Baiken - Spits sake

The next moment, he was gone. Shēng dashed towards Baiken with blistering speed, kicking up a wall of water from the shallow riverbed in his wake. Amidst the falling droplets he swung vertically, attempting to cleave Baiken in two. She'd seen it coming, though, and sidestepped the blow, putting away her sake on her belt loop as she moved. Shēng kept on the offensive, twisting his upper body into a spinning slash that Baiken blocked by drawing her blade. Shēng darted past her in another flash of movement and swung at her back with both blades, but Baiken ducked so that the scissor attack grazed the top of her pink ponytail. But Shēng had anticipated this and leapt up, stabbing downward with both blades towards Baiken's back. She pushed off the ground with her hand and rolled to the side, barely avoiding the strike. On the back foot, Baiken couldn't keep up the dodging, and Shēng smelled blood. He hit the ground and pounced, both blades pulled back across his chest for a final, killing blow.

Which was when Baiken spat her mouthful of sake straight in his face.

Shēng's swing missed short, and Baiken immediately launched her torso-sized flail from her sleeve, slamming into Shēng's stomach with the force of a cannonball. "Kuh-!!" Shēng skidded across the riverbed like a skipping stone, finally recovering in a three point stance twenty yards away. When he looked up, Baiken had taken another swig of sake, idly using one foot to scratch the other.

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FreestyleKneepad, Round 3