Finally back in the center of teh volcano, Banokles felt his energy reserves filling back up, his body growing warm again, and his hunger disappeared. While floating on his back he was staring in the sky. He longed to be able to fly, for now all he can do is use flames to jump high, but had no way of changing directions once off the ground. And sometimes he even had problems with the jumps, because he didn't know how strong teh initial blast should be. 

As he was drifting on teh lava he noticed some weird structures flying above him. At first he decided to ignore them, but for some reason they stopped mid air and stood there for a moment. Banokles was amazed by their sheer size. Which intrigued Banokles since he never saw anything that big fly. Then the structures began to lower their altitude. Banokles hardened teh lava beneath him and stood up on his feet. At first he thought the weird flying things would land, but suddenly they began to turn. 

Since he had nothing better to do Banokles decided that a closer inspection is required. [i]“Lets see what you are.”[/i] he said as he readied for a jump. [i]“ i just hope i don't miss it by too much.”[/i] As he said that he jumped in the air, a large fire blast exploded under his feet propelling him high in the direction he jumped like a rocket. 

As he flew through the air he could feel himself growing colder by teh second, and to grow warm again he set himself whole on fire. As he was flying through the air, the ships have already began moving in their new direction. Banokles quickly realised that, not that he will miss the flying thing he was aiming at, but also hit the other one flying right behind it.  As he began to approach it, he saw that he, yet again, made the blast too big and will now collide hard with teh thing. Just as he was about to hit teh ship, he focused his flames into his arms and shoulders. As Banokles and the ship collided an explosion went off. 

When Banokles opened his eyes he saw that the thing he hit now had a gashing hole in its side, and that it was also going further and further away. By teh time he realised he was falling he was already half way down. He had no control over his spinning and rotation in teh air. Deciding on his best idea, he turned into a human cannonball, and set himself on fire once more. This time the fire was much stronger and fiercer. Because he had no idea which part of him will hit the ground first he decided to strengthen up his whole body hoping teh landing won't hurt too much.


Seconds later he could feel large strong branches hitting him as he flew through the forest, hitting and igniting things on the way down. Finally he crashed into the ground with a big blast. For a couple of minutes he laid in his crater. He was exhausted. The energy required to maintain teh defensive fire for so long was demanding. After a few moments teh forest around him started to burn more and more.

With a huge effort Banokles managed to get on his feet and started walking, not noticing the flames around him. After couple of meters he almost fell, but manage to catch himself on a burning tree. The fire warmed him up like it would any normal human, but it was not the same as teh fires that had feed him for all this time in the volcano. Tired he sunk down with his back against the tree.

 He tried to remember in which direction is the volcano, but all teh spinning in the air made him lose his orientation. Usually if he concentrated he could feel if there was any fire to restore him around. He tried, and failed. Using so much energy to survive, and being so far away from volcano, Banokles, for teh first time, felt in what state he was, tired so much he couldn't even fall asleep, so hungry he could eat a tree, thirsty to drink teh oceans, but at least he wasn't cold anymore. at teh moment that is.