Rikive stared at the vampire as she clawed with panicked desperation at the bark of tree she clung too. It was...an oddly amusing sight. Seeing the overly confident creature of darkness reduced to a scrambling coward was satisfying to say the least. Shame the hunter wasn't here to see this, he would have gotten some enjoyment out of it.

Rikive rubbed her hand over her mouth to hide her grin and stepped closer to the terrified vampire. "I'm fairly certain that all of this," Rikive waved her hand around them. "Is fake. Which means," she pointed to the sunlight shining innocently through the canopy. "That sun is fake as well. So you're safe, alright?" Likely that wouldn't be enough to get her to leave the 'safety' of the tree so Rikive took a step back.

"Here." She pulled Winterthorn from it's sheath and in a cloud of smoke the sheath transformed into her shield. Rikive stabbed Winterthorn into the ground and removed the shield from her arm. The demi-goddess held out the shield for her 'companion' and raised her eyebrows. "Hold this over your head for shade, we need to start moving and looking for the others. Now if we're lucky, I'll be able to hear them somewhere in all of this, but that's going to be hard if you're screeching like-" Rikive cut herself off as a sound reached her ears. "Ssh." She held up her finger to her lips to signal Kaori to be quiet.

In the distance she heard a dull thump. Shortly after the first one, there was a second one. There was a rhythm to them, one she had heard before a few centuries ago. "We need to go. [i]Now.[/i]" Rikive yanked her sword out of the ground, gripping it tight while her eyes scanned their surroundings. "So pull it together. We've got big trouble coming our way."