Academy of Elements: Water

Chapter 26: Rescue

The army struggled as if choking on invisible but iron fists. I turned to find Aira with her hands in the air slowly curling them together. As the fingers neared, she dropped them, and the guards copied falling to the ground, barely alive.

Aira walked through the crowds, her street clothes, dirty, but yet odd compared to the dark clothes of the fainted army. Another door lurked at the end of the room with two doors like the last. I took in the room as I walked.

The ceiling had no lights only the brightness's sources of light coming from fire lit lanterns, on the wall. The floor was cement, the walls the same cracked stone. We reached the door in a few seconds and credulously opened them.

Blast fire rung out hitting the Ice as I erected an ice wall, strong enough and thick enough to be able to stand the bullets. Except they weren't bullets. They were blasts of obsidian, which were Darkness's gem. In the lore of the gods he had created a whole palace of it in the Realm of the Gods.

I spread ice across the stone floor, no one was keeping me from Ella. Another rain of bullets hit the Ice and it shattered. Quickly I sent the shattered Ice in a blizzard towards four guards. They fell to the ground, their armor not reaching their faces, giving me a place of weakness. 

Vines tangled around another squad of guards twisting around them until they went limp. A bullet flew towards me but froze in the air as Aira stepped in front of me and pushed her hands towards the largest squad of guard. The bullet through right into the barrel of the odd gun and then darkness exploded. 

Quickly Haley built a wall of stone around us as the pure Darkness hurtled towards the iron gate blasting it off its hinges. The walls crumbled around as the blast subsided and we stepped into a line, the warm fiery light trickling from where the gates of iron used to be. I stepped forward into the light and took in my surroundings. 

Guardians appeared on the sides of the walls killing off Death Hunters with odd weapons of light. And there the cages of darkness sat. A wall of nightmares rose around stage of earth and Darkness stood facing us.

"I must admit. This is a much more dramatic effort then last time." He mused.

Memories of last year flooded my head. Kissing Ella. Ella and I casting off Darkness as best we could. Me attempting to commit....

"You can't kill me." He laughed. "I know that Ella is powerless, I sent the beast after her. Actually it was intended for you Jaxon, but oh well."

"Why me?" I sneered.

"You've know why for a long time now." Darkness replied. "You're their leader."

I sucked in a breath. It was my fault Ella was captured. My fault. Letting out a breath I stared at Darkness.

"Let her go!" I demanded.

"Okay." And the cage subsided as well as the wall, and as well as Darkness himself.

I looked around and there was Darkness and Ella on the bridge, going over from either side of the walls. "I'll let her go." He bellowed. Ella fell.

"No!" I screamed as Haley, Aira and the others screamed in horror. A large pit of lave ate away the stone that had once been their, the pool Ella would die in.

Ice crawled from me. Up the sides of the dwelling it went, freezing anything that tried to get in its way. My tattoo glowed as brightly as the moon over head, where Light watched over us, over me. Ice crawled as I screamed encasing the whole domain. Time seamed to stop Ella falling slower, everyone's movement but my own like they were swimming in molasses.

Ice even crawled over the lava as I ran through the battle field. I screamed in effort as my power tried to restrain the most intense use of power I had ever used.

And then everything cracked. The Ice splintered and the lava, screams, and movements, swallowed the world.

Ella flew from the air into the pit. I dived. My and captured hers and she dragged me into the obis.

We fell. That's all the happened, and I laughed at the ironic thought that the Fire Wielder would be killed by her own substance. And I would be killed by my own weakness.

Ice crawled over the pit. Not my ice. This ice was strong, finally trained, as if it had been trained at the best school for Elementals for wielding. John.

With the last drop of my infinite well of power I covered Ella and I in a cocoon of Ice. The best I could do to help stop the impact.

Everything went dark.