(Ok good cuz I was abt to get triggered xDDD)

Viruss face was first slack with disbelief, then white with fury. She made a violent gesture, and the Swarm buzzed angrily in response.

Virus smiled nastily. "I have underestimated you," she said, rising higher into the air. "I did not think you would force me to use the scepter, but there you go. Do you know what this does, my dear?" she asked, holding it out before her. Ash looked up sharply. "It took me forever to puzzle it out, but I finally got it." She grinned, triumphant. "It enhances the power of the one who holds it. Isnt that interesting? So, for instance, I could make my darling bugs do this..."

The scepter glowed a sickly green, and in that light, the Swarm started to change. They swelled like ticks full of blood, becoming sharp and spiky, with long stingers and huge curved jaws. Now they were the size of a fist, a horrible cross between a wasp and a scorpion, and their wings scraped against each other like a million knives. And their minds changed, to something more savage, more visceral and predatory.

She just keeps slashing at them.

She could tell she was going to be terrified of bugs after this. She stared at the now terrifying bugs, then up at Virus.

Buzzing furiously, they turned on whatever living thing they could reach, including the guards surrounding them, which had climbed up onto the roof. The Thornguards screamed, reeling back and clawing at themselves as the metal bugs swarmed over them, biting and stinging, burrowing into their armor.

Virus giggled madly. "Kill them!" she cried, as several bugs chewed their way into their victims, who fell thrashing and screaming to the ground. A moment later, the Thornguards lurched to their feet again, crazed gleams in their eyes.

Raising their swords, they staggered toward them, blood pouring from their wounds and the holes in their armor, their eyes empty of reason. Puck met them at the edge of the whirlwind, and the clash of weapons joined the metallic drone of the Swarm.

Isiea lunges at the nearest one, and slashes at their face.

(well. time to die)

Lise felt bad she couldn't help. At all.

(im hungry xd)

(I'm not I just had half a package of nutterbutters :P)

A Thornguard, covered in bugs, staggered to the edge of the platform and picked up a crossbow. Raising it up, he loaded an iron bolt and swung it around at Lise. Puck was busy fighting off the other guards and couldnt help. He raised the crossbow, unhindered, and took aim.There was a loud clanging footsteps charging up the steps. Puck whirled around, saw, and his dagger whipped out and soar end over end toward the Thornguard, just as he pulled the trigger. The dagger thunked into the guards chest, hurling him off the mezzanine, but it was too late. The bolt was coming toward her, and she couldnt do anything about it.

Something huge and black lunged across her vision a split second before the bolt hit home. Ironhorse, covered in bugs and shedding chunks of iron everywhere, stumbled, fighting desperately to stay on his feet. He staggered toward the edge of the overhang, shaking his head as bugs swarmed him viciously. A hoof slipped off the edge, and he lurched sideways.

She just keeps attacking the thornguards. She's already starting to get fairly good at using her claws, mostly because there's instincts telling her how.

(i mean i had a baby burger but that was it)

Lise sprang up and grabbed Ironhorse, ignoring all the bugs around the both of them.

(What in the world is a baby burger??)

She missed. With a last defiant bellow and blast of flame, Ironhorse toppled from the edge, vanishing from sight. It was possible to hear his body strike the cement with a resounding boom that echoed through the building.

The Thornguards are falling like flys.