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[center][color=Aquamarine]Well, shiver my timbers…[/color]
[color=888888]-Nyxia Torrentia, Neon Tempest of the Ultraviolet Rainbow[/color][/center]

To Nyxia’s great delight, the Miseria were perishing in droves. Indeed, the Neon Tempest was so fixated on her little slaughter fest, that Oros’s own Miseria make out session went blissfuly unnoticed. However, its resulting [i]effect[/i] on said Miseria soon made itself unmistakably apparent…

[color=Aquamarine]“What tha [i]fuck?![/i]”[/color] Nyxia exclaimed, her wild eyes widening in disbelief. [color=Aquamarine]“Is that a fuckin’ [i]pirate ship?![/i]”[/color]

Yes, it did, indeed, seem to be just that, crewed, appropriately enough, by pirate Miseria. Though somewhat comical in appearance, the shadowy swashbucklers wasted no time in joining the fray, firing themselves out of their ship’s cannons to impact the beach with considerable force. Perhaps predictably, Nyxia didn’t really change her single-minded tactics in response to this latest development, merely her target.  

Satisfied that Roche and the others could handle the incoming pirates, along with what few Miseria had survived her initial deluge of devastation, Nyxia swung the barrel of her massive energy cannon to face the skeletal galleon. [color=Aquamarine]“Looks like that was just the appetizer, baby,”[/color] she told her beloved weapon as an even more psychotic grin spread across her face. [color=Aquamarine]“TIME FOR THE [i]MAIN COURSE!!![/i] HAHAHAHAHAAA!!!”[/color]

Once more, the ruinous cylinder of glowing, teal-tinted annihilation vomited forth, vaporizing any sand thrown up in its path, along with any unfortunate Misiera that happened to get in the way. Since it was not only quite sizable, but also hovering above the waves, the buccaneers’ bone ship was an easy target, despite the beach’s steadily worsening visibility. Plus, besides being the most imposing enemy to target, if this worked at all like any of the video games she’d played with her brother, then destroying the pirates’ ship would deal a fatal blow to the remaining Miseria. As her sadistic laughter continued to ring out, the Neon Tempest kept her finger pressed tight against the Omega Obliterator’s trigger, sending any Miseria that dared to approach her flying away with a powerful kick (at least the ones who got past her hovering point defense drones) and using that same superhuman leg strength to simply leap out of the way of any of the bone galleon’s incoming cannon fire.

[color=Aquamarine]“IS THAT [i]REALLY[/i] ALL YOU GOT?!!”[/color] she sneered at her foe. [color=Aquamarine]“AND HERE I THOUGHT THIS WAS GONNA BE A [i]CHALLENGE!!![/i] HAHAHAHAAA!!!”[/color]