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The arrival of more Hunters and Huntresses in the fray gave Marina the opening she needed, and just in time - though her Anchor Semblance was quite powerful, she already felt her Aura levels draining precipitously from all the massive strikes she had taken from the Grimm's whip-like head tendril and its massive claws and arm spurs.  Unlike her heavy armor stance, the others in the fight were using agility and speed to stay out of the way of the creature's attacks, and they were doing an excellent job in keeping the creature unbalanced.  When one struck and danced away, the creature lashed out with a brutal attack - fortunately, none of these had struck.

So far, anyway...

[color=dodgerblue][i]I've got to get out of this close range - I'm just draining my Aura at this rate![/i][/color]

Marina dispelled her Semblance, and the sheen disappeared in a flash that, unfortunately, drew the creature's smoldering red eyes back to her.  But she pulled the trigger on Bedlam Flourish, and the grenade launcher fired a burst of flame that propelled her non-Anchored body away from the jagged elbow spur aimed for her head.  Mud splattered and hardened from the heat of her exit strategy as her feet slid backward across the ground, and she dug her blade point-first into the ground to slow herself down and steady herself on the slick mud.  She was now several feet away, out of range of the Grimm's attacks, but not vice-versa.

[color=dodgerblue]"Fire in the hole!"[/color] yelled Marina in warning to the others as she deployed Bedlam Flourish in full grenade launcher mode and opened up on the monster.  Each pull of the trigger caused the heavy weapon to spew a metal canister with slits that glowed from the explosive Dust contained inside.  The barrage she unleashed wasn't aimed with special precision - she didn't yet know if this creature had any real weak points, so she fired a spray of grenades that would explode in close proximity, if they didn't whack the creature outright before the explosives detonated.  The main care she took was to try to aim where the other Hunters and Huntresses wouldn't be so close that they got caught in the tight-yield blasts as well.