Myth Rage of Kanaloa

Mthandihle had heard only a little about Lalotai, but as always she was curious about everything she heard. Of course, that meant she was a little torn when she heard about the attack--on the one hand, interesting things and people were being destroyed, but on the other, it was probably an opportunity to go and see it. Though… fighting fire creatures didn’t sound like her strong point--neither arrows nor claws seemed like the best way to do that.

Still, Myth was nothing if not curious, so she started shopping around for some more arrows, thinking those at least marginally better than trying to claw things made of fire. But mostly browsing the stores was an excuse to listen for other groups planning to head to Lalotai. It took only a little bit of work to convince one such group to take her along with them.

Magic made it a swift journey, which perhaps increased the shock of arriving in a tropical town rendered ravaged ruin by the gigantic beings of fire still rampaging through the wreckage. Seeing her arrows wouldn’t make a dent in the huge things, Myth focuses more on distracting any smaller enemies.

Having made her decision, Myth hangs around the edges of the battle, looking for smaller threats that aren’t being dealt with. After looking around for a bit, avoiding the bigger and more dangerous foes, she finds a smaller fire elemental chasing after a family of four near the shore at the edge of the settlement.

She quickly shot an arrow at the elemental, not expecting it to do much damage but hoping to draw its attention. It was kind of hard to tell with a moving mass of flame whether or not it was angry, but it did start moving towards her--quickly!

Shifting to cat form Myth sprinted back towards the battle, checking every now and again to make sure the elemental was still following her. It was--and it was gaining. She started weaving between ruined structures and past other battles, but still the persistent little thing kept on her tail.

Well, she had one more trick to show.

Sprinting to the shore, the elemental hot on her tail, Myth aimed straight for the beach… and kept going, running across the water a fair distance before turning back to her true form. Her pursuer was on the shore, and she could almost swear the mass of fire was glaring at her. She responded with a couple of arrows, which surprisingly seemed to have some effect. It started to retreat too late, as her arrows somehow made it dissipate. Shrugging, she figures that’s just how elementals work, and darts back into town to repeat the trick.

Myth is able to draw another elemental to the shore much like she did the first one, destroying it with arrows while standing on the water as well. Getting a bit bored with this tactic, she fired an arrow at a larger elemental… and succeeded only in getting its attention. This time, when she led it to the water and fired on it, it didn’t seem like her arrows were doing anything to it, and it wasn’t like she had an infinite supply of them. After several shots that appeared to do roughly nothing, she stopped firing on it and waited for it to get bored and leave. Except it just stood there, waiting.

She tried walking along the waves to the west and the east, but it followed her. Finally she noticed some fighting along the shore a ways away and ran towards the fight. A group of more experienced (or at least better equipped) adventurers was tangling with some other elementals of various sizes… so what would one more be? Besides, she could shoot a couple arrows at the smaller ones and add a bit of confusion.

Myth did just that, leading the bigger fire elemental into the fray and then sniping at the smaller ones. She didn’t really think this other group needed the help, but… she’d made trouble for them, it was only right she helped them back. Sure enough, they dispatched the elementals without too much trouble. Myth gave them a cheery wave (hoping they didn’t realize she’d used them) and got back to picking on smaller elementals.

It was going to be a looooooong fight… she hoped she’d brought enough arrows.