"Get inside! I'll hold them off!" Ayi-chira told me as she gestured me away from the deck. Just as another blast of wind sliced into the airship.
"THEY'LL KILL YOU!" I shrieked back at her as I stumbled about. Contrasting greatly with her calm demeanour where she seemingly danced about.
"I'll be fine, now, get inside!" she repeated to me just before she helped me up. A blast of magic from her putting out the fires caused by whatever took Nin. Then, more blasts of water magic which began to interfere with the attacks hitting the airship.
"Vadei!" I called out into the control room as I stumbled in. Each hit the airship took making me stumble as it would shake us violently.
"What's going on!?" Vadei asked me as she rushed out from wherever she was to meet me. Her body jumping when something smashed into the front of the airship. Its scaled arm and long claws tearing apart the machines near it as it tried to reach for something.
"Wyverns!" one of the slavers growled out just before I rushed over to the arm. My body transforming into lightning before I then grabbed the arm. Holding on for dear life as I was violently tossed about before it went limp.
"Wyverns!? What are you talking about!?" I asked as I placed a hand to my chest after returning to normal. My heart thumping powerfully inside me while my eyes lingered on that burnt arm. The arm of something I killed without much thought.
"You! Put hand in there! Get defence on!" the elder slaver then demanded of Vadei as he began to slam her. The spooked woman growling at him before she started moving towards the main chair. Her hands going to her head as she looked about with uncertainty.
"WHAT DO I DO!?" she cried out in tears while looking about with a red face.
"Hand in there!" the elder slaver repeated as he took her hand and put it into this machine. Her screams soon filling our ears as she clutched her arm.
"IT'S STABBING ME! IT'S STABBING ME!" she repeated over and over while crying. Her body naturally trying to pull away which only made her cry more.
"Hold her still!" I was then ordered before the slavers went back to controlling the airship. My arms soon wrapping around the scared, tailed woman so I could comfort her.
"Shhhh, shhhh, shhhh! It's going to be alright, just, do as he says." I say to her in as motherly a tone as I could do. Making sure I was holding on to her tight to keep her still and getting her into the chair behind us. One of her arms soon tightly holding on to her tail as she sat on my lap.
"It hurts..." she cried out while looking about in confusion. Her head occasionally shaking and twitching before the airship rumbled. A bubble of light surrounding us before various other lights lanced out from the airship.
"You're doing great, you're doing great. Just keep doing whatever it is you are doing!" I say to her in an effort to keep her calm. Looking over at the slavers as they went into overdrive and pressed and flipped away at the consoles. My eyes soon lingering upwards to these screens that had suddenly appeared. Lari clearly portrayed in them along with a few wyverns.
"Beat them, beat them..." I began to mumble over and over as I watched these somewhat human-looking creatures attack her. Only to be filled with relief as she effortlessly danced around them with smooth twists and sharp movements. Glowing water following her every move as she infuriated them. Their blows missing and magic overshooting and she did not even attack!
At least, until she started to throw small orbs at them. Some going straight through their bodies and precisely crippling or killing them. And then, she began to actually strike the wyverns and was killing them quickly. The final one having its head crushed after she kicked its head up and then slammed it back down with the same leg.
Her body soon washing itself off as she turned around and waved at us. A sigh of relief going through me before a loud bang was heard just behind us. The snapping of jaws making it clear one of them was still around. So, I urged Vadei off of me, despite her desperate attempts to keep me around.
I then gulped down my fear and stood before the damaged door. Watching it with uncertainty as this creature tore it off and charged at me. An orb of wind magic in its mouth before it collapsed to the ground suddenly.
"Sorry!" Ayi-chira said to me as she rush over to me. Another orb of water leaving her fingers just as she passed by its head. A bloody hole appearing and adding to the pool of blood now on the floor. And now that she was here, I went back to the chair and stayed with Vadei.
"What's going on, you two!? You know what these things are!" I then asked the slavers as the magic bubble lit up around us over and over. Clear signs that it was being attacked by these wyverns. Some kind of gauge and measurement even appeared before us and it was steadily getting smaller.
"We maaay haaave pissed aff same wyverns befare aaand they haaave been chaaasing us..." Heiya admitted nervously before she went back to work.
"Great!" Ayi-chira said in frustration as she brought her arms up before bringing them down again. Her eyes looking on with worry at the deck of the ship.
"How bad is it?" I asked her, having somewhat of an idea as to what it might be that is causing the issue.
"Outside of where Nin was taken... Most of it is just fine slices or cuts. We should be able to patch it up with the tools onboard."
"What about Nin!?" I then asked which made her freeze up.
"We can't help him..." she quietly said while looking away.
"Can't help him!? You beat the ones out there! We just need to beat the rest!"
"WHATEVER TOOK NIN HAS LIKELY KILLED HIM ALREADY!" she then roared out in tears. Something that made my heart feel like it had stopped.
"You don't know that..." I muttered with a trembling lip.
"Did you not feel the power of that creature!? It's too much for him to handle and we need to keep this airship safe which we can't do if we go out to help him!" she said to me.
"NO! HE MATTERS MORE THAN THIS AIRSHIP! GET THE SHIELD DOWN! GET IT DOWN!" I first screamed at Ayi-chira before I turned towards Vadei. Grabbing onto her and shaking her in a fit of rage just to get a chance to help Nin out. But, Vadei was too terrified to do anything and she just shook her head over and over.
"EINERVAENE!" Ayi-chira then shouted at me after she slapped me. A sharp sting going across my face before I placed a hand against the wet mark on my face. Magic was involved in that slap...
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" I then yelled at her before I turned into lighting and charged her. Sending volt after volt into this annoying Ibenoroccon before she blasted me away with her aura. And then I was just staring in anger as she tried to sort herself out.
"Calm down... Please..." she asked me in tears before she slammed her head against the wall of the airship. Slowly getting up and then just dashing outside onto the decking of the airship. Leaning over the side of the airship railings and desperately looking for Nin. But all I saw was a mighty blaze down below.
There was so much destruction...
I needed to get to a better viewpoint, just somewhere where I could dive off the ship... But, then, I stopped and I bent over to pick up something. My hat and his... I then just cried into it before angrily staring at the shield protecting us.
"I'll kill you... I'LL KILL YOU!" I said quietly at first before yelling it out. A bolt of lightning leaving my hands and going through the barrier. And then... I was filled with a sense of relief as that could only mean one thing...!
I could get out of here and save him! I could save Nin!
"Don't do it!" I was told as a particular someone came running out to stop me. Just before I then leapt off the airship, summarily passing through the barrier. And then, as I felt heated air wash over me, I turned into lightning and went into the clouds again. Arcing across the gaseous water until I saw a fight down below.
"NIN!" I screamed out like thunder before I then shot down towards the figures in the fire.