-In the middle of the Amazon Rainforest on a river rafting trip-

Windsbane- Hey Zephyr enjoying the Amazon rafting trip?

Zephyr- You bet! Bye the way do you think we have to worry about Jeremy and his gang anymore?

Windsbane- Knowing how stubborn I made his personality he will keep at it.

-Suddenly another boat armed with water balloons appears behind us-

Terry- Okay now we got you two right where we want you!

Janet- These balloons are filled with stinksap (stinksap is just a mix of very gross smelling things). Try and get the smell out of your clothes. Well you can't.

Daniel- Now you guys pay for our humiliation!

Jeremy- Ready guys. Fire stinksap balloons.

- Zephyr braced himself to be hit with the stink balloons while I reached into my pocket and pulled out a silver flute-

Ch 4: Show Down:

Zephyr Vs The Guardian of Winds

I opened my eyes to find myself in a completely new place. All around me were clouds and the breeze blew gently with a scent of roses. It looked like heaven to me. Suddenly a winged figure came out of no where. The first thing I noticed were her transparent blue wings. She was about 5 feet and 8 inches tall and looked about 16 years old. There were golden bracelets around her wrists and ankles that looked like they couldn't be made by any mortal. Pure white hair flowed down to her knees. This woman wore a light pink skirt with a violet vest that. The figure was an enchanting beauty, an almost ethic sight. She began to speak to me:

"I am Kaze the guardian of winds. Are you a wind adept?"

"Yes," I replied. "My name is Zephyr."

"Are you here for alchemy's power?"

"Wait a second. What is alchemy anyways? And where is here?"

"You honestly don't know what alchemy is? It is the composition of the four elements that make up everything in this world. The power of adepts allows them to manipulate elements; however most of this power was sealed long ago into the elemental stars when wars for alchemy's full power erupted all over Weyard."

"I have heard stories of something like this, but I always thought it was a legend. Anyways where are we?"

"This is Cerenia the island of the sky. It exists in the clouds high above Weyard."

"Now how do I get back to the ground?"

"You must fight me first. Will you take this challenge, because if you don't you can't get back. If you win this battle you will gain some of alchemy's lost power and some of my own."

"I guess I have no choice. Bring it on!"

"Very well, I shall test your strength."

I drew my Hypnos sword and Kaze took out a bow and arrows. I faced her by starting with an astral blast. She flew up and my attack missed. She quickly took out an arrow and shot me straight in the back. I felt a mild pain for a second, but then a massive charge of electricity went surging through my body.

"Ahh!" I screamed in pain.

I was on the ground and got back up and she shot another arrow at me. This one I dodged by rolling out of the way at the last second and sent a Blue Bolt attack her way. It missed so I did a vertical jump aimed straight at Kaze and slashed her left leg. She fell and I started to hack at her wings hoping to keep her on the ground, but every time I hit they healed back.

"You are not too bad," said an excited Kaze. "But you can't harm my wings. They are fused with a healing psynergy so powerful that they can't be destroyed."

The fight resumed and now I was stuck on the defensive. Kaze kept sending arrow after arrow at me. I was tiring but refused to give up. I tried to aim another Blue Bolt at her, but nothing hit as she dodged at impossible speed. I noticed that her metal arrow heads stuck out of her quiver and that gave me an idea. I aimed a large Plasma attack slightly in front of her. When she went to fly out of the way the plasma bolt struck her arrow head causing the energy to get conducted to her. She fell to the ground as the electric current pulsed through her body.

"I'm surprised you did something so clever. You are a worthy opponent," she said panting. "I'll show you respect by unleashing my strongest attack."

The clouds around us started to turn black as she flew very high into the sky. Within a millisecond the largest bolt of lightning ever came down from the sky straight at me.

"Raikukage Bolt! Strike of the thunder beast's shadow!" she yelled.

I watched in horror as the gigantic bolt morphed into an enormous wolf. It came sizzling down from the heavens and struck me right in the chest. I started to black out and felt like I was going to die. Memories came flooding back: being teased by Jeremy's gang, the first time I read someone's mind in a card game, a cool breeze blowing when I was hot, my house in Garoh, creating a tornado when I was pricked by a rose in a town resident's garden, meeting adepts for the first time, finding out about psynergy and my determination to beat Airs Rock and prove to myself and the people of Garoh (especially Jeremy and his gang) that I was special. That was it. That thought woke me up.

"What," cried an astonished Kaze. "No one has ever stood against that attack before. You may just be the one to break the seal after thousands of years. Let us continue our battle."

She spoke strongly, but I could see signs of her weakening. I rushed her with a combination of sword strikes while she desperately tried to block them with her bow. I got a wide slice at her chest. It was a clean cut, but no blood came out instead it just cut her flesh. I guess I should have expected that since she isn't human. Thinking fast I sent a wave of Wind Slashes at her blowing her back quite a ways and making more cuts on her body. I was deciding what to do next, when I heard a faint voice:

"Hey Zephyr."

"What, who said that?"

"It's me Cloud."

"Wait you guys can talk!"

"Yes but right now that isn't important right now," I heard Cloud say.

Draft added, "Listen you can use our powers on her if you unleash us and then you can combine our powers to summon a stronger entity called Atalanta."

"Okay thanks."

I decided to test this ability and just in time. I unleashed Draft and his wall of wind blocked a shower of Kaze's arrows. I quickly casted an impact spell on myself to increase my strength while the barrier was still up. Next Kaze came hurtling toward me trying to shoot Sonic Slashes from a close range. This was the perfect time to unleash Cloud to mess up her aim. As soon as Cloud was out a thick fog appeared and Kaze couldn't see (I wouldn't have been able to either if I hadn't learned reveal). I charged up and shot a massive Astral Blast straight at her head. The sonic stars cut up her face pretty badly and knocked her to the ground. While she was down I used Cloud and Draft just as they had told me and summoned Atalanta. The heavenly huntress shot a hail of arrows at Kaze who just got up and said:

"So sister you have allowed yourself to be called on by mortals. He would have won this battle even if you hadn't come. You will just end it faster. I shall grant this adept the power. He is the one to unseal the might of wind."

Atalanta seemed to be nodding as she disappeared and the hail of arrows shot right through Kaze. She fell to the ground. The battle was over and I had won!

A/N Kaze is Japanese for wind so I decided to use that name for my invented wind spirit. I hope my description of her appearance was interesting. I was going for something like one of the wind summon spirits without the rainbow of colours in Tales of Syphonia if you've played that game.

- Meanwhile back at the Amazon river I start playing my flute-

Zephyr- Windsbane have you lost it? How the hell is a flute supposed to help us?

Jeremy- Fire round one.

-The 4 of them chucked the stinksap balloons straight at us. I grabbed Zephyr and pulled him to the floor of the boat as the balloons missed by millimeters-

Daniel- Fire again.

-As they grabbed the second round 30 enormous crocodiles started swimming around there boat-

Janet- AHHH! CROCODILES!

Terry- Abandon ship!

-They jump out, change into wolf form, swim to the banks of the river in a blur and ran off like the pits of hell were opening up to swallow them-

Zephyr- Where did the crocs come from?

Windsbane smiling very largely- Did I ever tell you that I tame and charm crocodiles on my spare time?