Phillis Circus: Outside
“What the… agh!” Xandra screamed, a brilliant burst of red light shooting from within the smoke, dissipating a hole through it and streaking directly towards Xandra. She raised her arms to cover her face as she tried to dodge to the side, and then screamed as a burning pain graced her arm.
She stumbled and fell, collapsing to the ground in agony. With her fleshed hand she gripped her prosthetic, and gradually lowered her eyes down to it, as her body shuddered and shook with convulsions. There, smoking off from her arm with electrical sparks dancing along it, was a massive torn gash in the metal from where the beam had seared her. Even despite the fact the limb was a prosthetic, in order for her to be able to move and control it it needed to be connected to her central nervous system. To her nerves. And thus the pain was as real as on any other flesh and blood body.
Xandra bit down on her lip as she forced the encroaching tears back. She couldn’t give in or back down, not yet. Not when the others were counting on her. Her arm was a prosthetic – she could repair it later. The damage and pain wasn’t as serious as it would have been anywhere else on her, it was all simply in the mind. If she could control it, hold it back, then she could still fight. She needed to. She had to! Trixie and the others were counting on her!
“Nragh!” Xandra grunted, pushing herself back up onto her feet and running out of the way of another burning laserbeam from Lily’s brother. As she ran she tried to move her hand and fingers to assess the damage on her prosthetic. Luckily, they still worked… she could still fight. But it still hurt ever so badly… could she risk trying to use metallurgy on it in this state…?
And then without warning, a powerful strength gripped Xandra from behind and held her back. Her arm burned with pain again, and Xandra yelped. What was that?
“Now, now, shouldn’t run,” Poppy spoke from behind Xandra. “Otherwise you’l-” Poppy didn’t have the chance to finish her sentence as Xandra shot her head back, smacking Poppy in the nose. The acrobat loosened her hold for a second, and Xandra pulled free, still running, and trying to get as far away from the trio as she could.
She needed to find Trixie, and get the Pride’s weapons that she had dropped before and then find somewhere to hide – to make a plan. Because right now, they needed it.
Phillis Circus: Outside
Before a powerful burst of white hot light, Max surged forwards, speeding across the ground and rocketing back towards Moira and Syed after finishing his charge. As he approached, Moira and Syed both readied themselves for him, with Syed’s body sparking with yet another charge of electricity, his hands shooting out to hit him again. Max was aiming straight for them, so even if he was fast, hitting him this time should be simple…!
Electricity shot out of Syed’s fingertips, an arc of lightning shooting outwards… and hitting a tent in the nearby distance, after Max’s body suddenly disappeared from sight. Syed couldn’t believe it, stunned at how it was possible for him to suddenly do that, as the tent he’d hit sparked into flames.
“Focus, Sy!” Moira tapped her partner’s arm, and pointed to the sky. Max had suddenly shifted his body’s angle at the last second before Syed’s shot, propelling him vertically upwards, and was now turning for another fast powered sweep down at the pair. Syed started to charge his body up again, but before either could know it, Max smashed through the pair of them, grazing them on either side with the hit and knocking them down to the ground.
“Hoooooee, pardner, that was sure somethin’!!” Max yelled from over his shoulder as he shot back up into the sky again. “Where’d ya get that fancy light from? You a mage or somethin’?”
Max shot downwards again for another pass at them.
Phillis Circus: Big Top: Audience Seating
Inhuman howls deafened the chaotic din of fighting within.
Lucien's bear growled as his eyes turned a shade of blood red, the giant monster taking an earth shaking step forward as it sized up Lidya and Olga. His teeth and clawed paws sparkled in the tent's interior lighting's light, and both Lidya and Olga returned the same - growling and grunting as they parted from one another and began circling around the bear on either side.
An uneasy tension filled the room... a tension that was destined to end in blood. The only question was, who would make the first move?
Lidya shot forward, moving at an unbelieveable speed and leaping towards the pair, sharp fangs bore wide and ready to dig into Lucien's neck. The bear swung him paw out, suddenly grabbing Lidya by her own neck and spinning around to fling her towards one of the Big Top's exits. But no sooner had Lucien's bear accomplished such a feat then he was shouldertackled from behind by Olga, and then slammed into the ground from a heavy two handed to the back. Banging his chin on the solid ground, Lucien's bear struggled to rise back to his feet again. But such a task was impossible as Olga grabbed one of them, and doing exactly as Lucien had done to Lidya before, swung him around and threw him out of the Big Top's exit, skidding to the ground with a howl and crashing into a smaller tent outside.
Olga bounded out of the tent, rejoining Lidya who had rose to her feet again and stared at the bear wth hated venom.
Lucien's bear began to rise once more, and the chaotic screams of the audience outside grew a pitch higher.
