215 Reunion (1/2)

”What!!??” Lilith gasped, ”Where!!?? Where!!??”

Ashley came closer and began to hold on Lilith's shoulders to try to calm her down, ”he's on the other side of the field... Among the rest of the possessed mages...”

”Daren...” Lilith whispered while trying to hold back her anguish and desire to see him again and began to curse her own blindness for the first time ever since she acquired it. Despite a part of her not wanting to look at him as a zombie following Mia's orders, she just wanted to make sure if he was safe and sound right now.

Daren raised his spear and aimed it at Detra, followed by launching a barrage of diamond spikes at her.

Detra moved out of the way by raising a platform made of ice under herself that moved her body from his trajectory.

Once she landed she realized that the lion boy she hated so much wasn't alone. Behind him were a couple more familiar faces. Evlin's mother, Ellie's parents, Claire's mom, all of them wearing red robes and equipped with either a diamond weapon or a magic staff.

Mia just released a small giggle, ”what's the matter East? Having trouble with a couple of mere humans? What happened with the big, bad, goddess that everyone feared so much??”

Detra glared at the red lady and began to whisper, ”you want big and bad? I'll give you big and bad!”

She raised a wall of ice to divide Mia's servants from her allies and created another platform to get all the way on top of it. Once she reached the peak, she locked targets on Mia and summoned the biggest icicle she could by using the natural cold of the sky in her current altitude.

”By the way, I have to say, I just loooove the whole ice queen vibe you're going with right now! I like it much more than the pretentious holy goddess act you used to have” Mia commented while Detra kept aiming at her and making her spells even bigger.

”Don't mention it...” the ice mage replied as she finally finished her spell and launched a huge icicle at the red bride, ”in fact... don't ever speak again, period!”

The frozen crystal traveled at immense speed across the air but before it could even get close to Mia, Daren just shattered it in the middle of the air and turned it into small fragments by shooting it with his spear, making it look like it had begun to snow in Mia's side of the battle.

”You'll have to do better than that!! My new bodyguard is a tad overprotective!!” Mia laughed.

Detra just clicked her tongue and before she realized it, her wall had started to crumble as well.

She gazed down and noticed that Ellie's parents were using ice and water magic to steal her creation and turned the wall into a pair of serpents.

Ellie's father was controlling a serpent made of ice while her mother had one made of water.

”Wonderful...” Detra groaned.

As Detra was about to be swallowed, a huge fire hand appeared between her and the snakes and collided with them, releasing a large amount of steam over the area.

The woman turned around and realized that Leona had sent her flaming ape to aid her.

”Thanks for the assist!” Detra commented as she created another ice platform to help her safely reach the ground.

”Anytime!! We got your back!!” Leona replied surprised. This was the first time she ever saw Detra thanking anyone.

The fire mage and the ice mage gazed at their opponents and readied themselves for another battle.

Leona started to increase the power of her fire cloak and made another gorilla made of flames while Detra started to cast another ice spell and formed a huge icicle.

The duo launched their attacks at Ellie's parents but the couple just summoned more snakes to fight them back using the water from the air and the grass around them. Only this time, the snakes weren't made of either water or ice, they were a mix of both, and it wasn't just two, there were several of them.

Three of the serpents just pierced the ape through the stomach and made it dissipate in thin air, while three others stopped Detra's icicle and absorbed the water in it to grow even bigger.

There were still three more left, making their creature look like a hydra as all their necks ended up connecting into one larger body, big enough to tower two trucks pilled on top of each other.

”They seem like a bad match for me!!” Detra realized, ”they can just devour my magic...”

”Same here... My fire is not strong enough to survive their spells... Besides...” Leona shifted her gaze and noticed a figure glaring at Detra, ”it seems like your opponent is already picked...”

Detra looked at the direction of her gaze and saw Daren mounting Eclipse and coming closer to her with a red spear in hand.

”Oh... This one I can gladly handle!!” Detra admitted, ”but who will handle the water beast?”

”I'll call for our electric mages... Just hang on!!” Leona shouted as she started to release fire from under her boots to dash across the field and call for help.

Detra stood by herself while trying to dodge the attacks of the hydra and Daren at once by constantly creating ice shields to block their attacks or ice platforms to jump out of the way.

”Sure... Leave me here by myself why don't you?” Detra complained.

Daren prepared to throw another spike of diamond at her and she responded by launching a quickly-made icicle.

The two clashed and shattered each other making small fragments or red and transparent dust fall all over them.

”I know you're being controlled right now, but I refuse to believe you're not at least enjoying this a little bit...” Detra stated while exchanging glares with Daren.