Growling through bared fangs, the tigress and lioness circled each other.
"I'm surprised that you didn't stumble over your own four paws, Usagres," the lioness smirked. "Back when we were still magic students, you always had the worst grades from us all."
Usagres bared her fangs in anger. "And you, Miana?" she shot back. "Weren't you the one who always mixed up the various incantations?"
"Why, you..." the lioness with the red bow in her short mane grumbled. "I'll get you for this!"
With a roar, she lunged at her rival.
Usagres gasped when the heavy body of her enemy pounced upon her, pressing her down to the floor.
Miana grinned. "How do they say, I came, pounced and bit!"
And she opened her muzzle wide, showing off her sharp teeth.
But when she bit down...
"YYYOOOOOOOWWWWLLL!!!"
Miana leapt back through half of the room, trying to wipe away the multiple spines that were sticking in her soft nose.
On the marble floor, Usagres the porcupine giggled. "Looks like someone needs a shave. Oh, and by the way: It's 'I came, saw and conquered'!"
Miana turned back around to face Usagres, whose quills sticked out to all sides, making a direct assault rather difficult.
"Okay, that's it... No one turns my face into a pincushion!"
And with an additional spell, she turned herself into a bulky animal that was covered with hard scales.
The armadillo winked. "Now try to sting me!"
Usagres sweatdropped. Now what?
Miana laughed and started running. "Now you're mine!" And after gaining enough momentum, she curled up into a ball, which continued to roll towards the tiny porcupine.
"Usagres!" Lunaria shouted from under the table. "Think quickly!"
"I'm trying, I'm trying..." the blonde-quilled porcupine muttered. But the only thing that came to her mind was the fact that she was hungry.
That gave her an idea. She waited until the rolling Miana was close and quickly transformed into an anaconda, ensnaring the rolled-up armadillo in her coils.
"You know, since your shell is so sturdy... I'll just swallow you whole."
She licked her lips with her forked tongue. "Yummy!" And then, she opened her muzzle widely.
Miana uncurled, looked up at the approaching snake jaws and gulped. "Mommy..." she squeaked. She quickly transformed into something else and scurried away.
When her jaws closed in thin air, Usagres realized that something was wrong. "Now where is she?" she muttered and looked around.
That's when she heard some snipping sounds. She looked back to where the tip of her tail was... and saw an enormous crawfish with a red bow, brandishing its pinchers.
"Don't you dare!" the anaconda screamed as she realized what her foe was up to.
Miana grinned. "I always told you, it comes to the PINCH!" And then, she pinched the snake's tender tail HARDLY.
"YEEEOOOOOWWWWW!" Usagres yowled. "Unfaaaiiiir!"
She coiled up in a corner of the temple and blew at the swollen tip of her tail. "Oh, now you made me mad."
She muttered another spell, concentrated... and stood up on two legs.
Behind the pillars, Reine and her grandfather gasped in surprise at the view of the amazonian, muscular form of Usagres, wearing a metal armor that was blotched with spikes.
Usagres laughed. "All those animals are getting boring. You'll never stop me like THIS!" And she stuck out her tongue.
The crawfish on the floor seemed to think about that. Then Miana smirked. "Are you sure about that?"
And then she vanished.
Usagres looked around. "Where is she? Hello? Miana? No fair! We're not playing hide and seek!"
"Why don't you go and find me?" a giggling voice that seemed to come from everywhere asked.
Usagres looked around the temple and smiled. "I bet you're hiding within that urn, right?" She looked inside. "Oh, you aren't?"
She grew frustrated. "Miana, come out! It's no fun like that!"
"Well, if you can't see me with your eyes, why don't you try your other senses?"
"Okay..." the pig-tailed sorceress sighed and listened carefully.
"No, not your hearing!" Miana protested. "Try it with your smell."
Usagi sniffed... and gasped.
"No, Miana! That's not fair! You can't do that to me!"
Her rival giggled throughout the temple. "Got it? I turned into a nice smell... your favorite flavor!"
Reine sniffed. "Say, Grandfather... don't you think it's smelling like carrots in here?"
"Carrots..." Usagres whined, pinching her nose. "Eeeewwww! Of all things! Miana, how could you? Stop that! I can't stand that disgusting smell..."
"Do you promise to leave the Temple of Artemis alone?"
"No way!"
Miana didn't respond, but the smell of fresh carrots intensified.
"ACK!" Usagres gasped. "Okay! Okay! I'll do it, I promise!"
Miana giggled in triumph, knowing that a sorceress' word was binding.
Lunaria closed her eyes and whined. "Oh, for Hera's sake... Usagres, you are a pathetic excuse for a priestess, you know that?"
"Well, always better than a cat who doesn't know when to shut up," a voice behind her exclaimed.
Lunaria looked up... and directly into the face of the oracle, Reine.
The last thing she could say before Reine put a big bag over her was: "Oh sh..."
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