Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage Vol 2- Descent of Darkness

Episode 49: Battle at the High Seas

"The child of light shall guide their way even in the depths of darkness"

Previously on Descent of Darkness: As she was finishing her last minute training for the Mahoulympics, Sarah learned from her brother that the forces of the Higher Evolutionary Higharchy might be targeting Lei after he survived being devoured by an abyssmal. Sarah aimed to contact Grand Chief Makya so that Lei can be protected but suddenly invisible enemies wielding kunai and swords attacked her family and her. She hopes that she'll be able to warn the Wahkan team in time or that they'll at least be able to fend off the attackers if she fails to do so in time. **

*Lei*

I came out of my cabin after a nice nap and shower only to find Serein peering out at the sea with interest.

"Something the matter kiddo?" I asked, standing beside him.

Serein glanced over at Astra who was talking to her parents and smiled. "Nope. Everything is fine."

"Huh?" Well, that was odd. Then again, Serein has always been rather strange. It was almost as if he wasn't of this world.

The kid suddenly stopped walking. He turned around, eyes wide. "Lei, go go!" he yelled.

"What?" I asked, taking a step forward. Just then something flung by where I stood. I turned around and saw a kunai on the floor. Where in the world did that come from? Better yet, how did Serein managed to sense it but not me?

"Everyone, go go!" Serein yelled, curling up into a ball. He gripped his hair in a state of panic.

Astra's mother stood up and waved a hand over the ship. A torrent of kunai flew into a starry black sheet in the sky. "Amazing, you managed to sense that," she said, glancing down at my cousin.

Serein shivered. "Not over. Something coming below," he said, stumbling forward as if in a hurry to escape.

Just on cue, a giant sea serpent teared through the haul of the ship, sending all of us flying in opposite direction. Astra's mother thankfully grabbed both her daughter and Serein. Though I fell toward the sea before I even could figure what had happened.

"Lei!" Serein yelled. He held a hand out. A wave of water from around me and caught me.

I pushed myself up and called the winds to toward Stella and the kids before surrounding myself in winds of my own. I flew out toward them and surveyed what had happened.

"Yen! Kun!" I yelled at the top of my lungs. I drew closer even as Stella warned me not to. "I have to find them and the others."

"We're fine," Kun and Yen yelled. I shifted my gaze toward the left and saw them emerging from the debris with Raul in tow. Thankfully they had only sustained light wounds.

"Who did that?" Ayawamat asked as his brother, Sowk, and he rode on top of a giant spider with long legs which glided through the water like a speed boat.

"Serein, are you okay?" Raul shouted from the floating debris my siblings and he stood on.

"Me fine, but..." He closed his eyes and sent a wave of water toward them.

Raul hugged Yen to avoid falling off. "Hey, what are you doing?" Just then a typhoon flew around the spot they were once floating over.

"He... save us," Yen said. She looked up at Serein and nodded. Kun and her gathered winds around them and joined us in the air.

Ayawamat stared at the sea. "Hmph, where are you water girl?" he yelled. "We could use your help right about now. Don't tell me you went ahead and drowned."