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Holly looked quickly at Alhiria, then at Narissa. She didn't want to leave with someone else when the only one she trusted in the clearing was herself and Narissa.

Narissa looked at Holly, then back at Alhiria. The great serpent didn't want Holly to leave her side, especially while in the Ether, but Alhiria was right. Narissa traveled fast on land, faster in the water, but flight was almost always fastest. "Go with Alhiria," she said to Holly, giving her a concerned glance. She looked hard at Floreta's Guardian. "If you lose her, if she has any other injuries when I see you in Reimli, you'll lose more than a few tail feathers," she hissed. And yes. This time, it was menacing.

((Beh... Gotta go.))

Drooping from the trees above and in front of both Shef and Regond (and Queenie and Marina) was a massive snake skin, thicker around than any of the trees here. Nearly as thick as some of the largest sequoia in Reimly. It's massive scales where white, discolored; containing barely a hint of the color that they had once possessed.

The most amazing thing was that this skin, thicker around than any tree for hundreds of miles, was only barely a fraction of the length of the hidden remainder of the skin.

And the tail of the shed snake skin was always much smaller than the middle.

"By Mount Gagazth Itself..." muttered Regond.

"I've never seen something so... so massive in my entire existence," Regond replied, too numb shocked to take insult. Regond was not thinking properly, or else he would have realized immediately what the skin actually was.

"How in the... Arthur would have wanted to see this." Regond declared with certainty, although still numb inside.

Shef walked up to the skin and tore a scale off. It was larger than his head.

((Yes, Arthur is Shef's father.))

Regond said nothing, only turning to follow his hatchling, as he thought of Shef, out of this strange, wonderful and wicked forest.

((Short post. XD What to do with Rat, now...?))

((MAYHEM.))

((Your characters have too many powers. ONE power is allowed. ONE. ONE. ONE. You may choose ONE out the many powers on your... cat-demon girl. This goes for Reign/Falian, butterfly/poisonous-blood-girl, and whoever else you gave more than ONE power.))

At that moment, the Shadows of Lumah appeared from the ground, surround the snake skin and the Guardians/Guarded. These Shadows were larger than the ones that were fought before, and colored a deep, blood red. Clearly, these Shadows were of a higher level... and they wanted not only Shef and Regond, but the others as well. They attacked.

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Regond squawked, startled from the ambush.

"They followed us!" he cawed, "Bloody persistent creatures!"

[[ Wait, you guys just traveled over the river already? Or are you still in the Sylstern? ]]

[[Wonderful. <3.
There goes the first post-idea.
And...my characters have more than one power. I think all of them do. ]]

Kiki pursed her lips.
She scoffed to herself, and felt utterly pooped that a Guardian wouldn't even accept her friendly handshake. She did scuttle along towards the group, pouting, and brushing herself off with dignity.

And that's when the shadows surrounded them.
Kiki looked around with panic, and swooped up into a tree, being chased by one. Despite her impossible speed the shadow moved through the tree itself, and then shoved her against the trunk. Kiki gave it a blast of electricity, and it flew back so she could catch her breath.

Why do I come back to you?

You hate me. You scream at me. You ignore me.

But I still come back to you.

You push me. You pull me. You shove me against random solid objects all hours of the day.

But I still run back to you.

Why?


((Thank you, Fatal. ^_^))

Reign howled, ducking around attacks.

"Falian, use your powers!" She called, leaping over Shef.

"What powers?!" Her Guarded yelped as Reign landed and skid to face the shadows. She growled. "I thought you were the one with powers!"

"The powers that come with me being your Guardian!" Reign snapped. "Do it!"

"B-but!" Falian stammered "I don't know how-!"

A massive red fox creature slammed into one of the Shadows that had threatened Reign, sending it careening sideways.

"I have no powers except for my lantern!" Queenie told Reign, ignoring the fact that Reign had no idea who she was. "And that's only for emergencies! We need to run and we need to run now!"

As she spoke, a small white house cat sped beneath her legs and towards the exit of the forest. Queenie yelped, leaping over a fallen log and racing after her, ducking and dodging the Shadows.

"Marina!" The great creature called. "MARINA!"

Reign snarled.

"Fine!" She snapped, leaping after Queenie. "As much as I hate it, let's go!"

Falian, snatching Regond out of the air seeing as how Shef was already on Queenie's back, tightened her grip on Reign as the Guardian sped away.

((So, Reign has fought with fire before, but apparently Guardians don't have magic even in Ether - from what I've been told - but if this is wrong PLEASE tell me and I'll change my post, because I don't like having ALL of my characters helpless...))