"I know, I didn't die, but that's beside the point altog--"

Bier cut himself off, crying out and covering his ears as Leech made an unexpected, painful noise. He let go of the beast's tail because of this reflexive move, and cursed himself mentally for allowing that - he tried to grab onto it again quickly, but with the way Leech thrashed around, this proved to be a mistake and he fell off from the being. After a brief bit of tumbling, he tried to get up.

Bitz could hear Slime perfectly fine, but he still kind of freaked her out and she didn't want his constant staring, so she just sat where she sat. Pondering whether it'd trick him, she put on her goggles.

Slime wasn't particularly the brightest and it seemed to have worked quite well against him. He didn't even notice that Bier has lost grip of Leech either and instead continued his search for 'sis' and informing her it was safe to come out again.

Leech screeched again before rolling over on his back, limbs still thrashing as he got them untangled and thrashed around moreso in his attempt to get up ever so quickly. His claw foot and hand gouged out trails in the ground as he thrashed and was to his feet once more.

"Oh no." Bier whimpered. Would the same thing work twice? It was already too late to try and get the drop on Leech, and in a moment it was too late to do anything else as well. Bier begun to change his arms to a jagged look again, backing off as he tried to ready himself for the inevitable enraged pounce. He could only hope that Leech was unable to think or remember tactics.

Leech' head swung around wildly, his mouth still hanging open, revealing all his sharp teeth until he had aligned his target to Bier's location, and then his oh so predictable pounce was launched, with all claws stretched out, ready to tear.

Slime evidently didn't notice any of this and started shouting louder over the ruckus Leech was making of, not screeches, but other noises that sounded more like hisses.

All the while the zetraloid who had previously not helped, once again did the same thing. And simply crossed his arms as he watched.

Bier tried the exact same tactic as before - to push Leech back with a jagged arm in his mouth, and try to grab his tail with the other hand. He glanced to the new zetraloid, for a moment about to ask him for help, but the guy would probably just ignore him and he didn't want to waste his breath.

Bitz, puzzled by the strange noises Slime had begun to make, peeked out of her hiding place just to see what the strange zetraloid was doing.

(Slime's just yelling, Leech is mr. noisy =P)

"It's SAAAAAFFFFEEE OUT NOW!!!" Slime shouted.

Leech didn't quite follow his same pattern this time. Instead of digging himself so solidly into the ground, he kicked up with his claw foot in the general direction Bier had turned which set him off balance rather well. His tail slapped against the ground to help steady him from toppling over backwards.

The zetraloid, Torment, (Might as well use his name eventually 0.o XD) simply watched, as if he were studying how Bier chose to attack and whether or not it would be efficient enough.

(Ah, my bad, I thought Slime was hissing.)

Bier flinched and stumbled a bit off balance himself from the different reaction - the clawed foot hit him, and he reflexively backed off a step. He couldn't reach the tail as long as Leech was using it for balance - instead he tried to gather a little bit of distance between himself and his opponent, quietly cursing the reflexes that kept him from getting an advantage.

(lol when i read over it I thought I had typed that too so XD)

Leech stayed back for a brief moment, only to hiss at Bier before launching himself forward once more, this time trying to sink his teeth into whatever part of Bier he came across first. He didn't seem to be planning any more though--once more lost in his thrill of hunt and kill, which would at least make him an easier target for outsmarting if nothing else.

Bier tried the same thing as before, this time with rather bad results - he cringed as Leech's fangs sunk into his arm, the armor weaker due to how he had changed it. He tried momentarily to pull the limb free, but this would be counterproductive AND quite painful, so instead he tried to follow through with his plan. Of course, pushing his arm further into Leech's mouth didn't seem all that attractive either, but he just had to go with what he could. He put a hand against Leech's neck to try and make it easier to push the creature over.

Although quite a bit sceptical, Bitz left her hiding spot and begun to approach Slime...

Leech shook his head, evidently not liking Bier's newest tactic and made the mistake of picking his claw foot up to try and get a better grip again. Instead of aiding in his balance though, it simply made him easier to shove over and with one last yelp the creature fell backwards, letting go of Bier's arm with a yelp of surprise.

Slime had finally seemed to notice everything wasn't quite as 'good' as he had thought previously.

"Don't worry." He announced rather loudly, as he hadn't noticed Bitz had come out, "He only wants to eat Bier--you're safe!"

Bier quickly sat on his opponent, again trying to pin him down. He glanced around for his tail, but the thing was most likely out of reach and he'd prefer not to repeat the mistake he'd made about a minute ago. Instead, he settled for trying to grab onto Leech's clawed arm and pin it down. He cringed as he saw the damage caused to his arm, and looked to Torment pleadingly.

"Please, help me restrain him!" he called.

"E-Eat him?" Bitz asked, stopping. Then she dashed up to Slime, trying to grab him by the collar (which most likely had an unusual effect). "Then help him! You have to help him, that thing will kill him!"

Leech began with some sort of death roll like thing. Flipping himself over rapidly in an attempt not to be restrained. Leech's claw arm being unable to move, he began digging his claw foot into the ground with his rolling and thrashing as a sort of added hardship to keeping him in any way still.

Torment didn't move extra fast, but eventually walked closer to where they were at and only watched Bier--almost like the taunting, I can help you and yet I'm not and you could still end up dying, aspect about him since he still wasn't doing anything. Help right out of reach.

Slime was rather surprised by her grabbing his collar. His collar has a strange effect to begin with though, rather than slipping around or through him it was almost seemed to thicken his body structure when grabbed, the collar itself feeling like small prickly needles were poking at one's hand. "B-but I can't help." Slime insisted, "I can't slime him to death and I'm too slow."

Bier tried his best to keep Leech down, and succeeded in it at first due to his concentration. Soon, though, as he found that Torment just stood and watched him rather than help in any way, he looked up and begun another plea or chastising or something - what he wanted to say didn't come up, because he lost enough of his concentration doing this to be thrown off from Leech. Perhaps worse, he landed right on the being's clawed arm. Wincing, he let go of the limb and tried to get up to his feet once more, although this would take some rolling as he landed on his side.

Bitz let go of the collar and whined, frowning deeply. "But that thing will kill him... Please, can't you help somehow?"

Leech of course, took the chance to claw at Bier and attempt getting up once more. As he had done before, his limbs failed around wildly, making anything around him have a hard time getting up as well.

Torment's only advice on the matter was simply, "He'll never stop unless you conquer."

Leech seemed a lot more irritated that he had been earlier though--before he, yes had wanted to eat Bier, but now all their ups and downs had apparently bothered him, probably because for one, he hadn't gotten to eat Bier, and two because of the repetition. That or maybe it was just an ill tempered creature.

Slime pointed to Torment who was standing beside Bier and Leech.

"He can stop that thing in a heartbeat." Slime announced, "Well, er...if he wants to." He paused and rubbed his helmet, which mostly just coated it in slime that dripped over it, "All I know really about Leech is that they usually stop him by his tail."

Bier cried out as he was cut, and his attempts to escape were doing rather badly due to how much his opponent thrashed around. Even if he did get up, he realized that he would be unable to outrun or otherwise escape the beast... In fact, just like his efforts so far, it'd probably just piss the thing off. So all he did was to try and shield himself with his arms, crying out to Torment again. "Please! Help! It'll kill me!"

"Tail?" Bitz asked. Then she nodded, a determined look on her face. "Got it!" she said hastily, before running back toward her brother. To her, it seemed clear that the zetraloid that COULD beat Leech had no intention of doing so, now or later. Putting her brother's life into his hands would be a mistake.

Torment did basically as Bitz had noticed, merely watching Bier struggle against Leech. It was impossible to tell if even did care about what was going on since he wore a mask.

Leech basically figured he had his prey captured and defenseless. He rounded on Bier, coming down full force with his claw as he basically tried doing something very similar to what Bier had hoped to accomplish with him. Basically the creature was well at work of attempting to pin Bier down to make him easier to have control over--quite the turn of tables if he succeeded.

Slime watched attentively. Despite the fact that these two guests were naturally supposed to be his enemy, he seemed interesting in seeing their victory over Leech rather than failure.

Bier yelped as Leech seemed to pin him down with ease, but it was a somewhat strangled sound. He squirmed as much as he could, which turned out not to be very much at all, as he started to hyperventilate. "H, help, please..."

Bitz went straight for the tail of the beast that had captured her brother - she didn't stop and instead just dashed past and tried to grab onto the tail as she went, in an attempt to make up for her lack of strength with momentum. She also tried to turn to Torment somewhat - he was much bigger than her, after all, and if Leech tried to lash out at her but instead hit the other zetraloid, it might motivate him enough to do something other than watch.

Torment was still ignoring Bier's plea for help as if he thought the very concept he was asking was a sign of some severe weakness.

Leech's attention was most certainly captured by Bitz. He ditched his former captive of Bier and shrieked in pain as he tried lunging at her and flicking his tail the other way in hopes of getting it free from her at the same time, otherwise with his strange body twist, there was a good chance he'd land on his own tail and most likely jerk Bitz back from the force of toppling onto it.

Unlike Bier, Bitz didn't take the tail suddenly jerking as a sign to hold on - she let go of it and let Leech collapse on itself. Quickly, she tried to climb up onto Torment's shoulders, crouched there as she simply stuck her tongue out at Leech. Bier watched it, at a loss of words, but smart enough to lie still and not regain the beast's attention. He did, however, give Torment a rather angry glare.

Leech seemed rather surprised by toppling down on his tail and quickly recovered. He looked up in her general direction, hissing and pacing back and forth for a moment or so. He jumped at Bitz, stretching his claw hand out at her as he would leap, but didn't seem to want to get too close to Torment for whatever reason.

Torment still didn't seem phased in the least by the fact someone was on his shoulders, nor that Leech was jumping at him and occasionally whining about the inability to get Bitz.

Bitz just laughed and taunted Leech further as she found how unwilling he was to actually assault her when she was on top of Torment. She made sure that she kept the beast's attention, as Bier carefully got back up behind him. He shifted back to the form he knew and preferred - but the extent of his wounds came along, and he instantly felt more fatigued. He tried to ignore it as he grabbed onto Leech's tail once more, not quite trying to pull it but instead holding it with one hand, while trying to grab onto one of the spikes on Leech's back with the other.

"Stop moving around." he said in a feeble imitation of an order. "Just give up and calm down..."

"Or you'll end up upsetting this guy." Bitz added in helpfully, poking at the top of Torment's head.

Leech didn't quite take the hint, or order, because apparently he still thought he was perfectly capable of thrashing Bier who he had already deemed as weak prey to eat later on. He growled at Bitz and then tried pulling off the same maneuver of flipping himself around on Bier that he had tried on Bitz.

Torment just watched with mild interested of their combined efforts, wondering if they would actually manage to pull something off together while Slime had made his way back over and stood a bit further away.

Bier let go of the tail as his sister had. Bitz smirked as Leech showed his back during the maneuver, and leapt onto his back - trying to lock her legs around his stomach, she grabbed onto his helmet fins (atleast she hoped those were helmet fins) and tugged on them as hard as she could. Considering how often she did it to Bier, she had a pretty good technique too.

And while Leech was hopefully distracted by Bitz, Bier tried to dash around him and grab his tail once again, then try to run straight away from him at the highest speed his form could muster.

Leech was very much distracted by Bitz as he swung his arms around at her and turned in circles slowly as if this were really helping him to get a better shot at her but when Bier got his tail again it pretty much distracted him from going after Bitz anymore as he let out another shrill cry and crumpled to the ground, trying to pull his tail closer to his side.

"Just give up and calm down!" Bitz called down to him. She let go of Leech's ears, but remained on his back where she was out of reach. "There's two of us now, you can't beat that."

"She's right..." Bier joined in, keeping a tight hold of the creature's tail and not letting him pull it anywhere. "You're just getting yourself more hurt, so please, stop struggling and give up..."

Leech wasn't attempting to get back up this time. He seemed pretty tired out himself, even if he were to be oh so stubborn again. His entire body was pretty tense still though, probably for fear that he couldn't protect his tail and that Bier would tug on it again while he was pretty well trapped from going anywhere.

He wasn't making any high pitched screeches this time either, just rather silently seeming to wait for whatever was to come.

Bier waited, but after five seconds or so, he couldn't torture the poor creature further and let go of Leech's tail. Bitz sighed in relief, but remained on top of Leech just to be sure it wouldn't turn on them at the first opportunity. Instead she decided to glare angrily at Torment, huffing a bit but not assaulting him or anything as she knew how dangerous he probably was. Bier, sitting down, decided to follow his sister's move and did the same thing. Neither one spoke, although the thought they both had was clear.

... Jerk.