Elementals

Chapter 18 - Now, let's think about this

"No, not here, either." Sam said to herself, limping around the buildings she webbed up in a search for her SIM card. "Did she really take it? Man..." she groaned. Tumbling back into her web, she looked up into the sky. A silent moment of recollection before a thundering might bounced into her weave and shook her violently.

"Sam, I'm back!" called out Dominick as Sam tried to stop herself from barfing.

"Hey-" Sam hurked and her stomach curled, but she took a deep breath and swallowed down her vomit. "-Dom. Did you get the delirium?"

"Yeah, I got it right here!" he responded, pulling out the vial of blue ooze, its faint glow reflecting in his eyes. "What's so special about this, again?" he asked as he popped open the cap. A rush of dread pulled over Sam, a rush of weakness, and exhaustion. She barfed. "Ah, right." Dominick put the cap back on the vial.

"Never do that again!" Sam shouted. "Oh, my guts..." she fell over.

"...sorry."

A brief moment of silence passed before the sky split apart above them. Looking up, both witnessed a beam of limitless blue energy blast onto the city. Dominick looked on in stunned silence as Sam pouted about having to deal with another problem. The beam, blasting down upon the city, seemed to split in half before their very eyes as a raging flame overcame it and shot into the sky.

"So, that's where Aidan is." Dominick commented.

"Oh thank goodness, I don't have to deal with more headaches like that."

"Wait, is he...?" Dominick looked into the distant flame pillar, spotting the thin black line that zoomed up it. "He isn't."

"What, do you see something over there?" Sam asked as the flame pillar was squished by a crushed chunk of metal being dragged down from space, snagged by a black chain.

"He is."

"Now he's getting it." Sam spoke as Aidan swung his chain. "So, I guess he's just about done with his end of the plan."

"How did it go around here?" Dominick asked Sam.

"Oh it went..." Sam fell over. "Horrible. Absolutely, painfully awful. Drew sent his strongest weapon here, for some god forsaken reason."

"His strongest weapon? What is it?" Dominick crouched over her.

"His younger sister, Angelina Haven. That woman is the strongest Elemental alive, and she's here, trying to kill Aidan."

"Wait, why Aidan?!" Dominick shouted.

"I don't know. I've known the boy for like, three hours." Sam pulled out her phone. "I would call Nicole to tell her, but I think the Pale Lady took my SIM card, for some reason."

"The Pale Lady is...?"

"Angelina Haven, I thought that would be obvious." she sighed. "Anyway, she's here to kill Aidan and take you away."

"Take me away? Is she gonna put one of those little balls in my head?!"

"I think that's what she wants to do, yeah." Sam looked towards where the orbital cannon dropped. "Do you think he's done yet?"

"I can go over and check, if you want." Dominick responded, a bit shaken. "But if this super strong goddess is out there, trying to get me, I think I'd like to stay with you."

"Dom, I hate to tell you this, but the reason I know all this is because she kicked my ass."

"She... what?"

"She's one of the strongest gods out there, and I got these powers a few years ago. The Pale Lady far outclasses not only me, but almost every god I know. If she wants to come here and take you right now, she can and will."