7: Will The Plan Work?

 We were caught off guard. The only ones who had a chance against the beast were adult level heroes and none of them were nearby. Even if they were, they were forbidden to help us and the oldies follow rules to the letter. What were we going to do? Eva and Elena stopped their bickering. Elena looked straight to the beast, she wanted to link to it but a scream escaped her mouth. "His mind is too strong, I can't enter." This was getting out of hand. Not only were we underaged heroes, we were understaffed. "We have to make do with those of us here. I will take command, will you help us, lady Eva." I wasn't ready for her tantrums so if she wasn't joining us she should leave immediately. She looked at my face and clicked her tongue. "I am not missing this chance to shine, besides if you die, I can't torment you anymore. Okay what is the plan?" I smiled. I am sure she would be the one to take most of the credit anyway. "We need a distraction. That's where you come in Esteban. You will conjure fireworks to those six dragons near the lead one. No matter what we do we can't distract Anark. I don't know why we haven't been attaked though but it's safe to say he is underestimating us. Elena You can link to two people a day and you have already linked to one person so you have only one link left. Link to one of the mini dragons, I am sure they aren't strong as Anark. Abigail manipulate the temperature and make it icy cold, You can do that right? (She nodded), Emmaus transform into the strongest creature in your collection. The three of us will attack Anark. That is I, you and Eva. It's a stupid plan I know but we have to do it." They all agreed to the plan.

 Abigail first touched Esteban to increase the efficiency of his fireworks power. Esteban told us to cover our ears, he wanted to use one of his side powers, sound manipulation. We did as he said and he clapped his hands and even though my ears were closed, I felt a shockwave which knocked me off my feet, my mind was in disarray. The shockwave from hitting his palm together travelled at the speed of sound and the beasts couldn't run in time, they were all sent flying except for Anark who was growling. Esteban suddenly fell, that act had drained his stamina. But he won, one of the beasts was dead. Esteban had created a sonic boom. I guess his sister truly does power him up. This was the first time seeing them work together. They had gone up in my ratings of them. Even Eva looked surprised. Next stage, now that one of the aide dragons was dead. Elena linked successfully to one of the dragons. She controlled the dragon to come to them. Abigail then raised her hand to the sky and that area became cold and blizzards began to appear. The mini dragons were not cold but all was just a distraction. The blizzard got more heavy and wind flowed around. Anark roared and we ran to him. Elena with the controlled dragon killed two of them until she was floored. It remained two dragons, We pushed through them and got to Anark. He flew up and roared. We covered our ears. His voice was extremely loud.

"YOU WEAKLINGS, YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME, THE GREAT ANARK. I WILL SHOW YOU YOUR PLACE.''

He landed down and used his tail to push Emmaus but Emmaus wasn't as weak as he looked. He was able to stay on his feet despite taking the force of a ton. He struggled to shake the tail away. "Lady Eva and Gabriel hurry." Anark flew backwards with a glare in his eyes. I deduced he had fire breath but he didn't want to cause friendly fire. He must care about the mini dragons unless there was something about them that made him not want to affect them because it was possible for him to take us all out with his breath.

Eva ran to Anark passing through the two dragons. I growled, she had left them to me and Emmaus. I didn't know if it would work again since I didn't know what grade the mini dragons were but I had to try. Raising my fist I concentrated my energy to it putting all my strength and used my speed punch. I modified it that even if the opponent sees it coming he can't dodge as the punch has affected him in the future. The beast got obliterated. Emmaus defeated his beast and we panted heavily.

Eva was left with the main dragon.

"You all took care of the lesser dragons for me and for that I will thank you. Those beasts were not more than f level threat and you struggled uh. Now I can blow this place away. Die. FURY BREATH!"

Flames escaped his mouth and passed behind Eva towards us. She couldn't control the flames. This wasn't lava. She could create extreme heat to generate lava but couldn't control or generate flames. She dashed to us and from her body a wall of lava covered us and the flame was pushing it back. The dragon was extremely strong. We were doomed.

"You made a mistake when you decided to save the weaklings. That is why you failed." I looked up to the unmistakable voice of Oliver. He had come to save us.

"Oliv…er" He glared at me and a sword appeared on his hands and he raised his sword hand and the flames got absorbed into the sword.

©Shabi Oluwatomi Olugbenga

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