In the morning, we were back in the car and on the road again. We completely understood the fact that we had to get to Arizona and fast in order to get Lacey and defeat Helios. Chandler and I sat crammed in the back of the car again, discussing our life-threatening issues, along with creating a nifty plan. Adam was on edge as he drove, I had a feeling he wasn't taking the latest news of our trip too well. We were somewhere in the west, but I wasn't paying attention.
"Okay, so I'll go in first and then Adam will follow me, you following him." Chandler nodded.
"That's fine," She responded. "As long as you have your magical bow and arrows, we'll be good to go." I smirked.
"You can always count on m-" I jerked forward, my head hitting the front seat of the car as Adam slammed on the breaks. The tires let out a squeal from the abrupt stop. I rubbed my head, looking up at Adam. My face didn't look to happy in the driver's mirror.
"Hey, what giv-" But then I was interrupted again at the sight I saw before me. And boy, you should've seen it. There was a good number of these monsters all lined up and ready to fight. All of their smiles were malicious as they hungrily stared at our car.
"Manticores and Stymphilian birds?" Chandler gasped. "How in the world are we going to defeat them both?" Her question didn't really boost my hopes too well. I only saw the group of manticores but when I looked up at the sky, there were a good number of gold, metal birds glistening against the sun. I sighed and clicked my seatbelt off.
"Well, we better go kill them, if we want to get to Arizona on time." Adam and Chandler both gave me incredulous looks.
"Althy, by the sound of Chandler's tone, these things might just be impossible to defeat," He nervously glanced out of the windshield. "We can't really take that chance, if we want to get to Arizona." I sighed.
"Well, we're going to have to." I climbed into the front seat and got out of the car, I saw Chandler following me. She stood by my side as we scanned the crowd. They were fidgeting with the anxiety of a fight. I heard Adam's car door slam and looked over at me. He then joined us.
"Do you think you could make it rain?" I asked him, feeling my bow and quiver appear.
"Most likely, why?"
"To get those stupid birds out of the sky," I looked up at the birds but then back to Adam. "You can then electrify them out of the sky, since gold conducts electricity so well. The water will be an extra conductor, just to really get them good." Adam nodded.
"It's raining conductors," He snapped and it began to heavily rain. I heard the manticores grumble in displeasure, along with the birds, flapping their metal wings more urgently.
"Let's do this thing," And with that, we took off towards the monsters.
It's a lot harder fighting in rain than you would think, it's slippery and the water blurs your vision, well, probably not for Adam and Chandler, lucky ducks. But even through the slick rain, my aim was on. I shot manticore after manticore, but sadly, the dust stuck to you, especially if you were wet.
From time to time, there would be sporadic bolts of lightning, thanks to Adam, but at least the metal bird count was going down. Their bodies were heavy, though, sometimes their bodies fell from the sky and I'm surprised that they didn't knock someone out. Anyway, in little time, we had the birds defeated; now it was time for the manticores to go. I was just finishing off the manticores when something amazing happened.
My arrow pierced a manticore and it let out a scream as it turned to a pile of dust. But just then, a bolt of lightning flashed from behind me, blinding me. I turned around to see what happened, just in time. Adam, in one hand, was holding a silver, metallic sword. It angrily zapped with bright blue sparks of electricity all over the blade. A huge grin was planted on his face as he inspected it.
"Well, check this out guys," He twirled the sword in the air, catching it, a slight sound of thunder echoing in the distance. "Is this not cool or what!" He let out bemused laugh. The manticore shook his scorpion tail in aggravation but it was of a warning. I rolled my eyes, getting just as impatient as the manticore.
"Yo', lightning!" I called and he looked at me. I nudged my head towards the manticore. "Finish him off." Adam nodded and turned towards the monster. The monster evilly smiled, slowly starting to make its way towards him. I heard him mumble under his breath as he raised his sword like a bat, his knees bent.
"Number nine makes his way up to the plate," The manticore was jogging now. "He pulls back," And Adam did as he said. "He swings and…homerun!" His sword met the manticore and it exploded into the air with an electric crack. Chandler and I made disgusted faces as it was raining dust instead of water. Meanwhile, Adam was running like he was in a baseball game, collecting the number of invisible plates as he ran towards the home plate where his sword lay. I rolled my eyes, crossing my arms, leaning of one foot. Chandler joined by my side.
"Just let him have his fun," She promised, resting a hand on my shoulder. I only nodded, watching his joyful show play out in front of me which included a numerous amount of fist pumps and cheering. I loosened up and smiled, truly enjoying the fact that we defeated the creatures, not to mention with a bang. But, overall, I had a feeling that we would, even if it was small.