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You don't have it on the ropes, the idea is almost a joke running through the Hive's many outlets.
But you have its attention.
You start trailing left, circling it with you. It follows dumbly, its grinning face of sparkling lights circling around in ways that make you assume it must have no neck or proper organs to begin with.
A tentacle raises as your Whip-Blade whiffs forward, slicing up grass with it-
The tentacle smacks it away, driving it back into the dirt harmlessly- Cussing internally, you try to drag the blade back as another slimy mass whips sideways, smashing into the top of your skull just as you duck, denting your skull-
Ocular connection dies and death runs through the minds of the Hive for a split, icy cold second before connection returns.
Anger permeates the fear, and you strike one more time before it can react with another strike--
>S--schlk--
It drives deep, almost dead center, almost to its foul face-- A chunk is torn away and it shrieks again and panic swings--
<exclamation>Fuck!! You!! Monster!!
You're-- it's slow enough you can almost keep up with it. You move back before a side-swipe can tear you clean in half.
It's a blow-for-blow, the Hive decides to play this to the end. The dodge was narrow, real narrow, but you're not scrap metal yet.
One more--
>SCHLKKRRRR--
Another tear into it, it's starting to ease back, you're moving it to the Wood-- Death by a thousand cuts-- it can’t stop screaming-
As it retreats it takes another slow swing at you, pain blinds its already slow movement. It doesn't even come close to connecting. In its retreat, you lose momentum and almost fall, but catch yourself.
Trees crackle but don’t fall as the beast seems to condense itself, moving back into the Wood in screaming hysterics, bright blue blood pooling from the various stab wounds you gave it.
>"I got the balloons-"
JJ sees you, Whip-Blade soaked in monster gore, firmly standing by the Wood of your Pizzeria.
...
>"I dropped the balloons."
JJ quickly picks them back up as you rub the blade clean on the grass.