The beast headed for Noru quickly side-stepped the arcane spines and tackled him from the side. He was pinned to the ground and forced to let go of Neale on impact. But even pinned, he pushed his hands into the base of the creature's neck, firmly grasping at its base as it snapped wildly and flung saliva across his face. Flin's follow up shards pierced a few inches into the side of the creature's torso, but it seemed to have no regard for its own safety and continue with reckless abandon towards the dark haired medic's neckline.

	Neale's body began to slide out of Centaurus' collective grip immediately after Noru released him. With one final tug, he was ripped from Pyra and Flin and pulled away towards the foothills. But the sudden flurry of teeth that impaled its back leg ground the creature to a halt. It still moved, unwilling to surrender its meal, but only in small backward hops as it turned away from the Caravan. The beast immediately to Pyra's side however, one that he'd previously disarmed with a well placed rock, bared its seemingly endless supply of teeth with a high pitched whine and launched itself towards the Eldi, knocking him over and standing over the man with blood dripping from its maw. How the hell was this thing still alive after Captain Copp's attack? New teeth quickly began to emerge from where Pyra had crushed them, popping out the old roots with brand new razor sharp white spines. But before it could move in for the kill, the creature lurched to the left. One of Lyullia's javelins had gone astray, and planted itself firmly in the creature's rightmost front leg.

	Noru was still in peril, shifting his hands constantly to keep his face from being torn to shreds. But suddenly his efforts became far less difficult. The monstrous canine began to weaken, and Noru was easily able to hold it up. That's when he noticed a metal rod piercing through the back of the monster's throat. He looked up and quickly shoved the corpse off of his body.

	Zay noted the progress in an instant, shifting his attention towards Neale. He fired another spike towards the beast, and twisted his hand to maneuver it carefully towards one of its eyes. this time it pierced straight through to its brain. With a quick snap of his fingers, Zay proceeded to detonate his little toy, sending shards of silver rocketing out of the creature's skull in a fashion that left Neale unharmed. Its fur and flesh were shredded and mangled, but Zay's attack did not fully remove its head. But it only took one look to assure that Neale's kidnapper was most certainly [i]dead[/i] as a result.