The Disease

[Awesomoman]

A wall of fire came up in front of all the ice dragons. "Im sorry," Visron appeared in front of Carakal. "But Corvus would prefer if you stayed out of this. I however would love to entertain you."

Gorn was still keeping track of everyone by watching their energy, when he felt Visron again. "Uh, dad, they're gonna need your help." Zarin looked at him weird. "Im sure they can handle them sel..." "Visron is in there." " ......If you need me ill be helping the others." Zarins ran in. Gorn was the only one left out side. "Why should they have all the fun, sure im not super powered, but i can still do something. Thats it, im going in for round 2." Gorn charged in also.

[Kauria]

He wasn't quite sure how he had expected the air geyser to work. Maybe he was just supposed to . . . lope along and the wind would push him?
Several seconds later and one faceplant later, Oltyth discovered that this wasn't exactly the right way to travel.
"Fine," he grunted, brushing the gravel from his face and looking back the way he had come. "Different strategy, then."
He crouched lower to the ground, his right hind leg fully extended behind him and his left arm reached out in front. "Might as well go all out," he whispered, golden eyes focusing on the darkness ahead. The fin on his neck rippled slightly in anticipation, and he inhaled deeply.
The ground beneath his claws stirred, and the large earth dragon pushed off, breaking into a full run. Oltyth galloped down the tunnel, his muscles expanding and his heavy claws thudding against the rock floor.
As the air currents shifted, his pace increased, each stride taking him farther and faster than the one before.
Mere minutes later, the Heart of Earth flared brighter, humming urgently with a low rumbling sound. Surprised, Oltyth dug his claws into the earth and slid to a stop just inches in front of a solid stone barrier. He flipped open the pouch again, pulling out the elemental gemstone. The light emanating from its core now pointed directly upwards, a golden dot on the rock above.
Time to get climbing, Oltyth thought, his smirk reappearing as he placed a large hand on the jagged stone before him.
The large earth dragon worked his way easily up the vertical surface, creating footholds when he couldn't find any, until he reached the end of the new shaft. He gave the stone above him an experimental tap, golden eyes narrowed intently.
"About a meter below the surface, then," he muttered, shifting his legs into a firmer stance on the ledges he was balanced across. He released his grip with his other hand, quickly placing his palms on the ceiling with his wrists together.
After a moment of concentration, a crack formed in the rock, dust falling down onto the dragon's face. Oltyth tugged gently at the edges, then brought his claws back for another go. This time, he drew on the energy of Earth Heart until his hands glowed with an identical light, then promptly slammed both into the crevice. Chunks of stone exploded outwards, and Oltyth heaved himself into an unfamiliar room, the glow of the gem subsiding.

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Naïma shrank back at the sudden prod, pulling her legs closer to her chest as she mumbled something into her arm. Another poke came, followed by a demand.
"Wake up."
Twisting onto her back, Naïma blinked the sleep out of her eyes and squinted into the light. The face of a fire dragon came into focus uncomfortably close to her own, staring intently at her with orange eyes. With a surprised yelp, the air dragon dropped from the branches of the tree, catching herself just above the lower plateau.
"Some warrior you are," Shya snorted, leaping down off of the ledge she had been perching on.
"I'm an acrobat." Naïma flicked a slender ear irritably, attempting to smooth out her mane. "Besides, you surprised me."
"Shouldn't you at least have some coordination, then?" Shya held up a hand, cutting off the dragoness' response. "Whatever. Do you have any idea where everyone's gone?"
Naïma tilted her head, suddenly curious. "Not exactly. Who are you asking about, though?"
Exasperated, Shya gestured all around her. "Everyone. All the fire warriors, anyone. They were here just yesterday, and now all of the able-bodied fighters are gone. The only ones left are the mages and invalids, and all they told me was that someone came and recruited them."
"Who?"
"I don't know, some ice dragon and her friend. I certainly didn't see them."
Naïma smiled eagerly. "Did they have elemental hearts?" she asked, pointing to the crystal above her forehead.
"Wait— yes, yes they did!" Shya exclaimed, clapping her hands together. "The ice dragon, at least. I don't know about the other one." The stuffy old mage had mentioned something about a gemstone that had seemed to suck away heat with its mere presence. It couldn't be . . . Starlight?
Naïma interrupted her thoughts, grinning widely. "I can find them for you."

(OOC: It's up to you guys where he pops up, wherever seems most logical.)

[Midnightmoon]

The ice dragons veered from their course to avoid the fire, hissing in suprise. Starlight too hissed but this one full of more frustration. "Vision, you slimey vermin." Starlight jumped out and flew out to the regrouping ice dragons.

Dinara leaped from the wall, flying over to to the hydra. Already they were recovering, recommencing their attack. "Gah, ok back to plan A." Dodging heads she arrived to hover bellow the creatures chest. Using water beams again she started cutting through ribs again. It took many minutes before she was able to get a hole big enough to work with. Then,concentrating, she drew upon and condensed a small sphere of explosive ice about the size of her fist. Hefting it with a ting she said, "And here comes the pitch..." before throwing it into the already sealing hole, where it disappeared. At first she thought that the idea had failed. That is, until the hydra's chest exploded. Glistening ice spears protruded from it's chest with a sound of breaking ice.

[Morty]

"Just what do you think you're doing?" Corvus spat, not amused in the least. "Scoring a piggy back ride? Get off!" He folded his wings close to himself, black birds swarming around the two to peck at the offender.

Carakal staggered, shocked by the ice blast. However it quickly regained its balance, albeit there now being a gaping hole in its ribcage. Darkness seeped from it, its pitch black heart pulsing with energy. Two of the heads turned to attack Dinara, jagged jaws agape.

[Nohiki]

Phoenicia rolled on her back, so Corvus was on top of her, the birds attacking him instead. She tightened her grip over his neck and punched him in the eye with her other hand.
"Watch out for that darn amulet, you know what it does! But if we are two he's hopelessly outclassed!" said Sol'Lux and took a stand on Starlight's side, her claws, back scales, hair and eyes and teeth pulsing with light. "Let's take hsi head back to Zarin as a gift."
Fireheart woke up. The ice dragon's everywhere around were just too much for him to remain unconscious. "Cold, again..." he said, getting up. "AH AH AH! Don't come any closer, freezer!" he said when one of the ice dragons approached to check if he's all right. "Now where was I before i was so rudely interrup..." in the second, he saw Dinara slicing through Caracal like a knife through butter. "Found her." he noticed and aimed his finger. He fired a coherent light beam, knocking one head to crash the other, hoping to buy dinara some time to do whatever she wanted to do.

[Midnightmoon]

"Indeed. Lets fly circles around this parasite." Starlight responded, speeding off at a spin.

"That worked." Dinara said. "If a bit too WELLL." She flew backwards to avoid the heads, firing random beams of ice at them. Then with a smash they crashed together. Dinara took her change and raced forward to land on one of their necks. Running along it she quickly came to the main body. "Making the next incision..." She mumbled as she started to cut a second hole towards the heart again, seeing as it was the best location to attack at the moment.

[Awesomoman]

"2 against 1? this isn't a fair fight. You should be given more people." Visron laughed. "Then how about 3 against 1?" Zarin yelled entering the room. "I see its round two for more than just us." Gorn said to Carakal as he stepped out from behind Zarin. "Well if it isn't the green goblin. you might have beaten me in normal combat, but this time im going to be using my powers." Visron's amulet started flashing random colors. "Your going to allow elements, in a fight with a god, a once immortal being, and a highly skilled warrior? Holy crap you are stupid." Zarin laughed.

Gorn slipped past the others and started feeling for the edge, once he found it, he quickly thought out what target would be best to hit. "That monster is invincible and there seems to be plenty of dragons attacking it, but Corvus isn't and there is only one person on him." The decision was simple, attack Corvus. "If i use a lightning attack, it would stun Corvus, but it might also chain to Phoenicia. If i go in for a melee strike, i wouldn't have to worry about hitting her and it would be a sneak attack, but if he does see me i know he will over power me. Ugh, what do i do."

[Morty]

"This is.. Awkward." Corvus muttered. One of Carakal's heads whistled. "Shut up, Carakal. And you, girl with the temper, I'm a wee bit too old for you." He said, his face a mask of disdain. The crows, being part of Corvus, simply turned to darkness and boiled over his skin like steam, his scales crawling with a swarm of smokelike, noisy birds. They gathered on his underside and formed a ribcage-like structure, a chest plate. A chest plat that bit back; three red-eyed bird's heads formed on his collar bone, snapping and clawing at the persistant Phoenicia.

Carakal, noticing what Dinara was up to, writhed and lashed its tails at her, jagged spikes rising from its spinal cord like spears of bone. She would be skewered if she remained on its neck. The two heads that had been knocked by Fireheart's light beam turned to fire a beam of their own.

[Nohiki]

"Ouch, get off me ya pervert!" said Phoenicia, landed last punch and pushed Corvus away. She stood up, with one of her hand leaning forward. "Any last words?" said Phoenicia, seeing Gorn and Fireheart sneaking from other sides.
Fireheart cloaked. His cloak was superior to Phoenicia's, but he wasn't too confident either. He did as phoenicia did, preparing to strike on her mark.
Sol'Lux was getting upset. "Rrrr! I!m too old for your petty talking! Are we doing this or what?" she said, charging on Visron with her claws.

[Awesomoman]

Visron watched Sol'Lux run towards him, then at the last minute his amulet went black and he shot out a wave of darkness blasting her back. "You fools, i know all your weaknesses and i have the power to use them at will." Visron's amulet changed to orange and he launched a fire ball straight at Star. Zarin shot a bolt of lightning at him while he was attacking Star. He jumped to the side, switched his amulet to blue, and drenched Zarin with a fire hose. Zarin tried to fire another bolt, but it just went back onto him. "Okay, im out until i dry, and we know rushing him isn't going to work. Got any ideas?"

Gorn saw Phoenicia move back a bit, and Fire move in a little, just enough that none would be hit too. "Lets see if this guy likes being tased." Gorn charged for a second then let loose a huge bolt that would deffinatly at least stun Corvus.

[Midnightmoon]

Dinara had just finished cutting her new hole when the beast started to thrash about and new spikes sprung from its multiple spines. Dinara clung on tight. With her hands full trying to make sure she isn't bucked off, Dinara had to change her tactics lightly. Putting her head above the ice rimmed hole she shot a beam of ice into it. Not as effective as a exploding ice bomb but hopefully it had the same effect.

Starlight twisted and avoided the fireball, its heat making her armor perspire. "Ice is still water." She flew over to Zarin. "Sol'Lux and the other ice dragons can distract him. Me and the other ice dragon could encase him in ice then you zap him. Hopefully after that he'll be weak enough so only us three need to be around to take him out." Not wanting to make too easy a target Starlight flew off to continue her attack. The others were starting up again too.

[Nohiki]

Sol'Lux expected that and her shield was up, though the beam pushed her back. "You're old news! So predictable!" she said and images of her, Starlight and Zarin appeared all around, while all the originals were covered. Sol'Lux begun jumping from one illusion into other, slicing her claws every time she got close to Visron.
Fireheart followed Gorn and sent a light beam after Corvus and Phoenicia blasted him with a flamethrower and song on her lips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKhN0gh0kjY [OOC: ])

[Kauria]

A faint growl rumbled in Shya's throat as she watched the white dragon ahead of her curl into another looping roll, her coils dipping through the low clouds. "Fly straight, would you?" she called ahead at Naïma. "It's hard enough to follow yo—" A snowy, foot-long feather fluttered into her face, cutting off the rest of her sentence.
"Sorry about that," Naïma replied, her voice carrying easily down the wind. "Almost there, although I'm not quite sure where we are anymore. Never been to this part of the island before."
Shya scanned the ground below, searching for any sign of the dragons. C'mon Star, you knew something was up and didn't invite me? Really, she huffed.
Suddenly, Naïma stopped just ahead, and the fire dragoness banked sharply to avoid the younger dragon.
"What now? You know, not everyone can hover like you."
"Down there," Naïma explained, pointing at the shadow of a cave entrance far below.
Shya grinned, her frustration vanishing. "Let's go." The red dragon dove, wings pulled tight against her sides.

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Oltyth coughed loudly, having inhaled more dust than anticipated.
"Stupid dramatic entrances," he muttered, looking up at his surroundings. All around the massive cavern, sheer faces of stone rose up from the ground, towering for hundreds of feet. Not climbing those.

[Awesomoman]

Visron was surprised and hit the first two times, but after that he realised that they where only illusions and they themselves made no noise. all he had to do was listen and the next time Sol came in for a hit, he sliced first.Zarin had shaken most of the water off and could now attack again. "We have to hit him with one big blow, all this little stuff is gonna get us no where."

[Morty]

Corvus rolled to the side as soon as he saw Fireheart's light beam about to strike, batting his wings in an attempt to ward off Phoenicia's fire attack. His wingtips smoking, he turned to blast them with an orb of darkness. "Chidren have no resp-- Erkh." he stuttered, twitching. Static crackled over his scales. He took a step back and dropped off the edge of the cliff. Carakal's head was quick to catch him, four other heads snaking out of the gloom to blast at Fireheart, Phoenicia and Gorn. The two remaining heads twisted around grotesquely and attacked Dinara, their polished fangs glinting in their mouths.

((I should make a point of posting more often. D; ))