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Hate all you want, but you can't break the girl who thinks nothing of you. So go ahead. You can't be compared to me.

Argus bobbed and weaved behind the couple peacefully as they carried on. It had wisely drifted from their sight when the boy took out a knife, but it still followed and relayed vision to Millie as she tripped and tip toed through the underbrush, feeling her way through with one habd while she kept the other over her eyes to prevent peeking. The pair of eyes by her constantly took turns making rounds, rushing ahead and behind and to her sides in caution, looking for monsters. They took the long way around an imp powow, and continued on, following the landmarks that the Argus up ahead had mapped out.
"Oh. They found a hostage," Millie announced in surprise. That was fast and conenveniant. The Argus with the students abandoned it's hiding place and zoomed forward, spinning around the writhing hostage bag in plain sight, examining it carefully. Millie was catching up, too. She recklessly quickened her pace and stopped the two eyes from patrolling, wanting to meet up with them as soon as possible in this dangerous forest. The eye with them glanced around, and sighted a threat. All it could do was widen it's pupil in warning before a monumentous troll clubbed the boy, and he went flying, unfortunately catching the eye in mid air, squishing it against the tree in the collision, obliterating it and Millie's view of things. "Damn it!" Millie hissed and opened her eyes. The rest of the Argus disappeared. Millie stuttered into a jog, adapting to normal vision again, and soon enough was sprinting as quietly as she could passed the landmarks. Finally she arrived at the scene and ducked into a bush, glaring throuh the branches at the tall troll, then at the boy who'd been hit badly.
With a disgruntles breath, Millie opened her book again and flipped to the man-eating tree. “Souls who rest in the earth, garnering such longstanding grudges, now it is time to come forth from the impure earth and lend me your power. Toil with my opponent, protector of the forest. Man-Easting Tree, I give you your time of Dimittam.” Suddenly, the vegetation between Millie and the troll knotted together and weeded itself into a rustling mas of plant life. Two appendages snaked out of it, writhing until they found a stable form, and a large fanged jaw yawned open, secreding deadly poison. Like a flash, it's vined arms wrapped around the troll's legs and yanked it backwards. Millie took the chance and dashed out towards the students and the hostage. "Get on your feet!"

Hate has always given birth to more hate. The gyre will widen, and sense drifts farther and farther, chaos ensuing.

Hate all you want, but you can't break the girl who thinks nothing of you. So go ahead. You can't be compared to me.

The female student acted quickly, Millie noticed. When the troll struck her firend---Oli by the sound of it---the lady---Cammy by the sound of it---whipped out the black sword on her back. Millie was stunned by the power that slashed through the air and ripped through a heftyy tree trunk. It fell heavily on the troll and Millie's summoned creature, with a weight that shook beneath her feet. Millie glanced at her, eyes wide with aknowledgement.
However, the troll was merely distracted by the tree knocking it down, and with a thick fist, it ripped the vines obstructing it's movements and swatted the monster of plant life away. The man-eating tree shook it's head like a confused dog, then glared faced the troll as if it had eyes. The jaws opened again, and it let out a whispery hiss, spitting venom. The creature intelligently sank into the ground on it's own voalition. The next moment, it was merged with the tree that the troll was clumsily shoving off. The thick branches twisted in their scokets and plunged into it's arms like swords, imebding itself in the troll and the earth. The troll howeled, but it was cut off suddenly as spindly branches wound around its throat, choking it and twisting tighter when the troll struggled, though it was to dumb to cease.
"Perfect. Let's go," Millie dictated as she turned around, only to find herself alone. They'd ran away without her. Millie frowned, but didn't blame them. The troll uttered gutteral gasps, slobering over itself in an attempt to breath. "Ugh. Kill it already," Millie snipped. The branches jerked with a shattering force, cracing the troll's neck. Millie quickly sent a surge of energy at the man-eating tree, dismissing it, and the tree creaked to slack stillness, wound unnaturally around the troll's carcass beautifully. She didnt have time to let the plant devour it to erase the evidence. She heard heavy footsteps of something big and udoubtedly as ugly as this troll. Skittishly, Millie fled into the brush and dropped to a crouch when a big fat ugly ogre waltzed into sight. Millie bit her lip, thinking she should have kept the man-eating tree out to camoflauge herself, and now that it was gone, she didn't want to waste her magic to summon it up again. Two rapid Dimmitam's had already spent her breath.
Then a surge of animosity blazed in her. If she wanted to find the two students quickly again to share the credit of getting away with a hostage, she'd have to call Argus, again, or run the risk of calling for them. What an annoying predicament. Millie grumbled under her breath, grateful that the dumb ogre didn't hear her and crept under a bush, bumping right into the two objects of her hate, Cammy and Oli. "You guys!" she breathed in annoyance at them. She squirmed the rest of the way from under the bush and crouched next to them, still angrily glaring at them.
To the white haired female, Milli gazed up at her frowningly. "Your attack was useful. Thanks." She jerked her head, implying the troll situation. "Good on you, not letting a troll sneak up on ya," she added, sarcastically letting her eyes twitch to the male.

Tess jumped, hazardously cracking the twig beneath her foot, when she heard an echoing, cut off howl. It sounded inhumane, and she wondered just what Ahanna Sensei had infested this forest with. With luck, something would finish Millie off before she got help, and tess's dream would be complete.
Yeah, as if that would happen, Tess thought to herself as she precariously shuffled across the tree branch above a snuffling, giant weasel. Undoubtedly, she's the one that made whatever that was scream in the first place.It cocked it's head, still pondering where that earlier thud had come from. All Tess knew was that someone or something had had the audacity to randomly chuck a rock her way, lurng in a giant freaking weasel that was probably hungry. Tess wasn't taking any chances, assuming weasels were carnivorous, or at least this one was, and had scaled a tree the moment she heard the beast scuffling her way. Now she was tenderly nitpicking her steps, half kneeling, creeping across a sturdy branch to the next tree, hoping the limb wouldn't creak or crack under her weight.
Finally the weasel had enough and shuffled back to it's station. Tess had succesfully traversed a tree or two over and quietly as a mouse clambered back down and continued on her soft footed way, looking for one of the real hostage sights.

Hate has always given birth to more hate. The gyre will widen, and sense drifts farther and farther, chaos ensuing.