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Pen gasped when she saw the explosion. She felt an insane urge to jump after Ivy before she remembered she didn't exactly have the ability to create wings of her own. She leaned over and spoke to Bael. "Let's set down and see if we can help." Pen realized she wouldn't be much help--she didn't carry a weapon and she had no magic or healing skills. 'Note to self- Pick up a decent weapon in the next town and learn how to use it,' she thought angrily.

((Sorry for my absense! To make up for it, it's time to "randomly" run into someone!))

The world was a blur around Odik, and nothing was any easier to identify from the next. But the tremor that had shook the ground did not need to be seen to be known.

"Dare someone harm the wood?!" The giant shaman raced down the path that lead to the shrine. "Quite the coincidence that the explosion happened to be along my trail."

Odik stopped at the clearing edge, his mouth agape and his fists trembiling with rage.

Daggers had been thrown and had missed their mark by the look of them protruding from tree a few feet away, deep imprints of hooves had altered the land scape into the appearance of an explosion strewn battle field, and countless limbs of a giant, heairy beast littered every stertch of remaining grass.

Worst of all, thick, acid-like liquid had splattered everywhere, leaving patches of grass bare and stripping bark of the trees that had been caught in the nova of blood.

Odik's tear filled eyes fell upon two humans laying in the center of the catastrophe, a young girl kneeling over a young elf-looking man. Odik didn't know, having rarely seen one at the village.

With his voice trembling with rage, he said, "Who....Who has done this...To the trees? The leaves and grass? Who has brought this unjustice to the wood that harbours so many?!" Odik roared and a swarm of deep green motes entered his muscled arms making them bulge to monstrous proportions and leaving a deep glow in his eyes. "Tell me....Or your life will be forfeit!"

Pen watched the giant bear appear. She watched intensely. Feeling useless still, she did the only thing she was good at. She pulled out a leather-bound journal and started recording the battle. Her hand trembled as she wrote.

"...the monster was finally slain, but it's mysterious slayer was nearly destroyed in the process. Ivy, the cloaked sorceress, was quick to assist..."

Petrified, Ivy's mind went blank. She could think of no spells, no protection for her and Zar. The only thing that ran through her mind was how it would have been best if she hadn't opened her mouth. Her hand was unconciously gripping Zar harder and harder. She summoned as much as her power as possible and used it to fully heal Zar, since she knew there was no way that she would be ably to fight the bear withough dying herself. Though by the looks of it, thats what she was going to be doing fairly soon.

Ivy had her eyes closed the entire time. She felt her body lifting and she knew she had died. She felt a soft bump she opened her eyes and imediatly shrieked. Ivy started to cling harder as she looked down at the battle scene below. Somehow they had gotted up here, and, as she soon realised, they were very much alive. She looked at Zar shocked and tongue tied. "Wha-Wha-Wht just ha-happened?" She stuttered out, looking into Zars eyes.

After staring blankly at Ivy for a few seconds, he opened his mouth and then paused for another second. "The wings of redemption," he started in a trance-like voice, "are grown from shadow miracles. Only one in a billion shadow elves have the miracle of growing wings. To retrieve the wings, you must open your heart for even a split second and in your time of need, you will allow a helping hand, and in that moment, if a pure soul whos intentions are only to help you, you will be able to grow wings of redemption and hone the powers of the white wizard. But even then, you must have the miracle...Or so the myth goes."

He shook slightly and regained consciousness. Reaching behind his back and feeling the minute wings of which are still in sprouting, he stared at Ivy with grateful eyes. "Thank you."

"GRAAAAAAAGH!!" Odik roared and more motes pured fmor the trees. The defeicators had escaped, and now this dragon man told him to "calm down" for the destruction they had caused. This could not go un-punished.

"INSOLENCE!!" Odik roared again and charged the dragon-man, claws raised to rend the scaly flesh of his new target. "THE FOREST WILL EXACT ITS VENGEANCE THROUGH ME!!" And the green swarm followed, spiking with the same anger as their summoner. With the boon of his forest incarnates assitance, Odik roared again and his muscles doubled in size and the glowing in his eyes became close to blinding. With his increased muscles, his dash increased in speed as well, leaving a cloud of upturned soil in his wake.