Steady yourself and wait for it to make a move

You hold yourself in a defensive stance, your shield raised and sword at the ready. Seeing you maintaining your position, the creature lets out a gruesome snarl, spittle slying from its mishapen mouth. It swings forward, sword raised. Right away you spot a vunerable point and with a flash or metal, you bring your blade across the creature's midsection as you side-step out of its path. It stumbles forward a few steps past you, dark blood oozing from a horizontal wound just below it's black chestplate. The creature's weapon fall from it's clwaed hand in a clang of metal on stone, and it follows with a heavy thud.

The creature does not stir, and victory, for the moment, is yours. Allowing a small smile to creep across your sweat-beaded face, you quickly rush off to help your friends in their own struggles.