Chapter 23: I won’t Leave you Behind

Chapter 23: I won't leave you behind

Evie and Jaden stand around a bunch of dead dwarf-like creatures breathing heavily.

Jaden picks up one of their spears to use as a weapon, with his other hand he touches Evie as flames wrap around them as they slowly begin to heal.

A gust of wind makes them cover their eyes before looking to see what it is. "Hey! Jaden! I need you to heal Leslie again!" They see Xander laying Leslie down as they hear and see shockwaves coming from the top of the mountain.

Jaden rushes over as he gets on one knee, putting his hand on Leslie's stomach as a bright flame covers his chest. Both Evie and Jaden's flames disperse. "I'm going to focus all of my healing on him...maybe that'll work."

Leslie's face is contorted with pain and agony, but slowly relaxes as Jaden's flames seem to heal to fix whatever the problem may be. Jaden continues to let his flames wrap around his torso as he struggles to pick him up "for a guy who looks like skin and bones you really weigh a ton."

Evie takes Leslie from Jaden, putting him over her shoulder. "Let's go bring him back to the compound." Evie looks at Leslie and notices that he is asleep "Let's get you somewhere safe okay?"

Xander nods as a sudden huge spike shoots from the trees. He barely dodges it as it sticks into the ground. The spike begins to shrink as lumps start to move towards the ground.

A huge spider with spikes all over its abdomen comes crawling out. As it moves through the forest it bends the trees snapping them in half.

It shoots webs at Evie as she puts her barrier up blocking the webs, but the webs start to melt and cut through the barrier. "The Hell?!" As she backs up, tossing Leslie to Xander as he stumbles to catch him. "Leave! Take Jaden with you and get Leslie to the compound."

Xander gives her a shocked look "What do you mean?! I'm not leaving you, especially by yourself!!" He helps as Jaden runs over to him.

"That's not a request-" Evie says as webs get shot at her from behind as smaller versions of the spider appear crawling towards the group.

The webs grab and wrap around Evies arm "That's not a request!! Leave! NOW!"

Xander grits his teeth as he hands over Leslie to Jaden. "You heard her...go"

Jaden holds Leslie "What? What about yo-"

"I'm not leaving her Jaden…" Xander says not to take his eyes off Evie.

Jaden smiles a bit putting Leslie over his shoulder "Got you..don't die, or I'll kick your ass."

Xander places his hands on the ground as his body starts to vibrate "I'm tired..but let's see what this can do…" he continues to vibrate as another clone appears next to him. "Usually if I make these clones….it doesn't mess with my speed at all, but now it's cut in half.." he turns into a blur as he appears next to the other spiders sliding over to them as a the force of his speed causes the ground under him to send a huge amount of debris over crushing the smaller spiders.

The other clone runs into the huge spider who is shooting another spike towards Evie as he slowly opens up his hand, and slowly starts swiping as he goes through each leg like it was nothing but air.

Evie covers her eyes from the dust and debris as she feels nothing but intense wind surrounding her. Xander speeds past the spider, seeing web like cocoons everywhere as he slides around causing more of the ground to shoot out hitting the cocoons and trees nearby.

Evie pulls the webs off as the spider drops to the ground "That stubborn boy…" she says as she smirks at the spider. "You're no longer mobile, that's a shame.." she raises her hand towards the spider as a barrier starts to overtake it, but the spider shoots its webs out, melting through the barrier.

"Oh? You thought you had a chance this time?" The barrier starts to turn into a shield with the Medusa head in the center.

"Shield of Medusa: Total Destruction" The snakes on Medusa's head start to bite into the spider, crushing it under the pressure as it explodes.

Xander comes rushing over connecting "I found that it ha-...oh.. you're done?"

Evie hits him on the head "Ow what was that for?!" Xander says, rubbing his head, right after Evie hugs him.

"Listen to me next time, but thank you." She says with a smile.

Xander looks up at her as his face turns reddish pink from blushing "I-I mean it was nothing…"

She pats him on the back "Now let's catch up to Jaden and Leslie hopefully they made it safely to the compound."

"Glu Glu…" slowly escapes the edge of the forest from where Xander came from.

"What...don't tell me…" he gets in front of Evie preparing to fight whatever comes out of the woods.

"Evie stay bac-!" Xander says as he drops to one knee.

This bulky slimy beast comes stumbling out "Glu..Glu"

Evie holds out her barrier to try and envelope the creature as her barrier shatters, sending her flying back. She hits a tree as blood shoots from her mouth.

"Evie!" Xander says as he tries to get up but collapses to the ground. He looks up to see Amon standing on the beast's head.

The beast slowly tries to get up "Glu..Lu.." it says as Amon stomps into its head causing it to explode.

Xander slowly sees his meter go up a bit "D-damnit…"

"I got her…" Xander hears behind him as he turns and sees that it's Bastet helping Evie up.

Evie nods at her "Thanks a lot, I don't think I remember your name."

"I'm Bastet Dubar, the younger sister of Amon, your team has been rather busy, you're ahead of us currently." As she says that a shockwave goes over nearby.

"What...what is that?" Xander says, looking around.

Evie looks at him "I think Jakes is fighting something…"

"More like someone,he's fighting Scott, the man who insulted your leadership." Amon says as he helps Xander up."

"Thanks." Xander says

"I think we should all head towards the compound." Evie says throwing Xander over her shoulder

"H-Hey!! I can carry myself." Xander says squirming

"No, I saw you drop to your knees earlier. I'm carrying you to the compound you've been out here for At Least 8 hours. It's going to get dark." Evie says walking towards base.

Amon and Bastet follow them. "We'll follow you, just Incase. We already have one of our own in the infirmary, our leader was attacked by some giant worm." Amon says walking on the side separate from Bastet.

Evie looks up towards the mountains as she watches shockwaves and energy beams shoot off the mountain. "You better be safe Jake.."

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