The Dangers

Rampage Plant
Contributor: Shard
Rampage plants have their common name from settlers because of the plant's destructive properties and way of life. All complexity aside, the plant is a weed. It produces an acid like substance through it's leaves and roots, killing off all plants near it by damaging roots and any leaves touching their own leaves, and contains an anti-toxin to its self, so it won't kill off other members of it's own species. Every month the plant generates spores on the buds of the plants, and the spores are taken by the wind, where they land and starts growing after a day of two. 

Because of the toxic acid on the leaves and in the roots of this plant, all operations to just pull them from the ground have been unsuccessful. These plants are also extremely hardy, and when burned, they can regenerate themselves from their unburned, below ground roots, much like grass. When the plants begin growing their second set of leaves, the plant begins production of the acid in their roots and leaves, because it needs massive amounts of sunlight to produce the acid, which only leaves can soak up. The only effective way to kill them in fields used for crops is to cover them with a pot, or other metal bowl, that sunlight cannot reach through. If there were enough pots to cover all the plants then there would be a surefire way to destroy the plant altogether, but there's no where near the amount of metal needed to create that many. And after the plant has been under the pot for a week, it will be dead, from both lack is sun, fresh air, and water. While their roots produce the acid, they are taproots and only go about eight inches into the ground, now far enough to seek underground water.

Dragons compete with this menace by calculating when the next outbreak will be and being there during the time the spores are released. Even the weakest equipped T-Power dragon can fight because they use their telekinesis to raise the spores high off the ground, and into the air, where they are burned by the flame-breathing dragons. The spores a plant can produce are great, and so battles with this plant, while being only monthly can last up to three hours. Any spores that are missed by the dragons, in either before or after raising the spores into the air, are searched for by ground crews after battle and burned on the ground. While the adult plants are capable of regeneration after flame, the spores are not.

Ant
Contributor: Shard
The common name for the creatures is 'ant' because of the way it looks. The dog-sized creature is most definitely insect, six legs, and three distinct body parts. The worker ants are the ones who swarm the land masses in search of new foods and places to live. The large pedipalps on the front of their faces are used as 'jaws', working sideways. Because of their size they can slice small trees, and likewise sized animal limbs too stupid to move out of the way, in half. The ants attack for nearly a week twice a year, in the spring, when they're warm, and the queen is breeding, and they need a new place to stay, and in the fall, when after the abundance of breeding by the now dead queen, they need a new place to stay, and take the new queen eggs, for when the queens hatch in the middle of winter and begin developing, they will kill each other if they sense one another.

Despite their repulsive appearance, they are very stupid. The ants' minds work on two things, find food, find shelter. When attacked, they release pheromones and the platoon of ants rally together to swarm the creatures if they can.

The best way to combat these creatures in in the air, if on foot, they would surely eat their way through anything. Gryphons are the best combatants of the ants because their range is much farter than dragons, and they can therefore, be safer away, and out of reach of the ants snapping jaws. Dragons with long flame reach are welcome to join, but those with shorter belching distance had best stay away, being as it is too dangerous to be so close.

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