Naja is indeed a friend and ally… and Emi realizes that it is a sand-snake form that holds the power to heal!
Thus, the spell is cast and Naja transforms to a humanoid shape as before. Fuchsia-toned sand wraps around her body until she is completely mummified in pink ribbon. Her head is covered in a blue and gold headdress. For a moment, Emi and the wounded ones around her can only assume Naja is the same serpentine-humanoid form as before.
(Well… ‘before,’ as in that very brief moment between having legs and having a fish tail!)
But soon Naja gazes at the wounds, and she begins to dance! There’s no music, and the occasion seems odd, yet the magic somehow compels Naja with the urge. There is joy! And Naja feels this joy in its purest form! Badia and Randy are hurt, yet they live! Sir RoboJohn is just a machine, yet memories of the real John have reprogrammed him. Tom the Goat is dead, but Flo-Sam’s wing can be fixed. And Emi, though unscathed, has saved lives!
The ribbons shoot from Naja’s body to everyone, bursting as hot pink sand! As the bandages unravel, they become paler and paler, and they expose more and more of Naja’s temporary new form! Unscaled flesh… human face… the body of a beautiful, young woman!
By the time all are healed, few bandages remain—just enough to cover what lingerie would!
All are healed. And you all feel stronger somehow. Sadly, Tom’s head has separated from the chimera… but his soul has passed. It is better this way. (Sir RoboJohn will bury the head with whatever’s left of the fallen knights. His robo-body was repaired by the magic; he can handle this.)
As for the scroll, it mostly dissolves. There is no ribbon now, and only the bottom quarter remains. Naja believes this means that not everything the spell can do has happened yet. Without the colored ribbon, there is no way for Emi-na to trigger the magic, yet Naja thinks this last piece of the scroll is worth keeping.