Chapter 38

Synergy in a dark place


Aerenec's POV: I soon saw myself being encased in a kind of yellow pod. Somehow I could still see through it, but it was still blurry. All I saw were blurs of other people, animals being constantly consumed by the yellow slime. I felt things constantly moving around me, seeing if they could try and invade me, mainly they came at my head. I made sure that I kept my eyes closed before anything crawled inside of my mind or eyes. If they will not come here, then I may be out of luck. Its alright anyways, I had a nice long life.


-Gught-

"What the heck happened here!?" I said with anger.

"Hurry... Where I point is where they took him. Synergy Virus ahead... Use Caution.." He weakly said. "My time is almost up... Anytime the virus will kill me... And replace me with another one of the clones.. Do not trust anybody now..."

"I am a Golem right?" "If so the Virus will not affect me!"

"Quite right... Now hurry up! do not hesitate to progress forward!" He weakly yelled and pointed to the left of me, but halfway from left and forward.

He then died from the virus, being reduced to nothing but ashes as the virus burned him from the inside. I felt so sorry for Iocas right now, but I cannot lose one of my friends to our enemies. So I went in the direction he pointed to. The elder was right. Things do stuff here and its mysterious. One second someone is there, next second they are gone. What is it? does Wyverns have teleportation too?

When I ventured into this very empty, but dark area, it sounded like something was dripping onto a rock surface. So I looked behind myself, seeing another Golem that was just like me, instead of having blue energy like me, she had a strange violet energy that somehow radiated like Nesc's aura. She grabbed me and threw me to the wall, accusing me of stealing one of her tomes. Although this did not happen, and I tried to explain. She then punched me in the direction I was going and it ended up making me go through hundreds of trees in less than three seconds. I finally stood down near a cave where I crashed, and it was having a eerie glow to it. It looked so appealing, attracting me with a powerful scent. When I first stepped in I was hearing screams of agony and pulsating tar that was bubbling beside me. With that I broke the attraction to the lure and kept on going, knowing that this may be where Aerenec was.

Once My stony body crossed the stone arch, looked down seeing a huge cavern full of molten rock and magma flowing like Water, but a bit slower. I jumped down from the ledge and landed onto a stone platform. This looked like a prison, as there were multiple pods implanted inside the walls that were made by the Synergy virus. My eyes looked around for the pod that had the virus itself, and at the corner of my eye, there it was illuminating like a bright crystal, being surrounded by lava geysers. Then my ears heard a strange whisper and suddenly I saw a bunch of the captured victims drop down and walk towards me with thier weapons. They were walking like zombies, although they looked like they had a better aim than before. One shot a sniper rifle at my head, but it reflected off of my stony body. I immediately retaliated with a Blade gale, a wind blast that cut like swords through the duplicates of victims.

My eyes sequentially looked at each cell, trying to find that green wyvern, but he was nowhere to be found. Of course my eyes did not look everywhere but on that left side, there were no dragons or wyverns. Soon, A tentacle slapped me from behind and it flung me over the ledge, as I took a dive into the hot magma. I was praying to god that this transformation had magma proof stones, but I knew it was going to melt me. So with a burning thought, I turned back into a phoenix and briefly swooped under the lava and straight up from the fiery surface. I flew towards that tentacle and sliced it in half with my wing, causing the overgrown piece of the virus to burn in ashes down below. It was so satisfying, but then many others came and strangled me. I was not trapped however, as my powers could melt the virus instantly. Silence filled the air as the tentacles constricted harder until they thought they could choke me, but truth was that my body was too strong to be choked. my feathers radiated a deadly toxin that burned anything within range. Soon the virus started melting like butter and the sun, and I broke free and flew towards the pod that started the virus in the area. Still many more tentacles replaced the dead ones and reached out towards me, trying desperately to grab me by the leg, but my aura was killing each one of them. Soon I flew towards the pod when I splashed through the magma and cut it with my sharp wings. The magma flow retreated into the holes below and the tentacles withered into ash as the walls from the virus melted and the pods as well.

I looked on the right side, and there were none. There were multiple people, wolfs, birds and some kind of creature, but nothing that suggested the green Wyvern. Suddenly, I heard the similar roar and looked where it was emitted. There on the ground, Aerenec was stuck inside the pod and had his leg stuck in one of the magma holes, and was trying to get out. I flew down to him, where so many Synergy parasites were crawling all over him. With my aura, I melted each one of them with ease, and proceeded to try and get the Wyvern out. He appreciated the help, as he pulled his leg and attempted to help me with my the geyser spewed hot magma up from the hole and forcefully freed Aerenec from his steamy situation. He flew up and headed out of the cave, as a huge volcano exploded at the center and blew up both platforms. The other creatures and humans escaped as well, climbing or flying through the hole as they risk themselves with each second.

We got back to our place and gone back seeing Iocas dead, and Nadras mourning for his death. He was not dramatically doing it, but he was still majorly depressed for what happened to he looked at me, and he came to Aerenec with open arms, thanking me for returning him back from the virus. I wondered why I was here, and I realized that the motive was already completed, so I teleported back to Erilious where they were having a announcement from the Cedran. I was placed next to Thrask and Xelur, who were with Larei and her mother.

"The Acron has been terrorizing us for far too long! We have the firepower and the allies we need to take them down! Three days from now an Invasion led by Commander Nesc, will put a conquest on the Acron territory. This is not just a enemy and ally situation. This is WAR!"

The crowd roared out, as a sinking feeling came down my spine. This all out burst would make us vulnerable to attack and the wind Anophyst will be destroyed or used by the wrong hands if we do so. We need someone to protect this while we are gone, because I cannot guard against them, none of us can, but our powers combined can. Larei who was behind me cheered loudly being happy that we would be able to dispatch the threat within three days or more. Thrask on the other hand seemed dreadful, as he cowered and put his claws over his eyes, seeming extremely scared. I asked him what was wrong, but he did not reply. I tapped him on the shoulder and he said in one word, 'Nesc'. Xelur looked over and nudged him enough to flip him over to making him stop being so clutched up in a ball. "He is bad!"

"But he is our Ally, and soon he will come back and hopefully we can take these cyborg pieces of nuts and bolts down." Xelur said with a sigh. He then picked up Thrask by his tail and walked from the announcement, but I stayed with Larei and her mother.

"For anyone who is thinking about the Anophyst and how it will be kept, some will stay here from the tribes, accompanied by one of the more powerful generals of the Cedran. Stay if you would like, just be prepared for any attacks!"

(Cutting this one short. I literally ran into a writer's block here. Wait for next chapter.)