Chapter 248

Having hunted down plenty of pray in the past for food during missions. I suddenly felt like I was the one being hunted down like a wild animal. Arrows shooting passed; my clairvoyance allowed me to avoid all that was thrown at me from behind.

I glanced back for a second seeing an entire army coming after me, guards of this once ancient palace. Ahead I saw twin doors, the winds around Zack were beyond them. I was bringing him a bigger fight than what he was dealing with. Even though he could not harm them, I hoped he would help me to destroy them.

I forced Larana’s winds forward, forcing open the doors, leading into a garden area not much different from the one I had come from, but this one was bigger, once an orchard perhaps as it was filled with many dead trees.

“Zack!” I called seeing him surrounded by swordsman.

“Fang!” he called back, his face dropping when he saw what was behind me. “Not more!”

“Don’t worry,” I responded taking up a stance with the twin lions stood beside me, we roared together, sending out waves of power filling the corridor. The darkness quivered and waved before disappearing. That worked, which surprised me. I twisted on my heel and did the same to those behind me, an arrow shooting past.

I heard a groan from behind as Zack had been hit, so I quickly wiped them out so I could deal with the wound inflicted by my clumsiness.

Again, with my loud roared I felt the lions power flowing through me, understanding it that little bit more. The manifested darkness one by one disappeared. I smirked knowing this power was all I needed to get rid of them.

I turned on my heel and rushed over to Zack. He had been hit in the shoulder, he was pulling it out, wincing in pain, blood trailing down his arm.

“Sorry,” I said, lifting my hand to summon Mila’s healing waters; her waters covered the wound. I instantly got information, mentioning the dark energy within the wound would have spread if I was not here.

“Injuries during battle are always possible,” responded Zack. “Good to see you are alright, how are you able to destroy them?”

“My power of light,” I replied, sending that same light into the wound, dispersing the darkness embedded into it.

“I thought you might have headed for Tigra first,” commented Zack.

“Link is with her, she’ll be fine,” I said. “I need to focus on bringing everyone together so we can affectively take down Vali.”

“At least Link is with her,” nodded Zack. “One more question, how’d you find me so quickly.”

“The wind energy I placed around you, I can sense exactly where it is,” I answered. “Dash is our next stop, unfortunately it takes us further away from Tigra and Link.”

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“Needs must,” said Zack. “And we should get going, these wounds inflicted by them feel different than from a normal weapon.”

“You are correct, it could potentially corrupt from within,” I added. “Dash is that way.” There were two other sets of double doors. I knew which one led in the direction of Dash, but remembering the maze of corridors I had already ventured through it could lead me in a completely different direction, but we needed to move now, as Dash was on the move, running from those dark warriors.

Taking the chance, we headed through one of the doors, following the wind around Dash we made progress through the maze-like interior, which without a doubt was caused by the dark energy embedded in every wall causing the place to warp and become distorted.

I had no doubt in my mind which way to go, but heading through those corridors we faced many of the dark Avem warriors, it made me continue to wonder if they were the lives of those who once governed this place, inflicted like the ones before within Anamothra.

I stopped moving, thinking about it, this had happened before, but instead of getting help they just rose the problem to the skies. Vali was trying to repeat what he started all those centuries ago.

“Fang.” Zack stared at me.

“We have to hurry, before the events of the past repeat themselves, my light crystal can only do so much before the eternal dragon takes over the princess completely, then she’ll corrupt the whole city.” I began running. “

“Right.”

I raised my hand forward using the wind I had to connect to Dash, using it to make a line of visible wind, flowing round corner after corner, then a head was a flash of lightning.

“Dash!” Zack and I shouted his name, spotting another flash that came in our direction.

We both moved aside as he had been thrown passed us, crashing and rolling across the ground.

“Can you distract them while I check Dash?” I asked.

“No problem, just be quick, you’re the only one who can defeat them,” responded Zack heading towards the danger.

I headed over to dash who was covered in multiple wounds. “Hang in there.” I raised my hand, creating a bubble of water around him.

“Thanks Fang,” he mumbled.

I could sense the dark energy working around within his body, but soon that would all fade away as I filled my healing waters with light energy.

I glanced back at Zack, then at Arata. “Keep an eye on him for me.”

“Whatever,” he snorted.

I smirked, typical response. I headed back to give Zack a hand. It was time to end the fighting. I lifted my hand, summoning water, concentrating it. Zack glanced back in my direction, sensing the energy I was building up, he held the enemy there before moving back out of the way as I unleashed my power in a jet form, blasting away all those who’d been pursuing Dash. Dealt with in a moment, the area was now safe for now, it would give me time to heal Dash properly.

“How is he?” asked Zack.

“He’ll be fine,” I answered. “But we’ll have to wait until he has recovered before moving out to find Tigra and Link.”

“But can we really stay here, it’s not safe,” said Zack.

“I don’t think anywhere here is safe,” I commented, focusing my energy on to Dash. My thoughts were of Tigra, she could be in danger, from what I could tell they had not moved since landing, could it mean one of them was injured or even surrounded, I needed to hurry.

“Focus.” I heard Mila whispering. “Focus on our patient.” I nodded knowing that she was right, one step at a time I… We would reach our goal together.