113 And I love my aunt! (1/2)
The pile of smoke in the middle of the street continued to rise from the massive weight of a crystal hand suddenly being dropped on it with such ferocity.
Ellie was staring with horror at the scene afraid that she would spot her aunt's dead corpse in there somewhere.
Daren realized that the worst had happened and tried to stand up so he could block Ellie's view of something that could traumatize her forever.
But as he began to do so he ended up tripping on something that made him fall face-first on the street.
”What the...??”
He tried to find the cause of his fall and noticed some kind of rock coming out of the ground. It appeared to be some sort of diamond and he almost began to fill himself with hope imagining that maybe Evlin had regained her powers and had saved herself. But something about these diamonds were different. Evlin's diamonds had a beautiful green color, while these ones where drenched in another tone.
He raised his head and noticed that it wasn't just one diamond, it was several, an entire trail of shiny rocks emerging out of the ground looking like they came out of the building Ellie was standing on all the way towards the pile of smoke where Evlin had been squashed in.
The crystal monster then took a glimpse at what was in front of him and began to look just as confused as Daren.
”What in the world...?”
The smoke finally cleared out, and where there should be an Evlin buried beneath a massive fist was instead a group of diamonds surfacing around her as if trying to protect the woman and stabbing the huge fist that was trying to harm her.
Evlin herself looked just as confused as everyone else. She was surrounded by diamonds drenched in the color blue. She noticed the trail as well and followed it with her gaze until she found its source all the way on top of the building coming out of Ellie's hands that were touching the walls.
”Ellie...?”
Nobody knew how, but Ellie had somehow used earth and modeling magic to save her aunt by creating a barrier of blue diamonds to block the crystal monster's attack. What was more impressive was that she did all that without magic power or a staff.
”How did you...”
”Aunt Evlin, look out!!!!”
The colossal figure with spider legs made entirely out of crystal tried to charge at Evlin once again, which in turn gave Ellie who was watching the whole thing from afar another heart-attack.
”Stooooop!!! Stay away from her!!!”
And as if repeating the same process from before, a pile of blue diamonds started to emerge from the building the second the little girl started to scream, creating a path all the way towards Evlin's location. Except this time the diamonds were much larger and stabbed the monster on its chest.
Evlin continued to look at the situation trying to make sense of what she was seeing but with very little success.
”What's going on!!??”
While she continued to feel lost, Daren grabbed her and pulled her away from the crystal giant's attack range.
”Evlin we need to move!! Wake up!!”
”Ah! Sorry, sorry!!”
Daren and Evlin reunited with Lilith and Marcus and alongside their pets, they hid themselves behind a car that was flipped over while blue diamonds continued to appear out of nowhere stabbing the creature left and right.
The group continued to watch as a battle between two types of shiny rocks was taking place in the middle of the streets.
”This is not how I expected my day would go when I woke up today...”
Said Evlin while still trying to hug her own body to endure the damage she received from Mia. Lilith then tried to speak as well.
”Evlin, is your niece a mage as well?”
”I know as much as you do right now... I've never seen any of this before.”
”But... She's performing magic without a staff or magic... How is this possible??”
Lilith seemed very curious about all this but Daren showed he had other concerns in mind.
”Can we talk about this later?? We still have a crystal giant to deal with.”
Daren was right. Evlin wasn't sure how Ellie was doing what she was doing, but she knew her niece couldn't keep at it for long. They needed to engage in battle as well and take that thing down before Ellie tired herself out. Right now she was continuously releasing wave after wave of diamonds at their enemy but her body wouldn't be able to keep doing that for much longer.
”Ugh!!! Why the hell did Mia sent this thing after me?? How am I supposed to play her stupid game if I'm dead?”
Daren then raised an eyebrow.
”Game...?”
”Yeah... That little psycho gave me one week to get my powers back so I could be her opponent or something... I don't know why she would say that and drop this weirdo on my head...”
”...”
Daren took a glance at the scene. Every time one of Ellie's diamonds stabbed the creature, pieces of its body would fall on the ground. Pieces of absorbing crystals. Daren then realized what Mia's true intentions were.
”Evlin... This isn't meant to kill you... Its meant to restore your power!!”
”... Beg your pardon...?”
”Look at the ground!”
The woman followed Daren's line of sight and realized a pile of absorbing crystal scattered all over the place. Crystal filled with raw magic energy inside of them.
”She sent this guy after you to give you your magic back!”
”What!!?? But... Why would she ask a spirit to possess it and order to attack me??”