Alpha Predator (Elyss/"V")

“Boom!”

The ground shakes as an explosion rocked the forest. Yet, there was no energy used in this ear popping display of power. The Earth rose up as strong winds and dust rolled through the trees causing their leaves to dance and flutter before something black and large rolled through, knocking out the vegetation with each flex of its large body. Some serpentine creature then brought its head up from the treeline; its face adorned by a large white mask that held four eye sockets, two on each side, with glaring red serpentine eyes that pierced through the trees towards a crater with debris rising from it from some power impact.

From said crater, a pair of onyx eyes look up through the dust that’s sprawled all about. Red hair sways in the disturbed wind as the woman rises from her crater looking somewhat unscathed by the powerful blow she took. The snake, in comparison, dwarfs her greatly. Its large and long body easily encompasses many of the large trees around, and its mouth, with the ability to unhinge itself, is at least more than 3 of her, but the woman seemed undisturbed by this fact. In fact, she’s even cracking a bit of a smile as she planted her feet down and beat at her own ruined clothing: a pair of black jeans that only seem dirtied and a ripped white shirt. There was a black jacket, but that has long since been discarded into the wind.

“Eh. Just what I needed, a distraction. Well, you caught me off guard at first, but now I got a read on you, you serpent.”

As if being able to understand her words, the giant serpent raised its boney head to reveal the rows of sharp jagged fangs within its jaws lines in rows meant to tear anything to shreds instead of bite down and hold like normal giant pythons. It only took seconds to hiss before the Hollow tensed its muscles and struck at high speeds to bite down on the lone redhead, but before it struck the Earth, the woman tensed herself by crouching and jumped just in time to dodge the attack and landed down on the snakes head with her fist raised and brought it down hard causing the Hollow’s jaw to snap shut from the impact and worsen the crater that the two now shared. Of course, before any action could be taken, the snake is quick to recoil itself after such a hit seemed to do little to its mask besides leaving a small crack in the middle of its mask that sent the redhead tumbling off into a nearby bush.

Once back up to where it was, it hisses once more feeling pain running down through its body from the crack, and in an angry display, begins trashing its whole body about destroying anything around it with mighty thumps of its body that shook the surroundings further knocking up dust, broken trees, and sending the poor redhead running to keep from getting hit by the snakes body and from everything flying about. This is no good. It’s too hard to get close with such movements.

THE ENDLESS STRUGGLER

The girl tosses away her life to chase the near-death. Blood spills. Souls scream. But only one stands satisfied. All is done, but addiction fuels further. Her bloodied body continues to war. She seeks to satisfy, but her cardinal sins breathe eternal. The end is transient.

Work, work, work... always so much work. It didn't pay well, and that was part of why she had to work so much, but it got V the thrill of fighting that she desired. That is, for now at least. One day, she'd find someone to fight that was worth her time, but right now she had a job to do. Hunt a snake looking Hollow that had been eating the local wildlife without end, simple enough. A serpent was nothing to V, but what was something was the entire act of finding it.

V had been using her genetically superior thighs to propel herself through the forest at a fairly moderate pace, though to her a moderate pace was well over a few hundred miles per hour. She could keep this speed like it was nothing, hell she often broke the speed of sound for fun, but speed wouldn't get her any closer to her target if she didn't know where it was to begin with. Thick thighs tensed, the muscle underneath flexing as the rabbit propelled herself further until-

BOOM

Immediately V's nose twitched and picked up a new scent, conveniently timed and pointing to the explosion she just heard. The dirt beneath her feet flew into the air as she skid to a near halt and launched herself in the direction of the noise. It took her seconds to hear what was going on. The thing was thrashing, causing a massive ruckus, but it wasn't the sound from earlier was it? Whatever that had been didn't matter, V just wanted her kill. The redhead went unnoticed as V leapt high into the air, well above the serpent's head and let herself fall straight down onto it, aiming to end it with just a few easy blows.

The earth shattered and crumbled as V's heavy body slammed into the serpent's midsection, crushing whatever bones it might have had and ceasing its writhing and thrashing. That is, for just a second. The serpent responded by lashing out even harder and flinging V off to the sidelines, much to her own surprise. She didn't catch herself on the landing, but rolled into a recovery and hopped back up onto her feet. How was she gonna deal with this thing when it was flailing around like a complete child? Oh who cared, figuring out how to beat these things up was half the fun.