“SHIELDS!” Advant shouted, her pheromones washing over the entire area in a mighty burst.
The two mages, thankfully, were quick to respond and a shield sprang into being around the large soldier, mere moments before the mess of vines engulfed her completely.
She lunged forward, mandibles snapping as she sheared through hundreds of the tough, living ropes, not noticeably making a dent in them.
“Need some fire?” Propellant asked, eager.
“Of course I want some damn fire! Why are you asking? Just cast it already!” Advant hollered.
An immediate burst of flame washed over her, igniting the vines and driving them back temporarily. Of course, it also set the fine hairs on her antennae on fire at the same time….
“Not me, you idiot!”
“Sorry.”
Unsurprisingly, Propellant didn’t sound all that apologetic as she watched the plant monster retreat, smothering the flames with its innumerable vines. Coolant sighed and conjured a jet of water to douse the singed soldier.
“Really now, you should be able to aim better than that, sister.”
Now dripping wet, Advant fumed silently for a moment before deciding she could no longer hold it in.
“You two have been useless since we got down here,” she sniped at the bickering mages. “If I didn’t know better, I’d think you’d had a falling out of some sort.”
Propellant and Coolant stood awkwardly for a moment.
Get over yourselves and stop making
vines to surge up the tunnel once
was your fault,” Propellant
replied icily. “The creature is clearly weak
has water within its vines. You could have frozen
being petulant because you’re mad the Eldest
didn’t have a mega-ice spell for you to learn. It’s
use it. Go help Advant
“Maybe I will!”
to
for a long moment, staring at each other until a bedraggled
out. “If the Eldest were here to see your incompetence, you’d be back in training before you could
anything wrong,” Coolant defended herself icily. “Propellant, on the other
I don’t want to hear it,” the soldier cut the
smaller wounds as well, places where the vines had pierced flesh and inflicted harm. The
was unusual for any members of the Colony to have a disagreement of any kind. Beyond unusual, exceedingly rare, but it did happen. Then again, two individuals with
their argument get in the way of their task, which was not acceptable. Especially because Advant was the one counting on
only agreed to come with so few in the team because I assumed you two would be such an
other askance, antennae drooping with shame, though neither willing to
a frustrated puff
stressed right now. The Eldest is out of commission for who knows how long, and we have a ton of things to do, but
quite right,” Coolant said. “We are not
picking chunks of vine from
not to set you on fire.
is bothering the two of
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