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08-01-2013, 07:56 PM
A grim smile wreathed the grulla's mare's features as the combined efforts of herself and her battlefield comrades wrenched another limb from the creature. It was weakened, made near immobile. But it was far from without a few tricks up its sleeve.
Orbs of poison rained out of the sky once more, forcing mare and dragon to swerve and dodge. One splashed down beside the Wild Rose, spraying droplets against her barrel that burned and sizzled. Snorting at the pain, she plunged into a wave to wash the poison away, only to wrench her head around at the image that floated into her mind through her bond.
Unnatural crabs were strewn through the shallows and the shore, the mockery of a foal's head sprouting from their backs and snapping at anything near and living. White-edged ears swept back against her skull, seeing them swarm for Paladin. Her mind flashed back to a different swarm of crabs, entirely different in form and source but the same in essence. A threat to her herdmate, one to be crushed.
Guided by eyes in the sky Smoke lunged forward, splashing tremendously through the water with deadly intent in her heart. Teeth bared and head lowered, she rushed the crabs around Paladin, snapping to catch the nearest in her jaws and crush its foal's-head between her teeth. Quick hooves lashed to smash others as she ploughed through to the Valiant's side, weaving a thread of darkness and wind around his paralyzed fetlock to chase away the poison.
Agile wings shadowed the pair as Zaffre dove intermittently down to snag an unwitting crab from the outskirts of the crowd, carrying it aloft by the back of the head to rend it with razor sharp teeth. The little dragon gave the crippled monster a wide berth now, partly in respect of the continuing threat and partly to avoid the warped winds of Kri.
Orbs of poison rained out of the sky once more, forcing mare and dragon to swerve and dodge. One splashed down beside the Wild Rose, spraying droplets against her barrel that burned and sizzled. Snorting at the pain, she plunged into a wave to wash the poison away, only to wrench her head around at the image that floated into her mind through her bond.
Unnatural crabs were strewn through the shallows and the shore, the mockery of a foal's head sprouting from their backs and snapping at anything near and living. White-edged ears swept back against her skull, seeing them swarm for Paladin. Her mind flashed back to a different swarm of crabs, entirely different in form and source but the same in essence. A threat to her herdmate, one to be crushed.
Guided by eyes in the sky Smoke lunged forward, splashing tremendously through the water with deadly intent in her heart. Teeth bared and head lowered, she rushed the crabs around Paladin, snapping to catch the nearest in her jaws and crush its foal's-head between her teeth. Quick hooves lashed to smash others as she ploughed through to the Valiant's side, weaving a thread of darkness and wind around his paralyzed fetlock to chase away the poison.
Agile wings shadowed the pair as Zaffre dove intermittently down to snag an unwitting crab from the outskirts of the crowd, carrying it aloft by the back of the head to rend it with razor sharp teeth. The little dragon gave the crippled monster a wide berth now, partly in respect of the continuing threat and partly to avoid the warped winds of Kri.
