Chapter 69- violent explosions
The escorts continued to viciously fight the minions of both Jadis and Krampus as the dark blizzard continued to gust viciously around them but as more minions were cut down, more arrived as backup and began to engage the helpers in battle. However, the helpers knew they had to stall the minions for time in order that the crowd of migrating Narnians might hurry back to the fork in the path and safely down the misty path as indicated by Aslan's fireball Lion sign earlier. Phoenixes were transforming into their flaming forms and charging some minions while Rocs were using their cryokinetic abilities in conjuring some blasts of ice to freeze more of the ugly creatures and toy minions in their tracks. Thunderbirds conjured up mini thunderclouds, their feathers, especially those in their wings, flashing with electricity as they did that, and then zapping more minions with the lightning bolts from those clouds. A few Pyros, among them Emberflame had exploded from their protective lamps to blast more minions with their fire as they came after the fleeing crowd members and their escorts, among them Passiflora as she herded them like sheep back to the fork in the path before retreating to their lamps as the lethality of the Witch's winter magic in the air began to eat away at them. While the helpers continued to viciously fight the minions of both Krampus and Jadis, the crowd continued their hasty and treacherous retracing of their path back to the fork through the dark blizzard summoned by Krampus when he arrived first.
Bursyamo the lead Basan continued fighting against Ganondorf and his minion Lizard-Men with their swords and sticks as well as their flames, the streams of glowing orange fluid-like plasma piercing the darkness of the blizzard at the Humanoid Lizards as they flowed from the Basan's beaks. Bursyamo discharged a stream of orange fire from his beak at Ganondorf when the head Lizard-Man approached him close enough only for him to dodge and somersault backwards, avoiding the lead Basan's flame breath. Then as soon as he was on his four feet, Ganondorf reached with his prehensile tail, seized the rapier sword in Bursyamo's talons for he had been using his sword in his feet and had been hovering for Basan could fly unlike regular Talking Chickens who could not fly much, and then yanked the rapier out of Bursyamo's talons, much to the shock of the Fire Rooster. Then after flinging aside the sharp needle with a hand-shield, Ganondorf, with a vicious Reptilian roar and his Reptilian eyes glowing a menacing yellow in the dark, lunged at Bursyamo, raised a Humanoid hand and flared its finger claws. Then before Bursyamo could act, the lead Lizard-Man raked his claws right across the Rooster's torso, tearing out some fiery red and orange feathers and knocking the Rooster out of the air and into the snow. Bursyamo let loose an agonised crow and clasped his scratched chest with his wings as he lay on his side, wounded with his eyes screwed shut. Then Ganondorf sauntered towards the downed Bursyamo and prepared his finger claws once again, this time to go for the neck to inflict the fatal blow. Around him, his Lizard-Men underlings continued to attack the Basan by disarming them with their prehensile tails and slashing at them with their venomous clawed hands, two or three more of the Fire Chickens getting injured and knocked out of the air. Achamo, when she saw that the Lizard-Men were beginning to overpower the Basan, sounded a loud screech for all the Basan to retreat, which they did. Nearby, the other helpers also retreated and seized their injured comrades, the Lizard-Men continuously slashing at them with their venomous finger claws, the Triffid-Mouths lashing their whip-like venomous tongues at them, the Bonehead-Crawlers snapping their jaws and the variety of other creatures slashing at them with their weapons, Krampus's toy minions helping them.
Ganondorf continued to approach Bursyamo as he lay wounded in a snow and prepared his finger claws, his hand raised in the air and his Humanoid Reptilian face saturated with murderous triumph, his yellow Lizard's eyes glowing with it and his mouth grinning from ear to ear, the teeth showing through but before he could slit the Basan's neck, Bursyamo suddenly sprang into action. The lead Basan snapped his head to the Lizard-Man despite being in agony with the paralyzing venom from Ganondorf's claw swipe setting in and before Ganondorf could act, the lead Lizard-Man was blasted square in the face with a stream of fire from Bursyamo's beak at point-blank range. An EXTREMELY agonised scream erupted from Ganondorf's mouth as the flames burned his face and he flung his head back from the surprise of the retaliatory and literally flaming counterattack. Bursyamo, seeing his enemy scream in agony and cover his charred face with his hands, then rose to his feet, his wings grasping his wound which was oozing blood, and blasted the Lizard-Men with another stream of fire, hitting him in the back and charcoaling him, and making him release another Reptile cry of agony. However, as he blasted his enemy with his flame, the venom from Ganondorf's attack on him began to take hold on the Basan, and he began to struggle to breathe and fall on his front, his wings continuously grasping his injury. As he fell on his front, a Sphinx appeared, seized the wounded Basan with her telekinesis, her eyes glowing aqua blue with an aqua blue aura projected onto Bursyamo, and lifted him off the ground before levitating him with her mind-powered grasp to safety. She knew that if Bursyamo did not receive treatment, the paralyzing venom from Ganondorf's slash and its resulting envenomation into him could freeze every muscle in the Basan's body, including those in his heart and breathing system and that would be fatal, and the paralysing venom was already taking effect on Bursyamo's system as he was beginning to struggle to breathe harder and harder.
As the helpers continued to retreat, more of Jadis's minions turned up. One species was an evil version of the Fairies, called Fairyflies. These little creatures resembled a cross between a Fairy and a fly, and these creatures were revolting. They had revolting coloured skin, ranging from black like the Shadows' 'cloaks' to a disgusting brown colour, to a sickly deathly green or bone white and from that skin sprouted a sprinkle of fly-like hairs. Their eyes were compound eyes like an insect's rather than the simple Humanoid eyes the Fairies had. They had two pairs of arms and two pairs of legs, and their body anatomy was also like that of an insect, their thorax and abdomen divided into separate parts as opposed to a single torso also like in Fairies. Their wings were fly's wings and they possessed fly's antennae, and they smelt absolutely disgusting and dribbled disgustingly whenever they were hungry for violence, and like the scratch of a Lizard-Man, their bites were venomous, only their venom possessed different properties and instead caused excruciating agony for the victim much like the sting from a male platypus's spur in our world but because the Fairyflies attacked in swarms, the extreme agony resulting from their bites was even more painful. The moment the Fairyflies appeared, they began to swarm like locusts all over some of the helpers and bite them, forcing the helpers in swiping their hands, wings, claws and weapons at them to drive them off but because of their smaller size compared to many of other Jadis's creatures, Fairyflies were harder to deal with. Then after the Fairyflies arrived, larger creatures appeared from the trees, their feet sending thunderous thumps through the snow as they landed into it and made the ground somewhat shake. They were some of the Giants, among them Giant Ogres and the skeletal Gashadokuro, and the moment these horrible bipedal beasts arrived, they began to try and flatten their smaller enemies with their feet. Seeing that they were beginning to become overpowered by Jadis's forces, Cedrus ordered all the helpers to retreat and help the crowd back to the fork pronto, which they did. The helpers all surged off for the crowd, the minions of Jadis and Krampus as well as Krampus himself and Amanita the false nine-tailed Fox, transformed into one by the Witch, in hot pursuit, the Fairyflies swarming all over them and viciously biting them and inflicting them with their weak venom that will eventually induce extreme pain while the Giants and the skeletal Gashadokuko attempted to stomp on them as they retreated. However, as the crowd and their escorts continued to retreat, the sound of hooves pounding against snow alongside the slicing of metal blades on the same white substance began and increased in loudness in the leafless trees and the dark blizzard, indicating her arrival.
As the crowd and their escorts continued desperately fleeing for their lives back to the fork with some of them going the wrong way only to be slaughtered by Jadis and Krampus's minions, a sextet (group of six) of bone-white reindeer arranged in two rows of three, alongside a crystalline sleigh behind them and reined to them, exploded from some leafless tree trunks and lunged right at the crowd. The crowd, upon seeing the new arrivals, screamed and scattered as the reindeer and crowd slammed onto the snow, mowing down those too unfortunately slow to get out of the way in time. Then the reindeer and the sleigh swerved round and pulled up, alongside even more smaller sleds pulled by Yule goats and more of the wicked minions of the owner of the larger sleigh. Cedrus, Cumulonimbus and Blaze, while they continued to ward off the attacking evil creatures with Blaze roasting some of the Fairyflies with his flame, looked up and the moment their eyes landed on an unmistakable figure as she rose from her seat and jumped out of her sleigh, an immense blizzard of immense horror, the biggest one they had harboured since most of the crowd had disobediently headed down this path against Aslan's guidance, tore through them like the raging blizzard brought upon them by Krampus. Then one of the Sphinxes, a female, lunged forward towards the White Witch as she brandished her wand and fired blue-white beams of energy at some of the helpers, turning them into statue versions of themselves as well as slice down any helpers that came her way to attack her with her sword, and against Cedrus's protests flashed her eyes blue and projected her telekinetic grasp onto the Witch, hoping to mentally throw her back and stall her. However, like with Krampus, the blue aura appeared around Jadis only to shatter a second later.
"It's no use, Meg," said Cedrus when the Sphinx, named Meg, tried again only for the same result to happen, "Jadis is totally immune to your telekinesis and that of the Nekomata, Bakeneko and Kitsune and the other Magical Creatures capable of using it, including Gandalf and Kyukon. Let's RETREAT and FAST!"
Meg, at this, obeyed and re-joined Ptériga and the other Sphinxes and resumed helping the crowd evacuate as the Witch fired another energy blast from her wand and struck one of the Sphinxes, turning her into stone and making her drop out of the air, landing into the snow as a lifeless stone Sphinx in the exact pose the moment she was struck. As the crowd continued struggling along through the dark blizzard, the Witch released a maniacal, triumphant laughter at their predicament as the cronies that had accompanied her, among them Nuri-onna (woman-faced Snake Yokai creatures), Naga, Inugami (Canid ghosts who floated through the air like a Spectre), Kamaitachi (flying Spectre-like Weasel creatures with long claws on their feet curved like scythes which they used to slash at enemies; only a small handful of these Yokai species were loyal to Aslan and when those that were began to attack the crowd of Narnians, they revealed their true colours and betrayed their 'comrades' and began to fight them instead to help the Narnians escape, alongside a few of the other 'cronies' who were loyal to Aslan, much like Dionaea and her group), Yowie and Oni (Yokai species who were similar to the Trolls and Dwarves and had prehensile hair which they could use like tentacles in ensnaring victims) leaped from their smaller sleds and lunged at the escaping evacuees and helpers.
"Did you lot think you could escape me, you little migrating rebels?" she crooned as she twirled her wand and fired another blast of her petrifying spell at a Curupira, turning him to stone much to Cedrus's alarm, "Your nine-tailed Fox friend might have outsmarted me and my army back at his little secret base with his set of decoys and removal of your tracks in the snow but it seems that you have brewed a little carelessness on your Exodus, allowing my dear friend Krampus over there to trap you long enough for me and my minions to arrive and deal with you!"
And with that, the Devil Woman let loose another villainous laughter of pure triumphant insanity and continued firing blast after blast of her petrification magic at the crowd, turning more of the creatures to stone, among them an adult Nekomata, a few Elemental Birds, a few Fauns (fortunately, Guinan was far at the front of the crowd), one of the Kitsune, a Nighttime Okuri-Inu, a Centaur, a traitorous Kamaitachi as it cut down a few of the Witch-royal Wolves to save a group of Ducks and geese, and a few of the other Talking Beasts including a Basan and one of Bursyamo's underlings, and a Talking Dragon. Then Kushanku, when he saw one of the Witch's magical blasts nearly catch Akira and turn her to a stone statue as she stumbled in the snow only to be seized by Cumulonimbus before a few four-smelling Fairyflies, along with a Carcassus, could pile onto her and attack her by biting her and stomping her underfoot, shot the White Witch a furious, volcanic glare as she continued to come at the crowd with her minions, Krampus and his Elf and toy minions, and the moment he did, his fury mode instinct took over once again and flashed his eyes pure orange-red.
"Kushanku, what are YOU DOING!?" demanded Nyarth when he saw his younger brother enter fury mode. Then without hesitation or thinking and much to the horror of his brothers, sister and the others nearby, especially Thundersparx, Kushanku's forked tail twisted and he lofted into flight, launching directly at the White Witch with an enraged Cat screech.
"KUSHANKU, GET BACK HERE!" bellowed Thundersparx as Kushanku continued flying at the Witch as she continued blasting at the crowd and helpers with her wand in an attempt to turn more of them to stone statues while her cronies, Krampus and his toy and Elf minions continued their terror on the crowd. Kushanku did not hear Thundersparx's commands to return to the crowd and continued flying towards the White Witch as she managed to hit a Raiju (not Thundersparx) with a blast of petrification spell from her wand and turn it to a stone statue. The onlookers looked on in utmost horror
"Oh, NO, YOU'LL BE KILLED!" cried Snowwing as he looked on with Dahlia, Alexandrite, Paddy, Link, Cyril, Desdemona, Nanu and Molayne, and also Shadewing, Quill and Emberflame from the lamp carried by Shadewing. Kushanku continued to fly at the White Witch and when he was close enough, he released an EXTREMELY enraged screech similar to the ones he released during his brutal battle with Belladonna. Jadis, when she heard a Cat screech the moment she released another blast of her petrification magic from her icicle-like wand, snapped her deceptively beautiful and devilish glare to the direction of the screeching Cat just in time to receive a painful spinning-tail slap to the face from a hovering Nekomata.
Nyarth, Satoshi, Sandstorm and Akira, and also Cedrus and the others, looked on in utter astonishment as Kushanku struck Jadis square in the face with his spinning tails, making the Witch throw her head in the direction of the slap. Kushanku, his eyes a glowing fiery orange-red from fury mode, saw Jadis fling her head and raised her hand to where he had slapped her, then twirled round in the opposite direction and with all his might slapped Jadis in the head again with his spinning forked tail, this time knocking her icicle crown off her head. The icicle crown careened through the dark, blizzardy air and struck one of Krampus's toy robots and shattered into several icy shards. This froze the onlookers in EXTREME horror.
"Oh, not her crown," said Shadewing with a cover of his face with a membranous wing. Then Nanu decided to take the opportunity to taunt the Witch. A scornful smirk appearing on his face, the young Wolf pup broke from the crowd and hurried right over to Jadis.
"Heh, I told her off once, I'm sure I can do it again," he crooned.
"Nanu, GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!" yelled Cedrus but Nanu ignored him and boldly ran up to the Witch as Kushanku, realising that he had knocked her crown off her head which broke him out of his fury mode, immediately backed away towards the crowd.
"Hey, White Witch maggot and Queen of the Flies," yelled Nanu at the top of his voice, that voice saturated with bitter scorn and mockery, to his former master and leader, bringing the Witch's attention to him, "Remember me!?"
Jadis, despite the pain from the two slaps from Kushanku's spinning tail attack to her face and head and the humiliation in losing her icicle crown, at this, just turned away and flatly growled, "NO!" before twirling her wand and fired a blast of petrification spell energy at the young Wolf pup but before the energy blast could connect with Nanu and turn him into a Wolf statue, an aqua blue aura surrounded him and yanked him out of the spell blast's way just in time. Ptériga then telekinetically carried Nanu, her eyes glowing aqua blue and projecting onto the Wolf pup, away from the danger and hastily rocketed to the front of the crowd, not wanting the young Wolf pup to fall victim to the Witch's wrath again. Any of Jadis's minions nearby had been witnessing the whole incident.
"Was that the Wolf pup that rebelled against us by calling Jadis that HEINOUS, BLASPHEMOUS INSULT!?" asked one of the Oni, its Troll-like face saturated with pure outrage, bringing a few Wolves, among them Romulus to attention. At this, Jadis screeched at her minions at the top of her lungs.
"NEVER MIND THAT WOLF PUP," she screamed, her voice echoing throughout the area for tens of metres like a Banshee's scream, making the crowd cover their ears and return to fleeing, "JUST CATCH THAT BUNCH OF MIGRATING REBELS AND CAPTURE THEM!"
With that, the chaos returned as the crowd returned to fleeing for their lives and Jadis's minions resumed their attack on her with Krampus and his Elf and toy minions assisting.
Some of Krampus's toy minions including the Python-Clown-in-a-Box, once it had managed to remove the log lodged in its throat thrown telekinetically by the Nekomata earlier lunged in and seized a young Faun (not Guinan) before beginning to consume him headfirst and alive, much to Obsidian's hysterical distress nearby as the memoires of seeing her younger brother meeting his demise the same way flashed in her mind. While the serpent-like Jack-in-a-box did that, the gingerbread men armed with their candy cane weapons, the demonic plush teddy bears, bunnies and other stuffed toy animals, toy robots, pseudo-Cherub dolls and Elves continued to assault the crowd, seizing some of them and killing them. Jadis's minions also continued their relentless attack with the giants and Goshadokuro trying to trample on them only to miss and be driven back by the Elemental Birds, among them Brina as she blasted one of the skeletal Goshadokuro in the face with a stream of ice from her beak and sent it toppling over like a large tree. The skeletal Giant then crashed hard onto the snow in a shower of the stuff and with a terrific thud, flattening some of the Wendigoes, Naga, Nuri-onna and Drop Bears and saving some of the crowd members they had managed to seize. Lana, Suiren, Hala and their group of Harpies were seized by a few Centaurs when Amanita tried to blast them with her foxfire though Lana managed to land a talon slash on the pure-white nine-tailed Nogitsune and inflict a scratch on her face before Colress appeared and seized her and dragged her away, and the rest of the crowd members were also saved from the Witch and Krampus's minions they continued their relentless attacks on them.
Soon enough, and despite the dark blizzard, the crowd's front had made its way to the safety of the fork and the moment they were at the fork, they immediately swerved left and poured down the misty right-hand path as guided by Aslan's Lion fireball and as herded by Cedrus and company. As the crowd continued to surge down the misty path from the wrong path, Jadis and company continued their relentless attacks on them with Jadis turning more and more individuals into stone, Krampus and company capturing a number of more crowd members and Jadis's cronies fiercely attacking the helpers who fought back full force. However, the majority of Jadis's minions pursued the part of the crowd as they continued to pour down the misty path and pluck more individuals from the swarm like birds of prey plucking their smaller bird meals from a large flock of them. One of Guinan's cousins was seized by an Inugami while a few of the Fairyflies diverted some of Faline's kits in the direction of some of Krampus's demonic toy bunnies, the rest of their Rabbit family, among them Fluffy-Cotton and Faline herself, being too occupied with escaping Jadis and company, and two more Curupira, a Swan and some Dwarves and a Naga loyal to Aslan were turned to stone by blasts of petrification spell energy from the Witch's wand as the evil Charn-originating Humanoid continued wielding her most powerful weapon and shooting out more of her petrification spell at the petrified Narnians. Amanita the nine-tailed Nogitsune also slaughtered some more of the Narnians with her upgraded foxfire and injured more of them, among them a Cherub who was seized and carried to safety. But as Jadis and company continued attacking the crowd as they continued pouring down the foggy path (the tanks containing the severely frightened Sea Creatures like the Merfolk hanging on for dear life and the water splashing everywhere; thankfully they were too close to the bottom of the tanks for Jadis's cronies to snatch and they were heavily guarded by some of the helpers who continued to drive away any of them that approached them), the traitorous cronies, among them some of the traitorous Kamaitachi, swooped between many of their former comrades and the frightened crowd members and viciously fought back, the Kamaitachi using their scythe-like claws to deflect the swords of the sword-wielding cronies and the traitorous Drop Bears destroying some of Krampus's minions and also took on the Bonehead-Crawlers and Wendigoes, much to the outrage of their 'comrades' and they began to engage these traitors in combat. One of the Kamaitachi even swooped towards Amanita and viciously injured her with its scythe-like claws before retreating to stall her and her use of her upgraded foxfire power, much to the outrage of Amanita's allies, while another Kamaitachi swooped in and severely injured Gothel, the female leader of the Wendigoes before retreating.
While the traitorous Kamaitachi, Drop Bears, Vultures and a few of the other traitors viciously attacked Jadis's cronies and company with a few of them fleeing with the crowd members down the foggy path, Jadis managed to fight her way past the helpers' defence force by turning more of the creatures to stone with her wand, among them one of Bursyamo's underlings Achamo, one of the Sphinxes Meg, and a few of the Capelobo related to the deceased Hocico, forcing the rest to retreat due to the Witch's immense skill in combat and her magical capabilities. Then as soon as the defence force led by Cedrus was broken apart, the Witch proceeded to pursue the last members of the crowd as they tore down the foggy path. As the helpers retreated after their herd, Thundersparx flashed a terrified glance back at Jadis.
"That Devil Woman's gonna follow us down the path and possibly turn more of us to stone statues, Cedrus," said the Raiju in horror, "WE MUST DO SOMETHING!"
As these words left his muzzle, two Shadows and an Inugami swooped in and cut off a few of the crowd members, among them Nyarth, Satoshi, Sandstorm, Akira, Crystal, Snowwing, Dahlia, Alexandrite, Paddy, Link, Cyril, Desdemona and Molayne and Thundersparx himself, much to the horror of the others.
"THUNDERSPARX, GUYS, NO!" cried Cedrus in horror. Two of the traitorous Kamaitachi flew in and when they saw that few of the crowd members had been cut off, horror tore through them, especially as they became surrounded by Jadis, Krampus and their cronies. Then Thundersparx shot Cedrus and the other helpers, among them Passiflora, Colress, Milky Way and Ptériga, as they gathered in the distance but Thundersparx urged them to escape.
"Go, go, GO, the others need you," howled the Raiju loudly. At this, the helpers paused, clearly reluctant to leave Thundersparx and the others with him to their fate but upon seeing the sadistic and malicious glares from Jadis and company, especially Jadis who was armed with her most powerful weapon, her wand, they reluctantly retreated after the other crowd members down the foggy path. After Cedrus and company had gone, Thundersparx and the others with him shot terrified glances at the swarm of ugly creatures and their masters surrounding them as they closed in on their prey. The Xenojaws were hissing hungrily and bloodthirstily, the Satyrs were wearing diabolical leers, the Slender-Men were glaring at the group with their featureless faces and shuddering their lanky arms in an intimidating manner and the variety of other ugly creatures, among them Krampus's Elves and toy minions including the Python-Clown-in-a-Box, were grinning triumphantly and with bloodlust, their weapons and claws aimed for Thundersparx and company as they closed in on their prey, and amongst the crowd, the Giants, among them the massive Ogres and the skeletal Gashadokuro who towered over the smaller species, and the smallest of the minions, the Fairyflies, hovered like rabid starlings above the medium-sized creatures, their insect-like eyes fixed on Thundersparx and company.
Jadis, who was currently crownless after Kushanku had knocked her icicle crown off her head and sent it smashing on one of Krampus's robot-like minions, wore an EXTREMELY FURIOUS GLARE while Krampus's red eyes glowed behind his Father Christmas-like mask. His long, Snake-like tongue slithered out through the mouth, flicked at the air and retracted back into the mouth as the hulking Goat Demon waddled over to the trapped group with his minions and those of Jadis. As he flicked his tongue, he also released a fierce hiss and his Father Christmas-like mask under his hood came into view, Nyarth happened to catch a glimpse of it and shuddered. Krampus was also armed. Trailing behind him was a large toy sack, similar to the toy sacks the real Father Christmas carried but unlike those sacks which were full of cute toys, accessories and equipment like swords, Krampus's toy sacks were stuffed with more demonic toys, animated swords and other equipment. Then one of the young Pterosaurs approached the toy sack, curiosity welling within him despite Nyarth's protests. Then as soon as the young Pterosaur was close, Krampus pulled his sack towards him and opened it. The Pterosaur then peered in but the moment the Bird-like Winged Reptile did, the contents in the sack screamed demonic screams and lunged at the Bat-Bird, seized him and pulled him into the sack, much to the horror of Nyarth, Snowwing and Molayne who saw the lower body and legs of the Bird-like Reptile disappear into the sack with a scream where he was gruesomely devoured by the contents in Krampus's sack, Krampus releasing a diabolical hissy laugh as it happened. The three relatives of the Pterosaur victim let loose anguished cries and rushed towards Krampus but were seized and restrained by two Okuri-Inu, who feared for their safety. Kushanku shuddered when he watched the three Bat-Birds as they released Birdlike cries of anguish as they watched the sack writhe as their brother was eaten by the contents. Then the Nekomata pulled his gaze and scanned the surrounding ugly creatures as they advanced upon him and the others. Timidly, he pulled out his Gladio-Captionisse, or GC, sword and aimed it at the advancing creatures while Nyarth, Satoshi, Akira, Alexandrite and Paddy pulled out their swords and aimed them defensively at the creatures. Thundersparx bushed his fur and sparked furiously with his teeth bared and growls shuddering his throat; Crystal and Snowwing aimed their arrows nocked into their bows, and Dahlia, Link, Cyril, Desdemona and Molayne took up defensive stances; their fur and feathers bristling and the Peryton, Griffin and Hippogriff spreading their wings. Dahlia and Link also lowered their antlers and poised them for attack while the other creatures, such as the Okuri-Inu, also took up defensive stances and aimed their arrows and swords at the advancing creatures. But despite the group's best efforts, Krampus, Jadis and the minions were undeterred.
"Now we've got you, you pathetic, traitorous Narnian worms," gloated the Witch, her crownless head saturated with the purest and most vitriolic malice, hatred, bloodlust and sadism Kushanku and the others had ever seen, and her wand's tip aimed for the trapped Narnians, "It is time for you lot to be captured and taken to my castle where you will be either made into slaves or turned into food," her eyes landed on Snowwing, Link and Dahlia and glittered menacingly like a Wendigo's moon-like eyes, "And I fancy roasted Talking Jackalope, Peryton and Skvader served with the best vegetables and herbs and gravy for my dinner."
This sent chills coursing down the three creature's spines and they shuddered. Then Jadis's eyes travelled to Thundersparx and Molayne, igniting with WRATH as they landed on the Raiju and the young Dog.
"As for YOU TWO," she snarled in a more threatening voice, "I'm gonna take you both back to your families and turn you into slaves with the LOWEST and most DETESTED JOBS in ALL OF NARNIA FOR BETRAYIN' US and LEAVIN' US BEHIND. YOUR families have been slaughtered on the Stone Table and their meat consumed because of YOU!"
Molayne flinched violently and felt his stomach lurch while Thundersparx shot the Witch a volcanic, unflinching glare. His mane and fur sparked more violently as his eyes locked with the Snow Queen's.
"Don't you EVER mention our former life where you gave us a so-called better life through that Massacre Event, you Snow Hag," snapped the Raiju fiercely but Jadis threatened him with her wand, pointing it dead centre and the Lightning Wolf-Cat, much to the alarm of Molayne and also Kushanku, Satoshi, Akira and Nyarth.
"Or better still, I could have a stone Raiju for my collection," said the Witch as she aimed her wand at Thundersparx, making him back away nervously. Then a Ropen came to the Raiju's defence. Her bioluminescent patches marking her torso and wings flared in the dark as she became aggressive and defensive. However, she maintained her composure.
"There's no point in trying to threaten this Raiju and his companions, Your Majesty," said the glowing Pterosaur, "They have…" but before she could finish, Jadis immediately twirled her wand and blasted the bioluminescent Bat-Bird with a blast of her petrification spell, turning the Ropen into a stone statue of herself. Horror tore through Thundersparx and the others like a shockwave and some of them actually screamed, but all of them jumped back. Thundersparx gazed at the now stone Ropen figure, its beak open and wings raised in a defensive position in the exact moment the Witch's petrification spell had connected. The Witch, unspeakable volcanic wrath saturating her face, then withdrew the tip of her wand from the petrified Ropen and aimed it at Thundersparx and the others, making them flinch again. Around them, Krampus and the minions continued closing in on the group, their weapons poised for attacking with Krampus dragging his sack of possessed toys and tools behind him, ready to seize the trapped Narnians and stuff them into there for slaughter and the three Pterosaurs shuddered violently at the sight of the giant, hunched Goat-Demon and his sack and Father Christmas outfit. The blizzard and eased off somewhat and it was still very dark. Jadis continued to taunt Thundersparx and the others, her wand still pointing at them.
"Your father and your group did a REAL great job in exposing that den of Aslan believers where that pair of Nekomata kept them hidden from the pryin' eyes of my loyal spies," continued the Witch, before her eyes, which were large, black, bulbous and as penetrating as a harpy eagle's, found Nyarth, Satoshi, Akira and Kushanku as they stood with Padparadchsa and Alexandrite, "and I believe those four are the offspring of that pair of Nekomata who had perished in the den when I sent my Manticore and Wolf Police squad to that den to slaughter them."
Thundersparx, at this, continued to tremble and spark with rage, especially at the mentioning of his father's betrayal of Ferntail and Frosty to the Witch resulting in their slaughter, and some of the cronies tittered at this when they saw the Raiju's reaction and that of Kushanku and his siblings. Then Jadis's eyes found Molayne and she continued, "And as for you, Dog. Your cousin also did a marvellous job in tellin' me about some of your fellow villagers believin' in that Puddy Tat with a Mane, hence why I have also sent a Police Squad in dealin' with them and those in Purple Flower Town. Too bad they had to be forced through EXTREME labour and eventually slain on the Stone Table because of YOU escapin', together with your little bright blue and yellow Wolf-Cat friend with you, and also that Wampus Cat and the Pegasus…"
"We also don't wanna hear of your taunts in our relatives betraying us, Devil Woman," snapped Thundersparx, cutting Jadis off while Molayne hid behind Alexandrite and Paddy, "What they did was DIABOLICAL, but it was YOU who had that NEGATIVE INFLUENCE ON THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
Jadis, at this, snapped her volcanic gaze to Thundersparx.
"Maybe I'm not makin' myself clear," growled the Witch and with that, she locked eyes with the Raiju and flashed them white. At first, Thundersparx thought the Witch was using some sort of trick but then he felt his brain spark and shudder as though a blast of foxfire from a Nogitsune had begun wreaking havoc within him. As Thundersparx began to twitch, gasp, grunt and flinch, Kushanku looked on in horror.
"Mr Thundersparx, are you okay?" asked the Nekomata. Suddenly, a frightened howl erupted from the Raiju's muzzle and he clasped his paws onto his head before dropping into the snow and thrashing as though he were being tortured by Belladonna's foxfire. Jadis's white glowing eyes continued to remain fixed on him as he began to let loose agonised and tortured howls to the laughter of Krampus and the cronies and to the horror of Kushanku and the others.
Thundersparx continued clasping his head with his front paws and thrash in the snow as images then flashed in his mind. These images were extremely disturbing and gory, some of which were Narnians getting tortured and slain but they were not his own thoughts. These thoughts were from the Witch and she was sadistically projecting them directly into the Raiju's brain and believe me, they were EXTREMELY immoral and UTTERLY violent and bloody. As Thundersparx thrashed on his back in the snow, his fur sparking wildly and his tail and back legs thrashing violently, an agonised tortured scream exploding from his muzzle as the images of the Witch's beyond-violent thoughts flashed in his mind, Kushanku snapped a furious glare at the Witch as she continued her telepathic torture on the Raiju. His fur puffed out and his eyes flashed red as his fury mode took over once again to the alarm of the others, especially Alexandrite, Nyarth, Akira and Satoshi.
"Kushanku, what are YOU…" began Alexandrite but Kushanku had already heaved himself into the air and had launched himself at the Witch, his tail branches spinning. He kept his GC sword weapon but he was not intending on using it on the Witch.
"GET OUT OF MY RAIJU MENTOR'S HEAD you VILE SNOW SERPENT!" screeched the Nekomata and with that, he spun round and with all his might, he flared his claws and scored them right over the Witch's face. Nyarth, Satoshi, Sandstorm, Akira, Crystal, Snowwing, Dahlia, Alexandrite, Paddy, Link, Cyril, Desdemona, Molayne and the others flinched violently as the Witch's head was flung in the direction of Kushanku's vicious claw swipe, a few drops of blood flying from her face and landing in the snow. During the attack, the Witch's telepathic attack on Thundersparx was broken and the Raiju stopped thrashing, sparking and howling and flumped in the snow on his back as the flow of indescribably immoral thoughts from the Witch's as the flow of indescribably immoral thoughts from the Witch's mind directly into his own was cut off. As soon as the psychic attack from the Witch was ceased, Molayne rushed over to Raiju with the two Okuri-Inu. Thundersparx was trembling violently, his paws still clasped onto his forehead and he was gasping and trembling violently from the trauma of seeing the beyond-immoral flow of thoughts from the Witch's beyond-evil mind. Kushanku, his eyes blazing orange-red from his fury mode fixed on the Witch as her hands covered her slashed face, then hovered away and touched down near his siblings and watched without a sliver of remorse as Jadis continued to hold her clawed face, the blood pouring through her fingers. Paddy shot him an astonished and furious glare.
"I can't believe you DID THAT, KUSHANKU!" she gutturally yelled. Kushanku's eyes then resumed their normal Cat's colour as his fury mode subsided but when he saw what he had done, he flinched but there was no going back now. His violent attack on Jadis was the final icicle and the Witch was beginning to tremble violently as her temper boiled and increased in pressure but this temper tantrum was not going to be like the temper tantrum she had erupted when Nanu insulted her over the communicator, or when she found out that Thundersparx, Trotterhoof and the others had escaped. Krampus and the cronies looked on in timidly as the tall Extra-Narnian Humanoid trembled more and more until finally…
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The MOST… EXPLOSIVE… EARDRUM-PIERCING… HIGH-PITCHED SCREAM erupted from the Witch's mouth, far louder than even Púca the lead Banshee's cry. Paws, wings, claws and hands flew to ears as the Witch continued to scream at the top of her lungs, her ultra-loud scream assaulting their ears. The scream was so loud that it carried for miles and miles such that the crowd that had disappeared down the foggy path as guided by Aslan picked it up. At this, the lot froze.
"That does NOT sound good," murmured Cedrus when he and the others turned their horrified gazes in the direction of the sound's source. Then Ptériga yelled commands to her fellow Sphinx comrades and before Cedrus or the other escorts of the Narnians could protest, the Lion-like Humanoid-faced winged creatures lofted into flight, their feathered wings beating at the air furiously.
Back with Thundersparx and company, Kushanku and the others looked on in utmost horror as the Witch, her face which was slashed with the bleeding scratches Kushanku had inflicted on her and painting a number of red stripes down her bone-white skin, now saturated with the MOST VOLCAIC FURY she had EVER harboured in her life since she arrived in Narnia during Aslan's creation of it with a few Humans and a non-talking Horse who would be transformed into the first Pegasus, glared furiously at Kushanku and company as they rubbed their ears from the Devil Woman's piercing scream.
"GET THEEEEEEEEEEM!" she yelled to Krampus and the other cronies and before Kushanku and the others knew it, they were enveloped in a dark tsunami of savage, bloodthirsty toys and various horrible creatures on Jadis's side. Then another fight erupted as Thundersparx's group began to viciously fight back. While this happened, Kushanku, Nyarth, Satoshi, Sandstorm, Akira, Snowwing, Dahlia, Alexandrite, Paddy, Link, Cyril, Desdemona and Molayne managed to escape from the tsunami. As they did that, they gazed back at the other trapped Narnians but an Okuri-Inu, a Daytime female, shot them a desperate look as she had an Oni by the throat while the Oni had her entangled in its prehensile hair.
"HURRY, YOU LOT, FLEE," yelled the Magical Wolf, "Don't worry about us!" and with that, she resumed throttling the Oni who continued to strangle her with its prehensile hair.
Kushanku and company, at first were reluctant but when some of the cronies of Jadis managed to break away from the crowd and spot them, they went along with the Okuri-Inu's command to flee. But as the group of fourteen young Talking Beasts rushed for the leafless forest, they found themselves confronted by a wall of ugly creatures, among them Malefor, Ganondorf, Pazuzu, Romulus, Aku no the lead Tenome whose hand-eyes were fixated on Kushanku and company and were saturated with unspeakable fury, especially at what Kushanku had done to her master, and also Krampus who was armed with his sack of evil toys and tools, his blood-red eyes glowing in his hood and his long Snake-like tongue flicking at the air.
"You're goin' NOWHERE, you BUNCH OF LITTLE MORSELS!" cackled Aku no in a Hag-like voice, her mouth on her eyeless face speaking while her eyes, which were on her hands, glared menacingly at Kushanku and company. Accompanying Aku no and the others were more Manticores, Wolves, Tenome, Lizard-Men, some of Krampus's Elf and toy minions such as the candy cane weapon-armed gingerbread men, two Oni, some Inugami, Triffid-Mouths, A few Bonehead-Crawlers, a Slender-Man and a variety of a few other of Jadis's horrible creatures, and all of them wore volcanic glares and had their weapons poised, teeth bared, or claws prepared, such as the Lizard-Men whose claws always injected a paralysing venom into their victims.
As the wall of evil creatures continued to advance on Kushanku and company, Desdemona shot Kushanku a desperate look.
"KUSHANKU!" screeched the Griffin. Kushanku, at this, gazed to a pouch attached to his GC sword scabbard and seized it. Satoshi, Desdemona and the others continued gazing frightfully at the advancing call of creatures when Pazuzu the lead Shadow, with a ghostly growl rising from a simmer to a volatile eruption, rose into the air like a black Spectre for Shadows were a type of this Ghost, and dove at them, his claws and teeth poised to sink into flesh, aiming right for Molayne much to the screams of his allies. However, before the lead Shadow could pounce onto Molayne and possibly kill him, a white comet shot in and tackled Pazuzu away from Molayne who cringed, expecting the Shadow to attack him. When he saw nothing land on him, Molayne looked up and saw Pazuzu begin to savagely fight a Kamaitachi, one of the traitorous individuals, the Weasel-like Air Beast slashing its scythe-like claws at Pazuzu wildly. During this, Kushanku managed to pull out a vial. This vial was full of a blue-black liquid but before he could seize the cork to open it, screams exploded from his allies nearby, At this, he looked up and to his horror, he saw Satoshi, Akira, Alexandrite, Nyarth and the others flee as the wall of creatures led by Romulus, Krampus and the other lead creatures except Pazuzu who was occupied with the Kamaitachi, increase their pace of advancement towards them, their claws, teeth and weapons flared. Alarmed, the Nekomata twisted his tail branches and lofted into flight before flinging the vial at Krampus as hard as he could. In the other battle cloud, more flashes of white erupted as the Witch turned more victims to stone statues, among them one of the Okuri-Inu.
As Krampus and company continued advancing towards Kushanku, the vial containing the blue-black liquid flew towards the Goat-Demon's face and the moment it struck the horned Father Christmas impersonator's face, the vial exploded and from it, a massive blue-black plume erupted. Krampus let loose a hissy screech of agony and flung his head back as the vial struck him and before he, Romulus, Aku no and the others realised it, they were swallowed up in a massive blue-black cloud thick enough to form an opaque plume. Screeches, shouts and howls of angry frustration erupted with the plume as it blinded them.
"I can't see a THING!" came Aku no's voice, "WHERE IS THAT TWO TAILED CAT SLIME-WORM!?"
Kushanku who still hovered in the air by spinning his two tail branches, when he saw the plume envelop his foes and blind them, then retreated after Alexandrite and the others as they fled into the sea of leafless branches. The plume then drifted over to Jadis's group and blinded the attackers of them as well. This provided the other trapped Narnians enough time to cut down their foes who held them, seize the traumatised individuals like Thundersparx who was still hysterical from the Witch's psychic attack on him, and fled. However, the Witch managed to blast the smokescreen away with her wand and the moment the smokescreen was vanquished, Romulus, Malefor and the others pursued Kushanku and company through the trees.
