table. *** Akuryuu wiped the corners of his mouth with a napkin. "Delicious!" Hiryuu looked ready to explode. "NOW will you tell me?!" "Huh? oh right. Lets see... I was travelling the world seeking you after you had honorlessly backed out of our duel between men." Hiryuu interjected. "YOU'RE the one that passed it off to do that La Blue Girl episode!@#" Akuryuu looked shocked. "You accuse me of such a thing?" Hiryuu held up a VHS box of a La Blue Girl tape with Akuryuu's cursed form illustrated on the cover. Akuryuu made a grab for it. "Why do you have something like that?!" Hiryuu quickly put it back. "Nevermind that. now on with the story." "Anyway I was camping out in the Calypso area when I had this whacked out dream, actually it was more like a vision." Akuryuu picked at his teeth. "A woman appeared and told me where to find you." Akuryuu said. "A woman?" Hiryuu wondered who would want to cause their party harm. "No ordinary woman, more like.. a goddess." Akuryuu smirked. "Enough about that. Now that I've found you, we can finish what we started." Akuryuu swept all the dishes off the table with one arm and stood. Hiryuu followed suit and cracked his knuckles. "I guess theres no avoiding this, is there? You were always my best sparring partner, it will be a shame to lose you." The rest of the establishment's patrons quickly crept out, knowing they didn't want to be a part of this. -HIRYUU Subj: [ffml] [HD] Hiryuu vs. Akuryuu part 2 Date: 01-01-14 07:05:33 EST From: hiryuu@ffml-irc.org (Hiryuu) Reply-to: ffml@egroups.com To: ffml@egroups.com, hilliondynasty@egroups.com (hilliondynasty) Hiryuu dodged the screw punch and grabbed Akuryuu's extended limb, using the momentum to toss him through several tables. Akuryuu rose and lightly dusted himself off "You've gotten better." Hiryuu smirked. "You haven't." Akuryuu yelled and launched an aerial kick Hiryuu barely avoided. The kick went through the floor where Hiryuu was standing, and Hiryuu took the opening to launch his own lightning fast combo. Akuryuu shrugged off the blows and landed several stiff chops to Hiryuu's chest that would debilitate any normal man. Hiryuu stumbled back a few steps before renewing his assault. He lashed out with several flat palm strikes aimed at vital areas that Akuryuu all avoided or blocked, then weaved behind Akuryuu and thrust out a snap side kick that sent his opponent flying. Akuryuu smashed through a wall into some sort of club that was attached to the restaraunt. Loud, heavy music roared through its audio system. Rising out of the rubble, he spotted his approaching prey and decided he didn't want this warm up to last any longer. It was time to unleash the true power of the "Demon Dragon Fist". An aura a sickly shade or red flared into existance around him. Hiryuu followed the path of destruction into the club area, the music deafening him. He saw the red glow and knew that their true fight had just now begun. Looking around once more he saw the clubs patrons had all cleared out, good. His own blue aura crackled and itched for release. The two warriors met once again, this time exchanging blows in a blinding fast dance of death, colliding and attacking then rebounding in the blink of an eye. Suddenly the lighting was replaced with a vicious strobe that seemed to slow down their lighting fast techniques into something discernable, had anyone been there to witness it. "DEMON GOD ASSAULT!" Akuryuu screamed, spreading his arms out in wide arcs. Two massive ki blades screamed towards Hiryuu, slicing through tables and stools and anything else in their way. Hiryuu lept straight up and prepared his counter while still airborne. "Dragons fury UNLEASH!" A massive energy bolt that resembled the head of a dragon lept out of Hiryuu's extended fist. The air it consumed was superheated, emmiting the sound of a terrifying roar. Akuryuu rolled to the side as the blast desintegrated where he once stood, leaving a deep channel in its wake. The blast continued into a wall where it exploded violently. Hiryuu saw that the building couldn't take much more abuse and was leaning heavily. Spent energy residue hung heavily in the air. The music had long since been extinguished when an attack had hit the DJ booth. "HELL'S FURY!" Akuryuu struck the ground and energy lashed across the floor exploding with force where Hiryuu had been. Having lept above it, Hiryuu reached out to the support pillar as he passed it in mid-air. "BAKSUAI TENKETSU!"* The pillar exploded and the roof swept down in a rain of metal and plaster. The walls followed suit and collapsed inwards in a final crescendo. Crowds had gathered around the huge pile of rubble and a few began digging around and yelling for survivors. A water main had ruptured and was twisted so that it shot vertically and rained down upon the area. Several tentacles exploded out of the ruin, one of them seemed to be gripping something furry and white. The moogle struggled to free itself but to no avail. The monster bashed it headfirst into several solid surfaces until its actions exposed a concealed hot water pipe, which sprayed them back to human form. Hiryuu awoke and was tossed his clothes. "Get Dressed." Hiryuu looked up to see Akuryuu a few feet away. While Hiryuu dressed Akuryuu continued; "We'll consider that a tie. My cursed form has an unfair advantage and using it to defeat your pathetic moogle form is honorless. Hiryuu screamed "You still beat the shit out of me anyway!" "Nevertheless our buisness is not yet concluded. We'll meet here again in one week, this will be our final battle. Agreed?" Hiryuu immediatley confirmed. "Agreed. You'll finally stop following and attacking me, and once I win, you teach me those techniques." Akuryuu slung his pack over his shoulder "Heh, don't get ahead of yourself. I'll be training in the mountains west of here, be here in one week." Akuryuu leapt onto a nearby building and out of sight. A few men who were starting to rebuild what had been demolished upon hearing this, threw down their tools and went home to pack their belongings. Hiryuu sighed and started towards a forest he decided would be best to train in. "I might be able to take him while human, but if either of our curses is activated I'm toast. I've got to find a way to overcome his advantage." He glanced to the east at the ocean, bordered by the now rising sun. "I wonder if my friends made it to Nikeah.." Something in him told him they had. Once this was over, he would return to them. -HIRYUU * "Breaking point strike" a technique that destroys inatimate objects with the touch of a finger