TAWOG: Instinct

The Ink

The Ink

Penny and Molly could not believe what they'd just seen. Gumball…had just been stabbed by the blades at the end of Green's tail and was then hurled across the street, his blood flying through the air and coating the ground as it gushed from his open wounds. It was all the more painful and traumatic for Penny, for, apart from Gumball being her boyfriend, she'd seen him change more than most had and was more capable of associating Gumball and the abyssalis cat as being the same person.

She'd basically just watched her boyfriend get stabbed horrifically.

And to make matters worse, Green apparently wasn't done, taking flight and perching on a nearby building. The light that constantly extruded from his mouth intensified and a beam shot forth, honing in on the downed Gumball. So, on top of everything else, Green was also capable of firing destructive beams of energy from his mouth? He truly is a monster. But, just as the beam was about to hit home, the abyssalis cat vanished in a puff of black smoke, the beam ripping apart the ground where he'd been laying and leaving a rather deep crater.

Wherever he reappeared wasn't in Molly and Penny's sight, but Green fired more and more beams from his perch, each one producing a powerful reverberation wherever they struck, the impacts shaking all of Elmore.

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The abyssalis cat had managed to get a hold of his facilities long enough to evade the first beam fired at him from his adversary, teleporting away just in time. Though he was left without a respite as another beam soon came at him, and he had to teleport once again. Over and over this continued, the abyssalis cat always teleporting just in the nick of time, Elmore soon becoming pot marked with craters. However, these constant near misses began to aggravate him, eventually to the point where he could push past the throbbing pain in his side and begin planning to do something more than just dodging the blasts.

After yet another evasion via teleporting, the abyssalis cat let out a savage roar-cry and lunged forward, charging the building his adversary was taking refuge on top of. Green noticed this shift in tactics and fired more beams of energy, though this time the abyssalis cat dodged them utilizing his agility, rather than teleportation, sidestepping each beam before they had a chance to impact him. 

Before long the abyssalis cat arrived at the base of the building, where he again used his ability to teleport, only this time he reappeared on the same roof that Green stood upon and lunged at him, knocking them both off the roof and plummeting to the ground below. However, Green spread his wings and took to the air, dragging the abyssalis cat along as a fierce aerial melee between them ensued.

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Back with Penny and Molly, they could only watch as the great hulking feline and demonic serpent duked it out in mid air, the slashing of claws and the flaps of massive wings reverberating through the night. Penny knew that this couldn't continue. If this didn't stop Elmore would be leveled to the ground. But the only way to stop this was to vanquish Green and he proved to be beyond anything that they could handle on their own. What could they possibly do against an all powerful demon of strife…

There was the sound of a popping balloon and Carrie suddenly appeared before them.

“Penny! There you are!” shouted the ghost girl in relief. “I stopped by the wrecking yard first but Gumball wasn't there. Where is he?”

Molly and Penny gasped at seeing their ghostly classmate, Penny however, remembered the certain task she had been assigned herself the last time they met.

“Carrie!” she cried, making to grab Carrie by her shoulders, but found her hands phasing through her incorporeal being. “Did you get the ink?”