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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Oct 23, 2012 0:50:05 GMT -5
Raising her body into the air, Kadru was quick to deflect the deadly orb with a quick swing of the meteor hammer. The golden weight collided against the energy weapon in mid-flight, causing a large explosion to erupt between the two entities. As the red glare of flames cleared, the dragon simply shook her head. "No you won't," she said in a matter-of-fact tone. "I've dealt with many liars in the past... and you are no different."
With that said, vast amounts of magical energy began to coarse through her crest, giving it a bright, purple glow. Energized bolts of violate danced between her antlers. The Hag took the chance to aim a fireball at her opponent, but neither the pain nor damage did anything to stop the purple energy from surging down Kadru's lengthily body. It continued to the tips of her four tails, finally passing into the meteor hammer. "No matter what I do to his body..." the demon hissed. "No matter what damage it is put through by either of us, it doesn't change the fact that a body is nothing but a temporary capsule for the eternal heart of an individual... their soul. Nothing I can do can ever compare to whatever hell hole you sent Crigan's soul to. And for that..."
The next words were spoken in almost a whisper. "You will feel pain by this duel's end."
The meteor hammer seemed to abruptly explode into violate light as a magical flame bathed the weights and chain in a blanket of purple fire. This fire seemed to not cause their mistress any damage, as Kadru continued to hold the fiery weapon just fine. But these same demonic flames were quickly beginning to melt the streets below into a thick paste of molten concrete. Another ball of fire began to gather in the possessed Crigan's mouth, but before the weapon could be released, Kadru swung the weapon at the worm's face! The superheated blow ended in an explosion within Crigan's own jaws, as the fireball erupted due to purple flames that briefly overloaded the energy weapon. As both violate and orange flames cleared, one could clearly see the trail of destruction left behind. The once golden mask was now sorted black, and the jaws chipped and mangled. A second blow from the fire-meteor slammed into the worm's side, dropping the possessed body from the sky.
Soaring over her opponent, Kadru began to spin about in a circle, letting the flaming hammer drop only a few meters above the ground. Before long, the purple flame spread to the earth, and the dragon's rotations began to create a circle of demonic fire around Yukari. The magical properties of the weapon were soon ending, and at last, the violate flames dropped from the meteor hammer... but not before the Gap Hag was enveloped in a ring of fire. The sheer heat of the purple flames began to roast the body within, gathering steadily higher all the while.
Kadru drifted back to the ground... awaiting the flames to spread to the body itself... alert and ready to block whatever attack Yukari had planned for her...
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Oct 23, 2012 1:35:58 GMT -5
With the magical flames swirling around her, Yukari was surprisingly calm even with the insults hurled at her. Was it that she realized what she was doing was hopeless? No... instead, the Boundary Manipulator was improvising and expounding on her plans, even as the flames caught afire on Crigan's body and began to burn away at it. "So you only care for his soul, and not this useless carcass? That makes things far easier for me. I gave you a chance, wyrm, but since you refused..." The ancient being boomed out, as if oblivious to the fires upon her. "I'll be sure that when Crigan's soul comes back, you'll hardly recognize it..."
With that, the fires upon the posessed creature's body began to flicker. At first, it was only minor, but then they wavered and blew out violently as the demonic aura that Yukari possesed blasted the ring of fire away and upward, resulting in a towering twister of the very flames Kadru had created. Caught off-guard by this development, the dragon found herself caught up in the flaming spire. The fires raced around her, scorching scales and blinding her along with the dark demonic aura that was nearly overwhelming. Kadru snarled in fury as she tried to make her way out of the fusion of fiery tornado and demonic aura...
And right into Yukari's trap.
The familiar sensation of sharp claws tearing into her side alerted Kadru that she was once again caught in the Hag's grasp, but this time, a sharp pain erupted at the base of the back of her neck. Crigan's maw was latched on tight, and refusing to let go. Restrained, Kadru could only flail her Meteor Hammer in vain, the weapon glancing against the possesssed Crigan's body, but aside from a bruise, it did nothing to force Yukari to let go....
And then, the worm's body began to bend backward, slowly and surely, into a U shape... bending Kadru's body along with it. At first, it didn't feel too bad for the demon dragon, but as the U was brought in tighter and tighter, and brought into itself at the ends, the dragon's body began to burn with pain as bones and ligaments were snapped out of place and torn... It was a hellish pain for the dragon, and had Crigan still been in control of his body, no doubt he would have been unable to do it as well...
At the peak of the curling up, the blackened mask of Crigna discharged a single fireball with Kadru's neck still latched onto. The resulting explosion, timed with all the claws releasing their hold, sent the dragon spiraling down onto the street floor, bruised and streached. Crigan's body itself was stuck in an odd horseshoe shape, the armor and body torn at various parts from it... until the body seemed to snap back into shape, a dark chuckle coming from the Gap Hag within as she floated down to Kadru.
"You know the wonderful thing about not feeling pain in a possessed body? I can do whatever I want with it, and all at the original owner's expense." Yukari announced as she gleamed at Kadru. "And this isn't the first time I've done this to someone's soul either. I'll let you in on a little secret, girl. I'm not allowed down in the Underworld nowadays, but when I was last down there, I recall seeing some souls from your species, I think. They looked like they were in alot of pain and agony, tormented by their condition and ready to throw insults at anyone and everyone... Well, let's just say I put them out of their misery, permanently." Yukari snickered, before delving into complete laughter. Wherever she was lying or not, no one could tell but her, but either way, what she said was to get under Kadru's skin, to irritate her and drive her into blind fury. Such was the skewed sense of "getting even" that Yukari Yakumo had for those who insulted her, or called her age into question... This was not her being serious... this was the Hag merely toying with her prey, battering it around until she felt like crushing all hope Kadru had...
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Oct 27, 2012 23:52:33 GMT -5
Because she was a trained fighter, Kadru knew enough discipline to avoid flying into a maddened rage. But this didn't mean that she wasn't seething in anger towards the Gap Hag. She wasn't going to crack before this demon. Her body was strong! She would prevail! Her gods had abandoned her people long ago. It was time to prove why faith in one's self was all one needed to win.
Kadru's crest began to glow yellow, having absorbed enough magic from her own flames Yukari had redirected against her. Moments later, her entire serpentine body seemed to explode into gold sparkles, leaving Yukari to ponder what had happened. It wasn't until each of the tiny specks of energy began to surge towards the possessed body, did the boundary manipulator finally realize what Kadru had done. The demon had transformed into a cloud of tiny, energized wasps! The swarm of insects began to surge down the throat of the possessed Crigan, shocking the interior of the body with stinging zaps of energy, in hopes of somehow finding a way to injure Yukari herself.
This failed. Damage was only delivered to Crigan's body, and the energized insects were soon blasted out of the body by a powerful fireball, sending each of the magical wasps flying out Crigan's mouth. Her energize dwindling once again, the magical insects began to converge, and with a brilliant flash, Kadru was reformed. A second fireball exploded against her chest, but despite the damage, the demoness refused to back down. Refused to show weakness. Instead, the dragon flew right at the possessed body, her jaws closing around the throat. Red-hot liquid seeped into Crigan's throat, but Kadru wasn't preforming this bite with the intention of dealing damage. No... if she was going to defeat Yukari, she would have to defeat her method of attack. She was going to have to get Crigan out of the way without killing him.
The eastern dragon began to ascend to the skies, pushing Yukari's stolen body up with her. The rest of the world became a blur for the two as Kadru reached her top speed. At this point, Crigan was unable to defend himself, the speed being so great that even Yukari could not command the body to move. Higher and higher they flew, diving into the clouds above the city. The air was beginning to grow colder, but still Kadru did not slow. They were beyond the lower clouds now. If this kept up, both monsters would surely end up in space.
That is... if the UCA wasn't there to keep monsters from escaping.
A green light could be seen... steadily growing brighter. The demon realized what this meant. A weapon was preparing to fire on the two, should they continue on their journey. Flipping around, and dragging Crigan with her, Kadru began to decent like a meteor. She had hoped to lose Crigan in the depths of space, but it seemed as though the UCA and there weapons wouldn't allow that.
At that moment... the answer came to Kadru. A plan began to form in her mind.
She sped up, taking Crigan with her on her suicidal dive. They were past the clouds now. In the moment's before the impact, Kadru slowed down enough as to not seriously harm Crigan. her fangs released the worm from her grasp, and the dragon pulled up just in time to avoid crashing into the streets herself. Yukari wasn't so fortunate. The impact of Crigan's landing was enough to create a huge shockwave, enough to level several buildings around the crash site. Bruised and battered, the body was non-the-less forced to rise as Yukari began a counter attack.
The Gap Hag wasn't fast enough. Kadru's meteor hammer was already wrapping it's length about Crigan's claw-tipped wings, and her lengthly body captured the worm's in her grasp. The meteor hammer's chain hooked itself behind Crigan's jaws, forcing his head back up against his equally trapped wings. The possessed body was forced to the ground, unable to move at all. Crigan was unharmed by this... but he didn't need harming.
"What are you going to do, now Hag?" Kadru hissed. "Come on. Show yourself and prove that you aren't really some old lady playing magic tricks. Show yourself and prove that you can take a hit!"
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(OCC: With SW retired, we will be needing a ref to review this, if anyone's watching.)
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Oct 28, 2012 22:24:08 GMT -5
OOC: FINAL POST!
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This kind of trapped position was not one that Yukari liked. No, being bound up like this was far from ideal. So the chinese dragon still had some fight in her? Well then, so did she... and she had ALOT of energy left in her disposal... as well as a few tricks up her sleeve...
An ear-piercing screech fired from Crigan's maw and began to bombard Kadru's eardrums. The sound was deafening and unnatural, a sound that Crigan himself would be unable to make. Any remaining glass windows in the city within a several mile radius shattered, and glass flew in all directions, some of it embedding in both fighter's flesh. For Kadru, the awful sound was painful, excruciating even....
And it took her attention and effort off maintaining Yukari trapped.
Breaking free from her improsionment, the Gap Hag within charged at Kadru. With her eardrums still pounding from the noise, she was unable to retaliate as the possessed worm smashed into her. The helmet scrapped against her flesh as Kadru was smashed into the center of a building. Upon impact, Yukari floated away just in time for the top 40 floors to come crashing down upon the demonic dragon, and then for that to come crumbling to the floor. When the dust settled, Kadru was buried underneath a giant mound of steel, glass, and rock.
"Iwould love to try and fight you as myself... but then, where is the fun in that? Is it not more entertaining and just to beat a disobedient, in-grateful brat with a second in-grateful brat?" The Manipulator of Boundaries taunted as a sphere of energy formed from Crigan's claws and was fired down at the rubble.
At the same time, though, a beam of Hellfire tore through the rubble and slammed into the Gap Hag, scorching scales and pushing her back. The sphere of eneryg, though, hit home, and the sound of Kadru howling in pain was music to Yukari's ears. Justice was being served, and now... for the coup de grace! A second, final Focus Blast was forming, and was about to be fired...
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Oct 28, 2012 23:28:44 GMT -5
"ATTENTION!" cried the Announcer. "THE MATCH HAS BEEN DECLARED A DRAW. THE MATCH HAS BEEN DECLARED A DRAW!"
(I'm not fond of calling ties, but I really can't see any way either fighter got ahead of the other. They were pretty much dead even the whole time.)
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Oct 28, 2012 23:44:47 GMT -5
A draw? A DRAW? Kadru was enraged. She wanted to murder Yukari for her actions! But no... if this plan of hers worked out, the evil demon would be getting the punishment she deserved.
"Come on, Yukari," she hissed, fire brimming in her eyes. "All you've proved so far is that you are a weak coward, forced to fight by sending opponents far away from you. Forced to engage by using the bodies of others. Or perhaps..." The dragon's teeth parted in a savage grin.
"Perhaps the real reason you refuse to fight me yourself is because you're nothing but an old, senile, hag. After all, you have referred to me as a "child" throughout this entire fight. I'm over two billion years old, Yukari. If I am truly a child in your eyes, what does that make you?"
The dragon floated to the ground, landing very lightly, not even crushing the street below her feet. "A decrypt fossil who hides behind a false mask of youth."
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Oct 28, 2012 23:58:46 GMT -5
THat did it. She knew what Kadru was up to, and normally, she would have walked away and taken her victory... but Yukari Yakumo whirled around, eyes blazing with hatred and anger with those comments. The body of Crigan was teleported away by her power, leaving behind the hag as she was... a VERY pissed youthful-looking hag. "No one... no being in these worlds DARES insult me and gets away with it!" She screamed, before holding her arm up. A rift in time and space opened up, and from it came an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile, aimed right for Kadru. Yukari was smarter than this most of the time, and she knew what would happen... but her own anger and rage was blinding her judgement, and she didn't care. She wanted to see the demonic dragon burn for calling her such names...
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Oct 29, 2012 0:52:29 GMT -5
A spear of gaseous emerald green intercepted the missile mid-flight, splitting the air with a grass-hued fireball. As the Aurora beam flickered from existence, Yukari gasped as she felt... something affecting her.
"We do not appreciate our fighters being used as puppets, Miss Yakumo," spoke the Announcer with ice in his voice. "You are fortunate we overlooked it in exchange for a more interesting battle. But attacking Kadru went too far, Miss Yakumo. So the victory is being awarded to her and you are being suspended. Your projection from your body."
Yukari let out a straggled moan as a deathly coldness gripped her. She was slammed by the fragility of mortality and her form faded into a ghost-like shadow.
"Your body, Miss Yakumo, is now being held within canabilizing beams. They feed off your power. The energy left in your physical shape was enough to sustain them for seven day. You will be unable to reach it until then. If you try, your essence will be consumed and feed them forever. You will cease existing entirely, Miss Yakumo. Only an empty shell will remain to rot. We don't suggest it. You are now intangible and powerless. You are merely an image and a voice. Enjoy it. You're like the rest of us now. Perhaps it will humble you. Oh, and..."
The shade of the Gap Hag dropped from the sky with a hoarse animal's howl. The spector thrashed wildly with an alien sensation- pain.
"That was two. 50 caliber bullets being put through your body. Don't worry, we'll heal it, but that was a warning. You are not beyond our reach, Miss Yakumo. No one is. So behave yourself in the future." The Announcer took on a tone of obnoxious cheerfulness. "Feel free to mingle in your new mortal state. And when your week of suspension is up, be careful reclaiming your body. Extended separation tends to leave you a bit woozy."
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Oct 29, 2012 1:00:16 GMT -5
Rising up from the ground, the once mighty Reality Warper glared daggers at the source of the voice... and at Kadru. "Damn you... Damn you all... You will suffer for this..." And with that, the groaning being was brought away by a beam of light. Humiliated... No one had dared done such a thing to her, not since Bolretis! She had gravely underestimated the UCA... and now, she was paying the price. With just this phantom mortal projection, she was helpless...
What she didn't know, was that things were far, far worse than she realized...
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Oct 29, 2012 1:08:00 GMT -5
Kadru breathed a sigh of relief. She had done it. She had defeated the Gap Hag. It was a victory that very few could claim to have achieved. Perhaps, under normal conditions, Kadru would be proud. But instead, the dragon found herself overcome by worry. Where was Crigan? Had the UCA returned him to the hub?
She stepped into the ray of light before her, morphing back into her smaller, cloaked form. The demon hoped that nothing terrible had happened to Crigan. She didn't know what Yukari had sent his soul too, but she knew it was anything but paradise.
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