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*Sigh* It could be worth a shot…” You say, not entirely convinced but you can't deny the weight of the opportunity.
“So how do we do this?”

“What do you mean?” Asks Merula.

“Hey you are the one who wanted to experiment on it, surely you have at least an idea of what to do with it…right?”

“Hey, you are the one from the “smart” house, that's your job”

“Merula, i swear-”

“Ah relax! im just messing with you”
She steps closer to the creature, shaking her head a bit to resist the headache.
“We just hit it with everything we got until we see whatever causes the most damage, you know, the Scientific Method”

Immediately, she starts throwing spells at it.
The creature flinches, trashes, hoots, hisses and roars with each different spell it gets hit by.
One by one, each member of your team suggests and casts different spells, when they see something does nothing, they move to another spell, and so on and so on.

Yet the creature remains intact, showing no more damage than what it already had.

“I…i dont…get it” Merula says in between pants.
“We have hit this thing with literally everything we got, but nothing works. How did they manage to break one arm and rip the other one?”

“Ve tried “Diffindo” already, right?” Willow asks, she is sitting on top of some rubble behind you.

“Yeah, all of us, different angles, power and even together…nothing” You say, resting your hands on your knees.

“We also tried elemental spells, we can't burn it, ice only traps it, it can't drown and air barely bothers it” Olivia says.

“Anyone got any more ideas?” Merula asks, annoyed that she hasn't gotten any results.

“Just a couple, but I don't know if it'll work” You say after having recovered your breath.

“Go for it, im done with this thing” Says Merula as she walks back to sit next to Willow on the rubble.

You start levitating a big rock with your wand.

“A rock? Please Tedmon, what's a simple rock going to do against it? A bunch of explosions didn't do jack!”

“Have you noticed that all this time it's been trapped under a rock?”

Your team looks at the rock and rubble on top of the creature, held in place by the ice.

“...You don't really think that rocks are their weakness, right?”

“No of course not, thats ridiculous”

“Good, because I was this close to slapping you if you were” Merula says while holding the tips of her thumb and index fingers together.

“Do it and you'll have to deal vith me!”

“Girls, please!...its not rocks that are their weakness”

You proceed to slam the rock at its arm that's encased in ice.
The creature wails in pain and wriggles trying to free itself, but you keep smashing until you hear the sickening sound of something breaking loudly.

*CRACK*

The black creature thrashes harder than before, it tries to take a bite out of you, but you step away before it gets too close.

“No fucking way!” Merula says shocked. “There is no way that's all it takes!”

You then leave the rock to the side and aim your wand at the creature.

“Brachio Emendum” You cast the bone healing spell on the arm you just broke.

“Hey! What are you doing!? don't heal it!” To your surprise, Olivia screams almost indignant.

Everyone stands up and levitates rocks with their wands, ready to stop the creature from regaining its strength back.

“Stop” You command.
“It doesn't work on it”

“What?” They ask.

“It didnt heal at all…i think i know how these creatures work now”

You stand back up and head back to your group.

“We can't hurt them with magic because they are made of magic, they are not living beings but they still have a physical body!” You start explaining.
“Magic has no effect on them because they ARE magic, They are like magnets! attack them with the same thing and nothing happens, but attack them with something completely different and their physical bodies are suddenly affected!”

“Zhat…i guess zhat makes sense?” You says confused, not entirely sure if she understands.

“I refuse to believe it's that simple” Merula doubts.

“Oh I'm sure it is more nuanced than that, surely there are many things we don't know yet, but it's true, that's why it was not healed when I tried to fix its arm!”

“Or maybe it's because it has no bones? Can you see any bones on the missing arm?” Merula retorts.
“Does it even HAVE bones?”

“I didnt…see one…”

“And you want to trust this “discovery” of yours?”

“Do you have any other ideas?” You ask back.

Merula stands there, quiet, looking for something to fight back with.

Willow looks at you and nods, you see doubt in her eyes, but she still walks to your side.

“If he believes it vorks, zhen i believe him”

She holds your hand and gives it a squeeze.

“You can't be serious, there's barely any proof! we will-”

Olivia walks right past her and stands next to you.
“It seems to work so far, at least we have something”

Merula sighs and rubs her forehead.
“Oh we are so dead…fine, we'll go with your dumb theory, lets just kill this thing and be done with this”

Everyone holds a boulder, ready to smash the creature but stop before you can make your swing.
“Hang on…do you hear that?”

“Hear what? there is nothing.”

“Exactly”

You turn to look at the sky, but see that it's completely still, no spells, no fireworks, no flying attacks that missed their target.
The distant sounds of the battle that was happening far in the distance are no longer there.

“I dont like the sound of that…Quick, lets kill this and-” Merula doesn't complete her sentence when she turns to look at the creature right in front of you.

Still under all the rubble and ice, the creature lifts its head as much as it can and begins singing a long sustained hoot.
Then, more hooting sounds far in the distance, all of them sounding in unison.

“Kill it…KILL IT!” You shout.

You all swing your rocks at the creature, but the ground trembles and rumbles like you have never felt before.
Everyone has to kneel in order to avoid losing their balance and falling, you even feel yourself bouncing and lifting off of the ground several times.

“Vhats is happening?!” Willow says while crawling on the floor.

“Get away from the rocks!” You shout.

You barely finished your sentence when the ice that held the big rock in place cracks, shards of ice fly away as the giant boulder gets unstuck and rolls away from its resting place, following the gravel path until it finally stops after crashing into a house.

The hooting ends as soon as the earthquake does.

“Did the world break or something?! What was that?!” Merula is the first to talk.

“AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!” Olivia screams and points behind you.

You turn and are face to face with the creature, finally free from its rudimentary prison.
Half of its lower body is crushed, it's missing an arm and the other one is barely attached to its shoulder after you beat it with the heavy rock, nevertheless, the creature still takes a swipe at you, followed by it trying to bite your head off.

>Roll a 4D100+20(5 for each member of your team) against an opposing 1D100 roll from the creature. This is the first out of 3 rolls, each member of your team needs to beat at least 2 out of 3 in order for your team to survive.
>Results will go in order: Brandon>Willow>Merula>Olivia.

Rolled 64, 85, 5, 75 = 229 (4d100)

>>6421922
DEATH

Rolled 50, 96, 7, 34 = 187 (4d100)

>>6421922

Rolled 81, 18, 31, 63 = 193 (4d100)

>>6421922
Let's hope I can save Merula.

>>6421922

Let's hope everybody lives

Rolled 65, 44, 68, 33 + 20 = 230 (4d100 + 20)

>>6423013
(mistyped the dice)

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>6421927
>>6422061
>>6423011
>>6423014
>Brandon: 81 + 20 = 101
>Willow: 96 + 20 = 116
>Merula: 68 + 20 = 88
>Olivia: 75 + 20 = 95

Merula might be in danger but its still possible, now lets see what the creature has in store for all of them in this 1st round.

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>>6423019
Uff, looks like Merula took a beating from the black creature this time, but this is only the first round! we still got at least one more to go!
Update soon...

You rolled away just before its fangs could close on your face, you might even have lost a couple of inches of hair, but you are still in one piece.

The first rock that hit its head came from Merula, it was a solid hit, enough to daze the creature just enough to give you a chance to get away from immediate danger.
However, it seems that the creature took that as a personal challenge, so it zeroed in on her, to the point that it ignored every other stone, rock and boulder that went its way.

“Ah crap…” Merula starts running away, throwing whatever rock she can find as she heads into the streets.
The black creature limps and drags itself to chase her, it moves unexpectedly fast.
Not only that, but it quickly gains ground and attempts to chomp on her, but Willow and Olivia save her by creating a rocky wall in front of it.

They lift stone walls around the creature, boxing it in for just a moment before the creature thrashes around and knocks the walls down, only to resume its chase.

Just as you are about to start throwing boulders at it, you notice a chunk of ice, slowly melting in front of you.

“That should work”

Instead of attacking with rocks, you instead opt to use the ice spell.

“Glacius!”

It takes a couple of tries but eventually you hit the creature and it freezes in place for just a second before the ice surrounding it starts cracking.

“Walls! Now!” You order.

Willow and Olivia raise the walls again, encasing the giant block of ice in a second layer of stone.
While they hold the walls up, you run towards the boulder that rolled away and into a house and begin dragging it back to where the creature was.
You are very thankful that your magic feels more powerful in this weird place, otherwise you would struggle to even attempt to move such a large object.

“Hurry up! This thing is really trying to get out!” Olivia complains as she struggles to maintain the wall.

Soon enough, you get there with the boulder, ready to let it drop and kill the creature once and for all.

But…

Seeing the creature trapped and about to be crushed, Merula gets closer to it and starts mocking it.

“Stupid thing, you really thought you were going to be able to even touch me? Hah! I am Merula Snyde! The most powerful-”

“Merula! get away from there! I'm about to drop this thing!” You scold her.

“Dont interrupt me when im in the middle of my-”

The walls explode and the creature bursts out of the ice.
Merula doesn't even have a chance to curse at it before it grabs her in its clawed and boney hand.

“Merula! God dammit!”

“No-wait-” Merula was about to ask for help, but you hear something *CRACK* loudly.
Merula lets out a loud, guttural noise, it quickly dies in her throat as a large amount of blood rushes out of her mouth, nostrils and the corners of her eyes.

You can see her trying her hardest to scream in pain, but the crushing grip of the creature won't let her do anything but to remain completely at its mercy.

She then goes limp, her head hanging low as the creature takes her closer to its mouth.

>Roll a 4D100+15(5 for each member of your team, except Merula) against an opposing 1D100 roll from the creature. This is the 2nd out of 3 rolls, each member of your team needs to beat at least 2 out of 3 in order for your team to survive.
>Results will go in order: Brandon>Willow>Merula>Olivia.

Rolled 91, 88, 64, 1 + 15 = 259 (4d100 + 15)

>>6424042
Oh boy.

Rolled 18, 72, 31, 61 = 182 (4d100)

>>6424042

Rolled 87, 20, 39, 84 + 15 = 245 (4d100 + 15)

>>6424042

Rolled 97 (1d100)

>>6424068
>>6424109
>>6424128
>Brandon: 91 + 15 = 106 (1/3)
>Willow: 88 + 15 = 103 (1/3)
>Merula: 64 + 15 = 79 (0/3)
>Olivia: 84 + 15 = 99 (1/3)

Merula is in mortal danger, but we have come out of worst situations before, it might still be possible...fingers crossed.

Rolling for the creature...

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>>6424214
Oh man...destiny was not kind to her...
Update soon