Vangelos scrambled backward, his knuckles tightening about his staff as the creature lunged. With both hands he held out his staff horizontally, trying to keep the creature's mouth at bay by having it gnaw on the enchanted wood instead of his flesh.<br/>He glanced down the hallway and could feel the presence of the girl just watching them wrestle. Vangelos was finding it difficult to keep pace with the creature as it pulled and jerked his staff that was still lodged in it's mouth. Vangelos tried to kick the creature off of him as he found himself overpowered. The creature loomed over him like a great shadow, pressing Vangelos' back the the ground.<br/>"I could..use a little...help here!" Vangelos said in-between grunts and groans as he wrestled with the creature.