Noah Joél Darwinson
(San Francisco Bay Bridge – Outskirts of Oakland)
(San Francisco Bay Bridge – Outskirts of Oakland)
There was so much tension on the outskirts of Oakland near the Bay Bridge, so much so that one could cut through it with a knife. There was confrontation between Noah and two other elementals, one of which Noah knew very well. There was a crackling of thunder, and a flash of lightning, but what happened next, Noah did not expect. A great blast of lightning streaked down from the storm cloud and struck his shadow minion, incinerating the poor thing. Maxi took this opportunity of distraction to follow up with an attack of his own. Transforming his limps into conductors, he used his body as a lightning rod and sent a shockwave of electricity into the ground. The electricity entered into Noah with a vengeance. Pain filled him; every inch of his body hurt as he was thrust backwards hitting the ground hard. His body skidded on the ground, uprooting dirt. It was at this time that he noticed the gigantic barrage of metal that was hurdling towards him. He had to do something, or he’d be crushed. One thing was certain, he was not through fighting.
Jumping to his feet, having shaken off the feeling of the electricity from his system, he grabbed his staff that had fallen from his grasp earlier, and dashed towards the metal. Jumping into the air, he dove straight for the ground and right into the shadow of the metal that struck the ground where he had been. It piled up to great heights and created an interesting piece of architecture. Noah rose from the shadow of the piled metal, but hadn’t noticed Maxi barreling towards him with his arms extended, attempting to run him through. Quickly, Noah parried the attack with his staff and used Maxi’s metal body as leverage to flip away from him. A sharp pain filled his arm as he land on one knee. He looked quickly to see blood running down in droplets. Apparently Maxi had gotten in a hit with those sharp metal arms of his. Noah glared and took a stance.
“Come on you SON OF A B***,” Noah stated as he tossed his staff into the air and watched it vanish.
His hands were all he needed for this, besides the staff would only slow him down. Crackling with dark energy, his hands eventually produced two basketball sized orbs. He was wounded and the electrical attack had done a number on him, but he wasn’t going to let them know it, he was going to fight until he didn’t have a breath left. Joining his two hands together over his head, the orb grew large. He thrust it at Maxi and repeated the attack again, and again, and once more before he stopped. Panting, he fell to one knee and looked at his hands. He emitted a growl. He looked up when he heard a scream. A scream had come from somewhere, but he couldn’t see where it had come from.
“Next time Maxi, next time we finish this,” Noah stated as he started backing away.
He could only think about the scream he had heard. If his hearing was accurate, the scream was nearby, possibly close to the Bay Bridge. Sinking into the shadow cast by various surroundings, Noah never took his eyes off of Maxi. He gave him a “we will finish this one day, bet your bottom dollar” look and soon vanished within the shadow. Now he was jumping from one shadow to the next looking for the source of the scream. It wasn’t long before he found an unconscious body laying still. Emerging from the female’s shadow, he quickly grabbed her and found shelter. Using skills he had learned, he did as he had done with the girl before who had been trapped under a car. He made sure the girl had water as their shelter was within an abandoned building. He had bandaged his arm and had checked his vitals to make sure that the electrical attack hadn’t done any internal damage.