<span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="font-family: 'Lobster Two'"><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(136, 80, 213)"><u>Celeste</u></span></i></span></span><br/><br/>Throughout the chaos that surrounded them, Celeste kept a level head. There were a few whispers in her ears from the shadows, helping her to make quick decisions. She could hear Nadia to her right, coughing as she tried to distract the beast. It was a wet, hoarse cough that could only come from smoke inhalation...or blood. Celeste grimaced and turned her head in the other direction. Christopher was off to the side, holding his head. Celeste frowned, concerned but as she moved to go check on him, the shadows whispered to her about Rhen.<br/><br/>She turned quickly, reaching out to try and have the shadows protect Rhen but it seemed Rivers was already there. She smiled a bit, glad that he was with us in that moment.<br/><br/>"Rhen!" She called out, but was quickly distracted by Nadia. She seemed to be hopping around to distract the Minotaur but it had been so focused on Rhen it hadn't even seen her. With a frown, she glared over at Nadia. "Nadia, circle back. Stay with the group!" Her voice rang over the cacophony of sound around them. Her eyes darkened slightly as she tried to bring her group in together. They would never get their shit together and deal with this beast if they didn't work together.<br/><br/>Her eyes circled around the group again. Christopher was out, that much was certain. She couldn't blame him. He'd been working overtime throughout the day and it was time for the rest of them to finish up the job. Rhen should have been out of the game with the hit she took but she wasn't knocked out. Knowing her partner, she'd fight until she died...even when Celeste begged her to take it easy.<i>Stubborn woman. </i>Rivers was so new to the group that he wouldn't know their shorthand yet...but he seemed more than capable. If she asked him for something, she had a feeling he would deliver.<br/><br/>"Okay, guys.." The minotaur was still dazed from running into the wall of the bank, which gave her a good chance to let her team know what she was thinking. "We gotta work fast...Rhen, let's get him immobilized and Rivers...find something heavy that Nadia can use." The minotaur seemed to have regained his composure and another roar shook the world around them.<i>Now or never.</i>The words filled Rhen's head as Celeste sent them to her.<br/><br/>Celeste turned toward the beast and dug her feet in, the click of the heels barely audible against the echo of the roar that still bounced off of the alleyway walls. Her eyes darkened further and her hands were quickly covered in a dark, heavy smoke. As she pushed her hands out toward the beast, the smoke started to drip from her hands like a thick slime and moved with the quickness of lava toward the beast. It surrounded it's hooves and thickened to a tar-like substance. Celeste's hands twitched up and long sticky strands jumped up from the puddle and attached themselves to patches of the animal's fur.<br/><br/>"Rhen! Try to shock him! It might stun him!"<br/><br/><i><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(61, 142, 185)"><span style="font-size: 26px"><span style="font-family: 'Lobster Two'"><u>Minotaur</u></span></span></span></i><br/><br/>The Minotaur had been quite stunned from running head first into the brick wall. While a heavy animal with deathly sharp horns, it did not have a much in the way of brains and moved purely on instinct...and<i>something else.</i>It stumbled as it regained its focus and when it did...the red eyes found<b>Rivers<i>. </i></b>A strangled bellow cracked through the air as its focus narrowed in on the young man. Snorts of hot air blew from its nostrils and it attempted to charge toward him...but found it couldn't move. The tar had stuck its hooves to the ground and as it continued to struggle, the blackness only further held him down.<br/><br/>Another angry roar came from it, its head rotating around it to try and hit anything that came near it.