>Purification beam it.
>If that feels like it's going to set the snake off, conjure our own shield afterward.
>You unleash your Violet light along side Lily's leaves, but brace yourself to try and raise a protective shield, should this attack have negative consequences. Your attack strikes your target a fraction of a second before Lily's, but the snake does not detonate under the impact of your light. Nor, however, does it dissapear, not even slow. The metallic serpent seems completely unaffected by your attack.
>Lily's target, however, is another matter. The rotating circle of light blue leaves shrinks slightly as it flies towards its target, hitting the thing head on. That snake explodes in a brilliant flash of flame, but the shockwave that hits you an instant later is nowhere near as strong as it should be, just enough to disrupt your hair. This blast has the secondary effect of knocking the second snake, your target, off course.
>You don't have enough time to invoke your Sapphire Lotus barrier in the fraction of a second following this blast, so you raise one of the more basic blue shields before you just as the snake hits the lockers to your right, less than two feet in front of you, and explodes.
>This explosion is much larger than the one from Lily's target, but your shield absorbs a great deal of energy from the blast, as well as the flames of the explosion, though you still find yourself forced backwards nearly a foot by the force of the blast, the strain of maintaining your shield severe.
>Lily, however, a little closer to the blast than you, and lacking her own form of protective shield, is not so lucky. She screams in pain as she is hurled backwards by the blast, and she rolls and bounces down the aisle behind you, coming to rest a full five feet plus behind you, flat on her back.
