<div style="text-align: center;">---Pre-Combat---</div><br/><br/>Dust slowly opened his eyes, his vision blurry and head pounding. He had no idea where he was, or what anything was. He slowly sat up and looked around to see other people waking up. He found a strange looking lantern by him that he picked up. Everything around them was shrouded in near complete darkness. The darkness felt alive, breathing, moving, watching every move. It felt sinister, the hair on Dust’s neck rising. He stood up looking around, searching for anything that could possibly clue them in on what was happening.<br/><br/>Suddenly a strange creature leaped from the darkness and began attacking people near it. Watching several people die gruesome deaths, panic began to rise. What was happening? What should Dust do? His legs wanted to run, but some instinct told him that turning his back to this creature would only lead to his death. He crouched down and stepped back a bit, searching for any type of weapon to use. His hand eventually came upon a piece of broken rock that was extremely sharp, leaving a shallow cut in his hand from rubbing against it.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">---Combat Phase---</div><br/><br/>Dust saw a woman, her face coated in blood from what he assumed was one of the others killed by the creature, run to face the beast. She attempted to get closer to it but it lashed out with its sharp tail cutting the cloth covering her body. He couldn’t tell if the cut had hit skin but he didn't see any blood. She lunged striking out at it but the beast was ready and deflected the attack, sending her onto the ground.<br/><br/>Dust knew he had to do something or she would die.The only problem is what could he do? If he charged in recklessly it would get them both killed. He decided to try and sneak up on the beast, slowly moving towards it while its attention was focused on the girl. He was able to get close to it before leaping with the sharp rock. The beast had turned in a flash, its eyes beaming into his as time seemed to stand still. He felt a heavy weight slamming into his chest, his eyes following it back to see it connected to the creature.<br/><br/>The hit was followed by a loud, sickening crunch sound as several ribs were broken from the impact. Dust stabbed the rock into the creature’s body that it had slammed into him with all of his force, managing to sink it about in inch into its skin before being thrown from the force of the blow. The small hills in the ground intensified his pain as he slammed into the ground and rolled to the side. The pain was so great he didn't know if he would be able to move or not. His vision was blurry and fading in and out as he managed to look at the beast.He had to do something, but there was nothing he could do in this state. The rock he stabbed into its body was still embedded but alone it couldn’t be enough to hurt it greatly.