Avatar Arena: Flarecobra vs. Inbred Chocobo

[Raiden]

The two fighters stood in their arena. This arena was far out in a desert area with sand and heat. There wasn't much around but dry boulders, cliffs, and sand.

Raiden and Rhiya were sitting inside a large impenetrable rock nearby. Raiden was eating his popcorn while Rhiya was looking through oversized binoculars.

(The Arena is the Deserted Desert arena. IC won Arena Advantage. Very few flammable objects around, but lots of obstacles)

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Man, with this heat you would think I lost the field advantage." IC said to no one in particular as he walked along the desert. It was true, it was quite hot here, but IC had a feeling he might be feeling hotter later on.

He had a gun, and from what it looked like it shot bubbles. He made a test fire and watched as a bubble full of sand rose up from the ground. "Outta keep that in mind."

He made sure to note where cover was, and how long it would take to get to it. "Not much to do now but wait." He then shot a couple of spots with the bubblegun, and watched as the sand bubbles rose up into the sky.

[Flarecobra]

Due to the blowing sand, I had decided on a little precausion, and had on goggles to protect my eyes.

I lept from rock to rock, figuring that the high ground would be best.

[Inbred Chocobo]

There she is. IC thought as he caught FC in the corner of his eye. Staying on the high ground. Then again she might not like all this sand. He slowly started to make his way towards FC's position, adjusting it to where he thought she was heading.

Guess I'll make the first move. He pulled out the bubble blower gun thingymajig, and shot a bubble at a rock FC was heading on. The boulder was suddenly surrounded by a bubble and started to lift into the air.

[Flarecobra]

I had just Jumped when I saw the rock get hit with some bubble. <What the?> I thought, and just to be on the safe side I got a fire attack warmed up, and watched for an attack.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Doesn't have a clue on whats going on. IC thought as he shot another bubble at the next rock, causing it to rise too. Wonder if she will catch on. He thought as he shot more bubbles at surrounding rocks.

[Flarecobra]

As soon as I saw where the bubbles are coming from, I started launching Fire attacks in his dierection.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Since IC was a distance from FC, it was hard to dodge the fire attacks. All IC had to do was to keep moving and keep an eye on where the attacks were aimed and dodging the fire moves weren't hard. Moving in close would cuase porblems in avoiding the attacks since the time to see them was a lot shorter, but he would worry about that later. Right now he had to finish getting the rocks and boulders in the air, and remove the last of the highgrounds for FC to manuver on.

[Flarecobra]

I halt the attack, then pick up a rock and threw it at a nearby bubbled rock. (Leaving the result of that to Raiden and Rhiya)

[Raiden]

The bubble pops, dropping its contents to the ground below.

[Flarecobra]

I grinned, and started to Jump on the bobbled rocks, popping them with my boots, while occationally launching a fire attack.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC was intending on dropping the rocks at somepoint, mostly for two reasons. The first one was to be an attack against FC, but she wasn't exactly in the striking range anymore. The second was from all the dirt the falling rocks would kick up. True it would hinder both his sight and FC's sight, but IC though that he could navigate well enough by hearing.

He dodged the first fire attack FC launched and decided to speed the process up. He started throwing darts, or chocobo feathers, and in about a second the rest of the bubbles were popped, and IC was now hidden within the dirt cloud kicked up from the recently fallen rocks, and the fact that other falling rocks were keeping the dirt up didn't help.

[Flarecobra]

I felt something graze my azure armor, as I dropped onto the rock in order to make myself less of a target, while at the same time stopping my attack for a second, while waitng for a clear shot.

[Inbred Chocobo]

When FC went upon the rock to hide herself as a target, and the last rock had fallen, there was not a sound heard but the soft scratch as sand landed upon rock, and gently coasted down. IC was being silent as possible. He would have to be very careful how he would strike, for such an opportunity doesn't come all the time.

He knew were FC was. Armor hitting rock wasn't exactly silent, but now that she was still e couldn't exactly pinpoint it. So if he struck he would have to aim fast. FC was a jumper, and so he would have to either stop that or use it against her.

He pulled out, pretty much directly left of her, he took just a split second to aim, and launched two attacks, one was a chocobo dart aimed for the head, specifically an eye but he doubt he would be that lucky. The other attack was a shot from the bubble gun, at a point which would most likely be in FC's path if she jumped. Once he pulled the trigger of the gun, he dove back for cover, no use standing still and letting himself be a target.

[Flarecobra]

I saw the incoming dart, and quickly slid off the rock, while at the same time hitting the release on my back plate, and quickly shifted to my dragongirl form, as soon as I hit the dirt, moved around and used Fireshield on myself, and then took to the sky.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Smooth. IC thought. If she went into the air and dodged the bubble shot, IC would've jumped up and interecepted her, and forced her back to the ground. But she slid down, and went into the air. He was expecting one or the other, not both. Though he did notice the Fireshield lacked the potential it had. Guess that form had to have a tradeoff, and her magic might be it.

IC decided the best way to deal with this form was headon. He watched her take off, and got up on one of the rocks. He picked up the backplate FC and ditched ealier before he climbed up, and now he stood on top, holding the back plate and watching her fly, waiting for her attack.

[Flarecobra]

I spotted IC, and rose a little higher into the air, while charging up for a Mega-Flare attack, a few seconds later, I let loose with the attack. "Let's see you block this." I said just as I shot it out.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Oh, is that a challenge?" IC said as he watched the blast come up at him. He held the plate in both hands, and bent it flat while the blast came. Then, as the blast came, IC held the 'shield' out in front of him to take the attack.

Right before the attack hit, IC jumped in the air "Pysche." He may have pushed his jump to hard, as he looked up he was eye level with FC. "Here, catch." IC then threw the plate at FC, throwing it like a disk, and surprising enough, it flew with great accuracy and the potential for extreme damage.

[Flarecobra]

I spilled the air from my wings, and rolled to try to avoid the thrown plate, however my foot was clipped, causing a loud cry of pain from me and hacing me land hard, knocking the wind out of me for a second, as I used a quick Fire attack on myself to heal.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC dropped to the ground, landing with a thud on the sand. He only took a second to catch his breathe before rushing off. If I catch her before she recovers, I can use that wound on her foot to my advantage. IC thought as he weived through the rocks and came upon FC's landing spot.

As he came upon FC, he decided to make a straightforward charge. Though he didn't run all out after her, instead he held back some so it would be much easier to roll out of the way if she launched a fire attack.

[Flarecobra]

I saw him approching, and stood my ground, and once he was in striking range, I quickly scooped up sand, and threw it into his face.

[Inbred Chocobo]

The sand stung his eyes, there was no doubt about that, but IC just took the sand to the face and moved forward, now with his eyes shut close. If he would have to take FC in melee combat blind for the first few blows, then so be it. He grabbed the breastplate FC wore, moving fast enough to insure FC didn't have time to dodge, and with his free hand swung a fist aimed straight for the face.

[Flarecobra]

I tilted my head down low, and took the hit on my dragoon-style helmet that I wore, which flew off of my head, as my spun around and dropped IC down underneath me in the sand, and grabbed his arms to hold him there.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Son of a Submariner!" IC said as his fist smashed into the helmet. It didn't exactly feel nice when your hand hits metal, but unlike most people, IC's hand was still in top condition. FC's spin also caught him off-guard for she timed it with the blow, which he had to admit he wasn't expecting, and broke free of his grasp.

Now Fc was on top of him, and for once IC really didn't want her there. He brought in his foot and planted it on her stomach. IC also rolled with the kick, which all ended up with an attempt to make FC have her face get acquaintied with the sand.

[Flarecobra]

My armor caught some of the blow, so I wasn't affected too much, but the roll could present a problem, so I tucked my head down, and went with the roll, using both my wings and tail to control it so that I ended up back on top.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Halfway through the roll, IC realized he had lost control of it, so he had to do something about her in control. Its true, she did end up on top again, and she still had her arms holding down IC's. Though the only difference was now she was holding them just below the shoulders, which gave his lower arms free movement.

He grabbed FC's arms just above the wrist, and this time used his foot to push FC straight up, and then slam her off to one side and he would roll and get up the other way. He figured if he got FC's feet off the ground, the only thing he would have to fight against was her wings, and that would be easy enough. So, while one foot was pushing at her stomach, his arms started to pull off her grip, and he used his other free leg to forcefully kick one of her legs out and off the ground.

[Flarecobra]

As my leg kicked out, my tail come around and wrapped itself around his ankle, while I decided to hit him over the head with a headbutt.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Which was met square with the hardest part of his own skull. "Your going to have to do better than that." IC said, smiling since he doubt other people would have thought to use another headbutt to counter a headbutt. Since his attempts to push her off of him didn't seem to work, it was time for something else.

His hands now instead of trying to grab and shove upwards just started to squeeze. At first it seemed like nothing would happen, the slowly the armor started to crush inward, and soon FC could feel IC squeezing his lower arms, actually starting to peirce them with her own armor. He used his knee this time on her stomach, but not pushing, just instead denting the armor inward, bringing his knee up and down, attempting to either break the armor off or kill her by crushing her in it.

[Flarecobra]

I had decided to end this, and started to use Flare attacks at point-blank on him, knowing that he wouldn't have any change at dodging it.

[Inbred Chocobo]

OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT! Was all that was going through IC's mind as he saw FC start preparing her flare. He had to get away, and now, else this battle was over. This was going to hurt like hell, but it was better than the alternative. He gripped tight of FC's arms, and threw her off as hard as he could. FC didn't feel her grip slipping, but instead the skin underneath her grip tearing. IC gritted his teeth in the pain of having steel glove tear his flesh, but he was free, and he had to move.

He didn't get up, he spun over to his back side, and using all four limbs her threw himself off to the side, just as FC unleashed the flare. IC landed on his feet and kicked off again, knowing that just running woul never get him clear.
Though the next time he landed, the blast caught up to him. And boy did it hit him hard. The only thing he could do was throw up his arms as it ingulfed him.

The blast cleared, and IC still stood. He felt burnt, the tear on his arm were throbbing, but he was up, and this wasn't over. IC looked on at FC, and smiled as he took the moment to take a breather.

[Flarecobra]

I stood up, and smiled. A warm feeling was sent though IC, and I casted Cure on him. "That'll stop the bleeding. I don't want to see you dead. After all, you're a good fighter." I said. "Though I still will have to defeat you." I said, as I refeashed the Fireshield. Meanwhike, what appeared to be storm clouds started to form overhead.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Hehe." IC smiled. "Hope your not expecting me to go easy after that." IC looked up. "Something similiar to rain of fire I would guess." I'm going to need protection. IC thought as he darted towards the right, making his way behind FC.

[Flarecobra]

I tuened to keep faceing him, as fireballs started to rain down, accomponied by flashes of lightining in the clouds. "Firestorm." I said. "It covers this entire area." I said, jsut as the first ones impacted, turning the sand blow into cracked glass. "However I have nothing to worry about, as if I get hit, it'll heal me."

[Rhiya Ravenwing]

"..."

Raiden was looking at Rhiya, one pale eyebrow raised suspiciously. This was due to the fact that Rhiya currently had a look of absolute, pure evil glee plastered on every inch of her face.

"What?" Rhiya turned as innocently as she could to her fellow judge.

"You're not going for another crazy idea right?"

".... no. Why do you ask?" Rhiya queried innocently as she clapped her hands three times. On the third clap, there was a silent, thunderous boom that resounded throughout the whole arena, causing Flare and IC to jitter in their bones.

Suddenly, a dark mass could be seen rapidly growing in the horizon to the arena's west. As IC and flare watched in mounting horror, the black mass materialized out to be...

ZOMG NINJAS!

The wave of ninjas - law ninjas, pirate ninjas, Spelling ninjas, Grammar Ninjas, Sea ninjas, sand ninjas - poured into the arena, sweeping forward. IC and Flare definitely had a look of "WTF HAX!" on their faces as they themselves faced an oncoming horde of ninjas of all kinds.

~~~

"............. Let me guess, Pact with the Ninja Gods?"

"No, I stole their leader and shoved him under this rock in a small glass jar. See?" Rhiya held it up, and shook it to and fro. The pace of the ninjas increased.

"Oh SHIT!"
[OOC: Spelling and Grammar ninjas will be targetting Flare. Sand ninjas and Law Ninjas will be targetting IC. There will be about 12 in total that will be fighting you guys. Enjoy!]

[Flarecobra]

"Sonofa..." I said, just as I took off for the sky. "Well, might as well take them out in one shot." I thought as I flew high up into the air, and started to charge up for a Terra-Flare.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC stood there now. He held FC's backplate he threw a while ago. "I was going to use this on FC, but then you fools showed up." One of the ninjas threw a shuriken at IC. IC caught the shuriken with his free hand and threw it back at the thrower, getting him right between the eyes. "Dumbass."

IC was suddenly on the next ninja "As a law ninja, you should already know the most important rule of being a ninja." He grabbed 5 of the ninja's shurikens. "Is that there is an inverse ninja amount to ninja power ratio." IC jumped back, throwing all five shurikens at five different targets. Three meet there mark as the other two dodged.

Then all the other ninja's after IC pulled out shurikens and threw em at IC. IC went to the left, grabbing one of the shurikens thrown at him. "I'm a wind ninja, your going to have to realize that using thrown weapons is nearly useless." 4 of the ninjas pulled out katanas, and moved in for the kill. One dropped immediatly, clutching his throat for a shuriken had entered. The first of the other three to reach IC swung downward, only to have his hand caught by IC's. IC punched the ninja in its face, breaking its nose, and taking its weapon.

The other two ninjas went for a pincer attack while the other ninjas prepared to hit IC in the air with other weapons. The ninja on the left meet FC's backplate as IC hurled it into the ninja's face. He parried and the stabbed the other ninja, then feinted left as others launched their shurikens. IC rolled, and grabbed the other katana. "This will be too easy." IC said as he moved in the slaughter the other ninjas.

[Flarecobra]

I took aim, as the Terra-Flare neared it's full charge, hoping to knock out all of the ninja, and possably knocking out IC at the same time.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC jumped into the air, this time instead of trying to outrun the flare, just jumping over it instead. He smiled as he saw FC in the air, and prepared himself for an aerial attack if one was launched.

[Flarecobra]

"Hey, forgot about something?" I called out to IC as my firestorm attack kicked in, as fireballs rained down, and I aborted the Terra-flare, and smiled as the Ninja on the ground burst into flame as they were hit.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC rolled to the left, using his tail and body to move the air around him, and avoided a fireball. "Guess I have to take you out then." IC threw two shurikens at FC, one aimed at each wing. IC started to left himself fall at an angle, to give him a much better chance in avoiding fireballs and attacks.

[Flarecobra]

I dropped a little bit, letting the shurikens fly over me, as fire and smoke started to fill the air.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC came right down ontop of a ninja, yanking out one katana and driving it through the ninja's skull. IC pulled out the last two shurikens he had stolen and took out the first ninja that charged him with those. The last few ninjas that were after IC were a little more hesitant to charge him.

Though they all did, and all at once too. IC charged to the left, knocking the kunai the ninja threw out of the air with one of his katanas. He the sliced the ninja in half, and ducked, avoiding two shurikens and a kunai. IC spun around, taking out the legs of one of the ninja while another one jumped. IC glanced in the air, and rolled back, letting FC's storm take out the last of em.

IC took the time to scavange the ninjas for equipment.
24 shurikens
4 kunai knives
2 Fuuma Shurikens
3 smoke bombs

IC left all the main melee weapons, he already had 2 katanas, no need to get greedy, but he did take the rest of the throwing equipment. The shurikens, unless he made a direct hit, he would guess would probably bounce of the armor. The Kunai, even though many thought it was peircing, was much better suited for bashing, so if IC was sure if he hit a weak point in the armor, it would tear through.

The Fuuma shurikens were about as big as his arm folded up. IC was pretty sure he could tear FC in half if one of these hit, armor or not. Though the only problem would be trying to make sure it hit, it was a big progectile after all.

The smoke bombs would be good if he had to go close range, or if FC was launching a precise attack. IC left the caltrops and the handclaws, for he doubt ethe caltrops would be any good out here in the sand against armored feet. The handclaws lacked the power to peirce armor, so they were useless too.

Once IC had all gathered and stored the equipment, IC started moving, trying to figure out what FC was planning and make himself a hard target.

[Flarecobra]

I jsut stayed in the air, letting the Firestorm have it's way with the landscape, as hunks of melted sand slowly cooled into glass.

[Inbred Chocobo]

So thats your plan, turn all the sand into glass so I can't use the sand to hide myself anymore. IC thought as he moved out of the way of the next fireball. Sooner or later she is going to tire herself out. A spell of that magnitude has to put a drain on her. Just have to keep moving an let her do it. I really don't need the sand anymore. IC just kept moving, avoiding all the fireballs from the storm.

[Flarecobra]

Soon, the storm had ended. I smiled and landed, slowly walking to IC.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"So we get to do this again?" IC said to FC. He looked around at the sand. A lot of it was now glass. There were bits of areas that were still sand, but she still did a good job in turning most of it to glass.

IC then thought she was going to do two things. The first one was use the broken glass as a weapon. She figured her armor would protect her against the glass while IC was vulnerable to it. The other was that she would go into her slime girl form, and without a large source of sand, she would gain the upperhand since he couldn't depend on physical strength.

"So how are we going to do this?" IC said, starting his approach towards FC, one hand pulling out a katana, the other reaching behind his back.

[Flarecobra]

I got about ten feet away, grinned, then grabbed at my side, and brought out a whip and struck at IC's foreward arm, hopefully suprising him enough to make him drop the sword.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC twirled the sword in his hand, in an attempt to do two things. One of which was to stop the whip's attack, and the other wast o cut the length of the whip down by cutting a peice of it off. With his free hand IC hurled a shuriken at FC, aimed at her face, one of the more unarmored regions.

[Flarecobra]

The bladewhip started to wrap itself around the blade, while I brought an arm up to block the thrown shuriken.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC grabbed the now entangled blade and yanked back, trying to throw FC off balance or yank the weapon out of her hands.

[Flarecobra]

I went with the pull, and while grabbing a bottle of alchlol that I had, and smashed it over his head hard, causing the bottle to break and covering IC with the liquid. I just smiled afterward and said "Game over buddy." as flames started to appear and spin around me.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"Wondering when that would happen." IC said with a smile. Then he went soaring, kicking up in the air with as much force as he could, sending another shuriken at FC as IC flew upwards.

[Flarecobra]

I took off after him, the thrown shuriken clipping the base of my wing but not doing that much damage, as I started throwing fire attacks back at him, knowing that if even just one is a near miss, he'll light up.

[Inbred Chocobo]

He made sure to jump high, using his tail to avoid the first of the fireballs as he flew upwards. At the peak of his jump, that was when FC got in an attack, and IC felt himself lit on fire. IC started to fall, burning on fire and all, when he pulled out one of the fuuma shurikens. Use the glass so I can get to the sand underneath. Too bad the glass is only so thick, and the fact that it isn't reinforced with anything makes it that much easier to break through.

The flames were starting to burn, but the fact that IC was falling now helped keep the flames out of his face, since the wind in it helped that out a lot. He reared back, and hurled the fuuma shuriken straight down, using his fall to add momentum. The fuuma cut straight through, leaving a hole as big as a man's arm there in the glass. Another second later, IC hit the spot as well, kicking up dirt and glass as he struck the spot in a diving pose.

[Flarecobra]

I got directly above him, as my Flame Twister started to kick in, a tornado of flame appeared around me.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Of all the things starting to come out of the ground, it was bubbles. The first ones were torn apart as they came out of the hole and sent the sand trapped within flying in the tornado. Not enough to do damage, but probably be irritating if it got in the eye.

The next bubbles had something more dangerous, glass. These bubbles took the glass and just gently carried it into the tornado, which didn't discriminate against objects, and casting flying glass into the twister as well. Yet there was one thing that was coming out of the ground, and had seem to use the bubbles to clear a space under the ground for him.

[Flarecobra]

The ground was shaking as the tornado stood overhead, the sheer force of the winds was shering the bubbles, as I made a quick exit of the twister, and took cover behind a rock before it got too intense and debris filled.

[Inbred Chocobo]

After a few seconds of silence as glass shards and sand fell all over the place, another bubble started rising. In fact a lot of these bubbles were actually rising, it was just the tornado and falling glass kept bursting them out of sight. Though that bubble was the last one out. And IC followed suit.

His hair was singed, and there was more than just one burnt spot on his clothes. Though there were traces of liquor left on him, standing out in the sun here should dry the rest out before FC could get in another fire attack.

IC glanced around. He guessed FC took shelter to all the falling glass, but had no idea where. Hell he wouldn't be surprised if she just flew higher than the tornado itself. It didn't matter, all IC had to do was keep on his toes and not drop his guard and FC should be out of options. All this had to be doing something to her mana pool, and once its tapped out, its just a matter of beating her physically, and IC was pretty sure he had it covered.

[Flarecobra]

"Couldn't stand the heat I take it?" I said, moving around bahind a number of rocks, while taking a quick breather, keeping my ears open for any sounds of approching objects.

[Inbred Chocobo]

"I'm in no mood to be cooked, what can I say?" IC said, walking to his left as he said it. He got an idea where she was now, and pulled out two more shurikens. He threw one a bit to the right of where he thought she was, to see how she would react really.

[Flarecobra]

I made no reaction, though I started powering up a little surprise.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Thats all I needed to know. IC thought when there was no reply. Either the reaction was so little the rocks hid it, or FC was preparing herself for a surprise attack, and made sure there was no reaction. Of course, IC still wasn't sure of her position, so that means he would have to make sure she didn't know his. Well, if there is one good thing about glass, its that its a lot easier to move stealthily, in which IC used to his advantage, being extremely careful to make no sound as he manuvered to the right.

[Flarecobra]

I kept my back to the large rock, as my Terra Flare felt almost ready.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Time to see if she heard me or not. Another shuriken, this time aimed at a spot of sand far to the left of both him and FC. He threw, and heard the soft grinding of sand, and hoped that FC would take the bait as he pulled out two more shurikens, and crouched into a pouncing position.

[Flarecobra]

I didn't move, waiting until I saw him appear.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Hmmmmmm. IC was expecting something, but still no response. IC tucked the shurikens back, and pulled out two things. The first being the bubble gun, and the other the fuuma shuriken. He flipped it out, making sure to stick it away from himself. He was damn sure FC heard that, but now he was counting on the fact she was waiting for something.

He stood up, and took a deep breath. He aimed the bubblegun, and incased all the rocks in the area with bubbles, simultaneously taking the other arm and preparing to throw the fuuma shuriken.

[Flarecobra]

I let meself get caught in the bubble, and slowly rose up until I saw IC, then I shot off the terra-flare, the beam destroying the bubble, part of a rock which popped another bubble, quickly approching IC with the force of a bullet train.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Another flare, god I am getting sick of these things. IC saw flare launch it, and spun around. He was gaining force actually, and decided it was time to end this. Just before the terra-flare hit, IC launched the fuuma, throwing it with the force he had done before, putting a godly amount of strenght behind it. In fact, the force of the launch propelled IC back a few feet, sparing him from a direct hit. He brought up his arms to help shield himself from the explosion.

The fuuma shuriken, on the other hand, seemed to tear the air apart at the speed it was thrown, literally ripping through some of the falling rock, and after its target, FC.

[Flarecobra]

The Terra-Flare hit the ground with the force of a nuclear blast, as it sent everything flying, as I tumbled out of control through the air.

[Inbred Chocobo]

The fuuma shuriken sailed after FC, catching the same blast, and adjusting to the same course as FC' tumble. A direct hit from it would probably not happen now, but it still had a chance of hitting a limb.

The explosion itself ended, leaving quite a crater. The glass also seemed to have disrupted from its overcoating of the sand, leaving the sand exposed once more. Slowly, one particular spot of sand started to form a hump. Slowly a figure rose from the sand, letting it pour off wherever it could. The figure obviously was hurting from that attack, and the slow movements suggested he was taking his time, seeing just what was hurt.

IC shook around. He felt pretty sore now, exspecialy in his left arm. But then again catching yourself from an explosion and shoving yourself into the ground to shield you from it with only your left arm could do that. He looked up, and saw how flare was doing.

[Flarecobra]

As I get up, I shake my head and said "Ok, I think I put a lttlw too much juice behind that one..." I start to extend my wings, but wince and stop. My right wing is badly broken.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC looked towards FC. He was bending his left arm slowly up and down, squeezing his fist. Feels like I strained the thing when I was thrown from the explosion, grabbed that ledge of glass, and shoved myself underground. IC thought as he looked at what damage FC took. Looks like she won't be flying for a while. IC reached behind him for the other katana, but it wasn't there. Must've dropped it in the explosion.

I quick inventory check gave him the idea he lost a lot of equipment in that explosion. He still had a few shurikens and the bubblegun, but over all the explosion had sent the items flying from him. He doubt it would be worthwhile to search for them, most of them either probably buried or broken across the rocks. Then again when you only had a couple seconds to put away all that equipment, it can't be that securely put away.

IC looked back towards FC. Its starting to wind down now. This may be more of endurance rather than strength. IC thought, and started walking towards FC, reaching with his left hand into his jacket. Gotta make these count. IC pulled out his last two shurikens, and started to increase his pace.

[Flarecobra]

I tried to change, but stopped due to the pain. "Ok then." I said, and used a fire attack on myself in order to heal myself. As I felt the flames rub over me, I felt the bones slowly mend.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Shit, shes trying to heal. IC thought to himself as he charged, throwing one of the shurikens at her injured wing. Can't give her any chance to heal.

[Flarecobra]

I felt it hit, and pulled it out, and melted it in my hands, as I used my Fireshield ability.

[Inbred Chocobo]

She is going to keep me out with that thing. IC kept on moving. This is a battle of endurance, and IC had to make FC break before he did. He bent down and scoped up a fistful of sand. He stopped just inches from FC's firesheild, flinging the sand, mostly to get it into FC's eyes, partly to see how the shield reacted to it.

[Flarecobra]

The fireshield burned his arm, and I jsut blinked. "Inbred. I've been wearing goggles since the start to that sand doesn't get in my eyes." I said, just as I grabbed his arm, and threw him onto the ground, while at the same time I quickly got down and attempted to get a blood chokehold on him with my arm.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Damnit, really need to pay attention to details. IC thought as he hunched back, getting FC on his back, then kicking off to get her in the air. He reached up and started patting his hand on her face, the grabbed what he wanted, the goggles. He pulled down, in an attempt to snap them off, and leaning back so that she would take the landing as they fell.

[Flarecobra]

I pushed down as hard as I could, making the hold as tight as possable, while wrapping my legs and my tail around his body.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Focus. IC thought. The jump was now starting to turn into a fall, and with FC's grip on him it would be damn near impossible to break it. Though now he thought about it, he still had one more shuriken. Slit her throat, and survive the fall, and it should all be over.

He gripped the last shuriken, and thrusted it, straight for the neck. He felt his head throbbing as he thrusted it, but the lightheaded-ness had yet to set in.

[Flarecobra]

My neck was blocked, and wasn't easly accessable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maldives25a-rear_choke.jpg <---(Referance pic, but I'm tucked in closer)

[Inbred Chocobo]

So the stab would hit the back of the neck. If your closer that means your head is over your fists (I don't see how you would get closer otherwise.) So maybe cutting the throat won't happen, but stabbing the neck still would.

[Flarecobra]

My wing comes in and takes the hit, and with a grunt of pain, my other wing is ripped.

[Inbred Chocobo]

The shuriken went out of his hand when the wing struck it, and sent it off in a random direction. There goes that idea. IC thought as he looked towards the oncoming ground. Harder I hit the ground, easier it may be to escape. IC then grabbed at the arm, he really needed some slack, and started trying to pull it off. It was a little be harder since he was really only using his right arm. Though to make it harder he started to trying rolling and whatnot, trying to get FC to lose control in the air with what power was left in her wings.

[Flarecobra]

We started to tumble, and I had to let go of him to try to control my own fall. In one quick motion, I let go of him, then kicked him away with my legs.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC grunted with the kick, but man it felt great to get blood pumping to his head again. He used his tail to adjust himself so that he could see how FC was doing, and to make sure he would land on his feet. He looked on at FC as he fell closer and closer to the ground.

[Flarecobra]

I handed hard, which for a dragoon, was nothing out of the ordenary, though now with both wings injured, I had to rest for a second.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC looked up. His head was still throbbing since getting blood seemed like a new thing. But IC didn't have time for that, if he let FC rest, she might start using her magic to heal. Hell, her attacking him was better than that. After he landed, he started running towards FC, pulling out a chocobo feather and throwing it for her face.

[Flarecobra]

I saw him throw something, which cause me to duck down, as I used one of my higher-level fire attacks on myself.

[Inbred Chocobo]

Damnit! IC thought as he charged, using his left arm to sheild his face as he charged through the firesheild, and swung with his right for FC's face.

[Flarecobra]

I got knocked back, and glared, I came back with a left faint, and went for a leg sweep.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC sturdied his left leg, and blocked the blow, grunting a bit as he took it. He grabbed the limb that was used, and made to swing FC over his head and into the sand.

[Flarecobra]

I rolled over, and smacked him with my tail.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC took it square in the chest. He felt the wind knocked out of him, but he gripped the tail just the same. This time however he spun FC around and threw her off at a rock nearby.

[Flarecobra]

I landed feet-first, and used the rock to Jump off it, and crashed into him at full speed.

[Inbred Chocobo]

IC took the spare moment to take deep breaths. He was taking far too many blows for his own good. He looked up, and saw that FC was keeping the attacks up. He braced himself and used his right shoulder to take the brunt of the attack, sliding back in the sand, but stopping FC's charge as well. He made for a headbutt once the initial connection and pain was over with.

[Flarecobra]

(So...you just took a full-power Jump/tackle attack, and you're still on your feet? According to physics, you'd be knocked over.)

[Inbred Chocobo]

(Of course, physic quoting is a little out there considering we have wings and fire magic going all over the place. The fact that IC is probably the strongest person or really damn close on these forums help too. So to be all honestly, I really think IC could still stay standing after taking that attack.)