The Bloodied Hands Arena/Lee Prower vs Rosie the Echidna: Single Battle

== The Bloodied Battle ==
Stepping onto the battlefield for another bout, Rosie the Echidna, dressed in her black Taekwondo dobok and barepawed, eagerly has her mind set on her next challenge in the arena. As the warrior echidna approaches the center of the sandy field with determined eyes, she thinks about who her next opponent may be and different techniques she could try this time around. Her heart pumps with anticipation and excitement, thirsty for another chance to stretch her legs with a heated spar. Upon reaching her spot on the battlefield, Rosie patiently waits for her fellow contender to arrive, killing a bit of time by stretching her limbs.
The Marshmallow known as Lee Prower shuffled into the battlefield, his hands in his pockets, almost immediately catching Rosie's attention. Upon reaching his spot, he pulled his hands into view and waved them about; after this procedure was finished, Lee took a very relaxed stance. "You're the one who whooped on Amber, correct?" He asked.
The very mention of this made the echidna bashfully rub the back of her head, a sweat drop running down her face. "Um... I guess you can say that. I kinda feel bad about how that fight ended..."
"Hmm. Well, I'm Lee." He said, rocking back and forth. "She's fine, not angry: but she'd kill me if this was to the death," Lee added with a smirk.
Rosie promptly bows in respect towards the fox, happy to be paired up with such a well-mannered opponent. "Nice to mee you, Lee! I'm Rosie, a proud martial artist. I'd be more comfortable with just a knockout battle, too. Where I come from, we fight to grow stronger as warriors and to forge friendships with awesome opponents! So, if you're up for this..."
A smirk soon appears on Rosie's face before she quickly snaps into a Taekwondo-style fighting stance, bouncing lightly on her feet. She was more than ready to get this fight underway!
"Let's make this a fun one for both of us!!"
"Fine by me," Lee says, cracking his knuckles and dropping them to his side. "First attack is yours."
"My, what a gentleman!" Rosie lightly jokes before taking her opponent up on the offer, abruptly dashing forward in a burst of speed. The fight was now on!
As soon as the echidna closed in on Lee's position, Rosie starts things off with a fast straight punch to the chest, beginning with a speedy yet simple attack to test her opponent's defenses, per usual. The punch hit a shield that formed as Lee suddenly brought a hand to his front. Having her fist clash against the barrier, Rosie was a bit surprised, yet impressed. She wasn't expecting her opponent to utilize energy in a defensive manner like that. Curious, Rosie decides to push further and throws two more punches towards the face and an extra front kick, putting more force behind her attacks to see how much Lee could take with his shield.
Lee's shield began to crack, forcing the Fox to shove the defense at Rosie and jump backwards. The echidna quickly leaps to the side at the last moment to avoid the flung shield, chuckling as she snaps back to her stance.
"Pretty nice!" Rosie compliments her foe. "I didn't expect you to whip out a shield like that!"
Not wanting to slow down the pace of the fight too much, Rosie promptly dashes back in for another go, twirling on the ball of her left foot, clockwise, to throw a spinning back kick to the gut to push her opponent back, adding in a light kiai which divert her energy into her strike better for extra force. "Hyah!"
Lee was hit, and slid back a good distance. "You hit hard, I'll give you that..." He said, his hands beginning to glow.
"Heh heh..." Rosie chuckles, shifting back to her stance once more as she smiles from Lee's compliment. "Well, the match is just getting started! Come on!"
The echidna motions the fingers of her leading hand towards herself, playfully taunting Lee to attack her and give him the next move.
"My style's more...hands off." He stated, shoving his right hand towards Rosie and unleashing several projectiles at her. The projectiles worked almost like arrows, a multitude of them soaring at the Echidna.
As soon as she saw the array of arrows closing in on her, Rosie crosses her arms, waiting for the projectiles to come closer to her before quickly spreading her arms apart. From both hands, a sudden spread of several light-blue shurikens, made of pure aura energy, scatter away from her at high speed and clash into the arrows to cancel them out. Each of the projectiles would run into each other, small bursts of energy occurring upon impact and negating both attacks.
"I can adapt to that!" Rosie would say with a warm smile, willing to take the battle from a distance for a little while in order to make things more fun for Lee.
The warrior would then dart to her right, starting to circle around her foe while hurling three more aura shuriken projectiles at him.
He swung his left hand this time, shooting more of the small, flying weapons to counter the shurikens. He then aimed his right fist at Rosie and shot a blast from it. The echidna brings her hands close together as she ran, focusing a ball of aura energy between them. She leaps up high, avoiding the incoming blast in the process, then rears both arms back before thrusting her hands forward, sending forth a spherical blast of aura down at Lee with great force. Whether it would connect with its target or the ground, the blast of aura would detonate into a big burst of energy upon impact.
A blue stream of glow emerged from Lee's feet, throwing him into the air. He landed gracefully a safe distance away from the exploding energy ball. At the moment, a puff of smoke would kick up behind the fox as Rosie suddenly appears behind him with her Ninjustu warping technique. Since she executed this tactic so up close to him, the smoke from the warp would most-likely shroud over Lee, which would a slight dizzy sensation upon exposure to alter his focus. However, that wasn't the main purpose of the approach. As her back was turned to him, Rosie was currently holding three light-blue kunai knives in her left hand, radiating with pure aura energy. With an abrupt turn, she quickly hurls them downwards towards Lee's feet, which would pierce straight through him if they struck him. They wouldn't exactly cut through his body but they would send a sharp jolt of pain through the contact points as if he was being slashed at that area, so it wasn't lethal. However, once the kunai happened to hit the ground below him, they would stick onto the sand, forming blue dots onto the ground which eventually will connect with each other to form a straight, blue energy line. If Lee touches the line, or the dots, at all, his aura would be glued onto that spot and pin him in place for a few seconds. This technique was called the Kunai Trap, a Shaolin Ninjustu move used for inconspicuous attacks.
The smoke did nothing, as his vascular adaptability kicked in. Lee heard Rosie appear, spinning to face her; at the sight of the knives, he jumped to one foot, which threw off his balance and threatened to drop him into the trap. He charged his energy, however, just waiting for the right moment. Seeing that Lee wasn't stuck in her Kunai Trap, Rosie decides to dart in, close up, attempting to slam her opponent's chest with a side thrust kick to make him stagger into the energy line while it was still up. Lee held his hands in front of him and released the charges, trying to throw him away from his opponent and the trap. As the echidna's foot misses the mark of her retreating opponent, Rosie couldn't help but to giggle a bit as she settles back to her stance, allowing the Kunai Trap to disappear.
"Hey, no fair! Get back here, you!" Rosie playfully calls out, no signs of hostility or frustration in her voice as she was just joking with her friend. Yet, she still proceeds to dash in hot pursuit, not wanting her opponent to get too far away from her. Right when she comes up close to Lee, this time, she quickly vanishes out of her spot with a Quick Step, blitzing to behind her foe to fake him out and try to throw an elbow strike into his back. Lee looked around, pretending that he didn't know where Rosie was. When the attack came, he'd duck, trying to get it to pass over him. Lee may have avoided the elbow, but ducking would leave him in the line of a fast side kick to the back of the head from Rosie, which would pack enough force to knock him back a few feet.
Lee was tossed backwards and landed on his back, he quickly motioned his hands to create a shield, giving him cover while he gathered his marbles. Rosie remembered the shield from the start of the match but, this time, thought of a way to counteract it. She runs towards Lee again, her body gaining a blue glow all around, then suddenly leaps towards the shield, causing her to dart forward in a burst of speed and dash right through her opponent, blue afterimages in her wake. This a technique called the Aura Blitz, an advanced variation of the Quick Step that allows Rosie to travel at an extremely fast speed and rush right through her target as if she was piercing through their body. The piercing act was but an illusion but the attack would send a sharp jolt of pain throughout the points of impact, as with her kunai and shurikens, and was even capable of passing through energy shields and can even shatter them if the target was careless in maintaining them.
Dropping his shield, Lee spun in confusion and wincing in pain. He blinked at the fact his attacker had "disappeared". It took him several seconds to realize where Rosie was, and in said time period, Rosie attempted to keep up the punishment by dashing to his back, where she'd slam him a hard straight punch and a fast side kick. She'd then try to dash to the other side him with a Quick Step, hopefully while he'd stagger from the hits, to assault his front side with another straight punch to the face, a left cross to the chest, and finally a swift uppercut to the chin. All attacks hit, causing Lee to collapse on the ground. Nonetheless, he charged his energy while getting to his feet. Rosie bounces a bit in her stance, giving Lee a bit of time to catch his breath before dashing in for another go. She'd try to keep up the pressure with a quick front kick to his chest, snapping her leg back to try and chain her attack into a round kick to his left cheek, afterward.
He waited for her to swing her first kick and fire the charges, one at her leg, one at her chest. If this succeeded, he'd then fire a third charge at her other leg and try to knock her down. The first energy charge hits her kicking leg, parrying it downwards as Rosie grunts in pain. However, right when the second charge hit her, she disappears into a puff of smoke a split-second after impact, indicating the use of illusionary copy via a Ninjustu substitution technique. Almost immediately, she reappears behind her foe, in midair, for a quick aerial side kick to the back of the head. He spun, blocking Rosie's kick and firing a charge right up the "alley" so to speak. This was a medium power blast, and if she managed to dodge, Lee would have to run and recharge. In danger of taking a direct hit, Rosie quickly curls up into a spin as soon as she felt Lee's energy surge before being bathed in the energy charge. Apply her aura to her defense, she ends up absorbing the blast around her curled up body and nullify the damage just in the nick of time before landing to the ground with a blue glow around her. Rosie keeps hold over the energy she just took as she quickly dashes towards her opponent to try and grab his arm, aiming to snag Lee up close and release the captured energy in one quick, dome-shaped burst.
Lee counter grabbed Rosie, bending over and tossing her over his back. He then ran, trying to recharge and not die in the meantime. As soon as the echidna feels the tug from her opponent's throw, she quickly throws her legs forward and flips herself onto her feet to nullify Lee's counter.  Then, she suddenly thrusts an elbow strike into his stomach, trying to stun him before he could get away, before releasing the dome-shaped energy burst to send him flying with his own, previous blast. Lee was hit by both attacks and just lay there, groaning. After waiting in her stance for a few moments, Rosie notices that Lee was getting up right away and goes over to approach him. Yet, her guard wasn't all the way dropped.
"Had enough already?" Rosie would ask, which could sound a bit antagonizing but she really wanted to make sure her opponent was okay to keep fighting before attacking again.
He didn't move much, just holding up an "OK" hand. At that point, Rosie moves over to his side and extends her right hand towards him, offering him a hand up, only to have Lee roll away from Rosie. She was confused a first since it looked like he was down for the count, but then she could her opponent's energy levels beginning to rise. Knowing what Lee was up to know, she smirks a bit.
'Oh... Now I see what you're doing!' The warrior contemplates. Though Rosie could easily put a stop to this by attacking here and now, she decides to wait it out and give Lee the time he needs to recharge. An honorable warrior normally doesn't attack a fellow martial artist while their down, plus she wanted her friend to have a chance to turn the tide of the battle around. It'd be more exciting and fun that way!
After rolling a good bit away, Lee stood up; His soul recharged enough to continue fighting. "Thanks for the time, Miss." He then threw his hands out to the side, causing them to glow.
"Hey, it's no problem! I'd be kinda worried if you went down that easily!" Rosie responds with a smile, before it shifts to smirk while the echidna snaps back to her fighting stance. "Now come on! Is that all you've got?"
"Not yet, it's not," he said, opening his palms. Two of his arrow-like constructs formed, then split into four; they continued to multiply until at least a hundred of them hovered behind Lee. "Ready?" He grinned.
Rosie, not intimidated by the swarm of enemy projectiles, grins as well and motions a hand towards herself in the form of taunt. "Bring it, big boy!"
Lee smiled, showing a spiked tooth. "I'm younger than you." And with that, the arrows soared at Rosie. If she took the time to break any, she'd see that Lee would double over in pain each time she did so.
Rosie bravely charges towards the projectile storm, drawing forth an aura katana in her right hand as she advanced. Right from the get go, she had a plan to combat this form of all-out attack. When she was within range of colliding with the arrows, the echidna suddenly leaps into a horizontal spin, her blade in front of her which now acted as a sort of propeller, managing to slice apart any of the arrows that were about to clash into her to basically cut her way through the mass barricade. Rosie would then flip back into an upright position, allowing her to land back to the ground with ease and continue her sprint towards Lee, now seeing that he was open for attack due to him doubling over from some of the arrows being destroyed. She dematerializes her katana to close in on Lee for a melee, squating down slightly for a rising uppercut to his face while he was bent over then quickly attempting to follow up with a left cross to the chest and a blitzing double roundhouse kick combination, aiming for the fox's right leg for the first kick then hopping up for another kick to the head with her right foot. "Hyah!!"
Lee just collapsed, his arrows vanishing, even the glowing tufts atop his ears turned black. His vitals were all OK, but he wasn't moving. Rosie would wait for a moment to give her opponent a chance to get back up, but she soon realized that Lee wasn't moving at all. Even worse, she felt his aura suddenly fade out, as if the energy he had before just left his system. Concerned, she immediate walks over to him and kneels down at his side, placing her right hand on his chest to see if she could feel a pulse. Although she did, the echidna couldn't feel any trace of his aura.
"Oh gosh... That's not good," Rosie says, now very worried for her friend. She didn't remember her last chain of attacks being that deadly, and the two did agree on just having a knockout battle. In a last pitch attempt to restore her friends energy, Rosie takes a deep breath and focuses positive aura into her right hand, exposing Lee to the radiant blue glow that emited from it to pour energy back into his body, hoping that it would wake him back up from his burnout phase. Although Rosie practically already won this fight, she didn't want her friend to die on her from what was supposed to be a friendly match.
The arrows Rosie had broken hovered in the air, then flew over the two combatants. Rosie's energy seemed to charge them up, and after about a minute, they disintegrated and absorbed into Lee's chest. The Flynx jumped to a sitting position, breathing heavily. "What... What just happened..?"
"Oh phew..." Rosie breathed a sigh of relief, glad that her friend was okay. "You ran out of energy after I countered your last attack and you must have passed out. You had me worried for a moment!"
"Heh heh.... My energy, the thing that my powers run on.... That'd be my Soul...." Lee chuckled lightly. "Guess I didn't properly charge back up. So... Not to be rude, how'd you revive me? I'm supposed to be toast right now."
Rosie chuckles and answers, "Well...MY energy, my aura, can be used for other things besides just combat. I can concentrate positive vibes and thoughts into it to turn it into a power that can heal people. All I did was exposed you to some of my positive aura to pool energy back into your body and help jumpstart your...soul back up. We did agree that this fight wasn't going to be to the death, after all!"
"That was more so I didn't just use my powers to tear you apart from the beginning... Anyways, let's meet up sometime and we can talk about everything we can do? The scientist side of me is intrigued."
Rosie doubted his first statement, as indicated by the playful rolling of her eyes. Nonetheless, the echidna smiles upon hearing his request.  "Heh, sure!  Besides, maybe I can help you work on your close combat, while we're at it!"
At that moment, she extends her right hand towards him to offer a hand up.
He grabbed her hand, pushing against the ground to right himself.
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