"Map-maker is his name," The creature explained giving Cobra a glance, who nodded in agreement, "He is the one who knows where it is... and how would you get through Frost Forest? With me of course," They said with a smile, revealing sharp teeth, "My name is Silver by the way... for obvious reasons."

"Nice to meet yoiu, Silver! I figure if you know all of that stuff, you know our names?" Sam inquires . "And where is this... Map-maker? How come I don't know if them? Well, then again I never knew of this..."

Luca got up and moved to a different corner of the room.

"That's because Map-maker is a-"
"Snake man," Cobra cut Silver off, giving them a stern glance, "He is one of our best mappers, he would know exactly where the Pit of Hell is."
"Exactly," Silver said proudly just as another creature that looked exactly like them landed beside Silver, it's scales a mixture of bright colors.
"Queen Silver... what are you doing here?"

"Wait a moment. Queen? Your majesty." Sam says, trying to do her best bow but... it needed some practice.
Charcoal held in laughter at Sam's failed attempt at a bow.

Kenzie nods, "So snake people are awfully important in this quest. See, Cobra, this might not be so bad. You won't have to be surrounded by idiotic humans any more!" Kenzie whispers, slightly elbowing Cobra.

TJ takes in as much information as he can.

"Flower," Silver hisses sharperly hitting Flower lightly with their tail, "I told you to not call me that, our species are non-binary after all," They said and Flower lowered their head, looking embarrassed.
"Sorry about that. I am not a Queen, though I am the leader of my species, being silver has its advantages," Silver said with a smirk, not telling the full truth about their scales, "I have come to warn you about your mission, it i-"
A howl cut Silver off and Silver froze, their scales instantly shifting to match the temple walls as they hid, Flower copying Silver.
A thing burst into the temple, followed by others. They kinda looked like dogs, standing on their hind legs, spears in their hands. They had huge horns on their heads and giant ears on the side of their head. Their eyes looked almost like snakes and they had two huge teeth that stuck out of their mouth. Their back was covered with very thick fur and they had wickedly long and sharp claws.
"I scent meal," One of them said, they looked like all the other things, with light blue fur, the only thing that was different is this one had red eyes, "Hawthorn pack found them," The red eyed one said with a howl, a hungry gleam in their eyes.

"Well this is great," Cobra said sarcastically as he pulled out his staff, ready to fight, "Thanks for your kind words, but your kind is not stupid, just short minded," He said with a polite nod to Kenzie before preparing to face the beasts.

Charcoal stands protectively next to Sam, "I vaguely feel like I should know what you are..." He says( to the pack)

"Hold up... Are these like werewolves or something? And... Do I wanna know who they are hunting?" TJ asks, getting out his own staff.

Kenzie makes a noise as the new creatures entered. " short minded and blind. And unknowledgable. What are they??? Wait, do I want to know? " she asks Cobra.

"We Hawthorn pack," The one with red eyes said, a hungry gleam in his eyes, "I Thorn, you die," He let out another howl and the other wolf things moved forward, an angry gleam in their eyes, their spears ready to kill.

"Thessse a Yagorti'sss, a sssspeciessss that live in Frossst Foressst," Cobra hissed as he slithered forward, his own spear raised, "Thisss will be a hard fight."

"sorry, but I am not 'die'. I'm Charcoal. And you, Thorn, or your pack, whatever the y go by, won't hurt my friends if I can help it." The Black unicorn says, lowering his horn in retaliation.

"Heh, don't think they want to talk differences out over a nice hot cup of tea or anything?" Kenzie says, trying to make light of the situation.

"Nah, they want you dead just like I do," A voice said behind them. Looking at the sword Hildebrand Hayden watched in silence, his sister had appeared, though her image was hazy.
"Tiffany," Hayden whispered trying to ignore the sadness that stabbed him, he had made her like this, "Hey Hayden, miss me," Trixy snarled as she stepped forward, the image of her wavering out for a second, "You shall pay for what you have done!"
"Oh pineapplesss," Cobra muttered as he saw the wave of Yagorti come towards him, he got into a battle stance as 5 of them came at him and he realized he was probably fighting for his life.