Heavy metal [2]

[Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!!!]

A clock buried in piles of long-forgotten trash gives rise to a figure deeply enthralled in the shadows of his room. "This noise? Isn't this the clock I gave to my great great great... how many greats was it? I guess I better move, that pain in the ass of a nephew better have an explanation beforehand,"

A distant voice from the empty halls came running in his care. "Lord Godrick please wait! You can't push yourself, I thought you didn't care about your Nephew? You don't have to do this, I gave him tons of artifacts he wouldn't die,"

For so long this man kept himself in the presence of the shadows that would one day be illuminated by the night. He wasn't an elf but a colossal turtle with a bipolar shape to boot. Godrick veered his view to his loyal follower and patted him on the head and proceeds to leave

"How long was it? Thirty years? Has it been that long ever since? I never lied, I cut ties with Godfrey Lane... no matter how much time passes his stubbornness ceases to amaze me," He replied

"But sire, I don't think he needs your direct assistance–" Godrick threw a timepiece to the ground, and his servant trembled until his words had no authority against his choice

"This timepiece is connected to the most important artifact I gave him. No matter how far he is in the world even if it crossed the mystical planes... I promised him, that if he flicks that clock, I'll personally assist him,"

As Godrick declared his pledge he vanished from his abode and for the last thousands of years he roamed once more. His very existence was a taboo and many who knew of this fact either respected or grew disgusted of his presence. Be that as it may, he wouldn't turn his back if he ever dares gave his word, and one of the few he adored was his kin

...

Forest near Desarteou

'Hot... im burning up! I can't feel anything, but the raging flames. Why am I burning? Where is this? Who am I? Where's Simon? Hold on... who did I just mention– Aaaah! What just happened?'

Garry regains consciousness and catches a glimpse of himself held by a ball of water in Simon's control. "Young master... you finally snapped out of it, im glad. If it weren't for them I could hardly tell if I were to live,"

Godfrey and his gang treated the old foxy man after Garry successfully throw Elyra off his reach. "I gotta hand it to you, kid you're pretty good, even if you lost control it's still impressive. Now that you cooled off how bout a thank you for I don't know not ditching you for going head first to Elyra? It's not like we have a chance to escape, but would you mind stalling?"

After having his wounds bandaged, Simon spared no second and reached out to his master upon his return. He points his wand at Garry's noggin and uttered a spell and before he knew it his brain came flooding with a single spell. Shortly after his brain ached so badly but slowly he could feel the pain growing less painful with a wave of his butler's wand

"Young master, we don't have time... but I assure you if we escape I'll tell you everything you need to know. Your mother always told me to protect you, but with my current state, it's by far the promising alternative. You are born with magic, just follow the memories I provided, you're an Arcanist, be proud!" Their small chatter came to pass when Elyra came knocking on their backs

"You devil!" From her blood, thousands of needles formed and they came aiming for Garry's back

"Flintear,"

His flames grew higher and spread further as the rain poured, as the environment opposed his flames it refuses to snuff out. His eyes radiated and their patterns change just as the flames arose from his flesh, Young kettle felt the ever-changing flames. Their nature altered with the chant of the spell, their once raging manner was now given reins for him to control

"So this is flame control?"

"Die!!!"

Elyra's rod became an axe and as she descended into the air she swings with her all in an attempt to decapitate. Garry easily evades her attack the combustion of the flames from his foot sends him flying further beyond. He hovers through the air before descending and there he met Elyra the worn-out hag

"Eat this!"

He propelled himself once more as he store the flames within his palm for another full-blown attack. But this monster of a hag anticipated his moved and prepared wall, as Garry has yet to master his technique he wasn't able to halt. His attack collided with her wall of defense and the worst part his been chained in his failed attempt

"Play times over!"

She fired a single shot of her needle and build the force needed to pierce his skull. But before she could do so Godfrey intervened, he grappled her arm. He slid past her attacks with his nimble body and quickly kicks her foot where she lost her balance. In her fall Godfrey seizes his left foot and returns it so by kicking her back where she flew and with his arms she threw her off

"You sure are a pain in the ass, Garry! I said stall for freaking time! I never said to go on a suicide mission. Are you deaf or something?" At his back, Maximilian leaps to Umbler's care, and the twins made quick progress in unbinding his chain

"You gave me a spook back their kid, and here I thought you wouldn't be worse than, Estelle over here,"

"Shut it Zahyr, I don't wanna hear that from the likes of you!"

"Thanks, but you should watch over Simon. I can handle myself, plus it'll be worse if I owe you guys a favor." He's stopped in his tracks by the very person who opted to use him in their escape

"Look, I see that we're having some conflict, but this isn't the time. Maximilian can handle himself but let's face it, he's all muscle and no brains. He can't be a sure-fire way of beating, Elyra Umbler. But you can... Lilla told me something, you're close to the end, you might think that means we lost but it isn't. Once you reach that point where your mana will dwindle, you'll feel an outburst, so maintain your strength for now," Godfrey and the twins twitched when even their muscle was sent flying after only a minute of fighting the hag

"Hehehehehe! You children are the feistiest I've come to know. It's truly sad. As much as I like to entertain myself, I have a job to do. Prepare to die," Elyra's anthropomorphic monster form grew to be horrendous yet destructive

As she continues to mutate the output of her physical strength along with the medium of her rod in the use of magic. Even at such an age, she was powerful and vanished in their line of sight. She appeared to have reached a point in her speed where she can move even with her hulking body. Maximilian manages to hold off against her strength catching her axe before ever reaching the twins

"Thornus impaeilou!!!" She conjured spikes and goes as far as to enrich such deadly technique with the abundance of her blood

"God damn it!!!" Maximilian and the twins were now surrounded by the impending thorns of metal spikes

The scale of their survival was near impossible but Garry landed in their spot and gathered every bit of flames in his reach. "Flintear Maxima,"

His body produces a pillar of flames from bursting forth in his flesh with not single burning his flesh. He sways his arm along with his feet in the motion of the memory of Simon inlaid, and the flames moved in his command. It encircles the four of them and just when their end was near, Garry plunges his fist burying it deep below the ground

"Full throttle!!!"

His mana seeped from his arm which in turn became flames connecting themselves to the circle and increasing their heat. He never stopped pumping till they became bright as their colors changed from dwindling orange to ferocious blue. The spikes melted before they came close to ever grazing but a hair in their lives

"Vigorous devil, Thornus impaeil– Arghh," Elyra was caught off guard when she gets a taste of her own medicine from a vial of smoke from Godfrey's bag of trinkets

"Why so glum ol chum?" Maximilian tackles her as the smoke paralyzed her in place as everyone on their team gathers for the final strike

"Hehehe... you haven't learned, did you?" The elves who quickly rushed to end their lives were pacified when they were struck by the same liquid metal used on Simon

"Damn it was so close..." Godfrey was the only one strong enough to remain in his feet whilst the rest of his gang vomited

"Aquarius Orbus," The elves were swept away by a giant ball of water before their lives could've ended in Umblers hand

"Old man... why aren't you persistent? Ready for a round two–" Her surrounding eventually brighten when a flicker suddenly formed a flame and later explodes in the process

"I'm quite honored, but im, not your challenger," Everyone even Umbler veered their eyes when in the middle of the night the forest brightened as an existence came immersed in flames

'The moment when this strange feeling in my body swells even further is my strongest point he says... im not doubting what you said but did you four have to risk yourselves just so I could rest? In any case, I best make sure your sacrifices aren't wasted, I'll make sure to burn this horrendous witch,'

Like the manifestation he had before, Garry was endowed in flames more so than he could ever imagine. Every ounce of his flesh was wrapped in the warmth of this raging blaze ever so looming over his side. His awakening was reaching its end and sooner or later his potential will be closed but not after entering its final outburst