Seadramon's thrashing knocked down even more trees as Terriermon hurled himself at the beast. It wasn't the first time you had seen your brother fight, but still, it was always amazing how the chatty child seemed to fade into the background as he focused on his duel.
"Terrier Tornado!"
He swept up a trunk and sent it at the foe, Seadramon hissed as it's scales took the hit, and lunged forwards with it's maw open. The sight forced you into action, and you sent your Blazing Ice attack directly into it's mouth. You saw the explosion mirrored in it's gleaming teeth.
Seadramon raised it's head again, and let loose a spray of water which carved a path through the forest. You threw yourself into cover as it passed over you, but then you heard Terriermon snarl and leap over the attack.
Before your eyes, your brother produced three more of his signature attack and sent them to explode against Seadramon's face. A massive tail whipped towards him, but he used his small size to evade and it swept into a dozen trees.
At this point, a certain concept was becoming clear to you. You had always assumed that in direct combat, you and Terriermon were somewhat equal, but it was fast becoming obvious that this just was not the case. Your powers were the same, it was true, but your brother seemed so much faster, and he knew what he was doing so much more clearly than you. All the time that you had spent inside learning how to write or how to conduct diplomacy or rituals, he'd spent learning to fight to defend the temple. It was obvious as he dodged and rolled with the blows that had sent you spinning.
Bouncing from tree to tree like a demented bouncy ball, Terriermon spat another globe of energy, to much the same effect as the rest of his attacks. Seadramon pressed the attack, forcing Terriermon to the ground under threat of a direct attack.
"Even with my best attacks, I can't make it through his scales." You heard your brother mutter. "It's as bad as trying to get Cherrymon to give a simple answer."
Seadramon for it's part was looking more and more annoyed. As frequent explosions peppered it's writhing body, it's eyes began to flash with rage.
"You annoying pessst." It hissed. "I'll feed on both of you before the day is done!"
You joined the attack, surging forwards and launching a volley of ice shards at the monster. They shattered against it's armoured scales, but it drew Seadramon's attention away from Terriermon. Your brother flipped into the air, and launched into a vortex of green power. With a sudden motion, it whacked Seadramon in the face, and the serpent began to topple.
Taking advantage, you pushed strength not your short legs, and leapt, the forest around you receded as you rose up. With you rising, and Seadramon falling, there was inevitably a point where the two of you were on an even field.
"Tiny Twister!"
You summoned your power and created a spinning vortex of wind to match your brother's. You spun forward and caught Seadramon in the face once more. As the wind's broke up around you, and you felt gravity pulling you back down, you had an idea.
"Terriermon, together!"
Luckily, he realised what you planned and nodded. You opened your mouth, and set loose a series of icy shards with your Blazing Ice attack. They slashed into Seadramon's forehead, but as before did little damage. You increased the power, even as the shards shattered and and broke, but the shards weren't the point.
"You can't harm me!" Seadramon snarled, but even it did not realise the danger it was in .
Blazing Ice was an indirect attack, it's primary purpose was to create the Ice Shards which you launched, but those shards were not the attack. Merely the result of it. The true form of your signature was actually the icy wind with which you hurled them. Though it took effort, you were able to increase the power of the wind, even though it usually had a limited effect on the ice.
This time, however, the shards were not your goal. For creeping across Seadramon's forehead, a tiny sheet of frost. The scales and flesh beneath flash-frozen by your wind. As the seconds ticked by, you felt your body growing weaker but it didn't matter.
"Now!"
Terriermon launched himself from a nearby tree, his ears extended to allow him to glide as he opened his mouth and spat his own attack.
"Bunny Blast!"
Bunny Blast was a fire-based technique, similar to your Blazing Ice but reversed in alignment. He aimed right at the spot you had hit before, and as usual, his eye was true. The orb of contained fire smashed into the icy sheet which you had formed.
Fire and ice met in a single instant. The scale armour of the monster going from super cold to hyper-intense fire in the span of less than a second. It reacted as most things do to such a change.
The explosion shook the forest, and this time you heard Seadramon scream. Shattered scales glittered on the forest floor, and red stained the head of the serpent.
"Lopmon, use your Tiny Twister!" Terriermon shouted. " I wanna try something!"
You nodded and summoned up yet more of your power. Your tiny heart was hammering, this was the first time you had ever been in a real battle, and you felt totally out of your depth.
"Tiny Twister!" You created another spurt of wind, and shaped it into a churning vortex even as Terriermon did the same with his own attack. The pair of you met, and suddenly the twisting wind got a hundred times stronger!
With two sources powering it, the attack grew and grey, the spinning pillar of wind reaching nearly as high as the trees themselves.
"Double Typhoon!"
You didn't know which of you shouted it, for it was as though there wasn't two of you at all. Caught up in the primal power of the attack, you could only do as it wanted. Winds roared and tore at the ground and sky. Now, Seadramon's early anger came back to hunt it, for the hunting hands of the wind came up with the strewn logs and branches it had created. They were lifted into the air, and you hurled them at the beast as hard as you could!
The first log brained the serpent, sending a spray of red across the standing trees. As it blinked stupidly, you sent another spinning at it, and another and another.
It scythed one in half with a stream of water, the second got iced by a thin beam. The third was deflected by a swiping tail. Even half senseless, Seadramon was fast and powerful, but it was a hopeless fight now, because the typhoon was only growing with time. Now the winds were strong enough to rip the branches off trees, and hurl them like miniature stakes.
The next barrage of these stakes stitched the around around Seadramon, most breaking on it's scales, but a few drew blood. It's eyes were wild now – this had turned from an easy hunt to an actual fight.
Seadramon fired a stream of water at the centre of the typhoon, it was grabbed by the pull of the wind, forced to circulate the outer wall, and then fired back twice as strong.
Seadramon dodged as the three trees behind it were cut down like wheat. Suddenly, it's tail smashed into the ground, and the resulting spray of dust was sucked into the vortex. You coughed and spluttered, and by the time you could see again, Seadramon had begun a retreat. It was winding it's way through the trees, back towards the lake.
The power was cut, in in a few rotations, the typhoon died down. You were left standing with your brother in the remains of a wooded area, now scoured clean of trees -or living ones at any rate. The land was littered with crushed wood.
"That was awesome!" Terriermon cheered. You didn't feel quite so happy about it, you turned your eyes to regard the land.
"It's like a bomb hit this place." You said. "Did we really do all this?
Terriermon waved a hand.
"Pffh, they're just trees. They'll be back in like, a week." The goofy smile faded from his face. "We should go after Seadramon. It won't leave us alone now, when Seadramon find prey they don't stop until they think they have won or if they have been badly beaten."
"You sound sure of that."
"It was one of the things I learned while you were stuck inside like a rabbit in a hutch." He said half jokingly. "Seadramon aren't everyday sights in the woods, but they're common enough that I was warned about them. We should-"
He was cut off as his left leg gave way, pitching him forwards into the dirt.
"I'm okay! Just a little pooped. The attack took a lot of power, you know?"
He tried to clear his head, blinking rapidly and got to his feet. "I'm okay now. Just what were you doing in this part of the forest anyway? Don't you know it's dangerous?"
[] Tell him about the creature that lured you here.
[] Don't tell him. A semi-visible creature with no scent lured you to the pool? That doesn't sound insane at all!
[] Write In.
