The Forest

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Unowned Territory that few dare to venture through because of those that inhabit it.

"This place is just down right creepy with all the dead, snow covered trees. Wait...the ice is...spreading. The White Queen isn't just trying to take Soleste...she's going for the whole region!"

Alina sees Ven running swiftly ahead of the others. He's almost, if not as, fast as me. She stops worrying about Ven's swift movements and gets back to works on the piece of woods she's been quickly whittling while gracefully and swiftly landing on thick branches. The piece of wood she's whittling occasionally sends pieces of wood at Lucas' head.

Suddenly the clouds strike lightning. "I think you just ticked Glacia off," Hela says. The clouds suddenly stop all together. "Well, that's not so bad." Then hail begins to fall in the distance. From the dark of the woods where the trees are still thick, hundreds of small icy gremlins emerge, leaping toward the group. "Gah!"

"Now see, I'd care that I was being purposely pelted by woodchips if that wasn't happening!"

"Well, that could have turned out better... Congelo," Aria points her staff at a the gemlins, slowing them down until they're almost not moving at all, "They aren't very powerful. It'll only take a few hits to kill them,"

Alina looks behind her and sees that there are several Ice Golems jumping through the branches towards her. "Crap!" she looks at the piece of wood she's been whittling for the past week. "It's not perfect but it'll have to do for now!" She dexterously grabs a barrel of string from her pack and cuts it and ties it around the two ends of the piece of wood, which now resembles a bow. She then stops dead in her tracks and faces the golems and readies her make-shift bow with the ice dagger as an arrow. "Wait for it...wait for it...now!" She fires the dagger, with deadly precision, at the ice golems when several of them are in a row. Taking out all of them with one hit. "Gotcha!"

Ven slides to a hault and as if in one motion, unsheaths both his blades then throws them like boomerangs. The blades cut through rows of Gremlins then return to his hands. "Hmph..."

"Okay, that guy is good," Lucas says as he slices through three gremlins.

"Congelo!" Aria slows down more of the gremlins, then points her staff at the oncoming hail, "Tract! Glacies!"

The hail seems to be unchanged for a moment, but the it starts to fall towards the gremlins They hail is shaped as little daggers, and crashes into the gremlins. The hail pelts the gremlins for a few seconds before going back to how it originally was.

Suddenly the hail stops and lightning again strikes from the clouds. This time, however, the face of the ice emerges in the form of Glacia. "Hmph."

"Ah crap," Lucas says.

As Glacia appears, Alina gets a strange chill over her and starts wheezing and eventually collapses to her knees on a branch.

Aria lowers her staff and turns her attention to the Ice Goddess herself, "Seems I've made her mad..."

As Alina is helplessly wheezing the Ice Golems continue to approach her. They're about to strike her, but she dodges the only way she can, by falling out of the tree.

Lucas sees Ali falling and runs to try and catch her. When he's just shy, he jumps, catching her then turning over and landing on his back, sliding into a tree and hitting his head. Crescia spins her staff and shoots several fireballs toward Glacia. "Leave us alone!"

Glacia holds up her hand and the fire freezes, her not even having been looking. "Is that it...really?"

Aria steps forward, "Tract. Glacies."

Not much, but some hail comes towards her from the clouds, and molds into something resembling a spear.

"Cataracta."

Suddenly a powerful steam of water comes out of nowhere, going towards Glacia. Aria drops the spear into it, sending it flying at Glacia.

Glacia raises and eyebrow and without even moving, the water freezes in the air, four inches away from her. "You attack an Ice Goddess...With Water...And Ice..."

Ven suddenly launches down toward Glacia and throws his swords. Glacia freezes the steel of the swords with a chilling wind then stops the swords in mid air using the ice around them. "You all clearly need to be educated." Glacia turns her attention to the remaining gremlins and teh shattered remains of the defeated ones. They begin to merge together then take the form of a giant Ice Golem. From there, Glacia disappears in a gust of icy wind.

"Oh joy..... This should be fun.... Congelo," Aria sighs, slowing down the golem

The the golem starts to slow down but suddenly breaks free of the spell's control, proving too powerful. "We'll have to go about this another way," Ven says.

Crescia and Hela try to wake up Ali and Lucas. "Get up! Please, Get Up!" They yell.

"Baptizo, Frigus!" A sphere of water materializes around the golem, which then freezes over, "Carry them or something! Those spells won't last for long!"

Alina remains unconscious, but still wheezing.

Lucas, on the other hand, wakes up. "I'm...fine. Whoa! What happens when I'm asleep?!"

Ven helps Lucas up, Lucas having picked up Ali. "Glacia left us with this. The only way I can think of is to knock it over. Something that big, made from a shatterable resource can't survive that kind of fall."

"Hey, Crescia," Hela says.

"Yeah?"

"Metal goes boom when it's exposed to microwaves, right?"

"Oh, I gotcha. We'll try and blow one of the legs.

Lucas nods. "Ven and me'll take care of the other one. Aria, can you hold onto Ali for me?"

Aria slowly nods, and takes Ali from him without even looking him the eyes.

Hela wills metallic alloy from within a rock and turns it into several large balls then forces the balls into the golem's left leg. Crescia them heats them up with a burst of microwaves that causes them to all explode, breaking the golem's leg. Meanwhile, Lucas and Ven take turns slicing at the other leg until they manage to cut through it. "Timbeeeeer!" Lucas calls as the golem begins to fall and lands on its back.

Aria watches as they take down the golem, then looks down at Ali with a worried expression.

Lucas claps his hands together as if dusting them off. "God work, team."

"Um... L-Lucas, ri-right...? There's something wrong with Ali..."

Alina's still unconscious, but her wheezing had died down for the most part.

Lucas takes Ali from Aria's hands and feels her forehead. "Geez, I've never seen a temperature this bad. Alright, everyone, we have to get to the industrial city quick. The clouds look like they've stopped for now so let's move."