5 Escape from the Tower of Heaven Part 5 (2/2)
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Simon shoved Wally off him as he approached the red haired girl, ”Erza.”
The twins turned to the black haired boy and Erza asked, ”What is it?”
Simon nervously looked down at his feet for a moment before meeting Erza in the eye, ”Erza, there's something I wanted to tell-...”
*Blast!*
The kids all widened their eyes in horror as Simon was suddenly hit with some kind of blast across his face. He was sent flying to the air as Milliana cried out.
”Simon!”
Out from the corner of their eyes, everyone widened their eyes in shock and horror as a bunch of guards were holding some glowing and flaming staffs on their hands.
”Magicians!”
*BOOM!*
Some of the rebel group screamed in pain as many were blasted awah and was sent flying into the air by the explosions.
”Retreat! Retreat for now!”
”We can't fight those magicians!”
Erza turned to her retreating allies and called out to them, ”You can't! Don't give up everybody! Either we fight or we all die!”
However, everyone just ignored her and kept running while also being shot at by magic.
Erza gripped the handle of her sword tightly and cried out again, ”We have to save Juliet now!”
”Onee-chan!” Ezra cried out. While the older twin wasn't looking, Ezra saw one magician pointing his staff at them and fired a blast of magic at their direction.
”Look out!” Their friends yelled.
As the blast came closer and closer at the two, Erza reacted by dropping her sword and raising her shield up quickly and brought Ezra into her arms to minimize the damage on him.
*BOOM!*
As the explosion occured, Erza didn't feel any occurring pain or force from the explosion. She and Ezra looked at the front and widened their eyes in shock as they saw that Rob was standing right in front of them with his arms spread out.
He took all the damage for them...
”Ojii-san!” The twins cried out the old man's name with tears falling down their eyes.
Rob gave out a weak chuckle at the two, ”A-..A useless geezer like me...was good for something...after all. Even if I gave up 'magic' long ago...Erza-chan...Ezra-kun, you two still have unlimited potential....That's your heart...”
.....
*Flashback*
”Our heart?” Ezra asked the old man while sitting beside his sister. The twins were currently found listening to Rob about the meaning of Magic.
Rob smiled at the red haired siblings and nodded, ”Yes, everything begins from you believing with your heart. You can think of tarots, faith, prayer, and such as 'magic'. It's a miracle that only true believers can experience, and only those who believe that magic exists, believe in themselves, and believe they can coexist with everything in nature, can use such a thing as 'Magic'.”
The twins' brown eyes shined in excitement and gained wide smiles at the old man's explanation of magic, ”Magic...That's so cool!”
Erza grabbed a broom from the ground and used it like a Witches broomstick and hopped around excitedly, ”I'll become a Magician someday, and fly around the sky on a broomstick!”
Ezra joined in with his sister as he grabbed a stick from the ground and waving it around like a wand, ”Me too! I'll become strong so I can protect Onee-chan, Ojii-san, and everyone else!”
The elderly old man smiled warmly at two and said, ”I know you two can.”
*Flashback Ends*
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Rob fell to his knees as he managed to say a few more words, ”I never thought I could see those smiles again in a place like this...”
”Ojii-san!” The twins quickly ran up and tried to catch the old man.
”Freedom is in your heart...Erza-chan...Ezra-kun...Your dreams will surely be fulfilled...” He said with his last dying breath as he fell face first to the ground.
The twins could only stare in horror over the poor man's dead body as a large stream of tears poured out from their eyes.
Wally was kneeling over Simon's damaged body with his own tears falling, ”We have to take Simon to a place safe!”
He then turned his head towards the twins, ”Erza, let's retreat for now!”
Erza didn't respond to her friend as she and Ezra continued to stare at the lifeless form of Rob.
”Aaaaaaahhhhh!” Erza then let a loud scream as the swords on ground suddenly began to rattle.
Wally looked at his friend in confusion as he, his comrades, and the cultists noticed something happening with the weapons.
”Erza?”
Erza continued to scream loudly as a bright red light with mystical symbols formed under her feet. A strong gust of wind was blown around her and the ground began forming cracks. Suddenly, all the weapons on the ground started rising to the air and pointed to the guards, shocking everyone seeing it.
”Eh? Those weapons are floating...” One guard said.
Erza reached out her arms at the guards and all the weapons was sent flying at them.
*Whoosh!*
Hundreds of weapons was sent flying at the guards. Stabbing, smacking, and sending all of the guards flying away at the barrage. More and more cultists were flung to the air either injured, unconscious, or even dead.
The surviving guards screamed in fear as they saw the weapons removing itselves from the ground and corpses before levitating again and launched itselves at them.
(Insert Being Stabbed SFX)
The second wave of attack wiped out the remaining guards. The rebels were in absolute awe of what they just saw.
They just witnessed Erza use magic.