James now felt his arm being tugged on and dropped his sword from the sudden jarring of his shoulder. He cried out as it felt like his arm was going to be torn clean off when he opened his eyes, pure anger in them. Bringing his left arm up he grabbed onto the tail of the creature and using his higher than average strength to grab hold of the tail and crush it in his grasp. Now the creature would have maybe half his tail left, with the other half still wrapped around James' arm.
Of course now he went straight into the shadow sinkhole, but at least he still had his limbs! The arrow which had been aimed at the sinkhole now thudded into his buckler as he fell straight in as well.
The red rune on his blade also now glowed and his sword went flying into the shadow hole after him.