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Post by Blerhwave on Jan 26, 2012 23:36:17 GMT -5
Humulisvs.DrakiaI'll be your appointed referee. Fighters, post them intros.
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Post by brontorex on Jan 27, 2012 11:03:52 GMT -5
The beam of light lanced downward from heaven like the spear of some angry god, it ripped through the branches of a massive tree, easily 500 meters high and at the base a tall, lean shape materialized. Humulis emerged from the fading pillar of light with a low, bear-like roar, announcing his displeasure at the interruption to the forest. A spot of scorched red flesh on his shoulder blade marked where he had been “persuaded” to awaken from his nap and participate in that battle. Not a serious wound, but it glowed like a telling brand, confirming the beast’s already legendary reputation for being a stubborn and lazy monster. The saurian roared again and slammed his hand blades together, searching his opponent. Only the squawking of startled birds accompanied him in this strange forest. His elongated tail pulverized trees as his turned and began to lumber lazily towards a nearby hill. Finding a relatively massive boulder Humulis lifted his tail, swung his massive body around and sat down on it. He slumped and his shoulders sagged as his head dropped low and he closed his eyes, waiting for his appointed enemy to appear.
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Post by Blerhwave on Jan 27, 2012 14:11:31 GMT -5
After Hayes posts his intro...just fight guys. You don't need to wait any longer on account of me just saying "fight."
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jan 27, 2012 16:59:17 GMT -5
(Not sure if you caught it, but the first post in Drakia's page is not her current bio. Definitely should have mentioned that earlier, so sorry for any confusion this may cause. Check the bottom of her page if you didn't already. She's gone through some serious changes here at the UCA. Should probably put a notice of that at the top to avoid confusion.)
As the grumpy beast began to doze off, head bobbing weakly, a second pillar of light cut through the sky. Growling in annoyance, Humulis glared up at the new arrival he knew would be there. What he saw jolted him awake. A horror slunk across the forest floor, its slow, creeping movements predatory and hostile. A tail composed mainly of dry, pale bones clattered across the ground behind it. Its black coat- scorched and flaking- shed ash with every step, a pale cloud of the stuff curling behind it. Drakia locked her wide, slitted eyes on Humulis, permanently curled lips twitching. The saurian giant straightened up as he looked into the lithe beast's eyes. They contained nothing but malice and hate, a blend of unfocused, chaotic madness and deadly purpose. The eyes of a killer. Drakia passed through the broad shadow of a gargantuan tree. Her charred hide disappeared into the darkness, only her glowing eyes giving her away. Emerging from shadow, the burnt beast cracked her skeletal tail. The bladed tip hacked the limb of a smaller tree clean off.
Finally coming to a stop a few hundred meters before Humulis, Drakia cracked her jaws open a yowled at the bipedal reptile, claws tearing at the soil. Just the sight of another living creature was whipping her into a frenzy, her bloodlust already rising. Already thin pupils narrowing and nostrils flaring greedily, the Ash Queen hissed savagely, daring her prey to stand against her. Drakia wanted blood, and nothing short of death could stop her getting what she wanted!
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Post by Blerhwave on Jan 27, 2012 17:03:05 GMT -5
well, even though i said to fight, just because i can right now...FIGHT!
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Post by brontorex on Jan 27, 2012 18:00:48 GMT -5
Humulis roared again and stomped his feet, but the fearsome, almost ghoulish appearance of this burnt aparition gave him reason to pause. On his home world, such a ruined creature would denote some conection with the dreaded necromancers Humulis was originally designed to fight and he knew such undead constructs often commanded powers beyond the flesh. Humulis's knee bent a little as he settled into a half crouch, considering the beast for a moment.
The moment passed, if his enemy commanded some black magic, then the best way to draw it out was to attack. He wanted to finish this fight.
His tail lashed out, slithering like a fat snake for a moment before lashing out, turning his entire body into the blow. It colided with the boulder Humulis has been recling on with such force that it flew at Drakia like a missile. Drakia dodged the projectile easily and with barely enough time to hiss in frenzied rage flew at Humulis like a spectre of hell itself.
Humulis barely had time to turn to meet the attack head on, but he was already off balance and he wasn't prepared for the ash trailing ball of teeth, claws and hate that slammed into him with such force that he tripped over his massive tail and fell back. Humulis toppled like a tree, taking Drakia with him. With a savage shriek, she sank he grooved saber fangs into the genetically engineered reptile's warty flesh, wrapping her fire ravaged jaws around his shoulder. The pustules burst inside her mouth, filling it with numbing pus, but Drakia ground in deeper, slashing Humulis with her claws as she did so. They dug deep furrows into his leathery chest plates but did not draw blood.
His roar rising into a scream, Humulis jabbed upward with his left hand, his right one trying to fend off Drakia's savage assault. The bone blade missed its targer, Drakia's heart, in the thrashing and instead connected with Drakia's abdomen. The charred surface cracked, and a shower of sparks and burning embers sprayed from the wound to lick Humulis' arm. Drakia's jaws opened enough for her to let loose a blood garbled shriek of pain and in the moment Humulis tossed his enemy off of himself. Drakia was sent rolling, but quickly regained her footing and as she did so Humulis to rose to his feet. With a grunting bellow of rage Humulis once more spun around, this time his massive, powerful tail swinging towards Drakia like a massive club, intent on crushing his lithe enemy with one devestating blow.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jan 27, 2012 18:50:10 GMT -5
As Hulumis swung his great tail around towards Drakia, a titanic flail of flesh and scales, Drakia gave a hissing half-grin that stretched her face in a hideous, unnatural way. She was quite fond of using her tail too. Cracking like a bullwhip, the skeletal weapon snapped up and wrapped around Humulis's in an ivory blur. Darting to the side, Drakia avoided the heavy organic club and tried to yank her saurian foe to the ground, dragging the entwined tails behind her. Humulis spun on a heel with a surprised howl, but soon slammed the other foot down to anchor him to the ground. Spitting in annoyance, Drakia spun and dove wildly, trying to at least unbalance the warty beast, but the much heavier monster stood strong.
Loosing her temper, Drakia wheeled around and pounced at the reptilian titan!
Bellowing deeply, Humulis lunged with his hand blades, trying to skewer the Ash Queen with her own momentum, but Drakia couldn't be thwarted so easily. Yowling, the feline lizard kicked out a long hind legs, the curved talons wrapping around one of Humulis's extended daggers. Pushing off the bony blade, the black horror sent the bigger beast stumbled forward and twisted around in midair. Hooked claws flashing out, Drakia caught Humulis's shoulder and clung to the great reptile's back. Her own skeletal whip keeping the other monster's tail from swatting her off, the insane giant lashed out! And this time, the gnarled claws breached Humulis's hide. Drakia's talons became a blur, swatting, batting, and slashing at leathery flesh until they flung blood in all directions. The psychotic huntress herself was splattered with the hot liquid, crimson speckling her charred form. Humulis suddenly kicked beneath her, almost throwing her to the ground. A furious roar split the air, shaking the trees and causing a variety of animal life to scatter in panic. Humulis, although pained, struggled to dislodge Drakia from his back, thrashing and spinning powerfully. Leaving the whole of the guardian's upper back bloody and gored, Drakia leapt off on her own accord, quickly rearing to her legs and staring her foe down. Humulis was a full head taller than her, but she felt no fear. She felt nothing, nothing but hatred and fury. The crazed killer snarled, showing even more of her dry, sickly gums.
Unimpressed, Humulis returned an air-shaking cry and charged!
The larger monster smashed into Drakia like a moving brick wall, caving in her char armor some and tossing her back effortlessly. The lean giant shrilled in distress. Humulis was almost pulled off his feet tough, Drakia snapping back in midair. In the heat of battle, he had forgotten the other reptile's tail was still twisted around his own! Seeing her chance, Drakia rolled to her feet and sprung. The saber-toothed beast's fangs sliced open Humulis's ankles as they closed around them. Back arching, the feline reptile pulled upwards with all her might. Screaming in shock and pain, Humulis toppled. The impact shook leaves from the trees. Untangled her bony tail with a simple flick, Drakia cracked the skeletal lash at the fallen giant! Humulis's chest was suddenly laid open, blood spraying from the monster's parted flesh and a howl escaping parted jaws. Numb maw slavering and foaming, Drakia cracked her lethal tail again...
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Post by brontorex on Jan 27, 2012 19:30:29 GMT -5
Drakia's tail cut a deep gash into Humulis' side and blood arced in the air, splashed the burnt mutation's fast, feeding into her bloodlust. Humulis warbled pitifully and rolled away from the attack making tiny panting sounds as he did so. Drakia's cold reptillian eyes followed him as he got up and his hands and knees and clumsily crawled away from her. Drakia hissed, and charged in, ready to rend and tear flesh-
And then Humulis jerked around, craneing on his long neck to glare fury at his enemy. His tail rippled into motion and lashed out, its length slamming down in an attempt to squash Drakia. The hyper evolved lizard stopped just in the nick of time. Had see moved a few meters forward her head would have been sandwitched between the ground and Humulis' prodigious tail. Drakia hissed and gracefully stepped over the limb...which promptly jerked up, and wrapped her in a crushing embrace. Drakia howled as everything from her solar plexus down to her hips was squeezed in Humulis's tail's crushing embrace. Humulis should have simply left Drakia to suffer in his tail's grasp but he was enraged and impatient and lunged forward, sinking his jaws into Drakia's neck! The feline lizard howled in fury, and the grotesque charred mutation lashed out with her claws, savaging Humulis' chest and neck and shoulder. Humulis screamed like a wounded cougar and lashed out with his hand blades, stripping burnt flesh and sending sparks and ash shooting into the air. Drakia at long last added her own fangs to the battle, and the two mauled each other like rabid dogs, locked in a crushing grapple of bone blades, claws, jaws and venomed fangs. Blood and pus and sparks shot into the air, burning embers bursting whatever warts on Humulis' skin that escaped Drakia's physical assault. The two rolled along the ground savaging each other in a feral, frenzied embrace. A cloud of ash and soot rose into the air, obscuring the grappling kaiju as they crushed trees and fleeing animals beneath their rolling bulk.
Humulis had a weight advantage and his tail squeezed Drakia like some massive python but Drakia's frenzied attack was like an avalanche of venomous knives. Humulis' face was a mass of bloody shreds. Drakia's tail cut deep into Humulis', hacking through skin and fat and muscle but the sheer thickness of the apendage kept her from crippling his tail.
At long last, Humulis decided that the grapple had become intolerable. Arching his head back, away from Drakia's jaws, he then leaned forward again and opened his jaws wide, preparing to unleash his stinging gas directly into Drakia's eyes. Even through Humulis' blood she could see something flicker at the back of the savaged saurian's throat but as he readied his oral weapon the coils of his tail losened considerably and his arms, which had been wrapped around Drakia's body began to slacken.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jan 28, 2012 10:33:41 GMT -5
As her foe's powerful grip fell away, Drakia lashed out in a mixture of anger and lust. Pain. She needed pain. Her pain, its pain, she just needed pain. Thrusting her sneering jaws forward, the extra crispy giant slashed at Humulis with her saber-teeth. The ivory blades had some trouble hacking through the saurian's leathery hide, but lithe monster was reward with a hot spray of blood and a howl of agony. Although his neck now featured two bloody furrows that spewed streams of crimson life essence like waterspouts, Humulis reared forward and loosed his stinging gas. As the superheated vapor washed over her face, Drakia gave a great pained yowl, falling out of the bigger beast's grasp and collapsing to the ground in a thrashing heap. The shrilling lizard was pawing furiously at her eyes, talons raking across her own charred skin and ripping some of its away. The burnt husk of her once striped hide was dead, not bothered by the gas that affected nerve endings, but Humulis seemed to have predicted this and breathed the burning vapor into her eyes! The stinging gas was horrible. It made her want to gouge her own eyes out, although not even Drakia was unstable enough to go through with the thought. Humulis would have liked to take advantage of the lizard's agony and finished this, but his move with the gas had an unexpected effect.
In her frantic thrashing, Drakia had cloaked herself in a cloud of ash!
Humulis's emerald eyes, as keen as they were, simply could not penetrate the thick mass of pale debris. Neither could Drakia for that matter, but that didn't stop a flailing paw from catching the bipedal reptile's thigh on a chance. As soon as she felt her claws hook into something living and breathing, the Ash Queen tore upwards! Humulis bellowed painfully as Drakia carved his side, tearing through his tough hide thigh to armpit. The reptilian guardian stumbled back, sheets of crimson falling down his scales. A low moan escaped his maw. Homing in on the side and locking on Humulis with her recovering vision, Drakia pounced! Her foe was quicker though, spinning on a heel and batting the black horror aside with his heavy tail. Drakia hit the ground hard, impact tearing soil loose from the forest floor, but counted the blow with a crack of her tail before even rising to her feet. The bladed bone whip flashed across Humulis's shin, cutting deeply into it. The warty beast almost crumpled on the spot, but forced himself to stay upright, instead settling for a miserable grumble. Drakia's skeletal tail had torn completely through the flesh and struck bone, bouncing off the tibia, but chipping the larger monster's shinbone in vengeance!
Springing to her feet and whirling around, Drakia hissed loudly. Tears still streamed from her eyes, but her eyesight had returned in full, allowing her to glare at Humulis properly. Wanting to return the favor the defender's stinging gas, the killer gave a great breathe, sending up a plume of ash towards her foe's face...
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Post by brontorex on Jan 28, 2012 11:23:42 GMT -5
The ash cloud engulfed Humulis' monitor lizard-like which face looked as though it had been through a shredder following is up close and personal battle with Drakia, clogging the terrible wounds with burning ash, ravaging his eyes and clogging his mouth and nostrils. Humulis screamed in surprise and agony, stumbling back and clutching at his face. Drakia's tail arced over her head like that stinger of some demonic scorpion and cut deep through the leather plates over Humulis' belly. Had he not already been back pedaling the blow would have spilled his guts over the forest floor and ended the match. Instead the blow doubled him over and between the sudden change in position and the terrible wound infliced on his leg Humulis crashed to the ground onto his ruined face. Drakia pounced like a cat and sank her fangs into the back of Humulis' head. The fangs dug furrows into the bone of his skull but could not breach it.
Humulis did not even react to the blow. He did not even give a hint of pain.
Surprised by her prey's stillness (because somewhere in Drakia's mind, the obviously less experianced UCA combatant had stopped being her enemy and simply become prey) Drakia paused long enough to lean down and examine the titanic reptile's face.
Reddened, pain ravaged eyes snapped openand Humulis lunged forward and sank his teeth directly into Drakia's nose. Humulis' right hand blade slammed into Drakia's shoulder, penetrating the armor and grinding into bone. Drakia let out a screetch, a cry more of surprise than pain and jerked away. Humulis attempted to lift himself to his knees but as Drakia turned her tail sliced into his shoulder and he collapsed again. Once more he tried to rise, but once more Drakia pounced on him, claws shredding his bicep as she knocked him down. Humulis' tail lashed out, smashing into the earth like a hammer but the blow was slow and clumsy but Drakia easily dodged. He lashed out with his tail again and Drakia almost seemed to dance over the blow...only for Humulis' clawed foot to strike her with enough force to send her flying back. She smashed into the nearby hill tail first, a painful and awkward landing but not a seriously damaging one. Still, it gave Humulis the breathing room he needed to drag himself to his feet.
When he turned to face Drakia he let out a seething breath through clenched teeth. He was a savaged ruin, his face and neck torn to bloody shreds. Ash ground into his cuts and wounds, aggrivating his pain furthur. He was a blood drenched spectre, and he swayed slightly pain and blood loss and Drakia's venom slowing and weakening him.
Humulis tossed his head back and let out another bellow, and then charged Drakia, swinging his arms like pickaxes as he did so. Not yet ready to give in.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jan 29, 2012 16:26:18 GMT -5
Drakia yowled in fear as Humulis rushed her, bladed hands an ivory whirls. Tiny pupils all but disappearing as she went into an instinctual autopilot, the Ash Queen launched herself into a dance of dodges and narrow misses, twisting and turning around every jab and swing from her larger foe. Humulis bellowed in frustration. Couldn't this damn beast stay still? Lunging wildly, the muscular saurian caught his foe off guard, causing her to misstep and stumbled slightly. Seeing his chance, Humulis slashed down with a hand blade, sure he could cut the burnt horror's spine in two. To his shock, Drakia avoided the blow by pouncing forward, ramming her solid skull into his exposed gut. Winded and knocked off balance, the reptilian guardian tread back clumsily, arms wheeling to keep him upright. A taunting purr from Drakia birthed a spike of fury in the varanid beast. Bloodshot eyes narrowing in fury, Humulis turned his staggering into a spin, wheeling around and clubbing Drakia hard with his hefty tail. The powerful blow landed right of one of the killer lizard's saber-teeth, nearly wrenching it from its socket. Tumbling to the side with a pained shrill, Drakia could feel blood flow down her throat from her shredded gums.
Rage overcoming self-preservation, the Ash Queen rolled to her feet and sprung at an equally enraged Humulis.
Drakia slashed at the bigger beast with her gnarled talons, but the saurian sidestepped with surprising agility, lashing out with his own clawed foot. A sharp kick was delivered to Drakia's side, knocking her breath out and sending her tumbling. Humulis charged after his lean foe with a roar, but a black blur rocketed from Drakia's hindquarters suddenly. The lizard's muscular hid legs connecting with his jaw, Humulis spiraled away, blood and shattered teeth flying from his gasping maw! Dazed by the brutal kick, Humulis could do nothing else but collapse on his face. Drakia, breathing raggedly, rose with a snarl. The charred terror sneered hideously at the fallen Humulis. He fared better than she would have expected for such a heavy beast, especially one thoroughly drugged by her venom, but there was no way he could outmaneuver her! Leaping like a jungle cat, Drakia landed on Humulis's broad back and stabbed her great fangs down. The saber-teeth punched into the saurian's flesh, creating gory sheathes from themselves between his shoulder blades. Snapped from his daze by an explosion of agony, Humulis reared up with a strained wail. Tearing her saber-teeth loose with twin spurts of blood, Drakia rose up on two legs and plunged down again, this time aiming higher, for Humulis's warty neck...
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Post by brontorex on Jan 29, 2012 19:57:41 GMT -5
Humulis barely had time to throw up his arms to prevent Drakia from sinking her teeth into his jugular. He didn't ever let out a cry of pain and outrage when Drakia's teeth sank into his arm, stabbing right through the flesh passing between his radius and ulna. She shook her head with his arm in her mouth, like a dog with a rat caught in its teeth. Humulis rolled away from her, dragging his tormenter along the ground as he tried to pull his arm free. With a grunting roar of effort Humulis rolled over and slammed Drakia into the ground with such force that trees fell from the massive tree not far from them. Drakia's death grip on Humulis arm was slackened enough from the blow for him to twist and wrench the limb free from Drakia's mouth, leaving behind a twisted and bloody lump of flesh and skin stuck between her teeth. The pound of flesh Humulis was forced to pay for his freedom. Humulis roared and clambered back to his feet as Drakia tore at the chunk of saurian flesh stuck her teeth in an effort to dislodge it. It buried the tip of her saber fans and pressed painfully on her gums. As she did so Humulis once more dragged himself to his feet, this time his left arm hung limply at his side, to much tissue lost to Drakia's fangs to work properly.
Humulis narrowed his eyes and stomped forward towards the struggling Drakia who looked up at the towering shadow above her just in time to see his feet meet her side with such force she was sent sailing. The desperation, pain and rage behind the blow was enough to sent her flying with such force and distance it was as though she had been launched out of some giant cannon. She smashed into the ground in a heap, trailing ash as she landed. As she gathered herself into a standing position she realized she was in the shadow of the great tree. Its branches cloaking her torn, charred hide from the relentless sun above them. Shaking her head, she snarled and turned to charge her foe once again. His blood would stain the ground, a nourish the ancient roots of this monolithic tree! Humulis stumbled towards her, his already slow lumbering gait furthur hampered by blood loss and the raging venom in his veins. His massive heart labored to pump what blood he had left in his veins. He felt as though he was about to be ill and he was cold and tembling. His eyes were no longer as focused as they had once been.
Still he marched forward, the rage in his heart building into a furious bellow of defiance.
Leaning forward he unleashed a jet of white stinging gas at Drakia. His aim was off, to low and even if it wasn't she had easily read his attack and jumped back to avoid it. Those that felt the irritation of Humulis' secret weapon were not eager to feel it again but as the superheated chemical wafted down onto the trees they ignited, bursting into flames between Drakia and Humulis. At the sight of the fire, Drakia let out a hiss of sudden panic. Memories of the battle that made her the twisted thing she is flooding her mind. She backpedaled away from the flame.
Heedless to anything but destroying the object of his ire, of his desperate and sorrowful need to return to his quarters and rest Humulis marched through the flames and opened his mouth, once more sending a spray of the gas at Drakia.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jan 30, 2012 17:31:30 GMT -5
The pale gas missed Drakia, who pounced back with a hiss, but washed over the forest floor. The superheated vapor set the dry grass and discarded leaves ablaze instantly. A howl of fear rose through the canopy, the piercing cry shaking the treetops. A chaotic montage of hellish images flashed before Drakia's wild eyes- Hera lunging with open jaws filled with flames, Phenoraixa directing a plume of fire with a flared wing, fireballs raining from the sky and littering the ground with explosions, a titanic blazing that filled the heavens taking the shape of a predatory bird. The Ash Queen flew into a panic, springing back like a scared frog. Claws digging into the bark of a monstrous tree, Drakia swiftly scaled the towering pillar of wood. Leaping for the lowest branch and curling herself around its base, the once fearless horror squeezed her eyes shut and tried to ignore the smell of smoke drifting towards her. Below, Humulis growled in annoyance. This thing tore him up first, then ran away? Snarling, the bipedal saurian stomped forwards. He wasn't waiting for a foe that no longer wanted to fight.
Drakia almost plunged from the tree with a yelp as Humulis smashed his heavy tail into it!
Wheeling around, the varanid beast clubbed the truck again, tail shattering bark and wood. He bellowed up angrily at Drakia, demanding her to come down and finish the battle so he could return to his nap. The burnt lizard stubbornly refused to move. With a huff, Humulis spun to slam the tree again. The blow was a mighty one, a good chunk of the base smashed to splinters. The powerful strike nearly dislodged Drakia, who now only clung to her perch with her forearms. Shooting Humulis a glare and a hiss, the keen-eyed killer spotted something. Her foe had unwittingly stomped out the fire. Humulis had banished the terrible, evil flames.
With a crazed yowl, Drakia dropped from the tree and plummeted towards Humulis with slashing claws!
The muscular giant grit his teeth as the Ash Queen's gnarled talons tore across his face, hooking into his brow and jawline. Flesh stripped from bone, the saurian toppled, dragging down by Drakia's weight. As soon as the hero hit the ground, there was a sharp crack and a blade of bone was buried deep in Humulis's shoulder. The cry of pain the reptile bit back earlier escaped with a vengeance. Emerald eyes blazing, Humulis gripped the skeletal tail with his twin thumbs and ripped it from his body. Snapping the ivory lash, the powerful beast hurled Drakia into the base of the tree! The charred killer cracked against the solid wood, armor cratering and head whipping back with a scream. As Drakia slumped, Humulis rose, roaring and lunging at the downed lizard. With a guttural snarl, the Ash Queen lashed out! Drakia's clawed foot slammed into Humulis's gut, doubling the beast over. The blow was not able to toppled the larger monster, but it knocked his back, heels digging into the soil. Thin lines of blood leaked from the gashes across his midsection. Jumping upright, Drakia gave a deep exhale and launched herself forward, wrapping herself in a cloak of ash and shooting forward like a dark comet...
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Post by brontorex on Jan 30, 2012 18:58:58 GMT -5
Unwilling to relent, Humulis roared and slammed his tail down, digging it into the burn earth below him. Then leaning forward he stepped into Drakia's trackle! Drakia colided with a sound of chared armor against raw, shredded meat. Her cloak of ash swirled around the giants as once more they grappled in a deadly embrace. Drakia's fangs and claws tore new rents and gashes into Humulis' flesh, crisscrossing wounds that were already there. Flaps of skin hung from Humulis' neck and shoulder. Humulis held his mostly useless arm at Drakia's throat, his elbow digging into her larynx preventing her from using her jaws to their full advantage. His other arm batted away her tail every time it arced around to impale or slash him. With a hiss she backed off a step, allowing his left arm to fall to his side once more, then her tail swung around and plunged deep into his prone arm, pinning it to his side.
With a roar of effort, Humulis shoved Drakia back! The tip of her tail was torn from Humulis' body.
Drakia hissed as she stumbled away on two legs and recovered just in time for Humulis to slam into her with a full on shoulder charge that carried them both slamming into the base of the massive tree. A cloud of ash shot out of Drakia's jaws as she wheezed, the blow knocking the air from her lungs. Humulis brough his knee up into her belly with a punishing blow that doubled her up and sent her sinking onto all fours again. Humulis took a full step back and then jabbed with his good arm, a bone dagger aimed directly at Drakia's burnt and chipped face!
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jan 31, 2012 17:55:49 GMT -5
Drakia backpedaled, eyes stretching wide, but Humulis responded by whipping his tail behind her to form a barrier of flesh and bone. With a loud slap, the heavy tail smacked into the lithe lizard from behind, making her drop to her haunches and sliding her towards the incoming hand blade. Boxed in and made vulnerable by the muscular appendage, the Ash Queen saw she had nowhere to go...
But forward.
With an angry snarl, Drakia kicked out and pounced at Humulis! The burnt killer jerked her head to the side as she barreled into the bigger monster's lunge, the bone blade tearing into her jawline and cheek. Char armor split and flesh shredded as the ivory dagger did its job, spilling sheets of blood that splattered over both reptiles. Slamming into Humulis with a yowl of agony, the Ash Queen avenged her pain immediately! Three gnarled talons were raked across leathery hide, and a pair of saber-fangs slashed at an exposed neck. In less than a second, Humulis was bleeding out from three new gashed on his chest and two across his throat, each spurting crimson streams. Bellowing as the hot life essence ran down his powerful form, Humulis pushed forward with all his weight, throwing Drakia off of him. With a kick of her legs and a flail of her tail, the psychotic lizard landed on her feet, like some great, horrific cat. The extra crispy monster bolted away just before a hefty tail hammered the ground hard. Whirling to follow his foe, Humulis zoomed in on her with hard emerald orbs, but the black terror disappeared as she entered the shadow of a massive tree, earning a grunt of alarm from the lager titan. Watching Humulis wheel around in search of her through wild cat eyes, Drakia purred softly, boasting to herself. Her stripped hide of old would have made her blend into the treetops, but her new coat of dark ash and char made her part of the shadows!
As Humulis turned his back to her, Drakia charged the saurian from the darkness!
Humulis dropped to his knees with a agonized howl as one of his calves was slashed open by a black blur, the ash that followed stinging in the open wound. Bleeding into the soft forest soil, the reptilian guardian moaned, teeth gritting in pain. Another dark streak whizzed back, a crack announcing the whip of a skeletal tail and foretelling another nasty slash across Humulis's collar. Crimson speckled the surrounding tree trunks. Crumpling to his bladed hands, the hero rasped weakly, more blood bubbling from the wide, irritated injuries. Emerald eyes followed the trail of pale ash that Drakia left in her wake, Humulis tried to track the agile beast, but the best he got was the occasional flash of bone or wisp of ash.
Slinking around the downed reptile from the shadows, drool dripped from Drakia's open jaws. The feeling of a creature helpless at her claws... the sensation of flesh parting so easily around her talons... it was intoxicating, addicting even. She had to have more. Dashing into the clearing once more, the Ash Queen rushed Humulis with blinding speed, paw whipping out to rip into the other giant's side...
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