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"Get the Xitharis stone out!" I shout to Six. "If we all go invisible now, we can get out before they're on us." She begins fumbling through her bag and pulls it out but it's too late. Before she can do anything, the air around us crackles as the first wave of Mogadorians let loose with blaster fire. My braclet expands just in time to deflect a pair of shots that would've hit me right in the chest. Instead, the fire hits the ground close enough to Six to send her toppling backwards. As she's falling, she tosses the Xitharis to Five, who looks at it like its the filthy then tosses it to Sarah. I shoot her a look and she shrugs, pulling a dagger like mine from her bag. Beyond the first group of mogs, I can see more of them, zipping down the forest towards the action. We're going to be outnumbered soon. Sarah has already dived behind a large tree. On her side in the dirt, she fires of shots with her pistol. I watch the first two kick up the dirt in front of the nearest Mogadorian and the third one hit him in the sternum. The Mog disintegrates and Sarah takes aim on another. Six went invisible as soon as she hit the dirt. I'm not sure where she is but storm clouds are suddenly rolling overhead on what moments ago was a calm sky. She's definitely getting ready to strike. Five is next to me…no, she's not. One second she's by my side, flashing my a ready grin, the next she's at the edge of the forest, pulling a dagger from a Mogadorian's stomach. It almost seems like Eight's teleportation but a little more scattered and crude. I brake my eyes away as a Mogadorian brute races towards me. I let my lumen ignite on my shielded hand, building up a sizeable fireball. I lean outgrow behind the shield, launching the fireball, turning him and any others standing near him to ash. I hear raindrops starting to fall, although none are hitting me. In fact, the rain seems to be coming down only at the centre of the Mogadorian formation. A layer of ash is sticking to Five as she continues her imitation teleportation game. Thunder rumbles. Whatever Six's play is, I trust her. Five appears beside me, her dark clothes soaked and matted with a mix of dirt, soot and ash.
"You can teleport?" I ask her. She looks at me, then tilts her head.
"What? No, I wish." Then she disparages again. I notice three Mogadorians flanking Sarah. Before they can, I reach out with my telekinesis and yank their blasters out of their hands. Seeing them, Sarah shoots the closest one between the eyes. Before the other two can draw their swords, a lithe shape lunges out of the darkness. Bernie Kosar in the form of a panther, his black fur almost indistinguishable from the night sky, tears out the throat of the first Mog, then slashes the other across the face, turning them both to ash. The group decimated, BK slips back into the shadows, although I can feel him staying near Sarah, keeping a watchful eye on her.
"Is it over?" Shouts Sarah from her position. "Because I'm-" I can't hear her response over a clap of thunder.
"There are more coming," I yell back at her and then look at Six. "Can you take down their ship?" She concentrates for a moment. Lightning shears through the sky, right into the side of a Mogadorian ship. She's cooked up one series storm and is just waiting to unleash the fury.
"They might have flown in here," Six says. "But they sure as hell won't be flying out." The remaining Mogs look confused. Their ship is destroyed and half their number already killed-I doubt they were expecting much of a fight. Good, let them be the scared ones for once.
"Let's finish this!" I yell. All at once the battle roars back to life.a group of Mogs has regrouped enough to make a focused assault. They charge at me, blocking off my exit as several more close around me. I summon a fireball and heave it into the most heavily concentrated area. Before I can blink Five is standing beside me, she grabs my arm and everything slows down.
"Sorry to interrupt." She says, "but I thought you might get pinned down, now come on." She breaks into a sprint, clearing a pThis through motionless Mogs. We're standing near Six now and before she drops my arm I grab it.
"What the hell is this?" I demand, gesturing around the battlefield. She shrugs.
"You asked me if I could teleport. My cépan called it Chronokinisis. Time manipulation." She shakes her arm free of my grip and the battle returns to normal. I look around. The area is clear, besides the dark patches of ash coating the forest floor, there's no sign of our attackers. Six screams out something I can't understand and Five spins around at the same time as me. A huge Mog, his sword already arcing down towards me. Before I can process it, he bursts into ash. It only takes a second to locate the shooter, helping a middle aged guy out from behind a tree and by that point, Six has tackled him into a hug. My jaw drops and I break into a run.
It's Sam.