The Assistant Log - Jeremy vs Nikea!
In order to prove themselves to Juan that they've got what it takes to pass this hurtle of The Assistant trial, Jeremy and Nikea must face each other in a test of strength. Only one of them can win this battle and move on, but who will it be?
Jeremy: *sighs* It looks like Juan ain't comin' anytime soon. *uncrosses his arms* Oh well. We're both adults here and can determine for ourselves when one of us is down for the count, right?
Nikea: *kicks a little dirt off of her shoes and cracks her knuckles* Yep! I've been looking forward to this all week, I'm sure Juan won't mind if we get the fun started without him! *grin*
Jeremy: Heh. Good then. *unsheathes sword* I don't really like to fight girls, but I can't walk away from this either. Hope you're ready!
Nikea: *rushes forward and swings her leg low so that she can try to catch Jeremy off balance*
Jeremy: *gets caught off guard immediately and falls backward from that attack. He rolls to the side in order to get back up and looks embarrassed* Guess I shoulda known better than to underestimate you.
Nikea: That's one of the first things they teach you in fighting school! Not to underestimate your opponent! But okay. That one was a freebie. Are you ready now?
Jeremy: Of course I knew that! That was just a test. Y-yeah! I'm fighting for real now. *runs up and swings with the blunt side of his blade, but the attack's a bit wild/blind*
Nikea: *steadies herself defensively for his sword swing but he nevertheless catches her on her wrist guards and it hurts more than she expected it to...* Owowow! *glares for a moment at the wristguards, as if it's their fault*
Nikea: *after the stinging in her wrist has died down, lowers her hands and runs forward a bit, fists flying towards Jeremy's undefended left side*
Jeremy: Stings, don't i- *was about to make a stupid remark and winds up with a fist to the ribs* -!
Nikea: *just grins and watches him*
Jeremy: *that last attack HURT. While clutching his poor side and kneeling on the ground, he only has the opportunity to sweep his leg under her to try and make her fall over or anything at this point*
Nikea: *sees his foot and tries to do something ultra-cool to dodge it, but mistimes her move and ends up tripping over his feet and falling over* Eeek! *sits there for a sec before she leaps up and holds a defensive pose again, wondering what bit of fabulousness she'll do next*
Nikea: *takes a deep breath* Time to try out one of my super moves on you! *starts spinning around towards Jeremy, her fists a flurry of motion*
Jeremy: Hey hey hey wait a sec! *he just steps out of the way entirely after bolting up and looks at what happened since his evasion seemed too easy*
Nikea: You dodged my special move! No way!
Jeremy: ... That's a special move? *stands there kinda stupified by her attempt and ends up wasting a chance to attack back*
Nikea: *puts her hands on her hips* Yeah, [that] was a special move. Wanna see some more? *cracks her knuckles* This one's [industrial strength] special!
Nikea: *starts advancing towards Jeremy in a flurry of punches but at the end switches up and swings a high roundhouse kick towards his shoulders [she couldn't get her leg high enough...]*
Jeremy: *blocks her leg by catching it for a minute with his free hand but drops it almost as quickly* Yikes! Sorry about that! *darn woman throwing her leg at him and embarrassed as hell for grabbing it now ;;;;;*
Nikea: What are you apologizing for? That's how you're [supposed] to do it! *grins*
Jeremy: *sweatdrops* Not every girl I run into agrees! *still using the blunt end of the blade, he tries to hit her on the side*
Nikea: Not every girl you run into knows how to...*ow!* *gets tagged in the side* ...[fight], either!
Nikea: *notices that he's still close enough to her for her to raise her foot, place it sorta squarely in his stomach, and push him back from her*
Jeremy: *Now that's twice in one fight that he's gotten the wind knocked outta him and gets shoved away from her* Well *cough* You can fight, I-I'll give you that! *even speaking is a little painful*
Nikea: So can you! You'd do better if you weren't so shy about it! C'mon! I know you have a super move around here somewhere, don't you?
Jeremy: *stands up more steadily* As a matter of fact, I do. *closes the distance between them first before gripping his sword with both hands to swing it upwards from below at Nikea*
Nikea: *sees the blade coming and has little time to react before the blade knocks her backwards off of her feet...she leans back on her hands and winces a bit but then grins* Thaaaat's the spirit! [That's] what [I'm] talkin' about! *leaps to her feet, winces again and cracks her knuckles* Okay, I'm not gonna take it easy on you anymore! [You] obviously know what you're doing!
Nikea: *steadies herself and does a series of spinning round kicks - first one foot, and then the other...by the time she's near Jeremy she switches over to two quick punches towards his face*
Jeremy: *a lot more focused now and stops her fists by holding his blade up with both hands to brace himself.* You know, you'd probably land a hit if you just attacked instead of being so flashy with your moves? *his face is still turned sideways from when she tried to punch him*
Nikea: You make it sound like I never land any hits!
Jeremy: Well, you're "special" moves haven't convinced me that they're "special" yet! *pushes the sword's handle at her shoulder since he has it high up enough at the moment*
Nikea: Hey! *takes one to the shoulder in the midst of pondering his remark* Well!...It's because I'm still working on them, see? I usually don't have anyone to try them out on! *a bit of her pride took a hit along with her shoulder*
Nikea: *more out of slight frustration at the fact that what Jeremy said was pretty accurate, jabs at his midsection while he's still close*
Jeremy: *winces when it connects, but can tell that she didn't give it her all in that shot* Ow! Don't make excuses for yourself!
Jeremy: *takes his sword lower to swing at her arm yet again while she's open*
Nikea: *holds her arm up to block him but it connects and dangit, it was the same arm he got earlier* Ssssss...*hisses in pain* I'm [not] making excuses...*takes a deep breath and readies herself* But watch this, now I'm gonna show you!
Nikea: *spins quickly from her injured arm and with the back of her other hand, swings it at the back of his head*
Jeremy: *With his bad luck, he just isn't fast enough and takes the blow completely. He nearly gets knocked forward all the way to the ground, but barely catches himself
Jeremy: *holding the back of his head while on his knees* Damn. It. Did you really have to do it that hard?!
Nikea: *suddenly feels bad that she did hit him that hard* I'm...I'm sorry and stuff, but...this is a fight, right?
Jeremy: *fuming, but trying to keep his cool as he stands up* Or course, it's a fight!! So quit apologizing!!! *although he was doing just that earlier in the fight so he's not one to talk*
NIkea: Well stop being a wimp about how hard I hit you! You should be thankful that it wasn't my super wow move else it would hurt a lot more!
Jeremy: A wimp? *grabs up his sword and gets ready* I'll show you otherwise.
Nikea: Bring it!
Jeremy: *was waiting for her, but if she insists.. he ain't missing this chance*
Jeremy: Let's see if you think this is a "wimpy" move! *steps towards her quickly, but spins behind her at the last second to aim a swing at the back of one of her legs*
Nikea: *tries hard to keep up with his movements and block his attack but it does her no good as she feels a sharp pain in the back of her thigh and she buckles slightly*
Nikea: That's wasn't a wimpy move. That's good! *tries to smile a big smile but wow, her leg hurts...* Here, try dodging this! *she approaches him, a lot slower than before, and aims a punch for his side where she remembered hitting him before*
Jeremy: *watches her and barely moves out of her attack's path. Looks like his previous attack did its job to slow her down* I'd gloat, but I've been in fights were miracles get pulled off by my opponent at the last minute sometimes so I ain't losing my caution now.
Nikea: Well, I look at it this way - either you go big, or you go home! So go big!
Jeremy: *smiles at that, but remembers that this isn't over yet. Great...* I pick now to flake out. *takes a weak swing at her*
Nikea: *gets tapped on that same arm and winces* I guess then I should take my own advice! Here I come! *gets herself all geared up*
Nikea: *rushes him in a flurry of punches yet again, hoping that she can overwhelm him with her speed*
Jeremy: *has no time to dodge completely and by the time he gets his sword up to block, a good number of those punches connect and one even gets him on the side of his face. Definately somewhere he prizes quite a bit!* Tch-!
Jeremy: *probably too busy realizing that he's been hit in the face, but he only thinks to try and knock her off balance with a small kick*
Nikea: *is knocked to one side by the kick and almost off of her feet but she waves her arms wildly to get back on balance*
Jeremy: *friendly glare. If there was such a thing as a friendly glare anyway??* Nice save.
Nikea: Thanks! *takes a few deep breaths to try to come up with something absolutely stellar to do next*
Nikea: Okay, I've been saving this move all match for a moment like this~! I hope you're ready! *swings her arm around in circles, and then with as much force as she can muster, punches forward exactly once*
Jeremy: *sees the start of the attack but when he goes to block it with his sword, the punch comes at him sooner than expected and he gets the full force of it. Along with his sword's blunt end slamming into his chest at the same time. He goes flying backwards and his sword is only barely still in his hands after landing*
Jeremy: *he gets up incredibly slow, not willing to give up just yet but if he gets hit with another attack, it's over* Heh. I've got one last shot left in me.
Nikea: Me too! Let's do our best!
Jeremy: *Despite his words, Jeremy is at his limit and his sword is actually kinda annoying to even hold with this pain, so he tries for a last dumb effort punch at Nikea instead*
Nikea: *is still limping a little bit from his attack on her leg earlier and awkwardly tries to dodge his attack - it manages to hit her on the shoulder and she's knocked a little off balance but she quickly regains her footing.*
Jeremy: Heh. You're just as stubborn as I am. *can only ready himself for whatever happens next*
Nikea: Well, you don't win if you're not stubborn, right?
Jeremy: *grins only a little 'cause it hurts. Ow* True.
Nikea: *seeing an open opportunity, grabs the wrist not holding the sword and quickly turns it behind him as she pins his sword arm to his body* You give?
Jeremy: *didn't seem to expect that particular movement and drops his sword when she turned him around and pinned his arm behind him* O-Ow ow ow ow OW-! Alright ALREADY! *looks pretty stupid as he tries to flail uselessly against that grip* you win you WIN!
Nikea: *squee!* Okay! *lets him go and walks around to face him* ...are you okay?
Jeremy: *At least, he's outta that death grip and tips over a little when he's set free* Do you think you coulda bent it even further out of place? *is still sarcastic even after losing*
Nikea: ...but that was the best I could do! And I said I was going to do my best, so there it was!
Jeremy: Another one of those special moves or something?! A-agh.. You coulda finished me off with something a little more cool. *he squirmed around like a moron and everything due to that attack. Sigh*
Nikea: ...*tilts her head because Jeremy's really coming off as one strange bird* I didn't want to do the super special move of awesomness on you...I...I think it might have been a little much.
Jeremy: Ahaha! I would've taken it! *like a sack of bricks is more like it* A-anyway. You're pretty good.
Nikea: You are too! And you know what would make you feel a little better? Food! Wanna come eat with me? You helped me work up a humongous appetite!
Jeremy: A-ah. *She sure reminded him of someone.* Wow. You've still got the strength for that? *Maybe he might end up in the infirmary later than he thought.. ;;*
NIkea: C'mon! Food's getting cold! *pulls on his arm* Let's go!
Jeremy: *even if he wanted to, he's too weak to get out of her grip anyway and drags a little* Sigh. *small smile* S-sure, why not?
Nikea: Sweet! *marches off with Jeremy in tow*
Jeremy: *sighs* It looks like Juan ain't comin' anytime soon. *uncrosses his arms* Oh well. We're both adults here and can determine for ourselves when one of us is down for the count, right?
Nikea: *kicks a little dirt off of her shoes and cracks her knuckles* Yep! I've been looking forward to this all week, I'm sure Juan won't mind if we get the fun started without him! *grin*
Jeremy: Heh. Good then. *unsheathes sword* I don't really like to fight girls, but I can't walk away from this either. Hope you're ready!
Nikea: *rushes forward and swings her leg low so that she can try to catch Jeremy off balance*
Jeremy: *gets caught off guard immediately and falls backward from that attack. He rolls to the side in order to get back up and looks embarrassed* Guess I shoulda known better than to underestimate you.
Nikea: That's one of the first things they teach you in fighting school! Not to underestimate your opponent! But okay. That one was a freebie. Are you ready now?
Jeremy: Of course I knew that! That was just a test. Y-yeah! I'm fighting for real now. *runs up and swings with the blunt side of his blade, but the attack's a bit wild/blind*
Nikea: *steadies herself defensively for his sword swing but he nevertheless catches her on her wrist guards and it hurts more than she expected it to...* Owowow! *glares for a moment at the wristguards, as if it's their fault*
Nikea: *after the stinging in her wrist has died down, lowers her hands and runs forward a bit, fists flying towards Jeremy's undefended left side*
Jeremy: Stings, don't i- *was about to make a stupid remark and winds up with a fist to the ribs* -!
Nikea: *just grins and watches him*
Jeremy: *that last attack HURT. While clutching his poor side and kneeling on the ground, he only has the opportunity to sweep his leg under her to try and make her fall over or anything at this point*
Nikea: *sees his foot and tries to do something ultra-cool to dodge it, but mistimes her move and ends up tripping over his feet and falling over* Eeek! *sits there for a sec before she leaps up and holds a defensive pose again, wondering what bit of fabulousness she'll do next*
Nikea: *takes a deep breath* Time to try out one of my super moves on you! *starts spinning around towards Jeremy, her fists a flurry of motion*
Jeremy: Hey hey hey wait a sec! *he just steps out of the way entirely after bolting up and looks at what happened since his evasion seemed too easy*
Nikea: You dodged my special move! No way!
Jeremy: ... That's a special move? *stands there kinda stupified by her attempt and ends up wasting a chance to attack back*
Nikea: *puts her hands on her hips* Yeah, [that] was a special move. Wanna see some more? *cracks her knuckles* This one's [industrial strength] special!
Nikea: *starts advancing towards Jeremy in a flurry of punches but at the end switches up and swings a high roundhouse kick towards his shoulders [she couldn't get her leg high enough...]*
Jeremy: *blocks her leg by catching it for a minute with his free hand but drops it almost as quickly* Yikes! Sorry about that! *darn woman throwing her leg at him and embarrassed as hell for grabbing it now ;;;;;*
Nikea: What are you apologizing for? That's how you're [supposed] to do it! *grins*
Jeremy: *sweatdrops* Not every girl I run into agrees! *still using the blunt end of the blade, he tries to hit her on the side*
Nikea: Not every girl you run into knows how to...*ow!* *gets tagged in the side* ...[fight], either!
Nikea: *notices that he's still close enough to her for her to raise her foot, place it sorta squarely in his stomach, and push him back from her*
Jeremy: *Now that's twice in one fight that he's gotten the wind knocked outta him and gets shoved away from her* Well *cough* You can fight, I-I'll give you that! *even speaking is a little painful*
Nikea: So can you! You'd do better if you weren't so shy about it! C'mon! I know you have a super move around here somewhere, don't you?
Jeremy: *stands up more steadily* As a matter of fact, I do. *closes the distance between them first before gripping his sword with both hands to swing it upwards from below at Nikea*
Nikea: *sees the blade coming and has little time to react before the blade knocks her backwards off of her feet...she leans back on her hands and winces a bit but then grins* Thaaaat's the spirit! [That's] what [I'm] talkin' about! *leaps to her feet, winces again and cracks her knuckles* Okay, I'm not gonna take it easy on you anymore! [You] obviously know what you're doing!
Nikea: *steadies herself and does a series of spinning round kicks - first one foot, and then the other...by the time she's near Jeremy she switches over to two quick punches towards his face*
Jeremy: *a lot more focused now and stops her fists by holding his blade up with both hands to brace himself.* You know, you'd probably land a hit if you just attacked instead of being so flashy with your moves? *his face is still turned sideways from when she tried to punch him*
Nikea: You make it sound like I never land any hits!
Jeremy: Well, you're "special" moves haven't convinced me that they're "special" yet! *pushes the sword's handle at her shoulder since he has it high up enough at the moment*
Nikea: Hey! *takes one to the shoulder in the midst of pondering his remark* Well!...It's because I'm still working on them, see? I usually don't have anyone to try them out on! *a bit of her pride took a hit along with her shoulder*
Nikea: *more out of slight frustration at the fact that what Jeremy said was pretty accurate, jabs at his midsection while he's still close*
Jeremy: *winces when it connects, but can tell that she didn't give it her all in that shot* Ow! Don't make excuses for yourself!
Jeremy: *takes his sword lower to swing at her arm yet again while she's open*
Nikea: *holds her arm up to block him but it connects and dangit, it was the same arm he got earlier* Ssssss...*hisses in pain* I'm [not] making excuses...*takes a deep breath and readies herself* But watch this, now I'm gonna show you!
Nikea: *spins quickly from her injured arm and with the back of her other hand, swings it at the back of his head*
Jeremy: *With his bad luck, he just isn't fast enough and takes the blow completely. He nearly gets knocked forward all the way to the ground, but barely catches himself
Jeremy: *holding the back of his head while on his knees* Damn. It. Did you really have to do it that hard?!
Nikea: *suddenly feels bad that she did hit him that hard* I'm...I'm sorry and stuff, but...this is a fight, right?
Jeremy: *fuming, but trying to keep his cool as he stands up* Or course, it's a fight!! So quit apologizing!!! *although he was doing just that earlier in the fight so he's not one to talk*
NIkea: Well stop being a wimp about how hard I hit you! You should be thankful that it wasn't my super wow move else it would hurt a lot more!
Jeremy: A wimp? *grabs up his sword and gets ready* I'll show you otherwise.
Nikea: Bring it!
Jeremy: *was waiting for her, but if she insists.. he ain't missing this chance*
Jeremy: Let's see if you think this is a "wimpy" move! *steps towards her quickly, but spins behind her at the last second to aim a swing at the back of one of her legs*
Nikea: *tries hard to keep up with his movements and block his attack but it does her no good as she feels a sharp pain in the back of her thigh and she buckles slightly*
Nikea: That's wasn't a wimpy move. That's good! *tries to smile a big smile but wow, her leg hurts...* Here, try dodging this! *she approaches him, a lot slower than before, and aims a punch for his side where she remembered hitting him before*
Jeremy: *watches her and barely moves out of her attack's path. Looks like his previous attack did its job to slow her down* I'd gloat, but I've been in fights were miracles get pulled off by my opponent at the last minute sometimes so I ain't losing my caution now.
Nikea: Well, I look at it this way - either you go big, or you go home! So go big!
Jeremy: *smiles at that, but remembers that this isn't over yet. Great...* I pick now to flake out. *takes a weak swing at her*
Nikea: *gets tapped on that same arm and winces* I guess then I should take my own advice! Here I come! *gets herself all geared up*
Nikea: *rushes him in a flurry of punches yet again, hoping that she can overwhelm him with her speed*
Jeremy: *has no time to dodge completely and by the time he gets his sword up to block, a good number of those punches connect and one even gets him on the side of his face. Definately somewhere he prizes quite a bit!* Tch-!
Jeremy: *probably too busy realizing that he's been hit in the face, but he only thinks to try and knock her off balance with a small kick*
Nikea: *is knocked to one side by the kick and almost off of her feet but she waves her arms wildly to get back on balance*
Jeremy: *friendly glare. If there was such a thing as a friendly glare anyway??* Nice save.
Nikea: Thanks! *takes a few deep breaths to try to come up with something absolutely stellar to do next*
Nikea: Okay, I've been saving this move all match for a moment like this~! I hope you're ready! *swings her arm around in circles, and then with as much force as she can muster, punches forward exactly once*
Jeremy: *sees the start of the attack but when he goes to block it with his sword, the punch comes at him sooner than expected and he gets the full force of it. Along with his sword's blunt end slamming into his chest at the same time. He goes flying backwards and his sword is only barely still in his hands after landing*
Jeremy: *he gets up incredibly slow, not willing to give up just yet but if he gets hit with another attack, it's over* Heh. I've got one last shot left in me.
Nikea: Me too! Let's do our best!
Jeremy: *Despite his words, Jeremy is at his limit and his sword is actually kinda annoying to even hold with this pain, so he tries for a last dumb effort punch at Nikea instead*
Nikea: *is still limping a little bit from his attack on her leg earlier and awkwardly tries to dodge his attack - it manages to hit her on the shoulder and she's knocked a little off balance but she quickly regains her footing.*
Jeremy: Heh. You're just as stubborn as I am. *can only ready himself for whatever happens next*
Nikea: Well, you don't win if you're not stubborn, right?
Jeremy: *grins only a little 'cause it hurts. Ow* True.
Nikea: *seeing an open opportunity, grabs the wrist not holding the sword and quickly turns it behind him as she pins his sword arm to his body* You give?
Jeremy: *didn't seem to expect that particular movement and drops his sword when she turned him around and pinned his arm behind him* O-Ow ow ow ow OW-! Alright ALREADY! *looks pretty stupid as he tries to flail uselessly against that grip* you win you WIN!
Nikea: *squee!* Okay! *lets him go and walks around to face him* ...are you okay?
Jeremy: *At least, he's outta that death grip and tips over a little when he's set free* Do you think you coulda bent it even further out of place? *is still sarcastic even after losing*
Nikea: ...but that was the best I could do! And I said I was going to do my best, so there it was!
Jeremy: Another one of those special moves or something?! A-agh.. You coulda finished me off with something a little more cool. *he squirmed around like a moron and everything due to that attack. Sigh*
Nikea: ...*tilts her head because Jeremy's really coming off as one strange bird* I didn't want to do the super special move of awesomness on you...I...I think it might have been a little much.
Jeremy: Ahaha! I would've taken it! *like a sack of bricks is more like it* A-anyway. You're pretty good.
Nikea: You are too! And you know what would make you feel a little better? Food! Wanna come eat with me? You helped me work up a humongous appetite!
Jeremy: A-ah. *She sure reminded him of someone.* Wow. You've still got the strength for that? *Maybe he might end up in the infirmary later than he thought.. ;;*
NIkea: C'mon! Food's getting cold! *pulls on his arm* Let's go!
Jeremy: *even if he wanted to, he's too weak to get out of her grip anyway and drags a little* Sigh. *small smile* S-sure, why not?
Nikea: Sweet! *marches off with Jeremy in tow*