Chapter 167 - Chapter 167 Thunder Bird Storm

As the sun rose Thomas and the others met outside and prepared to go back to their dimension. As Thomas created the door in front of him he said "We should get a move on." As they all walked out of the subconscious Rose returned to normal size and said "I'm gonna miss being small." Thomas stared at her and said "You won't be able to fit in the cart." Rose picked Thomas up and asked "Will you stay with me so I have someone to talk to?" Thomas stared at her and said "I'd rather not walk." Rose set him on her shoulder and said "Then you can sit here and talk to me." Thomas dat their and mumbled "Wait when did we agree that Rose was gonna come with us?" Rose stared at Thomas and asked "Is something wrong?" As she asked this Ocis flew up and said "Don't get any ideas he's mine." Rose stared at her and said "I'm way to big for that to work." As Scarlett sat down in the front of the cart she said "Actually if he can change your size it would work if you went to the other dimension." Rose smiled and said "That's right you can change my size!" Thomas glanced at her and said "Staying in that dimension is a no go for me." Rose smiled and said "You only need to shrink me occasionally." Ocis stared at Thomas and shouted "You think I'm better right?" Thomas stared at her and said "I don't really see a difference, you all pretty much forced your way on our journey." Rose stared at Thomas and excitedly said "Then you see me the same as everyone else?" Thomas nodded as He said "I don't really see anyone differently." Ocis stared at Thomas and asked "Does that mean you don't see me as your wife?" Thomas stared at her and said "I see you as a close friend." Ocis sighed and said "Then I'll have to make you see me as your future wife." Thomas watched as she flew down into the cart as he mumbled "I don't really understand why a harpy devotes their life to someone who beats them but I'm sure there's a better way to do it." As they began to travel Rose asked Thomas "Do you think you'd ever see Ocis as a lover?" Thomas glanced at her and said "It's not exactly easy to explain, but I suppose the easiest way to put it is a harpy will mate with whoever beats them, and it just doesn't feel right to take advantage of it." Rose stared at Thomas and said "So you might actually marry her?" Thomas shrugged and said "I don't want her do something she'll regret, so I'll let things play out for a while." As a shadow passed over them Thomas looked up and seen a rather large bird about the size of a person flying over them. Thomas pointed at it and said "What's up with that giant bird?" Rose looked up at it and said "It's probably just some over grown creature." As the bird let out a caw a thunderbolt shot out from its body and struck the ground creating a crater. Thomas glanced at the crater and said "I don't think that's your normal run of the day bird." Rose stared at it and said "That's odd thunder birds shouldn't be anywhere near here." Thomas yawned and said "Well it doesn't seem interested in us so let's ignore it." Rose pointed ahead of them and said "I don't think we'll be able to." Thomas stared ahead of them and seen a flock of thunder birds flying towards them with dark clouds and lightning striking the ground. Thomas sighed and said "Looks like we won't be able to avoid them." Moments later Ocis and Scarlett flew out from the cart and towards Thomas as they asked "Are we under attack." Rose pointed at the flock of thunder birds and said "We're about to enter a thunder bird storm." Thomas stood up and said "Taking all of them out is already out of the question but we can probably get a few of them." Rose stared at the birds and said "If we can take the ones above the cart out we should be able to make it past them." Thomas stared at Scarlett and asked "Who's driving the cart?" Scarlett pointed to the cart and said "I told Peri to take over." Thomas glanced at the thunder birds and said "I'll get the others to start firing at them but you two should probably get up there and take out as many as you can, but don't push yourselves if you get seriously hurt you should come back to the cart for a while." Scarlett and Ocis nodded as they flew off towards the thunderbirds. Thomas jumped off of Rose's shoulder and jumped into the cart. Thomas glanced at Lily, Ceil, and Mira as he said "We're gonna need your help with the thunder birds." Poppy stood up and asked "Can I do anything to help." Thomas stared at her and said "Make sure Peri doesn't crash the cart." Poppy nodded and said "You can count on me." As they got out of the cart Thomas glanced at them and said "Do whatever you can to take them out." Lily nodded as Ceil and her both began to shoot water bolts at the thunder birds. Mira stared at Thomas and said "I'm gonna need a bit of blood." Thomas stared at her and said "Get some quickly we don't have a lot of time sit here being idol." As Mira drank Thomas's blood Ocis and Scarlett killed some of the thunder birds and watched as the bodies fell. As one of the birds flew towards Ocis Lily blasted it out of the sky with a water bolt and shouted "You'll have to try harder then that!" As Mira quit drinking Thomas blood she held her hand towards the birds and shouted "Ice barrage!" As ice flew through the air taking out about a dozen thunder birds Thomas glanced at Rose and said "Toss me." Rose stared at at him and asked "Are you sure?" Thomas nodded and said "Throw me as close to those birds as you can." Rose picked him up and said "Okay but don't forget I'm throwing you directly into a thunderstorm." As Rose threw Thomas he mumbled "Wait she's right, being thrown into a thunderstorm is gonna hurt way more then this stupid seal." As Thomas collided with one of the birds he felt the shock throughout his body as he grabbed onto its wing and said "This hurts like hell." The bird began to caw as more and more lightning shocked Thomas. As he held onto the bird he shouted "I won't let a little shock beat me!" Thomas grabbed the bird by the beak and broke it. As blood from the bird flew everywhere it began to fall to the ground. Thomas jumped off of the thunder bird and onto another one as he said "These damn birds must have lightning stored in there bodies." Thomas felt the shock throughout his body again as he raised the beak above him and shouted "Die you stupid bird!" As he shoved the beak into the birds back it began to fall to the ground again. Before Thomas could jump however he began to lose consciousness from all of the lightning that had struck him. As Thomas closed his eyes he muttered "I only got two of them." Moments later Rose picked him up and set him next to Peri as she said "He was shocked unconscious." Peri glanced at him and said "We're almost out of storm so hold on tight." Poppy peeked through the curtain and seen Thomas as she mumbled "He isn't invincible if he's gonna risk his life he could at least tell me, our lives are linked!" Moments later Ocis and Scarlett landed in front of the cart and said "We should be far enough from the thunder birds now." Ocis stared at Thomas and asked "Is he alright?" Poppy stared at Ocis and said "He's fine he just decided to fight the thunder birds head on." Rose stared at her and said "He asked me to throw him at the thunder birds, he killed two before falling unconscious from all of the shocks." Lily walked around to the front of the cart and blasted a water bolt with very little mana in it at him as she said "Wake up!" Thomas laid there and just opened his eyes as he asked "What happened?" Peri stared at him and said "You don't remember what happened?" Thomas sat up and said "I remember hitting the ground but is everyone else okay?" Thomas looked around at everyone and said "Oh your all fine." As they all got back into the cart Ceil said "Lasting that long in the heart of a thunderstorm is pretty impressive." Thomas here his head and said "It doesn't matter how impressive it is my head is killing me." Lily stared at him and said "You should count yourself lucky that your even alive after taking that much electricity directly." Thomas yawned and said "We'll probably have to deal with what they were running from next."