[CLOSED] Roll for initiative

[solperierat]

Who: Edward and Lup
What: two hot-headed idiots find some food
When: August 10th
Where: Enso beach
Warnings: cursing, violence, a travesty to decency everywhere

Fishing early in the morning had quickly become a routine for Edward, despite the drastic shift to his previous schedule. There were mouths to feed, and even with the groves and crops some have been finding, growing kids need protein--especially kids so active as Kidwun and Kittu. Rising before the sun crossed the horizon, he flew his way up the beach to a spot where the sand juts out a little farther. It's a decent enough spot for his needs, and standing thigh-deep in the shallows Ed casts out his makeshift fishing line baited with tiny bits of leftover meat.

He's caught a few fish by the time the sun glints off the horizon, but a ripple in the water catches Edward's attention. It's too large to be caused by the fish he usually sees out here, and peering at the spot he sees a large fin cut the surface, closer than before.

That's about all the warning he has before a fucking chimera leaps out of the water at him to attack.

Ed falls back into the shallows with a loud bleat, and thrashes for a few moments as the thing starts slashing and biting at him--two heads, why did this stupid thing have to keep BOTH of it's heads???? Getting both hooves under it's belly, he kicks the thing up and away from him in a long arc. Surfacing with a gasp and shaking his hair out of his eyes, Edward immediately takes off to get to shore to get at least some terrain advantage against the thing--he's not expecting that kick to keep it away for long.

Comments

[hellawrath]

Lup's approach to fishing is a bit less peaceful than Edward's, a bit more extinction event-ish. Generally it involves prowling the shoreline until she finds a sizable group of fish hanging out calmly in the early morning sun, and then bringing fiery armageddon down on them. A lot of a Fireball's really awesome destructive power is wasted shooting it directly into the ocean, but it gets the job done and she pretty much just has to scoop the pre-boiled loot out of the water with her basket.

But this morning she hasn't had any luck yet and her basket is still empty when the bleating and watery thrashing draws her attention to... HOLY SHIT. Is that, what the fuck is that. It has so many teeth. This thing is fucking deadly and amazing and it's menacing her rude boat buddy?? Lup drops the basket and runs over at top elf speed, wand drawn and outstretched. As she comes up beside Ed, the chimera is back on its limbs and galloping through the surf after its prey, so she shoots off three Fire Bolts aimed at both of its horrible faces. "Need a hand, darling?" she hollers, grinning with utter delight.

[solperierat]

The blasts of fire land home and the creature roars in pain and fury, it's attention whipping around to try and figure out where the attack came from. Edward grins and snaps his wings open to take to the air, flying up and around before swooping in to kick the thing in the side. If the two of them can keep it confused, it shouldn't take too long to beat the thing down.

"Only if you can keep up!"

[hellawrath]

Alright, those wings are pretty dang cool in proper use, she'll give him that one. And he lands a decent kick, pulling aggro away from the wizard of the party, which is a smart move. They'll have this bad boy hamstrung in no time. This time she flings a Ray of Frost at the chimera, momentarily freezing the water around it and slowing its movements. The tiger head roars and snaps at Edward while the shark tail thrashes wildly.

"Aw dern, guess I'll just go home then!" she jeers back and even makes a show of putting her hands on her hips in fake disappointment. She'll just leave the tigershark to rip up his wings once it gets some claws in there, is that what he wants?

[solperierat]

"What, can't take a bit of banter?"

Ed swoops up out of range of it's jaws, wheeling around for another pass. Taking advantage of it's slowed movements, Ed takes a risky move and kicks at the tiger head, hoping taking out one of the heads will reduce it's reactions.

Unfortunately his hoof only clips the head, and the two skulls crack together at the same time it reaches up to swipe at Ed in his retreat. He's caught across his thigh, and shouts as it manages to catch hold and he hits the water again.

lmao this is the slowest fight ever

[hellawrath]

See, this is exactly what she thought would happen, dumbass. As Ed goes down, Lup curses under her breath and wades deeper into the water, trying to get a clear shot.

"Hey dipshit, leave that poor goat alone! Have some culinary standards!" she shouts to draw the creature's attention and fires several flaming bolts at its hind quarters. It wails in pain and whips around to lock onto her, coming at her in a somewhat unsteady, limping gallop. Still not the most chill of sights though, so now would be a great time for Ed to recover and do his part for the loudmouth asshole squad.

you could say this is a...*slow burn*

[solperierat]

He's quick enough to recover, kicking out at the thing before Lup pulls it's attention over again. With it charging over to her, he's got a good opening to leap up again and in two wingbeats land right on the thing's back and latch on tight with his claws.

"Stupid fuckin' beast--!" He slashes at it's back, and the tigershark roars in frustration as it whirls and thrashes around to try and get a hold of Edward. It's possibly the most ridiculous rodeo show ever seen, and Ed clings on with one hand while clawing at the necks of both of heads.