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Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 5:18 am
 Wikipedia Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA. The section of Fifth Avenue between 34th Street and 59th Street is one of the premier shopping streets in the world. Fifth Avenue serves as a symbol of wealthy New York and is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive streets in the world. The "most expensive street in the world" moniker changes depending on currency fluctuations and local economic conditions from year to year. For several years starting in the mid-1990s, the shopping district between 49th and 57th Streets was ranked as having the world's most expensive retail spaces on a cost per square foot basis. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked Fifth Avenue as being the most expensive street in the world. Fifth Avenue originates at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village and runs northwards through the heart of Midtown, along the eastern side of Central Park, where it forms the boundary of the Upper East Side and through Harlem, where it terminates at the Harlem River at 142nd Street. Traffic crosses the river on the Madison Avenue Bridge. Fifth Avenue serves as the dividing line for house numbering in Manhattan. It separates, for example, East Fifty-ninth Street from West Fifty-ninth Street. From this zero point for street addresses, numbers increase in both directions as one moves away from Fifth Avenue, with 1 West Fifty-ninth Street on the corner at Fifth Avenue, and 300 West Fifty-ninth Street located three blocks to the west of it.
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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 6:40 pm
Yasumori came walking down Fifth avenue. His family had just moved to America from Bordeaux and he had just finished unpacking the last of his things. Even though this was his first time living in America, he had been here many times due to him traveling for MMA tournaments around the world. He had never gone to new york though so this was a nice experience for him. Due to the fact that he had allot of things, Yasu had finally finished unpacking at midnight and his parents were asleep. Instead of waiting until the morning to go look around, he decided it would be better to look around now because there wouldn't be many people out and therefore, he wouldn't have to worry about brushing past hundreds of people just to get to a landmark down the street. Yasumori left his house without telling anyone, making sure to grab his key and lock/close the door behind him and now here he is, a 16 year old boy walking down the streets of NYC alone at midnight. As he walked down the street, he looked to see a group of people walking towards him. They looked like the dangerous type so he turned around. "Maybe waiting for the morning isn't such a bad idea" He said as he then looked to see another crowd come up behind him. He then slightly growled as he turned up an alley only to find a dead end. After turning around he saw both the groups begin to fill into the alley way, each one laughing and planning to do terrible things to him. " Jeeze, how cliche' is this?" Yasu said to himself as he watched one man come up to him with a crowbar. The man was probably going to tell him to just give him all his money and his goons wouldn't hurt Yasu. Yasu new that was bull so before the man could even speak, Yasu hit him in the face and caused him to drop to the ground. Yasu then backed up, with his fists raised and watched the people. The first person then ran at him, yelling, as he swung a large, rusty chain. Yasu didn't have to dodge because the alley was too narrow for the chain to hit him due to the odd way the man swung it so Yasu just stepped forward and delivered a firm jab to the man's nose, breaking it like glass and causing him to fall. Before the man could hit the ground, another man was already swinging a broken glass bottle at Yasu. Yasu dipped to the left, avoiding the man's stab to his right and then ducked, avoiding the high, horizontal swipe of the man before coming up with a strong uppercut, delivering it right to the man's chin and sending his head jerking backwards and causing him to fall to the ground. Another man then came up to him swinging wildly, he was easy work for Yasu as the man sent a large left hook. Yasu saw this and did a downwards, half circle motion with his upper body to his right, causing him to duck the punch and bring his upper body up to the unguarded side of the man as he swung, and all in one motion, Yasu delivered a right hook to the man's open face and caused him to collapse onto Yasu's shoulder as he had no time to leave his forward motion before being knocked out. Another man then swung a crowbar at Yasu but he stepped back and pushed the knocked out man in the way, causing the crowbar to smash into the unconscious man's head. Before the man could bring his crowbar back up from his large swing, Yasu jumped up and superman punched the man and broke his nose while also pushing him back on a lady with a knife, causing the knife to stab into the back of the large man while he sat on top of the rather fragile looking lady without her being able to get up from under him. Another lady then jumped and wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist while she began to punch him on the top of his head. He swung and punched her in the ribs once before pushing her off him and watching her hit the floor. After he took care of her, he looked to see one final man, waiting at the entrance to the alley. He was big, standing around 6'4" and was about 250 lbs just from guessing but that wasn't going to stop Yasu from beating his face in. Yasu ran towards the man, stumbling twice due to the bodies laying all over the ground. Went he got close enough to the man, he jumped up and superman punched him. The man received the punch straight to the mouth but didn't even flinch as he grabbed Yasu, before he could hit the ground, and swung him into a wall and let him slide down onto the ground while still holding his arm. Yasu coughed a bit before throwing his arm up to block a massive punch from the man which crashed into his arm and sent him back onto the wall again while still holding Yasu's arm. Yasu then frowned as he quickly twisted his wrist a certain way to slip from the man's grasp and then he rolled backwards to widen the distance between the two Yasu then quickly jumped to his feet and kept his hands up. He looked to the side for only a second before quickly reaching out to crab a crowbar and throwing it at the man. Due to his horrible aim, the crowbar flew to the man's side and scrapped against the wall but upon it hitting the wall, the man looked at it because it had slightly sparked and Yasu used that opening to quickly close the cap before cocking all the way back with each hand and repeatedly hitting the man in his chest and stomach with ferocious blows that made loud 'boom' noises due to the strength behind them. Yasu then laughed as he dropped his hands and looked up to see an unconscious behemoth's face but instead he saw two eyes looking down on him as the man grabbed his shoulders and sent a knew booming into his torso. Yasu had brought his arms up to form an 'X' over his body in time but the knee had so much power that it almost broke both his arms and sent his arms into his body, causing Yasu damage along with sending him flying onto his back. Yasu looked up in amazement that this man could just take all of his punches without dropping dead, especially because he could feel each land and could of sworn he heard and felt bones cracking up his fists. As he looked up, he saw a few yellow tinkles under the man's thick jacket and then Yasu knew what was happening. "So you are a flame wielder..I see..so America has those too?" Yasu's blows were hurting but it was just that the man healed them with his flame so that he could keep going but if he had to heal just from Yasu's fist, then Yasu knew that one blow from his box weapon would end him. " consider yourself lucky, your going to be the first living thing that I use this on" Yasu said as he pulled his box weapon out and opened it with his flames, revealing two large gloves. He put them on and the blades began to glow green from his flames being channeled into them. The light began to fill the alley, illuminating the bodies and the man. He then ran over to the man and punch at him, the man raised his hand and just managed to slap the glove to the side, only receiving a feint cut to his cheek. It was then that Yasumori only laughed because he continued to underestimate this man as the man sent a powerful punch to Yasu's face, Yasu blocked it with his glove then quickly knocked the man's hand to the side before swinging down with his other glove and cleaving one of the man's hands off. The man then finally made a noise from pain and while his flames were focused on his hand, Yasu sent a devastating elbow to the man's stomach, causing him to bend over as he lost his breathe. Yasu then spun around and smacked the man's head upwards with the actually gloved part of the gauntlets, sending his head jerking up like the other man's and leaving his large body incredibly exposed. Yasu then smirked as he began to send rapid punches into the man's torso. Not only were his punches more devastating but the large blades on the gloves were ripping in and out of the man with each punch. The man then fell as Yasu began to laugh at the fact that with only a loud howl from Yasu and a new weapon, he punched several holes into the man and chopped one of his hands off while just moments before he seemed invincible. Yasu merely scoffed as he wiped off the large blades before putting his box weapon away and briskly walking back home because someone was bound to come across this mess soon and he didn't want to be the only one standing in an alley full of dead bodies. (The Green text is the fighting/training) Word Fighting/Training Count: 1,238 Yasumori
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