The group nodded, and Susie helped up Dee, Jade and Silly. Lady led the group out of the old barn and the way to the cave. Susie supported Silly as they walked, and behind them, Dee had picked up Jade bridal style and was carrying her with her four arms.

     Muzyka and Dee were packing their stuff up and getting ready to move to a new theater when they heard a scream.      “What the?” Dee frowned.      Muzyka picked up her head, pulling back a loose strand of hair and said, “That’s Susie!”      The duo exchanged worried glances. Dropping their stuff, they ran in the direction where they heard the scream.      “Hey!” a voice above the duo called, and when the Music and Crafting Goddesses looked up, they were met with none other but the faces of the Light and Wind Goddesses.      “Silly! Jade!” Dee called, waving a hand and panting. “You saw the monsters too?!”      The two nodded and landed, running alongside them. “Yes,” Jade breathed out. “I take it that you both are also heading that way, towards Susie‘s scream? I must warn you, while overhead, we saw monsters.”      Muzyka nodded with a grin. “That is correct, darling... And how many monsters?”      “About two, but I have a feeling there are more.” Jade glanced up as her cloud shot out ahead of them. “We need to kill them quickly and search for the others.”      Silly beamed brightly. “Let's kick some butt!”      “Wait!" Dee protested. "We can’t use our full powers while in human form! We need either Eris or Cry to unbind us; otherwise we are practically defenseless!”      “…Oh faceless.” Jade sighed. “And I have yet to see any sign of Jund or Pixel, so would we find either Cry and Eris?”      “Not enough time,” the Music Goddess said in a stern voice.      “This isn’t good!” Silly squeaked.      The group rounded a band and soon were on the outskirts of the town, coming right up behind the hellish monsters.      The two were lumbering closer to three small figures on the ground.      “Lady! Susie! Paatos!” Muzyka called out, waving her hands, trying to grab their attention. ---      Pixel scooted backwards, crawling on her hands and feet as she looked up at the deity looming over her. She coughed out a bit of ichor and raised a arm over her in defense. Her bag was ripped from her, so there went her weapons, not to mention the fact that she couldn’t even see it.      The stupid creature had bit her, its venom pulsing through her veins; even her goddess healing abilities were crippled. It made her veins scream in agony, and her blood felt like molten lava.      “Unf…” Pixel cried out as she felt a hand grab her ankle and pull. Her back caved, and she scrambled to flip over, trying to execute a death roll and free the vice-like grip.    “Get….OFF!”      She puffed out, kicking her free leg at the beast. She felt contact and grinned in satisfaction.      “Help!” she cried out, flipping over and crawling away. She managed to scoot another three feet before pressure was forced onto her back. One of the monsters was pinning her down with its foot. She cried out in pain as it applied pressure, and turning her head, she saw another bending down. It would pick her up and consume her…      “Oh my faceless… “ She blinked, rubbing some ichor away - this was it.      This would be the end of her. -      The trio of Goddesses waved to the approaching group.      “Heeey!” Silly called out. “Stay there! We’ll help you take down these hellions!”      Lady gives a thumbs up, saying that she heard. She cast a glance back up to the looming monsters.      “Without our weapons, we can't do much!” Susie fretted as she took a step back.      “Don’t worry," Paatos growled, stepping in front of Susie and Lady. “It’s times like this that it's good to be two faced.” She stepped towards the monster and raised her head, glaring at the two. The monsters were close now, just about twenty feet away, and Silly, Jade, Muzyka, and Dee were maybe fifty feet away.      One of the monsters squatted and looked down at the Goddess of Decisions with a confused look.      “Yeah that’s right!” she scoffed, pointing a finger at it. “I'm no push over! You're dealing with a Goddess! I’m giving you two choices here. Either flee and never come back, or prepare to get demolished!”      The other monster lumbered closer to her, clearly not caring. The other stood up and followed suit - their choice was clear.      “Fine!” Paatos scoffed. She raised her hands and called out. “JADE, USE YOUR CLOUD!”      “Wh-hat?… Oh!” Jade was quick to recover, and now they were behind the monsters.           “YADE! ATTACK!” the Wind goddess screeched, and her cloud dashed past her.      Growing in size rather quickly, the cloud darkened, booming with thunder; it caught attention to both monsters, and by the time they turned around, the cloud had taken up a large portion of the sky and bolts of lighting danced across it.      “Go!” Silly cheered.      The cloud rumbled once more before letting out a earsplitting crackle as bolts shot down to the earth. They tore at the deities, who crumpled to the ground.      “ONCE MORE!” Jade commanded, watching a hellion roll onto its stomach. It bared its teeth at her.‏      The cloud rumbled, and the lighting danced again. Just before it gave out, there was a loud groan and bolts flashed down to the earth. They hit the monsters directly on the chests. Flames flickered out of the gaping holes left by the deviation as they screamed in agony.      Jade smirked at the fire, eating away at them. After a few moments, the only thing left were the singed marks on the ground from the bolts.      Lady smiled, and the trio meet the group of four.      “Great work.” Susie bumped hips with Jade while Paatos looked pleased with herself.      “I warned them,” She smiled. “They chose wrong.” -      Pixel felt a hand go around her waist and felt herself being lifted off the ground. She laid limp in the monster's arms. She let out a soft sigh and rubbed her eyes. So, this was it… She was going to be consumed and never seen again. She let out a soft cry and let her head dangle, watching the ground get farther and father away.      “I WILL END YOU, YOU BEAST!”      Pixel picked up her head and blinked, trying to clear her vision - she blinked a couple of times. It was still blurry, and the Messenger Goddess wanted to blame the venom.      “Huh?” She coughed at the golden liquid building up in her throat.      “YO! PICK ON SOMEONE YOUR OWN SIZE!”      Pixel turned her head and saw a two blurry figures on the ground. She could see a dark cloak and called down.      “Z-Zell?”      “You're damn right, it is!” the Goddess of Dark roared. She puffed out her chest and adjusted the sack she held over her shoulder. Off to her left was Octavia, a fire burning just as brightly in her eyes. “You picked the wrong Goddess to mess with!” Zell tossed something to Octavia, and Pixel saw the bag disappear. She blinked again and rubbed her eyes.      “W-what are you two doing?” She felt her heart jump a bit and smiled. Her vision cleared, and she saw the battle-ready Goddesses clear as day below her.      “Saving you!” Octavia smirked, raising up her weapon. It was a fluffy pillow.      Zell grabbed the edge of her cape and swung in around her. “Deities!” she cried out, catching their attention. “I’m usually too cold hearted to warn you, but you all about to die!” She threw back her head and laughed as one monster charged at her. The one holding Pixel backed up, a low rumble emitted from its throat.       Zell picked up her cape. The edges flooded out, connecting to the shadows and expanding into a black abyss.      “Let's dance!” She tossed her cape, doing a slight twirl as darkness shot out in thick tendrils. It connected onto the monster with spear like hooks and pulled. The lines spread out and thickened, immobilizing the creature as it thrashed, hissing in rage.      The two watching must have come to an agreement because they growled and lumbered forward.      One kicked out its foot, connecting with Octavia and knocking the wind out of her as she hit and rolled on the ground.       The other approached Zell, who spun on a dime and avoided the hand coming down to grab at her.      “Octavia!” Pixel choked out. She watched her skid to a stop and shakily get up. The Goddess of Dreams clutched her pillow tightly, her knuckles white as she glared at the demon. “How dare you?!" she hissed, raising her pillow before charging. She swung her pillow, and it connected into the side of the monster. Instead of bouncing off like a normal pillow, it cut through the beast like a hot knife to butter. The beast dropped to its knees, paralyzed with drowsiness as she swung and hit it atop of its head.       Pixel watched Octavia brutally beat a demon with a pillow; she stifled a small laugh at the predicament that she was in but was cut off as the beast holding her turned away and faced a very angry looking Goddess of Night.       Zell had grown in size and was now looking eye to eye with her monster. Her cloak was draped down to the ground, covering from her neck down, but nonetheless, it was clear that her fists were clenched.      “Put. Her. Down," The Dark Goddess snarled. "This fight doesn’t include her.” The monster let out a low rumble from its throat and obediently let her go. Unfortunately, Pixel was still a ways up, meaning that the ground rushed at her. She tucked herself into her four arms and held together.        Bracing for the hard impact, she was surprised as she hit something soft….As she rolled over, her hands felt soft plush material below her - a pillow. Opening her eyes, she met the light and dark blue eyes of Octavia, who was bent over her grinning.       “Hey." She beamed.       Pixel reached out and grabbed her, hugging her tightly. “Oh my gods,” she huffed out in a small sob.      Octavia hugged her back tightly. “I know," she whispered, rubbing her back and letting the messenger Goddess clutch to her. “It's alright now…”      “My bag…” Pixel muttered.      “Hm?”      “I need my bag.” Pixel wiped her eyes with two hands as one pointed to where her bag was, the other still clinging onto her. -       Silly, Jade, Muzyka, Dee, Lady, Susie, and Paatos were huddled by the old, abandoned barn on the outskirts of town. Jade and Dee were sitting side-by-side on a old wine barrel, while Lady paced in front of them. Muzyka laid on her back, looking up at the ceiling.      “We have to find the others," Lady said, tapping a finger to her chin in thought.      “Agreed.” Paatos leaned back against a wooden beam. Silly sat at her feet and was drawing things in the dirt as she listened.      "I could fly around and tell everyone to meet here," Jade suggested.      “We can't let you go off by yourself," Dee protested, Susie nodding in agreement. Susie frowned deeply. “We can't risk splitting up again. We need to stick together.”      Lady looked at her clipboard. “I wrote down where everyone was assigned. We should make a loop and collect everyone. Silly.." She noted, looking at what she was drawing; it was a town map. “Here, mark where everyone is.”       She held out her clipboard, and the Light Goddess took it, nodding. “Alright.”       Dee smiled. “Good thinking.”      “So Mick, Neko, Sammy, and Cassie are out in the woods," Muzyka said.      "Correct," Silly answered, marking the dirt with four X’s.      “Zell and Octavia are on guard up in the tower.”      Silly made two X’s off to the right of the map.      “Cry and Russ are patrolling..”      “The outskirts. By now, I’d assume that they are close to the farmlands by the woods.”    Lady bent down and watched Silly mark two X’s a bit off from the four.      “Doc and Red are…? Um, where exactly?”      “Er…I dont quiet recall" Lady paled slightly and turned away from the group. "Fuck, and they are the ones who we would need most."      " You assume that someone is injured." Susise piped up from he spot.      “Of course I do!" The Goddess of Order furrowed her brow. "With monsters around someone always get hurt. Their venom stops our healing process and critically wounds us...." Dee chewed on her lip nervously "I have a bad feeling about this". "Same" Paatos whispered. -      “Thank you so much…” Pixel smiled and hugged the Dark Goddess and the Sleep Goddess. “I owe you.”      “I know." Zell smirked and handed over the bag. “You can take over from here. Tell the others that we will all meet over by the stream that leads into the cave.”      Pixel saluted her and nodded.      “Alright!” She turned and zipped off, soon out of sight.      “I'm proud of you.” Octavia beamed and hugged her pillow to her chest.      “Yeah, whatever….” Zell grumbled playfully. “I only saved her because she still owes me five gold coins….”      “Mmmhmm.” The Goddess of Dreams chuckled and started off their pace to the cave.    “If that’s what you want to call it.”