Ami/Miroku: Personality Clash!

[Kwokinator]

Kwok stood up, his hands raised in the air as a gesture of peace... or surrender.

"Look, I don't want any trouble," he looked at the two men. "If you'd let us go off, I'm pretty sure we can find the money and pay you back."

[Carthrat]

The man with the cane's grin widened, showing several missing teeth.

He grabbed at the cane and pulled a long, slender sword from it-

-just as the other man unleashed a mighty fist, which flew hard and true towards Miroku's face!

[Kwokinator]

Kwok silently muttered a curse as his peace offering was ignored.

Stepping out from the attack's path, he grabbed the attacking man's wrist, then pivoted back on his lead foot to try to bring the man down to the floor with an Aikido technique.

[Carthrat]

The thug, obviously a veteran of several barfights before him, managed to compensate for Miroku's defensive maneouver and stay on his feet, retaining most of his balance. He was, however, caught standing right next to Miroku, facing away from him..

The other thug, with the cane, made a move for Ami..

Someone threw a mug at someone else, and the rest of the bar was soon fighting, too...

[Kwokinator]

"HEY!" Kwok screamed as he saw the thug with the cane making a move for Ami. "GET THE HELL AWAY FROM HER!"

He looked at the table between him and the thug, then pushed the table towards him as hard as he could, hoping that the thug would either get slammed away or change targets because he was attacked.

[Carthrat]

As Miroku pushed the table forward, the other thug managed to recover enough to slam him to the side, away from the table, Ami, and the other thug.

No thanks to his illness, Miroku felt less-than brilliant. He noticed the thug coming at him again from the corner of his eye..

[Kwokinator]

Shit... I feel dizzy... it's gonna be hard to fight... waitaminute...

He hopped backwards to put in and keep distance between him and the thug, and looks around nearby him for weapons or tools he could use, while keeping the guard up for quick reaction or retaliation.

[RyderHakubi]

Meanwhile...

Shitshitshitshit!!!

Ryder noticed Miroku backing away from Thug #1, but, unfortunately for Kwok... She had other things to worry about.

"Will you just get away!!!" Ami screamed as she slammed her foot into the knee of Thug #2.

[Carthrat]

The thug didn't reply. Ami's foot managed to connect to his knee, though, and he buckled, slighty.

He swung his cane, wildly, and managed to impact the side of Ami's head, sending her sprawling..

[RyderHakubi]

Ryder, seemingly in slow motion, crashed to the floor under one of the few remaining tables...

The world around her grew dark, and with a blur, she closed her eyes.

"I'm falling again... whee..."

Ryder fell, shooting into the deep darkness of his own mind...  On either side, the images of friends and family from both lives appeared.  But, wait... Something's not right.  As Ryder fell into the darkness, a stream of water brought him back to the light...

"Wha..." she dizzily said as her eyes laid onto the broken pitcher of water that was the cause of her reawakening.  But, the small impact from the glass shards in her ear was nothing to the sight of Kwok cornered by the two thugs.

"Gotta... help... him..." she mutters as she crawls out from under the table.

[Carthrat]

Miroku's thug came forward with a straight punch, thinking to take advantage of his opponents dizzyness.

Ami's thug hadn't moved on Kwok, and was looking down at her body. He raised his cane, and went to hit Ami on the head with it..

[RyderHakubi]

Relying on reflexes alone, Ryder rolled backwards out of the way of the cane strike.  She then used the momentum to weakly stand up...

[Kwokinator]

Kwok managed to recover well enough to react to the attack.

Tilting his head to the right to avoid the punch, he simultaneously lashed out with a left cross at the side of the thug's face, then followed up with a right uppercut to the midsection in a modified one-two combo.

[Carthrat]

Miroku did manage to dodge the first punch, and his first retalitory strike managed to connect.

His second attack never struck... because other tavern brawlers had decided to start throwing things, and a sake jug impacted to the side of the thugs head, sending him stumbling.

Seeing his companion in trouble, the other thug ignored Ami, making for Miroku instead..

[Kwokinator]

Kwok thought for a short second about whether he should go to the stumbling thug first or deal with the other one.

Deciding to try and take down the first thug so he wouldn't get double-teamed when the thug recovers, he darted towards the stumbling thug, then dropped and slid along the ground towards the thug's legs just before he got within attack range in order to attempt a leg scissors.