Void Rift (rp) - Intermission

"Is it scared? Wait... is it even... alive?"
She gets knocked out of balance, but freezes part of the ocean as she hits the water.
"Sorry. I forgot to mention... The locket? It lets you know where I am, but it also lets me see through your eyes... for short amounts of time. Still... What happened to it?"

 

"It is alive. And it seems to be hungry... or angry? I can't tell. There are a few monsters which I can't control, possibly because they are so powerful and insane. And the shriek is probably a battle cry, and is metallic because... well, Wind Dragons eat metal, and lots of it. That's why they have the silver coating too.... oh and that."
As I say that last part, a storm starts to form above us, seemingly centred around the Wind Dragon. When lightning shoots down, it goes towards the Wind Dragon, though the wind around it seems to deflect the lightning away from it.
The Wind Dragon dives towards Xephyr, preparing to breathe out something.
I dive after the Wind Dragon and charge up a dark beam.

 

The ice crystal explodes, releasing a dark aura.
"Insane? Something like Daras possessing them, or they're just unruly?"
Xephyr launches herself out of the aura, staying low to the water.

 

The Wind Dragon hovers above Xephyr's dark aura. Not noticing the dark beam until it hits it in the wings... except that the dark beam only seems to annoy it due to the wind aura surrounding it.
"A few of them did have something to do with Daras, but if anything Daras would have made them less insane. I think it might be because of their dangerous power, which has made them insane. One of them I can control, unless they reach this world without me summoning them. But that would be impossible."
As Xephyr flies away, the Wind Dragon continues to follow her. It still seems to be keeping its breath in.
The water behind the Wind Dragon starts to freeze (assuming it hasn't already been frozen by Xephyr).
I start firing dark orbs at the Wind Dragon. They explode on contact but the Wind Dragon, once again, doesn't seem to be affected.

 

"I don't know if I should kill it... I don't know if I can."
She kicks up water beneath her and freezes it into a wall of ice before turning towards the mainland.

 

"I'm not sure if I can either, at least quickly. The best I can do is make it tired. Their wind aura is extremely weak then."
The Wind Dragon blasts out its breath on the wall of ice. The breath creates cracks in the wall. Strangely enough, the water behind it starts to freeze.
The Wind Dragon then crashes into the wall head first. The wind aura disappears. The Wind Dragon shrieks loudly, then flies away slowly to the east.
I fly towards Xephyr.

 

"That was... anticlimactic." She freezes a platform below her and lands, breathing heavily.
"Do we pursue?" She asks between breaths.

 

"Not now. We will likely see it again. It's going back to where it came from, which means that it wasn't driven out of its home. Wind Dragons rarely leave the places they live in for anything. They attack ships which come near their islands, but they don't come out this far. And if it was near Aurilon, then that means that something isn't right, though I can't understand what."
The storms start to disappear entirely. The strong winds also stop. While the tornados are still moving around, they don't seem as controlled as they were before and are moving around randomly and are starting to collapse.

 

The wooden Artemis fades into the Earth.

"I know what I need to do now." Artemis says clearly.

"There's a coast near to here? Sounds like fun." I say.

 

"Seems like it. Although I am no expert on dragons, I can confirm it has been generating its own field of coolness around it.."

 

Lazarus immediately loses concentration. "This entire dimension?! As in, everything in the universe?! Why didn't you destroy it or something?!"

 

"I wonder if Keila is aware of these. The bracelets helped immensely... I just got a bit careless."
She circles to gain altitude.
"Well, back to the Darklands?"

"Ihra just needs to wake up. Something's keeping her down- ah, hell. I hope you've still got some fight in you. You're about to learn what truly makes Ihra powerful.

Ihra, Radial Barrier, now!"
"On it!"
She slams her staff into the ground twice. Three explosions ring out above you, blocked by a red barrier.
"Your father is nearby. Keep the shadows alive, they can keep you safe... I'll get him."
"Got it."

Another draconian lands in front of you, eyes bloodshot.
"Hello there, Ihra dear. Why don't you appreciate my surprises?" They laugh.
"Feiha... YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!!"
"Ah, but even you have been acting according to our plan... Let's see how you've grown!"

Ihra starts whispering a chant.

"Hopefully it hasn't woken you up too much." Tirai smirks.
"You ever going to return it to where its egg was, or are you going to keep it as your own?"

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"This one, and essentially. We'd destroy it, but... We can't. It was forged using a singularity, it's hideously powerful. It's more powerful than my daughter. Again, I only gave it to her because everything is in the least danger while it's in her hands. But, there is one thing I fear...

...if she dies, no memory of her will remain. That's the staff's curse. No trace, no memory, no record."

 

Artemis raises her hands, her eyes glowing slightly. Thick trees begin to form around us, thorns snaking up them.

"I don't like this." I say nervously.

"Me neither, we should probably get underground for safety." Artemis replies.

A large flower forms around us and drags us underground. The trees fall inward to cover us, the thorns intertwining into hands. Two large thorn hands at the top of the trees form a blade, which they hold defensively.

 

Three explosions blast your cover off.
"I... Do I have to do this on my own?" Ihra utters, voice shaky.

"You seem a little isolated, little Ihra... Let's see how reliant you are on others!" Feiha cackles.

Six more explosions.

 

"So... Should we, like, find her?" Lazarus goes through ideas in his head on tinkering his existing equipment.

 

"I think it's time, as dangerous as it is." A voice is heard beneath the ground.

"It could kill us." A voice replies.

"This psycho could kill Ihra, and you promised you'd protect her."

A sigh is heard from underground.

Suddenly, a large beam of green light erupts from the ground, rupturing the earth and causing various plants and trees to grow around it.

As the beam dissipates, a gigantic figure stands in its wake; it's reminiscent of Artemis. It glares at the figure attacking Ihra with glowing green eyes.

"Tell me why I shouldn't crush you like an Ant in the next 3 seconds, and send your soul to the deepest, darkest abyss where it will never be found again." it booms in an intimidating voice.

 

"Not sure if she's in the most ideal spot right now... Also, I'd rather not have you passing out when she does whatever crazy thing she thinks up."

"Because this meteor's going to do that to you first!"
She leaps skywards, and the area around you starts to dim.
Ihra starts chanting, etching runes around herself.

 

Artemis turned Gaia raises her hands.

Two gigantic wooden hands erupt out of the earth and head skyward. A thick wooden dome begins to form around Ihra, thorns wrapping around its outside.

 

A crossbow bolt flies past Ihra.
"NOOO!" She shrieks.

The meteor is stopped by the wooden dome, and Feiha lands in front of Ihra, who has about seven shields around her at the moment.

From the site of the bolt hit, the wooden hands erupt in flames.
"Shit. Nyre's here... Ihra mutters."

 

Gaia turns to Nyre, raising a hand. Her hand lets out a large transparent beam; screams of the damned erupt from it. It heads straight towards Nyre.

"YOUR SOUL IS MINE!" She shouts.