Attack on the Kingdom of Sand

[alittlebitesper]

Characters: Terra, Edgar, Sabin, Ashe, Rasler, Locke, Celes
Progress: In-Progress
Summary: The Silver Dragons Attack Figaro
Location: Figaro and South Figaro
Date: May 1st
Warnings: Violence!

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A bit later

[alittlebitesper]

While Terra and her father had obviously been doing a number on the dragons at first, judging by the injured and dead creatures that had been falling out of the sky, their numbers had tapered off as the battle went on. Her father had vanished nearly five minutes ago now, and Terra could feel her energy beginning to fade. She hadn't stayed transformed this long since she had arrived on Gaia, she hadn't even been certain she could, but with the swarm attacking Figaro she certainly couldn't stop to worry about it. She was dotted with little injuries, a cut here, a bruise there, and her right eye was now swollen shut, the purple a rather strange contrast to her pink skin, but she was still able to fight.

She was maybe three hundred feet above the castle when she landed on the back of a swooping dragon, digging the claws from her hands and feet into the beasts back and ignoring its wail of pain. Once her pink palms were sufficiently flush she cast a fire spell inside the beast, the flame boiling through it and bursting out its chest, and she leapt off as it tumbled down to the castle courtyard below.

A split second later, not even enough time for her to begin searching for another target, she suddenly felt massive pain in her back as another of the dragons had swung in while she was fighting the first, and raked its claws down her hair and back. She let out a shriek, hurling herself away from the claws and turning in the air, ignoring the pain as she spun to face the creature just in time to have it swing about and slam its tail into her face.

It was like hitting a wall, and she twirled end over end in the air. She lifted a hand as she tried to steady herself, the beginning of a fire spell forming on her fingers, but it died as little more than puffs of smoke as her not-injured eye finally closed and she just tumbled backwards out of the air.

Halfway down the bright pink light enveloped her and she transformed back into her human form, and it was only luck that she didn't die, her limp body landing with a wet smack on the corpse of the dragon she had killed moments earlier. She bounced off it, arcing in the air and then landing hard on the cobblestones of the courtyard, rolling three or four times before she finally stilled, laying on her stomach.

Her back was a mass of blood and torn clothing, one of her arms was pinned under her body at a very wrong angle, and she was unconcious, barely breathing. But not dead.

Of course, the dragon that had knocked her out of the sky was rapidly dropping down towards her now...

Re: A bit later

[sonoffigaro]

And it landed, preparing to sink at least one set of pointed implements into the esper girl.

-Until a set of dark armor came crashing down on it with the force of an avalanche.

Edgar, tiring fast, scratched and bruised and bleeding but still on his feet, had seen Terra's pink glow flicker and die in that attack. His yell would have gone unheard by her, but he was already jumping by the time she was falling. At least she was landing inside the castle; they were doing a decent job of keeping the things from actually invading, which provided her a modicum of safety. And the one that did follow her down quickly got a spear to the back of its neck.

Still, these things weren't easy to kill; some of the guards resting in the courtyard had seen her fall as well, and the King follow her, and they jumped to their feet again to add their weapons to Edgar's. Wounded by the jump attack, being hacked on in seven different directions, that dragon succumbed to death much more quickly than some of its compatriots, and Edgar was tearing off his helmet as he ran over to Terra.

"Terra! Speak to me!" He gathered her from the ground as quickly as he could without damaging her further, pausing just long enough to make sure she was still breathing before struggling to his feet and starting to run indoors. "Someone find a healer!"

[alittlebitesper]

Terra was perfectly still until Edgar picked her up, at which point she gave a startled moan of pain and surprise, and her good eye opened for a moment to stare up at him. His hands and arms and probably his clothing would be receiving quite a treatment of blood from her back, probably.

"M-sorry..." she mumbled, trying to lift her injured arm, but after a second it dropped back down limp again and her eye closed once more. And she was back to being unconscious.

[sonoffigaro]

It was a good thing blood washed off armor easily, then - he'd came out in the full rig, and was incredibly glad he had.

"Don't try to-" And any order Edgar was about to give was moot; Terra was out again, which was probably for the best. Edgar didn't stop moving, but did try to shift her so he wasn't pressing into her injuries, running as fast as he could without jostling her to where the healers had gathered.