Birthday Beatings [OPEN]

Letting go and knocking it to the side as the strike backfires, she decides to lead with a punch towards the gut, at least allowing him the chance to block it instead of wiping him out in a barrage of attacks. Connla in the meanwhile would've let go of his leg in the previous attack, withdrawing and picking back up the drill, revving as the only sign of him picking it up. Wiping away the blood on his face, he would switch back to ranged combat and send a strike at Aphelion, though it would have not nearly as many projectiles due to the lower amount of dust used.

Having stopped the attack, Aphelion paid more attention to Lilliana now. When she went to punch him, he waited until the punch connected, gritting his teeth, before grabbing her wrist and pulling her between himself and Connla just as his attack happened, using his other hand to hold her other wrist.

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Crying out in pain as it hits her, she turns it into a form of strength, going to head-butt and kick him in the nether regions at the same time, she wouldn't even glare at him, staying remarkably calm as she does so, Connla moving forwards, this barrage being prepared to be the largest yet, composing of all the remaining dust.

Aphelion took both punches, answering the headbutt with his own headbutt but answering the below-the-belt shot with a simple "Weak." despite his eyes getting watery.

Still holding her, he used the kick to swipe at her other foot, hoping to make her fall to the ground, aiming to hold her arms up by digging his shuko into her wrists and putting one of his feet on her shoulder to pull her arms back slightly beyond the boundary they should reach to.

Crying out as her wrists get bitten into, she would lose her footing and go to the ground, arms being tugged... But leaving him open to the full force of the angered Connla, both the significantly faster barrage and the chain aimed to chain itself around Aphelion's throat coming the Drill already twisting and now emitting a red circle around the drill piece itself.

Seeing angered Connla, Aphelion's now heightened reflexes allowed him to react in time, falling backwards and being grazed by one of the projectile, his hair getting a slight trim from the chain as he aimed his other foot into Lilliana's butt, hoping to fall onto his back while simultaneously kicking her up at Connla.

Getting up in an instant, she would counter his kick with her own, bouncing off the leg and sending the other towards his chest. Connla putting away the drill to fight in close quarters as well, chain coming back and once more augmenting his left arm's punches, sending one towards Aphelions chest.

Surprised by the turnout, Aphelion just barely managed to roll out of Connla's punch by taking Lilliana's kick, loudly saying, "Hope I wasn't too rough..."

Noticing the opportunity, he bounced himself towards Lilliana's weapon and picked it up, empowering his hand to javelin it deep into the forest. Immediately after that, he got back up and made some distance between himself and his enemies, starting to feel some exhaustion.

Both chasing after him, Connla would send the Saint straight at his back, aiming to embed the spearhead in him as Lilliana matches pace with Aphelion, barely out of reach to strike him, "So, what religion would you be then? Or are you an Athiest?"

"Six Divines of the Wootini. And sorry about your clothes." he said, genuinely apologetic, turning right suddenly and heading for a nearby tree hoping to lose Lilliana just as the spearhead passed where he was, nicking him in the left elbow. He hissed but otherwise said nothing.

"By the way, if you leave the clearing you automatically lose." With that Lilliana would smirk, stopping and getting into a fighting position, Connla running up to them as fast as he possibly can and following suit.

Aphelion used the momentum of his dash to run up the tree before bouncing himself onto a branch, "Sorry for twisting your arms too, but getting hit in the babybags can annoy a guy." he added, watching her and glancing at Connla, "He ain't too fast in that suit of armor." he says, relaxing slightly and letting his legs have a break but not letting his guard down.

"No I'm not, that's why I make up by doing this.." With that he would let out a small burst of red dust, making a sweeping motion towards the tree as he sends a firewall at it, not allowing him time to rest. Running alongside the flames, she would run to the tree and do the same as Aphelion, aiming to kick him down to the earth.

Aphelion ignored the firewall and braced his feet again. When Lilliana appeared to kick him, he swung himself on the branch, hoping that her kick would throw her off balance and cause her to fall. At the dismount, Aphelion flew right through the firewall, boosting himself with Aura, his leather shuko and clothing now burning as he rocketed towards Connla with a fiery punch to the face and considerable velocity.

Instead hooking their foot on the branch, she would use it to kick off after the fleeing Aphelion, aiming to hit him as he hits Connla with a punch to the back. Connla on the otherhand would instead shirk to the side and move to intercept his punch with one of his own, steel and momentum being his counter to the velocity and fire.

Aphelion felt his fingers almost shatter against the steel. With a cry of pain, he didn't have time to block Lilliana's punch as he dropped face first into the snow, his speedboost Aura fading as he felt his limbs not responding any more.

Bare foot moving to the back of his head, Lilliana would simply go in her friendly, androgynous voice, " Care to surrender now? I am sure we wouldn't want Aoife worrying about anything broken, would we?" Connla in the meanwhile, would shake out his hand, muttering to himself as he levels the drill on Aphelion's chest, "Think you nearly broke my fingers then, good punch."

"I do have... One or two... More blessings..." he muttered before closing his eyes and dropping lifelessly to the ground.

Almost immediately, his glow of Aura erupted once again, knocking both Connla and Lilliana backwards. Where Aphelion once lay now stood a 6 metre tall glowing panda, Aphelion's body floating carelessly within it. It looked at both Lilliana and Connla, then started stomping towards the Knight.

"Oh. Not bad, not used to fighting people who can do this sort of thing."  With that he would nod to Lilliana, dismissing her as she runs off to retrieve her Halberd, "Just one on one for now, let us see if you are worthy enough to enter the house of Knights!" With that he would prepare his drill and chains, his stance changing and adapting to the larger threat.

The Panda dug its hands into the snow and picked up a large pile of it, crushing it into a giant snowball and tossing it at Connla before continuing its advance.

Firing a counter attack with the red dust, he would melt it as it approaches. Now deciding to charge the Panda as a response, Connla twists the handle of the drill in his hands to trail it behind him, charging up an attack as his other hand grips the handle of Saints , preparing to use it and its chainly goodness to combat the threat.   Aoife in the meanwhile would stay by the side of it all, having put on some more music to entertain herself as she watches the fight.

Still approaching the Panda briefly looked at a nearby tree before turning back to Connla, not showing any signs of attacking him, evidently wanting to trample him, albeit slowly.

Waiting until he is within 10 metres, he would strike. Chain going to latch on around the arm, he would recall it and land on Panda's arm, running up it as his drill starts forming a ball of fire by the drill tip, he would have the Chains ready for another jump.

The Panda saw the chain but couldn't dodge it. When Connla started to run up its arm, it swung its other arm straight along the one he was running on, trying to swat him off.

Jumping to the side, he would simultaneously wrap Saints around the furthest leg of the Panda and shoot the charged up arc attack at the head of the beast, instead of the ice before it now being fire though it being little more than a distraction to cover his movements of using the momentum to swing around at towards where the body of Aphelion would be.

When the attack hit the Panda, it staggered and toppled dangerously to the side before regaining balance. It started looking around for Connla, swinging its arms around its back and lower-back area, recognising that if it didn't see him he might be behind it. It also started turning.

As Connla keeps firm hold of the Panda, he would start drilling into it, starting his cunning plan for winning the battle....  Only for the sound of multiple shots being fired and hitting the Panda in the head to happen. Aoife saying in an somewhat saddened voice, "And thus, Knight and Farrell are disqualified for cheating. You were the ones to make the rules, how did you manage to break them?!"