surviving felarya

"Eh...my name's Grip." he said. Suddenly, Fenja grabbed him out of the dridder's hand.

"Hey...watch it with him. I'm not exactly trusting of all predators not to eat him..."

"I think she's alright" said Grip. But he was glad to be out of the dridder's hand. He was generally pretty nervous around predators.

Arokleth struggled in narin's grip "let go of me you overgrown pigeon"she yells harshly "i demand to be returned to my origanal size now"she says angrilly as she bites narin's foot

Rose shuddered a little from the cold "could you put me down i need to find myself dome clothes the dridder ripped them off my body and now there torn so if you don't mind placing me down"

"OW!!" Narin yelled as she accidentally let go of Arokleth. Just then, a cage made of pure flame formed itself around her as Nok'tara pointed her finger at her with a free hand, saying, "You will be changed back when we leave. I do not trust you with my friends here, dridder."

She turned her attention back towards Rose and Trav, saying "Very well." She knelt down and placed her open hand on the ground, allowing Trav and Rose to walk off.

rose walked off her hand and smiled up at nok'tora arokleth sighed but then she saw adam withing reaching distance she grabbed his tail and pulle him tto her she held him in a tight embrace her hands ready to snap his neck "let me go or the naga gets it and i'd hate to do it seeing as though naaga's struggle realy great"

Nok'tara merely shrugged, and snapped her fingers, eliminating the fiery cage. But then she pointed her finger at Arokleth, causing her to instantly shrink down to Quarus' size. "You're testing my patience, dridder. Unless you want to be my meal, I suggest you shut up."

The dridder merely smiled at Fenja as she took Grip from her. "You must be his partner. Very rare to see a prey and predator team. May I ask what your name is?"

"...My name's Fenja." she replied cautiously. "Sorry if that seemed to be rude...but we've had enough pyschopathic dridders after us today to make us a bit uneasy."

She bent down and picked up the Sphere, replacing it in the holster. She placed Grip down on the top, where he sat by the railing, watching the succubus dealing with the dridder.

Arokleth screamed sh fell down from adam's back and landed on the floor wich is when she noticed quarus without hesitation arokleth lunged at quarus grabbling her to the floor and quickly sealing the little neera in a silk cocoon she then licked her lips and raised quarus to her mouth.

“Yeh dinnae learn very quickly, do yeh? This neera be a friend o’ ours as well, yeh should ‘ave figured that out by now,” Trav said. He stooped down and plucked Quarus out of the dridder’s hands. He held the neera far above Arokleth’s reach, and began pulling the silk off of her. “Yeh continue to threaten me friends, even when yeh be surrounded by four o’ the big folk, one o’ which be far more powerful than yeh, and ‘as expressed an interest in eatin’ yeh. Now, be off with yeh, I be tired o’ yeh impudence.” Trav nudged Arkoleth away with his foot.

“Ha! You’d better stop dridder, or she might shrink you small enough for Quarus to eat!” Lenarei said. “Speaking of dridders eating…I don’t want you getting into trouble if this is dridder territory.” Lenarei said as she picked up Adam and put him into her pouch again. She plucked a couple of feathers and gave them to Rose. “Here, Rose. You can use these until we find something for you to wear.”

Arokleth scowled she jumped at trav trying to grab quarus out from his hands hearing lenarei she tuned to her "of coure this is dridder teritory your all in danger being here especially the naga and with all the noise you lot are making i wouldn't be surprised if some were coming here right now"she says with a satisfied smile.

rose smiled as she took lenareis feathers wrapping them around her she could still moved her arms perfctly even wih the fethers covering them "thanks lenarei"

"Tch. Please." Nok'tara grinned. "I'm not afraid of some stupid eight-legged douchebags...no offense, Liena."

"None taken." Liena said with a grin.

"Yeah, well not everyone has demonic powers and can shrink people with the point of a finger." Narin said with some sarcasm.

"This is dridder territory, though. I don't mind your prescence, but if more dridders were to come, they will kill on sight. I insist that you leave before any arrive." Liena said with concern in her voice.

"this could end badly im outta here"Rose says waving to narin liena and nok'tora before she walks off in a random diretion away from the group breaking into a fast run with arokleth sitting silently upon her shoulder unknown to rose as she ran in the direction she was going

"Wait!" said Fenja, but it was too late.

"Jeez. Does that neko have any sense of self-preservation? I half expect her to place herself on a platter in the middle of the forest..."

By now she had lost sight of her.

"Hmm. Is it safe for us to try following her?"

Adam poked his head out of the pouch "yeah that's a good idea why not"he says before retreating into the pouch

By now rose was lost and had entered another clearing this one apeared to be empty she sighed lookingaround her she had no idea were she was and placed a hand on her thigh looking around thoughtully trying to determin her location

"Eh, don't worry. Dridders don't worry me. I'll get her back." Nok'tara said, jumping into the air and flying in the direction Rose went off to.

In the distance, a rhythmic metallic clanking could be heard. Gradually, it grew louder and clearer, and was soon accompanied by the skittering of huge dridder feet. It was the rapid stomping of metal shod feet, of an armored man running as fast as he could underneath the weight.

A man in full armor burst into the clearing where Rose was. His armor was black, covering every inch of his body in iron plates. His helm covered his entire head, and bore a large blue crest of dyed fur. In one hand, he bore a large shield, in the other he carried an equally large spiked flail. There was a dark and menacing magical aura about him, but it wasn’t an evil one. He was dashing as quickly as he could, moving quickly despite the obvious weight of the armor.

“Flee! Flee for your life! She’s coming!” The armored man shouted, seeing Rose. He changed the direction of his flight briefly to run up to her. He didn’t pause, but put his shield over his back and easily scooped Rose up in his free hand and carried her over his shoulder. He continued fleeing, not slowing down any despite carrying Rose now.

Seconds later, it became clear why he was running. A large dridder was hot on his trail, trampling the underbrush beneath her many feet as she charged after the armored man. She had a hungry look in her eye.

As Nok'tara kept flying in Rose's direction, she flew into the clearing that Rose had gone into, and noticed the black knight carrying Rose over her shoulder and the dridder chasing him. She felt his dark aura and whistled impressively, and wondered why he would need to run away from the eight legged creature. She looked at the dridder chasing them, and didn't feel any evil prescence coming from her, so she saw no need to kill her, so she cast a spell on the dridder to make the dridder unconsious.

She then turned her attention towards the black knight and flew a ways, and landed in front of him, saying, "Hello there, knight. That neko you're carrying is a part of my group. Could you be so kind as to return her, please?" She then extended her hand, wanting the knight to place Rose in her palm.

The dridder sagged and fell to the ground. She toppled to one side and lay there, her eyes closed and her legs stretching occasionally. She began snoring softly. The knight looked back at the slumbering dridder, and came to a stop. Gently, he set Rose back down onto her feet.

“I wonder who saved us…” The knight murmured, looking around. Now that his armor wasn’t clanging as it did while he ran, other noises could be heard as he moved. Muted clinking, sounding rather like bones. His voice echoed oddly within his helmet as well.

He started when Nok’tara landed in front of him, and he found himself staring at a huge pair of feet. Looking up, he saw Nok’tara’s face far above them looking down at them. When she spoke and extened her hand, the knight stepped between it and Rose.

“I did not save her from one predator just to hand her to another,” The knight said, retrieving his shield from his back and readying his spiked flail. “Be off with you.”

Rose looked at the knight and nok'tora she took a step back away from the knight nervously she then turned around and ran jumping over the drider's legs and ran away from the two of them breathing heavilly as she ran she just barely avoided an earth mouth that was hidden under a pile of leaves she continued to run desperatly untill she ran into a dridder's web she didn't hit it she dived underneah it and stopping as she lay upon the ground out of breathe.

Nok'tara growled as ran off again and looked at the knight, saying, "Sorry I can't stay, but I've got a neko to catch." She then began to walk in the direction that Rose fled mumbling to herself.

The knight watched Rose dash off, and Nok’tara calmly stride after her. His instincts told him to keep running until he was free of their territory, but he didn’t. His oath bound him. Putting his shield back onto his back, the night took off in another clanking run into the forest.

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“Well, isn’t this just lucky?” A different dridder said, resting in the web that Rose dove under. Parting the strands of the web with two fingers, she reached down through the gap and grasped Rose in one hand. “A little fly ran into my web.” She added, grinning and holding onto Rose. She was about to lift the neko up to her mouth when she paused, listening into the woods. The knights clanking charge was plainly audible.

“And another fly comes running?” The dridder asked smiling, seeing the knight charging towards her. She reached out with her other hand to grab him, but he brought up his shield, bashing the tips of her fingers back. Leaping up, he swung his flail and smashed it into the dridder’s wrist. She screamed as the spikes pierced her skin, but she still held onto Rose.

“Argh! Just for that, you get to go first!” The dridder said, glaring at the knight. She grabbed him with her other hand and shook him viciously, causing him to drop his sword and shield. She tossed his armored form into her mouth and swallowed. She grimaced, and swallowed again, this time causing a large bulge to go down her throat.

“Ugh, armor tastes so unpleasant,” She said, briefly making a face. “Fortunately I’ve got something better. I think I’ll savor you a little bit,” She said, smiling as she brought Rose up to her mouth. Opening wide, she pushed Rose headfirst into her mouth and closed her lips behind her.

“Mmmm, so gooood!” The dridder hummed, as she licked Rose all over her body. “You are a tasty treat, aren’t you?”

Rose screamed she had just watched the knight get eaten and didn't want to be eaten herself she hit the dridder tongue screaming and kicking at the dridders teeth on on ocasion "no no please no let me go"she pleads desperatly hoping the dridder would take her seriously and let her go.

“Now, now. I’d rather not waste a little of my venom just to calm you down,” The dridder chided, still savoring Rose’s taste. “But I will, you know, if you continue to be so unpleasant.” She continued to roll Rose around in her mouth, vigorously playing her tongue over every inch of her body. She ran it over her arms, her legs, over her hair and her chest and back.

However, gradually, her movements became less vigorous, less eager. The tongue slowed down, giving Rose a chance to rest. Eventually, it stopped moving, leaving Rose lying atop it without pushing her around any. A faint groan echoed up from her vocal cords. Eventually she tilted her head down and opened her mouth, letting Rose slide out onto her palm. “Ugh, that stupid knight…I guess I’ll just save you for later…” The dridder said, somewhat uneasily. If Rose looked closely, the dridder was looking a touch paler than normal. She began binding Rose in a silk cocoon, but she soon stopped doing that, and merely held Rose in one hand. The dridder groaned again and grimaced, clamping her free hand over her stomach.

“Ohhh…What is…what is wrong…with me?” She groaned in a pained manner. Her legs buckled on one side, and she toppled over. Lying on her side, she still held Rose loosely, but the neko was all but forgotten. She moaned in pain, cringing and writhing, and her skin became paler.

Rose screamed again as she was let of the dridder's mouth then she screamed as she was half cocooned up to her stomach her legs were bound togethor by the silk she couldn't escape like she was at least she couldn't escape far she used her hands to drag herself out from the ridder's hand she dragged herself along the foliage getting slowly away from the dridder she looked back and saw the dridder was in pain she sighed and dragged herself into a bush out of sight she knew now that she would be in danger of being found half cocooned by another dridder but what was worring was the fact the dridder had seen where rose had gone and was dreading when the dridder would get better.

Meanwhile, Nok'tara had arrived at the place where Rose was, and saw the dridder clenching over in pain. Nok'tara phased through the web, and picked up Rose, peeling off the silk cocoon that trapped her while saying, "You really shouldn't run off like that again. Felarya's too dangerous of a place to be just wandering around like you've been doing."

She then looked at the fallen dridder becoming paler and paler, and replied, "It might be that black knight you swallowed. He has an extremely powerful aura about him, so it might be within your best interest to spit him out if you want to continue living."

Adam sighed he'd slithered out from lenarei's pouch and over to wear the dridder nok'tora and rose were smiling he slithered over to the dridder "what's wrong with her"he says poking the dridders face cautiously

"so i don't care if i end up as food i end up as food it's no big deal nok'tora"Rose says a little harshly before jumping off nok'tora's hand and landing upon the dridders web "besides the dridder caught me fair and square i don't cae what you say she caught me fairly and i have to accept the consequences and don't interfere please i can try and talk my way out of it"she says as she struggles and get's tangled more and mre in the dridder's web