"Catch them!" Vikus yelled, he already had Ripred so Euripedes couldn't do it, Nike dropped Howard on Avanna's bat, very quickly, and dove down and had Sara on her back and Irena in her claws. Irena was a heavy bat, and Nike was much smaller. "Land!" Howard shouted, and everyone landed.
"What happened?" Howard asked Avena, "I d-don't know, my wing, myself, there was so much pain!" Howard gingerly lifted up her right wing, and a small stream of blood was trickling down her side. "Poisin. They attacked in the air. How? That is not even possible!" Howard said, looking down at Sara, she passed out on the way down, she was wheezing. "Wake up, Sara, wake up." Vikus said, gently shaking her. Her eyes popped open, "I guess it was a mistake to take off the armour." Mareth said, "Yes." Mason agreed. Sara sat up, and then made a sound of agonizing pain then clutched her side, where blood was slowly pouring out of a small wound. She laid back down on the ground. Howard gave her some pain killer, and he wouldn't let her sleep. He bandaged up her and her fliers wounds aand then suggested they stay in the spot they were in.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" A scream woke everone up. Mareth lit a torch. Three feet away from them lay a dead spider, and Sara lying on the ground wincing in agonizing pain. "What happened?" Vikus asked, gently lifting her up, onto a blanket, "The sp-spinner attacked! I ha-had to k-kill it!" she cried, "You saved us all." Luxa said to her. "Let us leave" Howard said, giving Sara another dose of pain killer. Mason lifted her onto her bat, who was much better, and they flew off.
"Are we almost there?" Gregor asked Vikus, "Oh no, maybe not much longer of flying, but once we have reached a certain part of the ocean, we will continue on by boat." Gregor groaned, he hated the ocean, not because of the boat, because of the creature that attacked them on the mission to get the cure for some plague. That's when Ares, Howard, and his mom got the plague. Luxa flew up to Gregor, "Would you like to play a game? It keeps my mind off things." Luxa asked Gregor, "Sure." Gregor responded, he wanted to not think about very much. "What do you see?" Luxa asked Gregor, he looked out into the pitch darkness. "Nothing." He said, which was true, he could just barely make out the outline of everybody's shadow. "Good." Luxa said, then she didn't say anything more. "Luxa?" Gregor swung his arms out to the side, Luxa had flown away. He sighed. He really didn't get the point of this game.
"Land!" Vikus yelled, everyone landed. Gregor could just hear the waves from the water. Mareth, Howard, and Mason all lit one torch each. There was a huge boat, big enough for everyone to fit in. Sara gasped and made a funny face when she saw the boat. Luxa bit her bottom lip. Marco and Alexea knitted their eyebrows together. Avanna looked nervous. So did everyone else. Clearly, no one liked boats. "Eeugh!" Sara made a disgusted sound, Gregor couldn't tell if it was because her entire body was hurting, or if she hated the boat. "I dislike these boats, Vikus. How long has it been here?" Sara asked, "Not long, nor a short time, Sara." he replied. "Well, what are we waiting for?" Luxa asked, her voice cracked a little bit. Everyone got on board, Irena flew Sara up on the boat. They were only waiiting for Mason and Avanna who were whispering something. Gregor saw Irena whispering to Sara. She could probably hear what they were saying, all the bats' heads slowly lifted up.
"Gregor, come over here." It was really, really dark, Mareth was steering, and Gregor was keeping watch. Sara was telling him to come over, he wasn't sure he should, she was on the other side of the boat. He did anyway, "What is it?" Gregor whispered to her. No one could hear them. "I know what they were whispering about when we left, Irena told me." Sara said, Gregor realized she was talking about Avanna and Mason. She gently touched him arm. He flinched, her hand was icy and cold, "Mason and Avanna and Lucille and Darren and some more are on the---" she whispered these last two words so quietly, that they were barely audible, "Spinners side." "What!" Gregor said a little too loudly. "Shhh! What are you doing? You cannot tell! No one will believe you! No one!" she whispered, slapping his arm, hard. "Why should I believe you? I just met you!" Gregor whisper-shouted, "Did you wonder why the bats all lifted their head at the same time, that was not a coincidence, and Irena and Aurora, and Euripedes would not lie to eachother. Irena would not lie to me! Promise me you will not tell! I know how I can get Mason to join our side again." she touched Gregor's knee, and whispered in his ear, "Keep your sword in hand. A large creature will attack in a few minutes." Gregor drew his sword.
About five minutes later, a creature, with small black eyes, jumped onto the boat, how did Sara know that a creature would attack. "Aaaaaaaaaaah!" Howard woke up, screaming. The creature was only going after him. "Howard!" Stellovet yelled, everyone was awake already. Sara, Mareth, Gregor, Marco, Alexea, Avanna, Mason, Vikus, and Luxa all came at the huge creature with swords, "Sara steer the boat!" Mareth yelled, she threw Howard her sword, and veered the boat to the left, knocking the creature down, and almost knocking down everyone else. Gregor felt his weird rager sensation closing in on him. But he could control it, he knew he could. He stabbed the creature about eight times, and everyone else helped kill it. Once the thing was dead, everyone, except Sara, who was steering, threw the carcass overboard.
"Impressive, Overlander!" Sara said, clapping. "Controlling the rager powers" she was the only one who seemed amused. Everyone else had annoyed looks on their faces. Ripred was sleeping the entire time the creature attacked. He hit Sara's feet with his tail, and started laughing, "Yes, I'm rather impressed, warrior. Though you could before, you didn't even show the rager "thing" Ripred started to slap his tail to the floor of the boat. Sara was laughing as much as she was when that kid asked her to marry him. "What is so funny you imature beings! You did not even do anything. Ripred you slept and Sara-" Sara cut Mareth off, "You told me to steer!" Sara yelled, grasping the top of her knife. Mareth looked down, and kicked a small stone, "You are right I did. I apologize" Mareth said, still looking down. "Seriously! Sara you pick a fight with everyone! Everyone! There is only few people you have not fought with!" Alexea shouted. Sara opened her mouth, but said nothing. Then she crossed her arms and sat down on the other side of the boat, putting out the torch. No one could see her from where they were standing. "Rest." Vikus said
Gregor couldn't sleep. Sara looked really sad before she put out the torch.
Then he heard sobbing from the other side of the boat.
