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On the other side of the arena stood the young prince Hikaru Kaikou, of the Higashi realm. He was calm, unimpressed, and above all he treated this juggernaut with the type of regal disdain that was only appropriate from someone of his class. Without a word he rolled the bow off of his shoulder and into his right hand, but did not draw an arrow.

"Kenji... miteiruka?" the boy said to himself quietly.

The boy drew one arrow from his back, knocked it calmly into the bow, and fired it precisely and without hesitation towards the dead center of the monolith.

Seeing as the area was enclosed, there was no natural wind present at all within it. Any significant movement of the air inside the arena would need to be precipitated by someone or something acting upon it... in the current situation, that was restricted to either the boy or the tree. The boy had done nothing to make big wind, and a subtle little gust would hardly be an effective countermeasure to an arrow from a longbow, especially in a distance of a little over a hundred feet.

The monolith was hardly a small target, all aiming issues put aside, missing it from that distance would be the equivalent of missing the broad side of a barn. If the vines reacted to swat it away, likely the arrow would pierce them and become lodged inside, at which point the boy would swiftly draw and fire another arrow, aimed at the exact same point.

The second arrow was intercepted by a vine. Immediately, a third was fired in exactly the same way, with exactly the same expressionless face upon the boy. Despite the terrible size and power of this juggernaut, there was not a doubt in his mind about the outcome.

Except that there was one small detail missing, one so insignificant in the face of the Juggernaut's heavy plodding that it likely went unnoticed just like everything else had... there was no snapping sound from the arrows that were broken. In fact, they were not broken at all... though Qwy probably had not noticed.

So far, two arrows had been lodged into the Embrace's defenses, and the third that went astray due to the wind was misdirected to a much smaller degree than Qwy might have hoped. With a target as large as the Embrace, lumbering closer and closer with each step, missing was quickly going from a simple chance to an impossibility.

The boy calmly drew his fourth arrow, as lightning quick as the first three, and fired again... once more aiming for that exact same point that the first two had.

With previous experience to draw from, it is a simple leap of logic to assume that the defenses Qwy would employ to stop it would involve whipping vines and gusts of wind... but neither seemed to serve. The vines would not stir, and the wind did not pick up... hardly what Qwy was expecting from his control of nature.

If Qwy could control the Embrace as if it were an extension of his own body, what he would be experiencing would be best described as a numbness. He couldn't feel that there was anything wrong, and he couldn't feel any resistance to what he was trying to do, so without any reason to think otherwise his subconscious just assumed that it was done. Like a surgery patient that had been anesthetized, the vines covering the Embrace simply refused to move even if he felt that he was moving them... likewise with the wind. Around the sides of it, and behind it, and in front of it the wind was raging... but there was an area immediately in front of it that was only feeling the push from air that had been set into motion somewhere else. Effectively, Qwy now had a 'dead zone'... or three of them.



The fourth arrow let fly, and like the three before it, it contained an anti-magic aura that would create a field of disruption when it impacted. Since the Embrace was hardly moving by non-magical means, the parts of it affected by this field would find themselves effectively paralyzed.

And, lo, Lil' Jon put his hand up to his ear and said: "WHUT?"