The Day {Not official title}

Chapter 16 The Wake of Jala {Rion}

Chapter 16: The Wake of Jala {Rion}

            “What do we do?! I don’t want to die!” I yelled.

            “We fight!” said Gavin, pulling two pens from each of his shoes. He handed me a pen. A pen. We were going to die. The pens were heavy and dark colored with odd golden inscriptions. It looked as if it could be a language, but not one I could decipher.

            “What is this?” I asked, referring to the pen, “What am I going to do with a pen against… that?”

            “Click it Bleudoux,” he said. I heard the pen click and the sound of a sword unsheathing itself. I clicked mine, but it didn’t become a sword. It became a shield. The shield was round and at least a couple inches thick.

            “That’s so cool,” I said, and then I began to see the actual shield. I was seeing it in very low light. But we had no light. I turned to the cylinder. Jala’s face was now on top of her hideous body. She was glowing an eerie green.

“So that’s where the light was coming from,” Gavin said. It looked like a skinny, green version of Ursula. The tentacles slammed on the glass, slowly breaking it. The green body was covered with millions of small, iridescent scales. It was like Medusa and Ursula in one.

            “How do we kill it?!” I yelled, as Jala broke free from the cylinder. She emitted a shrill note that nearly made me deaf.

            “The hair of Medusa. Features of Ursula. Eyes don’t turn you to stone. No powers to control anything physical. Cut the head off!!!” Gavin yelled.

            Jala disappeared. Well, turned invisible. We had no idea where she was. I saw Gavin just fly across the room and hit the wall. I assumed Jala swung one of her enormous tentacles. Gavin swung his sword in a random direction and I saw something red. Blood. He cut off one of her tentacles. As soon as he cut it, it became visible and once it hit the ground, it disintegrated and disappeared, leaving some Black fog before also disappearing.

Another high-pitched screech came from Jala. It sounded like it came from the right side of the room, so I swung my shield against whatever could be in that direction. Gavin realizes what I’m doing and copies my actions, but landing more hits and cutting off more tentacles. She kept swinging her tentacles and knocking us against the walls that we didn’t even step away from the walls anymore. The shield was a good weapon for me. I could block the worst of Jala’s hits, and cut off some tentacles with the edge of the shield.

 After a while of deafening cries and thrashing at nothing, Jala has lost too many tentacles to stay invisible. The room lights up, but we see no light source. I realized that the ring had stung me with something. It was a small dose of a sight enhancer called Noxin. I saw Gavin sting himself with the bottom of his sword’s hilt.

 Jala shape-shifted into a serpent. Her body was the same, except in instead of a set of tentacles, she had a tail like a snake.

            She writhed and shrieked. I closed my eyes and cupped my hands over my ears. I saw Gavin do the same. She was conducting the Overpower, her strongest attack. She’d scream and writhe to deafen you the lunge at someone and kill them. Her screams were so powerful, Gavin’s eyes could not remain Archxiton, as his eyes would bleed if he did. The ring lost its power as Jala screamed. I could feel her trying to sink into my mind. I could not let her in. I had Danica to look after.

            When I was certain I was deaf, I got up and saw Gavin trying to fend off Jala with his sword. She was trying to bite him. Gavin made cuts, but they healed almost instantly. Her rage and impatience was strengthening her abilities. Her eyes, now bloodshot with anger, turned all black. It was almost finished. She would lunge at me, as she always lunges toward the other person during the Overpower.

            I scrambled to the nearest corner and pulled the shield as close I could, so it touched all three walls of the room and cornered me. I heard her scales hastily scrape against the concrete or glass or whatever. The sounds were getting closer. When I was sure that she would slam into the shield, I was hearing again. I heard Gavin yelling, “Now Rion!”

            I got up and mustered all the strength I still had. Gavin had stabbed Jala’s tail, pinning her to the ground and keeping her in one place. She writhed and screeched in her position. I hoisted the shield above my head and brought it down hard on the gorgon’s neck. A few seconds of quieter, but high-pitched screams, and it was silent. The corpse disappeared.

            “Good job,” Gavin said, panting.

            “Thanks,” I replied.

            “Should we sleep now?”

            “Well, we have no other option. See you on the other side buddy,” I said. And with that, we each found our own corners and slept.