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Ridley had no doubt the creature wrapping it’s limbs through the city’s core had been damaged by the cursed laser that blasted through its body. A pulsating red sore showed on some of the exposed flesh that had been revealed underneath the island proper. The trail of dozens on dozens of meters of scarred flesh was still burning under the temperature, charred and singed.
The problem Ridley noticed, with a grimace, was that there was so much more of the beast to maim! Darkseid had summoned a giant that dwarfed even the monster that had begun rampaging towards the beginning of the battle through darkseid’s forces.
Ridley and Lilith were quickly overcome with attacks on all sides, Tentacles that the two slashed, melted and sliced through. Ridley’s every limb was in motion as he hovered through the air, becoming a buzz-saw of talons, teeth, and tail as he slashed through the nearest tentacle and drained it to ribbons. Behind him, Lilith struck out with a mad glee as she found herself nearly wrapped in the embrace of onef tentacle, before her skin turned to vicious acid, and the limb recoiled a second too late before she hugged on, the Skin peeling away layer by layer as she held it in a deathgrip.
Ridley was certain they could hack away at the beast, but it was causing damage across the island with it’s rampage, and if the Island sank and took Mustang with it, he wasn’t getting paid.
“Doctor, what’s the structural stability of the island?” Ridley growled through the comms system.
“...Uh. Bad. Actually, it’s quite interesting, did you know this island should really have started sinking a lot deeper by now? It’s holding despite the fact a significant chunk of the earth should be powderizing and buckling by now. I’m noticing some energy readings from inside the temple that seem to be going out through the earth and-”
“doctor.” Ridley snapped, his tone turning an inch harsher. “...Valuable information for your report afterwards. How much time has this beast lost us?”
Olivia’s voice was silent. “...I don’t know if it’s going to last ten more minutes if it keeps getting pincushioned like this.”
“Then it’s time to put your invention to the test.” Ridley growled, touching at what seemed to be a scale near the center of his chest. the simple poke caused the scale to extend, showing it’s metallic look as a thin band of metal swiped out and across his chest, creating a violet “X” of purple across the Reptile’s torso, as a soft ‘whirrr’ echoed from him.
“Ooh, what’s that, Lord Ridley? I kinda saw you as a going commando guy, but honestly, that looks a little…”
Ridley gave her a stare that made it clear silence was required, which caused the Acidic conqueror’s rambling to stop in place… after a short wolf whistle and a pair of finger guns, at least.
“I’m heading underwater. Keep it in agony from above. I’ll disembowel it from below.” Ridley growls, taking a breath.
Lilith looked back to the lizard with shock, as darkness seemed to pool at it’s jaws. “Ho ho, no way…” the woman mentions with a look that…
Ridley chose to interpret as impressed.
“I reclaimed some of the energy. My previous experiences unmade left me with some concept of magic.” The Dragon mentioned with a toothy grin, darkness coming in splotches from his maw. “Distract him until then.”
And before Ridley could even hear the exultant giggle of Lilith’s joy, the Tyrant had thrown himself into the air with a leap, Rapidly becoming a winged blot in the sky. Ridley looked back to the city once more, observing the destruction.
There wasn’t much left to observe, of course. Ash, rubble, concrete all strewn about. The sinking island wasn’t going to last much longer, and it held little resemblance to the rest of the city of hope it was once a part of in its wrecked state. It was already a haunted place filled with monsters covered in ruins.
Ridley looked back to the evacuation landers, the ships moving off-shore, and in that moment, he wished he hadn’t stopped Lilith before. These purists had loudly declared their own superiority, sat on an island above the clouds, and stopped evolving long ago. Their stagnancy had doomed them to the evolutionary slime, and crushed them under Darkseid’s waiting boot. It wasn’t simply a disgust for the humans among them or a desire to crush their dreams.
Ridley understood the call the City of Hope had made, and it was to join a long line of extinct herbivores. Perhaps this would spur the rest to evolution, but to know he was helping save a portion of the population that had been designed to die left a sour taste in his mouth. He might be getting paid for saving these people, but he’d have rested easier knowing each and every one of these insignificant cattle had been slaughtered down to the last man, woman and child.
Even so…
They were the grist for the mill of Ridley’s war machine, and as he gazed at the water below, he knew that he would rest even easier knowing he’d taken away yet another of Darkseid’s pets. Those who are cattle would die as cattle whether or not he interfered, but his reason for being here was revenge, for retaking his throne as the apex predator of the universe. And the only being with the will, the power, and the capacity to take Darkseid’s throat was Ridley himself.
With a growl and a puff of curse-based smoke, the pirate turned his wings and dove, the wing building up to a fever pitch as the Dragon streaked through the air, struck the waves, and disappeared into the water below.
---
The ocean’s depths opened up to Ridley’s eyes through the darkness, the burning candles allowing him to see with full clarity the extent of Opealon’s Watery depths. It took a moment for him to even notice, however, with the sudden, awful smell wafting across the water. Whatever creature Darkseid had summoned, it carried the smell of Rotted flesh and moist fecal matter with it, and that had invaded the Ocean’s depths, even a few kilometers away from the main source.
Ridley locked eyes with the source of the smell after a second to recover, and for a second, even the great Pirate leader was stunned by the scale.
Whatever it once was had to have been massive before Darkseid had ever touched it, for the hundreds of feet belonging to each tentacle linked into the face of a carnivorous leviathna, with a long snout, Jaws each larger than Ridley himself multiple times over, and More eyes than he’d care to count spread across them. The creature’s arms were covered in tentacles, and the lack of lips left the rounded ace with a permanent rictus grin that was appropriately fearsome. A pity it served Darkseid - it could have been quite a fearsome general for Ridley’s eventual outpost on the planet.
The Dragon’s eyes narrowed as he moved closer, realizing the sheer scale of the freak of nature on display.
“Doctor.”
“Yes. Ridley. Is the Gravity harness working properly?!”
The dragon gave an experimental flap of his wings, pushing him through the water with ease as he allowed himself to fall further into the depths.
“I feel no pressure, or stress. The machine has remained waterproof. My movements are unrestricted. The Gravity Harness is performing above expectations.”
Ridley Had to wait a second for the Doctor’s squeal of success to lower to a dull roar before his auditory nerves left him enough control to speak. “I need a scan of the ocean below. Anything I can use.”
“Use?”
Ridley looked up, staring into the abyssal creature above. It stared back at him with multiple sets of eyes narrowed and jaws split open in hunger. Without needing a word of communication, Ridley could understand the look.
He had wounded it, and it hated him. He had become a Rival predator, in its eyes, and it was determined to reduce him to prey.
“My flames won’t slay him before the City crumbles.” the apex predator admitted in a low tone. “Find me something else. I’ll keep it… distracted in the meantime.”
The Archosaur swam forward without a roar, as slimy appendages like fields of grass reached out for Ridley, and he spun through the slimy limbs as he threaded the needle.
Regular plasma wasn’t going to work here, and he had a limited amount of cursed energy left, but the Dragon had other weapons, flicking his tail from side to side to leave scars.
“Okay, for starters, you see those globes under the waves? That seems to be unnatural phenomena. I’m detecting unique power systems there I haven’t seen before. It’s actually some kind of city, if I had to guess!” Liz exclaims, and as this is mentioned, Ridley’s eyes do turn downwards, seeing multiple translucent globes, all lit with orange light, standing as dim candles in the far distance. He’d mistook them for simple, natural formations of some glowing crystal from this distance.
The Space pirate had no reply, letting the Doctor continue, which was fortunate, as the Monster quickly found his jaws sown shut by a smaller tentacle wrapping around his maw, one he clawed of with a vicious swipe, before being whipped away by another, sending him flying a few dozen meters before his wings finally caught enough momentum to re-stabilize him.
The hit left him with a few broken ribs - barely an injury, but with that much brute force, it could have been much worse on a more sensitive area - or it could break the harness. Ridley held no illusions about his chances of survival at this depth. The pressure could break him like an egg.
“...Noticing a few of what I think aresubmarines on patrol, but they don’t seem interested in fighting, just protecting the city. They get power from some exotic sources I can’t identify, but they also have thermal power for at least part of the city, linked to a series of underwater volcanos-”
“What was that?!”
“Yeah, they have a few different underwater volcanoes down here. Funny how they never form an island-”
“Where.”
“Uhhh… crane your head left. No, a little bit more right. Doooown… you have weird eye positions, right, sorry, Crane your face to the Left hard.”
Ridley looked down, seeing a network of the heated volcanoes down below. It simply couldn’t be possible that he would be so fortunate today, could it?
And yet, as Ridley examined the positioning of the volcanoes, and Liv read out the temperature and pressure of the Magma below, it seemed he was gloriously wrong.
The monster behind him Grasped for him hungrily, whipping it’s absurdly long appendages to pull ridley back, hungrily. The Space pirate dove too fast, however, and it seemed the creature was bound to controlling the island first and foremost, as it turned away.
That didn’t leave Ridley without pursuit, however, as other freaks came to darkseid’s call. Fat, armoured fish covered in darkness, and with eyes jutting from their face. Though Ridley didn’t know the genus, he didn’t need to to guess that these were what those submarines were for fending off, and the Space Dragon sped up to his full velocity to try and lose his pursuers, the hungry beasts gnashing and Biting. Were they called by the greater monster? Had Darkseid sent them to end his interference. Or were they simply aggressive beasts.
Regardless of the answer, they didn’t understand their place, and as the trio of fish gained in speed, Ridley abruptly dropped his momentum, dodging to the side as one of the creatures zipped past him. Grabbing the aquatic monster by the Tail, he clawed his way up the struggling creature, making little headway against the armoured shell - at least, until he readied his tail like a stinger, and punctured through the fish’s shell, and the brain beneath.
The other two dove back, seeming heedless of their companion, but Ridley simply kicked the newly deceased creature into it’s companions, and dove again while they were left disoriented.
Ridley closed his eyes, as he allowed the spiteful, corrupt energy Lilith had gave him to bubble forth. So much cruelty, spite, hatred, anger, disgust, and emotions Ridley had no time to even quantify bubbled in his stomach.
It was amusing how mustang and the rest misunderstood it. These vaunted notions of nobility and morality did not matter to Darkseid. They were fickle, biased, nuanced and yielding. Fighting the Mad Titan had nothing to do with this disgusting unity they played at.
True unity came from hatred and spite. True determination came from discarding everyone and everything for the sake of removing the object of your hatred. True power came from embracing the animalistic nature Darkseid sought to manipulate, but lacked a true understanding from.
Their vaunted reason and morality held them back from dedicating everything to crushing their enemies, and this left Mortals and arbiters, living and unmade, magi and engineers alike beneath Ridley’s heel and under his rule.
Those thoughts coalesced as Fire burned from Ridley’s gut, and He at least reached the warmth. There, the pure and destructive fire of the planet’s core bubbled just below the peaks of the cone.
He heard the scream of the monster behind him, and turned to see it still gazing at him from the island. If he had to guess, it was daring him to try his best shot.
Ridley obliged with a grin, as he turned to the mouth of the Volcano, and poured a blinding-hot plasma beam filled with the power of a thousand unworthy souls into it’s hungry maw.
The Pirate moved his face back only a second before A burning-hot explosion of lava Rocketed past the pirate at Supersonic speeds.
Ridley flapped his wings as fast as he could to pull himself back from the explosion, only a step from blind panic. Lilith’s energies were far stronger than he’d expected, or the volcano had simply had far more energy to excite into action in the first place. The Dragon looked up in satisfaction as an orange flare of magma streaked through the water with all the fury of a god behind it. The monster gave out a scream that caused the ocean itself to ripple, and it’s self-preservation finally overtook it’s order to engulf the city, as it started to swim away. Yet, the orange magma caught the creature effortlessly at speed, and the creature’s face was engulfed under a torrent of magma.
Ridley looked up, wishing he could breathe and recover some lost energy, even for a moment, as the monster was hidden behind a sea of orange. The exhaustion of holding onto that much power for that long was immediately taking it’s toll on the alien’s energy now that it had been all expelled in one blast - he didn’t have enough left to be much of a threat to the creature if it had somehow survived that.
He didn’t have to worry, though, as the Magma subsided, beginning to harden across the underside of nausicaa, and the great beast’s face was visible as the magma started to drool off it.
The front half of the once mighty beast had been reduced to nothing but steaming bone.
Soundlessly, the body began to sag, the great beast’s tentacles slowly letting go and coming loose as the muscles began to let go, and the creature started to slide from it’s perch, slowly comign loose from the island it infested… along with several chunks of Nausicaa’s Rocky underside.
Ridley took a moment to grin at his own hard work. The gore, the carnage, was beautiful to him, and he couldn’t help but enjoy the beauty of his work. One day, when he held Darkseid’s severed head in his hands, he wondered if it would be just as satisfying?
The moment didn’t last, however, as lava, stone, and charred sea beasts alike began falling to the ocean floor, and Ridley kicked his wings into overdrive. The city was about to fall, and he was right underneath it.
“-Dley! Ridley! Get out of there now! You’ve set off some kind of chain reaction. More lava’s coming, and if you’re under there I can’t guarantee you’ll survive.” Liv's voice rang out through the comm-bead.
The dragon just gave a grimace, as he sped towards the surface. It was already a long trip down, and it’d only take longer going up. It was time for him and his accomplice to leave - now.
The problem Ridley noticed, with a grimace, was that there was so much more of the beast to maim! Darkseid had summoned a giant that dwarfed even the monster that had begun rampaging towards the beginning of the battle through darkseid’s forces.
Ridley and Lilith were quickly overcome with attacks on all sides, Tentacles that the two slashed, melted and sliced through. Ridley’s every limb was in motion as he hovered through the air, becoming a buzz-saw of talons, teeth, and tail as he slashed through the nearest tentacle and drained it to ribbons. Behind him, Lilith struck out with a mad glee as she found herself nearly wrapped in the embrace of onef tentacle, before her skin turned to vicious acid, and the limb recoiled a second too late before she hugged on, the Skin peeling away layer by layer as she held it in a deathgrip.
Ridley was certain they could hack away at the beast, but it was causing damage across the island with it’s rampage, and if the Island sank and took Mustang with it, he wasn’t getting paid.
“Doctor, what’s the structural stability of the island?” Ridley growled through the comms system.
“...Uh. Bad. Actually, it’s quite interesting, did you know this island should really have started sinking a lot deeper by now? It’s holding despite the fact a significant chunk of the earth should be powderizing and buckling by now. I’m noticing some energy readings from inside the temple that seem to be going out through the earth and-”
“doctor.” Ridley snapped, his tone turning an inch harsher. “...Valuable information for your report afterwards. How much time has this beast lost us?”
Olivia’s voice was silent. “...I don’t know if it’s going to last ten more minutes if it keeps getting pincushioned like this.”
“Then it’s time to put your invention to the test.” Ridley growled, touching at what seemed to be a scale near the center of his chest. the simple poke caused the scale to extend, showing it’s metallic look as a thin band of metal swiped out and across his chest, creating a violet “X” of purple across the Reptile’s torso, as a soft ‘whirrr’ echoed from him.
“Ooh, what’s that, Lord Ridley? I kinda saw you as a going commando guy, but honestly, that looks a little…”
Ridley gave her a stare that made it clear silence was required, which caused the Acidic conqueror’s rambling to stop in place… after a short wolf whistle and a pair of finger guns, at least.
“I’m heading underwater. Keep it in agony from above. I’ll disembowel it from below.” Ridley growls, taking a breath.
Lilith looked back to the lizard with shock, as darkness seemed to pool at it’s jaws. “Ho ho, no way…” the woman mentions with a look that…
Ridley chose to interpret as impressed.
“I reclaimed some of the energy. My previous experiences unmade left me with some concept of magic.” The Dragon mentioned with a toothy grin, darkness coming in splotches from his maw. “Distract him until then.”
And before Ridley could even hear the exultant giggle of Lilith’s joy, the Tyrant had thrown himself into the air with a leap, Rapidly becoming a winged blot in the sky. Ridley looked back to the city once more, observing the destruction.
There wasn’t much left to observe, of course. Ash, rubble, concrete all strewn about. The sinking island wasn’t going to last much longer, and it held little resemblance to the rest of the city of hope it was once a part of in its wrecked state. It was already a haunted place filled with monsters covered in ruins.
Ridley looked back to the evacuation landers, the ships moving off-shore, and in that moment, he wished he hadn’t stopped Lilith before. These purists had loudly declared their own superiority, sat on an island above the clouds, and stopped evolving long ago. Their stagnancy had doomed them to the evolutionary slime, and crushed them under Darkseid’s waiting boot. It wasn’t simply a disgust for the humans among them or a desire to crush their dreams.
Ridley understood the call the City of Hope had made, and it was to join a long line of extinct herbivores. Perhaps this would spur the rest to evolution, but to know he was helping save a portion of the population that had been designed to die left a sour taste in his mouth. He might be getting paid for saving these people, but he’d have rested easier knowing each and every one of these insignificant cattle had been slaughtered down to the last man, woman and child.
Even so…
They were the grist for the mill of Ridley’s war machine, and as he gazed at the water below, he knew that he would rest even easier knowing he’d taken away yet another of Darkseid’s pets. Those who are cattle would die as cattle whether or not he interfered, but his reason for being here was revenge, for retaking his throne as the apex predator of the universe. And the only being with the will, the power, and the capacity to take Darkseid’s throat was Ridley himself.
With a growl and a puff of curse-based smoke, the pirate turned his wings and dove, the wing building up to a fever pitch as the Dragon streaked through the air, struck the waves, and disappeared into the water below.
---
The ocean’s depths opened up to Ridley’s eyes through the darkness, the burning candles allowing him to see with full clarity the extent of Opealon’s Watery depths. It took a moment for him to even notice, however, with the sudden, awful smell wafting across the water. Whatever creature Darkseid had summoned, it carried the smell of Rotted flesh and moist fecal matter with it, and that had invaded the Ocean’s depths, even a few kilometers away from the main source.
Ridley locked eyes with the source of the smell after a second to recover, and for a second, even the great Pirate leader was stunned by the scale.
Whatever it once was had to have been massive before Darkseid had ever touched it, for the hundreds of feet belonging to each tentacle linked into the face of a carnivorous leviathna, with a long snout, Jaws each larger than Ridley himself multiple times over, and More eyes than he’d care to count spread across them. The creature’s arms were covered in tentacles, and the lack of lips left the rounded ace with a permanent rictus grin that was appropriately fearsome. A pity it served Darkseid - it could have been quite a fearsome general for Ridley’s eventual outpost on the planet.
The Dragon’s eyes narrowed as he moved closer, realizing the sheer scale of the freak of nature on display.
“Doctor.”
“Yes. Ridley. Is the Gravity harness working properly?!”
The dragon gave an experimental flap of his wings, pushing him through the water with ease as he allowed himself to fall further into the depths.
“I feel no pressure, or stress. The machine has remained waterproof. My movements are unrestricted. The Gravity Harness is performing above expectations.”
Ridley Had to wait a second for the Doctor’s squeal of success to lower to a dull roar before his auditory nerves left him enough control to speak. “I need a scan of the ocean below. Anything I can use.”
“Use?”
Ridley looked up, staring into the abyssal creature above. It stared back at him with multiple sets of eyes narrowed and jaws split open in hunger. Without needing a word of communication, Ridley could understand the look.
He had wounded it, and it hated him. He had become a Rival predator, in its eyes, and it was determined to reduce him to prey.
“My flames won’t slay him before the City crumbles.” the apex predator admitted in a low tone. “Find me something else. I’ll keep it… distracted in the meantime.”
The Archosaur swam forward without a roar, as slimy appendages like fields of grass reached out for Ridley, and he spun through the slimy limbs as he threaded the needle.
Regular plasma wasn’t going to work here, and he had a limited amount of cursed energy left, but the Dragon had other weapons, flicking his tail from side to side to leave scars.
“Okay, for starters, you see those globes under the waves? That seems to be unnatural phenomena. I’m detecting unique power systems there I haven’t seen before. It’s actually some kind of city, if I had to guess!” Liz exclaims, and as this is mentioned, Ridley’s eyes do turn downwards, seeing multiple translucent globes, all lit with orange light, standing as dim candles in the far distance. He’d mistook them for simple, natural formations of some glowing crystal from this distance.
The Space pirate had no reply, letting the Doctor continue, which was fortunate, as the Monster quickly found his jaws sown shut by a smaller tentacle wrapping around his maw, one he clawed of with a vicious swipe, before being whipped away by another, sending him flying a few dozen meters before his wings finally caught enough momentum to re-stabilize him.
The hit left him with a few broken ribs - barely an injury, but with that much brute force, it could have been much worse on a more sensitive area - or it could break the harness. Ridley held no illusions about his chances of survival at this depth. The pressure could break him like an egg.
“...Noticing a few of what I think aresubmarines on patrol, but they don’t seem interested in fighting, just protecting the city. They get power from some exotic sources I can’t identify, but they also have thermal power for at least part of the city, linked to a series of underwater volcanos-”
“What was that?!”
“Yeah, they have a few different underwater volcanoes down here. Funny how they never form an island-”
“Where.”
“Uhhh… crane your head left. No, a little bit more right. Doooown… you have weird eye positions, right, sorry, Crane your face to the Left hard.”
Ridley looked down, seeing a network of the heated volcanoes down below. It simply couldn’t be possible that he would be so fortunate today, could it?
And yet, as Ridley examined the positioning of the volcanoes, and Liv read out the temperature and pressure of the Magma below, it seemed he was gloriously wrong.
The monster behind him Grasped for him hungrily, whipping it’s absurdly long appendages to pull ridley back, hungrily. The Space pirate dove too fast, however, and it seemed the creature was bound to controlling the island first and foremost, as it turned away.
That didn’t leave Ridley without pursuit, however, as other freaks came to darkseid’s call. Fat, armoured fish covered in darkness, and with eyes jutting from their face. Though Ridley didn’t know the genus, he didn’t need to to guess that these were what those submarines were for fending off, and the Space Dragon sped up to his full velocity to try and lose his pursuers, the hungry beasts gnashing and Biting. Were they called by the greater monster? Had Darkseid sent them to end his interference. Or were they simply aggressive beasts.
Regardless of the answer, they didn’t understand their place, and as the trio of fish gained in speed, Ridley abruptly dropped his momentum, dodging to the side as one of the creatures zipped past him. Grabbing the aquatic monster by the Tail, he clawed his way up the struggling creature, making little headway against the armoured shell - at least, until he readied his tail like a stinger, and punctured through the fish’s shell, and the brain beneath.
The other two dove back, seeming heedless of their companion, but Ridley simply kicked the newly deceased creature into it’s companions, and dove again while they were left disoriented.
Ridley closed his eyes, as he allowed the spiteful, corrupt energy Lilith had gave him to bubble forth. So much cruelty, spite, hatred, anger, disgust, and emotions Ridley had no time to even quantify bubbled in his stomach.
It was amusing how mustang and the rest misunderstood it. These vaunted notions of nobility and morality did not matter to Darkseid. They were fickle, biased, nuanced and yielding. Fighting the Mad Titan had nothing to do with this disgusting unity they played at.
True unity came from hatred and spite. True determination came from discarding everyone and everything for the sake of removing the object of your hatred. True power came from embracing the animalistic nature Darkseid sought to manipulate, but lacked a true understanding from.
Their vaunted reason and morality held them back from dedicating everything to crushing their enemies, and this left Mortals and arbiters, living and unmade, magi and engineers alike beneath Ridley’s heel and under his rule.
Those thoughts coalesced as Fire burned from Ridley’s gut, and He at least reached the warmth. There, the pure and destructive fire of the planet’s core bubbled just below the peaks of the cone.
He heard the scream of the monster behind him, and turned to see it still gazing at him from the island. If he had to guess, it was daring him to try his best shot.
Ridley obliged with a grin, as he turned to the mouth of the Volcano, and poured a blinding-hot plasma beam filled with the power of a thousand unworthy souls into it’s hungry maw.
The Pirate moved his face back only a second before A burning-hot explosion of lava Rocketed past the pirate at Supersonic speeds.
Ridley flapped his wings as fast as he could to pull himself back from the explosion, only a step from blind panic. Lilith’s energies were far stronger than he’d expected, or the volcano had simply had far more energy to excite into action in the first place. The Dragon looked up in satisfaction as an orange flare of magma streaked through the water with all the fury of a god behind it. The monster gave out a scream that caused the ocean itself to ripple, and it’s self-preservation finally overtook it’s order to engulf the city, as it started to swim away. Yet, the orange magma caught the creature effortlessly at speed, and the creature’s face was engulfed under a torrent of magma.
Ridley looked up, wishing he could breathe and recover some lost energy, even for a moment, as the monster was hidden behind a sea of orange. The exhaustion of holding onto that much power for that long was immediately taking it’s toll on the alien’s energy now that it had been all expelled in one blast - he didn’t have enough left to be much of a threat to the creature if it had somehow survived that.
He didn’t have to worry, though, as the Magma subsided, beginning to harden across the underside of nausicaa, and the great beast’s face was visible as the magma started to drool off it.
The front half of the once mighty beast had been reduced to nothing but steaming bone.
Soundlessly, the body began to sag, the great beast’s tentacles slowly letting go and coming loose as the muscles began to let go, and the creature started to slide from it’s perch, slowly comign loose from the island it infested… along with several chunks of Nausicaa’s Rocky underside.
Ridley took a moment to grin at his own hard work. The gore, the carnage, was beautiful to him, and he couldn’t help but enjoy the beauty of his work. One day, when he held Darkseid’s severed head in his hands, he wondered if it would be just as satisfying?
The moment didn’t last, however, as lava, stone, and charred sea beasts alike began falling to the ocean floor, and Ridley kicked his wings into overdrive. The city was about to fall, and he was right underneath it.
“-Dley! Ridley! Get out of there now! You’ve set off some kind of chain reaction. More lava’s coming, and if you’re under there I can’t guarantee you’ll survive.” Liv's voice rang out through the comm-bead.
The dragon just gave a grimace, as he sped towards the surface. It was already a long trip down, and it’d only take longer going up. It was time for him and his accomplice to leave - now.
Ridley used one focus to hold a charge from Lilith's Previous curse infusion and to use another cursed blast. He has also used one focus for the narrative convenience of a perfectly placed volcano. The underside of the island's got a bit of a lava baking, but at least the tentacle monster is dead so... progress?
Ridley has 0/3 focus left.