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[b][u]Thaum Square?[/u] (Group B)[/b]

Amy watched from afar as Lisette had her meltdown. Aside from some more bipedal animals along with everything having faces on them of all things, everything else seemed relatively normal. Okay. Okay. The cleric let out a deep sigh of relief, leaning back on the bench she had awoken by.

Something else seemed off though: there was only four of them there, herself included. All she could remember last was the giant fox crashing to the ground, splitting it open (??), and falling. Had the others arrived elsewhere? Furthermore, how on Ddaear did they even [i]arrive[/i] there? Thaum Square was not beneath the mountains for them to fall into.

As these thoughts ran through Amy's mind, she constantly batted at some itch at her legs. Once they became too frequent, she leaned over. "What the fuck is going on? ...what??"

All the marshmallows that had escaped from Lisette's bag were now happily bouncing along Amy's legs, rubbing their fuzzy bodies along them. Amy shuddered and kicked them away from her. "Ugh... gross..." She reached her hand down to smooth her calf, only to notice there were scratches upon scratches etched along her skin. One was bleeding.

She shot her eyes back up to see the marshmallows all hopping back after her, bearing human teeth beneath their cutesy smiles. "Food! Food! Food!"

Amy jerked her staff, summoning her crackling light whip. "Fuck. Off."

Meanwhile two other monstrous ice cream cones popped out from behind the owl's stand (who had begun to click and giggle at the cone in his hand like it was a pet) rolled out into open, before spouting two legs and taking a stance. They looked at one another, the ringed toppings masquerading as eyes. With a nod, they trotted after the human closest to them and began to prod at their legs with their cones. [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1agaZinJHg]All while doing the most obnoxious laughter ever.[/url]

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[b][u]Thaum?: Bugtanical Garden[/u] (Group C)[/b]

After quite some running, they found a nice little shielded spot; the tree tops clouded the sky from view, meaning the group had effectively lost the overhead buzzers (after more close calls than one). No sounds other than their own panting could be heard there.

Trixie wrinkled her nose. "Mmm... they're everywhere! Wow, I can't even tell them apart like this."

The bushes rustled, causing Trixie to jump and huddle behind Moira. Had they been followed? How many were there? Their break was so short-lived - would they have to run again? Could they... could they even fight these things? What...

And then, a giant leech monster crawled out from behind some bushes. With its torso lifted in the air, the leech's slimy face eyed them from above like an eagle. The highest six stubby legs each weilded nets, bouncing and bouncing in enthusiasm. Trixie stepped out from behind Moira and stepped towards the creature (ignoring any words of caution that may have been slung her way). She merely stared back at the sheer monstrous size of that thing, though her lips widened into an excited smile once it hit her.

"Leggy!" Trixie turned to see her teammates, arms outstretched. "It's okay, guys! Leggy's harmless. He likes me a lot! We played wrastling earlier. The slimey goopy stuff on it is totally harmless."

Anyone watching the creature beyond Trixie could see heavy chunks of green saliva dripping from its mouth, splattering the ground far away from them. Anything it touched melted in seconds.

"He's totally a scaredy cat too! Bugbread, you saw it too, didntcha? When Supersis and everyone brought back those other big baddie bugs, Leggy got really scared and ran away and--"

[i]SHING![/i] The sharp tone caused Trixie to turn back to it. Many of the knots in the six nets spewed a sharp spike, both outside and inside the net. They clanked together now as Leggy continued to bounce them. Trixie only sighed and waggled a finger at the leech. "Hey Leggy, the rules [i]obviously[/i] said just to capture, not kill. Come on bro, have some honor, yo!"

[i]SHING![/i] The spikes doubled in size. Now its nets resembled open-holed maces. He intended to knock them out before capturing them.

"Well that's cool, I guess you guys got to rewrite the rules and stuff. Yeah. That's, um," she gulped, "that's cool. Hey Superbro, can you do that thing where you pick us up and start running again?"