Re: Pitched Combat [Round 1: Forêt Noire]
01-24-2010, 12:24 AM
Originally posted on MSPA by MalkyTop.
Slice, dodge, fire. Slice, dodge, fire.
They had quickly fallen into a comfortable routine that it seemed the monster could not break. It was still huge, of course, but it was slow. Too slow to catch the two nimble figures, despite all its multiple appendages.
It had determined that though the one with the sword was indeed chopping up its limbs, the one with the fire was more troublesome. Eemp was suddenly getting all the attacks. Though Alex tried to slice off any claws (or in some cases, teeth) that came after his much needed accomplice, Eemp still had to dodge almost constantly, making it harder for Rong to aim. To compensate, she made her fireballs a tad bit larger.
Which is why Alex had to quickly stamp out a fire on his shoe.
"Sorry!" Rong called out after being shouted at by Right.
"Yeah, yeah." It was fine. All he had to do was concentrate a little more and move faster...they'd better get finished quick. He was getting exhausted.
Even with some setbacks, half of the monster was scorched and useless, causing it to bulge strangely out the still growing end. It started growing more legs to support itself from the front, but didn't seem to be able to move anymore for the most part. Alex started getting bolder with his cuts, trying to go for the actual torso rather than just the appendages. He just wanted it to be over already.
And then finally...
"Cut off the heads!"
Alex bit back a sharp retort to the obvious command and did so, his sword slicing easily through the necks and with one last fire burst, the monster's growth stopped. It was just one huge, scorched mass now.
Alex wobbled a bit as he landed, his legs getting used to standing on stable ground again for more than a few seconds. He could even see Rong wheezing, venting out some excess smoke. Eemp had managed to escape many of the attacks with his help, of course, but still had some more hay falling out, which was obviously annoying Right.
The large charcoal seemed to shudder, then completely shattered, unable to hold the growth in, revealing all the red, all the pulsing organs, all the blood and fat nobody wanted to see. It didn't even resemble a rabbit, so much as a giant, fleshy slug with tiny rabbitty ears on top. Strangely enough, for all the undulating flesh and branching veins that seemed to leak in places, there was only one heart. Alex could see it, a dark pulsing mass in the center, protected by what seemed to be a ton of fat and lungs and livers and stomachs.
As the dragons seemed to panic beside him, he stood up straight once again, hoped for the best, and launched his sword right through the pink fat, the gasping lungs, the intestines, the stomachs, through the heart and out the other side where, covered with blood and many other things he'd rather not think about and having lost most of its momentum from its journey through a body, it clanked off a tree and seemed to squelch on the ground. The heart was still stuck on its point.
The rabbit monster quickly healed up, but was definitively dead. For some reason, though it could still continue growing, it could not grow another heart to pump its blood. It just stayed there, sometimes leaking. And Alex tottered and finally fell over backwards, wanting to close his eyes and just let everybody else fight each other.
Slice, dodge, fire. Slice, dodge, fire.
They had quickly fallen into a comfortable routine that it seemed the monster could not break. It was still huge, of course, but it was slow. Too slow to catch the two nimble figures, despite all its multiple appendages.
It had determined that though the one with the sword was indeed chopping up its limbs, the one with the fire was more troublesome. Eemp was suddenly getting all the attacks. Though Alex tried to slice off any claws (or in some cases, teeth) that came after his much needed accomplice, Eemp still had to dodge almost constantly, making it harder for Rong to aim. To compensate, she made her fireballs a tad bit larger.
Which is why Alex had to quickly stamp out a fire on his shoe.
"Sorry!" Rong called out after being shouted at by Right.
"Yeah, yeah." It was fine. All he had to do was concentrate a little more and move faster...they'd better get finished quick. He was getting exhausted.
Even with some setbacks, half of the monster was scorched and useless, causing it to bulge strangely out the still growing end. It started growing more legs to support itself from the front, but didn't seem to be able to move anymore for the most part. Alex started getting bolder with his cuts, trying to go for the actual torso rather than just the appendages. He just wanted it to be over already.
And then finally...
"Cut off the heads!"
Alex bit back a sharp retort to the obvious command and did so, his sword slicing easily through the necks and with one last fire burst, the monster's growth stopped. It was just one huge, scorched mass now.
Alex wobbled a bit as he landed, his legs getting used to standing on stable ground again for more than a few seconds. He could even see Rong wheezing, venting out some excess smoke. Eemp had managed to escape many of the attacks with his help, of course, but still had some more hay falling out, which was obviously annoying Right.
The large charcoal seemed to shudder, then completely shattered, unable to hold the growth in, revealing all the red, all the pulsing organs, all the blood and fat nobody wanted to see. It didn't even resemble a rabbit, so much as a giant, fleshy slug with tiny rabbitty ears on top. Strangely enough, for all the undulating flesh and branching veins that seemed to leak in places, there was only one heart. Alex could see it, a dark pulsing mass in the center, protected by what seemed to be a ton of fat and lungs and livers and stomachs.
As the dragons seemed to panic beside him, he stood up straight once again, hoped for the best, and launched his sword right through the pink fat, the gasping lungs, the intestines, the stomachs, through the heart and out the other side where, covered with blood and many other things he'd rather not think about and having lost most of its momentum from its journey through a body, it clanked off a tree and seemed to squelch on the ground. The heart was still stuck on its point.
The rabbit monster quickly healed up, but was definitively dead. For some reason, though it could still continue growing, it could not grow another heart to pump its blood. It just stayed there, sometimes leaking. And Alex tottered and finally fell over backwards, wanting to close his eyes and just let everybody else fight each other.