Alexus
Was it necessary? Probably not. But boy was it fun. The salty crimson rain still ran down Lexi's body, slowly congealing into a sticky mess of red goop. Lexi quickly sucked her fingers clean before the blood upon them dried up.
"I'm ready as well." Sharp said, her voice clearly disturbed.
"Right, then we should probably get going." Lexi said cheerfully.
She continued her march towards the exit, noticeably ignoring the others' concerns about the gore.
A short while later, they arrived in front of a small wooden door. It stood with no frame and had no handle on either side.
"Alright, we're here. The door will open once we defeat its guardian." Lexi explained, "As soon as I call it, we will enter into combat with a beast of overwhelming power. It is in fact so strong that I have struggled to beat it alone in past nightmares, and it becomes stronger each time I face it. This beast is so fearsome, that even a goddess such as myself was consumed by terror when she first saw it."
She raised her hand to the sky and shouted, "Doremi, come forth!"
A portal opened in the sky, it's purple-y-black expanse stretching to encompass half the sky. From its center evil, swirling dropped the horrifying beast of which Lexi spoke,
A single black field cricket.
Lexi screamed and took several steps back, shielding her face behind her hands.
Sharp
A cricket. This stupid goddess was afraid a single cricket. And even if somehow this cricket was some kind of super-cricket that could kill them with one chirp, Lexi said she was terrified when she saw it. Meaning that she would be equally scared of a perfectly average cricket. As the goddess cowered, Sharp stepped forward and launched a single fireball at the thing. He was unsurprised when the cricket chirped a single time and the fireball dissipated completely.
"Why? Why would you dream up a super-cricket?" He asked, baffled.
"It's not like I wanted to, the people who are messing with me made the door guard the scariest thing that I could imagine." Lexi answered.
"Right, so, fireballs don't work, how do we beat it?"
"I don't know, every time I beat it, it comes back with the weakness I exploited last time completely fixed."
Right. So Sharp was fighting an invincible cricket, in a crazy empty sand place, with in insane and useless goddess, and his nails were painted. He couldn't even imagine how it was going to get worse, but he knew that they would.