Family Fighting

Cynthinia was the first to react by charging at Doctor Howard and tackling him through to the other room and onto the ground. He was instantly winded and the gun skidded across the floor to the other side of the room. Cynthinia got up, stepped back, and propelled a blast of fire at where Doctor Howard lay. He was engulfed in the fire and began screaming in pain while flaming limbs could be seen flailing around from the fire.

William covered Maddison's ears as the screams continued. The flailing came to a stop and the screaming followed. But, instead of silence, the screams turned in laughter as the flaming figure rose up patted down the fire. He had survived being burned alive and barely had a singe on his body.

"Your attacks don't work on me. I can't say the same for your flooring though. Such a waste of go wo-" Doctor Howard was silenced by a large arm of water grabbing him. He was pulled into the playroom and then thrown out the hole in the wall by William who quickly followed after him.

Midair he began to gather water from the ground and air to form a giant humanoid figure made out of water and ice. The figure had become much more refined over the years with a stronger ice skeleton and a hollower inside to minimise weight and increase mobility. It landed above Doctor Howard and loomed at over 20 metres tall casting a seemingly inescapable shadow over him.

William punched at the ground where Doctor Howard was laying who rolled out of the way just in time. He was able to get on his feet but couldn't avoid the next punch that hit him from directly above. His body crumpled under the force and he was left in a dent in the ground with one knee going to opposite way and his spine at a 90 degree angle backwards.

"Next time, don't you dare try to take my child away from me!" called William.

"I would, trust me I would. But this job just has too good of a pay and WAY too many perks to give up." called back Doctor Howard.

His knee snapped back into position with a loud crack and each of his vertebrae clicked back into position causing a horrific sight as he whipped back up to stand looking at William. He tapped twice on the underside of his quickly and a high pitch wine could be heard from inside the building. The rifle burst out of a window and fired on William.

William took cover by changing the form of the water and ice into a dome around him where the water formed a cushioning barrier over a dense ice shield. Each projectile of red light tore through the water and ice before hitting the ground and sending chunks of earth flying inside the dome. There was nowhere for William to go as he was smacked by large clumps of dirt and deafened by the echoing explosions. But over the noise he could hear one voice. Cynthinia leapt out of the hole in the building.

She held out both hands and flames tore out of her palms. They formed into two large, serpent-like bodies and shot towards Doctor Howard and the rifle. The rifle was obliterated into fragments of metal by one body of fire but Doctor Howard barely moved as the second body charged to him. He simply pressed a button on a small device and spoke something into it. Suddenly, hundreds of soldiers dressed in black uniforms holding weapons similar to the one Doctor Howard was using charged out of the treeline. Two soldiers used a large device to draw in the two flaming serpents and fired a pulse of energy that caused them to dissipate.

William reformed his humanoid figure but a rain of projectiles from the soldier quickly blasted through the body as if it wasn't even there. William fell to the ground and caught himself with some left over water. A group of the soldiers surrounded him with their weapons pointed at their target. William brought out his trident and the group was sent flying by a wave of water. His eyes glowed white followed by his trident and streaks of his hair as he tapped into the power of celestial burst.

A brave (or stupid) soldier quickly brought up their weapon to fire on him but William was already behind him. A swift kick send the soldier into a collision course with a lot of the others. While other soldiers looked on in disbelief as a previously paralysed waist-down began to wipe out half the army of soldiers.

"Stop wasting time and fire already!" yelled Doctor Howard. Some soldiers ducked down as a line of soldiers behind them brought in some large canon-like weapons. They charged up and fired large, yellow projectiles that smashed into a distracted William and erupted into a surge of electricity. Cynthinia gasped in shock but she too was hit by a yellow projectile. The two of them fell to the ground smoking slightly.

William's eyes, hair, and weapon returned to normal as Doctor Howard walked over to his face-down body.

"I'm terribly sorry to hand in my resignation this way but it just isn't working out for me. I've found a new job that pay ten times the amount I get in a year here AND gives me practically invincibility. All that's left now is to take your child to my new boss and then the next stop is drinking orange juice out of a coconut in my own private planet." said Doctor Howard.

Doctor Howard used his leg to flip William over and smirked at the sight. Who would've thought that the power of gods - fuelled by the emotion of love - would fall so easily to a bit of electricity. William's breathing was shallow and the sudden energy crash caused by dropping out of celestial burst so quickly must've been putting serious strain on his body.

"Get a containment sphere and lock this one up." ordered Doctor Howard and he looked over to Cynthinia. "Get the goddess as well. We might get payed extra if we can give a continuous supply of these batteries they create."

Suddenly, William's body fell through the ground as a portal opened beneath him. It closed before anyone could grab him and Doctor Howard's fell from confidence to fury. He ripped a gun from one of the nearby soldiers causing they to be dragged along shortly from the neck by the strap connected to the gun. Doctor Howard marched over to Cynthinia and slammed it into her back.

"WHERE DID YOU SEND HIM!?" he yelled in her ear. Cynthinia flinched and curled up slightly.

"Please, Doctor Howard, don't do-" pleaded Cynthinia. A swift smack around the back of her head with the barrel of the weapon silenced her.

"That doesn't answer my question. And my name is isn't Doctor Howard ... that man is dead. My name is Kalro."

A high pitch whine could be heard and Kalro's attention was drawn away. He walk back towards the soldiers and looked around.

"Who is using their weapon?!" called Kalro. No one answered as they looked around for the source of the noise. It grew louder and louder as the soldiers became weary of a faulty weapon blowing up near them. Soon, the source of the noise made itself known as Abigail came barrelling out of the trees in her car. Soldiers flew up in the air as they were ploughed through by the small but powerful vehicle. Eventually, it made it's way to a confused but mostly overconfident Kalro who braced himself to have to car slam into his without any injury. Instead the car spun around and hit him in the side sending him tumbling away.

The car came to a stop and Abigail fell out next to Cynthinia.

"I saw William using his giant form on my way here to pick up Amy! What is going on here and is my daughter OK?!" questioned Abigail.

"Amy should be fine in the dorms with all the other students. As for these people, they were sent here by someone to take Maddison. William got taken out by their weapons and the guy you just took out has some kind of invincibility ... I don't think it's an ability so be careful." explained Cynthinia weakly. Abigail reassured her and told her to portal herself, William, and Maddison away, call for help, and then hide until it's safe. Cynthinia opened a portal and took herself away leaving Abigail rummaging around in the back of her car.

Kalro grabbed the front of the car and threw the entire vehicle to the side. Abigail was left holding the sword James had given her when she was younger and a device strapped to her left arm.

"Lets hope Izzy was right when she said this would help." said Abigail under her breath as she prepared to fend off the attackers.