EPIC CLIFFHANGER RESOLUTION. Guess I left you guys hanging long enough XD that was rather cruel, wasn't it?
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Hermes's POV
But Anke isn't.
The next thing I know, I'm thrown backwards by an explosion. When my hearing and vision come back, I scramble up again and see a dome of pink energy over Piper, protecting her. I turn my head round and see my girlfriend with her arm outstretched towards Piper. She must have heard my yell and come running.
I race towards Piper as Anke lets the forcefield drop. The red platypus is lying propped up on her elbows, facing the sky. I help her to my feet.
"Please tell me you're okay!" I beg. "I can't face Teddy and tell him you got hurt because I was too slow!"
"I'm fine, Hermes."
Piper shakes me off her and walks back towards the building. I see her thank Anke and go inside, probably to find Teddy. I stay outside, warily glancing round for the source of the fireball. There's only one person I know who can control fire…
Anke comes up to me. "Where did that come from?" she asks.
"I don't know. That's what I want to-" I suddenly spot something in the sky. "-get down!"
I push Anke down to the ground as I deliberately fall forwards. A fireball whizzes over our head and explodes several metres behind us. We jump to our feet and prepare ourselves.
Lydia's POV
Laurence and I run outside as we hear the explosion, Lateysha and Noah right behind us. We spread out in an uneven semi-circle shape, staring up at the sky. A large storm of ice, water, and fire is forming and growing stronger in the sky. Anke spreads her arms and prepares to create a forcefield but Hermes takes her wrist. I don't hear what he says to her but it makes her stop.
"My sister," I hear Laurence say.
"Libra." I remember her. She has the power of fire. She used to love Laurence but if his story is anything to go by, she must have turned on him like everyone else.
"And the fox twins," adds Laurence to me. "Sphene and Farren."
"Water and ice," I say aloud, watching the swirling storm. "This is going to be tough."
"That's if they're the only three here," Laurence points out. "If this is the mission that the Overlord tried to send me on, then it's going to be all ten of them."
Anke's POV
The battle starts when a black blur hits into Hermes and sends both of them flying into the distance. I yell my boyfriend's name, but that's when I catch sight of the large purple bird in the sky, who looks like she came out of nowhere. It's Blaze the Crane. She can teleport and fly, so she's going to be tough to take down. She creates a portal in front of her. At the same moment, I create a forcefield bubble around the portal, making her unable to teleport. As long as there is one portal in existence that she has made, she can't create another one. Blaze shrieks angrily and flies sharply towards me, but Noah flings an energy blast at her and she has to change course to avoid it
Lateysha's POV
Vines grow out of the ground around me and Noah and wrap around our feet. We begin flying upwards as hard as we can to try and dislodge them. I break free first and soar into the air. I catch sight of the blue cat hiding behind a bush and fly towards him. He catches sight of me and a vine shoots out of the ground, heading for me. I phase all the way through it, grab Nixon, and fly upwards with him. He struggles until I reach two hundred feet and say sharply, "Stop moving or I will drop you."
He freezes in terror and actually clutches me tighter.
"D-don't drop me!"
Laurence's POV
A large piece of metal comes flying for me and Lydia, who kinetically charges a rock and throws it at the metal, destroying it. Then I see a huge falcon in the sky, one that looks like a 3D star constellation. It's see-through but when it dives for me, I find out the hard way that that does not mean it is untouchable. It hits me and makes me tumble across the grass. As it dives for me again, I aim my palm towards the source in the bush and fire. The falcon dips like it's been hit by an arrow and evaporates.
Lapis the Wolf comes staggering out of the bush and collapses onto the grass, unable to see. Her power is projections, like the falcon, and she's only able to control them when she can see them. And she won't be able to see them for two hours or if I lift the effect. Whichever comes first.
Hermes's POV
I finally manage to catch the super-fast dog off-guard and slam him into a tree. Charlie is instantly knocked out.
Lydia's POV
Dodging Blake the Bear's extremely forceful blows, I grab a large-ish stone, kinetically charge it, and jump into the air. I add more kinetic charge to the stone as I push off from Blake's head. I fly towards the storm of fire, water, and ice. Just as I throw the stone, Blaze the Crane slams into me and sends me flying to the ground. I land a few metres away from Anke, who is still holding a forcefield around Blaze's only portal with one hand and fending off a barrage of metal from Carter with the other.
I look up into the sky and see the stone explode right in the middle of the storm, which fizzes and sparks, before dropping. I suspect that I have knocked out Libra, Sphene, and Farren.
Then I see Nixon tumble to the ground a little way away from Laurence, who immediately goes for Nixon. However, the blue cat is now connected with the ground, and he makes vines grow around Laurence's feet, making him fall over on his back. The vines grow up his legs, keeping him down. Then Kelly the Koala appears out of nowhere, heading towards Laurence.
I feel sick to the pit of my stomach. Kelly has the power of weather manipulation. Her favourite move is striking people with lightning, and she's slowly advancing on Laurence, who is unable to move.
I act almost without thinking. The only thought that runs through my mind as I race across the grass is to protect Laurence. If I'm being entirely honest, I have feelings for him. I don't know if it's love yet but all I do know is that I can't lose him.
Laurence turns away and holds up his arm in front of his face as Kelly's fingers begin sparking. I increase my speed.
Time seems to slow. I leap in front of Laurence just after Kelly shoots a strike of lightning at him. The lightning hits me in the chest and sends electricity through my whole body. It doesn't feel strong enough to kill but it still hurts. A lot.
The force of the bolt sends me flying several metres behind Laurence. I land on my side and roll onto my back in one movement, my whole body shaking from the electricity coursing through my body. My breath is coming in gasps as my body focuses more on controlling the pain than on breathing.
That's when I hear Laurence scream my name, which is the last thing I hear before my eardrums give up.
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Perry's POV
I have just realised one part of OWCA that has been left unattended. As I burst into the records room, there is a human figure in a cloak going through the records.
"Hey!" I yell.
I start towards the figure, who turns sharply around and hits me on the head so hard that I fall unconscious instantly. I don't even feel my body hit the floor.
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PERRY AND LYDIA! Well, neither of them are life-threatening (or are they?) so hopefully they'll be fine. Well, I already know. XD
