Post by Bio on Mar 10, 2008 23:19:14 GMT -5
((After a long while, I felt it was worth it to update this one for future reference.))
Wendigo gurgled malevolently as he watched his nemesis rise from the bay. She had just undergone a metamorphosis, courteously after firing the last of her projectile spines into his limbs, pinning all four of his major appendages into the two towers he now perched between. Blood seeped from his wounds as Rygama strode ashore, hundreds of feet below.
Rygama casually lumbered up to one of the towers and shoved her weight into it, cracking the foundation and knocking it out from under the main structure. Wendigo gurgled loudly as the appendages of his left side were violently yanked back as the tower supportting them collapsed. His remaining limbs were forcefully yanked from their holdings as he was dragged down form his perch and into the rubble of the falling skyscraper.
Rygama lumbered closer to the pile, snarling as the mammal rose onto his four legs and glared at her, fixing both of his eyes onto her. One of them suddenly turned backwards, just before his head did. Wendigo leaped back, bending his four limbs backwards as he took a great bound and found himself clinging to another skyscraper two full city blocks back. His frontal portion remained facing Rygama, but his limbs carried him up the building backwards at great speeds.
Rygama merely stood as Wendigo reached the top of the building and gazed back down at her, parting his mandibles and releasing a loud, moaning cry of challenge. He brought his arms up over his head and waved them beckoningly.
Rygama would gladly oblidge. The massive fins at her sides swung upwards, extending their brilliantly colored membrane. Wendigo's eyes went wide as his assimilated human memories alerted him to exactly what these appendages were: Wings.
Rygama bellowed a monstrous battlecry and took off, beating her new wings like a monstrous insect. She charged straight for Wendigo, jaws agape. The monstrous mammal, however, anticipated this. He took a bound straight up, leaping right over Rygama as she smashed into the top of the skyscraper, barreling right through it and onward as Wendigo landed back on his mangled perch, twisting his head a full 180 degrees to follow his enemy.
Rygama swung her hip over and rotated onto her back in mid-flight, coming to a hover a few blocks behind her adversarry.
Wendigo immediately sought to turn the tide in his favor. With another great bound, he hopped over to a nearby skyscraper and just as quickly hopped to another, taking off deeper into the city.
Rygama hissed and gave chase, taking off above the city, tracking her adversarry from a bird's eye view. She quickly caught up, observing as her enemy ducked beneath the "canopy" and began scuttling across the sides of the buildings, ducking between large allies and hiding in the shadows.
Rygama could see him quite plainly, however. She dove down, aiming at the lanky predator, jaws wide open. She closed the distance to Wendigo in an instant, yet the vile beast was quicker. He leaped from the building he clung to, sending Rygama faceforward into it.
Wendigo pushed against building after building, taking off deeper into the city as Rygama toppled the building with her weight. His ears ready and with one eye fixed on her overhead form, he leaped aside again, avoiding another divebomb. He reached out, swinging his legs forward and gripping another rooftop as the crash rang into his delighted ears. He spunt his head around, extending his dripping tongue from his mouth.
Rygama fluttered over the remains of the skyscraper she had just pulverized, just in time to see the mass of black, sopping tissue slap over her face with a wet smack. Pain was imminent as the acids burned into her skull plate, rupturing one of her eyes and quickly making its way towards her brain.
Rygama snarled and snapped suddenly, attempting to clamp her jaws over the vile thing, but it retracted out of reach the moment her jaws parted. Rygama screeched in aggrivation as it slapped around her neck, burning into her throat.
Wendigo retracted his tongue just as Rygama swung one of her claws at it. The member slurped back into his mouth, bringing with it the sweet flavor of liquidated flesh. Wendigo took a great bound upward as Rygama roared, glaring daggers at him. With his frontal portion facing her, Wendigo climbed backwards up a neighboring building, rising to look Rygama in the eye.
Rygama snarled under her breath. This bloody beast was working on her last nerve. The thirst for vengeance magnified in her heart every second she gazed into those beady, swivelling eyes.
She realized her mistake, suddenly. Wendigo could see her coming. She needed to adopt a new strategy.
Wendigo interrupted this personal moment by leaping, arms outstretched. Rygama tried to brace herself but she wasn't quick enough. Wendigo's twin foreclaws locked into her flesh, one clamping over her torso, one missing entirely. But Wendigo's momentum forced Rygama from the air as he tackled her to the streets below. Purple blood sprayed from Rygama's maw as Wendigo's claw crushed her armor, boring into her insides.
Wendigo gurgled malevolently, but was cut off as Rygama swung a hefty arm at his face, smacking the spiked edge against his temple, knocking his face to the right at a sickening angle.
Wendigo responded by lashing his free arm at Rygama, attempting to restrain the arm, but it was caught by Rygama's clawed hand. She brought her other arm up and grabbed it with both hands. Her claws fixed firmly over the appendage and began to squeeze. Wendigo gurgled in pain and irritation as Rygama applied more pressure, putting as much strength into the maneuver as her arms had to spare. A loud cracking sound overshadowed that of Rygama's ribs as Wendigo's armor-plated arm was crushed, bent upward at a sickening angle.
Rygama rolled over, throwing the larger beast from her and coming to a standing position on all fours. She quickly rose onto her hind legs, however, glaring at Wendigo.
The monstrous mammal gripped its own arm, popping the broken portion of its forearm back into alignment with the rest, before turning both his eyes back on her.
Rygama roared again, charging at the hairy titan. She tackled him, smashing her shoulder into his chest, pushing him back into the building behind. Glass rained upon the two as Wendigo gurgled in fury. Rygama shoved her weight against him, pushing him further into the increasingly large crater in the side of the building.
Wendigo would have none of this, however. His mandibles parted and the membraned stalks extended, freeing the chasm of his throat for the fluid to pour.
Rygama found herself caught beneath a waterfall of vile, clear fluid. The pain returned tenfold as the potent acids of the digestive enzymes rapidly ate into her flesh.
Rygama screeched, but used the pain to increase her motivation, even as her armor segments began to melt into one another. Her jaws parted and she lunged, biting deep into Wendigo's throat. The flesh gave quite easily as her fangs bore into the soft tissue, scraping out his windpipe and a chunk of his esophagus.
Rygama yanked her head back, ripping the chunk of flesh from the predator's throat, leaving him to bleed.
Wendigo slumped over as Rygama gave him room. Blood flowed freely from his mangled throat. A massive chunk was missing, quite visible as a bite.
Rygama snarled in satisfaction, expecting the beast to slump over and writhe before expiring. Instead, Wendigo lashed out with one of its feet, bashing the spiked side into Rygama's midsection, knocking her aside, busting open a chunk of her armor.
Wendigo staggered out of the crater Rygama had made. Without his weight to support it, the base gave way, toppling the structure. Wendigo hopped aside as the towering skyscraper collapsed right on top of Rygama.
Wendigo vanished back into the cover of the city, leaving Rygama.
The pile of rubble rose and she emerged from the demolished building, a look of pure fury plastered over her immobile face. She beat her wings and rose, giving chase. Her complex eyes could spot the bounding behemoth, even as he hopped from building to building in the distance.
Wendigo's ears sensed the approach of his enemy and he froze. She drew closer. He could hear her on the other side of the building he was clinging to. The perfect moment.
Rygama drew back her head, ready to lunge right through the building and bite the bastard's head right off. Wendigo, however, was quicker. The side of the structure exploded as a massive claw punched right through it, clamping over her shoulder. Rygama screeched in anger, then in pain as the thick muscles and barbs ripped into her tissue. Armor splintered and muscles tore as Wendigo tightened its grip and yanked back.
Wendigo pulled its arm back, gurgling in delight as it saw that Rygama's arm was now clutched in its claw. The rest of her wasn't.
Rygama roared in fury as her arm was removed. Immediately her body began to pump chemicals to dull the pain and halt the bleeding. Her anger quickly overrode the pain. With a great bellow, she lashed out and kicked against the building, topping a large portion of it.
Wendigo felt its perch give way and quickly disengaged, dropping Rygama's arm. It would claim its trophy later, when this beast was dealt with.
Rygama fluttered down to the ground, roaring in pure fury, thrashing angrily and stomping. This creature simply couldn't be dealt with! A sudden movement below her caught her eye as she saw a young woman fleeing from the building. All around her, rubble from the collapsing tower rained down. Rygama's mood suddenly shifted as she watched the woman fall beneath a massive slab of concrete. A loud crash rang out. Rygama could very clearly see the blood pooling under the slab as the remainder of the skyscraper's upper portion fell, leaving it half its original height.
She was causing as much damage as Wendigo! Wendigo may have devoured Erica, but who knew how many Ericas Rygama was crushing in her fury? This had to stop!
A much more signifigant movement caught her eye as she saw the distinct sillouhette of Wendigo's bulk leaping right at her, claws outstretched.
She would NOT let it get the better of her again. Firing up her wings, she charged right back at the hairy beast.
Wendigo's eyes went wide as Rygama's bulk launched right back up at it. The forest-green behemoth darted right past the outstretched arms. Her barreled chest slammed right into Wendigo's face, inciting a loud CRACK as the beast's skull fractured against the armor, cracking right back into Rygama's armored plastron.
Rygama snarled in a mixture of pain and satisfaction as Wendigo was thrown back into the air, its body limp. Blood flew from a gaping head wound as the mighty devourer crashed into the streets below.
Rygama followed her enemy's descent, landing right behind Wendigo as the beast struck the pavement. The monster gurgled painfully, but tried to stand. Rygama was quicker, however. She reached out, siezing its head in her grip. Before it could react, she rose up on the wing, zooming high above the skyscrapers. Wendigo began to thrash in her grip, but Rygama was already baring her next strategy. She began to spin, keeping Wendigo's head in her grasp. She rotated once, twice and a third time.
Wendigo lashed out with one of its claws, but Rygama released, sending the beast flying from her grasp.
Wendigo moaned in outrage as it was sent flying as breakneck speeds. The beast flew past building after building as the outskirts of town rushed up at it. Buildings became houses, houses became trees and trees became -
CRASH
Wendigo slammed into the dirt, kicking up an explosion of dust twice its own height. Its legs crumpled beneath it. Blood pooled in the crater as countless bones were fractured or snapped.
And still Wendigo rose, staggering on its four feet. Its chameleon eyes rotated just in time to find Rygama rushing right at it. Her remaining arm was thrust outwards in preparation to lance right through Wendigo! No, this would not do.
Wendigo stood firm, awaiting Rygama's emminant arrival. Both arms lashed out, catching the triphibian terror in their grip. Rygama's momentum forced the beast skidding against the dirt, pushing it back several blocks, but Wendigo remained firm. Without missing a beat, it swung Rygama overhead, securing a firm grip on her. Its body swung over backwards, driving Rygama headfirst into the dirt.
Wendigo glared down at Rygama upside-down as she flailed and struggled. She pulled her head from the dirt, snarling in outrage.
Wendigo responded by raising one of its mace-like arms and swinging it down, bashing it into Rygama's skull. Her head was yanked to the side, spraying blood, teeth and chunks of flesh. Wendigo swung it in the other direction, smashing back over Rygama's face from the other side. She wheezed painfully.
Rygama rolled over onto her stomach, pushing up off the dirt. Wendigo swung a third time, this one striking her head-on. Her snout cracked and crumpled as a chunk of her jaw cracked and dangled sickeningly limp. She took several steps back, putting some distance between herself and Wendigo.
The monstrous mammal reared upright, perched on its back legs, bringing the foreclaws to bare. They snapped in menace, waiting for Rygama to come within reach.
Rygama brought her remaining arm up, contracting specialized muscles in her fingers. With an audible SHING, her claws doubled in length, now more resembling shorts swords than anything. With a furious roar, she charged.
Wendigo lunged, bringing its clawed arms foreward, but Rygama ducked low, charging on. One of Wendigo's claws closed around her waist, but she was in range now. She had the momentum.
With a furious roar, she swung her claws foreward, putting every ounce of energy and strength into the strike as she buried them into Wendigo's abdomen.
Wendigo gurgled furiously as the claws punctured the armored plating of his stomach. But they didn't stop at the talons. Rygama continued to thrust her arm forward, digging her entire hand into the wound.
Wendigo felt its spine give as the claws shoved all the way through its body, poking out the other side. Rygama's arm dug deeper into the wound, shoving it in up to the elbow.
Rygama's hand burst through Wendigo's spine, severing the connection to his legs. They feel limp, dropping the monster where it stood.
With a pained cry, Wendigo squeezed with all its might, crushing Rygama's side in its grip. Blood sprayed from the wounds as Rygama felt the claw crushing her ribs. Wendigo lashed out with its tongue, freeing it from the gaping hole that had been its belly and smacking it across Rygama's face.
60% of Rygama's body was in horrible agony right now. Her arm was gone, her side was being crushed and her face was being melted. She would finish this in her own domain or die trying! Her wings fired up, carrying both her and her catch up into the air. Wendigo struggled and thrashed with its remaining two arms and tightened the coils of its tongue around Rygama's face, yet it could do very little as Rygama zipped over the city, rapidly passing it. Wendigo spat a glob of acid into Rygama's wounded shoulder, yet she continued on. The beach passed beneath them. A few more miles and she could drown the beast! She could swim circles around it and drag it into the deep!
Wendigo's claw closed around a wing.
Rygama hissed in shock and aprehension as the pain shot through her system and Wendio yanked its arm back, taking her wing with it.
Both monsters fell screaming into the waves below. A massive splash overshadowed their forms as they sank.
Rygama's feet touched the bottom. She reared up, very nearly lifting her head above the water. No! This was too shallow! She couldn't play her homefeild advantage when Wendigo's head was above the water!
Yet Wendigo remained at eye level for her, even as it dropped the wing. Its legs were useless now. Rygama DID have homefeild advantage!
Her glee was short-lived, however as Wendigo's claw lashed up, closing around her neck and squeezing. Rygama felt her neck beginning to snap. She diverted her cerebral entity's information down further into her body. It wouldn't do to be beheaded and left without a central control! She opened her mangled jaws and fought against Wendigo's strength. She yanked her arm back, dragging Wendigo's impaled torso with it. She could scarcely feel her arm now, as the acid was having its way with her nerves.
Wendigo struggled to crush Rygama's head, yet she pulled it closer, eagerly accepting its head into her jaws. Wendigo gurgled and moaned. Then, it began to laugh. Like a hyena.
In its hunts, Wendigo had devoured one unfortunate buisnessman who had a bad habit of laughing when nervous. This had been assimilated into Wendigo's mind. And now Wendigo was nothing if not nervous.
Rygama ignored the beastial giggling, biting down. Wendigo squeezed.
A loud cracking sound rang out. A cloud of blood burst into the surfe.
And Wendigo's headless body sank back into the deep, sliding off of Rygama's arm. Its tongue slipped from her jaws, flailing from a headless neck.
The citizens of Sydney watched as Wendigo's vile tongue burst from the surface, flailing and writhing in a furious dance of denial, refusing to die. Its movements slowed, however and slowly, the tendril of fungal flesh slipped beneath the surface. The mighty Wendigo had been slain. Now an even mightier monster held its crown.
Wendigo gurgled malevolently as he watched his nemesis rise from the bay. She had just undergone a metamorphosis, courteously after firing the last of her projectile spines into his limbs, pinning all four of his major appendages into the two towers he now perched between. Blood seeped from his wounds as Rygama strode ashore, hundreds of feet below.
Rygama casually lumbered up to one of the towers and shoved her weight into it, cracking the foundation and knocking it out from under the main structure. Wendigo gurgled loudly as the appendages of his left side were violently yanked back as the tower supportting them collapsed. His remaining limbs were forcefully yanked from their holdings as he was dragged down form his perch and into the rubble of the falling skyscraper.
Rygama lumbered closer to the pile, snarling as the mammal rose onto his four legs and glared at her, fixing both of his eyes onto her. One of them suddenly turned backwards, just before his head did. Wendigo leaped back, bending his four limbs backwards as he took a great bound and found himself clinging to another skyscraper two full city blocks back. His frontal portion remained facing Rygama, but his limbs carried him up the building backwards at great speeds.
Rygama merely stood as Wendigo reached the top of the building and gazed back down at her, parting his mandibles and releasing a loud, moaning cry of challenge. He brought his arms up over his head and waved them beckoningly.
Rygama would gladly oblidge. The massive fins at her sides swung upwards, extending their brilliantly colored membrane. Wendigo's eyes went wide as his assimilated human memories alerted him to exactly what these appendages were: Wings.
Rygama bellowed a monstrous battlecry and took off, beating her new wings like a monstrous insect. She charged straight for Wendigo, jaws agape. The monstrous mammal, however, anticipated this. He took a bound straight up, leaping right over Rygama as she smashed into the top of the skyscraper, barreling right through it and onward as Wendigo landed back on his mangled perch, twisting his head a full 180 degrees to follow his enemy.
Rygama swung her hip over and rotated onto her back in mid-flight, coming to a hover a few blocks behind her adversarry.
Wendigo immediately sought to turn the tide in his favor. With another great bound, he hopped over to a nearby skyscraper and just as quickly hopped to another, taking off deeper into the city.
Rygama hissed and gave chase, taking off above the city, tracking her adversarry from a bird's eye view. She quickly caught up, observing as her enemy ducked beneath the "canopy" and began scuttling across the sides of the buildings, ducking between large allies and hiding in the shadows.
Rygama could see him quite plainly, however. She dove down, aiming at the lanky predator, jaws wide open. She closed the distance to Wendigo in an instant, yet the vile beast was quicker. He leaped from the building he clung to, sending Rygama faceforward into it.
Wendigo pushed against building after building, taking off deeper into the city as Rygama toppled the building with her weight. His ears ready and with one eye fixed on her overhead form, he leaped aside again, avoiding another divebomb. He reached out, swinging his legs forward and gripping another rooftop as the crash rang into his delighted ears. He spunt his head around, extending his dripping tongue from his mouth.
Rygama fluttered over the remains of the skyscraper she had just pulverized, just in time to see the mass of black, sopping tissue slap over her face with a wet smack. Pain was imminent as the acids burned into her skull plate, rupturing one of her eyes and quickly making its way towards her brain.
Rygama snarled and snapped suddenly, attempting to clamp her jaws over the vile thing, but it retracted out of reach the moment her jaws parted. Rygama screeched in aggrivation as it slapped around her neck, burning into her throat.
Wendigo retracted his tongue just as Rygama swung one of her claws at it. The member slurped back into his mouth, bringing with it the sweet flavor of liquidated flesh. Wendigo took a great bound upward as Rygama roared, glaring daggers at him. With his frontal portion facing her, Wendigo climbed backwards up a neighboring building, rising to look Rygama in the eye.
Rygama snarled under her breath. This bloody beast was working on her last nerve. The thirst for vengeance magnified in her heart every second she gazed into those beady, swivelling eyes.
She realized her mistake, suddenly. Wendigo could see her coming. She needed to adopt a new strategy.
Wendigo interrupted this personal moment by leaping, arms outstretched. Rygama tried to brace herself but she wasn't quick enough. Wendigo's twin foreclaws locked into her flesh, one clamping over her torso, one missing entirely. But Wendigo's momentum forced Rygama from the air as he tackled her to the streets below. Purple blood sprayed from Rygama's maw as Wendigo's claw crushed her armor, boring into her insides.
Wendigo gurgled malevolently, but was cut off as Rygama swung a hefty arm at his face, smacking the spiked edge against his temple, knocking his face to the right at a sickening angle.
Wendigo responded by lashing his free arm at Rygama, attempting to restrain the arm, but it was caught by Rygama's clawed hand. She brought her other arm up and grabbed it with both hands. Her claws fixed firmly over the appendage and began to squeeze. Wendigo gurgled in pain and irritation as Rygama applied more pressure, putting as much strength into the maneuver as her arms had to spare. A loud cracking sound overshadowed that of Rygama's ribs as Wendigo's armor-plated arm was crushed, bent upward at a sickening angle.
Rygama rolled over, throwing the larger beast from her and coming to a standing position on all fours. She quickly rose onto her hind legs, however, glaring at Wendigo.
The monstrous mammal gripped its own arm, popping the broken portion of its forearm back into alignment with the rest, before turning both his eyes back on her.
Rygama roared again, charging at the hairy titan. She tackled him, smashing her shoulder into his chest, pushing him back into the building behind. Glass rained upon the two as Wendigo gurgled in fury. Rygama shoved her weight against him, pushing him further into the increasingly large crater in the side of the building.
Wendigo would have none of this, however. His mandibles parted and the membraned stalks extended, freeing the chasm of his throat for the fluid to pour.
Rygama found herself caught beneath a waterfall of vile, clear fluid. The pain returned tenfold as the potent acids of the digestive enzymes rapidly ate into her flesh.
Rygama screeched, but used the pain to increase her motivation, even as her armor segments began to melt into one another. Her jaws parted and she lunged, biting deep into Wendigo's throat. The flesh gave quite easily as her fangs bore into the soft tissue, scraping out his windpipe and a chunk of his esophagus.
Rygama yanked her head back, ripping the chunk of flesh from the predator's throat, leaving him to bleed.
Wendigo slumped over as Rygama gave him room. Blood flowed freely from his mangled throat. A massive chunk was missing, quite visible as a bite.
Rygama snarled in satisfaction, expecting the beast to slump over and writhe before expiring. Instead, Wendigo lashed out with one of its feet, bashing the spiked side into Rygama's midsection, knocking her aside, busting open a chunk of her armor.
Wendigo staggered out of the crater Rygama had made. Without his weight to support it, the base gave way, toppling the structure. Wendigo hopped aside as the towering skyscraper collapsed right on top of Rygama.
Wendigo vanished back into the cover of the city, leaving Rygama.
The pile of rubble rose and she emerged from the demolished building, a look of pure fury plastered over her immobile face. She beat her wings and rose, giving chase. Her complex eyes could spot the bounding behemoth, even as he hopped from building to building in the distance.
Wendigo's ears sensed the approach of his enemy and he froze. She drew closer. He could hear her on the other side of the building he was clinging to. The perfect moment.
Rygama drew back her head, ready to lunge right through the building and bite the bastard's head right off. Wendigo, however, was quicker. The side of the structure exploded as a massive claw punched right through it, clamping over her shoulder. Rygama screeched in anger, then in pain as the thick muscles and barbs ripped into her tissue. Armor splintered and muscles tore as Wendigo tightened its grip and yanked back.
Wendigo pulled its arm back, gurgling in delight as it saw that Rygama's arm was now clutched in its claw. The rest of her wasn't.
Rygama roared in fury as her arm was removed. Immediately her body began to pump chemicals to dull the pain and halt the bleeding. Her anger quickly overrode the pain. With a great bellow, she lashed out and kicked against the building, topping a large portion of it.
Wendigo felt its perch give way and quickly disengaged, dropping Rygama's arm. It would claim its trophy later, when this beast was dealt with.
Rygama fluttered down to the ground, roaring in pure fury, thrashing angrily and stomping. This creature simply couldn't be dealt with! A sudden movement below her caught her eye as she saw a young woman fleeing from the building. All around her, rubble from the collapsing tower rained down. Rygama's mood suddenly shifted as she watched the woman fall beneath a massive slab of concrete. A loud crash rang out. Rygama could very clearly see the blood pooling under the slab as the remainder of the skyscraper's upper portion fell, leaving it half its original height.
She was causing as much damage as Wendigo! Wendigo may have devoured Erica, but who knew how many Ericas Rygama was crushing in her fury? This had to stop!
A much more signifigant movement caught her eye as she saw the distinct sillouhette of Wendigo's bulk leaping right at her, claws outstretched.
She would NOT let it get the better of her again. Firing up her wings, she charged right back at the hairy beast.
Wendigo's eyes went wide as Rygama's bulk launched right back up at it. The forest-green behemoth darted right past the outstretched arms. Her barreled chest slammed right into Wendigo's face, inciting a loud CRACK as the beast's skull fractured against the armor, cracking right back into Rygama's armored plastron.
Rygama snarled in a mixture of pain and satisfaction as Wendigo was thrown back into the air, its body limp. Blood flew from a gaping head wound as the mighty devourer crashed into the streets below.
Rygama followed her enemy's descent, landing right behind Wendigo as the beast struck the pavement. The monster gurgled painfully, but tried to stand. Rygama was quicker, however. She reached out, siezing its head in her grip. Before it could react, she rose up on the wing, zooming high above the skyscrapers. Wendigo began to thrash in her grip, but Rygama was already baring her next strategy. She began to spin, keeping Wendigo's head in her grasp. She rotated once, twice and a third time.
Wendigo lashed out with one of its claws, but Rygama released, sending the beast flying from her grasp.
Wendigo moaned in outrage as it was sent flying as breakneck speeds. The beast flew past building after building as the outskirts of town rushed up at it. Buildings became houses, houses became trees and trees became -
CRASH
Wendigo slammed into the dirt, kicking up an explosion of dust twice its own height. Its legs crumpled beneath it. Blood pooled in the crater as countless bones were fractured or snapped.
And still Wendigo rose, staggering on its four feet. Its chameleon eyes rotated just in time to find Rygama rushing right at it. Her remaining arm was thrust outwards in preparation to lance right through Wendigo! No, this would not do.
Wendigo stood firm, awaiting Rygama's emminant arrival. Both arms lashed out, catching the triphibian terror in their grip. Rygama's momentum forced the beast skidding against the dirt, pushing it back several blocks, but Wendigo remained firm. Without missing a beat, it swung Rygama overhead, securing a firm grip on her. Its body swung over backwards, driving Rygama headfirst into the dirt.
Wendigo glared down at Rygama upside-down as she flailed and struggled. She pulled her head from the dirt, snarling in outrage.
Wendigo responded by raising one of its mace-like arms and swinging it down, bashing it into Rygama's skull. Her head was yanked to the side, spraying blood, teeth and chunks of flesh. Wendigo swung it in the other direction, smashing back over Rygama's face from the other side. She wheezed painfully.
Rygama rolled over onto her stomach, pushing up off the dirt. Wendigo swung a third time, this one striking her head-on. Her snout cracked and crumpled as a chunk of her jaw cracked and dangled sickeningly limp. She took several steps back, putting some distance between herself and Wendigo.
The monstrous mammal reared upright, perched on its back legs, bringing the foreclaws to bare. They snapped in menace, waiting for Rygama to come within reach.
Rygama brought her remaining arm up, contracting specialized muscles in her fingers. With an audible SHING, her claws doubled in length, now more resembling shorts swords than anything. With a furious roar, she charged.
Wendigo lunged, bringing its clawed arms foreward, but Rygama ducked low, charging on. One of Wendigo's claws closed around her waist, but she was in range now. She had the momentum.
With a furious roar, she swung her claws foreward, putting every ounce of energy and strength into the strike as she buried them into Wendigo's abdomen.
Wendigo gurgled furiously as the claws punctured the armored plating of his stomach. But they didn't stop at the talons. Rygama continued to thrust her arm forward, digging her entire hand into the wound.
Wendigo felt its spine give as the claws shoved all the way through its body, poking out the other side. Rygama's arm dug deeper into the wound, shoving it in up to the elbow.
Rygama's hand burst through Wendigo's spine, severing the connection to his legs. They feel limp, dropping the monster where it stood.
With a pained cry, Wendigo squeezed with all its might, crushing Rygama's side in its grip. Blood sprayed from the wounds as Rygama felt the claw crushing her ribs. Wendigo lashed out with its tongue, freeing it from the gaping hole that had been its belly and smacking it across Rygama's face.
60% of Rygama's body was in horrible agony right now. Her arm was gone, her side was being crushed and her face was being melted. She would finish this in her own domain or die trying! Her wings fired up, carrying both her and her catch up into the air. Wendigo struggled and thrashed with its remaining two arms and tightened the coils of its tongue around Rygama's face, yet it could do very little as Rygama zipped over the city, rapidly passing it. Wendigo spat a glob of acid into Rygama's wounded shoulder, yet she continued on. The beach passed beneath them. A few more miles and she could drown the beast! She could swim circles around it and drag it into the deep!
Wendigo's claw closed around a wing.
Rygama hissed in shock and aprehension as the pain shot through her system and Wendio yanked its arm back, taking her wing with it.
Both monsters fell screaming into the waves below. A massive splash overshadowed their forms as they sank.
Rygama's feet touched the bottom. She reared up, very nearly lifting her head above the water. No! This was too shallow! She couldn't play her homefeild advantage when Wendigo's head was above the water!
Yet Wendigo remained at eye level for her, even as it dropped the wing. Its legs were useless now. Rygama DID have homefeild advantage!
Her glee was short-lived, however as Wendigo's claw lashed up, closing around her neck and squeezing. Rygama felt her neck beginning to snap. She diverted her cerebral entity's information down further into her body. It wouldn't do to be beheaded and left without a central control! She opened her mangled jaws and fought against Wendigo's strength. She yanked her arm back, dragging Wendigo's impaled torso with it. She could scarcely feel her arm now, as the acid was having its way with her nerves.
Wendigo struggled to crush Rygama's head, yet she pulled it closer, eagerly accepting its head into her jaws. Wendigo gurgled and moaned. Then, it began to laugh. Like a hyena.
In its hunts, Wendigo had devoured one unfortunate buisnessman who had a bad habit of laughing when nervous. This had been assimilated into Wendigo's mind. And now Wendigo was nothing if not nervous.
Rygama ignored the beastial giggling, biting down. Wendigo squeezed.
A loud cracking sound rang out. A cloud of blood burst into the surfe.
And Wendigo's headless body sank back into the deep, sliding off of Rygama's arm. Its tongue slipped from her jaws, flailing from a headless neck.
The citizens of Sydney watched as Wendigo's vile tongue burst from the surface, flailing and writhing in a furious dance of denial, refusing to die. Its movements slowed, however and slowly, the tendril of fungal flesh slipped beneath the surface. The mighty Wendigo had been slain. Now an even mightier monster held its crown.