Meirin Kurenai
Meirin felt her spear sink into the Paich's softer underbelly. When she lifted the creature up, she noticed her spear failed to fully impale the monster. It's armored shell kept her weapon from breaking through even with a jumping stab, and now her spear was firmly stuck inside the monster. Fortunately Meirin had a dagger she could use to stab the Paich in the neck, but before she took her weapon out she noticed the female once trying to flee. Unable to get the Paich off quickly Meirin was just going to have to settle with her spear transforming into an improtuv hammer.
Using her improvised hammer to vaults herself a further distance, Meirin slammed her impaled Paich into the ground and jumped towards the fleeing female one. She intended to use the jump to bring her mate down onto her, harming and possibly killing both, hopefully. Or perhaps the force of Meirin swinging the little monster around would be enough to dislodge him a good distance away from her; either one would be fine with meirin.
The male shrieked in pain, blood oozing from its wound, and slipped over its belly. The beast curled inward while trying to claw into the spear head and get loose. It wiggled on the tip, suffering from the ache waving through its system, as Meirin rushed to the other side of the field. It was easy to see the holes due to the wind, their covers popped off then sent flying into the air. Slowly, however, Meirin would note her wind spell already starting to damp about two-thirds the way across it.
Already the female Paich was lowered gradually to the ground, her claws reaching for it before... Bam. She was cracked acrossed the back causing her to curl up immediately. The male, who had been bleeding, stopped moving when the impact hit. His figure still and clearly dead though his body was too far stuck on Meirin's weapon's end to now dislodge without some heavy push and tug.
On the other hand, the female's shell was perfectly intacted. Her large, bulky frame snapped down firmly as she waited out the likely wacking and smacking of the improvised hammer. Her shell could take the beating in the long run, refusing to move an inch or give Meirin a opening to kill her. Any attempt to pry the creature up would be foiled since the critter would hastily burrow again, the wind now died down, and vanish again.
Meirin's first strike was enough to kill the paich on her spear, this much she knew. But the female had gotten into a defensive position, making it nearly impossible for Meirin to deal a single deadly blow. If she had one of her flails she could crack through the armor, but she didn't have time for such things. While Leith and Summer were gone, Meirin worried that they might have gotten into some heavy trouble. She needed to get their help.
Knowing that the Paich was now taking the defensive, Meirin was confident she could escape without pursuit. Without the element of surprise on it's side she could elude the creature even if it did give chase. So meirin gave the last Paich some blows in order to ensure that it would continue it's defensive effort before running off in the direction Leith and Summer went. Hopefully she won't be too late.
Myrn Vaan'Atisha
Myrn was in a tight spot before the mysterious girl was able to deal with the ridge hound on her. Accepting her help getting up Myrn was about to introduce herself before even more ridge hounds showed up. "There's no end to these things! Lira, stay behind me!" Myrn readied her sword to meet the enemy. The Ridge Hounds lunged at her all at once, but Myrn was no stranger to fighting against pack tactics like this. The tip of her blade went to the Ridge hound on the outer edge of the group, stabbing it where it's eye would be if it had one. From there Myrn braced her front foot firmly on the ground before pivoting, slashing her blade from the ridge hound's eye, through another ridge hound's head, and across another Ridge Hound's face. At the same time it allowed Myrn to step out from the rest of the pack's charge. That killed three, leaving four more for Myrn to take care of.
Looking around Myrn had no weapons she could give Lira. Myrn was only good with her Dar'Missan, so it was all she carried. She would offer the girl her bow, but that would involve wasting precious seconds taking off her quiver. And while the Ridge Hounds were weak, they were fast; Myrn couldn't give her bow to Lira fast enough without getting overwhelmed by the monsters. Not helped by the fact that shortly after the ridge hound arrived, Aramir seemed to have shouted out that they needed to kill nagas now, followed by a ear-shattering roar. This gave Myrn quite a headache, but also stunned the Ridge Hounds. This would give Myrn the chance to throw her quivver and bow off her back, handing it to Lira. "Here is my bow and arrows. Use them!"
As the Ridge Hounds were still stunned, Myrn dashed forward, stomping on one with both feet. She shortly brought her blade into it's back, twisting it before pulling it out. She used an overhand strike to chop off the head of another, then positioned her blade to cut down one more. Her moves were done with speed and precision, despite being a great two-handed sword. As the last Ridge Hound was starting to recover from it's stunned state, Myrn held her blade low to the ground and charged. By the time it would have noticed her, she had brought the tip of her Dar'Missan onto the chin of the Ridge Hound, followed by the rest of the blade. Impaling the beast's skull, she put her weight downwards as she pulled her blade out, ripping the monster in twain and covering Myrn with it's blood. Seven beasts fell and Myrn suspected more were coming, so she had to be ready for them. Swiping the excess blood and flesh from her blade Myrn regrouped with the others, trying to figure out what to do next.