“Ha ha,” Audrey rolled her eyes back at the other blonde. “It’s a real accomplishment that tongue hasn’t gotten you gutted yet. I should have you know—” Too much talk. Behemoth unleashed white breath and Audrey clung to Damia as the ice split behind the boulder they were hiding behind. As soon as she felt the force stop, she let go pushing off the rock and darting in one direction. Reaching in her pouch she pulled out several shuriken, launching them at the beast.
It was all happening so fast that the corsair had forgotten to breathe before shooting off the other way, just out of the behemoth's line of sight. As she withdrew her dagger, fingers tightening around the hilt, she wondered how much damage such a small weapon could even do. Like poking it with a toothpick. Even so, with retreat off the menu for now, she had to try. Something, anything.
Relying on physical attacks for now, Damia performed Barrage to see how thick the beast's skin really was, quickly learning that even with several strikes, it was relatively unharmed. The only thing her attack managed to do was prompt it to turn its attention toward her, and then there was no time to breathe at all. Even with its movement mostly limited, it managed to corner her, tusks incoming, fuck—
The tusks slammed into the decimated building behind her, lodged into place, and she found herself face to face with red eyes. They had missed her. They had missed her by fucking inches, and rather than being skewered, she was caught between the giant tusks, staring the thing down until it roared, shaking to free itself with unexpected ferocity. Noting the slight scorch marks on its face, she shouted her next words in hopes that the other blonde would hear her.
"A little help here!"
The voice alone was enough to stop her. Legs locked, she turned around only to see what she feared most. She could leave her, she thought. Audrey could walk away with only minor scrapes and have one less problem. No one would know.
“Shit,” was all she could hiss redirecting her attention at the two of them. Her body dove forth into a full sprint. Audrey had the advantage with the king’s tusks lodged into the building. Climbing over the Behemoth’s body with ease, she adjusted herself over his head. In one swift blow, her dagger lodged itself into one of its red, beady eyes. Ripping it away, blood dripping, she lodged it in again and again as the beast began to shake and wriggle beneath her, roaring in pain. Letting go of the dagger, her fingers dug into his mane clinging for dear life as his tusks became free and he flung and bucked his body around.
Unfortunately, Damia didn't have the liberty of clinging to anything but her dagger while it raged. One moment she was caught between tusks, the next they were grazing her, throwing her, her body colliding with nearby rubble. She slipped toward the ground and sagged against the stones, ribcage on fire.
The bucking became more and more frantic until finally he was able to throw Audrey off his back. Landing against the rubble, she dragged her body as far as she could as the beast fought off his own pain, flicking blood everywhere. As soon as it calmed it redirected its anger to what caused the pain. Perking his head up, he looked in the ninja’s direction with one eye. Before she could get out of his grasp, the beast’s paw had her pinned between his talons. Audrey only looked up in horror at the damage she had done and the mouth salivating for her death. Closing her eyes tight, she screamed out one last time.
Pebbles and shards of glass caught on Damia's palms as she struggled to her feet, gaze finally landing on the beast and the girl pinned beneath it. Between her shallow breaths and through the daze that gripped her, she could formulate only one thought: Audrey is going to die. There was no further thought of anyone riding up with their steel and magicks to protect her, to protect either of them. No one was going to come.
After all they'd fought for, all they'd achieved, was it really going to end here?