CHAPTER 278: Raising Against Time

"Can we heal him?" Nixon asked Saphira.

The wounds on Zian's body were too severe.

"We can, focus on healing his wounds and I will focus on getting the dark energy out of his system while giving you a hand."

She turned to Hunter and Willow, "Support Drake."

Drake was already rushing towards Ardel, ready to fight with him.

Then she turned to Stormie, "Hold Raynisha at bay, I will help you once I am done with this."

Stormie furrowed her brows, they are all fully aware that once Saphira heals she won't be able to really fight with the light ability.

Thinking that she still has her fire ability and her swordsmanship, she nodded her head and went to hold off Raynisha with Felix and Ridge.

It won't be an easy fit especially after they met her back in the island where everything begun for them and felt the pressure coming from her, they knew that she was much stronger than when they were together.

"Let's do this," Saphira said to Nixon.

The dark energy within Zian was quite strong, she can also feel that his beast was struggling a lot.

"But wouldn't our energies contradict one another? If we do this, there would be about four energies inside his body. If you use your ability then it would contradict even more with the dark energy inside him," Nixon asked in worry.

"Don't worry, just heal, I'll do my best to control everything else."

She understood where he was coming from.

Saphira could heal yes, but with the amount of dark energy rampaging inside Zian right now, she would have difficulties and she may not be able to save him on time. She needs Nixon's help as of this moment.

'That will put a lot of burden on you,' Lily reminded her.

Her control over the light ability when it comes to devouring the darkness was remarkably good.

But she would always need to devour the dark energy before she could heal the person, yet at this moment her enemy is time.

She is racing against time if she wants to save Zian.

With Nixon's help, that would be possible.

But Zian has his own energy, even with the light ability complimenting Nixon's energy. It needs to fight against the dark energy first, which means it won't be thinking about complimenting another energy and would focus on its own strength.

All these contradictions will happen inside Zian's tattered body.

'I don't care. No matter what, his life should be preserved,' Saphira replied.

She injected the light energy inside Zian's body before letting it spread.

She forcefully pushed this dark energy on one side before looking up.

"Go on," she instructed Nixon.

Nixon nodded his head and started helping in Zian's wounds.

"Don't hold back," Saphira told him.

And so he didn't, he went all out and tried to heal Zian faster to help Saphira a bit.

Saphira, on the other hand, was controlling the battle of the light energy and dark energy in order not to let Nixon's energy come in contact with any of them.

But no matter how much Nixon tried to heal fast, it was still lacking, it still took them a bit of time.

Sweat dripped down her face but soon her face turned pale.

*DRIP*

Nixon looked up when something red dropped on his hands that were healing Zian's wounds.

His eyes went wide.

"Focus," Saphira spoke before he could say anything.

Blood dripped from her nose and her face turned paler.

This showed the difficulty of what she was doing in controlling a battle while ensuring that the energies won't meet with one another.

Nixon gritted his teeth and returned his attention on his healing.

He needs to focus in order to finish it faster, or else Saphira will receive more damage.

He can't heal her and she can't heal herself, so what he can do is to lessen the damage on her.

Meanwhile.

"Stormie!!" Felix rushed and shielded Stormie's body that was flying backwards.

The force of Raynisha's fire caused her to be pushed back.

Felix was able to catch Stormie before the two of them hit a wall creating a hole in it.

They both coughed up blood.

"Sorry," Stormie apologized to him.

Felix shook his head.

They both rushed out to help Ridge, they have no time to dilly dally for Raynisha was seriously too strong.

Because of the fierce attacks that Stormie created, Ridge and Basilisk was able to get nearer to Raynisha.

They went on either side of her and attacked her with poison, Raynisha glanced at them before surrounding herself with black fire.

This fire engulfed the poison and it dissipated.

But in the end, she too coughed up some blood.

When the poison dissipated it didn't simply evaporate but it actually became a smoke that entered her body.

She frowned sensing that something was wrong in her body.

Without hesitating, she created a ball of fire before pushing it inside her own.

Then she coughed up more blood, together with it was the poison that entered her body.

She faced Ridge, she realized that poison, which should have been a part of darkness was now capable of affecting them as well.

It shows that Ridge studied the dark energy much deeper.

Allowing him and Basilisk to come up with poison that could go against them.

Basilisk rushed forward when Raynisha rushed to Ridge.

But he was stopped by another Dark Phoenix.

This phoenix had been supporting Raynisha, it should be battling with Roc and Felix's Phoenix but it seems that it was still capable of giving support despite the enemies it was facing.

Basilisk looked around to see that Roc and Felix's Phoenix were down.

Basilisk frowned, it seems that this Phoenix isn't something they underestimate.

This Phoenix screeched before sending him a fire breath.

As he dodged, a part of the fire still caught his body.

Much to his surprise, the fire was as painful as a thousand sword piercing through his body.