“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.
over yourselves and stop making mistakes, or I’ll tell the Eldest how stupid you’ve
vines to surge up the tunnel once again to snag Advant and
was your fault,”
my fault?” Coolant replied icily. “The creature is clearly weak to fire, you should have fended it
vines. You could have frozen
the Eldest
being petty because they didn’t have a mega-ice spell for you to learn. It’s not my fault that
help Advant without setting her
“Maybe I will!”
love to see
stood off for a long moment, staring at each other until a bedraggled figure trudged
out. “If the Eldest were here to see
done anything wrong,” Coolant defended herself icily. “Propellant, on the other
want to hear it,” the soldier cut the two
were a number of smaller wounds as well, places where the vines had pierced flesh and inflicted
rare, but it
their argument get in the way of their task, which
around and go back. I only agreed to come with so few in the team because I assumed
each other askance, antennae drooping with shame, though neither willing to admit fault in
a
out of commission for who knows how long, and we have a ton of things to do, but you two can’t let something
are not performing our tasks with
chunks of vine
my best not to set you on fire. I can’t promise you won’t get
bothering
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