With a cough I rose up in a rush of flailing tentacles, tearing the collumns nearby to pieces in the blind rage. After taking a few deep breaths, I calmed a bit. It was actually a fairly impressive attack, I had to admit I was caught by surprise. But then, I'd never seen a shadow bleed before.  The tendril which had attempted to swallow the shadow was twisted from the impact, being torn forcibly from the ground when Chris hit me, but it quickly regained it's original sheen. The crimson gem over my heart glowed deep red and I tilted up a bit, firing forth a beam from it's depths. The air warped and swirled as the gleaming light sliced through the sky above, finally collecting in the sky as the beam reached end, the light fading from the gem. With a grin I licked a sharp tooth. "Rain of Devastation." The light then shattered in an explosion, raining down countless gleaming red blades of energy from above. Besides Chris, this would present a threat both for Arianna, and for my own partner. But the latter did not even enter my mind, I was not used to being embaressed that way.