SLF Tag Team Tournament: Match 2 Red v Green

[Roth O'Roak]

The smell of excitement and adrenaline filled the air. All around the courtyard of PHS 259 were students ready to see one hell of a spectacle. The sun shown bright in the sky warming everything it touched. It was after school hours, but there were still plenty of people around to watch. Teachers and students alike gathered in masses around a boxing/wrestling style ring. The Student Liberation Front’s Tag Team Tournament was about to begin.

Rows of steel chairs surrounded the ring on all 4 sides. The courtyard was packed with people waiting for this controlled carnage. The SFL’s Tag Team Tournament was their first event. From here they would pick enforcers of its Student Guard wing. They would also announce to the audience that they were looking for people to become senators to join the SLF and enforce student run government.

A sound system was set up with 8 speakers all attached to a wireless microphone held by a tall lean black man in the center of the ring. He was part of the school, but Roth’s personal friend Marcus. He had bribed his black friend to due this since he had such charisma when speaking and announcing. The event was about to get under way. This would be one hell of a night.

“Ladies and Gentlemen! Welcome to the Student Liberation Front’s Tag Team Tournament! We have twelve of the school best fighters lined up for this event, so let me inform you all how it’ll all go down. There are 6 teams each comprised of 2 fighters. We will have 3 Tag Team matches. The 3 winning teams will move onto a singles competition.

This is all in the spirit of school pride and competition. So I want ya’ll to do me a favor. I want you all to scream, I want ya’ll to beg, I want ya’ll to plead for all of these fine young men and woman you are about to beat the living hell out of each other. I want you to scream for them when they walk into this ring! I want you to beg for those guys to fight their heart out! And I want you to plead for when one guy goes down, to get back up so you can see something the likes of which you ain’t never seen before!”

Marcus always handled a crowd perfectly. The students and even some teachers were roaring in excitement. They were pumped up to see the violence. But this was different, this was controlled violence. This was giving the students what they wanted in a way they could control it without total anarchy. This was the Student Liberation Front. And this was only the beginning.
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Now the first match was over. The Blue and Pink team had already fought it out and a winner had been declared. As the fighters would be cleared out Marcus would get back into the ring to announce the second match.

"Was that one hell of a fight or what!?"

The crowd roared loving the first match. The Bar had been set, now it was time to see if they could kick it up a few notches.

"Alright, alright. Time for match number 2! Red Team versus Green Team.

First up for the Red Team: Here come a gargantuan mother fucker. HE stands at a gigantic 7 feet and eight inches. He weighs at least 350lbs. Please welcome KENIN KATASHI!

With him is his partner. A good balance against the massive Kenin. 6'2 and 165lbs. JAUS VALENTINE!

And the Green Team: First for them is the founder of the Student Liberation Front, the gal who put all this together. She's 5'8, and it's impolite to give out a girls weight, JAYR BYRNE!

And lastly for the green team. He's my man. From Boston Mass. 6'2 and 235lbs. ROTH O'ROAK!"

The entire crowd was in an uproar. Not only was this the only fight with a girl, but with a massive guy like Kenin, this would set the crowd off quickly.

"One man in the ring at a time. Win is by K.O., tap out, or DQ. Give these guys they're money worth. And then some."

Marcus rolled off the ring and back to his seat with the spectators to see the match play out. From this match alone Marcus expected the white canvas to be smeared in blood.

[Kenin Katashi]

There wasn't much about the announcement that interested Kenin save for one bit, that he was up against the founder of the gang. Old tendencies arose as he had the sudden urge to strike a deal with her, a new deal. One that was much different than the intentions of the fight, but he worked different. He didn't think you should fight your way into a gang, but instead fight your way out of it. He joined with no intention of being in a gang.

So as he approached he decided to get into the ring first, once his partner was up by the ring he would say, "Let's focus on taking down the one who isn't leader. I've fought him before, he ran away just because I threw up on him. Also, don't hesitate to fight at your full potential, but don't wear yourself down and I'll try to do the same."

And then he would address his opponents once they were there, "Jayr, I remember you, you helped me once. Come out here first, I want to briefly discuss some added terms to this bout..." He wanted to give her a quick offer but it didn't stop him from taking up a boxing stance, bouncing back and forth on the balls of his feet with his left forearm across his body and his right fist near his face.

He could wrestle a bit, and he knew good ways of making people tap out, but most likely he would be doing a fair bit of switching with his team mate. He wanted to stay fresh. After all, he did have the candy that Areon gave him, and he himself could heal up some wounds. And he wouldn't be down for more than a second so that was good.

[Jayr Byrne]

Welcome to the Show

Jayr showed up just about on time, at least on time by her standards which happened to be halfway through the announcement probably giving Roth a quick scare that she wasn't bound to show but she arrived right on schedule. A tight fitting shirt and sweats, along with some work-out shoes she was more ready than she usually looked for a fight. Bringing her hands up over her head Jayr would tie her hair back into a ponytail behind her head granting Roth a quick smile before things were to start. No strategy set just quite yet but chances are soon as this first round was underway they'd have one down. Maybe even Roth would come up with one quickly.

"Jayr, I remember you, you helped me once. Come out here first, I want to briefly discuss some added terms to this bout..."

Jayr's head would come up quickly and nod with a brief grin. She didn't have anything wrong with a little discussion before hand. Pulling herself up and under the ropes before bouncing up she'd meet him at center willing to hear him out.

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Jaus showed up, a relatively silent disposition as usual taking in the arena, from the looks of things the SLF had truly gone all out on this event. Twas a shame that in the end they'd be cleaning things up. He hadn't learned all too much about them for the time being aside this tourney and the briefest of encounters with Jayr and he still held his close loyalty to Spike despite not knowing where the boy was. He had to fill his days otherwise with whatever he could manage. For today it was the fight, the thrill of battle.

"Let's focus on taking down the one who isn't leader. I've fought him before, he ran away just because I threw up on him. Also, don't hesitate to fight at your full potential, but don't wear yourself down and I'll try to do the same."

Eyes coming upward to his ally, the large man standing over him gave him a sense of relief that it wasn't one of the small Asian kids he'd seen walking in thinking they were adept in super kung-fu. Thats right Jaus would discriminate, he'd choose size and bulk over those other traits most any day. A silent nod in return towards Kenin before looking onward towards their opponents.

Jayr and Roth.

Quickly sizing them up based on past experience. He'd fought Jayr once, as far as he could tell they were on even par, in fact he worried she'd be the only real threat in this tournament for him. And right off the bat what karma. As for Roth, he hadn't seen the fellow nor fought him elsewhere but as Kenin described him perhaps the boy's bark was worse than his bite.

[Roth O'Roak]

There was a lone man in the empty gymnasium locker room. It was quiet, he always enjoyed the quiet right before a fight. AS of now Roth was lacing up his boots. They weren't his regular steel toes though, more wrestling style boots that gave nice traction on the mat. Over those was an old pair of long Tripp pants, he hadn't worn those in a nice long time. His chest was bare showing off his ink on his back and some on his arms. Athletic tape rose from his knuckles to his elbows.

Roth practiced a few basic Muay Thai strikes before hearing Marcus' voice over the sound system. He was lucky to have such a loud and energetic friend. Roth stopped his little warm up and began to stretch out a bit. He would get himself loosened up and ready, skipping the first match.

Marcus roared on the sound system again. HE guessed the first match was over. Roth would head over to the courtyard for his match. He didn't know who he was facing, it didn't matter much. He knew who his partner was, Jayr Byrne. It was pretty odd that they were paired together, but he didn't think much of it. As Roth waited in the back row for Marcus to announce the match Jayr would arrive.

Without a word and just a smile Jayr made her way down to where her, and their two opponents were in the ring. Kenin Katashi, the gargantuan man looked familiar, but was wasn't one for faces and had seen men his size in all his schools. Then there was Jaus Valentine. He was about Roth's size. This would definitely turn into a good match.

Roth's music would hit the speakers and boom through out the courtyard. It was nice flowing and made the crowed scream out. After all Roth did care some much as for winning this whole thing. He was here for the crowd. This was the STUDENT Liberation Front after all.

High fives and fist bumps were hit on all sides of the crowd. They were genuinely exited for this match. It was as if Hulk Hogan was about to go up against Forest Griffin. Then again the ring and Tag Team was wrestling, but the fighting styles were UFC. An awesome deadly mix.

Roth hoped up onto the ring's side and slid himself through the top and middle rope. He looked at Kenin and Jaus, they looked so...bored. This was a show, not a street brawl. Roth looked to both of them and stretched his thumb across his neck and pointed to the both of them. That made the crowd riot.

He looked to Jayr, his partner, and moved his arms in emotion that said 'ladies first'. Roth climbed back behind the roped and into his corner. Now sure, Jaus seemed pretty good, and Kenin was a god damn giant, but Roth and Jayr had the advantage. How you might ask; Because this was Roth's element. He knew how to use this ring for him and against them. He couldn't have been in a better place to fight. It was his territory.

Kenin started for the Red Team, which of course made Roth a bit weary of how Jayr would stand against him. Then they began talking. Mood killer. The crowd simmered down as they would talk. It seemed Kenin wanted some sort of stipulation. Roth sighed when he heard it. BORING! Roth yelled out to Kenin before he had a moment to explain.

"Hey you gargantuan mother fucker! This ain't a classroom debate!"

[Kenin Katashi]

Jaus and Jayr both were silent, Kenin liked that. He didn't like talking too awful much, and he definitely wasn't about to make it some big wrestling announcement. And then in came barf bait himself, the man who ran away cus he got a little bodily fluid in his hair. Doing the biggest and most obnoxious entrance ever. This wasn't some show, this wasn't about the world heavy weight championship. Kenin wasn't The Great Khali.

"Your partner is loud and obnoxious," Kenin said before getting back to his point, "I don't do gangs without a reason to. You have to admit, assuming me and Jaus win this fight, we'll have beaten two members. No incentive to join a gang when we took down two members, you have to admit. So here's my deal, just for me. If I win, I get to keep my freedom from gangs for yet another day. If I lose, I become a member, working for you in particular. I'll follow every order to the letter and perform every task admirably until the moment I believe I'm strong enough to take you on myself. When that moment hits we duke it out again. This time one on one, if I win that, I'm free of the gang and you let me go. I lose that one.... then, well, it looks like I'm a life long member then aren't I?"

He grinned, "Don't think of it as some sort of slavery thing, it's just my way of advancing myself and trust me when I say you could use me." He shrugged and said, "Your choice." Before holding his right hand out for her to shake if she agreed to his terms.

[Jayr Byrne]

Arrangements

"Your partner is loud and obnoxious,"

Jayr would smile with a slight giggle raising her hand to stifle the noise before speaking up to defend him in as neutral a means as could be expected.

"He has his quirks."

"I don't do gangs without a reason to. You have to admit, assuming me and Jaus win this fight, we'll have beaten two members. No incentive to join a gang when we took down two members, you have to admit. So here's my deal, just for me. If I win, I get to keep my freedom from gangs for yet another day. If I lose, I become a member, working for you in particular. I'll follow every order to the letter and perform every task admirably until the moment I believe I'm strong enough to take you on myself. When that moment hits we duke it out again. This time one on one, if I win that, I'm free of the gang and you let me go. I lose that one.... then, well, it looks like I'm a life long member then aren't I?"

Jayr leaned back a tad, the slight concern running through her head as though most others were considering this tournament to be a forced servitude ploy. She was disgusted by the thought, by all means it was optional and she was bound to get that through to one extent or another.

"Don't think of it as some sort of slavery thing, it's just my way of advancing myself and trust me when I say you could use me. Your choice."

Jayr would nod silently stepping forward to shake his hand out of esteem, there was something she could respect in Kenin seeing that he'd be willing to go through such means and be upfront with her where others had not.

"As it is yours, even if I win I won't hold you to a code should you feel against it. This isn't to be a gang, but an organization."

Jayr would state simply before taking a step back. She was speculative as to whether she was up first or not, by all means she'd considered it. However if Ken chose to switch it up or request Roth in first she'd willingly step aside and wait her turn. Though until that point her guard would rise anticipating the next movement.

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OOC: If I'm not up first feel free to skip over me in post order till I'm up.

"Hey you gargantuan mother fucker! This ain't a classroom debate!"

'Thats right talk all you want.'

Jaus thought to himself as he slowly ebbed off to the side leaning up against a wall like the cool kids did, a large smirk on his face seeing Roth start to get bitchy towards Ken. The image running through Jaus Valentine's mind now was beating the boy within an inch of his life. For the funsies. Regardless the discussion unraveling in the ring was interesting in its own right. Jaus didn't exactly know what the SLF was and was intrigued to learn more as things enveloped, too shy to ask about it he'd await his opportunity to overhear things.

"Roth......Shut up."

[Roth O'Roak]

Over the hootin and hollerin of the crowd Roth didn't get to hear Jaus' words. It was probably a good thing or else Jaus would currently have a shoulder in his cut with both of them smashing to the ground. Plus that wouldn't DQ him and his team. It was perfectly legal for the other two team mates to beat on each other. But again, this was Roth's territory, this was his tournament as well.

Then Kenin went on some bullshit rant about the SLF. He acted as if this was a legit gang. This may have been L.A., but this wasn't a Bloods v Crips thing. This was about friendly competition and the implementation for student run government without a pillarship.

Roth looked to Kenin and gave him a big ol' middle finger. Of course the crowd ate it up. Roth wasn't just a mean fighter, but he was an entertainer. He could get the crowd on his side and against his opponent. The more he got the crowd to hate them the better the chance of something like This would happen. Not to mention the fact that Roth could easily get a K.O. or submission from something like that. And no DQ either. Not his fault the fans were rowdy.

No matter what Kenin's reaction Roth would look over to Jayr. He remembered going up against this brute. Ending in a draw as he ran out to the hallway and Roth ran to the bathroom. The way he saw it the giant bitch ran off after stalking the halls with his trademark bat. No matter though, right now was right now. Jayr would need speed and pin point moves to wreck this monster.

"Come on Jayr, you got this!"

Slowly Roth began to clasp his hands together. Clap by clap he would pick up the tempo as the crowd quickly followed suit. Screams echoed through out. This is what Roth lived for. The adrenaline of at least 1000 people cheering. Not to mention a possible distraction for Kenin and Jaus.

(ooc: Get to it =D)

[Kenin Katashi]

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Kenin yelled at the top of his lungs, the entire crowd got quiet. In fact not a single one of them would dare make another noise. He didn't care if they were here to watch but the louder they got the more likely he was to simply just intimidate them. They clearly were too, because they knew that the second this was over he could just as easily kick all of their asses. "Thank you."

He looked up at Jayr, "I'll fight you eventually, but I want to fight your partner. He ran off in the middle of our last fight... if you don't mind. I promise I'll fight you later though, alright?" This wasn't some wrestling ring, this wasn't some WWE event, this was simple. People fought, more than likely this ring would be demolished by the end of this fight, it was amazing it hadn't been demolished from the first fight. No matter the material, real fights took down solid buildings and destroyed the sturdiest of vehicles.

He would wait for one of two things to happen, Jayr to attack or her to get Roth into the fight. He didn't care which happened, but the second he got his hands on Roth, there was no way he was going to make it out of this fight alive. He might tap or KO, giving Kenin the victory, but the crowd knew that after that, anything was fair game. Anything.

Kenin got into a defensive stance, not to go on the defensive so much as to counter attack anything that came at him, his eyes focused and were ready to see any movement from Jayr that meant attack, or if she got Roth in, any movement from him.

[Jayr Byrne]

Respective Stance

I'll fight you eventually, but I want to fight your partner. He ran off in the middle of our last fight... if you don't mind. I promise I'll fight you later though, alright?"

Jayr would nod lightly, a grin still affirmatively set on her face as she paced backwards grabbing the edge of the rope before tapping in Roth. A curious smile on her face allowing for him to make his entrance. Something she was sure he'd have built up considering this was his event after all.

"No, seems you do."

A faint giggle before rolling out and bouncing on the lower floor. Jayr would settle her arms over the ring as support, quick access to tap out if need be but she'd be prepared to engage. Simply put the longer the fight dragged on the better her chances were. Besides she knew how tough Jaus was. Taking him on would take both mental and physical domination.

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Strength: 82
Dexterity: 95
Constitution: 92
Intelligence: 66
Wisdom: 84
Charisma: 158+3 = 161

[Roth O'Roak]

Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

LET'S GET READY TO RUUUMMMBBBLLLLEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TAG!

Roth grinned at Kenin as he asked Jayr to let Roth in. Oh what a mistake he'd made. Roth felt pumped and ready for anything. The crowd picked up again slowly as Kenin calmed down. What was the big ol' monster gunna do? Waste his time and take on all of them. He must've forgot the raw power and energy of mass amounts of people.

Jayr touched Roth and he was off like a speeding bullet. HE charged full force and dropped his body down into a baseball slide. With his force and speed Roth would either A: Collide into one or two of Kenin's shins bringing him down. Or B: End up through or around his legs in which he would be fast enough to get onto the top rope and figure what to do from there.

If, and only if Kenin had the speed to dodge then he would be fine. Other than that Roth was at the top of his game today. Who knows, maybe it was something in the air.

(ooc: Stats with Jayr's Bond of Aether and loss from Vetis: Str-35, Dex-30, Con-49, Int-31, Wis-13,Cha-27.)

[Kenin Katashi]

Luckily one of the easiest dodges to make is to simply move out of the way He was already doing that as Roth charged, and when he slid well, he caught a bit of Kenin's foot since it was so big and he wasn't the fastest but it just caused him to stumble a little bit. Kenin turned and would aim to clap both sides of Roth's ears when he was turned away from Kenin, attempting to disorient him, give him a headache, and possibly damage his hearing enough to make his balance go to crap. And hopefully that would slow him down a bit.

[Roth O'Roak]

SAFE!

Roth's baseball slide had hit on target. Well, a little of target, but he'd rather get a foul than an out. From there Roth would continue his momentum and rise back onto his feet, jumping in the air. He would land on top of the Red team's turnbuckle. Behind him he heard a loud clasp of Kenin's hands. Too slow he guessed and Roth quickly set off upon landing on the ropes.

Within nearly an instant Roth launched his body back toward Kenin who was now facing him. Twisting his body effortlessly Roth would go into a Whisper in the Wind (31-38). Classic Jeff Hardy. In many ways Roth was like that drugged up mother fucker. He was crazy, retarded, but fun to be around when you didn't act above him. Plus he was drugged up on Yakuza drugs.

If Roth hit his move then he would roll to his and Kenin's right. He would get up and take a quick second to recuperate in the neutral corner. If he missed then Roth would try to land on his feet, or at least his ass. From there he'd be running back to his corner with his momentum still going and try a second top rope move.

[Kenin Katashi]

Roth seemed to go missing, just missing the clap as Kenin nearly cussed to himself. Of course, he spread his arms once more as he got an idea. The second Roth went higher the result was obvious, arial assault. He didn't care what the attack was, he'd gladly let it come as a trade off for what he'd do. As Roth was colliding with him he caught his legs to lessen any damage done to his top half.

He fell to his back but pulled his legs in as he focused on one leg, specifically the right foot. As Roth was trying to get to his feet, he would find his foot being pulled by a kneeling Kenin, who would then begin to twist the foot inward, his right hand grabbing onto the ankle and his left pushing against the foot itself. He would not have let go of Roth, nor did he plan to as he would pull on him to add to the pain.