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With the deterant aura of the flame near the front of the group, and Ty's dark silouette at the back, Ty had to give a handful of none-too-gentle smacks to the more brave of the pests, knocking them several yards back into the group. The few times venom was spat at him, Ty simply dematerialized so that the toxic waste passed through him and landed on the ground harmlessly. What sort of vermin should we come faced with in this jungle..? He woundered to himself as he resisted the urge to fly ahead of the group to scout out their new foe.

As the spiders made their advances, Epotheros simply brushed a half dozen or so off with a quick jet of fire that caused the remainders of the group to disappear into the darkness. The group soon made it to a hall way that was lined on each side with 6 humanoid statues. All of them were drapped in cobwebs, and they all looked rather menacing. They seemed to be armed with clubs and spears, but their faces looked other wordly. They we long and narrow, with large square noses.

When they were in the middle of the hall there was a loud scrapping noise which caused Epotheros to turn around rather suddenly. When he looed the two end statues had moved so they were now blocking the exit. While Epotheros was looking dumbfoundedly at the two statues a gray object moved quickly in his perithial vision. He was able to move out of the way fast enough to prevent his skull from being smashed, but the club had taken a fair chunk of skin from his cheek, which was now heavily bleeding.

Epotheros quickly drew his longsword, surrounding it with its usual burning aura and using it to slice through the statue, turning what ever stone it touches instantly into liquid rock. THe attack looked simular to someone using a hot knife to cut through butter.With that one now dispatched eEpotheros quickly took care of the one on the opposing side.

Ty could almost hear Epotheros roll his eyes, but he didn't care, they made it past okay. In the next room, Ty was faintly able to pick out manipulative threads connecting the dead humanoid puppets to something above, possibly Zant's newest pet for us to destroy. Noticing the 'wear down' techniques being played on them, Ty stayed with his back to the group and more defended than attacked...no point in killing the dead.
A stray spear was launched at the back of Epotheros's head, but Ty managed to toss a knife to cut off the point so instead only a blunt wooden pole flung his way. It couldn't kill or knock him out anymore, but he would definitely feel it hit him.
An idea struck him, as he watched Epotheros fighting. Still only repelling the foes as oppossed to attacking them, Ty edged closer to Epotheros as he called over to him, "Light me!"

Epotheros tilted his head to the side allowing the wooden pole of the spear to sail freely in the space inbetween his neck and shoulder. He wathced the people surround them and ready their weapons, but Epotheros was not amused. Their attacks would be fairly weak compaired to what they have already encountered. This was most likely a diversion inorder to capture their attention while the mail threat plots and plains a stradegy. When he heard TY's suggestion, Epotheros thought this would be a good way to counter the diversion, while still being able to know what is going on around him.

"Alright Ty, Destructive Art # 33 Shot of Red Fire!"

A red balll of flame then shot out from Epotheros' palm and hit Ty square in his back spreding like wild fire around his entire body.

As Ty was busy attacking the dead bodies, there was also something more minute happening. One every member there was planted a small spider, with a thread attaching to somthing on the ceiling of the the dark arena. Just then the thread thikened and begain to wrap itself around the hosts body, attacking itself the the joints inorder for what ever it was to gain control.

When this threat arised Epotheros quickly stated to thrash at the threads, which were more like steel cables now with his sword, but to no avail. He then tried to cut through them with his blade heated up, but besides being 100 times stronger than steel, he was stuck in an akward position and cutting through them took far to long with his limited range of motion. He had one final option left. He concentrated his energy as wings unfolded behind him. They were blazing with feathers made of flame and where able to burn their way through the threads and a spread with a full wingspan of 20 feet. The light they emited was bright enough to illuminate the entire caver with an orange glow to reveal a gigantic spider over 50 feet long clinging to the celing of the room.