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Dark grunts. ''Yes, but it leaves me very weak and sluggish.'' As he looked at Elder.

Elder was still out cold and pale, not even stirring.

Sterling put his hand to Elder's neck, feeling his pulse. "I'm not sure we have much of a choice if we want to save him." Ironic how he'd been so eager to kill him upon first meeting him, and now he wanted to save him. By any means necessary.

"Can you use...can you use my blood?" Sterling asked. "You drank from me earlier. If that'll help offset the weakness..." Sterling began to roll back the sleeve of his trenchcoat, before pausing and shrugging it off entirely and baring his arms.

Dark shifts to his Cerberus form carefully.

One head took hold of one of Sterlings arms, nipping it lightly. The other free head lightly nipped Elders arms. Darks head grits it's teeth as the blood one head drunk went to his head, them to the head holding Elders arm. Soon Elder stirred weakly after several tense minutes of the 'blood transfusion'. Dark lets go off both, extremely white and drained. ''Grrk....'' His hissed, shaking. The bite on Sterling heals over, along with the bite on Elder.

Sterling rubs his arm, surprised that it would heal so fast, though he was light-headed from the blood transfusion.

"You alright, Darkness?" he asked, checking briefly on Elder. At least it seemed the man had a little more color than before.

Dark just shook, drained.

Elder winces, then opens his mismatched eyes weakly. ''Urrrgh....Wha...?'' He hissed, rubbing his arm a bit.

Sterling threw his trench coat and the remaining vestiges of heat that it retained over Darkness' back. There wasn't a whole lot that he could do for Darkness or Elder but let them recover on their own. He did keep his sword near to hand; the only relief being that the master vampires were no longer a threat.

He contemplated building a fire, but he didn't want to enter the woods at night.

''Sterling, look out! Somethings coming!'' Jenna yelled from close by.

Sterling jumped when he heard Jensara's voice, though he recognized her immediately. "What kind of something are we talking-"

Something hopped in the underbrush. He tensed and saw a snake or something slithering nearby.

"Son of a Cerberus!" He leaped to his feet and nearly fainted. "What--how many of these things are there?!"

''76!'' Jenna exclaimed. Then to make matters worst, a group of 3 other critters joined the fray..

A string of curses filled the air; if only his swearing was as helpful as holy water. "Any tips on getting rid of them? Can't you breathe a jet of fire or something?"

He yelped as a slime frog popped out of nowhere and croaked at him. It met his sword in the flash of an eye

"I am so gonna retire after this." Sterling muttered.

Jenna lets loose a stream of fire onto the battefield, hoping to freeze some baddies.

Jensara struck at a good time, blasting her icy fire just as several frogs and eels slithered into The Vault.

Sterling recoiled in horror. Forget the frogs, those eels were disgusting! "What...what manner of creatures are these things?"

But as several frogs came springing past their frozen brethren, Sterling still dispatched them with his sword.

Several slime eels slitered to Sterlings feet, and one moved over his arm.

Jenna starts shooting crossbolts at a few, then tries shooting one at the eel on sterlings arm. A bolt covered in lizards.

"Get it off, get it off, get it off!" Sterling flailed as the slime eels swarmed up his leg and onto his arm. It didn't help when Jensara tried to help and shocked his arm instead.

He yelped in pain and drew his dagger, slicing the eel in half, or trying to without severing his arm.

The eel bites into his arm, paralyzing it as Jennna finally shot it off. Dark burns a few stragglers.

All that remained was the moldy covered fiends that had hands that could inflict coughing and any other mold-related effect.

Sterling shook his arm, but it flopped and dangled uselessly at his side. "Crap, I can't feel my fingers." Well, he'd get to that in a minute. In the meantime, he would use his sword single-handedly. Slicing, dicing, and going after anything with a slithering trail of ooze behind it.

It wasn't until he saw one trail that he turned to find one had slithered past him to Elder. "Oh no you don't," he cut the eel in half before it could bite Elder.

The eel gets slicd as a ball of mold goes flying at Sterling.

Sterling turns and slashes at it with his dagger, not realizing that mold will only explode into...spores.

He coughs as the mold ball explodes.

Darkness goes into a coughing fit as the spores scatter. Elder gags, wheezing. ''Sterling!'' Dark wheezed, coughig.

"What? I'm trying to help here. Or rather, not get slimed on!" Although at this point there was very little of him covered in slime. And his numb arm wasn't helping.

He coughed again, and then went back to hacking at more slime frogs.