NPF Avatars 5 - The Big Come Down

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Upon being abandoned by the cowardly ICs flight, Hawk had decided to take a more literal flight of his own. The battle was in full swing now, a few people were eliminated already and a shit load of wierd and wonderful magical, and some not so magical, effects were dramatically blowing the shit out of everything.

Above them all, seeing all, Hawk soared, looking for an opportunity to attack.

[PhoenixFlame]

As Phoenixbot weren't terribly doing anything at the moment, except shooting a rapidly ammo-less Krylo with a lightning gun in double ranged scan mode, an otherwise effective shot by Mesden was found to be lacking in sneakiness. Fortunately, plasma bolters traveled at speeds significantly below the speed of light (although significantly above the speed of sound!), giving Phoenixbot the additional .3 miliseconds she needed to get the hell out of the way.

Which was enough to give Krylo an opening to possibly survive her hellacious thunder-rifle onslaught.

[Red Mage Black]

Black darted the skies of the arena searching for a target. So far nothing really peeked his interest. He scouted Hawk for a few seconds before losing interest and catching Rhiya out of the corner. A dragon it seemed.

"I'll give them a little more grace time before heading in. What fun would it be unless I let them wear themselves out?"

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC saw his next opponent. The one that was flying around on his own version of jet boots looked like he was going to wait for an opening before making his move. IC decided that he was done waiting, it was time to make a move. Luckily for him, Rhiya was really big right now, being a dragon and all. Made a good platform.

So IC stealthily snuck onto her back, and waited. With the way RMB was flying around, it was just a matter of waiting for the right time. Which it so happened, was just as he turned his head away. IC wasn't dumb enough to jump to hard, just enough that he could catch him in mid-air. And if he didn't, well IC saw he should be able to land on the other side of the arena easily enough.

[TheBlindMime]

Kitsune-TBM stood atop the box still, he had been quite disappointed by the outcome of his knocking. Nothing knocked back. Then something caught his attention, that feeling of someone watching him. He hated that feeling.

He drew out his weapons of choice from his yukata, gripping it angrily in his hands. "You have made a mistake this day..." He took a few quick sniffs of the air, his new nose reading the scents around him, he found his target. He released his powerful grip from his weapon, it drifted down along the length of its string spinning beautifully. The pleasant sound of a yo-yo pleased TBM, he flicked his hand back up snapping the yo-yo back into his hands.

"Red Mage Black!" TBM hurled the yo-yo with a rage that knew no bounds. TBM hated lookie-loos.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Hawk was bored of waiting and he saw an opportunity to attack so decided to take it.

Shifting quickly into human form, he began to fall. He grabbed the Boomer and threw it hard at IC, quickly shifting back into cursed form as the ground rose up to meet him. With a swift sweep of his wings he launched himself back up into the air, transforming as he went, just in time to grab the returning Boomer. As he grabbed it he allowed its motion to pull him into a slight spin before launching it again, this time towards TBM.

Again he started to fall, but rather than transform, he instead unsheathed the Ascalon and transformed THAT instead, into its long halberd attack mode as he now forward flipped towards the earth again. With an almighty swing the blade struck the earth, deflecting Hawk back up and reverseing his spin. Again he caught the Boomer upon its return at the hight of his air and again he threw it, now aimed at Black.

Once more he leveled out in the air and once more he began to fall, but the Ascalon retracted back into his arm and Hawk changed back to Cursed form for a final time, falling into a dive and swooping low to the ground before sharply rising high again, firing off air blasts at the large chaos dragon of Rhiya as he went.

(OOC: No catching the Boomer this time guys, deflect, dodge, or get hit. Well, IC and TBM anyway, Black has free reign over it.)

[TheBlindMime]

There was a tiny silver bell hanging from TBM's rope belt and for no apparent reason it rang once. The yo-yo stopped in mid-air just before RMB, it jerked back suddenly whirring towards its master. But before it could return to his hands the bell began ringing frantically. TBM then did what came naturally to him, he fell.

The boomerhammer tore through the air above him, he would have watched it do this too had it not been for the fact he had used his face to cushion his landing. OH and he was blind too. Rubbing the feeling back into his mish-mashed face TBM realized he hadn't even noticed the bell that warned him of danger until he needed it. He also hoped no one would notice the character discrepancy for such a minor object. He was positive now that the gods(GM) would damn him for another discrepancy.

He could make no more mistakes, from this point forward it would be flawless moves only. He crossed his fingers and spoke a single word, "TRANSFORM!" The burst of stinking smoke and the pile of boxes around him concealed the new form, it was but only for a moment before he burst through the smoke his giant leathery wings spread. He was now a mix of red and black, he was also a dragon to boot. Not nearly as large or fearsome as Rhiya's chaos dragon but he was pretty scary, except for the mage hat on his head. Surprisingly there were tattoo's marked across the top and bottom of the not so mammoth dragons wings, depicting a chocobo that was sitting on his bum drooling.

TBM hurtled towards Hawk with his claws barred, hoping a certain group might catch the message that TBM wanted to do a combination attack upon their common enemy.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

While The-Dragon-Formely-Known-As-Mime, needed a bell to hear incoming attacks, Hawk needed only his enhanced hearing to tell him he had picked up a bogey on his tail. Dragon-Mime raced after Hawk in hot pursuit and Hawk, unable to shake his pursuer, suddenly changed direction and headed upwards.

Mime followed. Hawk climbed to as high as the new restrictive ceiling allowed, slowed and twisted, and fell back towards the onrushing Mime.

Now while it may appear that this was a suicide run on Hawks behalf, it should be noted that Hawk recently showed that he doesn't neccasarily need wings to stay airborne.

And so it was that a split second after his fall began, the Ascalon once more entered the battle, its blood-red crescent blade shining ever so brightly under the bright lights, as it descended upon the approaching dragon, with the clear intent to skewer him.

[POS Industries]

"One third of Keyman has been eliminated by death," Rei announced, teleporting Keyman Red away, "But he got better. Off to the spa!"

"Man, that is one chick who ain't got time to bleed," Pedro commented to Phoenix, grinning as he watched Mesden walk away from Red's penultima blast, "She's gonna be feeling that in the morning!"

Meanwhile, Arhra was taking another sniper shot and a puff of blue flame emerged from the nozzle of her rifle, followed shortly by a larger conflagration out of the back of the gun as it fell apart in her hands. Forging a gun from the forces of chaos may not have been the wisest move, and Arhra's burns were proof of it.

Moments later, as the massive energy cannon came crashing down toward him, Wizzle made an attempt to dodge as best be could, losing his footing and tumbled backward off the edge of the ring, hitting the black floor a few inches below.

"Wizzle has been eliminated by ring-out," Rei called out over the crowd as both cat wizard and A-HEPT vanished in separate flashes of light, "Enjoy your stay at our wonderful spa resort!"

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC ducked under the boomerang. Well, not really ducked under as he suddenly went low. Ends up he used his tail to give him some downward force, and went under the blow. The problem with that, is that it threw him off course with RMB, so he had to think of something else.

So he decided maybe he needed a mount. So he turned his tail and went falling down towards the arena. He was falling at an angle, and his target was in site. Of course, his target was the elephant, so it wasn't that hard to hit. He slammed into its side, sending it rolling across the arena, to where so happened being PF, AB, and krylo. That should be fun.

Now IC was facing the beat. "Okay bear, I'm gonna need your help. I'm going to kill Arhra, but with his crazy chaos magic, I'm going to need your help." IC pulled out a steak. Why he had a steak, well, thats a story in and of itself. He tossed it on the ground, letting the bear eat it. Then, after the bear had its meal, IC was upon it like it was a horse. He pointed the sword towards Arhra, and shouted "Charge!" Give the bear a somewhat gentle kick to get it to go forward.