voidtreckernet | Domino 18 [Video]

Domino 18 [Video]

Before I came here, the residents of the train chose a Council.

They chose unwisely.

You ask me to bend my knee to an unworthy leader, one who you have chosen for me. I will not. If my refusal to swear allegiance to one not of my land, not of my clan, and not of my choice is objectionable to you, then now is the time to bring your complaints to me. I await them.

[There is hot anger, and there is cold anger. This is cold anger. It brings out the formality in Edge as few things can.]

Let's see how this train is truly run.

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[Edge huffs and crosses his arms almost the same moment she does, which would be a lot funnier if he weren't so angry.]

The official leadership opinion, and we discussed this, is that we need to do exactly what the train says because first, why fight it, and second, it's right. Starting to see why I won't have a part of this?

I think we should do what the train says when we agree with it. Not just because it's right.

[Because that's who Yuffie is and she isn't changing that about herself.]

But hey, we can't do anything if there is steam coming out of your ears. Come on. [She waves a hand towards him and jumps back onto the mats near the center of the car. The jump is far more graceful than anything she's done since her arrival.] Talking sucks anyway.

Show me what you got Edge.

[...Yuffie, you really are a girl after his own heart.]

[No fancy leap from him, though -- instead, he paces over to the mats, opposite her, then settles into a slight crouch. More used to fighting with daggers and swords than bare fists, he nonetheless has skill in the latter as well. Enough to not embarrass himself for sure!]

Bring it.

[Her grin widens as she dashes forward. Yuffie isn't as skilled without her blade but this is a friendly fight and blades should only be drawn when you you're ready to use them.

She feints to the left and then dashes to the side to strike her hand just beneath his ribs where the organs were exposed.]

[It never occurs to him that ninjutsu on another world entirely might be somehow different... and luckily it doesn't need to, because this is all as he expects.]

[The feint is obvious but he can't help but react to it anyway, and so his dodge takes him wider than he likes to escape her strike. That means when he turns back to her, his palm thrust is pretty obvious -- which is why he appears to overextend, only to turn it into an elbow strike instead.]

[Yuffie sees his strike but in her attempt to counter him, she catches his arm with her palms and ends up partly wrapped around his elbow while stumbling towards him. She tries to snake her leg through his but she's falling and going to turn it into an attack to take him down with her.

She's good at thinking on her feet when everything goes wrong.]

[He isn't certain quite what happened -- but if she's going to go down, he'll go with her. He'll just make sure he's on top, the better to pin her to the mat with his weight and his free arm on her shoulder!]

[Yuffie tries to take the leverage from the tussle and land on top but she's too off balanced and Edge is not only taller than her but heavier too. Her back slaps against the mat and the world briefly swims before she finds herself pinned beneath him.]

That isn't any way to treat a princess.

[She lifts the right side of her hip, with her left side still pinned and tries to throw him off and straddle him in return.]

I thought you were a white rose!

[Now in a different sort of situation, Edge wouldn't have put up more than a token resistance -- but he's still taking this mostly seriously. He brings up a leg, planting it to one side so they're locked in a new clinch -- him off of her, but arms still tangled up, and him pushing back against her efforts to push him over.]

I'm both!

[Yuffie grabs his arm and pulls him towards her in an attempt to throw him off balance. Their faces come within an inch of each other as her hip turns again and her heel finds leverage against the floor.

She's taking this tussle seriously and she expects Edge to as well.]

[Not seriously enough to headbutt her, fortunately. That is the first thought that came to mind, but not for a friendly bout!]

[Okay -- Edge curls up one leg, then jerks back as he tries to plant his boot in her stomach and shove her off with the strength in his leg.]

[There isn't a lot of room in their current tangle to doge and so Edge's boot lands against Yuffie's abdomen, pushing her back but up to her feet with a hard sudden motion. She stumbles back and nearly falls over before regaining her footing and charging forward again.

This time she strikes down at him with her palm, aiming to knock the wind out of him, arcing over in a semi flip before landing firmly on her feet. At least flipping around is something that she's really good at. Even if he manages to avoid her, she's able to stick the landing.]

[He twists to take the strike on his deltoids instead of his diaphragm, then continues the motion so he can roll away and pop up to his feet.]

[She's good! On some level, maybe because she was younger or simply not an Eblan clan ninja, he'd expected less -- but discovering he's wrong is a delight!]

[Yuffie's had a lot of training and it feels good to be able to get this kind of exercise again. It's why she'd continue working with Reeve and Vinny even after the fall of ShinRa. She's not great at being idle.

There is a brief pause and then she's running towards Edge again. This time she moves faster, appearing behind him in a flash as she attempts to strike between his shoulder blades.]

[Yeah, okay, wow. That hit takes him right in the back, making him stumble forward. So that's how they're playing it, huh?]

[Spinning as he plants his foot to get his balance back, he makes two quick motions with one hand, then a curved-finger slash. Behind her, a dagger coalesces out of midair, plunging down towards her shadow to pin it -- and paralyze her!]

[Yuffie attempts to block his attack but she doesn't try to protect her shadow and with a flash of silver, she's trapped in place.]

H-hey!

Gotcha!

[Straightening up, Edge strolls right over to her, mischief in his eyes as he stops not far from her at all.]

Advantage: the Eblan clan!

That's cheating! I wasn't using magic.

[Not that she can without her materia... which she currently has none of.]

Just zipping around super-fast! Besides, it isn't cheating to use ninjutsu in a ninja fight!

[Edge rests one wrist on her shoulder, leaning just a little of his weight on her.]

Well, I wasn't!

Ngh!

[Yuffie can't move and has no way to deflect the weight of his wrist.]

Damn it!

Sooooo what's the prize for winning the spar, hmm? [Oh, he's enjoying himself.

We didn't agree on anything... unless there is something you want.

[She is not enjoying this.]

Let me go already!

Oh, I could think of a few things.

[But Edge steps back. It isn't so much that he's letting her go as it is the magic reaching its natural end, but either way, the dagger in her shadow fades away.]

[Yuffie is struggling the whole time and when the magic finally fades she goes stumbling backwards.]

Ouch!

Oooh. [Edge winces. 'Ouch' is not anything he hoped to get out of her!] You okay?

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