I hear the fierce roar of Yoongi's cat as he comes up somewhere behind us. His targets will be the remaining three Maeks. He might be able to distract other targets as well, but he won't be able to take anything else out on his own.

As we close in on our target, the Kaiaelan, I hear Seokjin touch down at the center of the mayhem. A multidirectional wind rushes through the area as the vines from his staff extend out past us to grapple with each of the five Volsaerin in the area. "Okay, they will definitely remain immobile should the duration of Taehyung's Petrifying Gaze expire before we can take them out."

A bright light flares out in the sky to my right, but my eyes remain on our trio's goal. "Whoa!" Namjoon exclaims in obvious surprise. "Well, that was new." He mentally clears his throat. "Try to see if you can work those vines of yours in between the joints of the Volsaerins' segmented bodies."

"We'll have to review what just happened later." Seokjin addresses whatever the glow was. "As for the vines. I'm doing my best."

I sense Namjoon swooping overhead to the opposite side of us. He must be going after the other Ardneir since I saw it somewhere in that direction. Another bright flare of light shines up the sky to my opposite side, and I can only assume that Namjoon just took out the other Ardneir, like I had suspected.

The frozen fiends' seem to quiver around us. "We need a plan B regarding the Kaiaelan." Taehyung knows his spell well enough that he is aware we won't make it to the three headed serpent in time to sever its heads.

"Fuck. I'll have to bring Ever and Jimin over there instead of the top of the house, like we planned. They are our best ranged, and while Jimin is more practiced I don't think even he can hit the Kaiaelan from that far away." Namjoon grumbles.

He doesn't have to explain how he feels about Ever joining the fray. None of us wanted her to have to fight yet. Not because we thought she was incapable, but because we thought she could use more training before having to be subjected to something like this. Truthfully, her boomerang was probably our best option in this particular situation.


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If it weren't for Jimin by my side I probably would have gone nuts while we just stood here together waiting. I understood Taehyung's Petrifying Gaze ability well enough that I knew if we had looked in his direction we would have been frozen for ten to fifteen minutes, but what I didn't understand is why he had us avert our eyes. We can't really see much of anything from our current location within the trees.

What we can see is Namjoon in his Gryphon form from high above. I glance up to take in the patterns he makes across the sky. His shadow pauses in front of the moon just before he opens up his beak and instead of a ball of light magic expels from him, as I expected, a wide beam of light shoots from it instead.

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