[i]Damn it, now they're all doing it,[/i] cursed James as the swifter of the two adversaries recklessly let the bladed whip slash her arm. It paid off, because as she charged past him she sliced his pectoral muscle and into his shoulder. James was barely able to rotate his shoulder back to follow her direction, minimizing the damage so that it was (mostly) superficial. Though, [i]that one stung.[/i]

          James's expression as she cut him turned from still jovial, to rueful. His eyes darkened and his smile faded from his face. This quickly, three witches he'd never heard of had made him get serious. Every spec of blood on the ground was looking like a spring trap. His main opponent was pursuing him, like he was some lesser bounty to be hunted. While her support flanked around behind him so suddenly. Now [i]he[/i] was feeling underestimated.

        His eyes darted from Shiara to Iava, now closing in, with just as much contempt. He saw and predicted the arc of her sword, yet made no effort to move. Instead he raised his arms, and flipped his clubs so that the spike was face down. Just as the saber buried itself into the cartilage of his knee, and collided with his bones, he brought both spikes down to skewer Iava through her back from two angles. Both their strikes happened at the exact same time. As he reared back for his attack, a smile blood thirsty enough to rival Elizabeth's Curled across his face. His eyes went bloodshot from the pain in his leg, which caused his smile to twitch uncomfortably as well. However, it didn't leave. 

        While this happened, instead of further tormenting the possessed priestess, the tentacle retreated back into James's body. As it did so he redirected the matter towards the cut Shiara just caused. By the time she stopped her movement and James had attacked Iava, the wound was almost closed. This coincided with the Blood Mage's spinning blades attempting to chop the limb off. Because James gave the order for it to retreat, only one of them succeeded in dismembering about two feet of it before it disappeared. He hadn't gotten all of his organic material back from that creation, but a certain amount of it.