Woe of the chosen

Chapter 18: A song for the soul

"Protect...her...defeat...all"

"Must...think...can't...defy..."

"End...me...end...her.."

"Thoughts...sinking..."

       "Help...me.."

      "Oh...strong...woman..."

     "I..will...end...you.."

   Magnus grabs both axes of light, and held them out. Red aura emits out of his entire body, his pupils shrink, and he lets out a scream of rage sending a giant shockwave in my direction, which sent me flying along with multiple tiles that lifted themselves off the ground due to sheer impact of the shockwave. "WHAT THE HELL?!?!" I thought as I hover above the ground.  Two tiles made their way straight to me at immense speeds. I cover my face with both of my arms, and then branches form out of my skin taking the shape of a circular shield. Both tiles proceed to crash into my arms, but they immediately crush my branches and break as they hit my arms. I crash on the ground back first, and bounce up a little. "Agh!" I exclaim in pain, but as I bounce on the ground I act quickly by putting my hand above my head, and planting it on the floor, Pushing myself upwards into a backflip allowing me to land on my feet. I look ahead, and see Magnus slowly walking to me. He lifts up his left axe, and slashes the air horizontally sending a wave of energy in my direction. I sprint towards the energy wave, and jump over it now running towards Magnus. He lifts his other axe, and vertically slashes the air sending another wave of energy at blinding speeds. I jump to my left just barely dodging it, and continue to sprint towards him. He stops moving and is now staring at me with a blank expression on his face. "Why'd he stop moving?" I ask myself as I run. All of a sudden he takes one step forward, and leaps towards me. Yelling he clasps his axes flat together making them fuse into a giant greatsword of light. He holds it with both hands and puts the handle over his head, bends his knees putting them on his chest, and spins vertically in the air making himself a flying saw blade coming towards me. "Ok don't panic just think about what to do about this." I thought as the living saw blade makes its way to me slicing the floor at fast speeds. I look around as I run, and notice some of the broken tiles that were sent flying due to the shockwave he sent earlier. I pick one them up, and examine them as I run. Rubbing my finger along its flat white side. I realize, "This is made out of stone!" I look at the ground and snap my right fingers. "I know exactly what to do." I thought as I run towards Magnus. My eyes lit up, and I whistle making the ground around us shake. I smirk as I see my beloved plant serpent emerge out of the ground beside me sending multiple tiles flying off into the distance. "Diona! Build some momentum and crash into him on the side!" I say to Diona who immediately slithers at blinding speeds in my right direction. I look forward to realize that the living sawblade is moments away from reaching me. Diona whom has already moved a few miles away from us has finally started to make her way here. I turn around and sprint in the opposite direction of Magnus. "I can't do anything to him while he's in that form. I have to buy a little bit of time for Diona." I thought as I continue running. I look back to see that he's right behind me getting closer as each second passes. The tip of the blade now just barely spinning behind me I thought to myself, "Come on Diona, any second now.." I continue running only to realize that the blade is over me, and it making its way down to slice me. I jump to my right as the blade cuts the ground beside me. "Stay calm, that's how I win this, right?" Running beside the blade I hear roaring in the distance. I look to my left, and notice Diona is seconds away from reaching us. I whistle and she makes herself even faster. Now moving slightly slower than sound, Diona leaps into the air straightening herself, moving her head down making it flat she crashes into Magnus' left side in an instant sending him flying. His blade fell off, and disappears into thin air. His body now bouncing on the floor like a skipping stones on water. I look at Diona and say, "The chariot! We need to reach it!" She growls and bends herself letting me know to get on her. I climb up her branches and sit on top. I look up into the sky searching for the chariot with fire. After a few seconds I see it flying into a cloud. I point at the air and say, "There!" I reach my plant arm out, and have it detach itself from my shoulder. I borrow some of Diona's plants and branches forming a ramp in front of us. I say, "Alright make some momentum. We need to get up there." As I say that I hear yelling in the distance. I look at the direction it came from, and see an enormous shockwave far away in the distance making its way to us. I pat Diona very quickly and yell, "GO! GO! GO!" Diona immediately turns around and slithers at immense speeds. "I have to make it up there or else my chances of winning this will shrink even smaller than they already are. He's too strong for me. He uses the shockwaves, and those slashes in the air to make up for how slow he is, and I doubt I'm strong enough to even scratch him. I have to somehow make him turn back to normal and take out Beau." I thought as Diona slithers away. I look back and see that we're already miles away from the ramp. Diona immediately turns around, and makes her way to the ramp. The wind hitting my face, but it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I glance at my missing arm, and clench my right fist. "This has to work." I thought as Diona gets closer to the ramp. I can see the shockwave getting closer to the ramp as we get nearer. I say, "Diona I need you to give this jump all you've got. Everything is depending on this." Diona gets exponentially faster, and now I can't see my surroundings. Holding on tight I brace myself for take off. Diona roars, and then a huge gust of wind hits my face. My stomach starts to feel funny , and I look down noticing the ground getting further away. I notice that there's a snake that is a lot bigger than Diona. I'd say it's too damn big, I can clearly see it from all the way up here, whoever is going up against that must be the unluckiest person ever. I look back up realizing that we're about to head into the cloud where the chariot was in. "It's now or never.." Heading into the cloud I see a faint color of orange. I plant my head on my chest which led to plants forming wings on my back. "I'll use these to break the fall." I thought to myself while slowly standing up on Diona's back I realize that we're going above the faint light of orange. I pat Diona on her back and say, "When you make it back down, burrow yourself into the ground again. I'll call upon you when the time comes." I take two steps forward, and jump off. Falling down into the white cloud, and the faint orange light getting closer I came to a realization. "How the hell will I get this bitch off the chariot without looking at her? Ugh I'm a dumbass. Whatever, I'll have to hope for the best."