Kri's hooves land on the back of the monster's neck, but she was most likely not prepared for the response. A hole appeared in the darkness and a bubble of acid flew backward in response, aiming to engulf the mare in the caustic liquid if she did not get out of the way soon enough. The creature, only three limbs left, crouched like a cat and hissed a breath of wind, curling to glare up at the winged mare.

All along the spine of the windy beast, holes opened up and bubbled with sacs of acid that were propelled in the air. At the last moment, the beast twisted its back, sending the sacks flying in all different directions, creating a veritable mine field in the sky.

The beast let go of Phaedra's tail when blinding lights flashed in its face, but not out of any sort of infatuation. The creature had no gender and had no sexuality or even a preference. It simply was, and it was hungry. A composition of darkness and wind has no loyalties, has no love, and has no emotions. The beast only knows the importance of survival, of eating, and then releasing most of itself onto this land.

Paladin was lucky that the beast had been distracted enough by the flying menace and the sparkling morsel that his loud, noisy lungs went, for the most part, ignored. However, that did not last long. The stallion's horn cuts through the windy darkness and manages to spring a slight leak, but the beast quickly rocks back onto its two, hind limbs, tearing the windy, smoky limb from the stallion's back hooves. Instead, the beast spits another sack of acid straight from it's darkened maw, aiming for just beside the dark one.

What emerged from the sack was not poison, not this time. At least twenty, crab-like creatures made of inky black scuttled quickly from the sack, their heads shaped like malformed foal's heads sticking up from the top of six legged bodies. The eyeless heads toddled back and forth as the creatures ran after Paladin, trying to take him down in inky blackness and devour him whole.

Reizend remained unlucky. A gust of wind burst forth from the leg she had weakened and sent the mare careening into the ocean where her head had unfortunately landed against a boulder. Her body slumped into the shallows and the half of the crabs turned from Paladin to scuttle toward her limp body.

The combined effort of Paladin having weakened the leg along with Smoke and Seele made Eris', Confutatis' and Apodis' efforts true. With a tearing ripping sound of sucking wind, the other limb fell into the ocean and disappeared in a wisp of thick, curling black smoke.

Now, the beast was weakened. Too weakened by these little snacks. It coughed up three more sacks of crabs so that now nearly forty of them scuttled across the beach. They moved in a thick, inky, cluster of a wave, trying to latch onto a limb and crawl up and over each other to devour their prey.

A few of them had caught onto the trio that had felled the other forelimb, latching onto their tails and fetlocks with inky claws, the strange, horse heads aiming to bite their legs and hips. The bit of the crab-like demons was poisonous and would paralyze the offending muscle, and the dark beast waited until the little snacks figured all of this out on their own.

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[ Reizand has been knocked out and may no longer participate. ]