Recently
on Fires of the sky, the El Monte students returned to Earth only to find it
still frozen. As they return to Arkon’s Magic, the six main students, Matt,
Yessenia, Jaime, Alex, Venus, and Winny all enter a bridge that leads them to
the Elemental Challenges! Without further delay, they were forced to attend as
the six members for the challenges, but are they ready? After finishing the
first match, the El Monte students find that they have humiliatingly lost
against all the other four schools. Even worse, one of the members of El Monte
seemed to have mysteriously run away with Benny, a member from Rosemead. Even
after the second match, El Monte placed last again! How are they going to win
now?
Episode 224 – Elemental Nullos, the Third Match and the
Star
“Why am I suddenly in this stupid
place?! Get me out of here, damn it!” Matt tried to punch the cell bars in
front of him with flames but nothing happened. He appeared to be in a prison
that blocked elemental users from being able to cast their magic. This place,
known to be the high government of Elemental Magic Discipline, is called the Elemental Nullos. It is a land
unattainable by any ordinary elemental user unless he or she has committed an
extreme crime towards the government of Elemental Magic.
Matt still shook the cell bars until
a random prisoner spoke up, “Quit with that crap already, yo!”
Matt clenched his teeth. “Ergh. I
can’t just sit around here doing nothing. The Elemental Challenges is still
going on and I have no idea what’s happening anymore!” He took a step back.
“Come on, Nix. Let’s break this thing open together!” He tried to summon his
pet bird but nothing would happen. “Oh right… I don’t have the power to summon
it.”
He started hearing footsteps from
the distance. While he waited, he saw the shadow appear in the only light that
was showing from a door at a faraway distance. Benny and Venus walked across of
Matt’s cell! There were four solders walking these two along the hallway.
“Hey, what the?! Venus!”
She turned to him in surprise.
“Uh-!”
“You’re…” He examined her clothes
and skin. “You’ve been hurt. What happened?”
She blushed. “S-Shut up. It’s none
if your business…” She turned away as she kept walking. Benny walked with her.
“What?! Hey come back! There’s so
much I need to ask you!”
“She’s done talking to you. Go back
to your corner.” Said a soldier.
Matt pouted. “Hmph.” He kicked the
cellar, hurting his own feet as a result. “Ouch, ouch! Ugh. Stupid thing.” He
said to himself as he actually crawled into his corner.
~~~
“So… Are we really forced to take
Matt out of the next match?” Jaime asked the group which included Yessenia,
Alex, and Winny.
“That boy is always so stubborn. I
wonder what happened to him? No matter where you were in the challenges, you
would automatically be put back into this room.” Alex said.
Yessenia sighed. “At any rate, we
are down to four members, as the same goes for everybody. We just have to wait
for the next riddle to come up.”
“I kind of wanted to ask you this
earlier, but what the hell are you wearing?” asked Jaime.
“Oh, you mean this fashionable
thingy? Eheh, someone awesome gave it to me!” Winny giggled with her giddy
personality.
“Uh…” Jaime slowly said.
“You might want to stop with that
hypocritical judgment especially if you’re going to keep that cowboy hat on!”
Winny said with her serious personality. She suddenly cuddled with her Changmin
ball. “Isn’t that right, Changmin?~”
The portal ahead of them flashed.
Alex quickly ran up ahead to check the riddle. “Each end of a star will have to
centralize as soon as possible and enter through brute force.”
“That’s straight-forward.” Jaime
commented.
“Each end of a star… Well, a star
has five ends.” Yessenia imagined. “And there are five schools. Basically, each
of our whole teams might have to start at one end and run towards the center of
the star.”
“Where would this star be?” Alex
tried to imagine it but nothing came up. “Um, would you say we would be ON a
star?”
Winny was spinning with her Changmin
ball behind the group of three El Monte students. Jaime continued to focus,
“Assuming that, we would have to reach the center and enter something with
brute force.”
“We might have to fight for the
entrance then.” Yessenia claimed. “It does seem like this riddle is a bit too
simple to understand… But still, we will just have to keep going and find out.”
She headed towards the portal.
“I-I’m ready for what’s up ahead
then!” Alex clenched his fists as he entered the portal, hoping that everything
going on with Sith is fine at this point. He also hoped Gina and Emmy are still
okay regardless of their rivalry. After Alex, Jaime and then Winny followed
along, lagging behind.
~~~
Yessenia was first to appear on her
platform. However, no one else seemed to show up behind her. She was alone. It
was just one long corridor and she knew right away what her group was
misinterpreting about the current match. “The riddle had the words ‘as soon as
possible’ in it. I hope the other three got the message.”
This match actually has four large
stars and one student from each school along with one student from their
respective team has to head towards the center of the star. What about the
second-half of the riddle? This was the strange part of the mystery.
Meanwhile, Jaime took his time
walking ahead while Winny continued to stay still, hugging her Changmin ball.
Alex simply ran up ahead as he was afraid of the creepy, narrow hallway.
~~~
In the Element Nullos prison, Emmy
and Shirley were put into the same prison while the others were in separate
rooms. Emmy shrugged. “Gee, it sure was generous of them to put us in the same
room. We’ll probably be loud.” She giggled.
Shirley screamed in fear. “Eek! Why are
we stuck in here? It’s so dirty! And why are you so calm?!”
Emmy yawned. “In Arroyo, we take on
a lot of dangerous missions.”
“Missions? For what?”
“That’s what we call the other
worlds. It appears depending on your school’s students’ influence with their
education. Meaning, whenever a lot of you focus on the same impact, a new world
may appear in your cellphone. We figured this out early in our freshman year so
we decided to focus together on lots of things to earn more worlds. We just
ended up calling these worlds ‘missions’.”
“Oh my gosh… You guys are dedicated.
How many missions did you go on exactly?”
“Oh you know, only like 27 or
something. Maybe more. Oh yeah! We went through probably like 30 more worlds in
sophomore year.”
Shirley froze. “(We only went
through five in freshman year and spent the whole sophomore year stuck in
Elsiya…)”
“Hey, you need to tell me how many
places you’ve been to!”
“Of course a lot too, like I don’t
know, six-… ty. SIXTY.” Said Shirley.
Emmy giggled. “Gosh! You must be
really powerful now, Shirley. We should spar sometime soon before the
challenges end! Although we can’t right now since we’re in a prison that
nullifies magic…”
Shirley giggled even louder.
“EHEHEH, yeah sure! (I’m not sure if I want to battle her at this point
anymore…)”
~~~
Alex ran up ahead towards the light,
being afraid that something would pop out of the dark behind or beside him. “I
hate this round. Where is everybody?!”
All of the sudden, a rapier sword
fell from above him. “Gya ha ha ha! Surprised, young man?”
“Eeek! Where did that come from?!”
Dracula jumped from a ledge above of
him. “I got this map taken care of. It’s basically a bunch of open spaces after
reaching towards the ceiling.”
“And how does that work?”
“Think of it as a bunch of steps and
staircases, but way up there. It’s really inconvenient for people like you
though, since you can’t fly like some of us can. Gya ha ha!” He began to fly
towards the ledge above himself with the help of his cape.
Alex noticed his long nose, purple
skin, and vampire-like outfit, “I assume you’re some kind of lame vampire?”
“LAME vampire?! Non’ non’! I am
Dracula, master of the professional vampires!”
“There are levels of vampires?”
“That’s not my point! Urgh, you
drive me nuts already! Take this!” He took out his Red Stone and then it began
flashing towards Alex.
Alex covered his eyes. “Ergh, what
is this? You’re in my way!”
Dracula began explaining, “I already
tried this before. It almost worked will on this damn girl with wind powers,
but you don’t look as strong. It will take all of your energy away. What’s even
worse, you’ll die right here!” He grabbed the rapier sword with his other hand.
Alex thought of the word ‘die’ again
and he remembered Sith. “Wait a minute, is it even legal to kill students
off?!”
“I’ll just weaken you down. If you
die, that’s on your hand if you’re not strong enough to survive!” Dracula threw
the rapier sword at Alex while the Red Stone was absorbing his energy. However,
Alex did not realize what this Red Stone was doing to him yet.
Alex jumped away and the red aura
was still following him. He ignored it since it did not hurt him, at least not
yet. He then created an Aqua Tornado but it could not expand due to the narrow
hallway that they were in. Furthermore, Alex had trouble trying to constantly
locate Dracula’s appearance since the room was dark.
Dracula appeared behind Alex by
surprised as he kicked him over. Upon falling, Dracula used his Bloodsuck
ability to speed the process of extracting energy from him. Alex suddenly fell
from a lack of energy. “Oh crap, what the heck just happened?!”
“You’ve been weakened by my abilities!
Gya ha ha ha!”
“Damn it… If only I had the chance
to just slice him into several piece and cook him and feed him to my dogs-…” He
suddenly came to a stop when he saw a speeding insect fly past his eyes and
across of Dracula. Dracula flinched and Sith appeared in front of him. “Huh?!
Hey, it’s you!” He was surprised. Another school student protected him!
“Oh? Aren’t you two from different
schools? What is this?” Dracula questioned.
Alex tried to get up, but he had no
energy. “How did you find us?”
“I could sense you from nearby.”
“You could smell me from far away?!”
Sith laughed. “Insects can’t
necessarily smell things. We can detect and segregate you by scent. And, for a
person to accept and know his meaning of life, is a real man.” He referred to Alex
who previously defined what it meant to live onward.
“So you’re protecting your enemies?
How lame. Non’, I will not allow this!” Dracula raised his Red Stone and he
aimed it at Sith. Sith jumped away and he tried to pierce through Dracula with
his knife-like arm. Sith increased his own speed and then he dashed towards the
Red Stone, shattering it into several pieces.
Dracula took a step back.
“W-W-What?! Ergh! That does it!” Dracula picked up his rapier sword and then he
pointed it towards Sith, “You’re going down!”
Alex’s energy was regained. He was
able to stand up, however Sith ordered him to keep going. “Thanks!” Alex
smiled. “But, let me help you!”
Sith interrupted him, “No. You go on
ahead! My purpose is not found yet, but I have to keep fighting those who try
to stop me and one day, I can find out what the real purpose is.” He sighed.
“My friends in Arroyo… Us knights do not know when to give up.” Alex remembered
that Arroyo’s mascot was the knights.
“Wait, if you’re from Arroyo, then
you know Emmy!”
“She mysteriously disappeared in the
last match, so she was forced to be taken out of our team. As for now, Irene,
Pochi, and Raven are the only ones remain. Now go, we have no time to talk!”
Sith was struck by the rapier sword but he only shed his skin away.
Alex was utterly surprised. He
realized that not only Emmy was taken out of the team, but Gina was as well.
Where do these students even go after they lose?
~~~
Going
back shortly from before the third match, each school had to decide which students
to exempt from the challenges. For some schools, it was a difficult decision,
but for others, not really…
~~~
Obrin was
kicked onto the floor, much like Porter. His small hat that had two holes fell
to the ground. Layla glared at him. “Again, another member has to be taken out
to fight for us eagles.” Assumingly, South El Monte’s mascot is the eagle.
“B-But why
me?! I didn’t do anything wrong, unlike Porter!”
Layla
looked away. “I’m sorry, but we have to do this. Kicking out the next weakest
link is our way of showing that we can defeat anybody who gets in our way.
Don’t take it personal or anything. Ha ha ha!” Obrin began to cry.
~~~
In Mountain
View, West raised his hand. “If you need a member out, I will do it. I have not
been a useful member, so I will take the blow.”
“Is that
okay, West?” Romeo asked kindly.
Kieth shook
his head. “If it is his noble decision, we will let him.”
“Yeah, just
hurry up and go then! Gya ha ha!” Dracula laughed obnoxiously. The last member,
however, said nothing.
~~~
With Matt, Emmy, and Benny going
missing, they were forced to stay out of the third match. The bigger problem is
questioning why Matt and Emmy are suddenly in jail without any explanation.
Benny is also in the Element Nullos, but for what reason? Only four students
from each school remain but they are highly unaware of this mysterious force
that is being handled in the challenges. The end, is near – for all of them.
~~~
-NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW-
Matt:
On the next episode of Fires of the Sky…
Winny:
I get to see my cute little Pochi!
Jaime: What
about your weird Changmin ball?
Winny:
He is not a ball! He is the definition of ‘love’!
Alex: A
ball?
Winny:
I wouldn’t be laughing for someone who is in danger even after being saved.
Yessenia: Look out! Layla is in your match and she plays dirty.
Alex: Augh! What a broken power!!
Van: We haven’t appeared after a while.
We get to reappear briefly!
Matt: But we’re still in jail!
Jaime: You know, this challenge is
surprisingly easy.
Matt:
I should be in it, damn it!! Next time on episode 225, Slim Banters, the Key to
Interfering!
Winny:
COME BACK HERE, POCHI!
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