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Post by Vatarian on Aug 23, 2014 22:52:54 GMT -5
Salavance bellows in defiance as the iredescent Alicorn charges.
Rearing onto his back legs in preparation to crush Rumaka, its numerous wounds and blood-loss render him sluggish. Rumaku slams into Salavance head-first, Hornzer slicing deep into the lizard's left armpit as Rumaka shifts slightly to the side to avoid breaking his neck with the impact.
Salavance bellows again, and rips itself off the horn, rearing back to shear the front of Rumaka's head off in shear rage....
As Xena launches a flying kick into the small of its back, toes punching through armored scales, skin, and flesh alike with their wicked talons. Salavance grunts and collapses forward, falling short of Rumaka as the horse backs away, face smug, as if to say "this is what you get for fighting two opponents.
As Salavance drags himself back to his feet, he abruptly sees stars and falls down again, this time tensing his mouth to avoid losing any more teeth as his jaws smash together, Xena's hammer doing further damage to the beasts head, a pulp of flesh clinging to the weapon's head as Xena dances nimbly off the dragon's back and drops to crouch beside him.
The dragon once again seems stunned. But as Xena closes in, he lunges and grabs her, paws clasping her waist as his wing-digits clamp down on her shoulders, attempting to crush the deceptively tough warrioress with shear force.
Xena smiles cheerfully and spews acid in its face as the dragon shuts its six eyes reflexively and flinches back, the shower of green fluid burning away nearly all of the scales and skin on the dragon's snout altogether, turning the rest to pruned black goop, and reducing much of its upper neck to violently discolored blisters and shriveled ribbons of discolored flesh.
Salavance rears back with a keen of agony as his skin continues to slough off, thrashing about and snapping his jaws in impotent fury.
All four limbs release Xena, wing hands tearing and slapping frantically at its face to remove the acid so that it can open its tightly close eyes and show Xena the true meaning of pain. Another keen emerges from its mouth as a particularly hard swipe causes a patch of soft-tissue on the tip of the beast's nose to ooze off with a hiss and a disgusting lurp. Body wracked with terrible pain, Salavance shrieks and beats his wings, mashing his face into the mud to wipe away the acid. Cool relief begins to trickle in. Salavance only needs another half-second to wash the acid away completely, then he'll crush the pathetic aberration who has dared to disfigure him so.
((I was iffy on such severe third-degree burns until I looked back at a match between Giratina and some other dude, where Giratina's opponent lost literally almost all his skin. So if I get a penalty for this, burning the skin off Sally's face and upper throat, I call bullshit.))
Xena, not really the patient sort, pounces upwards and forwards, swinging her hammer at the Dragon's prone throat.....
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Aug 23, 2014 23:31:39 GMT -5
(There was a match like that? Maybe that was Talizan vs. Arc vs. Persephone... ugh that was a brutal fight.)
Salavance was unprepared, atleast in that moment of weakness... but thanks to his frantic movements, he managed to move so that his side was nailed, instead of the throat. Bones cracked from the impact, though, and the dragon was enraged. The rain poured upon him as he sprawled across the ground, the acid cleaned off of him as he managed to grip himself on the muddy slopes of the mountain. Wings spreading, the ancestral predator took once more to the skies, form bleeding from its numerous wounds. They would pay dearly... they would pay, indeed...
Sure enough, Rumaka was flying up to meet him face to face. The dragon arched his head to the side, jaws swinging open as he brought them in an uppercut motion, Dark Energy blasting out the whole time. It was too late for Rumaka to backpedal, for he was caught in the explosions, his hide blasted apart, flesh charred and on fire, the winged equine stunned and hurting, allowing the deadly beast to twist around, all three of its pincer tails smashing into Rumaka's weakened side, a cry of pain coming from him as he smashed down into the ground like a meteor, barely missing Xena, who had leapt out of the way just in time...
Alas, she had leapt right into the swooping form of the predator.And he was FURIOUS.
She tried to lash out at his face, but Salavance, taking the blow right in the forehead, plowed through it. One of the wing claws became embedded with Dark Energy, and slashed down where the UCA weapons had done their work...
The end result, was Xena being thrown to the ground, hide blasted likewise and the parts of her beyond the initial skin of protection exposed. The dragon growled as it appoached, now landing right infront of her as it reared onto its hind legs, both wing arms grabbing each other to form a sort of combined fist that was to smash down into her exposed insides...
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Post by Revenus on Aug 24, 2014 0:37:27 GMT -5
Rumaka, despite having taken a gory mauling, brayed as as if he was playing a kaiju sized tuba. The loud sound was not loud enough to deter the ravaging reptile from finishing his prey.
Thankfully, at least for the alliance, there was something that would definitely fit the bill for a deterrent, it would actually end up much more than that.
Enormous hunks of solid crystal fell from the already torn heavens, the tough crystals hammered into the golden surface of Salavance's now charred and smoldering hide. One smashed into the bloody imprint where the photo kinetic pegasus had crashed him into the mountainside not long ago. The drake was hammered so hard by the one heavy blow, it was dropped to the floor, and a colossal contusion formed over the already bleeding opening.
As the Hellian wreaker-of-havoc forced his body up, his rage was the only reason he was still in this battle. He lusted for revenge! How dare two weaklings defile him like that! However, in order to escape this tempest of crystal shards, the drake scampered away from the xenomorph-hybrid, his surprising agility allowing him to bob and weave around the chaos erupting around him. However, the equine shot into the swirling storm of shards, firing an azure blue bolt of light into the distance.
Once again, Xena was perplexed by this new development, but she realized that, like his last…intuitive attack, he must've had a reasoning behind this.
The beam danced around, streaking across the veil, bouncing and reflecting until it finally struck the drake smack in the side. While the now injured drake struggled to right himself, the equine dove down, the promise of victory and a chance at freedom being the equine's sole motivating factor. Just before the solidified horn blade tore into Salavance's charred throat, singed wing arms grappled and scraped at the aerial alicorn's shoulders, but the equine fought through the pain. The slashing assault did throw off the equine's aim, causing the blade to gash the dragon's forearm instead. The equine uses his hooves to pin the draconian's muscled arms, preparing to tear Salavance's chest asunder...
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Post by Vatarian on Aug 24, 2014 0:51:52 GMT -5
Squealing in pain as its already torn, battered, and burnt body is assaulted further, Salavance smashes a wingpaw into Rumaka's shoulder and knocks him sideways. Rumaku's blow instead opens a long, deep cut across Salavance's broad, scaled chest.
Roaring in rage, the great golden lizard batters Rumaka with his other wing-paw, putting the horse off-balance and allowing Salavance to tear himself free of the equine's hooves.
Lunging at Rumaka's throat, which he intends to rip out entirely, rules be damned , Salavance instead shrieks and is torn to the side as Xena's tail stabs into the side of his throat and hauls him to the side, her foot coming up, then down to smash him down into the earth, heal grinding and crushing at the ridge of its neck.
Snarling, Salavance whips out a paw and smashes it into Xena's ankles, knocking her down. As the horribly wounded beast turns its prodigous bulk to simply GLOMP Xena, she smashes a foot into its throat, then leaps to her feet, punching him squarely in the exposed bone of his horribly burnt snout. Reeling backwards and blinking away reflexive tears brought on by the blow, Salavance is unable to stop Xena from landing a third combo-blow on his already punctured, scraped, burned, and bruised throat. Her fist strikes the precise place her tail penetrated earlier, and a fresh burst of blood emerges from the wound as Salavance collapses to the muck below him, coughing up a wad of blood and mucus.
He.... Must stand. Must kill her. Staggering to his feet, Salavance is just in time to see Xena's bladed tail blurring towards the base of his jaw....
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Aug 24, 2014 19:40:44 GMT -5
The xenomorph was in for a nasty surprise, for what she was greeted by, was not another blast of Dark Energy... but rather, Salavance lowered his head, allowing the tail to fly over, the head of the dragon scraping against the ground as Xena's tail missed its mark. Before she could reel it back, Salavance clamped down upon it, and took to the air, dragging the thrashing Xeno with him.
Her claws slashed through his hide, trying to force him to let go. Despite the rivets of blood pouring from the gash marks, he did his best to ignore them, and Twisted himself around, letting go and allowing the warrior to smash down into the earth like a projectile, a plume of rocks and debris flying up out of the resulting impact crater. He slowly descended down, stopping just short of the dust filled impact site. He could sense it, Xena already recovering from the nasty fall, and from one corner of his eyes, Rumaka charging him again. If he could laugh, he would have.
When would they learn?
He curled his wings around himself, and Dark Energy began to radiate from his body. It enveloped Xena, and just as it reached Rumaka, the dragon uncurled, and let out a fearsome howl. In that instant, all of the Dark Energy around him within a 150 meter radius detonated as a single, massive fireball of death. Both Xena and Rumaka were consumed in the explosion, flames and pain engulfing their worlds once more. The wounds they had were cauterized, and parts of loose flesh incinerated. Xena was blasted further into the crater, while Rumaka was on fire, and lay on the ground, blood oozing from the equine's burnt mouth. The wounded dragon glared over at him, and hissed. Now... it was his turn to suffer.
He raised his head up high, and orbs of liquid mercury were launched out of his jaws and into the heavens above, only to come back down as harbingers of pain and destruction. He was spewing so many up into the sky, they came down with the rain in droves, splashing against the ground, their molten core ready to tear something asunder as several threatened to land on Rumaka...
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Post by Revenus on Aug 24, 2014 21:47:01 GMT -5
(Not actually sure if this post is allowed, hope I did it right. I count it as 4 attacks)
As the raining drops of death eroded and melted the aerial alicorn's snow white side, liquefying the already charred and smoldering flesh, Rumaka was in so much agony that he didn't even react. The equine heaved his smoking body upwards, his pride and completely unbreakable desire for freedom fueling his unending fighting resolve. His mind processing his dwindling options lightning-fast. The equine flapped his relatively undamaged wings as if he were a hummingbird, taking flight in the process.
The high-pitched buzzing severely irritated Salavance, leaving him oblivious to the brewing threat.
Unbeknownst to the golden drake, who had kept his distance, a vortex of whipping gale-force winds had formed in front of the equine, sucking up the molten mercury in the process.
By the time the dragon whipped around, it was already too late. Heaving his shoulders back, the equine slammed his wings forward, flinging the vacuum vortex at his opponent.
Salavance just could not resist the suction of the vortex, as it gained in speed and size with the effort the photokinetic pegasus put into the swinging motion of his wings. The whipping winds displaced all sorts of rock and dust, shards slashing and cutting at the wounds opened by the white hot mercury sizzling and bubbling at the skin of the scaly skull-crusher. The battle-hardened horse capitalized on Salavance's helplessness by firing a bolt of striking blue lighted that bounced around in the vortex, only striking the flailing drake one as he finally latched onto a mound of stone, struggling away as the vortex sailed into the distance. The drake was riddled with bruises and scrapes, the drake bolted at the winded winged horse, swinging his tails at the horse, scraping the pegasus' cheek, but the equine countered quickly by hacking at the pincer tail, repelling the draconian, also allowing the avian to follow up by flicking his neck upwards, aiming for his chin to land an "uppercut"….
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Aug 24, 2014 21:51:44 GMT -5
One more post each, three total.
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Post by Vatarian on Aug 24, 2014 22:29:33 GMT -5
Salavance, though fueled by nigh indomitable will, hate for his two foes, and adrenaline, is nonetheless too sluggish from blood-loss and repeated blows to the head and throat to avoid the slashing uppercut.
Rumaka's blow splits the already horribly burned and shriveled flesh on Salavance's bottom-jaw, rocking the infernal reptile's head back and unbalancing him further. A fresh trickle of blood floes from the wound, and bone is exposed as a ragged bit of burned flesh peels away.
Salavance trumpets in defiance, and swipes at Rumaka with both forepaws only for a massive boulder to smash into the side of his neck, carefully aimed for the bruised, cratered puncture wound Xena created earlier.
Salavance bellows in agony and spins sideways, knocked out of the grip of the gale to tumble to the ground, landing with a mighty splash in deep mud and sliding down a steep slope, entire body stained brown as he struggles to regain his footing.
A lithe shape drops onto his back, claws gripping him, and Salavance's raw scalp is suddenly on fire once again as Xena tears away a long shred of raw flesh, scraping bone as her arm drags the chunk of battered meat and ground-in scales to her mouth, where she tosses it in, chews, and swallows.
Salavance screams in outrage, and twists under Xena, rolling over her and catching her in the head with a flailing paw as both combatants tumble down the mountain, the great lizard's body too beaten and encrusted with mud to immediately take flight.
Xena smirks. The fool. She has him right where she wants him.
As they slide and tumble, Xena manages to right herself long enough to blast Salavance in the throat with a geiser of acid. Striking already burnt and lacerated skin, the corrosive liquid sizzles as it burns deep into Salavance's already shredded throat; skin sloughing away to expose raw flesh, which peels and pops and blisters, exposing large patches of muscle.
Salavance flings his head back and writhes silently, whiping the acid away with mud, holding back a shriek. He won't give the little freak the satisfaction.
Xena passes the struggling reptile by as they continue their descent.
A cliff is nearing; an opportunity for Salavance to take to the air and seemingly, not a good thing for Xena and Rumaka.
Xena grins through bloodied lips, and lashes out at the edge of a towering rock-formation as she passes it with both feet, pulverizing its base and causing the rockface to groan and shift.
Xena slides off the edge of the cliff, grasps its edge, and hauls herself high enough back onto the edge to view the fruits of her labor....
A 250 meter, 650,000 ton slab of rock surrounded by a roiling sea of shale and boulders collapses down towards Salavance as the dragon slides right under it.....
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Aug 24, 2014 23:25:41 GMT -5
The reptilian destroyer, caught right in the Xenomorph's trap, had no time to react as the great boulder came down upon him...
BOOOOOM!
Xena smirked as she leapt up beside it. It had worked... she was amazed... he was now trapped underneath it, crushed to death by the landmark she had used. Beside her Rumaka landed, the equine braying in triumph. "He is dead. We have passed Yuuka's test!" The horse announced, rearing onto his hind legs to cheer. Beside him, Xena was about to reply...
but then, she noticed something was wrong. Why hadn't a winner been announced yet? Was the UCA unaware that Salavance was crushed? Or... oh no.
Her eyes widened as the boulder began to shake,purple smoke billowing from beneath it. And then, it exploded outward, shards of rock slicing through Xena's weakened and batterend armor,a nd through Rumaka's flesh and wings, their blood dripping down both of them as they were thrown back by the explosion, a trumpeting roar echoing across the mountain range as Salavance spread his wings. The dragon was bruised, battered, wounded... and beyond furious. He was LIVID with range, Claws slashing aray at the earth as he turned his fury upon Xena.
The recovering Xenomorph tried to leap upon him, but Salavance twisted his body so that his tails smashed down upon her, Dark Energy blowing up their lengths so that when they hit her, they exploded with a fearsome force, both blasting and smashing the Xeno to the ground, her side a mess and her body aching from the blow. The dragon then whirled around with a speed that belied his weakened stature, Dark Energy once more blowing off the wings, this time toward the charging figure of Rumaka, who this time managed to leap back just in time to avoid the ensuring sea of explosions meant for him...
Only for Salavance to fly through the smoke, and grab his head in one scaly hand, before smashing him against the ground, blood dripping from Rumaka's head and onto the rocks. Snarling and howling in fury, the primordial god slayer smashed Rumaka's head down again, and again, more and more blood pooling, until it stopped after a third time, keeping the horse's wounded, scraped, and bruised head underfoot as it aimed a Dark Energy blast right at a bloody wound on the side of the equine warrior...
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Post by Revenus on Aug 25, 2014 19:31:59 GMT -5
Just before the explosion of darkness completely annihilated the equine's already scorched and smoldering side, Rumaka croaked and chirped as loud as he could, finding it straining due to the added pressure of Salavance's goddamned bulk threatening to crush the aerial alicorn's singed head. Nonetheless, the sky split open, this time the projectiles accompanying the dying tempest were more like shards of crystalline glass. Salavance screeched in pain as the crystal arrows effortlessly punctured the destructive drakes shredded hide. True to the previous description, the crystal shards embedded themselves into the drake's torn armor, causing lasting agony. Due to this torturous pain, the reptile released his literal foothold on the equine, allowing him to shamble to his hooves, the would-be fatal burst of shadow fizzling out into harmless black sparks.
Whipping around at the scaled slasher, the equine feinted a strike from his ruby red blade, causing the drake to lash out with his claws. The sudden shift in weight caused the draconian destroyer to lose balance, a hardened hoof connecting with the drake's head as a result. As the drake backpedaled, the equine slashed a gigantic gash vertically up the belly of the beast, the reptilian reaper responding in kind by tearing into the photokinetic pegasus' singed snout with his dagger-like claws. As the drake prepared a follow-up strike, the equine leapt backwards a fair distance. As the dragon of demons closed in, Rumaka had already taken enough time to gather particles of light energy, preparing to expel the dazzling blue beam directly at Salavance's heavily wounded and gashed midsection, as the maimed drake was too damaged to bother guarding it...
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Aug 25, 2014 20:21:44 GMT -5
"CEASE COMBAT!" roared the Announcer. "THE MATCH HAS BEEN DECIDED! I REPEAT: CEASE COMABT! THE MATCH HAS BEEN DECIDED! AND THE WINNER IS... NO ONE! THIS MATCH HAS BEEN DECLARED A DRAW! NOW RETURN TO YOUR QUARTERS IMMEDIATELY!"
(I apologize if either party is unhappy with this result, as I am no huge fan of draws myself, but it was too close to give a definitive winner. In terms of sheer damage, Xena pulled ahead the least mangled, but Rumaka placed last due to being the most fragile of the trio as well as Revenus's tendency to take more damage than necessary in his own posts. And Salavance, despite being outnumbered, managed to keep up due to the potency of his strength, armor, and Dark Energy. The two instances in which he more or less nuked both his foes with a vapor field of Dark Energy were particularly impressive and, if I am to be entirely honest, more attacks like that could have earned him a win here. But, as it is, I cannot in good consciousness declare either team the victor, so a draw it is. I hope all three of you can at least tolerate this decision.)
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Post by Vatarian on Aug 25, 2014 20:26:42 GMT -5
Xena snarls as she claws her way back up the cliff the blast-wave of energy knocked her off of.
She glares at Salavance poisonously, teeth bared.
"I would've crushed you if the insects running things hadn't interfered like the cancer they are."
She walks past the massive, maimed dragon, dusting herself off.
"And someday I will. Watch your back."
Xena's voice is barely a whisper as the hybrid sashays away in disgust, a teleportation beam swallowing her up in silver-gold light after a moment.
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Aug 25, 2014 20:29:17 GMT -5
The dragon landed on the ground, blood dripping from his wounds. That had been... a harder fight than he had thought it would. Those two were deinitely more than Yuuka had implied them to be. He shook his head, before taking back off for the skies, heading toward the HUB once more...
Wherever they had passed the test or not, would be for him to decide.
(OOC: Let the record stand, this was insane. I had underestimated Cera and Rumaka at the start of the fight, and found myself backpedeling from Cera ninjaing me and striking hard and fast on the offensive. Just... YEEESH. Near the end, I was afraid I was going to loose. But a draw... whew. I need to do more 2 on 1's like that.)
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Post by Revenus on Aug 25, 2014 23:25:36 GMT -5
(This fight was just…brutal! All the kaiju involved were left crawling with wounds. Props to Gira for really making me step up my game here.)
As he equine heard the announcement, he did not sulk, he didn't slump. He just let the golden beam wash over him, actually glad to feel the sensation, and only hoping he had passed Kazami's test...
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