Since her diving in, the armored man had been grasped by the Shoggoth, and it seemed like there was no getting out. Therefore, Tomi began relaxing, but just as she was about the turn around and head for the rest of the battle, Gringor charged in yet again with his weapon ready to smash the knight's down. The gold dragon took a lazy step forward, hand out
"I don't think that's... she began before the axe found the target.
"Necessary..." she finished as her arm fell back alongside her body.
With a sigh Tomi turned around and noticed that all soldiers on the beach seemed to steer clear of them. While at first it seemed emboldening, she quickly came to realize why - as did the rest of the group. Tomi attempted to take flight, but stopped as she looked up to see the ships' artillery coming towards them.
"Oh...Gringor, was it? I think there's the 'more' you wanted..." Tomi still took flight, albeit not too high, in order to dodge the projectiles. She did so well enough, but missed one that was now coming straight at her. With little choice she flew at it and punched the fiery projectile to bits - but doing so sent her straight back down to the beach, on her back. They packed more of a punch than Tomi anticipated.
The gold dragon did not seem too hurried to get back on her feet...
I see you all didn’t have much trouble taking this fellow down! Glad to see you’re all still in one piece. As for him, perhaps he could be persuaded to give us some useful info? ” “Where’s Atsuha? Is she alright?”
Tomi recognized that voice. So, with a sigh and a grunt, she quickly got back up on her feet and got the sand off of her.
"You mean the giant spider lady coming at us...?" she answered, pointing at Atsuha as she came towards the group.
“This poor battered man…is a noble?”"...Is he?" Tomi launched herself gracefully and landed on the Jorōgumo's back, beside Takeshi, in a playful manner. She seemed to analyze him from head to toe, not unlike someone would analyze an animal they were about to take in as a pet.
"He's...cute." she concluded, sliding off of the spider's back. Too bad, she could have relaxed up there. That's when the next volley of artillery was about to crash on them. Just as Tomi was about to launch herself in the air again to catch one of them coming at the group, Shizuka acted first. In a graceful manner, the human sliced it in half. Tomi looked over at him with renewed interest - even though he was kind of annoying.
She would have flew in ahead, but since Atsuha went through all the trouble of casting the barrier and all, she dragon mamono figured it would be impolite to just ditch them. Thus, she went through the bothersome act of
running along with the group towards the woods.
