Fight Sequence Rainbow Arc of Fire: Shattered Dawn

This was another volume in the series with a number of different, and complex, fight sequences:

Chapter Eight

Before any of them can react, Liquid Lord raises his hands and strong blasts of water emanate from each like the focused spray of a powerful fire hose, knocking them down or aside and soaking them all thoroughly.

As she is being tossed backward, Cleo, who has selected the name Haunt because she can become either invisible or a phantom, immediately switches to this latter state. She feels her backward momentum quickly slow as she watches the powerful water blasts now pass harmlessly through her ethereal form. But in doing so, she realizes that she has thereby taken herself out of the conflict, at least for the moment.

On the other hand, Jane, who chose the name Redwood, knows that she cannot utilize her ability to grow enormously or shrink since she could easily injure someone nearby, or injure herself, by changing size in all of the confusion. She cannot see where the others are since they are all under assault, and the intensity of the deluge continues to stagger and blind her.

Paul quickly recovers and exerts his awesome power over water. He feels the intensity of the moisture but begins to divert the relentless flow around his body by seizing the very molecules and manipulating them, though he knows this requires that he fully focus his thoughts and attention. Therefore, he is unable to go on the attack for the time being.

Joan tries to channel her thoughts, to divert the water by causing the spray coming at them to become lighter than air; but since Liquid Lord continues to bombard them all, she sees that she is merely holding her own, for now.

William recognizes that he cannot utilize his lighting or electrical powers since he and his teammates are all being doused with water and are also touching the ground. Any number of them might become electrocuted or dangerously shocked if he were to try. He also realizes that his magnetic powers are useless at the moment since neither Liquid Lord nor Mercuria appears to be wearing anything metallic that he might attract or repel, so he merely tries to crawl out of the path of the intense water pressure.

Greg attempts to focus his abilities, to create illusions that will confuse their two foes; but he is having a difficult time concentrating as the blasts severely disorient him.

Joseph and Marina have the best chance to launch a counter assault since they were standing at the periphery of the group; but as Harvest’s thoughts begin to reach out and manipulate the grass around Liquid Lord’s feet, he is suddenly spun around and around by some force that he can barely see because it moves so swiftly. He soon falls to the ground, dazed.

Firefrost raises a hand to blast Liquid Lord with strong light, but she stares in amazement as the bright beams slowly ooze from her fingers as if they were being projected in slow motion. She certainly feels her incredible abilities flowing forth from her hands, but she cannot seem to increase the intensity of those beams of light. Suddenly, she, too, is spun about and made to feel so dizzy that she wants to vomit.

With the others sorely pressed, Elemancer seizes the ground underneath himself with his manipulative thoughts and begins to create a tunnel with his powers over earth, to strike their foe by surprise and from beneath. He rejoices as the soil leaps up and outward as his abilities force the very dirt to do his bidding. Though he has utilized his powers on so many previous occasions, he still feels a sense of exhilaration that what he does is virtually remarkable and that his thoughts can so readily be translated into action by merely concentrating and making it so.

Sensing what his partner is attempting as Elemancer disappears into the ground, Oculus directs his own thoughts to help guide his partner toward Liquid Lord since Mercuria has apparently disappeared from view.

When Elemancer reaches a point beneath their enemy--with his location confirmed by his partner--he suddenly emerges up from out of the ground. However, Liquid Lord blasts aside the dirt and grass and grabs Paul, staring hard into his face while intensifying his own powers. As he struggles to free himself, Paul begins to gasp, wondering what is happening to him because he feels as if he is literally dying of thirst.

During the moment when Liquid Lord focuses his attention upon disabling Paul, Redwood acts quickly to increase her height. As if suddenly liberated, she senses her form expanding upward. She then tries to reach down and grab their fluid adversary, to rescue Elemancer before Liquid Lord notices her; however, she finds that she cannot move at all, cannot force her body to do her bidding.

Paul suddenly passes out, so Liquid Lord tosses his limp body aside, renewing the water barrage directed at the others who are still barely standing.

Fearful for his partner, Greg crawls along the ground to reach Paul, his only concern at the moment because Paul’s thoughts seem almost negligible.

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