Faelyn blinked as Sierra conjured the small shield around them.<strong>"What are you..?"</strong>And then she realized they were concentrating to a point right behind her while telling everyone to be on guard. Before she could turn she saw Aposte slinging his sword into her direction, like a spear. She ducked quickly, reflexively, althought the spear would have quite possibly flown over her head anyway, being aimed at something behind her. Finally she pulled her riffle as she span around. She could see the sword now buried inside the monster, black substance, likely blood, leaking from the wound. If nothing else, it would give them a bit more time.<br/><br/><strong>"What the fuck are you...?"</strong>She muttered as her gun started to power up. She couldn't immediately shoot, as her weapon was energy powered, and needed to charge for a moment. The monster spat something green toward her, but it was deflected in the shield spell, strangely remaining to float in the mid air on the surface of the shield. Faelyn was relieved to say the least, and finally, her weapon was charged. She couldn't see the monster through the green jelly that was now plastered along the surface of the shield, not until the monster rammed straight through it. Apparently the initial attack had weakened the shield enough for the massive creature to charge through, then again, shield spells weren't made to work best against battering rams. Faelyn pulled the trigger immediately, exploding the monster's head only a couple of feet from herself, she got splashed by the black blood and god knows what in the process and staggered back, falling on her back while the creature flopped onto the ground lifelessly.<br/><br/>She was breathing deeply and gasped silently, feeling a little bit shaky.<strong>"Shit..."</strong>She muttered as she slowly started to get up, only to see numerous similar creatures starting to rise up all over her field of vision.<strong>"Thanis* help us..."</strong>She spoke to herself more than anything. She tried to think on her feet, she wasn't sure they could take on them, and worse, she wasn't sure she could get this foolhardy bunch to retread. Hell, she didn't want to retreat, she wanted to rip every single one of those creatures apart, but completing the mission took priority, and she could not afford to lose anyone.<strong>"Retreat!"</strong>She commanded as she scrambled up. "Run! Just fucking run!" She yelled to the others. For all she knew, there were infinite number of the swamp monsters out there and just one had proved to be slightly troublesome.<br/><br/>She took the direction where there was a bit of an opening from all the creatures, dodging those green blobs they were spitting from their mouths and doing her best avoiding sinking into the swamp.<em>'So this is what hell is like...'</em>She thought to her, she could only hope the others were following her, because they just did not have time to regroup. At least Sessuri and the Chewbra was following, she wasn't sure of the others.<br/><br/>After running for a short distance, but what felt like eternity, she suddenly saw a blue disc of energy whizz right past her head, then another one. She dived to the ground as soon as she realized there were more to come<strong>"Take cover!"</strong>. They just seemed to go from one trouble into another. The discs continued past her, and to her great surprise, they seemed to be aimed at the monsters and not for her, and they sure were effective, cutting through the creatures like butter. She lift her head up to see what was going on. There was a giantic winged creature on the ground, for a moment she thought it was a dragon, but then she recognized it as a wyvern. It's massive scorpion tail flailed around, keeping the swamp monsters behind it at bay and it's massive jaws bit through anything that got too close. And on the back of it, in a basked, that was used like a saddle, stood a robed man, waving his staff, shooting those blue discs to cut down the monsters.<strong>"Get here! He won't hurt you!"</strong>He yelled to the group, not stopping his attack on the swamp creatures.<strong>"I can't hold them off for long!" </strong><br/><br/>Faelyn looked to the others, if they had indeed followed. She didn't trust anyone on the wastelands. So she was concerned either they would get cheved up by the swamp monsters or the wyvern. Well, they could probably take care of the wyvern and the mage, but the swamp monsters would still chew them up. So if they took the man's offer and got out of here, they'd still stand a chance if they had to fight.<strong>"I say we go with him.."</strong>She muttered as she started to get up. It wasn't a command, she couldn't tell them to trust a random mage out of nowhere, after all.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 8pt;">*Thanis, the god of justice and right, the god of protection.</span>