Battle with Ophidia

Date: 2025-10-05 23:48

(Battle with Ophidia)

[Sun Oct 5 2025]

A Dark Woodland Pond Clearing
A natural pond stretches across this clearing in the woodland, its dark water
reflecting the canopy above in shifting patterns that sometimes seem to hold
shapes longer than they should. The shoreline consists of packed earth and
exposed roots from nearby oaks and maples, with clusters of cattails growing
in the shallower areas near the edges. Lily pads float on the surface in
irregular groupings, their broad leaves occasionally disturbed by ripples
that appear without apparent cause. The water itself appears deeper than
typical for a city park pond, with the bottom invisible even where the
afternoon light penetrates. Moss-covered stones emerge from the water at
various points, creating natural stepping stones that lead nowhere in
particular. The air hangs heavy with moisture and the scent of decomposing
leaves, while the surrounding trees lean inward as if drawn toward the water.
Patches of wild iris grow along the muddy banks, their purple blooms seeming
unusually vivid against the muted browns and greens of the woodland floor.
It is night, about 62F(16C) degrees, and there are clear skies. The mist is heaviest At Birch and Rosewood
There is a waning gibbous moon.

Immediately, the monster lashes out at Avalon — that too-fanged mouth full of some terror, snapping tightly shut around his yet-unshifted form. Ophidia(winged serpent)’s voice echoes with psychic power, some message of ancient defiance.

The man groans in response, swiftly enough turning into a massive beast, Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi), only way he could possibly fight in water as deep as this, ripping his clothes in the process and simply letting itself lauch forward towards the snake, swinging massive claws, big as sword, as its first weapon

Now it is Ophidia(winged serpent)’s tail that whips around, the one not holding Teagan. It is not a terribly devastating blow, but it is one well-aimed, meant to entangle Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) meant to set him up for what is soon to be the gnash of those terrible claws. A strange, psychic song seems to rise as he attacks, fascinating but terrifying all at once, something unearthly in this moon-dappled pond.

Much like Ophidia(winged serpent) might be setting up, so is Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi), as the tail comes to hold him in place, one of his paws comes down on it, claws nailing onto the scales as if to hold her down, shoving its massive furred body closer to the massive serpent

Now Ophidia(winged serpent)’s teeth gnash, hard and awful: it’s what that lashing tail was meant to set up. Certainly, she is a little pinned, but it is leverage, now, her scaled body looping around to strike with unearthly, awful fangs at Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi)’s back. Teeth score deeply, drawing red blood; it glimmers briefly in the moonlight before disappearing like ink into the wine-dark pond.

Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) lowers its head in a similar fashion towards Ophidia(winged serpent), only after releasing a deafening roar of pain at the bite of course, but instead of stopping at the back of the other creature, his teeth sinking down at the base of the tail that is holding Teagan instead, hoping the pain to at least be noticeable enough to loosen the coils

The strange serpent howls in pain, but the tail holds onto Teagan. In this position, Ophidia(winged serpent) can’t quite bite down at Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) as she would like, so it is her other tail that lashes at him, some terrible, unearthly whip that bites through flesh and fur. Disturbingly, the flying serpent seems at ease in the water as well as in the air, moving with a fluid grace that suggests comfort in this aquatic realm.

Upon being whipped with a tail, Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) tries to move its body away from it, not very helpfully considering it’s a bit more than eleven tons of creature weighting down on the other beast. And thrown of balance, what was an attempt of reaching Teagan more closely with a claw, turns into a clumsily off balance accidental cut across the tail, not holding any weight to it other than the loss of balance

When Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) moves, Ophidia(winged serpent) strikes: like lightning, now, as above the full moon begins to shine again. This time, when Ophidia(winged serpent)’s jaws sink into Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi), they seem to linger there, and it is as if the dark blood spilling from Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi)’s body is drawn up: as if it is drawn into Ophidia(winged serpent)’s very being, so that every single wound the bear has caused knits itself closed and the strange serpent is perfectly healed once again.

The animal defeans the park once more with a soaring roar as the bite leaves behind a pretty severe wound, but this only seems to anger the creature more, and, despite its hurt state, Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) manages to lift up the paw that just accidentally scratched the snake, throwing them with intent now towards the coils around the redhead, hitting maybe too close to confort to Teagan as the person starts to lose focus and the animal kicks in

There is something sad in Ophidia(winged serpent)’s look at Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) — something pleading, perhaps — but then Ophidia(winged serpent) strikes, hard. It is a whip of its tail, intended to immobilize the creature, but given the strength behind it that may well be Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi)’s end. All the same: this is a fight, one in which the bear is the loser.

Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) is stunned for a good couple seconds after the tail comes clashing against it, it takes it a while to even recover the balance from the hit, but seeing as Ophidia(winged serpent) has not landed a second attack, the animal charges again, at this point not as different as the lunatic wolves he was dissing earlier into the night, trying to tackle the flying snake with its massive body and weight

And then a slash again — once again, some stunning blow, as Ophidia(winged serpent)’s eyeless face focuses on bear. It is a setup, some awful setup, for a strike that will come next, the tail setting up the clashing of his jaws.

Jaws clash and then hold, as Ophidia(winged serpent) locks onto Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) and begins to shake, back and forth.

The bear seems non the wiser to the snake’s plan or what she’s doing, by this point Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi) is no different than an actual bear on death’s door, just clawing at whatever it finds… Instead, this time, being pinned, it simply opens its maw wide, bringing its massive teeth to try and sink down into the scales it finds

And then it comes — the shake, the awful, awful bite down from Ophidia(winged serpent), the terrible crunch of teeth as they shear entirely through Avalon(Ursus Arctos Middendorffi)’s bones. It is something awful, something that leaves a bloody, life-rending blow.