(The New) Power of the 8 Elements: Part One

Chapter Forty Seven: Battle

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
PRESENT DAY
PHOENIX

I struggle to avoid the falling stage lights, but somehow I manage. I fly towards Celeste and Lucifer.

"Rhea?" Celeste's mom says.

"You know her?!" Celeste exclaims.

My eyes are only focused on the giant robot, wondering how on earth we are going to be able to defeat that.

"I didn't think she would actually do it..."

Finally a plan clicks in my brain.

"Guys, we can't just stand here and let her kill people," I say.

The rest of the team runs over at this point while people stand and watch in horror as the giant robot gets closer.

"Terry's right, but what do we do?" Glamour asks.

"Still have your weapons?"

Everyone takes out their own armaments (I learned that word from Skrael). Ava runs over and hands a few people a gun.

"Where'd you get this? this?" Amaya asks.

"Just try using it if you lose your weapons."

"Thanks," I say. I look at the team. "Terri and Ferdinand, get Nereid. Celeste and Lucifer, Thrax. Terri and I will get the Evil Angel. The rest of you, get everyone out of the way." I look up at the robot. "Alright, let's go kick some *ss!"

Everyone raises their glowing hands, and we all charge off into battle. Thrax throws his hand down, and the fire fox charges onto the field, setting fire onto everything in its path. I shoot blasts of ice at its tail, hoping to keep the fire from spreading too quickly. I then fly up into the sky, ready to face the Evil Angel. I spin my staff in the air and then shoot a blast of ice magic at the robot. One of the arms wraps around me and throws me on the ground. I pull out an arrow and shoot one at the eye. I can see a crack, but the machine is barely scathed. As I sprinkle my wings and pixie dust, I feel a searing pain on my neck. It slowly grows worse until I start screaming.

"It hurts, doesn't it?" Thrax says, standing over me. "Now you know how I felt when you shot me. And it's only going to get worse."

I shoot magic in his face, and he hits the ground. Thrax and I battle it out as I try to ignore the pain.

"Celeste, Lucifer, get the EvilAngel," I say to the two of them as they relentlessly try to battle two of Thrax's tendrils.

"What about you?" Celeste says, chopping one off only for it to grow back again.

"This one is mine."

The two travel to the Evil Angel while I throw a large blast of magic into the ground, freezing it. Thrax jumps and grabs a table, throwing it into me. I'm thrown to the ground. I stand up. This continuously surprises him.

"Why...won't...you...die...!" He says as I stand up one last time after being hit in the face several times.

I wipe the blue blood at my nose away. I create a large snowflake which hits him in the face. One of his tendrils scratches my arm. I freeze it, and all the other ones that come towards me. Thrax whistles, and the fire fox comes running towards me. I duck and barely dodge a bullet that Thrax shoots from his revolver, while he reloads, the fox jumps at me. The fox surrounds me in a circle of fire. I stamp my foot on the ground, and the fire turns to smoke. I conjure up a blast of water and throw it at Thrax. He flips his soaking wet hair out of his face. We walk towards each other.