"You got it!" declared Hoshiko, grinning brightly as the scorched bird began to plummet towards the earth, vanishing far below. She'd been hoping to keep its attention just long enough for Pyra to pull something like that off, and it'd worked out just like she'd wanted! Of course, while the bird warped looked pretty bad, they couldn't be completely sure it was dead.

It hit the ground below, with a resounding thud, leaving an enormous crater beneath its huge, scorched, smoking body.

"I'll go make sure, and clean up down below!"

With that, and the roar of her rocket boosters, Hoshiko hurtled downwards. Her idea of making sure was a simple one, really.

The impact hit her legs, but her frame absorbed the shock easily, as she slammed down on the monstrous avian creature's head with enough force to crush it into the ground, its skull crumpling like a tin can under the impact.

In the same breath, the girl raised her fists up and took a fighting stance.

She was ready to take on the rest!

[@PKMNB0Y][@Izurich]

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The centipede creature let out an unpleasant chortling sound as a cut was rent into its side. This time, what spewed from its insides was blood, rather then the fetid ichor it had released as a ranged attack. But from within the wound came small, grasping, stretching hands, reaching out of the injury to attempt to grasp at any pilot who passed close enough.

Rather then a chortle, however, when it lost one of its limbs it let out a piercing shriek, its body writhing in the air. The monstrous warped's head twitched as it twisted its body, attempting to spray the pilots with the rotting liquid once again.


[@PKMNB0Y][@JDubs]

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Noting at the last possible moment that it had been discovered, the invisible warped sprang back, ceasing its attempt to attack one of the soldiers. Even though it attempted to evade, it was not unscathed. One of its wiry  forelimbs lashed out, and caught Teodora's piercing charge in its own flesh, sending it skidding even further backwards with the blade lodged into its right front leg.

The man who was nearly snatched turned, wide-eyed, in time to see both frame pilots.

And the warped itself.

Faced with the two pilots, the creature felt it could no longer rely in its stealth.

Its body was revealed.

The creature's torso was human-like, to an extent, but incredibly gaunt and pale. Its waist was emaciated to an extreme extent, as if it lacked even internal organs. Its limbs were somewhat human-like, but bent backwards as if it was performing some sort of crab walk. From its rear a twisting, black, fanged tail writhed, resembling something like a snake as it almost seemed to watch the pilots with a mind of its own.

Its head was almost completely concealed by lengthy, black hair that trailed along the ground around it. All that could be seen, briefly, was a single wide, empty white eye.

With a hissing sound, a black light emanated from its snake-like tail as it raised and aimed squarely at Teodora, charging a blast of dark energy that looked like lightning...

[@Medili][@Mole]