Zilo and Leo arrived back in the rest area, drained and hurt, their magic almost totally depleted. Leo looked too see the unconscious Alaroc. The guards walked over to Cruxis, who was looking over the drink addled Alaroc.
The guard spoke, "One of the other fighters dropped out, so get your friend ready. He's got about a minute before he's up to bat."
Leo walks over to see whats up, while Zilo took a seat to look at the closed door to the arena, hearing the murmurs of the crowd beyond. While in his trance someone sits down next to him.
"I suppose I don't have to worry about you beating me then." The bard looks over to see Tess smiling there, sitting with him. The man smiles back and responds,
"Suppose not, too bad, I was looking forward to that fight. Would have been a fantastic final match, but you aren't guaranteed a spot either. Alaroc is very skilled." Tess looks back over here shoulder to see Leo and Cruxis trying to make Alaroc fight worth, Cruxis coaching him with patting his hand, while Leo is much less gentle and slaps the man's face a few times.
"I'm not all that worried, wish me luck." With a small pat on the shoulder Tess walks out. Meanwhile Alaroc is finally beginning to wake holds his head and says, "Ho man that's a bangin, can someone get me a drink real quick?"
Alaroc is very quickly and roughly thrown through the arena doors and slides along the ground on his face. He holds his head and rises up again to see Tess standing there taking out her double sided blade. Alaroc in response retrieves what looks to be a simple hilt from his belt rather than his trusty dragon slaying blade.
The match starts and Tess leaps forward twirling her blade and swiping a few times at Alaroc. Without any alcohol, Alaroc is far more capable of dodging, and with only a few swift hops and ducks he is in clear attack range.
He flicks out his hilt and out of it forms what seems to be a blade made of light which Alaroc swipes in and it connects with the elf's blade. The two lock together and-
"Wait a second! Is that a light saber?" Asks the man in the hat from the other world. The tall man in the helmet responds.
"Yeah, pretty much I got it from some of the demons we fought." The man known as Jones nods along with the tall man, but the man in the hat grimaces and follows up with, "Then why did it just connect with the blade?"
Jones shakes his head and says, "I'm not gonna break the bank just to come up with a new mechanic like that, so I just made it do flame damage and make it highly magicked." The man in the hat typed away on his laptop and says back, "Dude, that's already a mechanic, here."
The man known as Jones looks to the laptop and reads it quickly, his eyes widen and he snatches the Alaroc character sheet and erases and writes on it, as he does he says, "Yeah, this is just what I needed, didn't know this enchantment was a thing. Here you go, anyway, what does Alaroc do now?"
Back at the arena Alaroc winds back his blade and swings again, this time as the attack comes in Tess' blade doesn't block the attack, instead the light sword passes through the blade and right at Tess's torso. Tess snaps back just in time to avoid the swing and she stands off against Alaroc again.
Alaroc looks to his blade in a self surprised tone himself, "Brilliant Energy blade, not bad eyh?"
Tess spins her blade around and responds back, "Dangerous to be sure, but not as bad as you'd think, especially for someone like me."
Alaroc tilts his head questioningly as Tess shuts her eyes before opening them back up again and her light blue eyes have shifted to fill with a green piercing orbs taking up he entire eyeball. The surrounding skin of her body began to give off a sheen, much like bronze in color. Her new scaled body also seems to spark with power of electricity with every movement of her body.
She still looked relatively similar besides he eyes being swapped, but once her form shifted a bit she raised her arm and pointed to Alaroc, electricity sparking as she did, forming finally into a Lightning Bolt spell.
Alaroc snaps to attention in time to dodge, but too little too late, the electricity courses through him. Alaroc shakily stands again and dashes in and makes an over hand slash the blade looks to be about to cut into Tess, but she brings up her arm and catches the blade.
Alaroc's face goes blank. Tess smirks with a toothy draconic grin and speaks, "Brilliant Energy is a rather helpful method of attack, only really affecting living matter, luckily for me, I have these natural armor scales here, and..."
Tess pushes back against Alaroc despite her elf stature she still easily overpowers the larger, stronger looking man, as she continues, "My blood also lends me a bit more strength as well." Tess twists the blade away from her body and she sighs, "I don't wish to kill you boy, so I ask that you surrender now and avoid me having to make you surrender."
Alaroc looks up, struggling to push back against the woman and he responds, "Yes, that would be the smart thing to do, but Ma didn't raise a coward, and I still have a few tricks."
Tess shakes her head before she sweeps the ground under Alaroc. Alaroc instinctively leaps away from the swing, only to see that Tess' grip isn't letting up, and without grounded footing Tess has no issue hurling Alaroc up and away.
Alaroc impacts on the wall hard on his back, falling forward onto his knee. Tess cracks her neck as she advances forward, no longer leaping and dancing, but stepping heavy with her new copper scales across her body. Alaroc reaches back and takes out a bone, throwing it forward and forming Twenty-Four.
Alaroc leaps up onto his trusty stead and charges in, taking Tess by surprise. This leaves enough of a window for Alaroc to make a swing from above, nailing Tess in the shoulder as she fails to raise her arm in defense.
With the force from the swing and the speed of Twenty-Four, Tess gets blasted back and her shoulder is heavily injured. Tess tries to raise her arm after she recovers and fires off another Lighting Bolt, but aboard Twenty-Four, Alaroc's speed is much too much for The wounded elf.
Alaroc closes in and points his blade at the downed Tess and says, mockingly, "I don't wish to kill you girl, so I ask that you surrender now and avoid me having to make you surrender." Tess chuckles and looks up to Alaroc and says, "Fine, so you have some tricks, but care to allow me one more attempt sir knight?"
Alaroc prompts Twenty-Four to canter back and Tess smiles before her beautiful hair and elf features melt away and her armor melts into her body, along with dropping her weapon. The body becomes more beastly ending with a bronze dragon being present in the arena rather than Tess.
Alaroc pounds his fist into his hand and remarks, "Oooooooh, Dragon, I though you reminded me of something, well sorry bout this sista, but, you may have screwed up, cause..."
Alaroc retrieves his dragon slayer in his right hand as he passes his energy blade to his left, as he smiles and says, "Dragons, are my specialty."
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