<br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/fOPEI4r.jpg?2)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Azuri Saphirum  (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=286197.msg14082783#msg14082783)<br/><strong>Aura:</strong>3/3<br/><strong>Charge:</strong>0/10<br/><strong>Time/Date:</strong>Day 1 Morning.<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Forest, near cave<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Lyn, Masque, Robin, open<br/><strong>Mention:</strong><br/><hr/><br/>To say things weren't going as planned was...well, putting it mildly. Once she had reached the top of the cliffs she spun on her heel and gazed down to find a rather distinct lack of DeathStalkers being drawn over towards it. The girl's brow momentarily twitched in frustration, how hard was it to stand by a wall and let the giant scorpions walk towards you? Things only got increasingly more screwed as their two tanks ended up getting tossed around as they stubbornly tried to keep ramming themselves into the creatures, and...was that a teacher? Azuri gritted her teeth, one of their allies literally just stolen away from them in the most critical of moments, this situation was rapidly becoming unmanageable.<br/><br/>Azuri sighed, this wasn't good. If they were able to focus all of their efforts on a single grimm they might be able to take one down, but these deathstalkers seemed smart enough to ensure that didn't happen, and even if they could try and draw them away from each other that would still be one fighter dedicated to distracting one of them and only three to actually try to fight. Not only that but they had no proof that what they were looking for was even in that cave. In fact the more she thought about it...they had been drawn to the cave because the initial death stalker looked like it might be guarding something...but grimm couldn't be tamed or trained by humans, nor did they care about anything other than attacking people, so the school would have no way to actually make them act as guard dogs, and they would have no reason to try and protect the relics they were looking for on their own initiative...was this some kind of red herring? They were practically killing themselves for this battle, but what were they looking to gain from it?<br/><br/>"Guys fall back!" Azuri shouted, deciding that discretion was the better part of valor. Leaping from the cliff she would glide down and make a bee-line for Lyn, who was still the closet to being in immediate danger, "we're wasting our energy trying to fight these two, we don't have the numbers or the coordination to take them down as we are. We should retreat and regroup somewhere safer" she called out among the din of combat. She would skid to a stop beside the buff viking, offering him her hand and a spot on her broomstick-esque rocket lance, "get on, that red haired boy already got whisked away for senselessly putting himself in danger, don't throw away your future on a meaningless fight" she said, trying to reason with him, assuming he'd be the hardest to convince to retreat. The masked boy could turn invisible, and the source of that beam was already on the edge of the forest, so they would be fine for the moment. This big lug however could probably use a hand getting up and out of here. If Lyn decided to follow her lead the girl would rocket back up to the cliff with him, using the high point as their gathering spot.<br/>