"I'd taken control of the elementals long before you'd been to Orobo or Pharie, golden boy. Did you really think those destructive, mindless cretins would have contacted a human? Gol-Ira was a tool created to purge the humans from the north! Pharie's meteor was frozen by the people, using magical gauntlets that they fashioned from the cores of Ice golems, I know it all! They've told me such wondrous stories, oh my what wondrous stories indeed..." She paused for a moment and stopped in her tracks. "The meteors aren't power sources, they were weapons used to conquer the world and eradicate humans once and for all. That's why magic is so very scarce in this worthless universe. Ahaha... You've just been freeing magical nukes throughout your travels. You're to blame for what's about to happen to Orobo and Pharie!" She shouted in Orobo's deep voice. The woman began laughing and rose her hand. She snapped her fingers, and a small puff of purple smoke rose up from her fingertips, signaling an unfortunate event.

"I would have had you free the fire and air meteors, but..! Oh I couldn't wait to see you, face to face! It's not often I get a chance to mess with such a powerful little tool!!!"

Jenso shook as the woman finished speaking. He was angry, but that wasn't the only reason why he was shaking. He was overtaken by shock and glared at the woman. "All those people..." Jenso muttered, clenching his fists. He wanted to rush at the woman and attack, but he wasn't going to win. If she was as strong as Prisma or even stronger, there was no way he would stand a chance. Especially with only one leg. He didn't say anything to the woman, both out of shame of being responsible to the deaths of so many people and simply because she bothered him too much. He tried to make his way off the mountain as fast he could, and head back to the town he came from earlier. He made sure to take the safest path down the mountain.

The woman's smiled suddenly disappeared. Her facial expression, although partially blocked out, changed to one of contempt. "Prisma said you had more fight in you than this!" she growled, disgruntled and betrayed. She stomped towards Jenso and rose a hand up. "What a clown! He's always been such a stupid clown, getting my hopes up!" suddenly, a stream of purple goo rose from the ground near her right foot like a large wave of power. She pointed her finger towards him, and like clockwork, the goo heeded her command and flung itself towards him. "Fight back!!"

Jenso threw a glance over his shoulder and gave a small smirk in response to the woman's annoyance. He stomped his still functioning leg onto the ground to push him further to the right and to try to roll out of the way of the incoming goo. "If you think I'm going to give up just because things look bad, you're wrong!" He shouted. "If I get away, you'll have your fight. Believe me." He added with a cold, serious tone. His hands flared up in flames for a moment as he spoke, due to sheer rage.

"I'm not waiting anymore!" She shrieked, raising both hands into the air. Suddenly, he expression changed to one of horror, and she turned around completely facing the edge of her little cavern where she'd set up five purple candles made out of purple goo. One of the candles flickered out, as soon as she turned around, and the wall behind her burst open, sending shards of stones in her direction. She rose her arm and stomped a foot, raising a large wall of goo between her and the stones, barely stopping them in their path. As it dropped and disappeared, Dacer sat atop the mighty green Tiger that attacked him earlier, wielding his bow and aiming at the woman's face.

"I don't think I've been this pissed of since you tread into our fucking village and killed my entire fucking family, you putrid, fucking, CUNT!"

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"How did you escape my-" the woman started, pausing when she noticed that all of her candles had gone out. "Ah.. Ahoho, you sneaky little charmer! Did you-"

"Save it bitch-tits," the man shouted, firing a stream of white ki, larger than he's been firing before, at her head. She narrowly dodged it with a flick of her head, letting it fly past her, past Jenso, and into the distance beyond them. A few moments later, it struck a large tree in the distance, completely destroying the center of its trunk and sending it to the ground.

"Dacer, please-"

"Whoops! Couldn't hear you over me kicking the shit out of your radical body," Dacer said comedically, firing another arrow directly at her body. His bow crackled with yellow energy, and released three separate bolts, which all threatened to home in on her. She rose an orb of goop around her to defend, but the electrical arrows pierced right through it and struck her directly, sending her directly to her knees. The woman let out a cry of pain, but seemed relatively ok despite losing control of her legs.

"Argh! You're capable of so much more than I thought!"

"Yea, and you're finally where you belong," Dacer started, aiming another white stream of energy at her face, "On your knees, taking it in the face like the little whore you are." He didn't hesitate in firing, but before he could strike her directly, black shadows appeared between him and his target, absorbing his arrow, and spitting out a short woman who looked... Entirely black. She turned to the purple-eyed woman and ran over to her, her short black hair swinging back and forth. Her entire body was darker than normal, so dark that it seemed to absorb all of the light around her. She was like a shadow, but within seconds, the darkness left he body, revealing a younger-looking woman with a thin figure. Her hair remained the dark shade of black, and Her face was also masked, but her eyes didn't Shine. Rather, it was as if she had no eyes. She glared at Jenso for a moment, almost as if she was looking into his soul, and then looked at the injured woman.

"Ah, arriving just in time Shadra, I knew I could count on you.." The purple woman said weakly.

"Don't talk, Adarine," Shadra whispered, grabbing the woman's shoulder and coating them both in blackness.

Jenso nodded at Dacer with a grin of confidence and took aim with the palms of his hands, trying to launch a fire ball into the two women. He was unsure if he would even be able to create one, but he needed to try. It was the last energy he had remaining, so he gave it his best.

Jenso's hands flickered, but nothing came out except another short ranged stream of unruly flames. Dacer glanced at him for a moment, but ignored Jenso, and fired another Ki arrow at Shadra and Adarine. Shadra turned to him and rose a hand covered in deep black smoke. The arrow entered her hand and disappeared. The black smoke faded for a moment and reappeared on her hand, releasing the exact same arrow back into his direction.

"Shit!" Dacer winced. He ducked low and hugged tiger, who dashed out of the arrows way and allowed it to travel out the other side of the cave. Moments later, the two women were cloaked in a blanket of darkness, and began to fade away.

"See you again soon, Golden boy," Adarine remarked, glancing at him with her deep purple eyes one more time before they disappeared into nothingness.

"Sh...shit.." Jenso muttered, and collapsed on one knee out of sheer exhaustion. "It's all my fault..." He muttered. He just sat there, not acknowledging Dacer right away. He appreciated Dacer's help, but he was preoccupied about all the lives that had been lost by his doing.

Dacer got off of Tiger and ran over to where Adarine and Shadra were, moments earlier. "God damn it all!" He shouted, kicking a stray stone out of sheer frustration. The tiger walked over to him and nuzzled his thigh to calm him down, but Dacer didn't seem all to interested in his friend's help. "It doesn't matter if we're ok if that monster is still out there, Does it, Tiger!?" Dacer shouted at Tiger, pushing him away gently. The giant beast slunk back, sat down, and rapidly shrank, losing its green hue and turning into a tiny white cat with a brown spot over its right eye. Dacer turned back to him and sighed. "It's... Ahg! It's not fine!" He paused and turned to Jenso, who was moping near the exit of the cave. "Who the hell are you? Why the hell are you here on Aldri?!" Dacer asked, rather uh... Loudly.

Jenso gave Dacer a confused look as he forced himself back onto his feet, using the nearby rock as support for his injured leg once more. "That woman...Adarine or whatever, she manipulated me. Long story short, it's my fault a lot of innocent people just died. She made me come here, and had me fight you." Jenso explained, walking over to Dacer. "I'd ask you to kill me, because it's what I deserve...But I'm going after Prisma, Adarine, and all of those masked freaks! I'll make them pay, all of them!!" He shouted furiously, as flames flared out of his body again. All his rage bursted out at those final sentences.

Dacer backed away a few steps, and all the anger in his face melted away. "Whoa, simmer down there, kid," He urged Jenso, dismissing his giant bow, "You a Gaian?" He asked. But as soon as he saw Jenso's eyes, he knew it wasn't true. "No, you're not. How the hell can you... Where did you... Agh, what the hell is even happening anymore!?" He said, completely overwhelmed by the current situation. He took a few seconds to calm himself, and turned to Jenso, frowning profusely. "You. You aren't going anywhere. And I ain't gonna kill you either. You're going to calm your shit, and you're going to explain everything to me," Dacer ordered, turning away from Jenso and nodding at Tiger. Tiger grew once again and lowered his body next to Jenso, urging him to ride him with a flick of his head.

"And when you're done, I'm gunna tell you everything else."

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Tiger pulled Jenso out of the cavern and into the opening, where Dacer stood, looking up at the clouds above them. As Jenso got close, Tiger threw up off his back, and Dacer sat nearby, crossing his legs neatly in the middle of the wrecked plateau.

"Cough it up," Dacer ordered, "What'd she do. Where did you come from?"

Jenso nodded and began to calm down as he landed on the ground. He replied to Dacer immediately. "I'm from Arcadia...or what's left of it. A man with a black mask named Prisma killed everyone in the village of Arcadia, and nearly killed me. I managed to survive due to the help of some of my friends in town, and they told me to go meet a man named Lark. He taught me several things about arcane and ki. After that, I headed to Orobo village and I ended up fighting someone who wanted to use the Orobo meteor to call elementals.

A voice spoke, whom I thought was the elemental. But that was Ada all along who changed her voice. She made me believe I needed to save the elementals, so I saved the water one too. After that, Ada told me through the water meteor to come here, to this mountain where the temple of elementals was located. I ended up getting in a fight with you, but Tiger pinned you to the ground and saved me. The elemental meteors ended up being weapons who were controlled by Ada though, and they destroyed two villages." Jenso explained to Dacer, clenching his fists. "It's my fault...all of it. I need to set things right...I will." He muttered after. "...Thanks for the help. I would have been dead if it wasn't for you and Tiger."

Dacer stared at Jenso in disbelief, but said nothing. Even when Jenso uttered Lark's name, he only tensed his facial muscles. When Jenso thanked him and his familiar, he nodded. "Don't worry about it, buddy. It Tiger wasn't linked to my soul-" He paused and shook his head "By Gaia, if all of that's true, then-" Dacer looked up at the purple clouds. They were slowly changed to a light grey and stopped swirling as quickly as before. "She must have lost control when I busted into her stupid little cave. But now that the elementals have two of their meteors back.. Jenso, there might still be some time before they unleash those fucking magical bombs on the people in the north and west," Dacer reassured, pointing up at the top of the mountain. "There might be quite some time before those assholes unleash their magic."

Jenso's eyes widened as Dacer spoke. There was still a chance to save the people. "How will we get there in time, and how do we safely destroy those things?" He asked, looking down at his injured knee. "I won't be much good in this state...but I'll do what I can."

"We climb, and we kill the elementals!" Dacer announced proudly. "But uh, you bring up a pretty damning piece of information, bud. But that wound looks awfully... Sealed. Did I do this to you earlier?" Dacer asked, looking down at Jenso's wound meticulously.

"Yeah...but my ki lets my body heal faster. Lark said my ki was really strong.." Jenso responded, looking at the wound on his leg. "Yeah, you shot me in the knee...but I know it's not your fault. All the bad things that have been going on is all due to those black masked people...do you know more about them?" He asked, searching for another rock in the cavern to support himself to stand. His injured leg still hurt so he tried to avoid supporting his weight onto it.

Dacer cringed when Jenso spoke Lark's name. He shook his head. "I don't know where they came from. Hell, I didn't even know there were more of them. That single woman wiped out all of our strongest warriors in one night, back where I come from, and killed nearly everyone else all on her own. I'm surprised I was even able to hit her after all this time, especially after she took control of me," Dacer explained, rocking in place anxiously. "If you've got some strong Ki, then you should be right as right overnight. From what I know, the elementals can activate their meteors within 24 hours, so if we get some sleep now, we might have time to get up there and do the deed... But uh..." Dacer paused and scratched his chin. He then looked at Jenso smiled nervously. "I don't exactly know how to kill the elementals, ahaha..." He shrugged and smiled. "Oops!"

Jenso gave Dacer a confident grin. "Well, we won't know until we try to kill them, right? I'm sure we'll figure something out." Jenso said. 'Not that we have much time to do research on them..' He thought. "Alright, let's sleep..." Jenso responded, and paused for a moment. "I haven't introduced myself properly yet.. I'm Jenso, nice to meet you!" He said.