Elemental Eclipse

🌻Chapter Ten: Smoke and Mirrors🌻

She stood in a land devoid of colors and life, everything was either a shade of black or blood red. The mirror she had been pulled through was no where to be scene, but other mirrors were scattered about hidden in the shadows.

There was one mirror straight ahead of her, the closest one to her, the only problem being that a giant smoke monster stood in her way. "Well shit..." Rachael whimpers, observing its form as it towered over her.

The large creature growled opening it's mouth to release funnels of smoke as it races towards her. She was barely able to jump out of the way of a direct hit. The monster lunged at her again, it's claws just barely grazing her before a flash of light blinded her from behind.

"That's enough!" Professor Swan yelled as the monster looked to assess the new threat. She kept her hand raised and glowing with a bright light making the smoke creature shield it's eyes.

Rachael quickly got back on her feet, backing up a safe distance. "Professor? How did you-"

"The mirror dimension was calling to me. I knew you must have been in danger!" Swan calls out to her. "You need to get out of here now!"

"Right, on it..." Rachael nods, looking around for an escape, right as the monster leapt towards her again. She quickly hid behind a tree the monster slamming into the ground where she had previously been, whipping around to find her.

The monster began sniffing around for her as Swan threw another beam of light at it. "Get away from her!" The monster backed away in pain as she waved her hand towards a nearby mirror. "Through that mirror there!"

Rachael turned to make a run for it, glancing back to find the monster pulling Swan in with some sort of magickal wormhole. It sucked her right up into it, her body completely disappeared into it. There one minute gone the next. "No!"

The monster turned its attention back to her as she took off into a full sprint towards the mirror. As it gained on her she leaped through the mirror and crashed directly into the blue checkered chair in Professor Swan's office.

Rachael scrambled to her feet knocking things over left and right as she tried to make it to the door. The monsters massive arm suddenly bursts through the mirror destroying everything in its path. It managed to grip onto her leg dragging her back towards the mirror. It's claws sunk deep into her leg breaking the skin. She was whisked back into the mirror dimension and crashed directly into a puddle.

She got to her feet and the ground started to shake as the monster approached. It became increasingly obvious fighting was going to be the only way to get out of this one. Tim materialized beside her having heard her thoughts, eyes narrowed into slits as he squatted into his fighting stance.

The monster barreled towards them and they barely made it out of the way in time. It collided with multiple mirrors the glass shattering all around. It's smoke turned into a dark blood red as it trailed out of its nose and mouth.

She intertwined her magick with Tim's to break apart a metal mirror sending shards of metal at the smoke monster. It growled narrowing its eyes at her as smoke began to pour from its nostrils, seemingly unaffected.

"Ah! I think we just made it angrier!" Rachael mumbles.

The monster opened up another swirling vortex pulling her in feet first. She struggled trying to grip on to something, anything, but to no avail was still getting pulled closer. Nearby a piece of mirror gets sucked into the vortex and it shrinks a bit.

"The more that goes in the smaller it gets!" Rachael says out loud to herself, quickly turning herself into a magnet and pulling in everything she could to throw into the vortex. She sends a group of mirrors through the darkness and into the vortex. It closed quickly with a soft pop.