The last couple of days had been difficult for him, especially after Euthalia's healing scent had stopped taking the edge off of his anger. He had apologized to Euthalia mainly, because she had tried to help, and he had gone with Ren and Euthalia to shop, to get some more supplies. Sleeping had been an issue, but he forced himself to sleep when he could to keep up his energy. They had lost too many Apostles for him to stop now, and right then, he forced himself to only think about the issue at hand- the thief. Finally, they had made it to the forest, tracking down the shithead, and he could tell- this would be the hardest fight of their lives.
Jeremiah could feel himself grow cold at the threat before them. Not in fear, but the fire within seemed to freeze to a colder intensity that was focused on the goal. He looked to everyone in the group and spoke, knowing that they needed a plan this time, otherwise they all might not make it. "Look, I'm sure this is where the thief is. I think that we should split up into 2 teams. One group heads for the thief. The other group defends. The portals were a good idea, so maybe an offshoot of the defense team should get some portals. Now, I think Diana should be on the portals team, as she has experience with dismantling them. From what I know about Shurik, he's good at holding down defense, so he should be on the defense team. Zayne and Ren and Lillirel are power hitters and should be on the team hitting the thief. I can go wherever, but I first wanted to lay down some defense before helping anyone. Euthalia should stay on defense with Labra and Stella, as the three of them could possibly go help the team going for the thief. Now, we could all just either go dismantle portals or attack the thief if you like, but that leaves a lot of us unguarded. If anyone has any better ideas, say them, because we have to have some sort of plan. We can use our skills to boost each others' and make them more powerful. If I forgot anyone else, they can join Diana and I in destroying portals."
Turning to face the Chaos beasts coming towards them, he breathed in, pulling Chaos towards himself. With a wave of his hands, he pulled water from every source he could in the forest, layering it on the ground in front of where the Chaos beasts were coming from. Then, he blew, his Chaos freezing the water in front of him into a sheen of black ice as far as he could make it go, in as many directions he could make it go. This was not normal ice, but the ice designed to make people slip and hurt themselves, and in this case, the Chaos Beasts would slip and hurt themselves on the ice. With a little extra effort, he iced some of the trees, making them too slippery to climb up, almost as if he had greased the trees. "Like I said, if anyone has a better grouping and planning, say it now! Hopefully I buy us a little time. "