134 My mistake and her success (1/2)

”Ugh... My head...” Evlin said as she slowly opened her eyes while trying to stand up.

Her whole body was covered in pain and making it near impossible to move a muscle. The last thing she remembered was being blasted by an explosion of lighting from Xadi while he was using his Halloween costume of a wooden-bull monster that Marcus tried to block using himself as a shield.

She inspected her surroundings and saw her friends laying down on the street. Marcus was twitching with pain, Lilith looked like she was sleeping with her face down on the floor and Evlin herself was barely able to move.

Daren was sitting with Ellie standing by his side and they both were looking at some kind of transparent figure floating slightly above the ground.

The streets were covered with pieces of white crystals and curious bystanders looking from a distance recording with their devices, very similar to when they defeated the possessed spider, but this time there were also several pieces of wood.

”They... They did it!!?” Evlin said with surprise as she understood what happened. While she was out, her teammates had defeated her opponent for her. Evlin could barely believe it.

Her niece turned around and spotted her aunt looking at her and quickly rushed to her side with tears appearing on her eyes.

”AUNT EVIEEEEE!!!” Ellie screamed as she pounced on Evlin like a panther attacking a deer. They both feel on the ground and Ellie began to squish her aunt with all her strength.

”El... Lie!! You're... Crushing... Me!! I can't... Breath!!!” Evlin said as her niece's arms kept locking her neck on a tight grip.

”I thought I had lost you!!! I was so scared!! You were on the ground and wouldn't wake up!! I didn't know what to do, and that bull kept attacking us, and my hands grew mouths, and it was so gross!!!!”

”Air... Please... Air!!!”

”Ah! Sorry!” Ellie said as she realized her aunt's face turning blue and finally released her hug. Evlin finally tried to breathe a little and looked at Ellie while raising an eyebrow.

”What was that last part? A mouth in your hands?” She said.

”Yeah!! Yeah!! And not only that!! I also became a weapon like the Marceus guy from your story! And I could eat a ball of lightning, and became a crossbow, and we shredded the monster tree! Isn't that right Daren?” Ellie kept trying to sum up how the battle had gone, but as soon as she turned around her expression changed ”Daren...?”

The man who was fighting by her side a few moments ago had joined the rest of Evlin's teammates and was now lying on the ground completely knocked out.

”Daren!!!” Ellie screamed as she started to run towards him.

Evlin looked at her surroundings and realized that the same thing had happened all over again. All of her friends got injured trying to help her. If she hadn't rushed out like a crazy woman and tried to actually come up with a proper plan they could have prepared better for this fight. But because they were trying to catch up with her, everyone had no idea how to approach the situation.

Evlin always knew she was reckless, but something about her recent actions were causing more damage than ever to those around her.She started to realize that if this continued, she might end up becoming a greater danger to her team than Mia herself.

”Aunt Evie!!” Ellie shouted bringing Evlin back to reality ”What do we do??”

”Ah! Right!” Evlin looked at the pieces of wood and crystal scattered around her and tried to get enough to make a small gauntlet for her right arm. She absorbed the magic inside the crystal fragments and attempted to heal her friends.

”I'm so sorry guys! This is all my fault!” She tried to apply healing magic on Daren, Lilith, and Marcus, as well as trying to heal herself a bit, but nothing was happening.

”Aunt Evie...? What's wrong?” Ellie asked wondering why her magic wasn't acting.

Evlin herself was wondering why her power wasn't working and remembred about what happened the first time she ever faced Xadi and how it took a long time for her body to fully recover due to a small rock-paper-scissor aspect of how her magic operated.

”Oh, that's right! Healing magic doesn't work against electric magic...” Evlin lamented.

”Then... What should we do?” Ellie asked as she looked at her aunt with worry.

”Evlin...?” The two of them suddenly heard a voice coming from the small alley nearby and spotted Chloe sticking her head out with Lance in hands ”Is... Is it safe to come out?”

”Chloe!!!” Evlin said with surprise as she almost forgot why she had engaged in this fight with Xadi to begin with, ”Are you ok?”

”Me...?” Chloe asked as she viewed Evlin's state with many injures and burns all over her body ”I think a better question is if YOU are ok...”

Evlin took a small glance at herself and realized that she indeed had taken quite a beating and would probably be on the ground as well if her body wasn't fused with Sphinx. There was no way a regular person could have sustained the amount of damage she had gone through.

”I'll live... Don't mind me... Can you help me with my friends? They need to go to the hospital as soon as possible!”

”Huh... Sure... I will fetch my car.”

”Thanks, Chloe!” Evlin said. She tried to flap her wings to see if she would be able to carry them herself, but she was still extremely injured from the fight. If her body wasn't half-griffin right now, she would also need to be carried.

Chloe then returned Lance for Ellie to carry and took another quick look at Evlin's golden form, still trying to process if this whole thing was a dream or not, and finally left to grab her vehicle while softly whispering ”I can't believe this is happening...”

”Ellie, where is Eclipe...?” said the winged woman.

”Ah! We got separated because he couldn't fit in the alley... I haven't seen him since...” Ellie answered, which made Evlin fill herself with worry.

”... Wait... Are you saying that there is a huge black lion roaming the city right now with no one to watch after him?”

”... Huh...”

”Ugh... Never mind... We'll find him later...” Evlin said trying to avoid getting more problems to solve and began to gather more of the scattered remains of Xadi's monster body.

She found a piece of what used to be his monster arm and used modeling magic to turn it into another gauntlet. Immediately after, she touched the ground and started to use her geokinesis to make the earth bring the remaining pieces towards her.

She had so much wood right now that she could make her full armor again as well as three copies of her old crossbow.

She then looked at Ellie and thought about something. Evlin had been making quite a few mistakes lately, but Ellie had not, and she deserved to gain something for it.

”Hey, Ellie...”