Re: The Battle Majestic (Round 1 - Bubble Universe)
02-13-2010, 05:17 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by Baphomet.
Vexmagog tried to keep up with the rest of the group, weaving through the rapidly sprouting branches, but their flat feet were designed for running, while his foot-hands were not. A few yards from the surface of the "sun", Jacob's incline with regard to the surface swapped, as if suddenly shifting from walking uphill to down.
Vexmagog began to stray behind, until he passed the barrier where gravity switched. Reminded of the crystalline thorn towers that bored through the mountains of his home, he stopped. The others ran ahead as he walked out onto a branch, shifting his gravitational field to match its incline.
He held his arms out in front of him and pushed himself off of the branch.
He fell a good twenty feet, his green cloak trailing behind him, before catching a branch below with all four limbs. His momentum and the angle at which he hit caused him to spin around it, his right hand digging a scar through the bark. Without missing a beat, he pushed off with his legs, snagging a newly-forming branch beneath. It bent with his weight and twirled him around the main trunk, which he alighted on next to the sprinting Blitz. The branch snapped back into place and Vexmagog leapt again, stopping himself once on a branch along the way before dropping past Steven, Jacob, and Wolf, a green streak through the air.
The branch below, once grabbed, twisted him close enough to the trunk for his gravity field to catch it, and he skidded and sprinted across the surface for a brief moment. Jacob and Wolf caught up and passed him as he regained his balance.
Vexmagog's heart raced and he smiled, panting slightly. Raising his arms into the air, he let out an alien whoop and leapt again.
Vexmagog tried to keep up with the rest of the group, weaving through the rapidly sprouting branches, but their flat feet were designed for running, while his foot-hands were not. A few yards from the surface of the "sun", Jacob's incline with regard to the surface swapped, as if suddenly shifting from walking uphill to down.
Vexmagog began to stray behind, until he passed the barrier where gravity switched. Reminded of the crystalline thorn towers that bored through the mountains of his home, he stopped. The others ran ahead as he walked out onto a branch, shifting his gravitational field to match its incline.
He held his arms out in front of him and pushed himself off of the branch.
He fell a good twenty feet, his green cloak trailing behind him, before catching a branch below with all four limbs. His momentum and the angle at which he hit caused him to spin around it, his right hand digging a scar through the bark. Without missing a beat, he pushed off with his legs, snagging a newly-forming branch beneath. It bent with his weight and twirled him around the main trunk, which he alighted on next to the sprinting Blitz. The branch snapped back into place and Vexmagog leapt again, stopping himself once on a branch along the way before dropping past Steven, Jacob, and Wolf, a green streak through the air.
The branch below, once grabbed, twisted him close enough to the trunk for his gravity field to catch it, and he skidded and sprinted across the surface for a brief moment. Jacob and Wolf caught up and passed him as he regained his balance.
Vexmagog's heart raced and he smiled, panting slightly. Raising his arms into the air, he let out an alien whoop and leapt again.
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