The Perilous Quest to Save Vinyl From Certain Demise

Returning the creature's growl with one of your own, you brace yourself for it's anger. You're not sure if you can take on any creature with claws like those, but if you must for Vinyl's sake, so be it!

With a roar of frustration, the beast lounges at you, it's powerful muscles rippling under the tattered cloth it wore.

"You're even more stubborn than the white one! If you want a fight, you'll get one!"

As the creature rushes, the monstrous figure passes through the skylight, revealing a fearsome manticore! Poking through small holes in it's cloak are a pair of magnificent wings, much bigger than that of any pegasus, but still not enough to lift the rest of the creature into the air. Instead of a regular lions tail, a strange appendage raised from it's hindquarters, a sharp, likely poisonous stinger on the end. This creature has death written all over it, as natural weapons of all kinds cover it's body.

For a brief moment, you catch sight of it's ferocious expression as it leaps for you, claws extended. Are you truly going to be able to defeat this strange, monstrous beast?

Glancing to the side, you can just see Vinyl cover her eyes with a hoof, unable to watch as you face off against the nightmarish creature.

Determined, you glare at your foe, shrugging off your saddlebags to be rid of the extra weight. For Vinyl's sake, you must fight now!

As the roaring manticore approaches, you prepare to make your move.

Duck under it's claws, then buck it in the face!

Keep your distance, and dodge its attacks until you have a better plan.

Jump gracefully over it's swiping paws, swing yourself around onto it's back like an acrobat, then strike it on the back of the head with a hoof, knocking the beast out with one deciding blow, and leaving you without even a hair out of place.