It might not come as a surprise to him, but the last thing Sheena expects is for Zelos to take a hit for her.
She punches a tall blade right in the face, her cards amplifying it from a melee attack into something that leaves them dazed and slows their movements so they'll be easier to hit with her next attack, but before she can follow up she sees Zelos speed up out of the corner of her eye. He's a blur for a second, tackling an enemy she hadn't even noticed (seriously, Sheena? You're going to get yourself killed one of these days if you can't even keep track of that) to the ground. He cries out in pain as he lands, a splash of orange ether lighting his face up, and--
She'd been the one to get distracted, to keep checking up on him rather than paying proper attention to the blades coming at her, and he's the one paying for it. Sheena freezes up entirely for a second, sees another Zelos bleeding out on a glass floor rather than a stone one.
The blade she'd just hit regains their balance enough to attack again, a still-unsteady swing of their oversized axe. It's a glancing blow, just a little bit of skin sliced off of a calf, but it's enough to shake her out of the flashback as she swears at the pain.
She whirls around, lashing out desperately with a messy attack to prevent one of the other two blades from stabbing Zelos while he's down. He's… got the one he tackled, she hopes. She's got her hands full with these three.
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She punches a tall blade right in the face, her cards amplifying it from a melee attack into something that leaves them dazed and slows their movements so they'll be easier to hit with her next attack, but before she can follow up she sees Zelos speed up out of the corner of her eye. He's a blur for a second, tackling an enemy she hadn't even noticed (seriously, Sheena? You're going to get yourself killed one of these days if you can't even keep track of that) to the ground. He cries out in pain as he lands, a splash of orange ether lighting his face up, and--
She'd been the one to get distracted, to keep checking up on him rather than paying proper attention to the blades coming at her, and he's the one paying for it. Sheena freezes up entirely for a second, sees another Zelos bleeding out on a glass floor rather than a stone one.
The blade she'd just hit regains their balance enough to attack again, a still-unsteady swing of their oversized axe. It's a glancing blow, just a little bit of skin sliced off of a calf, but it's enough to shake her out of the flashback as she swears at the pain.
She whirls around, lashing out desperately with a messy attack to prevent one of the other two blades from stabbing Zelos while he's down. He's… got the one he tackled, she hopes. She's got her hands full with these three.