[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/546056855978377216/858843614732615700/hgtrfed.png [/img][/center] [center]Word Count: 1480 [/center] [center][color=00aeef][b] Level 7[/b] [/color] - (13/70) + 3[/center] [center][color=darkgreen]Level 10[/color] - (6/100) + 3[/center] [hr][hr] [center][h1][color=00aeef]Link[/color][/h1][/center] [center]Location: Carcass Island[/center] [@Rockin Strings] [hr] There were two things that prevented Link from jetting off to Mirage's aide once he noticed the man was in a similar predicament to Sakura. The first was that Blazermate beat him to the punch, attaching her beam and engulfing the both of them in a radiant blue light that let them shrug off all attacks. The other was the situation with the newcomer. From the way the man, swinging both chain and fire around with equal abandon, proved him to be as capable as he had claimed. He managed to fight his way over to them even in this water, and when he reached them he request Sakura toss him farther in so he could engage a farther duo of the fish monsters. Sakura obliged, muscles bulging as she grabbed the mans chain and gave him a hammer hurl over to two of the remaining enemies. He landed, caught one of them with his chain, and used it to toss the monster into its partner to set them up for a barrage of fireballs. Unfortunately the man had advanced just a step too far, right over the edge of the drop-off in the basin and into the drink. That wasn't good. The fish monsters would already have the advantage in the deep water, and the man wouldn't even be able to use that fire of his to defend himself while submerged. "I'll get him." He said to Sakura, skating off toward the man and hoping he got there before any of the monsters while pulling out his slate. As he reached where the man fell he aimed the Sheikah Slate where he was treading water and thumbed one of the two runes he noticed he had gotten back earlier. There was a crackling sound as mist began to pour off the surface of the water around the man as it rapidly cooled. His feet touched solid ground as a pillar of ice rose, square and perfectly stable on the surface of the water, lifted him up out of the water and gave him a somewhat commanding view of the battlefield. "Watch your step." Link called up to him as he jetted around the pillar and searched the battlefield for the next thing that required his attention. As he did so he felt something wet, clammy, and strong wrap around his ankle. He glanced down to see a red, webbed hand griping him from under the water. So something had been coming for the easy prey down there. The muscles in the hand tensed as it tried to pull him under the water, but Northampton's harness wasn't about to allow that. He summoned the brandistock back to his hand and plunged it down into the murky water, but by that time the monster was already pulling itself up. It raised its other arm, managing to deflect his blow with a worm eaten shield it wore on its wrist, and reached up to sink its claws into his now exposed and unprotected side. It pulled, dragging a wretched stench with it as it grabbed his shoulder with its now free arm and brought its face level with his. It widened it's jaws, ready to sink its knife like teeth into his neck. He dismissed the brandistock, it's length more of a hindrance now than as asset. He reflected, for a moment, that he had been in almost this exact situation before earlier today. It seemed a lifetime ago, and now he had no helmet to save him. But this thing was no Abyssal, and neither was he anymore! Link brought the shipgrils hull blade to bear, driving it into the fish monsters side. It let out a pained gurgle that was cut off by a series of booming cannon shot that blew a hole clean out the other side of the monster. It's grip strength waned and it tumbled back, already dissolving, into the drink. Link looked down, but while the claws of the monster had hurt he only found the spreading purple of a bruise rather than a punctures he had expected. An effect of Blazermate's quick ministrations as the battle began, no doubt. At least the battle seemed to be dying down now. It looked as though the fish monsters were on the ropes, one of the large ones already being destroyed by the Koopa troops concentrated onslaught as it approached and the other currently being double teamed by Ms. Fortune and Ace. The diminutive leader of the fish monsters saw fit to hang back and observe the battle from near the central well. With everything else seemingly well in hand Link started forward to lock down this last threat before he set upon one of the others.. Unfortunately the fish monsters were nowhere near spent. A reinforcement squad of fish monsters burst out of the surrounding buildings, letting out a war cry of unintelligible gurgles. More distressing was the group the ripped themselves from within the giant monster that the fish men had been butchering, three semi-humanoid ocean horrors and another shark man even large than the two they had started with. Even worse was the [i]thing[/i] that pulled itself out of the well. He couldn't take his eyes off it, the discordant noise of its scales rubbing together burrowing their way deep into his ears and causing his brain to quiver just from being this close to it. [center]([i]Link begins at 25 stress[/i])[/center] His vision was torn off this latest horror by the arrival of a skeleton, who bounded off the roof and instead of attacking any of them went for the pair around the well. Well, this seemed like the best time to abide by his own advice. If monsters wanted to infight he was only too prepared to let them. He turned his attention to the quadruplet advancing from the east, pulling out his bow and knocking an arrow as he advanced. He fired at the most human one first, pulling back and releasing three arrows one after the other his way before spotting the clam monsters opening up its mouth. He took the opportunity to carefully aim and send an arrow right toward the glowing green orifice. [hr][hr] [center][h1][color=darkgreen]Linkle[/color][/h1][/center] [center][h3][color=red]Merge Rate: 33%[/color][/h3][/center] [center]Location: Frozen Highlands ~ Snowdin[/center] [@Majoras End] [hr] Linkle was taken aback when the kid complimented her spooky eyes, blinking them rapidly and looking away. She wasn't exactly sure how she felt about that. On the one hand, wow, it felt pretty nice to get complimented on something you were so self conscious about. On the other, they didn't know the context. The context ruined them. "You really think so?" She asked the kid, embarrassed. "I mean, they're not. They're really not. They're bad news, super evil." She said, twiddling her fingers together nervously and failing utterly at looking at all evil. "So a kid like you shouldn't go thinking they're cool or anything. Thanks' anyway, though. It's the thought that counts, right?" Luckily she was saved from this awkward topic by the arrival of the wolf girl. For a certain measure of wolf girl, at least. If you weren't snarling than, in her opinion, you didn't count as a wolf. Treat didn't look like she snarled. Treat looked like she felt like that compliment had made Linkle feel, except she felt it all time. As the girl approached and handed the wriggling and eager dog to Linkle she felt it was only natural to pay the kids complement forward. "Hi! Thanks so much for looking after him." She said as the animal wriggled in her arms. "Cute ears." She passed the corgi across the table to Albedo, placing it right in his lap with all hates, before whipping off he own beret and letting the rabbit ears on her own head point straight up. She flicked her finger between her own and the wolf girls. "We almost match." The wolfs were probably natural though. The Kid, meanwhile, had down what almost any kid would do when in the vicinity of a cute dog. They looked like they would be hanging around for a while with how dedicated that hug was. She should introduce them, if that was the case. "I'm Linkle. I'm a traveling hero, blown into this wonderful little town by the winds of destiny." She said to the pair. "You probably know Albedo already." She said, nodding in the alchemists direction. "He's helping me explore the Frozen Highlands. What about you guys? Mr. Grilby said your name was 'treat,' she said, pointing out the wolf girl before turning her attention to the child that was also practically in Albedo's lap. That was so cute she was reluctant to say anything lest she break it up, but she powered through. "But we didn't get your name, little buddy. How do you two like Snowdin?"