Descendants of the Emperors

Enoki Pt. 1

Warning: Violence 

I wasn't really ready to leave the magical place but my true mom would definitely be worried about. I hugged this Shrub one last time then walked to the Grimlands. It wasn't that far and it was fun to see that they, instead of having a communal sugarcane path, they had a wheat field.

"Ares," I screamed.

"Enoki? Are we leaving?" Ares called out.

"Yeah," I responded. Ares walked out of a building and joined me.

"Bye Count FWhip," Ares yelled.

"Until next time, son," Count FWhip said. We flew down to the hidden area and I saw more than five people there. Along with the original five, Cacti, Ruby, Gil, Cherry, and Tiger were there. But it wasn't the original five. It was only Meza, Coral, and Dawn. Dawn looked rough.

"Where's Wilder and Crystal?" I asked upon landing.

"You know how Lauren was talking about how Xornoth ruled Rivendell?" I nodded and Dawn continued, "Evil Scott kidnapped them." I immediately collapsed on the ground with tears coming out of my eyes. 

"It's okay," I felt a hand on my shoulder and looked up at Tiger. His eyes were beautiful. I slowly stood up and brushed away my tears. I pulled out some paper to write a letter.

Dear Crystal and Wilder, When you read this we will be gone. From Enoki.

It was all I could get out. I threw the note in the air and a knife along with it so it was stabbed on a nearby tree. I sighed and stepped towards the only lit portal. Tiger joined me. Our hands together.

"I would wait if you wanted your friends to live," A voice from up above that had to be evil Scott. It was. Scott descended from above like an angel. An angel of death. In his hands were Crystal and Wilder. Crystal was trying to break free while Wilder looked to have accepted his fate. His fate was different from death.

"Let them go," screamed Ruby.

"Why should I?" Scott asked, "No one's here to save you now. I think you'll like death. It's peaceful, in a way. No worries about the world around you."

"But life is what we want," Cacti yelled.

"I guess you don't have the same goals as I do." Scott whipped up a hailstorm. Hail splashed against my cheek. Cacti sent a wall of dirt to protect us from behind and the sides. Gil and Meza pulled out swords to deflect the hail. Scott conjured up two large ice giants with hammers. One giant smashed down Cacti's wall.

Dawn and Cherry stood together and lashed plants at one giant. The moved in synchronized steps. Ruby made a magenta shield around us that the other giant tried to break. Ares hit it with withering effects. I was still with Tiger on the rim so I joined the fight shooting arrows of slowness and weakness, as well as normal ones. Tiger threw splash potions of harming at the giants, careful not to get it on his friends.

Crystal took this moment to conjure and icicle and stab Scott in the abdomen. He dropped both of them and flung his hands to the wound. Crystal landed in a crouched position while Wilder didn't try to adjust his landing. Scott landed like an angel and frosted the grass to death.

Crystal pulled out her sword and attacked Scott, icicle vs. sword. I walked over to Wilder who wasn't moving.

"Wilder?" I asked with fear. I dropped down and check his pulse, only feeling a faint thump.

"You help him, I'll handle them," Tiger said.

"Cherry!" I screamed. Cherry ran over to me and checked Wilder's pulse, just like I had. She had the same worried look.

"Help me. Shield," Cherry commanded as Ruby put a shield around them and continued.

"Restrain him." Dawn waved some plants around his limbs to prevent moving.

"Ares," she called out, "I need you to place your hands one over the other and press down until his chest goes down. And repeat." Ares did what he was told and pressed. I could see his strength fading.

I looked out and saw a glass dome around Crystal, Scott, and who I thought to be Cacti. Coral, Meza, Gil and Tiger were fighting the giants. I heard a faint gasp from Cherry and check Wilder's wrist for pulse because Cherry was at the neck. It was coming back at a steady rate. Wilder huffed to life and we all breathed a sigh of relief.

Now to the more pressing matter at hands. Cacti had been cast out of the dome. Crystal had a beam of ice against Scott's beam. Crystal's was winning but Scott then added his second hand and she was easily overwhelmed my his power. Ruby let down her shield for Crystal, Cacti, Coral, Gil, Meza and Tiger but Scott took it as a moment of opportunity. 

He grabbed Cherry and threw himself and Cherry into the portal. Dawn jumped in after them to save her friend. The only active portal was busted and we still had two ice giants to deal with.

"I have an idea," Coral said. She put some lava on the ground and flew upwards. Coral lured the giants into the fire where they melted. It was so anticlimactic.

Ruby and Meza got to work on building two new portals for them. Once they were done Ruby gathered us around.

"Wymiary," she said. The first portal was activated. Crystal jumped in without hesitation with Cacti close behind. I followed after them. Once I was inside the passage I looked behind to see who would follow. To my surprise it was Ruby and someone that looked like Gil.

"Enoki!" Ruby screamed. I then noticed that she bound with some sort of thin string. A fishing rod. Gil hit her in the back of the head but I noticed it wasn't truly Gil. It was Jimmy. I was flung out of the portal and into the desert.

Ruby and Jimmy plopped out and Jimmy flew away quickly. I helped untie Ruby from the fishing rod. Crystal and Cacti stood around.

"Pixandria. It's gone." Cacti said with horror. Then I noticed. Pixandria wasn't a desert of warm sand. It was a desert of ice. Pixandria was frozen. And it was all my fault.

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Author's note: Word count is 1025. I hit over a thousand on one chapter. This went on for longer than I thought it would. Thanks for reading.