The Storm has Passed

Balthazar returned to Mt. Brimlet through the teleportation crystal with another set of equipments and weapons he had with him. However when he got there, it was something he had not expected.

The inn was blown up and debris were scattered all over the place. There are still flames left on the scene that slowly burn the remaining debris made of wood into ashes.

He could sense a rising anger within him when he saw some melted shards of ice on the ground but there was no one around. He knew those ice shards belong to Maku.

Balthazar flipped over a few debris and dreck, hoping to find the body of his son, but it was nowhere to be found. He nearly lost all hope when suddenly, he caught a vision of a huge tornado that starts to form from the direction of the spring.

He gathers all of his courage and hurriedly sprint towards the direction of the tornado.

At the spring, Faye was disturbed in the middle of her bath when Epsilon and Zeta's arrival surprised her.

"Look who it is." Zeta uttered. "We've meet again, princess." She smirked.

"What are you doing here?" Faye said as she stands out of the water and tries to cover her naked body.

"It's simple. We're here to finish our unfinished little duel." Zeta replied. "Sister, care to let me handle this one? There are may be more fishes up headed for you to catch." Zeta said towards her sister, Epsilon.

"As you wish, my dear little sister." Epsilon said. She gently walks toward the spring as her body slowly liquifies and latter submerged herself that made her indistinguishable from the water. She silently swim the shallow path that leads to the open river where Jeruzen and the others are.

"Now, where were we?" Zeta uttered. "Oh, I just remembered." She said and quickly launch an attack towards Faye. Faye was thrown backwards unprepared and was still naked.

"Oops! Sorry, my bad." Zeta giggled. "Was I too harsh, princess?"

"Everything about you pissed me that makes me want to kill you, right here, right now." Faye whispered.

"Oh, what was that?"

"Pixie Dress!" A purely glimmering pixie dust appeared around Faye's body. It swirls and twirls around her from head to toe. It formed into a two-piece bikini that covered her exposed breast and private part.

"Oh, sparkly. Let's see if we could blow up that out of the way."

"Not if I will blow you up first."

"Shall we?"

"Let's end this!"

The two charged each other with their wind power. The collision of both their magic almost blown up the surrounding trees in the area. Leaves were forcibly drifted as two giant tornadoes formed on different sides."

"What is that?" Zhia exclaimed upon seeing the extravagant body of winds beyond the trees.

"It's Faye probably, up for another show." Jeruzen said.

They were so focused on the raging vortex of winds from a distance when Chaneri suddenly screamed. Something pulled her from the water and a whirlpool starts to form. Fortunately, Zhia was able to scoop her out of the water using her scythe before Chaneri was completely pulled and sucked into the whirlpool. Jeruzen hurriedly throw his daggers at the seemingly odd body of water. The daggers latter emit high voltage electricity through his command that baffled the water's movement.

A liquified body of a woman made of completely water emerged from the river.

"Greetings, Midnight Justice!" It was Epsilon who made a surprising entrance from beneath the rushing waters.

Meanwhile back at the spring, the battle between Faye and Zeta continues. As the two continue to exchange attacks toward each other, Balthazar arrived at the scene carrying a backpack loaded with gears and weapons.

"Oh, another pawn for me to play." Zeta giggled.

"Balthazar?" Faye uttered upon seeing him walking towards her.

"Where are the others?" He asked.

"Jeruzen, Zhia and Chaneri was at the river. That bitch's sister, Epsilon was on her way there. Isidore went out to see his dragon friend while Marjorie and Dave was on the northern forest of the mountain."

"How about Maku and Mizuki?"

"Are they not at the inn?"

"The inn was completely destroyed. There's no one there." Balthazar was trying to calm himself from the rising anger.

"Oh, did you mean that cute icy guy?" Zeta said from the background.

"Where is my son?!" Balthazar yelled.

"He's probably dead by now as his body disintegrates in the flames." She chuckled. "Don't blame me, Bellatrix did all the work." She added. "Why? Up for revenge? No worries, I can take two at the same time." She smirked. "Now, come at me!"

"Let's do this!" Faye said to Balthazar.

"I'm just right behind you!" Balthazar replied.

"Wind Blade: Scatter!" Faye unleashes multiple wind blades that scatters around as it reached Zeta.

"I won't fall on the same trick twice." Zeta dodged the blades of wind.

"Wind of Salvation!" Zeta throws a combination of attack and wind speed. The wind slashes with tremendous speed towards Faye and Balthazar.

"Monsoon!" Faye counters the dangerous attack by surrounding theirselves in a magical storm, throwing Zeta's attack back.

"Camouflage!" Balthazar also take into action.

'He disappeared?' Zeta gasped.

Balthazar sneaked towards Zeta and land a blow right in front of her face. The mage grunt in pain. Balthazar continuously hit her multiple times with his invisible moves.

"That's for my son! And this is for Mizuki!" Balthazar continuously hit her multiple times with his invisible moves.

"Prevailing Winds!" Zeta hurled strong wind power that moves in all direction pushing Balthazar tumbling away from her. This obliterate Balthazar's invisibility. The strong wind also pushed Faye away, luckily she was smart to be able to withstand it by drifting with the flow of the wind to smoothen the friction.

"Jet Streams!" Without giving Balthazar and Faye a time to react, Zeta launched bullets of wind streams that travel several miles. The two shouted in pain as the bullets hit their skins and made several bruises.

"Too much? That's just a scratch." Zeta giggled. This attitude of hers pisses Faye even more.

"I leave everything to you, Faye." Balthazar stuttered as he picks up the backpack and runs away from battle.

"Too scared, old man?" Zeta giggled again. "Where do you think you're going?" She cast waves of wind towards him. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to catch him as he concealed himself immediately with his invisibility. "Well, that's no big deal. And now, it's only you princess." She giggled maniacally.

Faye shouted in pain as Zeta continues to hit her with multiple wave of winds that casually add more bruises to her partially naked body.

"Let's end this now." She gave her a wicked stare.

As she was about to cast another spell, something whipped her from behind.

"What was that?" She looked behind. Suddenly, she was snared into something that prevents her from doing any action.

"You don't think I would leave my comrade in battle that so easy, huh?" Balthazar showed himself. "I am not that lame, wind lady." A whip soon showed up in Balthazar's hand. On the other end, it caught Zeta tying both her arms to her body. "I can make objects invisible too." He smirked.

"Why, you!" Zeta exclaimed trying to get out of the whip's grasped. "Release me at once or you'll experience a breezy death."

"Not this time, young lady." He gave her an uncanny smile. "Faye! Now!" He shouted.

"Howling Gale!" Faye creates a small storm on her will. By creating a localize change in pressure and temperature, the storm grows in size with time.

"Hey, that's my magic!" Zeta shouted trying to get herself out of Balthazar's grasped.

"You're not the only one in this world who uses wind magic, Zeta. Well, I would like to thank you for showing me great wind spells during our first fight. Now that you are about to vanish from this world, I will be glad to keep your magic alive."

"No! You thief!"

"Immature ones imitate, mature ones steal. However, I do not deface what I take, I make it into something better." She boldly said.

Faye releases the tempest she had created. She watched as the hellish vortex of winds she generates erodes and devours Zeta from her very existence. Her scream echoes as the vortex tears her body to shreds.

After a few moment, the wind has calmed down and their battle is over.

"Now, that's something. Great job!" Balthazar complimented her. "Why are you even on that outfit anyway?" He asked as he noticed Faye's naked body covered with pixie dust to hide her private body parts.

"The bitch disturbed me in the middle of my bath, there's no time to put on my clothes and just focused myself on the battle." She said. "Where did you get that stuff anyway? It helps a lot." She said pointing towards the whip Balthazar was holding.

"From the revolutionary army, I was going to fetch all you. Rigel has returned and Sarriento is planning to launch an attack now. They probably have started it right now. I'll send you over there first and help them." Suddenly, his expression changed. "Maybe we will fight incomplete today."

"I'm sorry for your loss." Faye accompanies his loneliness. "Maku was such a great guy."

"Not just him, Mizuki as well."

"They're both great. I may be hard on Mizuki sometimes but he didn't even raised a voice on me once." Faye said.

Balthazar gathered up all his courage and said, "There's no time to mourn, we have a war to attend."

He opens the portal for Faye to cross to Nethilor.

"You should fetch Isidore first, he can help you to send the others faster." Faye said before she disappears inside the portal.

With no more time wasted, Balthazar immediate rushed to the east side of Mt. Brimlet where Isidore was.