[The Guard is a regular sight during the arrival of each new group through the door and Ignis, as ever, arrives with them just moments before people - and monsters - begin to be thrown out onto the sandy ground. He directs two of those with him to spread out while he heads forwards, fingers curled firmly around twin daggers to face one of the colossal crocodiles head on.
The aim is simple - find the people who, in their bewildered states, make easy prey for the creatures thrown in along with them, and get them out before anyone gets hurt. Giant crocodiles are by far not the strangest thing that has come through that door and the young man remains entirely unfazed as he cuts through them--
Ignis!
--he stalls mid-step, and it's almost fatal as a pair of enormous jaws come snapping down on the empty air he barely manages to pull his hand away from.
That voice. There's nowhere he'd be able to mistake it, and it's a few moments of frantic sweeping of the coliseum before he sees--
He sees him.]
Noct!
[And then--]
Behind you!
[He's not close enough. Everything falls away in that moment, nothing visible to him but Noctis and the two creatures closing in on him. Without thought he abandons the daggers in his hands and summons the ones connected to Noctis' power, the comforting familiarity resting in his hands only a moment before one of them is thrown forwards, slicing through the air to embed itself in the eye socket of the crocodile behind his friend.
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The aim is simple - find the people who, in their bewildered states, make easy prey for the creatures thrown in along with them, and get them out before anyone gets hurt. Giant crocodiles are by far not the strangest thing that has come through that door and the young man remains entirely unfazed as he cuts through them--
Ignis!
--he stalls mid-step, and it's almost fatal as a pair of enormous jaws come snapping down on the empty air he barely manages to pull his hand away from.
That voice. There's nowhere he'd be able to mistake it, and it's a few moments of frantic sweeping of the coliseum before he sees--
He sees him.]
Noct!
[And then--]
Behind you!
[He's not close enough. Everything falls away in that moment, nothing visible to him but Noctis and the two creatures closing in on him. Without thought he abandons the daggers in his hands and summons the ones connected to Noctis' power, the comforting familiarity resting in his hands only a moment before one of them is thrown forwards, slicing through the air to embed itself in the eye socket of the crocodile behind his friend.
'I will not lose you. Not now. Not to this.']