From: crescentcitynpc	Date: February 11th, 2011 04:29 am (UTC)		(Link)

Grant's reflexes were rather good. They had to be when you took care of magical creatures for a living. But even he took a few moments to react to what happened at the base of that tree. Seeing Keegan go down, the creature on top of him, and then Ciaran having the courage to go in with the hex and then bare-handedly grapple with the Deathmantle, Professor Baer took action.

He came around the other side of the tree from where he was, wand already out to perform the petrification spell. Since Ciaran was positioned facing him, with the creatures back displayed for his spell, it hit the creature with force. The effect was, naturally, instantaneous. The Darkmantle froze where it was in Ciaran's hands, stuck in the position of trying to get its jaws around his fingers.

"Shit. You boys alright?" He saw that the Darkmantle had gotten its jaws around Keegan's arm, and he figured that Ciaran had to have a few scratches at least from its claws, if not a bite or two. "Here, let me get this thing off of you and then I'll take a look..."

	From: howemuchtrouble	Date: February 11th, 2011 04:43 am (UTC)		(Link)

Keegan was about to attempt to fire off his own spell to get the thing off his arm when he saw the flash of a spell and it let go. Though it wasn't exactly a clean release and the boy grimaced as it turned on his classmate.

It took him a second to get himself to focus to act as the Professor petrified it. Keegan pushed himself up to sit and looked at Ciaran and the motionless Deathmantle.

His arm burned and stung with every movement and he was pretty sure there was blood all over his arm. So naturally his answer was, "I'm fine, Professor," as he went to ignore the pain and push himself back onto his feet.

	From: cantspell	Date: February 12th, 2011 08:29 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Ciaran breathed a sigh of relief when the creature finally stopped moving. Because the animal was such a mutable shape, it was difficult to keep in position and somehow it had managed to get its mouth in chomping distance of his fingers.

Not a good prospect for a musician.

He glanced at Keegan, who was bleeding but on his feet again, and then at his own hands. They were scratched quite a bit, and at some point the creature had bitten his wrist, but nothing serious. "I'm okay," he shrugged.