[Round 1] Zedd & Vi vs Pennywise & Shantotto

[Karl Jak]

Face to Face
#05 Lord Zedd & #37 Violet vs #28 Pennywise & #23 Shantotto

The dust settled once again.

The chainspell had crashed against the space lord’s magical barrier and fallen flat.  With a grimace, Shantotto looked at her ravaged arm.  The tumble on the stone had torn open the skin, and she couldn’t seem to move her fingers without causing fresh pain to start shooting up from the extremity.

In her mind, a curse word formed as she took up the Stardust rod and used it to hoist her little form up off the arena floor.  By the time she had rose to her feet, Pennywise was looming behind her.  The clown’s fanged maw hung slightly ajar as they sized up their adversaries.

“By my might, let’s end this fight!”  The badly battered Shantotto growled as she thrust the rod forward.  Nothing happened, but the trained eye would have noticed the swirl of dust around the tarutaru’s bloodstained feet.

“Pathetic,” Zedd growled as he smacked a hand on Violet’s shoulder.  “It’s magic fails it!”  The visored warlord threw his head back and cackled for a few brief moments before an elbow jabbed him in the gut.

“You’re an idiot,” Violet remarked as she pointed to their foes.  “It’s a sp—”

A small swirl of wind materialized in front of the spellcaster, and in a matter of inches, it swelled into a roaring tornado that came barreling across the arena at the wide-eyed Violet and an unamused Zedd.

“Deal with that, would you kindly,” Zedd whispered as he grabbed Violet by the shoulder and shoved her into the oncoming tornado.

From their vantage point, Shantotto and Pennywise watched with predatory glints in their eyes as the tornado swallowed up Violet, battering her around for a few moments before lifting her up into the air and promptly hurtling her unconscious body outside the arena.

Their victory, however amusing, was short-lived.

“BLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLBLLBL!!!”

The pair turned just as the five putty patrollers dove at them.  Gray fists and feet peppered the pair of primes as they were forced to retreat and regain their bearings.

A blast of fire tore apart a patroller.  A few moments later, Pennywise slashed a second apart before biting the head off a third.

The fourth patroller managed to land a clubbing blow on Shantotto’s injured arm, and the tarutaru cried as a foot knocked her backwards.  Her set of functioning fingers clawed into the stone surface even as her feet dangled over the edge.

Pennywise, maw dripping gray goop, tore the arm off of Shantotto’s attacker and used it to bludgeon the last putty to death.  As It dropped the limb and glanced up, a beam of lightning slammed It in the chest and sent It hurtling to the grass.

The tarutaru, knees bleeding and one arm more liability than asset, planting her foot hand to the stone and lifted her head.  A shadow fell over her tiny form as she looked up to see a sneering Zedd lording above her.  A boot crashed into her head, and she lost consciousness as she fell to the grass beyond the arena.

With a thud, Zedd managed to plant the base of his staff into the battered surface.  He thrust a finger toward the unconscious tarutaru.  “Don’t be sour, you just don’t have…” Zedd paused, his rattled brain stalling as he searched for the proper rhyme.  After a few moments, he grinned and snapped his finger before resuming his victorious stance.

“Don’t be sour, you just do—” A swirl of lights flashed around Lord Zedd, and before he knew it, he was standing back in the preshow facility.

“Damn you, Karl Jak!”  The triumphant warrior growled as he shook his fist at the cameras.

[spoiler]

Zedd (3.3) & Violet (2.8) defeat Pennywise (2.85) and Shantottto (3.2)

Zedd & Violet advance to Round 2

Pennywise and Shantotto move to Match C of the Redemption Bracket and will face the loser of the Link/Clownpiece vs Skeletor/Kuzuru fight

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