Chapter 244: Surprise Attack part 4
Jonas felt like he should know what it is that he had plunged his daggers into and was holding onto for dear life, but it wasn't like he was an expert on what the resistance every creature had to blades sinking into their flesh felt like. Nor had the creature become visible from his blades and Kim's biting into it. Maybe he might have been able to rule some creatures out if he had bare feet, but that wasn't something he was that worried about.
While he would have fallen off if his daggers hadn't pierced the skin of this creature, he was at least happy that he had his feet under him. Which also allowed him to have some of his weight allocated to his feet, which allowed his arms a little more freedom of movement. Just, it felt like he had attached himself to maybe a leg of the creature, where he could climb higher on the creature, but not really walk up.
So, looking around, Jonas estimated which direction he would need to go to get to the 'back' of this creature. Then he carefully pulled out one of his daggers and stabbed the creature further towards where he was certain he needed to go in order to get to the part of this creature he wanted reach.
As Jonas pulled out his other dagger, he suddenly felt something hit the creature, almost throwing him off the creature entirely. Jonas quickly looked around, hoping that the creature wasn't trying to discard himself and Kim. However, he couldn't help but feel surprised for some reason to find that Elmo was targeting the creature with his magic.
Somehow he felt like he should have realized Elmo would do that when he was off of the bridge. However, since he didn't, he could only try to take that into account as he recalculated what he could do.
Because he wasn't paying attention when Elmo's first spell had struck, Jonas wasn't sure what spell it was. All he could be certain of was that he and Kim were only affected by it because the creature was clearly hit heavily by the spell.
When the second volley came, Jonas was ready and able to ride the creature's sudden reaction to the Brimstone Flare striking it. As the creature's movements settled again, Jonas started to climb again, wondering what this creature was thinking now that Elmo and Elin were safer on the side of the canyon and Jonas and Kim were hanging on the creature itself.
Jonas had a brief thought about moving over to Kim to help her move up as well, but quickly dismissed the idea. If he tried that, he couldn't guarantee that he or Kim wouldn't get thrown off the creature by the time he could reach Kim. Not to mention that he couldn't say that having both of them together wouldn't make it easier to get both Kim and Jonas off of it.
As Jonas climbed on the creature, he did what he could to move with the creature's reactions to Elmo's spells and hoped that he'd still be able to at least get it so they could see what this creature was. However, after he'd climbed about 7 feet up, or what he estimated was 7 feet, he found he couldn't go further. Not because he ran into anything completely obstructing his momentum, but rather because he found that he was close enough to one of the wings of the creature that he couldn't push in the same direction he'd been going.