Frosted Ranger: Time's Illusion

Chapter 23: Time's Illusion Part 1

Melina and Elisia stop in front of a giant wooden portcullis blocking their entrance into The Dark Prison. Their armor on, weapons ready, and the will to fight burning inside them.

"No turning back." Elisia whispers. A little bit of fear in her words as she looks through the holes of the portcullis.

"I don't intend to run this time." Melina takes a deep breath and places a hand on the portcullis. This inner drive building within her, the burning feeling on her back hasn't faded away either.

Elisia pulls her hair back from her face and her fragment eye glows in the sunlight. "Then let's get inside and tear this place apart shall we?"

They look over at each other and Melina gives the nod. "Let's cleanse some evil."

Elisia reaches her hands out and grabs a hold of the portcullis. Her hands begin to catch fire and she grips the wood tightly with her burning hands. The wooden slowly began to smoke and catch fire.

"That'll grab their attention." Melina says and with the silver mist shrouding around her once more she reappears on the other side of the portcullis and Elisia does the same thing. The portcullis still burning behind them.

For some reason though. No guards were watching the outside walls or the portcullis. If someone wanted to enter normally, how would they?

"No guards. I got a bad feeling about this." Melina says and draws her father's sword. Elisia draws her two swords as soon as Melina draws her, but the usual blue magical aura of Elisia's blades fail to radiate. "Same here."

The two of them creep into the front doors of the prison and look around the empty halls and Melina spots the staircase leading to the higher floor where her mother and Daximus stood before.

Melina looks back down and sees the rotting corpses of the prisoners that tried to escape with her. Elisia covers her mouth. "It smells and looks bad." She says.

"It was worse watching them die after giving them some hope of a better life." Melina steps inside and walks passed the rotting corpses and up the staircase. Elisia follows close behind. Still holding their weapons ready in case anyone decides to jump out and intervene.

"This is where your mother held you prisoner?" Elisia asks while they walk into a room at the end of the hallway.

"Yea, for quite some time. You found me a week later." Melina opens up the door to see a decorated room. Red carpets and curtains. A nicely made bed and something clicks in Melina's mind. She knows this room.

"Be careful, Elisia. This room belongs to Dax." Melina turns around and Elisia had bolted inside and quietly closed the door. "He's coming." She whispers and Melina's eyes widen like Elisia's. "What do we do?"

Melina shrugs and readies her stance. "It's time he dies I suppose." She says some words and the sword lights up with a golden light on the blade. The blue magic begins to spill from Elisia's blades. "Good thing he's alone."

The door opens up and Daximus walks in on Melina and Elisia holding their weapons out at him. His face looks surprised but impressed. "Finally, a Seipora shows some true strength." Daximus goes to grab his double bladed sword, but Elisia presses her swords against Dax's waist and back.

"No games, Dax. Where is she?" Melina asks and lowers her sword. Daximus laughs. "She's here. In the Dark Prison." Melina sighs and raises her sword and brings it down across Dax's chest. Leaving this wide and open wound that looks slightly burned from some kind of burning effect. Daximus grimaces from the pain but stands tall still with Elisia holding her weapons against him still.

"Just tell me where she is." Melina demands and presses the tip of her blade against the open wound and Dax curls his fingers in pain.

"They didn't make me the brute for nothing." He says through the pain and his eyes glow a deep red like Melina's would and he lets out this heavy war cry that pierces through the girls ears and making them stumble backwards.

Daximus draws his weapon and twists it apart into its two separate swords. One of them igniting into flames, the other conducting electricity all around it.

Melina stands guard, but Elisia wastes no time and lets out a blast of a ball of blue electric magic at Daximus and it explodes against him, but he stands there seemingly untouched.

"Nice try, blue." He swings his flaming sword in the air and a wave of fire sprouts outwards and Elisia ducks under it, but misses the electric blade coming in at her and it cuts into her upper left arm. Dax pulls the blade out and the arm stays attached, but barely hanging on by the bone.

Melina's own eyes begin to turn red as she charges at Daximus and tackles him out of the room and into the open hallway.

Elisia drops her swords and looks at her nearly severed arm and just lays there weakly. "Dammit, Ellie. He'd say..." she uses her other hand and forces her severed flesh back into place and a green light surges from her hand and the open wound seems to heal and Elisia take a deep sigh of relief.

Outside in the hallway, Melina stays mounted on Daximus as they go into a hand to hand fighting match. Melina throws one punch after the other with her solid metal hands colliding like small maces against Dax's face.

Daximus trying his own punches, but his hits were not as effective and his open wound is spilling blood badly. "I'd have killed Dayton myself.." he spits out.

Melina growls at the comment and she digs her hands into his open wound and begins to pry it apart like some savage animal. Daximus raises his hands and grabs Melina's arm in attempt to pull them off him, but Melina was digging deep.

Daximus began to turn pale as the blood poured out onto his chest and all over Melina's hand. She growls once more and lets go of the torn hole in Dax's chest. Looking at her blood soaked hands and Dax looks at her with his weak eyes as they return to normal.

"Do it.." he says. Melina holds her fists together and brings it down on Dax's face once more, caving his nose inwards and a few teeth breaking into his mouth. Another hit, another hit. She kept going. Kept repeating the strike till the bones began to crack in Dax's lifeless skull. His whole body limp and bleeding.

Elisia steps into the hallway with her arm recovered, but it still feels sore from being nearly severed. The red eyes fade from Melina and she looks at the carnage she just caused. The blood soaking her metal hands.

"Damn, Frosty... I owe you a drink after this."

"Not funny..." Melina climbs off of Dax and picks up her sword. "Lets keep going."

As they walk on Melina fees a weird pulse in her head and she kind of stumbles. Like a weird headache just happened.

"You okay?" Elisia asks.

"Yea." Melina shakes her head and carries on. "Just a little ringing."