2186/A tough fight

A tough fight
Date of Scene:	04 December 2016
Location:	Plot Room #2
Synopsis:	Haruna and Hannah save Sakura from the Fight card. Unfortunately, many cookies are lost in the battle and the group heads out to ice cream to cheer up the sad magical girl.
Cast of Characters:	Sakura Kinomoto, Haruna Kurosawa, Hannah Sharpe

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Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
A few hours ago. A message for Haruna. 'Hey, Kurosawa-sempay, Sharpe-sempai, meet me at penguin park later, okay? I-I wanna thank you for everything! I'll be there around nine, okay? Please meet me there! Bye bye!" Voice mail.

About Twenty minutes ago, far before nine. 'Kurosawa-sempai, help, it-- AHHHH!' Sound of something breaking in the background. "It's a card, I can't, itshatteredconcretewithitsbarehandshowcanitdothat?!! KERO-CHAN!" "Sakura! RUN!" "AHHHHH!" "Kurosawa-sempai you said if I need help, I-I need help! I need help I'm at the audito--" The last thing that'd be heard was a crash, followed by dead air, busy signal if called back.

Oh no.

When/if they arrived... they'd find craters in the ground. Two little bags of pink with their names hand stitched(poorly) in white threat and filled with crushed cookies, a broken cell phone... and sakura's wand. But no sign of the girl.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
"Hannnnnnaaahh let's go." whines Haruna a few hours ago.

About Twenty Minutes ago, Haruna gets a frantic call and 'eek!' "Come On Hannah!" she begs as she transforms. "Troubles up..."

And flying through the air on gull-shaped wings that extend from a bow on the small of her back- she lands nearby this... huge crater. And there's little bags of pink. She frowns and purses her lips and sees...two crushed bags of cookies. A broken cellphone and a Sakuras wand. But no sign of Sakura.

She reaches out toward's the wand and frowns and takes ahold of it with one hand as she moves back to the sky to look around. "Hey... Hannah. Can't you do.. a ... um. What is called..."

"A something... search? Wide Search? Area Search...?" she asks. "See if somethings up or around." She says.

"I don't see Sakura anywhere..." alive...or dead. For that matter. >,>

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Miss White arrives in her usual fashion, a burst of emerald green wind followed by the young woman's shoes tak-taking down onto the park's ground. Her face shows naked worry. Sakura, even to her, is a /kid/. And she has bad memories of kids being messed with, at times by her own hand.

"Wide Area Search. Yeah, already on it. Let's do this, R.T."

Raising her hand, and closing her eyes, she concentrates. Raging Tempest begins to glow, before lines of emerald magic burst down from the young woman's now open palm.

Going silent, she'll start to slowly search the park. Though wide in effect as it's name suggests, it's not an /exact/ locator, more of a satteleite like effect. Still, it should at least narrow things down from 'entire area of the park'.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
They found her! She was alive. For now. She was actually nearby. They'd even hear the CRACK as a blue, strange garbed chinese lady kicked THROUGH a tree. Sakura landed on the ground, barely avoiding another fatal blow. She was hurt, sluggish and bruised. Just BARELY keeping herself away from the most dangerous strikes.

But she didn't have her wand. she couldn't use her magic. She barely managed to get to her feet, just in time for Fight to step in and punch her three times, sending the poor girl stumbling back and into a free.

Fight moved in then, slamming her fist forward. Sakura BARELY rolled out of the way in time, the Fight card's punch digging into the tree. It then pulled back and glanced down at Sakura.

The cardcaptor was hurt, tired, bruised and would be lucky if she didn't have a concussion. Her outfit, a slightly poofy pink dress, was torn in half a dozen places. Her entire body was shaking and then Fight card lifted her leg in a crescent kick down. Sakura held up her arms, blocking it... but the blow still made her cry out in pain and bounce a little. She let out a weak sob, struggling to crawl away, though her whole body ached.

However, fight wasn't one for mercy. She stomped a foot on sakura's back and lifted a fist back, ready to punch her.

"SAKURA!" Tomoyo yelled. It was a major sight because, well, she didn't even have a camera out this time. Her worry for her friend such.

"d-don't!" sakura yelled. 'I-it'll attack you if you do!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull purses her lips and looks around- and then--- crack!

She blinks and looks down and ohs! "OH! THERE!" she calls out as she begins to spiral down in a wide arc-- aiming to come down interupt that punch after she stomped down on Sakura's back-- to try to kick her back with a sudden downwards dive kick-- she'd stop the moment she felt her foot hit home. Or stop before she hit Sakura. Either way.

She huffed and took a stance. "Hey. Jerk!" she calls out. "Do you normally beat up on people like this!? That's stupid!" the Pretty Cure calls out!

She gently leaned down and dropped Sakura's wand down near her head somewhere. "Here Sakura!" she says. "You dropped this!" she smiled a little.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
With Gull intercepting and making sure Sakura doesn't become a Card Captor Card herself, Miss White all but snarls at the punchy card. Rather than speak at first, she too helps out with Gull's attack! Leaping at Fight, she'll try to grab at the magical card's arm, tug her forward and then just bodily jam a knee right into the being's gut!

Only then does a spiraling burst of wind burst forth from her knee!

"Wind Burst!" Chimes Raging Tempest, british tones somehow managing to sound almost as annoyed as Hannah. Seems they /both/ don't like kids being beaten up.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
The fight card was taken by surprise, being sent back by the dive kick. Followed by a tug and then driving knee! She hurtled back, hitting a tree and sliding down it.

She sat there for a moment, limp. Beaten, already? That was easy. It... then she started to get up, going into her stance. Oh dear. Seems she wasn't down yet. And now she had a target.

Sakura groaned and smiled up at them. "A-ah... K-Kurosawa-sempai... Sharpe-sempai... I... I knew you'd come..." She used her wand to help herself up... only to fall back on her face a moment later.

"It's the fight card!" Kuro said. "You need to beat it in combat to seal it!" he said. "Careful, though. It heals fast!"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa draws her hands back a bit and purses her lips. "Of course I'm here Sakura-chan." she says softly- as she doesn't look away from the weird card spirit. She frowns a bit. "What is this?" she asks.

And then Kero screams out it's the Fight Card and that it heals fast.

"Well then! We'll just need to uh... what's that word. Corvus uses a lot... when he plays his MMO...."

"DPS!" yells Corvus from a tree.

"Dee-Pee-Ess!" she insists. "We'll OUT Dee-pee-ess it!" she calls out.

She spins the dial on her prebrace and then throws her hand out. "GULL FEATHER STORM!" she calls out- sending out a windy burst of a thousand of bright green feather darts toward's Fight's location.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Watching the card fall limply, Hannah gives a long scowl. "Thing can't take a hit for..."

And then, despite both herself and Gull hammering into it, the thing gets back up. "So it's a regenerator then? Got it, Gull! Sakura, you hang back and watch how WPS does things! C'mon you overdue punch card, make this interesting or you're /really/ gonna feel it!" She taunts, just as Gull unleashes the leet aoe! Laughing, she bends her knees, holding up Raging Tempest into the sky.

"Targeting Mode. Coordinates locked. Ready to guide at your command, Mistress." Much like earlier, thousands of green lines pour out from the Device, ending up in a grid pattern around the Fight card! Green wind magic starts to swirl in Hannah's uplifted hand, a slowly gathering tempest of ball-energy. First, a mere baseball, then growing, and growing and growing until it's a massive ball of emerald radiance that sends her coat, the nearby grass, and several tree limbs flying from the building storm in her hand.

One eye closes, and she grits her teeth, face flushed wiht effort. "Cover me Gull-chan!"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto lifted her arms, defending herself as best she could, holding her arms up and crossed. It leveled its eyes on the two of them.

Then, suddenly, it made its move. It suddenly dove to the right, scattering the feathers and diving in low. It arrived on Hannah a moment later. Its left fist shot out first towards her right, followed by right fist, then left again. It would then try to sweep her leg and finish off by trying to grab her stormy hand and drive it down into her own side.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa eek! the rain of feathers was just batted away!--like--like feathers! But. THey were magic feathers! She huffs a bit and then she looks over to Hannah. Cover her. Okay.

She can do th---

So while Hannah does her thing the Fight Card sort of sweeps in before Gull can even start her covering and she eeks!

She leaps into the air--- her wings come on. She flips in the air and then comes down for a dive kick--- looking like a seafoam green like streak on her way down to clobber the Fight Card!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah learns very swiftly that Fight is pretty quick on her feet! Unfortunately, this means she's in a bit of a pickle. The low dive and first fist is met with an intercepting kick that sends her skidding back and onto less sure footing! The left fist is barely evaded, but the right hook comes up and catches her right in the side, smashing through a Shield! The next right fist is met with a headbutt as she stands her ground, digging in her heels even as her head spins from the hard blow!

Grab her hand Fight does, but there's two at play here! Half the ball of wind slams into her own side, resulting in a windy explosion that tears off half her jacket and utterly ruins part of her suit! Grunting in agony, the woman comes up with a grin.

"Re-routing attack vector." Deadpans Raging Tempest. Half of the ball had split off from itself, huge ball of wind splitting into a dozen basketball-sized charges of energy that fall from the heavens just as Hannah's now free arms try to pull Fight into a hug!

A very tight, squeezing hug to keep Fight in place for her barrage /and/ Gull's axe-kick!

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Fight moved quickly, however, the combination of magic and physical attacks takes her by surprise. A few of the orbs hit her and then the arm was around her! She drives her knee up and into hannah's side, striking with a solid blow, before her own hands gripped hannah. She'd twist around, holding the girl up and using her to block the axe-kick, or at least attempting to. If Haruna caleld the attack off, she'd then fling the girl up and AT haruna.

Then her eyes would turn to Sakura. The girl eeped, but Fight quickly looked away and turned back towards the other girls, readying her stance. They'd probably have a pretty good idea of just how much Sakura had been suffering up to this point. Tomoyo was recording it all, of course, but was making her way to Sakura's side to support her now that sh seemed to be out of the fight. Mostly.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull is all set to connect when--- the card spirit uses Hannah as a shield? Urk!

She takes a sudden hard arc to the right--- the line of seafoam green behind her seems to curve!----following directly into a tree.

It shakes really hard when Gull impacts it and she falls to her butt for a moment. Ow.

She'll need said moment.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
HURK! Every knee blow has Hannah sputtering and gasping, but she too is pretty stubborn. Her Device flings up Shields like it's going out of style, blunting much of the damage but still making very interesting and unpleasant looking sounds from the young Device User!

And then Fight has the gall to try to use her as a shield. And worse still, causes Gull to crash into a tree!

Miss White's eyes widen, there's a growled curse, and she resorts to a /very/ not-kickboxing-legal move.

Held aloft, she lets go and raises both hands. Legs try to wrap around Fight as she clenches her hands together, and starts hammering away with brutal double-fisted blows to the top of the Card's noggin! There's nothing elegant here. Just merciless, terrible anger.

"NO ONE!" Whack!

"MAKES MY GULL AND MY LITTLE SIS" Whack whack whack!

"SUFFER IN FRONT OF ME AND GETS AWAY WITH IT" Operating on pure adrenaline and vinegar, the last blow is brought down with a spiraling burst of wind radiating away from Hannah, causing a sound not unlike a sonic boom to pop through the air. Some ways away, several cars have their windshields shatter!

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
The crack seemed to echo through the park. The fight card stood there for a few moments. Then, slowly, it began to lean forward and finally collapsed to the ground. Sakura stared. "Is... is that it?"

Kero stared, his mouth falling open at the sheer ferocity the two had demonstrated. He then shook his head. "R-right! Sakura, seal it now, before it can recover!"

She nodded, reaching out with her wand. "Return to your true form! Clow card!" she yelled. The card began to gather and then, after a few moments... a new card formed in the air. It flew up... and then came down, floating behind Haruna and Hannah. Sakura just stared and then... softly.

"You two were amazing!" she shrieked, jumping up. Then cringing and crouching down. "Ow ow ow ow ow..." Sooooo many bruises.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Cure Gull gets up off the ground just in time for Hannah to wreck that thing. "Ugh." she mutters. "Sorry." she says with a frown.

She rubs her butt. Ow.

Cure Gull rolls a save to ask Hannah to kiss it better. She succeeds and she doesn't ask that in front of Sakura. Or anyoe. Ever.

"So...that's it?" she asks softly as she looks around.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
As Fight finally falls still, Hannah lets out a long, pained sigh. She all but rolls over as Sakura goes for her wand, turning it back into card form. Whump! Arms and legs splayed out, she lays there silently, before finally letting out a laugh.

"...That thing's a tenacious, merciless jerk. I like it's style. Gull, Saku, everyone okay? We're both working on fine-tune flight control next training session I think Haruna."

Overall, Hannah looks pleased if a touch exhausted and generally ruffed up. "Yeah, I think that's it. We gotta run some tests on your magic some time soon Sakura. Never heard of anyone using cards as magic." She thinks back to her early teens, and a year spent on magic the gathering. She quickly puts it out of mind.

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto nodded and then slowly walked forward. She paused and looked at the card. "Can... I have it?" she asked softly. What? THEY'D done all the work, it was only right she asked. Sure, they couldn't use it, but it was still their work that earned it.

She rubbed her back. "And yeah... it was a mean one. I thought I was going to die... Oh! I got you two something!" she said happily then reached into her poofy pants and blinked. She then tried pulling them out, but it was nowhere to be seen. "Where are they?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Can she have it back? She purses her lips and thinks. "Actually. Would you be okay, if... I held onto this for a little while, Sakura? To have it checked out? Don't worry. I'll make sure you get it back." she says.

"I mean. You can always. Bring it over later. If it isn't." she says.

She goes ahead and let her transformation poof off in a flash of seafoam green.

She blinks. "What are you looking for?" she asks.

THen a pause. Uh oh.

"They uh. Wouldn't happen to be two bags. With mine and Hannah's names on them. Would they?" she asks, rubbing the back of her head.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Blink. Bliiiiiink. Slowly, Hannah reaches into her ruined jacket, and pulls out the very smushed bags that Sakura and Gull are referring to. So smushed. She sets them on the ground beside her. She makes a cross in the air.

"Rip in paprika thanks to your card friend over there, I'm afraid. Sorry tiny-Saku." She adds, half irreverant, half honestly sorry about the whole matter.

She still thumbs up to Gull though! "Yeah, at least getting the thing scanned is a good idea. Who knows, maybe we can use it to improve your purification technique Haruna or my sealing technique. Not that I use it much." Cursed illusive jewel seeds!

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto nodded. "Huh? OH! Yes, ummm, feel free! Err, though... someone has to sign their name on them!" She holds the card out to gull ."Otherwise, it'll break free. If... you put your name on it, you'll seal it to your magic, so it can't escape and no one else will be able to use it. So if you want to research it, that might be the best way to do it." Though, that would mean sakura couldn't use it. Though, they might be able to work together.

She looked down, kneeling before them and... and nudged one of the bags. And then... she began to actually cry. Little tears formed in ehr eyes. "But... but they were... they were supposed to be a-a special gift f-for you two. I-I wanted to... to surprise you for... for all the help you did and... and h-how much you were s-supporting me and... and...' Oh, sure, get the snot beat out of her? Whimpers and cringes. Her friend's gifts broken? COMPLETE WATERWORKS!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa taps her bottom lip and pulls a feather from her hairclip and does just that. Sign her name on it in a seafoam green manner with the tip of the seagull feather. Then she slips her feather back into her hairclip carefully.

She head tilts a little and then..oh god.

Oh god. No. No don't cry!

Now she's starting to cry!

"H--hey!" she says. "It's the thought that counts....!" she says matter of factly.

"W-what were they?" she asks softly.

"I mean. If they were. Like. a cookie. I bet they still taste good crumbled!" she insists.

She doesn't know what's in them!

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
There's a long, long pause. There is a Gull /and/ a Sakura sniffling and starting to cry. Hannah pauses, gets up, and silently walks over to the two. There's not a single moment of hesitation on her part.

Two warm, strong arms pull in Sakura and Haruna into a rather gentle hug for a mahou of such strength, vinegar, and at times roughness. Nice and warm and close!

"Hey. Better that presents end up smashed than the girl I love the most, and my new little buddy, right? Thank you, Sakura. Now chin up, both of you. How about dinner, huh? On me. For a job well done." She breaks out into a warm smile.

"And then ice cream!"

Sakura Kinomoto has posed:
Sakura Kinomoto sniffled, wiping her eyes. "t-they were c-cookies. D-daddy h-helped me make them b-but I did a-all the big work b-by myself a-and... and..." She sniffled again. "I-I wanted you to.. to have them because you're all always helping me but... but I couldn't even do this and then you got hurt and still had to save me. I don't... I want to be strong! Like you two! I want to be able to help you all like you help me," she mumbled softly, looking off to the side. Buuuuuut...

There was a little wiping of eyes. "I-ice cream?" there it was! Hope! Distraction! Sweets!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa frowns and goes to give Sakura a hug but Hannah-chan is on the case already. Eeeee snuggles~ But still she does frown a moment. "I'm sure...they'll taste just fine." she insists. She can just dump em in' milk and drink em if they're that crummy!

Oh dinner.

and Ice Cream.

"Why not an ice cream dinner?" she asks innocently.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Eyes close, and as eyes are wiped and suggestions are made, Hannah can't help but laugh.

"Now that's what I want to hear, Sakura. Alright. We'll make you strong. We'll make you stronger than you could ever imagine. After all, that's one of the things that WitchHunter Professional Services does. We train, and we outfit magical girls. It'll be...interesting, kiddo." A wolfish grin.

Reeeeach, poke the Haruna-snootle!

"Ice cream dinner it is. Let's go, kids. How about teaching us your cookie recipie, so you, me, and Haruna can make cookies together next time, huh? You know what they say, give a girl a cookie you get a blush, teach them to make cookies..." Pause.

She rubs the back of her head. "I swear I was going somewhere with that. Screw it, I'm battered and tired. Food time." A wink, she grabs the hands of both, and she's all but tugging away the duo of card captor and precure!