Duel:Kang v Pinky, Round One Agitation Monster Duel

Part of the Agitation Arc

Duelists: Kang vs. Pinky, the escape artist pig (played by Lanara). 
Duel: Traditional 3 attacks and defenses each. 15 minute posting limit. 
Stakes: Advancement into Round Two of the Agitation Monster Tournament. 
Judges: Hildegarde & Pilar  

Xalious Town Wall

Pinky was running laps around the well, trying to keep her hog figure in prime shape, as though she intended on entering some sort of pig race. The pig was pink, though her colors were mottled heavily with black ooze, as she was a victim of the cursed dark liquid that had infected many of the animals in Xalious. Squealing in glee as she picks up speed, her brown eyes suddenly turn a shade of crimson, and she abruptly stops scampering around the area. Someone else was here, and that someone would have to die. Raising her noise in the air, she inhales deeply and shifts her chubby head to and fro, until she finally sets her gaze on Kang. The preklek was regarded, at first, with indifference, though seeing as he wasn’t covered in the black ooze, Pinky stomps her hooves angrily against the ground. Who did this outsider think he was? Wandering around Xalious like he owned the place? Didn’t he know there was dark magic afoot, and that he was in the wrong place, at the wrong time? Lowering her front legs to the ground, she lifts her rear in the air, in an almost playful stance, before unleashing the loudest of squeals. The squeal was so alarming that it would cause the water in the well to violently move, as though it was ocean waves, not mere well water. The war cry squeal also would penetrate each ear, for miles, and drive some of the victims to mere insanity, as their ears would begin to bleed. Pinky’s main target was Kang, though, the intruder. Not waiting to see the male’s response, the escape artist, illusionist, pig, seems to evaporate into thin air. Moments would pass, before the pig appears again, though this time, the death knight would spy not one of Pinky, but three, though only one was the actual pig. The other two were mere illusions, and he would have to figure out which one to attack, and which ones to avoid.

Kang had been stalking various beasts throughout Xalious, and is unsurprised to find one more. Being a preklek, he is unaware of the whys and hows of magic. He locks his gaze on the Houdini pig and takes its measure, as he's sure it is doing to him. A solitary spark orbits Kang's head, behaving for the time being. At the preklek's side hangs a rapier, but it shows few signs of being used. On the other hand, the staff in the Krekai Dedicate's grasp ripples with energy. It knows it will be used as it has many times before. Seeing the pig near the only safe water source for the town, he darts in to shout down the hole, fearing the worst. "Timmy, are you down there! Don't drown. I need to take care of a baddie before I draw you back up." The preklek is unphased at not seeing the boy's collie nearby. Certainly, the mutated pig had eaten the poor dog. Kang pushes back his hood and with a harsh battle cry, he whips the staff at the middle charging beast. "In the name of George Lucas, I shall avenge thee, Lassie!!!" As he charges, he hums a tune he'd learnt in a galaxy far, far away. The spark slams into the staff as both shifts into a form foreign to Lithrydel. A glowing red plasma blade erupts from the now-black hilt. The Krekai death knight slashes down at his target and does a side-flip over the carcass he expects to leave behind. He lands perfectly centered, having situated his fall to land away from the two remaining pigs.

The trio of pigs stands before Kang, waiting eagerly to see the male’s advance, as their coiled tails wag excitedly with the aspect of battle upon them. As the male seems to be unphased from the eerily loud squeal, which has caused several squirrels to fall from trees, and nearby mages ears to bleed heavily, the pig to the left oinks in dismay. Did her attack really go unnoticed?! As the preklek charges, the pigs ready themselves, as the pig on the left and the pig on the right dart in the opposite direction. The apparition in the middle dissolves as the Krekai slashes his crimson glowing blade through the belly of the swine, and the real Pinky snorts in amusement. However, as the faux pig dissolves, so does the second pig illusion, so the hog is left to fight on her own. A drop of blood was on the mouth of the true Pinky, as the collie was a delicious meal, indeed. Tis why she was running off the calories of the dog, so that she could remain in true fighting form! A mixture of amusement that he sliced the wrong bacon, dismay that he avoided her ear piercing squeal without taking an iota of damage, and anger, cross her ooze splashed face. This had to end, and now. Toying with the preklek was fun and all, but Pinky had a nice day of eating the pets of innocent children, and this guy was spoiling her plans. Stomping her front right hoof against the dirt, she half-growls, and bows her head, as though gathering up energy. Within a split second, she scampers across the ground and closes the distance between Kang and herself, though she narrowly avoids colliding with the male. She hadn’t meant to collide, no, but likely her mock attack would cause him to chase after her, as she scampers in diagonal twists around the area, leaping over logs, and dodging trees. Every so often she would run through his lower limbs, hoping to trip the male, so that perhaps, his own blade would pierce his flesh, or he would injure himself with a deathly fall.

Kang eyes the disappearing pig with uncertainty, expecting it to be a trick of some sort. The mages falling from the piercing swine-cry amuse him. His own ears had grown used to the various frequencies that would damage normal ears. The preklek tries to stay between the well and the pig, keeping poor Timmy safe. At the sudden charge he shouts, quite authoritatively, I might add, "You shall not pass!!!” Unfortunately, the pig does just that, dodging at the last moment. When she approaches again, and darts through his legs, he mumbles something rude in Chthonic. It's not a command phrase to his weapon, so it doesn't react. On one of the following approaches, Kang leaps high into the air, heavy armor and all. He tosses his light saber spinning straight up into the air and sheds the entirety of his armor. Within a fraction of a second, he's completely nude. He lands a couple yards to the left of where he expects the pig to be and catches his glowing weapon. He takes a breath and focuses, shutting off his parasympathetics. He flashes around the pig again and again, increasing in speed until, BOOM! A simple explanation for his seeming immunity to sound attacks. When one moves faster than sound, there is little to fear. He does this again and again, adding a strike here and there: a combination of percussive air blasts and fire strikes.

Pinky oinks and darts at the last second, though the naked preklek’s speed does manage to match hers, and at the last possible second, she leaps into the air and is struck on her rear by a blast of fire. Luckily, as she’s in mid-air, she manages to shift to the right and falls into the well, which extinguishes her flames. Squealing in pain, she fights helplessly in the water, as pigs weren’t the best of swimmers, and as quickly as her chubby legs can, she hurriedly hops out of the water and lands on the ground, looking worse for wear. Kang would likely think she was dead, as the ooze was mostly washed from her pink flesh, and her rear and back leg were covered with a crimson burn mark. Lying still, she whines in pain and writhes on the ground, sliding some mud around on her rear to ease the burn, though her crimson hues never stray from the nude male. Let him think her dying, she thinks, as she painfully turns to her opposite side and hobbles to her three good legs, while her limps drags her burned leg behind her chubby form. The preklek would pay for this, and dearly. With all of her remaining strength, she readies herself for a final attack, and appears to walk off, away from the area, knowing he would think that she was surrendering. But surrender? Pinky? NEVER! At the last second, the pig turns the corner and half-limps and half-trots over to the preklek with a large chunk of barbed wire in her mouth. Even with a bum leg, she was quite fast on her hooves, and if Kang thought she was going to go without a fight, he was sadly mistaken. As Pinky nears Kang, she begins to run in circles, and where there was once one pig, there are now five. The best Houdini illusionist in the area, the pigs all charge at Kang, with barbed wire pieces held firmly in their mouths, vying for revenge and bloodshed, though only one was the true Pinky.

Kang kneels when he sees the little oinker leap out of the well and retreat. He relaxes his focus, allowing the blowback from straining his body to hit him. The ooze had been washed away, and the tiger can repurify the well before the mages notice the contamination. He brushes the hilt in a certain way, telling it to return to staff-form. Instead it ripples and becomes a large metal cylinder and the spark exits in the form of an arrow that points behind Kang at the hitherto unnoticed charging pig. It immediately darts back in and hums at a rapidly accelerating pitch. Without missing a beat he turns around, and mounts the device on his shoulder. He locks eyes with the porcine foe once more and utters the release command, "Hasta la vista, Baby." Another loud boom fills the area and the device fires a giant fireball at the pig. If one listened carefully, they might hear it purring. Then again, if they'd been listening carefully, they'd have been deafened by the noise both combatants had been making.

Pinky wins.

Pinky and the quartet of pigs stalk nearer to Kang, eyeing the fireball that nears them, without a care in the world. Let him try to burn them into slices of bacon, for four of them weren’t even real. As the fireball comes within a few yards of hitting them, the four illusions stand before the true Pinky, and take the hit. As soon as the flames hit the pigs, they dissolve, at they did earlier. Though it was all the distraction she would need, as Pinky narrowly avoids the flames, and prances towards Kang, her pace picking up at the last second as she shakes her head visciously and wraps the large chunk of barbed wire around the preklek’s legs. As the wire and mesh tears through his bare legs it begins to violently shred his skin, and if he didn’t get to a healer soon, it wouldn’t end well for the male. The pig doesn’t bother to see if her attack had hit bone, nor does she wait around to see if the man would bleed to death, due to her attack. Instead, she snorts at the preklek, raises her head high, and runs off, likely aiming to harm another child, or their beloved pet.