He swatted the the shadow monster before the wall rose from the ground, and when Toph jumped into the circle he followed suit to join her. Regroup? Yeah, they needed that. It was going about as well as it was before the last time he faced these things. And damn, that slug to the face was probably gonna bruise, wasn't it?

He made it inside the circle and stopped, bending over to lean his hands on his knees to catch his breath.

It just takes way too much effort to beat those things back!"