A/N: There will be 16 chapters instead of 15, I needed to separate this because it would be too long. Also Merry Christmas for those who celebrate it and have a happy holiday time.


Chapter 12: Villains Attack

I didn't know how long I was falling for but I knew it was over when walls appeared around me and I felt air again. And like I needed any more confirmation, I hit the ground with a painful thud rattling my vision for a second.

I got up as quick as I could and took in the surroundings around me. The air felt hot, warm and sticky like I was inside an oven. The crackle of fire roared around me as I listened in place and I knew where I was.

I was brought to the fire disaster area.

Damn it! I had to get back to the entrance, get back to where the rest of my friends and classmates were and to defeat this Auras guy who just waltzed in like he just owned the place!

The worst thing about this was he claimed that he was the one who had summoned those monsters that nearly killed Marcel and attacked my friends. He also told me that he was responsible for the monster back from home, Mr Gears.

Mr Gears made my childhood hell for 6 years and Auras had summoned him? Why? Why would he do that?! Why would he summon a creature from hell and how did he do that in the first place?! He wasn't a Demon and he didn't have any Hellforce inside him?!

I had to get answers somehow but standing around here doing nothing wouldn't help me get the answers I wanted from him.

I looked around quickly and saw an opening between the middle of two walls and through it, a small ember was running riot.I stepped through the opening and looked across the burning hallway, stepping on the charred black floor below.

'Hey Lucifer,' I asked, not knowing if he was listening to me at all. "Can you tell me what to do?"

No answer.

'Lucifer?' I tried again and again but I couldn't hear that familiar voice in my head.

Way to not come to my aid when I desperately needed it.

'Come on Kian. Think!' I thought to myself. "What should I do?"

I had to try and make my way to the main entrance. That's where my friends were and that's where my teacher and the villains were facing off. That's step 1

Step 2? Find my friends of course. I had no idea where Marcel, Harry, Jazmine or Violet were. I had no idea where Milena was either and I had to find her pronto. If bumping into her was enough for her to sprain her wrist then I had to get to her before the villains could find her.

I had to find her and keep her safe.

I ran through the burning corridor, covering my face in a poor attempt to stop me breathing in the smoke. I looked everywhere I could see, into the burning rooms, wherever my eyes could land on. Yet, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find anyone left in the burning building.

The crackle of flames roared louder and I was starting to get desperate. Was Milena here or should I leave as soon as I could? With how badly it was burning up, I was sure that the building wouldn't hold up for much longer and if I spent any longer here I was going to end up burning to and or choking to death.

"Milena!" I yelled, my voice echoing in the empty corridor. "Are you here?! Shout if you are!"

If she did yell back, the crackling flames drowned it out. I yelled again and again and I still didn't get a response from her. A burning plank fell near me, scaring me for a moment and deciding that she wasn't here, I tried to find the exit and get out of here.

Before I could, however, the wall in front of me exploded and from it came a man with jackhammers for arms. That took me by surprise because no one expects a man breaking down the walls and charging at you with jackhammers for arms.

He roared and aimed his two large hands into my chest, giving me barely enough time to reinforce my body as his arms thrust forward into my chest.

If my body wasn't reinforced, I was sure those two arms would have gone through my chest like paper mache. Instead of impaling me, however, the pain instead nearly made me throw up and I took all of my air out in one motion. I flew through the corridor and hit the back of my head against the wall leaving a painful throbbing feeling in the back of my head.

With my blurring vision, I looked up to see the man approaching me. What struck me as odd was that he was thin and frail everywhere but his arms. He smiled at me thinly as his mechanical arms started to move up and down, priming itself for another attack.

"Am I imagining things or do you have actual jackhammers for arms?" I asked, trying to squint at him. "I just hit my head."

"You're not imagining it!" he said eagerly. "Every part of me apart from my arms is weak. A simple punch to my face can knock me out, that's how weak I am but with my arms, I can deliver the strength of 100 men!"

"That's nice." I coughed trying to regain the air in my lungs. "What are you doing here then? Shouldn't you be busy helping with construction works?!"

"We would but you see, the Council put all of us out of work!" he complained, throwing his huge arms up to prove his point. "They replaced us with machines when we have helped build Locus from the moment it was established!." He looked at me with a sinister grin. "And now, by killing their precious heroes, their future. I shall strike into them the same hopelessness that they did us 6 years ago!"

"Wait. Why?" I questioned him, taking him by surprise. "You don't like them, right? The council?"

The man nodded slowly. "What is it to you? I thought you supported them?"

"Of course I'm not. Why would killing us change their opinion? They'll just hate you instead of having to listen to you?!" I shrugged.

The man seemed to think it through but shook his head. "I don't really care what happens! See, I just want to cause as much as violence as possible! Auras is the brains of the operation! Now, young hero, die!"

His arms started hammering mechanically and he moved to strike me.

What he didn't realise was that that little interruption I made gave me enough time to reinforce my body to its fullest and launch myself at him. After learning about the recoil it had on me, I reinforced parts of my body, my hands, my legs but not my whole body at once.

I primed my legs and jumped, feeling the floor crack under the pressure I left and I cut through the air, aiming my closed right hand to the villain's face. With one hit, I would have taken him out.

But to my luck, the jackhammer villain moved his head dodging my punch completely and nailed me in the chest with his right-hand sending me back where I came from. Luckily since my body was reinforced to its max, I only felt sore at the point of impact instead of having to go into a coughing fit.

"Nice try," the villain cackled. "You're a lot more durable than you look, child! That punch can turn the boulders the size of a small house into dust!"

"I've been told," I tried to get up but I knew it was a risky move. He already knew what I could do, all I had to do was jump in a straight line and he would send me back with a blow from his hammer arm again and again until he killed me.

What could I do? I needed something, something right now!

I could try to breathe fire at him that would put him off and give me time to escape but that was a 'use in an emergency' type of technique.

Ram a Heavenforce sphere into his arm? Maybe but I had to get the timing right and I don't think I could have concentrated enough to create in the moment.

However, before I could do any of those, someone took that choice out of my hands.

A fist flew from behind the villain and hit him on the back of the head with an audible crack that I winced. The villain's eyes rolled backwards, glazed over and he fell over in front of me with a resounding thud.

I looked up to see a small blonde girl holding her right hand tightly. "H-hey, Kian," she said, tears flowing in her eyes. "A-are you okay?"

"Milena?!" I said in disbelief. "What are you doing here?!"

"I landed here too," she said holding her hand close to her chest. "I tried to find you but I thought you weren't here. Then I heard fighting and I came here."

I relaxed my reinforcement and got up and gently hugged her, making sure to not to crush her. "That was really brave of you."

"T-thank you," she beamed at me.

I let go of the hug and then looked at her. "What happened to you. One moment you were all shy and now you just took out a bad guy in one punch!"

"I'm shy around people I don't trust. I trust you so I'm okay." she beamed and turned to the defeated villain on the floor. "Come on Kian, let's go before more people like him show up!"

She tried to run away but I stopped her. "No, we have to get him to safety."

"What?!" she asked me with wide eyes. "He tried to kill you!"

"I know." I agreed. "But they hate the council, just like me and I think he was manipulated by that Auras guy. We can't let someone die because he wasn't aware of what he was doing can we?" I turned to Milena.

Milena kept her left hand over her right one. "What did Auras do, Kian? He looked like he was talking to you directly?"

"It's complicated." I started. "Back on Earth, there was someone who went out of his way to make my life a misery, took the side of those who would do nothing but ridicule me and just before I turned 12, he attempted to kill me, my father and the innocent people that lived near me."

"What happened?"

"I managed to defeat him with the help of someone," I said. "But if Auras is behind this then what was his plan? I don't know why he did it but I have to get to the bottom of this."

"Let's go and find him!" Milena stated loudly.

"Yeah." I agreed.

I tried to move but my body felt sore and hurt with every move I took. I kneeled on the floor and Milena noticed it. "Are you okay Kian?"

I shook my head. "No, not really. My body gets sore if I overexert my reinforcement ability. We're going to need to drag him out here."

Milena pursed her lips and looked at her sprained hand. "If my hand was okay, I could use my sling ring."

"A what ring?" I asked

"Oh, right. Well, Kian, a sling ring allows me to open portals into where I've been before," she answered. "But I can only use it with both my arms. Well, I can use it but it hurts with a sprained hand."

"Ah." I nodded. "Wait, what is your power exactly?"

"I'm a witch. I know how to use magic," she answered my question. "I can cast spells."

"Okay." I nodded. "Do you know a spell to make me feel better?"

She took a moment to let it sink and answered. "Unfortunately no. I only know a few spells right now. But I think I can help with our knocked out villain."

She turned to look at him and brought her free non-injured arm out. She did a few gestures with it and thrust it forward, making an orange shield with a moving pattern in front of it. "By the Chains of Krakkon!"

The same pattern appeared on the ground below him and from it sprung forth yellow tendrils. They wrapped themselves around the villain and hoisted him in the air and both of them seemed to follow Milena as she waved her hand around.

"You have got to teach me that later!" I said with stars in my eyes.

She smiled but I didn't get to celebrate as the ceiling above us started to crack. From the way the floor bent and cracked, something big was about to break through and crush us. I tried to reinforce my body but it screamed out in pain.

Doing the next best thing, I ran to her and while she was surprised, I put my arms over her to protect her from the damage that was to follow. I couldn't let her get hurt, especially since she reminded me of my little sister so much.

The moment could have been stretched out for eternity, me waiting for the rubble above us to crush us flat like pancakes and I fully expected it to do so. I wasn't sure I would have survived it but I just kept waiting, and waiting…

"Kian?" Milena asked. "What are you doing?"

I opened my eyes and looked at her. She wore a confused expression on her face and I was even more confused. "I'm saving you? The ceiling was about to break and it was about to crush you!"

"Oh!" Realization dawned on her face. "Kian, look up!"

Deciding to follow her, I looked up to see that there was something about to crush us but instead of doing so, there was a bridge of ice protecting us. "Where did the ice come from?! This is a fire hazard area!"

"Guys...move!"

I looked to where that voice came from to see Leo with his hands stretched out in front of him and placed on the floor, creating a path of ice from him to just above us. "Get out of there, I can't keep you two safe for longer!"

We did as he asked and he removed his arms from the floor. With it the items that he was protecting us from came crashing down and fell through the burning floor as the ice bridge melted quickly.

"Leo?" I asked him. "What are you doing here?!"

"I..heard noises…" he panted heavily. "I...found you two...about to be crushed."

Milena hid behind my arm again. "T-thanks for s-saving us." she peeked out.

"No time to...thank me," he said. "Let's get out...here!"

"Right ahead of you!" I said as we ran with Leo.

We ran for some time, dodging burning planks and trying our very best to not die in the disaster area that we had been sent to. It was even harder when we had to drag our villain friend through it too.

I don't know how long it was but eventually, I think we made it to the entrance, at least I thought it was the entrance, I looked out the window to see that there was a floor so that was good news and it was a hallway with a large door in the front. It faced a burning reception area so this must have been a hotel instead of an apartment.

Leo ran towards the door, excitement dancing across his face but as he opened the door, he was not met with freedom as he had expected.

Instead, he was punched and crumpled to the floor by the people outside. I reacted sharply, wondering who would do that thing when I found out who did it.

Like the person I was carrying, they too were villains with their gruff and sinister appearance. They tried to barge in, nearly phishing Leo aside but with a clap of my hands and some intense concentration, I used my telekinesis to slam the doors shut. I ran up to it and made sure that the locks were in tightly.

"Come out little heroes!" I could hear them behind the thick brown doors "We have you surrounded!"

Ignoring them, I ran over to Leo. "Are you okay Leo?!"

He slowly got up, a hand placed on his stomach. "I'll be fine. I didn't expect there to be so many people behind that door!"

"I g-guess we could try to find a-another e-escape." Milena stuttered out.

Unfortunately, that option was soon removed when debris fell around the entrance, cutting off the route that we came in through. We had one way out and that was the front door which was surrounded by villains from all sides.

In concussion, we were trapped.

"What are we going to do?!" Leo exclaimed.

Milena grabbed my arm and held me tightly and I glanced down briefly to see a tear in her eyes. Even though the odds were against each other, I had to somehow get all three of us out of here plus a villian who was still unconscious.

What could I do? How could I do this?

I can reinforce my body, use telekinesis, create a blue orb with a lot of power and I could also breathe fire but that was a last resort.

Milena can use magic but I don't know how many spells she could do nor the range of what she could do.

Leo can manipulate ice but an area with so much fire was his weakness. I remembered that he was sweating when he created an ice bridge over the two of us. But if I could control the fire in this room, somehow make it cooler then I think Leo could do something.

"...You can….control...the fire….!.."

Huh?!

Was that Lucifer? Why are you talking right now?!

"...Can't...explain...you can...control...fire around you!..."

Are you saying I can control the fire around me? I don't need to breathe it?

"...Yes..do it!...to...save your friends!..."

How could I save my friends using that? Well first I would have to take out the villains using some sort of explosion and it's not like I can get-

"Leo!" I turned to him with an idea in my head. "Can you freeze the entire room?"

"I could but I need some time," Leo said over the sounds of the villains shouting. "Why?"

"Mia!" I turned to her. "Do you know a spell that can boost something? Like, make something stronger?"

She nodded. "W-what are you trying to do K-Kian?"

"Leo? Do you remember the science lesson we learned this morning? The one with the exploding kettle?" I asked him

"Yeah, what about it?" Leo questioned me.

"Let's do it right here!" I said with a wide smile.

A wide smile formed on Leo's lips too, his eyes dancing with eagerness and his hands started to steam a little. "I am so ready!"

xXx

"How much longer Kian?" Leo asked. He had his hands out and the temperature of the room was starting to drop quickly. I concentrated on stopping the flames from heating up the room because I needed to get it as cold as I could.

"K-keep g-going!" I said, trying to keep my body from shivering so fast. I looked down at Milena and noticed how she was shivering too so I pulled her in closer to keep her warm.

The plan was simple but in order to do it, we would need to push our limits to the extreme. The coldest I could go was on a snowy winter day and even then, I would need to wear a lot of winter clothes with me.

I preferred summer over winter but back to the situation at hand.

It all seemed to be going well until I noticed repeating thuds on the door in front of me. I wondered what it was, maybe there was a guy taking huge steps and he just happened to walk near us.

As funny as that would have been, I soon found out the answer. The answer I knew was coming.

"Prepare to die!" one of the villains cackled as the loud thumps increased. "This door won't keep you safe forever."

"Kian, you're going to have to do something!" Leo exclaimed. "I'm at my limit!"

"Keep going!" I said loudly. "I need you to go as cold as possible. It has to be at max power!"

"K-k-kian?!" Milena shivered. "W-w-what s-s-should I do?!"

"When I give you the signal, cast that strength boosting spell onto me okay?" I said. "Trust me, you'll know what it is. No matter what happens, I'm going to get all 3 of us out of here."

She nodded slowly and instead of holding onto my arms, she moved and hugged me from the front, putting her face into my chest and I smiled at how adorable she was. But I couldn't let it distract me from the plan

I felt the air chill and sting my face, my hands started to feel numb and my toes were beginning to get numb too. I kept my eyes locked on the door that the villains were starting to breach, waiting for the moment to strike.

I counted a lot of thuds but when the door started to tremble and one of the locks was forced open, I started my part. I concentrated on the flames and as I watched Leo kneeling in front of me, using his ice to chill the room as best as he could. Layers of ice coated the huge entrance hall while Milena held onto me tightly.

The door eventually broke open and the villains charged in setting us in their sights to try to kill us. "DIE!" they yelled.

I smirked. "Not today! Milena Now!!"

I let the flames free and I felt a surge of power inside my chest boosting said flames to levels I thought it could never go to. The entire iced room melted extremely fast and the air started to heat up and get faster. Cracks started to appear on the walls around us and in a loud shockwave, the villains were suddenly swept off their feet and into the outside faster than I could see them.

The shockwave blew everything in front of us apart, everything in front of us broke. The doors blew apart, the windows shattered and I think even part of the ceiling flew up too, all to a loud BANG that I had to shut my ears and close my eyes at the sheer force of the explosion.

I waited for what seemed like an eternity before I opened it. What I saw was that the front of the hotel was blown apart and the sunlight from the outside area had started to come in. The villains were all knocked out and what surprised me, even more, was that the ceiling was destroyed, letting the light outside fall, illuminating the three of us.

Leo looked around us, hands on his red hair. "I can't believe that worked!"

"Come on!" I said. "Let's get out of here before anything falls on us!"

"What about the villian?!" Leo pointed behind us to see him still sleeping soundly in the yellow tentacles.

"Let's leave him with his friends," I said. "I think they need some time to rest with what we did to them."

"Kian!" Milena beamed. "You're amazing!" She hugged me tightly and I couldn't help but smile at her.

I tried to pull away but I brushed up against her sprained hand and she yelped loudly. "Oh I'm sorry!" I said trying to soothe her

She nodded, wiping the tears away. "I think I broke my hand punching that villain."

"I can help," Leo replied holding a steaming hand. "I can give you ice if you need it."

Milena looked at me and I nodded. "He is one of our classmates."

"Yeah!" Leo agreed. "I won't hurt you!"

Milena turned to him and nodded. She put her arm in front of her and Leo came over to help. He gently held her bruised and delicate hand and a coating of ice surrounded it, making Milena wince lightly.

"This Ice won't help her for too long," Leo said. "It'll just numb the pain."

"If Violet was here then she could help." I agreed. "I don't know where she is and I-"

Suddenly I remembered what Lucifer had told me, what he told me in the classroom before the field trip had happened. I remember something about sensing life energy in others but I had no idea if I remembered it correctly.

'Hey Lucifer?' I asked him mentally. "How do I sense Heavenforce?"

"...Hellforce...anger...Heavenforce...control..calmness….!"

Right. Control and Calmness. I know what to look out for. How do I sense it then?

"...For Heaven's sake!...calm yourself...sense your friends life energies…"

He didn't have to get so frustrated with me. Anyway, I breathed in and out and I set about sensing the others in the stadium. I put my palms together and tried to sense it.

For a few seconds nothing happened and I thought it was hopeless, I was just standing there looking like an idiot clapping my hands together. But suddenly something happened.

I felt a warm glow to my left but it was fluctuating, as were two others. There was one warm glow but it was flashing on and off. I didn't know who was who but I knew that the three of these warm glows had to be Violet and Jazmine. I remembered them saying that they were working together

I opened my eyes and looked at the two in front of me. "Do you guys trust me?" I asked them.

"Sure we do!" Leo agreed with a wide smile. "After what you did, I think I'll follow you anywhere!"

Milena nodded slowly too. "I do Kian."

"I know where some of our friends are," I stated

"What? How?" Leo asked me with wide eyes.

"That's the part where you're going to have to trust me," I said sheepishly. "You in?"

"Well," Leo scratched his red hair. "You probably have some plan so yeah. I'm in!"


We trekked across the huge place, dodging villains and making sure that none of us were injured from them. I didn't know how long it took but it was a while. We were sweating and panting like we had run a marathon.

"How much longer?!" Leo cried out

"Just a little longer!" I replied. "They're close!"

I kept looking for that feeling, that gentle warmth I had detected before. There were 3 of them all grouped together and I knew that they had to be my friends because as far as I knew, there were no other angels and demons in my class.

I turned a corner, checking behind me to make sure that my two companions were not injured and that there was not a villain chasing us when I got closer to the Heavenforce signatures I was sensing.

What I saw was a mixed bag.

Violet was taking cover behind a rock while Jazmine, Marcel and Harry were all doing their best to defend themselves. Jazmine ran rings around the villains, Marcel threw explosions and Harry repulsor blasted anyone who got close to him.

I couldn't help but smile at how my friends were defeating every villain that tried to hurt. It was short-lived however as out of the corner of my eye, a villain tried to get to Violet, using huge padded legs to jump at her from above. Violet barely had enough time to process what was going on before the villain attempted to crush her.

Luckily for her, Leo placed his hands down on the rocky floor beneath him and created a surging path of ice which made an ice dome over Violet, causing the villain to slide off harmlessly. Before the villain could do anything, Jazmine and Marcel finished him off with their powers sending him falling to the ground.

Leo opened the ice dome and Violet's blue eyes lit up as soon as she saw me. She ran towards me and wrapped her hands around my neck, pulling me into a hug. "I'm so glad you're okay!"

She pulled back and smiled at me. "Where were you?"

I proceeded to explain what happened to all 4 of them and they let that sink in. "Violet," I turned to her and brought her attention to Milena's injury. "She ended up hurting her hand when she saved me from a villain. Can you heal her?"

Violet nodded. "Sure, can I see it?"

She looked at Milena but Milena moved behind me and grabbed the back of my costume. Violet frowned before dropping it. "It's okay. I'm not going to hurt you. I can heal people you see."

Milena looked at me with her big blue eyes. "I-is that true K-Kian?"

I nodded. "She's my friend. You can trust her."

She let go off my costume and stepped out from behind me. She let Violet hold her injured hand. "You iced the injury, that's good. It should reduce the swelling." Violet turned to Leo.

"Thanks!" Leo beamed. "But what are we going to do about all the villains?!

"It's strange," Harry started looking at the screen on his gauntlet covered arm. "I'm sure that the sensors around this place should have been triggered the moment all those villains stepped in here."

"But it's not?" Marcel asked. "Damn it! I like fighting but I can't keep doing this. I'm going to run out of steam before I defeat all of them."

"What should we do then?" Jazmine crossed her arms. "We don't know what's going on."

"Well, first we need reinforcements," I said. "I don't know where our teachers are in here and if I tried to find them, we're going to end up putting ourselves in danger, a lot more than we are now."

"So," Marcel started. ""Which one of us is going to call in the cavalry?"

I turned to Jazmine who paid no attention to me but as everyone stared at her, she recoiled our gazes. "Me?!" she asked. "What am I going to do?!"

"Jazmine, you're the fastest out all of us," I explained. "You can get help."

"We're surrounded Kin-Kian!" she protested. "How am I going to go past the entrance if there are villains going to attack us any moment we are?!"

"Milena can help." I turned to her. "She can make portals into wherever she's been to. She'll make a portal outside and from there you can get us help."

She pursed her lips, looking at me sternly with her emerald green eyes. "But what about the others? Our classmates?"

"If we defeat the main guy, I think finding the others should be okay," I said. "You ready?" I asked Jazmine. It's okay if you're scared. I am a little bit."

"I'm not scared," she said sternly. "I just haven't been through something like this."

"So you are scared?" Marcel quipped and it earned him a jab from Jazmine into his ribs.

"I'm not scared!" she said loudly. "I-I'm nervous. Everyone's counting on me and I-I-"

"Jazmine," I interrupted her. "You can do this, you're not going to let them down. I know you won't."

"How?!" her bottom lip trembled. "How can you be so sure?! It's just like-like-"

I raised my hand to stop her. "Jazmine, I've fought with you and against you. I know you can do this. I believe in you." I smiled at her. "Now go!"

I don't know if she had time to process what I said but the moment between us was cut short when another villain attempted to attack us. The villain charged at us, screaming bloody murder at a bunch of 12-year-olds which if you haven't guessed by now, meant bad news for us.

I sprang into action, reinforcing my legs and hands to stop him in his tracks but I didn't get to do anything as Jazmine moved before me. She reached inside her pocket and threw something at the approaching villain, some kind of small objects

Those small objects exploded and from it came smaller objects which sped towards the villains chest almost knocking him on his butt to my surprise with the impact. He shrugged it off and attempted to charge again but instead he was entangled in a sudden appearance of vines, trapping him like a raw turkey on Christmas day.

I looked at Jazmine and saw her concentrating, bringing her hands together. "Your welcome Kian. I just saved your life."

"Yeah, thanks!"

"What was that?" Violet looked at the struggling villain. "I thought you could only run fast?"

"I inherited my dad's powers too." Jazmine agreed. "But it's not as strong as his. I just threw little seeds. I let it grow super fast and trap him in vines. They're built to restrain so he'll be tied up for a while."

"Was that a pun?" I said with surprise.

What she said settled in and she shook her head. "Not intended. And what, I'm sure I can say jokes if I want to."

"Guys," Marcel butted in. "Focus, we're in the middle of an emergency!"

"You kids…" I turned to the struggling villain. "You'll never win against Auras!"

"You know him?" I asked the villain who fell on the floor.

He smiled at me thinly and cruelly like I was a victim of a prank. "I'm not going to tell you anything about him. I know that he'll kill Noriel and that's-"

THWACK!

Jazmine kicked him across the face and knocked him out cold. "You're not going to kill my dad, no matter how strong they are!" She shouted at him

"Kian," Harry said. "Hurry up with your plan!"

I nodded. "Right." I then turned to Milena. "Are you ready?"

She nodded slowly and plucked out something from a pocket. In her delicate fingers were two circular half cut arcs with a rectangle over them. She slipped it on her left hand and put it out in front of her, using her right hand to draw a circle in thin air.

We waited for a moment for something to happen and our questions were answered when a spark of orange light appeared and followed Milena's finger movements. A few seconds later, we were able to see through into the entrance.

"S-she made a portal!" Harry exclaimed. "Awesome!"

Milena beamed at the praise and spoke. "G-go through the portal, J-Jazmine. Get help!"

Jazmine nodded and then turned to me. "Take care of yourself okay? I don't want to see you hurt."

I nodded. Don't worry, I won't get hurt. Go!"

She looked at Marcel and through a non verbal conversation she sped through the portal and into the outside. MIlena closed the portal as soon as she finished, satisfied with what she did.

"Guys," I asked who remained. "Do you know where Rennan is?"

They shook their heads and I was left confused. Where was he? Was he okay? Wait, when I sensed Heavenforce, there was one source which was far away from my friends . Was that Rennan?!

My question was answered when I heard screams ring across the arena. A cold shiver ran up my spine, filling me with a nervous tic that caused my stomach to do somersaults inside my body.

My teacher was in danger and I had to help him!

"Leo!" I turned to him. "Protect Milena okay?!"

"What?!" he asked. "What are you going to do?!"

"What does it look like, I'm going to rescue my teacher!" I began to run towards the screams but I stopped when I felt a pair of hands on my back.

"No you're not." Marcel began.

"Why not?!" I protested. "He's my- our teacher!"

"Kian," Harry began. "You misunderstand. You're not going to do it alone."

"Really?" I raised an eyebrow. "Your telling me that-"

"Yeah!" Marcel's crimson red eyes lit up. "We're going to rescue our teacher!"

"What about me?" Violet pouted. "He's my teacher too!"

"Sorry Violet," Marcel began. "We can't risk you getting hurt. If you were fighters like the three of us, then maybe you could come along."

She pouted and I thought she was going to punch Marcel but she sighed. "I suppose that's right. Good luck, get Rennan out of there and to me okay?"

I nodded. "Yeah, we will!"

XxX

The three of us charged in to rescue our teacher, with me leading the effort. I focused on his Heavenforce, concentrating on it to be our guide.

"Kian?!" Marcel asked me. "Are we getting closer?!"

"Yeah!" I nodded. "I'm sensing his Heavenforce!"

"You can do it so soon?!"

"Yeah? Why?"

"My mum told me that it took her a few tries to do it!" Marcel replied with wide eyes. "How did you do it so soon?!"

Harry laughed. "That's Kian for you. He can do anything!"

"I had Lucifer helping me," I told Marcel. "That's how I knew what to do!"

"Even then it takes something special to sense it," Marcel replied. "Guess being your parents' child must be the reason!"

I chuckled and turned the corner to see a horrifying sight, rending me just how serious this situation was.

My teacher's face was dripped with blood, his legs were trembling and his left hand was tightly gripping his silver-coloured pistol. He kept one hand in his chest and he breathed heavily.

Auras cackled loudly. "Even the great Rebellion has his limits doesn't he?"

Rennan coughed. "My limits mean nothing when the lives of others are on the line!"

"Rennan!" I shouted. "We're here to help!"

Rennan looked at me with alarm. "What are you two doing here?!"

"We came to rescue you!" I shouted back.

"Get out of here!" Rennan shouted at me. "I have everything under control!"

"Is that why you're bleeding?" Marcel asked

Rennan grit his teeth and turned back to a smug looking Auras. "What a happy reunion. If there's something you can enjoy, you can all die together! Kill them!" he raised his left hand and for a moment nothing happened but soon thundering steps filled up our ears.

I looked to the direction in which it came from and my heart almost lept out of my mouth. The monster from earlier charged towards us, shorter than the last time I had seen it backhand my teacher like a tennis ball.

It roared and sped towards us, jumping over the ground and brought his foot down on us in an effort to crush us into the ground.

I was too scared to even move! I mean have you been under the foot of a giant monster who was going to crush you like a bug?!

But instead of being crushed and in a flash, Rennan stepped forward and using his hands, stopped the monster from crushing us. He grimaced and grit his teeth, falling onto his knee. "K-Kian. Get out of here!" he shouted

Reeling from the shock, I listened and all three of us moved from the radius of the huge foot. Rennan grimaced and with a shout, pushed the foot off him and rolled to the side, breathing heavily at the effort.

I looked back to Auras who still wore that smug face. " Even though you forced him to amputate it's own legs, it's still the same beast I command. Consider me impressed, that's no easy task.

"Auras!" I spat out. "Why did you send that monster after me?!"

Auras turned to look at me. "Hey, I was just doing what my Mum told me to, I don't even know you!"

"Lies!" I roared. "Do you have any idea what that monster did to me?!"

He shrugged. "You're getting annoying," Auras raised his left hand. "Kill him, do it now."

I heard footsteps again and I turned sharply to see the monster looking down on me with it's ruby red eyes, ones that had no trace of emotion behind it. It roared and brought his huge arm back in an effort to hit me again. I crossed my arms and reinforced my body reflexively, preparing to feel a painful impact despite my powers.

I didn't even know how he did it but Rennan got in the way again and took the blow, sending him crashing along the floor as his coat flew around him. My heart sank as I saw him skid across the floor and not get up,

"Rennan!" I shouted. "Wake up!"

No response.

"He's gone." Auras yawned. "Where's Dominion?! He should be here by now!"

"Bastard!" Marcel yelled at him and in his hands were 6 explosive orbs. "I won't let you get away with killing my teacher!"

The monster attempted to move towards us but Auras raised his left hand. "Go and help the other one. I can take care of a bunch of kids."

The monster ran off leaving thundering steps behind it. Auras chuckled darkly and the chains on his arms started to spring and move, coiling itself to strike like pit vipers towards its prey. "If your going to attack, I suggest you do it now."

I looked back and seeing Rennan lie there helpless in the ground sank my heart further and further down. Rennan had to be alive, my teacher wasn't going to die because Auras decided to gatecrash us!

I pushed my body to it's max and charged in, taking Auras and his chains by surprise. He responded by defending himself, blocking and deflecting my punches while his chains just sparked off my reinforced costume and skin

"Grrrh!" he complained. "Your skin hardening won't save you forever!"

I didn't care what he thought. I growled and kept attacking, trying to punch Auras in the face and knock him flat on his sorry arse. He didn't care about what happened when I was a kid and he just attacked the person who made that difficult time worth living through.

Auras was going to pay!

Marcel and Harry joined in with their attacks but it didn't seem to do anything to change the balance of who was winning. The situation went south when a length of Auras' chains wrapped around Harry's armoured neck and another went around Marcel's bare neck, choking them and bringing their heads together in a sickening impact as they fell lifelessly into the floor.

I had to catch my breath at the sight and all I could do was look on horrified at how my friends just crumpled to the floor like a sack of potatoes.

I don't know how long I was like that but a sharp explosion of pain in my stomach snapped me out of it. I looked down and saw a spear tip just poking into my stomach. In a hurry, I tried to move it away but I felt unable to move.

I snapped at my right arm and saw it wrapped by chains, and before I could even think of anything further to do, chains went across my left arm and across my legs too, trapping me in place. To make it worse, another chain length went across my neck, making it hard to breathe.

"You really are a trouble to deal with you know."

I glanced to see Auras approaching me with his arms stretched out. From it there was a ring across them connecting his chains to his arms at one point.

"A-Auras!" I grit my teeth. "W-why are you doing this?!"

He took a moment to respond. "Well, isn't it obvious?"

"You want to kill Noriel because you're evil!" I spat out, struggling against the chains. "That's all you are!"

Auras laughed. "Evil? You call me evil for trying to go against what the Council has done against us? Against the common folk? You really are one of them aren't you?"

"What?!" I asked trying to understand him. "You don't like them either?!"

Auras chuckled darkly. "Dislike is such a weak word. I hate them. I want vengeance for what they did 6 years ago!"

"For what?!" I spat out.

Auras's face seemed to go through a few emotions. "My parents died in that attack. I was left an orphan, for the last 6 years I grew up without my parents. I tried to ask heroes for help but one of them did. I tried becoming a hero myself but with no superhero in my family, I was spat out, laughed at for something I couldn't even control!"

"You're lying!" I replied trying to move but struggling against the restraint.

"You think I would be lying about my pain?!" Auras shouted at me. "Do you know who's to blame for my pain?! The Council who does nothing but cherry pick those with money and fame over the ones with skill. All they care about is themselves and how much power they have! That's all they have!"

"I know!" I interrupted him. "My parents were superheroes but after the Great Disaster, the council forced them out! Let me go!" I tried to run at him but I was held back by the chains.

Auras smiled thinly. "Don't think of breaking those chains. They're the toughest material you could get. A kid like you has no chance of breaking it!"

"If you hate them, then why are you attacking us?!" I asked him. "We've done nothing to you!"

"Heroes abandoned me when I needed help. When I was walking the streets as a child, helpless and starving, no hero chose to help me!" Auras replied. "No one helped me until a woman took me in, she was the one who looked after me and the one who gave me those chains!"

"So what?!" I said angrily. "Just because they didn't help you, doesn't mean all heroes are bad!"

Auras growled and I felt the chain across my neck tighten. "I hate all heroes and the council that supports them. I'll tear it down. I'll kill Noriel and kill the Council too. They won't have anyone to hide behind after they're number one is down won't they?!"

While I struggled Auras put his arms down slightly. "I know what that monster did. He made you a target, right? Never gave you a chance of proving your innocence despite the evidence. I know what it's like. Why don't you join me, you and I both hate the council."

"Join you?!" I said with a sarcastic laugh. "I don't care what you think about heroes but I'm going to be one of them. Just like my parents. You hurt my friends, hurt my teacher and put all of us in danger just because of your grudge! I'll never join you!"

Auras sighed. "After I'm done with Noriel, I'll kill everyone here, Your teacher, all your so called friends, everyone here. I'll tear down this society, brick by brick. Until there's nothing left!"

As Auras finished that sentence, I j-just snapped. It was like a switch was just flicked inside me.

My class was in danger, two of my friends were knocked out in front of me and my teacher was lying on the floor, covered in his blood. All because of Auras and his belief that all heroes are bad.

I wasn't able to stop them from getting hurt!

He wanted to destroy what my parents had built for over a thousand years. My parents and their friends put everything to make a world where they could teach people to protect others. They suffered so much to make something good .

I wasn't going to let Auras tear it down like a house of cards!

I felt that same spark of emotion when that demon threatened the people around me back on Earth, the same one that cackled loudly when he slaughtered innocents.

Auras was just like him

And you could have bet that I wasn't going to let him!

I growled, putting all my energy into trying to break out the chains. I gathered all my rage, all that anger against Auras, all the anger I felt in my life into one moment. All the jeers, all the laughs that I faced in Primary school, I let it flow all through me, charging up every cell of my body.

Auras stepped back a little. "What are you doing? I told you those chains are unbreakable!"

"I...DON'T CARE!" I roared. "I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU HURT ANYONE ELSE!"

I pushed my reinforcement to it's max and I coiled up to run, setting up Auras in my sight. I clenched my fist and I grit my teeth. I kept on pushing my Hellforce powers to the max. I heard a sizzling noise and thin traces of smoke around me and I saw the chains turn red hot, then white before they melted into goo.

"I-impossible!" Auras eyes widened and he stepped back. "H-How?!"

I ran towards him, snapped the chains holding me with ease. I felt the ground give way but I didn't care. I roared as loud as I could because there was one thought in my head. 'Beat Auras!"

I punched him in the face and I felt something crack underneath it. I kept punching, kicking and beating up Auras like he was a rag doll. Auras stepped back and tried to pull the chain that was lodged inside my stomach but I grabbed it instead, using it to pull him in.

Auras grabbed the chain to stop me but it didn't go as planned. He flailed his arms as I caught his neck clotheslined him into the ground with a crater around him to go with the impact.

My arms trembled, my lungs felt like they could ignite any moment and it was enough to distract me from Auras's next attack. He jumped back up and roundhouse kicked me in the chest but it failed when he didn't move me back at all.

His eyes widened and he attempted to raise his left arm to call on the monster but I stopped him before he could, pushing it down despite how hard he struggled. I growled and punched him in the stomach as he spat out a small amount of blood. As he was dazed, I grabbed his head and hit him with my knee a few times all to a chorus of crunches and while he was left bloody and dazed, I sidekick him away from me and he stood there with blood pouring down his face.

"H-how?!" Auras coughed up blood. "H-how can you do this?! You were barely able to fight me before?!"

I ignored what he said but what remained of Aura's chains sprang into action and speared itself into a large rock near him. It was about the size of a small boulder and Auras tightened his grip on it. He spun around, attempting to throw that large rock towards me.

"Try and survive this!" he shouted, throwing that boulder in my direction.

I was lost in my anger that I didn't think of what to do. So I did the most obvious and I...just punched it. The moment I did, the boulder shattered into tiny pieces and behind it, Auras looked shocked beyond belief.

He tried to turn and run but I thrust my arm out and grabbed him telekinetically, bringing him closer to me as I brought my arm back. He looked at me with plain fear. His eyes were wide, his blood poured down to the ground and he struggled as I levitated him in thin air.

I growled at him. "Try and survive this!"

I dropped him on the floor hard and before he could think of running away, I took a large breath of air and ignited it inside my lungs, turning it into an inferno of scarlet red fire as I blew it out of my mouth, point-blank at him.

I didn't know how long I kept going but I made sure that he was in the thick of it. If he had lived through summer, it would be cold compared to the fire I breathed at him.

I stopped after I ran out of breath and started taking gulps of air to replace the oxygen I just used in that attack.

Auras was now smouldering. His skin, hair and clothes burned to a crisp as he lay there motionless. The ground behind him was black with the power of the flames and I stepped back seeing Auras on the floor.

The rage inside me evaporated as I scanned the area. Despite my blurry vision, I glanced at my friends and when I saw them breathing, it filled me with huge relief. I looked at my teacher and a wave of relief washed over me when I saw him move slightly, his fingers curling upwards

I defeated Auras!

All that was left was to find that other guy and it would be over.

At least, that's what I thought would happen.

I heard a shocked gasp from behind me. I turned around and to my surprise it was Marrow. He was scared out of his mind, given that his knees trembled uncontrollably.

Deciding that he must have been scared I went to help him but he stepped back. "What's wrong?" I asked him

"You!" he pointed at me. "Y-you!"

"What about me?" I raised an eyebrow. "Are you hurt?"

"S-Stay away from me!" he shouted. "I know what you are!"

"What?"

"You're a Vorakian! You're the child of the Devil!"