"Though - we need to focus right now."

"Can you smell anyone else like me nearby?"

Hmmmmmm... Daniella unwinds from Zero a bit to have more length to wave her head around with.

"Oh, yes! In the clouds, over there!"

"That's our target. Eliese will try to remove the Flower from her. We'll kill her if that doesn't work."

"Okay! I can take you to her."

"She'll attack us on the way, so be ready."

Nod nod nod.

Is Eliese ready? 

She is.

"Five, stay here."

"...Fine."

"Then let's go." She swings herself onto Daniella's back. 

Up up and away. As it were.

Whee flying!! She's going to take Zero to find the tasty sister!!!

The sky here is really cold - there's a ton of wind, enough to interfere with even Daniella's flying, and ice is trying its best to form on her wings and Zero's body. The wind in fact seems to be on the borderline of a snow tornado, centered around the tasty sister - 

But they can break through, even if it sucks.

Soon enough, they burst out past the eye of the storm, to a deceptively placid - and relatively clear - area. It's the first time they've been able to see more than a few dozen feet away since they flew into these clouds.

And on an airship - really a blimp - stand two women. One is extremely obviously Four - she has a certain presence. Her clothes are downright modest, unlike her sisters - and oddly modern, too. She wears a double-buttoned vest, a skirt that falls almost to her knees over thigh-high boots, a large jacket around her shoulders... 

"Sister," she calls, somehow perfectly audible over the screaming wind and the great distance. "This is your first and only warning: surrender."

Right, she has line of sight, so is this another unskippable cutscene or can she just murmur out the curse and have done?

"Fuck you, I don't stop - " Zero snarls - 

And, yeah, it's another unskippable cutscene - Four snarls back, "This ends here!" And she shrieks the last word, an ear-splitting scream that disrupts Eliese's building curse - that builds and builds and starts to waver, all-encompassing - a warbling call that twists, becomes electronic and discordant - 

And then the music starts in a sudden rush of drums and electric guitars. It's different from Five's - heavier, louder, faster, and more focused on Eliese, pounding in her bones - 

And the woman standing beside her steps forward, spreading her arms. 

In a thundering voice, that rings even over the music: "Behold the Fourth Song: Impenetrable Shield of Antiquity! The vigilant power granted to our own, the radiant transfiguration into glory! Cast your blighted sins into the crevace of the sacred and forbidden mountain, that binds oaths and splits beneath the feet of the unrighteous! The holy and the accursed have descended upon thy heights! I, Septa, summon thee in my name - "

"ARMAROS, UPHOLD!"

The world swirls with a violent green light, heavy and echoing off the walls of cloud around them - burning into their eyes as the music burns into their bones - 

And from a great, swirling ring of light beneath Four's feet - 

- A mountain emerges.

Its sides are the dark grey of a raging night storm, its lines glowing with a sickly green light - it wraps protectively around Four and Septa - fires light upon its side, tremendous cannons aimed at whoever may threaten it - 

And squares of light surround its opponents, as the space between them and it simply ceases to be quite so large. The squares form a path, a narrow band of normalcy in a world gone mad - and all three find themselves being drawn down that path, drawn in to Four's demon. 

Ugh. Here we go again.

Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

They're going to have to fight hard to dodge the cannonfire - the projectiles are a burning green fire, strong enough to discomfort even Zero and Eliese - as well as the wyvern-fire that begins to pour in, as numerous wyverns break forth from the clouds around them, joining Armaros's attack - 

"How," Zero growls, before nudging Daniella into a barrel roll to dodge - "The fuck is she fucking doing this - "

Armaros drags them close enough that they get a good look at the first of its whirling eyes - the void within its pupil -