There was a loud crash as a large stone brick was thrown through the unopened door followed by a roar. "Incoming your way Skrull!" a female voice called out urgently.
"What, again shit!" Skrull snapped as he left the door only to be hit through. The perpetrator was a large bloated humanoid with a black colouration over its skin.Although there wer spikes and ridges all over its body almost as if its skin was made of rock. They lack eyes instead having a bulbous sack for a head with some black strands to keep it in place. Its mouth was just gums and sharp teeth as it lets out another roar and charged towards Skrull.
Skrull jumped out of the way in time as it plowed through the shelves in Shidalukus place. The arachne snarled in anger at the creature and lashed out at it, to her surprise the barrage of attacks did nearly nothing. It seemed to only annoy the brute as it changed its attention to her instead of Skrull.
"The sack thing, target the sack on its head!" Skrull called out as he slammed his blade into the ground and a number of black blades emerged from the ground impaling the brute. It lets out a howl as it was stuck in the forest of blades trashing about. "I can't hold it forever!"
"I know" Shidaluku said as in a jump she had impaled her sytch legs into its head, the moment she did its head exploded sending black goop all over the place. It lets out a final wail swinging its arms at the arachne in an attempt to get a hit in before it went limp.
Shidaluku hissed presumably in disgust as she wiped some of the goop off her face. "How bad is it?" the arachne asked.
"Ahh bad, very bad, Iziah is busy dealing with that monstrosity and the entire palace army has been mobilised. By far its a stalemate but if we can't close the portal we are screwed." Skrull said, "We need every capable hand we got, I'm truely sorry for your loss but we need to act now if we want to see a tomorrow."
As Skrull said that a solider was sent screaming across the room and was turned into a blood smear when they got in contact with the wall. Skrull would go back to join the fight Shidaluku following closely behind to join in the effort.
Shadow placed a had on River's shoulder as to comfort him. "We will go first join in when you are done crying, we should mourn our losses after the battle is won not during." Nimbus said before she gestured for Shadow who nodded and went along with Nimbus towards the fighting.
River just could not stop himself from crying, he knew that what Nimbus said was true but he just couldn't bring himself to do it. He managed to look up, his eyes landing on Betty's sytch who remained as a sytch before it compressed itself into a ball with eyes and a fanged mouth. The creature looked around to the pink pile of goop that was once Betty then to River.
It flew over leaving a comet trail behind it nudging River playfully before it morphed into a sword with a face. Hovering before him, River was hesitant seeing the creature with tears still flowing down his face. He reached out hesitantly and the creature in the form of a sword pressed its hilt into his palm.