Their words spoken in perfect harmony linked to the array and transmitted to their staffs blasted a unnatural amount of flame light energy outward. It seemed to within a mere second disintegrate the beast flipper within a blink of a eye and continued outward into the beasts body.
It's beastly roar was barely heard over that blasting power and within that time their strongest gems available were depleted. The mages scrambled aside while the rest of the parties charged outward. The mages then refilled their staffs and joined their groups to go fight the monsters that had locked them within.
The parties formed into units and started to make it bleed, the initial blast did wonders for their morale as it had completely eliminated one of its front flippers as well as blowing a hole the size of Eric into its body. Heat was defiantly its weakness, however it blood was spraying outward with every movement.
It was near impossible to stop from getting hit with it during this fight, so most of the mages had to constantly cast shields as their brave companions fought. This meant a huge amount of power was being wasted on protection without significant damage being done by them.
As Eric's party got closer Goldy cast a body shield upon them then geared up her magic staff for its highest potential. In addition she dosed Eric's sword with blaze and the spear men with blazing fire tips. Arch who she caught hold of at the last minute she blessed his arrows with magma tips. Then cast magma explode as the parties dropped and before the next stepped in.
The beast did not seemed to have any real new damage since the initial attack so with the luck of the gods, her blast hit it directly in its left eye, and continued to burn inward. It reared upward screaming to its mate. That blast should continue its route into the brain and kill it eventually.
That's when Eric and several more rushed inward slashing its underbelly splitting it open with fire. the spearman throws widened the wound and Arch managed a hit to its other eye. The now blinded and dying beast started to thrash and roll and we fell back scrambling out of its way. As it rolled into the mist its mate fell into our retreating body mass taking out a large part of the rear with its landing either from shock or crushing them, over fifty fell.
Of coarse that took out a large amount of the commanders men and some very high level mages as well. The Commanders men that could at once came into the fight trying their best to force the beast off her current target the commander himself. We all turned and tried to limit its movements another spring like that would result in our whole groups possible demise.
Somehow Goldy discovered that the same four mages from before were beside her and made a decision. They would make the array shot again but using her body as the array itself. By internally visualizing and absorbing their gem energies she knew she could bring it down.
As Eric hacked away with his flame sword along with a hundred companion united for survival. Goldy was gathering the combined energy within her body to make a decisive blow to help out. The mages were afraid but she had convinced them and it might be the deciding blow. The commanders men were doing a decent job of containing the beast by luring it into the forest under a overhanging cliff so it couldn't jump.
Several mages used their last gems to blast a small bleeding gash into its gills and now it seemed to be having trouble breathing not that it made it weaken by much. Finally the array in her mind lit up and the power surged out like a laser beam striking the beast hard directly in it neck and sliced across its boney back. It's movements immediately stopped, it's body slid to the ground paralyzed from the neck down.
Goldy slid to the ground not seeing anything after the bursting light, only one mage stayed by her side feeling for a sign of life. Everyone else that could stood looking on as the beast fell and a huge cheer erupted. Only when they were calmed down for a bit did they start to gather the wounded and to look for their friends.
Arch came upon Goldy first as he was coming from the trees and saw the blast and then her fall. Upon arrival the mage looked up with tears in his eyes and shook his head no, meaning that she had passed from this life. Arch didn't believe him and shoved him aside to check her for himself and so by the time Eric arrived he witnessed the young man crying rocking Goldy's body back and forth.
Over two hundred of their forces were poisoned, burnt, cut, and broken with over eighty confirmed dead. Many of the dead had been killed in that first attack were the commanders personnel guards. Killed by the male beast coming to help his mate after her cry for help. The prince himself was poisoned and badly scarred from its searing blood.
It took them close to five hours to get their wounded back inside their encampment and to be treated. The dead were buried and the beast secured so nothing could prey upon them until processed. The scouts kept looking for survivors and the wounded. Eric was severely wounded but refused to enter the camp for treatment and refused to let them bury Goldy as well.
Arch had him assigned to guard duty for the beast and layer Goldy's body beside him, he figured when Eric passed out from the pain he would take the body and bury it. Hopefully Eric's body would not join hers within the night. Eric only held one slim hope, a story told to him late in the night when he had asked about why Goldy had her powers.
Dr. Trueblood told a fairytale to him of finding a small child dead within the edge of the forest. Of how a miracle occurred and his patients on the verge of death had healed in a flair of light. How burned, poisoned and broken men were saved and how a little angel named Goldy came back to life by the miracle of a rainbow hues heart gem.
If that story had any truth to it then there had to be a chance that Goldy who had come back once could come back again. In addition Arch had helped a lot by letting him babysit the beast. Eric figured that they had gems and most probably big ones which had to help out his beloved to come back to life.