[h1]Nidhogg[/h1]

Nidhogg merely let out a low growl as Manami appeared, her glare doing nothing to cool his rage. When she set up her defenses, he did nothing to stop her, instead focusing his magical energy more fluidly into a small surprise he'd been crafting underneath the arena. The earth rumble again, this time a bit more violently than before. However, it seemed like someone was trying to crash the party, however, as the inside  of the dome would suddenly resound with a large cracking sound. Unseen to all, small cracks would appear in the interior wall, an impressive feat all things considered, as chunks of it were even falling off, but the dome had held strong for the most part closer to the interior. On the outside, the moment Ferrin's attack had made contact, that section had exploded into a spray of bone shards and dust as the first 2 or 3 feet were heavily shattered, one foot after that was moderately fractured, and the fine foot was cracked and flaking a bit, but relatively intact. Another hit would probably break through, but the mage would have other problems to deal with before he could try, however.

First, not a moment after he'd made the attack, he'd be blasted by an explosion of necrotic energy, likely pushing him back a small ways and heavily straining his defenses as the energy had been quite intensified. Not only that, but any bone dust that he breathed in was also infused with the energy as well, so that was another dangerous hazard that he and everyone on the outside would have to worry about. Secondly, however, was Nidhogg's response to the unwelcome intrusion, which was the dome suddenly launching a thick pointed spire straight at the man about a second after the explosion of energy, aiming to skewer him but, if his defenses held up, would merely feel like he got sucker-punched in the gut with the concentrated force of speeding truck, so it would likely hurt quite a lot and maybe even break some bones, unless he managed to avoid it that is.

Nidhogg turned his attention back to Manami, intending to put her and her stooge in their place for disrupting him with this garbage, but to his ever increasing frustration, another interruption arose as one of the brats decided to have a rather fiery tempertantrum, nearly flooding the small dome with his flames. Luckily for Nidhogg, he'd noticed the sudden influx of magic before he'd unleashed it and had backed away, switching to his Defense form as the flames washed over him. The Meatbag was fine for the most part due to it's choice to keep away, any damage done by the heat was quickly repaired by his innate regenerative abilities. However, while the creator was pretty much fine after the ordeal, the dome had not survived the ordeal as neatly, as the weakened section of the dome would burst out word in a blast of burning shrapnel, causing even more of the necrotic bone dust to spread throughout the interior of the larger dome. The shrapnel, shards of bone ranging from as small as toothpicks up to a length of nearly 8 inches, would also have traces of necrotic energy in them as well, meaning that for anybody near where Ferrin was, you had a lot of stuff coming your way.

Nidhogg felt himself get greatly annoyed by the turn of events, but the shock of the moment had helped to shake him from his anger and, better yet, present an opportunity. As the flames raged around the boy, a large skeletal hand would suddenly burt from the ground in an attempt to grab him, it's grip tight  and any damage being done to it would be repaired as magical energy was being fed into it to make sure it kept it's grip. As soon as it appeared it would sink quickly into the ground, taking the boy with him into the earth. Down Dawn would go, suffering from scraps and bruises from the rough descent until he found himself in . . . darkness. A seemingly empty void where the air was stiff an stale and there was not a single breeze to be had. Unknown to him, he had been dragged through one of the temporary openings in the original tunnel that had been created closer to the start of the scuffle. It had no been sealed off, and had been lowered significantly from it's previous position. 

As Dawn would finally get used to his surroundings, he'd be dropped unceremoniously onto the hard floor of the tunnel. And then, he'd suddenly a low, rumbling growl, followed by a earth-shaking rumble as something approached him from the front. As it approached, he'd remained blind to the horror in front of him, and only feel the hot stench of decay that made up the whole of it's foul breath. It did nothing to him, only stayed there in what appeared to be a near motionless trance, it's hidden form staring own at the small figure in front of it.

Soon, however, steps could be heard coming down the path. Nidhogg had taken to escaping underground to this one area, and with a mass surge of magical energy, he'd cordoned off their little section of the tunnel in thick, thick, thick walls. His absence was likely not noticed due to the little stir dawn had likely caused, and even if it was, it would be thought he escaped outside, as he escaped by sliding into the walls of the dome. A little misdirection, but it was needed to make sure that annoyances didn't come to interrupt him. Currently, there were too many potentially hostile presences out there to risk getting involved with Manami right now.

As he approached, Dawn would be met with the wonderful stench of burned flesh, an acrid smell mixed distastefully with the already over-powering stench of death. Not only that, but he was accompanied with the sound of ripping flesh adding the metallic scent of blood to the mix as the place lit up with a flash of violet light coming from the beast. The necrotic energy raged liked a furnace inside the mouth of a large serpentine head, and it wasn't alone, as several others were positioned around the area at varying elevations. Each head was big enough that it could probably eat a horse in a single bite, the rest of it's body hidden down the length of the tunnel however, from what could be seen, the beast was . . . unfinished. The heads were merely skeletons for the most part, all with varying degrees of rotting flesh and muscles covering it, pulsating as it slowly but surely sought to coat the whole beast. And further down it's length, patches and holes could be just barely seen in the dim light of the deadly energies.

Nidhogg himself looked rather worse for wear, as a good portion of his body, currently in human form, seemed to have been burned, some of them being rather serious as bone could be seen in a few places. And yet, while he should've been beyond agonizing pain,he was contenting himself on feasting on a hunk of flesh and meat, the origins of which were left up to the imagination, though the sight of the meat puppet a short ways away might provide some pretty large clues if one had the thoughts for it. The undead mage would not say anything to the Sol mage, seeming to content himself with his meal at the moment.
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When Nidhogg had left the stage, the dome's had both dispersed into clouds of bonedust, the collapsing of the smaller dome allowing for the pillar of flame to blast up towards James, who likely lost his footing the moment the material he was standing on suddenly turned into unstable dust. 

[@Lunarlors34][@Crimson Raven][@Prince of Seraphs][@Natsume Honnaji][@Zarkun][@t2wave][@Silvan Haven][@Expolar]

[hider=Setting the stage, again]Okay, so in this instance, dome has dissolved into dust, Dawn is most likely in the underground tunnel with Nidhogg for a conversation . . . of sorts. James is falling into the pillar, Ferrin is getting possibly stabbed, possibly poisoned via inhalation of necrotic bone dust(actually, I'm pretty sure everybody has to worry about that since there was still necrotic energy in the second dome), and possibly getting stabbed and poisoned again by splintery shrapnel, which Lux will have to worry about as well. Everyone in the secondary dome has to worry about the flame, obviously, but I think the one in greatest danger is Robin, as Cody has Manami protection. Also, remember: [h3]Post slowly, we still need to give Expolar time to catch up.[/h3][/hider]