Jake didn't answer immediately, checking on his companions first. He breathed a sigh of relief when he realized that none of them had been killed. However, he was also surprised to find that they had all been defeated by a single attacker.
A freakish woman, looking more like a scarlet humanoid flower than a human, stood in the center of the bunker, blood-red vines sprouting from her body and suspending his bound comrades in the air. What was jarring to him was that even Azeus' electric shocks seemed to have no effect on this thing.
Trea had been disarmed, her bow lying dozens of feet below her, Fo had used up all her Talismans and lost her Staff, while Tim and Skorgeld had also been stripped of their battleaxes. Lord Phenix was also tied up, having lost a bunch of feathers in a matter of seconds.
The defeat had been as swift as it was brutal.
