Fear gripped Shan as she watches the shadowy figure of Ailbe fall to the ground in the dark cave. Her senses were on high alert, the sound of the blade hitting the ground was like lightening and the hissing groan of the creature was paralyzing. 

[b]"Use... your powers."[/b] 

Shan looked towards the sound of the voice shook Shan from her stricken stance and she plunged into darkness. Everything went deathly quiet, the darkness grew deeper and the world seemed to slip away from under her feet. The familiar feeling of drifting in completely nothingness filled her limbs, she went limp and numb. There was nothing and she was no one. And then the world exploded in colour, centring on Shan herself. She saw everything in the little cave, the creature a beast that looked like a snake with long fangs and piercing red eyes, come into stark view for her. It was slowly slithering towards Ailbe, it's tongue flicking sadistically as it approached. 

The creature stopped the moment Shan concentrated the energy illuminating from her into the beast. It seemed to move in be frozen in mid-slither and suspended in a time-frame unknown to the two humans standing and watching the new being in awe. Before suddenly the thing exploded in a flurry of sparks and matter in the air, disappearing from within their vicinity to a reappear somewhere far away. 

Shan dropped to the floor of the cave, breathing heavil. Tears formed in her eyes and her nose dribbled slightly. Fatigue made her limbs feel numb. [b]"What the [i]hell[/i] was that thing![/b] She exclaimed, bursting into tears.