06-27-2018, 09:51 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-27-2018, 09:55 AM by PepsiWhirda.)
Kerrigan adjusted the straps of the night vision goggles ever so slightly, making minute adjustments she’d made a few thousand times. It was a lot blockier than anything she’d used in the ghost academy, but the familiar green tinge to her vision still offered a level of nostalgia.
Memories were rarely pleasant for Sarah Kerrigan, however, and the feeling made her wrinkle her nose. They’d been walking for several minutes, and still, neither of her competitors had shown themselves.
“Used to caves?” The Infested Terran asked.
“Nah. Mostly used to sand. Like, a lot of sand. More sand than you’ve ever seen.”
Kerrigan smirked. “Wouldn’t count on it. I used to see through a billion eyes, a billion minds. Viewing every square inch of a few thousand worlds at any given moment, it always amused me just how much of that vision was covered in sand alone. Of course, now I make do with six.”
“Six?”
Kerrigan turned, her wings sweeping up to meet the sword of her opponent. Bandit was quick to jump back with a quick expletive and a hand on her rifle.
“They come in handy for catching awful assassins.” Kerrigan added with a smirk, as a pair of red eyes glinted from either side of her. Kerrigan turned to see just what her zerglings had psychically warned her about a few seconds prior - her new competitor turned out to be Sasuke Uchiha. An accomplished warrior, and a champion of Dante’s Abyss.
A set of hydralisks burst from the ground behind the ninja, immediately firing a volley of spines
Former champion, that is.
The bolts were mostly dodged by the champion, the able warrior able to avoid anything more than a superficial cut here or there from the barrage. The movement was done without thinking, his evasive movements so fluid Kerrigan knew they came from experience.
“Not even close.” Sasuke taunted. Sarah’s response was a simple shrug, even as she used a pair of shivering wing-blades to hold back Sasuke’s counter-slash. The kid grinned as he drove the blade in, pushing Kerrigan back as her wings slowly yielded to the katana…
Kerrigan chuckled, waiting just a couple more seconds before springing the muscles in her wings to life, smacking the Katana up and away with a sudden rush of strength. A glowing hand grabbed for the Shinobi’s shirt, and a second later, Sasuke hung helpless in the air, telekinetically held up by the neck.
“So, how many pieces are you thinking?” Kerrigan asked the Bandit, hanging from a stalactite with the aid of her enchanted yellow ribbon.
“With this baby?” Bandit asked, before dropping a recently pilfered stick of dynamite on the two. “At least a few dozen. Great for the ratings!”
Kerrigan responded with a bright smile,while the ninja was psychically slammed into the bare earth. Kerrigan flipped backwards as far as she possibly could before telekinetically squeezing on the falling sticks of TNT, creating a truck-sized fireball in the center of the tunnel.
A broad grin accompanied the explosion of the mining explosive, but it was quickly smothered by the sight of alien blood and fragmented carapace leaving the explosion.
“What are those creatures known as, by the way?” An eager, familiar voice asked. “Fascinating capabilities. And you’re capable of summoning them this easily?”
“Serraph. I haven’t seen you since Coruscant.” Kerrigan mentioned with a frown, as the Uchiha pulled himself out from under the charred remains of a hydralisk, barely scratched.
The little arrancar had the nerve to command her zerg!
“I hope you don’t mind, but I’ll have to wait on catching up until I’m finished removing that handsome little head from your shoulders. Rules of the game.” Kerrigan added, before rushing the arrancar. The Uchiha was quick to intercept, blowing the pair of ravenous zerglings away with his own personal explosives.
Serraph drew Libro, and Kerrigan immediately recognized her mistake. The Arrancar opted for an easily blocked slash to Kerrigan’s head, and the Uchiha took advantage of her occupied defences by landing a solid kick that rattled Kerrigan’s skull; at least, that’s what she assumed from the sudden pain ringing through her brain. Serraph’s blade cut a horizontal crescent that Kerrigan only barely avoided, before countering with a vicious series of stabs with her wings that forced the Octava Espada on the defensive.
From beside her, Sarah could see that Bandit had joined the two, riding one of the zerglings as she swung a pick-axe, which the shinobi dodged with a quick backflip. The former champion was untouched, but three unpredictable opponents at once kept him too busy to go back on the offensive.
Tell-tale vibrations rang through the area, and Kerrigan growled in annoyance as the ceiling above the recent explosion started to crumble, as the sound of churning rocks filled the cavern.
Sarah closed her eyes for a second, still managing to parry Libro’s next thrust, and regained her smug grin as rocks and clumps of dirt began to fall from the roof and on top of the bloody melee the fighters had formed.
Memories were rarely pleasant for Sarah Kerrigan, however, and the feeling made her wrinkle her nose. They’d been walking for several minutes, and still, neither of her competitors had shown themselves.
“Used to caves?” The Infested Terran asked.
“Nah. Mostly used to sand. Like, a lot of sand. More sand than you’ve ever seen.”
Kerrigan smirked. “Wouldn’t count on it. I used to see through a billion eyes, a billion minds. Viewing every square inch of a few thousand worlds at any given moment, it always amused me just how much of that vision was covered in sand alone. Of course, now I make do with six.”
“Six?”
Kerrigan turned, her wings sweeping up to meet the sword of her opponent. Bandit was quick to jump back with a quick expletive and a hand on her rifle.
“They come in handy for catching awful assassins.” Kerrigan added with a smirk, as a pair of red eyes glinted from either side of her. Kerrigan turned to see just what her zerglings had psychically warned her about a few seconds prior - her new competitor turned out to be Sasuke Uchiha. An accomplished warrior, and a champion of Dante’s Abyss.
A set of hydralisks burst from the ground behind the ninja, immediately firing a volley of spines
Former champion, that is.
The bolts were mostly dodged by the champion, the able warrior able to avoid anything more than a superficial cut here or there from the barrage. The movement was done without thinking, his evasive movements so fluid Kerrigan knew they came from experience.
“Not even close.” Sasuke taunted. Sarah’s response was a simple shrug, even as she used a pair of shivering wing-blades to hold back Sasuke’s counter-slash. The kid grinned as he drove the blade in, pushing Kerrigan back as her wings slowly yielded to the katana…
Kerrigan chuckled, waiting just a couple more seconds before springing the muscles in her wings to life, smacking the Katana up and away with a sudden rush of strength. A glowing hand grabbed for the Shinobi’s shirt, and a second later, Sasuke hung helpless in the air, telekinetically held up by the neck.
“So, how many pieces are you thinking?” Kerrigan asked the Bandit, hanging from a stalactite with the aid of her enchanted yellow ribbon.
“With this baby?” Bandit asked, before dropping a recently pilfered stick of dynamite on the two. “At least a few dozen. Great for the ratings!”
Kerrigan responded with a bright smile,while the ninja was psychically slammed into the bare earth. Kerrigan flipped backwards as far as she possibly could before telekinetically squeezing on the falling sticks of TNT, creating a truck-sized fireball in the center of the tunnel.
A broad grin accompanied the explosion of the mining explosive, but it was quickly smothered by the sight of alien blood and fragmented carapace leaving the explosion.
“What are those creatures known as, by the way?” An eager, familiar voice asked. “Fascinating capabilities. And you’re capable of summoning them this easily?”
“Serraph. I haven’t seen you since Coruscant.” Kerrigan mentioned with a frown, as the Uchiha pulled himself out from under the charred remains of a hydralisk, barely scratched.
The little arrancar had the nerve to command her zerg!
“I hope you don’t mind, but I’ll have to wait on catching up until I’m finished removing that handsome little head from your shoulders. Rules of the game.” Kerrigan added, before rushing the arrancar. The Uchiha was quick to intercept, blowing the pair of ravenous zerglings away with his own personal explosives.
Serraph drew Libro, and Kerrigan immediately recognized her mistake. The Arrancar opted for an easily blocked slash to Kerrigan’s head, and the Uchiha took advantage of her occupied defences by landing a solid kick that rattled Kerrigan’s skull; at least, that’s what she assumed from the sudden pain ringing through her brain. Serraph’s blade cut a horizontal crescent that Kerrigan only barely avoided, before countering with a vicious series of stabs with her wings that forced the Octava Espada on the defensive.
From beside her, Sarah could see that Bandit had joined the two, riding one of the zerglings as she swung a pick-axe, which the shinobi dodged with a quick backflip. The former champion was untouched, but three unpredictable opponents at once kept him too busy to go back on the offensive.
Tell-tale vibrations rang through the area, and Kerrigan growled in annoyance as the ceiling above the recent explosion started to crumble, as the sound of churning rocks filled the cavern.
Sarah closed her eyes for a second, still managing to parry Libro’s next thrust, and regained her smug grin as rocks and clumps of dirt began to fall from the roof and on top of the bloody melee the fighters had formed.
Quote:845 words according to wordcounter.net, Kerrigan's using her zerglings for the round, bringing her down to 2/4 SP.