Battle Below Zero (1)

Down in the canyon there was no sign of anyone having survived, Maro had escaped the incident because Nyara had thrown her away from the problem by flying over the place looking for everyone.

- Nya! Where are you! Nya! - said Maro, very worried, Axel, Zenon? Where are you? -She heard a groan and saw a hand coming out of the snow. Come on, Nyara, it's too early for you to die, remember your wish. - She goes to Nyara who comes out of the snow. -

- Easy Maro, I'm not dead, I'm frozen. - She comes out of the snow shivering and looks at the damage - I was lucky to make a barrier that protected us a little from the avalanche.

- Nya you are bleeding! - she says looking at her belly where the blood had run through her clothes and was dripping onto the ground.

- That's nothing, let's find the others. I'm going to heal myself. -

Slowly she and Maro search each one in the snow, thanks to the barrier no one had died, some were only lightly wounded. And Elisa and she use her power to heal everyone.

- My head hurts, my body hurts.

- You are not the only one in pain Arkini.

- Cobra, did you save me?

- I'm only healing you because mister Axel asked me to.

- Oh, come on. If they hadn't asked you, wouldn't you be healing me?

- Not really, I don't know how you still don't believe that. - She finishes the healing and gets up and groans in pain.

- You should take care of it. - Sarah says, looking at the blood on Nyara's clothes.

- We don't have time for this, we should get out of here. - Axel and the others approach Nyara and Sarah.

- What's wrong, Nyara?

- Before the avalanche caught us I felt a magical presence and before the avalanche I could see someone with a black cloak on top, I think it's from the Dark Clan but I don't think it's that woman.

- But damn, I thought we would have some time before attacking again.

I agree with Nyara, we should get out of here, we are too easy a target.

- What do you think about leaving Arkini so she can be a good bait for them, she is really hurt. - Says Nyara with a wicked smile to Sarah. -

- Come on, you're looking for a fight! You're the one who's hurt the most. -Sarah gets angry and shows her the middle finger-

- Quiet, both of you, did you hear that?

- Hear what, Zenon? - Nyara stops to listen too and hears a great howl from a thicket of wolves.

- They're wolves, but it's not normal to have wolves at this height of the mountain. - says Elisa with a worried look on her face.

- They're not normal, they're magic wolves.

- How do you know, Nyara?

- I can feel the magic.

- Then let's go, our animals have no serious wounds, we should get out of here as fast as possible, we'll only be safe away from this mountain. Let's go! - Axel gets up and helps Sarah.

- Thank you, Axel. - He says with a seductive look, but Axel hardly notices or just pretends not to notice.

They begin the journey, but the injuries and the intense cold turned this walk into torture, especially for Nyara, who with the wound in her stomach made walking difficult. Axel soon observed her grave situation and feared that the wound was much worse than it appeared. Elisa offered help to see the wound but Nyara refused. At night, the mountain temperature drops dramatically and those who didn't walk were covered by snow and leading to freezing to death, Axel knowing that if they continued they would die, decided to take shelter in a cave and get warm because a storm was coming.

They had to wait for the storm to pass. The next morning, they return to their journey, but Nyara stops and looks up.

- Damn it!

- What is it Nyara? - Zenon asks as he walks up to her and everyone stops as well.

- They've already found us," she looks up and sees several wolves in the hills, surrounding the group. Just then the ground begins to tremble and beings made of ice appear. There were a total of 20 wolves and three more Ice Golens. - And it seems they want us to die soon - she says laughing.

- This is not funny Nya we can die.

- Don't be negative Maro.

- Come on, people, the rest is over, we have some little wolves and Ice Golems to finish! Don't let them take our mounts!

- Said and done Axel! Let's get warm! - says Zenon, jumping off his mount and drawing his daggers.

The Golens and the wolves close in around the group, ready to attack. The group also prepares for defense. Nyara gets down from her griffin and prepares herself and when the wolves attack followed by the Golens she commands her griffin to fight. And from above the hooded individual looked on unnoticed.

- Let's see how this turns out, it's showtime! - says the guy smiling from above.

Down below Axel and Elisa went ahead and faced the Golens while Zenon and Nyara's griffin caught the wolves to give Sarah and Nyara time to conjure some strong spells.

- BALL... Arrr - She feels her stomach ache strongly-

- What's wrong Cobra? Have you unlearned how to do magic?

- Shut up Arkini! - A wolf goes towards her and is cutting her head off with the claws of its glove.

- Come to me Andira! JUPITER SPHERE! - Sarah summons the spider again and is creating electric spheres of light that hit the wolves and hurt them and she mocks Nyara and is getting angry - Do better snake!

- That's easy. - Nyara raises her hands and aims at where Sarah had thrown her magic. - BLADES OF FIRE! - She creates medium-sized flaming blades that cut through the wolves that had survived Sarah's attack. - See, I always do better.

- I hate you!

- The feeling is mutual. - She laughs-

- Sarah gives me cover. Let's finish with these wolves. - Asks Zenon who was standing next to her-

- Okay, LIGHTNING RAIN, Andira! - Several lightning bolts are conjured and fall on the wolves, paralyzing them.

- Not bad, dear. REPLICAS OF THE SHADOWS! - His shadow lengthens and creates four replicas identical to him. They set out to attack.

There with Axel and Elisa was going with a little difficulty being they are of ice simple attacks are no good, then Elisa throws a blessing on the two that increases speed, strength and defense. Then Axel runs and Elisa uses divine purification which causes damage to the Golens. Then Axel dodges the attack of one, jumps up and cuts off her head with his flaming blades, and wounds the second one in the chest. And he takes the opportunity to step back and see all his companions. Zenon and his retorts cut several wolves in half. Now there were only 10, and five of them were attacking Nyara, because of her blood. And he rushes towards her to help.

- This is not good, Nya. We're going to die!

- Be smart Maro, you like to be pessimistic. We're not going to die, and besides, you always doubt my strength. - A wolf advances and she slits its throat, the other wolves attack her. She punches one and kicks another. She jumps up and walks away and Axel stops beside her in surprise.

- Hi, Knight! - She was a little pale and he could see that her wound was bleeding, dirtying the pure snow.

- Hi, Miss Nyara, I think you should stop, your wound is bleeding.

- Not at all! - She draws her swords. - I invoke your power of the elements - The sword becomes enveloped in a current of air. WIND BLADES! - She shreds the wolves - As I told you before, it's okay, we have bigger problems than my wound - She smiles. - Maro, come out, we're alive! - Maro comes out of her coat.

- Whew, I thought I was going to fairy heaven before long - She sighs with relief.

- Yeah, but we still have a lot of problems.

Don't worry Elisa and Zenon can take care of these golens. - Says Axel confidently -

Zenon goes to Elisa and helps dodge the attack then he and his remaining replicas distract and attack the Golens while Elisa makes a prayer and sword and emits a white light then she runs and with a cut from top to bottom she slashes the beast and at this time Sarah Summons a fire Elemental in wolf form and attacks it.

-Rubi, TOWER OF FIRE! - The Fire Elemental stomps its paw on the ground and the two Golens are caught by a tower of fire rising from the ground, but this attack does not destroy them and Elisa delivers the final blow by cutting off their heads. Minutes later, the enemies were destroyed and the heroes a bit tired and wounded.

- "Now, they are stronger than I imagined, they survived without major wounds, that's not good. But it's time to end this merriment."

Says the guy upstairs who starts reciting a magic. Then the ground begins to shake and in front of the group a being made of ice begins to appear that takes the form of a snake. -

- What the hell is this? - Zenon asks, pulling Elisa away with him.

- This is nothing less than an ice snake, my friend. - says a voice coming from everywhere. -

- Who said that? Come out!

Calm down. I'm right here, insect! - Says the hooded being, appearing on top of the ice beast. As it removes the hood, it shows itself as a boy with dark brown hair and black eyes.

- Who are you?

- My name is Gran, I am surprised by you - He looks at everyone - Now I remember you four. You are that group that helped the city of Zillim, you disrupted my plans that I had in that city.

- Yes, we are, but what do you want with us now? Revenge? - says Axel pointing his sword at the enemy.

- Ah, this is a long story and I do not want to tell it, it's getting late and I have to finish with you. Finish them off! -

The snake hisses, and the hiss causes a great cold wind to blow towards the group. The guy gets off the snake and goes to a high vantage point to watch from the sidelines.

- It's mealtime, my beautiful pet.