[i]During the time that there was smoke, Victoria CERTAINLY got to arming herself: she sheathed her gladius after deactivating it, scrounging the ground and lifting up the trident as her helmet filtered out the smoke. When she heard the howl, the warrior turned, knelt down, and thrusted the weapon towards whatever had howled, or at whatever had came at her - she had to find out how to release the water within, though.[/i]