"I'll live," Aika managed out as she let herself be pushed back a little bit by the force of the rush.  Squaring herself up, she stood back to back with Joy as the remaining four tong fighters closed in on them from both sides.  "I think these guys are getting better," she told Joy.  Just then, they charged.  Joy's elbow slash caught one square in the face and sent him to the ground to be pixelated along with the rest of his fallen brethren (that is, once they were free to move one), and the maneuver carried her around the attack of the other man.<br/><br/>Aika, on the other hand, was not so fortunate.  She<em>did</em>manage to get her palm strike to connect with the nose of one man, but both of them had struck wild and gotten past her Tennin fighting style; Aika's seven-section health bar, already down one, dropped two more sections in response to the landed attacks.  "Ow!"  The good news was...there seemed to be no more men coming to assist the pair that were left.  If they could bring them down as quickly as they had the others, then Aika would get a chance to recover by using an item or two...  "I've had enough of your sort!"  She declared.  "The Fang Brotherhood is going to get out of this city with its tail between its legs, if it knows what's good for it!"