Chapter 15: Trial by Fire
Blossom shrieked as orange and yellow flames engulfed around them. Bubbles whirled around, her eyes wide with fear. Buttercup screamed loud. Suddenly, dark grey clouds covered the otherwise clear sky. Rain fell from the heavens, quenching the fire's roaring flames. Blossom saw the strain on Buttercup's face. It was using too much energy to put out the fire on her own. Closing her eyes, Blossom let a short phrase escape her lips as a blast of ice scorched the fire.
Smoke twisted and twirled in the air. Bubbles tried finding peace within her. It was usually an easy thing for her to do. Her powers depended on that peaceful state. Fear and pressure took away her peace, thus rendering her powers weak. Bubbles began hyperventilating when a comforting hand touched her shoulder. She glanced around to find Boomer's kind smile. She refaced where Blossom was using blocks of ice and Buttercup using rain from her emotions to help stop the fire.
A new spark had awakened. A new hope. Her friends needed her. And she wasn't going to let them down. "Cantio agrass mienton!" She exclaimed forcefully, a new energy building up inside of her. Suddenly, she felt it. The power of water. It was one with her. Like a missing piece of a puzzle had finally found its spot. She aimed her outstretched hand at a flame, and crisp, clear spring water flowed from her palm. Immediately, the flames disintegrated into a ring of smoke.
Eyes glowing blue, Bubbles released a second blast of water at a flame. And another. And another. After a few minutes the fire was out and Bubbles fell to her knees. It had only taken a couple minutes to defeat the flames, but it seemed much longer. Boomer rushed to her side. "Bubbles! Are you alright?"
Bubbles opened her eyes. Boomer sat beside her, cradling her head. His dark blue eyes held concern in them. Bubbles smiled. "Come on tough guy, I'm fine." Boomer grinned as he leaned over and kissed her lovingly on the lips. After a moment, Boomer pulled back. A sting of pain thronged at the back of her head.
"Bubbles. That was amazing!" Brick enthused, kneeling down to help her up.
"I didn't know that you could shoot water from your hands!" Buttercup gushed.
"Neither did I!" Bubbles replied modestly. She cringed when Brick and Boomer tried helping her to her feet.
Blossom sprinted to her friend's aid. Taking both hands in hers, Blossom could feel the pain transmit from Bubbles to her. "It's from over exertion. It's a mental illness. I can only heal physical. I could take away the headache for a small period of time before an irritated area in her brain would just recreate her head injury."
"Lucky for ya'll, we got unicorns in the house." Robin said in a playful manner, sidestepping Bunny. The blue eyed brunette made her way through the singed carpet and charred chairs to reach her blonde friend. Blossom nodded as she arose from her spot beside Bubbles to make room for Robin. Taking her charm bracelet, she touched the tip of the unicorn horn charm to her forehead before giving her a small kiss on the same spot as the horn prick.
Instantly, her headache departed. Sitting up, Bubbles wrapped her arms around Robin, giving her a big hug. "Thanks!" She giggled like a little kid.
Bunny hugged her arms as the wind started picking up. She glanced up at the sky to see three enormous black blobs with wings against the moonlight. For a moment, the wind intensified blowing the girls' long hair. Bunny closed her eyes as a table sailed in her direction. After a creaking sound, she opened one eye to find Boomer using his Levitation power to suspend the mahogany desk in the air. Scared that he could give way at any second, she dove out from beneath the table.
"We have got to get out of here!" Butch screamed over the howls of both wind and dragon. He was carrying Buttercup piggy back style after a charred beam had landed on her ankle, almost certainly breaking it.
"We need to find the swords!" Bubbles exclaimed as loud as she could.
"Well, in order for that to happen, we need to get out of here alive!" Brick called, cupping his hands around his mouth to increase his volume.
"We'll get you there." Princess vowed. Dropping on all fours, her arms and legs broadened and took a new color. Her head swelled, taking a new shape. In less than a minute, Princess had morphed into a white unicorn with a yellow tint to her fur.
Robin and Bunny fell on their faces at the same time, quickly taking the form of a whit horse with a horn. Bunny's fur was tinted purple, while Robin's fur was tinted blue. Blossom and Bubbles gasped in shock, mouths agape at the beautiful creatures in front of them.
"Hurry!" Boomer said, grasping onto Bubbles' hand. Using his hands as a step, Bubbles hopped up onto Robin's sleek back gracefully. Bubbles clenched onto Robin's fiery white mane, her fingers entertaining with the bluish fibers. She felt an arm around her waist that found its way to the mane as well. Glancing back, Blossom and Brick were riding on Princess with Butch and Buttercup on Bunny.
A loud screech and a blast of fire in the sky ignites the night like a beacon. It acted as a signal to the young heroes to get their asses moving otherwise they'd be barbeque. At least, that was how Princess had interpreted the situation. Raising her forefeet, Princess leapt into a fierce gallop, into the trees.
Overhead, the dragons continued belching fire. The unicorns' house was almost completely ash. Only a rough structure was still standing. A few walls, and the beams for a ceiling. Brute growled. "Their gone," she spat distasteful.
"Unless we had a direct aim and they've been reduced to ash." The shiny blue dragon cackled humorously to herself. She snickered louder, causing her side's to get a cramp and her wings to fail before regaining control.
"Don't be so cocky, Brat. You know that there are unicorns with them. That's a breed of pure good and happiness. They wouldn't let our 'friends' leave this realm so easily." Berserk warned with a flick to her tail. The moonlight shimmering off of her coppery pink spikes going down her spine to the tip of her tail could strike fear into the heart of men.
Brute sped over the trees, hunting for any moving thing. Her snout sniffed the air intently, when her keen eyes spotted a blue and purple blur speeding by beneath the trees. She came to a halt, her green bat like wings keeping her in one spot. "Sister dears. I do believe I found our little friends."
Brat and Berserk flapped over, an evil smirk across their fanged mouths. "It looks like they read the address wrong." Brat commented. This earned a swift whip from Berserk' s thorned tail. "What the what?" She yelped, nuzzeling her sore spot with a claw.
"Let me put this simply. You're a BRAIN DEAD MORON!" Brute articulated carefully so her idiot of a sister could understand. Brat crossed her scaly arms, trying to appear annoyed. Brute sighed. With an idiot like her sister, you can't tell what's supposed to be threatening.
"Stop behaving like hatchlings, and let's go kill some suckers!" Berserk interrupted, taking flight after the 9 wannabe heroes. Using her claws, she pulled back the tops of some tree to get a better look. A blur of yellow seemed to have raced by beneath her. Feeling frustrated, she released a blast of fire, only to be stopped by a flurry of snowflakes.
Brat grinned a toothy smile at her sisters defeat. Finally wanting to move up on the totem pole of evil doers, Brat focused on trying to find that pesky little blonde girl. She really didn't want to slay that boy. Boomer, right? He was such a cutie! A huge tree was coming up fast but stuck in her little lovestruck daze, Brat collided right into a tree that was bigger than she was. Growling, she swerved around it and blew out fire towards the blues riding upon the blue unicorn.
Bubbles shrieked as she felt the flames approaching. Feeling the presence of a brook not that far from where they were, she reached out to it, taking control. Her mind commanded the drops of dew to drench the fire, which happened instantaneously. Brat growled at Bubbles. Bubbles gasped. Clenching onto Robin's fur, water rushed from the brook alongside them, completely drenching the cerculean blue dragon.
Glancing backwards, Bubbles witnessed as a purple streak of light energy sizzled and popped, electrocuting Brat so that her dazzling blue scales were grey and smoking. Bubbles gave a look at Boomer who grinned sheepishly. "Water and lighting don't mix."
Bubbles rolled her eyes. "It was a cheap shot." Robin vaulted over a fallen log, making Bubbles and Boomer jolt a bit. Princess and Bunny were directly in front.
"A cheap shot that could have almost definitely saved your life." Robin muttered. She hadn't used a foreign language. She figured English was best.
"See? Robin agrees with me!" Boomer boasted pridefully.
The path widened again, so all three unicorn women were running alongside each other. "Okay, okay. No one likes a show boat." Bubbles giggled.
"How can you be laughing at a time like this?" Bunny exclaimed from beneath Butch and Buttercup.
"Exactly! Three wackos are trying to get us!" Buttercup barked, hugging onto Bunny's neck and mane. Butch held her firmly on the back of the mighty horse.
"And let's not forget, these wackos, are fire breathing dragons!" Blossom added with a huff. With all this action, she was getting really thirst! A clump of dirt from Princess' s hooves landed on her silky pink dress. Blossom grumbled with lowered eyes. So much for being clean.
"Fire breathing." Brick repeated, pondering the words. "Fire breathing. Fire." He mumbled, keeping steady on the bouncy yellow horse. Suddenly his eyes lighted up. That's it! "That's it!" He echoed out loud.
"What's it?" PrIncess asked from beneath him.
"Fire!" He replied excitedly.
"What the hell are you yapping about now?" Butch remarked, digging his heels into Bunny's sides to keep from falling.
"What are you talking about. You're the one who said shave them cows!" Brick growled back, feeling insulted. He was the leader. He was the guy who got them out of trouble!
"It was the quickest replacement I could think of!" Butch shouted back, his self esteem dwindling slightly.
"Quickest replacement? You have got to -" Brick began, ready to finish the argument. Butch usually picked a fight, and Brick finished them.
"Can you two shut up and tell us?" Bunny panted, growing tired of carrying passengers and listening to the obnoxious banter.
"Bunny!" Princess scolded.
"I'm sorry!"
"Whats the plan?"Blossom asked, hugging the yellow neck tighter.
Bubbles covered her ears. "I cant think with everyone yelling!" she blurted out as loud as she could.
"Well, now you're yelling!" Buttercup shouted back.
"I am not!"
"Yes you are!"
"Be quiet you two! You're giving me a head ache!" Blossom barked, putting one hand on her hip.
Overhead Berserk locked on her target: a white horse with a yellow tint and two orange haired teens. It would be a real shame to rid the world of that hot guy, Brick. But, that was the price for their freedom. Inhaling deeply, she blew out a flurry of bright orange flames.
Brick grinned as he felt the flames grow closer. He heard a couple whimpers and some screams, and assumed they were from Blossom, Bubbles, Robin, Princess, and possibly Buttercup and Bunny. Holding up a palm, he whispered a short phrase. Suddenly, the fire split down the middle, leaving everyone unharmed. Berserk bellowed in rage. Opening her enormous fanged snout, she spat out another blast of flames.
Muttering a different phrase, Brick commanded the fire to go in the opposite direction. Ash in her eyes and down her throte, Berserk hacked and coughed while plunging from the sky.
"Guys! I can see the cave!" Boomer reported. Robin was now leading the team and they were near the cave.
"I think we're actually going to make it!" Butch exclaimed happily, finally thinking they wouldn't end up as barbeque.
"Think again, gorgeous!" Brute snarled landing on the ground. Her tail blocked the opening to the cave. Brat landed beside her sister, tucking her wings against her metallic body.
Robin, Bunny, and Princess skidded to a stop. A loud thud behind them brought them to face a very pissed off looking Berserk covered in ash and pyroclastic materials. There was no getting away. They were surrounded by huge demonic dragons. Blossom gulped, holding onto Brick' s arm. Bubbles buried her face in Boomer's shirt. Buttercup squeezed Butch's hand tighter.
Bunny stamped a foot, snorting loudly. "Well, well. Is it my old chum, Brute?" Bunny said in more of a sarcastic comment than a question. She powered down into her purple eyed, brunette human form leaving Butch standing on the ground, supporting Buttercup. She took a stride forward.
Brute sneered. "Friends? You must be delusional."
"Puh-leeze! Bunny is always delusional!" Brat emphasized in a sassy tone.
Robin powered down as well, so she was standing in her red gown with her hair brushed down. Boomer and Bubbles found themselves standing on the grassy earth. Robin skipped forward placing a hand on Bunny's shoulder. "Hello Brat! Still secretly singing in that cave, hoping to become the next mid evil pop teen, I presume?" She asked, insulting her.
Brat roared, becoming very self conscious.
A moment later Princess was standing next to Robin. "Berserk! Hon, I love the new style your sporting. I have to admit, I like the coal miner duds much more than the pink tyranisauras rex. It's much more you." She grinned slyly.
"What are they doing? They're going to get us all killed!" Blossom whispered to Brick. They watched intently as Berserk roared. She charged after Princess. Princess smirked, knowing that Berserk was attacking out of rage and not thinking it the whole way through. Quickly producing a sword with a pearly hilt, she sliced open a wound on her side. Berserk bellowed in pain.
Boomer gasped. "Dragon scale is impenetrable!" He sputtered.
Butch noticed some heavy rocks loosely packed up on a ledge above the cave. If he angled it just right, he could force the rocks to pummel the green dragon. If she didn't move. He glanced over to his left. Bunny and Robin were tied up fighting Brat and Princess was holding back Berserk. The unconditionally ugly green dragon was creeping around the fight, towards Boomer and Bubbles! She was in the perfect position for a rock slide and if he didn't act fast, the two sensitive blondes might end up as dragon chow! Mumbling a series of foreign words, rocks triggered down the side of the mountain.
By the time Brute swiveled her enormous head around, it was too late and a series of giant boulders fell down on her. Dust fumed and Brute roared and struggled to get back up, but her wings and left leg were pinned beneath boulders. Brat and Berserk looked up, frantically searching for their sister. Their lack of attention allowed Robin, Princess and Bunny to land a couple of cheap shots.
With the path clear, Butch scooped up Buttercup, who's ankle was still injured. Carrying her bridal style, he made a dash for the mouth of the cave, limberly leaping over piles of rubble. Snatching up Blossom's hand tightly, Brick hauled her along with him as he made a break for the cave as well.
Nearby, Bubbles stood immobile, petrified with remarkable fear. Bearing the gift of Language she was rarely trapped in such a state. But if there was a 23000 pound dragon trying to kill you, you would be pretty scared too. Rushing over to Bubbles, Boomer lifted her up in a cradling position before sprinting after his brothers. "Bubbles! Why didn't you run!"
"Hey I almost pissed myself. Chill out, Boomie." She replied, with a shaky tone.
Boomer was taken back a bit by her response. Not only did she curse, but she called him by his silly nickname afterward.
Brat hissed, bearing her glossy white fangs. The brats were trying to escape her clutches. No pun intended. Securely pinning her sequin bat wings at her side, she leaped out of arms reach of Bunny and Robin, intending on blocking the path to the cave.
Boomer and Bubbles were already inside, and Blossom and Brick were right at the border. Butch and Buttercup were, however, stuck a ways away. Glancing up, Butch and Buttercup saw a giant blue fleshy body falling towards them. Butch leaned forward, giving the black haired beauty a loving kiss before whispering, " forgive me." Buttercup gave him a perplexed look, but before she could say anything, Butch had tossed her as hard as he could toward the cave.
Hitting the ground hard, Buttercup bounced as she came to a stop in the cave. Pushing her arms up she frantically brushed the hair out of her eyes. "Butch!" She screamed, tears mingling with her pleading cries. Blossom and Bubbles rushed over to their friend laying on the ground, trying to comfort her. But she continued to squirm, scream, and cry.
Dropping to the dirt, Butch extended his skinny arms up. He didn't flinch nor blink as the giant body free called toward him faster. With a giant explosion of dust and noise, Butch heard several screams and cries. Heaving upward, he held the giant beast above his head. Then he smelt smoke, and the weight of Brat seems to lessen. Straining to turn to the right, he found Brick muttering a series of phrases, that was obviously calling Fire to the giant lizard. And Boomer stood at the edge of the cave chanting something that was levitating her a little bit too. Then, there wasn't a dragon being supported in his arms. It was in the sky howling.
Fighting the urge to taunt the other dragons, Butch bolted for the cave, Brick slightly ahead of him. He hurried to the group of girls, and came beside a teary eyed Buttercup. Pressing his lips against her soft pink ones, he hugged onto her tightly, never wanting to let go. When they finally pulled back, but whispered "forgive me?"
Buttercup growled. "No."
He grinned. "That's my Bittercup."
Blossom hustled to the cave's edge. "Girls! Hurry"
Bunny shooed her. "GO! We can hold them off! Go!" She urged.
"But?!" Bubbles whispered, on the verge of tears for the second time. She had broken down into sobs when she was sure that Butch and Brick were squashed under a reptilian ass.
Robin mumbled something, and in the blink of an eye, the entrance of the cave was barricaded with splintery looking rocks.
Hey guys! Chapter update! Bananas, I am tired! This chapter was originally going to be alot longer. Like, ALOT. But I decided to break it into two. But, what did you think? And guess what! I finally decided to edit before I posted it! Yay! On the behalf of my sister, she was going to update last night, but our retarded kindle didn't save 2/3 of it. So bummer there.
Also, I was thinking about this earlier today, what my favorite part of this story is so far. So I need to reread it to figure that out! But I want to know YOUR favorite parts. So pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty please comment and tell me your favorite part. (Btw, that's one pretty for every puff and ruff)
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