forum Elementals Chapter 4: Celestial Tides (OPEN)

Started July 16, 2020 by Deleted user

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A sudden wave of darkness washed over the temple and throughout the forest beyond. Ignis could sense Kali's presence weaken. In a moment's time, Ignis used a huge amount of his magic to teleport everyone to a safe point beyond the temple. With a loud yell that echoed, Ignis appears on the ground with a huge slash across his chest. When the darkness cleared, only few remained…

"IGNIS!" she clawed desperately for him, feeling herself being pulled away from him, and him being pushed farther away.
No no no no
(Incase ignis's spell didn't reach her then this is what she did)
She voided, disapearing only to be confrontwd by darkness, she was glaring Kali down.
"Please! Please- just take me too him." She pleaded, feeling him move farther away.
"If you go with them, who will i punish in your stead? You didn't listen to me."
She could feel the tears gathering.
"No- don't punish them. Please, I'm sorry!"
She just shook her head, "Are you truly sorry?"
She was crying, "Yes- Yes i swear!"
"….Fine, but do not come back here."
She nodded, and she voided to where the group was.
(If ignis teleportation reaches her, then she's just passed out when this happened and she would wake up)

Ignis cries out in intense pain from the gash in his chest. The burning and stinging, as if the wound slowly grew deeper.

All at once, the slope that extended from the temple was awash in viscous shadow. Alister was suddenly blind and deaf; the colors and sounds of the forest seemed to have been snuffed out. He panicked, sinking to the ground mid-pushup and desperately reaching for Noel, but he couldn't feel her nearby.
Then when he thought he could hear an echoing cry, he could suddenly see again too. For a moment he was stunned, staring at the night sky when he felt a small body crash into him, squeezing his torso. It was his sister, eyes wide with fear and whimpering. Alister pulled her close, his gaze fixing on Ignis as he cried out.
"It was like he…" Noel whispered. "Like he shut us in the closet again…"
He felt tears stinging the corners of his eyes. "Shhh, shhh," he cooed, trying to soothe her. "Ignis? What happened?" Still clinging to Noel, he went over to him. He wanted to help him, but he didn't know how.

Still in immense pain, Ignis applies pressure to keep the blood from being released. "I-I don't…know" Black fire begins to burn in the wound, swirling like a tornado. "AGH, The shadow…something was there when my magic released….theres an evil within the realm of shadows."

Evan gasped, he felt his power return back overwhelming him as he clutched his head before it all went away as soon as It came back, he couldn't see anything all he saw was pitch darkness, before he could see again he saw his sister colllaspe in front of him and he rushed to catch her, turning to the others and running with Kali setting her down next to ignis.
"no no no No- he's hurt really bad.."
He bit down on his lip, he couldn't heal ignis. There was no way sound would be enough to mend the cells back together.
Or maybe there was…
He put his hands on the cut, "Ignis i don't know if you can hear me, but i need to stay awake and keep breathing okay? I know it hurts."
He pushed down on the wound after a count down of three seconds, sending intense sound waves and vibrations into the wound, hoping the sound would vibrate them and push them together so they could mend, he would lift up and then press down and repeating the process.
Please work..

Ignis cried louder, feeling the sound waves pulse into the wound. Struggling, the wound began to slowly heal. All the sudden Ignis grabs Evan's shirt, his eyes black with black liquid running like tears, and Evan is pushed back.

He stumbles back, at a loss for words at the black liquid like tears, he quickly moves striking his head directly at the wound and pulsing it with enough sound that it should help heal at least the top layer of skin over the wound before he would stumble back light headed from the amount of energy he pushed in.
Kali woke up with a gasp, turning to look at Ignis.
what's going on?…

Alister flinched away from the black flames, only more confused by Ignis’s words. There was a pang in his gut when Evan appeared with Kali, and he could only watch as Evan used sound waves to try and heal Ignis. Both siblings scrambled back at the sight of the black liquid streaming down Ignis’s face, and Alister moved up beside Evan to steady him while holding Noel’s hand. He tried to keep from hyperventilating.
“Is he… turning into demon?” The words were soft with terror on his lips. Noel clung to his arm.

Ignis jerks back, "agh no! It must- must be the dark energy fighting the pain. I can't- agh! Control it!" Ignis's wound seems smaller and still, but still shown. Ignis attempts to get up and begins to stumble towards the car.

Evan looked back thanking then for helping him, he had to shut that wound, at least that's what seemed like the right move at this point he didn't know what the right move was anymore.
Kali quickly scrambled to get up at the mention of demons, she paid no attention to three confused children and instead ran to help Ignis, she whispered to him.
"you didn't kill me last time, i know you won't do it this time."
She helped him to the car.

Ignis laughed silently, "Be careful. Spirits as old as fire and darkness can be very dangerous. I may not kill you, and never of my own will, but you can still be injured." Once they reached the car, Ignis pushed Kali softly away from him, "Help the others. I'm fine now." He grunts.

Evan was very confused about what to he heard Kali say, you didn't kill me last time so you won't this time
What did that even mean? Had he hurt her before?
He looked at Alister and Noel to see if they heard it.
Kali shook her head, "yeah well we will cross that bridge when we get to it, the others are fine, I'm helping you ignis, that cut may be close to be going gone but it ain't yet."

"Kali" Ignis wiped the thick black substance from his face, "it's dark infused tears. This wound is healing albeit slowly. Before those three think me a killer or a demon go and help them." Ignis opens the door and sits in pain. In a second he seemed truly terrified, just to be replaced with a weak smile. He waves Kali to the others "I'm fine Mom, go help them" His laugh faint.

She frowned, noticing the moment of fear and panic, she leaned forward and gave him a kiss on the cheek, bold move i know but she went for it.
She sighed moving to go talk to her brother and the other two,
"look, Ignis isn't going to hurt anyone and he's certainly not a demon ok? Is everyone alright here?"

Ignis froze. He didn't really know what to think when he felt the kiss. He moved his focus onto the wound, he knew it wasn't healing. It was smaller and the wound stopped bleeding, but somehow he couldn't help but react to the sound waves. He knew when it stopped helping but it wasn't him who reacted, something darker did. "Hifm wkav vkaw. Ignatius help me, help us all."

Alister was not in the headspace to process everything that was said. He at least registered that Ignis was not a demon, but he was still wary of him and questions trudged around in his brain.
He took a breath to calm himself. "I think we're alright," he said, though he glanced concernedly at Evan. "I'm exhausted." Noel nodded in agreement.

"Right well, i can drive the car if you guys want to rest while we drive. I don't think it's good to stay here longer then we have too."
Kali spoke, even though something about her voice was off but she was hidding well enough that it wasn't clear what the off thing was.
Evan frowned, "Kali, you look exhausted. Let me drive, You can stay with Ignis and i can have Alister with me in the front seat."
Kali frowned back at him, "Evan-"
"don't Evan me, I'm driving.'
He was honestly exhausted to the bare bones it felt like but he would be fine, he needed to do this.
"do you mind Accompanying me Alister?"
He hadn't asked before so he didn't know if Alister would say yes but there had to be someone in the front.
"fine." She walked back to car and got in it next to ignis, evan exhaled.
"did you guys hear what Kali said?…"

"No, not all," he said, managing a small smile. He could see Evan's exhaustion, but then again, everyone was tired, and he didn't think Evan would appreciate more concerns for him. Alister shuddered, then leaned on the other boy's shoulder for a few moments before straightening and raising his brow at his question.
Noel spoke up. "Y-you mean where she said Ignis didn't kill her last time? Yeah, that was weird. Sounds like he's lost control before."