The momentum from Hoshiko's ascent could only carry her so far. The moment her fist made contact with the massive crow-like Warped, she only had a few moments left before she began to descend again.

She took this opportunity to try and convey her plan to Pyra.

"I'll keep its attention!" she cried, trying to speak over the sound of the whipping winds and the flapping wings of the massive avian monster. She was confident she could do that, and if she did that not only could she hammer the Warped with her own attacks but Pyra would be able to bombard it with ranged attacks.

With a roar from her boosters, the brunette was sent rocketing back up and to the side, out of the way of the path of the tengu warped's beam of wind. Below, it blew apart several more oni-warped, the monster having little regard for others of its kind.

Powering her boosters again, tearing through the air, Hoshiko attempted to position herself above the creature, adjusting her trajectory in a bid to bring herself slamming feet-first into its back.

[@PKMNB0Y][@Izurich]

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Dark fluid, not immediately identifiable as blood, spurted from the writhing, severed arms of the centipede-like warped, as they rapidly snapped back and retracted back into its split head, vanishing into its body. With a sound uncannily like a gagging, coughing child, it spewed more of the dark red fluid from its body, now.

But it wasn't due to injury. No, it had transitioned to attempting to use a ranged attack, spewing the fluid out as a foul-smelling blast.

Below, wherever it landed darkened, and the Warped corpses it fell upon began to rapidly decay, plantlife blackening and wilting. While it was unlikely it would have such a swift effect on someone clad in a frame, nor did it appear to damage anything but organic material, it was equally likely that enough of the dark red fluid still begin to rot any living thing that it touched.

When the shots struck its flank, blowing off one of its many flailing arms, the creature shifted its attention for a moment, spewing more dark fluid towards Elise.

[@PKMNB0Y][@JDubs]

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The creature's form was ever so briefly visible. A glimpse of pale skin, of black hair. A limb bent in an odd fashion. But the warped was impossible to fully identify at the moment. Its movements were also swift, brief glimpses of it sometimes crawling along a wall or clambering through rubble at a high speed...

Even the beams of energy fired upon the warped were unable to reach their target, its rapid and erratic movements increasing their pace to evade the attack, its barely-visible form completely fading as it moved.

It would take more then that to pin the creature down.

It was heading right towards the Japanese forces' flank. In a few moments it had already nearly reached them, a hazy visage of long, backwards bending forelimbs reaching out...

[@Medili][@Mole]