Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-26892768-20191010002135/@comment-26892768-20191012123220

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"Really? I'm going to go check!" And then squash girl runs over to the nearest wall.

Weiss sighs. "I honestly doubt-"

"There's something on the wall!"

Weiss turns her head, eyes wide.

"It's not writing, though..."

And now Weiss looks back at Sora with a deadpan expression.

"It's more like...a big circle? A really dark circle, too." Squash girl looks at the circle, contemplative. "Not really sure why it's here, though. It's kinda just-"

And then the circle begins to flicker, darkness starting to become consumed by blue light before succumbing completely, causing the entire circle to be caught up in the glow.

"...What-" And then, before squash girl can finish, around a dozen glowing, formless...somethings fly out of the circle, three of them phasing through the squash girl, much to her surprise.

The rest go around her, and before anyone can react, three go through Weiss, another three go through Akechi, and the last three go through Sora, before they all fly up, circling around in the air.

"What are they doing?" Weiss asks herself, taking a few steps back and pulling out her rapier.

As it turns out, she's completely justified, as the formless masses start to fly back down, and now they're all taking on a definite shape.

Three get low to the ground, allowing them to sprout thick, gray roots that embed themselves into the floor as a trunk of some kind forms, a giant mouth splitting it in half with long arms coming off the side and a single wooden eye with a light blue glowing pupil.

Three more zip right back up into the air, darkness coalescing around them into quadruped bodies with wings and white spikes, with one at the end of the tail looking like a scorpion's stinger and six large ones around the head looking like a lion's mane, which has a white bony covering with red markings and large horns, light blue eyes staring down as the three new creatures roar.

Another three form thick bipedal bodies, dark purple and dark blue blubber forming into a formidable opponent with the head of an elephant, single cycloptic eyes glowing light blue as they takes survey of the opponents...these creatures might seem familiar to Akechi - something from a Palace of greed.

And the last are the most unusual, because they don't even form bodies that make sense. Red and black metal forms into existence around them, yellow lights flashing as they each form a sort of top shape, with floating, disconnected "limbs" of sorts hovering around their bodies, and black masses with light blue eyes look right at Sora - another familiar creature, if Sora were to think back to the Cavern of Remembrance.

As for the first two sets, Weiss and the squash girl seem to recognize them.

"Manticores!"

"Kabandha!"

"What?" Weiss blinks while turning her head to look at the squash girl, having drawn out her rapier.

"Those things!" Squash girl points to the plant creatures, eyes wide and finger trembling slightly.

"Ah." Weiss looks at the other creatures. "Would you happen to know what the elephants and the...top things are, then?"

"Huh?" Squash girl looks at them, then looks back at Weiss and shrugs. "No idea."

"Well, that's just-" And then Weiss has to throw up a blockade of ice as the top things charge at her, rapidly swinging their floating limbs around in a circle.

Squash girl has her own issues to take care of as well when the Imitation Manticore fly down at her, causing her to crouch down with a squeak as...is. Is that a pine tree that sprouts out of the ground in front of her? Yeah that's a pine tree. That is definitely a pine tree.

The Imitation Kabandha turn their attention towards the knight, shuffling towards her menacingly.

And judging by the trumpeting sounds Sora hears, he's the one who gets to deal with the elephant things. Joy.