May called the group to head towards the bus. "There's a large stinger that's lingering near the bus!" she shouted. Lisa gasped and then gestured the group to the bus, still with a gun in her hand. The quicksand grew larger, and more of the tail emerged from the phenomenon. Lucy climbed a nearby rock and peered into the distance. "It's definitely a scorpion tail! It's near the tour bus and it's huge!"
"Oh no! Shawn, Angela and Socrates are in trouble." Claire pointed out, overly concerned and panicking. "We have to get there quickly to save them!" Andre said, directing them towards the bus. But as soon as the group could get close to the bus, more large scorpions emerged from the sands charging towards their direction. "Not again!" May yelled out. Mark ran towards the scorpions and cut them into two in a few seconds. The scorpion numbers grew to numerous amounts, but Mark had no trouble defeating them with his skilled swordplay. "Let me give you a hand boy!" Andre signalled and supported by giving the scorpions a devastating punch that shattered them into pieces. "I don't even need your help, you're wasting your time." Mark said, unemotionally. "Times like these, you can't always play hero or be alone you'll seriously get hurt. You may think you don't need help, but I'm here to make the burden easier."
Mark let out a small grin and then nodded his head. "Alright then." He then looked towards the group that stood there witnessing his and Andre's fight against the many scorpions that appeared. "What are you doing just standing there?" he yelled. "Andre and I can take of these measly scorpions, but you have to get to the bus to protect them!"
The group nodded their heads. "Right!"
As soon as the group reached near the bus, they had realized that the bus doors were closed and the Shawn, Angela and Socrates could not escape. Gradually, the giant scorpion emerged from the quicksand. The group, gaping in amazement of how large the scorpion really was. Scorpions emerging from all four different sides suddenly surrounded Mark and Andre, Mark then groaned. "There are too many." Andre laughed very loudly. "Can't handle it anymore?" he challenged Mark. The boy then grinned, "Lets see in the end who's going to still be able to stand tall." They both then continued their spree, crushing or slicing the scorpions that dared to stand in their way.
Angela banged on the windows crying for a way out, but there was no way. Magic that Lucy or Adrian tried to use couldn't penetrate through the bus windows, let alone touch it. It wasn't until Lisa saw Socrates then she figured that he was creating a barrier of protection for them if the Scorpio was to ever approach them. Socrates' paws were clenched together and a small blue magic circle was under him, glowing. Angela and Shawn then realized this, pondering what ever was the peculiar talking cat doing.
Claire's amulet soon then shone a bright light as she moved closer to the large scorpion tail, automatically turning itself into the wand. Lisa observed and then nodded her head. "This is definitely the notorious Death Scorpion of the Gusting Sands: Scorpio that was prophesised in the Ancient Astral Tablets."
"Death Scorpion of the Gusting Winds? Ancient Astral Tablets?" Claire wondered. "That's right, but no time for that, Scorpio's body is almost emerging from the sands, and we have to strike at its lethal areas. That means the tail, claws and legs. They are the most harmful parts."
Adrian then knocked on the windows of the bus, trying to give them a message. "What on Earth do you think you are doing Adrian?" Lisa shouted out. Adrian ignored her and yelled at the people inside the bus. "Try to drive the bus out of this area! It's too dangerous for you to stay here."
Shawn nodded her head, "Okay. Here goes anything!" The woman then walked herself in the passenger seat pushing Jude Barkers corpse on the floor, and then strangely disappearing off the bus. She took the steering wheel and attempted to drive the bus out of the area, fortunately it was a success. The bus then drove away from the scorpion's territory, though suddenly it would have appeared that Scorpion jumped out of the quicksand and chased the bus. Lisa aimed her gun at the tail. "Fire!!" she yelled out, shooting bullet like explosives on the tail. The scorpion then stopped, turning itself to face the group, it's tail weary from its attacking stance swayed side to side uncontrollably.
"Great Lisa, you lured it to our side, it's going to start chasing us now!" May yelled. "Oh no… I expected the tail to detach because of the explosions. Its thick armour is stronger than I thought. I underestimated it." Lisa then ran from the Scorpion, which now was angrily clipping its claws and threatened the group by attempting to strike with its tail. "Everybody, run!" Lisa cried, attempting to shoot the beast and run at the same time. As everybody ran, Lucy stood there with a strong stance, she was adamant to not run. "Lucy what are you doing?" Lisa screamed, concerned for her. "Don't disturb me. I've only got once chance on this and I'm going to take it." Lucy got out a small potions glass and threw it towards the scorpion. As the potions glass broke, a large area of dark mist surrounded the Scorpion blinding it. The group watched in amazement, "Good Work Lucy!" Adrian congratulate, Lucy was smiling. "I'm not that useless after all!" she looked towards both Lisa and Claire, who were skeptical of her. Despite being blind, the scorpion charged towards the group swaying its claws and crushing anything that was to stand in its way. "Here it comes! Everyone split up and either take one side!" Adrian and Claire took the right side, while Lisa and Lucy took the left side. May, still flying with her angel wings hovered above the beast, aiming her icy arrows by three.
"Adrian, you take the limbs on the right side of the Scorpio. Lucy and I will take the left. May, try to stun Scorpio with your arrows!" Lisa ordered. The group nodded their head to Lisa's orders. Claire being the only one not knowing what to do, as she wasn't given an order. Adrian saw Claire's discontent, being unable to do anything to help. "Claire, do whatever you can that you'd think that would help. You aren't useless. Don't ever think that." Claire weakly nodded her head, still disappointed.
Lisa constantly shot the beast with her explosive bullets, eventually leading to a few of the limbs crackling and detaching off the beast. Scorpio led a few cries and swayed its claws rapidly, hoping it struck the perpetrators. Lucy on the other hand threw potions that emitted green mists that poisoned the beast. Adrian on the other hand struck the beast with beams of fire coming from his hands, the flames eventually burning the beast's limbs off. Eventually, the only thing left that was harmful to the group was its claws and its tail. The scorpion raised it's claws up in the air, creating gusty winds across it's face to get rid of the dark mist Lucy previously put upon it. "Oh no! The darkening mist I created is now gone!" Lucy screamed. The scorpion tilted on the right, and it's tail then headed towards Adrian's direction. "No!" Claire screamed out, a red fiery glow surrounding her. She developed bat-like wings of fire and held her wand to the air. A red circle surrounding her, long strands of fire from the circle joined the wand, creating a large ball of flame. Adrian looked in fear as the tail headed towards his direction. Claire directed the wand upon the scorpion and as she did, long thick strands on fire wrapped itself around the scorpion and Claire used these strands like rope, pulling the scorpion away from Adrian. Anger could be seen in Claire's eyes as if she wasn't Claire anymore, but someone dangerously aggressive. "COME ON THEN! ATTACK THE DAMN SCORPION. WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING JUST STANDING THERE" she yelled in insurmountable fury, the flame strands of from the wand becoming larger and more incensed, the scorpion subjected to so much pain could not restrain itself from it's misery, noising out constant moans that could be heard miles away. Adrian looked towards Claire, not seeing Claire anymore. Instead, she was like a powerful monster of her own with uncontrollable hostility and violent behaviours. Claire pulled the scorpion with her might, until the scorpion could not bear to stand no more, collapsing onto the ground. The fiery glow that surrounded Claire disappeared and Claire too fell down to the hot sands of the Chuhuahuan desert.
Adrian rushed towards Claire, holding her in his arms. Shaking her to see any signs of life. However it seemed that she refused to open her eyes, the power she released being too much for her to handle.