if it bleeds
Firestorms blazed around the Krayiss Obelisk. Abominable screams pierced the night mingling with agonized cries of a far more mundane nature. Major Stazi poured more into a raging inferno now surrounding the creature's sand pit until his scavenged hand flamer finally ran out of fuel. He tossed the useless weapon aside and breathed heavily through all the smoke. Immolation reflected off his crimson eyes causing them to glow bright with almost sympathetic ferocity.
"I know an enemy when I see one."
There wasn't much left of the Pathfinder expedition still guarding their only avenue of escape. Broken bodies littered a desolate landscape surrounding the terrible obelisk guardian. Defensive emplacements were either crushed or left in ruins. A few heavy weapon teams fortunate enough to find themselves under Master Starchaser's aegis still raked the sithspawn leviathan with repeater cannons and missile launchers. It recoiled more at the wall of fire surrounding what Sol eventually realized were its confines. For all the writhing tentacles it had not strayed beyond the obelisk's perimeter.
Somewhere along the way his comlink had been crushed so Major Stazi was half blinded by the Jedi Master's sudden beam of kyber infused pure light. He heard the beast recoil and saw flashes of its outline as the monstrosity slowly began to sink back underneath the sands. Hatred blazed through him like that same wildfire. He passed heedless through the conflagration and leapt after it, fatigues still alight.
"Go back to hell!" the duros screamed in frenzy.
Sol caught hold of a writhing mass and stabbed down repeatedly with his vibroknife. With a snarl he lopped off another flailing tentacle. More black ichor splattered across his face dousing the pathfinder in ebon viscera. Last time Starchaser and his troopers glimpsed the grizzled veteran commando he was still hacking away even as sand consumed them both. Then the leviathan was gone and a few moments after the obelisk's glowing Sith runes began to fade.
There wasn't much left of the Pathfinder expedition still guarding their only avenue of escape. Broken bodies littered a desolate landscape surrounding the terrible obelisk guardian. Defensive emplacements were either crushed or left in ruins. A few heavy weapon teams fortunate enough to find themselves under Master Starchaser's aegis still raked the sithspawn leviathan with repeater cannons and missile launchers. It recoiled more at the wall of fire surrounding what Sol eventually realized were its confines. For all the writhing tentacles it had not strayed beyond the obelisk's perimeter.
Somewhere along the way his comlink had been crushed so Major Stazi was half blinded by the Jedi Master's sudden beam of kyber infused pure light. He heard the beast recoil and saw flashes of its outline as the monstrosity slowly began to sink back underneath the sands. Hatred blazed through him like that same wildfire. He passed heedless through the conflagration and leapt after it, fatigues still alight.
"Go back to hell!" the duros screamed in frenzy.
Sol caught hold of a writhing mass and stabbed down repeatedly with his vibroknife. With a snarl he lopped off another flailing tentacle. More black ichor splattered across his face dousing the pathfinder in ebon viscera. Last time Starchaser and his troopers glimpsed the grizzled veteran commando he was still hacking away even as sand consumed them both. Then the leviathan was gone and a few moments after the obelisk's glowing Sith runes began to fade.
