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"Just please don't die!" Mona gets to the trees and turns to see Kachine under the beast and about to be killed.
"No!" And just as she's about to run in and be a bit reckless herself, Kachine saves herself and takes out an eye in the process. Damn woman...but good job...
"Oh my gods, woman, you are my first friend here. DO. NOT. DIE!!" Each of the last words were punctuated by a gunshot and a scream of pain from the creature. Her last shot missed.
"Ok two more eyes. How are you with a gun? I've got my empty gun in my belt and a reload mag in my pocket. Want to shoot a bit?"

"I know. I'm sorry. I worry, okay? And in this instance it's not like it could hurt. Better than cutting...it's heads off..." Mona takes a moment to look at Kachine. "It's okay. It's just 5 heads. That's not so bad. Yeah bonding. This is how people become best friends" At hearing Kachine ask for the gun Mona takes the empty one out and puts a full mag in. "Okay pull this back to load the gun. Point. And pull the trigger. They may be little but the do kick but not too bad." Mona hands the loaded gun to Kachine. "I believe in you" She winks at Kachine and turns back to the hydra after taking a moment to reload her own gun.

ooc: i lost count of eyes...

While Kachine handled that head Mona took out another eye. She sees Kachine hit the eye and feels a swell of pride. "It's alright, guns aren't for everyone. You did well. Just one eye left." She swoops up the discarded gun, double checks the safety, and puts it away in her belt.
Mona notices that the head with the last eye is now charging at Kachine. She's lining up the shot when Kachine's sword goes through the head.
She sees the burn on Kachine's arm. "This thing has venom!! Dammit, we need to wrap this up, that needs to be treated." Mona shoots the last eye, totally blinding the creature.
"Okay. What now? How do we actually kill this?"

Mona listened to Kachine's plan. It sounded insane but it was the best one they had. At least if they went down they'd go down together.
Mona put her other gun away and grasped her sword with both hands. She's not as good with a sword but shes determined to give it her all. She nodded and started to advance on the creature. Running to the creatures left to try and get a good swing in while still staying away from the heads. As she goes in for a stab the beast turns and whacks her away with its tail. Mona hits the ground but recovers and gets back up to finally end this thing with Kachine.

"Got it!" Mona listened to Kachine count up to 3 and prepared herself.
As her friend said 3 Mona followed Kachine into a tumble under the beast and thrust her sword upwards once she was in a good position. Both their swords struck their mark and Mona gave a sigh of relief as the hydra stopped moving.
The beast fell to the side with their swords still in it's chest.
Mona turned to Kachine and couldn't help the bout of hysterical laughter that came over her. They had done it! They'd survived!

Mona watched Kachine pull her weapon out and clean it. She had a very satisfied feel to her aura that was quickly being replaced with exhaustion. Kachine laid her head on her shoulder and mumbled something about a nap before passing out.
Mona looked down at the girl and remembered that her arm had been injured. Being careful not to wake her, Mona slowly shifted the girl to the grass to get a better look at her arm. Noticing that the venom is starting to move up her friend's arm Mona runs back into the temple to grab her first aid kit and some blankets.
She goes back outside and throws one of the blankets over the sleeping girl and then gets to work. Mona cleans the wound as best she can before smearing a generous amount of a drawing salve made from her great-grandmother's recipe to pull the venom out before wrapping the whole thing in bandages and making a mental note to change them in a few hours.
Once her friend is cared for Mona decides that a nap sounds like a good idea. It had been a long morning of travel and now this. Needless to say she was exhausted. She picked up her supplies and grabbed the other blanket then lays down by her friend and falls asleep.

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Seemingly, or probably literally, from the aether at the gates to the palace, appeared the fairly tall, completely shrouded figure of artyom, Victoria's blood still anointing his ebony mask, no doubt having aided his transition. Sharp emerald eyes, barely visible through the fine view slits, scanned the immediate vicinity he had been deposited to, his bow once again clutched with an arrow nocked in his left hand and partly shrouded by the shoulder cape that obscured that half of his body and quiver.

He silently admitted he had never seen such grand architecture, and might not get used to it either with his heritage.. he began to step silently on oddly booted feet, flowing into the primary grand hall of the temple, looking very stolid in his rather unique armor, leathers and cloth. hopefully the temple would answer more questions without hostile interruptions from seemingly malevolent deities. He strode across the temple towards what activity he could pick out from a distance, vividly aware of the new sensations surrounding him, supernatural and not.