158 The Ocean City Of Atlantis IX : Escape (1/2)
A massive pillar of reddish black light about up from the middle of the temple, completely blowing what was left of it into a massive like of rubble and debris. Raven Song and I kept our bearings due east, heading to a part of the island that was not as populated, and where the Acheron was docked right underwater. Whatever was going to be coming out of those gates we really didn't want to be here when they did, plus Eve we won't be in danger from the gates themselves, we were right In the middle of hostile territory, so I would very much like to avoid being surrounded by a guild of fanatical players.
However as we flew over a small patch of forest owe to the edge of the island, a massive fireball flew towards us, or rather it was a flaming rock fired from a catapult. Raven Song and I banked left and right, barely evading the massive Boulder that came out of nowhere, but that the least of our problems as players sporting jetpacks flew up from the trees below us, each of them holding guns that looked really garish and ugly with their black and red frame. There were six players and given that they were all similarly armored, I get the feeling that they all shared the same class.
*Pew pew!*
Two red bolts flew from two guns, I quickly brought my wings forwards, letting then block the two shots and letting gravity drag my body, however both shots were so powerful they pushed me back and felt my wings feeling a little bit of heat. I spread them as let them catch air as I shifted Sky back to her staff form from her helm form. The players were too clustered to attack with bust the Mana ARROWS, not to mention Sky was already feeling weakened, I've been using her abilities none stop for the better part of two hours, she was still very much a living being as opposed to the tool she looks like right now, things like stamina would always come into question for her.
(STORM DANCE)
I was in the air and sort for Raven song who just got his wings and this group of players who were busy moving shakily with jet-packs, the sky was my domain. Band it was about time I needed it to my advantage, not unless I wanted to fully shift into my dragon form, which if I should be honest I really don't want to do, as that was a trump card I had to keep hidden since Persephone and Zareth already used theirs.
(MANA ARROW)
Four silver blue Mana arrows flew towards one of the players, he really wasn't expecting it, and his defense seemed somewhat weak. The Mana arrows punched a hole into his body and out the back of his jet-pack, and 2 seconds later before he faded away he exploded into a shower of flames and metal, and since he was quite close to one of his friends, he took the guy with him in a blaze of fiery glory.
Two down, four more to go. I turned my head to the remaining four who had instead chosen to focus on Raven Song, which was why I would have done seeing as he was the one decked head to toe in a golden armor and was bulky and beefed up he looked like the Terminator. However the two meter long Warhammer Raven held in his hand seemed to elongate and grow flexible, becoming something akin to a whip which he flipped and used to sweep the four players assaulting him .
He crushed all four players together like they were nothing more than soda cans, and then swung the hammer down, smashing it against another Boulder that came flying towards us. Then he spun, swing the whip hammer? Around himself, causing a disturbance in the wind as he raised it up and brought it smacking down with a heavy and resounding thud. Some how as he brought the hammer down, the bloody thing seemed to expand, until it was over a hundred meters in diameter, and when he slammed it into the ground, a massive crater appeared releasing a shockwave that created a clearing, smashing all of the trees within a three hundred meter radius to splinters and leaving behind cleared earth filled with saw dust and very dead players and AIs.
I turned to look as Raven Song as he withdrew his Warhammer, returning it back into it's normal two meter form, which he proceeded to even shrink into it was the same size of his previous Warhammer. He looked at me with wide eyes leaking out of his golden visor and said.
”I honestly didn't see that coming, do you think we'll get in trouble?” he asked me, the I rolled my eyes and asked him.
”Get in trouble with who? We're running from an island of devil worshippers, and the entire universe is out for our heads, we answer to no one Raven, we're Acheron.” I don't know why I phrased it like that, but I felt as if something had changed in the way we viewed ourselves. We were not just a crew of wanted people roaming the seas, we answered to no one, and if anyone wanted to stand in our way, we would be more than happy to kick their fucking asses.
Raven Song and I continued until we got to the coast, thankfully we were not ambushed or way laid by anyone else. We dived into the water and almost screamed in fight at the massive face we saw as we got into the ocean, it only took a moment for us to calm down as we realized that Zareth was playing a prank, the fang filled grin on his face was more than enough to show that he was being a massive dick, which was nothing new.
We swam towards the ship with Zareth shitting back into his diminutive dwarfish form. We went behind the Acheron and came up the rear entrance that led to the hull. We swam in and saw Qitar waiting for us with a towel in hand, I gave her a simple thanks as I practically ran to the ship's intercoms system.
”Darke! Get us the fuck away from this island right now, put everything we have to it shields and focus on getting us the fuck away from here!”
(SEA SPRINT ACTIVATED)
To be honest I was feeling somewhat frantic, we had to get out of here before something goes horribly wrong, what was it that could go wrong apart from the gates of hell opening, I didn't know. But I get the feeling that we would be finding out soon enough. I made my way to the deck, it was covered now ,but we could still see what was happening above, especially with how the ship's navigation system works. I went to the wheel and returned the compass back into its perch, reactivating the ship's full navigation system.