Tying up loose ends. The battle rages on. Ivy stares down the Arachnid Queen, who seems a bit smaller now. Jessica begins to gather energy in her hands, then shouts "Divine Flames of the Gods, Baptise this demon in your purity! Magma!" The ground surrounding the arachnid explodes in a fury of flowing rock and the Arachnid jumps to avoid it. The Queen then returns the favor by spitting an acidic venom at Jessica! Eez's rocket engines die down until she is floating just above the ground. She holds out her arms in front of her, and several compartments open up. Then, she turns her rockets back on maximum strength, and dives toward the Arachnid Queen, rapidly shooting small balls of fire from her arms. The small flames hit the Arachnid's hard shell, having little effect, but serve to distract it while Jessica blocks the impending acid blasts with a shield of mana. Dragonmage comments "Arg, I hate bugs!" and then adds "I'm not touchin it! You do it!" The ground beneath the Arachnid cracks slightly and a skeletal being emerges. A fog-like darkness runs from its eyes and it then uses its powers of the netherworld to throw a sphere of decay at the Arachnid! The sphere penitrates the Queen's tough skin and weakens it. The Queen lets out a shriek and then crushes the corpse before her. An armada of small spiders hears her shriek and descend from the trees. They cover Dragonmage. Jessica uses a very weak heat spell to remove them and then expands her shield around herself and the recovering Dragonmage. Ivy, now channeling the power of the forest, forms a sphere of greenish tent and throws it into the air to act as a light source. The smaller Arachnids, not accustomed to light due to their raising in a dark forest, scatter in fear. Eez is very nervous because there is a lot of risk in doing this, but she very carefully unscrews the cap to the fuel tank on her left ankle. She lets a good amount fall to the ground and on the Arachnid Queen. The Queen is angered, looks up at the sky, and shoots some sticky web up at Eez! Her flamethrower is stuck, so Eez takes a huge chance, flies down to the ground, and ignites the gas. The gas, in turn, combusts, and a see of flame covers the Arachnid! Now weakened from her decaying skin, the Queen cannot rely on its strong shell to shrug it off. The towering Arachnid covers itself in web, which extinguishes the fire, but by this point the Queen has taken extreme burns. It then shatters the now-dry web on its back and swings a leg at Eez, hitting her dead on and sending her rocketing into a tree! Eez, after running a quick diagnostic, returns to her feet and says "It takes more than a tree to dent this mec!" and brushes off the web on her gun. "I used up more fuel than I thought. Better save what I have left." Jessica begins to chant from behind her shield "Flames of knowledge, flames of rage, come to my aid and empower this mage!" Jessica focuses her inner flame onto her fist, then sends it to the Arachnid. The Queen shoots the lava bomb down with a quick web squirt. Dragonmage shouts "You crushed my little friend! Now you DIE! Bomb of Shadows!" The clouds turn dark and form a ball. The ball lands right on the Queen shatters, sending sharp blades of energy into her. The Queen screams in pain, but finds that her back-up isn't comming this time. Ivy's light is invoking more than enough fear to assure that. Ivy then says "Enough is enough. You have fought your last battle! I shall now fulfill my destiny! Forest Force!" Ivy sends the energy of every tree on the planet into the Queen, which overflows and covers its body! The Queen, not strong enough to stand up to such a blast, is thrown into a tree, only to break through it and into three others. Finally, the Arachnid falls to the ground, not moving. Jessica runs over to ensure that its dead. She calls back "Its definently dead." She then points down to the fact that the spider stopped flying through trees because the beam had burned itself completely through, leaving a large hole in the dead arachnid. *** Shade screams with delight as she sends bolts of darkness down upon the warriors before her. The bolts, fast as they were, were mostly misses. Shade then focuses her energy into a sphere of spiritual energy. "Souls of those long forgotton, come to my aid! Spectre Spark!" She throws the sphere to the ground and it explodes on contact, sending shrapnil of spiritual energy in every direction. Beedrill51 chants "Warrior by my side, may the flame of battle errupt from thine blade! Instictive Blade!" Beedrill51 focuses the energy of the world around him and channels it into Orlandu's soul! Orlandu then focuses this same energy into his blade, which crackles with flames! Orlandu then introduces himself "Arr... Me name is Pirate Knight Orlandu. Its time for me to show you the power I've acquired through the course of my travles on the Seven Seas!" Orlandu flexes his muscles, then charges Shade, dodging bolts of darkness with amazing speed. He finds his way behind Shade and sends flaming blade into her back, which then covers her body! Shade surrounds herself with the cold chill of darkness, therby extinguishing the flames. Shade then lashes out at Orlandu with a barrage of dark bolts. Orlandu manages to dodge most of them, but one of them catches him in the shoulder and he falls to one knee. Justin shrugs at Orlandu and summons an icicle, which is aimed in Shade's direction. She shatters the icicle which a motion of her hands, while Justin stares in awe. Justin then conjures up 3 more icicles surrounding Shade. While Shade proceeds to counter the incoming ice daggers, Justin runs up to her and attempt to jab her in the eye. She easily blocks this attack and sends blast of dark light into Justin, knocking him back. Breathing harder now, Justin regains his stance and sends a barrage of ice spears to Shade. She shatters them without effort. "Did you think you could stop me with ice? Ice is forged where there is no heat, and heat is a product of light! Using ice on me is simply a waste of time." Upon hearing this, Beedrill51 holds his staff out and glows with energy. "Spirit of the earth, empower this warrior with your strength! Titan's Blade!" A beam shoots out and hits Orlandu's sword. His sword now glows orange and brown. Justin hops back to where Beedrill51 is. He shouts out, "Divine lightning, give this pirate swordsman the fury of the gods! Thunder Edge!" Justin holds out HIS staff and a beam shoots out, hitting Orlandu's sword. Now his sword glows orange, brown, and yellow. He gets off his weak knee, charges at Shade, then suddenly disappears. Shade looks around for him, and then he appears above her coming straight down on her with his sword, creating a huge gash across her face. Shade then says "Very good, your learning to work as a team. I don't appreciate scars, however! Lets see how you like them!" Shade then swings her sword at the still-airborn Orlandu and slashes into his previously-attacked shoulder. Orlandu screams in pain, then falls to the ground mummbling sailor swears. Mystalic runs up to the wizards. "Deities of Juna, heal their wounds! Heal!" Orlandu and Justin are healed as sparkling auras surround them. Mystalic then uses his magic to revive Rochel and Lumina. Rochel and Lumina stair up at Shade. Rochel pulls out his sword, then looks to Lumina, who nods. "You may be an immortal, but your not invulnerable! May the light of my blade strike your soul and end this madness!" Lumina focuses what little light there was in the area on Rochel's sword, then amplifies it with her own energy. Rochel's sword glows with divine magic! Justin focuses his inner flames into the sword, causing it to cover itself in flames. Beedrill51 calls on lightning from the sky above to strike the blade, charging it with electricity. Orlandu jumps at Shade, swinging madly with his sword, missing each time. With a sword charged with lightning, burning with power, and blessed by the gods, Rochel leaps over Orlandu and slashes down in a guillotine vertical technique, which Shade had not anticipated. The slash hits Shade on the shoulder which she had targetted on Orlandu before, which was her most vulnerable point at the time. Shade shrieks as the magical energy is released into her open wound and fills her body. Shade falls to the ground. "Well-played young swordsman...well played indeed. You have earned victory."