Saving Alchemy
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Now comes chapter 5, my 3rd chapter in three days, tiring I must say, on the mind especially, but, who cares?
Chapter V: Separate Missions II
Garet and Jenna made their way to the beacon of the Mars Lighthouse, it wasn't very taxing as the path was very short. There was a teleportation pad in the third room that would bring
them to the beacon, using the Teleport Lapis she borrowed from Sheba back on the ship, Jenna cast Teleport to activate the pad and brought them to the beacon.
They ran towards the light, but were stopped by a large mass that they bumped into. It was one of Kane's clones. He looked at them, and his pendant immediately turned blue.
"You may both be powered by Mars, but even with your defenses, it will not be able to stop my power!" Kane waved his hands forward, and large icicles rushed towards Garet and
Jenna, that was the Ice Missile psynergy, it had the power to do major damage, Garet raised his Cosmos Shield to attempt to block the attack, but the onslaught of the missiles got to
him anyway, one missile impaled his shoulder, another brushed his waist, and one more hit his foot. Jenna, who managed to avoid the missiles with her agility, ran to Garet, cast Cool
Aura in an attempt to treat his wounds. Garet then said,
"I saw his pendant turn blue before he attacked, I think that's how he could cast Ice Missile, I'm gonna take a chance, I guess that his entire body is water elemental as well, it's a good
thing I brought this," Garet took out his Excalibur. "Boost my agility."
Garet rushed towards Kane, Excalibur in his hands, aiming right for the pendant, Jenna unleashed Coal, doubling hers and Garet's agility, Garet was close to hitting Kane, but he dodged
the attack at the last second. Garet started swing his Excalibur at Kane, but he created shields of ice to block the attacks. Jenna then unleashed Reflux on Garet, and when he felt the
power of Reflux, he went on the defensive. Kane made one move on him, and despite Garet protecting himself with Excalibur, the force of the attack pushed him back a step.
Immediately, Reflux shot out of Garet's body and dealt a powerful blow right to Kane's heart before he could ever react. Jenna, from behind, cast Searing Beam aiming at Kane's heart
once more, Garet, at the same time, focused his energy, Excalibur howled, three intangible swords of pure wind energy pierced Kane's heart.
"You may have had the elemental advantage, but we are a team." Garet mumbled as he looked at the fallen body of Kane. He then turned to look at the pendant he initially attempted to
destroy, it was still in one piece, he took it and put it in his pocket, he and Jenna then went into the light.
By the time Garet and Jenna entered the light, Isaac and Felix had arrived on Anemos Island, although they did not know its name at first, Ivan and Sheba had just solved the puzzle that
prevented them from reaching the top, and the villagers were spreading the news at Lemuria.
Ivan and Sheba were closing in at the top, then Ivan said,
"I sense a presence, show yourself!" He then cast Tempest which swept around the entire beacon. The second Kane clone jumped out and applauded Ivan's being able to detect him.
The clone's pendant glowed yellow and he cast Grand Gaia, bringing up boulders from beneath the surface of Weyard, blasting anyone standing on the beacon, except for himself, Ivan
and Sheba had nowhere to run, and wound up taking the brunt of the attack.
There was no way they could attack the clone as long as the boulders kept blasting them, so they had to find an opening, after ten seconds, the blast of boulders stopped, and they went
on the offensive, but Kane cast Grand Gaia again, preventing Ivan from getting closer, by this time, Ivan and Sheba were quite worn out, mainly because of the power of Grand Gaia,
and their lack of defense, meaning that they would take more damage from any attack than others would from the same attack. Ivan thought of a plan
::I've no other choice, even without any Venus Djinni, I still have to do it, good thing I practiced this for the past two years::
Ivan closed his eyes, concentrated, and cast Sonic Slash, which managed to slice through the boulders, at the same time, the shockwaves that the Sonic Slash produced pushed Ivan into
the air. Ivan was up in the sky, and he started to turn to a diving position, directed towards the Kane clone, Sheba, in the midst of defending herself by deflecting any boulder that came
her way, saw Ivan and cast Impact to boost his attack. In the air, Ivan took out his special weapon, a modified Tisiphone Edge, this one had wind abilities unlike the standard Tisiphone
Edge. Ivan modified his when he picked up minerals containing the power of Jupiter when he went to Air Rock, gave the minerals and his Tisiphone Edge to Sunshine in Yalam, who
promptly went to work on the weapon. His new weapon, named by Ivan as Vacuum Edge, based on how a vacuum was created a every slice of his sword, had a new power as well, a
wind based power that replaced Vengeance.
It was named by Ivan as Aerodrill, after he had once seen how a drill made of wind energy was created by the Vacuum Edge while testing it out. Ivan focused his power, and the
Vacuum Edge howled, forming the Aerodrill, which zoomed ahead of Ivan, who unleashed Gust as he came closer to the Kane clone, the clone had not seen Ivan until he was sky diving
toward him, mainly because his view was obstructed by all the boulders. When the clone turned to see Ivan, Ivan was skydiving at speeds in excess of Mach 2, the drill, Mach 4. The
clone panicked when he saw Ivan, and as he stood rooted to where he was, the drill went right through his abdomen, boring a hole in it and the internal organs in it. The heat generated
vaporized what it destroyed, so the mass that used to be where the cylindrical hole in the clone's body was now was gone, carried off by the wind. That alone did not kill the clone, but
Ivan, who himself was reaching Mach 3 by the time he came near the clone, with his Vacuum Edge, boosted by the Jupiter gem given to him, dealt two sharp blows with Gust, blows
that formed a cross shape, slicing the clone into four pieces and completely destroying the pendant the clone was wearing in the process.
Sheba had to cast Tempest such that the tornadoes would surround Ivan, and move in directions such that the wind around the tempest would move in a direction that opposed the
direction Ivan was moving in so that Ivan's movement could be slowed down, even though Ivan could not move when being trapped in the Tempest, his inertia would propel him to
speeds of up to 250 mph should the Tempest suddenly be stopped even 3 seconds too soon, so, bearing that in mind, Sheba kept her focus and maintained the Tempest for almost two
minutes. After the two minutes, Ivan was released from the tempest and was gently brought down by a small whirlwind. Ivan landed on his feet and immediately went down to one knee,
the strain on his body was overwhelming, but he got up soon after, and Sheba ran to him and embraced him. She took 5 seconds to realize what she was doing, at which time she
retracted her arms very quickly, and said,
"You're lucky I did not panic or you wouldn't have been able to survive your own attack against that creature." Ivan, even in his worn out state, still managed a smile and took Sheba's
hand as they ran into the purple light.
At Lemuria, before Ivan's and Sheba's fight with the Kane clone ensued, the message was spread, and a conference was held.
"We must help Isaac and the others. They saved Weyard once and helped the planet to prosper again. We are Mercury Adepts, we too can help them fight whatever is causing this. If
anyone here objects, speak now."
One Lemurian raised his hand.
"I object, by helping Isaac, we would be helping Piers, the same Piers who betrayed Lemuria by leaving, I will never agree to helping a traitor like him!" That one brave Lemurian
claimed. The chief simply said, "Suit yourself, everyone else, with me. Kraden, we will need your help getting to the Mercury Lighthouse, I will follow in the ship behind yours, my
people will follow behind me."
That's the end of chapter 5, my longest chapter if I remember correctly. Please review it. Thank you.