Arderial Palace- Dungeon
Harror shoved her staff closer to the Magi's throat. Her pale skin was contrasted by her red dress and midriff. Her topaz eyes would have bored holes through the boy, if he wasn't too weak to open his eyes. "Now, let's not make this anymore difficult than it has to be, Stradus. Just tell me. Where are the magi you helped escape?"
Stradus used what little energy he had to spit on her staff. She roared, dragging it down his chest. Its trail was left by two bloody streaks. "You should learn to be more cooperative." she turned, storming out of his cell. The blue haired youth was left hanging from the ceiling.
"Sh…Shimmer." he couldn't tell that witch where the other magi were. He couldn't betray his friends, especially Shimmer. Today was supposed to be the day he told her. The day he would admit to his life long friend that he had feelings for her. But before he could, they arrived, throwing the palace into chaos. "Please… Please be okay, Shimmer."
Arderial- Upper Stratosphere
"God, this is horrible." Tryn said, looking out the front of the ship. Even from the ship's height. The duo could see the once grand Arderial Palace, now engulfed in dark flames.
"I can't believe it." Tony said, steering the ship downwards. "Now I can see why it was so important for me to destroy the Shadow Geysers. To prevent this catastrophe."
"Let's go. Seeing this, it makes me want to fight more than ever." Tryn's eyes were beginning to tear up. "I want nothing more than to stop the New Core." a dark green aura surrounded the girl as her rage surfaced. Tony looked on in awe.
'Is that what makes the Chosen Magi? The power to use your emotions as energy?' Tony thought to himself. The aura disappeared as Tryn calmed down. She smiled at Tony.
"We can do it."
Tony smiled back. "I know we can." Tony then realized that they were getting rather close to the ground. "Uhhh…"
"What's wrong?"
"Yeah, I don't know how to land this thing."
"Huh? But I thought you had these things on your world?"
"Yeah, but not everyone got to use one. There were about ten people per generation in my country that got to use one." he looked to her. "What about you? You knew how to take off."
"Well, yeah, but, I don't know how to do it backwards."
"This is not going to be pretty." they both pulled there seatbelts on tight. "Alright, I'm going to try and do this as softly as possible. Besides, we're landing on clouds. How bad could it be?"
Arderial- One Crash-landing later…
"I admit, that could have gone better." Tony said, jumping to the ground. At impact, the ship had spun around a few times, before skidding to a stop on its side.
"You think." Tryn chuckled, dropping down next to him. However, she hit a weak spot in the cloud ground, sinking down until she was up to her waist. At this, Tony laughed out loud. "Excuse me. A little help."
"Sorry, sorry. It's just that that happened to me when I was here last. It was a lot worse, cause there were about ten people, and since they could all float, I was a bit more embarrassed."
"Just help please." she said smiling slightly. Tony took both of her hands.
"Alright, on three, push up. One…two…THREE!" with one pull, Tryn shot up from the weak clouds. Tony fell back, Tryn dropping on top of him. The two lay face to face. "Uh."
"Um, thanks."
"No problem."
Tryn rolled off of him, jumping to her feet and turning to look to the direction of the palace. "So, uh, we should probably head to the palace, you know."
"Yeah, definitely." he said, jumping up as well. They were both blushing deeply, and both tried avoiding eye contact for a few moments. They began to walk, an awkward silence setting in. However, it was broken as Tony shot through the ground.
"Tony!" she dropped down next to the spot he had fallen through, trying to find the weak spot, but there wasn't one.
Arderial- Temple of Magic
Tony groaned, rubbing his head. He heard a chuckle. He opened his eyes to find an Arderian Magi before him. He had on a pair of black goggles, surrounded by blue. The blue was represented by his spiked hair and tuft on his chin. He had a pair of wings on his back and a talon shaped staff in his hand. "Yo, Tony Jones. Name's Kalius, and I'm Guardian of the Temple of Magic
To be continued…
Thanks to both Geno and Sofa King for reviews. I read over this chapter, so if there are any mistakes like you mentioned, dang, my fault. Anyway, hope you enjoyed, and Peace.