An explosion goes off as rubble scatters all over the place as everyone shields their eyes from the bright flash.
Baronia crashes down out of the smoke as his body sinks into the ground.
''Damn!'' he says softly, ''maybe i should shield myself too rather than everyone else.''
As the beast leaps from the smoke to swat Baronia with its massive paw, he leaps away trying to break his loss of focus due to the poison coursing through him.
''At this rate i might actually die! I'll just do something about this now'' Baronia chuckles.
Dorna dashes at the beast and slashes at its ankles, the blades chip and crack at the touch of the skin surrounding the monstrosity.
''What is this bloody thing made out of?'' Dorna Growls, ''that's me second set of blades on this same patch of skin!'' she yells as she tosses the weapons to the ground.
Baronia holds his hand over his abdomen as energy goes into his torso as he tries to extract the poison. He pulls out a tiny amount before the Morax clumsily runs for him to charge teeth first, poison drooping from its fangs.
Baronia stumbles while trying to keep his balance, it draws closer as it knocks over walls leftover from the school.
Students are being gathered at a point where Zimzo is set up and ready to transport the 6th group of students to the rendezvous point where the rest is. ''YOU LOT BETTER BE READY NOW, YEAH?'' He shouts at the group of students surrounding him.
He places his hands on the ground as a crest of yellow light starts expanding on the floor as he starts to show how worn out he is from all these instant transportations. Feral imps leap for Zimzo and the group of students ready to claw them to pieces, Dorna sweeps along them with a long saw-toothed blade as she grins wickedly.
''If you keep gettin' ambushed like that we might lose our principal, he's really fighin' for his life out there ya kno?'' Dorna says to Zimzo ''I WILL NOT BE LECTURED BY YOUR BARBARISH ASS, YOU INSENSIT-'' a flash of light makes Zimzo and the group of over 40 students disappears.
Dorna snickers as she lightning dashes back to the beast, sawtooth blade readied to smash into its neck. At top speed she jumps into the air takes aim as it tries to bite Baronia whom keeps jumping from side to side extracting little bits of poison every opportunity he can, getting more worn out as his skin grows darker in more places.
Dorna steadies herself as she predicts the next bite location dives towards the next target location. The monster halts as its whiskers on the back of its head perk up and the ears flicker. Dorna takes note as she is 2 seconds away from striking it turns around with its mouth open steam coming out of its gaping hole as the poison leaks from its massive teeth. As she notices this Dorna tries to dodge out of the way but the creature adjusts to the new trajectory.
''DAMN!'' she yells as she slams sword first into the teeth breaking off a few of its many fangs. She crashes into the ground with her face down and rolls several times before hitting a wall, knocked out cold.
Baronia extracted some poison while this happened and feels like its enough to do something about the rampaging fiend.
He readies himself and speed steps under the beasts chin, using the momentum of his speed he punches the monster hard enough to make it airborne. With a short gathering of power in his legs he jumps after the beast charging up a sphere of energy between his discolored hands as he is about to unleash it he gets a sharp pain in his upper arms.
He blasts it with the sphere and it flies off into the sky as an explosion lights up the sky in a dooming orange light.
Baronia's consciousness fades as he falls back to the ground. Geron leaps to Baronia and catches him, flips as the momentum of catching him makes them go off balance. Readies his legs for landing, hits the ground, rolls once and lays his friend down gently next to a rock neighboring a tree.
''Hahahahaha ever the showboat aren't you! if that isn't a beacon for more to join the battle i don't know what is!'' Geron laughed as he spreads open his arms looking at the battlefield. Baronia lays motionless on the ground not responding as his color starts to darken more over his arms, Geron silently looks at him losing his smile the longer his friend does not reply. ''I see....''he says, ''So it really is as serious as Milia said.''
Students crawl from underneath rubble as they're being gathered up by teachers, more imps show up from beyond the school grounds picking up students, ripping them in half. Gutting them, drinking their life essences. Dorna half conscious flashes through the mobs trying to take out every imp she, Enor blasts entire packs with explosions left and right but there are so many it is impossible to get every single one.
The light of the explosion lighting up the battleground ruins below Geron hesitates as he mutters, ''You never wanted any of your students to feel unsafe'' he says as he sees a third year being dismembered by 4 imps. ''Never wanted them to feel like they would have to worry about dying before our great war,'' as he sees a freshman getting his head bitten off. ''Yet here is a betrayal from inside our own ranks looking to attain what you have been passed from our god for herself,'' as he sees Fornd rescue a student from being ripped in half. ''I hope you know now that not taking action in the hopes she would kind of just realize its not worth claiming the status of champion of Zinora'' he spits on the floor as he turns around to Baronia. ''But don't you worry, i will find her and make an example out of her." He says raising his shoulders. Baronia lays ever Motionless on the floor.
Geron clenches his fist as he grits his teeth, ''if i had taken those stupid medicinal lessons rather than more physical power training i might be able to save you'' he yells as he tosses a boulder at an imp that was chasing a student. ''I cant leave you alone because she might show up and kill you, take that damned power for herself'' as he blasts an electrical ray at a group of imps trying to fly into the ruins of their once great school.
He places and kicks boulders into the battleground at imps below. Milia comes flying in from the sky, and lands next to Baronia. Right away she starts poison extraction as Baronia's body is turning darker all over. Before Geron gets a word out Milia shouts, ''WHAT ARE YOU STANDING HERE FOR YOU LUMBERING BAG OF MEAT?!?! HELP THEM!!'' Geron gives a salute as he exclaims ''YES MA'AM!'' leaping to the battlefield still illuminated from the explosion.
Milia starts crying, ''WHY DIDNT YOU SAVE YOURSELF?!?! YOU'RE ZINORA'S CHAMPION! YOU WERE CHOSEN! YOU HAVE TO LEAD US!'' The color on Baronia lightens as the corroded blackness fades from him as his pained expression lightens. Milia's eyes close and she bows her head in relief while she changes channeling poison extraction to her healing energy into Baronia. A shadow casts over the ground near Milia, as she senses another presence approach she places a well of healing energy attached to Baronia that trickles into him.
Milia turns to face the presence, its an unfamiliar woman to her, tall, slender, long dark hair. piercing gaze from unblinking eyes looks into Milias being. She starts shaking uncontrollably and panic leaks into her mind. Every fiber in her body tells her to run, but with Baronia behind her unable to move she refuses to step away. She readies a blast between her folded hands aims at the strange woman and shoots it out.
It moves past her as it revealed her face for half a second when it zoomed past her. Still unfamiliar, now flying over the battlefield she expands the light in a bright red. The unblinking eyes of the woman look towards the signal for help, as she looks back at Milia with visible anger.
She dashes past Milia, grabs Baronia in the blink of an eye and vanishes out of sight. Milia turns but they're both already gone. She looks back at the direction of her signal for help as Dorna stands there with a look of terror and blade covered in imp blood.
Both look in shock at the spot Baronia was laying seconds earlier as they look each other in the eyes and Dorna screams at the top of her lungs in despair falling to her knees.
The woman lands with Baronia in a secluded spot in a forest, lays him down to go and grab a tool off a table that was prepared nearby.