A Tigo's Strenght

It was approaching Caitrin while still looking at deep in her eyes. And got pretty scared by the situation. She couldn't either move or speak, she just slowly stepped back. And while she was slowly walking backwards, Tatsumi jumped on one of the rocks and landed on the ground. 

He had finally arrived.

He then said while looking at Caitrin,

"Are you okay?"

"I am okay, but we have a bigger problem than that! And where were you anyway?" Caitrin replied nervously.

Tatsumi looked at the Creature and said,

"When you went to investigate the other carriage, I found claw marks on another place. At first, I thought it only happened when it attacked the vehicles here. But the claw marks took me to its nest. I searched there too, but unfortunately, I couldn't find anything there neither. And the fact that the creature wasn't in its nest was the proof that it was somewhere else. That is why I came here this late."

The creature then jumped from the rock and landed on the ground with them. 

Caitrin then said to herself, 

*It must be very angry at us for entering its territory.*

Tatsumi then took out his sword and said,

"From now on, we have to be extra careful. We have no choice but to fight with it."

While they were talking The Creature slowly walked towards them, looked at them with a very angry expression and it was growling towards them at the same time. It looked pretty angry for them entering its territory.

Caitrin then took out her sword too and said to herself,

*We encountered a few creatures before this. And I've managed to get used to situations like this a little bit. So now, I have to be the one who helps. I have to help Tatsumi.*

But as she was thinking about that, The Creature and Tatsumi attacked each other at the same time.

Caitrin then shouted with a scared expression on her face,

"Tatsumi! Hey!" 

But he didn't listen. The Creature's crystallized ankle and his sword collided and they continued to fight. 

And even though their psychical power levels were different, they were both pushing each other very hard. And after a couple of seconds, the creature got back, lifted its paws, and tried to hit Tatsumi from above.

Tatsumi then jumped backward and dodged the attack, and tried to attack the creature once more. But every single time he tried to attack, the creature blocked his attacks with its crystallized ankles. 

And while they were attacking each other non-stop, The creature stepped back and hit Tatsumi's hand, making his sword fly.

Then, while the creature growled at him, Tatsumi punched its face and made it step back. But like any other attack he made,  The Creature only got angrier so it hit Tatsumi from the waist and made his bag fly away.

This also made Tatsumi slide back a little. So he stopped himself by rubbing his hand on the ground and found himself next to Caitrin again.

As they stood beside each other Caitrin said with an angry voice tone,

"Why did you attack so suddenly!? You know we have to attack together as a team!"

But as she said that, Orano looked at his bag that was behind the creature and said to himself,

*I still couldn't find a weak spot of this creature, and I dropped my bag there. I need to get behind it and have to get it back, or the situation will get worse.*

Then he remembered something and said,

*That's it.*

He then turned to Caitrin and said,

"This creature has weak points too, but it is kind of hard to hit them. So we will follow another type of plan." 

"Another plan?"

"While I'll distract the creature and give you a signal, run to me, jump and try to hit the creature from above. Did you get it?"

Caitrin was surprised that Orano had accepted her idea so quickly. But she shook her head and said, 

"Alright."

"Just don't move until I give you the signal." Tatsumi said as he looked at the creature once more.

He then ran towards the creature and approached him cautiously. And then, when The Creature saw him running at It, it started running too. Then their crystal and sword collided once more, but it was much stronger this time. 

And while they looked at each other, Tatsumi shouted,

"Now!"

The creature thought it had thwarted the attack, but did not see Caitrin coming from above. She hit the creature from the back with her sword and landed on the ground. This made the creature groan with pain and it was growling once more. 

Then Orano said,

"We are attacking again-"

But as he was about to complete his phrase, the creature attacked without giving him any time to think. It was unexpected even for Orano, But he acted just in time and held the creature's mouth from below and above. And he was giving all of his power to prevent it from closing. 

On the other hand, the creature was looking at Orano without closing its eyes and it was pushing harder than before.

But while it did that, Tatsumi shouted once more,

"Caitrin! Attack its belly! It's a weak point!"

So she quickly ran towards the creature, slightly jumped, and tried to hit its belly.

But the crystals on the creature's back formed a circle shape and prevented her from hitting its belly. And at that moment her sword shook and vibrated strongly, making her body vibrate too.

The creature's attention was now suddenly turned to Caitrin and it had completely focused at her.

Caitrin then looked at it nervously and said,

*The same situation again!?"

But as it looked at her with a furious expression and while it growled, Tatsumi hit the creature's head with its sword's non-cutting edge and made it fly backward. It was like the time he fought the giant snake, but this Tigo didn't fly that back. After slipping for a couple of seconds, it stood up again.

And after they stood beside each other again, Caitrin asked confused,

"What was that all about? It just moved the crystals on its back and prevented my attack."

Orano said,

"The crystals that Tigos carries are not only for offensive attacks. In addition to its kind being slow, they are very developed defensively and can use them to protect themselves from any attack by giving shape to the crystals they have."

"But what you say is exactly like an impenetrable armor. How are we going attack it if it's like that?"

Orano looked at the creature and said,

"We will both attack at the same time, but this time from different ways. I will take right, you will take left. And when you get close enough you will act like you are going to attack, but at that moment I will be the one who attacks. This way, we will prevent it from crystallizing areas of its body without giving it any time."

His new plan suited her better so she looked at the creature and said,

"Okay! Let's do it!"