Draycos777
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"They should have been here by now. Where are they?" Standing at the entrance of Vanguard Academy, along with the other tutor who would welcome the new arrivals, Arachnid waited for Vingeth and Arlea to show up if the students in tow. Waiting... She had been waiting for awhile now and the other tutors that noticed her ever increasingly worried face tried to comfort her with care-free comment of, "Don't worry, I'm sure they're fine" or "I bet they just got delayed during the trip. They'll be here any minute." So Arachnid waited and waited, until she was almost on edge and had half a mind to go out and find those two. That is until what she had feared became known. A red flash in the sky told it all. It was a distress signal sent out by Vingeth. The students were in trouble and it was her job to make sure they got back safely. Not just as the assassin hire by Gary Vaedian, but also as a tutor of Vanguard. Arachnid took off quickly and silently towards the direction of the flash, and before the other teachers could even form an organized team, she was on her way to the city. "I knew something was wrong. I should have trusted my instincts and went with them!" Pressing her lips together, Arachnid made a soft, but, high-pitched whisting sound. It didn't seem important at first since nothing happened right away, but soon after, seconds of quiet turn into far off rumbling as if a stampede was headed her way. It grew louder and louder, until Arachnid jumped as she reached the downturn of the hill the Academy rested on. Coming up beneath her was the source of the noise. A creature that, for all intents and purposes, could be described as a giant, organic armor plate with eight legs, six red eyes and a mouth with two large fangs with rows of sharp teeth. Landing gracefully and silent on the back of the creature, Arachnid gave it an order. "Alerhind! As fast as you can to Gryestaff's Caravan shack! The students are in trouble!" Alerhind, the giant spider, screeched and it's eight legs moved so fast that it looked it it's legs would start to burl if it could go any faster. As the large spider raced down the hill, Arachnid had to place her right hand down to steady herself on him as Alerhind suddenly jumped to avoid ploughing into a red-headed girl, who was making her way toward and up the hill. Arachnid caught a quick glance of the girl, she was one of the students. A new arrival then, coming to warn about the attack? Whatever the case may be, Arachnid's main concern was the rest of the students that haven't made it into the safety of the barrier yet. Landing, Alerhind kept going, his eight legs like clockwork, never missing a beat. They only stopped once. As they approached the bottom of the hill and to the city, a green mass made contact with the city's magic barrier and a blinding bright light ensued quickly afterwards. Alerhind skidded to a halt, leaving tracks in the dirt, as the light had blinded both of their eyes. When their sight returned, Arachnid's heart nearly skipped a beat by what she saw or the lack thereof. "The barrier is...gone. Now not just the students, but all of the city-folk are now in danger." As she spoke this out loud, Arachnid noticed a familiar face running towards them. It was Vingeth, who was no doubt chasing after the stray girl she saw before. She decide to call out to him. "Vingeth! Don't worry about the girl! She'll run into the group of tutors headed our way soon enough. More importantly, the barrier is gone! The whole city of Gryestaff is in danger now! Go, hurry and tell the Headmaster! I, along with the other tutors no doubt, are on our way to help the students, so don't worry!" With that, she gave Alerhind a pat and he took off once more, racing downwards to the students. Coming upon the scene, Arachnid notice that some of the students were fighting back against the skeletons of the Shadowsycthe themselves and Varick, who had traveled with the students was already in the fray. "How very like him, always the first to throw himself into battle." She pushed this thought aside quickly though and looked about the battle to see exactly who the enemy was. "Great, nothing but skeletons." This was both a blessing and a curse at the same time. While the undead, besides liches, were dumb, slow and easy to kill...again, their number were many and Arachnid disliked them more then any of the other members of the Shadowsycthe. Out of all the other Shadowsycthe, her poison didn't work on the undead, because they is nothing to poison to begin with. Which meant she actually had to use a bit of effort to kill these lowly things. As they raced into the chaos of fighting, Arachnid patted Alerhind and pointed to the buggies under attack by the skeletons. "Go and help the students! I'll clear out the city streets and make sure the path to the town square is safe for them!" With that she jumped off the spider and landed near the closest skeleton. Without it even noticing she was ever there, she cracked the spinal joint holding the head a top the neck between the palms of her hands and left to dispatch the next monster, as the skeleton's head fell and the rest of it's body crumpled to the ground soon after. "I hate wasted energy, but it's for the safety of the students so it can't be helped this time." Making her way to the town square, she took out all the skeletons in her way. Crushing skulls, breaking pelvises, snapping legs and fracturing spines. She left the street to the town square she was just in a mess of bones, until she came across Arlea, a burning buggy and a couple of students that had made it into Gryestaff. Walking up, silently as ever, behind the young second year Arachnid placed a hand on her shoulder. "How many of our new arrivals are still out there and how far has the enemy got into the city?" No sooner had his master had leaped from his back, that Alerhind had reached the buggies going at his speed. With an echoing shriek, he rammed his body into the ill-prepared skeletons that were attacking the students. The ones unfortunate enough to fall beneath his feet soon found themselves crushed by the power and weight of his body. Tearing and biting through their bones like tissuepaper, Alerhind cleared the immediate area of the monsters while the rest backed off in order to make sense of the new threat before them. With the time he had bought himself, he turned to the buggies. How was he going to get all these students to safety? Pushing the buggies one-by-one would be a pain and there was always the risk of one or more of the students trying to jump out and make a run for it. Looking into the buggies he could tell some of the students knew he was here to help while the others, panicked by the recent attack, looked completely terrified. One had even fainted. Useless human children. Alerhind sometimes wondered why his master even bothered teaching them. However, she had ordered him to keep them safe and he wasn't about to let her down any time soon. He decided to do this the most efficient way possible and bring them all to the town square at once, despite whatever protest they might have. With his decision made, Alerhind climbed onto the closest buggy and began to spin a web. Covering the door first he moved on to the roof and jumped from one buggy to the next making sure that the force of his weight didn't break anything. Once the roofs were connected, he hopped onto the side of the first buggy and began to web the sides, back and fronts of all the buggies together in a small dome leaving the only parts of the buggies not woven together the bottom and wheels. Once he was certain the buggies were firmly in place and not going anywhere, Alerhind wove and connected a harness. Biting down on it, he dragged the spiderweb-domed buggies to the town square.
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