Kiriei grinned, "On it!" Yucky slime or no yucky slime, teamwork came first. The saber thought maybe she could mimic Kyle and decapitate the thing, minimizing the level of slimage. Unfortunately, it came at her (teeth first) and she was forced to simply cut its "head" in half. Some slimy green stuff that smelled like a combination of tea leaves and burnt acorns sprayed her.<br/><br/>"Ahg! Gross!" she exclaimed, wiping the stuff off the side of her face with her sleeve. A maneater came at her from behind, and it got an arrow through its head just as she turned around. The thing collapsed and pixilated. "Oh, thanks," she called to Yami, surprise obvious in her voice.<br/><br/>"Uh, well..." he said sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head, "I was aiming for the other one, but that works too."<br/><br/>Haku collapsed to his rear. "I think I'm out of magic for now," he confessed, wiping some virtual sweat from his brow. Both his stamina and manna levels had diminished rather significantly, but his HP was noticeably full.<br/><br/>"Well don't just sit there!" Kiriei scolded him, fending off the vines of a maneater. "You're an assassin, aren't you?"<br/><br/>"Point taken," Haku muttered, standing and strolling over to Roku. "Nice sword," he commented, "How about you come with me for a second?" The assassin put a hand on the boy's shoulder and suddenly they were both just gone.<br/><br/>Roku looked around, everything was gray scale all of a sudden, and Yami was calling for him, as if he couldn't see him anymore. "Relax," he heard Haku say. "This is my buff. We're on the astral plane, so we can see and hear them, but they can't see or hear us. None of us can make contact though until I release the buff."<br/><br/>Haku gestured to his stamina bar. "My stamina levels don't meet the requirements for throwing my knives, and I don't feel like getting<span style="font-style: italic">that</span>close to a plant monster that wants to eat me," he smiled slightly. "You have a sword and Kiriei is busy, so..." he shrugged. "Oh yeah, you have to keep touching me or my buff will stop affecting you. What do you say? Will you help me kill some maneaters?"<br/><br/>Roku just stared at him for a minute, then he gave in and smiled, nodding.