"Should we go get her!? Nin isn't going to pay any heed to us while that thing is out there!" I asked Vadei after watching Nin charge off into the distance. Towards the growing wall of fire that had replaced the golden fields and green riversides.
"Can't you just help him!?" Vadei would ask back as I looked at the sky.
"No, I can't! The clouds are all gone and my spell needs clouds to work!" I tell her while noting how the closest clouds were just too far away. I could go up and strike back down quickly, sure... But, the distance was so great I'd lag behind such a fast target. To say nothing of how its magic hid it as it moved!
"Alright, fine, get us to the mountains over there, there are some clouds still along there." Vadei pointed out before I grabbed onto her body.
"Okay!" I answer just before we turned into a pale-blue lightning bolt. One that went across the sky in such an obnoxiously destructive fashion until we reached the cloud. I would then turn us around and bring us close to the sensation of a stronger magic aura.
"Larishazza!" Vadei would call out once we became ourselves once again. But we would both stop at the sight of the one our blue-haired friend travelled with. A large creature with red skin and bright green eyes with a completely torn up front that was a paler red... A bloody red...
"What's that!?" I would ask as all but Larishazza became defensive. The golden weapons on this creature meanwhile moved about as it prepared itself.
"Does anyone speak the language Liada speaks?" Larishazza then asked as she looked at us with confusion. Somehow maintaining a somewhat innocent attitude in spite of all the carnage she was surrounded by.
"Language?" Vadei would repeat as she approached the creature. Her hands cautiously raised before her as she got closer.
"What're you doing?" I asked before Vadei suddenly spat at the creature's mouth. Her fingers going against its ears just as quickly. Something that caused the creature to chase after her in anger.
"WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR!?" it asked us with a yell before it came to a stop. Confusion replaced its rage so very quickly.
"Uh, hi." I said to it with a wave. Something that would get it to wave back as it looked on awkwardly.
"Wh... What did you do...?" this Liada asked Vadei with slight disgust as she took on a prideful stance. She also smugly looked down at her claws while the rest of us were confused.
"Just using some of my magic to help you speak our tongue and understand it." she would say before she began to approach Larishazza.
"What about Nin?" I then asked which got everyone's attention. Even that of Liada's so does that mean she was a friend of his...?
"That thing appeared and he chased after it." Larishazza would say which got this Liada angry.
"We should help him!" she said as she smashed her weapons together before she was stopped.
"Not with those injuries you aren't!" Vadei told her as she stared intently at the large-chested creature. At least, until she looked away with a blush as Liada was naked. She was completely naked bar those weapons.
"But, Nin saved me from the humans, I owe it to him!" Liada told us as she looked down at her injuries. What kind of injuries were these anyway...? There were so many swollen holes in her chest and her...
"You don't have the magic, anyway, Liada." Larishazza would point out as she went up onto a rock to survey the land.
"Liadanann!" she corrected in annoyance before she backed off away from her. An aggravated mumble came from her while I joined Larishazza on her rock.
"I can get you to him, quickly." I tell my friend as I keep an eye on the clouds.
"Do it." was all she told me before I then took her hand into mine.
"I will!" I tell her just before we shot up into the sky. Soaring far beyond the tips of these mountains until we reached the clouds far above it all. So far had we gone that my magic had become less reactive until it was too dense for me to even move. And as we turned back to normal in the sky, I screamed while she laughed.
"THIS IS GREAT!" Larishazza somehow said to me clearly as we fell down to the ground again. Losing my hat in the process whilst I held on to her hands as the air tried to go against us. At first, it was like we were falling through a thick liquid, but it soon went and it exploded. And just before we hit the ground, I would turn us into a bolt again.
Flinging us across an old road at the edge of a raging forest fire. I staggered back up and tried to find Larishazza. But all I felt were traces of her magic as I saw water fall from the sky. Little raindrops that blew up upon contact with the dirt as she disappeared.
"Wait up!" I called out to her as I got back to my feet. Groaning at the loss of my hat before shaking it out of my head. All that mattered right now was helping Nin with his problem. A problem I had lots of experience in dealing with!
So I tried something a little different as all these fires were getting in my way. I would turn into a bolt and quickly turn back to normal. I would keep casting my signature spell and cancel it mid-flight until I got to them. Nin was trying so hard and Larishazza was helping him too.
But this wyvern was keeping its distance from both of them. Especially Larishazza who was much more capable. Her magic was being flung at it and was creating the occasional hole in its wings. And as her strength became more apparent, I would have to get involved.
For it was increasing the distance between itself and the ground before it carried on breathing fire. It was too far away for those two, despite how desperate Nin got with his jumps. This was my fight now and I shot straight towards the wyvern. Locking it in between my legs in a surprise grapple after striking it as a lightning bolt.
"Stop hurting my friend!" I demanded of the wyvern before I turned into my lightning form. Letting my legs conduct shock after shock through the wyvern until it was completely paralysed. It crashed into the ground shortly after and I would get off in the meantime. Landing into a freshly scorched patch of dirt before returning to normal.
"Gah... There are three of you now!?" the wyvern said as it got back up. Only to get a kick in the face by Larishazza and a fist from Nin. A combination of attacks that left it stunned at first before it caught the next two blows. Nin was going as hard as he could but Larishazza was holding back...
Was she still clinging to the idea of not being so destructive here? Now was not the time for that! We were out of Nin's home city, we didn't need to hold back! At least, that is what I was thinking until I was pushed back by a fireball.
One that had just burnt away everything despite it being so weak. I could now quite easily grasp while Larishazza was being so cautious, but still! This fight had been going on long enough already. So I would charge them all and grab on to them all.
Sending us quickly into the sky in the form of a lightning bolt and evicting us over the mountains. If we needed to be more destructive about this, then we can do it where no one can get hurt but us! Yet, as a result of my rushed attempt to move the fight, I had immobilised the other two with stomach issues. So now I was being attacked by the wyvern.
And I screamed and wailed under each blow it sent at me. I had no instincts for battle and it was hitting me with unrelenting aggression. Each blow would hit my head or body and I did nothing to stop it. I couldn't even focus on getting a spell out as I was just panicking.
"Please stop..." I would pointlessly beg after I finished rolling about from its most recent blow. But it would not, instead, it took in a deep breath and snarled at me.
"You smell of her too... You smell of Salahma's sweet and intoxicating breath. It's almost as if she is still here..." the wyvern spoke in a creepy tone before it grew angry once again. A booming roar would be let out in my face yet no smoke would wash out onto me. No cloud for me to grab onto so I could beat it like I did Salahma.
"GET OFF ME!" I would then scream as I turned into lightning. Quickly getting up and making an attempt to beat it down with lightning-covered fists until Nin came at it again. And he did so by slamming me aside in a bloodthirsty attempt to tear it apart. Yet, they would disappear again as the creature got free and flew off with Nin on its foot.
"Nin!?" Larishazza called out as she stumbled to her feet. My eyes, however, stayed focused on the mountain tops that had just disappeared. It was almost like they were melted candles, ones that just lost a chunk of wax to the lit candle wick.
"No, hold on, let your body recover first!" I would then beg of Larishazza as she clung onto me. Moving my body as if she was expecting me to suddenly turn into a surging bolt of lightning.
"Einervaene! Get us back to him!" she begged back as I freed myself of her grip.
"Hold on!" I repeated while panting and heaving as my heart pounded inside. I could hear them battle, even from here, but it's not like I could do anything right now. I can't just leave Larishazza out here!
"Fine, you go on ahead, then, I'll go around and meet up with you. Just make sure Nin is fine." she then tells me before she runs off while clutching her stomach. And I would watch her at first, watch her stumble and fall. But I would focus on what mattered and go back to the battle. Interrupting a swing of the wyvern's tail and grabbing it.
"OUT OF MY WAY!" Nin would roar at me for some reason before he tore me off the tail and tossed me aside. Something that left me terrified as I had thought he would appreciate the help. But he was getting increasingly reckless and desperate in his attempts to stop the wyvern. And soon, very soon, he would be running before just stopping.
We could see his home from here and the wyvern suddenly rocketed off towards it. Then, as if it was never there, it suddenly vanished in a ball of fire. Something that made Nin so very, very quiet as scorching winds washed over us. I would reach out to him but he made no reaction as the land around us burned.
"N-Nin...?" I would ask in a pointless attempt to see if he was okay. Stumbling back in fear when his magic just suddenly came out again. Tearing away at the ground and flinging me aside into the nearby mountain. And despite how far away I was now, I could see him just because that aura of his was so massive...
It was a mountain in and of itself and then it came, that roar. A roar I don't think I could ever forget because that wasn't him. That was something else and it terrified me because all it was, was rage. The desire for blood.
And I would helplessly watch as he suddenly appeared in the distant ruins with everything flying up behind him. Ahead of it all, a shockwave that showed no signs of weakening. And what little of the city that survived flew out into the air before breaking apart. Little pieces of stone would ping against me as I stood up while boulders shattered about me.
The wyvern would run some more and the pair would disappear once again into the distance. Before, then, all of a sudden, another explosion happened in the distant air. Did Nin hit the wyvern as it flew away, or, had it... No, they didn't hit the airship, did they...?