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

Chapter 19

Glacia thrust her double-sided blade in my direction, making it flip in the air about seven times before I feinted right and made the blade stab the ground.

The sword flew out of the ground and back into Glacia's hand, almost piercing off my ear.

Theo was already in action.

He summoned two giant fireballs and shot them at Glacia.

Glacia knew better than to let herself melt into a trash puddle, so she summoned a wall of ice so the fireball just melted that. The second fireball, however hit her in the face and caused a tiny white explosion.

She turned around, covering her cheek.

Theo and I inched closer, but then Glacia turned around, half of her face bruised in fire. The sight was so freaky I dropped my sword.

She pointed her finger to her face, and a small blast of ice shot out. The bruise instantly healed, which made her smile evilly, "Ah, much better."

She pointed at Theo, shooting a beam of ice. Theo ducked to the left, and the ice froze the ground underneath him.

I knelt and picked up my sword.

Glacia and Theo were in a pretty intense battle, shooting each other with fireballs, ice beams, summoning fire birds or snowmen, but I could see both of them were getting more and more exhausted every time they used their powers.

I threw my sword in Glacia's direction, but another snowman appeared in front of it, grabbed the katana and tossed it back to me. I reached out to grab it, but the snowman was closing in fast. He had the same weapons as the others: ice shield and ice spear, but he also had ice armor all over his body.

He leaped so huge he went from five yards in front of me, over my head, and then two yards behind me.

He tossed his spear in my direction, but I smacked it the other direction with my sword. Another one grew in his hand.

He roared, which made me notice he also had a mouth, full of sharp, pointy ice teeth.

The snowman started to charge toward me, his shield in front of me. Normally, I would've rolled to the right or the left, but this snowman seemed smarter than that. He probably would move toward the way I dodged then I would be killed by the spikes on his shield.

Instead, I focused the wind in my hands until it was concentrated enough to blow up three snow dummies.

I threw the wind (I don't know how okay? Don't ask) toward his shield. I felt the force even from two yards away, but it must've been even worse up close. The snowman was thrown back a yard, his shield knocked out of his hand.

Guessing that he would grow another one when he recovered, I ran toward him the fastest I could, then stabbed him through his ice armor.

He roared again, spitting cold water all over my body, before exploding into snow. His armor was left on the floor, but I didn't want the rest of my body to be as numb as my hand was while holding the ice weapons.

Glacia and Theo weren't looking like either was going to do anything, as if they were just in a sparring session.

I started to run toward them, but stopped when a huge ball of light erupted from Theo's body, heating up the street so much that the ice armor of the snowman melted, along with everybody else who was frozen.

Since Lukas was already ready to shoot, he let go of his arrow the instant he was unfrozen. The arrow sailed through the air until I realized where it was going. Straight into Theo's shoulder.