That Creeper that the stranger took off had been the Creeper Cloud decided to risk since, at most, all it was going to give him was a mean gash at the back of his shoulders. Still, with that gone, he had been able to finish the last of the pack with a vertical slash from his left blade, the first two having been dealt with by stabs and cuts.
The gray cleared in his vision soon enough and he turned to the new person and nodded to him. "Thanks," he said.
Then he looked around the parking lot. Two bodies crawled to the road, three of them laid sprawled on the concrete, six Creepers were still abound...
His single blade joined the rest of his sword and he spun it round in his right hand. "I have to go up," Cloud said, turning again to the new fighter. "Can you handle it down here?"