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.]

have come here. I

remove the mould from this area and return it to wonderful forest, filled

the aphids are

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

you still have the trail?] Sarah asks, sounding a little panicked

[it's getting stronger even. Wherever they

the giant bear as she heaves for 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 her shoulders. In fact, the shoulders are even larger. For all of her strength, she isn't much of a

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

[that usually takes care

Oh, right.

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

really tell how many. Tiny bounds along in my wake, suffering much like Sarah is in this long distance sprint, Invidia perched on his back

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

the termite nest. The whole damn

it's just ridiculous! You could fit the main nest of the Colony into this thing ten times over

alone. Not only are they swarmed by

lock Vibrant and her group into a fight so that

Not. Acceptable.

I roar to Tiny who is only too happy

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

alive and blow up

[Even the lizardsssss?]

[Especially them.]