[center] [color=4BE2A3][h3]Naija[/h3][/color] [color=4BE2A3] level[/color]: 4 [color=4BE2A3]day/time[/color]: day 2 [color=4BE2A3]Location[/color]: Smash Arena [color=4BE2A3]word count[/color]: 1,133 [/center] Naija peaked her head over the table she had been hiding behind and felt a rush of exhilaration and victory as she saw that the brute had been slammed through the wall by their combined assault, only for those feelings to be torn away when he emerged relatively unscathed. [color=4BE2A3]”oh come on!”[/color] Naija threw her hands up in the air, exasperated, only to notice the spines forming on the Gnock’s arms. [color=4BE2A3]”eep!”[/color] She just barely managed to duck her head back down behind her defensive cover in time in order to avoid the second barrage of spikes sent flying by the big brute around the room. Some of the a multitude of spines lodged themselves firmly in the prize table, making it look like a bed of nails. The majority of the spikes however crashed into his already mutated minions. Naija was initially bemused as to why this would help their foe, the goblins were already infected after all, but after the a few moments it became stomach wrenchingly clear. She gasped in horror and fear as the Gnorcs began to melt into disgusting blobs of oozing flesh, innumerable eyes, grasping tentacles and voracious mouths. They reminded her a little of the corrupt [url=https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/aquaria/images/8/88/Miniboss_rotcore.png/revision/latest?cb=20150830040856]rot cores[/url] she had destroyed in the Mithalas cathedral, though these were more melty grabby gluttons rather than pulsating laser batteries. On thing was for sure, she did not want to be sitting still with those lunging grasping globs about. They did not look like the type to be phased by regular blasting and so Naija made plans to become mobile again. First she dispelled energy from, her skin turning back to the soft blue-green from it’s previous gray, her eyes ceased to glow and within her the ever present smoldering fury dulled. It was a but brief respite however, but a momentary revisiting of Naija’s true self before battle was rejoined. She leapt up over her barricade and with her natural form’s connection to the verse, sung the bind song in order to drag her improvised barricade along with her. Hopping onward towards her melee ranged allies she sung the 3 pitch perfect descending notes that shifted her back into energy form. As her hands and eyes flared back to their burning state, so to did the the accompanying destructive tendencies. The vile squirming abominations would make excellent targets for her smiting. All she needed was a strategy. [quote][color=c0c0c0]“Let us concentrate our efforts on a single part of him -say, the side of his middle, where there are no scales- and seek its obliteration; anythin' less will not surpass his regeneration.”[/color] [/quote] That would do for a strategy. [color=4BE2A3]”Will do Slayer”[/color] She followed his lead as he charged the blobs and watched in amazement as he drew them in, only to hit them all with an explosion that resulted from him delivering a flying double kick to the floor, blasting the loathsome lumpy leviathans away from himself and leaving an opening for the rest of them to strike their master directly. This was an opportunity Naija took as she leapt past where Slayer was holding his ground and tried to cycle round to their enemy's left, unarmed, side. Her plan was to harry that side, forcing him to turn to try and strike her, in doing leaving him unable to protect his other side with his arm as he turned it to face Slayer. If he instead tried to get slayer, then she could continue to blast his left side with impunity, hopefully doing some major damage in the process. Doing this brought her closer to one of the goo goblins and so while she was charging her attack for Gnorc she deftly hoped and weaved out of the way of his minions grasping tendrils and snapping jaws, the prize table ramming into its pursuing extremities after she had dodged them, before she and the table, now guarding her rear with it’s spike covered rear, bounced onwards to the wall beyond. There she leaped up onto the wall, stuck to it for a moment as the table slammed into it below her, dislodging some of the spines. Then, just as the Mutant caught up with her, wall jumped up over the blob, hopefully causing it to slam into the wall as Naija rolled in mid air once more before unleashing her 6 charged energy shots. These sailed towards Gnock in 6 separate arch, making it hard to block them all as they homed in on the left side of his waist. She landed deftly behind the pursuing mutant in the area of carnage left near the two holes blasted in the walls, the table hitting the ground hard once again, shedding the remainder of it’s perforating spines. [color=4BE2A3]”Hay, you blobfish faced sea urchin.”[/color] The beast extracted itself from the wall and sloshed it’s entire bulk at her, something she deftly leaped out of the way of, giving the beast a face full of table once more aswell of a brief flurry of smaller energy shots indiscriminately launched at every eye she could see on the slimy mass. [color=4BE2A3]”For someone who said they were going to handle this themselves, you sure have been doing a lot of standing around gormlessly while we mess up your mooks.”[/color] Teeth, tendrils and tongues all lashed out in unison at her and Naija launched herself back out of the way again, this time bombarding Gnock himself with a smattering of shots, into a slightly further away area of the stands where the seating was still intact, hampering the flesh slime’s advance as it’s attacks scattered furniture about. Naija herself landed graceful on one of the unmolested seats and began to charge another attack, the table slamming into the ones further back. [color=4BE2A3]”Not feeling comfortable walking on those new freaky legs you got or has dosing up on the virus simply left you weak at the knees?”[/color] The beast tried again to assail her and this time she hopped directly over it, dragging the table and a collection of chairs caught in front of it with her, the chairs pelting the the beast as she let loose another hextuple energy barrage upon it. Then she landed in between the battered blob and Gnock to complete her taunt. [color=4BE2A3]”bet if you tried to take even a step you'd trip over yourself, ya lumbering manatee”[/color] She blew a raspberry at him for good measure. She wasn’t taking this nearly as seriously as she should be, but the energy inside her was fuling her vicious enjoyment of getting to let loose and blast some monsters. It was the first time she had done this in years and while she was no doubt going to feel bad about it later, right now she felt almost giddy from the adrenaline high she was on.