Chapter 101 - Break Metal With Ice

While Diana was brewing a plan to steal the magic inside Christopher, the master of water and fire rested for the day, tired of their training and rehabilitation of Aeros. They slept in Amanda's room. 

In the middle of the night, Amanda had an unexpected calling. 

"Amanda, the city of Liverpool is being attacked. Brody is holding back the creature from attacking! Taara could barely make a move on the thing! We need you!" Called Trisha through her head. 

Amanda was immediately awakened, and so did Christopher. He also heard Trisha's call. 

"Take me with you?" Christopher asked. 

Amanda refused, "No, not now. You don't have full control of your powers - "

"I'm not staying behind not knowing what will happen to you!" He answered back before saying, "Take me too, Abasi! I have to learn one way or another! Besides, I could fly out from danger!"

"Change into your second skin. It's imperative," told Abasi. He had no time to argue with the two masters. He brought them to the city of Liverpool, which was under attack by an unknown force.

In seconds, Christopher and Amanda slowly faded out from inside the castle's stone walls and reappeared in mid-air, a hundred feet above the attacked city on earth. 

Amanda and Christopher found themselves falling in a speed of light. They both quickly thrust out their wings and remained in the skies. From the above, they observed what was happening below. 

Amanda was shocked by what she had witnessed. Never had a strange being attacked in a crowded city. 

She was looking at a tall yet slender figure of a flexible metallic monster that could stretch out its arms while trying to break free from Body's trap. The creature had very little facial characteristics. It had no ears, no nose, and no mouth, but it screamed the loudest. Its eyes were glowing in orange. 

It was standing fifteen feet tall in an intersection, in the middle of the city. Brody created a box wall of rocks, blocking the monster's path. The stones practically surrounded it. He stood meters away, elevating himself with the use of the land. 

Brody was trying to minimize the damage to the city, but the strangely flexible metallic creature was strong enough to punch through the stone walls.

Each time a huge fragment of rocks would fall off from its barrier, the master of the earth promptly polarized the rocks. He would then return to increasing the strength of the stone walls. 

So far, all Brody had done was to stop it from taking another step further. The metallic creature remained unscratched. 

"What - what is that thing?" Christopher asked. 

"We don't know! I have not seen anything like this from other worlds, but one thing is for sure, it's not thinking logically, just merely attacking, crashing down whatever is in front of it!" Revealed Abasi through their heads. 

Amanda looked around and saw Taara bewildered on how to help the master of the earth. Her winds were no match to the fortified horror. 

From a distance below, Abasi and Trisha were focusing on finding every beating heart in the city. When found, Abasi moved them to a different space, further from their current location. 

"Amanda, me and Trisha need to move the people away," said Abasi. "You, Taara, and Brody take care of that - that thing!"

Amanda did not reply. She first studied the situation, but after seeing that Brody could not fight at all, she said, "We need to move this creature to another location, Abasi! That's the only way! You keep moving the people, but the creature is formidable!"

Reality hit the masters, and Absi agreed, "Okay! Okay! You are the only one who can approach Amanda!" 

"Ready!" She responded. 

"Amanda?" Christopher asked with concern. 

"Stay back Chris... Watch and learn!" Ordered Amanda. 

While Abasi held the power of time and space, like all the maters there were limitations to their capabilities. 

Like most compelling and heavy-weight monsters, especially those that have no heart, Abasi could not make a connection with them. He could not move them in-between spaces, not unless one of the masters could make the connection by touching the being or holding it. 

This was commonly Amanda's task or Brody's.

In seconds, Abasi raised himself up to the sky, controlling gravity, and he willed the spirit within him to move Amanda. 

Amanda quickly disappeared from where she was staying afloat, only to appear behind the monster's back. 

She found herself inside the four-cornered stone walls that Brody created and faced the metallic creature's back. Just as she acted to touch the immense horror, it turned around and reached for her instead.

The creature's hands extended, including its fingers, creating a massive hand, half the size of her body. It prevented her from taking out her golden sword. 

It shocked Amanda to the core and her frame was captured in seconds!

While she was feeling the pressure of the creature's grip, she ordered Abasi, "Move this thing now!!!!"

From above, Christopher was worried sick, but it was not the time to act carelessly. He waited for Abasi to move the terror elsewhere. 

Slowly, the metallic being faded. It roared loudly, echoing a piercing sounds while moving its snaking limbs, seemingly panicking from seeing itself gradually vanishing. 

Amanda and the horror reappeared on the ends of the world, on an uninhabited island nearing Ushuaia. 

The monster landed on its back against the pebbled and rocky land while still maintaining its grip against Amanda, her arms tied together with the use of its flexible hands. 

Skuas, penguins, and other polar animals fled the island, noticing the disturbance in sight. 

"Urrggghhhh! Aaaaahhhhh!" Amanda groaned in pain. She let out her fire stronger than ever, hoping to burn the creature's hand, but to her surprise, the being was resistant to her flames. In fact, instead of hurting the creature, it seemed to be absorbing her heat. 

Amanda's fiery wings disappeared as she tried to free herself from the horror before her. She could feel her arms and body being slowly crushed by the metallic creature. 

She powered up to 80%. Her torch reached the skies up to fifty feet, yet the monster remained to hold her. 

Just as she was feeling fearful for her life, the other masters, Brody and Christopher, appeared together with Abasi.

"Amanda!" Christopher acted impulsively, blazing against the horror, but its other stretchable arm swung Christopher across, nearly landing him to the rocks. If it were not for his wings, that halted his landing, he would have hit his head altogether. 

Brody quickly attacked, first growing rocks against the horror's feet, preventing it from moving further. 

He stormed, turning himself into full titanium, attacking the creature with punches and kicks. His actions proved to have affected the monster, but its hold on Amanda persisted. 

"I - I need to get my hands free!!!! Brody!!!" Amanda screamed, feeling her energy, draining, and gasping for air.

Christopher's eyes further glowed in the color of his power, in anger at the sight of his beloved being held tightly and struggling to breathe. 

'Think Christopher! Think!' He told himself. He looked around and only found acres of sea and ice surrounding the island. He pondered for seconds until reality hit him. "Ice... Yes! Ice!"

He realized, he has to break metal with Ice!

"Abasi!" He called, flying up again to the sky. "Bring Taara here!"