10-01-2015, 12:54 AM
Alexyana tried as best as she could to observe Dawnika's movements without giving away too much of herself at the start, hoping to surprise her opponent. When Dawnika then backed away to get a moment of breathing the dragoness's lips curled into an evil grin. "I'm only just getting warmed up. Now it's my turn." She bent forward then leapt to cover the distance between them and brought down her claws in two vicious slashes.
As Dawnika had by now seen that the dragoness's large body wasn't just for show she knew better than to attempt to block the attack and instead leapt backwards to dodge both blows. She readied her sword to attack the dragoness while in the air if she tried to follow it up. Alexyana however used her momentum from the leap to throw herself further forward as soon as her feet touched the ground to not give her opponent any chance to recover, and as Dawnika didn’t want to trade blows which would likely have gone in the dragoness’s favor, she was forced to block her incoming headbutt with her sword instead of attacking. This sent her sliding backwards on her feet, though as she was already moving in that direction from her leap this dampened the force behind the attack, she thus didn’t notice it as much, it only threw her off balance a bit – she was able to. Alexyana then landed on all fours and was about to follow up once more, but a jolt of pain in her left arm, where the sword had previously bitten into her flesh below the scales, caused her to cringe and come to a halt instead.
"You got me better than I thought." she remarked as she returned to standing on two legs and dug two claws beneath her scales to pull them up, then with her teeth removed a shard that had dug into the wound. She spat it aside and returned the other scales into place, covering up the injury before she returned her attention to the battle. With her attack “chain” interrupted and Dawnika standing almost eight meters away due to the headbutt having sent her flying back, following it up with a long charge would just have given her opponent plenty of time to prepare a dodge or counter-attack.
Dawnika on the other hand drew her conclusions from this last exchange as she loosely shook one arm, then the other, to shrug off the force from the earlier headbutt that had traveled through her bones. She's not very fast... but she makes up for it by using the momentum of her own movements and dragging me into it. And she's trying to slow me down so I can't dodge her blows anymore. It was her chance now, however. She grasped her sword with both hands and readied herself.
As Dawnika had by now seen that the dragoness's large body wasn't just for show she knew better than to attempt to block the attack and instead leapt backwards to dodge both blows. She readied her sword to attack the dragoness while in the air if she tried to follow it up. Alexyana however used her momentum from the leap to throw herself further forward as soon as her feet touched the ground to not give her opponent any chance to recover, and as Dawnika didn’t want to trade blows which would likely have gone in the dragoness’s favor, she was forced to block her incoming headbutt with her sword instead of attacking. This sent her sliding backwards on her feet, though as she was already moving in that direction from her leap this dampened the force behind the attack, she thus didn’t notice it as much, it only threw her off balance a bit – she was able to. Alexyana then landed on all fours and was about to follow up once more, but a jolt of pain in her left arm, where the sword had previously bitten into her flesh below the scales, caused her to cringe and come to a halt instead.
"You got me better than I thought." she remarked as she returned to standing on two legs and dug two claws beneath her scales to pull them up, then with her teeth removed a shard that had dug into the wound. She spat it aside and returned the other scales into place, covering up the injury before she returned her attention to the battle. With her attack “chain” interrupted and Dawnika standing almost eight meters away due to the headbutt having sent her flying back, following it up with a long charge would just have given her opponent plenty of time to prepare a dodge or counter-attack.
Dawnika on the other hand drew her conclusions from this last exchange as she loosely shook one arm, then the other, to shrug off the force from the earlier headbutt that had traveled through her bones. She's not very fast... but she makes up for it by using the momentum of her own movements and dragging me into it. And she's trying to slow me down so I can't dodge her blows anymore. It was her chance now, however. She grasped her sword with both hands and readied herself.
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