Hey guys! Hope you are all well and getting into the swing of the season! (Oh, might do a Christmas fic in this universe- an idealised one of course. Thoughts? I have a few ideas. ) The next chapter should wrap this one up. Hope you guys are still reading and still enjoying it!
Freya could feel her control slipping as she caught up with Shu. Her eyes locked onto him, and the only coherent thought running through her head, was to kill. With a jaguar-like roar, she leapt into the air and locked her arms around his waist. When they hit the ground, she had him flipped over and pinned down before he could even register he had been tackled. His look of defiance was wiped away when he saw the guardian holding him down, and replaced with anger. Freya had changed, her pupils had turned to slits and the whites of her eyes were pitch black. In her snarling mouth were two sets of extended canines. Fighting as hard as he could in her grip he could feel claws sinking into his wrists.
As Gunter came around, he saw the team trying to think of a solution. Getting slowly to his feet, he took one last look before taking off into a run; but he had caught Elizabeth's eye. Her teeth gritted, she made to chase him, but the shelf above her groaned in response. With a growl of frustration, she threw her hand forward and roared, "NO!"
Gunter suddenly felt as if there were ropes binding his feet together. With a startled yelp, he slammed face first into the warehouse floor.
Elizabeth looked to her hand in shock, a rope of water had burst from her palm, and lassoed Gunter. Swallowing her shock with a breathy nervous chuckle, "That's new." She gripped the seemingly solid formation and yanked him back as if he was no more than a Chihuahua on the end of a leash. Flexing her palm, the rope left her and proceeded to wrap around his torso, pinning him tightly to the floor. With a slight grin she growled, "Stay."
Turning back, she turned her attention to Claudia. After a moment, her voice took on a strong commanding tone, "Right, Artie, get the neutraliser spray. Myka get a static bag and Helena, I need you to separate the two parts of the Minoan trident. If this goes wrong the last thing we want is an earth quake."
Artie frowned, "What are you doing?"
Taking the, now spear-like, trident and the static bag, Elizabeth replied vaguely, "Just be ready to spray that if this doesn't work." Opening the static bag, she skewered one side with the trident. Adjusting her grip, she glanced briefly to the team, "Did you ever play hook-the-duck at a fun-fair?"
Pete nodded, "Yeah, I remember those."
Nodding, she began to extend her arm, "Same concept."
"Were you ever any good?"
Helena held Myka's hand, "She won every time."
Trying to push the snarling fire guardian off of him, Shu yelled, "What the hell are you doing?!"
Between her fangs she growled, "You first; why did you betray us?!"
"It is not a betrayal when one's allegiances do not change."
Digging her nails in deeper she made her palms begin to burn, "What are you talking about?"
Gritting his teeth against the pain, Shu spat, "You murdered my master, I'm merely taking his place."
Stepping back, Freya's eyes blinked back to white and the fangs disappeared, "Perun? This is about Perun?!"
Getting to his feet, the air guardian glared hatefully at her, "I chose my side a long time ago. I would never allow myself to be governed by you!"
"Got it!" Elizabeth released a half-manic laugh, as the beads dropped into the static bag. Pulling the shaft of the trident back, she turned her head to face the group. "What are you waiting for? Get her out!"
As the unconscious young woman was pulled from beneath the shelf, Elizabeth gently lowered the shelf; resting the top of it on it's neighbour. Crouching beside the young woman, she checked her pulse, "She's alive; just unconscious. Get her to a hospital, it doesn't look like she had been under the influence of any artefacts."
Artie looked at the young woman and growled, "How do you know that?!"
Calmly, Elizabeth looked up at the aging man, "Arthur, everything on that shelf was incendiary. Had she been affected; she would have been set on fire."
"Traitor!"
As Freya leapt at him, Shu batted her aside with a wall of air, "You always did have a fiery temper. I suppose that is to be expected with your element." Clicking his fingers he increased the pressure around her wrists; tying her hands, "Now we wouldn't want you fighting back. Imagine the damage a guardian battle would do, in the middle of the Warehouse, with no one left to control the fallout. Now stop struggling." A look of victory washed over his features, "Or you and I could end the world."
His eyes widened a moment and his smile faded. A cry escaped his lips as cracks like glass, with brilliant light between, branched out over his face. Freya felt her bindings disappear, jumping to her feet she saw Elizabeth standing behind Shu, her hand gripped the back of his neck. "Not if I end you first."
Running over, Freya grabbed Elizabeth's shoulders, a feeling of pure pain surged up her arms. With a roar, she fell back; now understanding why Shu was frozen- he was paralysed by pain.
The younger guardian's ace twisted into a strained grimace. She could feel the same as him, the agony ripped the strength out of every cell in her body. Gritting her teeth to a point where she thought they might break, she released a howl of pain.
Cradling her arm, Freya got to her feet and cried, "Elizabeth! Stop, you can't control it! It'll kill you, STOP!"
Fear bled into her brilliant green eyes, "I can't!"
Well! I'm going to just leave you guys right there!