Chapter 102 - Awakening

In the dark skies of Usuiah island, a fight was taking place between a black metallic horror that could bend its frame to its will. 

Shrieking against the night, the creature carelessly thrust its snaking arm to Brody while holding Amanda with the other. 

Wasting no time, Christopher flew nearing the coast, rushing past the monster and Brody. 

He found himself half a kilometer away, facing the sea. 

Abasi was uncertain what Christopher was planning, but he brought Taara to the island. As soon as Taara appeared, he said, "Christopher is planning something that requires your aid! Go to him!"

Raising both his hands to the sea, Christopher gave his full concentration. His imagination running wild, wielding the water. "Come on! I need you, Mahli! I need to save Amanda!"

The seas of the Antarctic were always rough, but following Christopher's calling, the water level seemingly rose. 

From behind Christopher, he could hear Amanda scream repeatedly! Deep down in his bones, he knew Amanda needed her. He had to be stronger for her. He recognized he had to fully awaken his powers. 

"Brody! Urrgghh!" Screamed Amanda. She could be heard coughing, in pain from the tight grip. 

Meanwhile, facing the waters, Christopher's hands were shaking as he ordered the water to follow his command. He felt the weight on his arms, but his heart was stronger. 

"Aaahhhhhhh!!!!" He screamed as loud as he could, as if it was meant to make Mahli hear his cry. His body glowed brighter in blue, nearly blinding as it stretched three meters wide. 

"Mahli! Be one with me!" He yelled.

Soon enough, waves of water began to climb up to the island, moving to the direction of Christopher. Slowly, it went past the master of the water, streaming to the direction of the monster. 

Christopher felt his awakening. The energy that was spreading across his body was not like before. He was confident. No, he knew he had his full strength. For days he had practiced with Trisha and Amanda, but that night, his determination soared the skies. He became one with Mahli. 

He was no longer surprised. His fear for Amanda's life awakened his full powers. He finally realized his strongest motivation. It was the love for his fated master. 

Turning in full strength, he gazed to the direction of the horror. 

The glowing master of water caught the attention of the rest of the masters, and while they were in awe for his immediate awakening, they quickly returned their attention to their enemy. 

"Christopher, what are you planning?" Taara asked while keeping afloat in the sky with the surrounding air. 

"Taara, we need to freeze this fucking monster! You and I, let's form ice together!" Told Christopher. "Ice can break metal!"

Taara nodded. She realized that it may work. Soaking the monster with water and as it expands at its freezing point, the meal can easily break. 

"I'm with you!" Taara told, immediately calling the air to build up. The island quickly whistled in the sound of its surrounding winds, the skies blurred with its rotating motion. 

Brody sprinted from one angle to another, throwing punches at the monster. At some point, his attack loosened its hold against Amanda, but it wasn't enough to let her go. 

While Brody struck, Abasi aided him, moving him in-between spaces as the monster often acted hastily, attempting to catch the master of the earth. 

Gradually, water reached the monster, and starting with its feet, Taara directed her winds forcibly against the water. In seconds, the creature's legs turned to ice, slowly thickening in each second that passed. 

The monster's feet were already grounded with Brody's earlier scheme, creating cemented rock against its soles. All the more at the feel of frozen ice climbing onto its legs. 

With Christopher and Taara working together, the ice scaled up to the horror's waist. 

The monster's screams further made the animals around the island flee. It's sharp screeching roars resonated against the peaks of the island. Fortunately, there were no settlers that far from the ends of the world. 

Already struggling for having its legs frozen, the terror finally let go of Amanda. She fell down, gliding against the icy grounds. 

Abasi had to speedily shift to her location and take her to safety. It was from elevated grounds that Amanda took back her breaths, panting and raising her chest dramatically. 

Simultaneously, Christopher and Taara resumed keeping the horror frozen, raising the ice up to its torso. Now that Amanda was free, the masters did not hold back. 

Taara especially increased her strength, quickly freezing every water that Christopher threw at the monster. In less than two minutes, the metallic creature fully iced up to its head and the extensions of its hands. Its sharp screams faded in an instance. 

Seeing the opportunity, Brody stood back. He formed a blade with his hand and promptly stuck against its torso, but to his dismay, his blade did not strike through the continued cooling ice that Taara and Christopher made. It merely bounced, icing against his sword. 

From afar, Amanda yelled, "Let me! Let me do it! I - I just need a few seconds to recover."

"Continue freezing the creature!" Ordered Abasi as he helped Amanda up. 

Amanda was still coughing, gasping, and calming herself. After a minute, she slowly let out her flames, creating her phoenix wings. She threw her hand back and came out of the golden sword. 

Angered by her earlier struggle, Amanda screamed, "Aaaahhhhh!"

With one strike to the terror's arm, it broke, cut clean with the shinning blade. 

"Uggghhh!" She thrust the golden sword against the terror's head and it flew yards away. 

"Haaahhhh! Yaahhhhhh!" Again and again, Amanda swung her Venusian weapon, unable to stop herself. 

Only after it had been practically sliced down to several pieces did Amanda stop. She panted as she said, "What - the fuck was that?!"

"Amanda!" Christopher put down his hands and approached Amanda. He embraced her right away, relieved that she was okay. 

Still panting, Amanda hugged him back and said, "I'm fine. I'm fine."

She pecked on Christopher's cheek and said, "You did it, Christoper. You will control your powers. Soon enough, you can make the water take shapes in different forms!"

"Yes, Christopher, you did good!" Echoed Abasi. The rest of the masters said the same, even Trisha did, despite being left back in the city of Liverpool. 

While Christopher was checking on Amada, Abasi went to study the pieces of the metallic monster.

Abasi has traveled to other worlds but never has he seen such a creature. Then again, there were so many possibilities. 

From inside the creature's frame was a green gemstone, a peridot. It was a kind of mineral that was found on earth but also found in meteorites. Abasi sighed and looked at Brody, "Check this Brody."

Brody later determined that while the crystal looked like the peridot on earth, it did not belong to their world. He said, "While this is in fact peridot. There is no indication that this gemstone is from the earth. As far as I know, only meteorites can contain the same mineral, but from which planet in our universe, that - Abasi, you'll have to find out."

Together, the masters who were on the island in the Antarctic looked at the dark skies above, seemingly watching passed the stars.

Somehow, they feared and worried about what else was coming.