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Re: Nox Home World
Setting Lyra down in one of the seats and quickly buckling her in, Thanus steps towards Aya as she takes the controls. "Very good." he states straight forwardly. Compliments and small talk had never been Thanus' strong point. He expected Aya would get them in the air swiftly as possible, and if this vessel had weapons, that she would know how to proceed best. So he leaves her to it. Attempting to observe the fight the way he usually did with his team was hazy at best, currently, with how distracted Ayla was being stuck in the literal eye of the storm. Seeing one creature land so close to her made him breathe and frown deeply and intensely, but at least it was dealt with promptly. He simply had to rely on them. He knew that Ayla hadn't ever been personally exposed to such direct danger like this before. It was surely very different to being able to calmly guide from afar. He had to wonder how Sinnve was coping also. Luckily he knew that whilst perhaps ill disciplined, the girl was far from soft or fragile, when things got serious.
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The moment their enemy had pounced from the trees, Ellisia didn't even wait for them to reach the ground. In a move that they might not have expected, she suddenly leaps powerfully from the ground straight at a descending predator twisting past it's outstretched claws and cleaving it in half horizontally, before kicking back off of the remains to ensure the corpse didn't land on Sinnve or Ayla. The next to come swooping in from the ground lost it's forearm as it slashed at her, immediately followed by it's head.
Marik meanwhile had already immediately cast his long firearm back into subspace, not expecting to get a second good shot off. The charging time was too long, and a trick shot like that wasn't going to happen again whilst being threatened in melee. Had he known that Siphon and Talok would take up the tactic they had, he might just have been able to continue using his aser weapon, but regardless, his short blades had been drawn now. Without the kind of reach that Ellisia's formidable sword gave her, Marik would have to employ a more daring combat style, and get inside the creatures reach. Failing to immediately kill any that he engaged would be dangerous. Fortunately he did excel at very close, fast and adaptive fighting, and his blades were as sharp as a blade got.
The first vengeful predator that came in on his side to test them was too brave, it's vicious swipes being ducked, hopped, and twirled past, with Marik taking a fluid step closer with each miss, and finally stepping past it as a fountain of blood erupts from it's throat, his other blade making a lightning quick backwards stab to the back of it's head just to be sure. The whole exchange had happened in barely a second. Facing the next ones to arrive, which within reason would be more cautious and now pacing, he begins trying to work out how to handle the significantly greater risk of two on one. These guys were too big and long reaching for him to be fully confident of knowing how to do this. Luckily, Siphons agro drawing fire gives him the exact opening he needed to fix the situation. Not hesitating to take advantage of the chance he'd been given, he sprints forward in a flash at one of the Predators, throwing one of his blades as he went. The blade only stabbing a short way into the distracted creatures chest, which was all he had expected and relied on. It's attention coming back to him, his charge is competently blocked by it's claws and evasive action. As he takes one step back from it's incoming counter attack however, Marik makes a sudden two fingered pointing motion towards it with his empty hand, resulting in a bright snap as a short arc of lightning jumps from his fingers and hits the hilt of his thrown sword. The jolt, whilst only a fairly small one as far as this creature was concerned, only needed to be enough of a "shock" to disrupt it's attack for a split second. The knight using it's own momentum to help bury a blade up through the bottom of it's neck and jaw area, before tearing both blades out and diving back in time to avoid, most, of the blood. He would then quickly jump back to get back in formation with the others, not wanting to leave any room to slip in behind him.
"Thanus and Aya have arrived safely." Ayla declares over the violence, continuing to stay low. Her expression very slightly reminiscent of someone patient yet anxiously waiting for a stomach turning roller coaster ride to end, whilst putting on an effort to remain strong.
Setting Lyra down in one of the seats and quickly buckling her in, Thanus steps towards Aya as she takes the controls. "Very good." he states straight forwardly. Compliments and small talk had never been Thanus' strong point. He expected Aya would get them in the air swiftly as possible, and if this vessel had weapons, that she would know how to proceed best. So he leaves her to it. Attempting to observe the fight the way he usually did with his team was hazy at best, currently, with how distracted Ayla was being stuck in the literal eye of the storm. Seeing one creature land so close to her made him breathe and frown deeply and intensely, but at least it was dealt with promptly. He simply had to rely on them. He knew that Ayla hadn't ever been personally exposed to such direct danger like this before. It was surely very different to being able to calmly guide from afar. He had to wonder how Sinnve was coping also. Luckily he knew that whilst perhaps ill disciplined, the girl was far from soft or fragile, when things got serious.
- - - - -
The moment their enemy had pounced from the trees, Ellisia didn't even wait for them to reach the ground. In a move that they might not have expected, she suddenly leaps powerfully from the ground straight at a descending predator twisting past it's outstretched claws and cleaving it in half horizontally, before kicking back off of the remains to ensure the corpse didn't land on Sinnve or Ayla. The next to come swooping in from the ground lost it's forearm as it slashed at her, immediately followed by it's head.
Marik meanwhile had already immediately cast his long firearm back into subspace, not expecting to get a second good shot off. The charging time was too long, and a trick shot like that wasn't going to happen again whilst being threatened in melee. Had he known that Siphon and Talok would take up the tactic they had, he might just have been able to continue using his aser weapon, but regardless, his short blades had been drawn now. Without the kind of reach that Ellisia's formidable sword gave her, Marik would have to employ a more daring combat style, and get inside the creatures reach. Failing to immediately kill any that he engaged would be dangerous. Fortunately he did excel at very close, fast and adaptive fighting, and his blades were as sharp as a blade got.
The first vengeful predator that came in on his side to test them was too brave, it's vicious swipes being ducked, hopped, and twirled past, with Marik taking a fluid step closer with each miss, and finally stepping past it as a fountain of blood erupts from it's throat, his other blade making a lightning quick backwards stab to the back of it's head just to be sure. The whole exchange had happened in barely a second. Facing the next ones to arrive, which within reason would be more cautious and now pacing, he begins trying to work out how to handle the significantly greater risk of two on one. These guys were too big and long reaching for him to be fully confident of knowing how to do this. Luckily, Siphons agro drawing fire gives him the exact opening he needed to fix the situation. Not hesitating to take advantage of the chance he'd been given, he sprints forward in a flash at one of the Predators, throwing one of his blades as he went. The blade only stabbing a short way into the distracted creatures chest, which was all he had expected and relied on. It's attention coming back to him, his charge is competently blocked by it's claws and evasive action. As he takes one step back from it's incoming counter attack however, Marik makes a sudden two fingered pointing motion towards it with his empty hand, resulting in a bright snap as a short arc of lightning jumps from his fingers and hits the hilt of his thrown sword. The jolt, whilst only a fairly small one as far as this creature was concerned, only needed to be enough of a "shock" to disrupt it's attack for a split second. The knight using it's own momentum to help bury a blade up through the bottom of it's neck and jaw area, before tearing both blades out and diving back in time to avoid, most, of the blood. He would then quickly jump back to get back in formation with the others, not wanting to leave any room to slip in behind him.
"Thanus and Aya have arrived safely." Ayla declares over the violence, continuing to stay low. Her expression very slightly reminiscent of someone patient yet anxiously waiting for a stomach turning roller coaster ride to end, whilst putting on an effort to remain strong.
