Disclaimer: Does not own WITCH, does own Skyshade.
AN: "SPOKEN" (TELEAPATHY)[Place
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Well I have finished LIAHC and Three Kisses. Giving me more
time to write this instead and 'Who is Wreak 55' Either this or that
are done I shouldn't be starting anything else except for my
friendship one shots I write to keep my muse happy.
The group now have a fighting chance and already have managed to defeat the bad guy who had Taranee power. All of them are getting ready to join the main fight out side and hopefully help the Lasen soldiers win once and for all over their shadow enemies. Though everyone seem to have forgotten him the guy who nearly died and Farris isn't going to stand by and not help out. Title is a pun on the saying crash and burn. The one thing I do love about this chapter is it shows the different in the level in power between the guardians and their astral drops.
Clash and Learn
No matter how hard he tried he wasn't going to make it. Taking the smaller road and avoiding the shadows when ever he could just did seemed to be working. He just wasn't going to make it. The other would end up leaving without him. Jumping out on another shadow a dagger in each hand flicked out and back again slashing across the shadow twice. It didn't help that he was in pain, way too much pain for the normal man to be walking around and still fighting. It must have to be the atmosphere, with such a server wound in his leg he would be in hospital on earth. Their just had to be something in the air that keep him going.
The thought process was completely in correct. The was a actual reason for him to be able to ignore the pain he was in and carry on fighting. Even if no one would figure it out for year. It was the mixture of Lasen alcohol which in no way was like that of earthen alcohol as it was made out of a combination of tradition alcohol and certain natural forming drugs that had no effect on the Lasen people except tasting nice.
The strange combination in a human body though had a completely different effect rather then being as if it was normal alcohol it was like certain illegal drugs without the side effect like being completely out of it high. Of course Farris knew none of this only, that Lasen booze equaled good for a fight. Slashing down another shadow, Farris quickly moved into a back allay. His make shift leg bandaged seemed to be coming loose and he needed to tighten it. Quickly sitting down and doing so, he wish for a moment he had another bottle of the cleaning spirit he had taken from the museum so he could disinfect it again, and maybe have another drink to.
He felt like giving in though his body may have been able to go on, but was it worth the effort he was split from his group and in truth didn't know exactly where he was going except for a certain direction. He wouldn't know when he got their and wouldn't be much help if he did. Not bothering to get up Steven pulled out a box of cigarette in a similar manner his friend Hawthorne would have and lit it up and just sat around out of sight having a quiet smoke, his two dagger close enough by to be use if he was attacked.
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The girls, Skyshade, Hawthorne, Eric and Srislis made their way to the main entrance to the bank. They didn't move quickly as if everything was on the line, they were all experience enough in one way or another to know being reckless was a bad idea. Except maybe Eric who was new to being in the line of fire during events. Getting near the main doors none of them could see anything. Moving along the wall using it a cover from line of sight, Hawthorne risked looking outside the bank. What he saw did not fill him with confidence.
Outside was a huge group of shadows but that was not what he was worried about. In front were two people who caught his attention. Both of them were male, late teens by Hawthorne opinion and defiantly human and not any of the winged natives. It wasn't much for him to figure out that the two people waiting for them were two more of the people with the guardians powers. "What out there?" Cornelia asked moving up next to him.
"Two guys and a lot of shadows." Hawthorne said back to Cornelia. Glancing again, Hawthorne realized that neither of them was the Steven the flying one who they had come across twice so far. "I don't recognize either of them." Hawthorne said. "Didn't you guys get attacked before we met up, take a look we might be able to figure out who who before going out there." Taranee said. Pao Chai quickly move up making sure not to move into view she poked her head out, gasping when she saw who one of the guys were.
Quickly moving completely out of view again, Pao Chai had one of her on her mouth to stop her self from suddenly shouting out in anger. Calming herself down she turned to everyone. "It's Omar from our school, he has Cornelia powers, he's the guy who attacked us." Pao Chai explained making sure not to be too loud. "What that barst..." Sarah tried to say being cut of by glares, from both Cornelia and Angelina. "So what do we do." Eric asked shield held to his chest as if it would have help more there.
"Do you think all of us can take on two people with all of your powers?" Srislis asked Will unsure of how this was going to turn out for them. "I don't know, maybe but those shadow things will probably get in the way and I don't know how long we could fight them and both of the power thieves." Will admitted. While the astral drops not including Kate had all their powers at this point, each of there powers had flaws.
Sarah's powers of shape shifting were limited and her gravity powers lack a certain level of finesse that may bee require against powerful opponents. Even with her improving Irma's powers there was a limit to which the pair could reach.
Tara's main flaw was her inability to do damage to other without shattering herself. Her blast of heat where not very powerful and her reality warping powers to so much out of her that she doubt she could use them any time soon without rest. Leaving Taranee to use her now weakened flames which would be lacking.
Angelina was better off then the other each of her powers were easy to use and good to her. Being able to withstand more then average and screams that could disorientate people where great, but her power of super strength required close combat to really be useful and she didn't she herself getting close up to her enemies today. The combination of rock bending and rock tossing that she and Cornelia had used before was still pretty good.
Pao Chai probably had the power that varied between useful and not the most. While being powerful her illusion could take down these mindless shadows who only perceived thing they could see with ease. The two other though who had powers of their own would probably already know what her power were, and as soon as they saw her seem to do anything would ignoring knowing it couldn't effect them.
With 8 girls with powers that when used together were useful 1 girl with a magical ring of darkness, 1 man with a magical ring of light. A military minded man with a magical cross bow a lizard man and then a guy and girl with magical shield. A impressive force, but could it take down 2 guys with all the powers from probably one of the strongest sources of magic in existence and a army of shadows. It was time to clash and learn.
They all agreed they couldn't just stand here and wait, they had to attack and try and defeat the enemy, they had already taken down one of these guys what was 2 more then that. They decided on a more detailed plan of attack before doing just that.
Sarah was the first to do anything. Changing into a large eagle she flew outside behind her Irma jumped out side and used all her power to shoot water out forward at Sarah. The jet of water seemed to accelerate and change direction and quickly it became clear it was following Sarah who was using her power of gravity. Flying at Omar, Sarah quickly pulled up into the sky but the water continued to move at speed towards Omar.
Omar reacted with not to much effort, gesturing with a fist upward the ground burst open and a large vine appeared in front of the water causing it to split into different directions. Spinning his arm over his head the vine continued to grow and then lashed out at the eagle Sarah knocking her out of the sky and of into a wall. The other of the male then acted, with flowing hand movements the water that had been knocked his direction by the vine seemed to float for a second and then with more force then before he sent it back at Irma with more force then before, the amount of water growing in size and sending Irma flying backward back into the bank and into the main desk that wasn't far inside.
Seeing how badly thing had gone the other tried to step up their plan in speed, and both Tara and Taranee stepped out into the open, Hay Lin and Pao Chi steeping out behind them. Both Tara's sent out blast of heat and flame as best they could manage out towards Omar and the other man. Controlling the large vine like before Omar caused the it to move in the way of the blast as the came causing the vine to slowly wither. Seeing a opportunity though Omar sent the vine lashing down at the bank and Tara and Taranee. It was not intending to hit them but as a distraction as he caused a collection of small hands size rocks to break out of the ground and then throw them with his power.
Hay Lin and Pao Chai were there as defense at this point while Pao Chi used her powers of illusion to knock the vine aside with fake fire making it burn away. Hay Lin used the limited control over air to slow the stone making it fall short of its target. Tara and Taranee started blasting again and Omar and the water magic user to start ducking and diving to stay safe. Things seemed to be going well as Angelina ran out into to open and tried to charge Omar. The two man laughed as the women came out. With a slammed hand to the ground from Omar the ground shook causing everyone to try and stay on their feet. With two whip like jets off water the water user took opportunity of the earthquake to knock Angelina aside and the Taranee and Tara back into Hay Lin and Pao Chi.
Skyshade could see how bad things were going, it didn't make sense they overall had way more fire power then these two guys, but it just seemed that because they had stronger powers they still had the advantage. Eric reached out and pulled Hay Lin out of view while Hawthorne pulled back Tara and Pao Chai. No one else could reach Taranee or Angelina though and jumping out Srislis tried to reach her. It had been a bad plan on his half, as soon as Srislis appeared Omar caused the ground to split under Taranee causing her to fall downward and then Srislis to fall in the hole after her, which quickly closed around them trapping them underground.
"This is enough!" Skyshade shouted jumping out and taking to flight and flying straight at the pair, raising his hand and charging a blast to fire at them when he was at point blank. "NOW STEVEN." The water user shouted, and out of nowhere Steven the air magic user appear mid flight near Skyshade tackling him out of the air and back into one of the bank's outside walls. "This is impossible everyone run for it." Hawthorne shouted popping out and firing off a few bow shots towards Omar, who used a rock wall to block them. "This is too easy." A voice beside Hawthorne suddenly said turning to his side all he saw was a hand on his shoulder, before pain and a black crackling energy surged through his body causing him to black out.
Cornelia was between a mix of panic and anger, how had not a single one of them remembered the guardians powers of invisibility. They should have realized that there could have been more of their enemy around but driven by desire to help the world of Lasen they had acted rashly. "RUN." Will screamed grabbing Cornelia and pulling her away hoping her shield would protect them both. Eric pulled Hay Lin to her feet and did the same. Pretty quickly though thing seemed bad. While everyone had tried to get away, only Will, Eric, Hay Lin and Cornelia had gotten away. With the help of the shadow the destroyers rounded up the others before freeing Alex who was inside.
Will was seriously out of her mind at this point, she couldn't get over that she had just abandoned most of her friends but finally understood why in the end they normally beat the bad guys. Their powers the guardians power were extremely powerful. She also realized that while their astral drops had powers they didn't come anywhere close to them in raw power.
