The only response Tyger gives his friend’s teasing is a smile hidden behind his mask with a brief twinkle of amusement in his dangerously red eyes before they too disappear from view in the shadow of the alcove. Completely concealed from view he pauses to send forth his shadow probes into the landing at the bottom of the stairs to get a ‘feeling’ for what awaits them there. He still has not chosen his destination shadow when Giselle opens the door. He is nearly deafened by the blast from the strange iron golem that removes the door and a sizable portion of the stone wall and shakes the entire stone structure. Momentarily dazed by the noise and force of the blast he is slower in getting to the landing then he had hoped. Sensing the woman’s use of magic and her position on the back of the four legged iron beast he changes his chosen shadow to one near the ceiling instead of ground level.<br/><br/>Jumping to his chosen shadow Tyger pushes off the wall as he begins to fall as he is not directly above the iron beast or its rider. The push puts him in place to drop on the back of the beast with his katana poised to drive through the witch, but something alerts her to the danger and she dives off her iron mount receiving only a nasty gash on her thigh from the ninja ultra sharp blade. Missing his intend target the blade being driven both by the fall and his incredible strength sinks deep into the body of iron. Landing easily on the beast’s back he immediately tries to free his blade but it is stuck fast. Letting go of his blade Tyger flips off onto the floor and moves under the creature’s iron belly. He suddenly starts to expand and his armor vanishes leaving in its place a human like tiger creature much larger than the half covered in white fur with black stripes. Using his greater strength and mass Tyger grabs two of the four iron legs and hoists it off balance and throws it to the floor. If he could talk in this form he would yell for Giselle to use her own acid arrow on the beast’s exposed under belly while she has the chance, but he is capable of human speech in this form. He leaps easily over the fallen monstrosity and grabs hold of his katana. With a mighty twist and powerful tug he wrenches the blade free causing a massive amount of damage.<br/><br/>Tyger is suddenly driven back as five magic missiles slam into his broad fur covered chest from the witches hand as she rises to stand on her good leg. He however does not go down from the magic assault but instead roars in anger and pain and charges straight at the witch with blade, claws, and teeth flashing.