(Early Authors Note: And now... after all this time... I HAVE RETURNED! That's right, folks! After so much time has passed, I'm back and with a new chapter!
To Alliedjais: Thank you! I truly appreciate the support!
To Blaszczu2500: Thank you so much! A new chapter has at last come. Thanks for the patience!
Now enjoy!)
Wasting no time, Tempest shot forth a bolt of scatter-lightning (as he calls it). The ensuing explosion scattered the group arrayed against him, while shooting out little arcs of lightning in all directions. Some actually found their mark.
Simply laughing at their wild dodging antics, Tempest lets loose his pets on them and (conveniently pulling out some brownies, his favorite dessert) sits back and watches.
"This person's so lazy." Kasumi said as she was trying to hold off a Tribeak.
Rinon, after giving a punch to a Cloud Gobbler, yelled "Hey, you coward! Quit sending your little minions and fight back yourself! You too chicken to even try?" but she was soon swarmed by some Cloud Neeks and couldn't get a chance to face the wizard. Tempest just sat back and watched as they all fought. This was very fun to watch! As he finished his 5th brownie, he saw an explosion from the corner of his eye and turned to see that emotionless girl with the red getup fighting off a Storm Cloud Tribeak, two Cloud Callers, and an Arbite. She was strong and seemed to be fighting viscously with that boy in the purple getup behind her on her broom.
A broom… these are some old school magic users, for sure.
Seeing as how these witches were holding their own, Tempest called back his pets and raised his hands to the sky as dark clouds swirled around him.
"Hey… what's he doing?!" Honoka yelled as the heavy drops of rain slammed into her harder than before. Soon, they saw arcs of thunder and lightning shooting down into Tempest, but instead of becoming a charred husk, he seemed to grow more powerful. His eyes alighted with electricity, he seemed to grow in both size and strength while being engulfed in dark clouds, the pets around him also looked to grow stronger. When all was done, he looked like a storm giant made of clouds and lighting. With the necessary strength gathered, Tempest lowered his hands and pointed at the group of witches.
From his fingertips shot forth a swirling Ion Cannon with an Aqua Spear shooting straight and true inside of the swirling storm power. "LOOK OUT!" Honoka yelled before being pushed out of the way by Ayaka. The great blast of raw elemental power knocked back everyone and leveled nearly the entire block!
Unsure of what to do, the witches were on the back foot. All they could do was distract the giant long enough for help to arrive. Sure enough, it did. A whole crew of witches were coming to their aid and attacked the pets while the others fought once again against the giant. As Ayaka tried to burn its feet and make it tumble down, Kasumi jumped onto her (now massive) bear familiar and started boxing with the storm giant. Natsume, Rinon and Touko were fighting it as best they could, hoping to find a weakness in it.
Honoka saw that no matter how many times they dissipated part of the cloud-body, it would just reform. They needed a spell that could crush the whole body in seconds. Then, he had an idea. "Ayaka, get over to Touko! I think I know how we can beat this thing!" with a nod, Ayaka sped off to Touko. Honoka then said "Touko, I need you to freeze the entire body of the giant in a block of ice. Kasumi will then shatter it with a blow from her familiar. That should be able to stop it!"
Touko smiled and nodded, while waiting for the signal. Natsume and Rinon were to attack the legs, causing it to both swat them away while also blocking Kasumi's attacks, then it would meet its end.
Sure enough, it was distracted. "NOW!" Honoka yelled. Touko camed flying in from above and with her spell readied in hand, she froze the storm giant from head to toe in one giant block of ice. Kasumi then started running before jumping up and slamming the bear familiar's fist down into the ice, shattering it to pieces.
However, as the ice fell, they noticed a body falling down as well. The storm pets saw it and scrambled to catch it. When they did and they all saw its state, they looked around in fear before spotting Touko. When Tempest got up, he looked like he just got caught with frostbite.
"GAH! S-stay back!" he yelled towards Touko. He looked around at all the witches surrounding him and was readying to fight again. He then sneezed and said (while shivering and chattering up a storm) "T-t-this issssn't over! I-I-*ACHOO!* will c-c-c-c-come back! Y-you'll sssee! And next time, you won't have that… t-that ice witch to play dirty, s-s-sneaky tricks with!"
With that (and one last sneeze), Tempest threw down a bolt of lightning to blind the witches while he and his pets made their escape.
When the light cleared and they saw the wizard had escaped, they all sighed and started covering up the battle. Ayaka had to quickly deal with those five Tower Witches from earlier though. After blasting them to the sky (again), she asked "What do we do now? That rogue wizard is still out there and now he'll be wanting revenge."
Touko just jumped around and said "But we have you, Princess! We can't lose with you by our side!"
However, Honoka thought about that wizard's state after Touko's spell. He looked… weak, frail even. "No…" he then said, getting everyone's attention. "Ayaka isn't our best bet against that wizard or his pets. Don't you all remember seeing them face her? They were evenly matched. I think our best chance… is you, Touko. After he got back up from your freezing spell, he was visibly weak and looked tired. I think that while Ayaka's fire magic is neutral to his storm magic… your ice magic is stronger."
At this, everyone turned to Touko (who was equally as confused). She looked at them, then herself, then back to them and said "Huh? Me?! You saw how strong he was! I'm just one witch! He may be weak to ice, but he had all those pets too!"
"But they too were scared of you. All you have to do is probably just flex a spell and they'll all go running!" Rinon said, upbeat more so than before. Natsume nodded and said "Indeed. Should he ever come back, though he will be more cautious, he'll have to avoid you. And since you'll be the main one to go after him, he won't ever be causing much trouble around here for long."
Honoka then clapped his hands and said "Well, with that potential crisis now averted, let's go about the rest of our day. The rain has also stopped. Heh."
Sure enough, the rain had stopped since Tempest fled the field.
Meanwhile...
Speaking of Tempest, he found an old abandoned mansion/fortress-like building out on the mountains and (of course) made that his abode while stuck in this (ever so unfair) world. I mean, an ice witch just had to be one of enemies. It couldn't be grass, or light, it just had to be one of the elements he's weak to.
Sneezing for the 40th time, he throws his empty drinking cup in frustration and says "Hmph! One ice witch won't make a difference! All I need to do is just overwhelm her with sheer numbers and power! And besides…" here he (if he noticed) started trickling a little blood from his nose.
"She may be a little… hot and 'full' in all the right places… that won't deter me either!"
Most of his pets noticed the blood and either ignored it and laughed along with him, or (and the more 'smart' ones did this) shook their heads, having a bad feeling.
(Ending Authors Note: Finally! A new chapter. For those who stayed true and waited, I thank you ever so much. I told myself to get back here sometime and sure enough, I do! Please like, follow, favorite and share with others and I'll see ya next time!)
