(Alvin's POV only.)
(Alvin's POV)
By the time I woke up I felt a very, VERY sharp contrast in the ambient temperature surrounding me than earlier when I...embarrassingly got my ass kicked by something that LOOKED like Derek Smalls... The now searing warmth that had enveloped my body moments before was what ambient air by that sent sudden panic running along my spine. I also felt an unsettling sensation on my face— and my mouth was... bleeding...BLEEDING!? The metallic, and terribly coppery taste of my own damn blood was unmistakable, and I could only assume the injury was a result of that brutal strike I got from that... "Chain-Small" boss encounter thing. It was all a weird awakening blur, one moment I was fighting that thing, the next moment, I got smacked, and then the other next moment, everything just went "lights out" for me. Was my mouth bleeding? I didn't really have time to worry about that now.
I quickly turned my gaze back to the scene unfolding before me. Eleanor was in the center of chaos and she looked like she was about to go critical, with all this weird green glowing energy, radiating off and around her with an intensity that was palpable, while all these black shadowy "Student" beings were attempting to either attack her or clear out. As much as I wanted to go and help her I realized that my first priority had to be getting myself the absolute HELL out of this vicinity, because she looked like a fucking bomb about to detonate. The danger was looming and I could feel it in my bones, as well as my tail standing on end. I focused summoning my fiery aura and all remaining energy left within me from my "Burn" "Trait" once more, the familiar warmth and orange glowing color igniting around me like a bonfire amongst all this glowing green in contrast. With a surge of determination and the urge to get the hell up and get the hell out of here right NOW, I propelled myself upwards, flying through the air desperately maneuvering around the gigantic trunk of the tree that loomed ominously above from Jeanette's powers that crafted this gigantic tree thing.
Once I reached a safer altitude, I glanced down to assess the situation. I was holding my bleeding mouth with one hand the heat from my own powers causing the blood to boil— no it was LITERALLY boiling, as it seeped through my fingers and stained my signature jacket's red sleeves in an ugly dark crimson coloration. It was a vivid reminder of the chaos that had just unfolded, and the ass kicking I just got hand delivered to me earlier. A much more pressing concern loomed over us— Eleanor was way down below and she was on the verge of a catastrophic meltdown. The gravity of the situation hit me hard, we were facing a literal "Critical Mass" ass scenario, and it looked like... she was about to fucking EXPLODE—?! We needed to act quickly strategize and somehow pull all of ourselves together with this, or we risked being caught in the aftermath of her impending explosion.
But before we could even begin to contemplate anything, right in the next instant, the ambient air around me surged and shifted dramatically once more. A large powerful gust of hot wind erupted from below us where the gigantic green explosion was coming from, catching us, and more importantly, ME completely off guard and nearly knocking me off balance in the air. The sudden force of the wind surged around us creating an intense whirlwind that rattled my senses. I struggled to regain my composure as the heat enveloped me, with the unexpected turbulence and burning atmospheric change heightening what little adrenaline I had left, and leaving me barely but acutely aware of the shit that is now going on in our situation.
"SHIT-! HOT-!"
But thankfully, I was caught, by Jeanette, quickly grabbing my hand and rooting all of us to the gigantic tree's branches with large vines, used as a tether to keep us from being blasted off and away like I almost was. I was just quickly pulled back down to level with everyone else, and collapsed right into Jeanette, not that I wanted to, my head's sort of spinning here...but, am I complaining? Hah! No way in Hell. (I'm pretty sure she knows that I'm not really able to sit up right now either- win win-?) ANY-WAYS- My heart just raced as I turned to look down, with my breath caught in my throat for a moment, same with all the others. A blinding, bright, gigantic green light blazed upward, illuminating everything in a blinding glow, as if the very fabric of reality was being torn apart. A deafening roar erupted from the depths below drowning out the panicked screams of the shadowy "Student" figures swarming like locusts beneath us, their frantic movements a chaotic dance of fear and confusion which was only snuffed out by the gigantic green light turning explosive, disintegrating and destroying anything within it's blast radius, small stores and buildings in this monochromatic town that were nearby were also destroyed as well. Holy fucking shit… did Eleanor just turn into a fucking... living bomb or something? It was as if she had tapped into some unimaginable power...or something further from her "Berserker" power, which was now transforming into a force of destructive blinding green danger, unleashing a cataclysmic energy that would just barrel through anything and everything it touched. The air crackled with tension and I could feel the ground tremble beneath our feet.
The realization hit me and the others like a ton of bricks and I knew we were all in serious trouble. We had to regroup figure out what was happening and fast. This was no ordinary fight anymore, it was a full-scale disaster and we were right in the middle of it. At the moment, Theodore's scream is heard even over the deafening exploding roar, why? Because his girlfriend just self detonated far below, and from the looks of it, she might even be DEAD. Simon and Brittany are both restraining Theodore right now, so he doesn't go falling off the gigantic tree branch cause he could NOT sit the hell still for the life of him, but honestly...it's all warranted, I don't blame him. We all just watched in astonishment and dread, by this time Theodore had calmed down, but he's just sitting and watching the gigantic green light flicker and blast the ground outwards down below, slightly shaking the tree, and to be honest...never in my life... have I ever seen my little brother look quite so...broken before, up until this very moment. It's heartbreaking, I feel like all the times I was terrible to him back then stacked up, couldn't even begin to match up to the empty anguish I see on his face.
And on top of that, we all felt the gigantic tree start to SHAKE, probably from the force of the gigantic ass green light explosion rocking it below. The ground was being torn up by more gigantic green light emitting from this giant area of the ground that was broken up into giant cubes, before exploding up with more green light, sending rocks, disintegrated body parts and metal chunks flying in all directions. One of these tiny metal fragments just zipped all the way up here, nailing Brittany, and slashing her across her cheek, enacting a scream as she covered her face. Great, now I'm bleeding, and SHE'S bleeding now too, so we have TWO injured people here now.
Before we knew it, we heard a sickening and deafening crack sound echoing through the air. The TREE TRUNK that we are all on, had now broken from the gigantic green explosion down below, a sound that resonated with an ominous finality, and now we all felt gravity shifting beneath us going down. The realization hit all of us like a freight train...this gigantic ass tree was now falling— WAIT IT'S FUCKING FALLING— and we were all going DOWN, air is flying backwards past us, we are all caught in a moment suspended between fear and disbelief. My heart raced but at this point I didn't have much energy left to react. I just slumped against Jeanette seeking solace as I was utterly drained from the chaos of it all, and I had literally burned out my energy reserves from my power and getting the shit beat out of me by the boss encounter. Brittany's clutching her face while grinding her teeth, but like the rest of us, she's concerned about all of us fucking falling to our deaths right now.
The adrenaline that had fueled me earlier was fading leaving only total exhaustion in its wake. The rest of us clung desperately to the tree trunks and to each other our fingers interlocking like a lifeline while this colossal ass tree continued its relentless descent toward the ground and into the green exploding light. In that terrifying instant, it felt as if time had slowed down even more than this monotonous... time stopped field town area WHATEVER the fuck this thing is, can even further slow down to and the world around us blurred from our ascertain decent. But somehow... amidst the chaos and impending doom it must have been our sudden stroke of luck or some cosmic intervention one of us just awakened their "Trait" at the right time because eventually out of nowhere something else happened as we all saw another GUI pop up in mid air while we are all falling...
[Name: Simon Seville]
[HP: 150/150]
[Trait: Iron Mountain]
[Location: Mainland]