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[b][u]Group C[/b][/u]

Lute skidded away to the side with Xandra’s arm firmly in his grip, and when the hail of brick and stone caused by the monster’s arrival finally subsided he gathered the courage to look up. The thing roaring at them… It seemed like a bear, but so much more … Twisted. [i]“The… Bearon?”[/i] Is that what it was called? Hell! Every single alarm in his body rang at full volume and Lute was rapidly falling into panic mode, but apparently the mutated mega-bear wasn’t all they had to worry about. Another noise distracted the group and they turned to see a massive spider on their other side. Lute quickly thanked the gods (if they exist in this plane) that he didn’t have arachnophobia. Okay, okay, don’t panic. All of them were spread thin and nobody was in prime condition, but they could at least dole out enough tricks for a successful getaway, right!? There couldn’t be anything worse than this!

Cue the appearance of that goddamned freak of nature over Thaum’s wall.
 
So many things going downhill and it isn’t even his birthday yet! 

“Fate just loves proving me wrong,” Lute groaned and resisted the urge to break down and sob. He got up from the ground with Xandra and tugged her along as he ran to where Dylan and Lucien were. The constant tremors plus the way the monster trio snarled at them kept Lute constantly distracted and he tripped a lot on the scattered debris. With the Bearon, the big spider and that other [i]thing[/i] around them… Man, they’re screwed. Not that he was going to say it out loud.

The matter artist looked like he was about to cry and Lucien just had this stunned expression on his weary face. “Get up! Come on! Don’t give up now!” Lute’s voice grew strained as he attempted to drown out all cacophony coming from, well, everywhere; he was still too tired from that ‘almost’ coup de grace earlier to use his abilities, plus the Bearon’s footsteps getting progressively louder was [b]NOT[/b] helping. “If you give up now, we’re seriously going to …” [i]Beep, searching for a more persuasive form of the word ‘die’[/i], “… eat dust!” Nobody was moving. Lute finally got annoyed and he forcibly pulled the matter artist up on his feet, rinse and repeat with Lucien. “I watched you all die once, and that’s not going to happen again. Not on my watch,” The virtuoso growled darkly and he glanced at Amy. "Miss! C'mon!"
“Let’s go! Just keep running, everyone!” He exclaimed and pushed Xandra gently. It was hard getting them to move, but… At least…

[i]“Stop giving orders… You might just get them killed.”[/i] The same voice from earlier whispered and Lute froze, just at the exact time the earth shook again. He shook his head and regained his stride, running along with the metallurgist. He looked over his shoulder to see how everyone else was doing but…?