Private At Death's Door

[Ala Quin]

The Draelvasier's impact upon Ala's Force Shield was unrelenting. As it persisted, the floor below her began to buckle and strain. The first sign of imminent danger in this regard came when the floor gave just a little, and Ala slipped out of her lotus position, eyes opened and hands hit the floor to regain balance. Her shield dropped in that moment, but the beasts next blow was already coming. Her hands lifted, eminating a brief blue tinge of shield, but then at the last moment she rolled to the side and grabbed strap on the beasts right wrist.

As the floor gave way, Ala fell for a moment, but only as far as Argaloth's fists travelled downward, and then she was jerked upwards away from the gaping wound in the ships interior. Dangling from the creatures arm, Ala felt herself beig thrashed about by the beast as she struggled to get any footing on the creatures bulked up arm.

With one of Argaloth's attempts to dislodge Cas, she found her knees colliding with the arm of the monster and then she had just a moment to grab her saber, point it and ignite it.

The beasts on flailing momentum saw her blade enter its forearm, run up his arm slicing through the band that held her old sabers to the creatures wrist and cutting through between its index and middle fingers, its thumb going along with the small segment of its hand that had been lopped off.

Being thrown from the creature, Ala found herself impacting a jagged piece of wall, very nearly impaling herself upon it. The wind momentarily knocked out of her, she understood that this was their moment of escape. Their last possible moment, at that.

"What are you waiting for, Cas?" She said, eyes not showing the humorous intent of her words.

With that, she turned, and ran back towards the direction of the hangar.

| Argaloth | Cadere | Mathieu Brion |​

 

[Cadere]

With the confirmation of the last escape pod departing, Cas felt slight relief before realising that there were still Bryn forces outside of the Carrier - he hoped, prayed that by some miracle the pod would make it out safely. Not to mention that he and Ala had no way of escaping the rapidly descending ship and that this would, likely, be where all three died. Remorseful at the fact he never got to say goodbye to his loved ones, Cas still took pleasure at the fact that Argaloth would be dying with them... avenging the lives that monster had took on Nar Kreeta and many other planets.

Cas' gaze fell upon the broad descending arms of Argaloth, the Jedi Knight reactively lunged forward and over the barrier created by Ala. Seeing as how the Knightess's barrier could hold back Argaloth's strength, Cas knew she'd be okay. At least for now. When he reached the floor, Cas' arms stabilised his fall before he transitioned into a forward roll to ease his landing, spinning around he turned to face Argaloth and Ala's barrier. Every hit created a tremor that shook the hallway, lowering his gaze, the Kiffar noticed the ground under Ala begin to give way and before he could warn her it completely gave way.

His heart skipped a beat but he quickly calmed once he saw Ala hadn't fell through and had, in fact, managed to hold onto the colossal Bryn's forearm. "Oh, crap." he blurted out as he watched the Drael launch itself at him, propelling backward, Cas' body shifted into a backflip before he landed just a few feet away from where Argaloth would have flattened him. The onslaught didn't stop there though, the large monster continued attacking as his arms flailed around wildly - with Ala still attached to one of his arm's Cas wasn't able to fight back without risking hurting Ala.

The Jedi Knight would have to simply back-pedal from the Bryn's attacks, acrobatically evading the swinging arms of the giant Draelvasier, as well as whatever debris came with it, until he or Ala could figure out what to do. Thankfully, it wasn't too long as his fellow Knight managed to injure Argaloth... or at the very least slow him down long enough. Surprisingly, an outside signal was attempting to patch into his comms, after Cas allowed access what came from the other side sent a wave of ease through his body. It was none other than Mathieu Brion!

With the time granted, Cas ran toward and proceeded to laucnh himself over Argaloth's shoulders, landing a few metres behind the monster. Turning to face the Drael, the Jedi Knight threw his arms upward toward the hallway's metallic ceiling. His fingers curled as he poured the Force's telekinetic energy into the ceiling's components, throwing his arms downward the ceiling simultaneously would collapse onto the Bryn monster. Spinning back around, the Jedi Knight rushed toward the hangar close behind Ala. Raising his comm, the Jedi spoke into it ::Matty! You son of a Kath Hound's mother! It's me, Cassie! We're headed to the hangar, well, what's left of it! Meet us there!:: he exclaimed into his wrist communicator. "Looks like things are looking up for us, Ala!"

Guess the Force wasn't done with Cas nor Ala yet, it wasn't their time to die.

Argaloth Mathieu Brion Ala

 

[Argaloth(Dead)]

Tag: Cadere | Ala | Mathieu Brion

Snarling and roaring at Cas, the sudden removal of Argaloth's index, middle finger and thumb were enough to cause the massive beast to stop attacking them for just a second. though, that second was only a second as Argaloth's body already began the regeneration process giving the two Jedi front view to the Bryn's incredible regeneration ability.

However, due to Ala's strike, causing Argaloth to stop for a brief second, it gave Cas just enough time to use the already falling apart ceiling upon of the Bryn. Much didn't manage to damage or even penetrate Argaloth's natural armour, but that quickly changed as huge metallic beams thrusting the natural armour and shattering itself through Argaloth. Argaloth released a rage-inducing bellow that thundered its cry of pain as everything else Cas managed to tear free slammed into Argaloth. Not only did Cas manage to temporarily trap Argaloth to the floor, but the floor gave in, demolishing it, causing Argaloth to drop and free-falling into the massive open engine room

The last thing they would see, or hear if they didn't look back, was the echoing roar of Argaloth disappearing through the floor. Unfortunately for the two Jedi, a chain reaction in the entire self-made floor in the massive self-made Bryn corridor began to give in and would swallow them both if they didn't manage to get back to the hanger in time.

However they managed to outrun the crumbling floor to the hanger, they would find safe ground in the hanger and able to stand by the edge in the hanger bay and see down in the expansive engine room. The engine room itself was engulfed in flames as an explosion had gone off and even after that if both Jedi stared into the massive engine room, they could see the silhouette of Argaltoh still being alive.

Argaloth had against all odds, survived everything thrown at him, while heavily damaged and very hurt, thanks to his regeneration ability he was slowly healing and climbing his way up towards the opening to the hanger.

 

[Ala Quin]

The ship was falling apart around them. The loud groans of metal twisting and warping drowned out all possibility of verbal communication. Ala did not look back, had she done so, she would have seen the floor bending and breaking away from where her feet had just been. Jumping, rolling, hurdling her way towards the hangar.

The carnage within the hangar was enough to wrench Ala’s senses back from the pure survivor instinct that had gotten her through the ‘tunnel’ created by the Draevasier.

If there was to be any way for them to survive, there would need to be a ride of this coffin in the sky.

| Argaloth | Cadere | Mathieu Brion |​

 

[Cadere]

Cas' breathing was rapid, his lungs taking in as much oxygen as they could amidst the burning smoke and his own sprinting. His ears perked at Argaloth's bellowing, prompting him to turn around and see if the beast had finally been put down. A wave of relief washed over him as he saw the Bryn's colossal frame sink into the floor beneath them but dread quickly returned when he noticed the DIY hallway made by Argaloth was collapsing around them. They were cutting it close, really close, but Cas wouldn't be Cas if he wasn't in a death defying scenario at least once a week.

Returning to the hangar, all they needed to do now was wait for the cavalry to arrive. Assuming they'd get here in time. "Where're those damn shuttles?" Cas asked aloud to no one in particular. The Kiffar could sense the danger hadn't left yet, which only meant one thing, Argaloth was somehow still alive. Glancing toward the engine room, his eyes widened in surprise at Argaloth's frame being lit by the embers surrounding him. Letting out an annoyed sigh, hope engulfed the Jedi Knight as he heard the engines of a shuttle enter the hangar bay.

Without hesitation, as soon as the shuttle door's slid open, Cas' leapt upward and landed not so gracefully inside. Still not having got up, he yelled toward the shuttle pilot "We gotta go, man! Like, yesterday!" and without another word, the shuttles took off into the starry void. Cas Tynen would narrowly live to fight another day.

Argaloth Ala

 

[Argaloth(Dead)]

Tag: Cadere | Ala

The moment the shuttle arrived amidst the crumbling capital ship, Argaloth finally made his way up to the other end of the hanger, bloodied and deeply wounded. Locking all his eyes to the shuttle, seeing his prey getting away he launched himself into a rage-filled bull charge, the colossal Ravager almost made it as he prepared mid dash to jump into the air and shred the shuttle to pieces and finally kill the two remaining Jedi. However, the impact on the planet sent a massive chain reaction of explosions through the entire ship. Right in front of both Jedi eyes, they witness a fireball of destruction consume the hanger in fire devouring Argaloth and almost taking the shuttle as well. Hadn't it been for the pilot's aggressive bolted strafe out of the hanger, they all would have died.

The last thing Ara and Cas would see of Argaloth was his hatred filled face and the bellowed filled air that soon was drowned in the capital ship's explosion. Staying safely in the air, the shuttle quickly made its way towards their own frigate and safety. An already long tail of dirt, debris and smoke followed the still moving capital ship until it hit a mountain blowing up one last time.

With nothing left for Cas and Ara, they would finally get a moment of rest with two first-class seats to the burning wreck that was now the graveyard for the Ravenger Bryn'adûl named Argaloth.

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