Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-29559990-20160630223627/@comment-5583506-20160830162839

Ran's harpoon-gun was however chained hard to Ran'Jinro's utility belt and wouldn't come off that easy.

"Wh-What are you doing?!" he exclaimed, oblivious to the thundering footsteps coming up from behind the group. "There is no time to..."

A sickening snap was heard as the Wolf Beast all of a sudden trampled straight past Raini. Ran'Jinro found himself floating in mid-air. It was a surrealistic feeling. He felt as it as if he was flying, yet was restrained to an even level above the ground, slightly bumping up and down. To his side he saw the face of the Beast, carrying him back along the shoreline. It was strange, he thought. Why wasn't he dead? Why hadn't the Beast killed him? Or was he dead already? No. The Beast had missed him, but then again not.

Shifting his gaze downwards he found the reason behind his unexplained levitation. His left arm was pinned in-between two gigantic fangs within the jaws of the Beast, ripping through his muscles and bones. He stared upon it with fascination... and shock... It was only until then he realised that the shock had caused him to go entirely numb, rendering him unable to feel any pain... until the reality turned into a living nightmare.

And then the pain began to sing. Ran screamed out in agony as sinews and tendons ruptured within his mashed arm, the bones pulverized into a gory mess. Blood spurted out from the gaping wounds as the Wolf Beast chewed on it, gnawing away at it beyond recognition. It was a repulsive sight. Ran had never been as terrified in his entire life as in that particular moment.

Yet the pain and the shock had the complete opposite effect on him rather than rendering the Khajiit unable to take action. He panicked, desperately clutching to his messy remains in an attempt to rip it free. He wasn't dead yet, and he had no intention of dying this day. For some weird reason his mind kept tracing back to Trymir's old war stories of how he lost his legs.

''Am I to become like him now? Did he suffer through a similar pain?''

Ran'Jinro shook his head as the Beast kept rumbling onward. He wasn't thinking straight. He needed to be present. To be there to free himself, lest the Beast would devour him whole in short, once it discovered that it had been unable to swallow its prey whole.

Ran tugged at his arm, trying to force it loose, rupturing several muscles, hearing as tendons snapped with a spurt of blood. He screamed and felt the unbelievable pain go to his head. He had to stop, otherwise he would have passed out. Another tug ruptured yet several more muscles, causing severe bleeding. The fractured bone chips within his arm chaved against each other, grinding the meat inside his limb.

He screamed again, this time in a fit of rage and desperation. He needed to be free. One last tug resulted in nothing, and he came to a horrifying conclusion. His last rational thought caused him to focus on his blades. Reluctantly he unsheathed it with his available hand and placed the tip against the area where the arm was as its weakest.

His eyes teared up as he realised what he was going to do, knowing that there would be no return from this, but his life depended on it. He took a painful breath and shoved the blade into his arm, hacking and sawing at the best of his abilities, screaming his heart out as the Beast forced its teeth through even harder.

Saliva dribbled through Ran's grinding teeth and he felt it as if his eyes would pop out of their sockets due to the extreme trauma. Yet his free arm automatically kept slicing and hacking away at his own flesh, eventually severing the last strings of muscles holding him shackled to his mangled left arm.

Once completely cut off, he handlessly fell down into the murky waters of Lake Rumare, unconscious and with a severed stump.

The Wolf Beast seemed to take notice of its missing prey and so eagerly dived into the waters as well, in order to fetch its dinner back.

"By the Gods! RAN!" exclaimed Evelyne and began to desperately run down to the shoreline.

"No! Stay back!" shouted Falana. "Monstramaris is still down there somewhere!"