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[b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 7[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]///////////////////////// (48/70)
[b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b]  Sandswept Sky - Graveyard of the Peaks
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[color=Aquamarine]”Thank you”[/color] the princess breathed a sigh of relief as she managed to get through to the others either directly with her words or indirectly via the thrives' ever useful long range communication system which was used to call Ciella off.

In short order after that, they abandoned their attack on the sky titan and rejoined the others on the ground, where they were dithering about whether or not they should ring the mega bell. She entirely got why they hadn’t gone right ahead and done it. Who knew what kind of thing desecrating the holy site of what seemed to be a cruel and spiteful religion might do?

[color=Aquamarine]”Have you considered checking down there”[/color] she pointed down below them  [color=Aquamarine]”in the bell itself?”[/color] she asked [color=Aquamarine]”Because if I were going to hide a guardian somewhere, I’d do it in a deep dark pit like that”[/color] as that was functionally what it was. Who knew what was lurking down there? A hidden monster? An either dungeon? It could be anything, because the dark deaths concealed all, even to the princess of twilight.

Any further debate on the topic was interrupted, because Midna had forgotten one of the fundamental facts of this world. When a fight started, there was no ending it till someone bit the dust. While the sky leviathan had been content to soar around before they had provoked it, and it hadn’t had any way of attacking them while they were on it, it was still an absolute titan of a thing, which meant that now that it was roused and not trying to throw anyone off, it was spurred to attack with the only thing it had that could do damage. Its immense bulk.

The serpent came diving in with a vengeance, driving alongside it a mass of air while using its titanic horn as a battering ram to try and smash some of them to pulp. Utterly terrifying and dangerous to be on the receiving end of, yet still when you got down to it, an animal’s way of fighting. Like they had attacked a giant flying deer. Or at least that was Midna’s interpretation made as much to save face as it was logic, made while she was flipping end over end over the yawning void of the bell. 

[color=Aquamarine]”Oh right, the stupid galeeming curse!”[/color] Midna complained after she realized what was happening while recovering from her fall with levitation. She’d been so focused on calling everyone off that she hadn't even considered how the false sun’s influence would force the thing to fight them till the bitter end now that they had attacked it. More stupid mistakes she had to make up for.

[color=Aquamarine]”Give it, and me, one last chance. I’ll try and draw it away from here and then free it”[/color] Midna shouted to the others, holding her longer knife‘s blade to her palm to charge it with lighting and re-summoning her Vibrava to act as her wings once more [color=Aquamarine]”and if that doesn't work I’ll kill it myself!”[/color]

Then she darted into the shade of one of the bridges and a breath later appeared atop the titan once again via a shadow warp. This time she was prepared for the wind that had blown her off last time, and so her shadowhand immediately lashed out and pulled her close to its fur, which she gripped with both hands and clawed feed, while she held the charged knife in between her pointed teeth.

She began to scurry up its length, dragon claws sinking into fur, shadow hand grabbing ahead and pulling her forwards, levitation cheating physics and her Vibrava’s wings buzzing, She wasn't heading for the remaining weak spot, any of the already stabbed ones, or even the bags of gas keeping it afloat. No, she headed straight for the head and its horn. 

What she needed to do was to get it to follow her. If she could get it out of range of the rest of the team before freeing it, then if it was a neutral animal, she hoped its survival instincts would make it stay far away from them rather than go back to try and kill them out of vengeance.

To that end when she reached the end of its fur she whipped her shadow hand out to grasp the crest above it’s head and then kept going. Claws clinging to stone chitin as she hung onto it and got her next hold with her shadow hand, till she got in front of its eyes and pulled her way up its horn so that she was dangling by her the bright orange limb ahead of its four malignant eyes like a lure.

She gripped the handle of her sword and pulled it from her mouth. Then she stuck two fingers in her mouth and whistled shrilly while blasting lightning from the blade past one of the four red glowing eyes to get its attention.

[color=Aquamarine]”Galeem wants you to kill? So come on! Come and get me!”[/color] she yelled, blasting a few more times before opening two vast twilight portals on either side of her, from which the sands of an otherworldly desert began flowing, sweeping to either side of the titan and onto the air, blocking its peripheral vision. 

[color=Aquamarine]”It’s just you and me! So chase me! Fight me! Try and destroy me as Galeem compels you to do!”[/color] she demanded, while dangling herself to one side of it in an attempt to steer the titan by getting it to follow her. If this didn't work, she’d have to try and actually fly ahead of it, and she wasn’t sure if she could manage that.

Either way, if she could, and it lived, she’d try and steer the titan away from the great bell, where the others were, keeping its focus on her by binding it to all else and provoking it with lighting blasts and yelling. Then, once out of sight, she’d free it. Apologize, if she could, for the misunderstanding, and then leave it to wander once again.

That was the plan anyway. Goddesses only knew if it was going to work.