Chapter 13
The Tower of Terra
The boats were flying to Paul's relief and Steena was enjoying the view. Diss and Christy were happily enjoying certain other things. Kid and Serge were standing by the bows of their boats looking at the floating tower before them. Paul walked up behind Kid and spoke softly.
"I got the worse feeling about this place. I can't shake the feeling either." Kid nodded in agreement. She knew more than they thought about the place they were heading for. As they landed on the tower Paul was the first to jump out. He surveyed the area and came to the conclusion the fun filled part of his speech was going to be hard to find. Paul helped Steena out of the boat and she to had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. Diss jumped out of the boat and helped Christy out. After a moment of waiting everyone was looking at the massive structure. Starky was designated to watch the boats.
"Hold up mate's, I got some things I need to say," Kid said stepping in front of the group.
"What?" Glenn asked confused.
"Let me explain this from the start, Far in the future all time crashes causing all dimensions to at once co exist. Chronopolis seeing what happens transports itself back in time to avoid being destroyed," Kid said slowly.
"Makes sense save itself then find a way to prevent it," Patrick said crossing his arms.
"Right, but the earth sent its own city back into the past. In a parallel dimension Dinopolis is sent back to the past in order to stop Chronopolis," Kid went on.
"You mean that the earth wanted the time crash to happen?" Shaun asked in disbelief.
"Apparently, now here's where it gets ugly. Chronopolis sealed the power of the Dragon Gods as soon as it found out what happened. FATE was the only thing keeping the Dragon Gods from forming the Devourer of Time. Once that was done Dinopolis was activated and the Frozen Flame was returned there," Kid said slowly.
"Great." Paul said. They walked forward into the building noticing the strange patterns. They walked down the hall when Christy fainted unexpectedly. Steena was the first to her aid as she helped Christy up.
"Diss, I really don't like this place." Christy said in a frightened tone. Paul scouted ahead and came back.
"My guess is Christy fainting has something to do with that yellow ball ahead of us." Paul said pointing behind him.
"Christy, I want you stay out of the first fight." Diss said sternly. Steena offered to wait with Christy. The group went forward and walked up to the ball surprised to see themselves sucked into it.
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A yellow manakin stepped forward and in a booming voice pronounced, "You humans have polluted my soils. Your blood shall cleanse it."
The fight erupted immediately with Paul getting knocked out. Diss was about to summon his staff when he was whacked to the side. Shaun tried to grab his mace but was squashed. Serge was first to get off a hit as he slashed upwards with his Mastermune. The creature kicked Glenn away and Fargo failed to find anything of interest.
"Feel my fury." The thing said quietly. It created a huge orb in front of it using what was determined to be seen as the hands of the creature. The ball flew from its fingertips hitting Shaun causing him to fly nearly out of the ball.
"DISS, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING?" Paul yelled loudly. Diss tried to get up but was smacked to the side again.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Diss yelled hitting the wall dislocating his shoulder. Glenn went to help Diss but was picked up and used as a weapon against Fargo. Fargo and Glenn were knocked out easily. Serge tried to use one of his spells but was still unable to get off one move. Paul unlatched his Halberd and dove at the creature slicing into its chest.
"You will pay for your crimes." The creature said softly getting louder. Diss focused his anger and released all his energy at the creature before falling to one knee. Paul got up and took the opportunity to take the creature down in its weakened state. He slashed as hard as he could not letting loose when the creature surrendered by vanishing.
"Holy shit." Glenn said getting up. Fargo was barley able to get up, let alone grab a cigar. Diss fell unconscious from the pain.
"I HATE THIS PLACE!" Paul said loudly. He hurled a bolt of energy from his hand to the outside world. "I HATE THIS PLACE!" Paul yelled again repeating the process until Steena calmed him down. Christy ran to Diss holding him close to her.
"If this is the first fight in here, I'd hate to think what's coming up." Christy said with tear filled eyes.
Diss slowly came around clutching his head, "I feel like-"
"You've been dragged to hell and back," Christy and Kid finished in unison. Diss slowly got up drawing out his staff so he was ready next time. He moved his shoulder around carefully then rammed it into the wall relocating it. He grunted in pain as he felt his shoulder pop back into place. "I hate when that happens," he muttered moving onward.
They slowly made their way through the place until they saw a red blob appear in front of them. Christy whimpered in pain clutching her head. Steena again pulled Christy back as Diss felt anger rise up in him. Looking at the blob he spoke clearly,
"Lets take this thing down quickly," He said stepping into the blob fearlessly. The others followed him before they were done Christy stood and rushed in not wanting to be left out this time. As she entered the pain cleared and she looked around. In front of them was a centaur like creature.
"My flames shall burn your bones to ashes purifying your sins from this world," It boomed out as if pronouncing a verdict.
Diss growled as he stepped forward not willing to back down anymore. As the creature swiped at him he struck hard with his staff blocking the blow. Paul fired electricity down on it barely causing any noticeable damage. Shaun grabbed his mace and started whacking at it when it cast something making the air immensely hotter. Christy looked around to see that the ground was super heated.
"Diss, attack it now.physical not elemental!" Christy shouted. Diss nodded striking the creature hard nearly slicing it in two before Fargo smiled.
"Adios matey," with that he powered up and fired a glacier at the creature causing it to buckle and eventually drop vanishing from sight. As they exited Christy hugged Diss, which he returned before looking around. Ahead of them was a green blob.
"Any guesses as to when this idiocy will end?" Diss muttered sarcastically. Everyone shrugged but they trudged onward until they entered the green ball. Inside was a creature similar to the Yellow one. It was green and stood tall like a manikin, but was obviously alive as it moved about.
"You have hunted the creatures, and destroyed my forests. Your blood shall invigorate the once dead fields," It said sadistically.
Glenn looked at Serge who nodded. Together they dashed slashing right through the creature. Diss flexed as he nodded to Kid, causing the huge machine to drop between them. Both kicked their respective triggers as Diss again pumped flame into the machine causing it to discharge the intense beam nearly destroying the creature outright.
The creature reared its head then threw out something unusual; everything around them turned momentarily green, and then just as quick as it came it left. Then the creature shimmered and disappeared.
"Is it dead?" Diss asked as Glenn shook his head.
"It's just begun to fight," He said as slowly a small sprite came forward. Tension filled the air as the sprite slowly came then charged up its only attack. Very quickly a blast of dust covered the party as hacking fits went on, Diss felt a burning pain in his blood. He fell to his knees as Serge passed out little green tablets.
"It's the antidote, take it now before you succumb," He said softly. Diss nodded downing the tablet with the others before standing looking at the creature as it returned. It limped as it came forward and Diss got an idea.
"Christy hold it down," Diss said as he charged his fire shield. Christy nodded smiling as Diss projected it over the creature. He slowly condensed it more and more as the creature slowly burned to death. When it vanished Diss released the shield, and they returned to the tower. As Diss came back he reached into his pockets.
"What are you doing Diss?" Christy asked. Kid repeated the question as Diss slipped on a pair of fingerless gloves. "You still have those?" Christy asked incredulously.
Diss nodded, "Same pair I wore in the mountain, kept them as a good luck charm considering I made it through alright."
Christy cut him off, "You call nearly being cremated alright?" Paul and Shaun nodded as the other members of the party looked at them Paul explained softly,
"Those gloves are his version of pumping up, until now he has been holding back. Even when he trashed Lynx in Fort Dragonia that wasn't his true potential." Kid's eyes widened.
"You scare me Mate," She said slowly. Everyone but Paul and Shaun nodded in agreement as Diss finished putting on the gloves grabbing the staff.
"The only way I let myself go, sorta like training. Most people don't let go until the gloves come off, I don't let go until the gloves come on," Diss shrugged saying matter of factly.
"Well now that your serious about this maybe we will get the job done," Christy said jokingly. Diss smiled over at her before looking around.
"How do we go on, its like we're through with this area, but where do we go from here?" Paul asked.
Diss looked around when Steena pointed at the area the blob once stood, "Look at the Symbol.it looks like the one in Fort Dragonia."
"Paul you play with this teleporter and I will kill you," Diss said stepping on the symbol. Sure enough Diss disappeared shortly afterwards. As the others went up Diss was standing there throwing fire ahead of him. The fire was heading towards an open door, however it would stop just short of going through.
"It's heavily shielded. The only way to get through here is to take down the shield. Any suggestions?" Diss asked after stopping.
Christy looked following the beams of light, "Go where the beams go?"
Kid nodded, "Makes tha most sense mate."
"We should split up from here. Me, Shaun and Steena will go left, Diss, Kid and Christy go right. Glenn and Fargo and Serge will stay here." They all nodded as they went separate ways.
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Paul found another teleporter and began to play with it before Shaun managed to knock some sense in him. Steena mumbled how she wondered what made Paul so appealing to her. There thoughts were silenced when a voice was heard crystal clear.
"The eternal night for you humans has come, face it with the honor you lacked in life," It taunted.
"Holy SHIT!" Paul yelled taking a blow for Steena. Shaun managed to throw rocks at the large thing until it was buried.
"Is it dead?" Steena asked. Paul shook his head.
"To my luck, no." And as soon as Paul finished his comment the monster ripped through the rubble and began to attack again. Paul was picked up and slammed down by his throat.
"I wonder how the other group is doing." Shaun yelled to Steena as they attacked heavily.
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"Man, these winds are strong." Christy said nearly getting blown off the Terra Tower. Diss had to use his staff as a weight grabbing Kid and Christy when needed. After they arrived to the teleporter they nodded going straight into battle.
"When you are gone we shall purge this world of your mark returning it to the beauty it once had," It said before it lashed out.
"Diss look out!" Christy yelled. Diss was too late as he was picked up by his staff and tossed to the side. Christy threw a dagger into the monsters eye, but failed to accomplish the task as the monster was determined to be a robot. Kid prepped something behind her back and let loose a hundred fiery darts at the mechanical burden. The huge opponent raised it self up and grabbed Kid by the throat and slammed her down.
"I hope the others are alright." Christy mumbled trying to revive Diss.
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"LOOK OUT!" Shaun yelled nearly being flattened by the monsters foot.
"I think this thing is a robot or something." Steena said trying to get Paul up. Steena was backhanded and nearly fell off the large cliff. Paul came to and was holding his head when he was hit by a black orb tossing him off over the cliff.
"NOOOO!" Shaun yelled. He hit the mechanical monster with his mace leaving a dent, but was grabbed by the waist and was nearly crushed to death if it wasn't for Steena.
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Diss was slammed again onto his back and was nearly stepped on if it wasn't for a psychic blast from Christy.
"This is definatly harder than I thought." Diss said tightening his gloves. "Not really my idea of a honeymoon." Diss was kicked in the mid section causing him to sail near the verge of a cliff.
"Oi! That hurts." Kid said slowly getting up. Before she could attack a large white orb hit her. Kid was nearly about to be tossed off the cliff if it wasn't for Christy's psychic hold. Diss focused his anger as he was about to unleash all he had. Before he could he was hit in the back with an arrow.
"ARGGHHH!" Diss yelled in pain as he pulled the arrow out. Christy tried to do another attack when she was pelted with an arrow.
"AUGGHH!" Christy said falling down. Kid went to her aid as Diss released the energy causing the robot to melt.
"DON'T EVER HURT MY WIFE!" Diss yelled before falling unconscious.
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"Paul is dead!" Shaun yelled looking at the cliff. Steena was busy finishing off the final blow knocking the robot down with her sword.
"What?" Steena said not knowing Paul sailed over the cliff. Shaun looked at her with tears in his eyes.
"Paul is." Shaun tried to repeat. Steena's eyes filled with tears as she got the general idea. The black monstrosity slowly got up and stalked over to Steena and Shaun. The sound of thunder bellowed in the background. Paul was floating up with his shirt torn off with energy coursing all around him.
"Get Her Out NOW!" Paul said calmly with his tone set to kill. Shaun ran Steena to the teleporter and when they arrived at the other end they saw a large white flash where they last were. The two beams shut down.
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"Paul got angry." Christy said quietly looking at the flash. Diss looked at the flash as well and realized one thing. Paul did think irrationally.
"Can we say.FREAK?" Kid yelled loudly after seeing the flash.
"Yeah, sounds right." Diss mumbled as he slowly got up. They headed for the teleporter and made their way slowly to the meeting place.
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"Damn Paul." Shaun whistled looking at the scorch marks and destroyed mechanics.
"OVER HERE!" Steena yelled moving some rubble off of Paul. They both picked up the unconscious Paul and headed back to the meeting place.
"Do you want to know what happened?" Shaun asked quietly. Steena nodded.
"Okay Kiddies today we're going to talk about Electric Obliteration." Steena glared at Shaun letting him know it wasn't funny. "Sorry. Look, Paul can build up a powerhouse of energy and then some and release the energy knocking out anyone in the radius. Even himself. No one and nothing has been able to get up from such an attack. Not even me. And I absorb electricity not worrying about it." Steena looked at Paul sadly realizing there was so much about him she could never comprehend or get used to. He was violent by nature, and he thinks irrationally. He was a walking time bomb dying to explode at any moment. They reached Diss and the others and quickly everyone ran over to help asking questions left and right.
"What appened?" Kid asked first.
"IS HE DEAD?" Fargo asked next. The questions kept coming until Diss was able to wake Paul up with the smell of something burning.
"Ahh, nasty." Paul said getting up. He realized he had no shirt on and his back was all scraped up. "Must've been pissed." Paul said shaking it off.
"YOU'RE A FREAK!" Kid said again.
"Ya, isn't it great?" Paul said grinning evilly. Steena didn't think it was funny.
"Stop scaring me!" Steena yelled hitting Paul in the back of the head.
"Owie." Paul said quietly. They all looked at the door and Shaun tossed a boulder at it causing the door to break open. They saw a blue blob and everyone groaned. Steena became the voice of reasoning.
"Look, we fought the other five colors right?" Everyone nodded instantly knowing what she meant. The last of the creatures is next. They approached it slowly and entered realizing it was aware of there presence. It spoke clearly in an angry tone,
"You have polluted my waters, you have polluted my air. Your technology is a blight upon my face, and you dare to defy me. Face your Judgment day humans for the worst is yet to come."
Diss was instantly ready. This was the last fight and they all knew it. As they prepped the monster caused a glacier to drop on the group. Diss and Kid fell huddled in pain as the others tried to deal with the extreme cold. Christy knelt besides her fiancée a look of pain on her face.
"Somebody get me towels," She said desperately. Everyone looked at her unsure what to do when she screamed, "NOW!" Shaun turned to the creature growling as he punched deep in the ground pulling his mace out. He ran at the Centaur like creature swinging hard. Every strike connected and dented the creature, but it still kept coming as Kid got on her feet groggily.
"Cheap bastard." she muttered. She powered up and caused a volcano to erupt under the monster. As it flew up from the force she grinned sadistically before taunting, "How do ya like me now?"
"Shaun.get the table," Paul said quietly. Christy tried desperately to dry off Diss, but to no avail. Shaun looked around before answering,
"Paul, I'm sorry there are none." Paul looked around and saw that he was right; he slumped unable to end the fight so he could save his friend. Diss groaned as he started coming around.
"No one, and I mean no one does that to me and gets away with it!" Diss growled. He caused fire to spread slowly over his body drying himself off as he continued charging. Paul looked at Diss as he touched ground. Christy looked at Diss and shook her head.
"No Diss, don't do it!" Christy pleaded.
Diss slowly charged up with fire forming a circle around him. Shaun looked at everyone and cursed.
"Everyone get behind me now!" Shaun shouted as Diss started floating again.
"What in the bloody hell is going on?" Kid screamed as the sounds of fire came louder and louder.
"Inferno," Paul said softly looking down.
"Ya mean the element right?" Kid asked quickly. Paul shook his head.
"I mean everything is going to be bathed in flame Inferno. This is the attack Diss does with Serge to make Solaris." Paul whispered as Shaun quickly built a dome of rock around them. The sounds of fire drowned out Christy's silent pleading to get him to calm down. Quickly the sound diminished as the rock grew red before cooling off again. As Shaun negated the dome Diss touched onto the ground the Centaur-like being long since dead. He fell to his knees slumping noticeably. Christy hugged him closer to herself crying.
"Why is he like that guys?" Glenn asked Paul and Shaun. Paul looked down before Shaun answered,
"Inferno, the single most powerful attack a person studying the Path of Fire can learn. Only masters can even hope to come into complete control of this ability. Even then, the masters often use it as a last resort maneuver. The cost of using this attack is that you will be extremely vulnerable to anything not instantly killed or knocked out. This is Diss at his most vulnerable point, if he so much as receives a scratch, he will die." Christy continued to hold him as they returned to the tower.
Once back in the tower they saw the central dais of the area light up. Each light was of the basic elemental colors of this world. As the lights came on a tone sounded with them. The first light was yellow, then red, then green, then blue, then black, and finally white. After the sequence of colors and tones a small bridge extended revealing another teleporter.
Christy looked at Diss then the teleporter. She felt torn between getting this over with or staying with the man she desperately loved. Kid looked at them smiling as she came up with an idea.
"Eh Christy, just leave him with me. I promise ta take care of him, maybe ya can get some retribution on whatever is waiting up there." Kid asked hopefully.
"No, I'll stay with them, besides you got more knowledge of this place. Go with the others if he comes around I'll bring him up there," Christy said watching as Paul started heading for the teleporter. He looked at the others. Kid nodded understanding her concern. This was Christy's problem, not hers. She joined Paul up there with the others watching as Christy started whispering to Diss softly. That was the last thing she saw as she teleported into the last area they should have needed to go.
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"Come on Diss, wake up honey," Christy said softly hugging him closely. Diss still remained unresponsive to her. "Stubborn as always?" she joked hoping he would wake up soon.
Snoring was the only reply she got, which was a good sign. It meant he had recovered enough to withstand some punishment, but not enough for a prolonged fight. He lay limp in her arms as she looked around, they were completely alone, more so than they had ever been before. She leaned down and kissed him softly. He returned the kiss in his sleep responding to her as if it was instinct. She smiled gently brushing the hair from his face, as she looked him over. Other than the fact he was unconscious against his will, he looked just as handsome as when he came into her life.
Diss groaned as Christy watched him hoping he would come around. The building started shaking as Diss woke up.
"You're awake!" Christy cried hugging him tightly.
"Yeah, I know but it shouldn't be earth shaking news.where are the others?" Diss asked groggily. Christy pointed at the teleporter above them. He got up with her help as they went to the teleporter wondering what the heck was going on.
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"So, any ideas?" Paul said looking at the Frozen Flame. Kid looked at it in awe. Serge began to approach it when Terra Tower began to shake. With a swift motion up came a large black creature with orange beady eyes. Shaun looked at it in amazement.
"WOW!" Shaun said stupidly. "AGAIN!" The black creature spoke in a low, cold, icy tone,
"Face the doom that is inevitable, for not even you are a match for my wrath," It said darkly.
"Diss!" Kid yelled loudly as she saw Christy and Diss run up to them. "How'd ya get here?"
"I woke up from the violent shaking!" Diss said staring at the creature. Paul took out his halberd and Shaun grabbed his mace. Diss summoned his staff and Christy grabbed her daggers.
"You humans have plagued this world long enough." The Time Devourer hissed out coldly.
"And you have used us humans long enough!" Paul replied back. "And I'm not even from this world." Paul muttered.
"Enough, you humans pay for your sins against this world." Paul dove in for a strike and was blasted back by a large boulder. "Die humans." The Time Devourer hissed.
Diss jumped avoiding an ice blast and Christy was able to dodge a ball of dark energy. Steena helped Paul pull of the boulder and Shaun was hammering away with his mace.
"Impudent mortals." The enemy hissed.
With a large crack of its tail Diss and Shaun were smashed onto the ground. It whirled around and slammed Paul and Steena away nearly causing Steena to fall off the edge and causing Paul to just barley fall over. Diss and Serge double-teamed the monster using their staffs in sync with each other. The Time Devourer roared into the air and flew up high. With no time to react the huge monster dove down and nearly cut everyone's head off.
"Damn." Christy said slowly getting up. Diss looked at her carefully concerned about his wife. The Time Devourer noticed it also and began to go after Christy and Christy only.
"Damn that hurt." Paul said slowly levitating into sight. He saw the unfairness in the Devourer's ways of fighting and evened the score by blasting it with a high voltage of electricity. The Time Devourer yelped in pain as it whipped around and faced Paul.
"Hey Diss!" Shaun yelled. "If that thing is all the dragons combined than do you think it remembers about the staff." At that moment the Devourer whipped around and glared at Shaun, then Diss.
"I take that as a yes." Diss muttered preparing for the worse. The Devourer jumped Diss quickly knocking him out.
"Man, this thing is hard." Fargo complained getting off a slash before getting hit with the tail. After a few punishing blows by Serge the playing field seemed to be sucked into a black hole. Without any say in the matter they were sucked into Earth Dragon Island's inner cave.
"I've been here." Glenn said calmly getting up. Diss reared up and was hit again in the chest by the Devourer. With a large blow the Devourer caught everyone in a Thunderstorm spell. Paul and Shaun got up quickly laughing at the pitiful spell that did no damage to them. It was now a fight between Paul, Shaun and the Time Devourer.
"You humans are weak." The Devourer hissed coldly. It cast a strong spell that blew Paul out of the fight. Shaun retaliated with his avalanche attack that caused the crushing finishing blow.
"YES!" Shaun yelled holding his mace up high. But to his surprise the Devourer sucked them all in the black hole again sending them to the Fire Dragon's lair. Diss woke up to the sweet smell of burning magma.
"Home." Diss said quietly. The Devourer used a powerful volcano spell that did no damage to Diss but was enough for Shaun to back down. Steena and Kid slowly woke up and together began reviving the party.
"Come mortal, dance for your DEATH!" hissed the Time Devourer. Diss was too angry as he unleashed a powerful wave of fire at the Time Devourer. Again the Time Devourer fainted for a brief moment and then sucked everyone into the black hole landing them in Gaea's Navel.
"Oh man." Diss said plugging his nose. Anyone who wasn't revived was awakened by the stench.
"Not here again!" Paul whined. Christy held her stomach as she tried to prevent the stench from getting to her. Diss grinned remembering the old trick.
"Bye Bye." Diss said casting another wave of fire. The whole field grew on fire causing serious damage to the Time Devourer. Again the black hole sucked them into the Water Dragon's lair. "Uh oh." Diss said quietly as a tidal wave swept over him knocking him down and out of the fight easily. Kid also was knocked out of the fight as the tidal wave swept over the already weakened party. Serge looked at the Time Devourer with determined eyes. He looked at Glenn who nodded weakly as they rushed the Devourer slashing deeply into it.
"Time to die." Christy growled as she froze it in place. Running up to it she stabbed both daggers deeply into the flesh of the Time Devourer causing it pain before she finished with a devastating kick right into the eyes of the Time Devourer causing it to roar in extreme pain. Glenn yelled out to Christy,
"Try that again in tandem with me!" Christy nodded freezing it again. Diss and Kid slowly came around watching in awe as Christy plunged her daggers deeply into the flesh forming the handles again as Glenn tossed the sword expertly into the head of the Time Devourer. Both swung onto their weapons and built up the momentum to bash the face of the Time Devourer. As they backed off the black hole again pulled everything with it into a new lair, the Black Dragon's lair.
"Diss I don't think its going to go easy on us this time man." Paul said looking at the Devourer.
"Then let us handle it." Came the familiar voice of Samantha. She and the little girl ran up to the Time Devourer and began to beat the crap out of it. Paul dove into the brawl with his Halberd and even as they continued to beat the Devourer up the black hole slowly began to form behind them. As Paul was being sucked in he yelled,
"THANKS GIRLS!" and he vanished back to Terra Tower.
"You will see no more mercy." The Time Devourer hissed as coldly as he could.
"Uh huh, face the doom that's sure to come, bow to my powers human, yada yada yada." Steena said loudly. Paul looked at her briefly than grinned muttering to Diss,
"That's my girl." Diss chuckled a little bit getting into a fighting stance.
"Think we influenced this place enough?" Diss asked.
"Not until Glenn understands the migration patterns of Mice." Diss looked at Paul then shrugged. Together they assaulted the beast and nearly finished it off. It whipped its tail and began to chant a spell as it grew more powerful.
"ELEMENTAL BLAST!" Christy yelled.
"USE YOUR STRONGEST ATTACK AGAINST IT!" Shaun yelled next. Everyone began charging up for the biggest attack they knew. Diss began feeling the fire in him burn as he glared at the Time Devourer. Paul rose into the air with Diss and Paul began to spin rapidly in every direction drawing more and more lightening to him as the clouds formed overhead. Shaun grabbed rock after rock as he prepared to toss the rocks at the same moment Paul and Diss released. Steena summoned a "shadow" of Garai while Serge and Glenn were preparing for their double strike.
"NOW!" Shaun yelled. The energy of Paul and Diss was too much for them to handle as both fell flat on the ground out of it. Steena released the "shadow" on the Time Devourer and was knocked unconscious by Paul's blast. Everyone let loose their attack and fell unconscious to Paul's Electric Obliteration. With one last breath Paul looked up to the Time Devourer. He was too tired to curse as the Time Devourer slowly got back up and left.
The boats were flying to Paul's relief and Steena was enjoying the view. Diss and Christy were happily enjoying certain other things. Kid and Serge were standing by the bows of their boats looking at the floating tower before them. Paul walked up behind Kid and spoke softly.
"I got the worse feeling about this place. I can't shake the feeling either." Kid nodded in agreement. She knew more than they thought about the place they were heading for. As they landed on the tower Paul was the first to jump out. He surveyed the area and came to the conclusion the fun filled part of his speech was going to be hard to find. Paul helped Steena out of the boat and she to had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. Diss jumped out of the boat and helped Christy out. After a moment of waiting everyone was looking at the massive structure. Starky was designated to watch the boats.
"Hold up mate's, I got some things I need to say," Kid said stepping in front of the group.
"What?" Glenn asked confused.
"Let me explain this from the start, Far in the future all time crashes causing all dimensions to at once co exist. Chronopolis seeing what happens transports itself back in time to avoid being destroyed," Kid said slowly.
"Makes sense save itself then find a way to prevent it," Patrick said crossing his arms.
"Right, but the earth sent its own city back into the past. In a parallel dimension Dinopolis is sent back to the past in order to stop Chronopolis," Kid went on.
"You mean that the earth wanted the time crash to happen?" Shaun asked in disbelief.
"Apparently, now here's where it gets ugly. Chronopolis sealed the power of the Dragon Gods as soon as it found out what happened. FATE was the only thing keeping the Dragon Gods from forming the Devourer of Time. Once that was done Dinopolis was activated and the Frozen Flame was returned there," Kid said slowly.
"Great." Paul said. They walked forward into the building noticing the strange patterns. They walked down the hall when Christy fainted unexpectedly. Steena was the first to her aid as she helped Christy up.
"Diss, I really don't like this place." Christy said in a frightened tone. Paul scouted ahead and came back.
"My guess is Christy fainting has something to do with that yellow ball ahead of us." Paul said pointing behind him.
"Christy, I want you stay out of the first fight." Diss said sternly. Steena offered to wait with Christy. The group went forward and walked up to the ball surprised to see themselves sucked into it.
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A yellow manakin stepped forward and in a booming voice pronounced, "You humans have polluted my soils. Your blood shall cleanse it."
The fight erupted immediately with Paul getting knocked out. Diss was about to summon his staff when he was whacked to the side. Shaun tried to grab his mace but was squashed. Serge was first to get off a hit as he slashed upwards with his Mastermune. The creature kicked Glenn away and Fargo failed to find anything of interest.
"Feel my fury." The thing said quietly. It created a huge orb in front of it using what was determined to be seen as the hands of the creature. The ball flew from its fingertips hitting Shaun causing him to fly nearly out of the ball.
"DISS, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING?" Paul yelled loudly. Diss tried to get up but was smacked to the side again.
"WHAT THE HELL?" Diss yelled hitting the wall dislocating his shoulder. Glenn went to help Diss but was picked up and used as a weapon against Fargo. Fargo and Glenn were knocked out easily. Serge tried to use one of his spells but was still unable to get off one move. Paul unlatched his Halberd and dove at the creature slicing into its chest.
"You will pay for your crimes." The creature said softly getting louder. Diss focused his anger and released all his energy at the creature before falling to one knee. Paul got up and took the opportunity to take the creature down in its weakened state. He slashed as hard as he could not letting loose when the creature surrendered by vanishing.
"Holy shit." Glenn said getting up. Fargo was barley able to get up, let alone grab a cigar. Diss fell unconscious from the pain.
"I HATE THIS PLACE!" Paul said loudly. He hurled a bolt of energy from his hand to the outside world. "I HATE THIS PLACE!" Paul yelled again repeating the process until Steena calmed him down. Christy ran to Diss holding him close to her.
"If this is the first fight in here, I'd hate to think what's coming up." Christy said with tear filled eyes.
Diss slowly came around clutching his head, "I feel like-"
"You've been dragged to hell and back," Christy and Kid finished in unison. Diss slowly got up drawing out his staff so he was ready next time. He moved his shoulder around carefully then rammed it into the wall relocating it. He grunted in pain as he felt his shoulder pop back into place. "I hate when that happens," he muttered moving onward.
They slowly made their way through the place until they saw a red blob appear in front of them. Christy whimpered in pain clutching her head. Steena again pulled Christy back as Diss felt anger rise up in him. Looking at the blob he spoke clearly,
"Lets take this thing down quickly," He said stepping into the blob fearlessly. The others followed him before they were done Christy stood and rushed in not wanting to be left out this time. As she entered the pain cleared and she looked around. In front of them was a centaur like creature.
"My flames shall burn your bones to ashes purifying your sins from this world," It boomed out as if pronouncing a verdict.
Diss growled as he stepped forward not willing to back down anymore. As the creature swiped at him he struck hard with his staff blocking the blow. Paul fired electricity down on it barely causing any noticeable damage. Shaun grabbed his mace and started whacking at it when it cast something making the air immensely hotter. Christy looked around to see that the ground was super heated.
"Diss, attack it now.physical not elemental!" Christy shouted. Diss nodded striking the creature hard nearly slicing it in two before Fargo smiled.
"Adios matey," with that he powered up and fired a glacier at the creature causing it to buckle and eventually drop vanishing from sight. As they exited Christy hugged Diss, which he returned before looking around. Ahead of them was a green blob.
"Any guesses as to when this idiocy will end?" Diss muttered sarcastically. Everyone shrugged but they trudged onward until they entered the green ball. Inside was a creature similar to the Yellow one. It was green and stood tall like a manikin, but was obviously alive as it moved about.
"You have hunted the creatures, and destroyed my forests. Your blood shall invigorate the once dead fields," It said sadistically.
Glenn looked at Serge who nodded. Together they dashed slashing right through the creature. Diss flexed as he nodded to Kid, causing the huge machine to drop between them. Both kicked their respective triggers as Diss again pumped flame into the machine causing it to discharge the intense beam nearly destroying the creature outright.
The creature reared its head then threw out something unusual; everything around them turned momentarily green, and then just as quick as it came it left. Then the creature shimmered and disappeared.
"Is it dead?" Diss asked as Glenn shook his head.
"It's just begun to fight," He said as slowly a small sprite came forward. Tension filled the air as the sprite slowly came then charged up its only attack. Very quickly a blast of dust covered the party as hacking fits went on, Diss felt a burning pain in his blood. He fell to his knees as Serge passed out little green tablets.
"It's the antidote, take it now before you succumb," He said softly. Diss nodded downing the tablet with the others before standing looking at the creature as it returned. It limped as it came forward and Diss got an idea.
"Christy hold it down," Diss said as he charged his fire shield. Christy nodded smiling as Diss projected it over the creature. He slowly condensed it more and more as the creature slowly burned to death. When it vanished Diss released the shield, and they returned to the tower. As Diss came back he reached into his pockets.
"What are you doing Diss?" Christy asked. Kid repeated the question as Diss slipped on a pair of fingerless gloves. "You still have those?" Christy asked incredulously.
Diss nodded, "Same pair I wore in the mountain, kept them as a good luck charm considering I made it through alright."
Christy cut him off, "You call nearly being cremated alright?" Paul and Shaun nodded as the other members of the party looked at them Paul explained softly,
"Those gloves are his version of pumping up, until now he has been holding back. Even when he trashed Lynx in Fort Dragonia that wasn't his true potential." Kid's eyes widened.
"You scare me Mate," She said slowly. Everyone but Paul and Shaun nodded in agreement as Diss finished putting on the gloves grabbing the staff.
"The only way I let myself go, sorta like training. Most people don't let go until the gloves come off, I don't let go until the gloves come on," Diss shrugged saying matter of factly.
"Well now that your serious about this maybe we will get the job done," Christy said jokingly. Diss smiled over at her before looking around.
"How do we go on, its like we're through with this area, but where do we go from here?" Paul asked.
Diss looked around when Steena pointed at the area the blob once stood, "Look at the Symbol.it looks like the one in Fort Dragonia."
"Paul you play with this teleporter and I will kill you," Diss said stepping on the symbol. Sure enough Diss disappeared shortly afterwards. As the others went up Diss was standing there throwing fire ahead of him. The fire was heading towards an open door, however it would stop just short of going through.
"It's heavily shielded. The only way to get through here is to take down the shield. Any suggestions?" Diss asked after stopping.
Christy looked following the beams of light, "Go where the beams go?"
Kid nodded, "Makes tha most sense mate."
"We should split up from here. Me, Shaun and Steena will go left, Diss, Kid and Christy go right. Glenn and Fargo and Serge will stay here." They all nodded as they went separate ways.
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Paul found another teleporter and began to play with it before Shaun managed to knock some sense in him. Steena mumbled how she wondered what made Paul so appealing to her. There thoughts were silenced when a voice was heard crystal clear.
"The eternal night for you humans has come, face it with the honor you lacked in life," It taunted.
"Holy SHIT!" Paul yelled taking a blow for Steena. Shaun managed to throw rocks at the large thing until it was buried.
"Is it dead?" Steena asked. Paul shook his head.
"To my luck, no." And as soon as Paul finished his comment the monster ripped through the rubble and began to attack again. Paul was picked up and slammed down by his throat.
"I wonder how the other group is doing." Shaun yelled to Steena as they attacked heavily.
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"Man, these winds are strong." Christy said nearly getting blown off the Terra Tower. Diss had to use his staff as a weight grabbing Kid and Christy when needed. After they arrived to the teleporter they nodded going straight into battle.
"When you are gone we shall purge this world of your mark returning it to the beauty it once had," It said before it lashed out.
"Diss look out!" Christy yelled. Diss was too late as he was picked up by his staff and tossed to the side. Christy threw a dagger into the monsters eye, but failed to accomplish the task as the monster was determined to be a robot. Kid prepped something behind her back and let loose a hundred fiery darts at the mechanical burden. The huge opponent raised it self up and grabbed Kid by the throat and slammed her down.
"I hope the others are alright." Christy mumbled trying to revive Diss.
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"LOOK OUT!" Shaun yelled nearly being flattened by the monsters foot.
"I think this thing is a robot or something." Steena said trying to get Paul up. Steena was backhanded and nearly fell off the large cliff. Paul came to and was holding his head when he was hit by a black orb tossing him off over the cliff.
"NOOOO!" Shaun yelled. He hit the mechanical monster with his mace leaving a dent, but was grabbed by the waist and was nearly crushed to death if it wasn't for Steena.
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Diss was slammed again onto his back and was nearly stepped on if it wasn't for a psychic blast from Christy.
"This is definatly harder than I thought." Diss said tightening his gloves. "Not really my idea of a honeymoon." Diss was kicked in the mid section causing him to sail near the verge of a cliff.
"Oi! That hurts." Kid said slowly getting up. Before she could attack a large white orb hit her. Kid was nearly about to be tossed off the cliff if it wasn't for Christy's psychic hold. Diss focused his anger as he was about to unleash all he had. Before he could he was hit in the back with an arrow.
"ARGGHHH!" Diss yelled in pain as he pulled the arrow out. Christy tried to do another attack when she was pelted with an arrow.
"AUGGHH!" Christy said falling down. Kid went to her aid as Diss released the energy causing the robot to melt.
"DON'T EVER HURT MY WIFE!" Diss yelled before falling unconscious.
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"Paul is dead!" Shaun yelled looking at the cliff. Steena was busy finishing off the final blow knocking the robot down with her sword.
"What?" Steena said not knowing Paul sailed over the cliff. Shaun looked at her with tears in his eyes.
"Paul is." Shaun tried to repeat. Steena's eyes filled with tears as she got the general idea. The black monstrosity slowly got up and stalked over to Steena and Shaun. The sound of thunder bellowed in the background. Paul was floating up with his shirt torn off with energy coursing all around him.
"Get Her Out NOW!" Paul said calmly with his tone set to kill. Shaun ran Steena to the teleporter and when they arrived at the other end they saw a large white flash where they last were. The two beams shut down.
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"Paul got angry." Christy said quietly looking at the flash. Diss looked at the flash as well and realized one thing. Paul did think irrationally.
"Can we say.FREAK?" Kid yelled loudly after seeing the flash.
"Yeah, sounds right." Diss mumbled as he slowly got up. They headed for the teleporter and made their way slowly to the meeting place.
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"Damn Paul." Shaun whistled looking at the scorch marks and destroyed mechanics.
"OVER HERE!" Steena yelled moving some rubble off of Paul. They both picked up the unconscious Paul and headed back to the meeting place.
"Do you want to know what happened?" Shaun asked quietly. Steena nodded.
"Okay Kiddies today we're going to talk about Electric Obliteration." Steena glared at Shaun letting him know it wasn't funny. "Sorry. Look, Paul can build up a powerhouse of energy and then some and release the energy knocking out anyone in the radius. Even himself. No one and nothing has been able to get up from such an attack. Not even me. And I absorb electricity not worrying about it." Steena looked at Paul sadly realizing there was so much about him she could never comprehend or get used to. He was violent by nature, and he thinks irrationally. He was a walking time bomb dying to explode at any moment. They reached Diss and the others and quickly everyone ran over to help asking questions left and right.
"What appened?" Kid asked first.
"IS HE DEAD?" Fargo asked next. The questions kept coming until Diss was able to wake Paul up with the smell of something burning.
"Ahh, nasty." Paul said getting up. He realized he had no shirt on and his back was all scraped up. "Must've been pissed." Paul said shaking it off.
"YOU'RE A FREAK!" Kid said again.
"Ya, isn't it great?" Paul said grinning evilly. Steena didn't think it was funny.
"Stop scaring me!" Steena yelled hitting Paul in the back of the head.
"Owie." Paul said quietly. They all looked at the door and Shaun tossed a boulder at it causing the door to break open. They saw a blue blob and everyone groaned. Steena became the voice of reasoning.
"Look, we fought the other five colors right?" Everyone nodded instantly knowing what she meant. The last of the creatures is next. They approached it slowly and entered realizing it was aware of there presence. It spoke clearly in an angry tone,
"You have polluted my waters, you have polluted my air. Your technology is a blight upon my face, and you dare to defy me. Face your Judgment day humans for the worst is yet to come."
Diss was instantly ready. This was the last fight and they all knew it. As they prepped the monster caused a glacier to drop on the group. Diss and Kid fell huddled in pain as the others tried to deal with the extreme cold. Christy knelt besides her fiancée a look of pain on her face.
"Somebody get me towels," She said desperately. Everyone looked at her unsure what to do when she screamed, "NOW!" Shaun turned to the creature growling as he punched deep in the ground pulling his mace out. He ran at the Centaur like creature swinging hard. Every strike connected and dented the creature, but it still kept coming as Kid got on her feet groggily.
"Cheap bastard." she muttered. She powered up and caused a volcano to erupt under the monster. As it flew up from the force she grinned sadistically before taunting, "How do ya like me now?"
"Shaun.get the table," Paul said quietly. Christy tried desperately to dry off Diss, but to no avail. Shaun looked around before answering,
"Paul, I'm sorry there are none." Paul looked around and saw that he was right; he slumped unable to end the fight so he could save his friend. Diss groaned as he started coming around.
"No one, and I mean no one does that to me and gets away with it!" Diss growled. He caused fire to spread slowly over his body drying himself off as he continued charging. Paul looked at Diss as he touched ground. Christy looked at Diss and shook her head.
"No Diss, don't do it!" Christy pleaded.
Diss slowly charged up with fire forming a circle around him. Shaun looked at everyone and cursed.
"Everyone get behind me now!" Shaun shouted as Diss started floating again.
"What in the bloody hell is going on?" Kid screamed as the sounds of fire came louder and louder.
"Inferno," Paul said softly looking down.
"Ya mean the element right?" Kid asked quickly. Paul shook his head.
"I mean everything is going to be bathed in flame Inferno. This is the attack Diss does with Serge to make Solaris." Paul whispered as Shaun quickly built a dome of rock around them. The sounds of fire drowned out Christy's silent pleading to get him to calm down. Quickly the sound diminished as the rock grew red before cooling off again. As Shaun negated the dome Diss touched onto the ground the Centaur-like being long since dead. He fell to his knees slumping noticeably. Christy hugged him closer to herself crying.
"Why is he like that guys?" Glenn asked Paul and Shaun. Paul looked down before Shaun answered,
"Inferno, the single most powerful attack a person studying the Path of Fire can learn. Only masters can even hope to come into complete control of this ability. Even then, the masters often use it as a last resort maneuver. The cost of using this attack is that you will be extremely vulnerable to anything not instantly killed or knocked out. This is Diss at his most vulnerable point, if he so much as receives a scratch, he will die." Christy continued to hold him as they returned to the tower.
Once back in the tower they saw the central dais of the area light up. Each light was of the basic elemental colors of this world. As the lights came on a tone sounded with them. The first light was yellow, then red, then green, then blue, then black, and finally white. After the sequence of colors and tones a small bridge extended revealing another teleporter.
Christy looked at Diss then the teleporter. She felt torn between getting this over with or staying with the man she desperately loved. Kid looked at them smiling as she came up with an idea.
"Eh Christy, just leave him with me. I promise ta take care of him, maybe ya can get some retribution on whatever is waiting up there." Kid asked hopefully.
"No, I'll stay with them, besides you got more knowledge of this place. Go with the others if he comes around I'll bring him up there," Christy said watching as Paul started heading for the teleporter. He looked at the others. Kid nodded understanding her concern. This was Christy's problem, not hers. She joined Paul up there with the others watching as Christy started whispering to Diss softly. That was the last thing she saw as she teleported into the last area they should have needed to go.
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"Come on Diss, wake up honey," Christy said softly hugging him closely. Diss still remained unresponsive to her. "Stubborn as always?" she joked hoping he would wake up soon.
Snoring was the only reply she got, which was a good sign. It meant he had recovered enough to withstand some punishment, but not enough for a prolonged fight. He lay limp in her arms as she looked around, they were completely alone, more so than they had ever been before. She leaned down and kissed him softly. He returned the kiss in his sleep responding to her as if it was instinct. She smiled gently brushing the hair from his face, as she looked him over. Other than the fact he was unconscious against his will, he looked just as handsome as when he came into her life.
Diss groaned as Christy watched him hoping he would come around. The building started shaking as Diss woke up.
"You're awake!" Christy cried hugging him tightly.
"Yeah, I know but it shouldn't be earth shaking news.where are the others?" Diss asked groggily. Christy pointed at the teleporter above them. He got up with her help as they went to the teleporter wondering what the heck was going on.
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"So, any ideas?" Paul said looking at the Frozen Flame. Kid looked at it in awe. Serge began to approach it when Terra Tower began to shake. With a swift motion up came a large black creature with orange beady eyes. Shaun looked at it in amazement.
"WOW!" Shaun said stupidly. "AGAIN!" The black creature spoke in a low, cold, icy tone,
"Face the doom that is inevitable, for not even you are a match for my wrath," It said darkly.
"Diss!" Kid yelled loudly as she saw Christy and Diss run up to them. "How'd ya get here?"
"I woke up from the violent shaking!" Diss said staring at the creature. Paul took out his halberd and Shaun grabbed his mace. Diss summoned his staff and Christy grabbed her daggers.
"You humans have plagued this world long enough." The Time Devourer hissed out coldly.
"And you have used us humans long enough!" Paul replied back. "And I'm not even from this world." Paul muttered.
"Enough, you humans pay for your sins against this world." Paul dove in for a strike and was blasted back by a large boulder. "Die humans." The Time Devourer hissed.
Diss jumped avoiding an ice blast and Christy was able to dodge a ball of dark energy. Steena helped Paul pull of the boulder and Shaun was hammering away with his mace.
"Impudent mortals." The enemy hissed.
With a large crack of its tail Diss and Shaun were smashed onto the ground. It whirled around and slammed Paul and Steena away nearly causing Steena to fall off the edge and causing Paul to just barley fall over. Diss and Serge double-teamed the monster using their staffs in sync with each other. The Time Devourer roared into the air and flew up high. With no time to react the huge monster dove down and nearly cut everyone's head off.
"Damn." Christy said slowly getting up. Diss looked at her carefully concerned about his wife. The Time Devourer noticed it also and began to go after Christy and Christy only.
"Damn that hurt." Paul said slowly levitating into sight. He saw the unfairness in the Devourer's ways of fighting and evened the score by blasting it with a high voltage of electricity. The Time Devourer yelped in pain as it whipped around and faced Paul.
"Hey Diss!" Shaun yelled. "If that thing is all the dragons combined than do you think it remembers about the staff." At that moment the Devourer whipped around and glared at Shaun, then Diss.
"I take that as a yes." Diss muttered preparing for the worse. The Devourer jumped Diss quickly knocking him out.
"Man, this thing is hard." Fargo complained getting off a slash before getting hit with the tail. After a few punishing blows by Serge the playing field seemed to be sucked into a black hole. Without any say in the matter they were sucked into Earth Dragon Island's inner cave.
"I've been here." Glenn said calmly getting up. Diss reared up and was hit again in the chest by the Devourer. With a large blow the Devourer caught everyone in a Thunderstorm spell. Paul and Shaun got up quickly laughing at the pitiful spell that did no damage to them. It was now a fight between Paul, Shaun and the Time Devourer.
"You humans are weak." The Devourer hissed coldly. It cast a strong spell that blew Paul out of the fight. Shaun retaliated with his avalanche attack that caused the crushing finishing blow.
"YES!" Shaun yelled holding his mace up high. But to his surprise the Devourer sucked them all in the black hole again sending them to the Fire Dragon's lair. Diss woke up to the sweet smell of burning magma.
"Home." Diss said quietly. The Devourer used a powerful volcano spell that did no damage to Diss but was enough for Shaun to back down. Steena and Kid slowly woke up and together began reviving the party.
"Come mortal, dance for your DEATH!" hissed the Time Devourer. Diss was too angry as he unleashed a powerful wave of fire at the Time Devourer. Again the Time Devourer fainted for a brief moment and then sucked everyone into the black hole landing them in Gaea's Navel.
"Oh man." Diss said plugging his nose. Anyone who wasn't revived was awakened by the stench.
"Not here again!" Paul whined. Christy held her stomach as she tried to prevent the stench from getting to her. Diss grinned remembering the old trick.
"Bye Bye." Diss said casting another wave of fire. The whole field grew on fire causing serious damage to the Time Devourer. Again the black hole sucked them into the Water Dragon's lair. "Uh oh." Diss said quietly as a tidal wave swept over him knocking him down and out of the fight easily. Kid also was knocked out of the fight as the tidal wave swept over the already weakened party. Serge looked at the Time Devourer with determined eyes. He looked at Glenn who nodded weakly as they rushed the Devourer slashing deeply into it.
"Time to die." Christy growled as she froze it in place. Running up to it she stabbed both daggers deeply into the flesh of the Time Devourer causing it pain before she finished with a devastating kick right into the eyes of the Time Devourer causing it to roar in extreme pain. Glenn yelled out to Christy,
"Try that again in tandem with me!" Christy nodded freezing it again. Diss and Kid slowly came around watching in awe as Christy plunged her daggers deeply into the flesh forming the handles again as Glenn tossed the sword expertly into the head of the Time Devourer. Both swung onto their weapons and built up the momentum to bash the face of the Time Devourer. As they backed off the black hole again pulled everything with it into a new lair, the Black Dragon's lair.
"Diss I don't think its going to go easy on us this time man." Paul said looking at the Devourer.
"Then let us handle it." Came the familiar voice of Samantha. She and the little girl ran up to the Time Devourer and began to beat the crap out of it. Paul dove into the brawl with his Halberd and even as they continued to beat the Devourer up the black hole slowly began to form behind them. As Paul was being sucked in he yelled,
"THANKS GIRLS!" and he vanished back to Terra Tower.
"You will see no more mercy." The Time Devourer hissed as coldly as he could.
"Uh huh, face the doom that's sure to come, bow to my powers human, yada yada yada." Steena said loudly. Paul looked at her briefly than grinned muttering to Diss,
"That's my girl." Diss chuckled a little bit getting into a fighting stance.
"Think we influenced this place enough?" Diss asked.
"Not until Glenn understands the migration patterns of Mice." Diss looked at Paul then shrugged. Together they assaulted the beast and nearly finished it off. It whipped its tail and began to chant a spell as it grew more powerful.
"ELEMENTAL BLAST!" Christy yelled.
"USE YOUR STRONGEST ATTACK AGAINST IT!" Shaun yelled next. Everyone began charging up for the biggest attack they knew. Diss began feeling the fire in him burn as he glared at the Time Devourer. Paul rose into the air with Diss and Paul began to spin rapidly in every direction drawing more and more lightening to him as the clouds formed overhead. Shaun grabbed rock after rock as he prepared to toss the rocks at the same moment Paul and Diss released. Steena summoned a "shadow" of Garai while Serge and Glenn were preparing for their double strike.
"NOW!" Shaun yelled. The energy of Paul and Diss was too much for them to handle as both fell flat on the ground out of it. Steena released the "shadow" on the Time Devourer and was knocked unconscious by Paul's blast. Everyone let loose their attack and fell unconscious to Paul's Electric Obliteration. With one last breath Paul looked up to the Time Devourer. He was too tired to curse as the Time Devourer slowly got back up and left.