I Spi(e)d (h)er [complete]

Rescue

They moved swiftly to Delphina's pond where she sat in the water at the edge and started humming loudly, she was bait, her hands and tail creating ripples in the water. As Urchula had said there was nothing more unresistable then Delphina, which had gotten her a pat on the head from Delphina which had made Urchulas day.

They had discovered that traps had left a trap that monitored the surface tension of the water so they could tell if the water had been entered by a person or if they were collecting water from it. 

Urchula stealthily followed the string from the trap towards the camp, Felin and Ara
followed through the trees.

They ducked into the shadows as sward and Pahnch thundered past them towards the pond. Ara's group came to a stop at a large tree with canvas draped over the roots.
Urchula shot several thin fragile black spines out of her pointer finger.

The spines left trails of air in their wake and the air revealed pits of sharpened sticks hidden underneath a blanket of leaves.

Ara, Felin and Urchula walked deftly between the pits though ara wobbled considerably more than the perfectly balanced cat hybrid and the small agile sea urchin hybrid.

Ara nearly fell into the pits so she decided she was giving up and ended up throwing web onto a low lying tree branch and pulling herself across.

Once everyone was across they clambered over the top of the canvas to find that the trees maze of roots had been turned into the hunters base.

They ended up just walking across the top of the tree roots instead of heading into the maze like roots of the trees.

They crossed over a few roots till they were at the back of the tree and trapped in a rough wooden cage was a man with wild frizzy curls that had two brown dog ears breaking through the top.

He had an old scar on his left cheek and had a recent black eye. Ara smiled as she
recognised him but was upset at the injury he had obtained in her absence. His playful brown eyes lit up when he saw them.

He called lowly towards them
"guys I'm in a ruff situation"

Felin quickly ran along the roots
towards him, moving quickly her long thin tail helping her keep balance.

She reached Qwint and using her sharp retractable claws, Felin cut the rope holding the cage together.

Qwint grinned as he was freed his brown eyes bright, dark brown tail wagging madly behind him, he threw himself into Felins arms and clung to her.
"Bri after we split up when they were following us they got the drop on me and I was caught. I knew you'd find and save me. I was had a strong feeling you would come if a waited ."

"Come on Qwint we have to go before they come back." Felin quietly urged Qwint.
"We can't yet we still have to save Bella" Qwint said stubbornly. "Any way you can't keep calling me Qwint it doesn't fit, how about Howlard."

Felin rolled his eyes at Howlard and deftly moved around the bottom of the tree to reach a second rough wooden cage that held a young girl roughly Ara's age with brown hair tied up in a pony tail, bright green eyes, monarch butterfly wings fluttering gently behind her.

She moved to the back of the cage allowing Felin to free her. Howlard's sharp hearing heard Pahnch and Swards heavy foot steps as they returned.

"We have to go now" he barked softly catching everyone's attention.

Bella reached out wrapping her arms around urchula thin waist, bella's wings lifting them of the ground and they moved quickly away from the hunters base.

Felin deftly flipped over the traps on the ground and dashed into the trees on the other side of the clearing.

Ara shook her head in annoyance when she realised she had to make sure that Howlard made it to safety, for he was to tall for bella to carry and not Flexible enough to flip across the pit.

Ara shot web out of her wrist to the lower branches of the tree across the gap. She held onto him tightly before pulling the web back into her wrist causing them to be propelled through the air over the traps into the trees.

She let go of Howlard and watched as Pahnch appeared around the tree carrying an
unconscious Delphina in her arms with Delphinas head lolling on her shoulder. Pahnch seemed to be muttering something rapidly under her breath.

Ara quickly ducked under a branch loosing sight of them for a a second on her way to a better vantage point. She then shot acid near Pahnch's left foot causing Pahnch to loosen her grip on Delphina.

Ara shot web around a branch then around onto Delphina using her body as a
counterbalance pulling Delphina rapidly towards her before Pahnch could think.

Ara tied Delphina to her body with web before using more web to rapidly ascend into the canopy away from Pahnch who had launched herself in their direction with a gruff
wordless yell of rage.  Ara quickly lost Pahnch before hurrying back to base.