Season 44, Week 2
Rinoa Heartilly
(Final Fantasy VIII)
 
Rinoa has returned to the arena, and put her eyes on...a gambling pirate. This one doesn't look be a proper knight - he certainly failed Zelbess. He even tried to stop a glorious island concert from happening, the fiend! Well. A correction is in order here. Luckily, all the cards are in Rinoa's hand; Fargo's wasted one of his techs on Pillage, and "Invincible?" It doesn't even make him invincible! Unlike, say, a certain Timber Owl's Invincible Moon, which actually works as advertised. While Fargo is busy trying to puzzle out how to get around Rinoa's deadly limits, surprise Angelo Recovers, and her shockingly decent HP, the power of the Shooting Star will simply be killing him. Chalk another one up for the Sorceress!

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Pirates. Known for kidnapping helpless women and spreading terror throughout the high seas. Men, capable and strong, able to outthink and outfight anyone they can't make run in terror. In short, they're highly competent - everything Rinoa isn't. Miss Heartllly's reputation for being utterly helpless and completely useless on all levels is well-deserved. Who else would let themselves get kidnapped by Seifer? How will the sourge of the Dead Sea take out Rinoa? Out and outkidnapping? Scaring her? Beating her down with his excellent swordsmanship, all while smashing past her completely unreliable limits? Aaahh, choices. Just as long as the wench shuts up and someone fetches Fargo a drink.


Gatewalker
Nobody was surprised when Fargo, dashing pirate that he was, came swinging into the arena on a rope while brandishing his sword like a true swashbuckler. He was a bit of a showman, and had every right to be proud of his skills and ability to entertain an audience, after all.

What people were surprised about was Rinoa jumping down from the cieling dressed head to toe in black, and throwing...frozen shamrocks? Yeah, throwing frozen shamrocks at the pirate captain.

Fargo, a bit too experienced to actually be caught off guard despite the insanity of the attack, quickly called in some cannon fire from his ship and used the explosions to sneak around behind the would be ninja and rap her rather sharply on the head with the pommel of his sword.

As Rinoa fell into a heap, Fargo turned his attention to a very embarrased looking Squall, who was walking out with one hand planted on his forehead, "Can I ask you one thing, boy?"

"Why?"

"Yes. Why?"

Squall sighed, "Well she thought she'd do some research on the internet on how to beat pirates and..."

Fargo held up one hand, "Stop right there. I don't want to know anymore. Get this girl some help."

Nodding, Squall scooped up his girlfreind and turned to go, "Uh, thanks for not embarrasing her any more then she did to herself at least. I owe you a drink for making this whole thing quick."

Making his own way out, Fargo was still a little dumbstruck, "I think that's the first time a man's ever thanked me for cracking his miss upside the head...though I'd almost be willing to bet it's not the first time he's thanked a man for doing that..."

Rinoa Heartilly: 25
Fargo: 39

ThePiggyman
Totally unrelated, but Fargo has a really nice 'stache.