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. After the challenge had finished, the final
match had made a wrong turn. West Covina had taken over and their leader,
Colonel Artemis, has trapped most of the students into the Eternal Nothingness.
With an urge to escape, the students struggle against West Covina and almost
every one of them have lost brutally. Will they be able to make a comeback?
Much more importantly, are they able to escape the Eternal Nothingness?
Episode 248 – El Monte Fights Back, Winny Versus
Pilfer!
The final march had already gone its
way into loss. Each El Monte student, in their own way, lost in their battles
against the West Covina students in the Eternal Nothingness. Shirley’s heart
had stopped after her loss against Flynn, a man who can deplete existence
through memories. Yessenia struggled to stop Alvin’s scythe magic which was
used at an advantage over Jon’s shadow. This disallowed him to cast his own
Dispel magic. Jaime and Winny remained intact, but Winny’s Changmin ball could
be otherwise. Matt and Dragon had joined paths to alert their respective
friends to stop the war, but not a single ally could be found.
Meanwhile,
Irene had surprisingly lost against her battle with Catt. However, Catt had
become guilty from her tactics in victory by using Emmy to her advantage. Alex,
Romeo, and Siyun all failed to stop Geddon’s Golem ability while Maggie and
Layla lost their will to battle due to Claire’s Link ability. All that is left
to wonder – is the assassination of Venus and the existence of Benny. As Sammy
had already predicted, she knows that El Monte may come to an end.
~~~
Winny watched as her Changmin ball
popped into several pieces due to Pilfer’s Spike ability. Even Jaime, who had
always judged her tennis ball, was surprised. Winny began to stutter. “W-Why…
did you…?”
Pilfer did not hesitate to make
another sudden attack following his destructive sunder towards the Changmin
ball. Jaime casted a shadow in front of Winny in order to deflect incoming
attacks. Pilfer stabbed through the shadow and even Jaime fell over from the
impact of the shadow. “Winny, run away!”
Without her Changmin ball, Winny
became slower due to her astonishment of her Changmin ball. Pilfer stabbed
through her hair. He then punched Winny on the stomach followed by an uppercut
to the chin. She flew upwards and Jaime summoned a Shadow Duplication in order
to catch her fall. Once Jaime’s shadow grabbed onto Winny, Pilfer kicked Jaime
on the chest as his shadow ability vanished for a second.
Pilfer then jumped away and he
created a thousand smaller needles in mid-air. Jaime gasped. “Winny! Look out!”
Each of the spikes did not
necessarily stab through Winny as Pilfer purposely wanted to laugh in her pain.
One after another, Winny tried to grasp for safety. After the 20th
needle, Jaime tried to replenish his energy as he casted a Shadow Ball at
Pilfer. Pilfer threw a wrecking ball, which consisted of sharp, silver points,
at the shadow ball. Pilfer laughed. “You think you can stop me? My spikes can break
through anything! Ha ha!” He quickly
ran towards Jaime while slicing through any attacks that Jaime tried to create.
Jaime watched as Pilfer was getting
too close. “It’s too late!” Jaime thought. He closed his eyes, ready to die in
that moment. Everything suddenly became quiet. Jaime slowly opened his eyes to
see that Pilfer was getting strangled by a dark aura.
Pilfer began coughing out blood.
“W-What is this?!?!” The Dark Aura forcefully threw Pilfer backwards onto the
ground. The dirt ground crackled into several pieces from Pilfer’s forceful
fall.
The Dark Aura vanished into Winny
with her hair covering her face. Jaime panicked. “The Ring?! No… She has short
hair!”
“First you destroy my beloved man,
and then you dare to attack a woman, and then you try to kill my friend?”
Jaime looked away. “Tch, I could
have saved myself.”
Pilfer disregarded Jaime’s comment.
“Where did you get that power?!” He said as his head was bleeding.
Winny said nothing. Jaime could
figure that it had come from her rage and her loss of Changmin. “Has he had
this power all along?” He asked himself. “It must be true. Besides Luther, her
ultimate weakness, she had not lost a battle up until this moment when she is
forced to fight back.”
Winny’s Dark Aura healed her pains
as she sped towards Pilfer. Her eyes were dark and it filled with anger and
tears. She punched him several times until he was no longer seen on ground
level. It looked as if she had several arms when she attacked him at a quick
pace. “The question is, why has she never used such power? Overpowered strength
doesn’t just come out of nowhere when you’re in danger, does it?” Jaime
wondered.
Pilfer quickly lost his will to
fight as he fainted (a bit too much actually). Winny’s aura vanished and then
she fell to the ground, also fainting due to her excess power. Jaime quickly
headed towards her to see if she was breathing. “This can’t be good. That power
was extremely high.” He checked if her heart was beating. “She might have gone
over her capacity just like Santi!”
~~~
Matt noticed a girl lying on the
ground. There was a familiar-looking man nearby who was digging a large hole
with his armed drill. “Hey Dragon, fly down there!” Dragon suddenly flew down
full-speed ahead and Nix had to hold onto Maggie who was still fainted from her
surprised fall. Matt had to glide after a while. “Damn it, not that fast!”
“I guess you can’t handle my speed.”
“What?” Matt asked stupidly.
Sith became alert. He turned around
and then he made a stance on all fours. “Who are you?”
“Hey, he looks familiar.” Matt said
casually.
Nix whispered to him, “I don’t think
you understand the situation here. He’s ready to attack you, Matt!”
“Oh yeah. Why? We’re harmless!”
“Express yourself!” Sith commanded.
Matt became insulted. “Hey, I am expressing myself. I have a
personality, you know!”
“That’s not what he meant!” Dragon
punched Matt in the head as he said to Sith, “We are just surprised to see
others here. I am Dragon, a member from-…”
Matt interrupted him, “He’s a friend
of mine. I’m Matt from El Monte.”
“El Monte?” Sith turned around as he
noticed Shirley’s pale skin. “Matt, you say. I suppose you know this girl?”
Sith stood up on two legs as he pointed behind him. “Her heart recently
stopped beating and her skin turned pale. She… must have passed away a while
ago.”
Matt’s eyes opened widely. “No way.”
He hastily headed over to Shirley. “This can’t be!”
Nix began to cry. “Shirley? Please
tell me you’re alive.”
Matt began shaking her. “Come on,
wake up! This can’t be happening!” He began to listen to her heartbeat. There
was none. “No…”
Dragon clenched his fists. “(Matt
recently just gained hope right after losing it… and now this has to happen?)”
Sith continued to dig a hole.
“Giving her a proper burial is the only way. Matt, I apologize that I could not
make it in time to save her.”
“What the hell is this?!” Matt said
in anger. “I’ve tried to save my friends, and they fall one by one like this!
How many times does this have to happen?! Erica, Mariel, Santi, Je-…”
“Wait.” Dragon said.
“What is it now?!” Matt yelled at
him.
“A scent started brewing.” Dragon
then pointed at Shirley. “The scent… of warm blood.”
Nix began sniffing the air. “Ooh…
you’re right. Even I can scent it now.”
“What are you talking about?” Matt
questioned.
“Listen again.” Dragon said to him.
Matt placed his ear onto Shirley’s
chest. Her heart was beating slowly, but faster. Shirley began to cough. Matt
crawled backwards. “H-Hey, she became a zombie!!!”
“No, you idiot!” Dragon punched him
again. “Tell me, what power does she have?”
“Ice? I guess.” Matt shrugged.
Shirley tried to open her eyes but she couldn’t. Matt became confused. “What’s
the point of asking?”
Dragon shook his head. “I figured
out what happened. One of my friends must have attacked her and she went out
cold.”
“She went out cold? What kind of
terrible pun was that?” Matt rolled his eyes.
“It wasn’t supposed to be a pun! The
point is, she must have altered her body ahead of time and she froze her
heart.”
Sith thought about the function of
her body carefully. “That would explain why she is so pale, but wouldn’t a lack
of blood cause problems throughout her whole body, especially to her brain?”
Nix agreed with him. “The tasty
bug-looking guy is right!”
“What did you say?!” Sith blushed in
anger.
Dragon added, “She must have frozen
the most important organs in her body, including her brain. Luckily with her
ice powers, she can shape-shift the texture of ice so that it doesn’t directly
damage the brain. Her heart must have warmed the ice faster when you came by,
Matt. Your friendship link must be strong if she was able to restore herself
this quickly.” Shirley’s eyes began to open and she was able to move her
fingers now. Slowly, she was regaining her body.
Matt was amazed. “Our friendship
link? It was that strong?”
“You don’t even know?!” Nix
exclaimed.
Shirley began speaking. “Matt? Nix?”
“We’re right here. I can’t believe
you’re alright!” Matt said happily. “I almost thought you were a goner.” Matt
began having tears run down his eyes.
Shirley smiled. “I’m… okay. I just
need a little more time to rest. How are the others?”
“I don’t know yet. We are searching
for everybody but it’s taking a very long time.”
Shirley looked away in shame. “I’m
sorry that I couldn’t beat that man… I feel so useless.”
“No, you’re not useless. You’ve
tried your best, I know that! You risked your life to fight against them.”
Sith gave a smirk. “Heh, for a
friend of Emmy’s, you are really smart for freezing your organs ahead of time.”
“What else could I do if I wasn’t
able to win?” Shirley smiled. “AIY! You’re the scary-looking guy from Arroyo!
You could be even scarier than that Flynn guy I fought.”
“Flynn? My friend did this to you?”
Dragon said.
Sith suddenly pointed his armed
sword at him. “What did you say?”
Matt made flames appear from his
fists as he pointed them at Sith. “Don’t hurt him, he didn’t do anything wrong!
He was just misinformed!”
The three students were in a
triangle effect. Nix was floating in mid-air, worrying about the oucome. “Y-You
guys…”
Shirley began coughing again. She
was able to sit up this time. “Everyone, please calm down.” She spoke to them,
“If that guy with the horns-…”
“Dragon.” Dragon said.
“Yeah whatever. If Dragon is here
and he is harmless, then all we can do now is trust each other even if we are
all rivals.”
Sith still had his sword pointed at
Dragon. “But if Dragon is not our enemy while his friends are out there
defeating all of us, then who are the
enemies?”
Dragon closed his eyes. “I admit my
friends are also misinformed. So as of right now, they are our enemies and
that’s why I want to find them! I want to tell them this was all a huge mistake
catered by Colonel Artemis.”
Shirley stood up. She patted her
clothes and then she took off her bow from her hair. Her hair curled downwards
to her shoulders and back. “At any rate, we need to find that Colonel Artemis
guy then. I want to know what the hell he wants! And of course, who he really
is.”
Matt agreed with her. “You’re right!
We have to continue onward and find everybody else.”
Nix cheered. “Yay! We’re going to
find more of our friends!”
Sith rolled his eyes. “Whatever
suits you, but I still do not trust this man.” He said to Dragon.
Dragon shrugged. “It’s alright, I
understand.” He said lastly before the group began to walk instead, now that
the group has enlarged.
~~~
Claire remained in the laboratory
where both Venus and Layla were out cold. Venus was still in the capsule in
front of Claire. “All bodily functions and systems are just about complete. A
new human is born.” She said as she looked at Venus who was in her white robe.
She then broke the spirit link between Layla and Venus before the awakening.
“The time is now!”
Layla opened her eyes slowly. She
pretended to stay dead. “(What is she doing? I remember back in the last match,
they wanted to kill Venus. Why are they reawakening her?)”
The capsule shattered into several
pieces and the bacterial water dispersed all over the floor. Layla quickly
stood up as she ran towards the exit nearby. “Damn it!” She tried to use her
hair magic by breaking through the floor but the bacteria from the water burned
her hair. Layla took a step back. “What the hell is this supposed to be?!”
“So you are alive.” Claire turned to her while Venus floated to the ground.
Claire then linked Layla with an inanimate object such as the machine nearby.
Layla suddenly fell back to sleep. “We don’t need any more bickering from the
enemies. With the help of Colonel Artemis… we will fight and take back our
liberty – the freedom from these powers that continue to haunt us.” She said to
Layla, “Your eternal sleep begins today. But… Venus’s rebirth has just begun.”
She giggled while watching Venus finally open her eyes again.
~~~
-NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW-
Matt:
On the next episode of Fires of the Sky…
Jaime:
Well… they don’t look dangerous at all.
Shirley:
A-Are you kidding me?! They’re both huge!
Jaime: The
amount of understanding sarcasm is lacking in this room.
Shirley:
What do you mean?
Nix:
Look out!
Matt:
Crap! Where did these people even come from?! Don’t tell me they’re from West
Covina.
Sith:
They are from West Covina.
Shirley:
He just said not to tell him, you ugly bug!
Nix:
Mm… I think he’s a tasty bug.
Sith:
G-Get away!
Matt:
Have you guys forgotten about that Catt girl? Next time on episode 249, Right
and Wrong, Colonel Artemis’s True Potential!
Sith:
ERAAAAGH!
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