Hunter makes sure Jay can hang on before running in the direction Jay had pointed. Panting, he notes, "We have been running," he pauses to take another breath as a cramp digs into his side, " a whole lot," he involuntarily shivers as the storm growls overhead, "since we have arrived here." He focused on running, breath already coming in gasps.

After another second of staring, Genesis nodded her head. "Alright. Go then. If you really want to help your friends, then tell them not to mention the door. They'll have to search for it without challenging the witch head on. Go!" With that, she darted off in another direction, planning to draw the witch away if she could.

Jay wasn't the one running right now, but he was sure feeling out of breath as well. It wasn't exactly easy to stay atop a hyena. "I know right! But we're almost there!" Just as he said that, thunder pealed overhead and the skies opened up with rain. Except, the rain never hit them, almost seemed to strike around them in an orb. He tugged on Hunter's fur to get him to stop. "Wait! Both of you! What's going on?"

August spread his wings and took off, following the storm with narrowed eyes.

"If I didn't know better I'd say it's the witch who put this curse on us,'' Scarlet suggests an answer, "We need to find shelter as soon as possible.''

Jay fluttered his wings, looking at the sky in apprehension. "The witch?! But if this is a curse, then why isn't the rain hitting us?" It seemed really counter-productive. He reached out a hesitant wing, coming into contact with the rain. "Ouch!" he snatched his wing back. "Okay, I don't think we can go past the bubble. That's not good at all."

"Got another suggestion," Scarlet asks running to avoid the rain. She was worried about her friends mroe then herself.

"So the bubble is good and not good. Why can't it just be a soap bubble and pop? Then it would be good and good." Hunter says, making little sense. He shakes his head, trying to stay alert. Sure, the witch was trying to get them, but rain had always made him sleepy. The nice lulling rythm of the rain hitting th-
NOPE!
"I'M AWAKE." Hunter says, bouncing.

Jay hunkered farther down into Hunter's fur. "You can't fall asleep! Maybe that's what the witch wants!" He turned to stare up into the sky, trying to see past the curtain of the rain. "I wonder what happened to August. Did he get away or is it just us trapped?" As he watched, the bubble around them started to thread with dark smoke. "I hope no one's caught in rain like this..."

"This witch has thought of everything." Hunter muses. "I also hope that Agust has gotten away. And aren't we caught in this rain, so doesn't that mean, that your hope isn't working? Oh, and also, I read this crazy fact somewhere, but cows run away from storms while some other hoofed creautures faces the storm. I think it was something about the storm passing over the other hoofed creature quicker than the cows."

August struggled to stay in the air admist the turbulance that was trying the throw him off balance time and time again. He had learned to ride currents of wind but never ones this extreme and erratic before. His eyes pinned in slight alarm when another gust threatend to send him spiraling out of control.

He let out a small chirrup before diving and touching down on the ground. "That's... that's enough of that for now." He mumbled to himself, looking up at the agitated sky. Could he really safetly navigate both the gales and the pounding rain further ahead? He caught himself, quickly shoving the thought away. No. You have to keep moving. He thought. With that, he took off once again.