~~POP!~~
The mahoosive wolf yelps and scurries away as FeeTwix pegs him with his GPS bullet.
Just in time, too.
The dragon is now directly over the Swede’s head, and before the man with the near limitless inventory list can equip another weapon, two armed warriors drop from the dragon.
Ryuk: Zaena, Hiccup, get here now! NOW!
Chapter 11: Surprise Attack
It can’t be, Ryuk thinks as he scrambles to get closer to the action. The Mitherfickers have spawned, Enway too, and they are currently going toe-to-toe with the two warriors, whose dragon circles in the air above them. He hears the clank of swords meeting as Tamana and Zaena go at it, the Thulean in her death dance and Tamana the betrayer using her buster sword to block each incoming attack.
Tamana Nakamura Level 15 White Warrior
HP: 410/410
MANA: 389/389
ATK: 117
DEF: 134
MATK: 149
MDF: 108
LUCK: 6
She wears a type of red armor he’s never seen before and a skull-shaped helmet. It’s clearly her, from her ironing board of a sword to the way she swings her weapon at Zaena.
Ryuk swallows the emotions coursing through him, hits another terrace, and drops and rolls.
He comes up with his triggerless Marble Gun aimed and ready. He’s almost in range, and as he scissors towards the final terrace, he changes his trajectory to the other fighter, the one currently engaging FeeTwix and Enway.
Tomas Romero Level 51 Shield Warrior
HP: 2167/2167
ATK: 593
MATK: 10
DEF: 740
MDF: 555
LUCK: 21
The Shield Warrior has a weapon that looks like a cross between a trident and a double-bitted ax.
Where do I know that name? Ryuk stops dead in his tracks. Isn’t that …
“Fick you, Tammy!” Hiccup runs at Tamana with his spiked club. While blocking the latest attack from Zaena, she manages to fire off a white magic missile at Hiccup. His shield takes the brunt of it, but the gaseous goblin is tossed backwards into a well, where he cracks his lower back, and nearly falls in.
“Yeooooooy!” He balls up like a baby and jams a healing potion in his mouth.
The mirrored dragon screeches and comes in to lay down some fire. It suddenly jerks up, spitting a mirror-like substance to the right, where it melts through FeeTwix’s hovering auto-drone and also melts a single black sheep too foolish to run to the other side of the pen like its brethren.
What the hell? Ryuk notices a collar around the dragon’s neck, a collar akin to the handcuffs Tamana had when they went for her at the guild. Knowing that he’ll get a better shot with his slingshot, he holsters his Marble Gun, comes up with his slingshot, and makes the split second decision to go with his molten marble over an explosive or sword marble.
Steadying his breath, Ryuk tracks the mirrored dragon as it circles overhead. A red reticle appears, he takes a short breath in, steadies the reticle just a bit longer and …
The dragon flinches and dips towards the ground as the molten marble strikes the collar around its neck. The lava spreads instantly and the collar snaps off and crash-lands in the midst of FeeTwix’s battle.
Free of its restraints, the dragon rears back up just in time, releases a burst of silvery fire, and flaps its wings, whipping dust and debris around the battlefield. Once the mirrored dragon has steadied itself, it spirals higher into the air and gets the fuck out of Dodge.
New skill learned!
LUCK +1!
Skilclass="underline" One in a Million
Level One: Use your slingshot and any marble of your choosing to take an impossible shot. Odds of connecting increase with each point you gain in LUCK.
Requirements: Level 10 Mage, LUCK > 10.
“Wait a fickin’ minute! Mirror!” Hiccup uses his arms to press himself up. “That’s the dragon, Marbles! The one we sent that bitch Tammy’s handcuffs to! Mirror! Shit, she’s gone. Wait … You don’t think we sold her out, do you? Well, if we did, she’ll be pissed. Better to have her fly off, in that case,” he says under his breath. “Okay, back to nursing my healing potion. Fick you, Tammy!”
Ryuk glances from the goblin to FeeTwix and Enway. The Swede has equipped an ax made of machine parts that is easily the size of Tamana’s buster sword. He uses all his might to swing it at Tomas, and even though his eyes are black, Ryuk can tell by the look on his face that he doesn’t know what to think. Tomas was the reason FeeTwix logged into Tritania in the first place.
And to face him like this …
FeeTwix swings again and cracks his machine ax against the ground, sending more dirt into the air.
For her part, Enway stands back as white magic ripples around her hands.
As soon as Tomas lands a strike on FeeTwix, Enway heals him. Seeing an opportunity here, the Swede with the damn near infinite list of killer toys brandishes two Uzis and unloads a wall of metal fury at Tomas, who narrowly blocks them with a red scutum that matches his armor.
“I’ve got this!” Ryuk fires his entire mag of molten and black marbles at Tomas. He starts high and brings his trajectory down a couple of centimeters, the results of which create a solid line of fiery unhappiness that throws the Shield Warrior off his feet.
-39 HP!
That’s it? Ryuk pops the clip out and loads another. He turns his head as he hears Zaena release a war cry as she charges Tamana, bends her slender body backwards, and uses her ghost limbs to whip her over Tamana’s form, where she stabs the turncoat White Warrior with two blades from behind.
+79 HP! +84 HP!
Ryuk stares in horror as Zaena stabs Tamana again, this too adding to her hit points.
Crack!
Tamana uses both hands to baseball swing the broad side of her blade into Zaena, who is tossed into a patch of wine apples. She brings her ironing board of a sword down onto the ground and the Thulean just barely manages to get out of the way in time.
Ryuk lowers his Marble Gun for a moment as the thought dawns on him. He’s seen this very thing before, in a foe that Tamana and he encountered outside of a city known as New Gotha. He quickly fires off a message to the guild.
Ryuk: Her armor is enchanted! FeeTwix and Hiccup, take Tomas! Zaena distract Tamana and I’ll try to remove the enchantment.
Hiccup: Who died and made you boss?
Ryuk: Move your ass, Hiccup!
To encourage the goblin, Ryuk, before holstering his Marble Gun, fires a shot one meter away from Hiccup’s feet. The goblin launches into the air, propelled by both flatulence and the explosion, and in a twist that Ryuk couldn’t have even seen coming, the portly goblin bounces once off the ground, equips a shield midair, and brings it and his sizeable goblin girth down onto Tomas.
-45 HP!
Zaena has turned up her slice and dice attack, completely engaging Tamana. Her blades spinning around her body, she occasionally tries to get a lick in, which Tamana blocks. The ones she misses are instantly returned to Tamana in healing points.
Ryuk holsters his gun and again goes for his magic slingshot.