[center][b][h3][color=#ff8566]Sister Sophia[/color] vs [color=826644]Queen Clotho[/color][/h3][/b] 
Round 2
[b]The whispering woods  – the Forest King[/b]
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[url=http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/gromory.png]Geromory[/url] stood still for a few moments as the pill took effect. Unbeknownst to the others reality had decided it was going to be in the strange mutants corner from now and would do its damnedest to ensure he came out on top. So when Sophia decided it would probably be best to take care of the gremlin before the pill did something disastrous and took aim at him one of her thrusters hiccuped, having encountered an impurity in her fuel supply for a moment. Sophia hurtled of course from her hovering position just as she opened fire, her shells blasting the gate blocking the entrance. By the time she had corrected her sideways flight Geromory and the universe had decided it was in his best interest to leave and the mutant had quickly Knuckle walked out of the throne room heading to who knew where.

[color=826644]”Well that was rather pathetic. both the pill and your shooting.”[/color] 

Clotho had stopped to observe, landing near a few wounded bugs to inject them with mutagen, her swarm gathering behind her awaiting their orders. Sophia took this opportunity to empty the remainder of her clips at the two gem carriers, the volley of shots from each pistol tore through the bugs, roughly half missing, but one shot from each boltgun found their mark and blasted the silencing gems. 

The two gems destroyed Sophia reloaded and open her mouth.

[color=#ff8566]“You disgust me you filthy emotionless bug! I will crush you, I will make you suffer for your vile corruptions and the mere thought that you had any right to silence one of the Emperors Choir. You shall burn for your crime of existing you hideous xenos filth. I”[/color][color=826644]”oh. I thought you were a paladin or something, but it looks like you aren't going to get any help from your god. Just shout at me. That's kind of sad.”[/color] [color=#ff8566]“ grind your bones to dust and use you as fertiliser. You putrid sack of heretical puss, in the name of the Emperor, in the name of all that is holy”[/color][color=826644]”are you trying to annoy me to death?”[/color][color=#ff8566]“ burn you to cinders with my holy instruments. Your life end here, today, by my hands”[/color][color=826644]”... why am I standing here and taking this? Get go her my minions”[/color] 

Clotho’s bugs and mutants swarmed together at the ranting warrior, screeching in unison  to fulfill their queen's command a wave of chinten, spears, claws and napalm. Sophia raised her voice in a single, long clear note  which was joined by a roar as she swept the melta pistol across the incoming tightly packed horde, the intense heat igniting, vaporizing and melting the front line of charging bugs, those behind crashing into the back of their burning corpses in a pile up.

Yet more beasts were coming in from all over the massive tree fort however, and no matter what Sophia did, no matter how many she killed, there seemed to be no end. She took advantage of the temporary barricade to try and shoot Clotho again, but to no avail, the speedster simply took off and buzzed around unpredictably. This was getting down to the wire, she needed to find a solution and fast or Clotho was just going to keep this fight going, wearing her down and bleeding her dry of ammo. She did not want to take her chances at chain knifing the speedy duelist.
[color=826644]”you don't appear to learn, perhaps you have a mental deficiency?”[/color] 
[sub][sub][i][color=#FFD700]you can’t aim at her, so don’t[/color][/i][/sub][/sub]

If only she could find some way of surprising her adversary, shoot her without letting her know she was shooting at her. A glint of amber light showed her the way.

Sophia drew both her pistols at once and aimed at the Amber screen that protected the throne and let of a volley of shots. As before the enchanted screen reflected the bullets, but Sophia had judged the angle so that they blindsided the Slip Stream Queen, the explosive rounds detonating against and around her, cracking an puncturing her armor in multiple places, though to Sophia‘s horror the projectiles had lost too much momentum and where too scattered to kill her foe. She had reduced the armor to a shattered mess but it was unlikely she would get to land another blow. Then, all at once, the remains of the carapace shatter from her body, revealing the soft pink flesh through which massive amounts of stimulants where pumped suddenly. A snarl twists Chotho's surprisingly human face for a moment before she vanishes.

Then she reappeared right in front of Sophia, driving her blade in a furious swing at the Seraphim, hitting her squarely in the chest and knocking her back, not penetrating the armor but defiantly adding to the bruising Sophia was already suffering. Before she could react Clotho vanished and appeared to her left but then, impossibly, appeared on her right also. The original and her afterimage struck one after the other against her stomach, knocking her back once more, unbalancing her and sending her close to the ground from her aerial position

She was driven back, down towards the entrance, harried by lightning fast blows, the only reason she wasn’t dead was that Clotho appeared to have lost most of her fineness when the transformation overtook her. She might look more human now, but her in her actions and her demeanor, she was more of a furious beast lashing out after having been hurt. A wounded animal moving at ridiculously high speeds, raining blows upon her attacker. Sophia tried to shoot, stab or burn the lightning bug but she simply vanished before any blows could be struck.

[color=#ff8566]“Stay. Still so. I can. Exterminate you!”[/color]

A series of 6 blows delivered almost in unison knocked Sophia to the ground, her body hitting the wooden floor and rolling out through the shattered gates into the tunnle beyond. She rose once more only to take another strike and then another before she drew the falmer [color=#ff8566]“Burn monster!”[/color] yet Chotho had apparently enough of her wits about her to dash past the wave of flame, striking Sophia's back, damaging the jetpack and causing it to leak fuel, losing her most of the remainder of her already depleted supply. She turned to try and shoot Chotho, but again she vanished and reappeared behind Sophia, striking another blow. She needed to hit both behind her and in-front, to saturate the area with fire so the monster would have nowhere to go.
[sub][sub][i][color=#FFD700]Spin to win![/color][/i][/sub][/sub]

She she shot a bolt at Clotho, the queen vanishing as expected, but then she raised one foot off the ground and activated only one of the thrusters on her jetpack to performing a rocket propelled pirouette, the fuel that had leaked igniting as she engaged the flamer as well, engulfing the space around her in a burning hurricane as she spun rapidly. Chotho had been trapped above her in the eye of the storm when she tried to perform her teleport behind you maneuver again only to encounter fire and smoke in every direction of the corridor. Sophia ignited both her thrusters, flinging herself up and smashing into the naked warrior, crushing her wings against the roof. Chotho fell into the inferno, her pink skin igniting as she tried to stand, her body being consumed by the fire as she flailed helplessly towards Sophia.

[color=#ff8566]“The Emperor's will has been done, the xenos has been purged as all others shall be. Now please do me a favor die quickly and quietly”[/color]

Sophia kicked her burning adversary back into the throne room, her body collapsing to the floor, her minions were running about in a panic at their mistress's immanent demise. The holy warrior walked past, swaing slightly from her dizzyness, Chotho’s flailing form and bent down and collected the small bag containing the red pill and placed it in one of the empty ammunition holders. She had decided to go and see if anything on the throne was worth taking when [sub][sub][i][color=#FFD700]Don't turn your back on the body, she isn’t dead yet[/color][/i][/sub][/sub] she turned back around. She saw Clotho, screaming and burning, stabbed herself with the stinger, filling herself with all of the mutagen she had left: her flesh began to contort and grow even while it burned. Her minions were drawn to their dying body, enraptured by her dying sirens call they bit down on her, their bodies becoming infected with the mutagen, swelling and all of them growing together, combining into some twisting expanding mass, a vast cocoon of flesh and chitin.

She drew both her bolt pistols again, firing indiscriminately into the boiling expanse of flesh, yet the mass grew, engulfing every wound with more meat. In the end she only had 2 shots left, and she needed those shots and what little fuel she had left to properly depart the dungeon. She though now might be wise time to depart and resupply, she really didn't want to fight whatever that thing was going to be with her knives. 
[sub][sub][i][color=#FFD700]May I make a suggestion. Run[/color][/i][/sub][/sub]

[color=#ff8566]“Don't worry I'll be back to kill you later”[/color]

Sophia fled as the massive warped creation completed its transformation. The enormous monstrous screamed in rage at the retreating Seraphim, the thing that had once been Chotho smashing against the entrance of the comparatively small tunnel, trying to chase her. Sophia did not look back to see what was trying to kill her and just kept running towards the breach she had made.