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"Eint!" Sey cried, bowled over from the momentum and superior weight of the miners. Panic threatened, but she held on, scrambling madly away from her attackers. It would take several precious seconds for her Guardian to return, so the priestess kept to the defensive, keeping her own barriers alive, and definitely skirting away from the edge.

"Tch," Shouyin strapped the assault rifle to the harness on his back, pulling a handgun from the holster at his right hip. He pointed the pistol up in front as he ran towards the tree the musician had hid behind, left hand empty and hovering above his left breast in case he needed to draw his knife.

He'd aim to jump out in front of the flute-player, Hallowe'en "BOO!" style sorta thing. Except instead of boo he'd say "Freeze!" and hopefully get the guy to throw his hands in the air and s**t. He wasn't sure about that twister business though, which was why his left hand was empty, in case he needed to drop and form a barrier.

Hein's eyes fell now to the besieged white mage. So many of their own against one seemingly defenseless girl. Was it right to do that? It was easy enough to take down the seemingly lifeless behemoth that they had brought, but it was a different matter to kill a living, breathing soul.

Taking a deep breath, Hein closed his eyes for a moment as he notched another arrow to his bow, pulling back 'til it was at straining even against the thumb ring that he had on.

"...hesitation leads to mistakes...mistakes lead to death...death leads to despair. She's an enemy...nothing more, nothing less..."

Sighting down the shaft, Hein blinked just once. And in that moment, the entire area seemed to be covered in a thick brown smoke. Growling, his arm faltered for a moment before he shot the arrow, the bolt spinning through the air as it soared towards the defensive cleric, the arrow aimed at the cleric taking the life of two of the miners hacking away at her instead.

"Damn...I can't see a thing..."

Aiolos saw the man and instinctivly, blew a high stacatto note into his flute. Hopefully the gust of wind that went with it will knock him back, he couldn't be too sure. Then, a thick brown smoke surrounded the area and both him and his attacker were blinded. He blew a few more stacatto notes where he saw the man, hoping he'd get lucky, he grabbed the mage and ran the hell away from the tree.

Zen creeped along the parameter of the dam base, he moved from tree to tree observing the events going on at the dam base, "Where the hell did the others go?" Zen replied as he prepared a plan.

Blind faith

Sunstrike felt a shudder go through him, and his one eye widened as he saw Flare fall, and the two miners jumped onto his back, then everything went...brown?

There was a scream from the smoke and a cheer! They'd gotten him, they'd gotten the-...huh?

Dressed in a black hoodie, all they'd managed to kill was one of their own. Sunstrike had used the smokescreen to his own advantage alright.

Flare would feel arms catch her and hold her close.

"Yo!" There was a grin on Sun's face, even if that eye was worried.

"OSHI-- !" Shou cried out as he went a'sailing backwards. Hell was that? Guy blows a flute and he goes flying? He landed about as softly as one could in this kinda situation, tucking into a backwards roll as the area was flooded with smoke.

Can't catch a break with this business can I? He thought as he crouched down concentrating. He'd catch the sounds of Aiolos' retreat, the image of the musician forming in his mind in that crazy way it did with Sokugoku. If the gust did catch his gun, he was already putting it away, deciding it useless against a guy who could blow the bullets away. In exchange he pulled the knife at his breast out with his left hand, holding it with blade facing downwards as he made quick pursuit through the smoke.