((There's no actual arrow to Melf's Acid Arrow lol.  Still, it's cool dude.))<br/><br/><strong>Giselle Do'Urden<br/>Time; Early Morning, Day 1<br/>Location; The Northern Trek<br/>Tagged; Lionel</strong><br/><br/>Giselle didn't like the look on Ultima's face as he grinned, suddenly getting the feeling she was in dire trouble.  Her fears were proven true when he healed right before her eyes, and then surprised her further when his very blood she had spilled on the snowy ground rose up to spike the Leo-Sapian through his body in many different places.  SHIT!  Mentally cursing to herself, Giselle barely had time to block as she was driven to her knees, both Icingdeath and Twinkle, her left hand blade, barely came up in time to save her from being cleaved in half.  "I'm....not.....weak!"  She shouted back in open defiance to her impending doom, knowing she couldn't win like this.  Such strength!  She couldn't keep herself up against that much power for long, but luckily she didn't have to as the demon was driven off once again.  Standing on shaky legs, she watched in awe at the titanic struggle between the holy warrior and the Dark Lord they'd come to destroy.  She wisely stayed out of the way, not about to get in the middle of that until the time was right as she had before.  She still wasn't recovered enough to avoid having the demon's sword suddenly spring up under her neck, lifting her head further as she ground her teeth at being so easily caught off guard.  "Damn it you bastard!"  She hissed, tightening the grip on her swords, knowing they'd be useless now but she'd be damned she'd die empty handed if it was her time to die.  She could still try to dimension hop herself, but the demon would most likely slit her throat before she finished her spell, or he'd simply follow her anyway and finish her off as soon as she appeared.  Unlike him, she had to prepare her magic, and that and she wasn't a pure mage, and so her power paled greatly in that regard anyway.<br/><br/>Her airway was constricted soon afterward anyway as the demon's arm tightened around her throat.  She couldn't breath, let alone talk to cast any magic.  Giselle was in trouble and there was no way out unless Lionel pulled a miracle out of his ass, which was....oddly exactly what he did.  She had seen Neria cast such divine magic before but it always made her gasp in shock and awe to see divine beings coming down to smite the utterly wicked as Ultima was proving to be.  The fear that overtook the demon had his arm tightening further around her throat, and Giselle frantically tried to twist her swords about to stab the fiend so he'd stop strangling the life out of her, but he was too close and she couldn't get the proper angle to do any real damage.  She couldn't look at the paladin either as the immense light show he was putting off was hurting her light sensitive eyes a great deal, and closed them, her world starting to go black anyway from the loss of air until she fell face first into the snow, not seeing how the being he had brought down had utterly destroyed Ultima with a single ray of light.  Gasping loudly as she took several deep, ragged breaths, Giselle let fall her swords into the snow as she put a hand to her battered neck, trying to rub some of the soreness away as she looked up to see Lionel wasn't in a much better state than she was.  "Y....yeah....I'm alive....and still breathing....so that's a start."  She wheezed before picking herself up from the ground, quickly cleaned her blades on the snow at her feet before putting them away, and then ran to the man's side, kneeling before him as she dug about in her pack which she had dropped somewhere in the fight with the demon before finding a healing potion and a stamina potion before popping the corks from both the red and yellow bottles.  "Drink up, you need this more than me."  She stated, hoping it wouldn't become another argument given the extensive damage he'd taken in this mess.  The sword the demon had wielded was the only thing left of the creature, but she didn't care, too concerned for Lionel's well being at that moment.