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Chapter 25

Thinking Fast

A fist shot straight through the wood of the door, splintering it in all directions. Jaden gasped a little and then began to run away, hearing the door break down completely as she did. Now she was in real trouble - Haou was after her, and there was no barrier between them.

As Jaden ran, a naked bird - formerly the Supreme King's companion, now unfit to be so - began to run alongside her. Atticus was riding on its back.

"So what's the plan?" the blue and white dragon asked.

"Um …" Jaden stalled.

"You don't have a plan!?" Atticus exclaimed in horror.

If Jaden didn't know what to do, then what hope did they have against the Supreme King? Particularly against the now bloodthirsty Supreme King!

"Hey, I'm making this up as I …" Jaden started, and then she stopped and looked out the window, "…go."

She had a sudden idea. There was a tower nearby, filled with fireworks that had been used for the display. A powerful firework could be used as a weapon, if she could only lure the Supreme King to a convenient place. She couldn't get to those explosives, it was true - but she had someone who could.

"Atticus" she said.

"Way ahead of you, sister" the dragon grinned. "Come on, Syrus!"

Jaden grinned at her guardian and companion as Atticus grabbed his 'lucky cricket' and jumped onto a flying decoration - in the shape of as bat, as it turned out - and started steering it towards the tower with fireworks.

Jaden watched them for a minute, and then she saw Haou come around the corner. She started to run.

The girl applied the techniques she had learned during training as she ran - she threw herself around pillars and when he cut them down, she leapt onto another and began to climb it.

Haou cut it almost straight through, and it fell through the wall. With a cry, Jaden was thrown with the pillar out into the night, still hanging onto it. Jaden pulled herself up onto it properly, but she had nowhere to run now.

So she didn't run. She jumped.

She jumped up and caught onto the roof's edge and began to pull herself up. There was no way Haou - in his armour - would be able to follow her this way.

From that position, Jaden saw Atticus reaching the tower.

In the tower, Atticus landed with the decoration still on his back. He decided to put on a strange accent.

"Citizens, I need firepower" he stated.

The two men who were in charge of the fireworks display turned around and gasped at what they saw - what appeared to be a dragon with bat wings (they thought Atticus really had the wings that were the decoration) and a small cricket with its wings spread, trying to look fierce.

"Who are you?" one man asked.

Atticus pulled an evil face.

"Your worst nightmare" he hissed.

The crowds below did not see Atticus, but they did see the two men who had been in the tower falling from it and onto a lower platform below.

Atticus set to work, finding the biggest firework he could find, hoping he was going to be in time for Jaden's plan. He didn't have to ask what the plan was: he knew.

Jaden, meanwhile, had hoisted herself onto the roof. The roof had a beam in the middle and then slanted tiles on each side. She was walking backwards slowly along its beam, trying to find the right angle.

Below her, the crowd was watching, entranced.

"On the roof!" one called.

"Look!" another shouted.

Jaden ignored her surroundings and kept trying to work it all out in her head - but that was all interrupted as she heard the roof behind her being torn apart.

The Supreme King burst out through the roof - she didn't even want to know how he'd managed it - and pointed his sword at her.

She gasped a little and began backing away slowly.

Haou's breathing was heavier than usual, indicating that he was both angry and exhausted - but that wasn't going to stop him from killing her.

Jaden had no weapon with her, all she had was her fan. She drew out her fan and opened it, holding the semicircle of fabric and wood in one hand as she watched Haou approaching her slowly.

Haou looked at her fan in amusement - not that it showed on his expressionless face.

"It looks like you're out of ideas" Haou said, and he thrust the sword towards her.

Jaden would have grinned if she didn't have to think fast.

Jaden moved her fan so that his sword stabbed straight through it. Then she closed the fan, and twirled it around, effectively pulling the sword out of Haou's grip. She grabbed the sword's handle, the fan slipping off and falling away.

Jaden pointed the sword at Haou.

"Not quite" she said, and she glanced behind him. "Ready, Atticus?"

Haou glanced behind him to see a small dragon lifting off decorative bat wings to reveal an enormous rocket-shaped firework, strapped to his body.

"I am ready, baby!" he called. He held up a match and blew a small flame on to it, and then passed it behind him to a cricket. "Lightning!" he grinned.

Haou growled and went to hit Jaden, put the girl pinned the sword to the ground and kicked him in the face, knocking him off balance. While he wasn't balanced, she slid down and tripped him right up - knocking him onto his back.

She then pulled the sword up and stabbed it down through his armour and into the roof, giving it a firm hold - keeping Haou in place. He could not move.

Syrus had got the match, meanwhile, from Atticus. He lit the firework's fuse, and the fuse was short. The rocket took off at a fast speed, Atticus and Syrus only just managing to get it off them.

Haou gasped and tried to move out of its path, but the sword was preventing him from moving.

Jaden slid down the roof a little so she was out of the rocket's path.

The rocket slammed forward, straight into Haou! It lifted him away from the sword and off the roof entirely, and taking him with it on its path.

Jaden jumped up and began running across the beam of the roof, pausing only to grab Atticus.

"Get off the roof, get off the roof, get off the roof" she said hurriedly to herself.

The rocket, still crying Haou, propelled him straight into the tower that was full of more fireworks, causing a massive explosion of multicoloured lights - a bright display that looked attractive while it killed the Supreme King in the explosions.

Jaden grabbed onto a lamp that was connected to a wire, jumping off the roof - having to let go of Atticus in the process.

Jaden soared down the wire, letting go once she got over the stairs, and she fell down onto them - straight onto Jesse Andersen, who was running down.

The two of them tumbled over and ending up lying there, looking at each other in awe and amazement.

The Supreme King's sword - having been blown off the roof - landed next to them.

That wasn't the only thing that landed down next to them.

A blue and white dragon, laughing hysterically, bounced along beside them.

"Ahahahahahaha!" he laughed in hysteria, pointing up at the tower where Haou had just been killed.

He still had a huge grin on his face when an aqua coloured cricket flew towards him, and Atticus caught Syrus in one hand. Syrus looked dazed and disoriented. One of the cricket's antennae had a small flame on it.

Atticus grinned at the cricket, still alive after all that.

"You, are a lucky bug" he smirked, licking his thumb and forefinger and pressing them to the flame, putting it out. Syrus smiled in relief.

And all around them people cheered and fireworks went off in the new, true celebration of the defeat of the Supreme King.

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