Draimon: Fracture: Erasend- Book 1: Deascension

Chapter 39: Alter

Livigon stomped the earth, and vines rose around me, their bodies swaying and tips aimed at my core. Yellow lines formed along their surfaces and opened with the vines coated in solar energy.

I saw that my brother had stepped away. The solar-vines began to whip around me, and I began to dodge, one lashed from above, so I jumped back and flapped as one came from behind. Several swept through the air, so I dived down. I would rather stick to the ground than risk falling.

I sensed energy building in his body, and I saw he was charging a beam; the vines crashed down. I sidestepped and jumped as they swept. They struck again, and I ducked; I had to get out of this. I stomped the ground to attack, but as I did, a tendril cut through my legs.

I sensed the tendrills hold and saw Livigon fire his beam. Thick and bright, it tore through the air. If I dodged the vines it had me, I regenerated my legs and rose a thick bark wall. When the laser hit, I felt the wall break, so I ducked at the barrier fractured, the beam soaring overhead.

I sensed the beam had energy remaining; I moved to the side as the ray bore through the ground. The large fragments were airborne, so I focused on Livigon, and the shards flew towards my brother. The laser ceased, I felt his wings charge with solar magic, and with one swiple destroyed my attack.

I felt the power of his wings intensify, their energy shooting out, and Livigon gripped the ground with sparked claws. I coated my wings as well in hard bark. There was a chance for a counter-attack.

He tore through the air; I just able to raise my wings in time. Pain ran down my wing and the remainder of the limb, with the impact sending me sliding back. I felt his claws penetrate my bark and press harder, I nearly lost my footing, but I fought back and swung my wing, the attack slamming into his body and sending him flying.

Once steady in the air, he spun towards me, his wings flailing in large arcs; once he was close. Livigon swung his wings wide in and a scissor manoeuvre, and I leapt back as my brother crashed to the ground. I stomped the floor lance-trees bursting from the earth to impale his body, then rose thick vines and sent them falling.

Solar energy spread from Livigon. My trees and vines crumbled. I fired a solar laser with his holding back mine and overpowering it. I rolled out, and more solar vines rose, these ones thick."Tenolgon has joined Enordial, come, and we can be together. Our mother would have wanted this," he said.

"I will not, and I am sure our mother will never want us to side with that Dragon and destroy our kind, the Elemontols and Humans," I replied sternly.

"No, I know our mother would never agree with Enordial. I mean in us staying together."

"O," I replied, surprised, "well, my answer is still never."

My brother sighed, "give up!" He called, "for all this world's history, we have never been able to push back on the Elemontols. The Wyrm-Devourers are the only ones who can do it," I hurled bark lances, with one of the vines moving in front of and disengaging them. I flew towards him, weaving around the tendrils, claws aimed at his head. Livigon caught them with his.