War for the Skies (completed) (Book 1 of the Heroes of the Realms series)

Chapter 9

Everyone went straight for the river. No defense strategy, no patience. Everybody just ran. Lukas and a few other archers sniped them from the sides of the arena. I did nothing except look.

I got out of shock and pulled out my sword. I ran along the back towards the right. I wanted to see how far I could go before I hit the shields. I had went about three yards when a girl screamed "YAAA!"

I looked to my left and the red haired girl was running at me, her bow drawn. I had no idea how she got past Lukas and the other archers, but then I noticed Lukas staring at me from the other side of the shield. All of the archers were there, watching.

I was so distracted I almost got shot. I quickly dodged the arrow she had launched and willed the wind to push her back. A huge gust made her fly towards a tree and slam her head onto it. She fell unconscious and I stared at her sleeping.

I was about to stab her, but then I felt bad.

I knew I wouldn't kill her, but just standing in front of someone and looking down at them sleeping while you stab them.

I had made a mistake. Another bulky guy with a huge baseball bat knocked me so far I hit the other side of the shields.

I got back up. The guy was still coming. He was pretty far, but he would reach me if I didn't act soon.

I played with the wind. I stuck out my hands and lifted him up in the air. He was pretty big in size, and I had a great idea. I kept him floating in the air, and made my way towards the river. Half of my team was gone. Heather was on the other side, slashing people with a dagger.

I was happy she was on the other side, because this guy was about to get launched into her face, and everyone else on the other team. I dodged another arrow and threw the guy across the river.

He screamed as he landed on top of Heather and rolled around with his bat sticking out, smacking a few of his teammates.

An arrow flew past my ear from behind. I turned around to see the red haired girl, with another arrow, ready to shoot. I stuck out my hands again, and the next arrow she shot flew into a tree. Another one flew into her teammate's butt and they dissolved into yellow dust, and floated quickly out of the shields and to the main camp, and then he reformed there.

I moved closer as I made her shots miss.

"Hey!" she said. "This is cheating!"

I did so until she ran out of arrows.

Then I pulled out my sword and held it towards the sky. I knew what was going to happen. I was the controller of the sky, the creator of storms. A small gray cloud appeared over me, and lightning struck my blade, and reflected off it and into the red-haired girl's chest. In a big explosion, she dissolved into yellow dust and reformed outside.

She crossed her arms and said "No fair."

Lukas gave me a thumbs up.

"Watch out!" I heard Theo yell, and he jumped in front of me.

A tree smacked into him as I ducked and he flew across the field, crumbling into yellow dust and reforming outside.

I looked at who threw the tree. Skylar was using telekinesis to lift the fighters up and throw them at each other, and grabbing trees with her mind and smacking them with trees.

Her half-siblings were doing the same. I jumped across the river and silently ran behind them. I reached the end of their base and scouted for any enemy fighters. No one was left except for children of Ariel, and a few of my teammates. I needed to help otherwise we would lose.

I slowly walked behind them. I didn't see Skylar so I assumed she had been eliminated.

As if reading my mind she said, "Nope," and using her mind threw me towards her sibling, who was ready to smack me with a tree.

I collided with the tree and it threw me back onto Skylar.

I got off of her, and kept my back to their base. Her half-brother threw the tree in our direction, but just as he did so, Skylar got up and got crushed by it. She turned into yellow dust and was eliminated.

Her brother looked in horror at what he had done and I used the wind to smack him onto another tree, but he didn't get eliminated.

He got back up and I flew on the winds with my sword sticking out. I stabbed him and he crumbled to dust, reappearing outside.

The flag was still on the canoe, and since no one was near it I slowly approached. Then I got kicked by a guy wearing an orange black suit, and snow blonde hair. He held a pair of iron katanas.

"Not today, son of Aeon," he said and tried to stab me in the chest.

I used the wind to throw him back onto the other side of the river.

He stumbled and fell down. I reached for the flag. Just as I was about to, he jumped onto the canoe and split it in half with his blades. He grabbed the flag and kicked me in the chest.

I started to sink but I quickly recovered and jumped back up on his side. He smiled and then became invisible. He kicked me in the back, and I fell down. Then I felt a kick on my face and I stumbled toward the river.

I saw the glint of a blade, and rolled out if its way as it hit the ground with a DING!

"Grrrr!" the invisible guy said.

I had an idea but I needed some time.

I quickly flew into the woods using the winds. I didn't know how I was using all of these powers but then I remembered what Lukas said.

Our bodies are upgraded.

If so, I could use any storm related power I wished. In the arena anyway.

I flew to the top of a tree and summoned a tornado inside the river. The water was sucked upwards and then it drizzled down like rain. I watched every drop land on the ground. Then, I realized that a few drops hadn't landed on the ground.

They had landed on the guy. I flew from my place and onto him, my sword in hand. He suddenly became visible and parried my sword attack. I slashed again, another parry. Then another, and another.

This was going nowhere. Finally, I back flipped onto the other side of the river (don't ask me how, I don't know either. I felt my fists enlarge near him. I summoned a huge fist of wind that had yellow lightning sparking around it, controlled by my own hands.

I grabbed the guy with the wind fist and shook him. I laughed.

"Hey!" I yelled to him.

He looked at me with disgust.

"As you said, not today," I said and slammed him onto the ground.

He disintegrated and I saw him yell on the other side of the shield. I grabbed the flag and was about to bring it to my base when someone said, "I'm the son of the trickster and magician, the Ravager. It's easy to make clones for tricks."

Then I pain flared across my body as I saw an iron blade stick through my stomach, and back out, and then in a flash, I was back, eliminated from the game.