The Arena

As Red jumped, she would find the drake's maw open and fire a ball of green acidic goop at close range. As she was flying over the tail, she'd be more or less unable to avoid the breath weapon, which meant she would be directly struck and at close range, unless she could somehow avoid it while airborne.

The strike would be terribly powerful. However, being preoccupied with utterly demolishing Red left the drake open to an attack from Caerys. The spear was a direct hit, impaling the drake's eye and causing it to howl and roar in pain. It spun back around, aiming another tail swipe at Red as an afterthought while she would be dealing with the blast from the drake's breath weapon, and then charged, enraged, at Caerys...

The only mistake Caerys made was that he drake would allow the woman out of its sight. It kept its head and body close to the ground, circling to keep the woman in view, and leaving its vulnerable underside concealed. As the beast neared, it shook its head, removing the spear from its eye socket and coiling and uncoiling its neck like a cobra, making lighting-fast bite attacks at the woman in quick succession, its thorny hide acting as armor against her weapon's strikes...

The drake's thick armored hide soaked the blows from the flail. Stiff metal armor was impacted and bent under the force of a flail, however, "dragonhide" was a thick and durable, and flexible, material. There was a reason it was used to make heavily defensive armors that could endure blows other defensive materials couldn't. The spear had caught a lucky shot where the beast was mostly unarmored, but the flail's power was dispersed through the skin and tissue of the drake, making it all but useless as a weapon.

As such, the drake ignored it, and instead, focused on the spear. As Caerys stabbed at the beast, its jaws snapped out and grabbed hold of the weapon in its teeth, before it viciously jerked to the side, aiming to disarm the woman and leave her defenseless.

The spear was hurled far from the two women, clattering to the ground some distance away as the drake turned to regard the both of them. As Caerys took time to re-equip herself, the drake let out a roar and fired another ball of green, aiming to strike both women. Caerys would easily be able to avoid the blast, as she was on her feet and now much more nimble. However, Red wouldn't be so lucky...

Caerys might be able to save the other woman, but not without sustaining some level of damage herself, and limiting her newfound mobility in the process. Regardless of the woman's decision, the drake would roar once again, flap its wings, and throw itself into the air to loop around for a pass and prepare its next strike...

(( The CBox is moving too fast to snag you. So, I'm just gonna assume you somehow avoided the blast, since you neglected to mention you doing so. You should really pay more attention to important details like that if you want to improve your combat RP. ))

Air-combat 101 stated that in order to do it effectively, you required wings, or some means to change the direction of your body in flight to make it meaningful and effective. Otherwise, a target followed a predicable curve through the air, defined by gravity, wind resistance, and other such factors. The drake had wings and a long tail to use for changing direction mid-flight.

Caerys did not.

As the woman threw herself into the air, using her flail to attempt a daring and very flashy move indeed, the drake did quite possibly the worst thing it could do from Caerys' perspective. It dove directly at Caerys, using one of its as of yet unused abilities, a massive burst of speed... In virtually a split second, the beast's rear talons would aim to grasp hold of the airborne gladiatrix, grip her tightly, and then plummet to the ground, slamming the woman, who was without armor, against the arena floor with every ounce of speed and power the beast could muster, and crush her under it's body weight. The flail would wrap around the beast's neck, but would deal no meaningful damage, as the drake would intercept the woman before her daring attack could be completed.

The drake would probably be wounded to some degree by its own weight if it struck the ground, but Caerys would quite possibly be killed, unless she found a way to escape the grip of the beast, or at the very least lessen the horrible damage she was about to take. All the while, a yellow and a bloodied eye would glare angrily at Caerys in defiance, as if taunting her for her foolishness for entering into the beast's territory...

Caerys pulled, the Rift Drake pulled back, whipping its head to the side in an attempt to slam Caerys into the arena wall, or at the very least yank the handle of the flail from her grip. Somehow Caerys seemed completely unaffected after being slammed into the ground from over 100 feet up. She showed no signs of injury. No blood, no broken bones, not even a system shock from the trauma of being crushed by a creature weighing over a ton. Her magical belt must have given her unbelievable durability, healing properties, strength, and many many ranks in tumble and or escape artist for her to come out as well as she had.

However, no matter how much strength she had, the drake had more than enough to lift her body off the ground with the whipping action of its head due to her much lighter weight. If Caerys let go of the flail, the whipping action would be followed by two powerful swipes of its foreclaws, and a thunderously strong swipe from its tail, all while it prepared to fire yet another blast from its mouth. It would be incredibly unlikely the woman could avoid every one of the three attacks, even with her amazing dexterity...

(( I should note that CRUSHING damage is not damage from falling. I still think she should have taken SOMETHING from that. DX ))

(( I've had more experience in combat RPs than I care to admit. XP And I <3 dragons. Either way, thank you. I just hope Caerys isn't mad at me for making it so mean and nasty. ))