[b]Archer[/b]

Exactly as predicted, the chains did absolutely nothing to restrain the enormous beast, and the blonde's intervention had insured that they had no advantages against it--plus costing Saber an opportunity to wound the monster before it started moving. 

The tall man avoided the heat beams with a sort of effortless dexterity, keeping his eyes on the enemy and managing to work out where it was going to fry next in time to get out of the way. It wasn't the instinctive ability to dodge injury that Saber boasted, nor the even-further honed instincts of foes like the fake Assassin Medea summoned; it was a skill born entirely out of a lifetime of practice and fighting. Analysing even the wild movements of an alien dragon was simple compared to fighting against an enemy whose blows you couldn't even [i]see[/i].

However, even though he could dodge, Archer was highly doubtful that the schoolgirl and her pets would be able to avoid the danger. It came down to a choice--avoid the fire, or risk getting set ablaze in order to save the girl from injury. It wasn't a hard choice at all.

His plan was a simple one: the dragon's fire seemed to be empowered by absorbing the skeleton's fireballs. This meant that it couldn't be a merely organic process--and if it was magic, he actually had some recourse against it. Kanshou and Bakuya may have been amongst the weakest weapons in his arsenal, but they still had their abilities. The swords' primary power was one with no use in this situation: each blade would seek its twin. The other, however, was vastly more useful: when wielded together, the curved blades boasted a resistance to magic on par with Saber's own.

Standing himself between the dragon and the girl, Archer put the theory to the test: as the dragon's head swung this way, he positioned the blade in such a manner that it would defect the torrent towards the ceiling, handily dealing with falling stalactites in the process. If Saber saw, it should give her information to work with as well.

The blades held, and the fire was deflected.

[hider=Info]I asked the GM; the fire does count as magical because of Ghost Rider. So he didn't [i]totally[/i] fuck up.[/hider]

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[b]Nanoha[/b]

Had she been more prepared for the agility with which the previously immobile lizard had moved, Nanoha wouldn't have started to charge her attack--one that, even as the beast leapt into the air, was already halfway through being called out: "Diviiiiiiiiiiine..."

It was not the sort of thing that was easily cancelled, and Nanoha herself wasn't a speedy fighter--that would have been Fate's role. No, her emphasis was more on sheer offensive capability, which didn't lend itself towards escaping entirely undamaged from sudden and unexpected attacks. Fortunately, her laser was almost ready and as the dragon thing leapt to claw it entered straight into the firing path.

"... Buster!"

The pink laser wouldn't kill it, but it might knock it out. Certainly, it would have a hard time maintaining its forward momentum in the face of a pink laser beam that would go straight from girl to ground, destroying any scenery unfortunate enough to be in the way.