Nikolaus dives to catch Amaryllis before she falls, he plows face-first into the ground, and Amaryllis lands on his back, "Oof!".

He quickly pushes Amaryllis off before continuing to do battle with the 'Harpy'. The Harpy quickly goes at Nikolaus, and they exchange blows; the Harpy's first strike is thwarted by Nik's second shot, parrying the blow. Nik plunges one of his Knuckle-daggers into the creatures torso, ripping out a small amount of organs and bodily fluids, the smell makes everyone relatively close-by want to puke.  The Beast tries to slash at Nikolaus, but he deftly manages to lessen the blow, just enough. "Help me, dammit!" he lets out as he barely manages to stop two more strikes.

At the second, the dagger he's using is broken in half, and a wound is on his hand, an amount of the Harpy's bile slowly seeping into it. Nikolaus jumps backwards and clutches his right hand as he realizes this. He carries on, grabbing his other dagger. Gun in one hand, blade in the other, he dodges a hay-maker from the Harpy and goes in to shoot it in the face, before parrying another light stab from the Harpy. Amaryllis can just tell the Infected is going to use this opportunity to just kick him.

Alexander's newfound Ironback familiar freaks out as a disgusting new smell reveals itself, images of bountiful rotting carcasses flood his mind. It's obvious the 'little' guy is looking forwards to eating whatever that scent is, and is very willing to fight for it. Alexander can also hear a faint "Help me, dammit!", from the direction the smell seems to be coming from.