The White Chronicle

Chapter 33 - Let them come

Nyx summons her sands near her and Jasmine. The way she uses her hands is much more accurate and aggressive than Shamir. When Kislap and Kulog tried to escape by vibrating the sands around them, Nyx caught on. She closed her hand with such force that the quicksand holding the siblings began to squeeze them harder.

"Nyx, you're killing them!" Jasmine begged her to stop, but Nyx won't listen.

"They will kill us first if I don't," Nyx replied. Despite the impossible task of taking all the guardians alone, she remains collected. And a few more moments, a pink flash emitted from the cloud and began to rain fireballs on them. The sand around them shoots up to meet the Tala's attack. Glass began to rain from above, showering the field with shiny sharp shards around them.

Jasmine wasted no time and used the White Chronicle to search spells that matched what Kislap and Kulog were experiencing. Brainwash, fueled with blind anger and red eyes, checked in one spell, an enchantment spell from the land of Ruks-Bel. She was expecting local magic from Tymar, not from the most neighboring place of Ruks-Bel. But still, she pressed on and searched how to remove such magic from her friends.

Atlas and Gil came at them with full speed. They were charging at them like madmen yelling with rage. Nyx knew a quicksand could not stop them. So she decided to fight their strength with hers. She created a sand golem to attack the two guardians. Its strength is evenly matched against the two guardians and manages to distract them.

Jasmine and Nyx hear the wind blowing in their direction. Amihan's gathered a gust to blow them away, but Nyx managed to build a dome to protect them from her attack.

"It says here that the caster can reverse the spell or let them get exhausted to wear off the spell," Jasmine yells to Nyx. Both knew they could not go on against all eight guardians simultaneously, so Jasmine suggested making them sleep. The only way they can be taken down without harming them.

Nyx agrees to the plan but cannot do it while Tala and Amihan fly above, providing aerial bombardment. Once she brings down the sand dome, they must move quickly to make the siblings sleep.

Jasmine, still hesitant to trust Nyx, has little choice but to follow her lead. Nyx made the sand dome grow to fight off the fireballs and the wind surrounding them. Tala and Amihan are dulled by the magic enchantment that blinds their mind. They didn't see that Jasmine and Nyx had already escaped. All they knew was to destroy the sand dome and everything in it.

Nyx rushed towards Kulog and Kislap, then summoned the purple sands from her pouch to make them sleep. But nothing seems to be working. Something was countering her magic. She tried again with a more powerful spell, but nothing made them asleep.

"Vines!" Jasmine shouted as giant thorny vines came at them from outside of the town to their location. And above the vines are red and blue colored frogs leaping towards them. Jasmine knew those frogs had some venom on their skin. And this one she is sure is the work of Juan.

Nyx gathered more sand and crushed the ground underneath them. The ground began to dry up as her sand absorbed its nutrients and water. The vines halted their movement with her quick thinking.

Jasmine then instructed Nyx to use the sand with vinegar and scattered it among the frogs as for the frogs. Jasmine reasons that her grandmother would spray vinegar in her backyard to discourage frogs from entering their lawn back at her home. And she was right! As soon as Nyx scattered the sand with vinegar around them, the frogs began to shake and turned around. They retreated from the town and gathered on a hill outside.

"Nyx, don't attack that hill. Knowing Juan, that is just one of his tricks. He likes to engage with us in hand-to-hand combat where he is the strongest." Jasmine summons her courage to act as a leader and study surroundings to calculate a tactic to fight off the guardians.