User blog comment:The Reptile King/Reptile Kingdom What Do's/@comment-27950421-20180121013313/@comment-30700719-20180121162406

I glance around jerkily, looking for anything, really. Just as my hand lands on an ice pick from my bag, the Giggi leaps forward. With split-second reactions, I slam the pick into the ice and pull myself forward, doing a front-flip onto my feet and knocking my pack forward. The Giggi slams into the spot where I was and looks up. "Stay with me, and we'll never shiver..." I crouch down and pick up a second ice pick, dual-wielding them like sickles and raising them above my head. "I'm not shivering! My body has been scientifically engineered to withstand the effects of high altitudes, including low temperatures and oxygen levels! Hell, if this were at sea level, I'd be dead right now. So don't worry, I'm not shivering." A fat bastard of a maggot hurtles through the air, hitting me like a football to the chest. I stumble against a wall, managing to keep my footing. The Gig, however, had other ideas, and it turned around and stretched out its jaw right over my crotch. "NO!" With one swing, I dislodge and dissect the offender, watching it fall to the ground with a splat. I silently regard the thing, then turn to the Giggi, who had turned around by now. "I came two inches from almost cutting off my penis! I-" Her silent gaze prompted me to close my mouth. "You talk a lot...you're not very warm, for someone with that much hot air..." I sighed. "Yeah, yeah. Very funny...maybe I'll have better luck with the walking rug shop." Immediately, she adheres to the ceiling, rapidly crawling over my head. "Damn, I wish I had some common sense once in a while..." I rolled forward as the Giggi almost landed on top of me, and I slashed upwards with one pick. She jumped back and ducked down as her tail shot forward like a cannonball. I leaped backwards, faint green trails coming off my shoes as I backflipped to the right. Her tail stuck to the wall, and I smirked. That smirk was soon wiped off my face as she left the ground, pulling herself forward with her tail and doing a front flip. I flipped forward through the air and lashed out behind me when I hit the ground. I glanced up just in time to see her tail club me across the chest, sending me sprawling near the door. "You fight meagrely..." I kick upwards, setting myself back on my feet. "Well, yeah. I figured trying out a new fighting style would be good. Usually I just 'use gun', or wield my knife." I tap my ice picks together and say, "Well, nice having met you, I'll let some guys know you're single." And with that, I backflip out of the cave entirely, green wisps trailing from the tips of my picks. I turn around and start running down the mountain, as a Sylph materialises next to me. "Aw, come on...you didn't even use any wind attacks!" I sigh. "Well, I was augmenting my jumps, you know. Tell you what, next time, I'll fight with you, instead of by myself. Yeah?" She whimpers and burrows into my collar, shrinking down to fission form as she does. I trip forward, tumbling down the mountain until I plant a pick into the icy snow. "Hey, what is it? What could..." I slowly look up at the incoming storm cloud. The thick hail coming down bounced all around me, and I glanced over to Stormi standing on my collarbone. "But what could..." I look back at the unnatural cloud. Like some huge egg splitting in two, the cloud literally broke open to reveal a silver-winged woman, clad in steel and headed directly at me. "Could that be the same one from the City...?" Her eyes focused on me, on my uniform, and shot forward two blasts of air. "No time for that now!" I yelled, pulling myself back up the mountain, leaping almost three times as much more than normally, green wind magic radiating off the soles of my feet. I jumped again and opened my palm toward the Kushala, shooting a small ball of air towards her. It did absolute dick-diddly, and she opened her mouth to let out a freezing gale. I got thrown about fifty metres and hit the ground with a thump. "Outrunning her like this ain't gonna be easy..." I rolled over and threw a pick at her, then used my free hand to fire at her. The bullet hit the snow right beside my head, and the pick embedded itself in the rock on the other side. "Outgunning her won't work." I scrambled to my feet switching the other pick to my right hand and furiously slapping my PDA with the other, running as hard as I could. I could hear the Kushala's shouts behind me, and heard a thump followed by a metallic, grinding roar. I turned and stepped back as the Kushala advanced forward, her huge wings beating the air. The sound of a fleshy tuba came from behind me, and I saw the Giggi standing at the mouth of her cave. She took two steps forward and spread her arms to pounce me, and got blasted into the cave like a sack of potatoes hit by a sniper rifle. I glanced back towards the Kushala. "You! You were the one! The man with that Valk!" My eyes widened. "No, no! I had no idea she was even there!" She sent a blast of wind at me, and I ramped up my own wind shield. "You left him to fend for himself!" I shook my head, holding my arms in front of my face. "No! I was trying to get him to safety! You saw all those fliers! If I hadn't have engaged them, he would have been swarmed!" She hesitates, and I continue. "If they weren't all busy fighting me, they would have ripped his AN-2 apart! That biplane wouldn't stand up to a Compy with wings, let alone thousands of mamono!" She narrows her eyes. "Just hear me out, okay? I know that a few broke off and tried to take him down. I tried my best to get him outta there." She glared at me, not moving a muscle. Suddenly, she fired off a shot right at my feet, sending me flying through the air. "Ohh, come onnnnnn!"  I look up and see the magnificent machine soaring through the air, wings swept forward like an eagle. I smiled and adjusted my trajectory, remotely opening the cockpit canopy. I fell into the cockpit and rather forcefully sat down, frozen in shock for a moment or two. "That never gets old," I retort as I pull the canopy closed and grip the joysticks. Rolling over, I go down, flashing over the mountain and throwing up snow behind me. Stormi finally comes out from underneath my lapel, and watches the scenery. "Wait...why didn't you just fly to the top of the mountain in the first place?" I blink and turn to her.

"AAAAAAAUUUUGGHH!"