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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 6[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]/////////////////////[/color]////////////////////////////////////////// (21/60)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b]  Sandswept Sky -  Al Mamoon Northeast - Rocket Inc.
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Midna rose up and up and u towards Ciella… fell short. Worse still, she’d been seen coming. Not that the princess had attempted to be stealthy which, she realized the moment before she got her due, might not have been a more wise course of action. Especially given how big Ciella had gotten. That really wasn't something she’d had a chance to focus on till now, in her quest to save their enemies from her, but in attempting to strike her she learned just how much bigger she was now. Better too, and, worst of all, more well armed.

Midna, partially blind to what was directly ahead of her as a result of the holding back she was doing with her open palm strike, felt herself impacted with something and then crashed through it. The magic of the helmet prevented the impact from simply snaking her spine or jellying ehr bones, but it did not halt her momentum, which caused her to careen past the base of the energy limb and then lurch around underneath it and whip head over heels, sending her head spinning.

It took only a few heartbeats to recover from that, but when she did she quickly became aware of her predicament. Her hair fist was caught by two giant water arms that could only be a skill she’d gained from the spirit and a third was winding up to strike her while Ciella barked something about betrayal at her.

[color=Aquamarine]”Fuck you!”[/color] was all Minda had time to spit back before she got slammed by the women’s own energy fist. Midna’s bracing with her shield did very little to dissuade the her sized fist as it hammered into her, knocking the daylights out of her and resulting in the princess being stunned as she was subsequently hurled towards the iceberg. That could have been the end if a certain sticker of a certain space monkey stuck to the inside of her shoulder-pad hadn’t triggered and slowed her launch speed, preventing the subsequent impact with the glacier from splintering every bone in her body. 

Instead it only cracked a couple (more) of her ribs and left her even more concussed than her first two head traumas had combined.

After landing, the princess’s body rolled limply down the iceberg’s side and into its shadow, which she had just enough of her senses remaining to disappear into and then blink away to another shadow before Ciella came to finish the job.

The next few moments were a blur in the dark, as the formless princess waited for the ringing pain in her mind and her body to stop. Surprisingly it did, at least a little, thanks to Necronomicon‘s Active Support ability flaring through her even in the dark. 

It wasn’t anywhere close to enough, but it was something.

Midna metaphorically shook her head to clear it and took in the situation as best she could. The team was moving in to finish off the remaining rebels, but it was going to be a race against Ciella, something she vaguely recalled the Necronomicon yelling about during her mindless pain. 

Then she heard her name being said by Joker, who was yelling into some kind of communication device (probably too the cat van that had just slammed through the wall) at which point she realized where she was. Which was Fox’s shadow. She decided to not reflect on why her pain-addled mind,seeking safety, had leapt to the shadow of the nearest twinkish swordsman and instead got moving. 

The first step jumping from there into Morgana’s shadow. 

[color=Aquamarine]”I’ll live,”[/color] she told him from the safety of his shadow, [color=Aquamarine]”Help the others, I’ll distract Ciella. Somehow”[/color] 

She just needed to be smarter this time and not die. Fortunately, being smacked about a bit, or a lot, had had one benefit, and that was that it had beat the blind dragon energy enhanced fury out of her and allowed her to think of how to fight smarter rather than harder.

She took a few moments to plan, another to prepare while hiding behind a pillar, and then made her move.

[color=Aquamarine]”I’m not done with you yet YOU BITCH!”[/color] came a surging battle cry from right behind Ciella. From, specifically, her shadow, but the woman couldn’t know that, at least not straight away.

[color=Aquamarine]”Goddesses, you make me sick. I free you from your delusions and you repay me with bunk philosophy and a blind ear for the plight of others. You recklessly endanger my people with your aimless magic because your to stupid, callous or weak to hold back like I have been. But enough is enough. YOU ARE GOING DOWN!”[/color] She yelled dramatically.... But, yet again, no attack came.

And that was kind of the point. Midna was in no state to try and duke it out with the massive harpy, but she didn't really need or want too. She just had to keep her psyched out for a few moments. Keep her guarding her back while. Give the others, like Mao who had decided that just about to die was a perfectly fine margin to take someone down to before friend-hearting if the meteoric sword kick-heart combo was anything to go by, the time they needed to break all of the rebel’s mind control.  

[color=Aquamarine]”or not. Can't actually take you down, seeing as the boss wants you in one piece. Or your body anyway, your will doesn't matter one bit. Gets in the way really. That said that's the only thing you have going for you, because you seem a bit bird-brained to me. Maybe if you had been paying attention I wouldn't have gotten so beat up and able to be converted but oh well. That’s fine, because YOU’LL PAY FOR IT NOW!”[/color] again, a battle cry but no battle was coming

Not that it would work forever of course. She kept talking, threatening, posturing,mocking and generally distracting the Agito for as long as she could, but if Ciella had been paying attention she would have seen that Minda had never just teleported behind someone and stabbed them in the back. Or kicked them in it like Shadow had done multiple times during the fight. Plus, her main threat, her hand, had a deployment and a wind up time and so even if she did try and come up behind her, the water-mage would likely presume she would have plenty of time to react.

So if the harpy decided to call her bluff, there wasn't going to be anything she could do. Other than giving them all something they’d all missed out on seeing earlier by waiting till Ciella was confident she wasn't going to be attacked, and then appearing right by one of her massive taloned feet while holding one of the spare spin tiles directly underneath it. She’d raise tile, who’s arrow was pointing directly away from the rebels, by the half cm distance it needed to lightly tap against Ciella’s foot and then try and hide in Ciella shadow again to enjoy the merry go round.