As worried as she was about these Shadow creatures, Mari was much more currently worried about her footing in running down the mountain.  Those other worries came right to her though, with a shadowy figure appearing in front of her.  Taking the beings as no good, Mari swiftly brought her knee up and hit it. . . Where a human's stomach would be, slightly knocking it up in the air and flowed into hammering into its head with her hands joined together, spiking it right into the ground.  

Seeing potential, she hopped on it and rode the body down like a sled, with a lot more bumbs going down than if there were snow, to be sure.  Eventually sliding to an immediate stop. . . Very abruptly into a building. Braced against the building, it took a second and then Mari stepped off the now-not-moving shadow creature.  About ready to rush off, she gave it a last good kick to make sure it wouldn't do anything.  At least her hope was these things had a similar point breaking down due to damage as a human did.  If so, she'd have likely utterly decimated the thing.

After turning her back on the thing she was greeted with the nice warming embrace of a giant blinding light.  Closing her eyes quickly was the best thing she could do to reply quickly to the bright stimulus.  [color=lightcoral]"Not that I don't like the light or anything. . ."[/color]  Something made a sound behind her,  it didn't sound entirely human. . . Somehow.  Going with her judgement, and possibly self preservation, she spun around and kicked high.  It connected, and whatever it was smashed right into the stone structure practically right behind her.  Able to see again, there was a second of the shadow creatures almost flat as a pancake against the wall.  [color=lightcoral]"Glad I'm as strong as an ogre."[/color]  The woman said, quickly making a move to the rest of her current allies.  

Fires raged around as Mari continued forward.  There were quite a few of her allies seemingly working together.  The one that caught her eye the most was the short haired woman with the shield that seemed to be asking for help.  Perhaps she was just giving orders like one would do to soldiers.  At the least it seemed to work for now.

Still, these shadow creatures seemed to not stop whatsoever with three of them showing up around her.  [color=lightcoral]"Really now. . . Tell me what you all are doing here.  I might even relent."[/color]  No answer from the shadows of course, still she thought it was worth a try.  [color=lightcoral]"That's ummm, expected I suppose."[/color]  One of the shadows slashed at her with it's dark blade.  She quickly grabbed the beings arm and watched as another one thrusted at her.  She pulled the shadow she had a grip on into the strike, letting it be a practical shield for her as the dark blade pierced the body.  She kicked the two shadows away with one hit then turned to the last one.  It wasn't waiting for her though as it was already charging her and very close to striking her.  She ducked into the shadow and rammed into it with her shoulder.  The being was knocked back slightly and seemingly slightly dazed giving Mari a small enough amount of time to bring her fist in a great blow against. . . What would be it's jaw.  It flew up into the air and the came back down right into the extending fist of Mari sending it flying horizonatally a little before rolling out and stopping quickly.

The other two returned soon after striking at her again.  She of course dodged both blows, [color=lightcoral]"You guys are tenacious. Just take a rest for me."[/color]  Quickly she stuck one of them into the ground and turned to the other giving a quick succession of blow after blow before delivering one last blow against the creature.  It simply collapsed and all of the shadows she fought were now gone.  [color=lightcoral]"I suppose I should help the others now."[/color]

She made her way up to where the shieldmaiden woman was and the few others with her.  It took a bit more than usually to take out these shadows, perhaps it was best to stay with the others.  [color=lightcoral]"Greetings fellows.  I'm here to help."[/color]