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And just like that, the duel between The Goddess and her servant was underway. Palutena, the Goddess of Light, versus Pit, the angel who makes for a surprisingly powerful warrior. The two were closer in terms of power than one may think.
Pit's first attack was a stunning Arrow of Light. While the arrow travelled pretty quick, Palutena was already a step ahead of him.
Knowing that her servant had a tendancy to start his matches off with an arrow, Palutena instantly teleported towards him to avoid the arrow and catch him by surprise. She swiftly landed to the left of him before dashing in to bash him with the sharp edge of her shiny blue shield. It happened far too quickly for poor Pit to react to.
As a result, the angel was shoved into the corner of the battlefield. Palutena could have continued her assault on the poor servant, but knowing that this is what Pit expected her to do, she tried a different approach. She faked him out. By threatening a quick stab from her staff, she tricked him into blocking his upper body. Then, whilst he was distracted by the high attack, she swiftly swept him off both feet using her right leg.
"Gah!" Pit shouted in a mix of pain and confusion as he crashed into the ground. That was the second time she'd outwitted him in a matter of 10 seconds.
"Haha! Oooooh Pit, I know you all too well." Palutena mocked her floored enemy in a triumphant tone. She was reading him like a book. "Let me guess, next you're gonna try and kick me on your way back up, aren't you? Go on, try it."
"...How is she reading my mind?!" Somehow, that's EXACTLY what Pit was thinking of doing. Though, now that she'd said it, he switched it up just to prove her wrong. As Palu looked down on him, Pit attempted to suddenly cross her up before she could react by rolling across the floor and around her, hoping to get behind her back.
Little did Pit know that he was all caught up in another one of her mindgames. She simply told him what she was expecting to make him do anything BUT attack her. "Sooooooo gullible..." The Goddess thought to herself as she watched her servant desperately roll around her. Palutena confidently punished his attempt by summoning her wings to deliver a heavenly strike behind her.
Pit went blasting off into center of the stage and crashed into the ground. Palu chased after him in an attempt to follow up, but was stopped in her tracks by Pit's kick as he got back on his feet.
Palutena was hurt, but quickly recovered. However, before she knew it, she was getting pelleted by several shining light arrows as Pit retreated backwards to keep his distance.
The first 2 arrows hit her cleanly. The first one in her stomach, and the next in her right thigh. Luckily though, these arrows weren't the piercing type. They just did magical damage.
After two arrows however, the quick-witted Goddess had already caught on to the pattern at which he shot them. Pit continued to pellet as he dashed around the edge of the battlefield, but Palutena was avoiding every one of them with ease.
After several dodges, she attempted to teleport in again, but this time Pit was ready for it. Despite that, the speed at which she reappeared was far too fast. He attempted to kick her during her reappearance, but she readily blocked it with her shield. She retaliated with a kick of her own, but instead Pit decided to keep on retreating with his light arrows, despite none of them landing a hit.
The Goddess was a little perplexed by his strategy. None of his arrows are landing, so why was he just running and shooting? She attempted to teleport into close range again, but the same outcome occurred, which made her a little frustrated.
"What is he doing...?" The lady wondered to herself in a state of confusion, all while effortlessly dodging his attacks. "Maybe he's trying to tire me out..? But I'm pretty sure he's doing more running than I am dodging... maybe he's trying to make me impatient? I don't know... is he even aiming?" She contemplated a few ideas in her head all while dodging skillfully. She was shockingly quick on her feet considering that she wore high heels, but she is a Goddess, so anything's possible.
No matter what his goal was, Palutena was getting bored of these overly defensive tactics of his, and a little annoyed too. She had to find a way of getting him to stop. At that moment, an idea suddenly came to mind.
As she gracefully dodged the barrage of arrows coming her way, she stuck her tongue out tauntingly at her opponent to mock his terrible aim. She wanted to get in his head a little and make him angry, just to see how he'd react.
The Goddess could tell that her little taunt was quickly taking effect as she witnessed his eyebrows narrowing. On top of that, his arrows seemed to become even more off target, possibly because he was shooting them more frequently and recklessly out of anger.
The Goddess giggled as she continued to sway from side to side avoiding the arrows of light. Now things were started to get more fun again. Messing with Pit was one of her favorite hobbies, and she had a feeling that she could even turn that hobby into strategy now.
"Hehe, his aim's getting all messed up by his anger." The Goddess thought to herself. "I wonder what'll happen if I keep this up..."
The more Palutena provoked Pit with her tongue, the more irritated he became, and the more his ability to aim dwindled.
"Grrr...!" Pit grumbled in frustration as the crowd began to laugh at him. Palutena watched in amusement as her opponent started to lose his cool. Her confidence grew as his aim weakened. "You can't hit me, Pit! Is that the best you can do?" The Goddess teased her servant from a distance, boiling his blood even more.
Along with her taunting tongue, she then started to beckon him as a way of getting deeper under his skin. She also thought it might tempt him into fighting her head-on instead.
Pit grew even more frustrated and his aim somehow became increasingly pathetic. It got to the point where Palutena barely had to move at all! He was shooting his arrows far too recklessly at this point.
The Goddess even had the gall to turn around, spread her legs a little and shake her butt at the enemy just to taunt him more. "Come and get iiiiiiiit!" Palutena taunted Pit verbally as she looked over her shoulder. She swayed her booty from side to side, daring him to take a shot at the wide open target.
Many of the male audience members were turned on by this display, but this booty taunt was exasperating Pit. He'd never felt so humiliated in his entire life. Despite the Goddess leaving her behind wide open to attack, the angel was far too enraged to even begin to focus on his aim. He began shooting mindlessly in her general direction, but she barely had to evade. "Hehe, you mad, Pit?" Teased the Goddess from over her shoulder. He most certainly was mad. Taunts are supposed to make the opponent angry after all, so Palutena's little butt jiggle had definitely served its purpose.
"Grrrrrrrrrah!" With an echoing shout in anger, Pit furiously flung his bow straight into the ground. He'd had enough of this humiliation.
Palutena couldn't help but laugh hysterically at his temper tantrum, and the audience laughed with her. Her condescending giggle added a lot of salt to the wound. "What's wrong, Pit? Getting a little heated over there? ;)" she taunted from a distance as she turned around and began to beckon him, boiling his blood.
Pit stayed silent, but was secretly seething on the inside. No matter now hard he tried, he couldn't conceal his frustration. The bright red face and the clenched fists clearly gave it away.
"Come and get me, Pit! You know you wanna get your revenge on me for messing with you, right? Come and release that anger." The Goading Goddess threw another taunting message out at her foe as she beckoned him. Her goal was to make him lose his cool so he would start fighting in close combat, rather than running away.
"Shut up...!" Pit mumbled, unable to hide his emotions.
"Come on! I'll even drop my weapon if it's too scary for you to handle." The Goddess dropped her staff onto the battlefield. She stood with her legs separated and her hands on her hips, completely defenseless, to goad him into approaching. "Are you gonna fight? I'm waitiiiiiiiiiiing...!"
"SHUT UUUUP!!!" The angel screamed in a blinding rage as he retrieved his weapon and short one more light arrow fueled by pure anger.
Palutena was fully prepared. As soon as the arrow left his bow, she teleported into his range and delivered a mighty kick from her piercing high heels right in the stomach. She knew he was too distracted by her taunting to see it coming this time.
The bruised angel was sent flying all the way to the other side of the stage. Her high heel was so excrutiating that all of his anger had been overwritten by pain. Despite all that though, he recovered surprisingly quickly. He was a pretty strong angel, despite his looks.
Palutena retrieved her weapon and walked to the center of the stage, with Pit on the edge of it once again.
"Is shooting arrows really all you can do? Come on - try harder." Palutena taunted from a distance, egging him on to come at her with more force.
"Can you just stop annoying me for just one second?!" Pit became annoyed by her comment as he was trying his hardest to fight her, but it didn't deter him from his defensive strategy. Feeling mocked by her challenge, he paid extra attention to his aim so that he could catch her with his arrows. He shot 3 consecutive arrows, but they didn't really amount to much, as the Goddess continued to weave left and right to dodge them with ease.
"Nope, sorry! Seeing you all riled up is just too much fun." The Goddess responded with a smirk.
"Grrr...!" He was starting to grow angry again.
Still, Palutena really had no idea why he was so reluctant to fight her up close. So, in typical Palutena fashion, she just made something up on the spot and mocked him for it. "I wonder why you're fighting me so evasively... are you intimidated by my presence, Pit?"
"W-what? N-no of course not! I-I'm just..."
"Oh really? Hehe, the hesitation in your voice suggests otherwise..."
"W-what?? No! I swear I'm not-"
"You're scaaaared, aren't you Pit?"
"No! Shut up! I'm not scared damn it!" The Goddess's mocking tone was getting on his nerves again.
She giggled annoyingly before continuing to pile on the pressure. He was getting pretty flustered. "Ahahaha! You're a terrible liar, Pit. I can practically hear you quaking in your boots from all the way here."
"Grrrrrr! I'm not lying! You're wrong! Just stop it and fight already!"
"If I'm wrong, then why are you getting so angry, hmmm? Are you trying to hide your nerves by putting on a tough guy facade?"
"I'm mad because you keep messing with me! SHUT UP ALREADY!!"
"Ahahaha! At this point, I can't even tell if your face is bright red out of embarrassment or out of pure rage!" Her laugh had infuriated Pit. He despised Palutena when she toyed with him like this.
"Maybe he'll start approaching me more now that he's all fired up..." The lofty lady wondered to herself as she grinned cheekily in response to her opponent's irritated facial expression. "Well then, if you're truly not as scared as you look, then why don't you come and prove me wrong?" The Goddess leaned forward and began beckoning her foe to provoke a reaction out of him. "Come and get me. I dare you ;)" She taunted, with her confident body language and condescending smirk making it all the more irritating.
Pit's pent up rage started showing itself again. "You annoying little...!"
"Little, you say?" Palutena abruptly cut him off. "You do realize that I'm much taller than you are, right?"
"Y-You only look that tall because of your high heels!!!" The angel shouted impulsively. He was so tired of her insults.
The Goddess needed to make him snap if she wanted to fight him up close, so she called for support from the crowd. With shoulders straight and hands on her hips, she ridiculed the servant in front of the audience. "Ahaha! Look at this, everyone! It seems that someone is too much of a little coward to come and fight me head-on. Are women like me too scary for you to handle, Pit? How disappointing ;)"
The entire crowd was giggling along with the Goddess, who pointed at her enemy. Pit was really beginning to lose his temper now.
"Awww, did I make him maaaaad? Looks like I'm luring out his inner Pittoo...!" She called out in a condescending tone with the sole purpose of making him even angrier.
Pit's frustration continued to pile up. It was no surprise that it was working like a charm. Her opponent was clearly taking the bait and was finding it impossible to keep his cool. To finally tip him over the edge, she went for a final taunt. Seeing as it was so effective last time, she turned around and wiggled her butt tauntingly at the enemy once more. "Come and get it ;)" The Goddess challenged in a cocky tone before sticking her tongue out from over her shoulder to add a little more salt to the wound.
"GrrrrrRRRRRRR!!! STOP IT!!"
"Nuh-uh! I'm not gonna stop until you make meeeee~!" The Goddess continued to wiggle it at her foe to build up his frustration. It was so humiliating, especially with the crowd giggling along with her. "Come on, Pit! Are you really gonna let me mock you like this forever? You still haven't given me a reason to stop ;)"
"GRRRRRR! I'm gonna make sure you PAY for this...!!" Pit clenched his fists in frustration as he threatened his foe, who was still wiggling her butt at him tauntingly.
"Oh nooooo, am I getting on your nerves again? Hehe! You know you can't beat me, not even when I'm leaving this wide open target right in your face ;)" The Goddess called out as she turned around a little to mock him verbally, before continuing her provocative gesture.
Enraged by her taunting mannerisms, Pit charged at his enemy, completely fueled by his anger. He'd lost all control of himself. "I'm gonna make you PAY!!" He recklessly threatened as his bow clashed with Palutena's staff as if they were holding swords.
"Well, you can try." Palutena taunted with a smug expression as they stared each other down through their blades. Whilst Pit was all distracted by her irritating grin, she caught him off guard once more by sweeping him cleanly off his feet using her leg. Then, before he could even react to what happened, she violently picked him up off the ground, leaned back and flung him straight over her head. Her left leg zoomed straight up to a 180 degree angle as she threw him, like she was doing the splits in midair. Not only was she incredibly strong, but also very flexible.
The poor angel soared across the stage yet again at even crazier speeds. It's safe to say that it wasn't a safe landing. The Goddess turned to her foe, walked a little closer and sat on her knees to bring herself down to his level. "Scared?" Palutena teased as she beckoned him to get his blood boiling, luring him back into his infuriated state of mind. It was a little mind game she deployed to distract him from thinking of shooting arrows again.
Pit shot up from the ground in a fiery temper, while Palutena mirror him in a much calmer state of mind. "Grrrrrrr!!! I'm so sick of your games! Just stop already, please!" The angel begged in a fiery temper.
"Awww, you mad? Such a short temper you have there!"
The angel's fists became clenched as his eyebrows sharply narrowed again. "You know what? Yeah. I am mad. I'm mad because you're SO DAMN ANNOYING!!"
Palutena simpled chuckled at his little outburst, covering her mouth in the process. "Oops, I think I made him angryyyyyy...!" She thought out loud in a mocking tone of voice.
Frustrated beyond control, the angel rushed at the lady who had taunted him to his limit. However, just as he got within her range...
The Goddess instantly warped over to where Pit fell on the ground earlier. Pit simply slashed the air in his frustration, before looking around completely baffled. "Huh?! Where did she..."
"Over here, Pitty Pitty..." a feminine, patronizing voice called out from behind him. He turned around, and there she was beckoning him from a distance. She'd teleported just at the last second.
"Wha- Grrrrr!!! Don't you dare call me that!" Now she was just toying with him for fun. Pit was far too irritated to care to think about how she got over there so quickly. He charged relentlessly at his foe.
"Catch me if you caaaaaaan~!" She called out in a taunting manner, toying with Pit's emotions once more. The goading Goddess bent forward with hands on her knees and stuck her tongue out at him one last time, just to make sure he was fixated on her.
Pit attacked desperately with his blades, but Palutena teleported once more. This time however, she teleported straight upwards, planning to land on top of him with a devastating attack.
Before Pit could even react to her teleport, Palutena swooped in from above to deliver a flying kick cleanly into her opponent's back, with the pain being amplified by her sharp high heels.
Pit was blasted off the stage at such high speeds that he didn't even had the opportunity to recover. Palutena mockingly waved goodbye to her opponent as he soared to his doom.
GAME!
The crowd erupted with cheers for the Goddess congratulating her on her win, causing her to chuckle due to the overwhelming praise. It seemed that she really put on a show. Palutena respectfully performed a curtsy to the crowd holding both sides of her dress before teleporting out of the arena.