Rival Battle: Liari vs Virus 2

"Oh, isn't she just adorable?"

A dejected and cynical voice echoed out from the foliage that surrounded Kuzam and Liari. It was an all too familiar and eerie one, carrying with it an otherwordly, demonic echo. 

From the shadows, Virus emerged with crossed arms, staring down unto the two Maijns with palpable hatred and impatience. To think he'd see that eyesore here, of all places. He knew that the energy he sensed was a familiar one, but to think she was actually here, on Plant? How sickening.

"Are you that Tiamat she kept screeching about? You don't really strike me as 'motherly'."

Virus walked closer to Kuzam and rolled his neck loudly. He wasn't particularly interested in another slug-fest with this magical annoyance. Thank the heavens she was asleep. But then, who was this dangly and pale one?

"...Oh, don't tell me you're one of her clones? The last one was enough of an eyesore, already..."

Although Virus held his usual murderous and sinister presence, his stance made it abundantly clear that he wasn't too interested in clashing fists with these two once again. The Bio-Weapon had much bigger fish to fry, and he couldn't be bothered to waste his energy on these two.

Then again, he wouldn't simply let them walk away if they decided to get violent about this encounter.

"So, to what do I owe the pleasure of meeting you two again? Don't tell me you followed me all the way to this planet to have your little 'rematch'...I'm quite busy."

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Thread PL: 38,912

KP: 6/6
MP: 0/6
Damage: 0/250%
Word Count: 254

Majin Laezi

A fool? That was pretty rich, coming from such a...Thing, as him. Him? It? Them? Virus was unsure what or who this clone of Liari exactly was to herself. Nor did he really care.

"At least I'm able to form coherent sentences." 

Virus was fairly miffed to find Liari once again, let alone the fact that she seemingly spawned another one of these absurd clones. Was she going to keep duplicating like that? Perhaps he should just kill her.

If anything, Virus was fairly amused when the pale-faced clone hatefully laughed and yelled on about how little Virus meant to them. "Oh?" Virus replied, crossing his arms. "You're awfully angry for someone that seemingly doesn't care...!" The Bio-Weapon grinned tauntingly. 

Virus remained unphased when Kuzam's aura exploded. The ground around them rippled and quaked, with Liari's unconscious body being tossed to the side. The Bio-Weapon matched the Majin's output of energy as his own aura roared to life, standing still and unwavering before the rampaging clone.

"Fine then, let's play!"

Kuzam initiated their fight by throwing a gigantic uppercut toward Virus' chin. The height advantage made it fairly easy for Virus to catch the blow with his raised arms, allowing the fist to sail straight into a set of open palms. The blow was still heavy and resounded across the entire Beri Forest, with Virus being blown back at staggering speeds.

The Bio-Weapon had allowed himself to sail away with the force of Kuzam's punch to minimize the damage, and it took him minimal time to adjust his posture mid-air. Virus flipped gracefully before planting his feet into the side of a large tree, glaring down at the Majin.

"Khrr-kr-kh-kh...."

A slight grin formed on Virus' face as a plan began to form. This single Majin he could handle, but if Liari herself woke up? Now that could be troublesome. The Bio-Weapon would hate to repeat what happened in the North. Far too agonizing. Too annoying.

He had to separate them.

Silently, Virus slid to the other side of the tree and hopped into the surrounding foliage above them, laughing aloud to further provoke Kuzam. While he was hidden from view, his energy signature could be felt skittering around the dense foliage above.

From this cover, a sudden shower of Ki blasts sailed down toward Kuzam at seemingly random intervals, tactfully following his movements until they stopped and continued from a different angle!

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Virus pelts away at Kuzam from a distance with a barrage of Ki blasts from all sides!

Oh, he also transformed, lol.
New PL: 77,824!

KP: 6/6
MP: 1/6
Damage: 0/250%
Word Count: 254 + 403 = 657 

The entire landscape was being devastated by this lunatic.

Mad as he was, Kuzam was smart enough to not take Virus' bait and follow him into the dense foliage. Instead, the Majin resorted to obliterating a sizable chunk of the vast Beri Forest by decapitating rows upon rows of trees.

Virus fled to the other treetops with every chunk that was cut through, peppering Kuzam with a volley of Ki blasts. It was an ineffective and frustrating strategy, one that didn't suit the close-range fighter Virus was.

When he had dashed into the final hiding spot, a strange beam came crackling toward the tree.

"Turn into what now?" The Bio-Weapon asked aloud, instinctively leaping from the treetops.

As he gracefully fell toward the ground, Virus saw the tree behind him quite literally transform into a bar of chocolate, just as the Majin had announced. Virus let out a strange, confused chitter as he kept falling, momentarily forgetting that he was in the midst of battle.

Majins sure were strange creatures.

Virus gritted his pointed teeth as he steeled his muscles, turning mid-air as he set his sights on Kuzam. Somersaulting at breakneck speeds, Virus extended his leg as he came crashing toward the ground, aiming to slam his heel straight into the Majin's soft skull.

Upon landing, Virus kept up his close-range offensive with swiftness and brutality, following with a swift roundhouse kick and a low blow to the Majin's gut.

This one was like Liari, specialized in Ki-based attacks to unleash mass destruction. Virus wasn't going to play on their terms; He'd force them into close-quarters, where he knew he could outsmart and overpower them.

That is, as long as the blue one didn't wake...

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Virus strikes with a [Light]Rending Claw, flavored as a somersault kick! 15,565 damage!

KP: 5/6 (-1)
MP: 3/6 (+2)
Damage: 0/250%
Word Count: 657 + 286 = 943

Virus hissed in frustration; The Majin had managed to narrowly evade his somersault strike. The lethal kick ripped through the atmosphere and caused a gust of wind to slice into the ground below. Attacked with a strange shock of force, Virus was blown back, yet found himself unscathed.

The Biodroid flipped gracefully as he landed on the ground a few feet away from Kuzam, inspecting the strange sensation coursing through his forearms.

"Why, this feels oddly familiar..." Virus mused. "Magic?" 

So, this creature was innately magical? Well, that certainly explained a thing or two. With such strange bodies and features, Virus would be surprised if there hadn't been anything magical to the Majin.

Virus' eyes darted to either side in silence as two large boulders were torn from the ground. He instinctively crouched down and tucked his arms close to his body, before extending them into violent thrusts toward either side as the chunks of rock came closing in on him.

A cloud of smoke and rubble erupted as the boulders slammed into Virus, crumbling completely against his notoriously solid carapace.

Virus smiled through the smoke, red eyes peering through.

"Oh come on. Rocks? Really now?"

But it seemed Kuzam wasn't done with his assault yet. The Majin suddenly opened his mouth and unleashed a wide wave of energy that flooded the entire forest behind Virus. Trees crumbled and evaporated into thin air as the volatile Ki sizzled through, also drenching Virus in it's destructive path.

Yet once the energy subsided, Virus came dashing through.

Leaping like a shark out of water, the Bio-Weapon charged straight toward the Majin with beastly ferocity. Virus kicked off the ground with a powerful step as his claws suddenly were thrown outward, aiming to rip straight through Kuzam as if he were a slab of butter.

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Virus dashes through the energy and attacks Kuzam with [Medium]Rip and Tear for 38,912 damage!

KP: 2/6 (-3)
MP: 5/6 (+2)
Damage: 0/250%
Word Count: 943 + 302 = 1245

The reflexes and reaction speeds of these Majin were certainly something else.

Even when Virus unleashed most of his latent energy into a singular attack, his opponent was able to evade it with minimal motions. He wasn't sure whether to be impressed or angered; And quite honestly felt a little bit of both. So far, Kuzam had been a lot less loud and annoying than Liari, and showed a lot more aptitude for combat than his...Sister? Creator - did.

That wasn't to say Virus wasn't appalled by him. Quite the contrary, really.

"If you'd sit still for two seconds I'd really appreciate...!?-"

Virus cut his own sentence short as he suddenly felt an immense pressure weigh down on him. The Bio-Weapon was in the midst of throwing out another strike toward the grey sorcerer when he suddenly felt the weight of an entire planet bear down on his shoulders.

The pressure was immense and nauseating, but Virus was able to retain his posture- albeit barely. His limbs twitched and he hissed through grated teeth as the very earth beneath him sunk into a condensed crater. A gigantic portion of the Beri Forest was forced into the very depths of Plant itself as the stone rumbled and the earth shattered under the intense gravity.

Try as Kuzam might, Virus was as notoriously difficult to kill as ever.
Have you ever tried to squish a cockroach? A fitting comparison.

With a sharp yell and sudden influx of power, Virus' aura flashed to life around him as he managed to push up and away from the gravity vortex. He flew into the air, arcing himself toward one of the brittle and broken tree stumps a fair distance away from Kuzam and Liari.

As Virus maneauvered himself further and further away from Kuzam, his mind began to race; Virus truly hated it, but it was impossible to engage Kuzam in hand-to-hand combat. Those pesky magicians truly were Virus' worst matchup.

But then, Virus heard something in the distance; A voice.

...Liari?

Virus sneaked a glimpse of the pair in the distance, and sure enough, the blue one had woken up in the midst of all of the chaos. His sensitive hearing picked up the fact that Liari was bickering with her creation...And that's when Virus remembered.

Liari couldn't sense energy.

The Bio-Weapon smirked to himself; What if he could cause a little in-fighting? This certainly was the perfect opportunity for him to sneak out...Well, if an opportunity presented itself, why not make use of it?

From the far distance, Virus stood to his full height and flashed a taunting smile toward Kuzam. Immediately afterward, Virus turned around...And escaped.

"Until next time...!"

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Virus exits! Short but fun thread, hope it leads to some story things hehe

Total Word Count: 1245 + 446 = 1691