Haven't been here in awhile

Chapter 85

Monday, May 27, 2014

12:42 pm

(Ivan's POV)

I groan as lift my head, I felt around my pockets as I reapplied Illusion on my index finger. I felt a gentle tap on my shoulder. I yawn as I close the box that appeared, I felt a slight pain in my stomach as I looked to the side. I stared with wide eyes as I looked with Charlotte with a paper in her hand.

"You were in my class?" Her expression quickly soured.

"I literally sit next to you." I rubbed my eyes, and stare at the piece of paper and recognize it as the work from today. I shrug and stretch in my chair.

"I was too busy taking notes." I responded with a uninterested tone. I crack my neck and lean back in my chair. Charlotte put the paper on my desk. "Why'd you wake me up anyway?"

"Give me the answers." She commanded. She leaned on my desk and pointed to the paper. I pick up the paper and take a quick glance at the questions.

"We learned this today." I said as I put the paper back on my desk. "I mean I can help you but I won't give you my answers." She groaned loudly.

"I don't want help, I want answers."

"But if there's a test then how-"

"I'll look up a video later."

"If you don't want help, then let me go to sleep."

"What's stopping me from just waking you up." I glare at her, stuff my hands into my pockets, then gently put my head on my desk. I ignored her as she started to shake my body. She leaned back into her chair. I heard her pencil strike the paper as she began to work on the paper. "Do you, uh, want to come over to my house for a bit.

I lift my head and stare her her.

"Why would I do that?" I ask with confusion I my voice. Charlotte avoided my gaze.

"I was just thinking, that maybe you would want to avoid your mom for a bit."

"No thanks?" I said while raising an eyebrow. "Why would I avoid my mom?"

"You know, with what happened yesterday." She whispered under her breath. I grit my teeth and think back to yesterday when I brought Charlotte back to my mom's house.

"Oh," I respond with repressed anger.

"You, uh, look better than you did yesterday though." She said trying to lighten the mood. I swing my feet as I tried my best to sit still in my chair.

"Thank you," I responded as nicely as possible.

I know that Nuxiel wants me to gain her trust but I don't really know how to get along with her. She definitely seems nice though, but we have nothing in common. Or at least I don't think we have anything in common. I look at Charlotte straight in the eyes.

"What type of stuff do you like?" She stared at me with a confused look.

"Running? I don't know," she said as she shrugged. Her eyes lit up after she was lost in deep thought for a few seconds. "I like... sports." She leaned back in her chair. "Basketball and soccer are pretty fun, I haven't played it in a while though." She looked towards me and laid her head on her desk. "What about you?"

I grit my teeth at her response. Just like I thought, we have nothing in common .I think for a few seconds for response. "Shopping and reading," I responded in a quiet whisper. Charlotte awkwardly smiled and nodded.

"Cool," I sigh as I hand her back her paper.

I don't think I can help Nuxiel recruit her.

4:10 pm

I stare at the pond as I look down at my watch. I hold my umbrella over my head as I look around for anybody near by. I smile as I spot no one around. I glance around and enjoy the feeling of being in Chicago instead of with my mom. I squat down and look up.

How Am'I supposed to get down to the dungeon without being burned up from the sun. This is problem even without the sun burning me. I can't swim and I can't use Wind Aura anymore until I can get more Mp. I smile as I think of a quick solution. I close my eyes and clear my mind. I take in a deep breath as I felt the ground beneath my feet. I raise my free hand as I visualized the ground rising up over me and spreading over the pond. I open my eyes and look above me. I smirk at the sight of dirt covering the small pond. I step into the shadow and make my way down the pond. I take in a deep breath before leaving the shadow.

I closed my eyes as I felt around the pond floor for the hatch. A bubble left my mouth as I turned the hatch, my body was quickly sucked into the hole. I immediately gasped for air as my body was flung out of the pillar of water and onto the dungeon floor covered with pipes. I change out of my clothes and into dry clothes.

I walk through the narrow hallway and step into the familiar room of boxes and multiple choices of hallways, I stared at the pipes running up and down the walls and floors with a sense of nostalgia. I scanned the room for any signs of robots. I frown at the lack of robots roaming the room.

All I need is two Insta-heals to heal Michael and Wayne, just two then I can leave. I make my way toward the middle hallway. I blind as I enter the room with a platform in the middle of the room with spikes surrounding the platform. I swiftly flew over the spikes and landed on the platform. I stare nervously at the wall as the wall opened up to reveal a dark void, there wasn't a hint of ray of light going into void. I take out a flashlight, carefully walked across the beam, and pointed my flashlight into the void.

The light was eaten by the void, I take a closer look at the void and put my hand into the void. My arm disappeared, I squinted in an attempt to see my arm. I step into the void, I take out Retribution and point my flashlight in random directions. It was pitch black even with the flashlight right by my side. I shakily put away my flashlight and feel my away around the void.

My body stiffened as I heard the creaks of rocks closing behind me. I spin on my heel and look for the entrance. I grit my teeth as I stretch out my hand and felt a piece of rock right where I entered.

God dammit, I should've brought someone with me. It was dumb of me to enter whatever this place is. I take a deep breath and turn around. I slide my foot forward and felt my foot slip off something and land on another piece of rock. I don't really have a choice but to explore, knowing this place I probably have to fight a few robots to get out of here.

I slide my feet forward as I felt around the wall. I slowly made my way down what felt like stairs. The floor suddenly became flat, I raise up my weapon as a low whirling noise filled the room. I jump to the side as the middle of my chest started to tingle. A metal thumping sound filled the room as a robot sprinted towards me. I bring my sword up and run to the side. I groan I ran into what felt like a box. The box moved as the metal thumping noise got louder. I turn around and blindly swing my spear.

I felt my right shoulder start to tingle, I blast Wind Cannon's in the area in front of me. My eyes widened at the slight breeze that was let out. I quickly crouch and lean to the left. A metal clamping noise filled my right ear, I run to the side and swung my spear from side to side to feel around. I felt my spear bump into another box, I jump onto the box as the robot started to chase me. The metal thumping suddenly stopped, I hastily jump off the box as the loud crashing of metal accompanied of wood breaking in half. I take out a pebble and throw it towards the sound.

I snap my fingers and cover my ears. My ears started to ring as the room suddenly lit up. I blink as I look around. The room was filled with boxes inches away from each other. I look to where I threw the pebble. I look at the ruined pieces of metal. I raise my hand and manipulate the wind to go around my hand. I bite my lip at the pitiful breeze around my body.

Why is the wind not as strong as before? I look around, searching for any reason why to why the wind was made into a slight breeze. I form an icicle in my hand, I drop the icicle and sit on a nearby box.

Not being able to control the wind might be a problem, I don't know why its so hard to control the wind now; it was easy in the previous parts of the dungeon. But now, the main thing I use it not even an option. I can at least use Cryokinesis and my other skills, but those aren't as powerful as Aerokinesis. The dungeon won't let me leave so I can't leave to train my other skills for the dungeon. Umbrakinesis the obvious choice to use in this dungeon, but I don't have much offensive skills for it, Cryokinesis and my Heiroglyphs are my only options to attack. My only problem would be seeing.

I get off the box and lay on my spear on the box. I do have an Aerokinesis skill that does let me sense the area around me, but I don't know if this place will be a good place for the skill. I close my eyes and focus on my surroundings. I felt a weightless, high feeling fill my body as the wind quickly rushed around the room. I open my eyes and smile as the layout of the room was burned into the back of my mind. I shivered from the excitement and pick my spear back up.

Even though I can't use my other skills I can use Wind Sense with no problem. I grit my teeth and stand up. Everything spun in my head as my head was filled with each postition of every box in the room, I memorized every scratch and pattern of each pipe as I tried to regain my sense of balance. I lean over a box, in about a second my sense of balance came back to me. I took in a deep breath and took out a large Mp bottle. I drank the whole bottle in one gulp. I watched as my Mp bar slowly filled up, there was sliver of gray left in the Mp bar.

I sigh as I stand up right. This is going to be a bit difficult, Air Sense is a skill that costs one hundred seventeen Mp, I can only use the skill five times before I run out of Mp. I groan as I look around the room. There was only one dark hallway on the left side of the room. I made my way towards the hallway and stare down the hallway. Using my other skills is going to be a problem, my Cryokinesis and Umbrakinesis skills cost alot of Mp to use. I can't use my gun because I can't see, its going to be hard to fight with half of my attacks and tactics gone.

I hesitantly step into the hallway and tightly hold my spear. I walked for half a minute. I hold my spear in front of me as the middle of my chest started to tingle. I step to the right just in time to dodge a beam aiming for my chest. My left shoulder suddenly started to tingle. I step back, my foot slipping off a ledge, I felt my chest tingle as I felt my body start to free fall. I close my eyes and envision my body being engulfed by the shadows.

I made my way up to the platform and step out of the shadow. I close my eyes and feel the wind around me rush around the place. The whoosh of the wind filled my ears as the layout popped up in my mind. There were four platforms on each side of the square shaped room, there was five feet of empty space between the platforms. I grit my teeth as a platform in the middle of the room had those raptor robots facing me. I spun around on my heel as hordes of flying insect shaped robots circled me, I brace myself for a fat human shaped robot with a large cannon pointing out of its stomach faced me. I quickly form an ice wall between me and the human shaped robot; I replace Retribution with my pistol. My head felt light as I aimed my pistol at a nearby insect shaped robot. I pulled the trigger. The image of a bullet going straight the torso of the robot appeared in my mind. I grit my teeth as the vision of more robots coming out of the walls appeared.

My jaw dropped as a large, wide robot with cannons instead of arms appeared on the middle platform and aimed at me. I felt everything turn back to normal before I could shoot another bug out of the sky. I swap out my pistol for Retribution, I held the weapon close as I waited for something to attack. I felt the back of my back tingle, a subtle whirring noise filled the room. I swiftly jump to the side, and spun as loud footsteps rushed towards me. I take out a pebble and throw it in front of the robot charging towards me. Before I could snap my fingers, a loud wet slurp came from behind me. I jump to the right and prepare to attack. Before I could even sense or react, a hot seaming feeling went right through my right arm. I bit my tongue and endured the pain.

I stepped out of the way just in time to dodge an insect trying to run into the side of my skull. I duck as another insect tried ramming itself into the back of my head. The insides of my body rumbled as what sound of a sports car bounced off the walls. A low rumbling quickly replaced the roar that bounced off the walls.

Tiny random spots of my body started to tingle. The side of my head suddenly started to tingle. I stepped back, a blunt weak force slammed into my back. A sore feeling filled my back as I was forced to take a step forward. I yelled as three sharp pieces of metal ran across my face. Blood gushed out of my face, blood fell onto my eyes. I store all my magic into my arms and swing my spear, my spear went clean through the raptors head. My eyes widened as what sounded like slime being violently tossed around filled the room. I quickly created an ice wall. A sudden burning, agonizing pain fell over my left shoulder. I stiffened from pain and let out a blood curdling scream. All feeling in my shoulder and below left, pricks of pain raced up and down my arm. I grit my teeth as the wall of ice I just created shattered into pieces. I took in a quick breath of air at the pain going through my chest. I clutched my stomach and retreated into the shadows.

I slowly swam through the shadows, I took in desperate breaths of air trying to lessen the pain. I was suddenly forced out of the shadows, I landed on a platform on the other side of the room. I closed my eyes and tried building back my magic. I wiped off the blood going into my eyes. My magic steadily built it's self back up as tiny spots around my body started to tingle. I hunched over and stumbled to the other side of the platform. The sound of insects filled my ears. Half of my Mp bar was full before I was forced to go back into the shadows and move into the other platform. I quickly began to refill my magic the second I stepped out of the shadow. I duck as I felt something aim for my head. The sound of the slime hitting the wall near the platform I was just on. I quickly jump back just in time to dodge a swipe from a raptor.

I quickly stand back up, it was a struggle trying to focus on recharging my magic. My face and stomach screamed with pain as the raptor leaped towards me. I jumped to the side and swung my spear as the raptor snapped its jaws at me. The raptor quickly evaded my attack and aimed its claws at my chest. I groaned as I quickly formed a piece of ice in the shape of a fist from the ground. The fist uppercutted the raptor, the raptor flew into the air and flew down into the empty void.

The fist shattered into pieces, I stopped regenerating my magic and focused on getting my Stamina back up. I put my spear into my Inventory and took out a large Stamina potion. I slowly took out a cork slowly drank the potion. I take the potion away from my lips and put it into my Inventory. I take out my spear and took in deep breaths as a bug tried ramming its body into my shoulder. I began regenerating my Mp, I swing my spear at an insect trying to tackle me.

I wiped the sweat off my forehead. I caught my breath and waited for the robots to make the first move. I tensed up as large spots of my arms and legs started to tingle. I close my eyes and send out a blast of air to get an idea about my surroundings. I saw visions of the raptors walking towards the edge of their platform to jump onto mine. Insects hovered over me with their stingers pointed at me. The large robot standing on the middle platform banged his cannon arms together and stretched one arm out towards me. I went into the shadows and reappeared a few feet to the left as the insects let out a wet sound with something flying out of their stingers. I swap out Retribution for my M16 and started shooting while I had the chance to know where the robots where. With swift precise motions, I shot each and every one of those insects with ease.

Everything went black again after the wind died down. Metal foot steps made its way towards my direction. I made large balls made of ice and threw them on the ground. I heard the balls bump into each other as a raptor quickly made its way towards me. I felt a ball touch my foot, I took a deep breath and created an Ice Fist in front of me. The raptor yelped as he was flung into the air, I take a step into the shadows and made my way up into the air. I step out of the shadow and felt myself begin to fall. I bring my legs up to my chest and kick the raptor mid air. I fell into a shadow and traveled down to the ground. I step out just in time to hear one of the balls move. I duck as a raptor jumped over me, the loud sound of metal scrapping against the floor ringed in my ears. I swiftly made my way towards the raptor and plunged my spear through the raptors head. The back of my head started to tingle. I put up an ice wall behind me and turn around.

My eyes widened as the wall burst into tiny pieces, I winced as an ice shard flew directly into my right thigh. I felt all strength leave my right leg, I fell onto my left knee. I felt the wind whoosh over my head as I fell onto my knee, my body shook as I forced myself up onto my feet. My stomach started to tingle, I stepped to the side only to feel a rounded piece of metal slam into my right arm. A loud crack came from my arm as my feet left the ground. I took in a deep breath of air as my body slammed into the ground on my left arm.

I gasped for air in an attempt to dull the pain. All strenght left my arms as I struggled getting up from the ground. I felt my back start to tingle as the feeling of cold metal touched my back. I quickly sink into the shadows, I slowly inched away from the robot, I fell back onto the ground, I yelped as I fell onto my right arm. My body shook with a cold lingering feeling going through my bones; I felt the ground rumble beneath me as the robot quickly made its way towards my body. I took in a quick deep breath and forced myself up to my feet. My heart pounded in my head, I slowed my breathing as my right arm fell limp by my side.

I closed my eyes and started to regenerate my Mp, the side of my head started to tingle as the robot suddenly came to a stop. I duck and weakly swing my spear, the tip of my spear slid off the metal. I focused on my breathing to slow it down to consistent deep breaths of air, sweat fell down my face with each second I also focused on regenerating my Mp. I quickly go through the robots legs the second I felt my back start to tingle. The robot raised its leg and attempted to stomp on me. With all my effort I sprinted out from beneath the robot, I twirled on my heel, dropped my spear and formed an ice hammer. The hammer slammed into the side of the robots face, I quickly back hand the robot with the hammer.

A robot quickly rushed to my side and leaped towards me, I drop the hammer and back off. I quickly transformed my earring into its sword form and held up the sword in front of me as the raptor robot swiped its claws, I took a step back. It got more and more difficult with every second to focus on regenerating my Mp. My breathing turned into rapid quick breaths as I stopped regenerating my Mp. The raptor quickly rushed towards me as the the robot with the cannon aimed its cannon towards me. Everything in my body tingled. I step into the shadows and make my way towards the platform on my left. I quickly take out a Mp bottle and chug the bottle in one gulp.

I gasp for air and throw the bottle away into the void. The loud sound of slime filled my ears, I duck just in time to dodge the bullets flying over my head. I yelled through the pain and force myself to run forward, metal slammed to the ground behind me. Metal ringed off the walls as the raptor started charging towards me. I swiftly step to the side and bring my sword down on the raptor. I swing on my heel, I groan as another raptor sunk its claws into my chest. My sword struck the raptors neck, I quickly form a wall of ice, the wall cut clean through the raptor's neck. I hunched over, I felt a burning iron feeling come up my throat. I stumble forward as my body started to tingle. I whimpered as the tingly feeling wouldn't go away. I stop and gasp for air as loud gunshots rung in my ears.

I collapse onto my knees as a bullet went clean through my knee. I sucked in a deep breath of air through my teeth. I use my sword as a cane and force myself back up. I gasped for air as my temple started to tingle. Bullets flew around me as I stumbled forward desperately. I take out a small health potion and quickly drank the whole bottle. I felt a bit of power return to my arms, my legs were left as weak, broken pieces of meat. I took out a medium Mp potion as metal thumped against the ground behind me. I quickly chugged down the potion and threw the bottle behind me. I turn around and send out a blast of air throughout the room. I duck and take a step back just in time to avoid the wild swings of the robots cannons. I take a step back form a hand underneath the robot and sweep the robot off its feet. The robot lost his balanced and started to fall forward, I swiftly swung my sword through the robots neck and turn just in time to swing at a raptor creeping up behind me. The raptor rushed towards my left side.

I bite my lip as my sense of everything around me faded. The raptor swiped at my side, I take a step and swing for the raptors head. The raptor ran under my arm and lunged for my chest. I quickly bring my sword back and plunge my sword into the raptor's chest. The raptor scratched at my chest as it struggled to get away from me. I grit my teeth and rip my sword out of the raptor's chest and stabbed at its head. I take my sword out of the raptors head and focused on regenerating my Mp. My back started to tingle.

I slowly turn around and slowed my breathing. I send out another blast of air and replace my sword for a rifle. The big, fat human robot in the middle aimed its arm cannons at me. I aim my gun at the raptors jumping onto my platform. I pull the trigger and swiftly shoot three raptor's heads. I form an ice wall to block the rest of the raptors jumping onto my platform. The raptors squealed as they slammed into the ice wall. The wall let out a loud crack, I nervously watched hoping the wall wouldn't break. I heard metal thump hit the ground in the void. I wiped the sweat off my forehead as what sounded like slime sloshing around filled the room. I form a thick wall between me and the middle platform . I laid on the ground and curled into a ball as the ice started to crack.

Pain rushed up and down my body with each breath I took. I drank a large Mp and Health potion as I waited for the robot to stop shooting at the ice. I traded my rifle for my sword. I weakly get up and take one last breath. I sprint out of cover and run into the shadows. I quickly made my way over to the platform in the middle and step out of the shadows.

The side of my face was met with a swift cold piece of metal to my face. I stumbled backwards and held up my sword. My head swirled with pain as I ducked and swung my sword at the robots stomach. The top of my head tingled as I struggled to pull my sword out of its stomach. I let go of the sword and dash to the left just in time for the robot to bring down its arm. I form an ice wall beneath my feet, the wall lifted me up above the robot. The robot swung at the wall, the wall shattered. I flailed my arms, I formed Winter Rose in my hands and plunged the spear into the robots head. I strained and groaned as the spear penetrated the robots skull. I fell to the screamed as I landed on my right arm. The lights blinded my eyes as I laid on my side. I smiled as I gasped for air.

Finally, just a tiny break.