There were twelve beasts under Claire's control.
Over her several millions of years of life, she'd only ever made twelve who'd become permanent companions. All others were only ever meant to live for a single battle.
The twelve of them had their own names, ancient and in a tongue that was no longer spoken, however, after experiencing life on Earth, Claire had changed their names to coincide with the twelve zodiacs.
It was something of a memento of her time as a human.
The beast she summoned this time was the snake.
It was once an earthly beast, but as she grew, it evolved as well until it was like a manifestation of Apophis.
It was a true world serpent, able to fly in the sky and maneuver like a dragon, yet keeping its main form as a snake.
Its true form could wrap around the entire Heavenly World, but it was quite inconvenient to move around like that, so it kept its smallest possible form.
