"Einervaene!?" I let out as a voice screamed out across the top of the sea.
"Don't." Thunder warned before I lashed out at him. Striking him point-blank in the face with my fist.
"YOU'RE A DAMN IDIOT IF YOU THINK I AM GOING TO LISTEN TO YOU!" I roared at him before I shot up into the sky until I was high enough to survey the landscape. And if this 'Lightning' wanted to attack me, then let it! It would not stop me from finding Eratheen's daughter! I would not fail to keep my promise to either.
And to acknowledge my divulsion from the path, Lightning lashed out at me...
"You think I'm scared of you!" I spat back challengingly as I threw a bomb of wind at it. Dodging and weaving through whatever was left until I caught sight of an isolated pocket. One that flashed erratically blue!
Einervaene!
"SOMEBODY PLEASE!" she cried just as the gold tightened its metallic noose.
"STAY STILL, EINERVAENE! I-" I began to call out to her before a bolt struck me right on the back. And I roared in pain before I luckily crashed down into that same pocket as her. I think the impact even pushed the gold back somewhat.
"BREWBRT! I'M SORRY! I THOUGHT I WAS HEADED THE RIGHT WAY!"
"It's... AH! It's fine..." I struggled to get out as I registered both the power of that lightning's magic and the heat it left behind.
"I'm sorry... Now we're both going t-"
"Quiet!" I snap at her as I get back up, growling at every sudden burst of pain as I did so. Then, after briefly seeing how quickly we were being enclosed upon. I grabbed Einervaene and prepared to fly once again. Yet, for some reason, I found myself dragged down by all this pain and I couldn't focus.
"Let me get on your back!" Einervaene urged.
"No! If you waste your magic on me then you're as good as dead! Don't worry about me, ju-AHHHHHHHH!" I tried to explain to her before the gold sloshed across my foot. And, like a gun to start a race, I blasted off into the air with a gold-soaked foot.
"BREWBRT!" she screamed at me as she likely looked back at my newly weighted foot.
"Save your mother, you hear?" I tell her calmly as bring my arms back to throw her.
"LOOK OUT!" she screams as the sky roars like it had never done before.
"YOU LISTEN TO ME! YOU WILL NOT HAVE HER!" I roared back at the sky after quickly tossing Einervaene aside. And, once I felt like she had gone far enough away, I cocked back my arms and called upon as much magic as I could. I would make it clear that I was the threat and gather all of its attention...
And it all seemed to slow down as I watched those bolts come closer... They'd pierce right through me like this...
"YOU WILL NOT HAVE HER!" I repeated as emerald light started to clash against the golden lightning. And as thunder boomed, my voice cracked and strained as all I could pour was forced out against the storm. A barrage of power that sent out shockwaves powerful enough to disturb the molten sea below!
"BREWBRT!" Einervaene cried as she suddenly appeared out of a blue bolt.
"You... Idiot..." I struggled to get out as my vision started to flicker. Then, but a moment later, I shot back up to my feet after a sudden bang.
"You two made it despite failing to follow my heed." that bastard Thunder commented as he stepped out of the sea with nary a scratch on him.
"Just be quiet..." I hissed at him as my eyes looked down at my gold-encrusted foot.
"Hold on I'll try an-"
"No, it's cooled solid. My foot won't make the bend even if it wasn't there. I'll just have to put up with it." I told her before I had to give her a sudden shove to make sure she didn't give me her magic.
"You're badly injured!" she snapped at me with red-rimmed eyes.
"So long as you are safe..." I gasped out to her after I finished pushing myself up against the rocks.
"If it is rest you need, let us head inside the cave." Thunder told us as he gestured towards our new shelter.
"Go on, Einervaene, I'll follow you through." I tell her before I stare out at the storm. It didn't lash out at us for some reason. Even though we were still outside...
"Honour binds him to not strike now, but do not believe that he has not learned from Jaadagoren." Thunder comments before he goes into the cave himself.
"To think I would find a superior in a storm of all things..." I grumbled as I tried to pick myself up. Only to look back up at the sky as a low rumble filled the air and the storm calmed down slightly. It made me blink and double-check, I have to admit. But I must've been seeing things because that storm was still volatile.
"Hey, Brewbrt, there's a whole campsite in here! Thunder says it's his and that it is stocked!"
"Medicine?" I asked as it was what I needed to most right now.
"He doesn't have any..." she lets out as her head slinks down.
"Don't beat yourself up over it, a hot brew will do me for the moment." I chuckle as right now my body was burning in several key spots.
"Do you need help taking the armour off?" she asked me.
"No, I think it might be best to keep it on right now." I tell her as I look back at the storm.
"But your injuries!"
"Will be fine, don't worry." I tell her as I pat her shoulder in an effort to calm the fearful girl. And, I made a point of keeping a calm, somewhat stoic face so she did not have to see my own fear. She didn't need this right now.
"Alright... I'll make sure your soup is packed with as much magic as it can be, though!" she tells me with a determined stomp before she got to looking about the cave for whatever it is she might've needed.