--- Lily --- Marigold, Blue, March, Romilda
Blue was shocked, completely unprepared for an attack like this. Though... just because she was unprepared didn't mean she was off-guard. Blue had been waiting for something, and she reacted automatically in the face of a clear threat. Her hands shot out, twin whirlpools that had been tightly bound for some time, released straight in Lily's direction ready to tear their way through the construct.
The water did so without issue... but of course the form was made of shadow, so while the whirlpool drilled through it, the shadow simply kept moving. None of the mana focused in the water was trying to stop it, instead it was ineffectually trying to grind it down. Blue wouldn't be able to react in time to get up a proper shield, the attack would go through...
But Lily wouldn't come out unscathed either. Lily hadn't intended for the whole construct to be solid. She just wanted it to be large and imposing, so to save mana she'd only properly empowered a small part. That small part was the claws and they were moments away from slicing into Blue's flesh. At the same time, the whirlpool drills were moments away from inflicting a similar fate on Lily.
Neither mage had time to properly think up a counter for the oncoming attacks so when they made contact the damage was significant. Blue had managed to raise an arm to try and block some of the damage, and it worked. She had a deep gash on her forehead and matching deeper claw marks running across her arm... but her chest was unscathed and the blood loss was manageable for now.
Lily wasn't quite so quick on the uptake. The water charged into her with most of the force remaining. It dug into her sides and felt a lot like someone was trying to clean her fur with sand paper. The water pushed that fir down and into her skin, where it was spun rapidly causing a rash across a large area, and puncture wounds in the centre of it.
'Luckily' the drills hit bones quickly and those were pretty solid, weathering the storm somewhat.
Soon the power around her dispersed and the two mages were able to get a good look at each other. Blue was covered in a good deal more blood. Her right arm was close to useless and the blood was leaking from her forehead. Both issues Blue could somewhat mitigate underwater, but problems nonetheless.
On the other hand, Lily looked a lot better but there wasn't much she could do for her problems. Her body was occasionally racked with spasms courtesy of the holes in her sides. The that had been rubbed into her skin was barely noticeable with her fur to cover it... but she couldn't really mitigate her issues at this point.
Perhaps a bit of paper over the wound site to keep the blood in, but she wasn't losing all that much for some reason, so it didn't seem like a big issue right now.
That left Lily's options quite clear. She could get in close and use her shadow. Turn and run as best she could, probably towards Marigold to use the confuse that fight was generating... or try out one of her treasures and hope for the best. *The only two that I can see being useful right now is the lightning rod or the boat.
The boat because it can be a big obstacle between me and Blue, allowing me to escape, approach, and maybe hide away within. The lightning rod... well that one speaks for itself.*
Lily bit her cheek as she considered her options but when Blue started to summon up a new set of sigils Lily decided to act. It might be a dumb idea... but she didn't want to run, and nothing seemed like it would be better. The world seemed to slow down once she'd made the decision.
Lily swapped back to her human form and pulled out the rod, activating it in one swift motion while pointing it towards Blue.
Lightning exploded from the tip and shot straight into the fae in front of her... and all of the water nearby. Shit. Lily felt pain wrack her body as the lighting seemed to just keep going. Sure the initial burst had connected to Blue, but the rest? It seemed like the rod was trying to pump as much lightning into the surroundings as it could.
Even when the damned thing finally cut off, the water was still charged and Lily felt her muscles twitching all over the place. The hands that had been holding the metal pole were burnt and the rest of her body wasn't all that much better.
Blue wasn't in a great state either. The Lightning had hit her dead on and then exploded across her body. She was covered in thin burn marks across most of her body and the front of her outfit had a hole burned clean through it. Blue's skin was charred at the entry point and it really didn't look good. If Thyme wasn't around to fix all of this it would definitely have scarred.
Luckily, the water bandage spell had helped to bleed off some of that energy, but perhaps not enough.
Lily was about to try forcing herself to do more... when she felt the need to turn around. Lily did her best to force her aching body to move. Only to see a large fist approaching. That zap from the lightning rod? It had gotten Blue to drop her whirlpool spell. Instead of wasting time brawling with Marigold, March had taken the chance to blink towards Lily and attack her.
Lily summoned up as much paper as she could manage in that instance... and it still wasn't enough. March's punch met Lily's face with the force of a freight train and before she could so much as blink, she was in the hospital with a female nurse Thyme looking over at her with a clipboard. "Hello and welcome to medical. I'm afraid due to the timing, this means you're officially out of this round..."