Chrysalis

When Tiny notices I'm running forward, about to overtake him, he speeds up!

Stop it you stupid ape! I'm trying to save your damn life!

Oblivious to my good intentions, Tiny is sprinting with all of his ape might, grinning from ear to ear and screeching out his simple minded lust for battle.

Bless you, you idiot.

Gritting my mandibles tight I exert every ounce of my strength into my legs, moving them so quickly they flicker in my eyesight. Is this the legendary shadow step technique?!

It's enough. Triumph surging in my heart I pass my ape companion at the last possible moment and break out of the tunnel and into the open pit.

Ha ha! Take that Tiny you slug!

Oh right, the bear.

Before I have a chance to throw the breaks on I smash into the bear, effectively head butting it rather close to the eye, quite hard due to my impressive momentum. The bear of course is extremely impressed by this action and attempts to repay me by levering its face out of the dirt and biting my head off.

Duck!

The massive jaws snap shut directly over my head. Thankfully I've learned from past experience and remembered to pull my antennae down when I ducked, I'm not losing my antennae this time!

Ok. Now I'm face to face with a truly terrifying and enormous bear monster. Now that I'm closer to it the scale of the monster is even more impressive. This thing is probably the same size as Tiny or the Titan-Croc, but is most likely even more massive. I suspect this thing weighs even more that Titan-Croc, it's carrying some serious heft.

Watch out! Paw!

Leaping back I manage to avoid a fearsome swipe of the beasts paw, the claws whistling past my face.

Thankfully the monster is considerably restrained in this pit, it's massive upper body and head occupy almost all of the available space, making it rather crowded in here now that Tiny and I have joined the fray.

It would be nice if I try and build up a mana ball to blast this thing but since Tiny has decided to engage in melee with it

In these narrow confines I can only make use of my finest ant-like qualities to make the best of this situation.

Scrabbling up the wall I make my way out of the reach of those fearsome teeth and begin to charge up my infused mandibles. Waves of mana flow from my core, streaming through my body and charging my mandibles with vibrant energy.

Hope you're ready for this, bear!

Crushing bite!

THUNK!

bristling eyebrows of

flank, it feels like I'm digging into a tree trunk with a knife! This bear is ridiculously tough! Tougher than anything I've

from the trap, finally pushing managing to push its paws under its face and start to lever his head out

doubt punching the bear in the eyeball or something else horrifically dangerous. In order to keep the monster distracting I keep biting, hoping to eventually carve through this

chomp this time I

THUNK!

the heck is this bear

penetrating power of the piercing bite are able to dig deeper than before, but I still

This guy is tank!

tries to free itself, I can hear the chirping crackle of electricity. Clearly Tiny has warmed up his fists and is ready to

comes a thumping noise and the entire body of the bear flashes with electrical light.

Tiny! I'll give him

THUNK!

Dammit!

to bite a little deeper that time but this bear is a tough nut to crack! I try to pull more mana from my

as I'm rocked back and forth. I can see from here that the hind legs of the bear are getting a decent hold of the ground outside the pit, allowing the monster to pull itself out

possible I need to deal

intense power, I swear my face feels like

not to hit Tiny who continues to fling lightning punches into the

POW! POW! POW!

do you

…

doing its job, hardening and sticking to everything that it hit. I

he's too damn strong for the restriction to be effective and his hide is too thick for the acid

I can grab Tiny in my mandibles and drag him into

the forceful mana shout but I'm not sure I can fight this creature head on and condense enough mana to do meaningful

just bite now and worry about

Piercing chomp!

CRUNCH!

positively creak my mandibles gouge into the bear meeting the incredible resistance that had frustrated me so

Finally!

Chomp has