[h3]Pthumeru Yharnam layer, the Old Labyrinth[/h3]
[h3][color=darkred][B]Arrayah, the Black Blade[/B][/color][/h3]
Hissing and seething as she rumbled across the cavern floor, Arrayah relentlessly pursued Ophelia... though as Farren tiredly approached, Torquil and the Moonborn Hunter struggled back to their feet and Gerlinde came charging straight at her in a frontal assault, the monster slowed her pace to just be a little faster than Ophelia's own. Her azure eyes once again started darting from one Hunter to the next, and a low growl of frustration emerged from her inhuman throat. The window of opportunity she had created for herself by disabling all the other Hunters had closed; the time for disregarding everyone else to focus on the Holy Moonlight Sword had passed.

Gerlinde rushed past Ophelia in a full sprint, unfurling her saw cleaver as she went, only swerve left at the last moment before she would have collided with Arrayah. She slashed widely with her weapon, drawing blood... but then she abruptly felt her right arm catch on something, first halting her movement and then pulling her off her feet and backwards, along with their abominable adversary.
Arrayah's left hand had struck once again with blinding speed and closed its fingers around Gerlinde's forearm. Still growling and still pursuing Ophelia, she lifted the thrashing Huntress into the air by the arm, only for her thicker right arm to reach over and grab Gerlinde's left leg by the thigh, all while her thinner arm once again raised the Profane Abyssal Blade high above herself. Arrayah's right arm then pulled to the right and her left to the left, bringing Gerlinde into a stretched-out horizontal position... and blood gushed forth as claws dug into her arm and dragged across her flesh.