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Inadi stared at Riley with a very annoyed stare. Did she really just use those puns in the same sentence. He let out a sigh and gave her a quick grin. “Are you proud of the sentence you just made? Cause I wouldn't be.” He joked with her as suddenly Harper began throwing himself around in fear and actually hit Leon square in the nose with his flashlight. Almost purely out of reaction, Inadi pointed his spear out to where Harper was staring and began looking around the group to see exactly what was going on. Harper wasn't one to over react or imagine things for as long as Inadi had known him. When there was reason for him to freak out, it meant something was close by.

As the guides began instructing the group as to what they should be doing in the forest, remaining in motion and refraining from marking the trees with the stones Jasper had picked up, Inadi felt a strange feeling of being watched. He couldn't see it or pinpoint where it was coming from, but there almost felt like some kind of movement going on constantly around him and the rest of the group. Perhaps he was just being paranoid, but this felt very different. Like a moth stuck in a web, just waiting for the spider to come and finish the job. The man hate feeling so helpless that there was nothing he could do but hold his weapon out in preparation for some kind of an attack.

A quick screech made Inadi jump and point his spear out again towards the sound. Apparently this time it was Ace showing that maybe that baseball cap wasn't just for show, as she seemed to nail a cat from a pretty good distance and in the dark too. Inadi relaxed himself and rested the spear on his shoulder as he walked up next to her and pretended to strain his eyes to get a better look at the cat. He tried to keep his smile off his face and while he thought he did well enough, a small smirk did show up on it. “Not a bad throw. Not center fielder material but I think you'd make a good defender at third in my opinion.” He joked with her as he gave her a quick pat on the back as he continued walking with the rest of the group.

Again, she was always being so happy and when the trident dropped in front of her he looked back and gave a bit of a nervous look at her. “And here I thought just giving you the fire spells was a dangerous suggestion. Now all of a sudden you have that thing,” He pointed to the trident with a chuckle. Holding out his own weapon, a similar build to the trident, Inadi smiled and pointed at his spear. “They aren't that easy to get a grip on. I'm still working on getting this thing to work well.” He told her as he tried catch back up with some of the others he had been walking with prior.

As Hakuren began suggesting there was a playful spirit with them, Inadi felt an even greater pain in his stomach then before. While others reacted harshly to Haku's joking manner, the frame wearing boy didn't even seem to acknowledge it. He was focused on the concept of whatever it was that seemed to be following them. Lesley began jumping out of fear as was Jasper suddenly. This thing was becoming more bold and actually coming into contact with members of the group. It was only a matter of time until something bad happened that the group would not be prepared for.

Just as he thought that, it seemed that Jasper had seen enough of the forest and began running up past the rest of the group. Without even giving it a second thought, Inadi chased after her and began catching up with the girl. She had surprising speed when she was scared, a trait that considering all she had been through had probably come in handy after a while. However something suddenly halted her progress and she was caught up in something in the forest. Inadi saw her fighting against the vines and webs that had caught her and began looking at places he could cut through to set her free. The scream she let out didn't even register in his ear as he got to work and began cutting with the new sharpened edge of his spear. He mentally praised himself for the fact that he had spent all those nights fixing the weapon, otherwise he would have had to rip the vines with his bare hands. 

Finally getting a last good cut he dropped his spear and quickly wrapped his arms around Jasper and pulled her out of the tangled mess. Yet with Jasper struggling the way she was, the thrashing forced Inadi to pull a little harder and the two ended up on the ground with her on top of him, both staring up at the sky. The boy banged his head on a root that just so happened to be shooting out from the ground as he let out a small groan. Waiting until Jasper finally relaxed and stopped squirming, he let her go and looked at her from over her shoulder. His eyes were still a little dazed from the sudden impact with the ground, but he could at least make out the white face of the healer he had helped out. “I know it's scary out here Jasper, but you have to stay calm. Next time it may not just be vines that catch you. And I may not be fast enough to follow you,” He told her as he let his arms rest on the ground and he let out a groan as he rubbed the back of his head. “I can only help so many people at once here.” He told her as he suddenly realized the whole situation the two were in.

Here she was, laying on top of him, in a dark forest and with their friends more than likely still able to see them. Quickly, but not with much force so as not to give the poor girl whiplash, Inadi picked her up from underneath her and set her on the ground next to him. He quickly shot up off the ground and picked up his spear that was laying nearby. He looked back at Jasper and tried his best to turn his head so she nor anyone else could see his blush on his face. Inadi began looking ahead on the path to see what else was there. Seemed like more vines and barriers had grown further down. Now they were getting into the thick of the forest. A place perfect for an ambush. A nervous sweat began building on the boy's brow, hoping he was wrong about what he thought was coming.