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Holly was glad to see that the others were still attacking the dragon, putting the pressure on the great beast. She continually applied momentum to herself to hold herself in the air and continue her flurry of attacks projected down onto the dragon's neck to deal damage to the beast. She saw it try to lift it's head to go for her but it was brought back down, and so she remained in position to damage the dragon's neck. She quickly saw that the blood pouring from the wound was being used by Lavinia for her own attacks, and so Holly did not cease; the more, the better.

Holly let the momentum cease on herself, and brought her sword up, letting it swing down as she fell toward the ground. This sent a larger attack toward the dragon, cutting into it's neck deep and letting more blood spill out for Lavinia to use, which was then promptly used to eliminate the dragon entirely by sending spears of the blood into the dragon's skull and presumably into it's brain. Holly waited, just for a moment, to see if the attack had managed to kill it, and then relaxed as she saw the dragon stop moving entirely. A few moments more, and Holly was comfortable enough to slip Shadowbane back into it's sheath and let out a heavy sigh of relief.

Her hand fell back to her sword, however, when she saw that the dragon was starting to glow a little. Once it started to break apart, Holly removed her hand from her sword once more, instead crossing her arms confidently and watching it fade away into blue particles that glowed as they drifted away. She kept her eyes on the dragon even as Grasidia congratulated her, giving the other S-Class a nod of the head and a thank you as a reply. Onlookers might have thought she expected the dragon to suddenly jump up in some final death charge, but those who knew her a little bit better might have been able to tell that she was lost in thought - and not just about the dragon or the particles that were drifting away.

Fenixtear had slain a dragon. Though, Holly doubted that it was a real one. Not by the way it disintegrated like that - she definitely hadn't read or heard anything about dragons doing [i]that[/i]. The way it did so didn't make Holly think of a real, living creature that had died before her, but a shade, a phantom. It brought back painful memories of Crystal Shadow, and how they would fake real situations just for the income, how they lied. Slowly, Holly began to walk, making her way to where the jaw of the dragon was just starting to fade away, and stood there as it disintegrated before her. It was a little saddening to her, as if she was caught up in the same lie that she was once before. She refused to let it grasp her once more, though. Instead, she was going to take advantage of it, just the way that Torys wanted them to.

Fenixtear had slain a dragon. The citizens of Era would know it, and soon, word would spread around. The public didn't need to know that this could have been some kind of fake, some kind of false danger, because it definitely was not that. The dragon had done some serious damage, harmed everything that it interacted with from buildings to people. And now, it was deceased, eliminated, and the public was safe again. People were going to know that Fenixtear was a guild that they could rely on. It was going to grow in publicity, and people were going to look up to them.

Fenixtear had slain a dragon. That was something to be proud of. But somehow, Holly still felt saddened by the way it reminded her of her past.