Deeper into the subterranean kingdom, a thick haze bloomed, and pursuant razor's petals swiftly cut through the veil. Colonel Rautt's heavy footsteps echoed as she stalked, her scythe held at the ready.
Suddenly from the side, flames shot from Jack's mouth as he flew in with a
Hot Streak! The Gambler's wildfire rose with all the fury that remained in the cigarettes he hadn't smoked, only to be trumped by Willa's hand as the
Shatterlock split straight down the middle as she grappled with him using a single arm.
"That smoke, I've only heard rumours of it," she mused, "Grave Magic, was it, little Cousin?"
Jack, his left arm dangling limp, bared his teeth as he sucked in a breath, and with a flash swiped a katchin blade across Willa's gauntlet, forcing a release.
"Yeah, well some of us make good on our second chances," he said, "Or don't you know going down the same old road is what's called crazy!"
The Red Colonel stripped the armour from her hand. The strike was deep enough to draw blood in a shallow cut on her forearm.
"Don't be so sure. Sooner or later, I always get what I want, and you have something that belongs to me."
Blizzar's knuckles struck the metal dead on, a clean shot, but the Iron Soldier seemed to not so much as budge. Much like its departed brother, Damask, its body was indeed built of rather mundane elements, but something imbued within it from times long past, that same force which animated it, carried with it the golem's true source of power.
Ordinary metal would have buckled, yet like the body of a ki-adept, its properties were enhanced accordingly.
Still, the Iron Solder was molded and constructed, and as Blizzar's hook landed, he could feel the gaps of the joint close, and its movement seized, if only for a moment. It was not one solid piece, but an series of interlocking parts.
And it was uncannily quick, as its other boot swiftly drove up to punt the officer.
The Shingan successfully tracks the path of the entity as it moved through the rock, and when the bolt of silver struck its path, it seized.
The spear had struck an ethereal body and left it pinned in place...and sudddenly the cavern itself began to tremble, the crystal spires seeming to swell in place, rising through shifting rock into a fearful shape.
The silver spear had affixed the Serpent into a body of that strange, ki-reactive mineral, the shaft sticking out of its throat. Light gathered in its crystalline maw as it hurled a projection of hard, constructed energy at him, like white fire gathered in the shape of a blade lashing out from its fangs.