The race

PoV Tsuitame

I barely had time to react to those attacks. Flaara, on the other hand, managed to get us out of that dangerous situation by spinning towards his left side, using its wings to protect me from the projectiles. We quickly hid behind one of the large machines nearby. Flaara was starting to get nervous and angry, as it was starting to hiss and making threatening sounds while digging his talons into the large machine.

"Calm down, it's okay; we were a bit slower than expected; let's just remember the training we went through. As for now, Sprint!" As soon as I gave out the order, the griffon jumped from the small machine it was hiding behind and headed immediately towards the second closest machine. I had to rein it away from there and saved Flaara from decapitation. In the process, one of the drones following us had released a ki attack in the shape of a red line approaching us.