Frozen Beyond [gxg]

Fire Giant

The earth split between them, creating a jagged line with a hundred foot drop to molten lava below. Elsa gripped the edge, looking over the steep cut off and the bubbling river of lava beneath. She scoured the other side of the crevice where Keahi stood. She let out a sigh of relief when she realized Keahi was okay.

Fire reigned from the volcano as smoke billowed from its top, red-hot rocks shot like fireworks from its center and landed like meteors. Causing the ground to tremble and shake as rock and dirt sprayed outward. From the volcano, the ground rose and fell like a wave as it traveled across the rocky outcrop, sounding like a train as it whirled faster at her.

Elsa shifted her focus from Crow to Keahi as she ran for her. Without thinking, she leapt across the crevice, though it was entirely too wide to clear. She shot out a blast of ice to make pillars like she did when she first discovered Ahtohallen. The pillars, however, bulked and melted from the lava on impact.

She gained too much momentum too quickly and came crashing down as she tried to grab the ledge. Her heart sank when she realized her fingers didn't connect with the edge. A hand reached over the edge, connecting to familiar warm hands as Keahi pulled her up.

Elsa put a hand to her sporadically beating heart, then wiped her clammy hands on the edges of her pants. "Thank you." She paused when she looked up at Keahi, their eyes locking and Keahi's sharp sea-foam green eyes glossed over. She looked in awe, and Elsa shifted under her gaze.

"I don't think I even need my memories to know why I love you." Keahi breathed out.

Elsa wanted to laugh, she wanted to cry, but more importantly, she wanted all of this to end with Crow so she could go back to loving Keahi in peace.

Because they were going to have peace. "We'll get through this." Elsa reached out to cup Keahi's cheek before they helped one another up.

The area was thick with dust, only shapes wavered in silhouettes through its cloud.

But something loud roared, causing the ground the vibrate. The clouds of dust and smoke created shadows over the land. Within the dust, a billowing, large shadow wavered in its clutches.

It kept growing; it looked like a mountain towered over the land. It turned, its red eyes glowing and lava spit from its mouth as it let out a blazing roar. The giant was four times the size of the earth giants at home.

Elsa's eyes widened as shock and fear wavered within her. If her and Keahi, Anna and their entire family was to continue forward. She needed to stop him. She needed to stop Crow.

Standing up, she shot out a stream of ice to create a bridge across the crevice. Keeping a hand out with a constant pool of magic flowing from it to keep it cold so it wouldn't melt too fast.

Keahi followed her as they both got to the other side. Black, wispy fire blew away most of the dust that obscured the sky to clear the area and give them a better view of the giant above.

Crow was already casting his fire while running headlong at the giant. When it connected with the Giant's leg, it caused a shriek of agony as the giant staggered, its body ambling in their direction.

Elsa clenched her fists at her side, "Stay here." She told Keahi, realizing it sounded more bossy than she intended, but she didn't have time to explain herself as she rushed towards Crow. She shot out a blast of ice, aiming for his feet and encasing them up to his knee. He let out a shout, practically snarling as she ran past the group of pirates, blasting ice along the ground and encasing the rest of his crew.

They were easy; they didn't have the power to fight it. But she could already hear Crow shouting and the ice exploding behind her.

A piece shot out and speared the edge of her shoulder, just enough to leave a thin slice along her flesh. It caused her to pause momentarily, her hand flying to her arm, but she pushed past the pain and used her magic to create steps that went higher and higher so she could be eye to eye with the giant.

When she did, she stood on her pillar of ice twenty feet away from the massive giant, his breath coming out in molten hot spurts. "Get out of here!" She shouted, pleading with the giant to the best of her ability. "They've come for your heart, you have to run!" Elsa begged.

The giant watched her with an enraged roar that vibrated the pillars of ice. Lifting a massive hand, he swung and shattered the ice pillars with an easy blow. Elsa created more steps, waving her arms to get her balance as her ice pillars swayed like strings in a breeze.

She grit her teeth. What else could she do? A familiar whistling behind her had her instinctively twisting and pulling up a large ice shield. The fire smacked into it, crackling and burning as its hulking flames cast shadows along her and the giant. Before the flames fizzled out, another rocket of flames hit the shield and it shattered on impact. The blast threw her dangerously hard backward.

A choking gasp wheezed from her lungs when she hit the giants shoulder. Her ears rang as her lungs clawed for air but could not take any in. It took a second before she could catch her wind again, and she shakily stood on the shoulder of the giant. Holding her head in her hands as she tried to get over the assault of dizziness.

She couldn't protect the giant from Crow while trying to defend from the giants attacks.

Before she had time to recover, a series of flames were sent like meteors into the top half of the giant. She mustered everything within her, holding her arms out in front of her with her palms up as she tried to lift and summon a huge iceberg to create a wall between them and Crow.

She wasn't fast enough.

And even if she was, the giant angrily swatted at the flames and kicked the start of her ice wall and caused it to shatter and send missiles of ice towards Crow.

A few of the flames connected with the giant's head, shoulders, and chest causing it to groan and fall backwards.

Elsa tried to shield herself, throwing her hands to her face as the blasts sent a force of wind that propelled her backward, shooting her from the giant's shoulder and casting her into a downward spiral towards the ground. She twisted enough to right herself and used her magic to create a slid downward.

She hit the ground harder than she had hoped and slid across the ground. Spitting out blood, Elsa winced and pushed herself up on her forearms. Sucking in a breath and trying to get her wits about her. Everything ached, her entire body pulsed and pleaded that she stop.

A shadow loomed overhead as the giant stumbled and crashed back towards the earth.

Her eyes widened, and she held her arm up trying to will her tired body to shoot off one more massive shield but nothing happened.

Everyone she loved flashed before her eyes as she sucked in one final, dust filled breath.