In all honesty the response from the small girl hadn’t been one that Chris had expected, then again she hadn’t expected much of one other than ‘AAAAAAAAH!’ or ‘Thank you’.

“What you then? 12?” Chris exclaimed.

Feeling the last of her grip on the girl slip away Chris came to a halt to let the girl back down onto the ground beside a large piece of what may have part of a building. Kneeling down by the girl Chris gave her a quick check over for any injuries whilst trying to keep one eye on the battle around them. Arms? Yep, good no burns there. There goes the electric guy. Legs? Yep, still both there. Diamond lady in the ground.

“Can’t you make more crows?” Chris asked, quickly checking over the girls head for any injuries. “We need to get those hosta-” A bright ball of fire tearing towards them appeared in Chris’ line of sight.

“Look out!” She cried shoving the young girl backward onto the ground while Chris fell onto her own backside allowing the ball of roaring flame to fly gracefully past on its way to destroying something.

Chris turned back around to face Ember just in time for another ball of fire to crash into her shoulder. Chris screamed, more in shock than actual pain, as her lower face was singed by the explosion of heat and sent into a sideward roll. Chris recovered quickly and carried on rolling not just to get away from the oncoming balls of fire, she could not only hear but feel them exploding onto the ground behind her, but to also try and put out the fire that was trying to burn away her shoulder. 

With the fire out, and the shoulder segment of her jacket and shirt underneath mostly gone leaving a raw burn on her shoulder Chris was now seeking an opportunity to get back up but with Ember continuing to fire the regular ball of fire at her Chris just simply couldn’t.