Friendship Through Punching

Shit, she was still able to keep him from hitting her and now his hand was stuck as she held his wrist with so many hands. At least he hadn't hit her so he in turn wasn't hurt.

"Sorry, I ain't letting you put a collar on me. Medical or not," he snickered even as she turned and pulled on his arm. The impulse was to just pull away and if he had really tried to just pull his arm out of her grasp he might have been able to break free but where was the fun in that? Instead he raised his other arm to shield his face and from his crouched position he pushed hard against the floor with his very strong legs in an attempt to drive all his body weight and momentum into Dalia with his shoulder.

Unfortunately though Alexis' fighting instincts were pretty good, he wasn't nearly as well trained as Dalia. Her going limp was not something he expected and instead of trying to avoid getting taken to the floor with her he just doubled down and kept pushing forward into her.

Naturally that collapsed the both of them onto the floor in a heap. He let out a small snarl as he landed with his elbow driving into Dalia and the flames leapt over to punish him. "You're not supposed to just let me tackle you-" he broke off as she started moving all her limbs to wrap him up. He struggled and twisted, trying to get out of her hold but in the end she had one of his arms completely immobilized and one of his legs wrapped up real good. Of course she still had a couple hands free so she was starting to land punches too.

Alexis had kind of been trying to knock Dalia off her feet for most of the fight but he was regretting that now. "The hell, you're like an octopus with fists," he yelled out before slamming his free fist at her as hard as he could. A dumb move but he was failing to keep his head clear. He wasn't thinking strategically, he was just thinking about hitting really hard.

Alexis yelled as the flames leapt onto his face in return for his heavy-handed swing at Dalia. Far from being deterred though he was grinning even as he held his hand to his face in pain. Maybe people were right- it was possible he kind of liked getting hurt a little. "Way more fun than just missing all the time. It's lame if we don't both get hurt. Even if I don't heal like you do," he replied as he rolled away and stood back up himself, also breathing heavier form the fight and being hurt. "I'm smiling aren't I? Best thing i've done all day."

Well apparently it was time to make things even more interesting. "Fuck scales, they're too heavy," he called out but the end trailed into a snarl as he stretched out and his body changed into his wyvern form. He wasn't pretty. His wyvern form was very much feral looking with thick leathery hide and wings, a long forked tongue and orange-red frills that extended. Leaning forward to use the single claws on his front limbs for balance he let out a screeching roar and lashed his tail around a little before leaping towards Dalia and flapping his wings for a little height. He wanted to get a swing of his barbed tail in before she had too much time to rest.

Alexis' barbed tail whooshed loudly through the air as Dalia moved just out of the way and it dragged across the floor behind and to the side of her. Alexis was forced to keep using his wings to help move around because walking in that form was cumbersome and put him at significant risk. He tried a few more leaping attacks with his tail and his hind legs and even one bite attempt but Dalia was just flipping out of the way like it was nothing.

"Dammit, I just want to hit you-" He started to snarl right as she flicked her flames on and charged. His instinct was to open his jaws towards her. Frustration insisted he charge right at her. But through all that it was like there was the briefest pause of clarity where Alexis thought about the advice Galen had been giving him. That he let his emotions control him too much.

Alexis inhaled deeply before breathing out a huge cloud of thick cool misty water vapor. In this form it was far more effective as it spread out into roughly 20 square feet. He did not charge Dalia though and instead he waited for the cover of mist to shroud him and he swiped with his left wing to expand it in her way. Aiming to just sweep her aside if he somehow got the timing right. It was the softest part of him he could attack with, except for his tongue and that would have just been weird.

Alexis had braced himself for whatever pain the fire was going to cause him and was a little surprised. It had of course leapt over to injure him but as it spread along his wing he realized it wasn't as bad as he thought. He didn't fully understand that it was only the damage he inflicted on Dalia that counted for the flames and not the bruises caused by tumbling against the floor.

From within his cloud of mist he could not see Dalia except for when she got close enough for the light from her flames to illuminate her form. He did however hear her and he grinned. "Yess, show me the pissed off spider," he snarled, "Just come hit me."

He could not see what she had done with her web shooters, nor really where she was. He instead relied on hearing and his very strong sense of smell to track her movements. Alexis would lunge out of the mist towards where he thought she was and then return back into the cloud, though it was starting to spread and dissipate. She was very quick and seemed to always know when he was coming. That frustrated him and he once more lost himself to instinct. He wasn't planning or thinking things through- just attacking at the thing that was fighting him.