@the_peanut_coop
(Vixen in the lab- Basalt just left and is headed for Solosis)
@Anime2lover
(Idk where Ace is- wasn’t Shilah helping him?)
@Bakbuk
(Tank is attacking here, maybe you can send a clone to run Ace and Shilah towards Marsh. Btw, don’t forget about Moss!)
@Crestcrazy2
(Marsh still protecting the nursery? Maybe he can find Shilah trying to protect Ace)
Basalt flew over the rocky terrain, his wings aching from so much flying this past week. Even then, he flew faster. He had left a guard with Ace, and he had been aching to make sure that the little wyrm was safe in the nursery. He flew quickly to the Great Cave- where a shock overtook his large frame, sending a freezing buzz through his body.
Clones.
Everywhere.
In the Great Cave!!
He roared in anguish when he swooped down and spotted the dead guard right outside the Cave entrance.
Furiously, he rolled into a ball midair and plummeted down the earth where he landed with an earth-shaking thump. Quickly, he spread his talons out over the ground and felt the vibrations in the ground. He sensed the clones, walking single file with the same familiar pattern on the inside of the Great Cave. Then he sensed his troops deeper in the Cave- most of the ones hidden in the ground and floor dead after their failed surprise attacks. The others had regrouped and were trying to use the tunnels to their advantage, but the fiery Enfernae were sending them fleeing with bursts of fire. Summoning all the power he could muster in his heavy frame, he called on the energy in his tree far down in its cave…
And with a sudden rumble of the earth,
It responded.
Thick, winding branches broke through the roof of the ceiling in front of the Enfernae clones, leaves blocking their view as thin, tough roots shot out of the ground under their claws, entangling their talons and meeting the branches halfway as they locked together in a thick wall between them and Basalt’s dragons.
Struggling to hold power over each branch and root of the tree- the moment the wall was completed, Basalt released his grip of power on the oak tree and gasped for breath.
He staggered a moment, light-headed.
Before collapsing in the sand-
unmoving.
(Drama- I know! But I got so into it!)