Re: Pitched Combat [Round 4: Colossus Colosseum]
07-11-2010, 03:33 PM
Originally posted on MSPA by MalkyTop.
Right quickly let go of the leg and fell a short distance to avoid the knee-laser before twisting around the back, blinking spots from his eyes. Which is why he didn't notice the giant fist flying towards him.
Despite finding it hard to breathe at the moment, Right's claws scrabbled on the fist and he scurried up to the wrist, making sure to splatter some blood along the way. The giant continued to make it hard for him by constantly moving its arm up and down, making everything blur and spin wildly until he wasn't quite sure which way gravity was supposed to be pulling him. Still, during the times he could actually see straight, the Chinese dragon noticed that most of the legs were no longer covered in glowing glyphs. Hopefully, that meant that the thing couldn't run around so easily anymore, though he supposed that didn't matter much now that he was clinging onto its arm. He could also sort of see Alex struggling up the other leg. Apparently, rock climbing wasn't his strong suit. He hadn't gone far up yet.
Right suddenly felt quite heavy as the arm swung upwards again. The upper arm was quickly filling up his whole vision and, realizing that the giant statue intended to squash him in between, he scrabbled around the wrist just in time, dragged Eemp up to the fist as the rock underneath him shuddered with the collision, and finally hopped off onto the shoulder as the fist swung down again.
He...had skipped most of the arm. Plus, looking at the useless blue stub beside him, he could see that Rong had started healing over. He had a feeling that Rong wasn't going to like what he was about to do. He probably wouldn't either. But glowing shoulder glyphs didn't desecrate themselves. Grabbing Rong's limp neck once more, he forcibly rubbed the tender, newly-grown skin against the stone, tearing it apart. Blood and shredded skin covered the shoulder and the whole arm groaned. The colossus was struggling to raise it now. Right glanced down at the slow-moving arm with some satisfaction, then looked up towards the head. It seemed someone up there was throwing fireballs around like nobody's business. Curious, he got rid of his arms (he had always thought arms growing out of an 'arm' looked incredibly silly) and Eemp started to climb up the head.
Until the whole colossus shuddered and started to tip over.
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"Oops," Jordan said to nobody in particular as he looked for the button he had just pushed. Already, he had completely lost it. The structure of the maze continued to rise in the arena and underneath the colossus's feet, unbalancing the huge stone figure. In desperation, he chose another button at random. He noticed that this did nothing to stop the maze walls from rising. He also noticed that he had just activated a whole crapload of spike traps.
Right quickly let go of the leg and fell a short distance to avoid the knee-laser before twisting around the back, blinking spots from his eyes. Which is why he didn't notice the giant fist flying towards him.
Despite finding it hard to breathe at the moment, Right's claws scrabbled on the fist and he scurried up to the wrist, making sure to splatter some blood along the way. The giant continued to make it hard for him by constantly moving its arm up and down, making everything blur and spin wildly until he wasn't quite sure which way gravity was supposed to be pulling him. Still, during the times he could actually see straight, the Chinese dragon noticed that most of the legs were no longer covered in glowing glyphs. Hopefully, that meant that the thing couldn't run around so easily anymore, though he supposed that didn't matter much now that he was clinging onto its arm. He could also sort of see Alex struggling up the other leg. Apparently, rock climbing wasn't his strong suit. He hadn't gone far up yet.
Right suddenly felt quite heavy as the arm swung upwards again. The upper arm was quickly filling up his whole vision and, realizing that the giant statue intended to squash him in between, he scrabbled around the wrist just in time, dragged Eemp up to the fist as the rock underneath him shuddered with the collision, and finally hopped off onto the shoulder as the fist swung down again.
He...had skipped most of the arm. Plus, looking at the useless blue stub beside him, he could see that Rong had started healing over. He had a feeling that Rong wasn't going to like what he was about to do. He probably wouldn't either. But glowing shoulder glyphs didn't desecrate themselves. Grabbing Rong's limp neck once more, he forcibly rubbed the tender, newly-grown skin against the stone, tearing it apart. Blood and shredded skin covered the shoulder and the whole arm groaned. The colossus was struggling to raise it now. Right glanced down at the slow-moving arm with some satisfaction, then looked up towards the head. It seemed someone up there was throwing fireballs around like nobody's business. Curious, he got rid of his arms (he had always thought arms growing out of an 'arm' looked incredibly silly) and Eemp started to climb up the head.
Until the whole colossus shuddered and started to tip over.
------------------------------------------------------------
"Oops," Jordan said to nobody in particular as he looked for the button he had just pushed. Already, he had completely lost it. The structure of the maze continued to rise in the arena and underneath the colossus's feet, unbalancing the huge stone figure. In desperation, he chose another button at random. He noticed that this did nothing to stop the maze walls from rising. He also noticed that he had just activated a whole crapload of spike traps.