A Crumbling Society

Part 1-21

Turning to check on the others, Starlight was holding her own throwing a glowing punch into Wither's face and landing a second one on return. Gauntlet was the one who needed help, Chaos had pinned him to the ground and began laying a stream of fire from his hands at him. His mouth stretched open and started lighting up with flames fuming out just lightly when I threw a frost spell at him. It froze his face at an angle with icicles growing to his left. He rolled off of Gauntlet grabbing his face, it still feels pain even though there are no cells to indicate it. Getting free, Gauntlet got up quickly and gave a backhand to the icicles causing them to shatter into shards. He hollered back a "thanks" and pulled Chaos up to his feet. I kept nodding in response even though he wasn't super focused on me. Still walking towards them, hands gripped around Gauntlet's forearm causing him to yell in pain and the legs came up to kick free from the grip. Chaos was now free, and Gauntlet landed on a few chairs, he started rushing to him launching up into the air, but I threw out a spell that blasted him back. He landed a few feet back hitting the wall with his body making a large shape of his figure as a hole. Reaching Gauntlet, I extended a hand to which he grabbed it, and I hauled him up, I made sure he was okay and made a comment about the chairs being a bitch. Speaking too soon the room spun sideways as Chaos came full force into a tackle taking me down. Landing on more chairs and getting a leg poked into my ribs this time, wincing loudly he shook around to stabilize himself atop me. Starting to throw punches right to left, flames began to engulf his fists with each hit getting hotter than the last. My mask was starting to smell from the flames. I couldn't exactly get free, and the punches weren't helping me concentrate on what spell to use. It honestly started to hurt, and I was beginning to feel numb from the blows. The warmth from the blood just turned into warmth from that and flames. A glowing boot came face to face with Chaos and then a hand grabbed him off of me, or I think it was a hand. My vision is blurred from the blood in my eye, so it was hard to know for sure how he got pulled off of me. I can see glowing movement but that's about it right now, my magic won't heal me enough for a minute, so I just have to wait. A few pink light balls fly passed the shadows fighting in front of me and I tried to look at Starlight but that too didn't make a difference.

Grunting and yells were going on around me from two directions, so I knew they were both fighting. Suddenly a pair of arms wrap under me, and they start to pull, I'm being drug by someone across the chairs. Setting me against the wall upright they patted my shoulder and then faded away. This felt like the same presence as before from the bathroom. This was getting weird, but my eyesight was coming back at least. The shadows turned back into people to which I could then make out who was whom. Starlight was by herself fighting, and so was Gauntlet but who the hell just helped me, I checked the room for anyone else and there was nobody, maybe a bystander didn't make it out of the room or something. Nobody, absolutely nobody was anywhere to put the puzzle together. I lay here watching both fights prepared to step in if needed but concentrating my magic on healing. The wounds I have begun to feel better, some of my other problems start healing too, I guess I've been too occupied to fully focus on healing completely. Feeling a rib snap back into place was no thrill but helped with alleviating pain. It was time to get up, things hurt still but not a whole lot, they both needed help this time, Wither pinned Starlight to the wall making vines grow from the floor to hold her. Chaos is about to vomit lava all over Gauntlet and I have to think, I could do something, but what exactly could hit both at once. There were a few spells that might do something, but they wouldn't hit the mark. Casting speed on myself or either of the other two wouldn't benefit either as well. My brain was racking through anything it could to figure this out. It hit me, I snapped my fingers, and the lava didn't spew on Gauntlet, it was sent to the vines burning them quickly. Some of it got on Wither and she screamed, this gave the opportunity for Starlight to knee her in the gut once she fell free. With one more knee to the face Wither was completely knocked out slumping to the floor. Looking my way, her face seemed relieved her fight was done with but then turned to fearful as she looked passed me. I wasn't paying attention and now, turning to look, Chaos had Gauntlet in a choke hold keeping him high in the air. I wouldn't know where to begin describing the color of his face being choked so hard and the two of us began running over. Liza's hands lighting up and mine beginning to cast. All at once we saw a flicker of a shadow, moving extremely fast from one side to another but looking like it was coming from Chaos himself. It covered him for a blink of an eye and then was gone. Gauntlet's face returned to normal as the grip loosened and he fell, Chaos retched with blood spurting from his exposed teeth and jaw. He landed on his knees and fell sideways passing out from what just happened.