Rhen forced herself to look away from the beast and do a quick scan of the entire scenario that was happening in the streets. Everyone was accounted for, everyone was still alive, she tried to will her brain to catch up and start processing her thoughts with combative suggestions. But the initial onset of the event had caught her completely off guard and then the hit from the minotaur knocked her even further away from the normal calmness that she possessed.  Add that to the pain she kept pushing to the back of her mind, and her body fighting through the aches she had struggled to recollect herself from the first attack she inflicted on the minotaur. It had started to feel like she was crawling out of a deep pit with no footholds for support. It was becoming all reaction to what this creature was doing instead of thinking one step ahead. It was becoming a slippery slope she couldn't afford to trip on. Everything felt like it was zooming by in hyper-speed until she heard Celeste's voice.<br/><br/>Celeste always had a way of recentering Rhen. She turned her eyes towards her mate and watched intently as she spoke. Each added word cleared Rhen's head of the fog and gave her the clarity needed to take this abomination down. Rhen felt Celeste slide into her thought,<i>Now or never. </i>She returned a short message knowing this was the moment.<i>Lead the way, Love.</i><br/><br/>Rhen turned her eyes back to check on Rivers when Celeste jumped into action, he was gone. She looked quickly at Nadia not remembering when she had gotten so close. In fact, the last few minutes were a complete blur. Turning her gaze back to the minotaur, she saw Celeste running right at the beast.<i>Of course, head-on. </i>With the scourge in her hand, Rhen jumped over the pile of rubble on the ground and slid hip first across the hood of a car inching closer to the alley and Celeste.<br/><br/>The black smoke flowed fluently from Celeste and cast shadows along the walls as it thickened and blocked the light. She began chanting her activation hymn once again siphoning magic from the creature and the area to channel it into the leathery whip. A loud crack sounding like a transformer blowing signaled her weapon of choice was fully charged and ready to lick the flesh of what was in front of her. Rhen waved the controlled hand out to her side and upward toward the sky, looping a large circle in the air similar to the motion of lassoing an animal before bringing it down hard and fast in a diagonal motion. The ends of the scourge wrapped around the legs of the creature knocking it to the ground on its side. The electricity wasted now time bridging the connecting between weapon and animal. She held it steady as the bright current crawled off the ends and up through the minotaur's body. The sound of the creature's cry echoed through the alley. It was a gurgling growl that belong in a dark movie. It was also the first sign that it had lost.