The gem was cracking, then Kofi was blasted to a wall by brine water and yelled in pain as he crashed hard, depleted of all his energy.
Everyone looked back to see something in the shadows that even Ms TT looked scared of, she looked at Kofi, who was unconscious, then said,"We have to run."
"What?!"Portia yelled,"We can't just leave Kofi's gem!"
"Gem?!"Skylar asked.
"Long story."Portia said.
"Trust me this thing is dangerous, you see that blue necklace? It also has a gem, and it isn't nice."
The creature walked forward as water began to swirl around its fist then Ms TT yelled,"Run!!"
They ran and Skylar picked up Kofi then grunted and asked,"What do you eat?! You weigh like a thousand pounds!"
"Tuozaafi mom, I want TZ and banku for breakfast."Kofi mumbled.
"Makes sense."Skylar said.
Water was blasted at them then Ms TT ran in front of them and clapped, then the water flowed backwards to the creature's arm.
Then it screeched as the walls began cracking and water spewing out.
She looked around then placed her hand on the floor and the space warped as the water flowed back.
Portia came back to help but she yelled,"Go!"
Then Portia's movements were reversed even though her mind wasn't.
Kofi slowly woke up then saw the creature blast Ms TT to a wall with a powerful current of water, then pull her back into its own grip with the water around her, holding her by the neck.
Kofi's eyes began to dart with charges then he yelled and jumped off of Skylar's back then ran at the creature.
It looked at him then screeched as water was blasted at him but he jumped to a wall, making the wall's positive charges overcome the negative and attract the negative charges on his shoes and thus, keep him on the wall, just enough for him to run on it.
He dodged the water then blasted lightning at it but a shield of water formed and insulated it, but he wasn't done, he kept firing electric charges at it till he yelled as he was thrown backwards to a wall by an unknown force, then lifted into the middle of the air.
He felt the air leaving his squeezing lungs and had no idea how it was doing this to him.
It was doing this when it screeched as a feather scratched the side of its body, removing a few scales.
Kofi fell down as Skylar stood in front of him and opened his four wings wide, then shot several feathers at the creature.
It screeched as the water dripping from the stalactites of the cavern converged and acted like cushions, greatly repelling the movement of the feathers until they exploded on their own, with the water gladly absorbing all the heat.
Skylar still stood between the creature and its second target when a huge ball of golden fire was shot at it, from behind him.
He shielded himself with his wing and saw Portia, using her arm as a flame thrower.
"How?"
"Fire and lightning are both made up of ions, it didn't take long for me to figure it out."
The creature roared this time as water swirled around it like an upside down whirlpool, then darted at them in a swirling, drill like current.
Portia made a thick blanket of air to defend them but it burst through it easily, splashing on her with an impact that threw her off her feet and bruised her all over.
Skylar yelled her name as his eyes began to glow, but not white, his eyes turned black, and so as his wings and black flames began to burn from him as he turned to the creature, then to Kofi.
He yelled,"Get up you coward!"
Kofi tried standing up but Skylar kicked him in the gut and he fell again then Skylar picked him up by the shoulders and thrust him to a wall then said,"If you don't do something right now, that creature isn't the only thing I'm going to kill."
Kofi said,"I...I can't."
"Say that one more time..."
"I'm sorry Skylar."
Skylar threw him to the floor in disgust then said,"Then I'm going to have to have all the fun to myself..."
***
There was an explosion, right before part of the hole collapsed and Skylar flew out with the creature in his grasp and threw it down like lightning, and the moment it crashed, five black feathers flew down and exploded violently on it.
The shield of water cleared into tentacle like currents, then the water darted at Skylar who flew down and dodged each of them, before slamming the creature into and dragging it across the floor as it screeched, till it crashed, hard, on a rock and could move no further.
Skylar looked at it as it fell down, beaten then brought out his razor sharp feathers and was about to slice its head off when he yelled in pain as his body stiffened and he was lifted into the air, right before being slammed down, through the ground by a whip like current of water.
The creature got up, grinning as its wounds healed, then it ran at Skylar and held him by the neck, while simultaneously trying to bite through his face.
He tried to resist till it head butted him in the nose and he stiffened again as the water in his own body started restricting his movements, then it raised it head and was about to bite him when a huge bolt of lightning descended on it from above, leaving Skylar unharmed.
It screeched beneath the charges as its scales and skin were fried with Kofi walking out of his hiding place, he had had enough.
Skylar looked into its eyes with a grin, then headbutted it too, sending a powerful shockwave.
It stumbled backwards and Skylar flew out of the hole, standing besides Kofi, they both ran at the creature as it blasted a river of water at them from nowhere but they dodged it as it divided into several smaller currents which chased them individually.
Skylar maneuvred through them then gave it a massive punch in the gut, before sending it into the air with an uppercut, then Kofi made a large sphere of electricity ionise even the water, which he used to electrocute the creature.
Skylar punched it down and Kofi darted down with a bolt of lightning and burned it till it was just a fried tuna.
The two of them looked at it, breathing heavily, then at each other, then Skylar grinned then said,"I guess I don't have to kill you now."
"Please don't."Kofi said sarcastically.
"Would you look at that."
"What?"
He saw the creature vanished into a blue mist which gathered to form a gem on his neck, a white plasma globe like one which sent charges from the inner sphere to the outer sphere wherever it was touched.
Kofi asked,"Is this it?"
"You got it."Skylar said, then flew away.
Kofi grinned as he touched it, then zapped over half the landscape in a bolt of white lightning, before going into the hole.
They got to the girls and when Kofi got to Ms TT, she said,"I knew you'd get it."
"Wait, if I could only get it from the creature, why didn't you take me to it in the first place?"He asked.
"Many reasons, the main being you could actually get it from the mine and that the creature doesn't live in any dimension we can find, but in an in-between dimension, governing and connecting the others, thirdly because...I knew you could handle it."She said and kissed him on the cheek,"You deserved it."
He melted into a gooey puddle as Skylar went to attend to Portia, who was badly injured.
But with a wave of her arm, Miss TT reversed all the damage on her and healed her and as she slowly woke up, Ms TT said,"Oh and Skylar, you better change back into your angel look, I don't think she's ready for this one yet."
He sighed then nodded as his eyes turned grey, then normal, before his wings turned white, then folded back in.
Portia looked at him then asked,"What happened? Where's the creature?"
"Kofi killed it."He said.
"And what about you?"She asked.
"I...gave him a pep talk."He said.
She smiled and gently caressed his cheek then said,"I love you, Skylar."
"And I'll move heaven, earth and hell for you, my love."He said, meaning if in a different way than she thought.