Fajita breathed heavily as he descended towards the ground. His last attack had taken a lot of effort and he hoped had hit its mark. The rubble that had been produced from the blast turned this once tranquil river into a roaring rapid. A rapid that, life force or not contained his hiding opponent. Fajita just stood at the shore of the roaring white water⦠waitingâ¦
Finally, a dark blur shot out of the water and onto a boulder perched precariously in the middle of the rapids. The dark blur was his opponent Iceman breathing heavily for air after being dragged some ways down river. The front of his body had been slightly burned, and his forehead was bleeding profusely from the debris hitting him after the explosion.
âFool,â gasped Iceman as he stared Fajita in the eye, âYou did not think I would be defeated so easily.â
âNo,â Fajita replied calmly, âI just didnât expect you to have such a weak recovery.â
âWeak?â replied Iceman, now with some confidence, âYou probably burned most of you energy with that last attack.â
Fajita smiled at his opponent and cracked his knuckles, âIceman, if you think that last move has sealed my fate than maybe I overestimated you.â âBut enough of this flexing of chi powers,â said Fajita sounding more serious, âIt is time for me to show you what a Red Style Tokui-Waza master can do.â
Fajita opened his hands and brought them a boxing style position in front of his face. Iceman seemed please that his opponent was going to grant him this handicap and proceeded to get into his own fighting pose on top of the rock. Fajita made the first move by rushing at the rock where his opponent. Hoping to finish him in one overhand slice, Fajita brought his right and down upon the boulder in which Iceman was standing. Iceman in response back flipped onto a neighboring rock where he watched in awe as the boulder that he had just been sitting on sliced into a million separate pieces by Fajitaâs right hand. Fajita pulled his right leg back and flew at the adjacent boulder where Iceman was standing. Iceman offset this by returning the charge and facing Fajita in mid-air over the churning river. Fajita struck out with his leg in hopes of making contact with Icemanâs midsection, but not before Iceman had turned sideways so that he could catch Fajitaâs anticipated attack. Iceman took control of the situation by spinning his opponent in the air by the foot until they were both a blur. When Iceman finally let go Fajita found himself flying at a large granite slab sticking out of the rapids. Fajitaâs whole body made a sickening crackle and split the boulder down the sides with the force of his collision.
He slowly got up and looked at his imprint in the ground, then at his attacker, Iceman, who was smiling at him via the shoreline. Fajita licked the blood off his upper lip and stared threateningly back at the man who had just showed him up in hand to hand combat.
âAfter that little mishap I guess I can kiss my handicap goodbyeâ said Iceman in a light tone?
âBy the time Iâm done with you your going to wish I hadnât,â replied Fajita through bared teeth.
Fajita was outclassed in close range combat from his opponentâs skill in countering and his Taijitsu speed. It was going to be a battle of keeping out of reach and hitting from a range. As his next idea crept into his head Fajita merely sat back down on the rock in which his outline lay and started a slow and steady hum. Iceman sneered at this seemingly pathetic way of prolonging the inevitable and began to rock jump out to his opponent in the middle of the torrents. The humming soon became louder as well as the surrounding rock debris in the water began to sway. Even the boulder Iceman had just jumped out to began to sway as the humming began to grow louder by the second. Iceman panicked and jumped back on to an adjacent rock only to find with horror that the rock he was on and all the surrounding rocks had now begun to slowly lift out of the water. Now panicking, Iceman saw a path of still stable boulders that led to his foe just within jumping distance. Iceman quickly began to jump towards his opponent in hopes of saving himself from this mass levitation. But it was too lateâ¦
As Iceman was halfway to reaching his opponent the stones plummeted towards him. All around Iceman colossal rocks began to pile up on each other and splash into the river sending enormous waves over him. When the water settled Iceman realized that he was now surrounded by a pile of stone slabs, save for the one that he was on and the one that Fajita had been humming from. The humming faded and Fajita stood up to face his baffled opponent. Fajita held out his hand in front of him, which had all five fingers spread out and turned upside. When Iceman saw this he finally why the slabs of granite hadnât hit him a frosty sensation came over him. It had been a trapâ¦
Fajita closed his hand into a fist. Immediately following the boulders surrounding Iceman came together over the ninja like warrior. A thunderous crash filled the canyon as ton after ton of gargantuan granite came over Iceman in a seemingly endless cascade of rock and debris. After the dust had settled and the river had resumed its natural course Fajita for the first time in a long time took a long deep breath of relaxation. He was glowing whiteâ¦