The Terrible One lifted Diassa off of the ground, and opened its horrific slug fingers. The monster intended to rip the Wizard in half by slowly pulling his top half away from his torso where the beast had impaled him.
"Oh god please, just kill me. Anything but those fingers." Diassa said as he struggled on the abominations skewer like a fish on a hook. Once again the monster had made sure not to stab him in any vital organs.
Fortunately Diassa was spared the slimy touch of those fingers by Jade who wrapped her tail around the Terrible One's foot and pulled it off balance. Diassa fell off of the monsters spike instantly and landed face first on the ground. The relief at not having those slug fingers over his face had temporarily overcome his pain from the stab wound, but now it all came flooding back. Still Diassa had been through worse and he did his best to try and stand up to face the Terrible One.
The toad faced monster meanwhile was still dealing with Jade who leaped through the air and at its throat. She managed to wrap her tail around its neck, whilst clawing at its face to keep it distracted. Incredibly enough for the first time the Terrible One did actually look scared. Jade even managed to draw the creatures blood, which was a horrible, thick blue slime.
The monster tried to impale Jade with its skewer, but she managed to stop both of the spikes in their tracks with her hands whilst remaining wrapped around its neck. Unfortunately however doing so left her unable to attack the creature and knowing she couldn't keep it up much longer, Jade jumped off of its throat and with a quick swipe of her tail tripped the beast up, sending it crashing head first to the earth. The Terrible One instantly got back up, screaming in absolute rage. Its roar was more high pitched which actually caused Diassa, and many of the soldiers to cover their ears (which cost more than a few who were in the middle of battling the skeletons their lives.) Jade meanwhile tried to flee, but the toad monster trapped her in a circle of fire that he created with his breath.
Diassa meanwhile picked up one of the fallen magical soldiers guns. Using an enchantment, the Wizard was able to draw the power from the gun into himself. It would speed up his recharging process. He didn't like to do this, but he had no choice. Sadly the Wizard wasn't able to use the power to heal his stab wound. He had to use all of the little magic he had drained from the weapon to open fire on the Terrible One just as it was about to impale Jade's tale with its skewer.
Diassa shot the monster straight in its mouth, and down its throat, temporarily choking the abomination. Whilst the Terrible One was gagging, Diassa used the last of his magic to pull Jade to safety out of the circle. Unfortunately however just as he got her free, Jade started to attack her friend.
Diassa was barely able to defend himself and Jade sent them both crashing to the nearby ground, knocking Diassa out cold in the process. Three of the soldiers, noticing the commotion fired at Jade to make her stop. Their weapons briefly held her back, but she soon swatted the guns from their hands with her tail.
Just as the Demonic power was almost able to overwhelm her. With her last ounce of humanity, Jade fought back against its influence. She grabbed her stomach and fell to the floor. She wasn't able to completely suppress it this time however, but at least she stopped herself from harming the others.
The soldiers knowing that they wouldn't be able to defeat the Terrible One in this position decided to flee whilst the monster was still recovering from Diassa's attack, taking Jade, Kelina, Shelly, the unconscious Diassa and any other prisoners they could with them.
"They're back! And they have the Al with them". One of the Wereraptors, a small blonde woman shouted from the tree tops, to the cheers of her pack below."
The Harpy and Fisricas landed in the center of the Raptor pack with the Al in tow, which was still kept in its bubble. If it were released then it would probably attack all of the Raptors there. They hoped in time that they could remove the creatures loyalty to Shelly, but for now they had to keep it locked up.
Fisricas explained what he had learned about the Witch King's plans for the Al to their leader, confirming her worst suspicions.
"We have to warn Dynamos". The leader of the Wereraptors said.
"They'd never listen to us. They think we're scum. Besides they've tried to destroy this land many times. As far as I'm concerned, I hope they and the Witch King destroy each other." Another one of the Wereraptors from the crowd screamed to cheers.
The leader of the Wereraptors rolled her eyes.
"How many times do I have to tell you. The people of Dynamos don't care about this land. They only attack when provoked. Swallow your stupid pride that everyone wants to crush the 'mighty' Wereraptors and look at this from a practical point please! Yes Dynamos exploits our Dinosaurian brothers and sisters to a greater extent than the Witch king, but if he gets his hands on their power, he will destroy or enslave us. He has always wanted us to serve him, the same way he wants everything in this wretched forest to serve him."
"I will never follow that monster." Another Wereraptor shouted proudly.
"Well then we'll have to work with the people of Dynamos regardless of how any of you here feel about them. We've overlooked the Witch King's presence for too long and it's" Their leader said back only to be interrupted by the sound of the earth shaking beneath the Wereraptors.
Fisricas instantly recognised the tremors as coming from one of Tyresian's prized abominations. He had been so careful to make sure that none of Tyresian's forces had followed him by air or land, (of which there had been several) that he had forgotten all about the Three Headed Dinosaur.
He now realised much too late that the other monsters that had chased him the Harpy and the Al were just a distraction from the beast that was really following them underground.
Three gigantic heads came bursting from under the earth, with all of them breathing fire. The Wereraptors all instantly changed into their Dinosaur forms and started to attack the beast, but they were hopelessly overpowered. The razor sharp claws on their hind legs didn't even pierce the three headed beasts hide.
The Demonic Brontosaurus simply ignored the individual Raptors and used its fire breath to destroy the packs settlements, burning down the small huts as well as all of the nearby trees.
The Harpy instantly tried to flee through the trees, not caring one bit about her Raptor allies. The Brontosaurus' middle head however was able to slowly draw the Harpy and the bubble containing the Al towards it using a special kind of blue magical ray that it fired from both of its eyes, whilst the other two heads continued to spit fire at all the now fleeing Wereraptors. Even after all this time they Wereraptors were completely unprepared for the Witch King's minions, having foolishly believed that they could actually strike against him, or worse that he was scared of them. Fisricas had tried to warn the others not to underestimate the Witch King, but they had never listened.
The leader of the Wereraptors was actually among the first to flee. It was no surprise that she was a coward to those who followed her. To be fair she wasn't chosen to lead them because of her strength. It was because of her great tactical abilities. Ironically for such a savage race, the Raptors always favoured having the most intelligent members of their race lead them rather than the strongest physically. Still their current leader had been too weak, and often wasn't able to prevent the more bold and reckless members of her tribe from antagonizing the Witch King.
The Harpy fought with all her strength to resist the three headed Dinosaur's pull, but within a few seconds the Brontosaurus had brought her face to face. As the left head of the Demonic reptile prepared to burn the Harpy, she did decided to open the front of the sphere and release the Tyrannosaurus Al.
The Al instantly jumped onto the middle head of the Brontosaurus (as it was facing it directly) and tore into the Brontosaurus' face. Unlike the Wereraptors, the Al was able to tear through the Brontosaurus hide no problem and drew its blood.
The giant stumbled back through the trees with the Al still clinging to its face. (The Al obviously wasn't fighting to protect the Wereraptors. It just simply viewed the Brontosaurus as the bigger threat.)
The Brontosaurus' right head grabbed the Al by the tail and tried to wrench it off. The Al however held on tight with its jaws and though the Brontosaurs was eventually able to drag the Al away with its superior strength. The Al still took off the massive chunk of the Brontosaurus' flesh it had held onto in its teeth from the larger Demons neck.
The poison in the Al's jaws would not be strong enough to kill the Brontosaurs, as the Al was too small. Still even at this size it did have an effect on the giant. The wounds the Al had created on the Brontosaurus face and throat would leave ugly scars. Normally the Brontosaurus if it was ever wounded, would instantly heal over any injuries, but the poison of the Al's mouth, even at this early age would ensure that they would never heal over completely. This was bad news for the Brontosaurus, as Tyresian hated Dinosaurs that were in his eyes imperfect. That was why he always made sure to give his Dinosaurs healing powers. Whilst he wouldn't dispose of the Brontosaurus for its scars, it would no longer be one of his favorites.
The right head held the Al high above the ground constantly trying to dodge the Harpy who continued to try and pull the Al free. In her desperation however the Harpy let her guard down and the middle head was able to ensnare the Harpy by the wing with its jaws, breaking it. The middle head then threw the Harpy on top of two fleeing Wereraptors. Before any of them could flee the Brontosaurus stood on all three of them. Meanwhile the Al, who was a lot more agile than the giant realised swung itself forward using its tail and managed to land a bite on the larger Dinosaurs long neck.
The Al bit as hard as it could until eventually the right head was forced to release him. The Al then jumped across to the Brontosaurus' middle and third neck before jumping onto the ground beside it.
The Brontosaurus unable to cope with these new painful sensations started to go wild. Despite the Witch King's instructions, it blasted its firey breath everywhere and started trampling all the nearby trees, not caring if it hit the Al or not.
The Al meanwhile was far to fast for the lumbering giant and managed to make its way to the nearby woods in the opposite direction. Almost all of the Wereraptors had fled by this point, with the majority of those that didn't being burned to a crisp or flattened.
Fisricas had wisely stayed to the side during the Brontosaurus' rampage but he kept a close eye on the Al and followed it through the woods, until the Al noticed after which it then chased him back to near the blazing woods.
The Al had one goal in mind, to reunite with its mother and nothing was going to stop it.
"What's happened, where, where." Diassa said as awoke from his slumber only to be greeted with a most unusual sight before him.
It was what looked like a large, beautiful garden in the daytime. There was a large resturant connected to the end of the garden. In the center of the garden meanwhile there was a large band playing music, whilst all around were small bird like Dinosaurs playing with each other and some small children. There were many more buildings that surrounded the garden meanwhile. In fact it looked like an entire city spread out around.
"It's a safe haven." Kelina said.
"Kelina you're okay what happened." Diassa replied, though as he tried to stand up he felt a twinge of pain in his stomach where the Terrible One had stabbed him.
"You need to wait a few more minutes to heal." Kelina said as she lowered Diassa back down.
"Please just tell me what is going on." He asked.
"Those soldiers who saved us from whatever that thing was they've built a special kind of magical haven in the middle of the Black Woods. As you can see it's free of monsters. They helped patch me and you and the others up. Except for Jade."
"What happened to Jade? Kelina."
"I'm afraid she's not Jade anymore. That Demonic power whatever it was it's taken her over."