NPF Avatars 5 - The Big Come Down

[POS Industries]

Bear didn't care about no alliance, but he did catch the sent of gunpowder and lightly singed Arhra flesh, and so off the pair went, like some kinda crazy Bird-Ninja-Bear Cavalry.

Incidentally, that steak could have been better.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Monty, the Über-Longsnake slithered quickly in front of IC and the bear, a surprising speed for a giant metal snake, to be sure, but snakes often had surprising speed. It continued in a semi-circle, halfway walling in the bear with its still-increasing girth before lifting its cobratic head to loom over the pair. Raven, still holding onto the back of Monty’s shiny head, had a huge grin plastered on her jet black face.

“Birdy!” she screamed, looking down at it. “Fuzzy! Hug hug hug!” She threw her arms into the air—hanging onto the snake only with her legs—and yelled playfully, like a girl on a roller coaster, as the snake half-dove down and around Inbred and the bear, to give them the “hug” of their lives.

(RJL - 58)

[Red Mage Black]

"Awww c'mon..." Black shouted, not getting to use his shield from the incoming attack. "I'd go into formation, but Nikose was eliminated... time to do this my way." The giant snake caught Black's attention, not only that but the rider on top.

Jetting behind Raven, Black placed his palm a few inches from her back. A small ball of flames formed between his hand and her back. It grew a couple inches bigger before he gave the keyword. "Burn." The ball of flames exploded out in all directions.

[PyrosNine]

Pyros gasped. "Pain! And not pain!" There was a blade of chaos and a blade of not so chaos stuck in his back. Which was all fine and dandy, except it hurt. And the that whole "Conflicting Nature" thing again.

But that paled in comparison to FREEDOM!. Oh shut up you. Pyros chucked the blade of less chaos out of his back. It would take more than that to harm him, especially when the sword of chaos negated the blade's potency on Pyros to being merely two swords stabbing him in the back. Which, has never been a weakspot on Pyros.

Pyros was a backstabber among backstabbers, it paid to have extra armor and muscle in one's back in your life.

But this paled in comparison to the wound Incendius had thrown at Pyros. "You throw the blame at ME for ruining your Bar Mitzvah? I shudder at those words! You have truly wounded me! LIke it was intentional or something!"

Pyros took out a handkerchief from his pants and dabbed at his eyes, and then a bit at his back. "To think, all I wanted for my little cousin was to become a manly man, which I could never truly do, and gathered a collection of a hundred of the world's most beautiful women for the occasion!"

Pyros pulled out a picture book, showing a younger Cendy, to a picture of mass violence and weird jewish food being hurled about.

"How was I to know that the top hundred beautiful women in this world were mostly Man-eating sirens, Amazons, and the wives to the world's bloodthirstiest warlords? Dude, I said I was sorry!"

Of course, directly contrary to what he was saying, Pyros's hands were readying up a flame cannon attack.

"Just like you'll be sorry for stabbing me in the back literally, Cousin!"

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Monty’s dive was as effective a dodge for the flames as Raven could’ve managed herself. It still hurt, certainly, but it was mitigating. So, Raven did the only sensical thing she could do when hit by a mass of magical flame: she grabbed onto Monty and bawled.

The Über-Longsnake too noticed the blast, and the cries of Raven, and stopped his original plan, swiveling his head with lightning speed and rising up to loom over Black to stare down at him with steely eyes (in more ways than one). He hissed his steam-hiss of pain and anger.

It was that, that Raven recognized, though God only knew how she had. Pain.

“You hurt Monty? Why would you hurt Monty?! He never hurt anyone! He never even got a chance!” Raven yelled in a mix of sadness and anger. Her’s mind intuitively searched through her repertoire of defensive spells before hitting on the proper one and used it, calling forth the Goddess who watched over her in an incomprehensible language.

The goddess apparition appeared in a flash, enveloping Raven in the soft, crimson glow of the white magic Fire Shield. (Ironically, this might have very well been called Black magic, since that was from whom this particular spell was taken).

While Raven worked her divine magic, Monty opened his maw, full of long, sharp metal teeth and lunged at Black with a quintessential cobra strike, albeit much bigger... and metallic.

He might finally get his meal.

(RJS - 0)

[Oh, I nearly forgot. As a note, that doesn't nullify fire damage, but it does mitigate it. This is because I felt cracking open the Cleric spell list to be rather unfair... because it's the Cleric spell list.]

[Astral Harmony]

Armored Bishoujo tossed the katana aside and transformed into the Soldier Girl cosplay, taking stock of her opponents while annoyed at her buzz cut that came with the cosplay. The bear seemed to be the easiest and weakest of the targets and, hoping she wasn't completely mistaken in this, quickly checked herself over.

Extra clips for the assault rifle and the grenades were within easy reach. She turned off the rifle's safety and set it to a three-round burst.
"Just gotta remove eight more of them and then I can advance to the next royale."
She got down on one knee, took careful aimed, held her breath halfway out, and squeezed the trigger.

[Incendius]

I could almost forgive you for the whole woman thing, I mean I've learned to expect that from you. But the way you delivered it is the actual heinous part! I mean, you put them into the cake! In addition, it wasn't just the whole cake like a suprise dancer for a bachelor's party, it was in one specific piece of the cake! It was Grandpa's peace! He got so mad he locked all of us in that glacier for a hundred thirty two years till you came along and burned it down accidently! Incendius sent managing to actually include a little bit of emotion in this one, but only a little bit.

As Pyros charged up his flame cannon Incendius sent another thought transmigration. Just to let you know, the backstab wasn't meant to hurt you. Thats why I included the chaos blade. It was meant to distract you; though with you I doubt that was truly neccessary. Also... have you forgotten I was once a fire incarnate? I know what fire is cousin, though admitedly this form can be burned.

Let me ask you a question; what is the definition of a master of defense dear cousin? Incendius thought, as he faced off the flame cannon with his own attack, one that was much more personal. As if he had tied a rope around both of Pyros' ankles, an invisible force pulled at him in the direction of the edge of the ring. As the flame cannon shot, Incendius intended to simply fly up over it

[PyrosNine]

Pyros knew what Cendy was planning with this, attempting to trip him up so that the force of the flame cannon would ring him out. Instead of fighting and trying to hold his step, Pyros went with the flow of the force, and went his blast sent him flying, he flipped over his own blast and shot straight down at the ground.

"I'll have you know, that old Taffer kept 4 of the ladies for himself just after sealing you away, and I didn't get so much as a "Thank you" for freeing you guys! And as to the definition of what a master of defense is..."

Pyros flamesweeped in mid air (forward dash of fire) back into the depth of the arena, and seized a hold of a loose shred of Incendius.

"Someone that's not you! Don't think I am not capable of seeing and seizing what little you are made up of, dear cousin!"

Pyros gave a powerful tug.

[Incendius]

You didn't get a thank you because you freed us by awakening a volcano! We all got trapped in the cooled off lava for a day or two, but since we were flame beings we got out a lot sooner then that power trapping glacier. Incendius sent.

As Pyros tugged, Incendius did not resist. Pyros had overjudged his tug, for while Incendius kept his robes billowed out as if he had a physical form, he actually didn't. As such, the pull snapped him around instead of merely pulling him to Pyros' form.

As Incendius was snapped around, his robes twisted together to form something of a rope, and attempted to wrap themselves around Pyros, the white ivory mask would be facing up at his head.

Your right, but I was merely curious, the ability to carry on an idle conversation while preocupied is a very important one cousin. Which reminds me, why exactly did you start that volcano anyway? You never told me. I'm HOPING it wasn't to kill off those wonderful animals that resided on the ice fields.

[PyrosNine]

"Err...certainly not! Why would I ever do that? It's not like I had a bet with Raiden to see who could slay the most things in the least amount of time...."

Incendius' wrapping himself around Pyros was pretty creepy, as family closeness was never good in the the pantheon of supernatural beasties. It tends to cause numerous..difficulties.

But for now, it would give Pyros and advantage. "Of course, why need I explain myself to the likes of you? NOVA!"

Pyros erupted in an explosion of white hot flame, incinerating everything in PYros's immediate vicinity.