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Sector 8 Cityscape and Slums

Residential Facilities. Barzini's power can be felt here.

This is the same as any other of the residential facilities.

Middle class, indifferent people. The slums are as tough as any other badland slums. The only difference is that this is prime territory for anyone...ShinRa, gangs or otherwise.

It was interesting how they came, like big ugly gorillas. She was ready for just how anything, except for a hole opening up and a man trying to take her down with him. "What the..?" He had hooked her leg, and she fell backwards, she turned to claw at the ground and kicked at the man's face, but it seemed useless. She fell within the hole, unknowing where it was she now was.

If this were any normal day...

She pulled her fangbar out of her boot and coterd the swing of the knife. The stench was horrid, and she hadn't really noticed. Especially after walking through the slums for half an hour or so. Perhaps longer? It didn't really bother her anymore.

She kicked at the man's chest, hopeing to get him away from her.

Kyris had incapacitated her opponent but there was still fighting going on, she had to help. It seemed she had three options: Help Jikko and another MP with their drunk, help a third MP fight a second drunk by the edge of the hole that had opened up during Kyris' fight, or jump into said hole and aid who she had assumed to be their commanding officer best two drunks, one of which was currently fighting her, the other seemingly winded but not yet on his feet (there was a third but he appeared unconcious).

Considering the unappealing nature of the first possibility, and the stronger need of aid in the last, she decided to jump into the hole and take on the winded drunk before he had a chance to cause further problems for the CO. She made a controled slide down the sides into the pit, and landed next to the winded drunk. Her arm stung from the previous wound but she ignored it. She lashed out straight away with her nightstick, swinging it from left to right in the hopes of catching him in the side of the head.

Ryo had been less than thrilled when the enemy had caught his CO's leg, and could have cried when another MP jumped in after her. "Do you even know what you're doing?" Ryo shouted as the MP attacked the drunkards inside.

Taking a moment to focus, Ryo summoned up his Earth Materia a second time. As the drunkards lashed out at his CO, a large platform of rock shot out from the ground, lifting Locke and the other MP while putting a large surface of rock in the thug's face. As Locke was brought to ground level with no way for the thugs to follow, Ryo turned to the other MP, breathing heavily. "Rule one in a drunken brawl; do NOT leap in a pit of criminals..." Ryo leaned on one knee, huffing.

Aaiem

Aaiem was jolted back as he made contact with the heavier man, and stepped back enough to allow the man to make a full swing. He dropped the nightstick to free up his second hand, letting it rest on his foot, and as the man twisted, he twisted in much the same way, sliding his foot forward as he moved his body just out of reach of the punch. Then he locked a hand around the man's wrist, and took the palm of his other hand up into the armpit, pulling the man along in the same direction the punch was already proceeding and right into the path of his foot. Hopefully, this time the man would go down.

Drunkards

As the drunk felt shattered glass fall along his arm in an eerie parallel to what had just happened to Aaiem, he let off a short string of words entirely unsuitable for normal conversation. Immediately identifying Sora as his new opponent as he backed away, the man managed to half-block the kick with his arm and staggered back, wounded but functioning. He tossed what remained of his weapon - a very sharp circle of points that had once been the top of the bottle - at Sora and followed it up with a low swing into an area altogether unpleasant to get hit in and usually considered in poor taste to swing for.
Through some sort of divinely poor luck, for the drunk at least, the Bolt spell contacted the weapon just moments before the chain would have complete its arc, rushing through the metal and into the drunk's body. His muscles immediately locked up from the first shock, going into a sort of spasm as the electricity coursed through and he hit the ground. Already, though, the shock was starting to wear off - the chain had just served as a sort of lightning rod, and unfortunately it had grounded the charge directly into him. For the moment, at least, he was down and out.
As one drunk took the hit, he rolled back and into a pile of rubble. Unfortunately, well-meaning Ryo had apparently not noticed that the drunk with the knife was already practically on top of the CO when he started the spell, meaning Ryo ended up bringing up three people. Luckily, he was caught off-balance by the sudden shifting of ground, and rolled a bit, nearly falling off before he could regain his balance and instantly shifting priorites - now he was approaching Kyris with the knife, and he looked rather annoyed by all this up-and-down movement.

Kyris' blow landed, sending the drunk flying. She turned to the knife weilding drunk besetting her CO, having, at least for the moment, incappacitated the only other threat. However, it seemed that some idiot was becoming overzealous with his Earth materia, causing her the three to rise up out of the hole. Someone please shoot that moron!, she thought as she rapidly regained her balance.

The result of all this was that the knifey was now taking a swing at her. She barely had time to move. She received another cut on the arm where she had received one earlier, making a slightly thin X. She didn't feel the pain though, it was muffled by the continuous sting of the other. She took no time in reacting, however. Kyris let the condensed knowledge in the materia flow into her, using it. No sooner had the drunk finished the cut, but a huge, jagged spike of rock shot up between his legs.

Kyris felt immediately drained, but brought her nightstick up, incase of any other foes, and seeing that there were not any yet, cried out, "THAT's how you are SUPPOSED to do it!"