[He whips around to the dragon and casts the Cool Fireworks spell, a seemingly useless novelty spell he'd picked up half a year ago, aimed right at the dragon's eyes. Flashes of purple and blue and red explode in front of the dragon, blinding it and causing it to flinch, spewing its breath attack up high and wide.]
[Knowing Hawk would see that as the perfect diversion, Darin casts one spell after another. First, he pours a strength enhancing spell into his right arm. Second, he casts a protection spell around his arm to keep the bone from shattering on impact, and third, he uses his blood magic to drop Hawk's blood flow in an attempt to weaken him. Finally, he casts EmphaSize on his strengthened arm and whips around just as Hawk was passing and slams Hawk with the most devastating, mother-of-all right hook/lariat combos imaginable, seizing Hawk by the face and slamming him back and down with all of his ungodly might.]
[He has to knock him out now. He has to! He drives his arm down so hard that even the protection spell on his arm might not be up to snuff...he can feel his bones creaking from the force alone. The impact sounds like a meteorite striking.]
[With any luck, it's enough to put him down. With the dragon still temporarily blinded, Darin uses his enormous appendage to scoop Hawk up and throw himself into the cover of the trees.]
[When the dragon regains its senses, it decides that these two are no longer worth the trouble and takes to the air again.]
[Watching it fly off, Darin exhales and drops whatever augmentation spells he's using. He can only hope that stalling the dragon was enough to get as many people out of Celliwig as possible. The city was done for now but...]
[He looks at Hawk.]
...Sorry, pal. But we're gonna live to make things right tomorrow...
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[He whips around to the dragon and casts the Cool Fireworks spell, a seemingly useless novelty spell he'd picked up half a year ago, aimed right at the dragon's eyes. Flashes of purple and blue and red explode in front of the dragon, blinding it and causing it to flinch, spewing its breath attack up high and wide.]
[Knowing Hawk would see that as the perfect diversion, Darin casts one spell after another. First, he pours a strength enhancing spell into his right arm. Second, he casts a protection spell around his arm to keep the bone from shattering on impact, and third, he uses his blood magic to drop Hawk's blood flow in an attempt to weaken him. Finally, he casts EmphaSize on his strengthened arm and whips around just as Hawk was passing and slams Hawk with the most devastating, mother-of-all right hook/lariat combos imaginable, seizing Hawk by the face and slamming him back and down with all of his ungodly might.]
[He has to knock him out now. He has to! He drives his arm down so hard that even the protection spell on his arm might not be up to snuff...he can feel his bones creaking from the force alone. The impact sounds like a meteorite striking.]
[With any luck, it's enough to put him down. With the dragon still temporarily blinded, Darin uses his enormous appendage to scoop Hawk up and throw himself into the cover of the trees.]
[When the dragon regains its senses, it decides that these two are no longer worth the trouble and takes to the air again.]
[Watching it fly off, Darin exhales and drops whatever augmentation spells he's using. He can only hope that stalling the dragon was enough to get as many people out of Celliwig as possible. The city was done for now but...]
[He looks at Hawk.]
...Sorry, pal. But we're gonna live to make things right tomorrow...