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[b]Thaum: Colosseum - Cage 3[/b]
[i]“Oh, wolves,”[/i] Lute had declared. [i]“A pack of them.”[/i]

Well, he sure was bang on the money. Somehow. Even Syed's wierd electroradar thing wasn't as accurate as that shit. Not that Moira was in the slightest bit fazed.

Wolves?

[i]Please.[/i]

One of them leapt for her, all glistening teeth and snapping jaws. Aria had mentioned something about aiming for one of the larger members of the pack, although the mention of old times made her pretty sure she wasn't talking to her. Unless by old times she meant the still fairly recent losing miserably to a bunch of oiled up ponces in a beachball game. Wait a minute other than the music guy weren't they all the same people here again?!

She swung her huge sword around, throwing it from one hand to the other before catching the wolf and dashing it across it's middle. Her grin widened as blood drops decorated the air in her wake.

"HEY!" Moira yelled, her eyes not leaving the wolves for a second. She stamped one foot out, every movement of hers while lacking entirely in grace was bursting with solidity and power. Turning, she span on her grounded foot and lashed out, her sword swinging out and striking another wolf as it leapt at Aria from behind. She may well have reacted in time, but Moira wasn't going to take the risk. "Think we need to thin 'em out a bit before you get any grand ideas, love!"

Another wolf leapt for her from behind, and at first Moira didn't even move. That was, until her eyes suddenly flicked to one side...

She span once more on her foot, before grasping the snapping wolf right out of the air by it's neck. Still holding her sword in her other hand, she threw the thing straight across the cage, it screaming all the while.

...Just as a much larger wolf took advantage of this opportunity, ramming into her and pushing her against the metal bars. She was winded, and although she brought her sword forward once more, she would never get the hit in before it got to her first...

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[i]"This was probably a bad idea, yeah?"[/i]

"A bad idea?! A BAD IDEA?!" Syed practically shreiked, his eyes wild with fear. "No kidding it was a bad bloody idea!!!"

His eyes were fixed on the wolf which had now cornered them both. Shimmering strings of saliva fell from it's sharp toothed maw. "They... they have fed them, right?" he said shakily as he began to slowly step backwards. He didn't fancy being some wolf's dinner.

The wolf continued to close down on them. Syed took the opportunity to swing his bat somewhat pathetically at the beast. He had no idea what he was doing at all!

The wolf responded by snatching the bat clean out of his hands and throwing it to the floor. Oh.

"Lucien, you're the funniest guy I've ever met," Syed said quickly. "It's been an honour, you know?"

His thumb repeatedly rubbed over the ring he still wore on his finger. It was taking all he could to suppress his magic with his mental state being like this. He could feel his own magical ability fighting against him, trying to get out and obey his desire for self-preservation. And here he was, trying to supress that! He could just cast now. He could disqualify the team, help end it quickly. That thought was the reason he still wore his focus, that pesky worst case senario his mind kept playing back. But...

But the others were relying on him. He clenched his fists. If he ended up getting injured badly enough he probably won't be able to help himself anymore, but he'll try his best. For the others who were fighting their hardest, for Amy and Selan who he knew were watching but daren't look to check, and for the heckling and booing crowds. The latter made him flush a bit though.

His eyes flicked to the bat, just a little behind the wolf. If Lucien could distract it he could pick it up again and... smack it a bit? He was pretty low on options here. Just as he opened his mouth to speak again however, another wolf leapt for them, it's tongue hanging out from between those razor sharp teeth.

Syed's expression became very much one of 'oh crap' as he flinched and attempted to dodge...