It was not a martial artist.
It was not cute or fluffy.
It was taking hits - blasts of fire that didn't quite reach it.
"I've got it!" Akane yelled, running forward, anxious to prove that she was a martial artist and warrior and could beat monsters too!
"AAAAAaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAA!" yelled Akane as she was grabbed and slung around by one foreleg and that foreleg swung her close to where mandibles dripped green venom and opened wide.
It was a credible threat.
Ranma Saotome got serious about the fight.
The Retriever opened its jaws to permanently remove this warrior attacking it.
"Mouko Takabisha!" Wham!
Another attack that went past the Volley and Reflect Magic spells, and was barely stopped by a Protection spell that had been one of the first enchantments layered on. Of course, putting all that emphasis on magic defense lowered resistance to purely physical attacks but that was hardly a worry was it?
Ranma found a joint in an exoskeleton leg and kicked as hard as possible, shearing through it.
The Retriever turned, tossing the morsel aside to deal with this more credible threat.
Kasumi stared as kitchen knives began flying from the hands of the one named Unri to fly towards the eyes of the Retriever.
Sailor Moon wailed in terror as some girl with black skin and white hair came at her with a knife. As she swung the knife up. As she... cut the webbing still pinning that hand?
Sanri tried to smile at the cleric as she cut the girl free, then went over to get that coccooned one out before she suffocated.
Sailor Moon stared as one of the evil Dark General types... was one of the good guys. Oh right. Better get back to the fight!
The Retriever found itself confronted with the two girls it was to kill and the male that it was supposed to bring back alive. The task seemed to be getting progressively more difficult as time went on.
"Moon Tiara Action!"
Two legs down, the Retriever tried wrapping the one girl with webbing, then using eyebeams on the wildly dodging male who had taken off the other limb.
Ranma used a flailing limb as a parallel bar, bounced off the creature's back, bounced off a limb on the other side, and realized that creature's back didn't have a whole lot of defense. Relatively. Happy joy.
Sailor Mercury stared at the dark elf rescuing her before she said something apparently unhappy and went back to try and cut Sailor Moon out of a cocoon. Sailor Moon?!
"Fire So URK!" Sailor Mars went flying, tagged by a flailing limb as the damn big spider tried to get rid of someone who had landed on top of it and was now hitting it repeatedly at very high speeds.
"Aiyah! They grow spiders big here!" Shampoo said, arriving and summing up her reaction.
"A demon-spider, well now, I haven't seen one of those in..." Cologne began trying to remember, idly dodging a stray eyebeam. "I forget. Well, age catches up with all of us sooner or later."
Ukyo saw the stray eyebeam coming at her and blocked with a spatula. "AHHHHH! It turned my spatula into gold! AHHhhhh.... ?! Oh. Well I can always get a new one."
Kodachi and Tatewaki Kuno arrived. Naturally their reactions were a bit different.
"So the foul sorcerer Saotome doth consort with demon spiders from the very pit of Hell! I shall -" Schlumpf
As Tatewaki Kuno was sprayed with webbing and thereby shut up, many of those not participating in the battle politely applauded.
"It's beautiful," said Kodachi, admiring the strange creature. "Yet I must destroy it anyway for threatening my Ranma-sama!" Her ribbon whipped out to wrap around a leg.
Zwoop! The foreleg moved rapidly as the spider scuttled around in a quick circle. Kodachi went flying.
"Eeeeeekkkkk!" Kodachi managed as she saw a brick wall looming in her future. So this was it she was going to die. Her life passing before her eyes. Grab! or maybe not.
There was still a stunning impact, but Kodachi fought off the daze to behold her rescuer. A woman in what was obviously a borrowed nightshirt, her long white hair unbound and the gleaming ebony of her skin evident as were the pointed ears from...
Kodachi managed an "oh my" before falling unconscious.
Ranma's legs locked him in place as the spider tried to dislodge him. Five hundred strikes. Eight hundred strikes. One thousand strikes.
Sailor Moon blinked up at the elfgirl cutting her out of the webbing. "Hi. I'm Sailor Moon, warrior of love and justice?"
The elf said something in another language.
Sailor Jupiter recovered enough to leap into the fight. Whoa! Look at that guy pounding on the monster. Reminded her of her old sempai!
Sailor Moon stood back and began her windup. It was obvious she'd need her strongest attack. She needed to end this quick before anyone else got hurt!
Sanri had freed the clumsy cleric again. Something told her that the girl wasn't a follower of Lolth, but some other faith. Maybe it would be one that could use another priestess, she was out of clerical scrolls and being a generalist cleric/mage of Toril meant being cut off from one spell source while she was here.
Ranma's hands were getting sore. Twelve hundred strikes. Fourteen hundred strikes.
The Retriever shrieked in a pitch that broke windows as its back plates began splintering.
Sailor Moon needed this at full power and wasn't sure where it came from. "Moon Healing Escalation!"
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