"Here, take this," Wei-Ling said, handing the wave medallion to Nergui and the flame medallion to Shiroi. "Hold them up!"
The fire elemental gave up a scream that sounded like a volcanic eruption, and covered her eyes with her blazing arms, and the waters that made up the water elemental seemed to be whipped up into a frothy white frenzy.
Eventually, after scaling a hill, the three of them found their way sealed off on the other side by a great lake. To the left and right were distant groves of thick forest.
Hundreds of archers were sucked into the storm, which left a trail of discarded bows, shoes, helmets and panties on its raging course toward the West.
The archers screamed and began to run, but the tornado was faster and soon began to rampage through their ranks. The archers were pulled shrieking into the tornado, while the gusts ripped the red and yellow tunics from their helpless bodies, and the debris from the earth elemental pelted their naked limbs.
Then, a gargantuan, ravishingly beautiful woman seemingly made out of swirling gusts of wind appeared on the scene, buffeted in place by a thundering vortex of storm winds.
"There's nowhere to go!" Shiori cried, her voice barely audible in the din of Western triumph and destruction.
Next came a water elemental -- a beautiful, crystalline creature with hair of sea foam and great, swaying breasts of bubbly brine.
violently knocking down the front lines of the army and blowing up every skirt in the entire invasion force (for a moment, the imposing army was transformed into a great class of prissy schoolgirls, trying to smooth down their skirts over their blinding white panty-clad crotches and butts, to the great amusement of the three Easterners).
...out of which an even more fearsome creature emerged: a giant woman made entirely from fire, with hair of blazing flames and eyes of molten lava.
Suddenly, a huge black circle appeared in the air in front of her, floating about twenty feet above ground.
"It seems our friend has connections on the elemental planes," Shiori replied. "In other words, we should expect three more -- for symmetry."
A colossal woman who seemed to have been fashioned entirely out of rock and minerals erected herself to her full height -- twenty feet! -- in front of her summoner.
Her pale, voluptuous body swayed seductively from side to side as she walked, causing the ornate tattoos on her thighs and stomach to undulate disturbingly.
...when she was suddenly awakened by a powerful gust of wind. Turning around, she found herself once again staring into the immeasurably old eyes of the dragon.
"You will not be alone, child. But now, you must get your bearings together. I hear trumpets and a thousand footsteps beating in unison. The fight is near."
"And finally, this piece of calligraphy depicts an ancient long-forgotten symbol that means 'Entrapment'. If you should ever find yourself with an immortal enemy on your hands -- those can pesky even after you've vanquished them -- you can use this to transform them into a more... obedient form."
Without hesitation, Ophelia took the magnificent sword and held it up in the faint greenish light emanating from the lake.
She was a wondrous sight -- her hair like billowing seaweed and her eyes like pearls -- and she seemed somehow to be clothed in the lakewater itself.
A chorus of gasps and exclamations appeared among the soldiers. In the center of the lake, a woman-like creature had appeared.
"I have offered you my price," Mariana spoke, once again addressing the water. "What is your response?"
"Hear me, kings and queens of faerie realms!" she bellowed. "I am Mariana of the House LeFoy, ruler of the Misty Isles! I command you to help me in my hour of need, that our worlds may unite in alliance against the foreign devils of the East!"
Suddenly, the waters stirred. Strange lights began to appear, one by one, far below the surface of the lake.
"Gold that my house will be more than happy to provide," the duchess Vittoria purred. "In return for future... privileges, of course."
"Summoning is costly, and it will require a lot of gold," the sorceress said, ignoring her priestess.
"My lady, if I may," a voice said. The company turned around and saw the last shieldmaiden standing in the entrance to the tent, hiding her near-naked body behind a wooden shield.