[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/5r7OTIh.png[/img] [b][color=Aquamarine]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,333 (+3) 1,123 from part in koopa troop post (+2) [b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 8[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color](100/80) [b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Twilight Town [color=Aquamarine]Warp Charges:[/color] 0 [hider=warp locations] Virgin Victory teleport room Top of the Split mountain Outside the Convent of Our Lady of the Charred Visage Tostarena Town [/hider] [/center] Midna, who’s destination was the dystopianscape via the black line rather than the Under via the purple, had split off from the troop’s route well before they even got to the race circuit, and so was ignorant to all that went down there. Instead she had her own path to follow. Specifically she took to the walkways, rooftops and any other vertical space she could fly, teleport, or leap too, which gave her complete immunity to cat hordes below and a nice overview of the battlefield. Such as, for example, of queen Sectonia heading off on her own, sailing through the skies and becoming a brief target for a number of shooters till they figured out she could just take the shots, and moved onto other targets. Well, Midna thought, it looked like she had something to deal with, and that was clearing out the spiders and the cobwebs up in the rafters. Or getting the cats down out of the tree. Or. well. Some other metaphor for going up high and punching some sharp shooter kitties in the face. To get there she blinked from shadow to shadow and then up into the rafters to her first target. The twilight princess’ eyes, adapted over the generations of her ancestors to the dark of her home, made spotting the sharp shooters' secluded shadowy sniping spots ironically a fair bit easier than if they had been in some brightly lit spot that would have hurt their eyes. The first of her targets was some hunched over brutish looking cat that, if she had asked, she would have found out was a member of a species known as the [url=https://i.imgur.com/3ndhxtj.png]Charr[/url]. She did not ask questions however, and instead leapt out of the shadows, interdimensional ax raised to strike down the pirate sniper. They turned on her with a growl, keen cat ears having heard something, and raised their weapon to block the blow. Her new blade’s hilt hit the weapon, but rather than be discouraged she hooked the blade around it while stabbing her spiky shield forwards into the cat’s hand, forcing them to let go one of her handholds on the weapon and allowing Midna to wrench the it free of the charr’s grip. Midna’s grin at having disarmed the sniper lasted till the Charr punched her in the (masked) face with their good hand in retaliation, forcing the princess to stumble back. Still, she had the cat on the ropes. Or so she thought before, first, a shot rang out and hit the Charr in the side, delivering a payload of rapid regeneration medicine to the sniper that fixed her cactus spiked arm, and second, another one of the snipers kicked down the door carrying a [url=https://i.imgur.com/cMoI3HJ.png]shotgun[/url] while their rifle was slung over their back. [color=Aquamarine]”uh oh”[/color] Minda intoned as she realized that there might be some kind of solidarity between assassins, or at least a desire to not get picked off one by one. [color=Aquamarine]at least their worrying about me instead of shooting at the others[/color] she thought to herself as she took a half step back to avoid an incoming arrow from a fourth sniper who [url=https://i.imgur.com/ZeYyRjT.jpg]leapt[/url] into their balcony party, while she also flicked a finger and summoned a pair of chilfos strikers to bodyblock the shotgun blast from the adorably small super persian sniper. The pair of icey undead stepped forwards to try and impale the cute cat, which she felt really bad about, but things were kinda desperate with how outnumbered she was. She raised her shield and blocked the next arrow, causing the archer to flinch as the Sabo Shield reflected half the damage it would have done right back at the sniper via a launched spine, and then sicked her wolfos on the pirate charr. The one eyed cat had been in the process of picking up her gun to try and shoot the princess, only to have to use it to block again, the twilight beast’s jaws being filled with the length of the barrel, which it then bit down onto. While the wolfos gripped the gun and wrestled with the charr for the weapon, Midna locked blades with the archer, who had drawn a short sword to do battle with her. Another shot from the medical sniper rang out and struck the archer just as Midna was getting the better of her wounded foe, giving them a burst of vitality to keep up the clash of sword vs ax. Behind her minda summoned her other two chilfos to keep the persian busy, the cat getting very frustrated that having to dodge roll out of the way of yet more spear thrusts. Just then the wolfos won the contents of strength and ripped the gun out of the Charr’s hands. The one eyed pirate made a grab to try and get it back, but the wolfos just jumped back while growling, and then hurried over to Midna with the stick it had fetched. The archer backed off as the wolfos, not wanting to fight two vs one, and shouted “Help Kajite stupid” at the now weaponless charr. Said charr took one look at the ax wielding princess, and her many minions, and then down at their empty paws and decided “screw this, she can keep it” and made a run for it, much to the indignity of the other snipers who had come to help her. [color=Aquamarine]”Hey get back-”[/color] the princess started to shout, only to realize that: [color=Aquamarine]”wait… I don't need to kill you or free you,”[/color] while grabbing the musket from her wolfos’s mouth because she had just worked that all she had to do was: [color=Aquamarine]”just to get rid of these''[/color] The musket vanished into the twilight realm, meaning that even if the Charr came back, she would no longer be a long ranged threat to the party. The princess grinned toothily at the remaining snipers, and then rushed forwards, just narrowly avoiding some kind of viral payload coming from the medic sniper. She dodged to the side of the khajiit she had been attacking’s own blow, and then swung her axe down, narrowly missing the archer. Or so it seemed, for there came a snap and a twang as the axe cleaved through the end of the archer’s bow, leaving her, functionally, as an archer no more. She turned away before the Kajite worked out what she had done and lashed out with a shadow hand that could have splatted the short persian, but instead the hand paused above her and then carefully pinched the barrel of its sniper between two fingers and then crushed it completely flat, rendering it useless. [color=Aquamarine]”And that’s me done with you''[/color] she declared, hopping into a shadow before she got blasted by a shotgun, leaving the two briefly confused and then incredibly mad about their broken equipment. A heartbeat later and she appeared next to the final cat sniper, the one that had been supporting the others with his [url=https://i.imgur.com/UCs614U.mp4]healing rifle[/url]. The therian also tried to swing his gun around on the appearing from nowhere Midna, senses as sharp as the others, but he did not manage to get a shot off before she slammed a shadow hand into him and pinned him to the floor. [color=Aquamarine]”I’ll be taking that''[/color] she told him as she patted the gun and sent it to the twilight ream before rather rudely searching his pinned form and pulling out a number of canisters marked with either pluses or biohazard symbols. Symbols she did not recognise the meaning of. [color=Aquamarine]”Wait. Hmm. healing remedy… or deadly poison''[/color] she asked, holding them up one of these for him to see, which got her just a nonverball hiss. So she shrugged and said [color=Aquamarine]”Eh I’ll just ask someone else''[/color] before stepping back and vanishing once more, sniper threat dealt with, and with 0 casualties too. She felt pretty good about that as she skipped through the shadows to catch up with the others.