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As Liah finished her last word a bug flew passed her, spinning and flinging ooze in front of, to the side of, and behind the group, landing with a loud thump and obviously dead. "Thankful but not grateful. I wasn't really injured to begin with," he said, looking back at Liah with his arm held out and he sliced through it. It poofed into mist and reformed a moment later. "I'm almost immortal till my energy runs low," he explained, turning back around to clash with another beetle. "Of course normally I'd be drained of power by now but I guess all the undeath around charging me."

Unconscious held fast, but images of the past came up. Images of the dragons flying over Gia's head at the island she had left to come on the journey. They had warned her not to die, or so help them they would be upset forever with her. That sent a jolt in Gia's body, but not because of what was being done to her. The wings that had vanished was trying to reform, but she didn't have enough magical energy to reform her wings again. The journey to Tenoshi alone took a large majority of her magic, but that didn't matter since she trained earlier in the day before all the fighting had begun. Her body felt like a log, but she stirred slightly from unconsciousness. It'd be impossible to move though as she seemed to groan a little. Gia knew she passed out, but didn't know how the fight was still going. "The..fight?", her voice would come out weakly but enough to come out as she didn't try to move knowing it impossible at the moment not until she's rested enough to allow her body chance to recover. That was evident since she couldn't really look to see her surroundings, or if she was moved or not. To her, her entire body was numb from lack of magical energy which was only slowly restoring itself.

If we constantly have to battle things we’ll never get anywhere. Sari thought as the beetles began to swarm into the clearing. She had only obtained a few wounds from the undead animals and she had plenty energy left to fight. As two bugs charged towards her she tried to think of a good spell to use, but nothing came to mind. As the bugs neared she began to panic. It was like her mind went blank; she couldn’t even think of a protection spell.

“Umbra sudisis.” She out yelled of the blue while squeezing her eyes shut. When she opened her eyes she saw that the two beetles had been impaled by large black spikes that had shot out of the ground. She stared at it for in awe; as far as she knew she didn’t even know that spell. It wasn’t the first time something like this had happened, but it hadn’t happened so much that she was used to it.

She was brought back to reality when she realized another bug was charging at her from the side. Jumped out of the way in time to not get seriously injured, but the bug managed to cut through her dress create a large cut on her leg. “Compos aquilus corpus.” She said. The spell would give her control of dark matter and shadows with out using other spells for as long as she wanted, it would it would also slowly consume her energy.

She created a mass of dark matter under the front half of the bug and made it ascend until the bug had tipped over. She then created a sword out of dark matter right above the cockroach and drove it through the bug. She was beginning to worry that she would run out of energy if the amount of bugs didn’t cease. She pushed those worries out of her head, deciding she’d deal with that when she began to run out of energy.

Alwyn was using only one hand to fight now her other sore from its beating of the beetles. Sweat was covering her face now and so was dirt. She was at this point and time unable to even think of using any more of her energy her body was already trying to shut down. It was to the point where she wasnt paying attention to the things around her rather her only care was the next huge bnug that would get in her way. A pain went through her head and a strong sense of dejavu. She had seen this somewhere but where... she didnt have time to think about that now she hit another bug and had a moments rest. "These things just keep on comming... gotta figure out a way to stop them..." She gasped

"I feel drained...", she said that, but it seemed not long after she'd stab a beetle that came scuttling a little too close. It might have thought since it saw a downed warrior to attack, but even in her weakened state she could stab it. She'd eventually slice the beetle up, but it taxed her physical energy only, not her magical. It still had her left tired as she was breathing a little heavily to be trying to use her long sword with one hand. Gia's eyes still looked dilated, but they're amethyst hue looked to be trying to glow again. It was her body's way of showing when her magic had fully returned or not, was when her eyes fully begun to glow as brilliant as the moon would shine in the night's sky. "We have to get out of this forest....something isn't right about this.....", something just didn't add up quite right about this whole thing to her as she thought carefully. She knew her blast spell made a wolf angry, but it was dispatched quickly. There should not have been this many foes this quickly, or if there was their guide held back info to those that had been present about details that he knew about this forest.

((Hey! bone, no spoilers! Last time I tell you anything....))

As the hordes of beetles continued to crawl in, they appeared to be getting...smaller? Yes, they were indeed decreasing in size, many with under developed shells. Its as if they were still maturing, but how was that possible?

Ramiel growled as he noticed the change in his opponents "Dammit, that b***h is hiding around her somewhere!" He said, his voice a low growl before he let out a savage roar. Taking in a deep breath he began to spew flame cross the clearing, roasting any insect that got caught in the flames path. As the flames died away few of the beetles were left standing.

A loud hiss followed by aggressive chittering soon began to echo across the clearing. Suddenly a set of tree's topped over as something flew into view.

It was a creature much like the beetles, black in collar with a hard shell near the placing of its wings, but it was also different. Unlike the beetles it remained aloft in the air, its pincher's were much smaller and its thorax was huge and pusey, but still armored, most importantly though its under belly was armored. There didn't appear to be a single vulnerable part on this thing.

Ramiel growled again "The Queen...."

Without warning and from above, something large came out of the trees. The travellers hadn't noticed her, she'd been waiting for the queen, knowing the bloated shrew wouldn't be able to resist. Seems we have something common, she thought to herself as she pounced onto the queen's abdomen, powerful claws digging into her quarry and letting out a bellowing roar that made the air vibrate. Her tiger form had always been her favorite, senses were sharper, she moved smoother, and frankly, she simply felt more powerful.

((.....argh!))