ToOR Round 1: Harpy & Shade vs Qendrim & Cael (Savanna)

[Jent]

Tumbling past the summer grasslands, the contenders found themselves teleported to opposite ends of the savanna zone. One might even believe for a second that this patch of earth was its own world. Though, the semi-permeable bubble keeping in the current atmosphere consistent was transparent, showing through to the stands.

“Contenders, remember the rules and steady yourselves. The round starts in thirty, twenty nine, twenty eight...”

[Swix]

Harpy and Shade both blinked when they were dropped into the zone for their first rounds. Savannah.... Ok.... They could work with this. A pity the mismatched duo certainly were not in the mood to cooperate-well, one wasn't. She proceeded to change into the form of the giant eagle during the countdown, before attempting to snap at Shade-who'd already gone invisible and was no longer in that spot.

Yep, there was no way these two were winning anything.

[Jent]

Whereas the Drangue and Homunculus managed more amicable terms with one another. Qendrim steadied himself, half-expecting a fight to break out as soon they all dropped in... Whereas Cael flopped on the ground, slightly disoriented. "Probably should have came in my other form," he lamented, brushing the dust off his clothes on his humanoid form.

"Likely. One flown up high to greet the skies. The other vanished beneath the baking sun."

"That sounds like a riddle..."

[Swix]

Harpy scanned the area from up high, attempting to glean what she could from the air.

Meanwhile, below, Shade took a different approach, cocking an invisible ear to use his advanced hearing instead.

[Jent]

"It isn't. You keep low, I go high."

With the timer already clicked to zero, Qendrim leapt into the air, with feathered wings attached to his arms carrying him along the winds. The Drangue hoped that weapons were allowed in this tournament, though forsaken the blades upon gleaming its rules. No matter. His strength will be all the fighter needs, keeping Harpy in his sights for signs of an attack from her.

"Right..."

Sighing to himself, the Homunculus transformed into his other sturdy form. A Swampert out of water wasn't useless, but this terrain favored his opponent over him.

[Swix]

Up above, the mutant Harpy in her eagle form watched the Drangue also approach in the air. Another who knew the joys of flight, curses. Harpy began to lazily circle her opponent, before suddenly turning and screeching at him. She would fight as hard as she could.

Meanwhile, on the ground Shade from the Mirrorverse wished he'd brought his daggers with him. Ah, a Swampert. Could be worse. For now, he waited to see what it would do.

[Game Master]

"... One... BEGIN!"

With a thunderous clap, the Game Master announced the start of their round.

[Jent]

Reading her general flight pattern, it seemed to Qendrim that his opponent likely possessed the advantaged in unarmed combat. Besides the factor of claws, this Harpy appeared to harness greater agility overal in the sky, but what of raw speed?

The Drangue bopped about in place as the bird of prey lunged in his direction. Ambiguity in his movements, he would soon dive down to best avoid a sharp strike, but not out of sheer evasion. Qendrim in his flipped position attempted a leg lock to restrain what he could snag of the avian.

... Did this guy only have invisibility? Cael stomped a forelimb on the ground to cause a short tremor. The swampert really wished he didn't forgo freshening up on seismic detection. He hoped his first arena would have some water.

[Swix]

Harpy suddenly found legs wrapped around her torso midflight, however she was nothing if not vicious and went to claw at the Drangue with her talons whilst screeching.

Meanwhile, Shade felt the ground start to shake after the Swampert stomped down, before climbing up a tree to try to avoid being detected.

[Jent]

Resistant to blunt impact, the frenzied feet ribboned through a few rounds in his leather garments, though not scratching deep enough in the drangue's skin. So far at least. "'Need to be taught a lesson," Qendrim grunted back at the bird. Lurching forward, he went to bash his head against harpy, trying to drag themselves both out of the sky.

"Nothing? ... Can he fly too?" the swampert lamented. How was he supposed to fight someone he couldn't see?

[Swix]

Harpy made a strange sounding 'Caw!' of pain at getting hit in the chest by the Drangues head, annoyed that her scratches weren't doing more. However, whilst this didn't interrupt her breathing too much due to being able to metabolise low oxygen efficiently, it did interrupt her flight pattern and so they would start heading towards the ground. The vicious mutant also tried to peck him with her shatp beak.

Meanwhile, Shade had very carefully climbed between the trees to get as close to Cael as possible, before the invisible man went to leap off the branches and stomp on the Swamperts head!

[Jent]

At such close quarters, it be incredibly difficult for Qendrim to avoid every stab. The Drangue swerved to receive brief scraps along his arms, though a few pecks struck at his chest. Alright. Not that bad, just a bit of facture on a rib or two, he told himself.

"Going down!" he shouted, shifting his momentum in free fall. The Drangue attempted to disorient Harpy by spinning both of themselves in the air as they plumented faster, with his wings directing them downard. Not like he could properly aim who take the full impact. It could go either way.

"Gah!"

Dazed slightly, the large pokemon reared back his head in response to shake off the attacker.

[Swix]

Up in the air, Harpy shrieked loudly as they plunged downwards. She folded her wings tightly up against her sides as they did however, to protect them from damage-but however gripped the Drangue with her clawed feet whilst they were so close. She wasn't going to go down by herself once they hit the ground, oh no.

Meanwhile, Shade made a 'Gah!' noise as the Swampert backward headbutted him into the air. He hit the ground behind Cael and rolled to absorb the shock of falling before getting back to his feet and running around for another attack. Shade didn't have much in the way of natural powers, but he sure was gonna use it.