Koa
There's going to come a day when you feel better
You'll rise up free and easy on that day
Zav, buddy. You gotta throw the disc.You'll rise up free and easy on that day
This is what Koa thinks. Out loud, he only manages to snarl "Throw it!" to the other Dragoon before he's distracted by his own onslaught. Five void matas have dislodged from the nest, flying straight at our intrepid trio. The largest focuses its ire on Koa, hissing protectively as it snarls through the air and toward the young man. Armed with boxing wraps and his bracers, Koa reacts with an electrocuted punch; it lands, despite the eight feet of distance, electricity jolting the Mata Mata and sending it out of the sky.
The other four are smaller creatures, but no less intimidating. Moving as one they dive-bomb poor Zavien, whose luck is just, like, real bad. Unfortunately the chakram does very little at so close a distance, though as the serpents close in on him he's able to slice out at at the first one, cutting through scales and flesh and into void-laced blood. Sol's fire finishes the beast off, but even so, three remain. A sense of foreboding will overcome the Dragoon, and perhaps it's this which causes him to falter in his own defense, because while he's able to evade the first Mata that reaches him, the other two sink their fangs in deep, biting into Zavien's skin.
It would be a great time for some compulsion, but alas, Lena will find that the void mata's minds slip from her grasp like so much oil. And while Mittens is a fearsome monstrosity in its own right, it, too, is unable to gain purchase on the winged beasts, its attack evaded by the third remaining snake, which now turns its attention on the sonwball and its mate. Oops.
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Abyssal Mata Mata (Uncommon): The Mata Mata, twisted by void corruption, have raven's wings of inky darkness. These Abyssal Mata Matas dwell in the void-laden Grotto, their eyes glowing with the shadows of the abyss. Encounters with Abyssal Mata Matas bring an unsettling aura of void-wrought foreboding.
And float from branch to branch, lighter than the air
Just when that day is coming, who can say?
Just when that day is coming, who can say?
