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<br/>​</div>Akena greeted her team, smiling at them, but not saying anything as to not spook the trikelton. She noted their rather mixed expressions, but no one seemed ready to tear each other apart, so Akena counted that as a win for teamwork. She'd ask Robin for a report later, then ask Shiro for more information, followed by a more casual conversation with Karmyne. The three were all quite different as people, so it would be interesting to see how they responded to this exercise.<br/><br/>She was broken out of her thoughts and casual observation by a scream and a flurry of activity in the trees across the clearing, a commotion that resolved itself as LITE and another trikelton running into the clearing. The other team had actually been stupid enough to engage? Or had they just been caught off guard? Akena noted, with a blank expression but some dark amusement in her head, that LITE's issues were about to double as the other grimm roared and ran in. The more analytical part of her brain noted that - was it trying to support another of it's kind, or was it engaging because it had sighted prey? Oh right, LITE was in danger too, an idea that only barely seemed to register to her. She wasn't blind to their situation, but there was absolutely no chance she'd gamble her own team to help them just because they made a mistake. Not without a plan.<br/><br/>Then Nekro jumped in with barely even a plan, shouting that ARKIS needed to help them. Akena disagreed with the "need" part, but they did need to act<i>now</i>if they wanted to assist LITE, especially as that team was now engaged two to one, rather than four to one. Akena jumped down after him, but Karmyne running forward and shouting immediately drew her attention to the trikeltons and the growing black smoke shroud around them. Time to think fast. She had a few canisters of dust, but fire and explosive ones would be a terrible idea in a forest. Wind or earth, perhaps? They needed to pin down the trikeltons somehow, and deal with the smoke. Actually, that was reverse order - smoke first, then if they had the resources, deal with the grimm. Nyx Astra formed itself into an orb as Akena formed a plan.<br/><br/>"ARKIS, pull back, and stay in the trees!" She shouted. Screw LITE, Akena wasn't getting her team killed for them. "The gas is heavier than air. Watch our surroundings, make sure there's no other grimm in the area. We'll provide ranged support for LITE from here, and try to split the grimm's attention until the professors make it. Don't approach, and the moment the grimm moves towards us, we retreat. Do<i>not</i>move towards LITE's position." And time to see if this actually was gas or not. Akena slotted a canister of green dust into Nyx Astra, and leaped back to a branch, scrambling up the tree as fast as she could while leaving Nyx Astra in the way of the approaching cloud. A greenish sand seemed to kick up around the orb, and it sent out a sustained gust of wind towards the gas, trying to push it back.