Chapter Six – Tanjit vs. Elkey!
"Daree!" Elkey's book owner commanded.
"Winfulc!" Victor yelled.
Elkey's arms morphed into the vicious pair of vines and whipped towards Tanjit! However, Tanjit's gust of wind was strong enough to stop the attack!
"Good defense, Tanjit! Now let's go on the offense: Winfulc!" Victor commanded.
This time, Tanjit started to run towards his enemy, hoping to get a strike on the book in his partner's hands. The wind he was creating was very powerful, but Elkey's partner soon ended that!
"Daruse!" Shouted Elkey's partner, using Elkey's second spell.
This spell was quite different that the first. Instead of whipping vines at the running Tanjit, Elkey's hands fired hundreds of razor-sharp needles at him! Tanjit's attack faded, and he fell to the forest floor.
"No!" Jacob yelled, running to his hurt friend.
Jacob shook Tanjit, repeating, "Wake up!"
Upon seeing this, Victor came to a realization, 'Jacob cares for Tanjit because the two are friends. I only cared because I wanted to win the battle…' Victor thought, 'But I-I do care! Tanjit will win this fight! I know it!'
And as those words ran through his mind, the spellbook in his hand started to glow the mint-green color that was also on the cover. He looked down and read to himself.
'The first spell: Winfulc. The…second spell: Defulc!?!?' Victor could now read the second spell.
"Hahaha! He's done for!" Elkey's partner remarked, breaking Victor's train of thought, Aim for the book! Daruse!"
Once again, Elkey's arms lifted and fired the shower of needles at Victor. Dylan was about to call out Jacob's spell to defend Victor, when he heard Victor call out,
"Defulc!"
Tanjit's eyes glowed the mint-green color of his book, and stood up from the ground. He began to create a gust of wind, just as he would for Winfulc. But instead of the wind flying towards Elkey, it swirled around in front of Jacob and Tanjit, creating a barrier of strong wind in front of them! Elkey's needles slammed into Tanjit's Defulc shield and were shot away from them.
"A shield! Tanjit's second spell is a shield!" Victor exclaimed.
"Don't slow down while you've still got the motivation!" Dylan told Victor.
"Daree!" Elkey's spell was called, and his arms transformed into the large vines yet again.
"Let's do it again, Tanjit! Defulc!" Victor commanded.
Tanjit created another swirling wind shield, and Elkey's vines crashed into it, canceling their attack out.
"Daruse!" Elkey's partner said, thinking quickly.
Just as Elkey's vines turned back into arms, he fired his needles at Tanjit's now-slowing shield.
"Use the shield's leftover power! Winfulc!" Victor told Tanjit.
And that's exactly what Tanjit did! He twirled the shield around a couple more times, and in one great gust, a blast of wind two times the normal Winfulc was fired in Elkey's direction. He quickly jumped from the line of fire, saving himself, but leaving his partner unprotected!
"No! Elkey!" The man screamed as he was blown into a tree by the harsh wind Tanjit had blown.
Out of his hand fell the dark-green spellbook. It sat for a second or two and then began to burn a brilliant blue flame.
"No! You were not fast enough! Call out another spell and burn their book befo-" Elkey was cut off as he vanished.
"Ugh." The man grunted as he pulled himself off of the tree and limped away.
"I did it…I did it!" Tanjit cheered, "I won a battle all by myself! We won!"
Victor and Tanjit shared a very loud high five. After a few minutes of resting and bragging, a dark realization came upon Dylan…how were they going to get to Tokyo now? Where were they even at?