Talk:Mantis/@comment-31522620-20170322224955/@comment-30700719-20170324235400

I duck. "Stormi, calm down! You're very surprising sometimes, just materialising and swooping out of nowhere! Course, I should probably expect that from a Sylph." I stand up and look over my shoulder. A Mantis is clinging on to the tree, or rather attempting to get her scythes free from it. "Hey, you're not Stormi!" The Mantis yanks her scythes from the tree and spins around to face me. I fabricate my knife and assume a fighting stance. "So, this is the arena, eh? Let's give the audience a fight!" The Mantis jumps torwards me, and I sidestep. She lands, and I lunge with my knife. She expertly parries the blade with one scythe and swings the other. I drop to the ground, then jump back into a battle stance, a few metres away. I dematerialise the knife and fabricate a studry metal staff. "I barely know how use this thing. I'm gonna whack you over the head with it!" The ensuing fight is so amusing to the watching fighty-bashy monster girls that as soon as I manage to finally bonk the Mantis unconcious, the rest of them come leaping out of the bushes. "Hold on...heh...I'm...I'm trying to catch my...my breath here, guys. Just give me about...maybe two minutes. Then...heh. I'll be ready to fight." I get down on one knee, gasping for breath. "God, I feel like I just ran a kilometre! And fell down a flight of stairs, too."