Post by Rigel Larrat on Aug 4, 2020 17:42:35 GMT -8
Rigel cheered and hollered when Melissa tore through the chimera's tail with her water. It was a hellish kind of beautiful to see. It was an atrocity that you knew you shouldn't watch but from which you couldn't look away. Horror aside, it was a tremendous success for their fight. Enraged, the chimera began to thrash about, and Rigel accepted its emotions, freeing it from his grip. Melissa reconnected with Rigel amidst that tantrum and he clapped her on the shoulders.
"That was astounding!" he commented. "Incredi- ohshitwhatisthat?" Rigel didn't let out any breaths between the words.
Once, in the Balloon Flock prison, Rigel saw a man get terribly sick. Their eyes grew hollow over time, their skin became waxy, and their veins were polluted with some thing that was completely alien and vile. Some of these symptoms were now happening again before his eyes. Whatever venom had been plunged into Melissa's arms were already having a noticeable effect on her. The damage had already been done. Rigel had no idea how he could respond. Her arms looked limp and she looked weak.
The chimera roared. Its rage had come into focus. Laser-focused on the mermaid that had driven him to agony and suffering. Rigel stood between the beast and his friend.
"This isn't going to be pretty..." Rigel warned Melissa. The Devil Taker made its charge and Rigel faced it head on. He didn't budge out of the beast's path. Instead, he coiled his back, lifting his elbow into the air. The chimera widened its jaw, intent of taking a nasty piece out of Rigel. Instead, his skull braced the full impact of Rigel's fist. "Cygnus Pluck!" Like felling a tree, the weight of the beast's head smashing into the forest floor would shake the boughs of other trees and unsettle the debris of the ground. "Usually I'd leave it at that," Rigel managed to breathe, squatting down and hefting the beast into his arms.
"But you put Melissa in danger!" Rigel's actions and words were no longer heroic. They were villainous and destructive and crude. He picked the massive beast up, struggling under its weight. Between his ragged breaths and shaking fingers, he could feel the heartbeat of the Devil Taker. That would end soon. Rigel carried the beast towards the broken, jagged stump of one of the destroyed trees. "Cassiopeia Shrike!" Rigel slammed the beast down onto the stump, impaling its hide deeply, mortally. He took a moment to let the satisfaction of his vengeance wash over him. It felt good. Better than he'd like to admit.
He managed to pull himself away eventually. "Melissa! How do you feel? We need to get you help!"
I'm so stupid" Melissa thought to herself, debris and wind blasted around her as Rigel and the beast connected with one another. She clenched her hands with great difficulty. "YOU GOT THIS RIGEL" Melissa shouted as the beast and the man struggled, though something was different about Rigel, his face had contorted into something that she had never seen upon his innocent face. Pure anger, malice and hatred? Its the best way she could describe it. With this rise of emotion, the mermaid watched as he picked up the creature, with strength more monsterous than any creature she had ever seen. Her vision went blurry, yet she had to fight to hold on.
Deep breaths, Melissa watched as Rigel killed the creature, The instant the creatures life extuingished, the normal innocence of Rigel returned. His paniced expression, the worry that filled his face. Melissa was not about to be the source of this. "I...won't let this.....stop us" she shouted. Another deep breath in. She closed her eyes. When they had battled Ko and the others, Melissa for a few seconds had been able to detect the water within his body, What if...
She focused on the pain in her arms. She focused on the drops of water that danced around her skin, deeper she had to go. With each breath, her senses opened, with each breath she brought herself closer to the true origin of her being, into the wounds, the water that merged with her blood. Each of her hands, with great difficulty, and in great pain bent around to toucher her shoulders. "AAAAAAAH" she screeched, Water collected under hand as she pulled liquid to her, as she gently, slowly moved her hands down her arms until the water danced through her wounds. With heavy breathing....she pushed her fingers into the bloody gashes, a milky white liquid poured from each gash, followed by the crimson of her blood. She screamed in pain as she moved her fingers within herself, discerning the foreign body within her, flushing it into the water that coalessed around her fingers before finally. with one giant scream, it erupted from her wounds. She panted hard, her fingers bloody, the wounds on her arms wider than before, yet they looked cleaner. "I'll....I'll...be ok...." she said with a weak smile. "Looks....looks like we won" she said falling to her butt,
Post by Rigel Larrat on Aug 7, 2020 13:03:49 GMT -8
Rigel watched with still breath as Melissa struggled to force the venom from her veins. The bites were deep, and her agony was audible. Despite the horrific imagery and sound, he paid rapt attention, unwilling to abandon his friend in any way during this trial. The purging of the poison looked as though it took everything out of Melissa. Fortunately, that included the poison. Her sowed struggled reaped success. Her shaky assurance that she'd be okay wasn't completely convincing, but Melissa was an experienced pirate. It wasn't his place to contest her.
"I had no idea you could do something like that," he admitted. "You're terrifying in the best kind of way," Rigel would laugh. He didn't want to sit down, scared that if he did, he wouldn't stand up for a long while. Rigel leaned his body against a tree still standing amidst the wreckage of the fight. The pirates were left in a part of the forest devoid of sound and life besides themselves. Their breath, the slow drip of blood, and infrequent winds pushing through the forest were all that occupied an otherwise silent pause in their adventures.
Rigel bathed in it for a moment, rubbing his fingers across his sore muscles. The fear and rage that had overtaken him had fully subsided. "That felt good," he whispered quietly. Slaying a monster felt good. "If we can handle that, then I can't imagine anything on this island can stop us!" he exclaimed more loudly, trying to re-energize the pair following their near mortal encounter. Rigel's adrenaline fully subsiding, he slinked down to the forest floor. "Think we can rest here? Or do we have to go to camp?"
Either answer would be fine by Rigel, he just wanted a brief rest to collect his thoughts before progressing towards the rest of their adventures.
"Neither did I" Melissa said, her arms were covered in blood, the expelling of the fluids within her system had caused her pours to expand and she was bleeding rather badly. Her energy was sapped from expelling the poison within her system. It wasn't something she could do often thats for sure, in fact she doubted if she would ever be able to do something like that again. It was strange, she could still detect the small traces of poison in her system, she could feel the different liquids within her, blood, water, poison, it seemed to feel so different. Though the worst was out of her.
"You're one to talk, you lifted that beast as if it were nothing" Melissa said grinning weakly. "Remind me never to piss you off, Your not just a cutey patootie at all, you've got some real oomph to you" the mermaid said in jest. Though she believed the same as Rigel. "You're right, Honestly that thing was scarier than I thought it was going to be, didn't imagine it was going to be some hybrid creature, its tail...its head.....its paws, it was...." Melissa shuddered. "Camps not smart, I think resting here's a good enough place, no point doubling back when we are so close" she said as she slid down next to a tree. "Besides, we don't want anyone else taking the glory" she said with a smile.
"These treasures better be worth it man, We've almost died wayyy to many times to go home with nothing" she exclaimed sleepily. It wasn't long until her eyes closed, and the darkness of sleep claimed her
