[While Ophion reacts to the fire, Noctis of course takes advantage of his distraction, lunging forward and stabbing his lance with a boosted strike, piercing between the joints of those metal scales. He jumps back, wary of where the dragon's attention will fall; he'd expected Pyra based on the damage done, but his thrashing comes too close to where Noctis landed after his last attack. Whoops! He's the lucky one, then.
He has to rethink his first instinct to block, since he has no special shielding ability the way he does as the knight character, which means his dodge is a split-second too late to completely evade. Ophion is powerful enough that even a glancing blow from one of the missiles is enough to stagger him, taking off a chunk of his health- not devastating, but enough to teach him a lesson. Be more careful. They just have to survive long enough to wear him down, enough to get close.
He takes off at a run, leaping and rolling over the broad expanse of Ophion's body and landing within the coils. He remembers this trick working on one of the enormous snake monsters back home, and is rewarded for experimenting; Ophion constricts, the coils drawing closer and closer as the beast's head looms overhead, jaws open- a perfect, albeit quite risky, target. At the last second his powered-up leap rockets him into the dragon's mouth, his lance stabbing up into the jaw with the tip on the other side, effectively securing his mouth open. The downside is now Noct is in there, so he braces his foot against the teeth to avoid being thrown out and yells over his shoulder.]
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He has to rethink his first instinct to block, since he has no special shielding ability the way he does as the knight character, which means his dodge is a split-second too late to completely evade. Ophion is powerful enough that even a glancing blow from one of the missiles is enough to stagger him, taking off a chunk of his health- not devastating, but enough to teach him a lesson. Be more careful. They just have to survive long enough to wear him down, enough to get close.
He takes off at a run, leaping and rolling over the broad expanse of Ophion's body and landing within the coils. He remembers this trick working on one of the enormous snake monsters back home, and is rewarded for experimenting; Ophion constricts, the coils drawing closer and closer as the beast's head looms overhead, jaws open- a perfect, albeit quite risky, target. At the last second his powered-up leap rockets him into the dragon's mouth, his lance stabbing up into the jaw with the tip on the other side, effectively securing his mouth open. The downside is now Noct is in there, so he braces his foot against the teeth to avoid being thrown out and yells over his shoulder.]
All yours!
[He's plenty distracted now...!]