Birthday Beatings [OPEN]

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?!"

Upon hearing Aoife's voice, the Panda ignored Connla and sat down, staring at her before clapping to send a gust of air along the ground in hopes of it lifting Aoife's skirt.

Having the skirt lifted, she would blush heavily as her children show pants are revealed. Crying out, she would go to sit on the ground, the other two laughing at her misfortune as they meet up, eyeing the panda as Connla says, "You can come out now. You won it seems, though dad may kill you still, as well as Missy over here."

The Panda put its palms together and, as suddenly as it appeared, it returned to Aphelion's body as it dropped onto the snow, although with a smile, as if he saw something which made him happy.

Trio just watching them, the standing pair would be discussing privately to themselves while Aoife pouts, not moving from her sitting position despite the snow on the ground, staring at him slightly.

Due to using Ascension, Aohelion lay on the snow, knocked out completely. He shivered rather slightly as a response to laying bare chested in cold snow but other than that he didn't move.

Slowly getting up, Aoife would walk up to him, poking him slightly despite her clothing being somewhat wet from the heat she emitted melting the snow, "H-Hey. Time to get up. You won, and everything, so you get all your bets repaid."

Aphelion started to slowly register her voice, but still couldn't move or show anything for it.

Simply looking down at him, she would frown and say rather loudly, "Fine then. If you don't reply in the next twenty seconds, you automatically lose and have to hold up your side of the bets." With that, a countdown would begin.

He could hear her clearer now, but didn't understand her, still unable to think properly due to not being awake and not moving.

Not a single amount of remorse being felt, she would just continue, "Fifteen... Fourteeen... Thirteen..."

Aphelion's state remained unchanged. Equinox, meanwhile, trotted up to him and gave off a whinny, lowering his head to lick Aphelion's still hand.

Finishing, "Aaand Zero." She would look down at his unchanged state. Frowning, she would kneel next to him and poke his cheek, "You here? Wake up, dummy!" Seemingly not knowing about the pair or ignoring them, Connana decide to spar, practising their hand to hand combat against each other in the backround.

Equinox continued to nudge Aphelion's hand, but there was no response to either him or Aoife. Aphelion was too exhausted from creating the Panda to even understand what was happening.

Sitting on his chest, she would scowl heavily, poking him again but harder, repeating the same thing though getting more annoyed him with every repeat, "Wake up!"

The strength slowly returned to him, but it wasn't nearly enough to register anything that was happening. Equinox lay down beside Aphelion and looked at his master.

Seemingly thinking he had something wrong with his airways or something similar, she would start performing CPR on him, ignoring the fighters in the background still.

The CPR did nothing as Aphelion was still regaining consciousness at his own pace.

Looking down at him, she would sniffle, shaking him slightly as she starts crying, the tears falling onto his face.

On the verge of getting his senses back, Aphelion still didn't wake up. Feeling Aoife cry, Equinox put his head on Aphelion's chest.

Aura melting the nearby snow, she would keep crying though would be hiding it from the others, though they didn't seem too concerned, Connla picking up the other one and swinging them around to send the flying away, just to be floored the second afterwards.

Finally regaining control, he slowly opened his eyes, recognising the face, "...Kitty?" he raised his hand feebly to touch her face.

Blinking slightly, she would then glare at him, still crying somewhat, "What do you think you are doing? Stop being lazy and lying down after a fight. Idiot."

"Ugh... Sorry, it's always like this after I Ascend..." he said, finding Equinox with his other hand and brushing through his mane, "I'm really sorry if I worried you." he tried pulling himself up to hug her but failed, dropping back down, "And I'm still fairly weak after it, it seems."

"Idiot, I wouldn't get your hopes up. This is just some melted snow coming out of my hair and trailing past my eyes, as if I would worry about you." Despite that, she would pull him up into a hug, squeezing him against her.

"Alright. Well then, I hope you're hungry. Birthday cake time!" he said, moving out of the hug and crawling around Equinox, stroking the horse's coat as he took out the two cakes from Equinox's saddle bags, following with paper plates and plastic spoons.