The fairy yelped at being addressed directly and spun backwards -- but soon he regained his composure and flew directly into Nyte's face (well, her helmet) where he hovered like a very angry sparkly dragonfly.

"You're not going [i]anywhere![/i]" the fairy screeched, doubly determined to rust every joint shut on Nyte's armor. "This is revenge! This is vengeance! Maybe you specifically didn't crush our home, but you can pay for the crimes of your kind! Stand in this spot forever, where you'll be a warning to the rest!"

[color=yellow]"There are [i]more[/i] guardians?"[/color] asked Sunny -- just before a rumbling [i]BOOM[/i] thundered through the forest; birds flapped and squawked out of the treetops and a small herd of three-eyed deer leaped past the vagrants away from danger. The trees leaned and rustled. The fairy spooked and cowered within a bush.

Sunny grinned savagely -- the noise came from the northwest.

[color=yellow]"That's where we're headed!"[/color] she called, and with an eager and reckless leap she bounded off through the brightening woods toward the noise, Laphicet in tow -- but the forest-guardian was now far too slow to follow.

Meanwhile the fairy had reemerged from the flowered bush to glare hatefully at Nyte. "You see, you see!" he spat. "Nothing but destruction! You'll pay! I'll turn you [i]entirely[/i] to rust!"

Northwest of that spot, Sunny skidded to a halt when she spotted something big moving between the trees. It loped and leaned as it gamboled awkwardly along, cracking branches and scattering wildlife as it picked shakily along on a dozen skittering, whirring metal legs. Mounted precariously atop the legs was a huge log house with broken eaves and crooked sides, tossing and flopping this way and that as it was carried along.

Lashed to a pole on the front porch of the walking house was a shining full set of armor. It was easy to see how the fairy might have been confused.

The legs lost their balance again and slammed suddenly into a tree; the tree cracked and fell in a whoosh and a thunder of destructive noise.

[color=yellow]"Ah! You see that, Laphi?"[/color] Sunny called over the clatter. [color=yellow]"Armor! We just gotta get up there and get that armor!"[/color]

[@Tenma Tendo][@Jade113]