Match of the Millennium

Description: Brought back to the deserted village where they had fought Franziska and her undead, Munin and Hugin wait for Sacred Order to pick up their prisoner. But Tremor at last reveals the depths of his trap! Channeling the spirit of the dragon within himself, he becomes suffused with Kulshedra's Earthen aspect. As Munin and Hugin encounter Tremor's stagnant, deathly aura, they realize that their previous fight was only the beginning... the true battle lies before them.

[HUGIN]
The earthen ninja may have offered to come along quietly, but that does not mean the Arshe twins are ones to take any unnecessary risks with their prisoner. Though their means are limited in containing the prisoner Hugin at least had a pair of handcuffs to secure Tremor's arms behind his back and a rope that could be tied to the chain between the cuffs to make running just a bit harder.

Even the enforced marching order is to take precautions. The ninja finds himself in what is probably becoming a rather familiar situation, sandwiched between the two sisters. Munin is in the lead, Tremor is kept in the middle, and Hugin brings up the rear where she can keep an eye on the ninja, and a hand on the leading rope.

[TREMOR]
The earth moves slowly. The earth moves with steady, ponderous determination. Forces may tear and try to alter the earth. Water and wind and mankind all put down their mark onto the earth. But in the end, the earth will get where it needs to be.

Tremor is of the earth. An assault on a third party mercenary. Gain the attention of others. To fail to defeat his captors. To be lead to where they push inward toward the castle. Each step in Tremor's plan a subtle one that moved him effortless toward his goal. The Black Dragon is, after all, a ninja. For all his elemental prowess and mighty strength, his first training was in infiltration.

He has been silent for his walking. But as the trio reach the abandoned town. This dead place, consigned to return to the earth. Tremor finds his voice.

"The two of you have shown me a respectable bond, and you have granted me the mercy I asked for. I will only show you such a few more times. If you leave now, I won't pursue." He speaks with a steady, deep, confident tone. Certain in his proclamation. Despite his bondage and his position between his captors.

Though as the elementalist speaks, there is yet rumbling that shakes this town. And the ninja's eyes, normally molten as the core of the earth, take on an unearthly, toxic, green aspect.

[MUNIN]
As the trio advances, Munin is about to respond when the earth begins to shake and rumble. Her glowing violet eyes, the only part of her face visible under her unnaturally darkened hood, peer at him warily as she turns to face him, knowing Hugin is ready from his flank "I suppose this is where you plan to attempt your escape?". Her tone suggests she's been waiting for this in some way, lacking any sense of suprise.

Darkness creeps along her body, and violet chi forms around her hands in preperation as she sighs "As nice as the offer is, it would be unacceptable to run without at least trying to maintain our objective. Being defeated is one thing, not even making an attempt is another". The eyes narrow, though the slight grin on her face is almost imperceptible in the gloom "Guess it's your move. Either make it, or are we continuing on?". He IS still bound, and hasn't attacked, so her personal ethics make a preemtive attack not becoming....... yet.

[HUGIN]
"Of course." Hugin's voice is particularly pithy as she stares through narrowed eyes at Tremor. She shifts her feet slightly at the trembling of the ground, reaching behind her with her free hand to grab her shield. She entwines her other hand more firmly about the rope leading to the ninja.

"What she said. Though we could offer you the same. Stand down, give up on whatever you have planned and we'll put in a good word for you. Tell them what a cooperative prisoner you were, if not.." She shrugs, setting one edge of the shield on the ground, her hand gripped tight to the opposite edge. "Well, I guess we'll just have a repeat of the cave."

[TREMOR]
The molten lines that run like split cracks through Tremor's skin shift. A steady, unearthly green suffusing the heat within the elementalist. His foot shifts, plants, and with a tensing of his body the rumbling of the dead town begins in earnest.

The ancient buildings, the open graves, the aging and decrepit rot of the fell place start to crumble and crack. Plaster and stone falling to the earth. From the base of Tremor's feet, the earth itself blackens as vein-like patterns pulse outward from him.

With an unnatural undulation of his mountainous frame, Tremor snaps the cuff's at his wrist and splits the rope binding him. Hands meeting in a clasp in front of him.

Crackling, snapping as the ninja stares ahead. His eyes staring balefire out at the middle distance. His already sizeable frame bulges upward, larger, sturdier. His mask clatters to the ground, shorn off by a distended jaw filled with rows of sharklike teeth.

"The Dragon Will Rise," he speaks, a fleck of saliva falls to the ground, acidic sizzling rising from the dusty ground. "And I will bury you."

COMBATSYS: Tremor has started a fight here.

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Tremor           0/-------/-------|

COMBATSYS: Hugin has joined the fight here on the right meter side.

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Tremor           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Hugin

COMBATSYS: Tremor has joined the fight here on the left meter side.

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Tremor           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Hugin

COMBATSYS: Munin has joined the fight here on the right meter side.

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Tremor           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |-------\-------\0            Munin

[MUNIN]
"Don't assume you have succeeded before you have tried!" is Munins quick reply as Tremor brings the area down around them in rubble. With a quick snap of her hand, long snakey lines of darkness fly from her hands, attempting to wrap around him and keep him impaired while they both follow up!

[HUGIN]
Shock? Awe? Nope. Hugin just isn't that type of gal, the massive transformation into some demonic hellbeast only manages to draw an annoyed sigh from the woman. "I'm getting real sick of this sort of shit. First that dickhead in Tokyo and now this." She tosses the rope aside and points right at Munin. "This is somehow your fault, I'll figure out how later."

Now no longer holding the rope, it frees her hand to form one of her light spears, which she does with a snap of her wrist. She's not waiting this time, she tosses the chi spear lightly in the air to adjust her grip and javelins it right at the transformed ninja.

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Munin's Shadow Coil.

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Tremor           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  ///////////////////////////// ]
                                  |-------\-------\0            Munin

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Hugin's Geirdriful.

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Tremor           0/-------/-------|-------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |-------\-------\0            Munin

[TREMOR]
Tremor squares himself off in a sturdy horse stance. The powers of darkness and light fly at him from both sides. And yet as they come he bats them aside with a rolling series of elbow and forearm. The aspect of earth stays in his position. He looks toward the shadowy sister first.

"Then I will try," he tells her. His voice seems unchanged, unwavering despite the aspect of the dragon flowing within his body. Perhaps, in some way, due to his already heavily elemental nature.

A heavy hand held over the tainted ground. Stones rip from the earth and coalesce into a craggy sphere. With a backhanded flick he hurls the stone toward Munin. The earthen mass crosshatched with sickly veins of blackened ichor.

COMBATSYS: Tremor successfully hits Munin with Not For Granite.

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Tremor           0/-------/-----==|-------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  /////////////////////////     ]
                                  |===----\-------\0            Munin

[MUNIN]
Munin unfortunately recovers from her attempt to entangle Tremor too late, and while she puts up her guard as fast as she can manage, the attack barrels into her, sending her flying onto her back. She rolls to her feet, her chi dissolving the iccor as best it can despite the way it burns her. Gathering this chi internally, she focuses it into her eyes, which glow brighter than normal, before suddenly exploding in a burst of close-range chi, enveloping the space Tremor is standing it deep violet energy!

[HUGIN]
As Tremor's attention is on Munin, Hugin takes the opportunity to rush in from behind. Shield still in her grip she dons it on her quick rush in, hand sliding into the straps with relative ease. There's no warcry or shout from the shieldmaiden, just the sound of her feet cruching on the path as she nears the.. well.. whatever he is now.

As she closes the distance she goes in low, aiming the side of her shield at the hopefully unprotected back of Tremor's knees.

COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Tremor with Eyeshadow.
- Power hit! -

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Tremor           0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |===----\-------\0            Munin

COMBATSYS: Tremor fails to interrupt Fierce Strike from Hugin with Mountainous Pain ES.

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Tremor           0/-------/---====|-------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  ////////////////////////      ]
                                  |===----\-------\0            Munin

[TREMOR]
The monstrous transformation does seem to have effected the ninja in ways unseen. Increasing his size and weight has slowed him down. Or perhaps it is the part of him that continues to control himself over the aspect of the dragon residing within. Either way, he is already slowly turning toward Hugin when Munin's energy comes to bear.

the burst of violet light staggers the brute, stumbling him forward, toward Hugin. Hugin, who may not have the back of Tremor's knees anymore, gets enough hit on the side to drop the big man to a single knee.

Lurching forward, Tremor catches himself on the ground. And that's when a familiar technique begins to start. The sickened ground begins to climb Tremor's arm, rock and pebble alike sliding over the elementalist's body to heat and solder and reform on his craggy skin.

[MUNIN]
As before, Tremor is using rock and earth, stone and gravel, to solidify himself.

Well, Munin thinks to herself, even the hardest rock breaks given time.....

... and hard enough hits!

Moving in, she unloads a combination of kicks and punches to the downed ninja. As she finishes, she slips around behind, and attempts to grab him, and throw him over her shoulder once more between the pair, trying to use the hard rocky ground as an opposingly tough surface to attempt to crack him upon!

[HUGIN]
And there goes the shield, lighting up again as Hugin infuses it with chi. Spear and shield, of course it's what she does, so perhaps there's no surprises for the ninja out of the valkyrie this time around, but she's focusing on whittling away at the rock of a man. IT's her demeanor that's different this time around, most of the sass seems to have subsided into a tacit stoicism. She knows when things have gone off the rails, and it's time to focus.

She takes one step away from the ninja as he falls to his knee, spins, and attempts to backhand him full on with the front of her illuminated shield.

COMBATSYS: Hugin successfully hits Tremor with Thrud.
- Power hit! -

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Tremor           0/-------/-======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  ////////////////////////      ]
                                  |==-----\-------\0            Munin

COMBATSYS: Tremor interrupts Combo Grapple from Munin with Klean Slate ES.
! VENGEANCE !

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Tremor           1/------=/=======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  /////////////////             ]
                                  |======-\-------\0            Munin

[TREMOR]
Despite the brief foray into focusing on Hugin, once more does the ninja's ire seem drawn to Munin. He remains where he is, rooted in place as Hugin's shield crashes bodily into him. The bestial man bellows, but soldiers himself forward. The strike sending rubble soaring through the air to clatter on the ground behind him.

The point of it all, it seems, is to put every bit of effort into reaching Munin before she gets to him. A swift series of strikes, a whirling man of stone and earth, slamming fist after heavy fist against the smaller ninja, wading through Munin's own assault with a deadly purpose.

[MUNIN]
The blows succeed in breaching Munins defenses, and her assault is haulted by a barrage of Tremors own. On the back foot a moment, she winces due to the damage inflicted.....

His pattern does seem somewhat evident, however, and planning in her mind does not cease. Estimating the likelyhood of his next moves, she doesn't relent, and comes in with a blow aimed at what she guesses with be the back of his head, with a follow up to his lower back. So far he has alternated between the two of them in his attacks, so she banks on him doing so again!

If he doesn't she'll instead hit him in the face and stomach with her paired attacks!

[HUGIN]
Shield still glowing after crashing into Tremor, Hugin hops back a step or two, wincing as she seems him make contact with her sister. But she doesn't call out so as not to distract her, she knows Munin can take care of herself, she's more focused on coordinating her assault with her twin, keeping Tremor between them. The open landscape makes it far more easily done than the cave they were trapped in before. As Tremor moves away from her and towards Munin, Hugin goes rushing in, glowing shield held up before her, wisps of light-chi drifting off and trailing her as she zips in close for another assault with the shield.

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Munin's Fierce Punch.

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Tremor           1/-----==/=======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  /////////////////             ]
                                  |======-\-------\0            Munin

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Hugin's Brynhildr.

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Tremor           1/----===/=======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  /////////////////             ]
                                  |======-\-------\0            Munin

[TREMOR]
Focus. The potent rage of the dragon's elemental aspect is distracting. But he needs to hold it just a little while longer. Blow after blow rains down from the siblings. And each one he takes in stride. Each step forward a little more focused on his task at hand.

Instead of the grabbing, aggressive rage, Hugin and Munin are met with steady, planted blocks. Solid pressure as he takes the blows coming down against him. All of it to burst through the other side.

A lunging fist, not alternating as he has been, but focusing now on the initial target of his assault, Munin. No fancy trickery or deceit, simply power.

COMBATSYS: Munin fails to counter Fierce Punch from Tremor with Blink Strike.
# Disabling hit! #

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Tremor           1/---====/=======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |=======\==-----\1            Munin

COMBATSYS: Munin blitzes into action and acts again!

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Tremor           1/---====/=======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
                                  >  /////////                     ]
                                  |=======\==-----\1            Munin
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[MUNIN]
As it turns out, Munins estimation is off.

Badly.

As he turns to round on her, she leaps back and down, leaving an illusory image of herself behind to take the hit! However, she doesnt go far enough, and his punch goes through the image to strike her squarely in the side of the head! She has a near blackout, but manages to fight through the pain and remain conscious!

She balls a fist, and a burst of violet chi forms a blade of pure chi energy! She leaps forwards, stabbing forwards towards Tremors lower stomach area in an attempt to take him off-guard so quickly afterwards, the blade fading away afterwards hit or miss.

[HUGIN]
Hugin isn't relenting in her assault, blow after blow is raining down on him from her glowing shield. Single-minded. Though the more injury her sister seems to take the more agressive and furious her attack become. PErhaps she isn't all the stoic forbearance she's trying to put forward right now. As Munin launches her assault with her illusion and blade, Hugin's shield sputters back to darkness, but that doesn't mean she's not swinging it again. An axechop of the metal disc right at the ninja's shoulder.

COMBATSYS: Munin successfully hits Tremor with Shadow Spike.
-+- CALCULATED HIT -+-

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Tremor           1/---====/=======|-------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |=======\====---\1            Munin

COMBATSYS: Hugin successfully hits Tremor with Crushing Strike.

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Tremor           1/-======/=======|=------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |=======\====---\1            Munin

[TREMOR]
Size has limited the once capable ninja. He turns, twists. Attempting to use his learned skill to keep one step ahead of the attacks of the pair, it falls on all accounts. He doesn't feel the right motion. He cannot judge the mass of his body. The secondary passenger in the form of the aspect is mishandled. And for it, he is punished.

Sliced and battered, stone and acidic ichor splash to the ground. He staggers, roiling toward one of the old structures that still mark this fetid place a town. He falls into it, the wall crumbling. The pieces once more start to pull Tremor together. A little longer. A little more desperate. "No more. I will bury you," he promises, stepping from the rubble.

The earth quakes. The ground rises up. Two great blocks of stone crash up from the earth at the behest of the elemental. The mix of earth, dragon and man stomps his foot and brings his hands crashing together. In a gross mimicry of his motions, the stone pillars slide together. The earth itself crushing toward Munin.

COMBATSYS: Tremor successfully hits Munin with Stone Tomb.

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Tremor           0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0            Hugin
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                                  |>>>>>>>\>>>>>>>\2            Munin

[MUNIN]
Munin has but a moment to see the rocks come up, but nowhere near enough to get out of the way!

*CRASH!*

The rocks come together on her form! or do they?

Looking closely, they have stopped..... but only just barely..... Munin strains to hold them back just enough to not be crushed to death, arms shaking from the effort despite serious injury to them from them from the impact.

The chi around her body flares as she glaaaaares intensely at Tremor. The shadows begin to darken at his feet, growing deeper and deeper, until suddenly, they spring to life, long spears of solid shadow from all angles, attempting to perforate his body in multiple places!

Hit or miss, these vanish a second or two later, and with one last effort of will, Munin pulls herself from between the large stones and to the ground. They *CRASH* together loudly, and though they don't KILL her, the damage is enough regardless. Munin is unconscious as she hits the ground, her chi fading, her face in her hood visible with eyes closed and not moving.

COMBATSYS: Munin can no longer fight.

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Tremor           0/-------/-----==|=------\-------\0            Hugin

[HUGIN]
Hugin's eyes go wide as the stone pillars crush her sister and render her unconscious. She turns a baleful glare upon the earth ninja, her face twisting up into an expression of pure rage. "You son of a bitch!" Her eyes go from their normal shade of pale lilac to bright white, glowing of their own accord. Chi flares around her in a sudden stream a glowing radiance, pouring off her form in wisps and motes.

"We should have beaten you to dust in that cave and collapsed the entrance. I won't make that mistake twice!"

As her sister's last ditch assault is fading, the luminescent twin goes charging in towards the ninja. Her calm exterior shattered as she bellows out a warcry. She leaps in the air and comes crashing down on the ninja, using what weight she has plus gravity to bring her shield crashing down on his head.

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Munin's Iron Maiden.

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Tremor           0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0            Hugin

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Hugin's Power Strike.

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Tremor           0/-------/---====|==-----\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
The final lashing out from the umbral strikes against Tremor's stony body. The entity that grapples with Tremor for power and control withstands the assault with a braced set of arms to bite back against the valiant assault. Stone, whips of acrid green ichor fly.

But in the end, the stone shinobi is still standing. His chest rises and falls, his warped and twisted maw opens, heated breath warps the air as the draconic embodiment of diseased earth has won over one of the sister's.

A second coming, this time from Hugin. Fighting with the rage of loss, she comes at him but once more finds a sturdy bulwark of flesh, stone, and something far more insidious.

He shoves the shield back and for all his warped image, it is clear that at this moment, Tremor has won against the aspect of earth for now. He stands before Hugin, hand in fist, and begins a deep breathing. The ground swells to his feet, coiling around him, securing him, healing him. The pulsing black veins in the earth a rhythm that matches the geomancer's heart beat. "Is your rage so great?" he asks, "That you will risk your sister's survival? I grant you a second chance at mercy. Take it and leave this place."

COMBATSYS: Tremor gains composure.

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Tremor           0/-------/----===|==-----\-------\0            Hugin

[HUGIN]
"You've got drool on your chin." Hugin's words are almost as acidic as whatever ichor is leaking out of Tremor at the moment. The mocking probably helping to direct her rage at the ninja, and a way to respond to his words without really responding. Though the banter lasts only a second as she's driving in close for another assault. She's not about to let him restore himself, well, not in peace anyway.

She steps in toward Tremor, crouching low, the light around her body enveloping her shield. She springs upwards, aiming an uppercut with the shield right at the ninja's deformed maw.

COMBATSYS: Tremor dodges Hugin's Hrist.

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Tremor           0/-------/----===|=------\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
Tremor has continued his grip on his own body. He moves with a ninja's speed, even from his focused stance. Hugin's harassment is met with stony silence and her luminous attack catches only air. In this moment, Tremor has connected with the twisted shape the aspect has put upon him.

His feet scrape the earth, small furrows dug into the ground in the wake of his movement. His fists pulsate and throb. Each moment stone and crystalline structures jut and twist, building around the elemental's fists like a pair of misshapen great clubs.

"I respect your tenacity," he speaks, "Show me your rage, woman." His brings his limbs together and the conglomerate fists shatter into a cloud of sharpened crystals, heavy stone, and acidic sludge. A earthen explosive made toxic by the influence of the dread draconic aspect within Tremor.

COMBATSYS: Hugin blocks Tremor's Krystal Shatter.

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Tremor           0/-------/---====|===----\-------\0            Hugin

[HUGIN]
"My name isn't woman." Hugin's shield comes up in time to deflect most of the crystal shards off the metal surface, sure it ruins the paint job even more, and it wasn't in particularly good shape after last time. But it'll give her something to do in her downtime. "At least I didn't let myself become possessed by some ugly demonic beast. Why don't you give up, rather than run back to whoever your master is to lick their boots."

She swings the shield around, aiming a cross-chop from the dinged up disc right at his side.

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Hugin's Random Strike.

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Tremor           0/-------/--=====|===----\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
"Yes. That is the rage I want to see." Tremor twists, one arm down, braced by his palm. The stony surface clangs against the swinging shield. His body rocks, the stone falling away to show the aspect pulsing inside of him.

"But there is something I must yet do." He speaks, and follows up with a simple backhand toward Hugin. As though he were trying to swat her aside so that he can move on and forward with whatever purpose he had with taking on the aspect of a fell dragon.

COMBATSYS: Hugin blocks Tremor's Medium Punch.

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Tremor           0/-------/-======|===----\-------\0            Hugin

[HUGIN]
The backhand rings off of Hugin's shield with a reverbent clang that echoes through the village. "Blah blah blah, why do all psychopaths always have some grand destiny they must attend to?" She forms one of her chi spears in her free hand, spinning off towards Tremor's side and under his arm. She spins the spear as she twirls herself, creating a streak of light through the air before jamming the spear right down at the ninja's foot, aiming to pin him right to his precious earth.

COMBATSYS: Tremor blocks Hugin's Sanngridr.

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Tremor           0/-------/-======|====---\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
Down comes Hugin with her pinning spear. She cannot quite get Tremor's foot however. The hulking form of the shinobi's shoulder takes much of the gash instead. As he shoulders her aside and moves past her.

"I have given you and yours ample chances to leave. But you persist in violence," he says, wheeling about on heel. Pieces fall and crumble. He is not immune, merely very, very sturdy. But watching too long may be trouble as the ninja draws forth from the ground itself a tearing blade of stone, bone and crystal. A spinning death that cleaves through the earth toward Hugin.

COMBATSYS: Tremor knocks away Hugin with Krystal Kutter ES.

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Tremor           1/-----==/=======|=======\==-----\1            Hugin

[HUGIN]
Hugin goes flying back. She rolls to a stop and slowly picks herself back up, getting to her feet with a glare for Tremor. "We persist in violence?! You're the one that agreed to come peacefully then broke your promise. You're the liar and the villain here, don't you go blaming other people because you're to much of a coward to look in the mirror." She takes a deep breath and spits blood and plegm off to the side, though her eyes never leave Tremor.

The light surrounding her shield suddenly flares to new brilliance as she lifts it up in front of her. She doesn't take this opportunity to retreat, no, she's not like that. She charges back in, head first. Her glowing shield a bulward between her and Tremor, luminous chi flowing off of her in waves that distort vision around her, until she comes crashing down on Tremor, to batter him like a human cannonball.. or hammer.

COMBATSYS: Hugin successfully hits Tremor with Mjollnir.
- Power hit! -
> Determined Hit! <

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Tremor           1/--=====/=======|==-----\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
The sheer force of the charge takes Tremor off his feet. Hugin lands upon him and the ground quakes and trembles. The dying remnants of the former town around the pair crumble and crack. Foundations rocked, the walls turn in on themselves. A cannonball, a hammer stroke, a cacophany that echoes through the valleys of Albanian Alps.

Hugin has downed the beast.

"Even if you stop me here, you are not your sister's equal," Tremor's voice comes from the cracked, crumbled pit he finds himself in. "But your rage may someday be divine. Even so. . .,"

The ground erupts. An explosion of stalagmites rocket upward from around and underneath Tremor and Hugin. A deadly force to punch her skyward with a deadly violence.

COMBATSYS: Hugin blocks Tremor's Rock Bottom.

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Tremor           0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0            Hugin

[HUGIN]
Hugin and that damned shield. Afterall, it's primary purpose has never been as a weapon, even though she insists on using it as such. But she's just as able to use it to keep some of the worst of the attacks from reaching her. He rolls on top of the shield as the ground erupts, sliding down the side of one of the spikes right towards Tremor instead of being launched into the air. She rolls forward as she hits the ground, closing the distance between her and the draconic ninja, only to sprig up and lash out with her shield. "You don't get to talk about my sister!"

COMBATSYS: Tremor dodges Hugin's Medium Strike.

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Tremor           0/-------/---====|====---\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
And so the woman proves to be made of stern stuff. Tremor is still getting up when the woman is already on top of him. He's back on his feet, and slowly growing more steady. His steps are agile, leaping backward, using his bulk to throw himself like a wrecking ball through one of his own rock formations, but away from Hugin's swing.

"You care for her, and yet you allow her to lay crumpled and discarded. All so you can sate your rage," Tremor calls out, the draconic hulk powering toward Hugin once more. A snarling strike, turning in air, heel of a twisted half reptilian, half stone foot slamming down toward Hugin.

COMBATSYS: Tremor successfully hits Hugin with Aggressive Strike.
COMBATSYS: Hugin refuses to stay down!

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Tremor           0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0            Hugin

[HUGIN]
Hugin takes the boot square on, skidding backwards a few feet, and pulling herself up again. "Discarded, no. I know she can handle it. I'm doing what she'd expect of me. Kicking your ass. I'd expect the same of her." Her cut and bleeding lips part in a gruesome blood tinged smile, her black hair in disarray. She looks like some creature uot of a horror film herself at the moment.

With a flick of her wrist yet another chi-spear forms. Despite her wounds she launches her self in towards the ninja, spinning and slashing with the spear, a cut towards the face, another towards the legs.

COMBATSYS: Tremor just-defends Hugin's Kara!!

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Tremor           0/-------/--=====|======-\-------\0            Hugin

[TREMOR]
There is something in this woman's words that touches the man underneath the dragon and the stone. A man who has seen betrayal in many forms. A man who has pushed past and survived slings and arrows of sordid allies and compatriots. And now he is here, fighting both the aspect of the dragon within and the efforts of two loyal sisters without. It spurs him onward.

The strikes come quick, but the beast of a man drives the spear away, both strikes pushed aside with a heavy circular block, leaving a poised and collected Tremor standing in the aftermath.

"I will grant you one final mercy," Tremor speaks, stepping forward with a heavy stomp. Both hands directed palm outward in a chest shattering thrusting blow. "I will bury you together."

COMBATSYS: Tremor successfully hits Hugin with Shock Wave.
- Power hit! -

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Tremor           0/-------/=======|=======\-------\1            Hugin

[HUGIN]
Miscalculated. Hugin tries to get out of the way of that slam, but her injuries are just too much and she stumbles, taking the hut directly. She falls to her knees, shield clattering to the ground. "Bury us all you want. Your time is coming, you bastard. Someone will kill your lying ass, and my ghost will laugh." She grins a rictus smile and with the last of her energy lashes out with the spear still gripped in her hand, a single thrust forward before the chi dissapates and she falls to the ground.

COMBATSYS: Hugin can no longer fight.

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Tremor           0/-------/=======|

COMBATSYS: Hugin successfully hits Tremor with Hrund.

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Tremor           1/-------/=======|

[MUNIN]
As Hugin falls, Munin suddenly appears in a burst of shadow. Having recovered enough during the ensuing battle, she doesn't wait to see if Hugins attack hits or misses. She quickly hefts her sister onto a shoulder, grabs the shield with the other hand, and after giving Tremor a glance with that piercing stare of hers, the shadows come alive, darkening the area where they are from view.

When things brighten up once more, they are gone. Not even footsteps remain to indicate where they have gone in what dirt exists upon the rocky ground.

[TREMOR]
Tremor stands resolute. He watches the woman fall toward him with her last ounce of energy. The spear catches him in the chest. He barks out in pain. He staggers back, one, two, three steps. But he does not fall.

The battle is done, Tremor, aspected with the draconic power, has taken the day. The plan was a success. He looks to the fallen Hugin. He looks toward the downed Munin. "Perhaps I have one more mercy left within me," he admits to himself a respect for the pair that had kept him so challenged. That had been willing to push themselves past their capabilities just for the sake of the other.

Tremor's eyes close. But when they open to find the two gone, he looks with some approval on the ruined former township. "Fly. The world would be lesser without challenges like you," he speaks to the air, turning to walk with a plodding assurance to the mountains and the great Castle Illyria.

The Black Dragon has risen.

COMBATSYS: Tremor has ended the fight here.

Log created on 14:26:23 05/12/2018 by Munin, and last modified on 00:10:08 05/14/2018.