Chapter 88 - A Saviour? (1)

"I thought I sensed something interesting from this boy since his smell isn't quite human. At first, I thought he was some sort of beast, but now that I'm closer I can tell he isn't quite a beast either. Anyways, it seems whatever he is, he's disappointing." thought the fire Ryen as it stared at Arya struggling to dodge its flame attacks.

"I should probably end this and call in my report." thought the fire Ryen as it decided to stop playing around with Arya and just kill him.

*Hrrrrrrwrrrwrrr* Growled the Ryen as it stalked Arya, coming closer by the second.

"It seems to have grown tired of playing around with you. This might be your last chance Arya, give me control, I'll finish this in a second." whispered the dark figure, promising Arya unfathomable power at the cost of his body.

"No, last time I struggled for hours to reclaim my body. There's no telling if I'll be as lucky this time," replied Arya as he began twirling and flipping his dagger like a professional assassin. Arya was actually quite proficient in using the dagger, as he had been using it as his main weapon since he first got it. 

Since the dagger was actually a Ryen's tooth, it was sharp enough to cut through the strong fur of a Ryen. However, that was of course under the condition Arya could land a clean hit.

"Child of water, hee-" Arya tried chanting but the Ryen pounced on him. Its massive paws way bigger than his head trying to crush him under its weight. However Arya expected this, he knew that if he tried chanting the Ryen would attack him to stop it. 

He just barely dodged the left paw, the wind from the Ryen's powerful attack almost causing him to lose balance. Arya stood firm and stabbed the Ryen's left paw hoping to reduce its mobility. Sadly, the Ryen's thick paw was way more sturdy than Arya anticipated, and his blade got stuck inside it.

The Ryen seemed confused about what had just happened. "Did he anticipate my attack? No matter, it seems he's too weak to inflict any damage to me." thought the Ryen before it felt a sharp pain in its paw.

"How did it penetrate through my fur? Wait, is that a Ryen tooth?" wondered the Ryen as it inspected its injury.

Arya wasted no time and chanted an ice spell. "Child of water heed my call. Bring about a chill to freeze my foes." chanted Arya, causing the Ryen to jerk his head as it realized its mistake.

"How could I have been so stupid." thought the Ryen as ice crept into its injury, causing it to hurt even more.

The Ryen bellowed with rage as it felt the cold enter its wound. Its roar was so loud that it caused Arya to fall down in shock.

Arya had succeeded in reducing the Ryen's mobility to some extent, however, he had also managed to make the beast angry.

"I think you made it angry." said the dark figure, laughing at Arya's situation.

"F**ck," Arya knew that he was done for. The Ryen's eyes started glowing red as the surrounding temperature began rising rapidly.

"Did you hear that?" asked an ebony-colored girl to a boy in a blue hood.

"It's a Ryen. Let's go." said the blue hooded boy as he dropped from the tree he was on, as if in free fall, before chanting. "Child of water heed my call. Create a passage, free from toll." and a ramp made of ice appeared as he fell. Allowing him to slide down the rest of the way without sustaining any damage.

The ebony girl glided through the air above the blue hooded boy, using air magic to maintain flight as she descended slowly.

The other three in the group moved in between the trees at an astounding speed, jumping from tree to tree as if they were ninjas.

Arya was sweating profusely as blood dripped down his face and arm. He had managed to just barely survive this long due to his abnormal speed for his age, and the instincts he had honed. But now he was at his limit. He began rethinking the dark figure's proposition.

"Come on Arya. I promise to get your revenge once I am done with what I have to do." whispered the dark figure, taunting Arya into accepting the deal.

"All you have to do is accept my power." said the dark figure as Arya could feel a dark energy building up inside him.

The Ryen seemed to sense it as well and became a bit agitated.

"What is he trying to do?" wondered the Ryen, as it realized it had to end this early before the boy could pull something funny.

"I acce-" Arya was about to say before he heard someone chanting.

"Child of water heed my call. Bring about a chill to freeze my foes." chanted the blue hooded figure, causing the ground in a 10m radius to be turned to ice.

The Ryen turned to look at where the spell had come from and saw a group of kids, about 5 of them, all wearing blue robes.

The Ryen simply increased his body heat using fire magic to melt the ice that would further reduce his mobility and ran towards the tree the group was standing on.

"Sheela, Trent, Abby go get them." said the blue hooded figure, and three of the people in the group disappeared from the tree. The only ones left were the blue hooded figure and the ebony-colored girl.

"Earth, the one true mother. Punish my enemies, crush them and smother." chanted the blue hooded figure, causing a wall of earth to rise below the Ryen's foot, and due to the injury it already had it tripped and staggered.

In that time, the three figures who had left the tree appeared around Arya. One of them removed their hood, showing themself to be a yellow-haired boy who began chanting, "Child of light heed my call, heal my allies, let them stand tall.." and a light surrounded Arya's body healing him.