deercountry | here comes the sun

[Needless to say, he's been having a blast with these portals. Seeing other worlds, whether it be talking to people or fighting monsters, it's been wildly interesting and he's still wandering about. Something that will cost him later, but for now...he's more interested in the wolf fighting what looked like a great beast, sporting eight heads with various helms on each individual head. It seems Inazuman in nature, but their snake god only had one head.

But surely, the wolf won't mind his help right? It looks like an amazing battle.]

Hey pup! [He says brightly, making his entrance just as one of the heads breathes fire, his hydro blades forming a double bladed polearm that erupts with water as he spins it to block the flames.]

You don't mind me joining you, do you? [He asks, still weary of Orochi's other heads that could attack at any moment.] I'm pretty good in a fight.

[ her ink pots at the very least would be saved a stroke with the unexpected help— what most people have seen as a friendly, graceful creature exposes herself as the beast she is: a feral wolf with hackles raised and fangs clearly bare, her tail flagging high and her triangle ears pinning forward like the devil’s horns. one of the snake’s massive heads is pelted with water that douses the fire away, and gives her a chance to guide the yokai’s sake into his mouth in a stream.

the snake haggles and chokes until that very head begins to hang in stupor; another with the helmet of gales throws wind at the newcomer, while the thunderous one meets the wolf’s dash with a following slither. ]

You must truly be at your worst if you need assistance with me, O’ Wild One.

[ she seems focused on the second head, and she doesn’t seem to mind if childe takes the third. there’re eight heads to share, after all, and as the wolf snarls loudly in retaliation, the head that sparks electricity narrows his eyes. ]

How dare you, [ the head that throws powerful winds lunges for childe, and the tundra head begins to follow suit, they all scream: ] pessstsss!!

[The gales find themselves smashing up against a previously invisible shield that glows blue with hydro, his arm coming up to fuel power into reinforcing the barrier as the element threatens to break the shield. This monster is already incredibly amusing for him, catching how the stream of sake is forced down the gullet of one of the heads. Huh.

As the head lunges for the Harbinger, he laughs wildly, leaping up to try to land on its forehead- but finding a barrier there, which pushes him back. He expertly lands on his feet, quickly analyzing the situation. Interesting. You can't even get through...and it seems like that monster can understand this strange looking wolf. Interesting indeed...

Though he still has problems, having to leap back from getting snapped in half by the tundra head.]

Oh ho~ so it can talk? Too bad your skills aren't as refined as your speech, haha. [He taunts, directly addressing Orochi.] C'mon! I know you can do better than that!

[And just to add insult to injury, a hydro bow quickly forms in his hand to shoot an arrow right at the head of the lightning head that Ammy is fighting. He knows it won't actually do anything, given the barrier- he wants to make it mad so it opens its mouth again.

He wants to know what's up with the sake.]

[ the thunder head boils with the taunting from such an insolent thing, turning its attention only briefly before it gave amaterasu the chance to jump away from its electric bolts. orochi gapes his mouth wide to roar at her in anger, and there, the harbinger would see again: the pooling sake from underneath the serpent streams into his mouth and forced down. the head hangs, dizzy as the first.

the hydro head (which i previously named “tundra” and that’s wrong, i apologize!) throws it’s neck high to spew water forth and pelt the harbinger, flooding the area; only a distraction to allow leeway for the head to strike, mouth agape once again. with one of the heads that carry the helmet of poison keeping the wolf from joining him, amaterasu barks: ”there!” ]

Edited 2022-04-16 13:06 (UTC)

[This wolf has to be doing it. Sake doesn't just rush up into one's mouth on its own, and there's nothing else here that could possibly manipulate it. He takes note, ready to do the same when the opportunity presents itself. Figuring out what exactly Ammy is will be addressed as soon as they take down this monster, as the water spews forth and floods the area.

But what this monster doesn't know is that water is his bread and butter element, and he easily hydroplanes across the newly formed lake, his hand reaching down to stream the sake into the mouth of the hydro head, intoxicating it with the alcohol and watching as it gets drunk off of it. He watches as it becomes completely incapacitated, eyes widening. Perfect.]

Thanks! Hahahaha!

[He waves to Ammy as the water recedes and his feet touch solid ground once again, and looks towards the poison head. Now he knows how he can help. If she can't get the sake in the mouth, he can- and vice versa. What a ridiculous weakness.]

[ yes, boy, it's ridiculous. it's funny. and it's the best way to bring an enemy down, by shots. the snake head dawning the "poison" helmet is up next, and from its poor position, it spews putrid venom— amaterasu retaliates with the wind. she draws a curve through the celestial brush and summons a gale, throwing the attack off and giving childe an opening to serve the serpent its drink.

when its had its fill, all heads lose their equilibrium; they all hit the ground with a deafening tremble, leaving the mounted bell on its back wide open. the she-wolf barks to warn the young aid by her side and runs in that very direction to deliver a series of detrimental, slashing blows with solar flare. the bell rings with each blow, and cracks, cracks— ]

[He gladly takes the opening, amazed at the gale that blows away the poisonous attack as he runs and slides to put his hands in the sake, letting it flow upwards and down the snake's gullet. He leaps up and dodges the head hurtling down from its position as it slams into the ground, turning his head to take Ammy's direction to run up the demon's body. He sprints after her, careful not to slip as he makes his way up the neck of one of the heads, the weapon on her back being unleashed over and over.

It's gorgeous in its display if he's being honest, the flames of the divine weapon scorching across the air as it doles out punishment.

His double bladed hydro polearm appears in his hand, and he torques his body to deliver a fatal blow to the bell that cracks it completely, as a fire breaks out in the center once it's broken. He leaps back, shielding his eyes and not quite understanding what they'd done. Had they defeated it?]

Hey! [He calls to her, confident now in how she's communicated with him that she might understand him.]The wind that blows here still carries the scent of battle- were we able to break its barrier by destroying that bell?

[ amaterasu snarls louder in response to the other, a loud, gargling bark over the echoing signs of a bell cracking from top to bottom. yes, that was the answer. the bell was the source. of course, the serpent isn't down yet. the ground beneath their feet begins to tremble and quake, black iron scales begin to shiver and wave with the muscle it covers.

the wolf pounces off the back of the beast before they rise, snapping part of her helper's, be it an arm or armor, between her jaws to tug out of the way. orochi still had it in him, and now all heads rise in spitting anger. ]

I am not dead by your likes. Darkness will always prevail.

[Ammy grabs a hold of his sleeve and he feels himself getting tugged away in the nick of time, as Orochi raises from the ground to stare them both down. Childe looks back up at the demon, eyes narrowed but glowing with excitement. There was still more fight to be had, and he couldn't of asked for a better opportunity.]

I don't think you've been in too many battles then if you think that, [says the young man,] because what difference does it make between good and evil, light and dark...you're just one more foe to slay, ahahahahaha.

So make sure you're entertaining.

[The grin on his own face drips of bloodthirst, glancing over at Ammy. Let's do it, let's take this guy down. It'll be fun.]

[ childe almost sounds like waka there, for a second, and the can't help but to gawk a little. yes, gawk. just stare with wide eyes and a gaping maw, but— well, no time for staring! they had a snake to fry. well, eight snakes.

the round is the same as the last, sans the nasty barrier keeping them from slaying the demon clean. the helmet that represents darkness throws buds, plenty of them, all pulsing with something nasty inside their blooms. ammy can do this one, using bloom to bring one to a full, enriched blossom that shows nothing but beauty. letting them open on their own would crack open a cursed zone. but if childe can manage the serpent opening its jaws— she can handle the others. ]

[He catches her gawking at him. Good! He likes it when people gawk at him. He likes the attention, because he's a brat.

He dodges when the cursed buds come down, not letting the divine power that Ammy uses to make them all bloom into dazzling blossoms distract him from their goal. That sake gets forced down the gullet of the demon's head again, and now with a gleeful laugh that's coated with bloodlust, he goes after it with blades drawn and fierce strikes as the head crashes to the ground.

He'll have to put this down in the books as one of the strangest fights he's ever had, and one of the most entertaining, too.]

[ they're almost there. the head childe fights takes a nasty blow, and ammy herself focuses on bringing the remaining heads to the ground. with electricity, with inferno, with wind. one more barricading shot at the bell, well—

child is doing a fantastic job, holding his own. as orochi drops to expose his fractured bell, amaterasu only stares at the other fighting with her. well, go on. deal the final blow! ]

[Oh, he would love, love to do that.

Leaning back, his right leg bends downward in a half crouch while he sticks his left leg out in front of him to balance himself, a bow appearing in his hand to replace the hydro blades. Hydro energy splashes all around him, as if he were the vortex of a storm in the middle of the ocean, aiming right at the bell.]

Celestial Voyager!

[But once the arrow is released, it's really not an arrow at all, but the hydro mimic of a giant narwhal who is his constellation in the night sky, Monoceros Caeli. It seems to breach the ocean he's created under his feet, slamming into it and shattering what's left.]

[ it was a beautiful and triumphant display. it wasn’t all the time that amaterasu could sit back and enjoy the imagery. the shattering of ice-like fractures of water, the deliverance of judgement and the dissipation of darkness. orochi roars his very last before all of his needy sounds cracks. his heads fall, his scales peel away, and his body leaves like ash in the wind.

with his defeat, the wolf throws her head back and yowls, long, triumphant and congratulatory. even moon presence seems to shine stronger. ]

Edited 2022-04-29 01:27 (UTC)

[Standing back up, he grins wickedly at the slain foe, as it flicked away into nothing. What an exhilarating battle, despite its strangeness and ridiculousness of having to get it drunk in order to defeat it. But nonetheless, he still enjoyed it.

His hand finds his hip as Ammy does her victory howl, walking up to her and really taking the time to examine his ally in this fight.

A wolf, with red markings all over her body, fur taking the form of flames that protrude from her shoulders, joints and tail with a weapon that thrummed with power as it burned brightly atop her back, rainbow colors flowing downward towards her tail. He doesn't dare touch her, though he doesn't fully understand what he's looking at, he doesn't want to risk it right now.]

You know, we make a pretty good team.

[He grins at her, even if the light radiating from her body kind of hurts his eyes to directly look at her.]

[ yes, that they do. excellent job, you hungry lad! amaterasu stands before him with less of the look of a feral beast and more of a . . . happy, tail-wagging dog.

who is approaching him with a panting, canine grin. she's getting too close to him to readily be ignored, but at least, from body language? she's completely friendly. ]

[Oh, here she comes. That's a happy dog if he's ever seen one. Even as she approaches, he doesn't move, not afraid. Just unsure if he should...

His hand reaches out tentatively, before beginning to give her a good scratch between her ears. Those red markings don't look like paint or anything, as if he roots themselves were red. And somehow, he's not surprised.]

Haha, you know, for a magical battle-ready wolf, you're pretty cute. Since I'm pretty sure you can understand me, what is it? Magic? An innate power granted by the gods? Or perhaps divinity itself?

[ amaterasu’s ears make way for much loved petting, allowing her tail to rob back and forth now that she’s pleased with the praise. she listens, attentively, and with every possibility childe mouths, she stops breathing, closes her maw and tilts her head just enough to show question.

once he gets to “divinity itself”— she barks! woof! ]

[His eyes widen, though they are not of surprise of being in the presence of a god, but rather, the fact that this wolf he's just met is a god.]

Well I'll be. I guess the bright light should of tipped me off from the start.

[One eye closes as the other one squints, as he looks directly at her again. Ammy, you are truly the best flashlight in Trench. He sits down on the ground now, to start giving her some good full body rubs since it seems like she's enjoying this.]

Perhaps I'll introduce you to my friend here. In my world, he's the god of the wind and freedom- the sacrosanct Anemo Archon. We go drinking from time to time, haha. I bet he'd love to meet you.

[ a friend! of the wind, no less! she’ll have you know, she too is friends with the god of winds. amaterasu summons a gentle little breeze to convey . . . something, about the wind, with her grin and panting. she’s having the time of her life with these full out body rubs!

itch here, and there—! she’d love to meet your friend, and she’d love more rubbies, please. ]

[The wind makes his long bangs swish to the side, laughing when he realizes she's done it- and keeps giving her those good rubbies because she deserves them.]

Sounds like you're interested. Alright. I'll introduce the two of you later. But for now, let's rub that tummy too, haha.

[And he pet her for as long as she wanted before parting ways. He'll be able to find her later- he's Fatui, he can find anyone.]

here comes the sun

Orochi!!! let's have ammy be there beforehand!

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omg that icon is so cute

she has many 🥰

ugh ammy you're the best

🙏🙏🙏 (and think we can wrap up here!)

sounds like a plan :D