The creature was trying to grab for the cleric?  How crude.  As it's hand came toward her, she would swing her weapon down on it's wrist, attempting to sever the muscle  in some parts of it and make the claws inoperable.  While she was sure she could get a good chop down on it, she wasn't sure how dense the creature's arm was.  Unless she wanted to easily become some mangled mess, she couldn't leave the claw alone for long.  Her sailor-dressed vampire friend seemed to have right idea, trying to rip the creature's throat out with his sword.  "Julene, don't get yourself killed."  The cleric said back toward the human, seeing the beak trying to devour her.  "Especially not eaten."  She would say after slicing her axe out of the wrist she dug into and spinning around, allowing the momentum to carry her axe to deliver a blow to the neck of the creature.  From there, she spun once more on her feet, this time quickly raising her axe to once again deliver an blow to the creature's wrist.