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…to hold their ground. I'm certain that we can fight off this challenge together.

"Hold our ground?" There's a brief moment when everyone looks at you. "Are you insane?" Balogh asks you, and you tell him to shut up and focus. You know what you're doing, and if the team just listens, you can get out of this alive and with not too much damage, you hope. "You hope? Damn it. I hope that we get out of here alive, so I can say that I asked a crazy recruit for ideas on how to fight the Fiends, and the idea he had was to do a General Custer," Balogh grumbles as he holds his knife up.

The two Beasts pounce at you before you can say anything, however, and you heft up your hammer-axe, parrying their blows. You jump back from the two Beasts to create some space but accidentally bump into Larry, causing her to fall. She lets out a cry of shock, and the two Beasts turn their sights on her. You curse softly and charge the Beasts just as they're about to attack your downed teammate.

You manage to arrive at Larry's side before the two Beasts can strike, and you tackle one of them, pulling it away from Larry. The two of you roll about on the ground for a while before it manages to get the upper hand and starts to savage you viciously. You do your best to fend it off, but it gets in a few bites and claw slashes before you manage to plant your foot on its stomach and kick it away. It falls beside you and Ami stabs it with two knives, pinning it to the ground. You get up and see that Balogh and Jax have already gotten the other Beast away from Larry.

You head over to their side and help them with the Beast. It takes another two minutes before you finally defeat it, and the three of you glance at the other Beast. Ami is having some trouble with it at this point, and the four of you rush to her side. She sees this and jumps away from the Beast, allowing the four of you to barrel into it and knock it to the ground before the five of you team up and beat on the fallen Beast until it too has been defeated and starts to dissipate into nothingness. You turn to the other Fiends and stare at them, daring them to make a move.

Morgan snaps her fingers at this point and the remaining Fiends rush at you, snarling and snapping at you. You put up a fight, but there are too many of them, and you put out a retreat order to your team. Balogh nods in agreement and starts to barrel his way through the Fiends, making a path for the rest of you to follow, despite taking a few hits along the way, and your team manages to break out of the brawl with little trouble.

You run off a short distance before turning around to look at Morgan again.

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