While Lana wasn't immediately looking at the big shadow monster, running from the little shadows that were chasing her, it was very apparent to her that the creature had smashed into the ground in some way. As she turned back to look she saw that, while not having fallen prone or being dead, it was left wide open as it was knocked down to its hands and knees. While this was a perfect opportunity to go and strike it Lana had the issue of a shadow still chasing after her and she hardly wanted to get grabbed by it again.  As such the girl began to run and shuffle around trying to shake the creature off though, even more annoyingly, it had seemed to grow better at pursuing her and was only managing to get closer. While she was ready to just make a bolt for it again and run straight through the shadow, a dagger passed through the mass of darkness. The shadow's interest in Lana waned as its attention was turned towards the source of the dagger and began its pursuit of Chris anew.  The girl gave a nod in appreciation to his attack before gripped the haft of her axe tight and ran at full speed towards the monster. Last time it had been downed she went to strike at its ankles to try and keep it down. Its body, however, proved to be far more resilient in keeping its shape and that strategy ended as soon as it began. If that were the case then there was a target that was more in her mind. She didn't know if any part of its body was more important to strike than any other, but the fact that it had the shape of a head had to be important. Or at least she hoped it did.  With a running start, a full sprint, the girl leaped into the air and swung her axe with all the might she could muster bringing it down in an arc against the creature's head. 

The big monster was down again, so that was a start. It was nice to see that it could be done without the help of whatever missile they had used the other times, and in a more effective capacity, too. It emboldened Chris to stay close and try and hit it again, though as soon as the thought crossed his mind, something else happened – something worse, to balance it all out. All the other monsters seemed to wise up, straightening out and actually starting to put effort into giving chase. It caught Chris off guard, very nearly getting him to flinch, but thankfully he had already been on a heading of “don’t get grabbed by the shadow monsters again” so the instinctive reaction of “speeding up as well” was also the correct one. Or a correct one, anyway. Chris could already tell that this was not a permanent solution. Even if he did that string trick, teleporting in an awkward direction to buy some more time, if he did that enough times, Chris just knew he’d get nauseous again and lose whatever gains he had been making. And without it, well, the fight had been going on long enough, most of that spent running around (and the parts where he hadn’t been running, he’d been climbing -- even worse!). His breathing was heavy, taking in huge gulps of air with each breath, and his chest ached at the effort, on top of all the other aches and pains he’d been accumulating. A lot of what was keeping him going was force of will, and the knowledge that if he didn’t, he’d probably die. The three shadow monsters had all split off to attack each of them, one each. He was back on good news again. Well, medium news overall -- it wasn’t exactly good news that they were still under attack despite their accomplishment, but most of the problems that he had had were when he had been dealing with two of these monsters at once. He had to remember, they were clever enough to try and flank him that one time. And they’d sped up all of a sudden -- what else were they holding back? There was no shot he was going to get close to those things if he could help it, even to try and fend them off. With as mighty a “Raaah!” as he could muster, he lunged ahead, charging with his sword practically at his hip and running right into the fallen giant. He had to brace his foot against the monster to wrench the sword back out again, and good thing he did, because his pursuer was right on top of him and Chris had to twist his body and leap out of the way of its clutches. He landed on all fours, and pushed himself back up to his feet. He wasn’t going to land another hit like that one anytime soon, which meant it was time to change tactics. Chris started running again, this time towards one of the monsters attacking the others. He hoped that, if he couldn’t keep attacking the main, big monster himself, he could at least distract another one and give his friends and teammates more time. Chris took out a dagger, and, taking a running leap, hurled it at the nearest one and just kept running. Hopefully that got its attention.