33 Risen#re

Lirian continued to spread the sphere of silver energy to its limit, this time the lighting blasts just narrowly missed the sphere of spinning energy.

When another volley missed he gritted his teeth, it was taking to long, that's when he felt the katana hum in its sheath, he drew the blade once more and raised it to the air.

When the next volley of lightning came it grew closer than ever before crashing down, as the last bit of lightning was falling Lirian pointed the sword at it and like some spell had been cast, the bolt made one final push.

It struck the bubble of silver and in seconds the entire bubble began to change form, lightning crackled, and thunder roared as the silver energy took on an even more resplendent glow.

The sphere of energy began to contract inwards, until it wrapped itself around the katanas blade, the lightning coiled and trashed around violently, staying true to its unbridled nature.

"Brace yourself!" Lirian shouted to Mordred.

Lirian spun the blade around and brought it down in a single swift motion, it sunk into the rock with ease, then the built-up energy exploded outwards, lighting up the night sky with an earie white light.

The energy coursed through its body and blasted its way through the other side, creating a thunder zone on the ground beneath the drake.

Rocks scattered in the air, as the drake fell with a heavy boom, the pressure emitted lifted the people on the ground of their feet and the ensuing roar that left the drakes mouth sent them flying back in all directions.

Lirian had barely had the chance to breath he held on to the sword firmly lodged in the drakes back to keep himself steady from the sudden roar.

As blood poured from his ears, Lirian realised that the only thing he could hear was a fuzzy ringing sound.

"Well that's two of my sense's gone," he muttered but he knew that this was just the first part, he didn't destroy the cores yet and he had to get the job done while the drake was still down.

He placed his hands against the drakes and began tracking the energy flows, the energy in the entire creature was flowing towards toward the severe wound.

"Found them!" he shouted after a second had passed and he ran to Mordred and began to pull him towards one of the wings, it was pointless to speak to him, they both got hit by that sound wave, and they couldn't afford to let go of their hand holds to block their ears.

As they made a mad dash a bald eagle came hurtling at them, it saw the sacred guardian take that unbelievable blow and knew that it had to do everything in its power to stop the attackers as the last remaining flying creature it was the only one with the ability to stop the abominations.

Lirian could barely hear anything so he remained clueless as it came down on him from behind.

Lirian felt himself fly forward as the eagle struck him, and he fell into an uncontrollable tumble down the side of the drake.

Mordred reached into his bag, and pulled out one of the grappling hooks, "Sorry about this, it's going to hurt," he muttered a soft apology to Lirian, and threw the grapple perfectly.

The grapple soared and wrapped around Lirians leg, Lirian felt his skin suddenly getting torn then he felt the claw of the grapple dig into his flesh, he grunted from the sudden sensation as his red/gold blood poured onto the drake.

Mordred slammed one of his climbing axes into the drake to use as an anchor in anticipation of the grapple pulling forward, but he was surprised by how light Lirian really was, he barely had to put any effort into stopping Lirians fall.

When he saw Lirian regain his footing, Mordred turned his attention to the eagle, it was going in for another swoop, he gritted his teeth and threw one of his climbing axes at the eagle with all his strength.

Just as it was about to strike a clueless Lirian once more the axe took of its head and went flying over the waterfall down to the world below.

Mordred saw Lirian point at him and then he pointed to the useless tiny wing of the drake, it truly served no purpose for such a heavy creature.

He watched as Lirian sprinted towards the wing, with the meat on his leg hanging in an ugly manner and blood dripping around it, but he ran as if it was no injury at all, without even the slightest limp.

When they reached the wing, Lirian began to strike the rocks with his climbing axes, breaking pieces of rock and shattering it, Mordred instantly realised that the core was underneath and grabbed his remaining axe and bust the rocks with all his strength.

As they broke the rock, Mordred could see the rocks slowly stitching itself back together, 'If not for its huge injury I doubt we'd be able to break the rock faster than it restores itself,' he realised.

They quickly found the first core, blackish brown earth elemental energy rotated around it, Lirian frowned as he felt the energy in the orb.

Lirian started to tap his watch and speak into it, Mordred tried to listen to what he was saying, but his ears were still ringing.

A second later he saw a message show up on Lirians watch.

'The energy is contaminated, record this for a few minutes while I go to the other orb.'

'Contaminated, what does that even mean," Mordred wondered but did as he was told, he watched Lirian reach into the bag on his back and pull out the second grapple hook.

Lirian wrapped the grapple around the wing jumped of the drake, as he swung around he came up to the stomach of the creature, he could still feel the flow of energy running from this side, he charged the grapple with silver energy and swung it with his full strength as he swung on the rope, it blasted out a huge chunk of rock.

Lirian used a leg to hold himself in place and broke through the layers of rock until the core was revealed.

He laughed softly and released a small charge of energy, he didn't aim it at the core but rather at the ground, hopefully Mordred would see the signal.

The drake suddenly began to rise up shakily, Lirian hoped that Mordred got the signal, because he instantly struck the core.

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Hinata climbed to her feet weakly, she had been blown away by that monstrous roar, the last thing she remembered was rumbling thunder and lightning, lighting up the sky like a beacon.

Then the drake collapsed, and she was sent flying into a tree trunk, she looked up and saw the creature getting up on unsteady feet when suddenly it stopped.

It started to tilt to the side over the waterfall and her eyes shone brightly when she saw Lirian all bloodied and hanging from the drake, 'The blind fool probably doesn't even know that he's about to fall,' she laughed inwardly with glee.

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Mordred's eyes opened wide as he saw the direction the drake was falling in, he turned around and ran over the rough surface of the drakes back, as it was about to tip over he jumped, he rolled across the ground and turned to look back with a worried expression.

He saw Lirian dangling from the rope as the drake continued to fall.

At the last second Lirian swung himself forward and released his grip on the rope.

The seconds that he spent in air felt like an eternity to everyone watching, and even the beasts completely stilled as they saw the guardian of the forest falling over the edge of the ledge.

The very same ledge that Lirian just barely landed on with a wide grin on his face.

The entire field stilled a they saw him grinning widely with his chest raising up and down in a mad rush, then he suddenly made a mad dash in the opposite direction of the ledge, he ignored every person and beast and just kept running, when he suddenly stopped.

"Are you people stupid!" Lirian roared at the top his lungs, "RUN!" he shouted and continued to dash in the opposite direction as if his life depended on it.

Then they heard it, a deafening crash from below, from a creature that weighed so many tons they didn't even want to think about it.

It was like a meteor crashed into the earth and tremors started to rush through the earth shaking and cracking everything.

The students broke into a mad dash following behind Lirian, for the first time they truly got to experience what it meant to run for their lives, as the earth split beneath their feet and the ledge began to crumble falling outwards.

Many of the beasts were too slow to react and were buried alive in the land slide.

It felt like an eternity had passed before the rumbling stopped and the earth stopped caving in.