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nThe wave of lava from the Elemental splashing into the fire lake hit me, and I was taken under with it. This really wasn't much of a problem, and I plunged deep, using my arms to pull myself to the bottom.

nBlaza is trying to get to you, but you need to seal yourself from him and then try to absorb what you can! fifteen seconds till eternal damnation is released, and the top ten feet for a mile around is vaporized!

nI didn't need Fireden's voice to remind me about the burgeoning atomic bomb worth of energy. I kept Keri's Totem up but changed to my Water Force Pact and started to churn the fiery sludge.

nThe massive surge was building within the Dread Dragon as I whipped the lava around me faster. I could tell that it was about to reach the crescendo of overcharged unbridled power, so I needed to be faster.

nI closed my eyes, entirely slipping into my Water Aspect, forcing my body to expand. Then I started to swirl my body around, creating a small dome of volcanic rock for me to stand in.

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"This is your fault! Stupid heroes always bringing trouble!

" An angry voice roared, but the thick but porous rock muffled it..

nThen I sensed a massive hand close around my sphere, and I started to rise.

n'Oh **! This isn't good!'

nToo Late! Get ready for a ride!

nI felt myself moving faster upwards, and then I was forced into a puddle as I felt myself be launched into the air.

nThen it happened, the Fre-Dread Dragon hit critical, and I felt everything get pulled back towards the source. My upward motion was slowed, but I was still over two thousand feet in the air.

nI could sense Carnica was trying to attack my rock, but they were having no luck as they started to be pulled down. The second felt like it lasted forever as my unformed body of water lifted slightly.

nThen the direction of the blast reversed, and my body was smashed to the bottom of my domed lava rock.

nFlame on! Hehe, okay, I get why you say it now! It's pretty fun!

n'Ugh, what is happening?! Why are we still going up?!'

nNow I was surrounded entirely by fire. The gravity created from the speed boost stopped pulling at my body, but I wasn't slowing.

nThe further I went up, the farther I got from the planet's surface. It was also taking me away from the source of the eruption of energy, but I could still feel the others, and they were still safe.

nThere was only a handful of Carnica's I could perceive near me, but they were far below me. A large number of them had been incinerated during the explosion.

nThe blast had produced far more energy than I had predicted, and I was still rising up.

nDo not change forms! You are shooting into space! If you change back to my form, you will be frozen solid!

nSuddenly, I felt strange, and my body started to be hard to move. It was like I was pushing on something that didn't exist. This was space, and there was a slow hiss that started, and I groaned.

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"Fuck.

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nMy body was ripped out of the porous rock through a series of connected pin holes that were being ripped open further. I was forced out into the cold.

nMy body started to feel strange and pressurized, but I was eating through energy and in the vacuum of space.

nThis isn't good; you are going to start eating through your reserves! There is no oxygen, and if that means you are using your own energy to even keep my fires lit.

n'Oye! I know what space is! What do I do?'

nReally? Get back to the planet!

nI looked around as I felt my body eating the energy inside of it, and there was nothing around us, not even moons. For the first time, I got a look at the world I had been forced onto and had been traveling around.

nEven with the vacuum of space trying to snuff my fire and life out, I had to enjoy the twisted beauty of it. A world that was no bigger than our moon, yet it was clearly divided with intersecting massive canyons.

nThere was barely any green on the side that I could see, but what was there was a perfect green. There should have been some kind of variation, but It was all green of the same shade,

nWhat I could see was the massive clouds of dark smoke billowing up from below where the dragon had exploded. A fiery path still raged at the outsides where the Fire-Dread Dragon had chased me.

nIt looked to be growing at an alarming rate; the fire was catching fire to everything like it was dried tinders. I needed to get down there and deal with that; I had spent enough time gazing down at the planet.

nToo late!

nFireden's voice shocked me, but it kicked my mind in gear, and I started to pour fire from my hands and feet. I blasted forward, but something started to happen, and I felt myself start to fade.

n'What's going on? We need to get down there and stop that fire!'

nIt's too late now, the Challenger Gem is completed, but the fire will leave with us. The mark and memories will remain, but the remnants of the fire are Dragon Fire, and not of this world.

nI relaxed with Wataluga's words, but I felt all my energy leaving as I started to fade from this existence. All the energy I had gained from eating the lava and drawing it into my body was disappearing.

nIt was like sitting down on a couch after first getting home from work. The energy was just flushed out of me, and I was left with a feeling of exhaustion.

nThen I hit the ground with a painful thump, but it was stairs. Then I felt more bodies pile on me, making me groan as my back was crushed into the stairs.

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