Having just gotten home, Xander immediately went into his small square room that had two wooden bunk beds, a wooden desk, white walls, and two dressers. He went in to study but his little brother who was six years old kept bothering him. His name was Austin, he had short brown hair like Xander, a chubby face, and always liked clinging to Xander at any point and time.
"Austin can't you stop clinging to me! I need to study and you always are loud and distracting!" Xander said. Austin clinged to him anyways.
"I didn't see you at all today. I missed you." Austin said. Xander always tried to be a good brother and at times would give into Austin. Xander had a deep care for his family as they struggled financially at times. Life with Xander's family was stressful with it being him, his brother, and his mother. Xander, even though he was fourteen, wanted to get a job so he could help his family. He was hoping that maybe doing extremely well in school and getting high grades he might be able to go to a good college to get a degree if it meant helping his family.
"Okay fine, but don't make loud noises. I have a math test coming up and I really need to study." He said. Austin had a giant smile on his face as he laid up against his leg.
About thirty minutes had passed and Xander was getting confused on an algebra equation. There was a knock at the door and Austin ran to go answer it. Xander stayed in his room trying to figure out the problem he was having. He then heard a voice that was all too familiar to him, followed by Austin who always said the same thing when he saw this person.
"Xander! Miss Cootie Sunshine is here!" He said as he invited a girl in. Xander rolled his eyes as he looked at the ceiling.
"Agggh she has a name Austin!" Xander said as he got up and walked to his bedroom door. When he did, he stopped as his breath was taken away by this girl. "Um hello Emily." Xander said blushing.
The girl Emily was Xander's girlfriend. They had been dating for about a year and had known each other since they were kids. Emily was white with long blonder hair, teal-colored eyes, your normal thin appearance with an innocent expression on her face at all times. When she spoke, it was in a very light and chipper tone. She was wearing a pink shirt with stripes on it, her hair in a ponytail, blue jeans with glitter on it, and two pink bracelets on her left hand.
"Why hey there Xanny!" She said.
"Ugh why do you still call me that? It was cute when I was like six!" Xander exclaimed.
Emily walked up to Xander and kissed him on the cheek as she walked into his room. "You never told me it was cute before." She chuckled. "I see you're struggling with Algebra again." She said as she looked at his paper.
"Yea Ms. Chamel has us doing a quiz this Friday and I'm not good at math. How am I to get into a good college if I can't even do well at this?" Xander said irritated. He sat down trying to figure it out as Emily grabbed a pencil and started writing on his notepad. She had solved the equation for him and showed him step by step how the problem was to be found.
"There. It seems like you just forgot to plug in this number."
"I thought you did that last?" Xander said surprised.
"Nope." Emily replied back.
About an hour had passed as Emily and Xander started sharing stories and talking while focusing on doing simple equations that might be on the quiz. Austin would always leave them alone and go into the living room to watch cartoons until their mother came back around in the evening. Emily would come over as a means to babysit for Austin and spend time with Xander since they only see each other once at school which is Lunch and in between classes since their lockers are right next to each other.
"So, I hear that the Wintergarden Park is haunted after they close. I'm wanting to go but I'm scared to go by myself. I was wondering if my strong and fearless boyfriend would come with?" She said putting on a baby face.
"You know I don't like haunted places." Xander said back to her. She put on a sour face.
"Aw but I really wanna go! Come on let's go have some fun! You can spend the night at my place we live right across the street!" She said in a cute whining voice.
"I don't know if my mom will let me tonight it's on such short notice." Xander said making excuses. Emily pulled out her phone and showed him a text.
"I already asked her and she said yes!" Emily said excitingly.
"Okay sure. You win." Xander sighed.
"YAY!" She said as she spun around next to him.
Emily had noticed a yellow rock in a sleek hard glass case and picked it up as she began looking at every corner of it. "Ooh this is pretty! It looks like a rare gemstone. Where did you find this at?" Emily wondered. Xander quickly grabbed for the stone but she put it in her bra.
"Give me that it's mine! I found it at the museum!" Xander said before she dropped it in her clothes.
"I'll give it back if you do one or two things. One you actually go with me to the haunted park, or two you try to grab it from my chest." She said winking at him. Xander was a bit flustered as Emily will try being seductive in getting him to have any kind of fun with her.
"Okay I'll make sure we go to the park. How about we leave at 10 tonight since we have school first thing in the morning." Xander suggested. Emily jumped up and down excited to hear the news.
"I know I'm terrified to go, but Emily has always found ways to break me out of my shell. She's been the only one who has been teaching me to face my fears instead of run away from them. Actually, if it wasn't for her pushing me like she does, I wouldn't have found some courage to try and fight that monster. I know I'm scared at doing things but she's been the only one who knows how to make me stand strong when I'm scared." Xander thought as he and Emily started studying for their upcoming quizzes.
There were claw marks that got dragged down as Mesogog became furious. "Skortch was a strong creation. How is it that he lost!" Mesogog said as he threw himself back and roared. "The gems had drained a lot of my power during the slumber. I must allow time to take its course until I fully recover. When I do, I will wipe out these spandex-colored fools from time itself. The red one poses more of a threat. His super speed and destructive powers could threaten everything I am working to achieve. I will have to create creatures until I am at full power. The blue stone has awakened but I must stop the yellow one." Mesogog said. He then sat on his chair as he began thinking where the yellow one might be. Mesogog knew that since the stones contained his power, he could trace them by meditating. He then saw in his head a girl who was holding the stone in her bra.
"A girl has the stone? I will kill her and claim that back. But instead of killing her, I'll make her a prime example of what the other two will face." Mesogog snarled. He got out of his chair as he put his hands behind his back walking up towards the colorful containers. Inside one was a giant piece of ice and a piece of knight armor and he began to have them fuse into the giant chamber in the room. He then reached for a container that held a woman's eyeballs that he had killed during the confusion at the museum and dropped them in a clear liquid container. The container began to turn red from the blood and he had that be consumed into the chamber.
Smoke began to form in the chamber and then the doors opened as an ice woman in a blue and white armor appeared. Her voice at a bit of a high pitch as she kneeled down. She had blue diamonds on her chest, a red diamond jewel in the middle of her face, these fin like blades on the side of her face with a blue jewel in the middle of her head. Her head had these two gold plates and pieces of blonde hair that was wrapped around together that extended past her chest. She had a white headband wrapped around her neck like a scarf that extended to her butt. She wore white leg armor that had two blue claw marks on the side. When she kneeled down, she kept one hand on her left knee and her other hand in a fist on the ground.
"My name is Fridgia. I am a queen who can manipulate ice. You have given me life and I shall follow your orders to my death." She said bowing.
"There is a girl who carries my gemstone that has sealed my powers. I want that back and I want you to encase the girl in ice so I can publicly display her as a sign to the others who have my stones. Bring the yellow stone back to me by any means necessary." He said snarling.
Fridgia did as she commanded as she stood up and left the lab. "The humans may have beaten Skortch, but I will see what they think when they can't move at all." Mesogog said as he sat in his chair and crossed his leg over the other one.
Hours had passed and it was almost eleven. Xander and Emily had snuck into the garage avoiding Emily's parents as they grabbed their bikes and exited the house. Emily was super excited to having this moment with Xander. "Come on Xander I'll race you to the park! Eat my dust and savior it!" She said as she began biking really fast. Xander was always a fast biker as he began gaining a lot of speed. Once he zoomed past Emily, he took his hands off his handle bars and crossed them in front of his chest while still maintaining speed.
"Hey look Em, no hands." Xander said laughing all the way to the park. They had gotten to the entrance of the park as Xander stood on his moving bike and jumped off. He crossed his arms to his shoulders as he spun in a circle in the air and then landed like the superhero's did in movies. Emily grinded her bike to a halt as she looked at him stand back up.
"Wowza." Emily said.
"Did you like that? I've been practicing." Xander said excited that he got to finally pull that off.
"So that's why you came into school the next day with bruises. Here I thought it was Darian picking another fight with you." She said.
Emily had come up with the word "Wowza" whenever something amazing happened in front of her. She walked up to Xander as she kissed him on his cheek, "I guess you trying to impress is pretty cute." She flirted. Xander wasn't expecting a kiss on his cheek as he was kind of shocked. He reached to touch his cheek but Emily grabbed his hand and dragged him into the park.
The park had a bunch of trees but in the middle of the park was a big field of some kind of plant that was higher than a human being. You couldn't see anything but this field. The park wasn't that big it was about a football field's worth and somewhere near the entrance of the park was a park ranger cabin and on the other side of the park was a cabin that was abandoned. The cabin was mostly used for storage that helped kept the park clean for guests.
Emily was spinning around as she looked up at the sky, "You can actually see the stars tonight!" She said as she finally stopped spinning and looked up at the sky. Xander stood next to her as he looked at them as well.
"We can't normally see them in the city but this area is pretty much near the rural side of the town." Xander said. He then finally understood something. "This park isn't really haunted, is it?" He asked Emily. Emily looked at him with a tender smile on her face.
"Probably not." She said with a chuckle.
"Then why are we here? I thought we were here because of the place being haunted." Xander asked. Emily then grabbed his hand and the two still looked up at the sky.
"You remember what I said last year? When I said that I wanted to have a night where I wanted to look at the stars with you? Well tonight is that night. I know that you have been trying to get your grades up and we haven't really gone out and done anything for about a couple months now. So tonight, I wanted to have a date night where we can see the stars in a field." Emily said to him.
Xander had a bit of regret inside him, "I haven't really been thinking about her as much as I should. I've been trying to focus on my studies I guess I have been keeping people at a distance. I should try and work on that."
Time passed as Xander and Emily laid on the ground gazing at the stars while holding hands. Then we heard a noise in the distance as one of the park rangers started calling out.
"Hey who's out there! The park is closed once the sun has set!" He was saying.
"Oh shit! Let's book it!" Emily said.
"The ranger is at the entrance of the park where our bikes are. How do we get out?" Xander said worried.
They looked at the long fern like field, "On the other end of this field is a way to get out. Plus, it will hide us." Emily suggested.
Xander was a bit scared of going into something like this but he didn't want to get caught. Emily reached into her bra and pulled out the stone and handed it to Xander. "I forgot to give this back to you. See you on the other side." She said as kissed him on the cheek.
The two then bolted into the field. Xander was running as fast as he could he could hear Emily ahead of him. Xander was probably close to the end but he then heard a scream that sounded like Emily.
"EMILY! What's wrong? Where are you?!" Xander said worried. He then got lost in the field trying to find where Emily was by the location of where her sound was resonating from. Then Xander heard a dog barking in the field. "Shit! I have to get out of here if they have a dog with them." Xander thought. He ran straight ahead hoping that he would get out of the field and that Emily was there. He began booting towards the path where he would get out of the field and when he got to the end, he saw a fence. He jumped onto the fence as he started climbing over it. Once he did, he turned around and looked for Emily. He yelled out at her in a low tone but saw no sign of her.
"Xander!" Emily called out as she was running towards him. She had already hopped over the fence. Xander grabbed her arm as they ran across the street. He then noticed that her arm was cold.
"Why is your arm cold Emily?" Xander asked.
"There is a monster in that field. It grabbed my arm and started freezing it. That's why I screamed." She said in a weird tone.
Xander quickly got them back to Emily's house and when they did the two had to sneak past the parents and then they slept in bed after letting their excitement reside. The morning came and Emily and Xander woke up and got ready for school. The two waited outside as a school bus came in and picked the two up. Xander sat in the back of the bus as Emily sat next to him.
"Why aren't you sitting with your friends?" Xander asked.
"I wanted to sit next to you." Emily said.
Xander would always get picked on whenever he was around Emily. She was one of the most beautiful girls in school. Because of this he would get picked on by the bullies. Xander and Emily were in different classes except for Lunch. Xander got through all of his classes and it was finally lunch time as he was sitting in the cafeteria. He had gotten his slice of pizza, mac and cheese, white milk, and a bag of celery sticks. Xander had friends that he would hang with at school but during this school year none of them had the same lunch period. The only one that did was Emily. Xander was sipping his milk as he looked around for Emily.
"Where are you Em?" Xander said under his breath as he looked around the cafeteria. A couple of blondes walked past Xander that said something that made him extremely worried.
"So apparently Emily Piers didn't come to school today. It's not like her since she has just made the principle's list. I wonder if she's sick or something." The girls said passing Xander.
"Wait a minute. Emily came to school with me this morning?" Xander thought.
Then the entire cafeteria that was noisy became silent as the double doors got slammed open as two sheriff's walked in. They were looking for Xander and had found him easily. The two sheriff's walked up to him as they asked him to step out into the hall. Everyone was glaring at Xander.
Xander was taken to a corner in the hallway as the sheriff's kneeled down and took out a picture of him and Emily.
The photo was Emily and Xander doing their friendship handshake they had done since they were kids. The handshake was taking your left and right arm and cross them over each other forming an X. Then the other person does the same as they locked their hands with the other's hands. It was supposed to be an infinity symbol that they would always be friends.
"Son, you spent the night at Emily Piers house last night. This may be really difficult with you but we need you to tell us when was the last time you saw her. Her parents are worried and it's weird that she is absent from school." One of the officers said.
Xander began to have an eerie feeling build up inside of him, "Y-You must be joking. Emily and I c-came to school this morning. She was sitting next to me on the bus." Xander said choking up.
"Son, we talked to the bus driver when he picked you up this morning. He said that he only remembers seeing you. Of course, the driver is pretty old so maybe he forgot but are you entirely sure she came to school with you this morning?" The sheriff said.
Xander started to shake as this feeling started to turn into fear, "Y-ye-yes. I was h-holding her ha-hand thi-this morning." He said with his voice shaking.
The two sheriff's looked at each other. "Son we are going to take you home. You will be excluded from classes the rest of the day so why don't you go grab your stuff and just take a break today from school." Once he said that Xander started to feel like he was about to break down.
He started running to his locker up on the second floor. His locker was right next to Emily's and he knew her passcode. He quickly opened the locker to see all of her stuff in there. But not her book bag.
"Wait she has her book bag on her at all times. Wait a minute." Xander then remembered that Emily didn't have her book bag on her this morning or when she left the field at the park. "She had her book bag on her before we ran from the park ranger. She said she saw a monster in the field. What if she used her bag to help her escape?" Xander thought trying to find anyways to figure out what had happened. He then got everything he needed out of his locker and ran back down stairs to the sheriffs. He was then escorted back home and the moment he got back and the sheriff's left, Xander bolted down the apartment complex to Zach's house.
He was pounding on the door knowing that Zach was asleep at this time. Zach had his shirt off and was in his pajama pants that had the words Metallica on them. He had his blue prescription goggles on and was groggy as he opened the door trying to calm Firestorm from barking. "Hey Xander, D-Do Y-you uhh have school umm right uhh now." He said stuttering.
"Emily has gone missing. Can I use your bike outside to go find her?" He asked as he was holding in his emotions.
"Wait your girlfriend has gone missing?!" Zach said waking up. He then let Xander in as Zach went into his room to get changed. He came out with a solid blue baseball sleeve shirt on and his black trip pants. He had metal bars in both his hands.
"Where are we going first?" Zach said ready to help his friend.
"We're going to Wintergarden Park. That's where we were last night." Xander said.
"Let's ride." Zach said.
The metal bars were pegs for the bike as Zach unlocked his bike and put them on. Zach got on his bike and Xander stood on the pegs as he put his hands on his friend's shoulders for support as they started biking towards Wintergarden Park. During this entire ride Xander had mentioned what he and Emily had done last night. He mentioned everything with as much detail as he could. He even mentioned how Emily had mentioned she saw a monster that made her arm cold. He had made sure to mention even how they got on the bus that morning.
Zach looked down at his silver brace with the blue gemstone in it, "I wonder if I should try and get ahold of Tobias. Thanks to last night, I had found out that Tobias and I can communicate with our braces." Zach thought. He then reminded himself that Tobias was working at Rally's today and wasn't getting off for another three hours. "It might be another one of Mesogog's minions. I will have to keep Xander near me." Zach thought as he started peddling faster.
The two had gotten to the entrance of the park as Xander had a very weird feeling in his heart. "I feel Emily's presence. I don't know how to explain it but I can tell that she's still here." He said aloud. He quickly hopped off the bike and ran into the woods.
"Xander! Wait!" Zach yelled. But Xander just kept running.
Zach parked his bike as he began to chase after him into the park. Zach had lost track of Xander but had found the park ranger's cabin. He decided to go in there and get the park rangers help to track Xander before something bad happened to him. He knocked on the door as loud and fast as he could but there was no answer. "Hey open up! My friend might be in trouble!" Zach said pounding harder. It took him a second to realize it but the door had this weird cold feeling coming from it. "Why is the door so cold? It's pretty much summer." Zach thought. He grabbed the door handle and turned it as he slowly opened the door. He activated his dinosaur skin in case anything should happen. The door slowly creaked open as Zach saw two park rangers encased in ice and an icicle pierced through the skull of the dog. There was writing on the wall written in the dog's blood.
"Bring me the stone, little boy."
"Oh no." Zach said as he quickly turned around and ran to find Xander.
Xander was running as fast as he could as he finally got to the field of long grass and ferns. He was breathing heavily as he called out his girlfriend's name, "EMILY! EMILY! Where are you, Emily!?" He screamed. Tears running down his face as he started to break piece by piece. He started turning around in circles as he saw someone emerge from a tree. The figure was Emily. She was standing at the end of the path that turned into more trees. She started jumping up and down excited to see Xander.
"Emily!" Xander said as he started running towards her. She was waving at him to follow her as she darted into the forest. "Em! Wait!" Xander yelled out. He kept chasing her as she guided him through the forest until they came up to a cabin. Emily stood outside the cabin and Xander had finally caught up with her. He was breathing heavily as he began sweating.
"I knew you could make it." Emily said with a bright smile on her face. She then took her arms and crossed them over forming an X. Xander then did it too as he reached out to grab her hand. He then noticed that his hands went right through hers. Xander's eyes snapped open when he noticed this phenomenon.
"Why can't my hands touch yours?" Xander said scared. Emily just kept her tender loving smile on her face.
"This will be the last time we will ever be able to do this." Emily said in a sad tone but keeping that smile.
"…What do you mean by that…?" Xander said as he could feel his heart ripping.
"I'm happy for everything you have given me. My life was complete when I was with you. I only wished I could've stayed a little longer for us to grow up and become a family. I will be by your side from here on out and I'll be watching over you." Emily said as she wrapped her arms around him and this was the only time, he could actually feel her skin as she slowly vanished in his arms. As she began to vanish, she gave him her final words, "Remember to always be fearless. Fight against fear." She said as she vanished.
He then heard a sound in the cabin in front of him. The cabin was just a storage shed but he knew there was something else inside. He reached in his pocket as he pulled out the gemstone encased in the clear container. His arms shaking violently as he grabbed the handle and opened the door. He pushed it all the way inside as he saw a giant thing of ice and inside it was Emily Piers body. Her body was hunched back over with her mouth wide open and her face having the look of fear on it.
Xander finally broke as he fell to his knees looking at his girlfriend trapped in the ice. "No…No…This can't be happening…This can't be real…" Xander just couldn't keep himself together and he heard footsteps coming closer to him as he heard Zach's voice.
"Xander! Xand—" The voice stopped as Zach gotten to the entrance of the cabin as he saw his close friend on the floor balling his eyes out. Zach had looked up to see Emily in the ice. "Oh no." Zach said as he felt extreme sorrow for his friend. Zach then felt like he was being watched as he knew that whatever did this was close by. He grabbed Xander but Xander fought to break free.
"NO! I CAN'T JUST LEAVE HER HERE!" Xander said as he grabbed the hatchet in the cabin and hit the ice with it. He was hoping he could cause enough cracks to break the ice and bring her corpse with him for a proper burial. But the moment the hatchet hit the ice; it snapped in half. Zach didn't know what to say or do as he watch his friend falling even more apart. But he knew he had to do something.
He grabbed Xander's wrist and began dragging him out of the cabin as he tried to fight back. "I can't leave her! Emily! She's the only one who ever helped me fight against my fears! She has been there since we were kids! She helped me learn to be brave! The least I can do for her is free her from that ice!" Xander said. Zach had enough and threw him on the ground as he grabbed his friend.
"DO YOU WANT TO END UP LIKE HER?! There's a monster in this park and has already frozen the park rangers! We need to keep moving otherwise we'll die too! Do you think Emily wants you to end up like her?!" Zach said screaming at him. This was enough to break Xander out of his loss. Xander stood up as they were going to get ready to escape. But before they did Fridgia had caught up to them.
"I see the blue one is here as well. That will make this a lot more fun." She said to the two.
"A monster?!" Xander said surprised.
Zach stood in front of Xander, "If you want to harm him, you go through me first." He said with a protective look on his face.
"How about I go through you since your gem has bonded to your DNA." Fridgia said as she fired an icicle at Zach. Zach activated his hardened skin and grabbed the icicle with his hands, then spun around throwing the ice back at Fridgia. Fridgia dodged and Xander was shocked at what happened.
"Zach! What the hell did you just do?!" Xander said shocked at his friend's blue skin.
"Xander, I need you to stand right here and don't move. I'm going to take care of this quickly." Zach said as he raised his right hand and moved it across his upper chest to shoulder. The silver brace turned into the Triceratops head. But before Zach could transform, ice at his feet began to flow around his legs and then up to his arms. His entire body became frozen other than his head.
"How the hell did you trap me with your ice?!" Zach said struggling to break free. He then remembered when he caught the icicle. A piece of the ice had fallen to the ground and Fridgia just used those shards of ice to become a trap.
"You're not much of a threat if you can't move." Fridgia chuckled as she started walking towards Xander. Xander started to walk backwards until he fell onto the ground. "Give me that stone child. If you do, I won't kill you. Mostly because that gemstone hasn't bonded with you. Plus killing someone like you would be a bad thing on my consciousness since you can't even put up a fight let alone stand." She said to him.
"No! I'm going to die here! I don't want this!" Xander said as he kept the stone clutched in his hand and curled up in a ball. Memories of the time he spent with Zach and Emily began to flow his mind. The time the two went to the library to hang out, the time when Emily and Xander went to see Zach in the hospital when he had to have surgery done. But the memory that was really power was when Emily gave Xander his first kiss at the beach two summers ago in Maumee. Emily then had said something to him after she kissed him, "On the outside you're scared all the time. But I know deep down you have what it takes to be a person who can overcome fear. You just need to find that for yourself and if you'd like I can help you." She said to him.
Xander then felt someone grab his wrists and move them from his face. He looked up to see Emily holding his wrists, "I need you to stand up and fight Xander. You still have a life to live and I don't want to see you dead yet. You have the power needed to fight back against my killer. You can avenge my death but in order to do that I need you to stand. Stand up against your fear and stand up against this monster. Don't be afraid either, cause I'm right here next to you." She said as she kissed his forehead.
Xander then felt strength build up inside him as his fears began to fade away. He stood up with a serious look on his face. He then grabbed the case of the stone as hard as he could as it began to crack. The stone started glowing really bright as the case shattered leaving small cuts on his hand. Xander raised the stone in front of his face as he got a look at the glowing stone. "You want this stone; you can have it. Once you've made me take my last breath that is." Xander said with hatred fueling him up for Fridgia.
"I won't let you transform like the others." Fridgia said as she started forming icicles out of the ground in a line towards Xander. Xander felt something rising from his throat as he let out a roar that formed yellow waves that went straight towards the ice. His roar began to not only push back the ice but was shattering it to pieces. Fridgia had her hands outstretched trying to put more power into her ice but Xander's pain and emotions kept him yelling as he began to overpower her. Once his soundwaves had hit Fridgia she got sent flying backwards until she landed on the ground. Xander then looked at his trapped friend and roared at the ice shattering it and freeing him. Xander then stood in front of Zach.
"This bitch is mine." Xander said as he raised his left hand with the stone it and slammed it on his right wrist. The stone became a silver brace and then transformed into a head of a yellow pterodactyl. He then took his arms and crossed them with his left hand under his right. Xander saw Emily appear next to him with her hand on his.
"Show her what you can do when you aren't afraid." She said as she stayed where she was.
Xander then focused himself on Fridgia who was just now getting up. Xander took his left hand and turned it around as he pulled on the back of the Ptera head with his fingers.
"Dinothunder! Power Up!"
Xander then held his fingers from his left hand on his arm as he took his right arm and raised it into a straight line in front of him. He then ran his fingers up to his brace and pressed the red button. He then jumped backwards up in the air as his entire body below the neck changed and when he looked up from falling down, he got a yellow helmet with a black mouth of a Pterodactyl on it. Zach was surprised at what he saw.
Like Zach and Tobias's forms this one was yellow with the white claw marks on it and the footprint symbol on the chest. Xander held his hands out as he summoned out his weapons.
"Ptera Grips!"
He said as two Ptera blades with mouths appeared in his hands.
Fridgia fired off multiple balls of ice as he started slowly approaching her cutting through the ice. The more ice he cut through the brighter a glow the Ptera Grips had. Fridgia then stopped firing ice as she fired a beam of ice at him. Xander started dashing side to side avoiding it.
"The closer you get to me kid the easier it is to hit you! This isn't a game you can win!" Fridgia said.
"You're totally right." Xander said.
Xander jumped up into the air and started flying around at a fast speed that Fridgia couldn't keep up. Every ice beam she fired it would greatly miss her target. She then raised her hands as she slammed them onto the ground as spikes of ice started shooting out of the ground. Xander saw them coming as he would swerve around them getting closer to Fridgia. Fridgia then put up a wall around her filled with ice spikes. Xander then raised his Grips like knives as he stabbed them both into the spikes. The entire wall of ice shattered into bits as he came in close to Fridgia. Fridgia was now scared.
"How is someone like you able to break through my impenetrable ice?!" Fridgia said.
Xander opened the mouths of the grips as he had them bite into her arm and he flew higher up into the air. He then threw Fridgia high up into the air. The Ptera Grips began burning brighter. "This is the end of you." Xander said. The power that flowed into his grips dispersed all around him as he began to move faster in the air than ever before.
"Wing Fury!"
Emily and Xander said together.
Xander then flew and slashed at Fridgia's chest. He then backflipped in the air right after impact as he slashed her in the right shoulder and then flew straight back up slashing at the left shoulder. He then slashed at her back. He then soared right above her as he stabbed both of the Ptera Grips into her shoulders and the yellow power now wrapped around Fridgia as well as they came down like a meteor from the sky and into the ground. Fridgia gave out a final yell of defeat. As soon as they hit the ground Xander flew up as yellow light started erupting out of Fridgia's wounds and an explosion was made. The only thing left were the Ptera Grips on the ground. Xander then floated onto the ground as he began breathing a bit heavy.
"Power down." Xander said as he de-transformed.
He had his hands clutched still as he ran back to the cabin. Once there he saw the ice to greatly begin to melt and when it did Emily's body began to fall. Xander ran in and caught her body before it hit the ground. He rubbed his hand on her forehead. Zach caught up to him as he came and sat next to him. He wrapped his arm around Xander as his friend began to cry over Emily's body. Zach began crying with Xander as this was once a friend to him too. Sometime had passed and Xander decided to take her body to her parents. Emily's spirit was with them when the parents saw her body as Zach and Xander explained how a person in yellow fought a monster that killed Emily Piers. The parents couldn't believe what they heard but based on Xander's story and how Emily's body was freezing cold, they believed him.
Time had passed and it was about night time. Zach had called Tobias over as they both mentioned that Xander had the same power as them that had come from the gems. Each of them had mentioned that the stones hold some entity that is that of a mechanical dinosaur in them and from there on out called the stones Dino Gems. The next day would be Thursday and that was going to be the day Brett would explain to them everything that was going on.
Xander was still having to go through the loss of his girlfriend and went back home as the news began covering the story of the death of Emily Piers and the park rangers at Wintergarden. Xander's mom and his little brother Austin left him alone the rest of the night.
In Xander's room with it closing to midnight, Emily's spirit appeared to Xander who could not sleep. "Thank you Xander. I'm happy that you're okay." She said as she cuddled up next to him.
"This is going to be hard for me to get over." Xander said with a tear down his face.
"I don't know what you're going through but time heals all wounds." Emily said to him.
"Based on what Tobias said, Mesogog is the one to pay. I'm going to kill him. I won't let him take any more loved one's lives. Watch me Em, I'm going to get stronger so I can protect everyone's lives. With this power I will protect people from Mesogog." Xander said as he clenched his fist.
Emily placed her hands over his, "You won't be able to if you don't sleep. Good night my hero." She said as she kissed his forehead.
Xander closed his eyes as he tried to get a decent night's rest.