However, it penetrated deep enough to make the monster above him roar in sudden pain and fury. That was all Handy was aware of before he was suddenly falling. He looked up as his body twisted and turned to witness the sea-green dragon circle in the air as it inspected its claw. Briefly he glimpsed the tiny and increasingly shrinking purple thing that had to be Spike gripped in the claws of the blue drake before his fall came to an end.