A lancinate gust sliced through a pair of trees, courtesy of a certain angry red bird.
"You will not take them alive!" Huracan snarled, retracting her extended arms from her potent wind blast. Perched from a high tree branch, she witnessed Alice and Alexandria meet their end to the hands of the lone human acrobat. She had only arrived moments after spotting Alexandria wandering in the distance, wondering why she might faraway from water. But even the half-avian humanoid didn't even see the human until it touched her.
"Hold on, you two! I'm coming!" She cried, jumping down to snatch Alice, who was lying within some tall ferns. The Siren had seen the human vanish from the concentrated wind blast, allowing her to conjure a micro tornado with several composite wrist flicks, thereby retrieving Alice's unconscious body. Standing in place, Huracan summoned another micro tornado and snatched Alexandria.
But when Huracan turned around, preparing for a powerful leap, a swift palm strike to her right ribs paralysed her, instantly undoing her spells as she recoiled backwards. Landing on her back just shy of a tree, including its camouflaged roots, a deep grunt vibrated in her throat. Running on adrenaline, she flipped upright, but her legs instantly buckled upon touching the ground again, causing her to unceremoniously slump.
"Aw yeah~" Huracan mumbled loudly, her mouth almost tasting dirt. "Hey...!"
With a hurried groan, she erected herself and glared at the human, who disappeared again.
"Okay, that was super relaxing...but super unwarranted!" She exclaimed, swivelling around for the human. "I don't know what you humans are doing, but that ain't gonna work. You're not going to win with pleasure nor pain, human! You'll never win the likes of me."
However, the human was nowhere to be found. But briskly, Huracan outreached her right arm, her fingers tenderly grasping the air like a ball of energy and thunderously slammed it into the ground, smashing at least nine trees within a 50 metre radius. Then, she whirled her hands around, conjuring a colourless pair of long air whips, which she used to bisected several timbering trees.
She glanced at Alice and Alexandria to find them beginning to fall back down, which Huracan caught with her whips and flicked them around, the whips promptly morphing into wyverns. But those aerial constructs sloppily dissipated when the Siren felt a soothing thwack against her spine, courtesy of two stern palms. Fuelled by fury, however, she turned her lurch into a shoulder roll and spun around on one knee.
"There you are!" Huracan snarled, a scowl engraved on her face as she saw the human; however, the human was already sprinting towards her. She flicked her right palm left, hoping to sweep the human aside, but the human seemed to already sense it; she leaped over the razor thin gale like it was a fence. So, the Siren flicked her left hand upward, but the human flew forward like a cat, her feet narrowly clipping the weaponised updraft. Finally, Huracan wounded both hands for an airblast, but before she could conjure it, the human had already leaped into a wide frontal handspring flip. There was no hesitation or distress in the human; she simply ignored the Siren and dashed away.
"Wha...?!" The Siren exclaimed, dumbstruck by the human's acrobatics. "Where the hell are you g- oh my God, Al...!"
Dashing behind the human female, Huracan's lighter bones and taloned feet allowed her to catch up, but the human had slim and sculptured leg muscles. Nonetheless, Huracan slacked her arms and whooshed ahead with some wind magic; however, the human had already made a backflip before the Siren could slam into her. Thanks to adrenaline, Huracan could barely register the human mid-flight, and she could have sworn she and the human made direct eye contact in that split second.
Huracan wanted to gasp, but the impending doom of her friends made her snap back to reality, curling into ball and raised a shockwave in front of her at the last second. Harmlessly smashing through a tree, Huracan landed on both feet without losing speed, but she stomped the ground as hard as she could, rocketing through the canopy to find Alice and Alexandria tumbling helplessly overhead. Sweeping her arms back, the airflow whooshed and accumulated into balls of energy in her hands, which she then spun around a few times to create a thunderous gust, morphing into a hand construct to snatch the duo midair.
Sensing the looming canopy below, her right hand extended out with an orb of air, stopping her spin and then lowering her arm as her talons formed orbs of air. Sadly, she broke through the canopy before she finally stabilised herself above the ground, hurriedly staying above the treeline thereafter, both friends in tow. Between her and the Saderan encampment was a pair of rolling hills, however, the faint plumes of smoke from the sparse campfires visible for her.
"Ah...looks like we're out of harm's way." She sighed visibly, lowering herself into the forest as she flew over the first hill; however, upon seeing a clearing, she stumbled into a quadrupedal pose, her friends gently thudding onto the ground.
Not a few moments later, there was a pair of crunchy rustling sounds ahead of her, but she could smell a familiar scent.
"Huracan!" Weizenegger said, briskly leaping into view. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah...I'm fine." She panted-groaned, lackadaisically pointing behind her. "Check them!"
The Volralden jogged towards the unconscious duo, putting her paw on their sternums. "They're alive."
Slinging them on her shoulders, she trudged towards Huracan, curtly nodding upwards with a deep huff, prompting the Siren to clamber onto Weizenegger's back. Upon resting her arms around her neck, the Volralden inhaled-growled and lurched ahead. But seconds after takeoff, there was bristling not far behind, belonging to a humanoid blur and a green dragonfly.