Kami looked up and gasped. "Kid! Shoot her down! She's gaining the higher ground!"
Kid's pinkies yanked on the trigger and he fired at her, but she wove around.
Quite suddenly, Kami dipped to the side and the whole thing turned to narrowly avoid a strangely shaped swirl of ice. She came up in the tailwind of Kim's slipstream.
Torrent had vanished into the trees, making her more likely to scare them.
Justin was still surfing the broom ahead of them. He seemed determined not to go into the trees again.
Kami looked down and gasped.
Torrent, her old friend, was slipping between branches and jumping from tree to tree like she truly was a cat. That time in the hallway had sent her into her feral state of her strong witch blood. Her hair was fawning out behind her as she ran and it was crazy, watching the speed and accuracy of her foot placement.
But the way she cradled Giriko in her left hand seemed like he was a bit heavy for her.
Suddenly, Torrent shot out of the tree cover. As she did, she pulled on the handle of Giriko's saw. On cue, his body began to transform and she pulled it until it was the length of a staff with a chainsaw end. As she came down with gravity, she pulled on the flat part of the chainsaw.
It pulled it into a scythe form with rotating teeth vanishing into the golem-like block where the blade connected with the handle. As she swung it, another blade spit out the other side, with stagnant teeth.
Torrent's swing was coming down hard and fast and Kami had to do something.
She lifted her foot off the opposite end and brought it down on Torrent's shoulder. That caused her gravity-pulled momentum to veer, but Torrent didn't give up.
She was falling back, but twisted under with Giriko swinging over to try to catch Kami on the other side.
'I hope you know what you're doin'!'
"You're not just a chainsaw, remember that." She pulled herself into the driver's position and grabbed Kami around the neck. She pulled the woman's hair so it was choking her. It sent her into a vertigo and then out. Torrent hit the descent gear and jumped off. The jump also turned her so she rolled through the air to land on Jacqueline's form. She grabbed Kim by the hair and turned her, causing the trio to spiral towards the trees.
Torrent's terror didn't last, as Stein managed to hook her with the cross section of Spirit. He pulled and she began to fall off the Weapon's body. "Come back!" Stein yelled as Torrent hung off Spirit's cross hairs. "We need you to come back!"
Torrent's eyes widened as she saw the trees below. The madness had stopped coming into her and she knew that Kami's vehicle had children. She used Giriko to push off of Spirit and hook the mechanical menace. She held her hand out and caught the edge of her broom as Justin had brought it back around.
Justin watched in awe as she used the stagnant teeth on Giriko to hook at just the right angle. "Shall I set them down?"
"No need to kill, Justin." She looked up and smiled at him. "Let's put them down."
Justin nodded and searched for a clearing. When they were finally set down, Kid looked in awe at the witch. Justin hovered just out of their way.
Torrent checked Kami before she stepped back. "I'm sorry, Stein. I have a promise to keep."
Justin's face relaxed. He had thought she'd forgotten about their promise already.
Stein grabbed her shoulder when she turned away. "To whom? Who did you promise something to?"
Torrent just shook his hand off and went to join Giriko and Justin. "I promise you this, Stein." She turned back to him, bringing her hood up. "I'll come back. I've just got to take care of someone first. I'll be back by then. Just hold off on your horays until then."
She bowed as the broom swept down and scooped her and Giriko onto it. They started to rise and Stein saw it in her eyes.
Torrent was scared and sad and happy all at once.