UCA Championship - Fainis vs. Tel Megiddo

[Inferno Rodan]

UCA Champion Fainis

vs.

#1 Contender Tel Megiddo

Ref: Me

Post intros.

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The hot, murky bog that would serve as host for the latest UCA Championship battle was parted by a bright curtain of light and a dark, horizontal shape was delivered into the muddy waters like a shadow cast by the guardian of the underworld itself. As the golden veil dissipated, three fanged head lit by pale glowing eyes stared across the swamp, a frown forming across the central, canine head. Fainis growled sourly and gave her paw a halfhearted shake, flicking water droplets off her pads. The demon's angular eyes grew narrow as her grimace grew broader. She hated water...

Crystalline teeth seized by a demonic luminescence, the Mother of All Murderers let loose a triple prong of demon flame that scorched the swamp's surface. A churning mass of steam rose up like smoke everyplace the hellfire touched. Spinning in circles, the chimeric hound carved a personal slice of high ground for herself by evaporating the water around her and drying the mud beneath her feet with her hellish breath. After almost a dozen spins, the wolf stood upon a fifteen-meter island of ash and char, water boiling around her in a circular moat like the lakes of hell. Delicately, almost daintily, the vicious bitch dipped her paws in the bubbling, boiling swamp, cleaning them of the earthy filth that coated them.

Her pelt was meant to be splattered by blood, not the mud and grim of squelching wetlands like this.

[GI Jho]

Soon, another shape could be seen appearing on the other end of the hideous and most unpleasant bog. A slash of light parted through the murky, dense fog that pervaded every inch of the swampy terrain, as a metal clad shape could be seen splashing down into the water, causing the water to splash upwards in the process. A low groan emanated form the figure as he glanced about, his face obscured by a thick, metal mask.

It had been a while since he had seen this region; since that coward he fought made of liquid metal fled and had to forfeit, if he recalled correctly. The being grumbled as his gaze soon fell upon the form of the massive wolf that he was tasked to defeat. A low chuckle exited his maw as he hoisted his massive blade and placed it upon his shoulder. It was time to accomplish the task his master had tasked him with- usurp the throne of Fenris, the UCA champion!

[Inferno Rodan]

FIGHT!

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The Bitch Queen of the UCA did not attack immediately. Though instant offense was historically her first move, all the way back to her first bout, the very match that had awarded her the title of Champion that she defended today, the Empress of Chaos was in too sour a mood to take off running. Wet fur dulled her fighting spirit immensely. Instead, Fainis merely turned her potent yellow gaze upon Tel with a curl of her lips and a low, curious rumble. The chimeric canine bared her teeth like an annoyed lion watching his pride from atop a mineral throne. What poor creature had been offered up to her this time? A smile quickly vanquished the sneer that animated the wolf's muzzle. She recognized this one. He was cruel and relentless, immune to the agony of others as well as his own. An accomplished tormentor of both body and mind. A true sadist, through and through. The removed queen of the Outer World showed all her teeth in a broad grin and cackled. This would be a grand clash, she could tell already. The taunt body of the demon loosened. After the arrival of Dar and all of his tricky, treacherous words, she could truly use some fun.

With an echoing screech that belonged more to a devil bat than a dog, Fainis challenged Tel to try and outdo her in raw savagery!

Hellish flames rushed from the hound's laughing jaws and collided with Tel's chest. The stout psychokinetic fiend was shoved back by an explosion of flames and slag that blossomed from his breast like the genesis of a new world and, although the chestpiece was not breached, the domelike patchwork of metal was heated to a glowing orange extreme and pressed against his bare hide. Smoke and fire curled from the collar of the encased creature as his skin burned and smouldered, clouding his face with particulate debris- a second mask to hide his ruined visage. The armored titan was launched backwards by the blast, his feet pulling free of the mud with twin pops!, but he was swiftly reunited with the ground as he stabbed his massive cleaver into the water and wet soil and held tight to the hilt, pulling himself down in a showing of impressive tenacity and strength. A fading trail of muddied water stretched almost four hundred meters from the submerged feet of the other monster as he finally slid to a halt. Grinning like a maniac, Fainis launched herself from her island of ash- only a single distressed shiver of spiked fur running down her body as she landed in the bog with a splash- and thundered towards Tel with another ringing shriek. Dislodging his sword from the mud, the psychic torturer countered the headlong charge with a lightning fast thrust that belied both the size of his blade and the speed of his limbs. Fainis was caught off guard as the massive, ragged weapon sliced into her shoulder, only missing her central head and left draconic skull by feet. The hound yawned her jaws in pain as blood stained her black skin and maroon coat, but she was no stranger to suffering. No, she was it close and personal friend! And she would not be stopped so easily!

Ducking down and then kicking forward like a pouncing big cat, Fainis removed herself from Tel's massive sword and lunged at his armored body, her hard obsidian teeth crunching down on his upper arm like a fanged vice. The rusted armor creaked and groaned as Fainis bit down, trying to tear into his flesh like mad dog, but she could not penetrate her foe's metal plating. The armor was tougher than its worn, degraded appearance suggested, although it was far impervious. As Fainis clamped down, her black fangs sparking against the armor like flint, the metal began folding in on itself and sheared into Tel's bicep like scissors. Blood oozed from the jagged tears that formed around the hound's crushing teeth as if it were living metal skin she bit into instead of armor. As the monstrous hound ground her teeth into the wrinkling metal plating, her sparking teeth seem to catch fire, each crystalline spike taken by a transparent red glow that allowed one to see straight through them.

With a thunder crack of smoke and hellfire, the wolf loosed a raging plume of demon flames and Tel was sent tumbling back, the area between his left shoulder and elbow compete stripped of armor!

The masked monster landed in a large pool of water, splashing down with a pale burst of steam. The creature's covered chest, still molten hot and cratered, was rapidly cooled and made brittle. Gnashing her teeth together and laughing madly, Fainis tread across the swamp in several long strides before making an enormous lunge. The demonic wolf aimed to slam her running mass into Tel's chest and shatter the weakened armor there...

[GI Jho]

Tel's hideous, warped form stood dormant for a few moments, his form steaming as he rose up from the marshy water, empty eyes locked onto Fainis. The hellhound barreled towards him like a war god, her eyes filled with a sadistic hunger and relentless bloodthirst. A grim smirk spread across Tel's malformed jaws, obscured beneath his monstrous mask. This would be a battle to remember. As Fainis approached, fully prepared to slam into him, Tel sprang into action. Thrusting a hand forward, the telekinetic psychopath unleashed a ferocious psychic force. Fainis felt unspeakable pain as her entire body crumpled unnaturally before the force that matched her own. Her forehead split and ripped, exposing bone as her skull cracked slightly. Her entire head was forced into her neck from the incredible power, as her shoulders contorted forward, ripping muscles and tearing flesh in the process. Her spine painfully bent into a zig-zagged coil shape, as her hind-quarters forced her body even tighter together, tearing several small gashes gashes along her powerful torso's sides!

Fainis crumpled into the marshy water from the brutal force, the hellhound stunned by the unimaginable power of the strike. But Fainis was not one to be kept down for long, even as her own power was used against her. Tel shuffled towards Fainis' seemingly prone form, readying his massive blade to cleave down upon her. However, he was suddenly caught off-guard when the form of the hellhound shot upwards, delivering a powerful forearm strike into his weakened chest armor, shattering a good portion of it upon impact and managing to pierce some of its shards into his scarred flesh below. Tel stumbled backwards, sticky blood streaming down from the new wounds forged into his already scarred hide, before he unleashed a vicious counterblow and blasted Fainis' exposed chest with a powerful telekinetic blast, shredding her flesh like tissue paper and cratering it inwards. Fainis unleashed a surprised squeal as she want sent flying several hundred meters backwards, skidding across water and through mud, before crashing through a couple marshland trees and coming to a halt.

Tel laughed maliciously as he marched towards Fainis, who was already back on her feet despite the massive wound ripped into her chest from the blow. Fainis rushed towards Tel once more, unleashing a pillar of hellish flame from her three frontal maws as she did so. Tel snarled and raised a wall of water, causing it to evaporate into steam, before he lifted a tidal wave of mud up from beside Fainis and slammed it into her, burying her alive in a tomb of mud! Before Fainis could escape, Tel lifted the muddy prison up from the water, and squeezed it tightly, causing it to violently compress her body, some mud managing to get into her open wounds and even her mouth and nostrils! Tel chuckled menacingly, before he lifted up several of the ruined trees with his telekinesis and forged them into sharp spears, and flung them at the orb of mud, hoping to impale Fainis before she could escape...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The sharpened javelins of wood and timber plunged into the caked orb of mud from every conceivable angle, shattering it in a particulate starburst of soil and dust, but, as it disintegrated, the psychic fiend's concern was realized: Fainis had escaped. There was no trace that the wolf had ever been entombed in the sphere of compact earth except for a few smears of dark blood and a sticky strand of saliva. Yellow eyes opened under the murky water that clung around Tel's feet. Assisted by the very shadows of her earthy prison and now by the dark outline of her foe cast down on the swamp, Fainis, the billion year queen of the Outer World and Champion of the UCA, launched herself up like a satanic shark! Rearing more than a hundred meter in the air, the snarling, laughing hound twisted her wiry body around the armored form of Tel and raked a gnarled set of crystalline, rocklike claws across his chest. The curved talons, wreathed by shadows and the icy cold of the afterlife, slashed across weakened, already brittle armor and bare flesh. As if it were their very purpose, the wicked onyx nails sliced through Tel like swords, parting flesh with tall gushes of vaporous blood and peeling back armor like metal skin. Thrown to his knees by the weight of the larger beast, Tel groaned, the sound somewhere between annoyance and amusement. The left side of his torso was slashed wide open, three furrows of frozen blood stretching from the middle of his chest to his armpit. The armor, skin, and even muscle between these two spots was split cleanly. Steam curled from the wicked creature's pectoral like the breath of a devil as molten blood built up behind the icy gashes, turning frigid solid to boiling liquid and clouded white to scarlet red.

Cackling and shrieking at the same time, Fainis threw her lithe mass down and clasped her jaws around the helmeted skull of Tel Megiddo, her chiseled canines pressing down just over his brows. Mouth curling into a hideous, twisted grin, the Mother of All Murderers bit down hard, her black fangs glowing with red hell light. Fire and smoke swirled from the wolf's jaws as she crushed in the tortured fiend's head, the demon flames dancing along her teeth heating his ragged helmet and the force behind them pressing it in like folding paper. With a muffled laugh, the chimeric Outer Worlder turned Tel's helmet into a red hot iron trap! Breathing ash and blood as his skull was squeezed by the infernal jaws of his opponent, Tel lifted his jagged gauntlets and stabbed upwards, catching Fainis's throat with all six of his razor claws. The demon released his boiling skull with a gurgling gasp and stumbled back. Her great head shook, shaking blood from her pierced jugular like the crimson frill of some hellish reptile. The image of this abominable lizard became complete when the vicious bitch opened her jaws and fire an ionized slice of her homeworld's atmosphere. Like before, Tel raised a wall of water to intercept the flames, but, as steam burst out from the point of impact and was quickly followed by the appearance of a glaring shadow of swelling size, he realized that he had only played in Fainis's paw.

Head emerging from the wall of water and steam like the prow of the Flying Dutchman, Fainis slammed into Tel with a monstrous screech, dunking him into the deathly swamp!

As a rush of water battered his heated armor from one side and a massive kinetic force speared his body from the water, Tel felt his patchwork plating begin to crumble away. The tormented beast's scalp, chest, and left bicep were suddenly open and vulnerable to the world, feeling the sting of the dirty water as well as the jagged fur of Fainis as she stood atop him, pinning him against the soft, muddy earth beneath the churning murk of the bog. The massive she-wolf cackled as blood and sediment bubbled around her feet. Twin tails hovering over her head, the merciless Hound of Destruction lunged down with three poisonous points, aiming from the empty sockets of Tel's mask and the eyes stared out from within them...

[GI Jho]

The merciless hellhound thrust her venomous tail spikes towards the eye holes of Tel's vicious mask. The psychotic creature stayed completely calm, however, even as his face was submerged under the murky waters and the deadly weapons shriek through the air towards him. A sudden force struck the tails like a sledgehammer, causing the scorpion tail's side the explode in gore and smash into her serpent's tail, breaching its hide and drawing blood in the process, the scorption tail's razor shell tearing large bloody holes into the serpent head's hide. Fainis hissed in pain, more annoyed than ached, and countered by lunging down to deliver a vicious bite into Tel's neck! Sharp fangs dug into the armored neck of the cybernetic psychopath, crushing the armor plates and causing sticky blood to fill the waters that surrounded them. Wheezing could be heard emerging from beneath Tel's mask, as water breached into his breathing apparatus.

Suddenly, Tel's eyes flashed briefly, as the psychopath placed a single hand to Fainis' damaged chest. A powerful roar filled the air as the telekinetic cyborg delivered a brutal, point-blank telekinetic blast straight into Fainis' chest! The bitch queen had barely any time to register what was going on before a crushing blow struck her chest with the force of a 1,000 nuclear blasts! Her belly near-imploded from the force of the impact, her already damaged chest, rippling and tearing, shredding her hardened flesh like tissue paper and ripping hardened muscles like mere plastic. What remained of the muscles in her chest caved inwards like a piece of cardboard, the bones in her chest threatening to give way to unfathomable blow! The flesh that ran along her belly stretched and ripped, like a strained bag, exposing her abdominal muscles below! Fainis was launched into the air fast enough to create a sonic boom from the blow, causing the marshy water to briefly part and sending several trees onto their sides. This gave Tel the time he needed to rise to his feet, covered in muck and swamp water, as he watched Fainis' form rapidly descend from the powerful strike.

Tel smirked most vilely as he thrust his two hands outwards, claws gauntlets flexing visibly. Once Fainis was within range, she was suddenly crushed from all sides, like a piece of scrap metal in a trash compactor. Her entire body was compressed into a fleshy ball, gurther tearing the damaged muscles in her abdominal region, and damaging the bloody gashes torn into her body from the impact with the invisible wall, exposing some of her side muscles. Her forelimbs were violently contorted, crushed into her bleeding and crushed chest, as her head and nearly forced into her rectum. Her back legs were violently compressed against her neck, crushing and cracking sounds audible to the fearsome wolf. Tel snarled before unleashing a nightmarish laugh. There was no way Fainis could escape him now! suddenly, Tel flung his sword upwards, before it stopped in mid-air and shifted itself to face towards Fainis. Eyes shifting to control it, Tel then flung the blade like a dart towards the helpless form of Fainis, hoping to skewer her with it...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

As the jagged blade soared skywards like the steel bolt of a demonic archer, the horned dragon's heads that sat mounted upon the wolf queen's shoulders like beheaded gargoyles- each now pointed firmly towards the ground with their master's body unwilling contorted into a sphere- narrowed their blank, dead eyes and cracked open their long, bumpy jaws in order to belch out sweltering heat that soon blossomed into full fledged hell flames. Twin plumes of demon fire scorched the air, washing over Fainis and spinning her mass around its compressed center. With a snarl, the central canine head of the chimera lurched forward and gnashed its black, chiseled teeth across the cold steel of Tel's sword. A molten mix of blood and sparks rained down as Fainis managed to stop the blade, though not before it sliced into her cheeks and widened her already terrible smile. Crimson rivers leaking from the corners of her enlarged grin, which now stretched to the base of her ears, Fainis stared down at Tel with intense intrigue, a sort of furious amusement that bordered on obsession. This one... he was so... much... fun!

With her gnarled reptile maws still vomiting flames, Fainis continued to spun, whirling around the center of her compacted mass with increasing speed and weight. The force of the wild wheel of flesh and fur was soon so great that the Mother of All Murderers began to slide down through the air, her spinning form bearing down on Tel and his psionic hold like a lead weight. The demented field tried to cease the descent of the mad wolf by increasing his psychic grip on her and pressing her further into herself, but, with her girth hugging even closer to her fulcrum, the hound only spun faster. Her momentum now unstoppable, the Empress of Chaos hurtled down like a living throwing disk, her jagged pelt whistling as it sliced through the sky. Tel braced both body and mind, expecting his foe to fall upon him directly with her jaws and talons slashing, but, instead, she speared the water at his feet, parting it with her spinning body and sinking easily into the damp shadow cast on the muddy marsh bottom by her looped form. As the wolf passed from the mortal realm and into hers, Tel's influence was stripped away and her body was allowed to unfurl with an audible snap! In that same moment, the wolf released the ragged blade in her mouth, sending it hurling through the air with every bit of force that Tel had subjected her body to, making it sing and wail as it spun.

The last thing Tel saw before he toppled backwards, blood spurting from his chest as it was pierced by his own weapon, was a pair of glinting eyes and a bloody grin curled into terrible laughter.

An oily pool of blood spread from Tel in a lopsided circle as he floated limply on the swamp's surface, stunned by the impact. It was lucky for him that his chest was so badly charred by the hound's fiery breath, because, with his armor stripped away, nothing else had been there to stop the blade from passing clean through him but the sheer thickness of his blackened, scarred flesh. Even with the nerveless layer of dead hide absorbing most of the impact, the sword had still sunk deep, fifteen meters of its length lost in his breast. The slick of blood around the mental fiend was disturbed as he stirred, his bloodied form slowly rising from the dirtied water. Bubbling streams of red ran over his cracked, burnt flesh like lava flows as he swelled back to his fell height. But Tel Megiddo was not the only thing to emerge from the water in that moment. Breaking free from the shadow of her foe like an attacking crocodile from the riverbed, Fainis burst from the water with all three of her frontal set of jaws wide open and clamped down on Tel's arms with both of her dragon heads. Crunching through armor, skin, and flesh like scaly red bear traps, the greedy reptilian heads began twisting away from one another, each trying to tug Tel away from the other. The crucified form of Tel was wrenched and shaken mercilessly as the sibling limbs fought for which would receive the larger portion. Blood was splattered across Tel's back like scarlet angel wings as the two feuding heads threatened to tear his arms from their sockets. Though thoroughly entertained by the gory spectacle, the master head finally decided to step in and let them known who was in charge.

Jaws yawning beyond what was natural or even possible to look at without swallowing back disgusted bile, Fainis's central head rocked back like a candy dispenser, taking full advantage of the slit corners of her mouth, and spat a broad column of oxidized atmosphere that engulfed Tel's entire upper body, bathing him in demon flames. The feud between brothers was suddenly settled as the psychic beast was sent tumbling away, his arms marked by black rings of gore and his shoulders and back coated in soot and ash. In one of Fainis's dragon heads, a serrated band of armor had been left tangled in between ivory fangs. In the teeth of the other, peeled skin and flesh substituted for where armor had already been torn away. Cackling as she tasted both the steel of the thing's rusted metal shell and the iron of his blood, Fainis stretched her long legs and chased after Tel, fire trailing from her grin and deathly cold shadows from her claws. Pouncing, the chimeric queen aimed to strike the sword that jutted from Tel's chest with her huge, heavy paws, pushing it deeper into his already ravaged chest..!

[GI Jho]

But like an unstoppable force, Tel could not be kept down for very long. Even with the massive, rustic sword impaled into his chest, Tel was not one to be kept down for long. Like an undead rising from his shallow grave, his form smoking and charred with ash, Fainis suddenly found herself frozen in midair, in the process of running. As her many heads attempted to unleash flames, they suddenly found their mouths slammed shut, causing flames to jet uncontrollably from their nostrils! Tel's eyes glared intently at Fainis, his empty gaze filled with hatred as he brought both hands forward and grabbed the hilt of his massive sword. Face unchanging, Tel pulled the massive blade out of his chest, blood spilling forth from the massive hole and strands of meat and flesh hanging from the tip of the sword. Snarling, Tel roared before causing Fainis to lift up several hundred meters, before slamming her downwards with incredible force! The power of the impact caused a tidal wave of water to splash outwards in all directions, exposing to muddy floor of the murky marsh! Fainis' neck cracked and her shoulders crunched, as her flesh ripped open and filled up with dirt and mud!

A massive crater formed where Fainis' body had crashed down into the mud, black fur stained with mud as her jaws and shoulders dripped with blood, the impact splitting her hide and ripping her jaws further apart, exposing muscles beneath them. Tel stepped forwards towards Fainis' form, water washing over the bitch queen's body, as the hell hound rose from the water, hellish gaze intent on Tel. Fenris lunged forward, as Tel hoisted his blade and thrust it towards Fainis' wounded chest! As the hellish queen grappled her jaws onto Tel's exposed shoulder, causing sticky- syrupy blood to drip downward form the wound, Fainis found Tel's massive sword pierced into her chest! Tel grunted audibly as Fainis' massive jaws pierced her fangs into his hide, but Fainis was on the receiving end of a far more grievous wound. The blade ripped through her chest, slicing through muscles and ripping open her belly, as she quickly withdrew with a roar of pain, tearing a piece of Tel's shoulder out while widening the massive stab wound in the process, ripping the blade through more tissue and causing blood to turn the swamp water red.

Fainis' chest dripped profusely of blood, before the telekinetic psychopath grappled her once more with his powers. Hoisting her up into the air, Tel then began to slash his hand vigorously in the air, like a grizzly bear tearing his prey apart! Fainis' body was soon shredded in a similar fashion, massive chunks of flesh and muscle being ripped out with each vicious strike, causing blood to spill into the water, turning the brownish marsh into a crimson sea! Tel smiled with gruesome satisfaction, wheezing audibly from the wounds inflicted to his chest and from the flames damaging his visage, before he launched Fainis forward towards a mound of broken trees, attempting to impale her upon them...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The great demonic hound crashed directly onto the splintered wooden stakes, which pierced her hide with small sprays of molten red blood. But the fiendish beast was far from unfamiliar to torment of the body. Beneath her jagged maroon pelt, her skin was made up almost entirely of bumpy, black scars that caught and stopped the timber spears before they plunged too deep. As the hellish bitch spun on her side and rose up on long, lanky legs that spiked with fur hard as wire, the bloodied trees jutted straight up in the air like harpoons lodged in the callused hide of a whale. Face splitting into a hideous grin that stretched back well beyond her ears, the cackling devil dog began trotted forward, blood dripping from her smile and venom glowing in her glaring yellow eyes. Charging at Tel with a booming cackle like thunder, Fainis suddenly slung down low, her belly sloshing through the muddy water. Tel braced his body and extended his psychic mind, predicating that his foe would once again try to drop through her shadow and blindside him. The same trick would only work against him so many times. As soon as she resurfaced, he would wring her body and tear it apart. However, the wolf attacked from the direction that he expected least- from where she still stood. The motion towards the ground had simply been a feint on the part of the chimeric hound, a ruse to throw the other sadistic being off. Instead of dropping into the netherworld of fire and screams that she called home, she pounced, twisting her body in midair so that she struck Tel like a spring. Uncoiling on first contact with the armored hunchback, Fainis knocked him back with a heavy blow to the head, her claws sliding into the twin slits in his helmet. As the former trickster collapsed, the crystalline claws stabbed towards his eyes!

Fainis could tell immediately that she had not struck the eyes themselves. Her curled nails had merely sunk into the soft flesh around them, sheathing them with a rather spongelike impact. Piercing the eyes was a different sensation altogether- it was a pop!, like a balloon or overinflated beach ball. It was a feeling that she sincerely loved. Though disappointment tingled in the back of her skull, the hellhound laughed anyway and began rocked her paws back and forth, sawing her claws into the vulnerable skin that her talons plagued. Blood oozed out like tears of deepest red, giving Tel two owlish spots of gore beneath his clouded, opaque eyes. Wrenching her claws from the tortured thing's mask, Fainis reared with a screechy howl, and stretched herself out until she was standing at her maximum, 149-meter height. Then, with a silent grin, the mammalian brawler dropped, planting both of her heavy front paws into Tel's charred and cratered chest. A wheeze was forced from the psychokinetic monster, as well as a tall spurt of blood that arced from his pectoral like a the stream from a water fountain. Chuckling to herself- and perhaps to Tel as well, because he was twisted enough to get the joke- Fainis lifted up again and repeated the action, slamming her full weight down on the smaller creature's chest and crushing it inwards with a splash of blood and a racking cough of stolen air. Again and again, the vicious she-brute crashed down and, each time, more blood splattered across Tel's chest. Blood also drizzled down onto the psychic fiend from Fainis herself, the string of rough blows straining the hot, metallic liquid from her many open wounds and reopening the few that had already stopped bleeding.

Soon, Tel was painted in scarlet from his head to his toe, practically drowning in the stick, red warmth of their combined life essence.

Upon the fifth and final blow, Tel began sliding backwards. At first, he thought that perhaps the muddy swamp bottom had finally given way and he was simply being sucked on. But instead of boggy warmth, it was icy cold that embraced his back. A subzero net of darkness began to slither across Tel's spine and then up his prone form, pulling him in like a fish speared by a poisonous cone shell snail. The shadowy tendrils touched Fainis as well, but instead of drilling into her with javelins of impossible cold, they wrapped loving around her legs like pets, clinging to individual strands of her fur with obsessive adoration and care. As the inky pool claimed Tel- Fainis soon following him, only her shining yellow eyes visible- the frigid dark gave way to infernal heat. The shadows were scattered by a plume of blinding hellfire and Tel's ears were filled by the damning screams of the guilty and gluttonous as he entered an entirely new world.

Fainis's world, he realized now.

Still trapped beneath his foe's weight, Tel fell through the nightmarish microdimension that Fainis transported herself through, moving faster and faster until he was plummet at near mach speed, crashing through the churning, boiling air like a fallen satellite. His armor began to heat and his flesh burned as the hellish sky wrapped around him, smothering him with its thickness and warmth. It turned his armor shell white hot and liquid, making it cling stubbornly to his flesh as it sought to pass on its unbearable heat. His skin and meat smoked and swirled with ash as it was incinerated, removing mass from him as if by use of a massive grater- layer after layer simply peeling away. The blood that covered his skin vaporized almost instantly, boiling his hide and covering him in a veil of swirling steam. His body shrilled with pain that his voice could no longer express as the hot cloud engulfed him. His eyes, underlined by dark slicks of blood, sang out especially loud as scathing vapor bored directly into them, blankets of agony laid across his brow. Fainis, on the other hand, breathed in the molten air with glee, laughing as it turned to fire in her lungs and sewed back out. As the hound's jaws yawned, Tel saw that impossible housed inside her gullet- him, as well as Fainis, falling, just as they were now. And another mirror imagine rested inside the cackle maw of that Fainis, repeating over and over again until it was impossible to make out. The curious truth was that the dethroned queen of the Outer World did not simply generate this world, she carried it inside of her, forming a paradox that tested the limits of infinity.

If Tel's mind had not already been broken beyond repair, it surely would have shattered in the moment that he looked into the black maw of his joyful foe.

Crashing out of the shadow of a tree, Tel was tossed from the inferno of Fainis's belly and into the murky water of the swamp, the brownish bog boiling- no, exploding into a frenzy as soon- as soon as he touched it. As the squat creature rose from the bubbling froth of white water, his ruined armor hardened to his body in an irregular, lumpy mass that favored his right side and retained his movements terribly. The slits on his mask had nearly been fused shut, though he was left with enough of a view to see properly, if not well. Launching up from the same shadow, the Mother of All Murders laughed and twirled through the air, aiming to bring her twin tails crashing into the backside of the clunky, lopsided armor that Tel had been refitted with...

[GI Jho]

The devil hound's massive tails found themselves at home striking Tel's armroed back. The damage inflicted upon it, in addition to the heat rapidly weakening it, caused the armor to warp and crack, as several chunks of it literally collapsed, and some of it even cracking and falling off! Tel unleashed a low groan, as he pushed himself up form the water, blood dripping form the numerous wounds covering his body. As Tel flexed, causing some shards of his tattered armor to fall off, Fainis attempted to take advantage of his slow recovery by charging up another fiery blast. Tel, however, expected such a move, and caused a wall of mud to shoot upwards behind him intercepting the fiery breath, causing the mud the rapidly dry before collapsing. As the wall collapsed, Tel whirled around, and unleashed a two-pronged telekinetic attack! Fainis's main head found her lower jaw struck with powerful invisible force, driving her fangs into her tongue and lower lip, the impact sending teeth flying and tearing a bloody gash into Fainis' chin! Then, as Fainis was knocked upwards, a second hit slammed into Fainis' side, contorting her body violently to one side as she was sent flying from the force, rolling head over heal through the water and mud before crashing into a small grove of trees.

Tel roared and attempted to roll his shoulders, but his stiffened and brittle armor cracked as he attempted to right his body, causing a piece of it to fall off! This, however, gave tel an idea, and as the shadowy hound disappeared from sight, Tel kept his mind honed and ready for anything... especially to initiate his newest tool. As Fainis shot out from behind him, attempting to ambush the fairly immobile warrior while he was seemingly thinking, Tel snapped around with shocking speed, nefore launching a large chunk of his armor towards Fainis like a bladed Frisbee! The momentum of Fainis' leap prevented her form avoiding the attack as the blade-like slab of metal sliced through the air as struck Fainis in the rib, slicing through flesh and muscle with ease before embedding itself in her body! Hot, fiery blood squirted form the wound, staining the razor disk with her blood, as the impact once more caused Fainis to slam into the floor on her side.

Fainis groaned and quickly shot to her feet, breaths wheezy due to the slab of metal embedded in her torso. Fainis snarled, her tired expression contorting into one of sickening joy and bloodthirst, before she rushed back towards Tel like a goddess of death! Tel simply let out a low chuckle before he greeted Fainis with a flechette of wood shards, flaying large chunks of flesh off of Fainis' front legs, chest, and face, and some of the shards becoming embedded into her body! Despite the pain and the blood running down her form, however, Fainis did not stop her charge! Chuckle quickly turning into a growl, Tel caused a mountain of mud to rise beneath him, giving him a height advantage, before he began to condense mud into sharp spikes and flinging them towards Fainis like spears!...

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

Fainis, drenched in blood and water, answered the earthen attack with a bolt of flames. Ionized waves of gaseous torment flowed out from between the brutal obsidian fangs of the hound, blowing the hardened javelins of mud to smithereens and then plowing into the mound of earth that Tel had raised for himself. The psionic devil ascended on twin pillars of telekinetic push as his patch of high ground was obliterated in a swell of hellfire. Laughing madly, the deposed queen of the Outer World dove into the churning mass of fire and soil, though not before launching two orbs of demon flames from her draconic jaws. One of the boiling spheres was diverted by Tel's mind and detonated harmless in empty air. The other started on a curve away from the center of the airborne fiend, but it became apparent that it began its path too late as it caught Tel square in the shoulder and exploded. A flower of flames, smoke, metal, and flesh stretched from the limp body of the hunchbacked creature, twisting his broken form through the air and sending him hurtling for the ground, blood flowing from his neck like a scarf as it was stung by shrapnel. He would not be alone in his freefall though, for the dark pelt and thin legs of Fainis materialized from the remnants of the fireball he had cast aside and began to plunge down atop him. The wolf stretched herself sleek and smooth so that she caught up quickly to the flailing outline of her tortured foe and placed a heavy paw of his chest, straightening him so that his back laid parallel to the rapidly approaching ground. The hound flashed a wide, murderous grin to the psychic beast as they embraced the flooded earth together. Tel only stared into her laughing yellow eyes with his dead, graying one and grunted.

SPLASH!

The sprawled body of Tel Megiddo cut easily through the shallow water and rocked against the raised bank of mud that lay beneath it. The wolf had driven him directly onto the remains of his mound, slamming his outstretched back into a broken dome of earth and bending his spinal column into a D-shape. A low moan escaped the stoic creature as all the air was forced from his lungs. Blood spurted from the armored thing's chest in a broad circle. The damaged armor beneath the hound's paw had cratered, piercing the psychic monster's chest with jagged shards of smelted metal. The splintered fragments of ruined plating were sheathed deep enough into the creature's torso to look the part of an intended design, making it seem that a segmented ring of slate and crimson had always marred his breast. On his part, Tel did not suffer in stillness. The devilish thing had raised his ragged gauntlets and made Fainis fall upon his wicked claws, but, even as she drizzled blood from her jugular and chest, the chimeric brute did not care. Cackling and spraying blood- both hers and her opponent's- from her maw, the crazed dog began to snap and pry at Tel with her glossy scorpion's pincers. Wedging themselves into the cracks and crevices of the damaged armor coat that covered the telekinetic champion, the razor-haired claws heaved upwards and upturned great slabs of metal-attached-to-flesh. The metallic armor of the fiend had been so thorough melted and reformed around his bare body that now it could no longer be taken off without removing broad swatches of pink flesh with it! Like stony scabs, the crumbling sheets of armor lifted off and left huge patches of raw, bleeding meat that twitched and pulsed with agony each time a breeze brushed it. As the corroded plating was tossed away entirely, Tel was left with two large, reddish ovals of naked flesh on his chest, burning bright and alluringly in the eyes of Fainis like dual targets.

Leaping backwards, the Mother of All Murders swiveled her heads and spewed unholy flames in all directions, bathing the ugly, unappealing swampscape that lay around her in unnaturally persistent fire. She had grown tired of this marshland and all its water and mud. It was time that she reshaped this arena into one more to her liking. The hellish canine swung her trio of belching jaws towards where Tel slumped with his chest exposed and bleeding into the humid sky. She would do away with this wretched wetland and bury her foe in a sea of swirling flames like the land she hailed from...!

[GI Jho]

Tel's empty eyes looked dead ahead, as his pupils quickly shrunk from the light of the ethereal fire. With a grimace, Tel raised up a wall of mud before him, protecting him from the scalding flames. As the wall rapidly began to solidify and crack from the heat, Tel hoisted himself up off of the floor, water dripping down his form and mud covering much of his armor. Tel suddenly laucnehd the wall forward, the structure of mud crumbling as fire cascaded down from above like meteorites. Fainis quickly evaded the attempted attack, causing a plume of water to splash upwards, before she lunged forward and unleashed a plume of flame from her paws at Tel. Unprepared for such an attack, Tel soon found himself engulfed in a ball of fire, armor slowly beginning to warp and flesh charring from the heat. The stoic cybernetic warrior unleashed a harrowing groan of pain as he wildly lashed out with a telekinetic strike, tearing a rut in the earth and striking Fainis' shoulder with enough force to flay the flesh clean off and send her rolling backwards!

Immolated like some sort of fire, Tel hoisted a large quantity of water and soon drenched himself in it, quickly putting out the fire with a cloud of steam and a low hiss. Ignorant to the fires raging around him, Tel kicked through the now low amount of water, before he hoisted Fainis up from the floor using his telekinetic power. Fainis attempted to struggle in his powerful invisible grip, but she was helpless; Tel squeezed tightly, like a trash compactor, causing her flesh to split and rend like a crumbled soda can! Rips formed along her tattered hide, splaying open from the intense force, as gouts of blood dripped down to the murky water and muddy earth blow. Fainis' damaged chest was crushed inwards, tearing it even further, and her damaged forehead ripped open even more, exposing the bone beneath!

Finally, Fainis had enough. Fighting with all of her might, Fainis caused her tails to rise from out of Tel's telekinetic prison, and sprayed a stream of acid towards him! Acting quickly, Tel relinquished his grip on Fainis before he raised a wall of earth, intercepting the acidic stream and buying Fainis time to escape. As Tel dropped his mud barrier, he was suddenly greeted by Fainis, up close and personal! Tel intercepted a powerful paw strike from the hellhound using his forearm, and as she prepared to blast him full of fire, Tel unleashed a point-blank telekinetic strike to her face, tearing her face up and causing her to fall back-first onto the floor! Tel snarled, before he pulled his sword towards him with his telekinetic powers, before he lifted it overhead and cleaved it down towards her!....

[Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual]

The ragged blade cleaved down, hungry for the flesh of the enemy and- while it would not be denied- its cutting edge would at least be dulled by the quick reflexes of Fainis. Like a master of the sword in counterattack, the demon dog reared both her draconic heads and caught the enormous weapon on the curve of her grooved horns. Sparks rained down from the dueling intersection of keratin and metal as the blade pressed down, slicing a pale, powdery line into the jagged crown that adorned the hound's left most head. Tel pushed down with all of his might and, refusing to be best, the will of his mad brain augmented that of his muscle to overpower the beast that writhed beneath him. The brute psychic pulse of pressure forced the sword down into the horny scalp of the crimson reptile head. Blood splattered across the laughing grin and glaring eyes of the Mother of All Murders as the thick scaly skin was split and serrated metal slashed against the bare skull of her snarling "brother." Though her gnarled dragon heads thrashed and hissed in pain as one half of their surface area was sliced open, the canine jaws merely chuckled and curled the vicious black fangs that lined their length into a smile. Hooking her crystalline talons around the metal-capped shoulders of her hunchbacked foe, the savage bitch ignited her interlocking smile and spewed a red beam of fire directly into the exposed chest of Tel Megiddo. Held in place by the wolf's gripping paws, the mental devil was bored into by the searing flash of flames. Ash billowing from his breast in a spiraling cloud of grit, Tel was rocked back, making Fainis struggle to hold him upright. The back of the poor creature slowly bent back as its torso was drilled into by pointblank demonic flames. 

The flapping, flaming body of the psychic champion was suddenly propped back up straight as the gored reptilians mugs of the chimeric hound lashed out!

A pair of curled horns flailed wildly around Tel's masked face until a single sharp tip pierced the throat of the armored fiend and tore it open. A ragged roll of flesh unfurled from the neck of the stout monster, unleashing a wild spurt of blood that stained his already gore-drenched chest. Its misty white eyes veiled by the blood dripping from its scalp, the other snapping maw quickly honed in on the fresh scent of violence and pain and lunged, chomping down on Tel's shoulder and neck with its railroad spike fangs. Crunching hard, the long pair of knobby jaws sheered straight through flesh and muscle and pulled away a thick crescent of bleeding meat from Tel's outline. Letting the gushing creature collapse from her clawed grip, Fainis leapt about and cackled in black joy as she scarfed down the clean cut hunk of flesh, shredding it between her dragon jaws and lapping up the drizzling blood with her lupine mouth.

Gnawing fangs suddenly becoming back lit by churning fire, Fainis coughed harshly and launched out flaming chunks of Tel from all three heads like a gory shotgun blast aimed back at the one who had donated the ammunition...!