ORIGIN

Fascination and horror swirled in her eyes. "What is that thing?" She whispered to herself. Riffi found herself cringing as it almost scooped up Talion, but much to her relief, she saw that the owl had gracefully escaped. She hoped over on her branch to give Talion enough room to land and turned her attention to Serendipity. All her pitches seemed to be failing. Where did her throwing arm go? If she could hit a small bird in the rump from high up in the canopy, surely she could hit a big dumb rock monster right in front of her face. Riffi was convinced that she wasn't even trying, not that little rocks would do much to harm this thing any way. She turned her head to Talion and shook it with glare. "What's she doing?!"

The blue jay dug her claws into the wood. One hit from this thing and she was sure it could break every bone in her body. As much as she wanted to fly far away, she couldn't abandon Serendipity, not after she saved her in Cetus. Riffi didn't have to think too much on her actions when the liogoose yelled for them to go get help. Of course! They may not could take this thing on with brute force, but perhaps another Gembound can. Riffi was small enough to fly through the branches, maybe she could find someone faster. She looked the owl, he avoided that rock-beast pretty well, perhaps he could do it again. The little blue jay spread her wings. " Well, you heard her!" She told Talion. "I'm going to find help, you.. don't let Ser get crushed okay?" With that she lifted herself into the air and flung herself through the canopy.

Riffi dove under the canopy to get a better look at the world below, but no one was in sight. Even worse, there seemed to be nothing that she could use to help her allies. The blue flapped her wings faster and faster, as if distance would help her find something. Finally, she landed on a gnarled perch. Her chest heaved as she tried to catch her breath. Riff looked behind her, she hoped that by the time she got help, it wouldn't be too late. She already felt like a failure right now, no need to pour salt into that wound.

@Serendipity @Talion

Just like the tiny, vibrantly colored jay beside him, Talion watched with a mixture of curiosity and concern as the rocky being reached out toward Ser. Just before it tried to grab her, she called out to the pair to go get help. She didn't get the chance to elaborate on what kind of help she meant, or where they might find it, since she was forced to scuttle away from the thing's grasp. Thankfully, Riffi seemed to have an idea, since she immediately jumped up and spread her wings. Unfortunately, the smaller avian didn't speak very kindly to the owl, which distracted him by making him angry, and then she ended up ordering him around! He didn't get a chance to react, other than openly gape at her while she spoke, or say anything, because within seconds, she was flying off into the distance.

The entire thing made the young Gembound feel as if his head were spinning around and around. He watched Riffi disappear into the distance in a sort of shocked trance. However, the sound of another rock being thrown, and missing and clattering to the floor, made Talion snap back to reality. He had no idea how he was going to handle all of this, but he just had to. One look at Ser's wide eyes as the rock creature reached for her again was enough to spur him into action, even if he didn't know what that action was just yet.

Leaping off of the branch, Talion swooped back down to where Ser and the golem were faced off. Without thinking about it, just feeling like it was the right thing to do, the owl glided toward to what he assumed was its head.
"Hey! Look at me you big, dumb rock...thing!" He shouted angrily, before beating his wings toward the golem and holding his position in the same spot in the air. Talion wanted to distract the thing from Ser, but he certainly didn't want to be clubbed from the air by one of those thick, rocky appendages. He'd never felt pain before, but the very thought, and mental image, of being struck sent a shiver of dread down the owl's spine. So, whenever he saw the thing turn its attention back to him, he tried rising out of reach as fast as possible. His charcoal speckled wings beat as hard and as fast as they possibly could, and probably ever had before.

@Serendipity @Riffi