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Post by Serrion on Aug 29, 2008 10:18:14 GMT -5
The skeletal dragon stepped simply further away from the blow, glowing red orbs looking out from dark eye sockets. "All fires have to die out some time youngling. Even the fires of the blood dragons. I am here to simply snuff out the smoke of the blaze that someone else was kind enough to kill for me."
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Post by Fury on Aug 29, 2008 14:08:35 GMT -5
Talana hissed. "You will not win."
Esmeya felt herself regain strength and motivation when she heard Rafael's familiar voice. ~Raffie? Raffie is that really you?~
Sheakria whipped her tail across Neraika's side, leaving a deadly gash on the dragoness.
"You bitch!" Neraika snarled, snapping her teeth down on Sheakria's upper forearm, causing shockwaves of pain.
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Post by Venus on Aug 31, 2008 16:24:20 GMT -5
There was a wry, rasping chuckle. ~What's... left of me, anyway. Not much, to be blunt.~
Still snarling and growling, Venus and Rafael tumbled down towards the ground, locked together by claws and teeth. The blue dragoness managed to pull back, but not before she got another set of feathers in her wings for her trouble. Falling to a stop below her, Rafael snickered, eyes blazing with some sort of unnatural emotion.
"Think a surprise attack'll do you any good, little Venus? What about your friends? Would you leave them to the Lich and Neraika?"
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Post by Serrion on Sept 1, 2008 7:13:29 GMT -5
Lich laughed as he was back in the shade of the forest, though the fires still lit him up he was out of the moonlight, his skeletal body becoming scaled and clawed again. "You think that you two can stop me?" He asked before unleashing a breath of black smog at them. Serrion unleashed his flames which blasted out and countered the smog, but even as it was the smog still coming began to try and climb around it, Serrion had to force the flames with his fire to stretch and become wider. Dragons were not meant for holding out their breath weapons for long, usually just a quick burst to douse an area in flames, but these two were holding it, both their weapons holding out. (you can imagine a scene from Dragon Ball Z where two guys are facing off with their blast attacks)
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Post by Fury on Sept 1, 2008 11:10:26 GMT -5
Talana took the chance to roll and go to her brother's side. She opened her mouth and shot out her own flames, this time a bright-hot blue. Her own eyes flashed blue, Sama helping her to hold the breath weapon as well. Though combined they would not be able to hold it as long as Serrion, it was still enough. ~I've got your back, Serrion.~
Esmeya smiled weakly. ~There isn't much left of me, either, Raffie... look, we need your help. Kre's stronger than us. His helpers are pushing us back as well. Our time for life is over, we are but spirits... but Venus, Sheakria, Serrion, and Talana have their time as now. If we don't help them fight Kre will take it all away like he did to us.~
Neraika growled between her clenched teeth, holding Sheakria's arm in place. Sheakria let her breath out in a hiss. "You will pay for that one, wench. Nobody messes with Sheakria Anacria!"
"Make me for I definitely would say I have. Go ahead, show me what you have Miss Almighty Sheakria." Raik challenged. "I'm not afraid of you at all."
Sheakria's face went into a familiar cold-eyed and angry smirk. "You asked for it!" she roared, slamming into Neraika's side again with her tailspike. At the same time she rolled, and though Neraika was holding on tight with her bite she was able to use that against the dragoness. She continued her spiral until she had Neraika on the bottom, slamming her into the ground at high speed. A dust cloud spiraled upwards as the result, giving the area some kind of strange almost alien look to it.
The only sound besides the impact was a crunch of bones breaking. Sheakria opened her wings and spiraled upwards with the dust, her arm now freed from Neraika's grip. She soared out of the area and landed about ten yards from the site of impact, waiting to see if the fall had done any good. Truth-be-told... it hadn't.
With a low moan of pain Neraika dragged herself from the crater that had been made from her own body. She stood just in front of the smoke, snarling at Sheakria with her lip curled up to show her sharp teeth. Her tail twitched and her nostrils flared, trails of smoke twisting upwards with the large pillar behind her. "You...little...WENCH! How can you think you can beat me so easily. You're so damn cocky."
"That's quite something coming from the bitch who thinks she can take me down." Sheakria commented, her face remaining in her old smirk. Unlike Neraika she stool stark still, the only movement from the folding of her wings. "And you seem to have taken more damage than I have."
With a quick once-over glance it was plain to see Sheakria's words were completely true. Neraika had a gash on both sides, blood spilling from them both though it was slowing. One of her wings was snapped, the delicate membranes not being able to take the force of the fall. But lastly Raik was shaking. She couldn't keep a stable stance with so many talons cracked and her muscles tired and achy. "It isn't over yet Sheakria."
"Oh, but I believe it is. You cannot fight in such a condition. You never COULD fight." the emerald dragoness laughed, a cold sound that resonated through the battle field. "And you are far too cocky. You are out-classed and overpowered. Has nobody told you not to underestimate an opponent? Now... you die." Her expression had changed in and instant, teeth flashing angrily as she sprang forward.
(x.x Longest...post...ever... xD)
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Post by Venus on Sept 3, 2008 16:59:49 GMT -5
(xDD Yep. Better than this one's going to be, 'coz Psychology work is calling me from womewhere over by my desk. >.<)
~You're right Es. But there isn't much I can do - this is his body now, not mine. He changed it, remember? As if I would've gone around in that feathered monstrosity!~
A quiet snort.
~I was much more stylish. Like I said though, he's taken it over completely. I lost any rights and control over it back on that island. So. Any suggestions at all?~
Rafael, seeing Neraika in difficulty down in the pit left by Sheakria's attack, kept one eye trained on that fight and the other one on taunting Venus. Even though she was still watching him warily, he could sense her attention was very much drifting to the battles going on behind her.
He smirked. So that was how to get to her.
"What would you do if something... happened to them, while you were here chatting away with me, hm? How would you feel then?" He lowered his voice to a baritone hiss. "Guilty? Angry? Dare I say, responsible? It'd be the same as that little old fight on the island. Little Venus - always the one who's running away."
That got her attention. Snarling, vicious and bloodthirsty, she launched herself at Rafael, trying to maneuver him back towards where her friends were fighting. She may not be able to be of much help, but if she was nearer at least there'd be some chance she could help if anything happened.
After all, you never knew with the psychopath who was currently digging his claws into her shoulder.
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Post by Fury on Sept 4, 2008 8:48:44 GMT -5
~Yeah... you were uch more stylish, and much less of an idiot too.~ Esmeya agree. She then poute. ~You can't help from this body but maybe you can get out of it and come with me? Your spirit would be freed... and you could help as we all have been doing by shielding the fighting dragons' minds from attacks.~
Raik howled in pain as Sheakria sank in her teeth. The dragoness wasn't just fighting anymore. She intended to kill. As she twisted and turned she slashed with both talon and tail, leaving gash after gash.
"You're done-for." Sheakria snarled.
"Not...yet..."
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Post by Serrion on Sept 6, 2008 10:47:35 GMT -5
Both the flames of Serrion and Talana faced the darkness of Lich. Serrion's eyes flashed as he used his magic to direct the flames of Talana's to become more intense. Lich was holding up against it amazingly, but even he wasn't sure if he could face against the flames of both these dragons. Then Serrion's eyes turned red, that caused Lich to blink. ~I will end this for you.~ Crimson told Serrion, though even Talana and Lich could hear his thoughts. ~I know how to face this monstrosity's powers, I was around the first time he came to the mountains, I was the one who stopped him.~ ~So...~ Lich's mind hissed in anger. ~You were the Red dragon that decimated my plans all those years ago... The fire storm, I remember when my very scales began to melt. How is it you are alive? I am here because I am death itself, but you... You're a Hellkite aren't you?~ Though the flames still burst from Serrion/Crimson's jaws, the Hellkite gave a mental smirk. ~Funny, how many ways there are to cheat death.~ His body came alight with burning flames that slowly changed until they were golden, the very air around him shimmered in the heat. ~Sama, keep away from me. The flames around me are too powerful for me to keep from burning you for long. I can hold this up longer than he can, move around and attack him from another direction.~
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Post by Fury on Sept 7, 2008 12:49:14 GMT -5
Talana's eyes became a complete and solid blue. Sama was now in total controll though Talana could still hear and speak.
She sent Crimson a quick mental nod and moved quickly out of the way. ~Good luck.~
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Post by Serrion on Sept 10, 2008 10:42:17 GMT -5
The flames around Crimson burst even harder. Lich hissed, the skeletal dragon surrounded himself in an aura of black mist as he attempted to strengthen himself. ~I will not let you win Blood Dragon, Hellkite or not~
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Post by Fury on Sept 10, 2008 13:51:10 GMT -5
Sama began to slink along, her sleek body moving in completely fluent motions. She was like water... no, more flowing than even that. Even with her bright red scales she blended perfectly. Suited, adapted, and so much more for such a thing. It was breathtaking as she banked around Lich's side, ready to attack from the flank or rear once her brother said it was safe to approach the burning-hot flames enough to continue her previous breath-attack.
Rising up out of the crater yet again as Sheakria's attack launched her backwards with teeth marks in her neck, Neraika felt her legs buckle beneath her. Unlike Talana, Sama, or Sheakria, she was not such a fluent motion. She didn't have the beauty or the almost quicksilver movement pattern.
Sheakria drew her lips back over her teeth, covering her previous snarl as well as the new coating of blood that she would rather not think about. "You're. Finished." she spat. Her eyes glowed beyond the focal point of their golden colour. It was almost as if cold fire mixed with an ice storm at the same time danced behind her gaze.
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Post by Venus on Oct 14, 2008 12:14:54 GMT -5
(*salutes* Here I am, absolutely knackered and more than a little down - but still!)
Venus roared as she felt Rafael's teeth crunch into the tip of her tail, leaving it hanging useless behind her - she got her revenge with a well-placed swipe to his shoulder. But eventually the dragoness was forced to pull away, falling back closer to her friends. The scratches along her side burned, her tail was throbbing, and those feathers were getting annoying - but it was fine. Isandre had stabilised Fenrill's presence, and now they could fight together. Gold fell away from her eyes in layers, until they swirled with a shade of blue so very dark and deep it was almost navy;, unfathomable, endless, dangerous... powerful. The third hellkite was joining the brawl.
She moved backwards, drawing Rafael closer to her friends and his allies.
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Rafael still looked calm and composed, despite the blood dripping from his claws and the ends of his feathers. But his eyes were burning with a murderous, mad fire and he followed Isandre as she flitted away, still facing him.
"Worried, hellkite?"
Isandre met his pitch eyes steadily. "When am I ever? Surely you know your enemy better than that, raven."
He snorted, the sound hissing unpleasantly in his throat. "Hm." She held his gaze for a few long moments, then blurred into movement, blinking between splintered trees and disrupted clouds as fast as Venus's skills would allow.
With a growl, he followed. Then suddenly, she was there, right behind him and he didn't know how, but a solid punch slammed into the back of his neck and he was dropping - turning to face the snarling vision of blue fire above him. Rafael righted himself, and she smirked.
"Worried?" A torrent of royal blue flame roared towards him, and he righted himself quickly enough to meet it with his own black fire. The colours danced across the night sky like the aurora, reaching out to the stars and overwhelming them.
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~Es, there isn't much that I can do anymore. I've been fighting him for centuries on the inside, and it made him... well. A little unstable. You've probably noticed he's a bit more unhinged than he was when we first faced him. But we can't allow that to happen to another generation. It was bad enough for us, love...~
He chuckled weakly, a little sad and a little mad.
~I never did say sorry, did I? If it was any other situation, I would. But this time, I won't. Your life was worth more than that stupid raven having my body... enough with the mushy stuff. We need a plan. Any ideas?~
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Post by Fury on Oct 14, 2008 14:53:06 GMT -5
Esmeya laughed, the familiar musical tone of it bringing a little more bit of dancing light into the darkness. ~No need to say Sorry, Raf. I know why you did it...I just sometimes wish you hadn't. However you are correct. We have no need for the mush and gush of it all. Ideas on how to get you out? No clue. Perhaps I could channel some of my light magic. It'd react with yours bad as ever but it should allow me to direct your spirit out of here. It'll be a stronger push than yours can counter. Sound dangerous or do you think it'd work?~'
Neraika glared. She was no match now for the emerald female. She would die.
Sheakria laughed coldly for a moment, the old attitude shining through. She held her tailspike inches away from Neraika's throat. "Any last words? Not as if I will listen to them..."
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Post by Venus on Oct 14, 2008 15:01:09 GMT -5
~Hm. It'll mean that Kre gets full control of my body. Whether that's a good thing or not remains to be seen. Not that I have any control or anything, so it should just be the same as it is now... and we'll need energy. I saw what Isandre did to bring Fen into existence...~
He took a deep, stuttering breath.
"I 'spose it's worth a try... I'm going to disappear anyway at this rate.~
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(Could evil!Raf cut into Sheakria's fight to help out Neraika? Hee.)
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Post by Fury on Oct 14, 2008 15:03:29 GMT -5
(Go right on ahead ) ~How much energy?~ Esme asked, wanting to make sure she could spare it. ~You know my limitations have only grown and expanded over time. I've had years and years to play around with my light magic. It's only become stronger.~
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