"What?!"
Before I could even begin to react Charlotte smirked and leaped into the air. Her saber swung against empty air and created a block of earth below her. She used that to leap even further.
I stood there for what seemed like an eternity.
A second.
That was all it took for her to run ahead of me and take on the beast herself. I sighed. My hand flicked to my head and I took off running too. My legs burned beneath me as I sprinted full speed.
Soon enough I was under the beast. I muttered my one and only spell under my breath. Ethereal blades formed and hurled themselves to the underside of the beast.
It roared as it noticed my presence.
"Son of a…" My words were drowned out by the barrier that appeared and blocked my explosions. There wasn't a lick of powder or anything in my swords meaning that I could see immediately after the explosions went off.