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Post by The Gambler on May 19, 2014 19:45:43 GMT -5
Elseyris swings her flail with all her might, but it merely seems to annoy Tyraxes. Caraxes manages to land of slash of his talons against Tyraxes' scales as beast breaks its vice grip, drawing a thin line of molten blood from his snout.In the storm it seemed rider and dragons struggled to see, Dany and Rhaena almost colliding into one another as Tyraxes broke of, Mithrax's flames passing dangerously close to the queen's face.
(Caraxes takes a Light Wound)
As Yana watched below, waiting for an opening to strike at Elseyris and her wounded dragon, she did not focus on the sky above her. On silent wings, with a roar masked by a crack of thunder, Zyraxes dove from a black cloud above. The dark specter and the rider atop it were illuminated for a second by a flash of lighting as they dove talons first into the smaller dragon below. Spinel's right wing snapped like a dry twig from the force of the collision, the young dragon sent on a spiraling chaotic glide downward as its grey attacker followed with murderous intent.
(Spinel takes a Heavy Wound)
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 19:48:41 GMT -5
Taking advantage of the brief moment of release from Tyraxes' grip, Elsey spurred Caraxes as hard as she could towards the Grey Gallows, looking for the nearest place to land. Even getting near enough to the ground to safely jump off would do.
[Noteworthy Dragon-handling, Tempered dragon, +5 Armour]
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 19, 2014 20:00:25 GMT -5
Rhaena pulled up from the ground, and looked over to see what happened to Yana who seemed to have disappeared, when she saw Trajan's Dragon above them all, and Spinel flying out of control. She had to make a choice quickly, try and deal with Elseyris, or try and talk to Trajan. She stopped for a second to look up at him, and made her decision, He'd already taken one of them out, but she couldn't let Elseyris get away. She spurred Tyraxes round and went after Eleyris, if he Caraxes, he would try to bite at the already danaged neck area if he could, if elseyris got on the ground and left her dragon before then, she would use fire to try and burn her to death.
(Noteworthy dragon handling , fresh dragon, +5 strength,).
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 20:14:19 GMT -5
Dany, who had gained altitude after nearly burning off Rhaena's face, found herself torn between two terrible options and of course chose the worst out of the two. Seeing as Trajan and Zyraxes followed Spinel down, she flew down after him with the intent to burn him a little.
(Expert DH, Fresh +5 Fire)
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Post by The Gambler on May 19, 2014 20:55:05 GMT -5
Tyraxes caught the wounded and low flying Caraxes rapdily, falling upon him from above and digging long rows of fangs into the top of his deck, eliciting a terrifying scream and a hefty spurt of dragon blood. Exhausted and battered, Caraxes crashed into the rocky shore of Grey Gallow, snapping a leg and one of its wings as well. Tyraxes in contrast, landed with grace and precision, rounding on the crippled dragon.
(Caraxes takes a Heavy Wound)
Yana managed to get Spinel into a more controlled glide on its broken wing, the small dragon landing to nurse the injury without sustaining more damage. Trajan was forced to veer up Zyraxes from its deadly decent, narrowly dodging the flames from Mithrax and it course corrected to face the new threat. The two dragons collided in the air, Zyraxes' talons digging a long gash across Mithraxs' belly.
(Mithrax takes an Average Wound)
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 19, 2014 21:10:38 GMT -5
"You couldn't leave well enough alone could you?" Rhaena shouted down to Elseyris when Tyraxes got close enough to be heard. Rhaena was oblivious to what was going on above, instead she was solely concentrating on the heavily wounded Dragon, "At least you are going to die like a dragon, not the mouse I always thought." She owed the other woman that much. she urged Tyraxes forwards, to finish off the dragon and hopefully get the rider too in the process, notching an arrow, and aiming for Elseyris' head.
(Noteworthy dragon handling , fresh dragon, +5 strength, Expert Bow)
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 21:23:27 GMT -5
Caraxes' screeches of pain were awful to hear, but there was no time to linger. Elsey quickly undid the saddle's fastenings and leapt to the ground, rolling as she landed. She had to keep moving or she would be dead in an instant. Dashing between the jutting rocks for cover, she tried to find a place to scramble down out of the line of sight and firing range of her attackers. Hearing Rhaena's shout, she called back;
"Leave what alone? I haven't done anything wrong, you crazy bitch!"
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Post by The Gambler on May 19, 2014 21:32:42 GMT -5
Battered and broke, the mighty Ceraxes only looked up meekly before Tyraxes tore out his throat with a triumphant roar. Rhaena loosed an arrow, though her aim was thrown off as her mount feasted upon its foe. Instead of Elsey's head, the arrow found her calf, near the exact spot Trajan Waters had shot her what seemed an eternity ago. Stumbling to her knees, she managed to crawl being a large rock that would offer some cover.
(Ceraxes is slain. Elsey takes an Average Wound.)
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 19, 2014 21:46:21 GMT -5
"You are in my way. That is wrong enough, but clearly I was wrong, just a little mouse running for a hole." Rhaena said, and started humming Trajan's Whaler song, before singing one of the verses, albeit slightly altered for their situation.
"Feed her to the hungry dragon for dinner". She was loath to take Tyraxes from his fun, but there would be time for that later. She had him lift off once more, thinking a high vantage point would be best for getting in between rocks.
"Feed her to the hungry dragon for dinner," She got Tyraxes up, and swooped low over where she had seen Elseyris go.
"Feed her to the hungry dragon for dinner," She gave a command in high valyrian and Tyraxes let out a jet of flame where she had been.
"Early in the morning."
(Noteworthy dragon handling , fresh dragon, +5 strength)
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2014 21:49:02 GMT -5
Swearing under her ragged breath at the pain, Elsey stumbled low between the rocks. Gritting her teeth, she snapped off the long end of the arrow, so it wouldn't catch on things easily as she moved.
Thinking that, perhaps, there would be caves or crevices further down, perhaps better concealed by the storm, she made her way as quickly as possible, under cover of the rocky outcrops, down to where the rocks sloped towards the water, looking for a safe way down.
[Noteworthy Athletics]
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Post by Yana Snow on May 20, 2014 0:21:38 GMT -5
Yana grunts and swears as the dragon came from nowhere and slammed into them. Spinel roared loudly in pain and defiance, the pair struggling to level out, Spinel roughly lands but does not appear to injure herself more. Yana undoes her lashings and slips off, looking around, she gasps softly at the two battles going on and knowing she's now useless to an aerial fight she turns to inspect Spinel's wing. Keeping a good eye on the battles, and would try to defend them selves should the beast and its rider come close enough.
(how far are they from where Rheana and Elseryis landed and can Yana get over there by foot?)
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 5:23:22 GMT -5
Mith gave a deafening roar at the pain, and spat fire at Zyraxes's eyes in order to break off from the larger beast. "Rhaena is pardoning you," shouted Daenerys to Trajan at the top of her lungs, keeping Mith close enough for him to hear, but also ready to counter any further attacks he might decide to lead. "So stop attacking us! That-" she pointed in the direction Elsey and Rhaena had both flown off to, "was Elseyris."
(Expert DH, Fresh dragon +5 Fire)
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Post by The Gambler on May 20, 2014 21:12:01 GMT -5
Elseyris indeed resembled a mouse fleeing from a cat as she scurried from cover to cover along the rocky outcroppings that lined the shore of Grey Gallow. A stream of fire chased after her with the tune of Rhaena's dirge, sucking the oxygen from her lungs as she struggled to flee her pursuers. Finally finding a sizable stone with a rock overhang, she took cover underneath it, knowing Tyraxes' young flames were far too weak to melt stone.
(If Yana moves towards the fight she will arrive in 1 round.)
In the air, Zyraxes and Mithrax continued to tumble. A flash of lighting revealed Trajan clearly: an unkempt black beard on his face, the same dead violet eyes, and a sway in the saddle that indicated he might be drunk.
"Father does not offer pardons!" he shouted in reply, "Only fire and blood! It does not take four dragons to deliver a message!"
A jet of flame from Mithrax's maw took Zyraxes full in the face, allowing it to break off and regain the distance desired.
(Zyraxes take an Average Wound)
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 20, 2014 21:24:07 GMT -5
Rhaena let out a sigh as the flames did nothing, and veered Tyraxes round again, this time, aiming to have him swoop round fast and have him land hard on the rock and crush it down onto the fleeing girl.
(Noteworthy dragon handling , fresh dragon, +5 strength)
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 21:34:57 GMT -5
Elseyris knew she could not stay in one place, and so bolted again while Rhaena's dragon was turning, trying to use the brief moment where she was out of sight to her advantage. If they got close enough, she had her flail at the ready, and would attempt to make a surprise attack, dodging Tyraxes' flames and jaws to strike at the rider.
[Noteworthy Athletics]
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Post by The Gambler on May 20, 2014 22:07:51 GMT -5
The precarious outcropping, which had weathered millennia of erosion, could not stand before Tyraxes' fury. It shattered, sending boulders raining down around the fleeing Elseyris. As she dove away, on landed upon her leg which broke at the knee, pinning the useless appendage in place as she struggled to free herself.
(Elseyris take a Heavy wound. She is pinned under a rock and must pass an Athletics test to escape.)
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 22:25:35 GMT -5
Struggling to free herself, Elseyris shouted out;
"I am not your enemy, Rhaena! Whatever you think I have done, call off this attack and we can discuss it like reasonable people! I swear I am not in your way! I have never acted against you! Please, listen to reason! We must fight together against Maekar, not amongst ourselves!"
Despite the raggedness of her voice from pain, her sincerity was unwavering.
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 20, 2014 22:50:58 GMT -5
"I've swam too far down the tunnel to double back now." She said, voice not wavering, even if she considered sparing her, which she in no way did, how could she explained to Aegon. That would require trust in Elseyris she clearly did not possess, or they would not be here in the first place. How could she trust traitor spawn, look at the other two of Aenar's stock. "We cannot ever be safe while you are alive. You show up. Throwing yourself at my husband, threatening my child, threatening me. You are always going to be an obstacle, Elseyris, whether you know it or not, you are a stone on my road, and I am not going to risk you tripping me, and I will not walk around you." She explained, looking down from Tyraxes' back with cold eyes, "That, and I find incredibly tedious."
She had Tyraxes head pull back, "feed the rat to the dragon for dinner," she hummed, and had him move in for the kill to try and bite and cut at Elseyris and finish her off.
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Post by The Gambler on May 20, 2014 23:08:19 GMT -5
The small dragon struggled to reach Elseyris amidst all the rubble, clawing aside boulders with a voracious hiss as it closed in for the kill. Fueled by adrenaline, Elsey managed to push the rock off her leg, but as she stood to her feet she knew she wouldn't make it far upon it.
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 20, 2014 23:11:31 GMT -5
Rhaena was getting pretty fed up now. She didn't move Tyraxes and instead, now the target was in the open, let loose a jet of fire instead.
(Fresh dragon, noteworthy dragon handling, +5 strength.)
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2014 23:13:15 GMT -5
"I did not throw myself at him, nor have I threatened your child! I came here to protect you, as a loyal servant! That is all I am! You are just paranoid!" Elsey shouted back. "Stop attacking, and I will not move to retaliate, I swear it! You may not trust me, but the King does! Trust his judgement! Please, just stop and let us talk about this! You have never had anything to fear from me! What you are doing is madness! Have you no honour?"
She kept trying to get out from beneath the rock that trapped her. She prayed frantically in her mind;
Gods above, if you will not see me spared, please, do not let them desecrate my body.
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Post by The Gambler on May 20, 2014 23:24:08 GMT -5
The prayers fell on deaf ears, the flames enveloping Elseyris. Tyraxes' flames were not hot enough to kill the young woman instantly, instead roasting her alive. The screams echoed across the barren island, finally going silent as a lifetime of suffering mercifully came to an end.
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Post by Queen Rhaena Targaryen on May 20, 2014 23:45:43 GMT -5
Rhaena listened to the screaming until it died, she moved closer and undid her fastenings on Tyraxes, sliding from the saddle. She clicked her tongue at him as he immediately moved to go back over to Caraxes to finish eating, and instead stayed put. If a dragon could pout. Rhaena kicked the smouldering corpse with her foot, making sure it was well and truly dead, before picking up the flail in her gloved hand and attaching it to Tyraxes harness before remounting.
She looked up at the sky finally, seemingly remembering that there were other things going on, and she took off once more, to try and see if she could sort whatever mess was going on out.
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Post by Yana Snow on May 21, 2014 0:38:17 GMT -5
Yana starts to pick her way across the rocks towards Elseryis and Rheana.. However upon the roasting she gives a grim frown and returns to Spinel, whom she gives a comforting stroke on her muzzle whilst watching out for the beast that downed them and her two companions that remain in the air.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 2:19:51 GMT -5
(OOC - took a while to write this, so it's a bit out of sync, forgive me)
Somewhere amidst the excruciating, white-hot agony of the flames that engulfed her, Elseyris felt a sudden strange peace upon her. In the final few moments before her life was snuffed out, the pain went from utterly unbearable to almost being part of her. She ceased to scream, her lungs and throat unable to function, and her terrified mind became oddly serene. The horror of what was happening ebbed away, and time seemed to truncate.
Though she no longer had eyes, she saw, in her mind, flickers of memory, like the fleeting blinks of stars.
A tiny hatchling Nenyan curled into her lap, his sweet trilling noise occasionally escaping his throat as he slept. The exhilaration of flying with him over the Blackwater. Her father presenting her with her first set of armour and her beautifully wrought ornate flail with a look of great pride. The smell of lavender in her mother's hair. Playing with her brother and sister, before they all drifted apart. Willem calling her his favourite spy. Maelys cheering her up with humour when she was sad. Tybalt's handsome, easy smile as they shared a dance.
And there was Aegon. So much of Aegon. Her first night with him, on the Roseroad. The music to her ears when he told her he loved her. The adoration in his face when he asked for her hand, and how her heart had sang when they finally said the words.
Though she slipped in pain from the world, her heart was yet full of love for her brave, kind, loving King, who had made her feel safe in the midst of all that she feared, and said she would always be his Queen.
As the reverie ended, and she succumbed to the gentle embrace of The Stranger, she heard a voice, which sounded simultaneously like her father, and like Willem;
"It's alright, sweetling. None of them can hurt you anymore."
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all alone and also really bored 
Hopefully going to kickstart the festival too