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.]

never have come

on the bright side. When the termites are defeated we can remove the mould from this area and return it to wonderful forest, filled with

alright, the aphids

superiority. Even if we started fungus farming, we wouldn't let it run wild and out of

have the trail?] Sarah asks, sounding a little panicked as we continue to

it,] I confirm, [it's getting stronger even. Wherever they are, we're

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 her shoulders.

tell her, [how do you even last in a

snaps, [that usually takes care of

Oh, right.

hastily assure her. My antennae waggle furiously as I follow the trail. [The trail

how many. Tiny 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 through a cluster of trees, blasting away the mould that had grown up to fill the space between them

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 discerned from this distance. More terrifying still, is the view of the mountain I get from here.

termite nest. The

fit the main nest of the Colony into this thing ten

and there amongst them. It's too bad they aren't alone. Not only are they swarmed by a host

lock Vibrant and her group into a fight so that the termites

Not. Acceptable.

in there!] I roar to Tiny who

thumps his chest with his enormous palms, bellowing his rage in an ear shattering roar that shakes the trees around us. Then he's off, bounding across the

him alive and blow up

[Even the lizardsssss?]

[Especially them.]