Snippet #1521439

Anya was growing ever the more furious with Junpei's holier-than-thou bullshit. But for the moment, she needed to put up with it. She watched after Balthazar and when the Drag was close, she thanked him. Nez gripped the pommel of his blade and turned, following after Junpei. The Drazyll reached down and nez took a grip of her hand before she lifted him so that he could ride on her shoulder. Anya was gearing-up for a very unpleasant trip. At least the Drag and the Inple would be behind her. Nez's powers scared her. What hurt worse was the fact that Nez could have defeated Tedrin in a fair fight but, instead, he killed the man because of a corrupt order he'd given Anya. Even so, she had to understand why Junpei and Nez did things the way that they had. Even more was the fact that they were simply leaving Tedrin behind but there was little to be said for this at the time. There were so many others dead and so little time to do anything about it. She looked back and said, "Tedrin, I will come back for you...and you will be buried the way that you deserve. Until then, Tedrin," she said and turned away. There was no time to waste.

The forest was long and dark, moldy, musty. But what was worse was the fact that creatures crept through the darkness, slithering about, watching them. The Drazyll said something to Nez and he turned toward the rear of the group. He called them to a stop and jumped down. That same burst of wind energy slowed his descent at the last minute and he came to a crouch. He looked back over his shoulder and whispered, "Dryttz says there is something out there...watching us... It's coming for us..."
"What is it...?" Anya said as she pulled an arrow from her quiver, nocked it, and drew it back. She peered into the darkness as the others readied themselves.
"She doesn't know," Nez said. But it's not supposed to be here..."
"What does she mean?"
Finally, Dryttz spoke and said, "This was once their home but now....they are evil spirits and they should not be here... They watch us...but they do not need to follow... They are all around..."
The earth shuttered and Dryttz said, "They are aggravated... I cannot speak to them, I know not what commands them to attack us. This does not make sense..."
"What is she talking about?" Anya asked as a gnarly tree next to them uprooted itself. "What the fuck?" Anya yelled as she released an arrow toward the creature but it pushed straight through it. Oleris was there, with his blade, shoving the creature away with a mighty swing. The creature would not relent. Anya fired another arrow into the creature but it did little good. Nez turned back to Dryttz, bound from the earth with a burst of wind energy. he touched his foot to her knee and vaulted upward, touching the other to her shoulder. He launched himself backward off of her shoulder, turned his body over and thrust himself toward the monster with wind energy. Passing the creature, he carved a large gash in it with his blade and landed in a slide as Dryttz slammed into the creature with the bulk of her body and sent it crashing into a tree above Nez. He rolled out of the way as both the creature and the tree began to come down. Anya leaped away from the site as the two came down and Nez was back on his feet as well. The tree creature swatted the fallen tree away from itself and was ready to come at the group again but Junpei was already attacking.



Creature Type: Tree
Body Type: Tree-like
Weakness: Fire, Ice (Fire, Floated, Ice (to coat before grounding), Grounded to break, Broken: Fire, Ice/Wind)
Difficulty: Be Wary
Swarm: Yes
Size: 10 feet tall, 1000 pounds
Innate: Earth, Flora