The odds might not be in your favor, but that’s never stopped you before! And based on Toppel’s protracted reaction, you get the feeling there’s more to Suulom’s challenge than meets the ear!
A challenge, you ask as mock befuddlement clouds your expression, but why?
“GO-HO~, why indeed!?” Scoffs Suulom! “Mayhap a demonstration is in order? Who shall my Magi’bah mangle first, I wonder…”
“The feisty fiend?” He coos as Rezzie bristles at the sound of water lapping at her side!
“The Meddlesome Mage?” Toppel puts on a bold front, but you can see her eyes trembling!
“... Or perhaps The Gentle Giant?” You can almost hear a Water Magi’bah straining to extend up to Volka’s full height just a stone’s throw away from you. To her credit, The Skog’s narrowed eyes never leave Suulom’s!
Hmm, you reply as you weigh your options, that’s a thinker! But… isn’t he <span class="mu-i">forgetting</span> someone?
“Go-HO!” Laughs the assassin, “No, I don’t believe I am-”
“<span class="mu-i">IT’S ME! ICO-</span>”
Wide-eyed and flatfooted, the Mzz’goe’virr mobster spins like a ballerina as the sound of swift-running water intertwines with a dull ‘<span class="mu-i">SCchCHTKSH!</span>’
“<span class="mu-i">NOOOO!!!!</span> Not <span class="mu-i">ICO!</span>” Volka shouts, eyes wide and voice ragged from shock!
It’s a bitter pill to swallow: your good friend Ico knew the risks… and they knew you wouldn’t miss reaping the rewards! Seizing the moment you could have wasted with <span class="mu-s">VENTRILOQUISM</span>, you rush over to Volka and leap out of the water! Concern gives way to determination, and in one fluid movement The Skog plucks you out of the air and <span class="mu-i">HURLS</span> you like a javelin at the stupefied Spicy!
https://youtu.be/fqF2JgMziOw“Go-<span class="mu-i">HUH!?</span>”
A roaring wave rises to greet you, but you meet it in kind with a handful of <span class="mu-s">HELLFIRE!</span> Bringing your flaming fingers forward, you carve through the aquatic obstacle with one swift swipe, showering your face with a spray of steam!
You fly fast, but your foe flees faster! Pirouetting away from your attack, the Water Mage sends you off with a wave in your wake!
The wave gives way to drops, and the drops slip past you as sharp as darts! Twisting and twirling mid-flight as best you can, you ready another handful of <span class="mu-s">HELLFIRE</span> as you hear the gurgle and gush of a fresh wave forming in your flight path!
“You <span class="mu-i">missed…</span>” The unneeded observation’s owner intercepts you on swift wings, catching your flying form in her fiendish fingers! “Would it <span class="mu-i">KILL</span> you to be any less pathetic!?”
It would definitely kill you if you were a little <span class="mu-i">MORE</span> pathetic, yea! Hugging you close to her bath-scented and somewhat distractingly-bare body, Rezalith whips around in a tight loop in the air as the condensation around you explodes into bursts of razor-sharp water!
>CONTD. 