"[Old?! I'll show you old!]"

But he lets Hasira keep the lead.

The hallway leads out into something of a labyrinth. The Via Purifico itself.

Cid produces a stick of chalk, and starts marking the walls as they make their way through the labyrinth, so that they can find the way back out.

After a ways, they hear low growling. A fiend.

"[Ready?]" he checks with Hasira.

"[Am I ever not?]" she retorts lightly, spinning the sword around her hand and pushing forward towards the sound.

It stalks around the corner, revealing itself to be a chimera. Two of it's heads roar, while a third readies a water spell.

Hasira starts to cackle-

"Don't," Cid warns.

She dives forward anyway, no less terrifying for her silence.

Cid laughs at that, and throws a grenade at the opposite side of the chimera from the one Hasira is attacking.

The chimera roars, the eagle-head letting loose a barrage of water. The bull head howls as the grenade explodes against it, and the lion and snake heads snarl and launch at Hasira.

Hasira is nimble, and throws ice at the snake head, and slashes her sword at the lion head.

Cid loses his footing under the barrage of water but rolls back to his feet and flings another grenade.

The chimera is unwieldy, but clearly powerful. There is damage being done to it, every pyrefly that whirls away proof, but it doesn't react to the pain. The bull's head lolls, the grenades having done it in, but the eagle readies another water barrage, and is that lightning crackling along the snake?

Hasira ignores the eagle and focuses on the snake, hacking away at it with lightning fast strikes.

Grenade: aimed for the eagle's beak. Easier to aim this than the airship's missiles.

The eagle manages one stream of water, before the grenade stops it, the creature screaming in fury.

The snake tries to keep casting, hissing furiously, but Hasira's strikes are too quick for it to focus.

She keeps them up, adding another blizzara to the mix of attacks.

The snake head is sliced clean through by the ice, dropping to the floor with a sick thud.

The lion head is all that's left, furiously casting fire spells.

"[Clear out,]" Cid calls to Hasira, already throwing another grenade at the lion.

Hasira darts backwards, using a water spell to dampen the fire.

With a roar, the lion head falls too. 

The entire creature falls, pyreflies whirling to join their brethren floating about the ceiling.

Onwards again then, still marking the walls.

One hallway echoes with the sound of sloshing water.