[center][u]The Caves[/u][/center]

As those who entered the caves found themselves literally walking the dark for a few seconds before glowing fungi lit up the place with dull light every now and then. Otherwise, most of the light for vision came from the flames emanating off from the pyrokinetic skeleton man's head as he was treated as an impromptu torch by just about everyone else. For a goodly distance, those who trekked forward would find nothing of note besides slick rock and glowing fungi- until tremors began to happen. They were too constant and short to be something like the aftereffects of a normal earthquake and if anything felt like something extremely heavy was shaking the ground with its prodigous weight. 

A small opening leading into a bigger chamber was right around the corner and if one would peak through the cracks in the wall, they would see something HUGE moving about in the other chamber on two feet. And then red light lit up the room to show what looked like a bipedal dragon fused with a small volcano glare about as though it heard something. Big would be an understatement considering it was the size of an average two story house. [url=http://i.neoseeker.com/mgv/420572/572/58/blackgravlavaart_display.jpg]Polished an obsidian black, the thing[/url] snorted and turned about as the magma like glow from the cracks in its armored scales died down and let the darkness drown out the majority of the chamber's vision once again. It then began settling down into a curled up heap with its back facing the group and curled up, thudding down and camouflaging itself as just another rocky protrusion in the shadows. Another hole could be seen on the other side of the chamber, leading outside once again. If people were to try to sneak past the thing, there might be a chance they'd get out without enraging the obviously territorial rock wyvern.

[center][u]The Meadow[/u][/center]

Ranma Saotome was a man among men. Or at least when she wasn't forced to be a petite redheaded girl less than five feet tall. As such, she was well accustomed to roughing it out and surviving against belligerent wild life.Frowning as a whole slew of people headed towards the caves, the martial artist turned her own attention to the forest in contemplation. With her skill set, she was suited more towards the open areas rather than constricting places such as caves. In the open, she could use her quite substantial speed and agility to flit about slower things, and her power to pummel them into submission. Not to mention caves and underground places tended to cave in when she got involved, even without P-chan digging about. Also the fact she was feeling peckish and was intent on snagging a bit of dinosaur meat from whatever killed them, the girl supposed. 

"Yo, Imma heading into the forest since I don't like cla... claustro... tight spaces like them caves." The pseudogirl quickly explained as she began hoofing it towards the dark and slightly overgrown forest. Effortlessly leaping up into the branches at the opening and then shooting through quietly like a ninja, the girl made great progress into the biome while doing her best to hide traces of her presence without resorting to certain sealed moves. Given her bird's eye view, she followed discretely behind the boy who was showing surprisingly good hiding skills as he burrowed his way through the greenery. As she moved through the place for a few minutes at her very much above superhuman speed, she found several younger trees broken and snapped in half as though something was thrown through them or crashed into said arbor. Some even had giant spikes embedded deeply in the bark and puncturing all the way through. 

Several corpses of the dead animals were strung about as something larger than a bull elephant with a dark greenish pelt snacked upon the biggest body, its stinger tail waving to and fro idly. With its head hunkered down and busy crunching up tendon and bone, the aquasexual girl couldn't find out anything else about the beast save that it was quadrupedal with the forearms having some sort of bat like wings strutting out from them. Still, the thing had pointed ears that peaked out and constantly swiveled about to take in any and all sound. It was obviously alert even when feasting and enough noise might alert the coiled and powerful beast to the Challengers' presence...