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Angel dodged. She growled.

"I will not give up!"

She jumped from boulder to boulder until she made it across the river. She kept her eyes on the beast. She got as close as she could without making contact. She attacked the creature again.

"This ends....now!"
She charged again.

The creature assaulted Angel with everything in its reach. Water splashed in her face. rocks flew at her. Hands grasped for her arms to dislodge the weapon. He reached for her hair to try and catch hold of her.

Andrew crashed against the same tree the monster had. He scrambled out of the water, biting the fingers of his gloves to pull his hands out of them. Then he wrapped his arms around the monsters back and held on as the creature looked over his shoulder in surprise.

The creature grabbed Andrew's arms to rip him off of his back.

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Angel kept trying to dodge. She stayed on guard and did her best to avoid any attacks from the creature that she was fighting. She barely noticed when Andrew came out of the water and such.

Anyway, she blinked and almost froze when she saw what Andrew was doing.

"What are you doing?! Get away from that thing!"
She shouted as loud as she could. She attempted to attack again, but tried to avoid Andrew. It was hard.

The creature managed to pry off one of Andrew's arms. Then he held the other and tried to spin around unwinding Andrew from him. The creature's back was turned to Angel. The creature had one of Andrew's arms and and his other hand grabbed around his neck. Andrew tried to pry the thick fingers from his throat to resume breathing. His legs kicking madly happened to hit the creature but we're not painful enough to make him release Andrew on their own.

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Angel launched another attack. She nearly struck the creature. She growled. She tried again. She gasped when she nearly struck Andrew by mistake.

"What are you doing?! Are you an idiot?!"
She shouted, concern actually in her voice.

Andrew could not breathe well enough to answer, but he was about to find out how idiotic an idea it had been to put himself in arm's length of the creature.

Roaring the creature turned around to face Angel again and threw Andrew's dangling body at the woman.

Andrew was turned round mid air and saw himself on a collision course with Angel. He didn't have time to think about anything except ducking his head and not reaching forward to brace himself. He jerked his hands behind himself and clenched his jaw for a rough landing. 'please just hit her dress!' he hoped against hope for no direct contact.

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Angel gasped. She tried to dodge. However, she was not fast enough.

There was close contact. She would be knocked to the ground.

"ow....."

Her leg was a bit hurt. She tried to get up again. She held out her weapon. She continued to try to go after the creature.
"Stop this! now!!"

Andrew was enormously relieved as Angel was able to get up and he scrambled away. He hadn't hurt her.

The problem was, he hadn't been able to hurt the creature either. It was of little comfort that they're was someone in the world Andrew could touch without draining, when that was the one person he had wanted to exhaust. His greatest weapon was no weapon at all. The creature had all the brute force on his side.

Angel at least had speed and agility.

But as Andrew got to his feet and watched her fresh attack, his heart sank. She was hurt, her leg. She would press on despite it, he knew that without a doubt. But how could they end this now? So she could get off that leg, so he could drink some water, so they could all get to healing?

Two. Perhaps that really was their greatest advantage. Two against one sent the creature fleeing.

Andrew needed to press that, but stay out of arms reach, and out of angel's way.

Andrew started throwing rocks. Not the little pebbles that bounced off the creature's hide. Stones, which made the creature close his lips over his teeth, squint his eyes, and duck his head.

--

The monster could not even scream at them anymore. His big open mouth had been too easy a target for those river rocks assaulting him. He struggled to breathe through his nose, swat away rocks, dodge weapon attacks, and ignore his wounds from where the weapon had made contact.

Overwhelmed he backed to the riverbank. He tried to make his way around the part of the tree washed up on the bank, to let the water carry him farther down stream. To carry him away from these attacks. Away from these people. Away from the pain.

But Andrew rushed behind angel and threw Rick's from the other side of the tree so the monster couldn't get there. A muffled roar escaped him.

Andrew watched Angel, they had him pinned. She would be able to take him from here, and hopefully Andrew wasn't in the way.

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Angel continued to try and attack. She would not let it escape. Well....she would not allow it anyway. Anyway, she slashed at it, but her leg made it hard to get a direct attack. She missed a few times.

"ugh!"
She kept trying to charge. But, somehow, the creature kept ending up beyond her reach.

At one point, she tripped and fell. Her leg was making it hard to do anything now......

The creature saw his chance. The moment the woman tripped his heavy feet pounded up the bank to where she had fallen. At last he would be able to get the weapon away from her, better yet he would be able to get rid of her. The creature loomed high over her and reached his waggling fingers for her bare throat.

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Andrew threw every rock he had at once. The creature thundered toward Angel. Andrew tried to catch up with the monster but was several places behind him.

"Get up! Get up!" He shouted, his voice pleading. She had to get away. She may be ready to sacrifice herself to kill the monster, but Andrew sure wasn't willing to let her perish in the fight. Not her.

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Angel held out her weapon. She tried to defend herself.

…………

She blinked when she saw the rocks. She saw it was Andrew who threw them.
"What are you doing?! I can do this myself!"
She didn't want him helping. For some reason, she found herself not wanting him to get himself harmed by this thing.

She tried to get up, only to fall again.

The creature had snarled at the cuts on its fingers when Angel fought him back. It only made him more determined to end this fight now.

When she stood the creature lunged for her arm trying to get the weapon away from her. He almost tripped over her when Angel fell. But he regained his balance and grabbed for Angels arm to rip the weapon away from her.

Andrew ran and threw himself against the monster's side knocking him sideways onto the ground. The creates hands opened as he fell. He rolled, trying to get on top of Andrew and squish him into the ground until the man stopped squirming forever.

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Angel continued to try and defend herself. The fight seemed to go on and on. She was growing tired, but she could not stop. She knew that much.

She tried to resume slashing with her sword. However, soon enough, Andrew was attacking the creature, or so it seemed, and it was all happening right in front of her. She gasped.

"Stop!!"

"Angel, now!" Andrew managed to groan out from underneath the creature. The monster was on hands and knees to hold Andrew down. Andrew struggled but knew he had more chance of being ripped limb from limb than of escaping from the monster's grasp. He squirmed anyway, keeping the monster completely occupied and focused on himself. That meant the monster was oblivious to Angel. Andrew desperately hoped that was true.

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Angel blinked. She frowned. She narrowed her eyes. She knew there was a high risk of hurting Andrew. For some reason she....hesitated. She actually hesitated. She could not believe it when she realized what she was doing.

It took all of her willpower and everything to unleash just one attack....

The creature screamed in pain and tore more viciously at Andrew. He caused as much damage as he could until the wound caught up with him and the creature gave a fading growl and collapsed lifeless atop his final victim.

Andrew's cries of pain turned to discusst and desperation as the massive weight atop him began to absorb into him. Water was refreshing this feels like trying to swallow pond slime. He would have gagged if he could even breathe. But he couldn't get a breath through the wounds and the weight atop him. He welcomed the blackness that seemed to gobble up his consciousness. He knew no more.

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Angel did her best. Within moments, she managed to unleash one powerful attack where the sword finally struck. The momentum alone would cause the creature to wail and collapse far from Andrew, etc.

Angel soon found herself approaching Andrew. She was limping a bit. She looked at him. She managed to kneel down. She tried not to allow contact though because of the curse or whatever Andrew claimed that he had.

With the weight removed, Andrew gasped for air, light fighting for his eyes to open again. He squinted and blinked at the blue sky he could see beyond the trees. And the shadow of someone, someone with him.

"Angel? Did you kill him?"

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Angel sighed. She narrowed her eyes at Andrew. She kept a slight distance between them while she was right there.
"...maybe."
She said nothing more. Angel would let him figure that out on his own. His eyes were open and so she was sure that he would see that for himself. At that point, she simply waited.

Andrew's gaze remained fixed on Angel.

"Then what are you doing here with me? We can't let him escape. I don't think we can let this drag out any longer it needs to end..." His voice became too worry to hear anything else except "Angel." right at the end of his thought.

He rolled into his side toward her, his back to the dead creature, he still hadn't seen it. Holding a dislocated arm close against him he tried to push off the ground with the other one and get to his feet. They had to get to following that monster if it killed him, so she could be sure she had killed it. That was her propose. He wasn't going to get in the way by being too injured for her to leave him.