[Uncouth T-Rex]

The Taijitu let out a gasp as it felt the metal female's sting glance off of its scales and go straight into its eye, blinding it even as the nictitating membrane closed down reflexively, pinning the blade there and tearing it free from the human's grasp as the colossal serpent jerked away. The second sting simply bounced off its chin, not that it would have noticed after the powerful blow to its snout, a hit so powerful it knocked the beast senseless for a few moments, its coils going slack even as it began to flail madly.

Still screaming, the wounded Nevermore felt another searing pain go through its breast, and rolled away, right onto its damaged wing. Mad with agony, it staggered to its feet, barely aware of its surroundings anymore, and began snapping at anything that looked threatening in its blurred, hazy vision. Its chest felt heavy, as though a weight were squeezing the life out of it...

Its partner was still very much alive and kicking. Achieving nothing with its first leap, it drew itself up to its full height and spread its wings, trapping the female against a tree. A dull gleam of satisfaction could be seen in its eyes the moment before it lanced out for her face with its beak.

[Walter]

Janna smirked as the snake pulled back, the beast clearly having not expected such fierce retaliation. Still, she was not the main fighter in this pair, even less so with one of her weapons gone. Her main concern was making sure the creature didn't crush the two. She could feel the pressure exerted on the aura barrier on her own body, but it didn't matter, since the shields allowed her to sustain it.

The shield maiden gave a quick nod at Brock after his attack. The coils had gotten looser, and she could feel herself able to breathe better already. With that, she knew she had to use the chance to strike. Flicking the switch on Justice, she changed it to its pistol form, the weapon holding seven shots. Though somewhat inaccurate and dispersed at long range, in close range the weapons were essentially hand cannons, absolutely devastating. And the recoiling snake was perfect for it. She raised her weapon and fired once, aimed directly at the grimm's face.

[nathan67003]

As soon as his hit landed, Brock climbed as quickly as he could on top of the loosening coils, trusting his partner to keep the serpent occupied. even as it started flailing, he remained steady with Uloe in hand, searching for his next target - the second head.

[Flooberoid]

As soon as he got up, Hagane turned and started running to support Drab, sidestepping the flailing spectacle he had been engaged with previously. Striking a foe not focused on him was not exactly Hagane's forte, and he wasn't quite sure how best to go about it. He knew getting in front of the Nevermore would be impossible or at least suicidally impractical while it was pinning Drab, so his best bet would be... a big hit straight to the back? Hagane released all the remaining steel in his canister into Ichimonji, forming an incredibly awkward broadsword, which he swung upward as he charged for the giant bird. He knew this was a bad plan the moment the sword was in the air, as the supreme length and extra weight of the blade nearly toppled him. Regardless, he was able to put considerable power into the attack.

[JupiterMoony]

Drab narrowly avoided the attack, she had put her aura up just in time. She saw from the corner of her eye that Hagane was attempting to help. She saw the greatblade being swung on the back. Should the attack connect she used that window of oppurtunity to quicklh dash to Hagane's side.

[Uncouth T-Rex]

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Walter, Honor is still in the thing's eye, it blinked snake-ily and tore it loose from her hand, I'll just assume it's the one gun so you can edit appropriately.

The wounded head of the King Taijitu took the shot right in the back of the throat, spraying blood everywhere, and in its final spasms snapping back against the collapsed wall of the cavern again and again. Its unfocused brawn wrecked the earth, making it shudder with every collision. In the midst of this, from the center of the coils, a red eye gleamed from scales white as bone. The opposite end of the beast surged to life, aiming to come up and around so that its fangs would soon hold first the stinging female and then the male with the heavy stick. Taking no risks, it moved in a blur, intending to swallow them whole.

As the dying Nevermore breathed its gurgling last, its partner felt the sudden lack of sensation from right between its wings on down, and collapsed with an awkward squawk at the female's feet. Instead of going in for another stab at her fragile human skull, it was now staring up at her unable to move, and cawed in confusion as it unsuccessfully bid its limbs to work.

[Walter]

(Whoops, my apologies. Edited my previous post for her to only be using Justice.)

Janna remained focused on her target, the black snake head. It was thrashing about rather violently, too difficult to hit. Good news was, the coils had loosened quite a bit now, and her partner was out of the 'death zone' between them. It was time to act.

The shield maiden quickly pulled her shields out from the ground, the aura ones wavering just the tiniest bit as she did. Taking a deep breath, Janna raised both of them and jumped over the right side of the coil, the aura shields disappearing as her feet left the ground. Still, she was much more free to act with that effort gone.

As the white head went for its attack, Janna quickly raised her shields in front of herself for a block, hoping for her partner to strike quickly.

[nathan67003]

As soon as his search beyond the rings had turned up negative, Brock turned back to the creature, watching mostly everywhere for a sign of the white head as the black one entered convulsions. Quicker than he could completely follow, he saw it dart out of the coily entanglement towards his partner. Hoping for her to get a shield up in time, he surged as quickly as he could towards the opponent's new fangs, jumping the coils and going for an upwards strike of Uloe with all his strength.

[Flooberoid]

((Changing Hagane's color AGAIN since it's hard to read on this board. The old one was hard to read on the old board... stop changing the background color!))

Hagane was barely able to move, the giant blade of Ichimonji stuck in the ground and his stance rendered shaky by the weight of his swing. He tensed up and braced himself for impact the moment the bird moved, and eased again as he saw it drop. Okay, note to self: Giant sword is very risky and impractical. Do not use it again, he thought as he recollected the steel.

Noticing Drab had escaped and was now beside him, Hagane addressed her. "I doubt it will put up much of a fight from here. Go ahead and finish it off." He turned around to face the Nevermore that had fallen on him previously. A feeling of guilt washed over him as he saw the last signs of life in its body fade away on their own. He should have put it out of its agony sooner.

[JupiterMoony]

Drab gave Hagane a pat on the back.
"Get a good rest kay," Drab said as she walked over to the bird and swung her staff and with force went for an overhead strike to crush the skull.

[Uncouth T-Rex]

The ivory head of the serpent crashed hard into the metal female, her shell making it difficult to close its mouth, which she was now standing in. Not that it wasn't trying with all its might as it sped along, until something hard caught it right in the throat. It hadn't counted on the large male moving out of its path so easily, and coughed, spitting out the female right into the wall it had planned to bash her against. It would have ploughed right into her headfirst if its companion head hadn't expired and flopped like dead weight right across it then, slowing it enough so that it snapped its jaws shut inches from the female's head.

Meanwhile, the inured student had passed out in Siobhan's arms, and she rocked him gently, singing softly to him while Mr. Rosenrot kept an eye on all the other students. Soon, an ambulance hovered up and took the boy off to the infirmary, and as she sat there and watched the paramedics go about their business with practiced efficiency, she spoke to her guard.

"How hard do they take it? Ye know, it must be awful ta fight so long and then be told ta try again next year."

"In my experience, Miss Clannad, the ones who fail to rise from their stumblings here are not cut from the proper cloth to be a Hunter in the first place. They lack the mettle so critical for the position." he replied, his face emotionless. She looked at him in silence, and then cast her gaze down at her own feet. He was right, she knew, but it still felt so unkind...

[Walter]

It was truly a bizarre experience, to say the least. One moment, Janna was raising her shield in front of herself, but the very next moment she was inside the mouth of an angry, hungry grimm, it's teeth uncomfortably close to her. Wincing at the force exerted on her body and glancing back, the shield maiden saw that she was no quickly accelerating in the direction of the cavern wall. Shit.

Seconds later, however, she was free from the thing's grasp as Brock hit it in the throat! Yay! And so, she was thrown into the wall with force. Less yay. Janna grunted, letting go of justice and sliding down the wall, opening her eyes up to see a snake snout much too close for comfort. The shield maiden blinked. Then proceeded to violently beat the crap out of it's face with her D's.

[nathan67003]

Brock didn't waste any time after his first hit, continuing to charge forward with an overhead swing of Uloe aimed at the Taijitu's head.

[Flooberoid]

"I'm fine to keep going if you are. I can't imagine it's much farther to the ruins." Hagane wanted to get moving as quickly as possible, knowing the attack had caused a commotion that could bring further trouble. He located the spot where the first Nevermore had launched its quills and used the angle they had entered the ground at as a reference point to regain his sense of direction. He then gestured in the direction they had been walking previously. "Our goal is this way."

[Uncouth T-Rex]

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Floob, can you please explain to me how the heck you determine your direction by way of scattered Grimm feathers? Not that it matters, I'm honestly just curious.

Its meal denied it and its nose currently being slapped about by some hard, painful things, the King Taijitu recoiled in shock only to be clobbered from behind by the large male. This blow was so powerful it drove the beast's head right into the dirt and sent its vision in a whirl. Listing heavily from side to side, it managed to rise once more, and swung itself clumsily at the place it remembered the female being.