Turn 5, Draco Zoanthrope GroupYamato: 2, Skill [4]
Amelie: Will Point, 5, Skill [4], Skill [5]
Draco Zoanthrope: Will Point, Alteration [5]
Swarm A: Alteration [6]
Swarm B: Alteration [6]
Swarm C: Alteration [6]
The Zoanthrope's inexorable advance continues, its body smoking, eyes flaring with atavistic hate. This wasn't the directed, loathing hatred that was with the spider yesterday; no, this was pure, fearful hate, the kind of hate a rat has while cornered, bleeding out from its side, its killer staring it down with animalistic hunger, the kind of hate that a boar has for a hunter with a spear as it springs forward to try to gore them, taking you down with them even as its flailings drive the spear deeper and deeper into its mortal wound.
Haruko is the hunter. The Zoanthrope the boar.
The Zoanthrope plans to take Haruko with it.
It's coming in fast, far too quickly to dodge, far too quickly to avoid....
[Now Playing: Amelie Override ~Gravity Rush 2 Boss Theme~]But Amelie is faster.
Rushing past Yamato and healing his wounds with a touch of her hand, you run across the roofs, adrenaline pumping right through your veins. The blue lines criss-cross your skin, gravity magic taking you soaring across the tiles. This thing could fly, this thing could breathe air hotter than most fires, yes.
Against Haruko, it was a candle going up against the Sun. Against you, it's a sparrow fighting against an eagle.
The air is your domain. Yes, Maki could punch harder, throw people through buildings, bring skyscrapers down with a single punch and zap her enemies with lightning. Yes, Haruko could shoot out superheated beams of plasma and burn down the entire city if she so desired. The two of them were flashier, more destructive. But they didn't have
finesse.
In the air, you are superior. In the air, nobody could match you. The sheer amount of acrobatics necessary alone would make it impossible. And this creature didn't have it. In the air, you alone here can really keep up.
The Zoanthrope attempts to blast you with scorching winds, but you're fast enough to dodge. Your skin feels the heat, a stark comparison against the cold of the night breeze, as you tumble over it, the wind blowing your hair back. This was your moment. This was where you
belonged; the sky. Nobody could touch you here. You land against another roof, trying to build up as much momentum as possible, but you don't have time, not enough. You have to make do with what you got.
Somersaulting once more into the sky, you direct all your weight, all your strength and all your power into one point on the Zoanthrope's back. You land your foot squarely onto the jet engine embedded in its back.
The jet engine practically
explodes with all the force, sending the beast screeching towards the roof where Ai is on as fire erupts from its back. Ai being Ai, it doesn't take very much effort at all for her to flick her hand aside, throwing the beast away from the roof (and the very flammable gas station) and into the nearby road, the sheer force knocking over a nearby street light as Amelie lands next to Ai, her job done. The beast lets out a pained, low groan, the hole where there was once a jet engine in its back set ablaze, and the rest of its body smoking.
The other swarms of smaller Zoanthropes were seemingly only there for the larger Zoanthrope, for once Amelie sends it packing, the swarms seem to disperse, flying away from the battlefield and leaving behind the defeated body of the enemy, smoking on the asphalt nearby. Nearby, the sounds of fighting at the hospital can still be heard; the others must have encountered another Zoanthrope.
The Draco Zoanthrope has been defeated.
Turn 3, Aranea Zoanthrope[Now Playing: ~Pray Me Revive~]Maki: Alteration [4], Skill [6]
Ito: 4, Skill [3]
Ragnar: 1
Kiyo: 6, Skill [6]
Aranea Zoanthrope: 2, Skill [3]
Ito continues honing hs mind, focusing all his energies on his sword.
There was one opponent. In a group situation, you aren't great; you have to stay back, let the others handle it. Maki, Kiyo, Haruko, they were better at dealing with groups of monsters. You are better in a single, one-on-one duel; after all, that's how it normally is with a Horror. Zoanthropes, you've learned, are a little different; they come in packs, far larger than the typical Horror, to the extent that one person would be hard pressed to fight the things.
But this creatue could be handled exactly like a Horror.
The Zoanthrope lunges at you suddenly, but the earlier blows it took from Maki and Ragnar are taking their toll. Its earlier elegance is disappearing, its movements unwieldy. The lunge falls wide; it's faster than you, but you were already moving to avoid it earlier.
Ragnar sits at the sidelines, waiting for a moment to strike.
Then the mother of all tag-team attacks hits it.
A blur of silver and red collides into it repeatedly, lightning sparking over its body as Maki lands crushing blow after crushing blow into its body, each punch landing with the force of a small truck, sending it skittering and tumbling aside with each blow. The final blow sends it tumbling backwards as Maki staggers away, groaning in pain as electricity wracks her body. As it staggers aside, however, a series of expertly aimed shots sink into each spot Maki's blows landed on, and two hit it in the eyes, causing it to recoil in pain as the plasma burns out its eyes, even as they rapidly regrow, as Kiyo takes aim, concentrating on each shot to ensure they cause as much damage as possible.
The spider glares at Kiyo and Maki with immense hatred, its wounds already rapidly closing, though you can sense it's close to falling over. It stalks towards you, ready to pounce, ready to lash out, do whatever it must to destroy that which has already massively wounded it; between Maki being crippled from her own attack and Kiyo being overly exposed, this doesn't look good for either of them.
Allies:
Maki Kisaragi
Status: Fairly Wounded, Electro-Barrier, Charged Capacitors, Winded
World Line: [2 2 5 5 5 2 6 5 2 2]
Will: 3
Alterations: 1
Hideyuki Ito
Status: Healthy, Center (3)
World Line: [3 2 4 2 1 5 4 4 4 1]
Will: 2
Alterations: 5
Ragnar Lodbrok
Status: Slightly Wounded, Winded, Armor Down
World Line: [3 1 4 4 3 5 6 2 2 5]
Will: 3
Alterations: 5
Kiyo Akaiheiya
Status: Healthy, exposed
World Line: [6 6 3 1 2 2 5 2 1 4]
Will: 3+
Alterations: 3+
Enemies:
Aranea Zoanthrope
Status: Heavily Wounded, two arms broken, winded, burned, scorched, enraged, two eyes blinded
Spica
Status: Healthy
A support-type ally who specialises in creating barriers and providing healing.
- Ice Barrier [3]: Places a barrier that absorbs incoming damage made of magical ice. Allies and enemies can use this as terrain.
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