Season 51, Week 2
Katt
(Breath of Fire II)
 
Catfight! Literally. And, as always, the actual feline is going to come out ahead. A Cat-girl wielding a big stick who relies on her good speed, faces off against an tankish Esper who has a wide array of magic tricks! So basically, they're polar opposites. Katt's strategy is the same as usual: hit hard, hit fast, keep hitting until the opponent falls down...and then hit them some more while they're down to make sure they're dead. If not dead, keep on hitting; if dead, hit a few more times just for fun. Potential killings of perverted monkey ninjas outside of the arena may be included, but not necessary. All that is clear is that Katt is going to be hitting Kyra a lot in this fight, irregardless of what her opponent does, but really, does she need to do anything else?

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She may have suffered an undeserved indignity - and can a return to Middle be anything other than undeserved? - but the kind Dezolian Esper Kyra is sure to make the best of this setback! After all, she was a Middle champion and a Heavy semifinalist before! Handling a Middle season should be no problem at all! And, to drive the point home, Kyra gets a match that highlights her strengths nicely: the Woren fighter Katt may be a fast little bugger who hits fairly hard...but she's entirely reliant on her physical prowess, which plays right into to Kyra's defensive game with Warla and Telele. After one of these is up, the Esper can leisurely alternate healing and offensive techniques to fell Katt, which won't take long. It's time to go the whole mile again!


Ayra
Nina was very worried about her friend Katt. She knew that her chances against the Esper was close to non-existent, and Katt was too stubborn to accept any real help to overcome this. Rand telling her that effort and hard work was all that is necessary to get through any situations didn't help Nina's case at all.

Nina was a straight-foward and gentle woman, but she couldn't bear to see her friend get horribly beaten, and so the Windian set out to do some research and planning...

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With the promise to open and maintain an orphanage in Windia, Nina managed to get very useful information from Terra about Espers. And since Kyra was a Dezolian, the ice planet, it would follow that she was an Ice Esper. And logic dictates that an ice esper would melt in a few casts of fire spells, During Katt heavy sleep, Nina infused into her some magical power using magicite: Katt already knew some massive spells somehow, but she simply lacked the magical energy to use them. And so the day of the fight came, with Nina advising her friend to "use the fire within you to beat your opponent"...

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As expected, as soon as the fight started, Katt joyfully bashed at Kyra in the face a few times, until Kyra could recover enough to cast her defensive spells. Frustration rising at her now innefective attacks, Katt let out a long scream, bringing forth roaring flame dragons, torching the arena. A still standing but shaken Esper stayed in the middle of the arena as the flames abated, and yelled: "Cheater! You can't do that!"

From the stands, Nina yelled back: "You are the cheater! You are an ice esper! You are supposed to be dead by now!"
"Wrong kind of esper" whispered Terra that was sitting next to her "Her kind and mine have nothing in common except for the name!"
"Oh..." mumbled Nina before shouting at Katt: "Keep burning her, it'll work anyway!"

Kyra looked around desperately: The judges were arguing with each other about if Katt's spells were legal due to the whole "Tellah legality clause", and Katt's next spell was already on the way.

Out of desesperation, she threw a slicer at Katt, who easily batted it away in the distance. "So that's the end..." muttered Kyra, resigned to her fate.

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It turns out the battle concluded with everyone satisfied and joyous.

Kyra was happy that she had won the match: Slicers acts as boomerangs, and when hit with as much power as Katt did, it turns out that they come back amazingly fast...

The judges were happy that they actually could stay lazy and not have to actually decide anything.

Terra was happy to have a new orphanage built.

Nina was happy that her friend had a sudden, painless death in the arena.

Katt was happy to have finally learned magic and having a new fun boomerang 'toy' to play with.

And the carpenters in Township were happy that their profits grew tenfold after Katt burned said town a few times by mistake.

Katt: 10
Kyra Tierny: 35