Lesley and Hakuren were trapped behind the log, but that didn’t stop the pink-haired human from shooting beams of light at the orc’s face. Maybe he was hoping to distract the monster, but his repeated attempts were futile as the arm band absorbed all of his attacks; the rainbows merely gathered together and then faded away as if sucked in by a black hole. When the fallen tree snapped into half under the orc’s repeated slashes, Lesley decided to throw all caution and lunged at the creature’s arms. There was a bright array of colors as he tried his best to snag the arm band, but while Lesley was able to tear a part of the band he fell short of the real task and fell down on the forest floor. The human looked shaken up and Jasper immediately attended to him.

It was no surprise then, that R’ktash targeted the healer next. It ran towards Jasper on all fours and then picked her up, obviously ready to plop her down the hatch if only she didn’t decide to ram her staff through his eyeball. The orc let out an enraged howl of pain and threw the human away, staggering backwards blindly and causing more trees to snap in half. It used its sword as a cane as it plucked the arrow out then threw it away, blood now gushing down from its eyes. If it wasn’t enough already, it looked as if Leon had recovered from his trip earlier to aid Riley, and the spunky girl flew at the orc’s face and clung there like a limpet.

The orc grabbed at the teenager with his free hand and made a move to throw her off, but for some miracle she grabbed on to the arm band. She used just on hand to cling on to the accessory, her face growing ashen as her grip slowly started to loosen, but in her other hand a small fire ball was forming. Before she fell Riley was able to shoot the fire ball at the armband within extremely close range, and as she thudded to the ground she heard something-

Clank

-falling.

“Whoa! Looks like I got it!” Riley cheered with the slightest bit of confusion in her hazy eyes before she plunked down on the ground, unconscious.