"What are you people doing? Hide hide hide!"

Moments after Serenade's command, Zephy darted into the cave hissing quietly, eyes frantic as she took in the scene. She had left the cave after the dragon was revelaed to be a baby cloud dragon to scout, and was she ever glad she did. Most of the hummons were still standing around, while glasses man was perched on a rapidly melting icicle. And why was it so freaking cold and wet in here?

"Oh good son of broccoli we don't have time for this moves your butts already!" 

She screeched silently as the voices grew closer and closer, all but leaping up and kicking Inadi off of his icy perch and throwing him behind a rock.

"Viccy, Avi, hurry up and help me get them hidden before they all get killed!"

"I did not know it was possible to fail on so many levels," Victoria grumbled to herself as she dried her hair. The humans made the dragon cry and let me tell you that snow-rain combination was never good inside a cave. She was content to simply stand by while the humans made fools of themselves, but the sudden advent of two voices changed that plan. In a flash the two soldiers ran over to haul some luggage.

"Just what the frigging oyster do you think you're doing?" The red-haired nobody snapped as she grabbed Hakuren by the collar, flipped him over then slung him over her shoulder like he was nothing but a sack of flour. The ice mage promptly found himself deposited behind the same boulder where Avian hid Lesley and Harper.

Hakuren, Lesley, Harper and Leon were with Victoria. Ace, Leila, Riley, Inadi and Jasper were with Avian and Zephy. The humans were once again divided in two thanks to their respective hiding spots.

The footsteps got louder and two silhouettes appeared, their figures in stark contrast to the light emanating from the cave entrance. As the brightness faded the details of the two mysterious voices became clearer, and perhaps those who saw them would rather that they did not see strangers instead.

They were a pair of old women, or at least that was what their slouched backs and slow gait portend to, and were almost indistinguishable from each other save by their differences in weight. Both wore long, beaten slabs of leather and black feathers hung from their clothes. Beads that look suspiciously close like bones adorned their arms and hands, and black lines snaked up their bodies. Their faces were a stark white, their eyes like deep black pools against the pallor. The image brought up one word, and one word only: Witches

The thinner of the pair spoke up, voice rasping like sandpaper against stone as she peered through the gloom of the cave.

"Perhaps you were right after all," she cackled. "I can smell the dragon from here. It's a weak one, this little lizard. Easy pickings- maybe we ought to listen to you a little more."

From behind her hiding spot with Leila, Riley, Inadi and Jasper, Zephy glared out at the backs of the two hags before ducking back and glaring with just as much conviction to the four humans behind her. 

"Don't move. And not a word." Her words were barely audible, trembling voice betraying her nervousness and fear. "They know we're here- they just don't care enough to make the effort to kill us all- and if they decide you're annoying them, you're dead." The tiny girl curled u

"Speech boy, shut it for a few. I don't need you speaking for now. In fact, none of you talk," Victoria held up a finger in front of Hakuren's mouth in case he decided to go off on another session. She did not look condescending, but had rather the interesting mix of irritation and disbelief on her face. On the opposite end of the spectrum Avian was radiating his own form of tension; everyone in his group could hear the gears in the nobody's brain turning as he scowled at the witches. "This just took a turn for the worse. Stay still, everyone. Those ... creatures could kill you with a snap of their fingers," His voice was nothing but a low rumble.