Return of the Beatdown (Matrim, Gabriel, Open)

[Adrian]

((This could become a brawl. Anyone else want to join in, feel free.))

Adrian and Matrim weren't exactly on the opposite sides of the planet, in regards to a school day. As Captain of the football team and the Varsity Captain, respectively, they usually crossed paths at least a few times during the day, most notably during the boy's athletic period, where each usually took the lead in one way or another during drills and training. During the period this day, Adrian nudged Matrim, letting it be known that, now that the VC was healed, he was ready for another fight.

Hopefully, he'd have a few surprises in store for Matrim as well.

Adrian mentioned going to the courtyard after school for the battle, that way people could watch if they wanted, and since school was over, hopefully no one could intervene in the name of keeping peace. After all, Matrim was a pillar, it was his job to put down troublemakers like Adrian, right?

So, after school, Adrian took his time leaving the courtyard, carelessly and casually trotting across the field, clad in a black-and-silver button down shirt, only held together across his chest by a single button, and dark blue jeans. His hair wasn't in its usual well-styled look, but rather fluffed backwards, as if it was slicked back but without water or other product, to give it a flaring look. Adrian turned to look over his shoulder and saw a familiar figure in his peripheral. He turned around to face the Varsity Captain, a glint in his eye and a smirk on his face.

"Good to see you, Mr. Captain, sir. What brings you out to the courtyard around this time of day?" He baited Matrim into answering. He didn't even know what he was doing. This was just going to be fun.

[Matrim Gallagher]

"You know me," Matrim said with a happy look on his face. And then he would say a little inside joke between him and Adrian. Something that only a Reaper would get, "Whatever I want, however I want it, and whenever I want it." He said giving a wink towards the kid who seemed very nicely dressed. Matrim himself was barefoot, wearing jeans and a white button up t-shirt that was completely unbuttoned. It seemed that Adrian was ready for another fight from their encounter earlier during the day.

Matrim quickly stretched out, "You know, it's important for us to keep in shape. And I would hate to let our bodies rot on us as sportsman. Perhaps we should have an exercise. A mix between boxing practice, wrestling practice, football practice. You know, a spar. Perhaps given the fact that school is out we might fight a little yeah?"

Matrim laughed a little at the rule breaking proposition. Though in his mind he knew this was different. As a pillar he was just training, sparring. Besides, worst case scenario, school was out for the day. Not to mention the reapers needed to train, so this seemed like an opportune time to do so. Of course, something didn't feel right to Matrim. Everywhere seemed so empty, even for school being out. Although he was glad he hadn't seen anything from Purple or Orange.

[Adrian]

"I do believe that is an excellent proposition, O Captain my Captain," Adrian said, his grin widening at the inside joke shared between them. He popped his knuckles and rolled his shoulders, preparing himself for the fight to come. His eyes scanned the area around him, finding it strangely quiet, especially considering school had just let out. He didn't think too much on it, at least not at the moment. He was much more interested in the prospect of fighting Matrim.

Adrian rolled up his sleeves, revealing a pair of bracers Matrim may or may not recognize as having formerly belonged to Mathew Amtrum. He didn't do this simply to show off one of his new toys; he simply preferred more mobility in his arms when fighting.

"My only request is that, if we do have this spar, we treat like it a real fight. After all, what if one of us happened to be attacked sometime down the road? I'm sure an attacker wouldn't stop just before a possibly incapaciting blow, so perhaps we shouldn't either?"

Adrian's grin was a mile wide as he waited Matrim's answer to his proposition. There was no doubt in his mind that the VC would accept. From what he had seen, Matrim enjoyed a scrap just as much as Adrian did.

[Gabriel Seran]

The courtyard, it was a place of intriguing changes, changes that could alter the school's future, Gabriel found himself wandering the holds of the place looking for change.

Making his way down to the Courtyard a pair of students stood in close friendly proximity, it bored him but he wanted to know of their conversation he wanted to know intently. As he approached he picked one out to be Matrim, of course they just had to bump into each other everywhere. It was getting annoying whilst the other he didn’t recognized but he’d assumed that he wasn’t friendly at least towards him, an aura of hostility perhaps an early warning.

“Ah, Matrim long time no see.” Gabriel stated with a smug smile from a short distance away as he eyed up the situation.

[Matrim Gallagher]

"A real fight huh?" Matrim asked, and then someone else joined them. It was Gabriel, and Matrim grinned, knowing he wouldn't have it any other way. But he wouldn't use his Qi right away, not with Gabriel here. It drained him entirely too much for two fighters. Especially since he had fought Gabriel for, and it'd be hard to smash him into things in an open field. Yeah, Matrim was already counting Gabriel in on the fight without asking him.

“Ah, Matrim long time no see.” He said and Matrim grinned, not looking at Gabriel but at Adrian. Matrim would then smile and look over at Gabriel.

"We were just about to have a little fight. Hope you don't mi-" And mid word Matrim would take a quick step to close the distance between himself and Adrian, his left hand would grab Adrian's shoulder, his right hand would grab the waist of Adrian's pants at his left side, and he would throw Adrian at Gabriel if this worked, aiming to use Adrian as a weapon while simultaneously bringing Gabriel into this fight. "-nd joining us?"

[Adrian]

Adrian hadn't expected Gabriel to show up, and when he entered into conversation with the guy Adrian was planning on beating up, the once-wealthy youngster found himself, for a moment, more interested in the conversation between them than the fight at hand. It was likely because of this that Matrim succeeded in grabbing and throwing Adrian.

Of course, you've got to be some kind of super-dope to allow yourself to be grabbed and thrown with every chance to defend yourself, and so, once he saw the move in action, Adrian, instead of fighting it, decided to roll with it.

As Matrim tossed Adrian into Gabriel, Adrian leapt forward into the throw, turning it into what would have been the boy stumbling forward into the other boy, to a guided missile of force. Adrian's fist would cock back mid-air, and as he came into contact with Gabriel, would throw his fist forward in a hard punch, aiming for the new guy's cheek. While Adrian had literally no idea who this guy was, if Matrim wanted to bring him into the fight, that was cool with Adrian.

If successful, Adrian would land upon the ground bodily, but giving no real harm to himself. Lacking the agility to break his fall with a roll, Adrian would simply land and pop up to his knees before standing and turning to face the two other fighters, to see what would happen next.

[Gabriel Seran]

"We were just about to have a little fight. Hope you don't mi-"

Gabriel watched with a curious eye, pacing a bit till his words stopped. Eyes came to attention immediately as he saw the human missile coming straight towards him. Instinctively Gabriel dropped his body to the floor landing with a thump on his back. With a strong effort Gabriel angled his legs up into a kick at Adrian as he was coming in. whether it hit or not Gabriel would roll out onto his side and back onto his feet not allowing for either of them to get behind him.

"-nd joining us?"

Gabriel nodded, “Well thank you for the …invitation.” Noting at Adrian’s assault.

[Matrim Gallagher]

"What can I say?" Matrim would have ran after the projectile, and upon getting up Gabriel would find Matrim a lot closer then he expected. He would aim to clip the back of the boys knee's with a the back of his own left leg by being offset to the boys left, Matrim's right. His left leg would go behind the boy, bend outwards and come back to hit the back of the knees. Matrim's left hand would then aim to hit the boy directly in the center of the chest, hand open and flat to knock the boy back in an attempt to push him down to the ground quickly. He wasn't aiming to do major damage, he was just aiming to knock the kid over real quickly.

He would turn and wave Adrian on with his left hand, "Waiting for an invitation or something?" Matrim would say, getting an idea of what he wanted to do next. He had plenty of Professional Wrestling knowledge, moves of which actually worked in the real life. The quick ones that were effective, and the slow annoying showy ones that often lead to injuries on the user. He knew them from A to Z. But what he really wanted to do, was slam Adrian into Gabriel.

But we'll worry about that once we find out what works and what doesn't. But for the most part, Matrim would be letting them focus on their attacks. Doing nothing major, just small simple moves to get them riled up.

[Adrian]

Adrian would roll his knees up in mid-air, taking the kick on his shins and flying through the air, now in a flipping manuever to land on his back. With his momentum, now, it would be easy enough to roll forward and pop up, whereas before it took more dextrous effort.

He rose to his feet, turning to see Matrim waving him on and asking a question of him. He smirked, and adjusted his shirt somewhat, mostly for effect. "Oh, you know me, just... getting situated."

Regardless, Adrian would sit back, at least for now. Matrim was now in use of both his hands, and this new boy he had known nothing of before now. He decided to hold his cards for this round, so to speak, and see what the others could and would do before jumping firmly in the square of things.

[Gabriel Seran]

Gabriel's attempt to get up would come to no avail as his legs were pinned in the air the was little he could do from the position and he was glad the other fighter decided to hold back it gave Gabriel a moment to think strategically in a pickle. As Matrim force him down rather than fight it Gabriel went with the force into the ground allowing for himself to use his abs freely which he would try twisting in his opponent's grip and hopefully let loose a kick to the face.

He didn't really mind the three way but to him the main objective was to get Matrim to submit, it would prove a statement that his ideals could often be superior and if he lost it held no consequence he weighed it as a win win.

Whether his movements disrupted anything at all or not Gabriel would still shift his abs up and get a tight grip on Matrim's wrists squeezing tightly at the pressure point and pulling himself ever closer to him, where if not shaken up Gabriel would aim to head butt him in the face.

[Adrian]

Matrim attempted a simple sweeping style takedown on Gabriel, who, much to what would be the boy's discomfort, allowed it to happen. Adrian didn't know too much about fighting past his boxing matches, but he didn't ever figure it a wise idea to allow one's self to hit the ground. Jiujitsu and wrestling be damned, as far as Adrian was concerned, the best place to be in a fight was standing, preferably on top of the other guy.

Thus, when Gabriel allowed himself to fall, Adrian came in to act. He moved in, swinging a hard right kick at Gabriel after the boy attempted to twist around in mid-fall and kick at Matrim. The kick would land either on the side or the back of Gabriel's head, with knock-out force. The boy, with all his limbs and even his head tied up with grabbing and attacking, would find it quite difficult to do much about the situation. In truth, he broke one of the cardinal rules of three-way fighting: Never overextend yourself.

Whether or not the kick connected or rendered the boy unconscious, Adrian would press the offensive just to make sure. He'd drop to his knees, and swing his right fist down in a hard punch, aiming square for the boy's nose. It'd likely break the nose if connected. All the while, however, Adrian kept the Varsity Captain in his peripheral vision. He was taking a risk himself by going to his knees, especially if Gabriel's kick at Matrim ended in failure. He needed to make sure the Varsity Captain was as fresh as possible. Adrian didn't kid himself with pretenses about the two boy's ideals or anything of that sort.

He just wanted to beat the Captain on Matrim's own terms.

[Matrim Gallagher]

Matrim's head ducked at an awkward angle, dodging the kick as the boy went down. His movements were easy enough to see coming. The trouble was he was fast which didn't give Matrim a whole lot of time to develop a counter attack, but it was enough to dodge him most of the time. So then when Adrian showed up Matrim pulled his right fist back, and if Gabriel tried to grab Matrim's wrists, he would only manage to get his left one because his right was aiming to shoot out towards Adrian.

When Adrian dropped to his knees and threw a punch Matrim's right fist would open and shoot out to grab Adrian by the outer edges of his face, Matrim's hands spread over it and getting into the grooves and edges of it, attempting to get a great grip. If he managed to do this he would be one happy panda. So let's look over Matrim's situation shall we? Arms are crossed, right over left, if his left his grabbed by Gabriel, he would have that, and if Matrim's right fist had Adrian, he would have that.

One was (I believe) flat on his back, another was (if not horribly mistaken) on his knees, leaving Matrim standing. If garbeil aimed to pull himself up into headbutting towards Matrim, Matrim would simply pull outwards with both arms, bringing Gabriel in on an angle, and bringing Adrian's head into Gabriel's new flight plan. Possibly bringing those two together, using their heads at the same time.

Awww team work!

If this hit both of their heads, or if it didn't. Matrim would simply do nothing. Having stayed in the same spot this entire time, merely moving his hands, though he would keep that grip on Adrian, and his left hand would fight through the awkward pain of having the pressure points gripped to grab onto Gabriel's own wrist.

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[Gabriel Seran]

This wasn't working out too well that much he could tell, there'd be no dispute between Matrim and him here, it couldn't be solved in a free for all fight he had to look forward to a mono e mono fight. For the time being he had to worry about Adrian making his attack. Gabriel was indeed over exerted but not out for the count quite yet. Rather than allowing for himself to fight a two front war he used the momentum that Matrim shifted to pull himself up taking the blow to the abs rather than a headshot.

His breath was raged but he was still conscious as Gabriel dropped to the ground and rolled swiftly while the others fought. Matirm had yet to move, Gabriel would aim to press him out of his stationary defense. As soon as he'd gotten to his feet Gabriel came from behind Adrian and roundhouse kicked him aiming for his back to pummel the man into Matrim. Yaey Teamwork!

[Adrian]

Adrian's kick nailed Gabriel squarely in the abdomen, not the knockout kick he was hoping for, but still hard enough to ensure to boy would be winded much faster than usual. Just because one takes the hit on an area its not intended for, usually doesn't mean said hit won't hurt.

Somehow, Gabriel rolled out from between the two Reapers, and skipped around Adrian. Meanwhile, Adrian was dealing with Matrim grabbing his head. Adrian's free left hand shot across his face, palming Matrim at the wrist and pushing his hand away, if only for a scant second. The fact was, Gabriel was coming up behind Adrian, something Adrian realized the second the boy left his view. And so, Adrian did the only thing he really could in the situation. He pitched himself forward, going under Matrim's groping hand, and also under Gabriel's roundhouse kick. The foot, then, would swing into Matrim's hand, giving the Varsity Captain no small amount of pain for being kicked in the hand with a foot intended for a back.

Adrian hadn't known the attack would come as it did, but he was simply following a more primal defense mechanism: Assuming the fetal position. Crouched down as he was, he would either avoid a high attack or bunch himself up to resist against a low one.

When he heard the smack of boot against hand, Adrian would pop his upper body upwards again quickly, his left hand flying up over his shoulder, coming up so that Gabriel's foot would between his head and his fist. The back-fist would be aimed for Gabriel's midsection, but once it got far enough back to hit, whether it did or not, Adrian would swing the arm forward again, grabbing Gabriel's foot by the ankle and pressing it down against his shoulder, moving his upper body forward as he did so.

Essentially, Adrian planned on throwing the boy by his leg over his shoulder and into Matrim. Yay... teamwork?

[Matrim Gallagher]

Adrian ducked and Matrim was hit in the hand with a kick, which while had hurt a bit, wasn't a devastating blow altogether. Sure it smarted and his wrist hurt, but something about the fact that the kid just hit what would not be a flaming hand of fire just let Matrim shrug it off. His hands and feet would now be on fire, and with Adrian looking towards Gabriel he would probably be missing the show. Not to mention the little tidbit of Adrian not seeing Matrim's Qi. At least, Matrim didn't think Adrian had seen his Qi before today. In any case, his hands were on fire, and as he saw Adrian going to work.

Matrim would quickly dive out of the way, dive and roll. He would let these two go at it a bit until he knew who the hell was attacking him. Get the hell out, and get the hell to a standing position. Of course.... he was burning the grass where he walked. And he imagined that unless the sprinklers came on soon there was a great chance that he may just set this field on fire.

Oh well... I can pay for the damages and have it fixed relatively soon. I am pretty rich after all. Not wealthy, but rich.....

(OOC: Qi Info
Constitution: 50 [-2 every other post]
Charisma: 37 [-5 Cha for ignition]
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