The brother is gone before the General can gather his magical will; a zig-zagging shadow, the magical fox vanishes with growls and scurries, no longer caring that much if his idiot sister decided to get herself killed for a bit of meat. Though it would be more difficult to hunt without her culling bolts of light, Taorcha would rather risk having to struggle to eat again, over never getting to eat anything, because he had been smashed beneath cloven hooves. Bolting back into the cavern, following the low, small tunnels into the caves (and eventually out), to best avoid the vengeful unicorn.

Na’aila, however, is too filled with pride to see this logical course of action, and instead of turning tail, she ducks her head down, and snarls. Sparks crackle along the length of her ivory tails, her pearly fangs snapping at the air before her, and as Erebos gathers his magical force and projects it towards her, so too does the Kitsune.

The black magic strikes the fox and immediately forces her legs to buckle beneath her, a yowl permeating the cavern as she struggles to flee the agony devouring her from the inside out. Her bolt of lightning is cast awry, the unicorn’s spell swifter, and with a blinding, crackling sound, the blinding branch of electricity bursts upon the cavern’s ceiling.

A low rumble begins to dully roar beneath the piteous sounds of Na’aila’s suffering, and cracks begin to permeate the ceiling, expanding outward from the initial impact point of that very (unfortunately) accurate blow to a weak spot in the stone.

Never! viciously snarls the kitsune in response, just as the first chunks of rock break free. Scrambling backwards, she tumbles into the fire, almost instantaneously ablaze from several points of her milky fur. The fate of the kitsune sister, however, is thusly blocked from view; a cascading wall of rock and debris quickly seals away all sight of the electric wielding fox, or her brother’s fire.

Flying from this wild rush of earth, the griffon lands at Erebos’ hooves, eddies of dust swirling about its claws and paws. A combination of some plain, black cat with golden eyes, and what seems to be a raven, her wings are flecked with the same warm, honey tones that color her gaze, and she looks towards her savior with a single, thankful clack of her beak, before she departs.

Yet, where she had been, there remains one of her two salvaged eggs.

[ Taorcha escapes the cavern with his life – but was Na’aila so fortunate?

Congratulations! Erebos has been given a Common Griffon egg! It may hatch in this thread, or he is welcome to care for it until it hatches. ]