Penumbral

Chapter 53: Immortal Voyage Beginning

Nemea raised her arms violently and stone spikes jutted from underneath the group, Aurora and Salokir took flight while Alexander countered them with a stomp, Alimur's blackened armor nullified the attacks completely as he charged heedlessly towards the queen.

Alimur thrusted and the queen dodged with a graceful spin followed by a sharp fiery kick to Alimur's chest, Aurora swooped in and grazed Nemea's arms before being redirected spinning towards the nearest wall.

Salokir dashed in with a forceful strike of her fist which Nemea deflected and retributed with a punch to the Dragon's face making her stagger backwards, Alexander jumped in right after and punched the queen's chest with a flaming electrified fist causing her to fly towards a wall while her clothes burned.

Nemea put out the flames and as she readied her next attack Aurora stabbed her leg with the branched spear of light, Alimur was dashing towards her but his attacks met the resistance of the wind under the queen's command, Nemea removed the spear piercing her and kicked Aurora's legs throwing the Demi-Human off balance allowing the goddess a short lived time to breath.

Alexander threw lighting bolts and frozen spears however they were stopped by a wall of flames while the bolts were easily dodged, Salokir refocused and with a short flight she landed a powerful dropkick to Nemea's side but the queen grabbed her by the legs and pulled her in followed by another punch to her face this one unfortunately failed to connect and the Dragon used this to use her arms as leverage along her feet to grab her sister and beat her head on the ground.

Aurora threw her spear and Nemea caught it as she got up only for it to brightly flash blinding all but the Eclipsions, Alimur charged in and threw shadow daggers blinding the queen even further allowing for him to breaking from the wind and slice her chest, Nemea cursed in pain and shaped the stone around her body as armor.

Nemea used water to clean her face and as soon as she reclaimed her vision the two couples encroached, the queen stomped on the ground as hard as she could and a burst of wind threw everyone away, the impact was great and magma began to flow from the cracks.

Aurora picked up her husband and threw him towards Nemea, Alimur flew with a blackened blade and grazed the stone encompassing the queen as he landed, the two traded various blows before Aurora smashed her shield against Nemea making her stagger and almost fall.

Salokir and Alexander took the opportunity to tear at her stone armor however it was ineffective as she detained the mineral Icon so the older couple resorted to brute force against Nemea.

Nemea jumped away and used magma projectiles against Alexander but no harm came to the man as Salokir used her wings as a shield, Alimur jumped at the queen and pierced through her stone armor with all the might of darkness.

Alimur gouged violently digging his gifted blade further and further into the goddess, Alexander covered his hands in ice and jumped in to help his fellow tear at the stone, finally she was exposed slightly.

Aurora dashed in from the air and pierced through the queen's chest, Salokir summoned a spear of her own and charged in to pierce the opening as well, the Scaled shouted as the spears digged deeper in the goddess' flesh.

Nemea gritted her teeth and spun fiercely along a violent tornado that formed around her knocking away the couples, she charged at Alexander but before she could harm the Human, the Demi-Human bashed her shield against her once more and knocked Nemea to the ground, Salokir swooped in almost piercing her head, the queen rolled away only to be met by Alimur who readied a slash but was met by the winds resistance once more.

Salokir summoned and drove a spear on the queen's back raising her on the air, Aurora threw various spears at Nemea and as the spears pilled on her the Dragon submerged the queen in the magma however she weaved it and avoided being burned, with another scream the cave began to crumble and the queen was back on solid ground with the help of her wind.