Alex formed sixteen telekinetic spikes, which was the maximum he could make and prevented him from putting a forcefield around himself. He fired them all at the bat holding Sophia.
They pierced through the bat's chest like butter, filling it with holes. The bat let go of Sophia, causing her to fall. Not long after, the bat fell too.
Alex activated his flight to catch Sophia before she gained too much speed. He caught her in his arms and quickly descended to the ground. He remembered the falling bat and looked up almost a moment too late.
The huge bat was right above them and about to squash them under its considerable weight. Thinking quickly, Alex activated his telekinetic dash and dashed out from under the bat, not a moment too soon.
The bat slammed into the ground hard, spraying pieces of bone in every direction. Some of them bounced off Alex's back as he shielded Sophia from the debris.
'Torni!' Dasrene cried out in Alex's mind.
Alex looked up. The one known as Torni that Dasrene was staring at currently had a vampire bat sucking its blood. It was starting to look pale. Well, paler than Alex was used to seeing aliens like Morcai look.
Dasrene put its hand out, aiming it at the bat, and closed its fist. The bat's head was crushed in a spray of blood, but the bat's fangs were lodged into Torni's body at the time. When the bat's head was crushed, the teeth cut huge gashes into Torni's flesh.
'Torni!!!' Dasrene cried again.
Dasrene flew up to catch Torni as they fell. The bat tried to fall down on top of them, but Dasrene did a flip kick in midair, sending the bat crashing into one of the side walls of the cave.
Dasrene descended to the ground and gently laid Torni into a small concave pit in the bones. With everything Alex had just seen Dasrene do, he expected it to heal Torni, but Dasrene just sat there, crying as Torni slowly bled to death.
Realizing Dasrene couldn't heal, Alex set Sophia down onto her feet, as she was unharmed by the bat, and he rushed over to Torni's side. He did a quick bio-scan and determined what he already suspected. Torni had lost a lot of blood, and they were losing more fast.
'I'm going to try to heal it,' Alex thought to Dasrene.
Dasrene didn't respond. Alex started by sealing up the gashes Torni was bleeding from. Then he set to work on creating new blood. Alex concentrated hard on his task and was surprised to hear Torni speak.
Like actually speak, with its mouth. "Beloved," Torni said, putting its hand against Dasrene's face. "Don't cry. You don't want to show weakness in front of the others."
"Don't speak. You've lost a lot of blood," Dasrene said weakly, with tears pouring down its face.
"You can't make me," Torni said and laughed, coughing up blood. Some of the blood hit the side of Dasrene's face.
Alex was concentrating, and the blood was replicating, but Torni's heartbeat was slowing down.
Dasrene laughed sadly and said, "I love you."
"Take care of Dakri and Maka," Torni said. Torni sighed a sigh that seemed to go on forever as it passed on.
"I will, my love." Dasrene put its hand over Torni's face, closing its eyes.
"I'm sorry. I did everything I could," Alex said.
"Don't speak," Dasrene said. 'Think,' Dasrene thought. 'There's no time. We still have to kill these bats if we want to get out of here alive.'
'Right,' Alex thought.
Alex put a forcefield over himself and Sophia, preparing for the inevitable turn when Dasrene turned them into its targets. Alex created eight spikes and shot two of them each at four bats, one aiming for the chest, the other for the head.
The spikes found their targets. Sophia put up her shield to prevent the remaining bats from swooping down and grabbing them. She was tempted to pull out her spear, but the ceiling was too high. She'd never be able to throw it that high.
Alex grabbed Sophia and moved them both to the left to avoid a falling bat. It slammed into the ground about ten feet away, kicking up more bones and dust.
Dasrene was enraged. Instead of just crushing the bats heads like it had before, it was sending telekinetic blasts into the ceiling.
This caused stalactites and chunks of the ceiling to start falling down around them. It killed the bats, though. They were being flattened against the ceiling in three's and four's.
Its not an overstatement to say that the ceiling was covered in bats when this fight started. Now there were maybe three dozen left. Objects continued to fall from the ceiling as Dasrene continued its rampage against the bats.
Alex continued to kill bats as well, but Dasrene was doing most of the work. This all stopped when a stalactite fell down and crushed Dasrene's foot, pinning it to the spot.
Dasrene tried to pull its foot free, and in that moment of distraction, one of the bats decided to strike. A massive bat far bigger than the others swooped down and made a motion to bite Dasrene's head off, but Alex stopped it.
He put up a domed forcefield over Dasrene's head. The bat smacked it and bit at it, slowly diminishing Alex's hold over the forcefield.
Just as Alex was losing his grip on the forcefield, Dasrene looked up and sent a massive telekinetic blast at the colossal bat, exploding it, sending chunks flying everywhere.
Dasrene hadn't exploded it from the inside out. It was the sheer strength of the blast that caused the explosion.
Alex cleaned up the last of the smaller bats and made his way over to Dasrene. Dasrene was trying to lift the massive stalactite that had fallen on its foot, but it was too drained from all the earlier exertions.
Alex focused and, with all his might, was barely able to move the stalactite off Dasrene's foot. Its foot was crushed, and all of its soldiers were dead from a combination of the bats and falling ceiling.
It was in no shape to put up a fight, but it tried to anyway.
'Come on. I'll carry you out of here. We'll have to take you prisoner, but you'll live,' Alex thought.
'No! You fight me here and kill me in battle. I don't want to live any longer,' Dasrene thought.
'That's senseless. I won't do it,' Alex thought.
'You fight me damn it!' Dasrene threw out a telekinetically enhanced punch at Alex's face.
Alex blocked it and kicked Dasrene's leg out from under it, sending it falling to the ground.
'There. You're defeated. Let's go,' Alex said.
Alex was making sure to translate and communicate what they were saying to Sophia so she knew what was going on when he wasn't already using two skills at the same time.
'No! I will die here with my beloved as I'm meant to!' Dasrene grabbed Alex in a telekinetic choke and lifted him off the ground.
Alex threw out a single connection line of fear at Dasrene and it landed.
[New skill created: Conduit of Fear]
'Don't make me laugh. You don't scare me,' Dasrene thought.
Shit! Dasrene was going to kill him if he wasn't careful. Sure, he didn't want to kill it, but if he didn't defend himself, he was done for.