[hider=Status]
Location: Behind the Prince
Health: Bad shape. Missing talon, exploded eye, and a dented crown with some missing teeth thrown in.
Inventory: XXX
Actions: Save Rin, take up the rear of the group.[/hider]

Whatever elixir that the nymph had given 9 tasted like the worst, most spoiled meat he had ever eaten. 9 however swallowed it down, a grunt of disgust quickly. Yet, the pain that flared across his body faded much faster than usual. So it couldn't be all that bad. With his good eye, 9 could see that the antlered one was much stronger than before, no doubt because of the actions of both the scaled one and himself. Satisfaction flooded through his veins as he succeeded in his blood born duty to protect. The yelling of the beef man shook 9 out of his thoughts as he warned of coming guards. How many, 9 didn't know as numbers were a concept that was a little odd for him to understand. To 9 there was only many or few, the sounds coming from the battle that waged on the other wall pointed to the former rather than the latter. 

Again rocked from his musing, 9 jumped into action as a guard attempted to impale the scaled one as it screeched at his second opponent. A little slower than he would have liked, 9 grabbed the pole that the guard would have used to end the scaled one's life and sheared the wood between his claws. Giving a growl, 9 raised his one good talon and brought it down with enough force to pierce through the cheap armor that the guard was armed with. However now the man was stuck on the end of his talon and rendered it useless, well almost. Several more men made it past the beef man and tried to end 9's life. Smacking the first with the man stuck on his talon, 9 moved to the second a little two slow and caused his weapon to stick itself in the mans former companion. Thankful for the temporary shield, 9 jabbed out with his clawed hand and embedded them inside the face of the guard in front of him. Placing his foot against the stuck man, 9 pushed him off of his talon and finally freed his main weapon. 

Giving a swift decapitation to the remaining soldier, 9 strained to get his message to the scaled one, "Fallow...9....Now." His message sent, 9 left the scaled one to make his decision and began his advancement behind the rest of the group.Quickly gazing at the stump of his old talon 9 knew that he would need to cocoon it soon, his eye would need one as well. Giving a grunt of annoyance, 9 realized that whatever was in the blue vial was now warring off and the pain began to seep back into his being, but 9 would rather be alone for the remainder of his days before he let another guard harm his new charges.