3rd person, I guess
across a bridge of ice stood two parties.
in one, coming from the forest, was a little girl, accompanied by a dragon the size of a tall man. The dragon gave a metallic gleam in the low light of the forest floor, its glassy face holding holographic eyes glaring at the opposite party.
Said opposite party was glaring back with almost an equal ferocity. from their horseback, the inquisitorial subjugation party removes their weapons from their holsters, their swords from their sheath. the party leader, dressed in his white red and black tunic, signals the party to hold, waiting for what he thinks as a beast to take its course on the perpetrator in front of it, for the frozen mana clings to the child is identical to the mana he felt in the frosted little town they had left not even 4 hours ago.
the bridge of Everfrost would be the only pathway for either side to engage, but they both hold, waiting for the other to make their first mistake.
both sides have ranged options, so crossing would only spell disaster. the dragon would look to the child, who would be gleaming in joy at the 'knights' that she is witnessing, unbeknownst to the fact that she was the reason that they were here.
"so amazing!" shouted the girl, which prompted the more novice of the inquisitors to raise their crossbows
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admin time
SAV, what weapons does this body have? I need to know in case this group attacks.
[this body is equipped with 2 240EW extinction rays, located on either side of your inner mouth. A Kappa-class taser located inside your left wrist. As well as a Manton Foreth's particle accelerator located within your right forearm.]
I'm going to go with the taser, don't want to kill anyone as of now.
oh, my wrist retracted. I can see inside, this is weird. and now I have a metal stick with a bulbous head sparking with energy. it's not a dick, it doesn't even look like one.
Now I see that this causes some of this... I want to say bandit group but they look like clergymen. What with the white robes, the insignias on their chests
the one that looks like the leader seems to be staring me down, let's do the same then. It's an intense staring match, where I will win as I do not need to blink.
So I flare up the taser, and arcs launch to the bridge of ice between us. How the fuck did that even get here anyway? It wasn't cold here recently. magic? probably.
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"get behind me Victoria." I say, which somehow catches the group off-guard. how does that do it but the literal lightning not? was a talking dragon so rare? I mean, I'm in a fantasy world, there have to be more dragons than just a lookalike. and if light novels have taught me anything, its that most dragons can talk.
"It Speaks! shoot it, it is too dangerous to be left alive" and just like that I had arrows bouncing off of me, it's a good thing that victoria did what I said, so now I don't have to think about that time I walked with a pincushion. did I use to think like this? eh, probably. oh, they've run out of bolts for their crossbows. "you done?" I ask, getting a round of only slightly terrified nods. Well now its self-defense, particle accelerator, I choose you!
putting away the taser, which does not have a long-range I might add, a tube with a cap comes out of my right forearm. is this supposed to be what it looks like SAV? I thought it was going to be like a classic raygun, like from cod2 zombies or something.
[particle beam color can be changed at any time and I do not understand what a game from the 21st century has to do with weapons?]
what are you? uncultured? don't answer that, can you change the beam to a light cyan, please? thank you.
they don't seem very intimidated by the tube, should I demonstrate what this thing can do? aiming to my right, I fire the accelerator. and hoo boy, it seems like I have a new clearing for a factory or a warehouse. damn, this thing is strong, it's like the lasers you see in the movies, but actually can be moved during fire.
That gets them scared, and when I point it at them again, the rookies drop their weapons. that's a point for me!
"you... you are a dragon!" said the leader looking guy, was I not one before? I mean, no not really. but I look like one. so I say "duh, why would you think otherwise?" kinda dumb to be honest, but that can't do shit to me.
"fuck duty, I'm leaving!" said some random bandit, and with that, some others go with him, and now less than half the force remains. "are you not scared enough yet? do I have to actually kill you to get you gone?" I say. this gets the leader roused as he fires his own crossbow, it's probably magic or something because I felt it. did I forget to mention that I can actually feel things? turns out that it was turned off when we got here, and SAV had an option to fix it, so yeah. I love feeling.
"I do not care for your magics, dragon. it is my duty as an inquisitor to bring unlawful magic users to justice!" ah, so they are inquisitors? then why would they be here? "then who are you chasing? the one who can make a bridge out of pure ice? because it's not me, I cant use ice" I say, and I'm guessing my pure awesomeness shuts him up because he doesn't speak again. instead, he starts aiming at the little girl that I have behind me, once again, that bow is magic, I'm calling it now. because the arrow curved around me and I just barely used my tail to knock it out of the air. oh yeah, my tail is like a 5th arm.
"now that's just rude, going after a helpless little girl? she can't be the one you are after here. she has memory loss and hasn't used magic since I found her." I bullshit, don't exactly know what I'm talking about but he won't know that. "and how did you find her?" he asks, should I use the lair card? yes, dragons have lairs." she just walked into my lair. need I say more?" but he doesn't put his crossbow down. maybe this guy has memory loss too.
Im tempted to just fire the accelerator beam cannon thing. end this now, so that wherever this guy comes from doesn't get a more detailed report than 'strong thing, dragons are back' or something. it would save so much time and effort in the long run. but no, no killing aloud for now I guess.