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11-04-2016, 01:16 PM
Megaera's jaw snapped shut around nothing but air and clack of her teeth reverberated in her skull. Her body stuck nothing and her ringing head could not make sense of it, Ampere had been there, close, so close, and Megaera had still missed. That sensation alone was enough to send her reeling. She could never put much power behind her strikes but at least she usually hit where and when she aimed to. Her head lashed, searching for Ampere and found her, not at her front as Meg had intended, but at her side and already hovering above her in a rear.
She didn't have time to move before Ampere's hooves struck the hard muscle of her shoulder. The force of it sung down her already injured leg, making the tendons and muscles there want to shake loose their tension and collapse from the strain. Megaera felt her right front knee quiver and give, dropping her shoulder under Ampere's hooves, just as the blue executed the grip Meg herself had tried. With a grip on the crest if her neck, just behind the bay's ears, Ampere's swift tug sent Meg careening out of balance.
She stumbled, listing to her right and toward Ampere but in no position to attack. The weeks of searching for her daughter, the sleepless nights since returning to the Dragon's Throat, the strain of emotional turmoil all compounded into an exhaustion that reached down to her bones. Her soul may have been dragged back from the brink by Ampere but her body wanted to go down for the count. The trickles of blood from her cheek and neck made her head spin and that with Ampere's latest attack made Meg's battle to remain upright a difficult one. Her front legs shook and she scrambled to keep them under her, managing only because her hind hoof met a patch of softer sand and sunk downward using Meg's own weight to finally balance her out, but precious seconds had already been lost.
The kick hit her square in the ribs. Air exploded out between her lips in a low cry that was echoed by a high shriek from the predatory bird that had sat silently by and let his bonded take hit after hit. He'd felt the echos of every strike, every slice, but had Let Ampere do her work. The blue mare had been the conscience that he could not be, removed enough that Meg could hear the words she needed to hear aloud like Gwaihir could never speak them, and Ampere had won where it mattered and so he had seen enough. Meg would stay, he knew the depths of her heart to be sure of that now, and so with a mighty stroke of his wings her was soaring through the air toward the dueling pair. The eagle fell toward Ampere's head with reaching talons, aiming to grasp the hair between her easy and pull her eyes and attention away from his Meg. He gave another screech, though Ampere wouldn't understand: You've done enough. Thank you. That's enough.
Drawing air into her lungs again made her chest feel like it was screaming, but Meg did it, forced herself to gulp and the dry desert heat like it was the coolest water from the purest spring. Keep going. Keep. Going. with and effort she whirled herself around as the eagle tried to distract. She squared her hindquarters toward Ampere and with a heave, assisted by a swift downsweep of her wings, launched herself into the air and aimed a double-barreled kick.
ooc :: SKIN OF MY TEETH
Words ::595/800
Attack :: 4/4
Megaera
there is a war inside my heart gone silent
both sides dissatisfied and somewhat violent
there is a war inside my heart gone silent
both sides dissatisfied and somewhat violent
FAC FORTIA ET PATERE
be brave and endure
:: permission given for use of magic and force :: please tag Megaera in all posts ::
