Of Beasts and Knights

"Parlour tricks cheri? How adorable..." *she throws the feathers with a flick of the wrist, drawing more with her left hand*

“....”
*He takes a few more steps back*

the feathers strike into rosa... and appear to to jack shit, incinerating on impact. With no change in her expression, she starts to walk towards Zyleena

*she crouches, cat like, her right hand flat to the earth, claws digging into the soil, left arm held out horizontally, another three feathers at the ready.*

*vorstan stays where he is, the tip of his blade bitten into the soil.*

*He is now behind a tree, watching them fight*

Rosa stops, suddenly shoving the sword, point first, into the ground infront of her. A crack seems to open up in the ground, glowing with heat, heading right for zyleena. once it is beneath her, a gout of flame erupts from the crack directly upwards. When zyleena inevitably jumps out of the way, Rosa is ready for her, with speed zyleena did not expect, swinging for her while she's still in mid air so she cannot dodge

*when zyleena jumps, she takes the clod of earth she dug her claws into with her, hurling it into rosa's face, twisting through the air, she draws one of the crescent blades from her waist, and brings it to block the oncoming blade. The blades meet at the moment the earth hits rosa, just above the left eye*

just from the force of the blow, zyleena goes flying into a tree somewhere behind her, with enough force to fell the damn thing

*The length of her flight gives her some time to adjust herself, so when she impacts, she does so feet first. Once the tree sways, and she drops to the floor, on a knee and a hand, looking at rosa* "Cheri... That hurt... Deliciously... May i have another?"

"Leave. Now. If you want to keep breathing that is."

"Cheri if you want to choke me..." *she straightens up* "All you have to do is ask."

"I will fucking end you if you don't walk away now."

"Talk dirty to me ma coeur." *she draws her second crescent sword, and begins to advance*

*Evann is quite enjoying this, the combat combined with Zyleena being Zyleena makes for a rather entertaining show*

Rosa, surprisingly, stands there. Sword in the ready position, but does nothing

*Zyleena pulls a single feather from her hair, and twirls it around her fingers, then throws it, straight as an arrow at rosa's right shoulder, this time, however, the feather does not disintegrate on impact, it appears larger, and darker in colour, and sinks into the molten, blazing armour, and appears to have no intention of moving. Zyleena continues to walk forwards.*

Rosa, unflinchingly, reaches up and tears it from her shoulder, letting it fall to the floor as flame erupts from the 'wound'

"Cheri, how droll, you already pulled out." *A trio of feathers, plucked from the air appear in her hand, and she throws them once more at rosa, one in the stomach, one to the right foot, and one to the head*

this time however, before they impact, a wall of fire erupts from the floor infront of rosa, the feathers striking it as if it were physical, clattering to the floor before the fire recedes

"Cheri... Rude."

she doesn't reply

*Zyleena begins to walk forwards, closing the gap. Thirty feet, twenty, ten... She bolts to the left, digs her talons into the soil and changes direction on a dime, going right instead, and raking her trailing blade across rosa's chest*

to her surprise, the blade seems to cut deep into rosa's chest...but rosa herself does not seem phased. The other thing she notices is, as she gets juuust that little bit too close, Rosa's hand suddenly grab her by the wrist that is holding her blade, her grip vice like and unescapable

*Zyleena swings her body lithely the moment she is caught, flicking her legs up, wrapping one taloned foot around her neck, and hooking the other around the first, adding its strength. With her free hand, she buries her claws into the meat of rosa's forearm, with the intent to tear out the tendons, fire-made or no. In this position, their bodies firmly anchored together, she violently bends her legs and rolls her entire body to the left, dragging rosa with her to the ground.*

Rosa, seemingly not reacting to this assault, begins to tighten her grip... tighter and tighter... to the point cracks start to appear in zyleena's vambrace. Meanwhile, her hand that stabbed into rosa is, almost instantly, engulfed in ludicrously hot gouts of flame

*Zyleena, now on top of rosa, and practically standing on her neck, she leverages the pressure, digging her talons deeper into rosa's neck, then tearing them out. Half the flesh of her neck is ripped free with the razor edged claws, leaving a ragged wound.*

once again, a gout of flame erupts from the wound. And it's about that point that rosa's sword comes crashing round in a fiery arc, right into one of zyleena's legs

"AH!" *Zyleena gasps, in... not entirely a pain induced fashion, as bright crimson blood begins to flow freely down her raised thigh.* "OHhHHHHhhhhh......" *The claws of her right hand, dug completely into the wrist of rosa's arm, scythe through the flesh? as she tears them out, in the same movement, she twists her caught arm away, taking the remains of rosa's hand with it. She kicks hard with her remaining leg, pushing herself high into the air, before executing a backwards handspring, and landing, on one leg, with some poise, rosa's hand still wrapped around her wrist, like a bracelet*

the hand turns to ash moments later, as rosa gets to her feet, flame erupting from her stump, forming into a new hand.

*The stump of zyleena's leg continues to drip blood.* "Well.... this has been...." *she breathes heavily, and fans her face with her hand*

Taking her flaming sword in both hands, Rosa starts advancing on the chaos warrior, showing no sign of fatigue

*Vorstan steps aside from the gate as Heigen approaches, and gives a small nod.*
Heigen: "I smelt blood."
Vorstan: "Rosa is trying to kill the slaaneshi."
Heigen: "The girl?" *looks over* "Fuck. Alright then. You gonna stop em before zyleena dies? Bitch is missing a leg already."
Vorstan: "I am content to watch."

Zyleena: "Round two already cheri? Oh my you're persistent!" *The blood flowing from her leg has congealed, and stopped flowing freely. she crouches on her remaining leg.*

Rosa stops abruptly, swinging her blade in zyleena's direction. Clearly not close enough to come close to hitting...but it does send a wave of fire shooting in the slaaneshi's direction

*Zyleena leaps from her crouched leg, flips, and lands crouched once more, in the same position. The exact same spot. Almost like she's taunting her.*

Rosa:... You're getting boring.

"You're the one who refuses to bleed."

"I'm just getting started." she gestures to vorstan, as if to say 'chuck me that scythe'

*vorstan does so.*

Heigen: "What's the..."

Vorstan: "Just watch."

as she grabs it, the fire extinguishes itself, and the molten armour seems to turn to ash, leaving her back as she was, momentarily steaming from the heat as her skin is red raw, as if scalded. Then, the scythe transforms again, and rosa with it, a black, hooded robe seemingly conjured into existence over her, her skin turning bone white as it does so.

Zyleena: "dance with me, cheri." *she jumps forwards, then handsprings, this proving to be her favorite method of locomotion with one leg, slicing at rosa with her talons.*

to her surprise, she encounters no resistance with her slicing... as if she just cut through air. Rosa seems unphased as she stands there, scythe in hand.

*she flips back.* "Change weapon again. This is even less fun."

"No" her voice has gone icy cold, to the point zyleena shivers just upon hearing it, as she takes the scythe in both hands

*Heigen steps in front of rosa, facing zyleena.* "Swallow your pride slanneshi."

*Zyleena hisses, but, eyes flicking to the axe heigen is holding at the ready, complies, and turns to leave, bending down to jump, starting the chain of acrobatics she'll use to move until her leg decides to regrow.*

Rosa just stands there, watching her leave

*Evann is just leaning against the tree, trying to process the fight and what has happened to Rosa*

Heigen: "Not bad." *he turns around to face rosa*

the robe seems to evaporate and the scythe goes back to normal, rosa herself looking pale and nearly shivering with cold now

Heigen: "Do the sword one again" *he chuckles to himself*

"....why?"

Heigen: "You're cold. Its fire." *he turns his head and leans forwards like she's dumb*