The creature was unwilling to stay down and turned over as fiercely as it could with a grunt (a sad excuse for a roar, as it were), pointing a series of odd protrusions along its side upward to thwart Johnny's descent.

Walter, having had thrown his own kick into the prior attack, had used the surface of the ice to rebound and land a short distance away. He had done so in time to see a different protrusion swerve toward him with the creature's turn, and he only managed to erect a black sphere around himself before the force propelled him through the glass window into a small building.

The protrusion that had dragged on the ground left watery streaks along cobblestone, and as it felt the brief impact, the creature finally roared without restraint at Johnny.