#13
-Monsters of the Fire-
Archer's POV
I never liked this place. The surrounding red rocks. The sands of lost souls scream as I set afoot. We followed into the depths. My once steady hand cramped up as I grip the Oak Bow, unease. I kept scanning the area, looking for any slight movement. I have to admit, I was tense. A crackle sound echoed through the large area. It was in the back of us. I quickly drew out an arrow and load it in my bow, pulled back and aimed behind us in a blink of an eye. As I search frantically, I felt a touch of some ones palm. I jerked my head back but to only see Sara with her hand on my shoulder. "It was probably nothing"
Her voice sort of soothed me and lowered my tension level. I gazed upon every detail of her sparkling grey eyes. She smiled and continued strolling with the others. I watched our backs, carefully. "hard to believe you ventured through here when you guys were only like fifteen or so." Lilith said. She was right, it is hard to believe. At that time I didn't really noticed the real dangers of this place.
The ground started to give a slight vibration. We halted and looked around. I noticed Blue whipped out his Nano Saber. "Magma Cubes" he murmured. "M-Magma Cubes?" Cupa said her voice unsteady. In front of us what was I thought a rock started to emerge from the ground. We all backed up due to its colossal size. The monster was fully up on its feet. Its arms and legs stretched oozing out lava. "I thought magma cubes were, you know, cubed?!" Zac yelled. Of course Blue had an answer. "Evolution" he said.
I ran forward and released an arrow that went through his head. I didn't look like any damage was affected on it. Andr ran in front of me with her hand looking like she was holding a purple essence. With a grunt she launched a blast of her Ender energy at the hardened rock chest of the Magma monster. An explosion made contact on the chest but as the dust cleared, it was still standing. I almost forgot that female Enderhumans can emit a powerful blast of Enderomic energy. But what surprised me the most is her combat abilities. "Pixel! " She yelled. Pixel came running with his arm glowing with waves of Lumine essence.
His white coat flowed back like a long cape. With his left hand he grabbed hold of Andr's hand that she was reaching out. They vanished for a split second and reappeared midair. She launched Pixel straight towards the titan's head. She teleported back right next to us. Still in the middle of awe Sara grabbed my bow and one arrow and aimed right between the eyes of the monster. The arrow pierced through the rock only to see it sticking out of his head. Then noticed Pixel charged with power, blasted the metal alloy arrow, which cause the arrow be shot through the head with unbelievable force.
The monster, moaning, fell on its back making a loud thud. The three of them breathed heavily. As we all hoped that the beast was eliminated but only to be disappointed to see it getting back up from once its grave. "Well that was a bust" Zac sounding discouraged. Out of options. We started to back up as the monster got enraged and began roaring furiously. A light orange streak of light slashed right through the mobs hard core chest causing the Magma cube to stumble and fall back down. But this time as it fell its glowing orange light faded to the point where there was no light coming out of its shell. That is all it was now, a shell. I felt relieved that the beast is put down but another subject has concerned me. Who killed it?
A familiar wicked kind laugh emerged towards the direction of the giant. We went over to see who it was. Isn't it obvious? Amber stood on top of the Magma Cube with one foot on its head. She was tossing an illuminating orange crystal. It must have been the power source, the living energy of the giant cube. Snickering Amber looked over to Blue then stopped but to only smile again showing her sharp white fangs. "You do know you have to take out its life crystal right?" She asked sarcastically at Blue. "Of course I know! What did you think we were going?". She leaped from the head and landing straight in front of Blue causing him to stumble back. she looked very different from the last time we saw her. She wore a Orange long coat with various designs, a black and irradiating orange bra (Seams she dissed her maroon one that she wore a couple of years ago), and matching up to the waist shorts. "Hm, good to see you two" she said looking at me and Zac. "But as for you..." She said looking at Blue and grabbing him by the collar, pulling him close to her face. This cant be good.
Blue's POV
Trapped like a dog in a cage, who knew what she was going to do next. She leaned in closer to me, peering into my eyes. She still has those lust looking orange and yellow eyes. What was once beautiful now looked terrifying. One could fall into her charm and beauty, but no know know her like I do. On the outside she is a sporty like person, but on the inside you could say she is like a she-devil. But seeing that she has an unusual power she used to take down the magma cube, only god knows what shes been up to. "Why didn't you visit more often?!" She yelled and hugged me tightly. Dumbfounded, I froze. "Um, good to see you too?" I managed to say. I could the feel the stares of my friends looking behind my back. I quickly withdraw from her grasp. "I hope your not still angry about couple of years ago." I said.
"Oh that? No, Im all good. Besides that I see you have made some new company?" Hearing that from her gave me relief and began to introduce Sara, Lilith, and Andr. But when I was about to introduce Pixel, he beat me to it. he stepped up giving his usual greeting, "Hey there i'm Pix-" as he managed to say until he was cut off by Amber "Hmm..." She said looking at Pixel top through bottom. Pixel thought he had something on his white cloak and looked at himself, "A-Ah, is there something on me?"
"Mmm...Huh? Oh no. Its just ive never seen a cute looking guy in a long time." She said, of course Pixel was giving the "Aw shucks" body gesture with a red face that was not from the heat of the atmosphere, if you know what I mean. "You look pretty cute yourse- *Muffled Noise*" Pixel said as Cupa covered his mouth with her hand. "H-Hey what about me?" Zac asked to Amber. "Oh right, umm. Out of 10 I thing your a 6"
"Eeeehhhh?! Come on I gotta be better than that!" the rest of us just chuckled at the conversation at hand. "So Amber, What are you doing now"
"Eh nothing much just trying to defend a city from angered monsters. you know the usual" She said shrugging her shoulders. "Was that A joke?" Archer whispered to me. "City?" I asked.
"yeah due to my awesome talents" There she goes boasting again "The local nation here gave me special combat training and how to use my inner blaze energy to help fight off the beasts that have been acting up lately along with their combat forces"
"You joined an empire?"
"Well yeah. It's actually easy progressing through the ranks. Your actually talking to the captain of the Red Guards" she said pointing to herself.
"What why would they make you a captain? Your out of control, destructive! Insan-" I quickly stopped Archer by shoving him back. "Ahem, what Arty is trying to say is that is really impressive. So what is the situation?" i asked. She turned and faced her back toward us and gave off a sigh.
"Its not been good. The creatures have been taking over many areas that we once seize control. We have been being pushed back all the way to the city walls. We have been getting attacks from those things dont know why these things have been acting up all of a sudden"
"What kind of creatures?" Archer asked. Amber pointed to the big monster she slain behind her "And many more"
"But besides me. What are you guys doing here, its dangerous" She asked. I stepped up.
"We came here to hopefully find any clues about Pixel's third race"
"Wait third race? He's a Tri? Don't see that everyday. You just get better and better" She said looking at Pixel again, biting her lower lip. Her rods started to grow brighter and brighter.
"Um hellow?" I said getting Amber's attention. "O-Oh sorry"
"So you think there is any old ruins or something around here" I continued.
"Well there is some old ruined up castle not to far from the city but that place is swarming with magma golems and other weird shit"
"Great! can you take us there?"
"Hold it!" She yelled. Dammit, I knew there is a catch or something to this. "If you want me to help you guys you must help me first"
"with what?"
"Just gotta help me and the rest of the army rid of the beasts at the border" She said. This is bad. We cant put all of us into this conflict. Its too risky.
"Im sorry but we cant help you out with this. Its to dangerou-"
"Ill go" Pixel said. We all turned to him. "You cant be serious" Lilith said. "You dont know what your getting yourself into, Pixel" Sara said.
"Yeah, I dont know about this" Andr followed. We all told him it was a bad idea but he seemed he is into this cause.
"Listen, guys. Many innocent peoples lives are at risk. I just cant allow these monsters to rob the innocent of their lives, land etc. Besides the monsters are in the way of finding out who I am, I must beat this you guys dont want to go, its fine. I'll be back soon." He turned and faced Amber "I'll help"
Amber smiled "Awesome! Were gonna have lots of 'fun' you and I" She grabbed hold of Pixel's hand and started walking away. We stood still. Not knowing what to do. I could tell everyone was feeling bad that we left Pixel on his own. Arty sighed and sat down. Out of the blue Sara opened up. "Ugh, screw it. Come on girls! All four of them started running to Amber and Pixel yelling their names, telling them to wait up. "We have to help them" Zac said. "We have to". Zac helped Archer up and looked at both of us. I nodded my head. "Eh, there is still plenty of adventure room for me". We caught up to the others in a flash. "So where we going" Lilith asked. "Hetabire City".
We continued walking. Zac kept asking Amber desperately that why he was only a six, quite amusing. As we trekked we encountered monsters made out of hard rock and lava fused together. Their eyes bright, filled to rim of the jar of rage. We had several encounters. But when we all get ready to fight back, Amber already made quick work of them. She has changed dramatically. I still see some of her strange, unique characteristics but most of hidden under her coat of secrets, which I tend to uncover. She is more...mature, more... adult. I noticed a symbol on one of her small armor pieces. She didn't have that much protection, she still wore a skimpy type of look.
Through out my travels ive learned that even the most dangerous, unstable places can look magnificent. We walked along side a lava crevasse. "Dont look down, or you can, I dont really care" Amber said. Out of curiosity we all did. It was at least a hundred foot drop into the abyss of magma. Cupa shrieked and jumped back. Amber noticed us falling behind cause of the sight of the crevasse and floated over to us, "You know you shouldn't be looking over to long, the fire gargoyles can see you". I couldn't see any fire goblins though, blended in with the red rock maybe? I asked Amber. "If you see bubbles on the surface of the lava that are not expanding or popping, those are their eyes."
"What?" Archer yelped. As I continued to to look I saw demonic like wings started to rise out of the magma like a zombie coming out of a grave. The redden beast started to rise up along with several others. The monsters looked like they are about a foot higher than me, with hands that could fit your entire head. "They're coming!" Sara yelled. I powered up my Nano blade, Pixel beside me released the blue flame like energy that emitted out of his arms. Archer readied his arrow and bow. Archer and Pixel took quick precise shots at the goblins. It took a few blasts/arrows to take down one but not too many. When one got close, I swiftly slashed one across the torso, almost cutting the gargoyle in half. But as one goblin fell, three more took its place. "there is too many of them!" Pixel yelled. Before I only took a few swings at a goblin that breached through the crevasse crack but know Im desperately trying to kill all the ones that were near us. Quickly killing a few of them one caught me off guard and lifted me about fifteen feet off the ground. The beast's hand gripped me in between my neck and my right shoulder. Its claws digging into my skin, causing me to bleed through my jacket and shirt. I screeched in pain. Before losing feel in my right arm I tossed my blade to my left hand and quickly sawed off the gargoyle's hand off of me. The creature howled and kicked me in the gut away from it, causing me to spew out more blood from my mouth. As gravity pulled me down, I felt the hot air brush against my back. The howling wind as i fall through the sky. I could hear a faint yell of my name. It was probably Andr. Falling through the skies of hell, I heard a jet like sound getting close to me. I looked to my right and I saw a yellow beam of light racing to me. It was Amber, flying at amazing speed. She caught me in mid air and began to descend. I could feel her body warmth, the cushion of her breasts, I blinked and looked at her. She gave off a smirk, "Still weak, huh?" She asked sarcastically. "Hey hot stuff get ova' here".
"Me?" I heard Pixel say. "Who else? Here carry Blue and all of you! Head over there through the tunnel, Ill keep them off you!"
I now felt Pixel's soft silk cloak. He looked down at me with a face of sorrow. But then lightened up and smiled. "Dont worry Blue, you'll okay in a jiffy"
Weird how he can keep happy at distress times like this. Through my peripheral vision I saw Andr running near Pixel, looking at me. I could tell she was worried. In the back ground I could hear blasts of explosions and roars of the gargoyles death cries. But the intense blasts began to become softer as my sence of hearing began to fade, along with my sight. I could barely hear someone say "He's losing too much blood!". After that was only in my own head. I blanked out.