They did have some time before it managed to reach them where they were perched on the mountain face. Making sure the kickback wouldn't knock her off the precipice, she loosened the gunblade from the sheath on her back and drew it into her hands.

A breath to steady herself, and she aimed the point of the blade.

BLAM!

Akane rocked back slightly with the kickback, but to her dismay, the Geezard didn't seem to have been impeded in the slightest. Did that mean the shot didn't work, or was fortune simply not in their favor? "Um...can any of your songs increase strength?" she asked, sifting through several strategies in her head.