[b]Battle[/b]

Thael's blood froze in his veins at the sound of the raptor's rapid approach. This was it. It was finally real. For a split second, he was paralysed with a combination of fear and excitement. Then his brain kicked in. Ten hostiles; raptors in a standard pack formation approaching at high speed. It was practically a textbook perfect engagement, and Thael nearly began shouting orders himself. But Olivia's voice rang out clear and firm, and he automatically assumed his position. Their formation was solid; Thael was confident he, Freddy, and Kim could hold the frontline while the heavy hitters worked up their spirits from the back. Thael was also pleased to note Olivia’s formation left no one isolated: in theory, it might be tempting to split up Olivia and Remi to initiate a pincer action, but that would leave both of them exposed and could easily backfire. “Stand fast guys, we can do this!” he yelled as his spirits awakened, bathing him in light.

As the creatures drew ever closer, Thael carefully considered his options. The team had trained together ruthlessly, so few--if any--furthers should be necessary. Thael decided he’d opt for a single Sunspear attack as the creatures closed to range, aiming his actual spear towards a raptor on the left flank so that Olivia could easily retrieve the weapon and send it back to him, while dividing the sunlances evenly amongst other targets for maximum threat generation. He would also need to keep a close eye on Olivia and Remi, ready to leap to their side if they got into serious trouble. He also made sure to check back on Kat, Roy, and Aaron; once the initial shock wore off, the raptors would probably head straight for them, and he’d have to be ready to-

And then Aaron ran past him, sword blazing, right into the middle of the pack, and Thael’s weakness reared it’s head. He didn’t check with his squadmates, he didn’t even think for a second, he simply acted. With a roar, Thael heaved his spear at one of the raptors descending on Aaron in the middle of the pack (Omicron). As soon as it left his hand, lances of golden light snapped into existence out of thin air and smashed into the 5 raptors closest to Aaron (Kappa, Lambda, Sigma, Omicron, Omega). Still acting on impulse, full of the desperate need to protect his friend, Thael gathered his strength, and with a surge he leapt to Aaron’s side, landing with a burst of light that elicited cries of pain from the raptors (same 5 as before). He quickly stepped forward and yanked his spear from a raptor’s chest, golden light blazing from his body. “You will not have him!” he yelled defiantly.

That got some attention alright. One of the raptors lunged at him with claws and snapping teeth (sigma). Thael smashed it out of the air with his shield mid leap. A second (lambda) came in low from his other side, snapping at his legs, so Thael smashed the butt of his spear into its face. The third (Kappa) took advantage of his distraction, managing to wrap it’s jaw around his left leg. The combat armor buckled but did not break, and Thael grunted in pain as the crushing bite bruised his leg, but he didn’t slow down.

Then Freddy came smashing down from on high, hammer first into a raptor, a deafening shout washing over the rest of them and redirecting their attention away from Thael. Now that he had a second to breathe, Thael suddenly realized his mistake; he and Freddy had both impulsively rushed to help Aaron, but that left only Kimbo to hold the front line as the remaining raptors closed in.

[b]Summary:[/b]
Thael uses Sunspear for medium elemental damage on raptors Kappa, Lambda, Sigma, Omicron, Omega, and heavier physical damage to Omicron
Thael uses Guardian Leap to move to Aaron’s defence, drawing aggro from and dealing light elemental damage to raptors Kappa, Lambda, Sigma, Omicron, Omega
Thael takes light-medium phsyical damage from raptor Kappa