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interesting, lets play then. Sara would say tilting her head and raising and eyebrow as she raised her weapon onto her shoulder and pulled out some cacti trying to get the beast to eat as she began bouncing left and right just incase she would need to jump out of the way off this attack. This beast would be a useful ride it's size would help with predators and it's speed was impressive to say the least killing this animal would bring sara no joy. Though if the beast continued with it's attack sara would attempt to dodge to the right then jump up and on too the beast back stabbing it with her axe and using it too hold on and simply ride the beast till it knew who was boss.

The Rhenoplos would end up clipping Sara as she attempted to jump out of the way, even with the increase in strength and likewise leaping with that added strength she was still much slower than the beast and would suffer accordingly her left side being smack into with C-rank strength. Luckily the damage wouldn't harm her thanks to her armor cushioning it but multiple hits would only end up resulting in her injury. The Rhenoplos wouldn't slow down until it was about ten feet away from her before stopping and would turn around slowly looking for the woman before it would begin to paw the ground watching her. It wouldn't watch for long however and would jump forward and would attempt to smash down on her body with it's head going in first followed by the rest of it's massive body.

Once she recovered from being hit sara jolted up not feeling much damage thanks to her new armor, As the beast began stomping Sara would mimic the beast stomping her left foott on the ground during this she would stick her blade handle somewhat into the ground and stare down the beast. Once the creature lunged forward sara leaned back flinging both her feet upward while sending up a cloud off sand which would hopefully blind the beast as sara landed on the ground her blade still stuck in the ground with it pointed at a angle so that the beast would fall directly into it.

The Rhenoplos would get sand in it's eyes thankfully it was adapted to this specific purpose as it had two eyelids one which acted as a filter for it's actual eyes while being transparent enough for it to see, so when the sand got onto it's eyes it wasn't as blind as one would normally assume. It would land head first on the blade however it would result in the weapon being pushed all the way down to half of the ax blade. It would roar in slight annoyance as it was slightly cut on it's forehead but Rhenoplos had rather durable skulls, as well as other body parts as they were covered in hardened plates of skin for that particular purpose, an evolutionary adaptation for the specific purpose of being resilient to being preyed upon. It would shake off the injury before turning before charging again at Sara's position attempting to ram into her and trample on her body while pushing her into the sand once again using it's strength to propel itself forward with the force of a truck.

The dam bitch pushed her new weapon into the ground and to put matters worse it simply shriggr off the slice leaving sara in bind. This thing was strong very strong, Sara would quickly pull her weapon from the ground and stand up just as the creature turned around after shaking off the small cut too it's head. Sara would scan the area for anything useful then take off too her left running in zig zags. Hopefully she would find someone soon. But for the moment running was her only option. If she happened to find something useful while running she would pick it up while switching between zig zags.

Eon nodded and was about to follow down when he suddenly felt like eyes were on him. He looked around once more and in the distance saw a dustcloud trailing straight for their direction. He drew his gun and pointed it at the dust cloud. If it was the beast and had managed to follow them here then it had already caught their scent and they may not be able to get away in time. But the child had wings, so why was it creating a dust cloud? Couldn't the mother fly? "Quelque chose arrive. Son parcours semble venir tout droit vers nous. Je ne peux pas dire ce que c'est bien."

The Rhenoplos would continue running in a straight line seeing as her target was running in zig-zags, thumping in the distance only reassured that this threat would be eliminated as her children seemed to pick up on the fact that their mom was chasing away something and the five of them would follow suit coming from the south from the small oasis that they were drinking from. It was a sort of sense Rhenoplos had having to deal with feeling the vibrations in the ground that alerted them to danger, of course Barioth had adapted flight as a counter but still it was useful for survival as most of their predators were land based. Then again most creatures living in the desert relied on vibrations to sense prey and predator very few, Barioth being one of them actually relied on the others due to sandstorms being prevalent in the area ruining most other sensory organ's stimulus detection.

Dominique would pause before climbing up quickly and would pull her self back to where Eon was, she wouldn't say anything rather she would pull out her crossbow and would use her free hand to kiss the blood totem while muttering something. If it was an adult Barioth then, they were fucked, no they weren't just fucked they were anally fucked, because she knew by herself there was no way should handle one not in a million years, he seemed okay but two people meant two targets and barioth were monsters. She hoped, no prayed it wasn't the mother, she would fight to her last breath of course because running wasn't an option when it came to clashing with one of them. They could run, fly and trying to climb when a Barioth was trying to chase you was like being a sitting duck just waiting for a shark to fly out of the water and swallow you whole. Her crossbow was of course loaded and she would look into the scope at the moment merely seeing nothing but a dust cloud..which wasn't good. Why was the Barioth running though, not saying it wasn't good at it, honestly Barioth were much faster on the ground but still.

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Sara was running and i mean running, the creature currently chasing her was something else the speed of it was amazing and the strength was comparable in superiority. She would have to find a way to defeat it cause as shs looked back she would notice more of the things showing up and following suit, though the newcomers were smaller sara gave a scoff in annoyment before pulling her weapon of her back and twirling it in one hand even with the size she was getting a feel for the weapon she could not afford to be sloppy this was life or death...war situations were something Sara knew all to well.


The sand was hot and the air was hot, Sara was begininng to sweat but was keeping up her pace for as long as possible she seemed to see something in the distance a glare of some sort as if coming off of glass, though the desert caused many illusions. However she would have to pray that she would find someone that could help or at least someone she could ditch the things on. "If their is a god in all things natural, please help me now....please..." she was talking to herself not a very good sign. She would shake her head trying to regain her remaints of sanity everything was abnormal further more how would she explain her body currenlty exploding with muslces if she did find help...

Eon looked at the dust cloud then back at the girl then the drop. A plan beginning to form. He moved down ten feet and looked at her. "J'ai un plan. Prenez la corde et de venir ici. Quand je donne le signal que nous sursauter. Quoi qu'il en soit, il semble voyager par voie terrestre. Avec la vitesse, il va et ce sable mou, nous pouvons l'attirer vers le bord. Prions il ne peut pas voler," he said as he begun to kick up sand all around him to make it less stable. If they timed this right they could lure the beast to its death. He just really hoped whatever it was couldn't fly. He decided it best not to run, this thing was moving too fast to be tracking. So it had to be chasing someone or something. And seeing as its path was straight their way they would just get caught up in the chase.

Je vois, et dans le cas où il peut, nous serons assis canards .. sur la paroi rocheuse, si nous faisons sauter il faudrait descendre à la plaine ci-dessous dès que possible. Ce n'est pas que profondes au moins trente mètres, mais si nous avons affaire avec le chat dragon nous aurions pris hors avant que nous puissions y arriver. Dominique said while moving closer to him and then grabbing on to the rope with her right hand having moved her crossbow into her left and was still holding it steady. Her face was tense as she realized that depending on what they were dealing with they could very well die right here, right now it wasn't something that one wanted to look forward to not at all. To think this would be her luck right after finding another person..honestly it would seem that Blood was testing her, yes that had to be it, Blood was testing her faith and her ability to survive with his blessings...she would not disappoint.

Il ya une personne, c'est une femme que je peux la voir à travers la lunette. Elle pourchassé par un petit troupeau, nous devons la sauver. Dominique said when she looked into the scope merely to check what it was and she would exhale in relief as while those rhino-triceratops things were dangerous they were herbivores and merely territorial rather than actually looking to kill someone.

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The Rhenoplos herd continued running there immediate focus primarily being on trampling the person who had invaded the herds territory, while durable and strong they weren't all that smart, and kind of had a one track mind. Quite similar to what they eventually descended from anyways, the Rhino, which was extinct but they were far superior in terms of durability and sheer strength, then again their brains hadn't grown all that much so they still suffered the charge until you forget why exactly you are charging in the first place mentality. But then again they weren't...that stupid they just had very poor anger management problems especially the bigger they got.

Sara would give a sigh as she could now clearly see two people a male and female. However she was still being chased it put her mind at ease to see they also had weapons off their own, Heyyyyy!!!! Coporal Sara Gakido of the US of A as she made it too the two she would stop and look over them both before giving the girl a wink before tilting her head to look at the cliff behind the two and turning to face the charging beast and giving a stomp as she flexed her currently enlarged muscle's waiting. She would move at the last minute, forcing the beast to fall over the cliff side and hopefully to it's death. She would have to deal with the babys another way albeit they wers dangerous simply budding dangers she could mold to help her through this world.

"Préparez-vous ... Maintenant!" said Eon just as the girl came within five feet of them, the beast quickly on their tail. He felt a tug in his gut then suddenly his gun glowed slightly as he pulled the trigger. He had aimed at the beasts head as it was just a few feet away. The bullet that left his chamber quickly expanded into a cannonball. As he shot he jumped backward, grabbing onto the rope and launching himself off the edge. If his plan worked and then other two followed suit, they would go swinging to the opposite side thanks to the angle they had jumped. Eon braced himself for the impact against the stone as well. And if his distraction worked then hopefully the explosion from his cannonball would momentarilly daze the beast allowing it to slip on the loose sand he had kicked up and cause it to slide off the edge.

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Dominique would narrow her eyes when the filthy american had the gall to wink in this situation and she would jump back while grabbing the rope along with Eon and watching as he tapped into his God given power to try and attack the beast. It would continue onward not stopping with the clear semi-transparent cannonball hurting it, that was odd her own were either bright green or the comprised of blood. Perhaps everyone was different, but now wasn't the time to think of that, as she saw the beast fall about 3 stories before hitting the ground on it's back and crying out in agony. The babies would all attempt to slow down one of them being unable to and flying all the way off and landing on it's feet, and crumpling on them a second one ended up being pushed off by a third one using it to stop and it would land face first it's body slumping to the floor while the remaining two would manage to stop themselves and turn facing the only human in sight, namely Sara.

La mère est encore en vie, mais injuried, les deux qui sont tombé gravement blessé, il est étonnant que quelque chose pourrait même survivre à une chute comme ça. Ils sont vraiment conçus pour prendre la peine, non? Dominique said with a small chuckle before she would look down and up and think of the options currently available to them. Below they had three injured creatures and above they had three healthy one's and one...american who ended up bringing them to them. They could...help her, or they could continue on downward and leave her up there however she was originally inclined to help because she was a girl like her, now that she knew where she was from..not really. Vers le haut, pour sauver l'américain stupide ou vers le bas pour enlever ceux qui sont tombés.

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The mother was currently in pain her entire side was throbbing from the landing even her tough body was hard pressed to just recover from a fall like that so she would continue laying like that to hard pressed to even try and get up at the moment. The young who landed on his face was the oldest and had broken his neck not dying..luckily but his entire lower body was paralyzed, the one who landed on her back was the second oldest and her lower body was paralyzed and she would cry out in pain pitifully. T

The one's who had been lucky enough to not fall had the one who ended up pushing the oldest one off the youngest merely looking over at the state of the others and crying out sadly. While her twin brothers were furious and one would attempt to use it's head to bash the human off the side of the cliff like his mother had fallen. The other one was watching to see if she would dodge seeing as it was cliff to the right and sand to the left if she did it would attempt to march forward to trample her not running of course but still trying to use it's bulk to hurt her.

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Sara would give chuckle as she looked down too see the fallen family they would make a good meal for later but not all of them, She would turn to the baby currently aimed at ramming her and would scream pushing the beast away and attempting to tame the beast which were still alive. After the scream Sara would move to the beast that had aimed to ram her and would hold it down with the tip off her weapon looking to see if her tactic worked if it did not work she would lift her hand and swing down at the babys head with her axe until it died. If she managed to tame the beast however she would remain alert and move to get a look at the momma before beginning to make way down to try to get better look at current state of the group.

Eon felt a sharp pain in his chest as he heard the yells of the creatures. Their cries ripped deep into his heart. He closed his eyes for a moment then looked at Dominique. "Aller l'aider. Ne tuez pas les jeunes. Juste obtenir son sur le bord et me rencontrer au fond." Eon would then climb down as quickly as possible before walking over to the mother, keeping a decent distance from her horns. "Silentium magnum, puella. Manere et requiescere. Paenitet me quod feci. Spondeo finem dolor, sed se ipsum curare debet, ut possis," Eon spoke in the ancient language, Latin. He didn't think the beast could understand him but hopefully it understood his tone and feelings. He was sad it had come to this. It was his own plan that had led to this. Hopefully the mother would understand his feeling for reconcile.

He pulled out his gun and turned his back to the mother as he walked over to the damaged kids. He still spoke to her though. "Doleo. Me si queas Nescio. Sed doleo. Sine ut conciliarem et filii vestri vobiscum donec dicam bene curare," he spoke before holding his gun right at the eyes of the first baby. He couldn't look it in the eye when he pulled the trigger, the bang echoing across the area. He would then move on to the other damaged baby and do the same to it. After then deed was done Eon holstered his gun and closed his eyes, a fresh tear falling from his eyes. "Sleep. Let the world of dreams be your guide to a peaceful afterlife."

Bien, mais je ne pense pas que c'est moi que vous devriez dire que. Dominique said before climbing back up and watching as the other woman roared at the creatures coming after her, the one looking over the edge would flinch and would cry pitifully as it was rather afraid while the one attempting to bash her would be intimidated as well but wouldn't stop instead impacting the weapon as well as Sara and would launch her and itself off the cliff face. The last one would turn tail and simply flee as it was terrified and would charge off into the distance. The mother would shudder before getting up slowly and painfully and would paw the ground as the human spoke to her, she wouldn't move however and when she saw him kill her young she understood why he did it, she wasn't stupid but she did blame the humans for her babies death. For that specific reason once he was done finishing off her babies she would roar before charging at him with D-rank strength her injuries proving to hinder her a bit however out of no where a ball of lava would move an impact her body causing her to roar in a mixture of pain and terror and slump to the side as half of her body melted and was set ablaze.

Standing about 20 feet away was a teenager probably around 15 who was leaning against a wall apparently he was sleeping peacefully before the impacts woke him up and was now glaring warily at Eon just above his other hand was a ball of lava probably about the size of a bowling ball and he kept it ready in case Eon tried anything funny. The fuck man. he said as he looked above and saw another person and a creature both falling to the ground but he made no effort to even bother to help as he was too shocked by the events.

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Dominique was at a loss...she was send to help bring the woman down but it seems like Blood had another plan for her and she was now falling to the ground due to her own foolishness. Rather there was a creature rooted in place and she would look down to see Eon about to get trampled by the larger rhino-triceratops only to have another person get involved. She would aim her crossbow at this new arrival noting that the last creature didn't seem to want to get involved at all and would wait a bit before calling out. Eon! Tout va bien?!

Sara would gasp as the baby smashed into her weapon causing the two too fal off the cliff side everything seemed to slow as Sara flung mid air before grabbing the baby beast and holding it close with her free hand her other still gripping her weapon before sara flung her arm up to try and catch the edge off the cliff and possibly stop herself from falling howevew if that did not work she would take the full force of the fall holding the beast to protect it. Sara noticed the momma being burned but she could not catch exactly what it was or get view of the creator, the girl was shouting in french obviously at the male she was with but without knowing the language it all was babble which rattled ones mind.

Eon turned quickly when he heard the roar but it was over before it had began. He quickly looked from the smoldering body then to the boy who spoke english. When Dominique shouted out to him he held up his hand in a gesture to wait, often done in the military. He then observed the new male with caution. At least he didn't need to translate whathe was saying. "Umm. Thanks for the save," he would say as he held his gun loose around his hand to show he wasn't meant to be a threat. "If it is alright with you, may I call my friend down so she isn't out in then open? There is a flying cat creature in the area and once she finds her baby dead she won't be happy. And she just might come here following the smell of fresh meat..."

Flying cat creature you say, I see, well you can call her down and just keep walking, I don't want your shit to come bearing down on me. Ugh now I have to move fucking camp because of you three idiots. the boy said still not putting away the ball of lava floating above his hand. Meanwhile Sara would be unable to grab onto the ledge mainly because she was being hit with the creature and it was big enough to prove impossible for her to merely reach past it and grab onto something. The two would fall and seeing as she held onto it, rather than attempting to climb on it's body so that she wasn't under it they would land her on her back while the creature on it's head, the only thing between it and the ground being her body. Her injuries of course would severe seeing as she landed on her back with a creature of considerable weight even as a baby landing on top of her head first. While she wasn't crushed multiple bones in her chest and hips were broken and likewise internal bleeding was another factor, if she wasn't healed immediately she wouldn't last very long before bleeding out and dying. The Rhenoplos would sustain a concussion most of the shock being absorbed by the body below it and it would fall on its side knocked unconscious but other than some neck trauma it was fine.

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Dominique stayed put, she had seen the demise of the woman and now they had another person to deal with who seemed to be aiming at Eon, she didn't want to fire first and start a problem but at the same time she didn't want her companion for the moment to die. She wouldn't risk her neck but at the same time she wouldn't just stand around if he was attacked as she knew if he was then she probably would be as well and it was better a two vs one than the alternative. She would wait mainly because she needed Eon to ascertain whether it was safe for her to come down or should she still stand guard. She knew that if she tried going down she wouldn't be able to aim at the boy and it would leave her vulnerable so if she was going to go down she needed to know that someone was at least watching her back.

Sara would cough on the ground her head falling over too get a view off the group off people talking, hopefully they would have chance in this world unlike sara who quickly perished. She could feel herself bleeding and the pain only grew as her muscle began to reform down to their regular size showing she was done for. The beast however she was not sure if it survived she simply faded away shutting her eyes and giving a small sigh. Hopefully she would at least go too heaven or something and see her family.

Eon heard the crash from the two falling and looked over, his eyes widening. Things had seemed to be picking up, and now someone was dying on them. He bit his lip and quickly turned to the guy again. "Thank you. We will finish up here and then move on. We do not wish to cause you anymore trouble," said Eon as he waved at Dominique to come down before running over to the girl that had been severely injured. He couldn't believe that the fresh fighting life had just been extinguished so easily. This world was more dangerous than he had assumed. He looked at the corpses and then at the unconscious beast. He pointed his gun at the creatures eye and felt another tug in his gut, firing out a cyan bullet at the beasts eye to kill it.

"Est-il possible que nous pouvons la sauver?" he called up to Dominique as he squatted next to the girl once again to feel her body, feeling multiple ribs had been broken, and judging from the blood in her mouth and the fading of her eyes she was quickly drowning from internal bleeding. He was starting to feel useless. Surely there was something around here they could use to save this girl.

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Les rhinocéros seraient de vécu, la jeune fille, pas tellement. Dominique said once she decided to come down the climb only taking a few moments she would stop by Eon before looking at the other guy briefly and then crouching down next to the girl. Son arme si c'est quelque chose que je veux. she said before walking over to the switch-ax and picking it up before placing it on her back weapon harness while relocating her crossbow to her hip. Voulez-vous l'enterrer? she said once she was satisfied with her new weapon and would look back towards Eon, she wasn't all that bothered by the death she had seen people die before. Given the situation it was sad she did die to something like that but Dominique was no medic, manipulating blood was all she could do.

Yeah..yeah well hurry it up. I was having a nice nap and you went and ruined it. The boy said before looking around the rock face before scowling and laying back down in his spot the ball of lava disappearing now that he knew they weren't going to attack him or anything of the sort.

Eon bit his lip again and shook his head to her question of bury. The dirt would not be god enough, as this seemed to be mostly rocky terrain. Not to mention they still needed to move. He looked at Dominique and spoke as he began removing Sara's armor so it would not go to waste. Nous devons recueillir de la nourriture de ces créatures et peut-être tenter de prendre leur cachette avant de passer," he said before looking back at the male. He picked up the battle axe and held it out to the lava boy. "This and some meat from the beasts. Take it as a thank you for allowing us safe passage. No doubt your lava could have finished us quickly."

Hey! Je voulais la hache Dominique said snatching the ax from Eon and glaring at him, no giving away what she wanted not cool. She would spit on the ground in annoyance before kicking one of the Rhenoplos. Sauf si vous avez des moyens de préserver ce à quoi ça sert? she said while looking at Eon slightly annoyed mainly because he had tried to give away the weapon she wanted. The boy on the other hand would laugh at their antics before sneering as he heard Eon's comment.

Could of? Seriously if you guys don't leave it's not going to be a could of it's going to be a will do. So get going before I change my mind and melt both of you like I did that Rhenoplos. he said his voice getting deadly serious as he sat up and looked at both of them coldly, didn't they understand he had no interest in talking with them. Of course if they kept pestering him he had no problem with killing them and taking their equips, not to mention they had been so kind to kill these Rhenoplos for him, and now they wanted to stick around and harvest it..no happening.