Last spark from the ashes

She gives Blaze quite a start when that weapon starts up behind her. The bolts it fires are on the slow side, but they make a nice steady boom when they explode on the rocks, splashing fire everywhere.

The scout above must be very surprised: it doesn't even manage to cry out before he's blown back against the cliffs. There's just a tumbling, burning outline: roughly human size, four-armed, a short cape fluttering to ash behind it.

"Hah! You picked that up fast!" Blaze glances at the cannon, but quickly her focus is back on scouring the cliffs. "Wonder if that'll scare her friends off." They're not attacking, anyway...