Polynya

“I’ve got this!” Ryuk fires his entire mag of molten and black marbles at Tomas. He starts high and brings his trajectory down a couple of centimeters, the results of which create a solid line of fiery unhappiness that throws the Shield Warrior off his feet.

-39 HP!

That’s it? Ryuk pops the clip out and loads another. He turns his head as he hears Zaena release a war cry as she charges Tamana, bends her slender body backwards, and uses her ghost limbs to whip her over Tamana’s form, where she stabs the turncoat White Warrior with two blades from behind.

+79 HP! +84 HP!

Ryuk stares in horror as Zaena stabs Tamana again, this too adding to her hit points.

Crack!

Tamana uses both hands to baseball swing the broad side of her blade into Zaena, who is tossed into a patch of wine apples. She brings her ironing board of a sword down onto the ground and the Thulean just barely manages to get out of the way in time.

Ryuk lowers his Marble Gun for a moment as the thought dawns on him. He’s seen this very thing before, in a foe that Tamana and he encountered outside of a city known as New Gotha. He quickly fires off a message to the guild.

Ryuk: Her armor is enchanted! FeeTwix and Hiccup, take Tomas! Zaena distract Tamana and I’ll try to remove the enchantment.

Hiccup: Who died and made you boss?

Ryuk: Move your ass, Hiccup!

To encourage the goblin, Ryuk, before holstering his Marble Gun, fires a shot one meter away from Hiccup’s feet. The goblin launches into the air, propelled by both flatulence and the explosion, and in a twist that Ryuk couldn’t have even seen coming, the portly goblin bounces once off the ground, equips a shield midair, and brings it and his sizeable goblin girth down onto Tomas.

-45 HP!

Zaena has turned up her slice and dice attack, completely engaging Tamana. Her blades spinning around her body, she occasionally tries to get a lick in, which Tamana blocks. The ones she misses are instantly returned to Tamana in healing points.

Ryuk holsters his gun and again goes for his magic slingshot.

He pockets a clear marble and walks towards the two blade mistresses, ready to cast A Simple Request. His Extreme Focus kicks in and he becomes completely oblivious to what’s happening on FeeTwix, Enway, and Hiccup’s side of the equation.

His slingshot aimed, he waits for the moment in which Zaena is far enough away for him to get a clear shot, waits a moment longer, and lets loose the clear marble.

“Remove enchantment!” he bellows.

The clear marble strikes Tamana and her arms begin to bulge.

A large bubble forms under her alien armor and begins moving around her body, growing every body part it comes into contact with. Her arms go to four times their size, her legs, her torso, her skull-helmed head, and finally, her buster sword.

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“Dragon ficks! Marbles, you fickered fick-laden fickbag! What the hell did you just do!?” Hiccup uses a heater shield with an image of a nude mermaid inlaid on its front to block a thrust from Tomas’ double-bitted ax trident.

Tamana, now five times her normal size, brings her buster sword back and takes out a farmhouse. Wood and debris spray into the air. With a grunt, she brings her sword down, cuts through the fence penning in the sheep, kills a few sheep in the process, and those that aren’t killed by her blade quickly scramble out, bleating as they ram into each other and add a fluffy white visual of chaos to the battle.

A white magic surrounds Enway and she lifts into the air. The magic spirals around her, forming a vortex between her floating body and the ground. She claps her hands together and the vortex whips towards giant Tamana, where it takes her off balance.

Tamana falls to one knee, her blade jabbing into the ground, and Zaena comes in for more swordplay. With her giant hand, Tamana bitch-slaps the living shit out of the Thulean, sending her flying into the air.

Zaena’s ghost limbs react just in time, saving her from crashing into a shed outside of the now defunct sheep pen.

Taking a deep breath in, Ryuk pulls back the clear marble and issues his command.

“Remove enchantment!”

Remove enchantment!

LUCK +1!

Ryuk pumps his fist in the air. “It worked!” he yells to Zaena. “The enchantment is removed!”

While she still may be giant-sized, Tamana’s ability to heal with each attack is gone.

“Everyone focus on Tamana,” FeeTwix shouts. “I’ll take care of Tomas!”

As much as it pains him to do so, Ryuk unholsters his Marble Gun and begins firing black and molten marbles at Tamana’s giant feet as she tries, and fails, to squish Hiccup.

-15 HP! -23 HP! -24 HP!

Just as she’s taken off balance, Enway pegs Tamana with a translucent cube made of white magic. The cube anchors itself over Tamana’s chest as lightning bolts ping from corner to corner inside the cube.

-81 HP!