Chapter 7: Battle Just Started
Three small fights were occurring on a seemingly endless river. Peter spent most of his time trying to dodge Alex's long tail and earth attacks. He wanted to use his fire dragon slayer magic at some point.
While running to his target, he shouted, "Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" he spread his arms which were each engulfed by a stream of fire and swung them once. The spread of fire from his arms attacked towards Alex with great power and force. The huge lizard used an earth shield to block it but the fire broke it and made him fall back. Dragon slayer magic enhances one's power but is not the magic that defeats demons. So even if they do eventually kill them, it's not from that magic but from their own strength and willpower.
Jacob was fighting Trevor at the moment. Trevor was still new to firebending but showed a great amount of skill of using it for the first time. Jacob was average in airbending compared to the other airbending Guardians. Trevor was being more on the offensive side so Jacob had to counter-attack each of his blasts. He had to attack at some time.
Kylie and Sozin stared at each other preparing to fight. Their rafts were very close to each other that they almost touched. The river speed was not going so fast as before but Sozin sped up his raft to touch Kylie's raft. At the sound of 'thud' of them bumping together, Sozin used sonic speed to attack Kylie. However, she knew he would do that and used instant transmission to teleport out of the way. She did so for three times, each time punching him. The half lobster demon became more angry and frustrated. He jumped high in the air and spread his arms which released multiple glowing purple bombs at Kylie on the raft. They exploded at the same time which destroyed the raft and threw Kylie backwards. She was in serious pain from them and sunk into the water. The other two Guardians saw her go down.
"Kylie!" Jacob shouted.
"Princess!" Peter yelled. He tried to save her but Alex was in his way. He swung his tail at him and Peter quickly dodged it. But Alex was not letting him go through.
There were some pipes near the high ceiling that Sozin could jump across to get near Kylie and still be on top. He saw Kylie in the clear water and continued to throw the exploding orbs at her. Kylie was bruised again from the previous shots and got hit again this time in the water. She almost choked in the water from keeping her scream in. Though Sozin showed no sign of emotions, he was having fun on the inside. Peter saw it happening and shouted, "No! Kylie!"
No one expected to Kylie to still get up from the painful attacks. Her head popped out of the surface as her body floated. "I won't give in… I won't!" she shouted. Peter was relieved to see her still fine. But he saw in her hands the two Hearts. While screaming to activate them, she held the two crystals out at Sozin's direction so that they were levitating by themselves in front of her right hand.
From relieved to complete worrisome, Peter warned Kylie immediately, "Princess! Don't do it! You don't have much energy to use both!" He used Fire Dragon Roar to knock Alex out of the way. He landed in the water while Peter flew rapidly towards Kylie. Jacob also managed to get Trevor off the raft and fly next to Peter.
Jacob also knew what Peter was thinking, so he also said, "Your body can't withstand that much power!" Kylie was able to use both Hearts before when she used the Heart's Power convergence spell while the 12 others did the Star Formation. But Kylie had all of her energy then and got help from Jen when she activated that spell.
Ignoring what they said, Kylie continued the attack, "Heart's Power!" The two crystals glowed brightly and even made the water near her flow slowly and low so that she was just standing on the ground with the water up to her knees. Usually the Heart's Power required the other four teammates. But Kylie learned how to use the spell by herself since she is a Guardiankeeper with all the elemental powers. A purple beam shot out of the two Hearts to Sozin who tried to counter-attack it with quintessence and dark magic. Kylie was shocked to see Sozin able to hold on for so long against the power of two crystals. However, Sozin could not stand for much longer, nor could the Princess.
Since water was all around Kylie, she decided to add another attack, "Water Star Power!" She remembered Peter using it for his fight with a demon but instead saying fire. She thought the water around her would increase her strength since her specialty is water.
The new attack brought a light blue glow to the beam. Where the two attacks were colliding, there was another explosion. It threw Sozin off the pipes and into the water. Kylie blocked it and saw the same aura of power that Peter said he saw before. The spell definitely took all of her energy to even move. Before she fainted, with the last bit of energy she had left, she jumped and caught the aura of magic. The power was in her but did not heal her so she fell back in the water unconsciously. The water around her went back to normal by rising up. Peter and Jacob were still far away from her to save her though. Peter was getting especially worried and thought she was going to drown if he did not save her in time.
As they continued to fly to her, they saw the water being raised up where Kylie's body fell. They stopped where they were and saw the wave lowered down revealing someone with Kylie in his arms. Jacob recognized him first and exclaimed, "Packard!" The water near Packard and Kylie circled around them and lowered again.
Packard looked down at Kylie who coughed the water out of her lungs. He had a disappointing face and said, "Idiot."
Kylie did not mind what he called her but cared that she was rescued. She opened her eyes and whispered, "Packard? Thank you."
Peter was so glad to see someone rescue him though he would rather have it be him. "Princess!"
"I'll say this one more time. You're an idiot," Packard repeated.
Kylie sighed, "You don't have to rub it in."
Sozin popped out of water and saw them. He quickly electrocuted the water but Packard flew up while carrying Kylie. Since Kylie still did not have the strength to fly, he told her to grab onto his neck so he could attack with one hand with the other supporting her. Packard used waterbending to make multiple waves to slow Sozin who was trying to come closer. He did not have the energy to move in sonic speed but he still could counter-attack if Packard tried to freeze the water.
Meanwhile, Peter and Jacob saw their enemies ambush them and take them to either sides of the walls. They broke through the walls and far away from the stream.
"No! Peter! Jacob!" Kylie shouted. She had her head turned around since her body was facing the other way. Packard was continuing to slow Sozin down.
"Kylie, all I can do is slow him down. Freezing the water won't help either. But you can defeat him with your Water Dragon Slayer Magic. I saw you obtain that power and you will be more powerful than me in waterbending. That magic might have some secret into defeating him. So I will lend you my energy to defeat him."
"Are you sure?"
"It's the only way to finally end this."
"Alright," she said. Packard flew up to the pipes and sat her down. He also sat down and held out his hands. She grabbed them and they both concentrated. In a few seconds, Kylie felt a surge of water magic going through her body. Packard felt much weaker but still had enough energy to still be transformed. It was enough energy for Kylie though.
"Go finish him off," Packard said smiling.
Kylie nodded and flew down. Sozin was catching up since the waves stopped. The Princess knew she had to use the river as an advantage. She held a lot of air in and released a cyclone of water while saying, "Water Dragon Roar!" Sozin tried to electrocute it to her but he was too late, and it hit him directly and made him dizzy.
The Water Dragon Slayer remembered when Peter did his dragon slayer attacks. She tried to mimic them as best as she can. She put her right hand in the water to prepare another move, "Water Dragon…" she made a move as if she was punching someone in front of her, "Iron Fist!" With the right pressure and force, water can be as painful as a boulder hitting someone. Sozin was almost knocked out by that attack.
Kylie was thinking back at what Peter could also do. If Peter could "eat" fire, can Kylie "drink" tons of water as energy? It was worth a shot. She made a sucking face as the water particles from the river were being sucked in to where she just stood. The water near her was being lowered rapidly. When she thought it was enough, she opened her eyes and made her final move. "Dragon Slayer Secret Art!" A blue magic circle appeared on the surface of the water. Her arms were a bit raised to waist level with palms facing up. "Sirenix: Water Nebula!" From the magic circle, five huge water streams that had sparkling ends crashed against Sozin. The half-lobster man was finally defeated and gone. His body returned to the Nightmarium which notified Isabelle that he was killed.
Kylie flew back up to Packard who complimented him, "I knew you could defeat him."
"Thanks, let's get out of here." Packard got his strength back to fly so the two flew to one of the holes that the other battles made. It led to a wide open space that led to multiple hallways in the main floor. Kylie was still wounded and Packard did not get all his energy back, therefore they decided to rest on the ground since they were no chairs around.
In a couple of minutes, Peter and Jacob found them. Peter hugged Kylie tightly as if he was never letting her go.
"Uhh, honey. You're hugging a bit too tight."
Peter awkwardly laughed, "Oh sorry. I'll heal you up."
"What happened to Alex and Trevor?" asked Packard.
Jacob replied, "We got them off our tails for now. They're way too strong."
"So you ran away?"
"Don't worry about that. Did you defeat Sozin?"
While Peter was healing him, Kylie replied, "Yeah I did and thanks to Packard for lending me the energy. I'm now a Water Dragon Slayer!"
Peter thought about that for a moment, "Water and fire. Just like yin and yang! Opposites do attract."
Kylie rolled her eyes. "Hopefully we can find the others soon and that they're okay."
Still keeping mind to kill the Princess, Alex slithered towards the group trying to ambush them. He tried to be as stealthy as possible and waited for the right time. When he was close enough, he swung his tail around that would hit them all against the wall. But a strong gust of wind blasted him away. The four felt the strong wind as it passed them and saw Alex crash against the wall. On the other side of the room was Nick, the strongest airbender from Jen's first team.
"Nick," Kylie said to herself.
"No! That's-s-s impos-s-s-ible! How did manage to unite?" Alex said.
Nick walked towards the other Guardians, not realizing that a fire cyclone coming behind him.
"The Guardians are so stupid. Too easy. I bet it won't even be fun," Mae mumbled. Packard saw the fire coming closer so he got up and summoned water from his hands to extinguish the cyclone.
Kylie saw him running towards the fire, "Packard!"
Mae was stunned from seeing her bright red fire gone. Packard continued his water jet attack but he felt something different in his water. It got much colder because the end of his water jet slowly became ice. They did not see another girl in front of Mae who froze it.
"Freeze," she said.
Packard was an icebender too but he couldn't control the ice that was coming closer to him. He got worried but Will, the firebender, showed up next to Packard. His blue fire melted the ice before it hit them.
Mae was impressed, "He's able to melt Sydney's ice?"
"Will," the Princess smiled. Jacob was also glad to see his buddy.
"I don't think so," Will said. Packard thanked him. When Will saw the girl after the ice melted, he somehow felt like he met her before. The girl smiled to him mysteriously. Will was still confused as to why he remembered her face. "Sydney?" he whispered.
To break the moment, Trevor jumped down out of nowhere and breathed out a huge wave of fire in front of Will. He did not have time to block the fire with his own so he turned around to avoid it hitting his front side. But he felt the earth shake a little and saw a dirt wall in front of him blocking the fire blast. The best earthbender Guardian had arrived.
"Sam!" Kylie and Packard exclaimed. With the excess fire still spreading, Peter sucked in it in since he had fire dragon lungs to eat them and used as energy.
"My flames are being sucked up?"
"Thanks for the flames," Peter teased.
"We'll take care of them," said Nick.
"You get your rest," Sam told Kylie. She nodded and smiled.
One side stood Peter, Jacob, Nick, Packard, Will, Sam. Kylie stayed on the ground letting them fight this time. It reminded her knights protecting the princess. The other side included Alex, Trevor, Mae, and Sydney.
"Looks like we got a lineup of some tough demons," Peter claimed as he looked at all of them. Will and Sydney were staring at each other, giving him an even weirder feeling. Peter punched his fists together that became engulfed in flames once they hit.
"I'm fired up!" Peter exclaimed, quoting a famous saying from Natsu from Fairy Tail. The battles had just started.
