Terium lunged at Skylar, ignoring the ki blasts by firing his own blasts emitted from his very body to block them while continuing to charge forward. a blunt horn of sorts came out of his head as he approached Skylar, intending to punch her in the face with the grown body part. But before he could actually hit her she had jumped into the air. With her in the air, obviously charging...something. He doesn't really know what, but either way, he stopped and pointed his hand up, in a fist position. "Enjoy this tricky move." He stated and then the arm grew fast intent on doing an upper cut punch right into her jaw.
Quin eyes widened when he saw Terium change his form slightly. Especially when he saw the arm extending to try and punch Skylar. He'd seen strange things before in his life. But Never has he ever seen a strange creature like this. He clenched the handle of the sword tightly. How was he supposed to catch something like this off guard?! He shook that thought off, he'd think of something...somehow. He just needed to help Skylar. The question is...how?
Last Edit: Jun 14, 2017 9:28:50 GMT -5 by Neo-Devil
"War never changes. Only the instruments of war and the people who play in it."
"What is my true name? What Destiny awaits one such as I out here, outside of Lordroth?" Quin
"You can tear me down all you want, I will Never give you the satisfaction of my Death! I am ASPARA! FEEL MY FLAMES AND BURN!" Aspara
"I need time to think." Sonnelion
"Orkses neva lose if we run we'll jus' come back fer more! If we die it don' count!" Barrigan
As Skylar charged her unusually teal and gold beam she managed to see the disgusting figure below her become slightly more disgusting as he morphed a little bit growing a dangerous club-like horn. She was slightly disturbed by the look of it as her head was almost bashed in by the thing, but she clearly didn't end up any better as she was uppercut in the air a few seconds later anyhow.
"Arg!" She exclaimed as blood trickled down her dirt ridden cheek, "That actually hurt, huh."
Her jaw was probably fractured but she managed to stop herself mid air but now she was facing the opposite way from Terium. But really, it was only too bad the beast couldn't see that not only was she smirking through the pain- and yes the pain was quite unbearable- she still held the charge in her hand and she was about to detonate it-right. In. His. Face.
She blinked in front of Terium and set it off with a shout of "Cosmic Blast" for effect. And, yes, it would be possible for him to escape but either way the ground below would go up with a huge "bang" green and yellow arcs of light everywhere within 50 yards of the impact. It's not accurate, so she had to get close but it really packs a punch when it hits if not physically than at least to the senses as it was pretty colorful and loud, not enough to stun but definitely enough to distract. She would also get chared of course if it did hit Terium though seeing how close they were, but who knows?
The blast hit Terium right in the face and so he was knocked back, bouncing off the ground multiple times, and then landed on his feet sliding on the ground back. A few cuts on his face were made as a result of the blast. He stood up straight and the wounds closed themselves and he wiped off the blood. "hehe, Nice show, that actually hurt a little." a grin was on his bug-like face. "yes....you have great potential...." he stated with a gleam in his eyes showing great interest. He avoided the other blasts that came from the cosmic blast. He then blocked a strike from a fire sword with his tail. "ahh...getting impatient for your turn hmm?" he blinked behind Quin and slapped him forward, knocking the undead knight onto his belly. "that's okay, Skylar's turn is over now." he looked at Skylar. "one last spar for the day, and then I will leave you to your business..." Quin got up and did a jump attack with his sword, Terium sidestepped and dodged it with ease as he still hasn't lowered his power level for the next spar. "my so eager..." Terium muttered with a smirk.
"Skylar, I do believe that tis is my turn now. Stay back." a serious tone was in Quin's voice, he was tired of watching helplessly and wanted to prove himself now. Skylar from the looks of things was likely to have been framed for something according to what this, demonic bug creatures states, seeing how Skylar is the first person he met outside Lordroth, he feels, compelled to help her clear her name. This demon wants to test their skills by the looks of things so far, so he decided to oblige him. Besides, he may one day be able to stand against this monster in a full battle, so why not see what sort of skills this thing has first hand? He turned and faced the demon, shield, and sword ready. "Thee challenges us, yet has no wish to kill us despite your monstrous actions. If what I hath seen of thee is true, then thou whilst hold back thy power against me for a battle of skill." He states to Terium, who just looks amused at his way of speaking.
"your people certainly have a...way of words," Terium commented preparing a stance, he felt like he was talking to a weird poet, then again, considering the memories of those he's absorbed from his people, they all talk like that. He feels that those this guy meets are in for an interesting conversation.
"War never changes. Only the instruments of war and the people who play in it."
"What is my true name? What Destiny awaits one such as I out here, outside of Lordroth?" Quin
"You can tear me down all you want, I will Never give you the satisfaction of my Death! I am ASPARA! FEEL MY FLAMES AND BURN!" Aspara
"I need time to think." Sonnelion
"Orkses neva lose if we run we'll jus' come back fer more! If we die it don' count!" Barrigan
Everything was blurry, and Skylar was exhausted from the ordeal. Sky was only about 15 feet up and slowly drifting down by now. She WOULD just fall into the slightly exploded bush she hovered over but seeing as she was sore in many places she just landed. She walked over to a nearby broken tree as Quin sneak attacked Terium. He seemed really impatient to start, at least it showed that he was dedicated to fighting the monster despite not having the power to bring him down, Skylar respected that.
She smiled though her jaw was stil cracked. It was healing to Skylar's surprise... she had some theories but that was for later. Now she had to cheer on Quin. She acknowledged Terium with a somber nod and then shouted, "That's no problem on my part, I'll just stay over here and uh... chill I guess. But, wooo! I'm rooting for you buddy!"
She gave him a thumbs up. And, yes, she was still worried of course but at least she knew Terium kept his word about no killing.
Terium lowered his power level as to make sure he was just above Quin's level. He struck fast at Quin with a tail whip, which Quin just barely managed dodge roll under, Terium kicked at Quin, which he blocked with his shield upon getting up fast. Quin was not liking the fact he was stuck on the defensive right now, at all. Quin got knocked back quite a distance upon getting hit. But thanks to his shield and iron flesh was still standing. He rolled forward to avoid another tailwhip from Terium as the bio-android blinked behind him. "oh? interesting, I wonder how you saw one coming...." Terium started with interest. Quin quickly turned off iron flesh and rushed at him, intent on using his on fire sword on him to do damage on the Android.
Terium used eye beam on Quin right before the flame sword could even touch him, the blast hitting the undead knight right in the chest armor. This sent him flying into a bush which thus destroyed it and created a crater. Quin got up quickly enough but was breathing somewhat harder. Quin watched Terium more carefully now, his wounds were healing thanks to his regeneration but that hit did fatigue him somewhat. "tis creature packs a punch" he muttered to himself while staring right into the demonic red eyes of the evil bio-android.
"oh? quite the endurance you have there, or maybe it is simply the powerful will of a still sane undead. Nevertheless, while you certainly have some rather interesting tricks up your slee-" he was cut off by a ki blast shot at him by Quin's sword and had to move his head slightly, but he did take a slight hit on his cheek which left a slight burn mark there. Quin charged at him with a loud Battlecry, sword raised and on fire, he did a jump flip at Terium intent on striking the red creature with a downward vertical slice of the fire sword.
Last Edit: Jun 18, 2017 18:40:54 GMT -5 by Neo-Devil
"War never changes. Only the instruments of war and the people who play in it."
"What is my true name? What Destiny awaits one such as I out here, outside of Lordroth?" Quin
"You can tear me down all you want, I will Never give you the satisfaction of my Death! I am ASPARA! FEEL MY FLAMES AND BURN!" Aspara
"I need time to think." Sonnelion
"Orkses neva lose if we run we'll jus' come back fer more! If we die it don' count!" Barrigan
Skylar massaged her jaw as she watched the two fight before her, she might as well be healed-she was intrigued by the turn of events but no longer curious. That was besides the point however as Quin decimated the same bushes that she almost decided to fall into. Lucky for Sky, she didn't. Quin meanwhile was being knocked around like a bean bag making Skylar cringe, it sucked to watch her new friend get batted around. But then Terium mentioned something interesting... before almost being blasted in the face by Quin.
"'Still sane undead'" Skylar repeated in a whisper, "What's Terium getting at here...?"
Of course however, there was no time to wonder or asks s as the battle was still in full swing.
Terium sidestepped out of the way and kicked Quin in the side right as he landed thus launching him 5 feet. Quin got up again, Terium was unsurprised, undead, especially the sane ones have an incredible determination that the Bio-android honestly can't help but respect, "You're determination befits you undead." he formed a stance. "but I'm afraid this is where the fun must unfortunately en-" once again Terium is cut off as Quin charges at him while firing ki blasts at the bio-android once again, taking advantage of Terium's monologue.
Terium blocked the ki blasts and jumped back to dodge a horizontal strike of the sword. "you really" he sidestepped to dodge a vertical slice. "don-" he is cut off by a shield bash to the face and is knocked back 3 feet. Terium shook his head, and let out a chuckle of amusement. He should have known that aggroing a sane undead was likely not a good idea especially let him keep going like this...
Quin stood after the shield bash and watched Terium carefully waiting for him to monolog again, "thou monolog seems to be to thy disadvantage creature..." the undead knight remarked with a smirk under his helm, this just made Terium laugh more in amusement.
"War never changes. Only the instruments of war and the people who play in it."
"What is my true name? What Destiny awaits one such as I out here, outside of Lordroth?" Quin
"You can tear me down all you want, I will Never give you the satisfaction of my Death! I am ASPARA! FEEL MY FLAMES AND BURN!" Aspara
"I need time to think." Sonnelion
"Orkses neva lose if we run we'll jus' come back fer more! If we die it don' count!" Barrigan
There went that word again flying from Terium's mouth, and this time Skylar was sure she heard him right. She for one, planned on asking Quin about that as soon as this nonesense was over. No matter what though, he had to make it out uh... alive? Sure, let's go with that. Besides that however, in her observation she realized the same thing as Quin- bad guys always monologue too much for their own good. Although... she was a little worried now that the monster was laughing a little too eagerly... what if he went too far for his amusement and decided to blow Quin into itty bitty pieces... she hoped not, now on the edge of her seat.
Terium's laughter stopped after awhile. He looked at Quin with a dark smirk. "well, if you don't like my speeches, then I suppose there's no need to continue this any longer..." with that said, Terium upped his power slightly and appeared behind Quin, who tried to roll to dodge, and succeeded in dodging the tail but not the hand which grabbed him by the leg and slammed him to the ground. Quin laid on the ground, he did not expect that move. "Well sir undead knight, you certainly have a lot of potential as a warrior." Terium let go and left him there and turned. "Since the girl over there was framed, I'm sure some rather entertaining events are ahead. I will be keeping watch. Do not disappoint me Undead..." Terium was walking away but stopped when he heard Quin mumble something. "what was that sane undead?" Terium asked with boredom.
"I..I am Quin, I will find thee abominable creature. thy hunt, hath only just, begun." Quin declared effectively saying that he has declared Terium a worthy prey to hunt down and destroy.
"Good luck with that....Quin." Terium replied with a hint of malice just begging him to get up again. Which Quin could quite easily, but isn't. Quin knows he isn't strong enough to defeat Terium. And had inwardly acknowledged that.
Terium disappeared from their sight, he knew why Quin didn't get up, of course, it seems the knight was aware there was a time to fight and a time to give up for now. Smart man.
(Terium has left the topic)
Quin got up and looked at Skylar. "I assume thee hath questions?" he asked with a tilt of his head.
"War never changes. Only the instruments of war and the people who play in it."
"What is my true name? What Destiny awaits one such as I out here, outside of Lordroth?" Quin
"You can tear me down all you want, I will Never give you the satisfaction of my Death! I am ASPARA! FEEL MY FLAMES AND BURN!" Aspara
"I need time to think." Sonnelion
"Orkses neva lose if we run we'll jus' come back fer more! If we die it don' count!" Barrigan
Skylar cringed as Terium pretty much got beat into the floor and did not get up. She appriciated Quin's pure determination but knew as he did, that it would be useless against someone who was just plain stronger than the two of them combined. Sky gave a wavering unsure smile and crossed her arms whilst standing up from underneath the shade of the tree.
She mauled it over in her head, 'Despite knowing nothing about this man but his name... I can't help but admire him... he refuses to be called by the title Terium gave him despite knowing that talking back could have easily got him more hurt... And, despite not having a reason to, he still wants to help me find who ever framed me. Strange how some people leave such a lasting impression that even strangers can remind you of them in some way. If things were not as they are, well he'd make a loyal pack member, I bet. Alas.'
Skylar ran over to where Quin was as Terium drifted off into the distance, she moved to help him up, but he seened capable of doing that himself. Guess Terium had the right idea when he said Quin had a lot of potential. Skylar was nervous with worry despite that though, she used to be weak and have to watch as her team mates were picked off one by one, the bravest of whom would pretend to be alright when they really were not. She was weak no longer, therefore her people no longer had to pretend. And she decided that Quin was one of her own.
That's when she realized she may have changed over the years... she was more afraid now. She used to never worry about her friends- not because she didn't care but because in her mind theu could fend for themselves... but now with the reality of all the foes they faced, she couldn't afford to make a mistake.
"A-are you alright, you got a swift beating from Terium... do you have any particular injuries that need attention or...?" she trailed off at what Quin said, "Er, yeah... but like you don't have to answer of course, I have a grisly past as well and I know it's not easy sharing things, but if you don't mind me asking... what was Terium talking about when he kept calling you a SANE undead... not just undead-sane... that implies a lot of things... like what's underneath that suit of armor... are you perhaps a ghosty-goo?"
Skylar tried to put a little light heartedness at the end of that serious question, but she wasn't quite sure if the serious knight could understand the comedic effect... but it made HER feel a little better about the situation in any case.