Round 4: Hosa Corvina vs. Regina Froster

Hosa blinked as she gaze around the entrance of the school, stretching slightly from her spot. She was standing rather close to the fountain, as she gaze around at the crowd that was gathered, her heart beating loudly in her chest. God...She had done it, hadn't she? This was it; the final round. Whoever won here would be the winner. The Autumn glanced at her opponent; her blue eyes narrowed. She knew exactly who she was fighting; Regina Froster, but that was only cause Hosa had bothered to look up what she could about her. Hosa wanted to be ready for this battle; she wanted to have a plan before she even started and boy, did Hosa have a plan.

Regina looked around wide eyed at practically everything. She seemingly couldn't hardly process the fact that she had made it to the end of the tournament; and still in one piece! The orange haired girl was so happy and surprised that she hadn't even started looking for her opponent, her mind far too occupied to possess any sort of coordination at the moment.
Wow Regina, look at you! she told herself with much excitement, soon feeling her heart skip a beat as she spotted the crowd of people standing nearby, I hope my friends are here to cheer me on! Friends; a thing she wouldn't have had at this point, but was extremely grateful for. They might just help her win this fight.
Finally, the teen brought herself to look the person opposite her on the concrete in the eye. She knew her, but only because she had read about her previously. This was Hosa Corvina, an animal shape-changer, and no day at the park either... But she wouldn't let odds play against her in head, she would first to the very end if she had too, but she had determination to win this final battle.
Regina prepared herself by loosening the shield from her back. Come at me...! she challenged inwardly, but outwardly gained a cocky smirk.

The moment the signal for the battle to start, Hosa jumped into action. Only it started in a very unlikely way. She turned and took a sudden leap into the fountain, shivering slightly as the water touched her skin. She had to get wet for her plan to work; she was just happy there was water here. She let her body shift; needing to get small enough for her whole body to be soaked. A moment later she found herself in the form of a rabbit; a jackrabbit to be extract. Water now clung around most of her fur, weighting her down but she barely cared as she took a flying leap out of the water and raced across the ground for Regina.

Her long ears flickered as she got closer to her opponent, before she took a flying leap at Regina's leg of all places. As she flew thought the air, she let her body shift once again; this time going into the small form of a certain type of octopus. The octopus she had turned into was rather small, the skin of it being yellow-ish with blue rings covering it. The moment she touched Regina's legs, she let her arms reach out and wrap around her. Once Hosa felt her grip was good, she let herself bit down hard on Regina's leg; trying to draw some blood. An octopus; what a perfect form to fight Regina in. Now that her body was wet, she would be able to survive for a while out of the water, and this form had no bones for Regina to break with touch.

"Huh!?" Regina exclaimed in surprise as the eight-legged creature clung to her leg, instinctively attempting to shake it off. When it didn't budge and she began to feel the pain and the warm slipperiness of blood being brawn from her leg, the girl knew she had to think of an alternative. As she glanced around at her surroundings, Regina spotted the fountain and an idea grew and blossomed in her mind.
The orange haired girl ran to the edge of the large, concrete fountain and began ramming her leg up against it, with such force that she could see her leg breaking and reforming between forceful kicks to the landmark. Let's se how well you can hold on like that!

Hosa had barely been paying attention to what Regina was doing until the first moment her head was smashed against the wall of the fountain. Her beak let go as she let out a sharp hiss as pain flooded though her body only for it to be cut off as she was thrown against it once again. Damn it, Regina wasn't holding back, was she? Hosa could feel the breaking of Regina's leg under her arms, and most likely the pain would hurt much more if Hosa had bones to break as well. She quickly tried to come up with a form to turn into as she was smashed again, and again, and again as blood started to drip from where her head was hitting the concrete over and over until she finally found herself shifting and she fell to the ground in the small form of a fly. She quickly got to her feet and took to the sky, shaking her head to get rid of the ringing all of the abuse had caused. When she felt she was safe, she took in a deep breath before she spun around and headed straight for Regina's back.

As she drew closer, she let her body shift once again. A second later, she landed straight on Regina's back. She was now in the form of a much larger octopus as she clung to her opponent, wrapping her arms around Regina's waist as she bit down once again with her beak. However; two of her arms didn't wrap around Regina's chest. Instead; it they went straight for trying to wrap around her throat. While Hosa wasn't effected by Regina's gift while in these boneless forms, Hosa wasn't planning to try to let the battle last long enough to see what other things Regina would try to do to beat her; after all her head was still ringing from being smacked against the concrete fountain and the sharp pain on the top of her head where blood oozing from where her flesh had ripped rather badly, but it wasn't going to slow her down any.

"Ach!" Regina gargled the response as she tugged at the tentacles surrounding her throat. As she struggled against the appendages, her mind raced to come up with a counter attack, or at lease and escape plan at this point. The possibilities would have been endless if her opponent hadn't taken the form of a bone-less creature. Guess I'll just have to be more creative then...
The glint of her shield lying on the ground nearby caught her eye and she made her move. The orange haired girl dove for the ground, landing on her back in hopes of stunning Hosa momentarily as she secured a grip on the metal weapon. Using her strength and the sharpened edges of the shield, she simultaneously beat and chopped at the other girl. Regina hissed in pain as she felt one of her blows hit herself, grazing her neck, but she knew that it was worth it as soon as she felt the suffocating grip around her neck loosen.
My turn for tricks! she thought to herself, her face gaining a challenging smirk. The tall teen launched herself back from the fountain and made a move toward one of the trees surrounding the area nearby. I'd like to see and octopus fly! she thought with a slight chuckle to herself, but kept in mind that it could be entirely possible.

OOC: A flying Octopus...I'd still rather have a flying Pig! XD

Was hitting Hosa against stuff the only way Regina had of beating her? Hosa shifted back to her human form, letting out a small cough as she sat up from where Regina had left her; the shield lying next to her, blood speckled across it. She picked it up, giving it a hard look before she tossed it as far as she could away from her and Regina. The Autumn did pause to check herself over. Blood gently ran down the side of her face from the wound on the top of her head, and there was many different cuts from where the shield had gotten her. However, she could still carry on, but she knew that she was kinda losing this battle already.

Her gaze shifted up as she looked at Regina, watching as she went running for one of the trees. What, what she planning to hide in one of them? That wouldn't really stop Hosa; she had many different animals that could scale trees and the only thing that mattered was to turn into an octopus before Regina could stop her. However, she let out a soft sigh as she let herself change once again; taking the form of small robin as she flapped her slightly torn-up wings into the sky, deicing to wait out to see what Regina would do. Besides; the sky was perhaps one of the safest place for Hosa at the moment.

Regina followed her opponent with her orange eyes as Hosa turned into a small bird, decidedly remaining mid-air. "Coward." she scoffed at the sight, but, in her mind, she knew that this stand-still might be just what she needed at the moment. With that in mind, Regina started to add up all of the variables and possibilities she could muster.
Hosa seemed like she would still be willing to try again with her previous strategy: turning into a boneless Octopus and trying to strangle her to death. But she was currently holding back. Having second thoughts now, are we? Regina thought to herself but her outer expressions remained placid and practically devoid of emotion. The orange haired girl had to keep in mind that the other girl could turn into any creature she wished, but would also be limited in the way that animal may be. And the head wound, amongst others, didn't seem to be helping the other girl either. Still, Regina had her fair share, and she could still feel the throbbing coming from the bite on her leg.
I'm vulnerable yet strong in the position we're in right now, Regina thought calculatedly, So maybe it's just better to stay where I am and act from there...

So, Regina's current option was to do nothing? Hosaa blinked as she stared at her oppinent, wondering how exactly to deal with moving forward. She was limited; far more limited then she was in any of her other fights as the only creature she could turn into that would be safe while dealing with Regina was the octopus, but it always left her to be smashed against other things and well, Hosa wasn't sure how much longer she could take that kind of abuse. Her head wound had stopped bleeding all that much, but the pain was still there, and then there were the other wounds she had gotten from being bashed against Regina's shield...

Hosa let out an angry tweet, flapping her wings hard as she went a bit higher into the sky. She hated this! Why did her powers have to be so limited. All of the other boneless animals she could think of were completely useless; jellyfish, worms...All either to small to even attack Regina or being useless on land. If she wanted to try to beat her with the form of an octopus there were a few ways but some of them seemed just unfair. And then there was one option that just seemed impossible to use. She hadn't never turned into a creature like that; besides, it wasn't even real so it had to be beyond her power...Right? Her eyes glimmered slightly as she thought about turning into such a creature but...Trying to do that would have to be more of a last ditch effort. She wasn't sure if she could turn into it, and doing so would most likely take up much of her energy.

So, she tried to come up with a plan that she could do right away. it seemed simple; go with the same thing she was doing; octopus attack. So, she sighed softly as she stared at Regina, before she flapped her wings once before she dove down toward the Winter. As she drew closer to her, she let her body shift once more, turning into an octopus as she struck Regina as hard as she could; once again wrapping her arms around her and trying to strangle her. But Hosa still couldn't help but think of other ways to try to go around this battle as she did.

Regina couldn't restrain the exasperated sign that escaped her as Hosa launched herself back at her as an Octopus. This certainly was getting old to her, but she had to sympathize, albeit slightly, with the fact that the other girl didn't have many other options if she were to stand a chance in this fight. The orange haired girl could hardly suppress the feeling of pleasure that she got from knowing that her gift was useful for something more than scaring off people or hurting others, unintentionally of course.
When she felt the tentacles of the Octopus wrap around her body and start climbing for her throat, she sprang into action. Her first instinct was to rip the creature off of her using he bare hands, but that effort proved practically fruitless. Reaching her hand around to where she thought her shield was, the teen was surprised when she didn't feel the familiar smooth metal of the weapon. Just as she had tried to recall we're she might have left it, a gleam caught her eye and, sure enough, the shield was strewn off to the side more toward the fountain. So much for that plan... she thought with a roll of her orange eyes. But, just then, an idea came to mind, well, more like a memory.
The tall Winter's face gained a smirk as she made up her mind on her next course of action. She grabbed hold of Hosa's 'body', moving it so that the other girl could look into Regina's eyes. "Hold on, sweetheart, we're going on a ride!" she chuckled. In the next heartbeat, both girls were sent plummeting from high up in the tree, Regina shifting mid-air to that she would land on her front side, crushing Hosa in the process. She needn't care about herself, she knew she'd be fine no matter how she landed; many years of a process similar to this had conditioned her and given her experience in healing different kinds of broken bones.

So, maybe that wasn't the best plan. The moment Regina forced Hosa to stare into her eyes and dove from the trees, the Autumn let out a small curse as she quickly started to come up with a form. A form; any form, that wouldn't be harmed...But she had trouble thinking of one as they fell. Time seemed to slow down as she tried to come up with options. If she turned into something small, there was a small chance that Regina wouldn't crush her on impact but the height could still kill her. Turn into something big; and then she would have bones for Regina to break. Well...She would have to do what seemed best; the option that might not end with her dying. So, she let her body shift as she looked into the Winter's eyes, wondering how well this was going to do for the both of them. A second later, Hosa was a walrus. Two large pure-white tusks stuck out from her mouth, and as the two fell toward the ground, Hosa tried to aim her head just right so that maybe; luckily; Regina would be impaired on her tusk as they hit the ground.

Regina smirked in gratitude as she felt Hosa shift forms against her. That's more I like it...! she thought to herself triumphantly as she quickly learned that the girl's new form was that of a Walrus. With some effort she let her hands, which were currently grasping the creatures head, slip down so that she could grip the animal's tusks as if they were handles. It only took a quick flick of her wrists to snap the elongated canines of her.
The orange haired girl was glad that she happened to see that the ground was nearly upon them, knowing that she wouldn't have too much time left. She had to keep in mind that she had the possibility of being vulnerable while she had to fix her own bones. Responding to her findings, Regina concentrated her gift as she moved her hands to touch her opponent anywhere she could before they could reach the ground, hopefully putting a stop to this seemingly endless battle. She could notably feel the fingers of her left hand dig into the soft flesh of the side of the animal's head and her right fist pound into its chest.
"Let's end this," she huffed from the effort and narrowed her orange eyes in determination with a gleam of defiance within them, "once and for all!!" Her yell rang out around the entrance to the school, her voice sending out loud echoes as the two girls finally made contact with e ground.
Regina hissed in pain as she felt one of the broken tusks pierce her left shoulder, the other clipping her right arm, as the large body beneath her broke most of her fall. It seemed as though she might have just come out of the landing with some whiplash and the wounds the tusks had made.

A loud cry from Hosa echoed in the air after Regina's shout as they stuck the ground; pain flashing though her body as she hit the ground. Her back ached from the fall, while her now-broken tusks shot up sharp pain though her body from where they had broken. Amazing, her head had somehow survived Regina trying to break it. Of course, Hosa was sure she had a skull fracture but her main focus was on her ribs...Oh, her ribs. The next thing Hosa knew, she had turned back into a human and quickly did her best to push the injured Regina from her, before she hugged her chest painfully as she tried to sit up and scoot away from her opponent. Her ribs...She let out a soft snarl of pain, her eyes closed as she felt her mind drift back to another time. They were broken...They were broken; again. Hosa couldn't help but think of her first mission; taking down the 'Giant Spider of Doom.' She had broken her ribs after getting nailed in the chest by one of the giant spider's legs, and while Hosa wouldn't have admitted it; she had grown a small fear of spiders since. Thinking that a spider could even be that size; be that powerful. It could of killed them all if they hadn't been gifted like they were, but she hadn't dared go on another mission since nor did she even think about turning into spiders with her gift. She was...Simply to afraid too.

However, her broken ribs, the pain that flashed though her body. It all brought those simple fears back and she started to shake slightly; the pain and memories becoming a bit to much. Regina had put Hosa past her breaking point. Hosa suddenly let out a sudden cry as her whole body flashed with sudden pain, causing her to let go of her ribs as she fell forward; having to use her arms to support herself. She was...She was transforming? She knew what this felt like when her body started to transform against her will. It always gave her a warning, but this warning was filled with pain. So...Much pain. The pain only grew worse as Hosa tried to fight it; to scared to go though with it. What was going on? Her powers had never caused her so much pain before so why was it now? However, her body wouldn't let her fight it, the pain grew until it was simply to much and her will to fight it cracked, and her whole body changed in a quick second.

A soft growl rumbled in Hosa's throat as she forced herself to her feet, now in a new form as her eyes opened before narrowing to slits. Her tail lashed across the ground, striking a tree and sent it crashing to the ground. Large, black wings unfolded from her sides as she took a step forward, letting out a mighty roar toward Regina. The black scales that covered Hosa's body glimmered slightly in the sunlight, showing off what Hosa had turn into in all of its glory; a dragon. She raised her head to stare down at Regina after her roar had ended, snarling to reveal the sharp rows of teeth she had. No sign of mercy could be seen in Hosa's cold blue eyes as she gaze at her opponent, before she opened her mouth as blue flames started to dance across her jaws, and shot a pillar of the searing hot flames straight for Regina.