Chrysalis

[Run, run, run!] I holler at the others as we continue to sprint through the mould covered forest.

It really is obnoxious to run through this mess. There's mould beneath us, beside us and crawling up the trees to cover the canopy above us. It's like being in a suffocating winter wonderland except far more horrifying. Especially now that some of it is on fire.

[I don't think more fire will be a good idea, Master!] Crinis suggests as we race through the terrain.

[We might need another distraction soon. Starting a small fire will get the termites off our trail.]

[Won't it just bring more of them?] Sarah demands.

[I mean, yes. But also, yes…]

They be distracted though…

Perhaps that's still not good enough.

[No more fires,] Sarah tells me firmly, [we can think of something else.]

[Hmph. You're just worried about the fungus spores getting inside you,] I mutter.

[I hadn't even thought of that! Anthony!]

[Breathe it in deep. That's the sweet smell of fungus country.]

should never have come

defeated we can remove the mould from this area and return it to wonderful forest,

the aphids are

started fungus farming, we wouldn't let it run wild and out of control

a little panicked as

[it's getting stronger even. Wherever they

air. She may be a somewhat delicate flower internally, but externally she is all beef. Her legs are thicker than a person and positively bulging with muscle underneath all of that fur, much like

on your stamina somehow,] I tell her, [how do you even last in

[that usually takes care

Oh, right.

now,] I hastily assure her. My antennae waggle furiously

bounds along in my wake, suffering much like Sarah is in this long distance sprint, Invidia perched on his back like a nightmarish bat, green eye blazing with energy as he surveys the land. We rush

slope of the side of the mountain which had been increasing the further we'd gone and I'd expected that to continue, but it seems as if our opponents had a different concept for this landscape. In front of us a vast yawning chasm has been carved into the rock, the trees cleared for hundreds of metres in all directions. Like a passageway into the pit of doom, the wide tunnel is completely black on the inside, with no light source to be

The whole damn mountain is the

just ridiculous! You could fit the main nest of

of Vibrant zipping here and there amongst them. It's too bad they aren't alone. Not only are they swarmed by a host of termites,

them here, using shields and spells to lock Vibrant and

Not. Acceptable.

to Tiny who is only

his rage in an ear shattering roar that shakes the trees around us. Then he's off, bounding across the mould covered

keep him alive and blow up

[Even the lizardsssss?]

[Especially them.]