Captain Leo already accepted his fate the moment he knew there is nowhere to escape. Ten seconds before the impact, he can not feel his legs and his body is too weak. Nine, he tried to summon a lightning but he was drained. Eight, seven... he felt a faint guilt and disappointment that he wasn't abe to completely annihilate the serphynx. Six... Five... a flash of memory came back... Four... as he arrived earlier he made sure that everyone are alive and had evacuated, his soldiers included. Three.. two.. he smiled because he knew he did good. One.. "So this is it."
"CAPTAIN LEO!!!"
A sudden scream arose. In a split second, a shadow appeared in the air, kicked the huge boulder and it exploded into pieces. "BOOOMM!"
A moment later, he noticed that nothing of the shattered pieces was even touching his body. It was only the moment he focused that he realized that a shield like structure was protecting him. Beside him is a pale white guy with emerald green eyes. He was rasing his two hands and looked at him in concern.
"Captain are you okay?" Grey asked.
"Who are you?" Captain Leo also asked.
"Grey, is the captain okay?"Zen asked as he run towards them.
"You guys are not celestial knights." Captain Leo can't help but to notice their appearance.
"I'm sorry Captain, we are just civilians. But it's not important now. We all need to get out of here." Grey said in defense. Before the captain could even respond, he raised his hand to form a magic circle and healed the captain. "I can't heal you completely Sir but this will help you a bit."
Captain Leo just stared at Grey as he was still trying to digest the whole scenario. In a distance, he saw the guy who kicked the huge builder staring at the serphynx angrily. He was afraid that any moment from now, this young man might charge recklessly at the monster.
"Grey, doesn't its head look familiar? I'm pretty sure my broken comb look like that this morning." Zen asked while curiously staring at the missing space between the heads of the Serphynx.
"I don't know him Captain. Don't mind that meathead." Grey suddenly disowning his childhood bestfriend.
Captain Leo knew Grey was just joking. Honestly he felt a little relieved that he wasn't alone here anymore.
That few minutes of peace was suddenly broke when a strong shaking rumbled. The Serphynx is on the move again the moment he realized that its prey was not dead yet.
"It's trying to fire again. We need to move!" Zen shouted. The inner him honestly wants to fight the monster but he was thinking of Grey. He do not want to put him at risk as well as the Captain.
Two forms of magic circle again formed in the Serphynx mouth. It was too late. Even if they tried to run, a few meters won't save them from that beam of fire and ice. They ran anyway. The Serphynx was about to fire but suddenly a huge blow to its body broke its momentum. Seconds later, a huge dent can be seen in its side. In the center of the dent, the three of them noticed the object in the center. A hammer.
Captain Yamiro was floating mid air. He raised his right hand and the hammer went back to his hand. He immediately turned to them. "Yo! Zup?"
"Miro! You're here!" Zen shouted happily as the captain landed. Captain Yamiro knuckled him in the head in response.
"Awhh! What was that for?"
"It's normal for me to be here. The question is WHY ARE YOU HERE?" His eyes darkened as he was staring angrily at Zen.
"We are sorry Captain Miro. We are trying to help people on our way but we were suddenly stucked here." Grey said with a sincere apology in his eyes.
"Yo! Grey I am so glad you're here. I'm so happy to see you." Captain Yamiro smiled widely at Grey with his eyes in response.
"Thanks for coming Miro. I appreciate the help." Captain Leo interrupted.
"You got it hard, huh? It's okay I was just passing by."
"I've been careless."
"Anyway, let's finish this before it reached outside the central city."
Just in time, the Serphynx got into its feet again. The damages on its overall body was pretty obvious already but it's two powers along with its humungous size are still problematic. Captain Yamiro flew back in the air in attempt to completely finish the monster off. He threw the huge hammer in his hand at one of the monster's forehead. He was trying to get its attention to prevent the serphynx from attacking randomly at any direction.
At least he was successful because he got the attention of the monster. The monster was forming magic circles again directly at his direction.
"Same trick again, huh?"
His idea was to bombard it simultaneously with his magic. As he hold his hammer, he turned it 360 degrees in front of him to form a magic circle. He poured it with mana and the earth was starting to react with his magic. A pentagram and ancient symbols appeared in the magic circle as it glowed in complete white light. Finally, he float back a bit and using his two hands he smashed the middle of the magic circle with his magical hammer.
"Now taste the power of gravity, lizard!
STAMP OF THE EARTH GOD!!!"
As the beam of ice and fire fired in the serphynx mouth, it was counterattacked with a wide circumference of forcefield. The wave can be seen as if the air around it is bending. The weight of air and the ground around the serphynx became a thousand times heavier forcing it to crash in the ground on its own weight. Zen and Grey felt the tremor and the heaviness in the air and they can't do nothing but to be speechless.
There is no way they would let the monster recover in its feet. Captain Yamiro immediately shouted at Captain Leomord.
"Leo! do it"
The Captain forced itself to get back in the air and with all his recovered mana and remaining strength. He casted a one last shot attack to the serphynx. The sky darkened and strikes of thunders struck him and his sword.
"HUNDRED LIGHTNING SWORDS TORNADO!!!"
The serphynx was burnt into crisp and fade away in ashes of dark light.
Captain Leo lost consciousness midair but Captain Yamiro in his arms. "Good job Captain!"
Everything become uncomfortably silent.
Meanwhile, Grey and Zen look at each other and immediately got each others idea. They need to get out before they get into heavy trouble called Captain Yamiro. They silently walk and tried to sneak very slowly when a shadow appeared at their back. An angry Captain Yamiro was staring at them with red eyes glowing. "Where do you think you two are going?"
The two of them smiled nervously and screamed, "HUHU YAMIROOO!!!!"