Bug Off

With time running out, you curl your upper lip and sink your fangs into the appendage. A screeching plea of misery from the Yanmega as the fangs manage to puncture through the armor-like hide of its arm. Fumbling, the arms weaken enough for you to swing your body out of, flaring your arms up with aura. In a pivot, you strike the monster's middle with a spin to have it cough out forward. The bug anthro buzzes backward and readies its tail between its legs with a rapid curl. Green spikes aim towards you as it flies itself forward. You huff and duck down with a splash, having the tail swing right over you with the rest of the dragonfly. Given a brief moment now, you pack your palms together to summon an Aura Sphere of energy together, crackling hot blue fire between your hands. The Yanmega swings itself around with all four of its arms now readied to attack you, diving down for another go.

You roar and blast the bug in the air with a rocketing projectile. The blue flashes bright for a direct hit! Unfortunately, you now had a tumbling large insect man crashing towards you. The dragonfly's body strikes your chest and forces you back into the shallow waters with a crash. "Aghh!" You grunt out and feel its weight bear down on you, keeping your back to the muddy earth. Bubbles fume out of your mouth from being underwater, and the monster on you was still very much conscious. Its own body thrashes against your own to cool its smoking hide in the cold swamp water while also trying to keep you pinned down. Air was being denied from you, and the infected Yanmega fully intended on that. With a growl, you concentrate your aura to help your body glow, bringing some light into the water. You see the thing on top of you with its head out of the pond surface, able to breathe just fine from its maw, but its arms secure your own again.

You burn aura at your knee instead and drill it right into its abdomen again, the same place you had punched it before. It keels over forward into the water, streaming more bubbles from its jaws in a pained snarl. The chitin at its stomach cracked, hurting the softer inside. That was more than enough to help you turn the tides. Your legs wrap around the creature's sides, and with a rolling heave, you twist the dragonfly over onto its back instead, with you now straddled on top. "Hhhrrrrhhh!" You burn energy into your fist for a forceful punch to its head, hearing a brief crack in response to damage the exoskeleton of its head. The four clawed hands gripping onto you then droop and splash back into the water. The Yanmega had been knocked out. You sigh in relief and got off from the thing. Luckily it simply just floats back up to the surface with its open-mouthed face resurfacing too. You can hear its lazed groan from its throat, so you didn't know how long it'd be out.

That didn't matter right now however. It was crucial for you to recover because Jackal still needed your help. Briskly, you trudge your legs as fast as you could get them through the swamp water where your companion was. The Typhlosion was currently still submerged as his hands were out, wincing in the air and barely able to even clench. He was drowning, the Leafeon currently had him thigh-locked at the neck. All she had to do was keep herself sitting up and he'd fall ****.

"Get off of him!" You roar out with fire crackling from her hands in streams.

The violet eyes of the Leafeon perk up and narrow. Suddenly, leaves sprout from her body, all before glimmering with a rainbow-like shine. The leaves blast forward and sharply cut through the air. You're **** to dispel your aura and conceal your front by clasping your arms in front of yourself. You have to dive out of the way as some of the leaves manage to catch you, slicing at the sides of your limbs. You wince as your injured leg is especially struck, leaving you staggering onto a knee. "K-Kkhh! Jackal...just hold on...!" You snarl with worry. You watch helplessly as Jackal's arms can barely waver any more, and the gurgling from underwater was lessening.

The Leafeon was readying another Magical Leaf attack, striking your body to stand up in response; however, you simply keel over onto a knee again when your hurt leg suffers a bad ache. "Aghk, no..." You whine, demanding your muscles to obey your commands to move, or else Jackal was going to be done in by the leaf cat!

"Crcrcrcrrrrr...~" A foreign voice chuckles with a ribbiting wobble to it. You wince your eyes to look up and see a figure crouched on a branch above. Purple and orange glossy hide is the first thing you notice of the figure, followed by a throat sac croaking in and out. It was a Toxicroak, perhaps the Toxicroak. Your eyes adjust up to look into the frog's own, and your pupils shrink. The frog sneers.

1. "Crcrcr...need some help down there, hun?" He's here to help!

2. "Crcrcr....rrggghh~" He's infected...and hungry!