The Elementals

Chapter fifty- six "The Temple Treck"

Chapter fifty- six "The Temple Treck"
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Thomas' p.o.v
It was late that night, James had already discussed the route to the temple, and now everyone was now out cold leaving me to be the only one currently awake in this small nature dome. I sighed heavily as I looked to the sky, tomorrow was probably gonna be hell and i wasn't looking forward to it, i don't think anyone was.

I summoned wild magic and watched it swirl around my hand and down my arm, i was just trying to distract myself until i was tired enough to sleep. "Hey, you're still awake?" Kye's tired voice droned, I sighed keeping my eyes on my wild magic "yea, why are you awake?" I answered softly as to not wake the others "I sensed the wild magic duh. Why are you still awake? Usually I'm the insomniac" Kye joked quietly, I sighed finally extinguishing the magic and laying back down "just stressed you know? I don't wanna die" "no one wants to die Tom" "i know but i mean if we fuck this up it's not just us that's gonna die..." there was a beat of silence as we laid there, "if we do fuck up, at least we fucked up for a good reason right? We're the only ones who can stop this." Kye commented finally "just think on that" I closed my eyes 'i guess he's right...' I thought before letting the hands of sleep take me.

Teep's p.o.v
It was break of dawn when i awoke, like usual I'm the only one awake at this time, I sighed and quitely snuck out of the small dome and looked up to the sky, it seemed to grow a darker shade of purple and corruption every passing day. "Well friend, this is it. History might repeat itself" violet commented "but unlike you guys, we don't have a capturing device. We either die here, or she dies here." I replied still focusing on the sky, "and unlike you guys we were prepared and fought her before she was this strong..." violet replied, i felt her appear beside me, "well here's a better answer, we weren't the one's to release her. We didn't cause this mess because we weren't prepared with the correct time or place to fully stop her" I retorted finally looking to Violet, her eyes were also on the sky, she took a deep breath before smiling slightly "touchè" she replied whilst side glancing at me.

Third person p.o.v
Eventually everyone awoke, a nervous energy buzzed around them as they prepared for this journey. They left before the small town awoke and slipped further into the dense forest. What would have been a nice forest track had now been twisted and corrupted, the plants were withering but growing into these twisted abominations, Emma seemed afriad the further they walked, "these plants, they're suffering... its so painful" she had explained herself looking pained by this corruption, they kept walking carefully, it was about mid day before they decided stop for a break.

"How much further...?" Snowdrop whined whilst taking deep breaths, "I'd need some time to figure that out, give me a few minutes and then we can continue" James said whilst sitting down and pulling out the badly damaged amulet before zoning out. The others took this time to relax, "what happens next?" Summer asked out of the blue, "what do you mean" Sky asked "if we do hypothetically survive, what happens next? Do we lose our powers? What about the ghosts? If we die do they die? And if we do win how will they return to thier bodies?" Summer question staring at seemingly nothing "well if we did survive, there is a high chance the ghosts will return to thier bodies with our powers in tact, and if we did die the ghosts would be stuck in limbo seeing as they would have lost thier material bodies." Sly analysed looking off to where Summer was staring before freezing in his place, "so... we'd return to normal life. And if not either die or become slaves" Tinker continued looking at Sly and Summer in confusion "what are you looking at?" Jade asked becoming concerned "be very quiet..." Sly said quitely whilst pointing to a group of tainted zombies (Tambies), they seemed to be patrolling the area. Sky stood carefully "Teep, can you encase them? I'll knock them out, we don't need them worrying" Sky asked telepathically his eyes glowing under his shades, Teep nodded and knelt to the ground, the ground beneath the Tambies began to shake and rumble as a jagged stone dome was created around them, Teep stayed knelt as he reinforced the dome, Sky ran forward finding a small hole that the tambies were clawing at, Sky grasped his amulets as he began pulling the air from the dome, the tambies began to choke as they were desperate to escape and reach air, eventually they stopped moving. The air was returned into the dome as the hole was then covered by fresh looking stone, Sky turned around and gave a thumbs up to the group signalling that the problem was solved.

They were back on the move, Snow was asleep on Tinker's back, the track was hard to follow as it was over grown and the terrain was becoming increasingly harder to pass through, Emma and Summer were in thier wolf forms scouting ahead of the group, "There should be a long forgotten tribe area up ahead, careful I couldn' see into there, something was preventing me" James had warned "pffft no problem bud-AH!?" Summer interrupted herself telepathically as she suddenly cut out "Emma what's going on?!" James tried to contact but there was no response "James what happened?!" Jade asked looking to her frightened brother "I-I've lost contact with them" James said breathless, Suddenly James was shoved roughly to the side by Sly "look out!" Sly called landing ontop of James, as a dark portal opened up in front of them it shimmered in place as it was showing a different location "what the hell?" James asked shoving Sly off him, "why are there portals?!" Tinker asked confused whilst going to inspect the portal but it closed shortly after his statement.

Sly's p.o.v
I looked around and saw the same sort of twisted world around me like when i was bitten by the water serpent, this time i wasn't caught off guard, 'this must be what was preventing James from getting through' i thought looking around seeing a sparking circle appear under Jade, I turned to her quickly "Jade watch-!" I tried to warn but the portal opened up beneath her, she fell through and the portal closed "Sly what the fuck!? What's happening!?" James growled turning to me before stepping back in surprise "the fuck is going on with your eyes?" He asked inspecting me closely "whats going on with my eyes?" I asked my ears flattened and my tail drooped "its like your eyes are on fire but they're a ghostly white..." Sky explained looking to me, i caught my reflection in his glasses, they weren't kidding. "I think i might be having an episode" i muttered tiredly as i stepped back slightly, I looked around and saw a figure drop from the tree's about 10 feet off, "hey you guys see that?" I asked pointing in the figures direction, James stepped through a close by shadow appearing near the figure before immediately jumping back through "NOPE. LETS GO, NOW!" he ordered quickly continuing to walk down the path, we followed after him confused "James what did you see?" I asked keeping an eye out around us, "some kind of mutant, i don't think it saw me so let's keep going" James said sweat beading down his brow. I stopped walking before turning back 'a mutant? It couldn't be...' I thought heading to where i had saw the figure "Sly what are you doing?!" Teep called out in confusion, I ignored him and quickened my pace to the figure, I ran through the thick forest floor coming upon a shaken Jade, "Jade! You're okay!" I said approaching her, she looked up to me "the fuck is wrong with your eyes?" She asked taking my out stretched hand and helping herself up, "long story, did you see a mutant?" I asked "we're dealing with mutants now?!" Jade exclaimed, my ears twitched at a subtle twig snapping, and the sound of a bow string being drawn, I turned around quickly to see Teep staring in fear at Jade "Sly move. I'm going to kill it" Teep uttered "Kill me?! Teep what the fuck!?" Jade shouted stepping forward, I brought out my whip and set alight to the arrow Teep had released in that moment, "Teep, it's Jade!" I growled motioning to Jade "Jade isn't a melting bird animal thing" Teep retaliated drawing another arrow "Wait I'm not a mutant! Teep its me! Can't you see that?!" Jade pleaded hiding behind me, My hands and Whip flared up in white flame in defense "okay if that's Jade, what happened to me and her brother?" Teep questioned "you killed eachother you dingus!" Jade snarled, Teep didn't seem to understand "what did it say?" Teep asked, I sighed "and I quote "you killed eachother you Dingus" if that doesn't scream Jade i don't know what will" I translated, Teep lowered his bow with a shocked expression "okay, first question the fuck happened to you? And second how are you not scared?!" Teep questioned Jade shrugged "I just fell through the portal" she answered 'don't tell me...' i thought "I think those portals are important, Jade can you call out to Emma or Summer?" I asked turning to her "EMMA?! SUMMER?! CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" Jade screeched out, I looked to Teep who was covering his ears, "Jade!" Came two voices off in the distance "Teep you go back and tell the others, try and not fall into any portals. I'll find the girls" I said grabbing Jade's hand and beginning to walk.