The Plan

"We have to split up in order to make sure none of us fall off the edge. Emelia, Raylen, Harry, Fredric, you stay with me. Elijah, Take your group down the chasm and try to catch up with Damir and Cael." Aslan set the plan in motion.

The soft noise coming from the waterfall comforted Elijah as it reminded him of the ocean. Words couldn't describe how badly he wanted to escape this kingdom, and live on his own. However, part of him felt attached to these new people, and with himself knowing of his mental troubles, people are exactly what he needed.

Flashing lights of fire were lighting up the chasm fifty feet below them. Elijah would have expected for them to make it further, but just maybe, there were a lot more orange core kappas here…

"Damir!"

The head of a shadowed silhouette turned around to reveal a blue-blooded face. If Elijah thought himself was crazy at times, this kid one-upped him.

Damir fled quickly across the bridge to a cavern with a small number of kappas. "Novius, Theon, keep everyone safe, I am going to go ahead of everyone."

"What?" Novius had no clue what Elijah meant, until he neared the edge of the sloped bridge held together by metal wires and wooden planks. The bridge dropped in a u-shaped pattern, and slightly tilted downwards towards the pit of death.

With a smile on his face, Elijah took one step forward, and slowly fell to the bridge below him as Cael was running across.

"You're Insane!" Cael remarked as he almost fell off the edge from the swaying of the bridge.

Water slashes mixed with space magic exited Elijah empty hands, and flew towards the ugly kappa's feet. The legs were severed as they were expecting an attack to the chest, or simply something at eye level. 

"I knew something was up with you! Water magic can't do that!" Cael was furious and used his air magic to quickly shift his body to the side to dodge the water tridents thrown from deep in the cave in front of them.

Surprisingly, a second spell from the cave appeared, and a wave of water sent both Elijah and Cael out of the front of the cave, and onto the bridge. The situation was dire with Cael hanging by his hands on the Bridge. Instead of screaming for help, he dropped down to the next level once the water subsided, and saw Elijah defy the natural laws of the world. 

This kid was supposed to fly off the edge! But he somehow swam through the wave of water and stood back on the bridge!

Damir, ran across the bridge Elijah was on once he saw the sight, and immediately sent a wave of fire forward that incinerated any kappas who weren't coursing mana through their body. A fireball was also sent towards the ceiling, which exploded with chunks of rocks falling on the heads of anything living. Elijah followed suit, and silently severed the heads of the kappas within the dark cave alongside Damir who was occupied with a grin.

"HELP ME!"

The steps were slippery but did not affect Elijah in the slightest. Knowing he could not afford to lose an orange core mage, he quickly ran to the rescue, but was surprised with a huge gust of wind he couldn't avoid slammed into his side.

It happened too fast. There was no time to react.

Bam! Elijah's back was slammed against the wall of the chasm While running across the bridge, and instantly quivered in pain while on the brink of losing consciousness. Cael had pulled a card Elijah did not think was possible. Indeed, he was in need of help, but an easy way to escape death temporarily was by jumping into the waterfall. Cael had a hatred towards Elijah, and most definitely had reasons for his actions.

"So you have a soft spot for helping others huh?" The words from Damir were the last he heard.

The rough wall of the chasm brushed and tore the skin off Elijah's back, and eventually, he tumbled onto a bridge after falling against a protrusion that sent him forwards. His mind was everything that had to do with the reason he was still alive. The small spurts that Elijah had of his mind being active allowed him to move and shift his body mid-air, but did not help him break the fall of face planting into a bridge in between two nests full of red and orange core kappas.

The sounds were dulled, and the sense of pain on his back and forearms didn't seem to bother him. Muffled and sluggish footsteps were heard to his left and right, and with all the energy he could muster, the bridge was cut down the center. 

Sensations of cold wind and water droplets coated his body as he tumbled off a bridge below him, and began his descent into the abyss. With his hand trying to reach and grab onto anything near him, the water from the waterfall began stretching itself to reach Elijah as if he was a magnet. The skin of his forearms and back began to be repaired during his descent into the unknown.

…

Meanwhile, the split up party finally caught up with where they thought Damir was, and was confused by the sight of seeing no one. Not a single sound was appearing anywhere close to them, and based on what Elijah had told Novius, he put up his guard, and led the group across the bridge.

Out of the darkness of the cave they had just passed, the son of a devil, Damir, appeared from the darkness with his fists covered in flames. Emelia, Harry, and Aslan were at the back of the group, and when they turned around, they couldn't help but scream for their lives with a wave of flames being shot in their direction.

"HARRY!"

The last words that came out of Emeila's mouth were filled with an insane amount of emotions. There was nothing that could be done, especially when Trey conjured an earthen barrier that forbade anyone behind him from moving forward, while also saving himself temporarily from the flames.

"BASTARD!" Novius had lost control of himself as soon as the rest of the group made it to the cavern across the bridge. The flames engulfed everything, and seemingly felt like a self-destruction spell with the magnitude of power. Fredric was at the front, and was facing the cave with a smile on his face while everyone behind him was running frantically with blind spells being casted behind their hands.

"Elijah. Where is Elijah!" Alexia was distraught, and asked the first question that came to her mind. However, one single long blade of ice was conjured, and was stuffed into the back of fredric without a moment's hesitation.

"YOU WERE PART OF THIS! DIE!"

It seemed the man had accepted his fate after his role was played. The question was, how could a ten year old willingly play the part?

The flames subsided, and when the smoke and stench of burning flesh rose into the air, not a single soul was seen besides the devil with burning fists to his side.

…

Bubbling sounds were heard the moment Elijah gracefully entered the deep pool at the bottom of the chasm. The only feeling that brought him back to reality was the feeling of suffocation, and the moving current underneath him that signified death. What seemed like an angel rising from the water, was just a child. A child draped in ripped clothes that angelically rose through the air. 'My friends... are in trouble. I need... to save them.'

"YOU ARE STILL ALIVE!" Cael, who was slowly falling through the waterfall by pushing the air around him, yelled within the air pockets of the waterfall.

Elijah had noticed this fact, and was hyper focused on his own objectives. The sounds of wind splitting resounded through the chasm as his speed picked up. The fingers of his hand gilded against the current of the water, and gave him a sense of touch. With everything that had happened, Elijah had no idea if he was Alive, or in a dream.