Skylar yelled in fury as his second pair of wings just burst open, fully visible and in red flames.
He flapped down, hard, shooting himself at Jack like a bullet, burning everything below him.
Jack swiped his arm and creatures made of different types of ice formed and charged at Skylar, who sliced through all of them effortlessly as he advanced.
Jack turned back and there was a massive explosion of fire and ice.
Half of the entire city block was on fire, and the other half was covered in freezing ice as the two battled in the centre.
People came out, angry at the damage till they saw two students fighting again, and got even angrier at the damage those two hotheads had caused.
A yeti made out of ice as formed as well as a Phoenix made of nothing but flames and the two creatures battled as their controllers did, till a dagger of ice VII was able to form on the floor and shoot at Skylar's wings, his father was still going to get them.
Skylar saw it in time and flapped hard to go backwards but his wing was braised, and ice began to form on the inside as he fell.
He hit the ground, hard as Jack picked up Portia again, those amateurs weren't much competition.
He was being lifted up by a large snowflake below his feet when he yelled in pain as he was electrocuted, but was about to attack again when one of Skylar's feathers disintegrated and pierced him at his weakest pressure points, the two working together to make him pass out.
Skylar looked at Kofi, who wasn't totally frozen, as Jack had shifted his attention from him, but rather, the flash frozen wound was insulated and had stopped bleeding.
Kofi reached Portia first and Skylar felt a little defensive till Kofi hugged her, then Skylar stopped dead in his tracks, and left.
Portia asked in a weak voice,"Where's Skylar?"
Kofi looked around and said,"He's...gone."
Portia begged him to take her to him but he wanted to get Jack to help, till Portia began crying, so he left his best friend in an electric fence and took her away.
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"Why are you so stupid?!"A teacher yelled,"We've gone over this very part for weeks, A comes before B, then C and so on!"
Kofi cried as the teacher yelled insults at him till another student said,"Mrs Kumson...why are you so stupid?"
"What did you just say?"
"We've gone over this part for weeks, love comes before respect, then advancement and so on, you are such a disposable idiot who deserves to be left on the street, I know how you've been treating students, especially this one and wouldn't hesitate to report you."The boy said.
Mrs Kumson almost turned into her beast form, but calmed down then said,"Not if I reported you first."
Then she left.
She lay a complaint to the Principal and the boy was almost expelled, but they decreased he punishment to five lashes and kneeling down with his arms over his head for thirty minutes before finally apologizing to the teacher, he did all of them perfectly but the last and said he'd rather die than apologize to a tyrannical hypocrite like herself and then he was expelled.
No one knew why he was acting like this because no one bothered to ask, all they saw was the misbehaviour of the five year old who should respect the elderly.
That same boy, Jack by name, was rejected by six schools for his behaviour, but when he settled in the final and only school that accepted him, he was joined by Kofi, who wasn't able to thank or help him for standing up to the teacher, but was going to be by his side, but since they saw how much of a cruel and unjust world existed around them, they decided to make themselves the best they could be and make it pay, and thus, became bullies to anyone they caught bullying someone else, including teachers.
Kofi wasn't the boss, Jack was...
Kofi remembered all of this as he brought Portia to the palace like mansion she told him of and there, the welcoming committee asked,"What do you want here?"
"I'm Kofi and I came to see Skylar."
"Well he doesn't want to see you."
"P..please..."Portia begged as she fell out of Kofi's arms.
Aeric rushed to her aid and asked what happened when Kofi answered,"She was attacked."
"Take me to Skylar...please."Portia begged.
"No, we need to get you to a healer."
"Please..."Portia said, as a tear fell down her cheek.
Then her arm dropped, almost lifeless as she was unconscious.
Aeric stood to his feet then thanked Kofi and flew off.
Kofi was about to leave when he saw an even bigger man who asked,"Where do you think you're going?"
Kofi didn't have the time to meet the entire flock asking him the same question, Jack needed him, he just said he had to leave when Cloud said,"You're severely injured, we need to get you to a healer."
"Haven't I heard this before."Kofi thought.
The man walked closer and electricity started sparking up from his body, then he yelled in pain, held his abdomen and fell on one knee.
The man gently picked him up and flew away, he wanted to go and help his friend...but he couldn't move.
Skylar was sitting down on the front door, looking at the art Portia did to the front garden when he heard the flapping of powerful wings from afar.
He looked back to see his brother, then ran closer when he saw he was holding Portia.
She was so pretty and innocent looking when her eyes were closed.
"She said she wanted to speak with you."Aeric said.
"Please could you give us some privacy?"He asked.
His brother nodded then turned to leave but said,"Take care of her, she's a rare jewel."
His brother flew away then he propped Portia on his own feathers as her eyes slowly opened.
When she saw him, she smiled as tears welled up in his eyes, then she gently wiped them with her thumb and asked,"Why did you leave me?"
"I...I thought you wanted to be alone with Kofi."
"Why?"
"I don't know, I guess I was jealous and I'm sorry that I was so childish and irresponsible to leave you alone but..."
She kissed him gently on the lips then pulled back and said,"Don't overthink things, you're the loveliest guy there is."
He smiled then picked her up and said,"We have to get you help, the ice is still spreading.
She smiled then said,"Promise you won't ever leave me in the procedure."
"I promise."He said, meaning every word.