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Unknown... the Story; part 11 |
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[Kai Note: So.... Kio & Kai can't swim so they are stuck on land. Zaira is manipulating the currents to the good guy's benefit. Takara is being held under water by some invisible force made by a mage. Rem, Luichen, Aergan, Jack, Taronis, and Sotaru are swimming after her.]
Takara squirmed under the invisible grip that held her by the wrists. She even sprouted her wings to get more power behind her pull, but she might as well be attached to a rock. She pulled, kicked, wiggled though nothing happened. She wanted to scream but was scared to let any precious air be stolen from her. Her lungs felt like a bunch of needles were inside them. She needed air. She felt the blood rush into her ears, her estatic heartbeat pounding like the sharp rapid rhythem of a bass.
Some other unseen force grabbed her by the waist. It felt like arms. Panic struck her temporarily at the thought of more things overwhelming her already struggling strength. She twisted her head sharply, eyes wide. Though this time she saw a Sotaru shaped outline. As she peered past his watery body, she saw Rem, Taronis, Jack, and Luichen swimming as fast as possible towards them.
Rem swam, as fast as she could in the 15 feet deep water. It was cold and the pressure of the water made her head throb & her ears ache. Sotaru was trying to pull Takara away, but she didn't budge. The currents Zaira was making helped a little; only an inch at a time, though.
Luichen was surveying the situation as well. He couldn't use anything hot, that would boil them alive. So would electricity. A black hole would suck this whole damned planet & them into its matter-eatting vortex. Everything was too dangerous or too conspicuous for the human world. Damn the Committee & their regulations.
Energy verses energy.... It came from Rem. A few words she let slide from her mental barrier for the others to hear. Luichen looked at her.
Blast it. The Taronis and Jack nodded as Rem & Luichen stopped in front of them. They were a few yards from Sotaru & Takara, just above them. Rem brought her palm up & thrusted it in the space in front of Taka. Her stream of green energy collided with the red, crimson, and black streams made by Taronis, Luichen, and Jack. There was a huge explosion that catapulted all of them 5 feet towards the surface.
Takara gaged on some sea water she accidentally swallowed. The hold on her instantlydeminished after the blast. She wasted no time in swimming to the surface. Takara was beginning to feel light headed and darkness smeared the corners of her vision. She wasn't going to make it. Even with Sotaru practically pulling her the last ten feet, she couldn't hold her breath any longer. Her lungs felt like that they have been ripped out. She felt her will give away to instinct as a huge mouthful of water was pulled forcibly into her lungs. Taka coughed, drawing more water in.
Something fast and rubbery flew beneath her and began pulling her to the surface. As she felt Sotaru let her be taken by the water creature, Takara hugged it with her remained strength as it broke through the ocena's surface. The wind never felt so goon on her face. Cool, merciful air. She practically absorbed it through her pores as she desperatly filled her lungs with oxygen. She coughed up some water and peeked weakly at the bottled-nose dolphin that had saved her.
"Thanks Aergan." she said hoarsly inbetween coughs.
Any time. I don't think you lizards are much of swimmers, by the way. he mumbled, trying to lighten her mood a little. Taka would have chuckled if it didn't already hurt to breath. Dolphin-Aergan towed her back to shore and they slid onto the sandy shore. There, Takara fell off Aergan's back and splashed into a 5 inch deep water. At least there was sand beneath her now. Ground. Sweet safe ground. Aergan was transforming back as two pairs of strong hands nearly nearly threw her into the air.
Kioshi let Kakairo carry Takara further from the water as he helped the others onto the beach before they too were pulled in. Aergan was straightening his 12-foot form, water dripping off his sharp features, when Rem resurfaced. Kioshi took her her forearm and pulled her a few feet towards the beach. She ran over to Taka while still trying to gasp for some air. At the second she was beside her, the woman dropped down and gathered the still coughing dragoness into a hug.
"Are you ok?" she pushed Takara at arms length and surveyed her. "What do I need to heal?"
Takara spat out another mouthful of water as she shook her head. "No. I'll be fine. Maybe a new set of lungs though."
Kakairo was setting next to her, looking as if she were now forever glued to her side. She gave a few hard pats on Takara's back to help her get more water out of her lungs. Her tighten jaw and blazing glare said she wanted blood shed and a decapitated head for whoever nearly killed her friend.
Rem sighed. "You scared us, Taka."
Takara smiled apologetically at their paled faces.
Kioshi was helping Jack and Taronis up just as Sotaru trickled onto the shore; at first a blob, then morphed into a human-shape, then became flesh and blood again. He nodded approvingly at the exhausted Zaira. She had flopped onto her knees once she saw Takara resurface. The current-controling thing really wore her out. It was a hard move for someone at her stage.
"Nice job." he said shortly.
"Yeah," Jack added as Kioshi pulled him up. "It helped."
Zaira grinned proudly.
Kioshi and Luichen were walking back onto the sand. Taronis looked back at the ocean with a frown.
"Something isn't right."
Zaira noticed he looked more concerned than usual. Was it that something was on his mind, or just that thought? Or both?
Kai looked at him wiht a frown of her own. She didn't like the sound of that. "Say what?"
Taronis looked at her. "That thing... whatever held Takara... it just let her go. We barely attacked it and it practically threw her back to us."
"Well I think that was more of the blast we made." Rem said with a sheepish grin. She was talking about them being hurtled back five feet. But they all couldn't ignore it. That knot and shiver had come back. Even Kai & Kioshi felt it. He was right. Something wasn't right.
Rem swallowed hard, hoping that would unravel her knot. She rethought her answer. "Maybe it was just luck?" she said hopefully. She prayed all of this was just paranoia.
Just as she said that there was an unusual trickle in the sand, like a soft roll on a tiny drum, or the low hum of chimes. Only trained ears could hear it. Kioshi, Luichen, Sotaru, Zaira, and Rem tensed. They recognized it. It was a chant, something similar that they would use to control elements or power. Rem shot to her feet, eyes wide & body ready for fight-or-flight. Kioshi, Luichen, Sotaru, & Zaira did the same thing simutaneously. The others follow. Kai helped Takara up to her feet. Her hand griped the dragoness's wrist sternly in case she had to pull her out of anymore danger. She might be dead weight when it came to water, but she could kick anything's a** on land.
Those few seconds of on-edge waiting were short. Kioshi's blood ran cold as every red flag shot up in his mind. Screw inconspicuous this time.
"Get out! Fly! Anything! Get off the beach!"
There was a loud dull FWAP as four pairs of 15-foor wings rocketed into the air. At the same time, two basketball-sized palms, made of sand, reached out and grabbed Sotaru and Luichen by the ankles. They were dragged underground as if they were back in the ocean. Kioshi, with his blood red angel wings, was the first up & was able to grab Taronis by the colar beforehand. He cursed as he saw the two dragged into the sandy depths. Aergan had transformed into a raven & was flying just above him. Zaira, using a colomn of ocean ice to levitate herself off the beach, stopped a few feet under him with Jack right beside her. Kioshi put Taronis on the platform and rested his palm at the katana at his hip.
Rem saw Sotaru & Luichen go down. Taka was trying to use her still recovering energy to make her wings appear. Kakairo was hovering anxiously a yard above them, her leathery, dark demon wings beating smoothly & rhythically. Her looked yelled at them to hurry before they were buried alive too. The earth rumbled beneath them. No time. Rem threw Takara into the air where Kai swooped over & caught Taka. She sat the dizzy & still recovering dragoness on the icey platform... just as a sandy hand dragged the woman into its depths.
Kai sucked in a quick gasp and tucked her wings close to her body. She shot like an arrow towards the ground, opening her wings at the last minute (FWOOSH!!) as she grabbed Rem's hand just before her top half was submerged. She gave a resilient push before she too was sucked in.
A white blur shot past the others on the ice collum, the wave following it nearly pulling them off. Kioshi landed on the spot Rem & Kakairo used to be just as they both were swallowed by the sand. He was only on land for a brief nanosecond before pushing himself back into the air. A sand-made hand grasped the empty air & immediatly dissipated into a mass of shapeless sand since its victim evaded it.
Zaira bit her lip. Jack & Taronis watched tensely beside her. Aergan had transformed back to himself, though with the wings still. He looked anxious. Kioshi felt rage overlap his fear. Enough to make a misty aura to pulse around his body. His blood red wings beat furiously at the air as if it were the cause of all this. Just like that, their numbers were cut in half. Their friends were either in danger... or worse. Not only that, but hundreds of humans were gaping at the scene.
 onime · Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 07:25am · 5 Comments |
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