Chapter 20

"Ninetales!" I shouted as the dust continued to swirl around.

"No, Ninetales!" I heard a voice shout from a few meters away. The dust began to clear, it revealed a very shocked Sam with a motionless Ninetales at her feet. She collapsed to her knees and whispered his name again…

"Ninetales…" she clasped his head in her arms as I walked over nervously, scared by what reaction I would get. I was only about a couple of feet away when she turned to look up at me. I saw tears flowing from her saddened eyes.

"You did this…" She whispered under her breath,

"Huh?" I didn't actually catch what she said.

"You did this to him!" she screamed "And you will pay!" she said getting up and whipping the tears from her face.

"Oh…no…" I thought to myself. I quickly charged into a sprint using my quick attack as an extra boost to try and create as much distance as possible between me… and Sam.

After a little while I began to slow down noticing no one was pursuing. I decided to look behind me and what I saw gave me Goosebumps… I large purple glow was beginning to fill the air as a small silhouette of Sam remained in the middle of it. Her hair was waving in midair as her eyes emitted a bright purple light which was facing straight towards me.

I stopped when suddenly something caught my eye. I turned to my left to see a tree emitting the same purple light as Sam and realized that I might be in trouble. I shook vigorously until its roots were exposed and it was lifted far above the ground.

I watched in fear as it hovered above me, then the purple light dissipated and the tree fell.

"Crap!" I cursed as I rolled out of the way and landed in a crouched position watching the tree crash into the ground in front of me. I watched as various other objects began emitting the same purple light and began moving towards me.

"Sigh… What have I done…?" I said to myself as I carefully concentrated on the objects that were slowly making their way to my position.

"Ahh" I dodged a large rock and spun which aloud me to easily charge up some electrical energy and use it. I continued charging it as I constantly fired blast after blast at trees, rocks and other debris that were flying towards me.

Most of the time it just countered the Psy energy and the object just fell to the ground, other times it had practically no effect just pushed it a few centimetres back. Occasionally though it would have a huge effect blasting it into smithereens which gave me a slight adrenaline, boosting my energy for a short time.

Then it all stopped… No more items were flying towards me. Everything was still, there wasn't even a breeze. Suddenly though I saw something coming from Sam's position. It looked like a long poll… Actually that was exactly what it was…?

"Ahhh, this might hurt" I said to myself as I continued watching. "Well it would if I couldn't use moves" I smiled to myself. I began charging towards it with static passing from me into the ground with each step. I then charged a beam between my palms and I focused all my energy into that one beam.

I got within meters of it when I finally released it and, fortunately, it hit its target creating a huge electrical field around it, which soon collapsed and created yet another explosion creating a small dust storm around it.

I smirked at the result and waited for the dust to clear to see my desired result… Unfortunately my desired result didn't become a reality. The dust cleared and the pole still floated in midair with an eerie purple glow still surrounding it. Then I realized something.

"Crap… It's metal…" I watched as electricity danced up and down the pole, looking for an outlet… Hopefully I wasn't going to become that outlet…

I stood there in fear, waiting for a sign... Just something that will hint for me to run... attack... or just do something! Then the pole launched towards me with tremendous speed... but thankfully I was faster. I dodged just in time and the pole smashed to the ground... There was no damage to the pole that I could see except that it had, thankfully, lost all of the electricity that it used to contain.

I waited for its next strike while thinking of how I could beat something that absorbs all my attacks... Suddenly it moved to the left and then wobbled around in the air for a bit before moving back to its original position.

"Huh?" I thought to myself. It continued to move around aimlessly, hitting the floor, trees, rocks but never even got close to me. I decided to relax slightly and I looked over to where Sam was standing... But something was wrong...

I ran up to where she used to be standing but she was no where to be seen.

"Hmm... This is weird..." I looked back behind me at the pole which was still moving around strangely. Then in the corner of my eye I noticed something flying in my direction. I turned, trying to block it but it was too late. The object crashed into me sending my flying and eventually into the floor.

"Ahh!" I shouted as pain began to shoot through my body due to the collected impact with the object and the impact with the floor. I tried rolling the object off of me when I realised

"This isn't any object... Sam...?" I was very surprised to see Sam fainted on my lap... Suddenly Natascha came flying towards us with sparks flying everywhere. She looked straight at Sam and gave a short, angry growl, but then looked up at me and gave me a confused look.

"Darius... What are you doing...?" She asked innocently looking at Sam on my lap.

"Uhhh, I'm not entirely sure... She kind of flew into... Wait! Did you do this Natascha?" I said looking at her slightly shocked. She looked back with shame... She knows she should have really got involved... Although I was kind of glad she did.

I looked around to see if I could see if I could spot Elliot... but he was no where to be seen...

"Natascha...?" I said with a slightly accusing look.

"What...?" She said looking up at me sweetly, waging her tail... I think she was still quite pleased with what she had accomplished.

"Where's Elliot...?"