Match of the Millennium

Description: Demitri has the easiest match in his life. Just show up, beat up a snake girl, and come home in time to watch 'Vlad The Player' on the Midnight Channel. The tough part for our favorite vampire? The fact that it is probably the worst venue in the history of time. The time of the match? High Noon. The location? The beachside ruins of Knossos upon the island of Crete, with also happened to be the site of the Greek Orthodox Beachside Garlic Festival 2018. While snakes enjoy the heat, Demitri will be battling under the blistering sun, with the stench of garlic in the air, and more holy water being slung around than a Wet T-Shirt Contest at the Vatican. And for Sophia? All she needs to do is survive... which is easier said than done, in the face of the vampire lord.

[DEMITRI]
It had been a long time since Demitri had been near Greece in general, or Crete for that matter. How long had it been? Could he even remember? He was always more of a Rome sort of guy. Either way, the text message had come over his phone, which he checked religiously every evening, when he woke up--that the next appearance he was to make was here, in these... Ruins. Not bad scenery, but not quite the kind of accomodations he'd have chosen--way too much open water, what with Crete being an island, and all. In truth, being a vampire was more or less like being a heroin addict--you needed to have the next 'source' lined up if you were to travel, which was why it was such a dangerous affair for both. Demitri had procrastinated just a bit, not wanting to be stuck on an island, idly glancing at his phone's screen.

MistressOfTheNight: Little bats should remember their raincoats while on the island of Crete :smugbat:

Morrigan again. He sighed and returned the phone to somewhere inside his cape somewhere.

A cloud of screeching bats would announce Demitri's presence to the ruins themselves--now, where as that snake woman.

[SOPHIA]
Technically Sophia had just been in Greece, but dreaming about it was different than visting it in person. She figured it was a decent place to find out more about being a lamia so she she been investigating all kinds of ruins. There also was some kind of garlic festival going on but she was never the partying type. She was wearing a black swimsuit that kept most of her top half covered, she had been basking on the beach earlier before all the people showed up.

She knew a thing or two about feeding as well after all she went berserk if she didn't have a constant supply of energy. Luckily for her someone had got drunk and passed out in the ruins away from prying eyes.

[DEMITRI]
The sun out here--could it get any brighter? Demitri must have been thinking--idly as he neared Sophia. He'd seen a lot of different Darkstalkers before, of course, so something like Sophia wasn't exactly surprising--however, he couldn't seem to get comfortable. What was...?

"Afternoon," he spoke finally to her, tipping his head as he wounded a large pillar that he'd been using incidentally for shade. Normally, Demitri had a force field or aura around himself to protect himself from the sun's rays while he was outdoors during the day. It was something vampires suffiently old and strong enough could do--also something of a mark of prestige. If you had survived long enough to be able to do that, you played your cards right. Right now though, shit--it was hot. He felt hot in his suit--something that didn't usually happen.

Demitri's brown leather riding boots skidded off some rocks as he took another step--faltering just a bit. He didn't realize what was happening. A distance away, the ground was consecrated--and it extended this far--something he didn't know.

"Well, lets get this... nghh--over with--" Demitri blinked and looked up, his dark brown eyes looking a bit filmed over as the sun cast it's baleful rays down upon it's brow, the skin on his forehead and cheeks already looking sallow and wrinkling.

"Do you... do you smell something burning...?" he frowned, exacerbating the crumpled look of the skin of his face, which looked to be trying to retreat from the light.

His neck craned just enough to to see the tongue flame and puff of some lick up from the shoulder of his suit jacket--his cape had been thrown back by the verdant summer wind.

"Oh shi--" he managed before the flames began to catch up along his arm and shoulder, ducking behind the pillar into the shade and trying to pat it out!

COMBATSYS: Demitri has started a fight here as a boss!

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COMBATSYS: Sophia has joined the fight here.

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Sophia           0/-------/-------|

[SOPHIA]
Sophia's busy trying to decipher ancient writing when she hears the voice. There's a vampire speaking to her which instantly gets her attention "So the legends are true..." She doesn't get a chance to say much more until he bursts into flames and she panics. "Stop, drop and roll! I'll try to put it out!"

She grabs the beach blanket she brought with her and slithers over to him. She knows she's supposed to be fighting him but she can't help to be a bit concerned. The lamia begins to smother him with the blanket to try and put the fire out. Of course in her haste she might use a bit of excessive force.

COMBATSYS: Demitri blocks Sophia's Quick Punch.

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Sophia           0/-------/-------|

[DEMITRI]
"This place and it's accursed holy ground--gah!" Demitri winds up bringing his hand up to catch Sophia's fist as she attempts to knock him over.

"Clearly the fight must be joined--we can call this an.. equalizing measure--I won't make it easy for you, and you won't for me," Demitri pulled himself behind the nearby pillar, the sun still burning him but the fire on his shoulder mostly put out--steam instead seemed to be rising from the skin beneath his clothes. In truth his body temperature had risen a great deal--his undead and alien physiology being cooked in the light of the day now. This was not something he'd experienced in a long time.

Zipping out from the pillar, lightning quick, he attempted to grab Sophia's tail and toss her away from him!

COMBATSYS: Sophia auto-guards Demitri's Fast Throw.

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Sophia           0/-------/-------|

[SOPHIA]
Of course Sophia doesn't want to be grabbed by the flaming vampire, burnt leather never smells good after all. Still she's a bit concerned about his well being and heistant to drag him out from the pillar to expose him further. Still it sounds he intends to resist her, sometimes men could be so stubborn. "You're still going to fight me like this?" She knows she would stand no chance against him under normal circumstances "Come on, I'll get you somewhere safe until the sun goes down..." Of course that might be a bit difficult with the festival going on outside, maybe a darker part of the ruins?" She attempts to grab him with her tail without getting burnt in the process.

COMBATSYS: Demitri endures Sophia's Choke Hold.

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Sophia           0/-------/-------|

[DEMITRI]
The sun is still affecting Demitri far more than he'd have thought or liked to admit--it's kind of like that urban legend of microwaving a wet cat or dog but in this case it actually works. As he tries to grab Sophia, she slithers away from his grasp and the sun strikes him again, skin sizzling.

"Nonsense, I'm perfectly... able, got this under control--" Demitri is starting to look more like the wick of a candle, his pride making him unable to take her advice. Soon however--she finds the snek woman binding him in his coils--choking him. As if he didn't have a hard enough time already.

"Gck--" his lips drew back as he attempted to pull himself free--deciding instead to fly himself up into the air with her and bring her down in a flying pile driver, after a great outburst of strength!

COMBATSYS: Demitri successfully hits Sophia with Negative Stolen.

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Sophia           0/-------/--=====|

[SOPHIA]
Of course the fact that Sophia's already wrapped around him makes it pretty impossible for her to avoid the flying piledriver as se's lifted into the air and slammed into the ground. She cringes in pain and untangles herself from him. Of course the fact he's burning as well makes it rather dangerous to grapple with him. She's going to have to try a different method here.

She places her hands together and they begin to glow green. Suddenly, a green snake is released from him at the vampire. Maybe she could drain his energy and knock him out so she can drag him to safety.

COMBATSYS: Demitri dodges Sophia's Bedtime Story.

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Sophia           0/-------/--=====|

[DEMITRI]
Pulling himself free once the flying pile driver is done, Demitri is able to get back to his feet--hopefully before Sophia tries to give him a great big hug like that again. He was not used to being caught in this kind of position, so he was trying to make the best of it--however the sun was doing some awful things to him. When Sophie's green snek emerges to try and bite him and drain his energy--he is still able to turn and avoid it narrowly--sweeping his cape aside like a bullfighter.

"Will ask you to keep your friends to yourself, madam, hrng--" he tilted himself back and one of his large muscled legs shot, angling himself sideways a bit as the kick went out to balance himself better and extend the momentum of the kick--his boot trying to crash into her thigh.

COMBATSYS: Sophia blocks Demitri's Medium Kick.

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Sophia           0/-------/=======|

[SOPHIA]
Sophia extends her tail to defend herself but it still results in her getting kicked. She's doing her best to keep him some distance from him now, she likes warm places but not that warm. Instead she opens her mouth and begins to glow with the same green energy as before. She's not intending to speak but instead spits acid at him. Well, at least it should burn less than the sun.

COMBATSYS: Sophia successfully hits Demitri with Acid Paper.

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Sophia           1/-------/=======|

[DEMITRI]
Demitri grunts after the kick lands home--only to get splashed with acid. He growls in pain and frustration, just short of a scream--before roughly wiping his face with his hand and then pulls his cape back, leaping at her. The stress and damage was causing him to revert to more.. basic instincts. He tries to grab at the Lamia's shoulders and proceed to bite--face becoming feral and eyes completely white. He'd intend to viciously bite before throwing her over his shoulder--if he could get ahold of her. Damn sneks--so slippery.

COMBATSYS: Sophia dodges Demitri's Light Pleasure.

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Sophia           1/-------/=======|

[SOPHIA]
Of course the problem with trying to grab Sophia is that's she's a bit slippery, especially when she's been sweating. All this heat is starting to get to her. Then again she doesn't want to grab ahold of him for too long either. She attempts to ensnare him once again, this time she doesn't intend to cling him however. Instead she tries to toss him into a wall.

COMBATSYS: Sophia successfully hits Demitri with Power Throw.
- Power hit! -

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Sophia           1/------=/=======|

[DEMITRI]
Demitri is thrown against the wall of the ruin--actually into one of the nearby pillars which cracks as he hits it. The Lamia is stronger than he thought. Steam and smoke is still wafting off him in sheets like a burned out building, pulling himself back up--he looks pretty worse for wear. Opening his cape wide--what looks like a horde of dark, flaming bats appear out of it--flaming and screeching and diving around as they seek to engulf the snake girl in fire--trying to lift her up and back and toss her against one of the nearby pieces of ruin as well!

COMBATSYS: Demitri has reached second wind!

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Sophia           1/------=/=======|

COMBATSYS: Demitri successfully hits Sophia with Darkside Master EX.
! VENGEANCE !

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Sophia           1/--=====/=======|

[SOPHIA]
Sophia looks for cover against from the flaming bats, there's no way she's going to be outmaneuver them. Of course given her size it's rather hard to find anything that'll fully protect her and she gets swarmed by the burning rodents. Yes, she's part-snake but even she can't eat a bat that's on fire. She now smells like burnt leather and part of her scalp is missing. She screams in a fit of rage and lunges at Demitri.

She's not sure what effect trying to drain him will have, but she's not exactly thinking clearly at this point. She glows sickly green as she attempts to wrap herself around Demitri and bite into the vampire, draining the unlife from him.

COMBATSYS: Demitri endures Sophia's Binding Pact.

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Sophia           0/-------/------=|

[DEMITRI]
"Welcome to the party--" Demitri's voice is distorted from his partial demonic regression--his face looking shrunken, the skin pulled back with his teeth and fangs jutting out hideously. He's got smoke rising off him still, instead he pulls the cape further around himself and spins toward her--his body looking to grow foggy and indistinct--trying to tackle her while at the same time becoming intangible somehow--or partly so. Has Sophia really beaten back the vampire? Of coures by the light of the sun, but...

COMBATSYS: Demitri gains composure.

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Sophia           0/-------/------=|

[SOPHIA]
It seems likely Sophia can safely feed from vampires, or at least Demitri. That was something to make a note of when she comes to her senses. If she remembers what happened. In the meantime she continues to bite him, making sure she's safe. She feels a bit strange though but she's not quite sure exactly why.

COMBATSYS: Demitri dodges Sophia's Fanged Fable.

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Sophia           0/-------/------=|

[DEMITRI]
Demitri is mostly in a gaseous state right now, so the bite attack passes right through him--instead, forming a cloud of gas--a large hand of his comes out of it and attempts to give Sophia a sort of haymaker... or swat, whichever you might prefer. It looks rather cartoonish, all things considered--as Darkstalkers can sort of at times.

COMBATSYS: Demitri has reached third wind!

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Sophia           0/-------/------=|

COMBATSYS: Sophia blocks Demitri's Improvised Smack.

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Sophia           0/-------/-----==|

[SOPHIA]
Well Demitri literally just smacked some sense into Sophia. "What just happened...we're still fighting?" Of course she should have know an ancient vampire shouldn't have gone down so easily. She's suddenly fighting a gas cloud and ponders a moment how to hurt it before spit acid once again. Hopefully he wouldn't turn into acid rain cloud and start following her.

COMBATSYS: Demitri endures Sophia's Acid Paper.

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Sophia           0/-------/-----==|

[DEMITRI]
The Acid, for it's merit, has some sort of tangible effect on Demitri--especially as he tries to reform out of the gas cloud and gets it right in the face. Augh.

"It keeps happening, arghhh--" he growls, the fight having literally turned into that homestuck comic of the guy falling down stairs, Demitri lashes out with a desperate last (hopefully) wind attack, furiously punching and kicking at Sophia.

COMBATSYS: Demitri can no longer fight.

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Sophia           0/-------/-----==|

COMBATSYS: Sophia endures Demitri's Aggressive Strike.

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Sophia           0/-------/-======|

[SOPHIA]
Sophia takes a beating but is still standing somehow. She doesn't feel much better than Demitri right now, she's going to go coil up somewhere deep in the ruins and sleep this off. She might even take him with her if he doesn't try to struggle too much. She still feels a bit bad about having to fight him direct sunlight even though she had offered to take the fight somewhere else.

[DEMITRI]
As Demitri tries to strike harder--he falters again--falling. Eventually he breaks up into a cloud of gas, the appearance of which has a general look of like a dark raincloud--likely the way he feels at the moment. Something drops to the ground at the same time... a metallic phone case? A small bat flutters out of nowhere after the gas is gone and picks the case up with it's feet--flapping away into some part of the ruins, away from the super bright sun.

Log created on 11:29:50 06/29/2018 by Demitri, and last modified on 12:47:03 07/01/2018.