"It's also supposed to be impossible to teleport between dimensions," Zackery added as he began to stretch his arms before clapping his hands and igniting waves of mist that came with tiny snow flakes.
"A path was obviously cut through thanks to Jade," Zeus added.
"You three ready?" Zeke questioned. "Zephyr and Zahir want to have some fun."
"You can take the lead." Zeus laughed and raised his hands up in the air. "I actually have to concentrate."
"Ready when you are," Zion declared, and I noticed how the waters suddenly calmed entirely, which only made the shadow people speed up more thanks to the soothing waters.
"Jeez, Zion. You're giving them the advantage here," Zackery complained, but the cool breeze began to pick up drastically.
"Like you aren't going to put on a show for the hell of it," Zion muttered. "We should have recorded this for Jade to see us kick ass."
"Would have been the perfect movie to watch before a good fucking," Zeke concluded.
"Do you ever not have sex on your mind?" Zeus inquired.
"I'm hard all the time," Zeke declared with pride. "You should try it sometime. It turns Jade on."
"Liar!" the other three commented back.
"As thrilling as the idea of my pants being on fire for lying is, that's not the case," he replied as his aura seemed to dance between black and white.
I worked on lifting Jade to sit up before hooking an arm around the front side of her waist and pulling her to sit on my lap.
"Jade?" I whispered into her ear before I pressed my lips to the side of her neck. She stirred again, but I took the advantage to give a tiny boost of magic so she'd be able to potentially stay awake long enough to witness this crazy fight.
My action seemed to work as her eyes squeezed close for a second before opening slowly once more. She scanned the side where Zion and Zackery were before I helped her look over to Zeke and Zeus.
Her confusion was obvious, but her eyes soon registered our approaching threat. As if it was common instinct, she attempted to get up and fight, and it took everything in me to keep her in my hold. I leaned in to whisper in her ear, "Let your men fight for you."
Her expression seemed conflicted, and I wondered if she ever allowed someone to protect her when she was down. Was she so used to being the protector that she never allowed herself to be the protected?
She's so selfless. How was she able to become such a decent person with the past she carries so effortlessly?
It seemed as though my words were finally sinking in, her tense body beginning to relax against mine, but her eyes focused on the potential fight.
"I'll get this symphony of pain started!" Zackery cheered and with a mere step of his right foot against the floating platform, five shooting waves of ice headed towards the approaching dark enemies on his side.
They prepared for the impact while they began to shoot at us with their weapons, but the moment the ice hit their boats, they either went flying into the air or were frozen solid entirely.
Their screams were what seemed to trigger the rest of the approaching threat as they all began to shoot at us.
"Keep your little toy bullets and arrows to yourself!" Zackery screamed and clapped his hands once before he shot his arms right to his sides and began to spin himself around and around until winds of extreme speed were swirling around him.
With one final spin, he dramatically stopped and brought his arms inward against his sides and then pushed them out once more. The move pushed out a dome-shaped cycle of wind, its properties not hurting any of us as it moved around to protect our little platform.
The arrows were blown away before they could get close, and the bullets were stopped moments before they got too close. The intense wind almost reached hurricane speeds.
"Next up!" Zeke cheered. "Zion, give me some fancy water and rock!"
"Coming right up," Zion declared and he moved his hands in such a graceful way, it was as though he was about to commence a water dance.
The movements of grace made the water around our barricaded platform begin to spin, which left me to wonder if he'd start the whirlpool back up on purpose so he could grab as many of those shadow beings as possible.
I could hear the dark beings’ screams of warning, but it was far too late to try and get themselves out of the spinning vortex. Zion then crouched to the icy floor, his body completely still for five seconds as he muttered something that had to be a spell.
Unless they were screaming in command at one another, it was difficult to grasp anything else that was said as the cyclone winds and swirling waters around us grew louder with their intense magical growth.
We watched as mini rock islands pushed out of the waters as if Zion was creating a floating city. The earthy platforms crashed onto the water but seemed unharmed by the intense waves that assaulted everyone but us.
"Ready!" Zion declared, and we looked over to Zeke to see him now sitting in a yoga position and in complete meditation mode.
That definitely left me confused and from the slight scrunch of her face, Jade was just as unsure of what Zeke was attempting to do, but within ten seconds, we watched two silhouettes emerge to stand by his meditating sides: one of pure white light and the other of pure darkness.
His dark and light elements?
My eyes widened as I gasped when the two beings’ glowing exteriors shattered, revealing identical copies of Zeke but with different hairstyles.
The first one wore all white combat gear, and his hair was white with black highlights. The other wore all-black combat gear, his black strands an extremely onyx black with tiny white strands that from this distance looked silver.
The one in black looked cocky and ready to destroy the world while the other was calm and gave off a peaceful vibe.
"Zahir, you're up," Zeke stated with a low tone that was hard to catch.
"Finally. I'm getting my glorified moment!" Zahir declared with pride before two swords appeared in his grasp and he was pushing off the platform to land on the nearest earth platform.
I had to force myself to not blink as his movements went from predictable to outright crazy. The stream of his dark energy was the only thing left behind as he seemed to zoom from platform to platform while his black swords of darkness pierced, sliced, and beheaded the shadow creatures with ease.
His cynical cheers could be heard from afar and I watched in amazement as his swords turned into guns so he could reach the far-out boats. The bullets shot out in triple sets and destroyed anyone that got in their way.
He jumped onto one of the boats, those guns now shifting into a set of daggers as he began to kill those creatures with such grace that it almost seemed like this was a videogame instead of real life.
"Zahir always has to put on a show like we're in a fucking videogame."
I blinked at the close voice, and I lifted my head to see the light Zeke before us. He had a dazzling smile on his lips and his eyes were filled with tranquility as he stared down at us.
"Zephyr. Don't get too distracted," Zeke muttered.
"Ya, ya," he replied, but his attention was all on Jade. She was looking up at him and his smile merely widened as affection swarmed his almost white eyes.
"We meet again, Hive Queen," he whispered and got down on one knee. Jade stared at him for a moment and her eyes seemed to drop down to his posture.