PIT OF STARS TOURNAMENT ☼ FINAL ROUND: LITTLESTAR vs ASHINA

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Littlestar, eh? Well, an ironic fight- an primal predator versus a tiny feline: but Littlestar seemed to know her fighting skills to get it this far. Ever since her previous fight against her 'grand-son' figure, she hadn't got around to apologizing to the catsune: it was quite an horrible deed of herself to experience such an horrific monster that she hid within her. The Sunguard stared at the Hawkclan monarch with void and emotionless optics, an eerie twitch coming from the smilodon's stubbed tail. Hopefully, just hopefully- just would win this, for Gareth. The guilt was gnawing away at her soul along with the insanity that dripped from her cold personality.

* post-amnesia!!

TAGS ✦ ✧ ✦ — Littlestar knew this was.. horribly outmatched. She was a tiny cat with three legs. Standing before her was a giant fucking smilodon with cold eyes. She barely stood a chance. Of course, she had fought big creatures before. Tigers, cougars, Bill Cipher and worse. But not without the help of her griffin. A pang of grief echoed in her heart. She fought well on her own but with her griffin she could drop on top of the giant creatures and be picked up when nessecary. The two had a whole battle structure, a fluid way they worked together. Today? She'd rely on her speed, the hopeful underestimation of Hiyori and her wit. She would avoid the massive tooth and claw and she would be nimble on her three paws, nipping in and out with enough scratches and bites and kicks and jabs to take her down. But it'd take time- she knew that and it was likely the other would get critical blows in before she could. Littlestar knew never to underestimate someone. It was likely that, despite the size of the other, they could move fast. Perhaps they were power enhanced, like Gareth's had been. She hoped the other didn't because then she really didn't stand a chance unless- "Begin!"

Unlike what she'd done with both Gareth and Beck's fights, the charcoal colored tabby didn't move forwards first. She swiftly leaped to the side, avoiding possible claws swinging in her direction. With a brute like that, you couldn't be the one taking full on blows. She had to be careful with this. Littlestar did have to make a move though and fast before the smilodon could even think to move away. She sprung back to the side of Hiyori and attempted to slash her curved claws against the females side before leaping back out of range. It was a simple non effective move but it could serve to aid her later in the battle.

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With Super Senses tracking Littlestar's ever movement as a heat seeking missile, watching as the smaller feline lunged at the side― the smilodon allowed the female's curved claws to sketch and rip through her thick coat, obvious that the Sunguard was allowing the female's attack to land as if she was an child realizing they deserved their punishment for being disobedient. As the HawkClan monarch leaped back, the Sunguard vanished from sight- attempting to teleport to the side of Littlestar using Super Speed combined to swiftly smack the three-legged feline to falter her balance before letting her extreme mental attacks to prod through the Monarch's brain- attempting to send high pitched screeches within the female's brain. The scent of the crimson ichor rushed through the female's nostrils― locking her mental barriers to prevent from her violate bloodlust consuming her mentality much as what happened with the fight between her and Gareth.

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TAGS ✦ ✧ ✦ — Littlestar was very keenly and closely monitoring Hiyori's every movement, her golden eyes narrowed into tiny slits with the pupil barely visible. It had been clear when she attacked that the other female had allowed it to happen which confused her but she didn't allow it to take room up in her thoughts, focusing on the battle at hand. It was only when the Sunguard disappeared from sight that she cursed and realized she was fighting a double sided die. Her head snapped to the side just as the smilodon appeared and smacked her flank, making the tabby stagger a whole lot. She shook her head, making moves to get back into action before the other came any damn closer but suddenly she felt claws pressing against her brain, sending these grating screams into her mind. The last time someone had prodded through her mind, they had sent her visions of her children, stumbling blind as blood dripped from their face. Discombobulated by the sounds in her head, Littlestar tried to fight against it with as much of her willpower as she could but she had not trained in the art of mentality. Most of her training was all psychical so she was very inexperienced in it. Still, she tried despite not having powers. She tried so hard as she moved away from the smilodon that blood bubbled from her lip as she bit down on it.

Attack her and distract her. Then it'll stop.

Littlestar didn't care where she was going, the sounds were peircing her mind and her soul and she wanted them out so she lunged at Hiyori and attempted to chomp her teeth down on the others shoulder, biting as hard as she possibly could, like a tiny but painful leech on the others side. Not only did she attempt to use her teeth against the brute but also her claws and she attempted to slash and scratch wherever they could go.

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It was an amazing sight that was like an feast in Thanksgiving to see that Littlestar had such an weak, mental barrier- as if someone could just flick the female's mental castle down. And that someone would be her, it allowed the Sunguard to discover some of the monarch's weaknesses and fears which the former Blackheart Rogue dearly feasted on as if it was her favorite candy. As the fangs of the smaller feline sunk into her thick coat like a hungry child, feeling the other's claws trying to reach whatever they could. Her tribal marked coat ruffled as a breeze rushed by, attempting to manifest the woman's mind with the envision of her children screaming before using electrified claws to attempt and sink them into the coat of the smaller feline and pull her off her and slam her into the ground.

Her emotionless optics focused upon the monarch, the bloodlust of the Sunguard's banging aggressively upon her mental barriers; as they tried to manifest the primal predator's mind and take over her body to become the monstrosity which was unlocked when the bloodlust and adrenaline of fight rushed to her brain. Ashina/Hiyori was an experienced fighter, and a former murder- trained in much specialties to take down anyone if she was needed to.

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TAGS ✦ ✧ ✦ — Children screaming. Her own kids screaming in pain, someone was hurting them and her riled up mind, infused with fake images and sounds, was lead to believe that the person causing the pain for her kin was the very same person she was attacking. And, like every other person, Littlestar had a line. When family was involved, especially when they were hurt, said line was crossed. It didn't even matter that claws that contained a spark latched onto her skin and shoved her off, blood dribbling from the new puncture wounds. Her eyes had gone dark and smoke poured forth from her crooked mouth, embers flying into the air. Hiyori and many other SunClanners had never been witness to her firestate. Well, now they would be and in a very public manner too. It was dangerous to go into this state especially when it was a triggered (by someone else) one but she couldn't do jackshit to prevent it and she didn't exactly want to- not with the screams of her kids ringing in her ears and her mind and her damn soul. So she gave the flames aid when the crawled up her throat in a rush and enveloped her entire body, the sound of an explosion echoing out through the territory, thick black smoke covering almost the entire battleground.

Littlestar was a seething fire. She had been triggered by the sounds of her wailing children and now Hiyori was going to pay the price for that, whether or not she liked the challenge wouldn't be known to Littlestar nor would she care at this point. She didn't quite know if she was allowed to kill her opponnents and she wasn't really aiming for it but her fire was uncontrollable and unpredictable at points in time like this. She let it flow through her veins and let it swell in power and size. Then her glowing golden eyes located her foe standing admist the smoke. Without a sound asides from the cackling and sizzling, she surged and attempted to completely overwhelm the smilodon in her fire, not quite thinking properly, her mind red with rage. Her normal rage was one thing on it's own. But a mothers rage? A mothers protection? Yeah. It was a dangerous toy to play with. Aim at the wrong thing and you get the ricochet.

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It had seemed it unlocked Littlestar's true powers? It was time to place her cards on the table, to end this― end this tournament as a winner. The demons crawling within screamed and crawled― reaching their claws through the fictional bars of her barriers and grabbing the poles, shaking them with the insanity they had left. They called for her, like soft whines for their mother being gone― the demons were growing frenzied by every millisecond: desolation and precarious. The Sunguard's mind was as an blank slab of stone, which was easy to tell by the void filled crimson optics that belonged to the tawny primal feline.

They whispered, starving to feast upon the souls.

KILL, KILL― FEED US.

Seeing the surging inflamed monarch rushing, the smilodon leaped into the air before skidding across the earth behind the monarch― her void engulfed crimson optics finally blinking before ominous obsidian liquid dripped from the woman's mouth. Her spine begun to arch, allowing an sickening crack to fill the silenced atmosphere: an electrified, violet and obsidian fused smoke engulfing the smilodon as the demons begun them embark.

The crimson ichor grew too strong, feasting the demons as they banged upon their prison bars; slowly seeping in through the bars if they were liquid. They begun to manifest the woman's mentality, sucking away her grip upon her sanity away like a leech. Ceasing their control, inhaling the crimson ichor that filled the atmosphere― her smilodon shifting into the monstrosity that only a few had seen. The form stood at six feet and three inches, slowly stepping out the shadows that had consumed it.

As soon as the demonic figure realized from the shadows― they seeped back into the colossal direwolf and hellhound hybrid, blinking lantern crimson optics: soon burning to an vibrant glow as it would attempt to begin to crush Littlestar's mentality, causing horrific scenes to stun the female― if this worked: an slab of earth would raise with sudden speed under the monarch and launch her into the air with telekinesis to slam the female into the ground with mental force.

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TAGS ✦ ✧ ✦ — Littlestar was livid as her seeing-red eyes located the smilodon who ran around her like some sort of excited puppy. She hoped the other would be fool enough to try and touch her seeing as any contact with her would result in severe burning. In this form, you see, everything was stronger. And yes, that included her mind. It didn't make it invincible obviously because she could still be hurt that way but she was much, much more powerful in firestate then she'd ever be alone. Her anger just managed to enhance every aspect of her because not only with this flames came the ability to burn but also strength, conjuration and teleportation. She never knew how to use them but Littlestar had trained in making objects from the fire to throw at her enemies. Sometimes the other two powers just occured out of desperation and instinct. The crack that sounded out made the fire surge into the night sky, plumes of thick black smoke rising. Littlestar gave a scream as she whirled around, fighting off images of Inu's jaw cracking, torn away from his body, her own jaw smashed into by a large pink tiger- she was only a kitten, she had only been a kitten. Angry tears fell from her face as the flashbacks hit her and she moved towards the violent and obsidian smoke covered smilodon. As if she wasn't already at a disadvantage with seeing red, she also has several triggers that were unfortunate enough to involve sounds of jaws snapping (or just snapping in general), bone showing, lionesss and several other things.

Use it, use it, fight her, kill her.

Sometimes she hated that angry voice that was her own. It had spoken before of the most disgusting things, the most shameful things. And yet sometimes it was useful. It calmed the other emotions and just made her angry. And anger was the fuel for this fire. She watched as the smilodon became something else, a very tall and imposing figure that looked somewhat between a hellhound and a beast. She felt claws wrapping around her lit-up mind. Before hand, this would've destroyed her. Normal Littlestar did not have much training in the mind art so it was defenitely a weakness. In fire state, she could fight back. Some of the horrific scenes, mostly of her children, did manage to seep through and Littlestar stepped forwards just as the earth beneath her began to rise into the air and send her flying. Like a comet, she was about to hit the ground but instinct kicked in and the flames reacted naturally. They pushed outwards much like a flamethrower and the force kept her body from hitting the ground, even against the telekenisis. Snarling madly, she straightened up her hovering figure and let the flames go so she landed on the ground upright. She lifted up her right paw, and a trident made of fire and ash and embers formed. She had practice with weaponary making, especially in the firestate, so this one was big enough and particulalrly lethal for the hellhound hybrid if it hit its mark. Grunting, she thrusted the large trident forwards and aimed for it land smack bang in the chest of the demonic creature. If not so, then it could hit the shoulders or a leg.She didn't let the other have time to think or even react to what Littlestar just did though because she lifted her right paw and flames appeared in a ring around Hiyori, rising in heat and power. The tabby then slammed her paw forwards and the flames would follow suit, attempting to drive into Hiyori much like spikes.

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They wanted to kill her. To feast upon Littlestar's rage, fear― they loved to inflict torment on others. The visions that the monarch allowed the demons within to consume them, absorbing every piece of it: not allowing anything to be left behind. They gnawed and they grew, causing the frenzy for bloodlust and violence intensify. The long claws ran along the mental barriers which as an sturdy hall, feasting upon the souls they harvested― they wanted to consume Littlestar with Nikana. They wanted to repeat the village scenery, they wanted Ashina to become a murder once more who beckoned to their commands.

The bloodlust and demons had one hundred percent dominance upon the Sunguard. The earth below the demonic form of Hiyori/Ashina crisped into decaying as gentle, ailing wails echoed in the atmosphere of the fight. The anger that fueled Littlestar's rage caused the Sunguard to only withhold more power, to be the dominant one upon the battle.

ERADICATE. CONSUME.

The image of the large trident instantly caused the colossal figure to leap into the air― crimson flamed optics intensifying as electricity raced across the obsidian form which was no longer Hiyori. The long blade of the Nikana appearing within the jaws of the Sunguard, the blade reflecting against the darkening atmosphere of the villagers. Floating in the air, the form evaporated into smoke and flickered invisible before appearing near the monarch.

With the manipulation of water elemental powers: she would attempt to crash a powerful thrust of water into the flaming feline, using it as protection to extinguish the flaming water before thrusting the Nikana forward with Super Speed and slashing like a mad woman in every direction that Littlestar could be much like Zoro. If any of these lined up, she would then attempt to use her mental control of Littlestar and erase her memory on how to move, before aiming to grip the feline's scuff and bash her skull into the ground.

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TAGS ✦ ✧ ✦ — Where Hiyori's demons were not really her, Littlestar's fire was. The anger was hers and it stemmed from her soul. It was a more physical version of the emotion, one that enhanced every aspect of the feline. She had been with it since she was a young kid but it'd only made it's first appearance when she was just starting to become an apprentice. Ever since then she'd had a lot of practice and time with it. Sure, majority of her experiences with the fire were not good ones, she was always in the midsts of battle and trying to kill someone but in some ways, it was nice. It gave her so much power, her anger, and sometimes she liked it. Other times? It scared her. She had.. burnt her children because of it. Killed one of them too, even if it was accidental and in the womb. Some of them still carried those scars from her. And she'd never forget it.

She wouldn't let herself do such a thing. To forget would be to forgive and Littlestar wasn't up to forgiving herself for the mistakes she made whilst preganant.

The flames hissed as she saw a wall of water rise up before her, a common technique used against her when she was in the firestate. It didn't work, not even the telekenisis used to supress the flames, because it wasn't something you could just put out unless she made it do so. One way she'd put it out before was by running into the sea and letting herself drown for a bit, mind wondering to sad things. The flames had been extinguished by the sad emotions, not the water itself. So as long as she stayed angry, the fire would remain. Littlestar gritted her burning teeth and her flames acted as thrusters as she zoomed into the sky, avoiding the water and sword as they slashed upon where she had been only seconds ago. Before anything else occured, the small Monarch would cut off the thrust of her flames and fall, hopefully, onto the hellhound hybrids back where she hoped to have her flames consume the others skin and body. This helped her to evade the mental manipulation, should it work, as it served as a distraction. She couldn't sit through any more mental torture, especially not with what Argus did to her. The fire couldn't just remain on the back of Hiyori though, she had to keep moving. So pushing memories that enraged her into her mind, the feline instinctively teleported to the giants face, attempted to criss cross slash with a flaming paw and then used the fire once more as thrusters to push herself off to the side. She had to remain relentless on her attacks and keep it new otherwise she'd become predicatable to her foe. By now the SunClan audience was probably trying hard to see the two figures fighting but the thick black smoke had turned smog-like and covered the majority of the battle.

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They were fragments of her past, when she had become an lunatic murder and feasted upon the innocent for her pleasure. Locking an couple and their child inside a room where they had no escape, brutally shredding them limb by limb and forcing their child to watch. Then finally when she had approached the child, she bit the side of his face before dismembering his head from her body with the sheer domination and power that surged through the demonic form. Though deep down, the Sunguard loved to torment others just to hear them sob and wail for mercy— only to murder them. A mother and father murder, a child murder. A monster which she was and she loved it.

As Littlestar vanished and the Nikana feasted on no blood, til a figure landed upon her spine as high temperature and flames consumed her— combining with the electricity surging through her body which would end out an deadly combustion but not now.

As the monarch teleported in front of her, with the help of Super Speed she dove under the female as she was in the air momentarily— activating Super Senses to indicate where she would land and she instantly teleported from her location: attempting to sink massive jaws into Littlestar's hind leg with super speed and send massive shock of electricity through the small feline's body. Hiyori/Ashina would then attempt to use Super Strength and uppercut the monarch, which would probably leaving the female which her crooked jaw even worst.

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