Before you read, let me explain here regarding 'Silence'. In most role-playing games, there's an abnormal status or spell called Silence. What it does is to disable a character from casting magic or any ability that uses mana points for a period of time.
Strgwyr and Skarlet have finally met!
Bloodseeker and Lady in Red are going to face off!
The orange afternoon shines over the red and rocky ground. The source of life of the fallen either soaks the earth and making the red soil redder, or drained from them. The perpetrator of their deaths stands on top of a hill, steely eyes looking down at the grinning thief who have the audacity to steal the precious red liquid.
"Hue heh heh. Finally! We meet at last, Lady in Red!" said Strygwyr. "You have been a very elusive prey to hunt." when his quarry remains silent, Strygwyr opts to taunt. "I will not ask forgiveness for taking what blood is left in your kills, but the Flayed Twins' demands must be sated." his grin becomes wider. "And your blood is the ultimate prize!"
The unfazed Skarlet's answer is to run down the hill.
All went according to Strygwyr's plan. He has seen one of Skarlet's moves and he predicts she's going to pool blood beneath her feet to quickly close the distance between them. To prevent her from using her skill, he needs to Silence her.
Strygwyr casts Blood Rite in front of him, estimating the area where and when his quarry will enter the spell's area before it takes effect.
Skarlet did enter the Blood Rite as the spell's effect is triggered. Skarlet gets hurt of the spell's damage, but it never stops her to pool blood beneath her feet and dashes towards Strygwyr.
"What!? How could you use your skill!?" the shocked Strygwyr gasps as he backs away when he sees Skarlet coming to him fast. "I Silenced you!" he said as he keeps backing away. With Skarlet's health low and keeps on chasing him, his Frenzy skill gives him enough speed to keep a safe distance away from her.
'Why did my skill fails to take effect? Could it be she's immune to it?' wonders Strygwyr. Before his eyes, Skarlet disappears and Styrgwyr knows where she's going to appear.
With a quick pivot of his body, Styrgwyr does an upper cross-block as Skarlet drops from the sky and did a downward slash where his spine should be. He grunts as he feels the strength of his opponent's attack vibrate through the enchanted blades. He fans out his arms sideways to block Skarlet's jab as he jumps back. When he notices she stops chasing him and stands her ground, he stops too.
'Hmm. She must have realized I know her moves and plans on how to kill me quick.' Strygwyr thought as he and the Lady in Red continue to look at each other.
His plan was to use Bloodrage on his quarry while she's under the effects of Silence. The spell may increase her attack speed but will quickly lose health. But the plan went awry. 'I need to think of a new plan.' To stall time while he thinks what to do next, Strygwyr tries to distract the Lady in Red.
"Instead of being called Lady in Red, would you tell me your name?" when his quarry didn't answer but keeps on looking at him, Strygwyr tries taunting. "Not talkative, eh? That's alright. It doesn't matter anyway once you're dead."
In answer, Skarlet moves a foot forward and it made Strygwyr's body taut with readiness to run. Skarlet never moves again but trains her eyes at him.
'Hrrmm. She knows I'll keep my distance away from her as possible. How careless of me.' Strygwyr thought, aware that his reaction alerts her of what he'll do. 'I think the best way is for her to lose more health. If her health falls in a very small percentage, I can fight her in close combat. All I have to do is spam Bloodrage and Blood Rite, and keep away from her as possible. I need to use these four clarities wisely.' then he grins. 'And I cannot wait to use my Ultimate.'
Skarlet narrows her eyes when the thief grinned. She doesn't know what he means about 'Silence' and whatever he said in surprise, but she noticed that he also uses blood to deal damage. She knows little of what else he could do but she has seen he's quick on his feet, and a huge possibility he'll block her attack when she teleports behind and he'll back away. She has no other plan nor care who's she dealing with. One thing is clear: end the fight and kill him quick before she loses more blood.
Skarlet slowly lifts her heel from the ground then rushes toward Strygwyr. Sytrgwyr's first move is to cast Blood Rite then backs away. Her eagerness to close the distance between her opponent made Skarlet use Red Dash. Doing so made her enter the ritual circle, a mistake she wouldn't do again after she takes damage. Without stopping, Skarlet continues to rush towards Strygwyr, who continues to run away.
As Skarlet keeps dashing, she notices that Strygwyr is pointing his blades at her. Not knowing why and she never cared anyway, she continues to give chase. She could feel herself getting hungry for battle and at the same time lose more blood. She thought it must be she's moving too fast. Either way, she continues to give chase.
Twenty seconds passed by, Strygwyr casts Blood Rite in front of them. Skarlet forces herself to stop as she's about to use Red Dash again. She never wants her opponent to flee again so she teleports. Strygwyr has seen it and readies himself. Again, he managed to block her attack.
After her downward slash, Skarlet does an upward slash. But Strygwyr blocks her attack. Skarlet then goes to a relentless barrage of combo attacks. Strygwyr has no intention of attacking yet while under pressured by lightning-speed attacks, so he keeps on blocking and leaping away. Minutes tick by as Skarlet continues to do the offensive while Strygwyr maintains being defensive.
'Grrr. I can feel myself tiring from blocking her attacks.' thought Strygwyr. 'But I will bide my time, wait for her to make one mistake. And she will be at my mercy!'
When Skarlet overextends her arm as she's to do a downward slash, Strygwyr takes advantage by fanning his arms sideways with the intent of doing a false horizontal slice and make her back away. She did falls for it when she stops her attack and leaps away from him. Strygwyr then casts Blood Rite in front of him and Bloodrage. Skarlet sees the spell and opted to wait for it to activate rather teleport. Her staying still gives Strygwyr the opening he wanted. Raising his blades to the sky, he mentally chants and then brings down his arms sideways. He just casts his Ultimate, Rupture.
Skarlet realizes too late that when she teleported, her blood violently gushes out from her skin. She sees her opponent grins triumphantly after blocking her attack and in the act of slicing off her head. Without thought, she jumps back and reaches for her kunais but her movements cause her to lose more blood. Seeing him running to her with unnatural speed, Skarlet uses her blood to form a ball and throws it at the fast Strygwyr with the hopes of slowing him down. It was a fatal mistake because she wasted more blood and it barely slowed Strygwyr as he blocks it. Skarlet tries to sidestep but Strygwyr is upon her in seconds and thrusts his blades into her stomach.
"Hue ha ha ha! Your blood is mine!" said Strygwyr triumphantly as he stabs her stomach again four times before sinking his blades. "Such succulent blood! The Flayed Twins has never tasted such rich and abundant blood in one person!" he said as the blades absorb the Ruptured Skarlet's blood.
When Rupture's effect is gone, Skarlet is still alive. And she did something that wipes out the grin in Strygwyr's face. She struggles to tightly grab Strygwyr's blades.
"What are you doing!?" Strygwyr is shocked when she moves his blades sideways to slice her stomach. Instead of spilling her guts, Skarlet turns into a puddle of blood and goes underneath Strygwyr's feet.
Before Strygwyr could comprehend what just happened, four tentacular pillars made of blood appears from the ground and stabs his palms and feet. Strygwyr cries out in pain and drops his blades while the pillars continue to rise with his prone body.
"Nooo! This... Cannot be happening!" the panicking and struggling Strygwyr is almost six feet high when the pillars stop rising. And underneath him, the puddle of blood appears and transforms into Skarlet, bruises and stab wounds still present but not the slice on her stomach.
'I failed the Twins.' Strygwyr thought as he watches in horror when Skarlet pulls out her kodachi sword, very aware of what she's about to do to him.
The heavily wounded and weak Skarlet is seeing red when she looks up at the humanoid, who gives her a very hard time and almost killing her by draining most of her blood. Of all the warriors she fought, never in her entire existence has someone tried to drain her blood. The thief may have drained most of her blood but made the mistake of thinking he won. Now here is his punishment: she'll gladly bath in his blood. She'll make sure she takes every drop of blood from his corpse before hunting for more to regain her potential strength.
And before Skarlet could disembowel Strygwyr, a miracle appears in the form of the portal that suddenly appears before her. It's like the portal that has taken her away from Outworld and from her Master. Without hesitation, Skarlet sheathes her sword and runs towards the portal and it closes behind her.
With Skarlet gone, the tentacular blood pillars turn in liquid form, and Strygwyr falls down to the ground. Weak by blood loss and pain, Strygwyr struggles to stand and picks up his tonfa-blades. He looks at the bleeding holes in his hands and feet before looking at the spot where he last seen his quarry.
"I failed the Twins to take her blood." he said aloud. "But she proves too strong for me and if it wasn't for that vortex, I could have died a gruesome death." he exhales and feels how tired he is. "I need... to find healing salves quick... I think I saw one in one of the corpses."
As Strygwyr ambles away in search for healing salves, he grins tiredly. "I wonder where she'll end up."
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When Skarlet came out of the portal and sees that the soil is mixed with purple ooze, she knows she's not in Outworld. She turns to go back inside the portal but it closed in front of her face. Now she's trap in another foreign world. Worse, she's weak with blood lose. She should've killed the thief first before jumping inside the portal but it's too late to regret her decision, all she has to focus is find blood now. A clicking sound coming from her left made her turn her head and sees three heavily-armored, purple aliens, clicking her mandibles excitedly, and carrying high-powered plasma guns that never exists in Earthrealm.
"A hume!" clicks one of the alien soldier in its native tongue. "Wounded and female! Ssssuch a delight!"
"Yesss. And a trespasser, too!" clicks another. "What say we have our fun before eating her?"
Before the aliens click in agreement, the blood-thirsty Skarlet dashes towards the nearest alien and slices its exposed throat. Next, she tabs one in the eye. As the last alien is about to point the gun's muzzle at her, Skarlet already closes the distance between them and did an upward thrust to its lower mandible. All three aliens are immediately dead from Skarlet's fatal attacks.
Without wasting time, Skarlet slices their main arteries so their purple blood quickly gush out and shower her. The blood she absorbs from them are enough to heal some of her wounds and gain some strength.
But the paltry blood is not enough. She needs more. Sure enough, her need for a large pool of blood comes in the form of a large squad consisting of the alien race like her three victims. When they saw her and their fallen comrades, they screeched their anger and they intend to kill her.
To Skarlet, it never matters whether she's outnumbered. Especially when she's out for blood.
And that's the end of this story. You may wonder why Skarlet cannot be Silenced. It's because she doesn't need mana to use her abilities (in the MK world, mana never exists). And it's very obvious that Skarlet would win (all dota 2 Heroes will never have a chance against MK characters). In this story, I want to show that Bloodseeker uses his brain and can go head-to-head with Skarlet.
Using 'Out for blood' in a sentence is really hard.
I really, really hope you enjoyed the story. Thank you and good day!