The nine grass pixie farming elders found themselves in a rather strange position. They were leading what would be considered the only naval power the grass pixies had in a land battle against the aerial forces of the smog kingdom. It was a rather complicated situation that was not easy for the nine farming elders of the grass pixie clans to deal with, as they were looked to for wisdom by farmers, not by captains or admirals, but that was the role they played in this battle.

It was still a role they played well, all things considered, though that may have been because the kingdom of Smog did not expect the magical power of the farming elders to turn the grasslands they grew into a strange magical ocean with the elders themselves and their fellow farming grass pixies in grass warships on top of it. Though the elders had to be fair to their foe and admit that they doubted anyone would have been able to predict they could do such a thing.

But the elders had done it and still used their magical might and ability to grow grass with magic to fight their aerial adversary. They had already grown thousands of grass spears out of their warships, slaying many of the undead hornets. Then the undead hornets decided to show their true depravity by having their weapon, a sphere made from the corpses of their fellow hornets, move and fly forward to bring down from above them.

The nine elders realizing the danger the sphere represented as they could feel its menace as it hovered above them. Not to mention that whatever dark necrotic power that gave the sphere power also gave it will, and the elders could feel its will. The sphere's will was rather basic, showcasing its lack of intelligence, but what it lacked in intelligence it made up for in malice. As the nine elders could feel its need to cause them agony as it made its way over them.

So the nine elders reacted, singing a song that changed their warships once more, though instead of growing spikes as they had before, the nine grass warships instead grew shields. As the spikes bent and overlapped, creating shields that would protect the nine grass warships from the sphere above them, threats of an agonizing grave to all that were aboard the warships.

Luckily they sang their song of growth just in time, as had they not done that and the shields not been formed, then one of the grass warships would have fallen into the grass sea, its crew lost forever to grass fae magic. Though well the shield protected from above, it did not protect from the sides, as the undead hornets were quick to notice and were quick to use charging in to attack those aboard the grass warships. Not that it did them that much good, as the grass shields limited the undead hornets way of attack, making it easier for the grass pixie sailors to defend and counter the undead hornets reckless charges.

So the battle continued on with the undead hornets on the baco foot as they were forced to attack at angles that were bad for them, and their hornet sphere was not in play. Though that did not stop the sphere from launching barrage after barrage at the grass warships. So the sounds of grass spears and grass blades clashing with the undead hornets stingers were joined by the sounds of large, agonizing stingers bouncing off the shields that protect the grass warships from above.

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It was a dangerous melody that was sounding out across the grassy sea as the battle unfolded across its surface. The constant fighting had actually slowed the advance of the grass sea, though it was due more to the constant barrages of the hornets that were above them hitting and bouncing off the nine grass warships that was slowing the fleet down more than the undead hornet sway, which was more a problem for those aboard the ships than the sea that carried the warships.

Though the grass sea was becoming tainted as more and more barrages of agonizing stingers were launched and bounced off the grass shields of the nine grass warships and fell into the grass sea along with those undead hornets that had been slain and gone overboard. The grass sea that was carrying the nine grass warships was a magical phenomenon related to the magic of the grasslands. Which meant it would not mix well with corpses that had necromantic power in them.

This tainting of the grassy sea by necrotic bodies had been negated through the fact that the grassy ocean has within it many insectoid creatures eager to devour any easy meal they could. So any of the defeated undead hornets from the beginning of the battle that had fallen into the grass sea have been quickly devoured by the insectoid monsters that swim in its depths. Though as the battle went on, there were too many for the swimming insect of the grass sea to devour.

These rotting undead corpses were tainting the green sea, causing it to have to stop and deal with it. The nine elders realized if they wanted to keep making progress and not get bogged down and overwhelmed, they needed to deal with the sphere that was hanging over them. As its destruction would allow them to focus their might on the swarm that was clogging up the grass sea.

So they sang another magic song, though this one was very different than those that had sung before, as this one was of a far more haunting melody. Once they were done singing their dark and foreboding melody, nine great fish pulled up beside each of the great grass warships. Each of the nine grass pixie farming elders got on one of the strange giant fish walking along its spine until they got to the strange object that went out from each of the strange fish's head.

Each of the strange protrusions went out a fair distance from the fish's face and had a strange platform hanging from said protrusion. All nine farming pixie grass elders got onto the fish's strange stage and then began to sing once more. Though this among was far more aggressive and seemed to be some kind of war chant as the nine elders sang it, the fish they were all dangling from grew spikes, and their fangs became sharper and three times as long.

Then all of a sudden a wave came through the grass sea that carried the nine elders and their strange war fish steeds, carrying them far higher than the rest of the fleet as the wave the nine strange war fish were riding went much higher than the rest of the grass sea. This put the elders within reach of the hornet's sphere, allowing for one final battle between the sphere and the elders, which would decide the battle between the two armies.