46 Chapter 46 - Firestorm (1/2)
Kenji scuttled as close as he could as a rat, but the heat was so extreme his whiskers burned and his little rat lungs crispened. Dying in the next moment, Kenji fell back into his Arthur's form and leapt forward.
”You, die!” Dr Pyro roared as he send a stream of flame at Kenji. Dodging aside, Kenji only had half his body charred before the Far King's spell finally activated.
A shimmering filled the air, the fires died and even Dr Pyro's fire beard shortened into a little electric blue goatee.
Shifting to become the Corrupt Spirit Tree, Kenji sent vines and roots to ensnare Dr Pyro and hold him tight. Whistling arrows filled the air, blocked by a sudden shield of fire. In a flash of red light flame consumed Kenji's tendrils, Dr Pryo cackling as he reappeared.
”Pathetic wretches, you think you can fight me here? Amidst this inferno? I am a god of purification!” Producing a flaming sword to match his shield, Dr Pyro soon left Kenji's tree form as clumps of burning timber.
Arrows continued to be loosed, some few landing between plates of armour and immediately weakening the intensity of Dr Pyro's power. Each enchanted arrow was one step closer to victory, but Kenji was almost out of forms already.
Luckily he wasn't alone.
The crystal knight charged, silver light increasing its movement speed. As it passed Kenji became the necromancer and set the knight's lance on holy fire.
The knight thrust his lance crashing through Dr Pyro's flame shield to pierce the plate at his chest. Despite having fire for a beard, Dr Pyro screamed as if the holy fire was really burning him.
”Now!”Kenji coughed, smoke choking his lungs while another two enchanted arrows hit their mark. Violet atop Tenko dodged the balls of flame Dr Pyro threw as he roared with rage. Atop Tenko's back, Violet cast great walls of crystal to encase Dr Pryo.
Shw entombed him with crystal in moments, blocking his fires from consuming oxygen and snuffing out his fire weaponry. Violet fainted from the intense magical cost of the spell, Tenko soon whisking her away.
”His contained! Without oxygen his powers shouldn't work!” Kenji just hoped 'magic' couldn't make fire work without any oxygen at all, his party unready to deal with such an eventuality.
At this point a huge mountain Troll wearing a custom made crusaders Cape charged onto the scene.
”Dana?” the Troll roared confused, ”quickly, capture them!”
Picking up a baulder the troll threw with impressive speed, Tenko yelping as she was hit right in the shoulder. Limping away, she could now only pull Violet's limp body to safety.
”Stop...Trog? Retreat, get out of here!” Kenji yelled, not having the time to properly dive into Dana's memories.
”You need too-AH!” flaming crystal exploded across the land, the resulting shockwave sweeping Kenji off his feet. From the debris arose a chuckling figure, Dr Pyro snapping off the enchanted arrows from his armour. Each snap enlarged his beard, and brought greater heat to the surrounding air.
”Sha, kill the archers,” Dr Pryo whispered. ”Cleanse the unclean from the path of my inferno.”
His firesnake unwrapped from his body to sliver through the air like a fish through water. Like an arrow it fired into the treeline, soon followed by a Faun's scream.