Aww, baby’s first tantrum! They grow up so fast!
....would be what she would have said. And she did not. Because everything exploded and she was pain and okay yep that was hurt, yep. Yeeep.
Poor Parsee, actually relaxing somewhat as she stuck her claws nice and deep into the sorest part on Mika’s person. She took the danmaku equivalent of a flying kick to the chin and took it like a pro: screeched in the walls of pain that took shape of a wall of angry hornets to her back and four glowing hot knives to her chest and stomach, plummeted down with additional force provided by multiple strikes with a sledgehammer, and dropped into the river with all the form of an especially veteran’d anvil.
Welp, stage over. Proceed.
....naw, she exploded out of the river a couple of seconds later, garbling the name of a spellcard on the water she could breathe nice and full in her lungs, painting the air with collumns of hissing pink and green diamonds like flowers, weaving in and out through them to try to snag her opponent on them.
As she did so, the bridge itself moaned a moan of straining old wood, rattling its boards like the bones of a skeleton, all the while trying to yawn itself longer and longer while rapidly reaching its limit. Sections of its railing abruptly separated from its frame and launched through the air like blunt harpoons, displaying a moderate ability to predict simple paths and track movements. It start to swing itself over the river from side to side, like it was loosely held together with nothing but ropes over a bottomless, windy abyss.
There really should have been more insults and snarks, but both women appeared to share a mutual understanding that they really didn’t give a shit and were perfectly happy to attempt to murder one another with stupidly ineffective bullets and endless swarms of paper missiles with nothing but the sound of grunts and screeches to rebound off the cave walls around them.
Real battles aren’t as fun as games will lead you to believe. They’re very fast, very intense, and typically everyone is too pissed and/or in pain to be witty.
Also Parsee’s losing. It felt like every softball that had ever existed was being lobbed repeatedly at her and impacting her face and chest constantly every second, and she kept seeing stars when they hit her face and head. Her second spellcard got cut off not by an intercepted attack, but by rapidly plowing through the guard rail of the bridge she was supposed to be watching over, even as it tried to swing away and get out of her path.
She couldn’t even get another card out now, just running, flying like a crazy thing away from the bridge, seals and missiles frothing the water on either side of her head like bullets, oh god she fucked up oh god she fucked up-
This should technically probably be stage clear by now, but um, Mika wasn’t stopping yet. That’s, uh. That’s not legal, right? Can she do that?
She was going to get pinned at this rate. She was going to get cornered and exterminated and oh god this was going to suck so hard.
Worth it? A little. Would think twice about using those particular words again at the start of it all, though.
