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Nyx used her magic to give Jackson's blade a little extra edge as he threw it. She used the shadows around her to make a physical extended edge, as was the nature of her dark magic. It used shadows and turned them to physical items and forces by making the molecules that the shadow covered become more dense. The blade hit the rook in the stomach and it let out a screech but was still powerful enough to fly by at high speeds swooping down at them. As it did Nyx saw Serene use dark energies in a pulsating type of attack and attack the same rook after it swept passed her, cutting the rook in multiple places and pushing the blade further in causing the rook to fall to the ground and stagger for a moment before once again flying high up off the ground.

Alannis ' magic hit the other rook square on and the rook let out blood curdling screeches as it fell to the ground and laid still. The flames had completely engulfed it and when they subsided it was just a large skeleton with the inner walls of muscle that rooks had, which resembled a smooth dull leather. "....That works," Nyx said impressed as she looked at the clean, slightly charred, skeleton. The other rook swept down at them and they all dodged out of the way. Another screech was heard, this one a slightly different screech and Nyx had the wind knocked out of her as she saw talons wrap around her and lifter her off the ground. She looked to see the skeletal rook was flying and holding her.

"What the.... a reanimated rook?....." Nyx was dumb founded as the rook flew higher, she had heard that death magic could reanimate dead monsters and control living dead monsters but it was such a hard magic to master she only personally knew one person who could do it. The skeletal rook threw her up in the air high and as she started to fall it started to fly up at her, with deadly intent, as the other rook flew at the others swooping down close to the ground again. Nyx was scattered brained as she tried to think of an idea. At the last moment she flung her arm to the side and gritter her teeth as a large ball of shadow came up and knocked her out of the line of attack. The rook flew passed her and she fell into a nearby tree.

"Ow...." she mumbled as she opened her eyes to see she had some how gotten stuck upside down in the tree. She fidgeted and pulled until she fell out of the tree and landed with a thud, "Not my most gentle or graceful series of events.... ouch... yeah those ribs are bruised," she mumbled cursing at herself as she got up. "Those are supposed to be dead! They're reanimated already We have to sever the spines from the body!" she called out to the others and quickly rejoined them.

"So what's the strategy? We can burn them to just bone and as long as the spine is in one piece they will still live," she said looking at the others while keeping an eye on both rooks.