The Elephant King is still for a few, long moments. Black-rimmed ears perked, body a hard rock of muscle and bone as navy eyes stare down the events that unfold before him.

Kisamoa. Kaos.

Father Earth.

This betrayal, this trickery…it must have been what Dorobo was like as he fled the fall. And, despite the black pit of treachery that awned in his barrel, some sort of opportunity for redemption burst as bright light against his skull.

And so an Elephant’s bellowing trumpet ripped through the pandemonium of the battlefield. The time for action was now—except @Nyx had already heeded that call. The Elephant, frozen by his magic as he shifted into a true elephant, watched with wide and helpless eyes as the bone monster’s mismatch teeth (—gathered by Helovians—) sank into one of his oldest friends.

With sheer fight and will, he ripped free of his magic’s freezing power, large grey feet shaking the earth as he charged forward. “REGROUP! FALL BACK!” @Ophelia ’s words shout into his mind, but his ears flap in an angry elephantine charge—

Until @Ampere ’s words and large, electrical horse called his attenion. Navy eyes, angry and tense, only fully leave Nyx’s body when he sees @Sacre approach the mare’s broken body. And so his elephantine form comes alongside the Mother of Companions and @Volterra . His large, flapping ears hear the Indomitable’s words, and guttural grunt of agreement comes from the old Elephant general.

“Edge warriors, to me!” His bone-shaking trumpet called all the warriors of the Edge to join the gathered Throat warriors. Divided, the bone monster would tear them apart as it did to Nyx.

Then he saw two of his children: Zubari and Kiada. ’Mbwene, get foals.’ But his mental command was ignored by and overwhelming panic that swelled from his companion. ’CHICO,’ was her scream—though it was more panicked emotion that true words. A comically small cloud of ash was sent in the direction of the monster, before the small elephant charged towards @Roskuld and her injured Chico, her trunk out and gently probing for life and injuries.

“ @Zubari , @Kiada , get away,! the Elephant King shouted, instead of sending his companion. Unfortunately, a wall of fiery tornados separated the King from his daughter—and so his attention turned back to those he stood alongside.

And then he sent a wave of elephantine magma at the beast while it attacked the Inquisitor.

What had they done?

Tembovu

the elephant king