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Level 8 Sectonia (holding 2 level up) - (73/80) 
[b]Location:[/b] Sandswept Sky
[b]Word Count:[/b] under 750
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Everyone was relaxing under the makeshift shade Sectonia had made, her ice antillions and poppi keeping everyone cool as they all waited for the ship to arrive. While everyone healed their injuries thanks to her artifact and other healing powers of the group, eventually the ship came to pick them up. Unfortunately, or fortunately, creatures began to attack as the ship got close. Some beautiful, some large, and some that weren't much of note. As the creatures approached, Sectonia finally found something that caught her eye, even if a little. Flower type creatures that had appearances that she hadn't seen before, apparently even flowers could bloom in a sandy wasteland and these were the example of what they looked like. 

Getting up to fight, one of the large creatures attacked and was subsequently knocked on its back by one of those on the airship, someone Sectonia didn't recognize right away with a large shield that exploded when struck. Some of the others used medallions handed out by Vandham to teleport to the airship, but seeing as she could fly and teleport herself, Sectonia had declined them. Instead, as the cactus monsters began to attack, Sectonia activated her Chaos Heart shield ability before moving to engage them, throwing large rings of light everywhere, trying to hit both the cactus creatures that she found interesting in hopes of grabbing those spirits to test out later, and trying to attack the big creature at the same time with any rings that missed said cactus creatures. 

Thanks to her shield, she could take a few hits from the creatures retaliating, allowing her to have much better aim with her rings than usual. Even if her mask magic item caused them to fracture into clones of themselves and be a bit unwisely, the sheer amount of large light rings flying through the air was too difficult to dodge for long, and soon Sectonia had one of the Piximi spirits in her hands, while doing damage to the overturned Molduga and its allies. Of course, some of its allies had a strange ability to cause damage to Sectonia based on what she did to them. At least her chaos heart shield absorbed some of the damage...

The Florami however managed to both attack and dodge unlike its Piximi underlings, dodging a fair amount of light rings and when it was hit, it started to slowly regenerate. All while also blasting Sectonia with its own blasts, the bee queen being its focus. Since it attacked with energy blasts however, Sectonia didn't take the amount of damage the Florami was expecting thanks to the queen's pipe of insight, her chaos heart shield, and her natural bulk. Still this creature intrigued her more, and with the others joining the fight, Sectonia requested that some of them helped with the Florami.

Moving closer to it so that it couldn't avoid her much at all, Sectonia pulled out her swords as she still needed to keep some magic in reserve if something bad was to happen. While most of the group couldn't deal with a flying target, of all things the Scout was one of the few who could. As Sectonia struck it with her swords, the Scout began to shoot it from behind. He then threw something at Sectonia and the creature, telling her to 'catch it'. Seeing as she had her swords out, there wasn't much she could do, but as the grenade bounced off her, it exploded in a static field that slowed down the Florami a ton. And thanks to the two working on the creature, Sectonia's shield breaking as the Florami tried its best to defend itself, eventaully it fell and Sectonia had her prize. She then swooped over and brought the scout up with her to the ship.

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After the engagement with the creatures, the captain of the ship, Vandham, told everyone they'd be going to a nearby village called, uninspiredly, Garudo village, to repair and refuel the airship as getting to the group as fast as it did caused a bit of damage. He mentioned there being 'strict rules' about it, which sounded strange. Sectonia asked. [color=92278f]"What would these 'strict rules' be then?"[/color]