“Please to be leaving place! Is very angry monster, want no casualties!” Malika had missed a fair amount of the action while she was trying her best to herd the civilians away from the large virus. It was rather difficult however; most people couldn’t seem to understand her past the rather thick accent and less-than-perfect grasp over English. As Malika continued to call out to the clamouring crowds, she just barely managed to avoid a large tentacle zipping towards her. ‘Barely managed to avoid’ meaning ‘stumbled over onto her backside’. The large appendage slithered back, before returning with a few more friends – The tentacles looked like they were formed of exposed muscle and deep red bone, and (most importantly) they all looked poised to strike again; and Malika was in a rather bad position for dodging, being half way into scrabbling back up to her feet. Malika had no idea what to do – It certainly looked like a bad situation. As though acting on some kind of deep, semi-competent instinct, her arm shot up, her hand splayed out as she yelled “Shishigami Ninpo Binding Art!” The tentacles stopped in their tracks, bound together by green, pixelated chains. Malika let out a deep breath with a sheepish chuckle, “Heheh. Haah… Thought was goner!” Malika paused, looking between the bound tentacles and her sword. A grin slipped across her face. Jumping to her feet, she ran forward and leaped onto the bundled-up appendages – It was a rather sloppy landing, and she had to pull herself up to a standing position and keep herself steady. Once she was certain she had her balance down, she ran forward (though it was a very awkward slow run, more like a jog as she tried to look cool but also avoid falling off the wriggling tentacles that were fairly high from the ground) and eventually stopped near the base. Sliding her sword from her sheath, she suddenly bounded off of the virus and shouted “Celestial Star Sword: As Silent Nirvana!” at the top of her lungs before swinging her sword into the base of the bounded tentacles, and slicing clean through and looking cool as hell!
… or at least that’s what she wanted to have happened. What actually happened was that the sword had a fair bit of trouble making its way through four whole thick tentacles, and was simply left stuck in the muscly flesh of the virus, while Malika clung onto the sword’s handle, dangling around in the air and looking rather conclusively like a massive dork, “Uh… Little bit of help, guys?” She called out sheepishly, “Will repay in some way! Like um… Uh… W-Will think of something, please get me down!”