My head pounded as I opened my eyes. Everything was still a blur as I squinted, trying to compose myself as the flash faded away. Everything seemed to stand still as I looked around but noticed we were unaffected. Grass grew at our feet, there was nothing left of the campfire and the trees looked older. I looked towards everyone, nodding to confirm if they were alright and looked towards Jane. Whatever she did, it stopped the elementals. She just held her place, breathing heavily, the spell obviously took a lot out of her. Suddenly she grunted and began to fall to her side. As she fell, I sprinted and caught her just before she hit the ground, making me give out a sigh of relief.
"Whatever you did Jane," I smiled, "you did good." No response. "Jane? Jane!" I shouted as I placed my head on her chest and listened, only to hear a very faint beat.
"Kat! Need some help over here!" I shouted when suddenly the elementals began to move, but as I started to slightly panic, as soon as they moved, the stones turned into dust. I let go of my breath and handed Jane to Kat, but as soon as she left my arms, the ground began to shake violently and started to crack, releasing a stone giant.
"Kill it before it wakes up!" Jin shouted frantically as he realized what was happening.
"Guys, protect her, I'll take this thing!" I shouted as I kicked off the ground into a leaping charge into the giant's chest. "Ixion!" I shouted as i twisted my torso to the right and watched as red scales started to grow from the bracer to my hand, turning it into a flame dragon's claw. I clenched my hand as fire burst from it, materializing into the blazing half of the twin blade. I grasped the hilt with both hands as I slashed the giant across the chest, drawing a red line of flame. I landed feet and claw first, dragging them as I slid across the dirt and impaled the blade into the ground, "Ixion Burst!" I dragged the flame through the earth in an upward slash, spinning several times in mid-air as the dragon's flame engulfed the giant in the inferno. I released Ixion as I raised both hands above me and called for my other blade, "Shadroth!" My other arm quickly covered in blue scales as a frozen mist had formed around my hand and quickly materialized into the frozen twin of the other blade. I grasped the hilt tightly with both hands, and slashed downwards, creating an explosion of ice as the blade touched the ground, "Shadroth Fang!" I left the blade in the ground as I jumped back, and prepared myself for a final strike as I let the scales from both bracers enclose my body, giving me the armor of a dragon, "Twin Dragon Rising!" The eye-like gem in the hilt of both blades began to glow as the ground cracked beneath them as Ixion and Shadroth came from the ground where the blades were impaled. The dragons circled the giant in a tempest of flame and ice, freezing the burning the its stone surface. The giant's eyes began to glow as it started to come to life and started to feel the magic surrounding it. Without warning, the dragons each held the giant in place as it bit into its arms, immobilizing it.
"Now!" Jin shouted as Katrina rushed towards the giant head first.
"Kat?!" I shouted, shocked at the sudden change in the girl I knew. The cute, innocent and shy girl seemed to have disappeared as I watched her skid to a stop at the giant's feet while she pulled her fighter gloves tighter.
"Hell's Gate!" she shouted as she slammed her palm into the ground, engulfing her hand in pure flame-like energy, "Pulverize!" She struck the heels of the giants with each palm, cracking its stone skin and causing it to lose balance, "Flame Kaiser!" She jumped as she performed a blazing uppercut, sundering its stone exterior. As the reached a high point in the leap, she twisted her body and struck the giant with her palm, shattering it to pieces as it cracked and flames burst from its core, "Hell Crasher!"
"W-what just happened?!" I shouted dumbfounded as Katrina stood up from the cloud of dust and rubble.
"You weakened the giant whilst Kat finished it off," Jin laughed, "Stone giants are extremely resistant to magic, as yours was mostly that. Kat, on the other hand, used physical strikes and Ki to break it."
"But it's not completely dead yet," a voice echoed as greenish crystals suddenly shot from the ground to block and destroy shards of earth. As the giant's hand burst from the ground to crush Katrina, a man armored in what seemed to be green scales with an eye on his gauntlet landed on it, crushing it into pieces, "Orchid Break!" The man slammed his hand into the earth, creating green crystaline shards erupt from the stone destroying everything but us, "When an earth giant isn't destroyed properly, it will take control of the ground itself."
"Yeah," Grandark remarked, "But what you did was too much and I think you scared the girl you're carrying."
"Claire!" I shouted as I immediately recognized her in the man's arms and found myself in a state of shock as I realized the man was a member of the Grand Chase himself, Zero.
Ermahgerd! Who knew Katrina could fight?! And look! its Zero! :D
Anyway guys, as always, thanks for reading, I hope you all enjoyed ^-^
