God Yet Lives

*Gio turns & slashes with a single arm, removing one of Astarte's. He then goes in for a stab with his other arm.*

<This is what I call my "battle form." Its attack power is easily 10 times that of my previous form!>

S"Congratulations. You killed a quartet of Gillians."

"I'll start sniffing out the others then"

Astarte shrieked as her arm was sliced off and attempted to avoid the second strike but was sliced along her stomach.
She began to fall to the ground as the pain of her lost arm and stomach wound set in.
"You fucking bastard!" Astarte cried out as she fired a Cero from her remaining hand at Gio.
I don't want to die. I don't want to die. Please, I don't want to die!

"No. Take care of Gio Vega."

*He indicates the big sabertooth bear thing that deflects the Cero of the fallen Astarte with his hand & begins charging his own, by putting the tips of his blades together.*

Yue launches himself and catches Astarte mid-fall before landing and launching himself at Gio Vega before tossing a round house kick cero at the sabertooth's face.

OOC: Also I dunno if it's been obvious but I pass out at 11pm cst now so... yeah.

OOC: Oh. You didn't put her down.

Astarte had the strength to remain conscious, but not the strength to hold back her tears of pain and fear as she sat in Yue's arms, bleeding profusely.

Mortal made a cone shaped formation of scales to redirect the ceros away from her, rather than stop them entirely. She then began to push forward through all the ceros using the scales as a kind of plow.

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Noctis smiled, "I can think of a few things..."

*The sheer amount of Ceros ends up eventually destroying the scales & blasting her out of the sky. Gio Vega blocks with one of his arms, only to find it pulverized into powder. Looking panic-stricken, he sheds all of the fur, reverting to his previous--now armless--form & running away.*

"Unless they make a second wave soon, we next have to figure out how to deal with the Cerosnake & the Antlion."
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"Like the hot-tub? Because I am rather partial to the hot tub."

*Her stomach growls.*

"I guess we should probably get food, too, but that's less fun."

"We should probably get something to eat. My idea kind of requires we have energy to spare."

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Mortal lands on the ground and lets out a sigh, "Fuckin' wings..." With that Mortal grabs one and rips it the fuck out. Instead of crying out in pain she holds it in front of her where it becomes the hilt of her sword. After that her other wings glow blue before creating the rest of her blade. Mortal then slices off an Aliento rugir del fuego del Gran lagarto cero at the snakelike hollow.

Astarte wrote:

OOC: Oh. You didn't put her down.

Astarte had the strength to remain conscious, but not the strength to hold back her tears of pain and fear as she sat in Yue's arms, bleeding profusely.

OOC: I was half asleep. I meant to actually put her down.

"Release and use high speed regeneration Astarte"

OOC: She is released.

"I can't do that!" Astarte snapped. "I've never had a wound this bad before... I've had no need for that kind of regeneration.."

"Then you're probably going to die..."

Mortal covered Astarte's wound with her scales to stop the bleeding, "Things like that can be fixed, we have other things to worry about first!"

*The Horseshit Cero slices it in half. Blue fire appears at the end of each wound. The top half's wound becomes a new tail, while the bottom half's becomes a new head.*

"Oh yeah. Starrk could split his soul."

*One of the snake Hollows suddenly turns & starts swimming towards Astarte & Yue, Ceros forming around it to blast them. The other flies in a ring over Mortal, pelting her with Ceros. The Antlion also swims towards Mortal, as signified by the spikes protruding from the sand.*
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~Some time later~

*Euryale has changed into her bathing suit when the room service arrives. When she answers the door, the man with the cart pointedly stares at her hairline.*

Yue wisely decides that a quick sonido was a more effective way of avoiding the ceros then trying his luck with quick dodging them and vanishes with Astarte only to appear above the hollow and fire a cero of his own.

Mortal puts up scales to block the ceros and patiently waits until the antlion comes in for a bite.

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Noctis steps into the hall, in a bathing suit as well, "Who is at the door?"

*Sure enough, the Antlion opens up its jaws to attack. This time, however, there are also a number of sandweasels that jump out to bind Mortal's limbs. With Yue, a similar situation happens, there now being 3 Cerosnakes.*
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E"Room service."

*Euryale proceeds to eat shrimp.*
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V"Alright, Taiyo, how about you help us build the underground farm?"

"I'm sorry, but I kind of want to be alone for...awhile."

What they fail to release though when they do so is the bindings are explosive no matter what. Yue detonates the bindings on his unoccupied with holding Astarte arm and his legs. Thanks to the armor underneath his limbs would go unscathed by his own blast.

Mortal drops a release level, and bites the air twice so that her arms get bitten off. Using the remaining stumps, Mortal flails around, in a seemingly haphazard way, but her dragon performs much better. Two hands reach out, and grab the Antlion by the mouth, then with one fluid motion, pulls it right the fuck out of the sand, breaks its jaw, and launches the damn thing at the snake in the sky.

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"Awesome, can I have some?" She asked, sitting down next to Euryale.

Astarte punched Yue rather weakly, then thanked Mortal for stopping her bleeding.
When Yue began moving once again, Astarte just curled herself up into a tighter ball and leaned against him, her eyes squeezed shut.

"Sure. But follow me."

*She heads out onto the deck or whatever & puts the shrimp on the edge of the tub before climbing in.*
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*As it turns out, Antlion is a considerably large Hollow. The eyeless, spined head, which is already a few times Mortal's size, is attached to a long neck that can be tucked away inside a shell about the size of Mortal's dragon. Its legs are numerous & small, but it has 2 large claws that split into 4 spades & 3 whiplike tails with mace heads on the end. As Mortal tugs on it, its upper body is exposed, revealing ports that shoot hundreds of sandweasels at her. It opens one of its claws at Mortal, charging a Cero & resetting its jaw with jowel movements. The cerosnakes, meanwhile, continue to orbit around the area, shooting Ceros at everyone besides Mortal.*

Mortal was expecting big, but not weasel spam. She threw up her scales up then, to block the weasels, and with a shrug of why not, bit down multiple times. Her dragon repeated this, biting into and tearing at the Antlion.

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"Okay," Noct said, grabbing her wings, and following. Noct slid into the hot tub and let out a small coo as the water relaxed her muscles.

"Oi Senthose! Can you do something to clog up those Hollow spawning ports?" Yue asks narrowly dodging a cero.

"Just hold on tight a bit longer Astarte."

After waiting for ages for Kite to reply to him, Kira turned around and opened the Senkaimon.
"I'm heading back" He said before stepping through, "Follow if you like."
He came back out inside his barracks and immediately set out for the training grounds.