Huntress has long since recovered from her shock, and was now back to being her stoic, strong self as she leads her mate and best friend… girlfriend? Partner? Teammate? Doesn't matter, she was leading them down the pitch black corridor by their hands. Admittedly, she still wasn't completely comfortable holding hands for long periods of time like a little girl to her parents, but with those two and the situation? She can give them a pass. Especially with Finn.

The hero himself has given up on questioning Ice Queen on what she had meant earlier by 'pegging', her answer was always being the same: 'You'll find out later if Huntress is brave enough.' The nymph's silent blushing (visible thanks to her glowing eyes) did not help. However, that was really the only thing he can focus on thanks to him not being able to help at all right now. Most of the time at night, you have the moon lighting everything up in the world, allowing some visibility in the darkness, but here however? There was nothing, and it showed as they take step after step into nothingness, the only light in the world being the wood nymph's gently glowing eyes.

He trusts her however, she won't lead him astray. Although, his mind slowly drifts elsewhere, to the current situation with his father and Hekate. His pa had to be locked up for a reason, and a good one as well for it to be a cosmic crime. If the words of his powerful capturer were true, then he had angered the cosmic beings themselves, a retribution you can't easily escape.

Plus, the entire time he was gone with his memories all donked up, he had probably been doing some pretty messed up stuff, the hero saw him doing it to some innocents first hand himself. There was life everywhere in the galaxy, and he had been traveling around in space for quite awhile, so that leads to the question of how many people had he messed up? He needs to be punished for his actions, it was morally right, but there is no way the hero could leave his father to be locked up in such a way. He may not be his father figure, no blood ties could sway that, but he is a man on the honest road to redemption, and that could not be ignored.

So… what can he do to punish Martin that could possibly please the cosmic beings in allowing him to not be hunted, yet still keep him free? Because if it's not good enough, like a slap on the wrist, then they will just send Hekate after him again and again, and this citadel raid will become his life until Finn finally messes up one day, and meets his end.

He takes a deep breath, but is instantly comforted by Ice Queen, who walks into him a little, "So how exactly are we getting to the security room? I do believe it's a giant straight elevator going through the length of the prison, right?"

He nods, accepting the distraction as he replies softly, "Well, we can force the door open, and if it isn't a death trap, then you could possibly carry us up?"

His suggestion makes the older woman nod, "Yeah it might stress my wound a little, but I can do that, just have Huntress shrink down by becoming an ant."

The wood nymph smirks, "I prefer to be a mantis actually." She then stops, and glances at the hero with a simple request, "Map?"

He blinks, then props up his arm, everyone immediately twisting their heads away before he activates the bright hologram. The pink map projects into the air, illuminating the corridor as everyone eventually focuses their gaze onto it, before grimacing at the distance they had to go. It seems when they had blasted down the tunnel with their stolen gunship, they had travelled a long distance away from the centre of the station. They now had a bunch of rooms and corridors to crawl through, with who knows what awaiting within them, could be guards, traps, or even Hekate herself.

Finn naturally begins scanning for the quickest yet safest route they could go, and ends up pointing at a cobweb of rooms with linking paths, speaking cautiously, "We can try taking a path through these. With security gone, it shouldn't be too much of a danger, yet at the same time we should still be careful."

Huntress smirks at him, "No need to explain the obvious to us Finn. We are well aware of the danger, but as long as you two follow me, we'll be fine." She then glances at Ice Queen, "Me and Finn can be pretty sneaky, how about you? Learn anything while trying to kidnap princes?"

She shakes her head, "Not really, those days seem more like a bad dream now, just one day that faded into another. But I am the loud option anyways, if we're to be sneaky, we follow your lead. There's a right time for everyone, or otherwise we'll end up like you two did in my dream." She shivers, "But I digress. You've got the lead and talent this time, I'm useless in this situation."

The wood nymph nods, "Well, I can easily assassinate anyone we see. But is that the only path to the security room? Any more long engineering paths?"

Finn glances at the map again, humming, "Well, there's a few, but I don't really think they're worth it, it is only a very short distance jumped by using them."

She sighs, "Alright then, but what about at the actual security room, anything there?"

He taps on the hologram, selecting the rectangular block though nothing happens other than becoming illuminated, "I mean, there's got to be. Something that big and intricate must have them all over the place. I bet they just made it one big block to simplify it."

She stares silently at the map for a few seconds, then deactivates the map for him, grabbing both their hands and beginning to pull them away, "Alright, let's go. You two remain silent and don't do anything, I've got the rest here." They nod, and she turns her glowing eyes away to continue down the path, taking a right turn to head towards a door in the distance.

Finn inquires, "So how are we doing this, you going to squeeze our hand or something to silently tell us to hold up? And aren't they going to see your eyes?"

She stares at him from over her shoulder, "Yes I'll give you a firm squeeze to be silent. And Finn…" She simply closes her eyes, stopping their glow.

"Oh." He blushes, then gives her a quick kiss while she couldn't see him, startling the nymph for a second before she pulls back with a smirk, positive emotions flooding their link as she shakes her head, 'Cheeky.' Now with a grin, she begins to lead them into the first room, immediately scanning around the large room, discovering objects actually flipped over and knocked down.

She raises an eyebrow, "Watch out, the place is a mess… more than it should be."

Ice Queen raises an eyebrow, "Really? I think that explosion we had to escape could have shaken this place up pretty badly, that could have done this." She offers her explanation while cautiously shuffling around a flipped table.

Huntress grunts as she pushes a box away, "No, there are stuff broken here and not in the ways falling over could. Some completely flat stuff are snapped in half… and I see a plasma mark."

That gets Finn's attention, "What? Have we been here before then?" He doesn't remember having a fight here.

Huntress glances about again, "... I don't think so. I mean I might be mistaken since everything is trashed, but it just doesn't ring familiar."

Ice Queen hums, "So they were shooting at something else? What else could be here that they're shooting at?"

Finn shrugs and answers suggests, "Those Simpling things we met?... I mean, there could be some throughout the whole Citadel they're having to hunt down." They reach the other side of the room where another door was, and step into a corridor with multiple branching off doors, all mysteriously open.

Unfazed and unworried, Huntress begins to lead the way down it, yet has to constantly pull them to the side to avoid some debris or rubble. It seems the unknown carnage had spread into the corridors. Every room she passed she would hurriedly check inside, scanning it for life, yet only discovers more damage, even spotting a small flame at one point. It wasn't a hazard and wasn't going to spread, so she ignored it to press on, "Something else happened here." She semi warns with a whisper, not liking the atmosphere right now. They had to prepare for some unknown threat.

Suddenly they hear a bang in a room.

The group freezes up, before Huntress gives their hands a firm squeeze and lets go to investigate the noise, pulling an arrow free of her quiver. The noise was of something heavy being dropped, and as she approached the room she could hear a shuffling sound of multiple objects, yet never moved from its position. Someone was searching for something.

Silencing her breathing as much as possible, she pops her head inside, hoping they would be too distracted searching to spot her eyes. Sure enough, an alien engineer was currently rummaging through a box, its back to her as she squints.

Next to it was a new gun, one she hadn't seen before, but she couldn't see what it was searching for. Sneaking inside with her arrow in hand ready to fly, she gets a better view on the heavy box that caused the bang. It was filled with small containers with alien scribble on them, some being the shape of magazines from the weapons she seen so far

It was hunting for ammo for its weapon. Why was an engineer doing that? Why did it have a weapon? And why was there ammo laying about in these boxes? Regardless, she had to take care of it and now. Finn would not like the death of an innocent civilian, and honestly neither would she.

Swapping her arrow to her left hand, she clenches her right as she sneaks up on the unaware threat. It finally holds something up, and makes a noise of excitement as it clutches the right ammo in its hand. It then flops over unconscious as Huntress aggressively strikes it around the back of its head. It flies forward and smashes into the box, creating a storm of commotion as things go flying.

Huntress shakes her hand in pain, then hurriedly makes her way back to the door, discovering a slightly worried Finn and Ice Queen before her. Their hands slip off their weapons as they spot her glowing eyes, Finn instantly asking her with worry, "Everything alright?"

"Yeah, though something is definitely going down. An engineer was raiding a box for ammo, and had some sort of gun. Not a soldier, an engineer."

Ice Queen leans back on slight confusion, her eyebrow raised, "You sure?"

Huntress grabs their hands and pulls them into another, continuing the path to the security chamber, "Yeah, it had no armour on and was the same one we encountered in the engineering level. I'm guessing it's because of the shortage of guards the normal workers are trying to find ways to protect themselves?"

The wood nymph's suggestion makes the hero of OOO hum, "Maybe, but that still doesn't make sense, why don't they just hide up somewhere? From my experience, civilians will run and hide when things go bad, they don't have the combat experience to fight."

Ice Queen shrugs, "Well, these are aliens. They may act differently than we do."

Huntress squints, "Animals prefer to run as well. The only time when they don't is when they have no real option, when for some reason hunkering down isn't safe."

Ice Queen glances down, "... Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight."

Finn blinks, "What?"

The royal rubs the back of her neck, "Remember my past? How I saved those humans and asked them to read that war book to me? That's a quote. That's a tactic you humans used. If you can't run away, apparently you always fight. Military did it to make their soldiers fight."

He remains silent for a few seconds, twisting his gaze to the pitch black path before him, "... Makes sense."

They enter another room, and Huntress freezes up again, "Yeah, and it's definitely because they can't fly." She whispers cautiously again, "There's bodies here. Dead aliens."

Finn raises his eyebrows in shock, a hand going to his sword as Ice Queen grips her ice blade, the royal swiftly asking, "Who else is here killing them?"

Finn growls out, "Doesn't matter, we have to defeat it if it's killing some innocent dudes!"

"They killed each other." Huntress suddenly explained, causing Finn to blink. The wood nymph lets go of their hands to prod two aliens, who had both stabbed one another, "These two murdered one another." She makes her way to another, "This one has plasma wounds. It was shot by another alien." She hurriedly makes her way back to them, then immediately tugs them towards the door, "The aliens are murdering each other."

Finn remains silent for a second, "... Why? That makes no sense."

Huntress snorts however, and raises a hand that glows with magic, "Remember what I sprayed on you when that massive metal lion attacked us? How you went berserk or animalistic? Could be something here doing the same thing, using pheromones to manipulate us all into killing each other. After all…" She gestures to their right, but the act loses its effect since the other two can't see, "We seem to be in a lab."

Ice Queen groans, "So what, we might have a science experiment gone wrong on the loose? That's delightful to know."

They exit the room and into the next trashed corridor, and begin making their way down it, Huntress humming in thought "Maybe-"

Someone runs by a door at the end of the hallway.

Immediately Huntress snaps her arrow out and has it floating above her head, and the group silently moves forward to investigate. They take slow, cautious footsteps as they arrive at the door, and hesitate for a second, before Finn pushes his sword forward. He puts it through the open door, and nothing happens, no traps setting off at its presence, no one in waiting attacked.

Huntress moves forward as his sword moves back, entering the corridor and instantly snap to the direction they saw the stranger rush down. It was completely clear. She glances down the other direction, 'They could have been running from something.'

Finn's side of the bond flairs up with anger and vengeance, 'If it is the creature making everyone fighting each other, then we have to defeat it!'

Huntress hesitates however, 'That could be a death trap for us. And we can't waste time, your father is on the clock.'

He remains silent, a swirling storm of emotions flowing through the bond. '... We've done a lot to these innocent workers who are only trying to keep the galaxy safe. We should pay them back by removing the dangerous alien.' She sighs and begins to guide them down the path the other alien had run from. Finn whispers to Ice Queen, "Sword or spells ready."

She nods in understanding of the situation, and raises her hands to blast whatever hell spawn appears before them. They discover a massive door up ahead, obviously meant for multiple people at once as Huntress whispers to Finn, "Where are we?"

He shrugs, "Map could give us away."

"Don't care, I want to know where we're about to go, could be dangerous" He nods with a sigh, and raises his arm again, and projects the map up again as everyone winces, but focuses.

He taps on the surprisingly large room ahead, and investigates, discovering the area was: "A cafeteria. We're about to head where the workers ate."

She hums and hurriedly deactivates the map so they don't remain a beacon, "A cafeteria?... So food and sharp objects, and depending on what they eat, food could make crunches when walked on." She takes a deep breath, "Right, this will be easy." She thinks for another second, "... I don't know if you two should follow. If this thing makes everyone fight each other, then I should go alone. If I'm lucky, I can strike it before it notices me."

She waits patiently for their input, only to get a shake from Finn, "There's no way I'm letting you go in alone. It may be safer for us since you won't suddenly try to kill us, but I'm not letting you fight whatever is in there alone." He grabs her hand and raises an eyebrow, "I'm fighting whatever is in there with you."

She remains silent for a second, "... You're an idiot, but I can't exactly say no to you." She grins and tugs them both to follow her, "And you two better not kill me either. If we start getting affected by something, we will immediately turn tails, got it?"

Ice Queen gives her a thumbs up, "Got it." They approach the large door while Finn pulls his night sword free, and cautiously they make their way inside. Immediately Ice Queen and Huntress have arms raised to spray a barrage of spells, but nothing happens as the wood nymph continues to lead the way.

The room was rectangular, and seeming multi-layered, with them on the middle floor. The previously perfectly white walls and floors were tarnished by bodies, blood, and burn marks from fires. Shattered makeshift barriers were placed up all over the place, with guns littering the area.

Huntress peers over the safety barrier to glance up at the floor above and below her, only to immediately snap back. She whispers as quietly as positive, "People on the top floor."

Finn raises an eyebrow, "People?"

She nods, "Aliens, all armed and behind barriers." She points to the stairs ahead, not that they could see, and whispers, "That will lead us up to them. What are the chances it is a trap or a security gate?"

He shrugs, "Very likely." Using her magic she summons all her arrows free from her quiver, and hovers them above her head as she approaches the stairway. She comes at it from the side then rushes forward with her arrows flying as they shoot to the top of the stairs. Sure enough her arrows lodged into the skull of three shocked aliens with guns, though were definitely not soldiers.

They slouch over their makeshift barrier dead without making a single noise as the arrows return to Huntress. She wastes no time and silently rushing up the stairs, or more accurately, over bodies. Corpses litter the ground as if they were dust, blood leaking from their cold forms while the wood nymph takes a curious glance at them.

Lifting a body, she discovers wounds on the front of their body on the ones closest to the barrier, while the ones further down the stairs had wounds in the back. They had been pleading for help, were shot, and the ones that immediately started to run away were still mowed down. What was going on?

She glances over the barrier cautiously, and discovers that the other aliens hadn't discovered their comrades' demise. They were focused on another group of people, just as fortified and armed as them as they have a mini cold war. They were both tightly gripping masses of stored food stolen from cafeteria, and were obviously willing to fight to the death.

Why were they like this? Why are they shooting anyone that comes near and hoarding food? Then it dawns on her as she hurriedly makes her way back down the stairs. She discovers the other two waiting exactly where she had left them, holding hands so they aren't split up somehow, with Ice Queen asking worriedly as she leans forward, "What's the situation?"

The nymph simply replies, "I found the monster," She grabs their hands, "Stairs, be careful."

Finn raises an eyebrow as they cautiously go up the stairs as quietly as possible, though the royal is struggling, and he quietly inquires, "You did? Why didn't you take it out?"

She shrugs, "Because we caused it." She glances at him from over her shoulder "Finn, the monster is fear."

"Oh." He stops for a second, "They're afraid of us?"

She nods, "Most probably. You destroyed the previous Citadel, didn't you?" He nods embarrassed. "Well, I think they're afraid it is about to happen again. They know some aliens has broken into the station, and they are very deadly. Now, they just destroyed their reactor, plunging the place into darkness. I think they're afraid the Citadel is about to be destroyed, or at least very badly damaged. Neither are good for their health. So, in the time of our sleep, I think a riot has broken out. I think they're trying to abandon ship before it sinks."

Finn raises an eyebrow, "So why have they locked down here then? You know, grabbing guns like the other dude back in that room? Why aren't they just making a run for it?"

She shrugs, "I don't know, I'm not them. Could be some think they should stay and are trying to force others to as well. Could be trying to secure wealth to guarantee their place on the boat, someone with food and guns will definitely be valuable when it comes to survival."

They peek over the barrier again, still finding them in a show down as they yell at one another. Ice Queen murmurs, "So what should we do? Just head to the security room? We can't stop the whole Citadel rioting."

Finn hums quietly, "Well, I guess we have to, but that doesn't mean we can't split this fight up can we?"

Huntress's bond flows with worry, "I know your plan. They have guns."

Ice Queen quickly butts back in, "What are you going to do?"

He grins, moving forward, "They're afraid of us, they know we're super deadly, so they'll run from us." He grabs the body of one of the engineers Huntress killed, "We just have to terrify them."

With that he suddenly throws the body forward, letting it slam into the floor with a loud splat as everyone in the room snaps to the source of the noise. Then quite deliberately he shoulder charges the hurriedly made barricade, smashing it with a cry of rage. Huntress snaps up to make sure her eyes are seen, enforcing the knowledge this wasn't other aliens.

These were the destroyers of the citadel.

Then plasma flies at them.

They hurriedly snap back down the stairs as they desperately try to avoid getting shot. The burning hot plasma lights up the environment enough for the girls to see Finn's embarrassed expression, "That didn't go to plan."

Huntress sighs, "You two defend yourselves but stay here. I'll be right back." With that, she slinks back down the stairs, disappearing into the darkness as she transforms. Becoming a dragonfly, she takes to the air and flies into the open middle of the three levels, then rises up. She shoots towards the aliens firing scared at where they had seen the group, all too busy focusing there to see her small glowing eyes.

She flies directly behind them all, and transforms back as her hand snaps to her ice sword and her arrows hover free. Rushing silently forward she descends upon her foes, stabbing one in the back and killing five more with her arrows.

The other's didn't even hear their near silent gargles of pain. Abandoning her sword, she rushes forward to the last three, her arrows snapping back to her. Hopping over a barrier, she targets the closest one in the triangle formation they were in, and whips her knife free.

She slips up behind it and slits its throat with her skinning knife, blood spraying out of its falling corpse as her arrows fly. The blood spill was instantly spotted by the last two, but before they could even react the arrows hit them square in the head.

Cleaning her bloody dagger off on her clothes, she glances about the room, summoning all her arrows back to her quiver. There were no more. She nods at her deadly, silent assassin work, then walks back to grab her ice sword, before becoming a dragonfly once more.

She immediately flies back to the other, coming up from behind them as they still watch the top of the stairs. She changes back behind them without making a noise, then simply says, "Hey."

Both of them scream as they jump, snapping around to her with sword and spell ready, only to sigh when they recognise it was her. Ice Queen softly groans as she gently clutches her slightly flared up gut wound while Finn shakes his head at the wood nymph with a small smile, "You know you're terrifying, right?"

She simply smirks as the duo give a quick check to the royal, who brushes their worries off, then stands tall on the stairs as she inquires, "You got all of them?"

Huntress Wizard grabs their hands and begins tugging them up the stairs, "Yes. We're good to move on… as soon as we know where we're going."

Finn needs no further prompt as he raises his arm, "Eyes." They look away with slight annoyance and he turns on the hologram, letting them slowly adjust as they gradually begin to glance at the map. Their rush to find and defeat the 'monster' had sent them in the wrong direction. Finn sighs, "Drats."

They then go back down the stairs as they slowly memorize the direction once more, and unfortunately note a lot of large rooms. The hero taps them as they head back into the corridor, "Lab… Storage… we're in a place where a lot of people would want to be holed up in." He explains with a grimace, "Though it is interesting they have a lab here."

Ice Queen hums, "Were there these aliens here last time you were on the Citadel?"

"No…"

She shrugs, "You saw how big this place is. They could have turned their whole planet into the station and now live on it as a result. I'm pretty sure cosmic beings can persuade a species to do anything."

Huntress glances into a room as she replies, "Would explain why there are so many of them. There's literally a planet load here."

Suddenly they hear groaning and tumbling, accompanied by an occasional dragging sound. They freeze up as Huntress investigates alone, peering around the corner and into a separate corridor. The alien she had knocked out earlier had woken up and was now crawling across the floor, obviously too stunned to stand.

She analyses it, and deems it not a major threat as she retreats to the others, quietly grabbing them and tugging them along, silently as possible whispering, "Shhh…" They creep by the doorway and head further down their own corridor, following the same path they had seen the person from earlier rush down.

The stunned alien luckily doesn't notice them or Ice Queen's louder footsteps, or it simply doesn't care as they succeed in sneaking by. Finn silently hums in his mind as they proceed deeper into the Citadel, 'If they don't know we're here, then we won't have a fight… so could I use my sneaking then to solve problems without violence in the future?'

Huntress replies through the bond, 'True, but you would lose your combat capabilities, what would be important if your Ice Queen's knight.'

'... I can be a sneaky knight, right?'

'No that's my job.'

'I thought you're going to make your own forest?'

'Yes, but it's my reputation to be the sneaky one of the three of us. Stop stealing my glory!' He chuckles softly. They progress down the corridor even further, and discover more doors, all open as the wood nymph grimaces.

Pulling her knife free, she peers inside the first room completely silently, peeking around the corner of the doorframe. And finds someone with a stolen guard's spear. They thrust the weapon at her glowing eyes, but she easily evades it by darting back outside the room. She silently launches her arrows inside again, guiding them around the corner and into the scared person. All they hear is a gag of pain with the sickening squelching of objects piercing flesh.

She summons her arrows back before grabbing the others, then progressing forward to the next room as the alien's body hits the floor. She peers inside. No one is in hiding this time. She nods and moves onto the next one, and discovers there was another alien, huddled in a corner and staring at her full of fear. She moves without doing anything.

She finds the next turn they were to make, and swiftly turns left into another room, eyes scanning the darkness. A scientist holding some sort of stick stood against the wall, and immediately rushed them, hoping to get the jump before they could react.

She lets go of the others and whips her knife free, lunging at the alien and grabbing its weapon, before stabbing it straight in the eye. She still hasn't made a sound. Gently lowering the corpse to the floor, she put its makeshift weapon atop it before leading the other two again.

Although… 'Hey Finn, for safety could you grab some arrows from my quiver?' They stop for a second right before exiting the room out of the second door as Finn leans forward to grab her quiver, counting up her eight arrows,

'How many?'

'... Well, one, but if you agree to go on a hunt together later, then you can take three.'

He merely grins as he takes three arrows.

Putting them into his own quiver, he instantly knows what she was after as he sheaths his sword and pulls free his bow from his back. If things were to go bad, he needed to silently kill an attacker. '... Wait, how am I going to see in the dark?'

She remained silent for a second, and the bond was telling him instantly what emotion she was currently feeling, '... My... glowing eyes will likely light them up a little if we end up in a struggle!'

He chuckles, earning a small smack, what only earns a louder chuckle, much to Ice Queen's confusion. The wood nymph hurried leads them on, the silent assassin on the prow once more as they slowly head towards the security room.

Exiting the room, they enter another though much larger cube shaped room, and just like all the previous, completely in ruins. Once again, it was abandoned with no life in sight, making Ice Queen whisper as she glances about, "I don't like this. Where is everyone? These rooms would have had, what, ten people in each? So why aren't we seeing a very cramped Citadel? Where are they all hiding? If there were bodies, I would understand, but…"

Finn nods, "There isn't any. Which means they are likely all moving about in groups, like back in the cafeteria." Huntress nods, there were the two groups of aliens facing one another off, but there was also the group murdered at the stairs. These were a pack species.

They cross the room, where she pokes her out to search another corridor, and to her shock discovers a glow coming from one of the rooms. There was a fire was going, yet since there wasn't a massive amount of smoke or noise, it was a controlled gentle one.

She brings the others with her, the faint weak glow allowing Finn to see a tiny bit as he lets go to grab an arrow and ready his bow. They wait at the door, and Huntress peeks inside. It was an alien attending to a wounded friend, its back to them as the wood nymph silently slips by the door. Finn swiftly follows suit, but Ice Queen's footsteps were nowhere near as quiet as she attempts to tiptoe by the door.

The alien hears the noise she makes and snaps up, grabbing a sharp knife before rushing the royal. She raises a hand to blast it with ice, but Huntress hurriedly swoops in, swinging around the doorframe and surprise punching the doctor in the face.

It flies back and hits the floor, the wounded friend on the floor staring at them with a gaze of fear. The wood nymph does not finish the job on the doctor as it slowly recovers, and the group hurriedly moves on. The medic smartly decides not to chase after a superior force, or otherwise it would have got Finn's arrow to the face.

They walk down the corridor, speeding the process up by only glancing inside the rooms each time instead of a proper peer inside. Occasionally, Huntress would wordlessly let loose an arrow inside a room to end a life. That's what it is like fighting Huntress Wizard, a silent death before you even realise what hit you, and there is no hiding from her. She means death to her prey.

They take a turn into once again a massive room, eyeing the door on the other side they need to get to. But between them and it was six aliens with guns, who were now staring at the nymph's glowing eyes as she stared back unrelentingly.

Wordlessly her five arrows shoot into five of the engineers, while she personally leapt at the sixth, who aims its gun at her. She had her knife in its throat before it could even pull the trigger, causing it to twitch and drop its gun, which she promptly caught before it could make a noise.

Once more she puts its body down, another group dealt with silently and efficiently, to the point of causing a shiver to shake its way down her ally's spine. They continue onwards once more, Huntress humming at her memory, 'Do I remember correctly that there's a large room ahead?'

Finn nods, 'I believe so…'

They peek outside of their current room, and discover a much wider corridor with a massive door ahead, the wood nymph grinning, 'It is. We should try to get you something so you can see in the dark, it would be both fun and safer for you to join me in this.'

He doesn't reply, so she readies her arrows and knives again, quietly making her way down the corridor until reaching the large doors. She closes her eyes and lets go of the other two, before stepping inside the room.

After a bit, she opens her glowing eyes, and sure enough spot people dotted around with weapons, using the large space of the circular room to horde a small arms pile. She scans the threats, counting seventeen armed aliens, with one currently trying to repair a torch looking object.

She readies her knife, and begins to prowl about silently, keeping her eyes closed whenever she is in the open. She starts to enter a wide area with no destroyed objects for cover however, causing her to shapeshift into a cat.

She loses a lot of visibility thanks to no overpowered magic, but can still make a few things out as she silently makes her way behind a guard. Suddenly transforming back to her normal self, she stabs the aliens in the head while covering its mouth, yanking them both to the ground. Then there was a bunch of movement around her, the sound of guns clicking as the civilians took aim at her location.

They had heard the sound of a knife digging into flesh. She becomes a small tiny fly, and shoots into the air, then darts forward over all the aliens now calling their friend's name. She heads towards the one furthest away, and returns back to normal mid air, pouncing on the hostile struggling to see in the dark. It couldn't even make a noise before she sank her teeth into its neck to ruin its voice while she stabbed it in the heart.

The thump to the floor, and the aliens once again snap to her, immediately blasting their plasma weapons but she had already leaped away by then. The plasma provides bursts of light like lightning strikes in the night, flashes of her form being revealed to the aliens.

Her five arrows suddenly rocket out of her quiver and fly high over their gaze just as she throws her knife. Her bloody small skinning knife reflects the bursts of light as it arcs through the air, catching the aliens attention. Keeping them distracted from the five arrows piercing into the skulls of their friends at the back again, guided by a smirking Huntress in hiding.

By the time they hear the bodies hit the floor and snap around to shoot, Huntress was already on the move again. Approaching the ten left, she slices the throat of one of them from behind, then darts away into the shadows once more. One of the aliens throws its weapon down and rushes towards the room's exit in fear, but its teammates shoot the deserter by mistake, thinking it was Huntress.

Once again striking from behind, she throws out a bunch of seeds at the feet of three aliens, who snaps down at the small objects. Only for the seeds to explode into a massive sea of vines. They promptly wrap around the aliens and tie their limbs together as they fall to the floor struggling, unable to make a noise as their throats and chests are crushed, and mouths gagged.

Of course the remaining five rush to their aid, trying to ripe the tough vines off, but they hold strong as more continue to grow and fully envelop the aliens. Huntress sneaks behind a lone hostile as it still attempts to free its friend, and slits its throat before darting away again.

The last four scan around scared, with one of them snapping to the fifth civilian still trying to hurriedly fix the light. They shout a bunch of words in an unknown language, before the engineer finally fixes the flashlight and turns it on.

Sweeping it across the room desperately, they try to spot Huntress, even though she has by now shifted into an impossible to see flea. Suddenly there was a whoosh, and the light dropped to the floor as the armed aliens snapped to their engineer friend, discovering it dead with an arrow in its head. Finn smirks from the shadow with his bow, the flashlight acting as a beacon to spot the holder.

Before one of the others could pick it up, Huntress returns to normal behind them, and throws a bunch of seeds at their feet. They hit the floor and grow into bright green flowers, before they release a pink cloud of pheromones or pollen.

The thick cloud obscures their vision as they cough violently, before the woman enters with her knife free. Unbothered by the cloud, she quickly locates her remaining prey and slashes their throats, before only one remains.

She slowly swoops in before it, her green glowing eyes all that can be seen at first, and quickly rips the gun from its hand. Chucking it away, she grabs the alien's head with one hand and covers its face with the other. Her hand glows and vines shoot out from around her hand, wrapping around the struggling hostile's face. They seek every orifice, and enter its body, where they quickly pierce its skull and wrap around its brain, before she crushed it with ease.

The alien falls dead in her arms, where she promptly disintegrates her vines and chucks its body aside. She promptly absorbs her plants again, stopping the creation of the pollen as she glances at Finn and Ice Queen. She summons her arrows back, then Finn's spent one, and makes her way back to them with a stoic expression, a room full of the dead behind her.

She steps up to the duo as Ice Queen sighs with a small smile, "Let me guess, you've cleared everything out?"

"Yep, come on. Oh, and Finn," She hands him back his arrow, "Nice shot." He merely grins as he accepts the arrow back, putting it back in his quiver.

She grabs their hands and begins leading them through the room filled with the stench of death… with a hint of flowers. They walk by the three bodies completely trapped in vines, their bodies broken and shattered within them as the plants use them as fertiliser, a single thought going through their minds: don't fuck with Huntress Wizard.

She leads them to the exit where the alien had mistakenly been shot by its teammates, exiting the large room and entering another corridor, luckily one of the final ones. However, unluckily there was a makeshift blockade in the way, making Huntress blink.

The wood nymph sighs, then mutters angrily as she steams forward, "Wait one second." They do so as she steps up to the poorly made wall, noticing all the holes at the edges as she squints. They were too small and in a poor position for anyone to aim a gun through, explaining why no guard was posted there on watch. She nods and swiftly shrinks into a small spider, then swiftly climbs into one of the holes to peer at the other side.

More of the tendril aliens stood about, yet were not moving, with their heads down, and arms crossed like a mummy. They were asleep standing up, allowing her to analyse the situation without much worry. She spots bodies sprayed about, all murdered with some of them pretty brutally torn apart, causing her to metaphorically raise an eyebrow, 'This can happen in only one night?'

Shrugging it off, she focuses on their security of two guards watching their main barricade, guns primed and ready to shoot. Shame their back was to her. She crawls back out of her hole, exiting back on Finn's and Ice Queen's side as she returns back to normal.

She immediately had a finger to her lip and shushed them, then focused her attention on the wall, closing her eyes and placing her hands against it. With a silent grunt, she sends forth her vines once more, but as a whole swarm of them as they quickly slither into the holes and into the other side.

Her vines crawl across the floor and walls, the aliens completely unaware of their silent approach as the nymph aims the points at their heads. At once all her vines shoot into the skulls of the sleeping foes, ending them instantly as the guards snap around at the noise.

They become impaled on her massive vines as they shoot through their gut, the aliens clutching them as they open shocked mouths drooled blood. The vines then pull themselves all free of their corpses, before shooting back towards the wall and ramming into it, piercing the hard materials. They then yank the wall away from Huntress as it crumbles into pieces, before disappearing back into the green woman.

She turns around to the others casually, who of course couldn't see anything, and grabs their hands to tug them along, leading them down the corridor. They only had to make a turn and go down another corridor, where they would then connect to a much larger, main corridor with who knows what in the way. After that, they would have arrived at the elevator to the security room.

Unsurprisingly, there were more aliens hiding in rooms connected to their path, though these ones did not attack, earning no response from the deadly wood nymph. Cautiously sneaking by doorway after doorway, they eventually make the turn to the corridor meant to connect with the main, discovering more doors.

The first one she peered inside had a lone alien working at his lab, fiddling with quite a large gun. Sensing being watched it glanced over its shoulder to spot her glowing eyes, then yelled something as it tugs the weapon off the work bench.

It was so heavy it immediately dropped it, and struggled to lift it as the wood nymph rolled her eyes and launched an arrow above it. It strikes the small light it was using to see, causing it to fall and strike the scientist atop its head with a bang. It tumbles over unconscious, and they move on as the arrow flies back into her quiver, watching as the other aliens spying in get the memo.

The trio can finally move further down the path unbothered, the former hostiles remaining completely hidden from the terrifying silent killer. Finn, the destroyer of the Citadel, was no longer their biggest fear. They enter onto the main corridor, and turn to face the path ahead, discovering the massive elevator that led to the security room.

Huntress grins at the lights still surrounding it as it proves it still had power, but loses it at what was in front of them. Obviously, the only part with not only power but security had gained a lot of scared civilians. Who were mowed down by the new group. They had taken the few remaining guards weapons and shooed the rest of the people away, leaving them the only one with power.

Time for more cleaning up then.

Finn readies his bow, "Good thing they're standing in the lights, I can actually see them."

She nods, "Yeah, but don't get cocky, I don't want you to be shot. You can't see any cover to hide behind."

He shrugs, "I'm tough, don't worry. Would Ice Queen making me some armour real quick help you?"

She shrugs, "If she wishes-"

"I do!" The royal excitedly whispers, slamming the palm of her hands onto his chest and growing a bunch of light blue armour on him. While she does that, the wood nymph scans her foes with her piercing gaze.

They were definitely armoured and armed, all stolen from the now dead guards, a few even had a spear or two, hiding around corners and in small holes. She can easily handle these guys.

She glances backwards at the other two again, discovering them now finished as Finn wears brand new heavy armour, covered in intricate details. He can't really evade or be sneaky in it, but in the complete blackness where he couldn't be seen, they didn't matter too much.

She gives it a slow nod of approval for her hunting partner, then focuses back on the armed hostiles ahead, counting her prey. Twenty five.

She immediately sets off, deactivating her glowing huntress vision to keep the element of surprise since they were all standing in lights anyways. It means she unfortunately can't actually get close to them, not easily anyways, so her assassination work must happen from afar. She first hunts the ones furthest away, noticing the duo spear holders walking together near the edge of the lights.

She becomes a mouse and rushes over, transforming back to normal just a bit away from them, and launching her arrows towards them. They don't even realise what hits them as her arrows pierce into their skulls, ending them instantly. She must hurry now before the others realise they were dead.

Darting along her protective shroud of darkness, she notes her next prey fiddling with its weapon while surrounded by four friends. She raises a hand, and launches a vine from her hand, striking it in the head before making move vines shoot out from its skull.

Before its friends could even react they themselves were impaled, and with a silent grunt she tugged harshly on the line. She yanks all the bodies out of sight, the slight thump of their bodies hitting the floor behind her getting the remaining eighteen attention.

They move to investigate, when suddenly an arrow pings off a far wall, causing them to snap around to stare. Finn's little distraction allows the Huntress to swoop in for more, sneaking up behind a trio and ending them with an arrow burst. Summoning back all five spent arrows, rushes away again as everyone comes to check out the noise of the arrows piercing flesh.

One arrives, and its eyes widen at the sight of the bodies snapping around to yell a warning. Its throat is slit and she drags its body away into darkness. By now the others are on high alert, noticing their sudden loss of numbers as they hurriedly group up, going back to back.

She has two sets of seven sweeping the area, weapons aimed and fingers in the trigger as they yell out demands in their language. She becomes a fly, and rushes to one of the groups, hovering high above their heads and lying in wait. As the two groups move away from one another and sweep out the area, they inevitably move to having the security elevator between them.

She descends from the sky right in the middle of the group, hitting the ground where she suddenly grows into a large barbed bush. One of the aliens is able to release a scream before her dangerous branches envelop them, crushing, cutting, gutting them within her body.

She swiftly shapeshifts back to normal letting their broken and cut up bodies drop to the floor while she dashes away. The second group come rushing to investigate the screams, discovering their friends fate as they curse and snap their weapons out, firing blindly.

She uses the flashes to spot some cover as she dodges and dashes, diving behind it and remaining hidden. The group of seven slowly move forward, weapons locked onto the broken slab of metal she had decided to hide behind, catching a glimpse of her in the firing.

As they approach, Huntress merely scatters some seeds down in front of her, then transforms into a tiny flea. The seeds grow into a ball of vines, the plant matter shifting and moving constantly just a bit away from the nymph.

The seven aliens suddenly snap around her cover, guns pointing at where she should be, only to see nothing. They stare for a second, then snap their aim about as they yell to one another about not seeing her. They immediately huddle together as they sweep their gaze about, firing occasionally to light the area up, trying to locate her. One finally notices the plant on the ground and yells, aiming at it. Just in time for it to spring out.

Vines snap out and entangle them as they all scream, before being yanked together atop the plant as they struggle. It is at this point the wood nymph hears a unknown whisper from afar. Huntress remains hidden for a little bit longer, just until their weapons were no longer a threat, then she'll out the acid plants to end the-

One of the aliens luckily shoots the plant. It dies as the vines stop wrapping around the group, who hurriedly begin to untangle themselves. Unbothered, Huntress uses her small size to hop around to the other side of her cover, then toss seeds out.

They land all about, and suddenly explode into a sea of plants as the aliens freeze up and snap about in shock. Trees, bushes, flowers, thorns, poison ivy, and spore puffing mushrooms sat all around them, any one of them a trap. They snap their aim about and shoot randomly, thinking they can kill the plants again, but other than some wounds, nothing happens.

Suddenly the grass covered ground bulges and travels across the floor, darting behind a bunch of trees, where mad feminine laughter then rings out. All guns aimed, they cautiously approach, the ones at the back snapping their gaze about at the unknown environment.

Then they enter a clearing, a clearing surrounded by towering trees and where the ground was made of soft tall grass. In the middle of it all stood Huntress Wizard with her eyes glowing white, yet her gaze is nothing but red. Creating a forest in an unsuitable environment had sent her into magic madness. Her legs were connected to the ground as if she was a tree, a thick mass of wood with roots, while her antlers bloomed with bright, white flowers.

The aliens yell as they fire their plasma weapons, but a massive tree suddenly sprouts from the ground between them. It tanks the blows, before groaning as it bends backwards, then slamming forward as the foes dive out of the way. One isn't quick enough and becomes a splat underneath it, where the grass quickly reaches up and claims its body for nutrients for itself, for Huntress Wizard to use.

The ground behind becomes a sea of thorns, preventing any retreat as they face the wood nymph down. All around her form tiny cracks appear, glowing magic as magic madness damages her body slightly.

She screams as thousands of vines erupt from the ground, the six remaining aliens trying to scramble away when they are bound up by the plants. They are harshly ripped into the air and swung about as they scream, before two of them are thrown towards the edge of the forest. The massive plants with jaws appear and quickly tear their screaming bodies to shreds while the others watch in horror.

They snap their guns to the vines holding them and fire, but once again do nothing. She suddenly screams out a name, "Egeria!" And her foes are suddenly slammed into the ground with a brutal smack. Three of the four were able to get up quickly, their leg bones not broken as they attempted to run away again.

They suddenly stumble into a field of mushrooms that grows around them, which then release a thick green plume. A sea of highly poisonous spores fill their bodies as they choke and gargle, clutching their throats as their air supply is cut off.

They swiftly fall over dead as blood leaks from their orifices, where plants quickly claim their bodies, transferring their worth to Huntress. The massive magic cracks on her body weaken and shrink a little, and she sweeps her gaze to the last alien on the ground.

One of its legs was broken, its four tendril arms pulling to crawl itself away to the trees, where it promptly lifts itself up. It glances over its shoulder at Huntress Wizard, and finds her glowing eyes scowling at it as she snarls. Her combined legs separate as the thick base is shattered to let her sprint madly towards it. It screams in fear and hurriedly limps into the forest, with the wood nymph beast right on its tail.

She holds her right arm out, and an ethereal bow forms in her hand as an arrow shoots from her quiver. She skids to a halt and pulls back on the magic bow with her arrow in place, aiming at the scared alien.

She breathes out and releases the arrow, watching it arc through the air before sinking into the back of her prey. It falls to the floor, clutching its wound as Huntress dismisses her bow, throwing it aside as it fades from existence, before storming towards her prey.

Whipping her skinning knife free, she flips it around with her foot before booting its gun away, then kneels atop its chest. She holds its head up and growls in feral rage, then slashes its throat out with a bloody squirt. Hissing, she takes a aggressive bite out of its arm and savours its flesh, then rushes off back to her grove, to the centre of her new forest.

Finn meanwhile hums in worry, staring at the sea of trees and plants, a block of green in the mix of black shade and white walls. He begins to worry, and tentatively steps forward, making his way across the eerily silent station and towards the plants.

He glances down at the floor of grass, and takes a cautious step onto it, then when nothing happens, immediately rushes deep into the forest. He lightly pants as he continues to carry his bow, ready to fire an arrow at a moment's notice to save Huntress.

Then he spots a grey thing on the floor, causing him to rush to the anomaly. He discovers the alien's body, bones shattered, arrow in the back, and a huge chunk ripped from its arm. It was a bite mark he was familiar with, he had seen Huntress Wizard's razor sharp teeth she occasionally showed. He can ask her what happened later, no time to ponder what went down now as he rips her arrow free from its back.

Sprinting madly, he attempts to find the missing woman as his heart pounds in worry for her well being. Suddenly he bursts free of thick foliage of trees and plants to discover a very open clearing, with blood marks here and there. None of it was the wood nymph's purple blood, causing him to sigh in slight relief, when he suddenly notices movement ahead.

He readies an arrow and takes aim at a shaking bush on the other side of clearing, before he notices two glowing eyes. They were the shape of Huntress's, yet they were not her colour, causing him to stare for a second before realisation dawned on him, "Oh no." He rushes forward, decocking his bow as the eyes continue to watch him approach. He chucks his own safety aside as he calls out her name, "Huntress Wizard! Diana!"

He arrives at the bush, where she slowly rises out, only the top half of her head popping out as she keeps her gaze locked on him, "... Mine."

He blinks, "What?"

She smirks, "Thank you for returning my arrow. And you, you are mine, my bear, my exceptional beast, my mate!" She lunges forward, quickly wrapping her arms around him as her magic madness sends her greed and deepest desires wild. She tugs him into the bush she was in, quickly planting a kiss against his lips and slipping her tongue inside his mouth, making out with the hero.

He attempts to gently pull away so he can actually check up on her without sending her ballistic by mistake, but she grows a thick bush around them. The plant envelopes them both, a sphere of green in all directions as she giggles, finally pulling off him, "There we go, some privacy." She yanks on him as they both fall down, hitting the ground with him atop her, "Swear your loyalty to me, make yourself belong to me and I'll make myself yours, swear your loyalty to the forest that brings life and not to the ice that snuffs it out! You belong to me!"

He grimaces as he pulls himself up, scanning over her as her legs wrap around his waist for safety, staring at the massive glowing cracks across her body, "Diana… your skin."

She slashes a knife out at him as he jolts back, staring at her skinning- no, a ethereal knife! She growls, "Don't try to change the topic! This is fine! This is beauty! This is power!" She yells, her magic madness marks glowing, "I feel alive! Like I can finally take what belongs to me! You! The forests! Everything! The world is mine for the taking with this power" She pounces on him, pinning to the ground beneath her as she holds him down, "But first, I want what is mine, what I desire most." She kisses him, "That frozen harlot can't make you hers, I claimed you back in our date on that night, we were each other's first and she can not steal that from us! Try as she might, your heart belongs to me, and… mine belongs to yours."

She grinds against him as she kisses him, all the while Finn plays along. He can't plan an escape when their bond allows her to read his mind. He breaks the kiss and nervously inquires, "Well, erh, are you feeling tired? Like you want to sleep or about to pass out?"

She shakes her head, "No I'm not, my bear~ This power… it gives me strength. You're mine to have, even if you don't want to I have the power to claim you as my own. Submit, it will be easier for the both of us if you just let me have my way." She creates a bunch of mushrooms in her hand, the hero's eyes widening as he recognises them to be the ones that sent him in a feral rage back at the robot lion fight. She giggles with a large smirk, "Just breathe in, and we'll be together forever. You'll be with me in the forest, forever~" She whispers.

The hero holds his breath and quickly puts his hand over her own, covering the fungus in hope to stop it, "You- you erh don't have to do that honey! I am... yours. Completely."

He feels the shrooms disappear under his hand as she wears a massive sick grin, "Really?"

He nods, quickly wrapping an arm around her and holding her against him in a massive snuggle, "Y-yeah." She tries to pull herself up and off the hero's chest so she could properly claim him as her own… again, but he keeps his arms tightly wrapped around her. She attempts to grind their crotches together in hopes to spur him on, but when he does not move she eventually begins sinking into his comforting grasp. She actually starts to relax in his hold, snuggling up to his warm tight hug, finding safety and satisfaction in being so close with the hero.

She coos, "And yes, Ice Queen was right earlier. I would totally peg your cute butt."

Finn blinks, "Still no idea what that means Diana." He gets no response, causing him to glance as best as he can at his shoulder where her head rested. He discovers her asleep, causing a mix between joy and anger, "Glob damn it, just when I was about to find out! What even is pegging!?"

Suddenly the thick plant around them gets a knock, Ice Queen's voice calling, "Bear!? Diana!?"

Finn flinches, but when the wood nymph still in his arms doesn't wake up, he replies, "Yeah, we're in here. How carefully can you get in here?"

"... Are you anywhere near the top?"

"No."

Suddenly a massive ice spike pierces inside, before she begins to tear her way inside, her gaze instantly locking onto the duo, "Oh, you two look cute-" She notices the marks covering the nymph's arms, "What-" She then recognises the types of wound as he fists clench, "Those are magic madness wounds… she pushed herself too far!" She growls, "Stupid!- Is she alright?"

He nods, "She was talking and acting crazy, but she fell asleep in my arms."

The royal sighs, "That's good then. But why did she do all of this? Why did she go over the edge on just some small fry?"

He barely shrugs as to not disturb sleeping beauty, "I don't know. We'll just have to ask her when she wakes up."

The royal glances about, "Well… I suppose we can stay here in this forest for a bit, let her recover any lost magic… do you have any cyclops tears left?"

He shakes his head, "No, I used them all on your gut wound."

The royal grimaces as she steps inside the sphere of plants to join him, "Shoot… well, we'll have to heal her back in AAA then, same time as me." Her gaze remains locked on the softly breathing wood nymph, "... Finn, I know you want me to stay behind you because of my wound, but… Diana just got wounded." Her hands clench, "My dream, Finn, you were both injured in my dream."

He shakes his head, "I'll be fine, I've got to protect you both even if I have fifteen wounds in my body. I won't stop fighting until everyone is safe." He sighs, "Just… relax. Huntress is doing it, you should probably join her."

She shakes her head, "No, she's been handling everything so far, my magic levels are at their max. I'll watch over her with you." She explains, snuggling up to the hero as they resy their heads together. He nods in understanding, before the duo stare at the sleeping wood nymph atop him, waiting for her to wake up. They can't fight any guards in the security room with her out of the game, that's just asking for trouble no matter what they do.

"... Hey Sarah? What's pegging?"

"Won't tell you."

"Glob damn it."

Chapter end

Huntress is very sneaky, very deadly, but... something affected her, and she dove into magic madness. Ice Queen's dream is coming true it seems… so what does that mean is coming up for Finn and Marshall?

Theorising and explanations come later though, since this means they're having to stop in saving Martin to let Huntress recover. Tick tock the clock clicks on.

Good news everybody! Another separate sex chapter/story thing is in the works! Keep an eye out for that!

Review response:

Eternal Violets, on FF, chapter 44:

I'm glad you loved the lewd sex! I've been missing your reviews, glad to see you're back!

The Book of Eli, on FF, chapter 55:

Fionna may get a win eventually, who knows? Eh, Finn's a trusty boy and he does love Huntress a lot, but is the wood nymph a kinky enough girl? That's the real question. Hmm, Fionna getting kidnapped mid prince rescue, that's an idea I'll definitely take into consideration, although Gumbolt is trying to get Fionna on his side by persuading Gumball is actually evil. I'll make a note to give the feline a cuddle session with her sister and Lord M.

FinalKingdomHearts, on FF, chapter 55:

Erh... I'm running out of original things to say. It's... in progress?

Eternal Violets, on FF, chapter 45:

Whoot! Just as I'm writing the reviews for the next chapter as well!

But do take it easy, no need to rush or stress yourself!