Once Upon A Spider

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"Sense her?" Sah-lora made a face. "Do you mean like by her smell?"

[Lion]

"I mean capable of finding her somehow, track her," Ghanon said.

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"Track her? You mean like an animal?" She supposed she could, she could hunt, after all, but if anyone was good at tracking, it was her mother.

[Lion]

"Yes," he said.  "To find her.  Perhaps she can give us proper haven against the monsters in the forest.  Let's find your mother."

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"I'm not even sure where to begin," she breathed, heart pumping loudly. "Perhaps to the North, towards the thistle woods?"

[Lion]

"It's better than standing here!"  Ghanon took her hand and took off north.

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The Thistle Wood would not be easy to access, and the pair found themselves sloshing through the swamp lands, at times the land becoming dense, but then suddenly would break away, and Sah-lora found herself nearly spilling face first into the waters.

"Be careful of your step," she went on, voice low as her green eyes cut across the swamp lands. "Those who wish to seek us harm are all around us." And she felt her skin prickle as she heard the noises of the one's they had thwarted earlier.

"Come, we must hurry!" And she pointed towards the thorny, grey trees on the horizon.
"Over there is where we must go. If my mother is anywhere, it is in that place."

[Lion]

Ghanon was tired of all this running.  No matter how swift or lightfooted they were to be, the creatures were coming in around them, tightening the noose, eradicating any chance of escape.  Ghanon suddenly grabbed Sah-lora and pulled her up into his arms.  He opened up a portal before them, slipping through it, ripping through reality, and appearing in the air, just above the tree line.

But they were in the air, and gravity soon claimed them, pulling them back to earth in a hard crash.

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Reality smacked her, quite literally, as the pair fell into the ground, Stunted and winded from the fall, once her wits and breath returned to her, she looked over at Ghanon- the sounds of those of the night having already sniffed them out and wailing in hunger.

"R..run!" she said, trying to get to her feet. She hadn't time to question just how they escaped, but really- she knew of one thing-
That those THINGS would hardly stop hunting them- even after they would seemingly 'disappear'.

"To.. to the edge of the woods. They.. they won't come chase us around there!"
Or so she hoped-
It seemed most creatures in this place couldn't leave- herself included.

[Lion]

"You really should get out of the forest!  Not all places have creatures trying to make you a meal!"  Ghanon was getting sick of all this running, and it seemed even teleportation wasn't getting them nearly as far enough as it should have.  But he could tell they were nearing the edge, even as they splashed through puddles and over what solid ground remained.  Mud caked their feet, keeping them suctioned in some places.

But they were closer than it at first seemed.

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Sah-Lora gave a shake of her head.
"To leave means death. The curse of my birth keeps me here."

[Lion]

"Then let's refrain from dying shall we?" he said with a charming grin and gestured her to lead the way.  "To your mother if it's not too much to ask."

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Rizhra snarled as she appeared behind them. She was more than pissed that she felt the presence of something near godly in her swamps and with her daughter. And without warning, she threw her crook forward, slamming it into the swampy grounds and summoned a blast of wicked darkness towards them both.

[Lion]

Okay so it was fair to say Ghanon was not expecting that!  He shot out a blast of green light just in time to hold back the physical darkness, his magic penetrating it and shielding himself as well as her daughter from Rizhra's magic.

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Rhizra hissed and readied her staff, but as the powers dissipated, Sahlora saw who it was.
"Mother!" But the witch had already thrust another surge of powerful dark magic at them both.

[Lion]

Ghanon grit his teeth for her magic was strong.  And so was his.  There was a reason Corrothim magic was forbidden, it's sheer power could tear apart flesh as if it never existed at all.  And with the force of Rhizra's magic, he opened his hands and pulled apart that darkness and cast it out.  He felt that surge of power, that intoxicating rush as it was absorbed into his gauntlets and his silver eyes glowed with it.

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Rhizra eyes flared dangerously at his deflection.
"Away from my child or I'll have to turn you both into a smoldering pile of smoke."

[Lion]

Ghanon kept his hands charged with that energy and he glared daggers at Rhizhra.  "I was defending your daughter from you," he spat savagely.  "We can looking for you!  She found me in her swamp."

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At that, Rhizra laughed, a dark, cackling.
"And you expect me to believe that? BE GONE!" she roared, and hefted another, more potent surge of energy, and just before it made contact, something grabbed Sah-lora and yanked her away into the thick mists.

[Lion]

This was going nowhere fast!  And just as if to prove his point, something yanked Sah-lora out into the darkness.  Ghanon howled, when Rhizhra's magic hit him full blast, knocking him back into a tree.  But he could see a black giant thing dragging Sah-lora through the trees.  Forget her stinkin' mother.

He climbed to his feet and bolted through the darkness.  And finding the trail of what the creature was was none too difficult, for it's footprints were giant tree roots.  Ghanon surged his hands, igniting the night and blasting out bulbs of white light.

"Sah-lora!" he cried out, leaping into the air and taking flight.

[Sometimes I forget Ghanon has like a bunch of cool powers...]