[center][b]Will O' the Piper[/b][/center]

Charles was dazed by the blow, but managed to recover enough of his sense before he was smashed to bits. He threw out one of the knives on his chain and pulled on it as it passed a bare branched tree sticking out of the rocks, expertly wrapping the knife around the trunk and pulling himself in. He landed roughly, but lurched to his feet and shook off the remains of his dizziness before he could be attacked again.

"Big guy's even stronger than he looks." He said, dancing over the body of one of the smaller creatures to stand by Sigmund and trading his knives for the staff, he flipped up the blade and started laying into them with precision and a finality that he had lacked before. "I hope your plan doesn't involve me getting whacked again. I think he almost broke a rib."

[center][b]A Clayman's Finale[/b][/center]

Maria didn't stay dazed for long, quickly shaking the blow off and raising her shield. "Repulse." She muttered, activating the shield's secondary ability and feeling the foreign mana at work. She swung the shield upward even as the hammer descended towards her, forcing the two to connect and reversing the force of it back onto the woman. Lux's mist had probably saved her life, as she barely managed to intercept the blow in time.