Me: Sorry for the slow update. I have homework. I am an academic
person so homework is my utmost priority. This chapter goes of on a tangent
a little so bear with me. I don't want to rush toward the 3rd lighthouse.
Do I?
Shade: The 3rd lighthouse must live up to the hype, man.
Me: Well. Sidequests wouldn't hurt. Would it?
Granite: If this sidequest is boring than don't do it.
Me: Oh come on. It's got a lot of action.
If you remember in the last chapter, I made the djinn talk and have personalities. I'm not going to continue that due to the hard work it takes to create different for each of the 72 djinn. For now only the Luna djinn will talk.
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Shadow and Luanora immediately stopped their childish fighting and jumped into Isaac's pack. The adepts' worries about not finding shelter dissipated. Finally they could calm themselves and have some rest for their next adventure. Everybody went to sleep except Ivan and Piers. Ivan sat at his own corner and read a book titled " the legendary Anemos civilization". He was at chapter 5 where the story was talking about Anemos sealing their powers to prevent human corruption. Piers was sitting there gazing at the stars and laying there like nothing bad was going to happen. Piers took a quick glance towards Ivan. He noticed Ivan was awake. He sparked a conversation by saying,
" What are you doing at this late hour? Usually I'm the one staying up late because I'm old and it's very hard to rest."
" Just reading an interesting book." Ivan quickly replied. His eyes were still looking at the small black text.
" How do you read in such terrible conditions? Based on my intuition the fire is going to burn out in 5 minutes."
" I just like reading. I suppose."
" What book are you reading?"
" The legendary Anemos civilization."
" Oh! That book was famous among the Lemurians."
" Really?"
" The Anemos civilization was the only country that surpassed Lemuria's wealth and might. It was said they were fueled by pure alchemy."
" I'm reading that part right now. Say, why doesn't the Anemos civilization exist today?"
" Good question. Even I'm not old enough to answer the question. The only person who could answer that question recently was King Hydros." Piers thought of the reverent king and how the heartless Conservato assassinated him in cold blood. Piers bottled his anger and surpressed all hatred from himself. He continued,
" I can only produce a conjecture. After Anemos witnessed the horror of the great Alchemy wars, they decided to take part in the seal of pure alchemy. It was said that without alchemy, Anemos couldn't sustain itself on Weyard. It either withered away or transported itself to a different place. I think the latter is correct seeing as that is how Alex believes it anyway."
" Do you think Sheba is an Anemos citizen? She does fit the description of what the legends say."
" I don't want to ponder that question right now." Suddenly the fire blew out and darkness veiled the cave. Ivan closed his book and was preparing to go to sleep. While he was asleep, he dreamt about his dream girl. Ivan had a serious desire for woman companion. He couldn't imagine who would the perfect woman be. He was vacillated between a blond haired and a red head. Suddenly a sharp jolt of pain woke up Ivan. Ivan looked around and noticed Piers having his hands behind his back and whistling like nothing happened. Ivan was angry and yelled softly (oxymoron),
" That hurt. What did you do that for?"
" You kept saying ' I want to have sex with a lady.' I thought you had more moral values."
" Haven't you noticed that were the only 2 people without a woman companion?"
" Yeah so."
" Even Garet has Jenna falling for him."
" Yeah so."
" I'm saying that it's time for me to get a girlfriend."
" You do notice that you're 15 years old."
" So what!"
" Ah! Never mind, horny Ivan."
" I just want a woman who appreciates my well-being."
" Yeah whatever. I wish you luck because you need some."
" Are you insulting me?"
" Well maybe you should be concentrating on more pertinent issues such as going to sleep than thinking of ladies."
" You woke me up from my sleep, damnit."
" Sorry, I just had to teach you a lesson."
" Say, did you ever marry?"
" Single for 500 years."
" Damn! 500 years without a woman. I feel sorry for you man."
" Don't feel sorry. It's time to go to sleep."
" Fine. I have nothing else to do (but be like Sain in fire emblem)."
Silence befell the crew. Hours passed but the moon hadn't shone bright in the sky yet. Sheba was cozy resting in the muscular and warm arms of Felix. She cuddled closer to Felix's chest. Felix got the vibe and held her tighter. They knew each other were awake so both of them opened their eyes. They gave a long kiss to each other. After an obscenely long time, Felix spoke softly with a voice as smooth as flowing water,
" You don't know how much I missed since you were gone. I was nearly heartbroken when that bastard took you away merely as a tool for his aims. Sheba, I can't describe the bond we share between. When that bond was broken, my life was shattered." Felix paused and continued,
" I don't want to lose you again." Sheba crept even closer to Felix and replied,
" I promise but you must promise me that I won't lose you."
" Deal."
" Thank you."
" The moon is approaching. Should we wake the others up?"
" Let us enjoy the moment for awhile. We can wait."
Just then everybody woke up to the soft conservation by the two lovebirds. Felix and Sheba pretended nothing happened and moved away from each other. Garet gave a loud yawn and it caused everybody to come to his or her senses. Everybody adorned their armor and weapons and began to start a new day in their adventure.
Felix took out his map and glanced quickly for their next location. The next town was a treacherous 25 miles away. It would probably take a whole day to walk the distance. Felix told everybody that the next town was called Azeme which was closer than their real destination, Congo. Garet took the map and made sure to check for any careless errors. He yelled,
" Man I know a shortcut. If we cut through here, we can skip Azeme and go to Congo."
" Do we trust you, Garet? No." Ivan said mockingly. Mia then chimed in,
" Maybe we should give Garet a chance to prove himself. After all Felix did make a mistake that nearly cost us our lives." Felix glared at Mia for her nasty comments. Isaac noticed the anger bottled in Felix's rage. He stepped in and said,
" Ivan can you check the map and tell us where to go?" Felix snapped,
" So you don't believe in my skills?" Isaac quickly replied,
" No, no, no I just want a little insurance before we set off." Ivan made his decision and pronounced to everybody,
" I go with Felix's path. It seems much safer than Garet's route. Garet expects us to cross over mountain ranges." Garet blushed at his blunders but pretended to be headstrong and said,
" Felix's way is a pussy method. My way is the man's method." Felix snapped rhetorically,
" Are you a man, Garet?" Garet again reaching a boiling point but Jenna scolded Garet. Garet listened obediently. The adepts had no choice but to follow Felix's way again. They trudged along the cold, snowy weather. The blizzard churned the snow so much that it blinded the adepts' vision. It was hard to see even a yard ahead of them. They held hands to prevent them from getting lost. Whenever the adepts got really cold, Garet would use his new technique din's fire to warm the surrounding air. With this strategy, the adepts quickly made lost ground. Garet finally tired out his psynergy and shouted,
" Damn! My psynergy is strained. Who's got the psy crystals?" Everybody turned their heads but made no sound because they couldn't hear him. Piers noticed something in the distance. He pointed to a black shadow about 50 yards away. Only Felix noticed the hand signals produced by Piers. The others were trying to interpret what Garet was saying. Piers told Felix in close range,
" There's a shadow very close to here. It might be a good place to stay for tonight." Felix gazed at the distance and then looked towards the sky. He replied,
" Even though snow is blocking my view, I can still tell it is daytime. We must proceed to the next town." Piers prudently replied,
" We can should head there anyway because it might provide shelter for us from the cold. Besides were heading that direction anyway."
" Then why did you make such a big fuss about it?"
" Telling somebody some facts isn't a crime."
" Never mind. This conversation is closed. We'll be heading there." The adepts continued to run and finally reached that shady spot where Piers was pointing. The shadow turned into an expansive forest. The opening was dark and eerie and looked very foreboding. The forest was too wide to walk around it so they decided to go into the forest.
The forest was dark, very dark. The snow couldn't penetrate the outer covering of the trees so temperature was quite comfortable. Garet commented,
" It's sure warm in here. Yet this place is kind of spooky. We should walk out of here immediately." Felix replied,
" I didn't you were afraid of the dark, Garet." Garet decided not to get angry and calmly answered,
" I'm not afraid of dark. Man, I wouldn't be scared if we were ambushed by hordes of human-eating eagles." Just then red eyes appeared everywhere. Even though the forest was dark, the adepts could make out that there were shadows in the foliage. Jenna whispered in Garet's eye,
" Nice going loudmouth." Garet sulked and apologized,
" Sorry Jenna."
Suddenly more red eyes appeared. The shadows began to move erratically in all directions. The sounds were like a bird flapping its wings rapidly. Garet adorned his Din's glove while Felix, Piers, Ivan, and Isaac took out their swords. Sheba, Jenna and Mia were preparing their bodies for conjuring an onslaught of psynergies. The shadows came out of their hiding places and made a loud screeching noise. The noise was so loud that it disrupted the concentration of the adepts. The shadows rushed into the open. The Shadows, which were now human-eating eagles (how ironic?) came swooping down for the meal. Garet yelled,
Clear the space for me!" The others listened and gave him some room. The eagles stupidly flew towards Garet with their beaks ready to peck Garet alive. Garet snickered and shouted,
" Din's Fire!" His hand began to glow in a golden color. The glove emitted a wave of fire. Garet took this as a cue and leaped into the air and pounded his fist towards the ground. The fire engulfed the eagles and burned them into deep fried chicken (yum. I'm hungry). The owls' bodies dropped onto the hard ground. Garet gazed at the carnage and did his victory dance. Garet was singing obscenely,
" Wow! Look at me now. Yeah! Who's the man?" The adepts weren't really watching his dance because another set of red eyes began to shimmer in the night. Garet didn't notice a thing. The eagles took this as their chance. They swooped again and dived towards Garet with their beaks ready to munch. Ivan steeped out and conjured,
" Spark plasma!" Ivan's hands were raised. Sparks of thunder were conjured by Ivan and struck the eagles with such static that they were paralyzed. Some of the eagles dodged the attack and managed to dive their sharp beaks into Garet's skin. Garet tried to shake the birds of but his energy began to wane. His vision turned blurry. The last thing he saw was big eagles about the size of a car with a wingspan of 30 feet began eating his skin. Isaac came to his best friend's aid and slashed his Sol blade wildly at the monstrosities. The birds took notice of Isaac. They left Garet to rot and attacked Isaac with their claws. Felix, Piers, and Ivan stood at Isaac's side and brandished their weapons. Mia who was behind the men shouted,
" Duck!" The eagles dived their claws down upon the adepts. They narrowly missed Felix's head but it did managed to rip the spiked part of Felix's hair. Felix mocked,
" Damn you birds! You just took away my spiked hair which was a sign of my coolness." The birds didn't care and made a return trip with their claws lower for the kill. Mia aimed her hand at the birds and conjured ice missile. Shards of ice were propelled towards the eagles. The eagles stopped and used their wings to blow away the shards harmlessly. The birds began their kamikaze path towards Mia. Mia was preparing another psyergy attack but the birds were moving too fast. She couldn't aim. She stared death in it's eyes and prepared for the worst when suddenly Isaac stepped in front of her. His Sol blade began to emit a whitish glow. Isaac knew what to do. He raised his blade to emit the white light, which blinded the eagles' sight. The eagles shook off the effects of the blinding light but they didn't know what was going to happen next. Isaac jumped 15 feet in the air. His blade let out a howl and a meteor was conjured in the sky. The meteor in sync with Isaac's motions came crashing down onto one of the eagle's exposed body. The eagle vaporized into nothingness. The other eagles decided not to mess with Isaac and began pestering Piers, Ivan and Felix.
During this time, Jenna ran to Garet's aid. She held her hands and channeled healing flames into Garet's body. The flesh that were torn away by the huge birds were starting renew themselves. The blood that have been lost were slowly being replaced. Jenna continued holding her hands hoping it wasn't too late. She was starting to worry because her psynergy was draining quickly and Garet hasn't made a single sound. She cried,
" Come on Garet! Please don't die on me. Please! Please!" She wept with tears so profuse that it could fill a bathtub (bad analogy I know). The flames emitting from her body waned and she laid her head on top of Garet's body crying until the dawn of death. Suddenly Garet began to grumble. He slowly lifted his head and opened his eyes. His vision at first was blurry but his eyes quickly readjusted. He then focused upon the sexy, purple-haired woman who was crying on top of his abdomen. He smoothly said,
" I'm sorry for causing you much heartbreak? How can I make it up to you?" Garet began to stroke Jenna's long, smooth, crimson purple hair. Jenna couldn't believe what she just heard. She looked up and saw Garet's radiant smile. She raised her head and slapped Garet in the face.
" Why didn't you show you're alive earlier? You know I don't like to cry." Garet replied,
" Woah! Woah! Didn't I apologize already? What can I do for you?"
" By doing this." She grabbed Garet's face and kissed Garet for an obscenely long time. Garet just sat there enjoying the moment. In the corner of his eye, he saw Felix, Ivan, Piers, and Isaac battling five eagles. He gave a slight push and said,
" We can do this some other time. Maybe I should go help the guys out?" Jenna replied,
" Fine! Have it your way. Promise not to do anything stupid."
" I won't" Garet stood up and took out his Excalibur ready to slay some eagles for dinner.
Ivan was battling for his life. The birds seemed to target him instead of the others. He thought to himself.
" Why are they trying to kill me? Oh well it's not time for me to think." One of the birds flapped it's wing and smacked Ivan across the field. Ivan's body traveled 20 feet in the air until it landed on top of a tree's root. Ivan felt immense pain in his spinal cord. He tried to shake of the pain but to no avail. He glanced towards the sky and noticed the birds circling in the sky preparing to launch a vicious attack towards him. He yelled,
" I hope this works. Tempest!" A huge tornado engulfed the birds and the birds were blown erratically in all directions. One of the eagles foresaw the attack and made a nose dive towards Ivan. Ivan tried to reach for his Tisiphone edge which were a mere inches from his hand. Ivan couldn't move his arm. He was helpless in defending himself. He imagined death grabbing his soul.
Suddenly Piers leaped into the air and struck down the rogue bird with a swift upward slash. The eagle screeched in pain and flew limply away to heal it's wounds. Piers toss a potion towards Ivan and said,
" Drink this." Ivan replied,
" I have trouble moving my arms. Can't you just cast pure ply on me?"
" It's a waste of psynergy."
" Fuck you! Heal me damnit!"
" Fine, fine." Piers took back his potion and cast pure ply. A fairy with angelic wings appeared and sprinkled healing dust upon Ivan's body. Ivan stood up and stretched out his back. He said,
" Thanks man. Let's go"
Isaac and Felix were standing back-to-back dodging the ferocious attacks from 3 hungry eagles. Felix told Isaac,
" I don't think we'll last much longer unless you got some legendary powers that you haven't show us."
" Don't worry, I got it all covered."
The eagles were restless. They pecked and flapped until Isaac or Felix made a wrong move. Felix slashed to protect himself from a dangerously close claw coming for him. Isaac front flipped and back flipped causing the birds to get dizzy. Isaac held one of his hands out and cast stone spire. Isaac taught himself the powered up version of stone spire. Instead of shooting out one spire, it shot a relentless stream of spires. Isaac yelled,
" Take this!" His arm was veiled by Venus psynergy and he shot out sharp spires towards the enemy. The eagles were nimble and dodged most of them but Isaac kept the stream going and eventually tore them apart limb by limb. Feathers scattered in the air and it created the illusion of snowing feathers. Isaac turned his head around to check on everybody. It looked like everybody was fine except Sheba. Isaac searched frantically for Sheba. Suddenly he heard a girlish scream. He ran towards the scream and noticed Sheba battling for her life with her dinky rod. The eagles took this as easy prey and commenced their deadly triangle attack (idea from Fire Emblem). The birds flew around in circles to confuse Sheba. Sheba used spark plasma but her thunderbolts couldn't hit its target. The birds were moving in supersonic speeds. Isaac ran towards Sheba and pushed her away from a certain death. One of the birds dived sharply down while the other birds flapped their wings to create gusts of wind to distract Isaac.
Isaac recovered from the high-speed gusts blowing against his body. It felt like rocks pounding with such force that it could knock the air out of him. It was already too late, the bird swooped 200 miles per hour and smashed it's beak through Isaac's heart. It pierced the raw skin and tore his heart. Everybody noticed especially Mia who screamed,
" No!!!! This can't be happening!" Mia dashed as quickly as she could. The bird who tore open Isaac's chest released it's beak and began pecking at Isaac's body. Mia made it just in time to attract the attention of these mindless birds.
Isaac used his new technique even at the brink of death. His heart mended quickly and all lost tissue and blood were replenished. Isaac jumped to his feet and was ready to unleash another set of psynergies. Out of nowhere, an owl of normal size, appeared. The owl glistened with golden wings and shined radiant light into the atmosphere. The eagles were scared and flew away immediately trying to avoid the bright light. Me: Who's that mysterious owl? Tune in next time to find out. If it's going to slow, notify me. I will speed it up if you request it.
Shade: The 3rd lighthouse must live up to the hype, man.
Me: Well. Sidequests wouldn't hurt. Would it?
Granite: If this sidequest is boring than don't do it.
Me: Oh come on. It's got a lot of action.
If you remember in the last chapter, I made the djinn talk and have personalities. I'm not going to continue that due to the hard work it takes to create different for each of the 72 djinn. For now only the Luna djinn will talk.
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Shadow and Luanora immediately stopped their childish fighting and jumped into Isaac's pack. The adepts' worries about not finding shelter dissipated. Finally they could calm themselves and have some rest for their next adventure. Everybody went to sleep except Ivan and Piers. Ivan sat at his own corner and read a book titled " the legendary Anemos civilization". He was at chapter 5 where the story was talking about Anemos sealing their powers to prevent human corruption. Piers was sitting there gazing at the stars and laying there like nothing bad was going to happen. Piers took a quick glance towards Ivan. He noticed Ivan was awake. He sparked a conversation by saying,
" What are you doing at this late hour? Usually I'm the one staying up late because I'm old and it's very hard to rest."
" Just reading an interesting book." Ivan quickly replied. His eyes were still looking at the small black text.
" How do you read in such terrible conditions? Based on my intuition the fire is going to burn out in 5 minutes."
" I just like reading. I suppose."
" What book are you reading?"
" The legendary Anemos civilization."
" Oh! That book was famous among the Lemurians."
" Really?"
" The Anemos civilization was the only country that surpassed Lemuria's wealth and might. It was said they were fueled by pure alchemy."
" I'm reading that part right now. Say, why doesn't the Anemos civilization exist today?"
" Good question. Even I'm not old enough to answer the question. The only person who could answer that question recently was King Hydros." Piers thought of the reverent king and how the heartless Conservato assassinated him in cold blood. Piers bottled his anger and surpressed all hatred from himself. He continued,
" I can only produce a conjecture. After Anemos witnessed the horror of the great Alchemy wars, they decided to take part in the seal of pure alchemy. It was said that without alchemy, Anemos couldn't sustain itself on Weyard. It either withered away or transported itself to a different place. I think the latter is correct seeing as that is how Alex believes it anyway."
" Do you think Sheba is an Anemos citizen? She does fit the description of what the legends say."
" I don't want to ponder that question right now." Suddenly the fire blew out and darkness veiled the cave. Ivan closed his book and was preparing to go to sleep. While he was asleep, he dreamt about his dream girl. Ivan had a serious desire for woman companion. He couldn't imagine who would the perfect woman be. He was vacillated between a blond haired and a red head. Suddenly a sharp jolt of pain woke up Ivan. Ivan looked around and noticed Piers having his hands behind his back and whistling like nothing happened. Ivan was angry and yelled softly (oxymoron),
" That hurt. What did you do that for?"
" You kept saying ' I want to have sex with a lady.' I thought you had more moral values."
" Haven't you noticed that were the only 2 people without a woman companion?"
" Yeah so."
" Even Garet has Jenna falling for him."
" Yeah so."
" I'm saying that it's time for me to get a girlfriend."
" You do notice that you're 15 years old."
" So what!"
" Ah! Never mind, horny Ivan."
" I just want a woman who appreciates my well-being."
" Yeah whatever. I wish you luck because you need some."
" Are you insulting me?"
" Well maybe you should be concentrating on more pertinent issues such as going to sleep than thinking of ladies."
" You woke me up from my sleep, damnit."
" Sorry, I just had to teach you a lesson."
" Say, did you ever marry?"
" Single for 500 years."
" Damn! 500 years without a woman. I feel sorry for you man."
" Don't feel sorry. It's time to go to sleep."
" Fine. I have nothing else to do (but be like Sain in fire emblem)."
Silence befell the crew. Hours passed but the moon hadn't shone bright in the sky yet. Sheba was cozy resting in the muscular and warm arms of Felix. She cuddled closer to Felix's chest. Felix got the vibe and held her tighter. They knew each other were awake so both of them opened their eyes. They gave a long kiss to each other. After an obscenely long time, Felix spoke softly with a voice as smooth as flowing water,
" You don't know how much I missed since you were gone. I was nearly heartbroken when that bastard took you away merely as a tool for his aims. Sheba, I can't describe the bond we share between. When that bond was broken, my life was shattered." Felix paused and continued,
" I don't want to lose you again." Sheba crept even closer to Felix and replied,
" I promise but you must promise me that I won't lose you."
" Deal."
" Thank you."
" The moon is approaching. Should we wake the others up?"
" Let us enjoy the moment for awhile. We can wait."
Just then everybody woke up to the soft conservation by the two lovebirds. Felix and Sheba pretended nothing happened and moved away from each other. Garet gave a loud yawn and it caused everybody to come to his or her senses. Everybody adorned their armor and weapons and began to start a new day in their adventure.
Felix took out his map and glanced quickly for their next location. The next town was a treacherous 25 miles away. It would probably take a whole day to walk the distance. Felix told everybody that the next town was called Azeme which was closer than their real destination, Congo. Garet took the map and made sure to check for any careless errors. He yelled,
" Man I know a shortcut. If we cut through here, we can skip Azeme and go to Congo."
" Do we trust you, Garet? No." Ivan said mockingly. Mia then chimed in,
" Maybe we should give Garet a chance to prove himself. After all Felix did make a mistake that nearly cost us our lives." Felix glared at Mia for her nasty comments. Isaac noticed the anger bottled in Felix's rage. He stepped in and said,
" Ivan can you check the map and tell us where to go?" Felix snapped,
" So you don't believe in my skills?" Isaac quickly replied,
" No, no, no I just want a little insurance before we set off." Ivan made his decision and pronounced to everybody,
" I go with Felix's path. It seems much safer than Garet's route. Garet expects us to cross over mountain ranges." Garet blushed at his blunders but pretended to be headstrong and said,
" Felix's way is a pussy method. My way is the man's method." Felix snapped rhetorically,
" Are you a man, Garet?" Garet again reaching a boiling point but Jenna scolded Garet. Garet listened obediently. The adepts had no choice but to follow Felix's way again. They trudged along the cold, snowy weather. The blizzard churned the snow so much that it blinded the adepts' vision. It was hard to see even a yard ahead of them. They held hands to prevent them from getting lost. Whenever the adepts got really cold, Garet would use his new technique din's fire to warm the surrounding air. With this strategy, the adepts quickly made lost ground. Garet finally tired out his psynergy and shouted,
" Damn! My psynergy is strained. Who's got the psy crystals?" Everybody turned their heads but made no sound because they couldn't hear him. Piers noticed something in the distance. He pointed to a black shadow about 50 yards away. Only Felix noticed the hand signals produced by Piers. The others were trying to interpret what Garet was saying. Piers told Felix in close range,
" There's a shadow very close to here. It might be a good place to stay for tonight." Felix gazed at the distance and then looked towards the sky. He replied,
" Even though snow is blocking my view, I can still tell it is daytime. We must proceed to the next town." Piers prudently replied,
" We can should head there anyway because it might provide shelter for us from the cold. Besides were heading that direction anyway."
" Then why did you make such a big fuss about it?"
" Telling somebody some facts isn't a crime."
" Never mind. This conversation is closed. We'll be heading there." The adepts continued to run and finally reached that shady spot where Piers was pointing. The shadow turned into an expansive forest. The opening was dark and eerie and looked very foreboding. The forest was too wide to walk around it so they decided to go into the forest.
The forest was dark, very dark. The snow couldn't penetrate the outer covering of the trees so temperature was quite comfortable. Garet commented,
" It's sure warm in here. Yet this place is kind of spooky. We should walk out of here immediately." Felix replied,
" I didn't you were afraid of the dark, Garet." Garet decided not to get angry and calmly answered,
" I'm not afraid of dark. Man, I wouldn't be scared if we were ambushed by hordes of human-eating eagles." Just then red eyes appeared everywhere. Even though the forest was dark, the adepts could make out that there were shadows in the foliage. Jenna whispered in Garet's eye,
" Nice going loudmouth." Garet sulked and apologized,
" Sorry Jenna."
Suddenly more red eyes appeared. The shadows began to move erratically in all directions. The sounds were like a bird flapping its wings rapidly. Garet adorned his Din's glove while Felix, Piers, Ivan, and Isaac took out their swords. Sheba, Jenna and Mia were preparing their bodies for conjuring an onslaught of psynergies. The shadows came out of their hiding places and made a loud screeching noise. The noise was so loud that it disrupted the concentration of the adepts. The shadows rushed into the open. The Shadows, which were now human-eating eagles (how ironic?) came swooping down for the meal. Garet yelled,
Clear the space for me!" The others listened and gave him some room. The eagles stupidly flew towards Garet with their beaks ready to peck Garet alive. Garet snickered and shouted,
" Din's Fire!" His hand began to glow in a golden color. The glove emitted a wave of fire. Garet took this as a cue and leaped into the air and pounded his fist towards the ground. The fire engulfed the eagles and burned them into deep fried chicken (yum. I'm hungry). The owls' bodies dropped onto the hard ground. Garet gazed at the carnage and did his victory dance. Garet was singing obscenely,
" Wow! Look at me now. Yeah! Who's the man?" The adepts weren't really watching his dance because another set of red eyes began to shimmer in the night. Garet didn't notice a thing. The eagles took this as their chance. They swooped again and dived towards Garet with their beaks ready to munch. Ivan steeped out and conjured,
" Spark plasma!" Ivan's hands were raised. Sparks of thunder were conjured by Ivan and struck the eagles with such static that they were paralyzed. Some of the eagles dodged the attack and managed to dive their sharp beaks into Garet's skin. Garet tried to shake the birds of but his energy began to wane. His vision turned blurry. The last thing he saw was big eagles about the size of a car with a wingspan of 30 feet began eating his skin. Isaac came to his best friend's aid and slashed his Sol blade wildly at the monstrosities. The birds took notice of Isaac. They left Garet to rot and attacked Isaac with their claws. Felix, Piers, and Ivan stood at Isaac's side and brandished their weapons. Mia who was behind the men shouted,
" Duck!" The eagles dived their claws down upon the adepts. They narrowly missed Felix's head but it did managed to rip the spiked part of Felix's hair. Felix mocked,
" Damn you birds! You just took away my spiked hair which was a sign of my coolness." The birds didn't care and made a return trip with their claws lower for the kill. Mia aimed her hand at the birds and conjured ice missile. Shards of ice were propelled towards the eagles. The eagles stopped and used their wings to blow away the shards harmlessly. The birds began their kamikaze path towards Mia. Mia was preparing another psyergy attack but the birds were moving too fast. She couldn't aim. She stared death in it's eyes and prepared for the worst when suddenly Isaac stepped in front of her. His Sol blade began to emit a whitish glow. Isaac knew what to do. He raised his blade to emit the white light, which blinded the eagles' sight. The eagles shook off the effects of the blinding light but they didn't know what was going to happen next. Isaac jumped 15 feet in the air. His blade let out a howl and a meteor was conjured in the sky. The meteor in sync with Isaac's motions came crashing down onto one of the eagle's exposed body. The eagle vaporized into nothingness. The other eagles decided not to mess with Isaac and began pestering Piers, Ivan and Felix.
During this time, Jenna ran to Garet's aid. She held her hands and channeled healing flames into Garet's body. The flesh that were torn away by the huge birds were starting renew themselves. The blood that have been lost were slowly being replaced. Jenna continued holding her hands hoping it wasn't too late. She was starting to worry because her psynergy was draining quickly and Garet hasn't made a single sound. She cried,
" Come on Garet! Please don't die on me. Please! Please!" She wept with tears so profuse that it could fill a bathtub (bad analogy I know). The flames emitting from her body waned and she laid her head on top of Garet's body crying until the dawn of death. Suddenly Garet began to grumble. He slowly lifted his head and opened his eyes. His vision at first was blurry but his eyes quickly readjusted. He then focused upon the sexy, purple-haired woman who was crying on top of his abdomen. He smoothly said,
" I'm sorry for causing you much heartbreak? How can I make it up to you?" Garet began to stroke Jenna's long, smooth, crimson purple hair. Jenna couldn't believe what she just heard. She looked up and saw Garet's radiant smile. She raised her head and slapped Garet in the face.
" Why didn't you show you're alive earlier? You know I don't like to cry." Garet replied,
" Woah! Woah! Didn't I apologize already? What can I do for you?"
" By doing this." She grabbed Garet's face and kissed Garet for an obscenely long time. Garet just sat there enjoying the moment. In the corner of his eye, he saw Felix, Ivan, Piers, and Isaac battling five eagles. He gave a slight push and said,
" We can do this some other time. Maybe I should go help the guys out?" Jenna replied,
" Fine! Have it your way. Promise not to do anything stupid."
" I won't" Garet stood up and took out his Excalibur ready to slay some eagles for dinner.
Ivan was battling for his life. The birds seemed to target him instead of the others. He thought to himself.
" Why are they trying to kill me? Oh well it's not time for me to think." One of the birds flapped it's wing and smacked Ivan across the field. Ivan's body traveled 20 feet in the air until it landed on top of a tree's root. Ivan felt immense pain in his spinal cord. He tried to shake of the pain but to no avail. He glanced towards the sky and noticed the birds circling in the sky preparing to launch a vicious attack towards him. He yelled,
" I hope this works. Tempest!" A huge tornado engulfed the birds and the birds were blown erratically in all directions. One of the eagles foresaw the attack and made a nose dive towards Ivan. Ivan tried to reach for his Tisiphone edge which were a mere inches from his hand. Ivan couldn't move his arm. He was helpless in defending himself. He imagined death grabbing his soul.
Suddenly Piers leaped into the air and struck down the rogue bird with a swift upward slash. The eagle screeched in pain and flew limply away to heal it's wounds. Piers toss a potion towards Ivan and said,
" Drink this." Ivan replied,
" I have trouble moving my arms. Can't you just cast pure ply on me?"
" It's a waste of psynergy."
" Fuck you! Heal me damnit!"
" Fine, fine." Piers took back his potion and cast pure ply. A fairy with angelic wings appeared and sprinkled healing dust upon Ivan's body. Ivan stood up and stretched out his back. He said,
" Thanks man. Let's go"
Isaac and Felix were standing back-to-back dodging the ferocious attacks from 3 hungry eagles. Felix told Isaac,
" I don't think we'll last much longer unless you got some legendary powers that you haven't show us."
" Don't worry, I got it all covered."
The eagles were restless. They pecked and flapped until Isaac or Felix made a wrong move. Felix slashed to protect himself from a dangerously close claw coming for him. Isaac front flipped and back flipped causing the birds to get dizzy. Isaac held one of his hands out and cast stone spire. Isaac taught himself the powered up version of stone spire. Instead of shooting out one spire, it shot a relentless stream of spires. Isaac yelled,
" Take this!" His arm was veiled by Venus psynergy and he shot out sharp spires towards the enemy. The eagles were nimble and dodged most of them but Isaac kept the stream going and eventually tore them apart limb by limb. Feathers scattered in the air and it created the illusion of snowing feathers. Isaac turned his head around to check on everybody. It looked like everybody was fine except Sheba. Isaac searched frantically for Sheba. Suddenly he heard a girlish scream. He ran towards the scream and noticed Sheba battling for her life with her dinky rod. The eagles took this as easy prey and commenced their deadly triangle attack (idea from Fire Emblem). The birds flew around in circles to confuse Sheba. Sheba used spark plasma but her thunderbolts couldn't hit its target. The birds were moving in supersonic speeds. Isaac ran towards Sheba and pushed her away from a certain death. One of the birds dived sharply down while the other birds flapped their wings to create gusts of wind to distract Isaac.
Isaac recovered from the high-speed gusts blowing against his body. It felt like rocks pounding with such force that it could knock the air out of him. It was already too late, the bird swooped 200 miles per hour and smashed it's beak through Isaac's heart. It pierced the raw skin and tore his heart. Everybody noticed especially Mia who screamed,
" No!!!! This can't be happening!" Mia dashed as quickly as she could. The bird who tore open Isaac's chest released it's beak and began pecking at Isaac's body. Mia made it just in time to attract the attention of these mindless birds.
Isaac used his new technique even at the brink of death. His heart mended quickly and all lost tissue and blood were replenished. Isaac jumped to his feet and was ready to unleash another set of psynergies. Out of nowhere, an owl of normal size, appeared. The owl glistened with golden wings and shined radiant light into the atmosphere. The eagles were scared and flew away immediately trying to avoid the bright light. Me: Who's that mysterious owl? Tune in next time to find out. If it's going to slow, notify me. I will speed it up if you request it.
