Harmonizer's Evolution (Balancer's Soul cycle) (99 page)

Sarah
flew
in
behind to be in her blind-spot as
she recognized a familiar pair. She
flew
in
low and landed behind a support pillar for the demolished building.
She announced herself by saying “I’m here.” Her
voice startled Elder Adela and Alexander.

They spun around
and were instantly relieved to see
who came
. Alexander then looked at his mate and she turned around to raise a boulder, with her control over Terra, and lobb
ed it at this Keeper female. The Keeper
didn’t even bother to turn around because attacks were coming from every direction.

Alexander then said “So Ryan did make it in time before Laura was…” he shook his head and asked “Can you help us? No matter what we throw at her we cannot even scratch her. Please tell me you can kill it?”

Sarah
peered around the pillar for a moment and said “Maybe, but the problem is getting passed her shield. It is made of solidified Pressure and I’ve never seen nor tried to get past it
before
.” Suddenly inspiration hit. She
turned around and met h
is worried eyes. The elder saw the
expression and hoped rekindled in him. “Actually, Pressure has two levels
. She is using only the first. If I can get past her shields and create an opening, the others will get only a single shot.”
She
looked him in the eye and said cryptically “We will only get one chance at this. Once she realizes I’m a threat she will come at me without hesitation. Have all the Pressure and Fire Balancers team up and create
it
. She won’t be able to stop the strike
once her defense is shattered.”

His eyes lit with recognition a few seconds later and then he began to concentrate. Within moments a woman appeared by his side and
Sarah
could see that other Fire and Pressure Balancers were making their way
s
together.

Elder Alexander nodded
for her
to begin and
she
did.

Sarah
gathered and raised
her
energy
,
while keeping a
n eye on the
oblivious target.
She
slid Fangs back into their home as
her
hands
and body began glowing. Once the energy spiked she
focused it all into
her
right fist. Soon sparks began zapp
ing between the small fissures her
clinched fist created. Behind
her
back
she
felt heat and saw an orange light reflecting off the pillar
.

Once she
felt
ready
she
glanced over
her
shoulder. Once Alexander contained the blaze in a large sphere of Pressure the woman moved
away
to keep fighting by
Adela’s side. While fighting, they
watched
Alexander
as the contained flames
he controlled,
disappeared. Once Alexander looked at
Sarah
he said “We are
all
ready.”

Not wanting to drag this out any further
Sarah
spun around and moved
away from the pillar, lifted her
fist and willed the pure power of electricity fo
rth. The energy exploded from her
fist
,
and with the speed of lightning
itself
,
it arched perfectly towards
the
enemy
’s head
. The pure blue-white lightning struck
the
barrier and went clean through it
, like it was never there
, but the shield diverted it just enough to miss her skull
. The
electrical
energy went on un
t
i
l it struck
the
building across from this one.

With the barrier broken
Sarah
shouted “NOW!!!” Th
e Keeper spun to the sound of the
voice and her eyes were in complete denial
from her defense being
shattered
so easily
.

M
any Pressure Balancers
stood and
thr
e
w something that couldn’t be seen, simultaneously.

Knowing just what
i
s about to happen
Sarah
made another Pressure shield, but this one surrounded the mate to Ranvan.
She
created it in a cylinder, but left the top open
for air
. The Keeper looked at herself for a moment as he felt many something’s hit her, but couldn’t see anything. She looked around and saw that all attacks had stopped
and all were looking at her with curious or winning expressions
. She didn’t know what was going on
, but she didn’t have ti
m
e to figure it out
.

Sarah
smiled
evilly
and waved goodbye. Her
pink
eyes widened just a moment before
all hell broke loose
.

Suddenly everything inside Sarah
barrier exploded.

Connor had taught everyone about using the Back-draft phenomenon during
their
training sessions and
the Keeper
just learned about it
,
the hard way.

With air introduced to the superheated energy, the flames were
explosively
intense. Even as the flames erupted from the open top
of the invisible
shield
Sarah
neither felt energy being raised nor did anything fly out.

Everyone around went silent as the flames slowly died out. Then cheers erupted at what laid in the center of the explosion. The female’s body
lay
completely
charred
, broken
and
was still
burning. Everything inside
the
barrier
had been
cooked beyond all recognition.

After firmly securing the
metal
straps around
his
thighs to
staunch
the gaping wounds blood flow
,
Connor
watched closely as Sorono fought
their brother. He so
wished to intervene, but they were moving too quickly and too closely together for
him
to be of any aid in the battle. The loss of Ranvan’s tail didn’t hinder his battling ability as he still seemed to be pushing Sorono back.

He
held Tool
in a tight grip in hopes to find
the
opening. Other than that,
Connor’s
wounds prevented
him from doing anything but hold
position.

Suddenly Sorono fell for a feint
,
like
Connor
had
,
and Ranvan flipped himself instantly and kicked
thei
r elder brother on the side of his head. The force of the kick sent Sorono spiraling in one direction and his helmet went in another.

Sorono tried correcting his descent, but Ranvan immediately
went
for the kill.

Through the pain and his
broken right leg,
Connor did everything in his
power to stop what was about to happen.
His
jaw locked tight as
he
poured more energy down
his
broken
legs to fly. The pain
became
even more intense than first imagined, but
even as he
rocketed to
the
enemy
he knew that he
wasn’t going t
o make it, neither w
ould
Sorono. Connor
had l
et them get too far away from
his position
and this w
ould be
the price.
Even two kind Harmonizers couldn’t even halt one evil one.

Everything was going to end for
them
. Sorono
and Connor
were going to die
by Ranvan’s claws. First Sorono
and then
him
. With
his
injuries,
he
wouldn’t be a match for
such cruel tactics and power.

This
i
s
the end
.

Suddenly Ranvan stopped for some reason and immediately looked to the north. His eyes widened and his jaw was agape. He was in honest worry and disbelief. Then
his eyes began to mist
and seemed to shut down
.

Connor
realized something major had happened to him because his heart had broken in a single moment.

This i
s it.

This is what
they
’ve been waiting for. He was distracted. His back
faced
Connor
.
Ranvan
forgot what he was doing. This will be the only opening
they
might ever get.

This is
it
.

Connor
looked down
just
as
Sorono regained himself and he too realized the significance of this.
Their
eyes met and
they
knew what to do.
In less than a second, they
found
the
one
mistake
.
While still propelling him
self
Connor
altered
his
course slightly and aimed
himself at Ranvan. He
was closer and held more momentum than Sorono, but
Conner
ascend
ed
to Ranvan just as quickly.

He
tightened
the
grip on
Tool even more as
he
drew
his
arm back.

When the time was
right and nothing could stop him
,
Connor screamed with all he
had. The pain, anger, hatred, compassion for those who were killed and even for the fractured minds he corrupted, filled
the
scream with much more
strength
.

His
arm arched with everything it had and the axe si
de of
Tool met the back
of Ranvan’s neck and cut clean through
the
spine, just below his skull
and severed the spinal cord
.

Just as
Tool finished its job, Sorono’s claws finished him off.
Connor
severed Ranvan’s nervous syst
em, but Sorono used the injury he
inf
licted to completely rip off the
head.

With that, Connor’s
legs gave out
completely
and the pain was eve
n
more consuming
than before
.
The
wounds had opened even further
and could no longer sustain his
flight.
He
had to stop the flow of energy down them and that made
him
start to fall along with Ranvan’s fresh corpse.

He
smiled for some strange reason, but it wasn’t from killing Ranvan.

He
realized all of a sudden that
he
wasn’t falling. Looking around, Soron
o saw what happen
ed
, dropped
their brother’s head and caught him
carefully in both of his
large
hands.

They
were both panting heavily and were both in
tremendous
pain from
the
most difficu
lt battle. In attempt to take his
mind off
his
legs Sorono thought
“Connor, is it finally over? Have we actually succeeded?”