Between the damage done to their wings and face and the sticky cables that clung to their bones, Nazu could no longer force itself skyward. It crashed to the ground, bones gnashing and clashing and rattling.

Despite their broken jaw and nearly non-existent head, they let out a bugling battle cry and swung their tail in a massive, ground scraping arc. They used what little leverage they had to lift their foreparts and slash at the flying ones with their strange machines of fire.

And then they bugled again, swinging their head to seek the female and the smaller male. Not spotting either, they screamed, "Give us satisfaction or give us a worthy death!"