Adrian vs Matrim

[Keeper Of Secrets]

"For our next match! Please welcome to the ring.... Adrian Hanlon! And the opponent... Matrim Gallagher!"

The battle music for your thread begins! Enjoy and have fun!

The arena you now stand on is made of hardwood boards. Enjoy motoz!

Battle music

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim stood in the arena, standing perfectly still as he waited for his opponent Adrian to make a move, "So then.... guess this can be where we finally have our fair rematch. You just have to promise to go full out on me. I wouldn't want this to get boring after all." Matrim said, a grin crossing over his face as he concentrated his Qi. He had fought Adrian but there were circumstances during all of those fights. One was in the midst of a free for all, one was with two broken arms, and the last fight was more of a Matrim vs Gabriel situation than anything.

So Matrim's feet remained firm in place as he looked over to his opponent, "So then.... show me what you can do, show me why you are wearing Mathew's coat. Show me why you are the next Earth Dragon. Because to be quite honest.... I haven't seen enough."

Show me more....

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[Adrian]

Adrian entered the second arena, looking around at his surroundings. He didn't bother to play for the crowd this time, his eyes training upon the fighter before him. His eyes flashed to the ground as he stomped a little harder on one step, testing the strength of the wood beneath him. He nodded, more to himself than anything, and listened quietly as Matrim spoke to him. It wasn't quite a taunt, but wasn't quite a compliment, either. Adrian would only nod, apparently a lot more serious about this fight than he was for the first one, and it showed in his face.

"Alright, Captain," Adrian said, rolling his neck, feeling a few pops as his neck loosened. "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you're getting. I'll be damned if its not time we had a real fight, no interruptions, no rejects throwing lightning, and with all arms intact."

A smirk finally crossed his features, bringing up that signature Adrian charm. "So, Cap, you wanna start this show, or should I?"

His right foot pressed into the hardwood board, testing it once again against impact and stress. This fight, he figured, would certainly test them to their limits.

[Matrim Gallagher]

"If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you're getting. I'll be damned if its not time we had a real fight, no interruptions, no rejects throwing lightning, and with all arms intact. So, Cap, you wanna start this show, or should I?" Adrian said, and Matrim smiled as he looked down at the ground. Something new was going to happen, that warm tingly feeling wasn't just in his hands and feet, and he got a feeling....

Ignition

Yup, arms and legs. Matrim's shirt was quickly setting flame, his pant legs burnt apart, making Matrim the proud wearer of short shorts. That's right, short shorts, for men. And as his arms burn he quickly took off his shirt, the full length of his limbs aflame with his Qi, Matrim smiled, "Well that's new........"

Matrim would charge with his new found Qi, and while the idea of grabbing Adrian seemed fun, the idea of just going for broke seemed better. So he would go more for the straight punch back and forth scenario, not worrying about his Qi. If Adrian wanted to wrestle or grab his arm that was up to him, but the facts were that he'd get hurt by even blocking Matrim's shots. So with all of his speed Matrim would get in front of Adrian throwing a hard right cross towards Adrian's chin, after he threw it he'd bend his arm at the elbow and bring it back across at Adrian's right cheek.

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 97 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 71 [-5 Cha for ignition]
Posts of continuous use: 1)

[Adrian]

Oh Jesus.

Adrian's smirk fell as Matrim's arms and legs lit aflame, revealing a very manly pair of short shorts as the rest of his clothes burned away from the heat.

Sweet mother Mary, in thy name I pray, protect me in my time here, in the name of the father, and the son, and the HOLY SHIT!

Matrim rushed him, swinging those firey arms of his into play. Adrian fed Qi into his fists, he had learned a few tricks since last time as well. Hell, for all he remembered, Matrim hadn't even seen the boy's Qi in action yet. His fists rose in front of his face to block any sudden movements, but Adrian wasn't going to just sit there and block fire. He ducked down somewhat as he leaned backwards, taking a step back to ensure his face was out of the range of the burning fists. As the punch passed by, both times, Adrian stepped forward and to his right, throwing a quick right jab into Matrim's midsection as he did so. If it connected, Matrim would feel a sudden, sharp shock of pain emanate through his body, as Adrian had just unloaded a Crackle Punch into him.

As the boy reacted from dealing with a sudden shock throughout his body, Adrian would attempt to keep stepping up and around the School Captain to his back, and throw another, harder left-handed straight punch to the non-enflamed small of his back. Afterwards, he would step back, putting distance between himself and his opponent. With most people, Adrian's plan of attack was just to rush in and completely overpower his opponent. With Matrim, he knew he'd have to be more careful.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Thinking his punch was normal, Matrim would bring his left elbow down to take the punch. Given the kids determination to punch him he would probably end up not being able to react in time to the block, and while Matrim will have taken the punch and felt the pain all over his body Adrian will have felt the heat of Matrim's flames on his fists. Which, depending on how tough the kid was, might just make for a painful distraction in itself. Matrim felt pain enter his body, he dealt with it but it felt familiar.

"Mathew's palm strike, now your just pushing copyright infringement," Matrim would say should the punch have connected still and blah blah blah you get the drift. Matrim's attack would be simple, a quick left jab would shoot out from that withdrawn left arm straight for the center of Adrian's torso, aiming to overshoot a bit in case the boy tried to dodge back more. Matrim achieved this by sliding his left foot forward along the floor and fully extending his arm, he would then follow up by swinging his right foot forward and while his left arm would be pulling back his right fist would hook in an upward motion towards Adrian's left side, aiming for the rib cage.

If the attack was successful he would pull that right foot back to put slightly more distance between them once more, both fists up and ready to go. He just had to watch for the torso and head. If Adrian wanted to go for the flamey parts he was more than welcome.

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 95 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 71 [-5 Cha for ignition]
Posts of continuous use: 2)

[Adrian]

His Crackle Punch was 'blocked' by a flaming elbow, so while thankfully it connected, there were two glaring downsides: One, it didn't seem to bug Matrim much at all, which is what he feared, and two, Adrian had to deal with punching fire instead of regular bare torso. His hand was heated quickly, and Adrian was glad he had recently switched to full-fingered gloves, as they would protect him from the heat, if only somewhat.

Punch still hurt like hell though.

It was at this point Adrian realized something: This fight likely would not be his to win. Matrim, in all his glory, was practically Mathew Amtrum re-animated, in a way: Adrian could have the best fight of his life, and he still would very likely not be able to match up to the man. And just like that first fight with Mathew, Adrian was resolved: If he couldn't beat him, he would at least give him a hell of a fight before he dropped.

The punch came in, and Adrian shook his head, as if defying the punch to hurt him. In fact, Adrian even stepped forward, meeting Matrim head-on. His right hand swung up with his quickly-becoming-signature hard block, attemping to strike his wrist against Matrim's instead of lightly pushing it, using the sudden strike to push the limbs away from each other. This would minimize the time his arm spent next to Matrim's firey one, and would hopefully hurt the boy somewhat as well.

The second punch came in, underhanded, and his left fist did a mirror-image of the right, swinging in a downwards arc to bat away the punch with a hard impact-block. And there, in that moment, Adrian had an opening. It wouldn't be much, and it would likely be the first and last good blow he ever got on Matrim, but here it was and he was going to take it. As he was stepping forward into the attacks, Adrian simply continued forward, taking another step almost directly into the School Captain and throwing his head forward, aiming the top of his head in a hard headbutt, straight for Matrim's nose.

If this would connect, it had a good chance of breaking the nose, or at least causing him to tear up. Adrian didn't know, maybe he could use the tears to douse the flames. Or something. A start was a start.

[Matrim Gallagher]

(OOC: Shit you not, partway through reading your post I got the decision to do a headbutt. I like how we think alike.)

With both hands batted away Matrim himself saw an opening, and he was going to take it. The funny thing was, from the looks of Adrian, he was going to take it too. Matrim's hands were knocked away and while Adrian had gotten stronger, Matrim was pretty strong himself not to mention tough as nails. When he saw Adrian coming in with a head butt he knew exactly what he was going to do. He would counter it with his own, the only difference? When the kids head shot forward Matrim's hands would reach and grab the kids shoulders.

Matrim threw his head forward as forehead and forehead would collide, testing out the density of the boys skulls as well as the amount of brute strength they could put into a headbutt such as that. If Matrim had indeed grabbed the boys shoulders he would not let go but would bring his flaming left knee into the boys torso, aiming specifically for the gut. Matrim would then pull back, pulling Adrian with him using his knee as Leverage. Matrim would roll back and roll over attempting to bring Adrian up and over and roll over him in a comical wheel type motion so that Adrian would end up on his back pinned by the shoulders with Matrim's hands and by the gut with Matrim's knees.

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 95 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 71 [-5 Cha for ignition]
Posts of continuous use: 3)

[Adrian]

((Some moves are assumed to ensure that epic post is epic. I have no issue whatsoever with you stopping this at any time you could feasibly do so.))

Adrian's head was preparing to thrust forward onto Matrim's, it appeared that Matrim's idea was to do the same thing. His hands gripped around the once-wealthy boy's shoulders, and Adrian felt the singe of his flames all around him. Being in close quarters wasn't the most comfortable of feelings, Adrian could feel the heat rising exponentially, and sweat was starting to drip down his forehead. Regardless, as Matrim was coming in for the headbutt, Adrian saw the slightest of opportunities, one that could even lend to a premature end to the battle, and one in his favor, at that.

Adrian, as per usual, didn't stop his move at all, after all, he couldn't even if he wanted to. What he did instead, however, was throw himself into the move even further, lowering his knees somewhat as he took his final step in, and then pushing himself up and forward as hard as he could. What this did was change the angle of attack between the two of them, turning the headbutts in Adrian's favor. Whereas Matrim's headbutt was using only the power of his arms and upper body, Adrian's headbutt's power was concentrated from the legs through the entire body, allowing him to use all of his strength in the attack as opposed to about half to three-quarters as Matrim would be.

Adrian, however, didn't stop there. When he pushed himself by the legs into the headbutt, Adrian literally left his feet as he did so, a la Balrog's rising headbutt from Street Fighter. Doing so would barrel Adrian's body into Matrim, a problem that would compound itself due to Matrim's quickly following knee strike. Leaving him on only foot, and with all almost two-hundred pounds of Adrian bearing down on him, Matrim would have almost no choice but to fall. Adrian would put both hands on Matrim's chest, as far from the fire as comfortably possible, pushing back on him as he leapt, making sure that the two would fall.

Matrim would almost certainly fall back, and Adrian's forward momentum would ensure that he was falling on top of him. There was nothing comfortable about any of it, however. His head rang from the headbutt, his shoulders were burning intensely from Matrim's flaming hands, but he was airborne, and with the possible end of the fight already upon them, Adrian had to take it. If this failed, however, he would be at a serious disadvantage.

In mid-air, Adrian would tuck his knees up as best he could, this way, as he fell atop Matrim, both of his knees would plunge directly into the School Captain's stomach. Once again, Adrian would use his weight and gravity instead of pure strength to power his attack, and it would be hard pressed for even Matrim to shrug off the feeling of a 200 pound fighter driving both knees into his stomach, winding him.

If all this was successful, Adrian would continue to press the attack, dropping forward and sliding his knees off of Matrim's stomach to straddle him. His left arm would slide down Matrim's chest as he pitched forward, up into his throat, and his right hand would take his own left wrist. Effectively, Adrian had just driven all the air from Matrim's body by dropping on his knees, either by actually knocking the wind from him with the attack or forcing him to breathe it all out to avoid such a thing happening, and with his left forearm pressing into his throat, plus the right hand pressing down to add extra force, was leaving him powerless to get anymore. This would put Adrian in a particularly powerful position at the moment. Matrim still had flaming arms to attack with, but with Adrian's dominant positioning, it was a battle of wills and fortitude, and without any air, Matrim would be on the losing side.

"Yield, Maych," Adrian said, his eyes looking down at his opponent savagely. "This tournament isn't worth your life. If you shut down that fire, maybe I'll let you up."

With that, Adrian was giving Matrim a choice. He could give up the fight now and walk away, turn off his Qi and start back from before, or risk the consequences of choosing either. Passing out would happen first, but the way Adrian spoke, it seemed he was fully ready to end Matrim's life for the sake of the tournament.

Regardless of the choice he made, Adrian had a surprise for the School Captain. He had begun to focus his Qi into his right hand, as either a preparation, or a backup plan in case Matrim tried something that the former Hanlon hadn't enumerated moments before.

((Conditional Prep Post, if the attack succeeds all the way to end of post))

[Matrim Gallagher]

The problem with this was, Matrim was already trying to land on his back, what he was doing was continuing the momentum, throwing his legs up. As Adrian's legs went to Matrim's sides Matrim threw his momentum back, pulling on Adrians shoulders. And while yes he got a hold of Matrim's neck, Matrim was still able to struggle for breath. Momentum ended though, and Matrim realized there was another way out of this. Instead of going back, he would roll them over. Matrim would bring up his knees to touch Adrian's ass, essentially attempting to burn his ass. Matrim would then pull Adrian's shoulders to the right after this to put Adrians back to the ground, still in between his legs and with his butt being torched, just this time Adrian would be flat on his back.

Whether or not the roll worked Matrim's hands would move inward, his right hand moving so that the middle and ring finger went inside of Adrian's nose, his palm covering Adrian's mouth completely. His left hand would go to Adrian's neck. On top of everything else this would do, this would put Adrian's arms against Matrims since they were both effectively doing the same thing, meaning Adrian's nose, mouth, arms, and butt would be feeling Matrim's flames. His airway would be being restricted, and all oxygen around his nose and mouth would be asphyxiated by the fire.

"Not this time.... Hanlon.... this time... YOU give!" Matrim said, a deadly grin appearing on his face and his eyes lighting up. Sometimes, it paid to be on fire. Because his strength and Qi would both be working to suffocate, pain, and injure Adrian.

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 93 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 71 [-5 Cha for ignition]
Posts of continuous use: 4)

[Adrian]

Adrian found himself being burned on all sides, and flipped over onto his back. Matrim took the lead in the fight, positioning himself on top of Adrian instead of the other way around. Matrim's hands worked around, and came under Adrian's to put his flaming hand over his mouth and in his nose. The pain was intense, possibly worse than anything Adrian had felt before. However, his forearm was still in Matrim's throat, and his right hand still gripping the forearm. Using this for leverage, he pressed from his back into Matrim's throat, pushing him away from him, trying to achieve separation from Matrim's hand to his mouth. The fingers in his nose wouldn't be moved, but he had enough separation from the hand to speak in return.

"My name.... isn't.... Hanlon!" Adrian would spit out, and his right fist would leave his left wrist, removing his forearm from the choke as well. His right hand would snap across Matrim's left temple in a hard hook, focusing his stored Qi into his special punch, which, due to lack of oxygen, he wouldn't be able to cry out, but, regardless, it was one he affectionately called the FALCON PAAAUNCH!!

While Matrim's toughness could easily outweigh Adrian's strength, even with the increased strength his Qi-focusing would bring, a punch to the temple would disorient any man, if not kill him outright at stronger levels. Adrian, however, was only counting on the first. In that split second, Adrian forcefully shoved his knees back up and together, against Matrim's chest, and he shoved off, pushing the older boy back up and over, to get him away from the fallen Hanlon. Adrian, however, made no move to get up, at least not yet. The last exchange had taken its toll on him, from the burns and the choking and the works. He could only hope he had at least done some sort of damage to his opponent.

Ugh, it's Mathew all over again...

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim pulled back as the punch came. Sadly, with his position all he could do was pull back slightly and turn his face away, putting his nose in direct path of the FALCON PAAAUNCH!! Blood gushed as his nose broke. His eyes watered slightly but this was easily solved. Adrian brought his knees up and shoved Matrim off of him. Matrim stumbled up into a standing position, using the shove to his own benefit he brought his arm up to rub his eye against his shoulder, his nose in pain but it was nothing he couldn't handle. The break wasn't too awful bad, and he knew that with burns along his body Adrians mobility would be cut down by a decent amount... hopefully anyway.

After coughing a bit Matrim got his breath back, thankful that his choking bit would be easy to bounce back from having not been turned into Canadrian Bacon (OOC: Totally jacked that from Ryan). Matrim readied himself, breathing heavily as he got his composure, "Stand up and tell me who the fuck you are then. Or stay down and shut the fuck up."

And then Matrim laughed a bit, his hands away from his body, fingers loosely hanging as he waited on his opponent to rise and attack.

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 93 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 71 [-5 Cha for ignition]
Posts of continuous use: 5)

[Adrian]

Adrian rolled onto his back and up onto his hands and knees, turning himself as he did so to face Matrim. He remained on one knee, still recovering from being burned from all sides. His eyes looked up, and locked with Matrim's, glaring something in between fury and hatred. His eyes narrowed slightly, and he would reply.

"I'm the next fucking Student Body President."

And with that, his right fist would thunder downwards into one of the boards he had been eyeing as he rose, cracking through the treated piece of wood completely. His hand would grip the splintered end and, as he stood, he'd tug upwards harshly, snapping off a two-foot section of the floor that he now held in his hand. A weapon, but whether or not it would be an equalizer, only time would tell.

Adrian would rush forward, taking the necessary steps to close the distance between himself and his opponent quickly, and kept moving forward. At this rate, if Matrim did nothing, Adrian would plow into him head-first.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Adrian charged, a relatively foolish idea. Matrim had held back a lot from people, he fought the way he found fun, not necessarily using his smarts to his advantage. But now he was going to use all his smarts and speed with his next attack. Matrim was wielding a weapon, but even if used defensively it wouldn't do much good for what Matrim was going to do to him.

Matrim twisted his body slightly, lowering it as he braced himself to push off into the air. Adrian charged at him and he would do a spinning kick of sorts.... except this spinning kick would be a little more complex since it was one continuous spin with three kicks. Matrim jump off of his right foot, spinning clockwise, his left foot would aim to hit Adrian in the face fully extended, he would spin very quickly extending his right foot out to slap Adrian across the face with the bottom of his right foot, and then that left foot would come back around again with all the momentum fueling this third and final kick.

Matrim would land on his right foot after this, a bit of an awkward angle but he would manage to balance nicely. All the while, Matrim's legs and arms were still roasting and toasting. Even if Adrian used that flooring he picked up as a shield, it would only last for one of the three flaming kicks considering Matrim's great strength and how easily the wood was separated off of the floor.

(OOC: Example, watch the ones where they hit three times partway in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G962CifUVTU&feature=channel_page )

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 91 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 71 [-5 Cha for ignition]
Posts of continuous use: 6)

[Adrian]

There were a lot of moves a person could take themselves out of midway through if it appeared the attack would be a failure. The smartest moves are ones that don't require a huge commitment to, and can be fixed and rectified if things go south.

A huge spinning kick is not one of those moves. Matrim would be finding that out the hard way as Adrian took to the ground, dropping his shoulder into the flooring and turning a messy shoulder-roll, diving right under Matrim's first kick out to his right, Matrim's left, coming in right behind him as he was stuck in mid-air, helpless.

There were so many options Adrian had, he almost wasted his chance trying to decide which one to do. Quickly, he channeled his Qi into his left fist and threw it up in an uppercut, using Matrim's outstretched kick to find a perfect target, right between the Captain's legs. Instead of just a punch, however, Adrian would activate a Gust Punch, and the ensuing blowback would instead send Matrim tumbling into the air, throwing off his balance and ruining the rest of the attack.

On Matrim's way down, Adrian set his feet and took the board he held in both hands. Once he was close enough and about to hit the floor, Adrian would take a step forward and swing the board much like a baseball bat, looking to homerun Matrim right in his head and put his lights out for the victory.