[img]http://i.imgur.com/2uDBgEK.png[/img] [b][u]Thaum? – Coliseum[/u][/b] The clash of steel on steel propelled Estelle backwards, her feet skidding across the ground to a stop in front of Selan, her teeth gritted tight and fiery eyes borne towards the wolf attacking her. As Lute charged forwards against the wildcat, Estelle had stood her ground to help protect Selan and Dylan within the relative safety of the other three barred walls of their cage, but she hadn’t expected the wolf, Simon, to be as powerful or quick as he was. His speed and sword swing was enough to force Estelle flying back, almost crashing into the songstress. She quickly turned around to look over her shoulder, to make sure that she was alright. And she was uninjured at least, and mobile, pressed against the far wall as she was, but even then… “Dylan,” Estelle called to the Matter Artist, flicking her head up. “Give back up to Xan and Lute. I’ve got this brute taken care of.” She then turned her head to smile to Xandra, who returned her attention. “You can take care of that bear with Dylan’s help, right?” The metallurgist didn’t say anything but nod, moving forwards to the cage’s exit, as Simon, who had stomped into the cage by now, moved to intercept her escape with another swift swing of his preposterously sized sword. Only for this him to be countered this time with the sudden appearance of Estelle, swinging her Flameblade against him, parrying his sword and pushing him backwards and off his feet, back out of the cage, to skid beside the casually walking hammer wielding bear (was that the thing that had attacked Atlas?). Estelle walked besides Xandra out of the cage, as Dylan covered up the rear in-between them and Selan. Estelle’s arm swung her sword up and down as if warming her muscles up, with the blade itself following suit as it ignited into flame. At the same time, Xandra’s own prosthetic limb began to change shape and integrity with the two girls assuming fighting stances together. “Make a bet on who wins first?” Estelle grinned towards Xandra. --- [img]http://i.imgur.com/QLodCtj.png[/img] [b][u]Thaum? - Bugtanical Gardens[/u][/b] Within no time at all, the Gardens had become infested with a swarm of giant insects all looking to catch the most interesting of specimens in order to win their contest's grand prize. First with Trixie's leech friend Leggy chasing and swinging his mass of mace nets at them, and then followed by seemingly [i]hundreds[/i] of bugs all pursuing them with a wide variety of poles, nets, maces, hammers and flamethrowers. This really wasn't their day. "Well that's cool, I guess you guys got to rewrite the rules and stuff. Yeah. That's, um," Trixie gulped, "That's cool. Hey Superbro, can you do that thing where you pick us up and start running again?" In compliance, Trixie's wrist was snatched again and the group were forced to run once more, with Kapi's cushioned behind bouncing up and down and slapping Don in the face, as [url=http://www.animaatjes.nl/anime/anime/one-piece/animaatjes-one-piece-38347.gif]his agonising scream[/url] continued on long into the garden. The oblivious fool not realising that it was what helped keep the bugs chasing after them, as well as draw the attention of even more constantly following them. Hell. It was pure hell.