KRAYAT VS. LIEU
“Our first Fiend is someone you never should have heard of if she’s done her job right—a master thief who’s evaded law enforcement her entire life. Be sure to check your pockets when you leave to make sure nothing has slipped away. The Beguiling Burglar, Krayat!”
“I would have appreciated you not using my name,” Krayat scowled as she walked out. “Oh well, I’ll just have to come up with another new identity when this is over.”
“And next, we have our last member of Above! Ever since the loss of their leader, he’s been working hard to keep their group together and out of trouble. A soldier to the end, never to abandon his duty. The Garrish Guerilla, Lieu!”
“Why the hell do you know so much about us?!” Lieu barked as he walked out. “Damn, that validation’s gonna bring me to tears! Let’s get to fighting so I can get some dignity back.”
“As you wish!” Rallie saw no reason to argue. “Krayat voted for obstacles, Lieu voted against. To the coin toss… Krayat wins!” The arena was then quickly filled with various plants, some potted, some on their own, a few cactuses and full-sized trees.
“At least it’s not a damned hedge maze,” Lieu tisked.
“Oh, and Phon was supposed to commentate on this fight, being the only person to have dealt with both of our competitors, but she is once again shirking her duties. Sorry, everyone. Now start the fight!”
“So a thief, huh?” Lieu didn’t attack first, as it went against every tactic he had, and instead started chatting. “Any chance I could hire you? The Central Peace confiscated most of our stuff when they raided our base, and there’s some things I’d like to get back. Something tells me you’re the perfect person for the job.”
“Let me win and I’ll consider your offer,” Krayat responded without shame.
“Sorry, but I’ll have to turn that down,” Lieu got a bit more serious. “We can live without that stuff, but this wish is irreplaceable. And we won’t let anything stand in our way. Alright then, show me how a thief fights!”
Krayat obliged in the blink of an eye, because an eye was all that remained. She scrunched her body up into the small ball and rolled away, hiding behind one of the plants.
“Well isn’t that freaky,” the soldier huffed. “You think you’ve seen everything as a Fiend, but then a grown woman climbs into her own eyeball. So I guess a thief fights like a rat. If you think you can hide, you couldn’t be more mistaken!”
Lieu whipped a shotgun off his back and pumped it right away. He then aimed at a potted plant that had been near the woman and blasted it to bits. Shot after shot followed, destroying whatever he aimed at without mercy. It was obvious that Lieu had no idea where she was actually hiding, but he didn’t look worried, perfectly content to just enjoy wrecking everything until there was nothing left.
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It wasn’t long before he had to reload, and he took his time. “Y’know, I’m not a huge fan of this paralysis ammo stuff. Packs a decent punch, but not what I’m used to at all. The price is right, though. Free is free, and I’ll take that any day. Ammo gets expensive, and we need every common we can get right now.”
After he was finished reloading, Lieu pulled out a second shotgun to pick up the pace. Once about half the plants had been pulverized to pieces, he finally caught a glimpse of the eye rolling from place to place. “Not letting you get away again!” The Guerilla started firing at her relentlessly.
With her cover blown, the thief made a beeline straight towards her attacker, but still slithered around the ground to keep the man guessing with his aim. As soon as she got close enough, a full leg sprouted out of the eyeball, straight at Lieu’s crotch. Krayat didn’t hold anything back with her furious kick.
Lieu buckled to the ground after he was sent flailing backwards, just barely hanging onto the edge of the arena, one foot dangling off. “Damn it, lady!” he grunted through the pain. “I had no issue with you and was fine merely having a fun and fair fight, but you just made this personal. Now you’re dead! Fog of war!”
A bit of fog made its way to beneath Lieu’s waist to speed up his recovery as he struggled back up to his feet. Then to get away from the edge, he briefly turned into fog himself, reappearing in the center of the arena. “Don’t bother hiding now!” Lieu blasted a round directly at Krayat’s cover since she’d reverted back to an eye. “Since you attacked me, I’ll always know where you are.”
“Your first shot was a good one, I’ll give you that! But you won’t get another! So come out and face me like a real Fiend!” He continued blasting at Krayat relentlessly as she sped hes way over to him, still plant-jumping to keep the path safer.
As soon as she got close enough to him, the man preemptively fired just in front of his legs, expecting another crotch shot. However, Krayat went for his pant leg. She spawned a finger out of the back of her eye and wormed into the man’s trousers. From there, she started scaling the titan by comparison, tickling his skin the whole way up.
“Taha, the hell do you think you’re doing!?” Lieu couldn’t hold back his fits of giggles from all that writhing around. He pulled out a combat knife and then jammed it into his own skin without hesitation, trying to stab his invader.
But Krayat was just too wily, her movements too erratic. Lieu could never get a good lock on her, not for trying. By the time she made it up to his torso, the man had stabbed himself at least a dozen times relentlessly, fog plugging up every wound.
Krayat wriggled out of the front of his shirt at the collar, sprouting out an arm with an upwards flying fist. It clocked Lieu right in the chin, making him clench his jaw and sent him reeling.
But before she could try anything else… “Gotcha!” Lieu growled between his now-bloody gums. He’d grabbed Krayat’s hand and started to squeeze with all of his strength.
It became too much. And since the woman couldn’t wrestle herself free in her current state, she was forced to unpack more of her body to try and escape. But no matter what she did, the man came no closer to letting go, making her yelp in agony.
The moment her full body had returned, Lieu slammed it into the ground, leaving her sprawled on her back. He then placed the tip of his shotgun into her stomach and fired. There was no recovering from that, a full buckshot of paralysis rounds right to the gut.
“Lieu wins!”
~Unfulfilled Wish~
Krayat: To save my most precious one, so we can finally be free together.