Chapter 12 TWELVE

A ball of fire fell from the sky.

Each time the lady of chaos was in battle, the three suns were always charged and ready to defy the laws of nature. Their gravitational field increased and attracted rocks from outer space to earth. They also burned at extreme degrees that melted metals on earth from their thousand miles away.

Xian, one of the U-band soldiers who was always known to produce large tsunamis was right on time.

He swirled the tsunami into the flames before it could land.

But more was coming.

The lady of chaos was now in close range.

She teleported to the front line leaving the Bergons behind.

All U-band cadets took their fighting stance. Combat ready.

“Haha.” She laughed scornfully.

“Little children. Aww so cute.” She said ironically. “You think you can beat the lady of chaos.”

She turned invisible. “I'll tell you why I am called that.”

She reappeared behind one of the cadets and instantly, she caught fire.

The other cadets tried to summon their powers and save her. But the lady of chaos had other plans. Without moving a finger she rendered them powerless. None of them could cause water to flow. Not even the commander, Henry. Some tried to rush over and help with dust but she caused all of them to cease moving. No matter how hard they tried, no muscle would budge. They watched their fellow cadet burn to ashes. Wailing.

She could not even help herself because her muscles were tied down too.

The lady of chaos reappeared. She was no longer wearing the black cloak she always had on. They saw something different entirely.

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Leo saw Ken running towards the north of the camp faster than anything he had ever seen before. He decided to sneak up on him and find out what he truly was. He flew quietly, navigating the area with mastery till he found the North gate.

Ken had still not seen the bergons but he could hear them closer now. And something else like a machine. He looked up and turned on his long-range vision. Just as he suspected, there was Leo. He recognized him from the L-band banner behind the jet.

His mood lightened though he was afraid it might not turn out well.

Then he saw the bergons.

These ones were smaller than the previous ones. “This will be a breeze,” he murmured.

Leo was directly above Ken now and could see the bergons too. He fired four bullets instinctively. Ken smiled. He was not alone.

Meanwhile, back at the base, the controller had seen how the fight was going from the tower and decided to switch formations.

“Z-band elites, to the front lines now. U-band retreat.”

Lady of Chaos smiled. “Now you see how foolish you are.” The U-band cadets had no other power except the control of water and aquatic animals. So in this case, they were not efficient.

The bergons had arrived from the East coincidentally, at the same time their fellows got to Ken and Leo.

Leo transformed back to his normal configuration and stood behind Ken, both watching each other's backs.

They took a combat stance in the middle, the bergons circling.

The first attack came.

The four bergons exhaled fire on both of them at once. Ken activated his super jump and latched onto the back of the first.

Leo on the other hand, converted his legs to spring coils and jumped clean over the second, turning to a fighter mid jump and fired the first missile.

It however dodged at the last second and the explosion caused a minor earthquake.

As for Ken, he activated his lasers on the neck of the first bergon. It started cutting through the armored skin. But it rotated its head and breathed straight at Ken. Ice.

He jumped off and sped towards the next. At least he had one piece of information. He had a weapon that was capable of destroying anything.

Back at the camp, the lady of chaos noticed that her ambush had not quite arrived. She transmitted some frequency to the bergons with her and disappeared.

The Z-band elites were actively fighting. They had a strategy. To destroy each bergon, one at a time.

But strategy was not enough when you have the enemy running in every direction while you are exposed on every side.

At the same time, the three suns were charged and raining fireballs. Asteroids were raining causing deep craters in the field. Burying soldiers alive.

Up close, Mark had formed a team with three other cadets, Oliver, Edna and Sky. They attacked the first bergon with calculated steps. Every attack was communicated and pondered over the mind link.

Oliver telekinetically rolled a round rock thrice his size towards the bergon.

It instinctively took flight. Just what they wanted. Sky, the best wind weaver amongst them, deflected all the air around the bergon, causing a vacuum. It flapped its wings with every skill it had. But it was not enough to keep flight when there was no medium to stay in. It fell right on the large stone slab Mark forged. Then another slab landed on it, sandwiching it between them before it could react. The three guys compressed the stone with everything in them. Mounting pressure so hard it could compress a car within seconds. Edna stood close enough to the bergon and far enough to avoid its attacks, targeted its eyes and burnt them with fire.

It breathed ice as a counter attack. Luckily, one eye got damaged. It continued to push and struggle to escape the two stones.

“Deflect the air around it,” Edna called to Sky.

He manipulated the air into escaping from the bergon no matter how hard it tried to breathe. It kicked and struggled before it suffocated. Then dropped. Became flaccid.

They held for a little more before releasing the pressure.

But for something centuries old, suffocating was not enough to kill it. Because it could hold its breath for as long as two hours. Not the few minutes Mark and his friends taught.

It rose behind them.

And breathed.