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Behemoth Battle

WHO: Graham Specter, Kazuma Kuwabara, Rukia Kuchiki, Yuffie Kisaragi
WHAT: Rukia's got her team of four to go tackle the behemoth in hopes of claiming the fat gil reward to be split between them. Regardless of how it goes, they later hang out to eat. Now they all have the plague.
WHEN: May 8th, 2016 - Noon
WHERE: Monster Arena
NOTE: Even if Rukia's team does defeat it, the reward still stands for others who want to challenge the behemoth either solo or in a team of their own.

As a Beastmaster, Rukia had favored that particular costume over her second job, mostly because the thick furs and sturdy leathers kept her warm during the season of cold weather. Now that spring had spread and temperatures were climbing, she had opted to appear at this battle in the more comfortable and familiar Ninja robes she'd first donned upon awakening in the city all those months ago.

The four of them stood behind the gate of iron bars that led into the Arena. Rukia's hand rested upon the handle of her katana, which remained sheathed at her hip for the time being. She hadn't yet summoned her pets, as she would need to gauge the situation before deciding which to bring to the front of combat. Yuki was likely her best bet, as the chocobo could heal, and the rest of her companions were well-suited for dealing heavy damage.

She also neglected to use her Invisibility skill. If she did this, the others were more likely to be targeted and attacked by the behemoth. Unless she became gravely injured, she would appear alongside the others.

Twice.

While she didn't plan to go invisible unless it was a last resort, having a clone of herself at the ready would be quite useful indeed.

The rattle of a metal chain clinked rhythmically as their gate slowly began to rise. On the other side of the arena, she could see the behemoth snorting and tearing at the ground behind its own enormous gate, beady eyes locked on the Heroes it was about to fight. "Is everyone prepared?" she asked, drawing her sword and gripping it tightly.

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They seemed to be handling themselves well. No one had taken any serious damage, and seemed adept at making full use of their Job-learned skills. Rukia was starting to feel pretty good about their chances.

Until the Behemoth stepped on her clone, with a wet burst of bright scarlet and smoke from under its foot. What remained was a dark, greasy smear where nothing would ever grow again.

Rukia grimaced. There hadn't been much warning, nor had there been a means to anticipate the errant step. It served as a good reminder not to get too comfortable.

As Yuffie was already pretty quick on her feet, Rukia placed her next Haste spell upon Kuwabara. "Be wary!" she warned. "We haven't managed to fatigue it just yet!" The behemoth only seemed more agitated and powerful, lowering its head to point its horns at the nearest Hero and charge with the intent of impaling them.

Yuffie tumbled right into Kuwabara. It was a pretty controlled roll by the time that she collided with the teen. She grinned at him before lightly landing on the ground. It was a pretty great landing and no one went sprawling in random directions so that was a win in her book.

Then the beast roared. "Oh shit, right. I'm going for the other joint. Good just aiming for the legs." She offers the orange haired by another smile before blinking from sight and appeared on the other side of the Behemoth. Her blades flicked into her palm as the Behemoth continued to stomp around. It had magic, she knew, but she hoped that they'd piss it off enough that it would forget that fact.

As the beast roared, Graham made his next move. While everyone was smartly moving away from the Behemoth's head to avoid the horns, he was going right back for it. As it opened its mouth to voice its displeasure, Graham jumped lithely right towards it, as if he was going to jump right in.

Even Graham's not that rash. Instead, as he gets close, he grabs one of the monster's teeth with the jaws of his wrench. As he does, he activates his Shunshin, boosting his speed to a blinding pace, as he pulls in the opposite direction. Doctor Graham Specter, monster dentist, at your service. There's more resistance than he was expecting, but he tooth comes out and Graham lands smoothly. Almost. The enraged Behemoth gets a lucky kick in on its speedy target as he jumps down, sending Graham flying like a ragdoll. He manages to recover quickly thanks to his increased agility, but damn, that hurt. He opens his mouth to start up a rant, but the wind has been knocked out of him.

He grins at her in return for hers. Of course he was pretty damn proud that he was able to catch her with her help of course. When the girl gets out of the way, he moves as well, running straight for the feet again as a signal when Yuffie said to continue hacking at its feet.

"I got this!"

Kuwabara's weapon was sharp enough to slowly start drilling holes into the large creatures as he repeatedly hits the right spots. Of course, it didn't appreciate his over abuse of hits leg, so he he screeched angrily attempting to stomp him out of existence. Too bad for them that Kuwabara was pretty good on his feet and rolled away only to be sent flying by an unexpected stomp if agitation when it was getting hit again.

'Damn it that hurt."

He grumbled as he pulled himself back to his feet and getting out of the way of another stomp. He winces when he saw Graham get sent flying. Yikes, he hopes the other is okay. He liked to help but he was a little caught up.

The behemoth snorted, great billowing clouds of steam escaping its nostrils as it hunkered down, pulling up its muscular shoulders. It snorted again.

Then green flashes of light sparkled in the air around it, and its wounds began to close.

Rukia stared in disbelief. It could heal itself?! Damn! It was no wonder this thing carried such a hefty reward for its defeat. She was about to cast Haste on Yuffie, but now she realized a different tactic might be in order.

"Is anyone using magic?" she shouted. "If not, I'm going to cast Reflect on the creature!"

Yuffie glanced around and noted everyone's weapons, sure they were capable of using magic but no one was. At Rukia's idea she smirked, her dark eyes flashing happily. "Cast it!"

She blinked again, disappearing in a puff of purple only to appear overhead. Her large blade circled from her palm and scraped along the back of the creature's neck. It reared it's head upward and Yuffie caught herself on one of the Behemoth's horns. She grinned at Graham who's now the closest too her before catching her spinning blade and readying another attack.

It's fights like this that she enjoys.

Back on his feet, Graham is ready to make the time left on his Shunshin before it's gone. Getting booted apparently hasn't taught him any lessons, as he ran right back at the Behemoth's face, grinning like the madman he is.

Instead of the beast's teeth, this time, the target is its nose. He jumped right at it, swinging the wrench like a baseball bat and landing one nasty-sounding hit. The Behemoth might be more startled than hurt from that, but it does succeed in stopping it for just a moment as it shakes its head.

Graham laughs manically, triumphantly.

"YEAH! Weak points, everyone has the same weak points whether they're man or beast! It's what brings us together!"

"That's right we got this!" he shouted as he hacked at the limb he was focusing on. Eventually, it looked like was starting to work out because the poor beast was starting to stumble some, but clearly they need to do more damage than they were.

"What they said just cast the damn spell!"

He shouted back since anything could help this time. They just had to make sure it was beaten and taken down so things would run a bit more smoothly. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed but he was pretty damn good at being a tank and taking damage for folks. He's going to focus on that if anything.

"No need to be rude about it," Rukia grumbled, connecting her will with Yuki's. She could feel the chocobo's pride and dignity, bright and unyielding, and whispered the silent command. Yuki's bright green feathers fluttered as she hunkered, then threw back her head, casting the Reflect magic upon the Behemoth.

And none too soon. It had just started to cast another Cure spell to erase the injuries that had just been inflicted upon it. Instead the spell bounced off of the magic shield, reflected onto Graham instead.

Realizing what had just happened, the Behemoth roared with anger, and lowered its head to charge Rukia and her beast companion.

Hastily, Rukia dismissed Yuki, but there wasn't enough time to call for another companion before the Behemoth plowed into her. Rukia's reflexes were enough to spare her from being speared clean through on the behemoth's horn, but it still took a nasty slice out of her, throwing back the tiny shinigami and spattering the arena wall behind her with a fresh splash of her blood. She clutched at her right arm as she fell to her knees with a gasp of pain, unwittingly exposed to the virus that the behemoth carried.

"Rukia!"

Yuffie blinked in a puff of dark smoke. She slipped the potion from her pocket and then place it in front of Rukia before turning to the Behemoth which was dangerously close to them.

"Bastard!" She threw her blade, watching as it spun and slashed across the creature's face. She's taking Graham's approach with it. She ran forward, heedless of the danger. She'd rather it attack her and give Rukia time to recover. The creature roared up. "Oh shit!"

Yuffie tried to pause in her running at it when it's two large feet crashed back down, shaking the ground and anyone caught beneath his strike.

Graham is stunned for a moment as the ground shakes, unable to move, but thankfully wasn't under the creature's feet as it landed. Unhappy about the nasty hit it just gave Rukia, he runs to the side where Kuwabara is, throwing some knives at the same spot he'd been hitting. Considering that does twice as much damage as normal, the Behemoth is deeply unhappy with that hit.

"Rukia-san!"

Kuwabara shouted when he saw the girl get hit. He moved out of the way just as Graham was aiming for the same spot, making a quick 180, he rushed to get a hold of Rukia while Yuffie was slashing the creature for cutting her. God damn it all! This wasn't suppose to happen like this and he wasn't the type to sit around and watch a girl get hurt. He was going to go after her and make sure she was safe.

He moved in front of the other readying to attack the screeching beast that was now pissed that its face got slashed and legs were knifed. He lets out a large roar as he swiped angrily at the two that were going at it with him.

It was evident that no one involved in this fight was having a good time. Graham was frowning. Kuwabara was worried. Yuffie was doing her best to divert the behemoth's attention. Rukia was struggling to tend to her injuries. And most of all, the behemoth continued to take its beatings. It knew better now than to try healing itself, and snorted in frustration. Muscled purple flesh rippled with its powerful movements as it thrashed and fought to savage the latest wave of challengers who dared to go up against it.

It took a step back, then another, oddly docile. Was it surrendering?

Rukia reached for the potion with a quick word of thanks to Yuffie, but her fingers froze as she noticed small rocks starting to rise from the dust. What was this...? Yuki was squawking in a panic, and for a moment Rukia furrowed her brow. Then her eyes widened.

"TAKE COVER!" she shouted. "It's casting Ultima!" Quickly she downed the potion, but even with that, she wasn't sure she'd survive the spell. A snap of her fingers dismissed Yuki so she wouldn't get caught in the blast. Her head jerked sharply toward Kuwabara as she reached out to grasp his sleeve. "Get beneath the creature. I don't think the spell will extend there!"

“COME ON!”

Yuffie waved to Rukia and Kuwabara trying her best to make sure that everyone was safe before taking cover herself. Graham was in a good place to duck and hide beneath the monster but Kuwabara and Rukia were still against the far wall. She dashed towards the pair with the intent to help though she wasn’t sure if she’d be quick enough to avoid the blast.

She gritted her teeth, swallowing her frustration before turning on her heels. Time, they needed time. “I GOT IT!” She put her hands together casting haste on Rukia. Kuwabara already had it and she hoped it would be enough to help her move from the path of the spell.

Good advice. Surely it wouldn't cast the spell on itself. He slid underneath the creature and as far as he could towards the others while still in hiding. Graham wasn't the best team player, but he didn't really want the others getting wasted by an Ultima spell. Not Rukia, anyway. The best he could do from there was offer an arm to whoever could make it in time, and pull them under.

"Got it. Hold on Rukia-san!"

He shouted back as he made some quick observation to see how he'd get underneath the creature.

Kuwabara took the effort to probably lead Rukia to safety first since she was the one with injuries compared to his own. Kuwabara was the tough type that could handle a couple of injuries and still stay standing out of sheer will.

When Yuffie called to them he dived as fast as he could, while attempting to take Rukia with him so they could all take cover at the same

Fortunately for Rukia, her small size made her more than portable. Useful when being carted around by Heroes, less so when being manhandled by Aizens. Assuming Kuwabara had no objections, she swung herself up onto his back, gripping his shoulders without putting her arms around his neck so that his movement remained relatively unhampered.

It seemed everyone had made it to the safe zone. The behemoth snorted angrily, attempting to slap them away with its deadly tail. Once they were there, Rukia slid off of Kuwabara's back and knelt on the ground, breathing heavily.

~~Then the behemoth's legs shot out and it belly flopped on top of all of them. BAD END.~~

As she caught her breath, she glanced up, curious as to why the behemoth wasn't moving out of its spot. Did that mean it couldn't be selective about who the Ultima spell? If it was an area-of-effect spell, that meant it could be hurt by its own magic. Reflect couldn't stop that kind of powerful magic, and it didn't seem like the spell could be interrupted or stopped.

Rukia had an idea.

"Can we drive it from this spot?" her head snapped around to fix on the others. "If we can make it move forward a couple of feet, that should be all we need." Just to get its head into the spell range... That would almost certainly do it.

Yuffie was trying to think of a way to make a semi-intelligent monster step into its own attack. Live bait is out of the question, she doubted it could move while it was casting. Pushing the creature forward also seemed like an equally ridiculous idea which meant that she had no idea.

“Okay, great plan…” She began as if she might have an idea. “I don’t know how to do that.”

Nope, no ideas.

Graham doesn't have the strength he used to, which is too bad, since they could really use it right now. But he's still a maxed Assassin, so he wasn't a weakling either. Maybe, with the help of all the others, they could get this thing to move.

Using his wrench as leverage, he started to push on one of its front legs, in the hopes of getting it to slide or stumble, or anything.

"If we want it to move, then we make it move!"

Kuwabara casually drops Rukia down as carefully as he could, while looking her over and seeing if he had potions or something he could give her to heal the opened injuries. Of course, he hears about the idea of making sure it moves and what better choice than to have him do that alongside with whoever else wanted to.

He's pretty good at playing bait after all.

"Leave it ta me and help cover me. I got this beast!"

He then runs forward and throws his Javelin straight at the beast, causing a loud painful reaction from it when he finally connected the attack. He used all his powers to make sure it was lodged in the creature enough so that it would freak out.

Hopefully everyone was prepared to do some fancy footwork, because once that javelin dug into the behemoth's softer and less protected underside, it did indeed 'freak out.' It freaked out a lot.

The creature thrashed and roared loud enough to cause pain to anyone too close to the source of the noise. Rukia winced, her hands rising almost automaticallly to clap over her ears to protect them. But there were also four large feet stamping around and a lashing tail that had to be avoided.

In short, no one was going to come out of this encounter completely unscathed. There was a reason these creatures were so dangerous.

However, the end result was far more beneficial to the party than the behemoth, as its thrashing forced it to move outside the protected area where the spell had been cast. Blue light bloomed from the ground, enveloping all it touched in blazing, fierce energy. It ripped into the behemoth's left side where it had blundered in a frantic attempt to get at the javelin, leaving large gashes and splits in its tough hide to expose bloodied red muscle, and a flash of white from one of its more prominent ribs. Even part of its face had been torn away, and the result was a nauseating visage that would likely haunt any who laid eyes on it.

Also, it wasn't dead.

Rukia knelt on one knee, panting heavily, and locked her fingers together before making a wild slashing gesture. Hades, formerly known as the Reaper, spun itself into existence out of a plume of red smoke, and conjured an enormous cauldron in front of it. Perhaps now that part of the creature was exposed, it might be more vulnerable to their attacks. It was worth a shot in any case, as Rukia unleashed a wave of debilitating status effects on the wounded beast.

The roaring was enough to give Yuffie a headache, the beasts stomping only made it worse. She worked to keep her feet beneath her and her torso out of the way of the behemoth's feet. She jumps crashing hard to the ground to stay out of the way. She'll have a lot of bruises and she might have sprained her left wrist but she'll be otherwise alive.

Everything hurt but she looked up to see the Behemoth as the spell was released.

Yuffie watched the daunting reaper appear and for a second just stared. She let the moment end and threw everything she had left at the beast. She felt the ache in her joints recced as a furrow of blades went soaring towards the downed monster.]

Since Graham had the unfortunate position of holding onto one of the beast's legs when it starts to freak out. He was kicked aside rather viciously, send sliding in the dirt, almost knocking him out of the safe radius. Unsteadily, he gets to his feet, but manages to risk getting close to it once again. It's the only way he can use Life Thief to heal himself; otherwise he'd be useless. He backs up as soon as he can from the monster in the hopes of not getting stomped on again.

Kuwabara rolled a good few feet himself as he used himself as mostly a shield for his teammates when things got really rough. Even if they didn't need it as much as he thought they did, Kuwabara still took the liberties for himself. Hopefully they're all okay because of it. He's covered in a bunch of cuts and bruises-- a typical thing for him, really.

He's staring at the giant angry creature that wasn't yet dead. Aw, c'mon seriously!? Just die already god damn it. He didn't want to deal with its angry stomping or swinging anymore. He did his best to shake off the damage and getting back to his feet. He's read to back up anyone if they need it.

The roars of anger soon became roars of pain. Then they became roars of nothing at all, because the Silence status effect had kicked in.

Finally! No more Meteor, Flare, or Ultima to worry about. The Heroes tore at it with every last bit of strength they had. Finally, at long last, it emitted a quiet keening groan and collapsed heavily on its side. It lay still.

Victory. Friggin'. Fanfare.

The doors to the Colosseum slid open, and Rukia dropped to one knee with a shaky sigh of relief. She was completely exhausted, but happy. "Well done," she panted, chuckling. "You all fought magnificently."

Yuffie fell back on her ass with a wide grin. "That was awesome because no one died!" They were all pretty banged up though.

She looked from Rukia to the other two. "How you guys holdin' up?"

Graham was doing a bit better after stealing some health from the beast before it collapsed. He merrily tossed his wrench back and forth from hand to hand.

"All in a day's work! I need more challenges like this in my life. I was almost not bored for a few minutes there!"

Kuwabara staggers a little bit even though there's a huge dorky grin on his face as Rukia and the others are celebrating their victory. He made a peace sign with them before falling backwards with a thud.

Looks like Mr. Kuwabara exhausted himself. Man, did he need a damn nap.

"Yeah-- man we got 'im good damn."

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sorry a lot of stuff happened and i couldn't tag! forgive me for being really late!

It was only three days, that's not bad at all.

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