The ground beneath the boy became a dark swirl, making the room feel heavy. The once warm room had now become extremely cold. Frost began to grow on the broken table and chairs and I could see my breath.
"Good thing we brought warm clothes." I said, shivering from the cold.
"Let's get this over with." Akari said, also shivering from the cold.
All three of us simultaneously nodded before charging at the boy who hadn't moved an inch since creating the black vortex.
The boy had finally moved his head upwards so look at us and revealed a cold look in his eyes. He raised his right hand and aimed it at us.
"Dark Rocks." He said, firing a barrage of small black orbs at us.
"Uhh Genki? A little help here!" I yelled, just barely managing to dodge the orbs.
"I'm coming, just hold on!" He responded, firing a laser which sent him flying into my hands just in time for be to cut one of the orbs in half.
I quickly aimed Genki and the boy and fired a giant beam, destroying all the tiny orbs coming our way in the process. The boy quickly rolled out of the way and began running around us, still firing those small black orbs.
Akari stepped up and took a fighting stance I hadn't seen before. She moved her arms into the position she was aiming for and took a deep breath.
"Water Serpent Fang: Form Two." She thrusted her left palm forward, creating large gusts of wind throughout the room.
A large serpent made purely out of water emerged from her palm and began moving towards the boy, growing larger and larger as the thing moved.
Once again, the boy managed to dodge our attacks and continued to run around the room. As he ran I noticed something though, each orb was getting bigger. The boy suddenly came to a stop and began to grin.
"It seems like your time has run out." The boy said, raising both hands in the air. He wasn't surrendering though, instead it looked like he was creating something.
A large dark sphere appeared above his hands, sucking everything towards it. I had to stab Genki into the ground to stop moving forward because of its pull.
"Let's see you push this back!" The boy said, still charging up his attack.
Akari and I looked at Ichiro to see if he had anything to counter this but he shook his head, "I'm a physical fighter so I don't have any spells like beams. The best I can do is lend you my power."
"We can work with that." Akari and I said.
Ichiro nodded his head and got behind us. He raised both his arms and placed them on both Akari and I's back. A sudden jolt of power began to course through my body.
"Here's everything I've got!" The boy yelled, flinging the giant black orb at us.
I gripped Genki's handle tightly and took a deep breath. I took one last inhale before firing the largest beam I had ever fired before, nearly taking me off my feet.
"Water Serpent Fang: Form Three!" Another water serpent emerged from Akari's attack.
Unlike the last serpent, this one actually looked terrifying and made me glad she was on my side.
Our attacks collided with the giant orb and briefly stopped it for a moment. Though it wasn't long until the orb began to push back forward.
I suddenly dropped Genki and let out a blood curdling scream. I dropped Genki and fell to my knees, continuing to scream in agony. Small electric charges began uncontrollably shooting out from my aura.
"John?! You have to stay with us! We can't win this without you!" Ichiro said, still pumping his power into Akari and I.
No matter how much a tried, I just couldn't get myself to stand back up. I could see Genki's worried look as I failed to pick myself up. As the orb got closer and closer all I could do was lay there and watch.
Right as I felt like all hope was lost, images began flashing in my head. One was of my home village, the other of my guild waiting for me back at our home.
I gritted my teeth and pushed through every jolt of pain in my body. My aura which had been shooting all over the place had finally began to regain its true shape. I grabbed onto Genki and finally got back on my feet.
"I-I can't fail here. How else will I be able to save my village or protect my friends!" I gripped Genki tighter than I ever have before and fired one final laser, using every inch of power I had left in my body. A beam larger than I ever could've imagined shot out from Genki and collided with the giant orb which was just seconds away from hitting us.
"Try all you want but you can't beat this!" The boy said, putting more power into his orb.
"Shut up!" All three of us said, simultaneously.
We pushed our bodies forward and used everything we had into our combined attack. The giant orb had finally stopped again, but it didn't stop there though. The orb had started getting pushed back towards the boy which left him with a shocked expression on his face.
"W-What?!" The boy said, taking a couple steps back.
"Don't ever underestimate us!" We yelled, right as the orb had finally been pushed all the way back to the boy.
A large shockwave shot throughout not just the room, but the entire building because of the collision. The three of us struggled to stay on our feet as the building shook violently.
When the smoke cleared I could see the knocked out body of the boy laying inside a small dent in the wall. I let out a sigh of relief before collapsing on the ground from exhaustion.
"Yay… go team!" I said, before quickly fainting from exhaustion.