[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/5r7OTIh.png[/img] [b][color=Aquamarine]wordcount:[/color][/b] 1,108 (+6) [b][color=Aquamarine]Midna: level 7[/color][/b] EXP: [color=Aquamarine]/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////[/color]//////////// (61/70) [b][color=Aquamarine]Location:[/color][/b] Sandswept Sky - Train [/center] Midna dropped clear of the giga worm’s gaping wound just in time, because the others were hot on her heels, and with blade and bow and arrow, as nearly everyone took a turn at hacking away at the exposed spine. Near everyone. As the desperate assault went underway against the exposed spine Midna got a niggling feeling there was someone missing, and started to do a quick headcount. Most were joining in the attack, and they were easy to count but some still had work to do. Jesse and Tora where with the cannon, as was Big Band whom she shouted a [color=Aquamarine]”Thanks for the catch”[/color] to, because while she’d been flashily attacking their foe they’d almost lost the last of the ammo she had fetched. Also it turned out one of the types of shot she had brought didn’t even fit, which earned the train’s designer, whoever they were, a swift short barrage of insults from the princess. Thanks for preventing her mistake from being too costly and the discovery of a bit of incomprehensible engineering out of the way, she resumed her scan and realized who was missing: [color=Aquamarine]”Wait where’s Braum!?”[/color] she glanced this way and that, but the bare chested tower of muscle was nowhere to be found. Scowling, she reached out a shadow hand and summoned her Vibrava atop it, before instructing it [color=Aquamarine]”Big bald guy with the mustache and muscles. Spot him, then bring me to him!”[/color] she ordered, before hurling it up into the sky. It soared up high on wind and wing and then vanished into a portal, before appearing right back next to her, having got an excellent view from its sky high vantage point. It gave her a “Vi” before buzzing and skittering over to one side of the train and looking over the edge just as she had feared it would. [color=Aquamarine]”Oh no, Braum!”[/color] she called out in anguish as she scrambled over to the side and was met by an absurd sight. “Hello there princess!” the ever cheerful man from where he was clinging to the side of the train while standing atop his shield, which was surfing across the sand, called back, before adding “as fun as this is, you wouldn't mind lending me a hand, would you?” The princess stared for a few heartbeats that she really could not afford to waste and then snapped out of her amazement at this absurdity with an [color=Aquamarine]”Yes! Obviously!, on it!”[/color] before finding a railing and gripping it with her flesh arms to avoid her slipping off while the shadow hand reached out and grasped his arm tightly. [color=Aquamarine]”Grab onto my arm with your other and I’ll pull you up”[/color] “Just a second. I don’t want to lose shield” he told her to her utter astonishment [color=Aquamarine]”Are you mad?!”[/color] she demanded to know “Braum prefers brave,” he replied with a laugh, before letting go of the railing as she cried out in alarm. The hand on the arm she was holding clasped her arm in turn in one switch motion, while the other reached down and grasped the leading edge of the sand surfing shield (lifting it a bit so as to not have his fingers sandblasted to the bone) he surged backwards, only to yank to a stop as Minda found herself trailing is full wight to the side to the train. “Ha ha ha! Now this is exhilarating!” he called out as he tilted his weight to ride a touch away from the train before hitting a small dune and using it as a ramp to launch into the air. He did this just in time for Razputin to stick his finger in it and finally force the monster away, its absence dropping the train back to level and adding an extra yank alongside Midna’s panicked pulling that send Braum crashing down onto the metal deck just a hair's breadth away from the princess, sending the Vibrva who had watched all this skittering away in a panic while the Icebourn laughed merrily. “That was some ride! Thank you for the help, little princess” he told her, once he was done with his merriment [color=Aquamarine]”Yeah, well, now you owe me a ride back”[/color] she retorted, still clinging to the banister like a cat to a tree branch. “Do not worry, Braum never forgets what is owed” he reassured her before offering her a hand of his own to help her down from the banister, which she accepted with shaky limbs. She got an apologetic look from Braum for that, before he suddenly lightened up and hoisted her up and sat her down on his bare shoulder. [color=Aquamarine]”Hey what the big idea”[/color] she demanded to know “I give you ride” he said, brooking no argument on the matter before adding “Now come, let us go see how the battle fares” and moving to do so Back up onto the top of the train just in time to find out there was a junction, a discovery that was drowned out a moment or two later by the reemergence of the titan behind them, on the side that Braum had almost fallen off on. Exactly the wrong side, as the big gun was pointing the wrong way entirely. At range once more, it engaged its artillery, letting loose another shoal of flying things while hucking another big spiky ball at them too. This left precious little time to make direction decisions. [color=Aquamarine]”Anywhere there aren't people!”[/color] Midna shouted generally in response as to where to go, before making a split second decision and directing Braum to go for the ammo car. She was fairly sure that a bomb bug getting in there would be bad news. Braum jogged his way over and then leapt the last distance to land where he could stand with his mighty shield protecting the hole, while Midna peeked over the top of it and held her shadowhand high above them both ready to swat at any bugs or bombs that came close. As the wave of fliers came in, her vibrava skittered over to join them, leaping up with buzzing wings and landing on Braums other shoulder. From there it unleashed a stream of purple dragon fire while to either side of them Minda summoned her four chillfos to chuck their spears and Braum himself sent out a blast of cold to help thin the swarm before it was on top of them. As for the pod, well, all they could really do was hope it was dealt with by the shooters, and be ready to keep the racks of shells bomb bug free if any got through.