“I see you have bypassed my wisps, but do you really think it will be that easy?” the mole queen said cockily.
Viola stopped a short distance in front of the strange woman, Stone’s Bane Sword at ready. “Are we really doing this? You can still back down.”
“Back down? How generous of you, but I think not,” the masked woman said in an oddly gleeful manner, quite obviously plotting something. “I have a better idea.” She raised her right hand, trying to snap but failing to. “Darn gloves! Anyway, I guess I’ll go with this instead. Skeleton team go!” She crouched down, slapping her right palm against the tunnel floor.
“Now skeletons! What the heck is with this girl?! There better not be a freaking undead dragon after this!”
Skeletal hands reached out from the rocky floor between the two girls as a trio of skeletons climbed out of it. They were about Viola’s height, and their bones were a ghastly ivory white. Something about them was unnerving. The smokey-looking wisps from before had a kind of strange beauty to them, but these animated skeletons were just unsettling for some reason.
“What do you think?! Pretty cool, aren’t they?!” the mole queen gushed from behind the trio, squirming happily.
Viola smiled, letting out a bit of a giggle. “Somehow, the skeletons don’t seem quite so bad anymore. Who knew this lady’s antics would actually come in handy?” The bunny girl studied the three skeletons for a bit. They were just standing there, and due to the mole queen’s words, they really didn’t look all that menacing at this point. That mole queen really did seem to be a bit of a goof ball. It was too bad that she wouldn’t just let them pass through.
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The bunny girl turned her emerald eyes to the mole queen, watching her slightly sway from side to side. The masked woman had her hands clapped together and seemed to be a bit lost in her own world for now.
“You’re not going to summon more, are you?” Viola finally asked, remembering what happened just prior with the wisps.
The question instantly snapped the mole queen back to reality. “Funny you ask that. Actually, I’m all summoned out. Good luck with the skeletons.” Clapping her hands back together, she added, “Get her, boys! …or are they girl skeletons? Doesn’t matter! Get her!”
“Just three skeletons to worry about in that case. Kind of lucky. I mean, at least there aren’t ten of them.”
Viola readied herself, holding her blade firmly, ready to strike. The skeletons, for their part, seemed to be doing likewise but were unarmed. One of the trio walked up to the bunny girl, its fists up. In exchange, it took a stab to the chest. The stab, though, didn’t really do much of anything.
“I… may not have thought that through.” Viola’s emerald eyes were glued to her sword’s blade as a drop of sweat rolled down the side of her face. She had most certainly stabbed its chest, but unfortunately, her blade had went harmlessly between its ribs.
As the orange-haired bunny girl drew her blade back, the skeleton started to laugh. Seeing a skeleton laugh was an odd sight to say the least. Even the sound of it was quite peculiar. “I can’t believe a skeleton is laughing at me.” Sighing, she sheathed her Stone’s Bane Sword and raised her fists. “Guess we’re duking it out.”