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*The soldier squirmed on the floor in agony, Ali's soldiers were pretty heavily armored but those that specialized in stealth had less armor when it came to their legs to increase mobility and allowing them to move more silently, which was a shame now as his legs had been blasted away. Ali was kneeling down next to the soldier right after the blast, tearing off his own sleeves and tieing it around the soldiers legs so they worked as tourniquets, making sure he didn't bleed to death. Sending him off to the medical bay back at HQ afterwards by means of a slight vortex transportation.
Slowly Ali stood back up straight, nodding his head a little before slowly turning back towards the two of them, Narrowing his eyes at Yawg. Using his abillity to manipulate air and gravity to apply some serious gravitational pressure upon several joints in Yawg arms, hands and legs, aiming to twist and bend them the opposite and unnatural directions. While Yawg might have steel strong muscles, the joints were always the most vulnerable parts of the skeleton and the places with the least muscles. Particulary the fingers,wrists, elbows and kneecaps that Ali was targeting on him.*

* Ali glanced over at one of the windows and narrowed his eyes, eventually looking back at Yawg. ******** it. Slowly Ali unbuttoned his ruined shirt and just tossed it away, taking a couple of steps back and rolling his neck while cracking his knuckles. Using his ability to levitate objects inorder to have a chopstick fly into the grasp off his right hand, twirling it around the fingers for a few moments until he simply held it with his index finger and tumb.* Thought you said mercy was gone as soon as you carved that symbol into the pillar, besides before the sun vanishes in the horizon then I'll have either seriously wounded or killed you with this wooden chopstick.

Seeing what happened, she tried not to react, but she could not help herself. Motioning as if she were considering moving forward, she was barely able to speak a word to offer assistance to her old friend before he was whisked away. Sad blue eyes turned to her friend once more, unsure of how she should feel as she watched her friend and husband quickly turn on each other again. The peace and long forgotten friendship between them both seemed like distant memories now.

Still standing so close to Yawgmoth, she was just beginning to feel a little uncomfortable as the events between the two men began to accelerate. What she did not expect was for they to simply begin fighting on that spot. Historically, they would always move or even make some attempt at giving anyone not wanting to get in the middle of it a chance to get the hell out of there. Such was not the case this evening.

When Yawgmoth changed, she was standing near enough to be in the shadow. Her body stiffened, though this was able to be seen for only a moment. Skin going slightly pale, her had moved over her mouth as she stifled a gasp. Was this because of Yawg and his magic? Or the intensity of the situation? All would be left to wonder, if they so choose, as this was all that was seen before she disappeared, though much different than what any had seen before. Instead of a pop or a liquid splash of movement, she seemed to vaporize, a small puff of shining ether hung in the air, moving fluidly, before disappearing all together.

In the end Ali would have to face one simple fact. They were still only made of simple wood. No amount of energy from either of them was going to change that. The darkness puddled around Yawgmoth however would not allow hostile actions to reach him even if they were just wooden sticks. Two tendrils shot up from the pool one in front of him and one to his left causing the wooden chopsticks to run smack into them and dissolve into less than ash corroded by the darkness. Their simple wooden molecules unable to stand against the might of his shadows for longer than a split second. As Ziven left he breathed a sigh of relief. Good. Now he didn't have to hold back. The puddle started to bubble and crackle now that no one was standing on it but him. The floor he stood on started to dissolve beating eaten away like the chopsticks. The puddle now acted as a few things. A platform first and foremost which is why the titan did not fall through the floor and stepping onto it was like stepping into a vat of acid or into a lava field. Patiently Yawgmoth waited to see a second attack, now that he had foiled Aliator's earlier proclamation.

"Unless the spell Zero placed upon this inn wore off without our knowing. The floor should repair itself as soon as we stop eating away at it. Do you intend to continue? Or do you intend to run as we advised?" he said turning his eyes towards the window and back to Aliator. Steadily closer to nightfall. Steadily closer to the titan being godlike with vast amount of darkness to manipulate. He knew his own advantage but respected Aliator enough to have their previous fights in the day when it would be more about skill than who had the most ammo. The same way he wanted their battle to be about this time. Unlike before though, he wouldn't just wait around and make idle threats. As Ali's soldier found out, he was much quicker to make good on those threats these days.

"Actually" he grinned. "We don't care. Run and give us a time to meet you for a real fight, or fight back. Talking is wasted energy." he said reaching his hand out causing a tendril to shoot forward from in front of him. This tendril took the form of a long arm with five grasping claws reaching for Aliator. It would be very very bad if it grabbed him, but Yawgmoth was sure Ali wasn't stupid and knew that already.

The shadowy hand crashed into the bar starting to break away the steel undercoating which at his current power output took a little longer than the wooden chopsticks. The hand retreated back into the bubbling puddle Yawgmoth stood upon. Moving his eyes over to Ali he grinned. They were so alike, as were most real warriors. Living for the next real battle against some one who would test their limits as fighters. "We obviously agree or else we'd simply chase after you until nightfall and kill you with our ridiculous advantage." the titan mused. "Send us a message with the time and place. We assume you know where we will be staying, your letter on the pillar makes it seem so." he said hinting that he would of course be with the 'blue haired mage with large breasts' that was Ziven and her home. "When we beat you. Know that we do not plan to actually stop your invasion. Merely remind you that we do not partake in any citizenship nor will we obey any laws you or your men attempt to enforce. We are outside of your rule. You are the only one in your empire who could enforce those rules on us anyway. By beating you, we know we won't have to worry about it and you'll be free to rule over the other insects as you see fit. So long as you leave us and our lovely blue haired angel alone." Yawgmoth remarked with a bit of a laugh.

Yawgmoth only laughed his voice echoing off the walls. "Ahhh good to know. You will not get her without us though. And it is our nature to be chaotic and cause the destruction you seek to avoid. We are however, acting more on whims these days. Most of our whims seem to be fondling Ziven but we digress. After we've stomped you around a bit and reminded you who's the superior being, you're more than welcome to your empire. But, you will be leaving her home out of it. Pretend, as if it wasn't on the map. We'll be fine with that." he said with a delighted sigh grinning his shining white teeth at Aliator. His skin however did not start returning to normal. Nor would he back down from his real form of darkness until he was sure Aliator was gone. Caution was better than arrogance to him these days. "If you're done pretending you're some sort of savior though. We'll be on our way back to fondling that woman while you go plan our play date. We look forward to it." he said crossing his arms over his chest tapping his right index finger on his skin waiting for a response and most of all for Ali to depart so he could go relax.