ic Giant Krampus 2: Krampus Campus

[RocketLord]

Forever Boy

 

How could something so big move so fast? And being hit by a tree! Pan had been hit by his share of things in his time, but he was pretty sure that this was the first time that he had actually been hit by a tree! He shook his head, managing a quick grin up at Leroy. Why, this was nothing! A bump, a scrape! He'd get back up and into the fight right away! Well, just as soon as the world around him stopped spinning. The lack of spinning would great.

 

"I agreee completely with that plan, my friend!"

 

Yes, the lack of being touched by another tree would be nice. Maybe just keep his distance, once he could manage to take to the sky again.

[Tiffany Korta]

 

White Lioness

Àjàṣorò had been already been preparing to attempt to reach the giant man, she’d gone to the other side of the roof and was ready for a running leap. She saw no reason to stop so she began her run, hoping that either the suit’s properties or more likely Zenith would help her. As she soared through the air she put out her claws, ready to strike the Krampus when she landed.

 

The claws struck a solid blow and as they did she planted her feet on the shoulder of the monstrous human, the suits molecular cohesion plus her own natural balance helped her get a firm footing on the beast.

[Fox]

Masque

 

Masque kept her footing against the power of the roar, but that was more instinct than planning - she'd gathered her robe about herself to slim her profile and endured only the gross indignity of monster spittle.

 

The gross, gross indignity.

 

She put her hands together, drawing together a large ball of wavering, pearlescent fire; this she lobbed overhand at the creature, streaking under its own power like a firework. It was an attack more in retribution than calculated combat, and it showed, running wide...but hopefully it would at least be a distraction. "This thing's tough," she shouted, as if that wasn't entirely obvious with the creature throwing trees and - worryingly - already looking like it could focus its eyes again. "I think Lioness and Zenith had it right, though! Anybody want to team up?"

[KnightDisciple]

Thunderbird

 

Micah considered the foe in front of them. An enormous maybe-demon tied to one of the most winter-y days of the year. A creature of ice and cold and snow and-

 

"I'm a moron."

 

He zoomed closer, the air currents all around the campus shifting as he did. Suddenly, he stopped and hovered in place. Then he reached out one of his hands toward the Krampus, palm up, and furrowed his brow in concentration.

 

"Let's see how much you like the heat..."

 

And then the air around the Krampus experienced a skyrocketing temperature. Moments after the crash course in Summer vs Winter, the air stirred. Less than an eye-blink later, roaring near-tornado-force winds began pushing against the Giant Krampus, seeking to hinder its movements. Micah was pouring everything he could into roasting this monster where it stood and keeping it from running away. 

[Cubismo]

Astrid had been cursing up a storm in her native Norwegian the last couple of seconds now. How the heck could she miss a giant like this! It almost literally a giant target! But miss she did, the creature somehow managing to swift itself at just the right time to throw off Astrid's aim and avoid Porrklubba's swing. So much for doing something epic and worthy of entrance in the esteemed halls of Valhalla. 

 

Once Astrid had finally settled down from that failure, she readied herself for another chance at glory when the bedeviled Santa suddenly opened up a giant basket and unleashed a blast of ice that immediately hit Astrid as she getting ready. 

 

"What the..." 

 

Just like that she was overwhelmed by ice. The cold temperature itself wasn't a problem. That she could handle. It was the fact that she found herself partially encased in ice was the issue. She could still move but just especially well.

 

"Great. Just great." 

 

It would take her while to finally break of the ice but it wasn't as if she was completely immobile. She could still try to land a blow on the monster's head if she just... That's when he she finally saw the creatures on the creature's back. There were at least four them from where she could see. And they all make their way to Àjàṣorò, had apparently all decided to take a stroll on the giant.

 

"Welp. Guess I got to change my plans."  

 

She held Porrklubba up high to the sky as best as she could and did her best to concentrate. A second later Porrklubba was beginning to spark and glow with lightning. When it was brighter than a giant blue neon sign, Astrid pointed the weapon towards one of the small creatures and said the magic word.

 

"Leiptr!" 

[Gizmo]

Giant Krampus grunted in discomfort as Thunderbird's blistering winds pressed against it and sent freshly fallen snow swirling away in a fine mist. The horned behemoth turned its attention upward to focus on the source of the sudden sirocco and snarled, low rumbling barks sounding from deep in its throat. As it reached back toward the wicker basket on its back, clawed digits nearly crashing into the precariously balanced White Lioness, Micah realized with a sense of impending doom that the sound was the closest their attacker could make to a laugh. He had just enough time to steel himself and redouble his efforts before the lid came off of the basket and an impossibly powerful blast of howling cold was released!

 

The mist turned to instantly frozen ice as the great grandmother of all blizzards exploded from the Basket of Ancient Winters like a detonation. Each student within nearly fifty yards was struck as if they'd crashed headfirst into a solid wall and those who weren't quick enough to find some measure of cover found themselves weighed down by jagged rime and numb muscle. As the initial burst subsided they watched as horrible figures began crawling out from inside the basket, long black limbs covered in uneven carapace and matted fur. More than a dozen of the creatures poured forth in the span of seconds, one group setting their glowing red eyes on the closest target: White Lioness. Others leapt from Giant Krampus' back to the dormitory wall and began scaling toward the roof, digging the jagged nails at the end of arms and legs alike into the spaces between bricks. The remainder dropped to the campus ground around their master's feet, hunched and moving marionette-like with jerky steps and weirdly tilted heads.

[April]

As the frigid blast wave rushed toward Arcana a barrier of arcane energy flared up around the mage.  That barrier crackled with power, flaring a brilliant green as it blunted the worst of the Giant Krampus' attack, though some cold seeped through.  Arcana cradled one rime covered hand against her chest, like it had been burned, but this hesitation was only for a moment.

 

The embers drifting around her shifted and swirled, becoming crackling electricity that twisted about her form.  She saw the dark elves making their way up to her and Masque, and she was going to have none of it.  A crown of three flames floating above her head, she stepped toward the roofs edge and raised both hands to the heavens, lightning surging between them.

 

When she brought her hands down there was a snarl of thunder as lighting crashed down the side of the dormitory.  It arced, leaped, jumped and snarled itself around the dark elven minions of Giant Krampus before wasting the rest of its power on the ground below, melting the snow and glassing some of the dirt.

 

She looked down at the dark elves, eyes glowing from under her hood.  "We say no."

[Zeitgeist Blue]

Power.

 

Nicole could see it gather in ranks against the giant, flying above it, on the grounds, and on the dormitory roof, or scampering on it like mice on an elephant. She could see it as the giant was again and again assaulted by lightning from the dark sky or from a baseball bat out of all things, as it was buffeted by a tornado scorched in flames. She could see it as the giant retailated, freezing everything around it and out in a storm of ice.

 

Frost crept up the windows of the dormitory as seconds later smaller creatures scaled the roof, ignoring her inside one of the dorm's hallways.

 

Good.

 

With a resounding ring her armour completed its sequence a moment and Salvo began to step forward. Thrusters on her back and her legs flared open, fire scorching the wood panels and rug around her. But she paid then no mind, turning her stride into a jog.

 

Before she knew it, she was barreling down the hall, feet stomping. Then she leaped, crashing through the window and the frost into the open air outside. The air crackled with so many powers. Then with her naked eyes, she could see the surrounding sky covered in so many greens and reds, the snow-covered grounds reflecting the sickly kaleidoscope.

 

Almost immediately after the plates of her armour touched open air, a thin layer of ice began to grow over her, the feedback from the giant's frozen blizzard. But a simultaneous activation of all her surface components was sufficient to break the ice and she was free to fly.

 

Free to careen over the sky like a meteor with only one destination in mind.

 

She knew power. It was her work and her passion. She created and modified it. She lived among power and studied them.

 

So she knew what she was doing when she deactivated the first level failsafe, pushing a big red button that appeared beside her head. Then again as she spoke the twenty word deactivation code. Her voice was prompted and she gave it. A sequence of thoughts and memories and she played them one after the other.

 

Deep deep deep within her armour, the core creaked open, immediately flash-frying the protective astral space surrounding it. Beads of sweat ran down her face somehow, inespicably. She didn't know how when her whole body and mind were shunted off to another dimension accessible only through certain channels but the heat reached her here.

 

Then she arrived, just beside where Thunderbird was flying. He had the power to hurt this thing all on his own, enough to match what she was about to do, but Salvo knew he wasn't using his all and that pissed her off.

 

"What are you waiting for!" She shouted, external speaker helping to carry her voice above the winds and sounds of fighting. "Hit it with all you got and don't stop until I tell you too!"

 

She turned from the Sophomore and raised both her arms at the Krampus. Her whole armor was shaking and she bit back a curse as she saw Aja facing off against four of the creatures on the Krampus' shoulder.

 

Fine.

 

She adjusted her aim downward, into the giant's stomach and slowly released the panels on her wrist.

 

The force blew her back careening through the sky. Only a sudden push from her thrusters arrested her flight mid-air and she righted herself.

 

Fine. Try this again.

 

She slammed her arms together, wrists side by side.

 

She kicked the panels wide open, exposing her armor's core into physical reality, and the physical parted.

 

THHHRRRRRRRUUMM

 

A pillar of pure magic erupted from her arms. It drilled through the air, an almost solid beam that was every color at once and none at all (she personally saw flashing purple), connecting Salvo to Krampus. And where the pillar crashed against the giant's fur, it drilled further, past the skin and meat and bone, violently infusing its entire being with energy. Power.

 

Waves of magic spilled from the pillar, burning the air and the snow and ground and whatever else it touched. Some travelled through the Krampus' body, reaching its shoulders and splashing against the White Lioness.

 

The backlash threatened to send her careening backward but from her back her armor's full panoply of thrusters unfurled and they spat out great gouts of flame. Armor creaked with the pressure put upon it and fire licked at her plates but she was steady, surrounded by a corona of steel and flame.

 

She was a star, blazing furiously against the red and green sky.

Edited January 26, 2019 by Zeitgeist Blue

[Ari]

A pillar of black ice shifted, the very essence of frozen death sliding away as Sun Dragon fought with painful slowness to free his arms and legs. Stumbling out of the impromptu prison of flash-frozen air, Sun Dragon shivered, his eyes alone reflecting the brilliant lightshow of Salvo's performance, the rest of the radiance absorbed into his armor of articulated photon plates. Despite the fumbling fingers batting away thin waves of ice and clear numbness in the boy's awkward, halting steps, his breathing was even and he didn't move with any sign of injury. Looking up on some silent cue, Sun Dragon watched Dio fall from the sky, his body covered in ice, his scales pierced and bones broken by the steel-hard hail. So slowly, Sun Dragon reached out a hand, but long before he could do anything the reptilian acolyte slammed hard into the frozen earth, smashing an impact crater into the Claremont quad.

 

He glanced up at the towering, swaying hulk of the Giant Krampus, his hairy body alive with a battle of its own. "_{Perhaps he will kill us.}" Leroy's voice was thick and shaky, so low even he could barely hear it. "_{That would be sweet.}"

 

Catching sight of Alexander, Leroy stopped. Looking back at the swaying mountain of horn and hide that towered above the Claremont grounds, the scarred boy's golden eyes lit up and he launched himself to the other boy's side. Landing light as a snowflake, his helmet dissipated to let him give the morphing meta a thin smile. "Facsimile, I have a plan. Our main threat is large and heavy, and now reels from Salvo's...barrage. Let us make him an even easier target, with this."

 

Taking a deep breath, Sun Dragon raised his hands and clasped them together, squeezing and crushing with gritted teeth. The knife-like air around him shivered, the ground seeming to quake, as his hands parted to reveal something small, black and very hungry. Panting from the exertion, Leroy grinned at Alexander "The black hole will soon spin out, but should give you and us an edge."

 

Leaving Facsimile to make use of the supermass, Sun Dragon turned to the Krampus. His featureless helmet silently engulfed his head once more, and Leroy hurtled across the field straight for the winter giant! As he flew Sun Dragon raised a hand, conjuring another quantum singularity from nowhere, one that began to suck in everything around him, creating a spiralling vortex that tore up the dirt and left a shattering roar of collapsing air in his wake! 

 

Slamming into the giant, Leroy let fly with the black hole, dispersing its obliterating power right into the body of the monstrous child-snatcher!

[Exaccus]

Well this is a fine pickle thought Alex to himself as his steel body was flash frozen solid by a thick layer of permafrost.

 

He'd been about ready to try turning into ice when sun dragon crashed down to him and span a black hole into existence.

 

he hesitated

 

He had already once been a gaping void in spacetime reality and he remembered nothing of that day at all; suffice to say it had been rather a bad thing!

 

Could he really risk handling all that power at once?

 

"Sweet dude, let's give this overgrown garden gnome a supermassive smack down." He called out as he extended his grasp towards the black hole and took on its power.

 

It was again a strange sensation to be so incredibly.... Empty? Hungry? Words could not describe it save to say a terrible void now filled...now was his being and he turned it upon krampus without hesitation a thin beam of anti-light utterdark extending from his agape star crushing mouth like a proboscis and joined sundragon in tearing away at krampus.

 

Satisfied with the results and fearing another catastrophic slip he opted to quickly change into something more stable, the ice that still mystically grasped his body.

 

Perhaps if he turned Into ice it might join with him or maybe....

 

Quickly tapping at a particularly large and easy to reach piece he took on the hard, smooth texture and with an mighty surge of will began to draw on the ice around him to increase his mass.

 

Quickly becoming a towering figure made from solid and slightly transparent ice his voice grinded and rumbled like a glacier inching down a valley "I'll go elf stomping, keep them from overwhelming us with numbers." He called out before locking eyes on the nearest group

 

"You little weirdos are about to catch my drift!" He chortled.

[RocketLord]

Everything was happening so fast. Pan had barely managed to climb to his feet before Krampus opened his kasket. The old was instant and intense, rushing over the area, pushing him back. He could see so many of the others caught in it all around him, ice and cold weighing him down like them. He saw Corinne was caught as well. No, that he could not let go unpunished. This was far from ideal, but it could have been worse, at least, and Pan remained standing, a grin creeping over his lips. The situation was dire, true. He saw Dio falling, but his friends, and even those among the students that he only knew by association, were putting up a fine fight. 

 

Micah's heat, Nicole's armor powering through the sky towards Krampus. So many of them working together. It was glorious. Could he do any less? Of course not! Krampus was stunned for the moment, he had to take the shot!

 

"KRAMPUS! Look around! Do you truly believe you can stand against the might of my friends? You come to a school of heroes to punish the naughty! Do you not see your error?" He doubted it would help much, but it was a mere distraction, after all. Pixie Dust had already gathered in his hands, being thrown forward in a pixie-winged ball, spinning through the air towards Krampus. He could only hope that his aim would be true, and that he had enough power to at least cause some reaction in Krampus.

Edited January 26, 2019 by RocketLord

[Tiffany Korta]

 

White Lioness

Àjàṣorò felt a cold run through her that chilled her to the very core, she’d never felt so cold in all her life. It seemed to sap at her will and for a moment she felt the will to fight fade, but at that very moment, she felt a second wind fall upon her almost as if it came from elsewhere.

 

Shaking away the feeling she took an offensive stance against the dark elves, quickly working out a plan of attack. First she went low sweeping the first off of his (or her?) feet, she then leapt up to swing off the second to kick the third squarely in the chest. Finally, she landed before the forth slashing him with her claws and the other three collapsed behind her.

[KnightDisciple]

Micah's brain felt stiff, almost gummy. The blast of supernatural cold had left him numb, aching, and trapped in a shell of ice. For just a moment, he considered just drifting off to sleep...

 

Then he heard his roommates voice, roaring with defiance, will, and optimism. Micah blinked and shook his head. He looked down at his body, then closed his eyes and concentrated. The air around him stirred once, twice, then began to pick up, whirling around him even as tiny sparks and ripples of green lightning played up and down his body. In this space, he was focused on heat rather than explosive damage, so all of this electricity focused more on the "hot as the surface of the sun" aspect of things.

 

Micah was clearly focused on just being free, though if his constant glances toward the Krampus were any indication, he was pretty clearly thinking beyond that, on top of wondering if the ice-beast would try to contest literally anything he tried. Thankfully he wasn't the only one drawing attention to themselves, at this point. 

[Gizmo]

Giant Krampus staggered back a step under Salvo's all-out assault. Rather than blood where the lances of directed energy struck puffs of black, sooty particulates burst into the air: coal dust. The released dust swirled about amidst the white of the falling snow before most of it was swept up in the pinprick of crushing hunger Sun Dragon had created. The light devouring attacks from the prince and Facsimile struck true, afterimage shadows against the blinding light streaming from the Bellios armour. Giant Krampus grunted, pulling its great shoulders together for a moment before rising back up to its full high with a bellow, rage replacing its surprise at the students' counterattack.

 

The spindly forms of the dark elves continued to stream forth from the Basket of Ancient Winters, heedless of their fellows being laid low by White Lioness' claws or bursting into glittering shards of black ice as Arcana's magic washed over them. A group rushed toward Ms Thursday, knife-like fingers scratching at her club wielding arm, while another cadre tried to climb Facsimile's glacial legs, biting at transmuted ice. Still more appeared with each moment, faster than the teens were defeating them!

[Fox]

Masque

 

It was a lot to keep up with, and Masque was doing her best. The blast of freezing magic had been bad enough - she'd barely dropped behind a rooftop outcropping before it hit, bits of her robe freezing as they fluttered in the unnatural wind - but then came the creatures from the basket (at least Arcana had those well in hand!), and then an assault on the Krampus that looked good, but not for anybody else nearby. She'd reached out as best she could, the eyes of her mask shimmering as she just...tipped the die. She couldn't stop that attack but she could at least nudge the odds in White Lioness' favor, a butterfly beating her wings once against the gale. It'd have to be enough.

 

And then she had a moment to breathe, and realized she had no plan. The Krampus hadn't been too impressed with her idea of firepower, but that wasn't really her area. Arcana's wave had been pretty good, though...

 

She reached up her sleeve and Mary Poppinsed a six-foot shepherd's crook, old wood wrapped in white cloth for a grip, and gathered a soft white flame into the over-sized hook at the end. "You've got a lot more oomph than I do," she confessed, appearing a few feet from Arcana; she held the staff sideways, offering the wisp up like an offering. "Maybe we can work together?"

[April]

Arcana was simultaneously pleased, and disappointed, in the enchantment that obscured her face.  Pleased because it hide the admiring look gave her roommate who was some brave to spring into action in pajamas and a robe, and disappointed because Masque couldn't see her smile at the idea of working together.

 

Still, a nod worked.

 

"Launch it," the mage suggested and soon the wisp was sailing unerringly toward Krampus.  Flame swirled around Arcana and she reached out toward the wisp, feeding it with fire.  The wisp grew in size, in luminosity, in heat.

 

Still power flowed into it.

 

Stone was ripped from the ground, pulled from the cement and ripped from the building, feeding the wisp that had, by now, grown to resemble a ball of fire and molten rock, the heat of it creating a howling in the wind as it passed.

 

And then it hit the giant, exploding against it's skin.

[Zeitgeist Blue]

Salvo

 

"Dio!"

 

Salvo watched in horror as her friend plummeted to the ground, crashing against it with a dull thud she could feel even high up in the air. Snow and dirt churned from the impact.

 

Yet she felt her armour list to the side, pulling her attention to the fight before her. It wasn't, like she first thought, either Krampus or her continuous beam moving her against her will, but twin singularities slamming against Krampus from another side that pulled at her. Leroy and Alex. One, tearing against the monster and the other now a giant ice thing stomping on the dark elves.

 

Others fought against the creatures and she could see the whole battlefield in her mind, her radar like the eye of a god. Ajasoro on one of Krampus' shoulder. Pan on the ground and Astrid fending off attacks with her bat. Micah was sheathing himself with flame and Nicole pursed her lips at that.

 

She was among the frontlines and there was no one as well suited to taking a beating as her. She needed its attention solely on her to keep its attack from anyone else.

 

Her own assault faltered, the beam flickering slightly. She shut her core to preserve power, thrusters folding back into her armor. Then without so much as a second's rest, batteries filled with dozens and dozens of missiles burst from her sides.

 

They erupted in an explosion of fire and smoke, momentarily filling the air around her. It was already tumultuous flying so high with Micah's heat and Krampus' cold creating mini-tornado winds that buffeted violently against anything that moved. Many of her missiles detonated mid-air as they slammed against each other, but her batteries reloded missiles just as fast as she shot them and enough arced through the battle to rake the Krampus' back with explosions.

 

At the same time a ball of molten rock and fire crashed against it.

 

They had it on the ropes now, she could tell. By the time she was done, she was wrapped in hazy gun-powder smoke, half-masking her form.

 

"Hey asshole!" She shouted, speakers carrying her voice above the din. Her armor threw sparks around her in seeming defiance and a hazy, thin smoke burned from her exhausts. She tried to act as if this was to get its attention instead of her pushing her armor too hard too fast. "Leave! Or we'd dig right done to your core and I've ideas for ground up Krampus bones!"

Edited February 4, 2019 by Zeitgeist Blue

[Cubismo]

A lot had happened in the last span of a couple of minutes. That's what happens in battle. A whole lot happening all it once. Astrid knew that from experience but even so experiencing it still took her aback, though she would loath to admit that anyone. 

 

Dio was down but at least Nicole was able to blast the Hel out of their enemy. Astrid would have given her roommate the colossal props she so rightfully deserved for that attack if she wasn't already preoccupied with a trio of Dark Elves clawing at her and Porrklubba. She had spotted the monsters when she saw that they were gunning for Àjàṣorò, but now they were up and close and Astrid saw them for the ugly creatures they were.

 

"<Vile little beasts aren't you,>" she grunted out in her native Norwegian as they attacked. 

 

The monsters swiped at her, and although she made to block or parry most of their blows, one managed to slip past her defenses and slash her right shoulder with its claws, drawing blood. The injury wasn't debilitating but Astrid cursed it all the same. Not out of pain, but because she allowed the Dark Elves to get the better of her, if only somewhat. 

 

Astrid decided to return the favor by finally going on the offensive. Not wanting to use her right arm immediately after her injury, Astrid made a fist with her left hand and drove at the Dark Elves prepared to clubber them one by one.

Edited February 4, 2019 by Cubismo

[Ari]

Sun Dragon

 

The giant was beginning to stir. Subtle for the creature, but unmistakable signs spreading as they gradually shook off the arcane salvo. Glancing around the battlefield, Sun Dragon payed especially close attention to the others fighting the elves. Looking back and forth between the Basket of Ancient Winters and his fellow heroes-in-training, Sun Dragon's helmet nodded at some unspoken decision. 

 

At the giant's feet, there wasn't much need for any maneuvering, so Leroy just launched from the ground in a shower of debris, landing on the Krampus' back in a run. Grabbing one vast, lean arm covered in coarse hair, Leroy ran along the creature's clothes, carrying the arm behind him. Leaping over the Basket, the living gravitic center seized the Krampus' other arm, slammed both the monster's hands over himself, looped his own arms around the monstrous appendages and *fixed* himself in place. Gravity bent into him, forcing the giant to pull inexorably into the core of this new, hideously heavy mass standing tense and shivering with effort as he tried to keep iron control over one of the cosmos' fundamental forces.

 

"I will hold him!" Leroy shouted over the chaos of battle, his words aimed mostly at the students already focused on the giant yuletide horror, "Go for his basket! The Basket!"

Edited February 6, 2019 by Ari

[Exaccus]

"you heard the man get the geezers basket!" Facsimile boomed with his bassy voice, sprinkled with the sound of crystalline cracking.

 

Turning his attention to the dark elves stabbing at his legs he unflinchingly drew his left hand over his chest and and away to bing his glacial pot holder down in a big back hand that sent three of the little imps back to vaporous darkness.

 

"I'll keep the little dudes busy!"

[TheAbsurdist]

"I do not like being frozen you big, smelly hairy Germanic FAIRY TALE!" Zenith blazed and raged, her power pouring out in dawn colored light, and she strained against the icy that gripped, "You don't get to hurt them!"  Her feet digging against snow, as she pushed harder, trying to reach out, pulling something from nothing.

The pillar of marble that appeared plunged right into the open basket, the top of it trailing off into unreality and nothingness as she broke laws of physics like it was nothing.  Creating something that was there/not there in simultaneous fashion, her hands curling into clawed shapes as the light ran from her eyes like tears.  So she add weight to the thing, and kept adding as the matrix of matter was folding in on itself.  Her effort bleeding off with her power, cracking ice around her, and keeping bits of it and the snow suspended in the air.

[RocketLord]

Well, that did not work at all! It seemed that nothing Pan did had any real effect on this Krampus, nothing seemed to really hurt him! And Pan was still stuck in the ice, even as everyone else was doing great. What had he done? Managed to get Krampus to swipe at him instead of someone else? It was kind of disappointing. He had to do better. And if he could not hurt Krampus from here, then maybe he could distract him, giving the others a better chance of actually stopping him.

 

So, what could he do? Krampus was big. He was a holiday monster, or something like that. He was the bad thing that happened to naughty children. Then who would oppose him? Who did good things for children? Pan grinned, even as he struggled a bit against his bonds. Oh, he knew just what he would do to try and distract the giant Krampus and his little minions.

 

In a whirl of snow and the sound of bells, he appeared! A giant, towering above them all, standing as tall as Krampus. Dressed in red and white, with a full beard and a laugh in his voice. The scent of cookies and candy filled the nostrills of anyone present. His beard was long, and as white as snow! He had a big sack, filled with presents, slung over his shoulder, one gloved hand holding on to it, the other resting on his belt. A loud "Ho ho ho!" filled the air!

 

And as Giant Santa gazed upon Giant Krampus, he spoke with a voice that was old, yet young. "My, my. What a naughty boy you have been, Krampus!" 

[KnightDisciple]

Micah blinked as he shook out his arms and legs. The campus was a mess! Part of him was anxious about being blamed, somehow, but the large majority...was angry. This monster had come here to hurt not just him and his friends, but everyone on campus. They were just kids! And now, he'd unleashed these things. Some of them were already crawling up the walls of one of the dorm buildings. There were still people inside!

 

"No! You don't get to hurt them!"

 

Everyone felt the air stir around them, before Micah moved stupendously fast. The air rippled as he flew through it, and was twisting and turning in barely-visible eddies around his body as he arrive next to the batch of Dark Elves at the dorm. 

 

For Micah, everything was moving in slow motion. Like everyone was trying to swim through cold molasses. The chittering intruders might as well have been statues as he got to work. With wind and lightning boosting his arms, Micah began striking each of the Dark Elf attackers in turn, going for their heads and torsos and knees and more. In moments, he'd struck them all a half-dozen times or more, his blows landing like hammers on them, so quickly it was like he struck all of them at once. When he came to a stop, his back had seemingly sprouted two green wings of crackling fury, even as he crouched there breathing heavily. 

[Tiffany Korta]

 

White Lioness

Àjàṣorò quickly looked around to check that she was currently unchallenged by Krampus’s allies, apparently, they were all busy with the other students. Indeed with such a vantage point, she could see the whole battle laid out before her. It was difficult to tell how they were doing, but she couldn’t allow a moment to doubt they had to fight.

 

With something so vast she didn’t need fineness she just slashed at the giant with her claws, there was a chance that it would distract the beast, enough that she had to try and continue the attack.

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Giant Krampus bellowed in surprise as it abruptly found its arms pinned to one side and every ounce of its mighty build straining to keep from toppling over, hooves slipping and digging in and slipping again as it stumbled about in a circle. Its trashing proved unable to shake the foe it could only see in its peripheral vision by craning its neck over its shoulder, nor could it dislodge the agile White Lioness from its fur. The weird, ethereal pillar sticking out of its basket whipped through the air as it struggled, narrowly missing Salvo.

 

Distracted as the titanic monster was it didn't notice the sudden appearance of its equally ancient opposite number until it came inexplicably eye-to-eye with the Colossal Claus. It reared back with a spittle spewing snarl, dropping its clutch of birch trees and turning another section of the school's bordering walls to rubble under its hooves. Catching its balance Giant Krampus redoubled its efforts to free itself from Sun Dragon's impossible mass, to no avail!

 

Their numbers abruptly cut by Thunderbird's assault and no reinforcements on their way past Zenith's marble barrier remaining dark elves went into a frenzy, launching themselves at the nearest teenager with reckless abandon. Ms. Thursday easily remained a step ahead of her undisciplined assailants despite their greater numbers while gnarled claws scraped harmlessly off of Facsimile's form.