[Walter]

Janna didn't wait for the beast to regain its senses. AS it recoiled, she immediately hopped to the side, letting the dazed and confused thing simply slam into the ground. She grabbed her sword off of the ground, and raised it high before plummeting it into the beast's eye, much like she had done with the previous grimm.

[nathan67003]

Not wanting to hamper his Partner, Brock swung Uloe overhead once more, this time aiming for the beast's neck, letting Janna have the head.

[Uncouth T-Rex]

The thing took a damnable long time to die, the blow to its neck wrecking basic motor control, made worse byits inability to see on one side, and it thrashed helplessly for awhile, still powerful enough to injure a man should they be caught between its bulk and a hard place, but in the end it succumbed, expiring with a last, throaty hiss on the ground between the two students.

[JupiterMoony]

Drab looks towards the direction where Hagane said was the direction towards the ruins. She nods.
"I can move on, the faster we get out, the faster we can go back and have some good food," Drab swung her staff onto her shoulder and walked casually, but moderately fast at the same time.

[Walter]

Janna was panting slightly, the fight and getting smashed into the wall having taken a lot out of her. Still, the shield-maiden could stand on her own. One of the many plus sides to constantly wearing this much armor was that she could take quite a bit of punishment before succumbing to tiredness.

"We need to find a way out of this cavern." Janna said as she pulled Honor and Justice out of both snakes' eyes. She glanced up at the hole above them. "I'm not so sure climbing that is gonna be easy."

[Flooberoid]

"Food seems as good a motivation as any for getting through this. I could really go for a hotdog right now." Hagane walked at the same pace as Drab, but allowed her to stay slightly ahead of him.

[nathan67003]

Brock bellowed a loud "THAT'S RIGHT, BITCH! FUCK YOU TOO!" when the Taijitu started to dissipate. He then gave Janna his attention before speaking again.

"Right. Here's our options. You either lemme throw you and your stuff out, then I use my hammer's handle as an anchor and go the slow way, or we both go the slow way out." Best part was how utterly serious he looked when he spoke about throwing her out.

Because he was.

[Walter]

Janna arched a brow, giving a light smirk. "While I don't doubt you're a strong bloke, I'm not sure you'd be able to throw me high enough." She said. There was a point to her words. She didn't know how much weight Brock could lift, and throw for that matter, but her gear combined with her own weight would likely just be too much.

"We might be able to find an easier route out of here if we looked around, though. I doubt there was just some kind of air pocket down here without any sort of exit."

[JupiterMoony]

Drab thought to herself a few seconds when Hagane mentioned hotdogs.
"I wonder if the cafeteria has hotdogs at all, cause now that you mentioned then I'm hungry for some," Drab then sees around her crumbled walls, moss growing between cracks

[Flooberoid]

((Oh, uh, I guess we've decided to reach the ruins? I guess we're allowed to decide that?))

Hagane commented on the pair's surroundings. "I can't imagine any scenery better called 'ruins.' Looks like we've reached our destination. Where do you think we might find the artifact?" He scouted the area with his eyes.

[JupiterMoony]

((I guess I mean it would help progress the plot))

Drab shrugs as she looks over a broken wall.
"No idea honestly, I'm not even sure this is the right area, I mean there could be more than one ruins site," Drab puts her hands on her hips, thinking on what their next course of action should be.

[Uncouth T-Rex]

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Ruins sound fine.

The stones of the ancient ruin rumbled as if in protest of some monstrous act, shaking in place and giving the air and unpleasant, vibrating hum. And as suddenly as it started, the tremors ceased.

As the Taijitu dissipated into motes of darkness that rose into the morning sky, its fading body revealed a sizable passageway, carved from solid stone and marked with odd, jade-green pictographs on the opposite end of the cavern. A fetid, musty breeze blew out of the newly uncovered opening, and faint scratchings of something hard upon the rocks could be heard from within.

Siegfried's eyebrows raised and he nodded thoughtfully to himself while viewing a particular section of his display. Well, that was going to give someone a world-class surprise, indeed. If they didn't die from sheer fright, that is...Speaking of which...

"Miss Clannad, there is no use in fretting. They will either succeed or they shall fail, and if failure rules the day, I will see to it they do not pay with their lives. You have my word on it."

Siobhan believed he felt he was telling the truth. She also very much doubted even he could combat the horror which she had caught a fleeting glimpse of over his shoulder. Blanched white and trembling, she clung to his shirtsleeve and prayed that whoever met it first had time to run and warn the others...

[nathan67003]

Brock looked at the newly revealed opening, the most nonplussed of looks on his face. "Well, would you look at that. A passageway. Shame. We won't be taking the fun way out." With a smile, he started walking along the tunnel, Uloe in his right hand.

[Walter]

Janna snickered as she followed the leviathan man. She wasn't sure how she felt about that passageway, though. It just felt very off to her. Never the less, she didn't see a better way out at this time, so she kept her shields held to her sides as they moved along. The two had just defeated a king Taijitu on their own, even though it had taken them by surprise. Surely they could take whatever else awaited them ahead. Right?

[Flooberoid]

The tremors put Hagane on edge, and he felt his hand involuntarily hovering over the hilt of his sword. He looked around for the source. "There's that vibration again... seems like we're close to the epicenter this time. Best case scenario it's some kind of mechanism placed here by Beacon as part of our mission. Worst case, well... Let's hope it isn't the worst case."