The Twenty-Fifth Trial [Mirror]

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Who: Heroes
When: Day ??
Where: ??

[The sky is grey and overcast, kind of… Gloomy.

There is no “come hither heroes”, there is no call. Simply, you find yourself in a different place.

Six Japanese style buildings, shrines, in team color roofs, surround the clearing. Despite the wood and rice paper walls there’s no hearing what happens in each building, no seeing what happens in each building, and no entering a building that is not your own team’s unless the game places you there. There is a seventh building of no color that can be sheltered in between rounds.

Sousei, or what looks like him, stands in the center of the clearing but his eyes are black, and pearly white scales cover his body entirely. His voice rings across the clearing like thunder.]

Wretched creatures, struggle, writhe, despair, and fall.

[He raises his hand, lightning strikes him, and his body sheds like snake skin as a massive serpent rises and rises and rises, curling around the whole area, taller than any tree, looking down at the clearing with pure malice.

It starts to rain.]

Rules | Sing-in | Rooms | Pre-game mingle | Round 1 Mingle | Winners and Endgame

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[voreaciously]

[She hisses, a shrill and violent sound when she's struck with fire, the impact finding its mark. But she has four arms and all of them swipe for her, one after the other, and in pairs. She will not be deterred.

She will not be denied.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[There is a reason Solar is horrified to hear how horses are in other worlds. So stiff, so limited in their movement. To do anything too different means broken bones.]

[Not the case for Equestrian creatures and even with her larger size, she's quick. Jumping back and side stepping swipes, not wholly dodging, some getting close enough to cause injury, but not letting herself be easily grappled.]

[She snarls after a particularly nasty cut hits her front leg and she whips around, her tail lashing out with a burst of flame, followed by bucking hooves.]

[voreaciously]

[That lashing of flame does hit her and she screeches in pain and rage, but she dodges the hooves this time, and rolls her tail to try and swipe at Sunset in powerful whip.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[With the injures, especially the deep one throbbing along her leg, and previous tripping, she doesn't have the stability to keep on her feet at all after the whip, going flying, skidding across the ground with a shrieking roar.]

[She's stumbling to get back onto her feet, severely unbalanced and the fire is less directed, sent out in a burst of self preservation.]

[voreaciously]

[She's been pushed into a corner and the monster that was 80H waits, does not lower her guard, because desperation will come to the fore now.

She dodges that fire easily, contorting under and around it, and slithers closer, aiming to stab her midsection if she can]

[daydreamshimmer]

[She certainly has a lot less calm, the fire raging in bursts around her as she gets to her feet, but she can't put weight on one of her front hooves anymore. It slows her movements drastically.]

[She still tries though, seeing the strike coming and trying to leap away, but she doesn't have enough strength for the kickoff, the stab not fatal even if it digs into her size and she snarls, another flare of fire trying to drive her off.]

[voreaciously]

[The fire is much more difficult to dodge at closer ranges, she tries to be careful, but she does get singed.

but she must press her advantage while she has it. she waits until the fire dies down--for even a moment--and will try to grasp her neck while holding her down with her other arms.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[It's hard to keep up a consistent flame. It's fueled by anger and it's hard to keep that consistent without knowing WHO took her away, who took away the calm-]

[It ebbs and flows and the moment comes, where the flames taper even as she struggles to get some distance again, but her legs aren't working right, too messed up from the desperate attempts while bound and the fight.]

[She hits the ground hard with 80H's wait and she snarls, bucking, the fire surging up around them, burning, but the thing about fire is it takes time to kill, at least with the temperature she can produce-]

[voreaciously]

[It does take time and what she needs to do to end this won't take much of it at all. She will be as kind as she can be, save her from ever really knowing what's about to happen to her. She can still hate her, of course, but she will do her best.

She tries to break her neck.]

[daydreamshimmer]

[She still struggles, tries to fight back the motions, but she's hurt and so very hungry and it takes a lot of energy to make that much fire.]

[It always takes so much energy to be a being of destruction.]

[It takes a few seconds before she can't fight back enough and then there's the crack, the snap-]

[And the fire dies down on her body as she goes limp.]

[....not....all the other stuff she set on fire, but the flames on the body peter out.]

cw: sure is someone getting eaten

[voreaciously]

[Her prize.

Her jaw dislocates and grows long and the kami comes low to the floor. She cannot fit all of her at once, but it's a close thing as she starts to fit her mouth onto her, chewing as she needs to, but she barely does. The blood is still hot as it runs on her tongue and down her throat, the meat gamey but succulent and oh so DELICIOUS.

Too soon, she is finished. Too soon, she craves more, but this will have to do for now.]