Fantasy Cursed Island

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Urodor closed his mouth and prepared to go after Corona, only to lean a bit as Shuffle connected. Her horns weren't at all successful in penetrating his hide as he reached down to pick her up by the horns, "I remember you, young wyrm," the dragon growled before cocking back his arm and throwing her at Corona like a stone.

"What do you mean?", Lyak flinched as Adran's magic soared overhead, hiding behind Erina, "There's no elementals here," she whispered, "I can't do anything!"

Jerry and Adran were having no small amount of trouble with Joanne. She knew what she was doing, handling the both of them with ease. Grabbing Jerry's tail to throw her like a hammer or kicking Adran square in the chest. It didn't help them that, unlike some of the party when there was no danger, Joanne never took off her armor ring. Joanne's reflection was handling Beri and Nalla quite the same, not giving Nalla the chance to wildshape or cast spells and wiping Beri across the area like a mop. About that time, Emera got back up, bruised but healing and grinning.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman, huh, Adran?", she laughed.

"SOMEONE KILL HER!", Adran shouted.

 

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Shuffle squeaked as she was thrown, but she spread her wings to try and stabilize. She managed to land with her feet against Corona's back, jumping off into the air to avoiding really hitting the centaur. Flapping her wings to stay airborne, she retaliated with a blast of frost breath.

Emil shook his head as he played a note, magic instruments appearing in front of the two of them. A drum for Lyak and a lute for Erina. "Just let the music guide you and play what you feel. I'll handle most of it, I just need your hands."

"With pleasure!" Niudisa shouted back from where she'd fluttered around behind Emera, forming a magic hand above her before bringing it down.

 

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Urodor brought his wings around to block the frost, opening back up with another cloud of acid as he charged forth.

Lyak looked down at the drum, trying to do as Emil said, and aiding in his musical combat abilities.

Emera went down with the magic hand, vanishing, shrinking to the size of a tick and jumping away.

 

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Shuffle folded her wings and dropped back to the ground. Remembering the mirrors this time, she quickly grabbed hers to bring out her reflection before the two of them split, dodging to either side of Urodor as he charged. Corona had continued moving, so she was out of they way already. Asta was back on his feet, charging at Urodor's back with a jumping strike aimed at the base of his tail.

Emil nodded as Erina did as Lyak did with the lute. He turned and began to play, the magic instruments guiding Lyak and Erina's hands to play along properly. The effects were clear to see boosting the strength of allies significantly. Joanne was excluded from the effect.

Niudisa huffed. "Insect." She held her arms out and the magic hands separated into needles, which she fired after the tick in a flurry.

 

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Urodor decided that the best way to deal with such large numbers was to spin and lash out with his tail, taking it out of Asta's reach as it swirled and slammed into the two Shuffles' chests, finishing up the spin by taking flight and flinging his tree back down at Asta.

The party benefited drastically from the effects of the tune, able to push back the reflections now. It seemed like the tide was turned in the party's favor until a third set of a glowing red eyes appeared in the chaos, Emera had charmed another while avoiding the needles. "Since when can she- oh shit!", Now Adran was running, as both Joanne and Jerry were after him, and Jerry's crystal was glowing bright purple.

 

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Shuffle and her reflection flew back from the hit, but they managed to roll back onto all fours. Asta looked up before diving to the side to avoid the tree. Corona adjusted her grip on her spear before hurling it up at Urodor.

As Jerry switched sides, she lost the benefit of Emil's song. Niudisa saw the advantage in using the mirror and called forth her own reflection. While she kept after Emera, her reflection went to assist Adran, throwing a magic fist at the Joanne over there.

 

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The spear sank deep into Urodor's shoulder, earning a roar of pain and the direct attention of the dragon as he pulled it out and snarled at her. He dropped out of the air into a three-point landing in front of Corona, still holding the spear like a toothpick. Urodor brought his leg straight up at where Corona's crotch would be were she human, following down with the shaft of the spear coming down towards Corona's head with enough force to snap a man in half.

Likewise Jerry brought her reflection to join the battle, and Jerry did not fight cleanly. Between Joanne's strength and skill and Jerry's fast and dirty method, Adran was getting handled, even with Niudisa's help.

The Joanne dealing with Nalla and Beri was pinned to a tree by Niudisa's magic fist, giving the two ample time to attack, and then shatter the mirror construct, the pieces wobbling to the nearest mirror and retreating back into that demiplane.

 

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Corona reared up on her back legs to lessen the blow from the kick before just holding up her hand to catch her spear. Even with the force behind it, the weapon refused to harm her. As she gripped it, the runes filled in before the spear let loose an explosion.

Over with Adran, Niudisa summoned a second fist to keep on swinging at Joanne and the Jerry’s. Fia dove in, cloaked in fire, with her talons aimed at mirror Jerry. Or she thought that was mirror Jerry.

The other Niudisa turned her attention back to finding Emera.

 

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The force of the explosion pushed Urodor back and splintered a tree as he had to use his wings to stabilize. He growled, this wasn't supposed to take this long, he'd fought larger parties! It was only because of Niudisa's blood spell that he had been defeated last time! Urodor needed his equipment to make this work. He roared a cloud of acid at Corona and then sniffed the air to see if he could smell his belongings, following the scent of dragon blood across the camp by air to avoid the fighters on the ground, the wind he kicked up making life difficult for those below, especially those with wings.

Joanne removed her attention from Adran as Niudisa's magical hand spells continued to attack her. If not for the red glow, her eyes might have been gleaming as the paladin turned her attention to the necromancer, sword glowing and thunderclap sounding as she slashed at the fairy with a branding smite.

The Jerry Fia went after wasn't expecting to be attacked from above, especially as she'd been doing the same to dominate Adran in this fight. Both went to the ground and rolled in fire and scales, Jerry trying to get her sword between Fia and herself, Fia trying to burn and claw her.

Adran, now down to just himself and a Jerry, was not having a good day at all. Jerry almost seemed to be toying with him, when she wasn't dodging fists.

Emera seemed to have vanished again, probably hiding as a tick somewhere, or on someone.

 

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The blast didn’t hurt Corona, but it did push her back a good bit. Seeing Urodor preparing another breath attack, she turned to run a different direction.

The scent of dragon blood would just lead to a patch of recently disturbed dirt.

Shuffle and her reflection braced themselves against the wind of Urodor’s wings before flying after him. Asta followed on the ground.

Fia wasn’t interested in grappling for a long time, so once she landed the initial hit, she focused on trying to get untangled and take fly again, still on fire during the whole thing.

Joanne’s attack on Niudisa was interrupted by another magic fist from the side. Having not found Emera, the other Niudisa came to cover herself.

 

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Urodor landed with a thud next to the pile of dirt, he growled at the attempt to hide his things and punched into the ground to grab the cache and pull it out like one would rip a weed up by the roots.

Jerry was all too keen to get her sword between herself and Fia, and didn't give much resistance to get off of the phoenix As the harpy separated and she got to her feet, she drew three of her throwing knives and flung them at Fia one at a time to try and take her out of the air.

Bringing her shield up to catch the fist, Joanne plunged her sword into the ground, where it started glowing, before the paladin's oath mana exploded in a radius around her. It burned against the corrupted and 'unclean' within a ten foot radius of the paladin.

 

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As Urodor brought up a fistful of dirt, a flash of red shot out of it. The kobold landed and immediately took off running through the trees. His stopping to search gave the Shuffle’s time to catch up. One burst into flames while the other went for an acid cloak as they both jumped onto Urodor’s back.

Fia saw the knives coming this time. She spun to avoid one before deflecting the other two with her talons. As soon as stabilized from the spin and flip, she hurled a fireball at Jerry.

The Niudisa’s flew back from the blast. They reeled from hit before flying up above the fight.

 

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Urodor growled, "Kobold." He almost laughed, "Where is your master, kobold?" He didn't get the chance to pursue Raine before fire and acid slammed into his back. Acid did nothing but polish his scales, it seemed. Fire was more effective, without his badge he couldn't gain resistance to elements from chromatic dragons aside from black dragon acid. Urodor whirled around, reaching to grab the reflection and throw her into the other jumping into the air to come down feet first on top of them with all his weight.

With the distance between them Jerry had no issue dodging the fireball. The Adran behind her, did not have that luxury, and went flying into the pools. The Jerry harassing him smiled, assuming him dead, before turning her attention on the irate Beri roaring in rage and charging, taking both Jerry's into the pool with the flaming leopard.

Joanne scowled as the fairies before cocking back her arm and then flinging her shield at the fairies like a dangerous frisbee.

 

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The Shuffle's managed to recover and roll away from Urodor's stomp. At that same moment, Asta caught up. He ran in without fear, dropping down and sliding in as Urodor dropped his weight down, position himself and his sword between the dragon's legs with blade pointed up.

Fia flew after Beri and the Adran's to continue providing support where she could.

The fairies split on either side of the shield, one of them opening up a blood vial for them both to draw from. With their combined magic, they caught the shield in a vortex between between them before firing it back at the paladin.

 

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If looks could kill half of the universe would have just died as Urodor realized what awaited him on the ground. Fortunately for Urodor, the same jump that was high enough Shuffle could get out of the splash zone was also high enough for a split second reaction. Unfortunately for Urodor, gravity didn't much like massive creatures, and he was only partially successful as he put his hand between his legs to deflect the sword from his groin. It almost worked, but instead of impaling the dragon's loins it pierced through his hand. Urodor roared in pain at Asta and sucked in a breath to unleash a cloud of acid on the man between the dragon's legs.

In the pool the Jerrys, Adran, and Beri were a dangerous whirl of magic. But Jerry had a Necklace of Adaptation, which the other two did not, and underwater fire didn't do much, so the Jerrys decided to drown Adran and Beri by holding them underwater. Adran managed to get free by taking a leaf from Jerry's book and stabbing her in the thigh, twisting the blade so the wound wouldn't close, and shooting for the surface. Beri wasn't that lucky.

Joanne, seeing her shield coming back at her and spinning from the vortex, put up her hands to catch it. Sparks flew as the shield spun and then slowed and stopped in Joanne's hand, the rim of the shield and the mail of her gauntlets glowing red from the friction.

 

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Asta couldn't much dodge from where he was, not without abandoning Poli. Poli tried making a shield from the end of the sword, covering Asta from the acid while also locking into the dragon's hand. Shuffle and her reflection didn't just sit by though, throwing a fireball and a blast of ice at Urodor's face.

Fia couldn't do much except stay ready to grab someone if they got close to the surface.

While Joanne was busy catching her shield, the fairies worked together to quickly draw a rune for dispelling magic in blood midair. Adding a blood circle in front of the rune, they turned the rune effect into a beam, firing it down at Joanne in hopes of breaking her free of Emera's control. If nothing else, temporarily disabling her enchantments would make her easier to deal with.

 

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Poli succeeded at protecting Asta from the acid, at the cost of a significant amount of their own mass that qas liquified and ran down the shield. The fireball and ice met in Urodor's mouth, mixing with the acid and creating a flash of hot steam that burned the inside of Asta's mouth and momentarily blinded him, leaving him roaring but still attached to Poli until he pulled his hand off of the stump of what used to be a greatsword with an umbrella shield on the end. Asta's acid was much stronger than the hydra's gastric juices.

Beri succumbed to being drowned, exploding underwater and sending both Jerrys flying out of it while the unconscious cub floated to the surface, slowly growing under the influence of the life water. Both Jerrys hit something hard and slumped to the ground unconscious.

Niudisa's Dispel Magic spell worked, Joanne's head shone, then a sound of shattering glass sounded and the paladin just... fell over, face first on the ground.

 

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Poli couldn't hold form under the pain of the acid and pulled out from the wound, dropping to the ground and trying to wipe the acid off in the dirt. Asta was disarmed now, but as he got up he gestured for the Shuffle's to come on and held his hands low. They nodded and one of them ran first, activating her ice cloak to form large chunks of solid ice along her salamander marks. She jumped as she got to Asta, planting a foot on his hand as he turned and threw her with all his strength at Urodor's head. Shuffle curled midair, turning herself into a spinning ice ball. The second Shuffle did exactly the same, but Asta threw her more towards the dragon's stomach.

Fia looked over as the Jerry's came out before dropping down to check on them.

Niudisa and her reflection watched as Joanne collapsed before they high fived and went to see how the rest of the fight was going.

 

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Normally Shuffle was not capable of the force to do damage to Urodor with just her body, but the forces involved with a projectile were different from the forced involved in a zerg charge. The dragon's head snapped back as one shuffle connected, and then doubled over as the second. Urodor roared, if he could get to that damn kobold that had his stuff this would be over!

Both Jerrys were unconscious, unresponsive, and on opposite sides of the pool. The reflection shattered after a moment, hopping into Fia's mirror to rejoin the mirror's demiplane.

The rest of the fight was largely over, only Urodor grappling with Asta, Shuffles, and Poli remained, Nalla was tending to Adran, and Beri was still floating in the pool. Another explosion announced he'd managed to drown again.

 

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Corona rejoined the attack on Urodor, charging by to slash at his side as she passed before swerving away to avoid a counter. The Shuffle that had Urodor's head jumped off and took flight, while the other one quickly evacuated to avoid getting caught, running to stand alongside Asta.

Fia watched the mirror Jerry vanished before turning to check on real real Jerry, but she saw that Raine was already at her side, having ended up over there after running from Urodor. Fia instead took flight to go fish Beri out of the water.

 

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Furious, Urodor thrashed around with his tail, clawing and wiping at his face to restore vision. Eventually he decided to just get airborne when he could see again, shooting to the familiar red blur near Jerry. As Jerry as by a wall, Raine's only escape was through Urodor or straight up, which was even harder to pull off when he was blocking off the escape of the red kobold with his wings and tail. "Kobold," he snarled as he reached for the scarf and quiver.

Emera, watching this unfold from her hiding place in Joanne's hair, frowned as much as a tick could. This wouldn't do. This hadn't gone how she wanted, so she needed to find a way out and made her silent escape.

 

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Raine turned and stepped back as Urodor landed, shaking as she looked at him. As he started to reach, she panicked and smacked the badge.

Asta, Corona, and the Shuffle’s chased after Urodor. They seemed to have it somewhat controlled for now, so the Niudisa’s focused their magic sense try and track down Emera.

 

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Urodor was irritated with Raine before when she'd run off with his stuff. Seeing her use his badge to access the draconic power in the blood of, in his eyes, an inferior creature. Urodor growled, reaching again to rip the scarf off of Raine, "You have what is mine-"

At exactly that second, Jerry's eyes flew open, yellow with slit pupils instead of the red for Emera's control. Jeri was in the pilot's seat, and she was not happy with the dragon in front of her claiming that something near her wasn't hers. Dragons were weird like that. Jerry's clawed hand reached out in front of Raine to snatch her back from Urodor. "Mine!", the dragon shard snarled, locking her claws in what she thought Urodor was after, the scarf and badge, pulling it off of Raine and throwing it around her own neck, hitting the badge in the process.

When Asta, Corona, and the Shuffles arrived, there were two draconic hulks there, one dark purple with two wings, and one bright blue with four and all of Jerry's 'clothing' and accessories stretched so tight against the scales they'd be fused into it if they were capable of that, the crystal in her necklace glowing brightly, both dwarfing Raine the same way Joanne dwarfed Niudisa.

Emera on the other hand was scooting out in the direction of the feywilds pocket.

 

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Raine was sent spinning back down to her usual size as the scarf was taken from. That much back and forth changing wasn’t fun, and she felt very much in danger here, so she quickly dug herself back into the ground, hoping Jeri would be enough of a distraction that Urodor wouldn’t immediately dig her back up.

Asta and the others stopped as they saw the scene before them. “Jerry?”

The Shuffle’s both tilted their heads. “Woah...” Seeing Urodor wasn’t any different from any other big enemy. But seeing two large, similarly draconic fighters facing off like that was somehow a much more impressive sight.

The Niudisa’s both looked over as they sensed Emera’s magic. They formed an invisible wall in her path as they flew over.

 

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Jeri's head snapped in Asta's direction as she heard him say her name, then back at Urodor as the dragon growled at her. "Thief," Urodor growled. Jeri responded to that insult by punching Urodor in the mug. Claws and tails started flying and the two dragons started rolling, which seemed extremely dangerous for the other party members to be within the combat area as two giant entities brawled. Where was the combat area? Everywhere, there wasn't a safe place except underground, where Raine had gone.

Emera muttered to herself a she hopped right into a wall of force and bounced off. "Gods-dammit."