She didn't put the wind wall all around herself, that wouldn't be any fun!

Gord catches himself at the last moment and skitters forward through the grease patch. He'll settle for at least touching the dragon with his sword, can he do that?

A cloud of opaque mist springs up around Aivu! He can hear laughing inside it, until the sound cuts away.

How's Gord at blind fighting?

Azalea scrambles up a nearby tree, and looks out over the fog to see if she can spot any swirls made by the passage of Aivu's large form.

If the dragon keeps this up, she's going to give Gord and herself nightvision and see if that helps. But she can start off with firing for the most-likely looking curl of mist (out of Gord's path).

"A great wyrm and a great coward, it seems!" she taunts.

Running blindly through a fog cloud trying to hit a colossal dragon is a really bad idea! All his instincts are telling him not to do it!!

...clearly that means he should do it, it's that kind of fight. Have at thee, fog cloud!

No, see, when you couldn't hear me laugh anymore, that was a hint!!

Dimension door behind Azalea's tree. Can she quietly sneak up and trip Azalea with her tail?

Aivu did not practice being stealthy (and was Small for almost all her life), but if she pokes Azalea with her tail right after she dimension doors in -

Azalea is listening intently, but it still takes her a moment too long to realize that the sound of Aivu shifting her weight is coming from behind her.

"Ack!"

She rolls off the tree branch, but not quite quickly enough to avoid the poke from Aivu's tail. Her armor cushions her fall, non-newtonian fluid inserts briefly stiffening to protect her from the impact. She rolls to her feet and looses another crossbow bolt towards the suddenly appearing dragon.

"Hee!"

Can they catch her if she flies? She'll stick to ground level, and she doesn't really have a lot of space to maneuver between the trees, but she is very fast going in a straight line and she can inexplicably turn 180 degrees in an instant and zoom off just as fast the other way.

Blasted fog -

...alright, point to the dragon.

Gord will consider the trees, and then circle around and try to cut off Aivu and herd her towards Azalea. 

What if a colossal dragon flies straight at him, almost ten times faster than he can run, and instantaneously stop at the literal last moment just out of sword-reach?

Then she gets to very very quickly turn around and start flying the other way, apparently! How is she that quick?? He didn't throw himself to the ground but he did instinctively bring up his sword, and didn't poke her with it in time!

...How about he just starts running towards her and trying to touch her with his sword and not stop.

Then he can successfully herd her towards Azalea! She's still flitting around very quickly, but she doesn't have as much room to do it in.

Hmm. She's fast, but she's also long. Azalea glances at the layout of the trees, and sees if she can get into position to fire one shot which Aivu will dodge, and then a second which she will hopefully dodge into and not be able to get her tail out of the way of.

She runs for her selected spot and lets off the first shot.

Dodge dodge dodge!!

But does she dodge into the second shot, carefully yet hastily aimed to cut off her most likely avenue of retreat?

Colossal dragons: not actually great at dodging!! The bolt hits her with a ping.

"Hurrah!" Aivu claps her wings. (This is very impressive when you have a wingspan of over a hundred feet and the iridescent wings of a dragonfly made from soap bubbles.)

"Now that we've warmed up, let's give you a way to catch me! This is really fun even if you don't have wings!" And she does something to the area around them, which Azalea's fixity HUD will tag as planar infusion artist gravity and which Gord's inner ear will tag as gravity, where the Abyss did it go?!

Now wait just a minute -

"It works how you want it to work! Down isn't gone, it's in your head!" And with a laugh and a massive flap of her wings, Aivu takes to the skies.

Azalea blinks, and then she tells her mind that the trees are giant roots hanging from the ceiling of a colossal cavern, and she falls down into the sky.

"Woo! The enemy's gate is down!" she calls as she lifts her arms into a dive.

Her real question is what this does to her crossbow bolts. She fires a shot experimentally, not particularly expecting it to hit. Her self-tree are perfectionists, but her targeting software was still built on the assumption that gravity was, if not consistent, at least detectable. It throws an error and her shot flies wide.

That's fine, though. Aivu is big enough that it's easy to convince her brain that she's a spaceship, which makes the only difficult part of charging her keeping control of her fall so that she doesn't go into a tumble.

Come on come on up is down you just have to believe it strongly enough -

Gord runs into the wind wall.

And now he's falling flying moving through the sky and every time he looks down towards the ground he starts falling back so how about he only looks at Aivu! Aivu is down! He is plunging down on her from a great height and none of the scenery matters!

...After a few rounds it becomes clear that this is not the optimal strategy for catching her because she's still faster than he is, unless he falls in a straight line for long enough, but then she can turn around faster than he can.

All right, new plan: down is where Aivu is going to be in a round. He has to guess where she's going in time to accelerate, and not look too hard at the trees that are trying to remind him they usually have their pointy bits up, but if he can catch her just once he's going to get hold of her tail and never let go again! ...not for a little while, anyway.

Azalea pulls up a visualization of the trajectory of her bolt and then flips her targeting algorithm into "arena simulates microgravity" mode, which is probably close enough. Aivu's ridiculous ability to turn on a dime has sent her shooting around in a slingshot trajectory which nearly intersected a boulder before she re-designated the ground as up.

She imagines decides that there's a trio of pinhole black holes being magnetically suspended at a convenient point near the center of the area, to make a stabilized platform from which to try and land a hit. This proves to be either too hard for her to visualize correctly or incompatible with the magic, because it sends her on a gut-wrenching trajectory that leaves her spinning and completely confused about which way is down.

She squeezes her eyes shut, and then opens them and re-focuses on Aivu. Now she just needs to stop spinning.

Oh no! Flying can be hard at first! Wings really help with the not spinning.

Aivu flies over and carefully catches her boot in a giant claw. This will stop Azalea spinning and also give Aivu another point!

And it will make Aivu stand still hover long enough for Gord to come dopplering in from the far edge of the arena with a mighty cry of "aaaaaaAT THEE!", give her a solid whack with his sword, and be flung back out by a sweep of her tail before he can grab on.

Now Azalea wishes she had built a sticky goo dispenser a hands-free chemical grappling solution into these boots.

"You're surprisingly sneaky for someone larger than my house," she laughs.

She brings her crossbow down and fires a shot between her legs, while also deciding that Aivu is holding her upside-down by the boot and falling out of reach.