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

Chapter 29

I was in shock, so I just stared like an idiot at my sister.

She waved, indicating that she was getting bored of staring in silence.

"But.... how?" I managed at last.

"Wasn't it obvious? After that tornado struck, I knew the things would happen, with the lightning and stuff. I also knew that our father was Aeon," she walked over to me and sat down on the ground. I was thinking we should help out our friends or something, but I sat down with her.

"And you didn't tell me?!" I replied.

"Well, mother told me to not, and she never gave me a reason why... and now we will never find out..." she stared off into the distance. "I decided to leave for the Hall of Pandora, so I travelled to Rome, found the door and Pandora took me under her wing...

"She taught me a few basics on how to manipulate the doors, and she gave me tips about how to use my powers. After doing enough research, I figured out how to navigate most of the doors, but they are still unpredictable."

"That's why father couldn't find you. You weren't on Earth... but, how could you do all of this that fast? It's only been about a week or two since the storm... wait..." I wondered.

"Time is different between realms... you've experienced it," she replied.

"I guess... time..."

Time!

"We're running out of time, Anne! The Cursed are planning an attack, and time passes by faster on Earth than it does here... if a whole night passed in about a minute, who knows how much time passed since we were here!" I got up and screamed.

She stood up. "I'll take the girl, you get your friends."

I walked over to Theo and helped him up, Aurora got up by herself, and we met up with my sister who was dragging the girl, handcuffed and sleeping, on the 'X' I had marked.

"Ready?" I asked her.

Anne nodded, and we jumped through the gateway.

The other side wasn't fairing much better. The instant we stepped in, I saw Lukas sprawled on the floor in front of us, breathing but unconscious.

"Why can't we get away from chaos for once?!" Aurora screamed into the air.

An explosion sounded behind us, popping my ears and pushing us slightly forward.

I tried walking back toward the gateway but it was shut, I just continued walking toward the war.

Flying black ships with purple auras around them shot huge cannonballs at the city, blowing up every single defense Techaract had. This Realm was almost destroyed, and there was so little we could do.

I would blackmail the girl into calling her army off, but she was still unconscious, so we had very little amount of choices.

I panicked, there was barely anything we could do except stop and stare. They had a whole armada, while we were only four people.

We were running out of time, and options, but then an idea struck my head. (No pun intended, you'll get it in a second)

I started walking toward the fleet.

"Leon, what are you doing?" Theo asked from behind me.

I barely had the energy to, but I tried to summon a small wind, which tousled my hair and made my clothes flap on my back.

I focused my energy more, and walked forward. I thought of all of the things that had happened. Skylar getting hurt, Lukas on the floor, and pretty much everything falling apart.

My heart felt like it had combusted, and I felt a burning sensation in my chest, which started to grow all around my body. On a normal day, this would be an unbearable pain, but I had to deal with it, to save my friends...

I squinted at the light that was being produced from my body, then I screamed as all of the energy overwhelmed me. The lightning bolt had been activated. (See the pun now? Idea, struck? Lightning?)

"Leon what are you doing?!" Anne screamed. "You'll kill yourself!"

I turned around and smiled at all of them.

Then I jumped into the air, and felt all of the clouds' energy drawn towards me. I continued going toward the fleet. After noticing me, and all of the lightning and clouds behind me, the ships started shooting.

A few hit my chest, which did hurt, but not as badly as it would have without all that was going on.

I felt the electricity flow around my body, and charging that huge blast that could destroy anything, even an entire armada.

I could here some screams from behind me, my friends, my sister, begging for me to come down, but I had a job to finish. I was hovering in the air, a few yards away from the ship. I threw my hand into the sky, and then brought it down, sending a lightning bolt toward the ship in the front, blowing it up into smithereens.

My energy was fading though, and I had to use the real lightning bolt, fast.

Another lightning bolt struck toward the ground with a loud BOOM!

A man from the new front ship screamed over the noise. "You shall not pass!"

"Game of Thrones, much?" I asked, smiling.

I couldn't clearly make out the man's expression, but I could see he was clearly agitated. He was wearing a gray general outfit, and had a purple, translucent head.

"FIRE!" he screamed at his men.

A few cannonballs landed on me, and exploding, but for some reason it felt refreshing, not painful this time.

Once all of the explosions died out, I threw my hand into the air again, then brought it down onto a ship next to the leading one. It blew up into tiny, dark, wooden pieces, dropping all of the cursed with it.

"My final warning. Retreat, or else," I told the general bravely.

"No!" he screamed.

"You chose 'or else,' thank you for your contributions," I joked as I flew toward the leading ship in a spark of blue light. Other lightning bolts shot some ships, and others followed me, it was as if they were alive creatures.

I screamed as I landed on the leading ship, and then felt my whole body explode, and that was painful. It was as if a million ants were biting away my limbs, and biting into my heart. And then all I saw was black, pitch black.

I woke up in a volcano, full of tons of spirits going about their everyday activities.

I looked at my hands and noticed I was a spirit, too. I could see through my hands and I could slightly float around when I got up.

"No, no, no..." I muttered and then I looked directly in front of me.

"Well, hello child. Now it's my time to bargain."