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Chapter 10:
Rachel tossed and twisted, sweat beading down on her forehead as she dreamt. Suddenly, she snapped awake in her cave and gasped for breath as she ran to the table there and grabbed a sheet of paper and pen and scribbling something down.
Made by one, perfected by one,
But chosen to release Lëi's son,
Into the wound, the poison seeps,
And in the end, his life shall weep.
She frowned, turning around to walk out of the cave. She wanted to talk to Percy, but something stopped her. Should she talk? She shook her head. What was wrong with her? She shouldn't be afraid to speak!
Rachel approached the entrance of the cave, but hesitated once more. She frowned, finally relenting. Leaving the sheet of paper on the desk, she sat down on her bed and fell asleep once again.
Lin Chung sighed, looking down at his hands, which were surrounded by the flickering purple aura. He concentrated, and the flickering light became steady.
He could feel the poison starting to work effect on him. His magic was weaker, he knew that. He also found out, in the morning, that trying to use his element was going to burn at his life-force.
He growled as he set his hand on fire, only to quickly extinguish it as he felt something inside of him burn away.
Bitterly, he scowled, throwing a rock into the sea, watching it bounce before sinking. So he was dying. Wonderful.
The harmonic energy-user knew that Wong Tai Sin hadn't and wouldn't revealed anything yet, but he was on the verge of doing so under Hawk's constant pestering. He wasn't surprised. Hawk usually got his way if he tried hard enough.
But he wasn't going to tell his brothers, who still remained oblivious. He looked out at the sun, which was just coming out from the horizon. Suddenly, a loud hunting horn sound reached his ear, and he snapped his head around to see Jian run down to him.
"Twin Masters!"
Without another word, Lin Chung stood and joined his brother, taking out his bamboo staff. The camp was already in defence-mode, while the four other brothers were attacking the elementals already.
He charged into battle, noticing Leo, Hazel, Percy, Thalia, Jason and Nico using their own powers to try and throw the enemy off. Lin Chug lit his hands on fire while clutching tightly to the bamboo staff; the staff didn't burn.
He ran forward to join them, before engaging a water elemental in battle, quickly disposing of him. Once done, he attacked an earth elemental.
Twin Masters smirked, seeing Lin Chung, the clone who was originally supposed to host him, slowly get eaten away by his own magic. Wonderful. He would die soon enough, and Twin Masters would be rid of one enemy.
He noticed Hawk flying into the battle, easily pushing the enemy back to give the barely woken campers time to regain confidence and their weapons, before they charged into battle again.
He could sense that Lin Chung was already aware of this fact, and longed to see the harmonic-energy user give up or die.
But he did neither. Instead, he continued to fight, with the gleam in his eye that always appeared in battle. He had lost his staff, possibly at the hands of another enemy. But he snatched up a dagger, and used it to try and knock the elementals out instead of kill them.
Twin Masters noticed the rabbit - Jumpy, was it? - join Lin Chung in battle, throwing grenades around him. He chuckled. Adorable, but not effective enough.
He also noticed some of the other annoying members of First and Second Squad holding off well.
Scowling, he flicked his hand, and some of the campers and members of Big Green got knocked off their feet. However, with Jiao's interference, they ended up landing safely.
He scowled again as he noticed the elementals fading.
Because of him cloning them, the monsters wore out easily, especially because of the large numbers. Ke laughed as a strong wind blasted past them and sent the elementals back too far.
Twin Masters flicked his hand again, ordering the elementals to retreat.
So…the youngest clone was dying? Good.