Fairy Tales

[Gildarts]

Cassandra exclaimed with a leap of excitement, “Wow!” Meanwhile Cana fell to one knee, fatigued at the magic it had taken to destroy the beast. Waves of lava began to lap at the soles of her shoes, Cana’s vampire friend warned her, “Watch out!”

Cana knew she would soon be drowned by the magma, her legs propelled her upward in a final launched jump, while the island, seconds later, was engulfed in lava. Cana landed, barely, teetering on the edge of the bank of obsidian rock, her heel swayed on the last bit of uneven rock, while a hand came from no-where and gripped Cana’s flailing arms, while she had attempted to catch herself from falling downward into the goo.

Cana was pulled forward, into her vampire friend, and the wizard exclaimed, “Whew!” while Cassandra simply grinned.

“We made it.”

“Barely.” Cana said, with a glance back at the lava pool where the last remains of their magma beast lay at rest. “What even WAS that?” Cana said, after they’d put some distance between them.

Cassandra closed her eyes as she walked, “Even I cannot name all of the monsters within this universe. That, however, was not the kind of creature you see every day.”

Cana nodded. “I’ll be glad to get out of this place, I don’t find I like it much.”

“That makes two of us,” she smirked, “Fire is very destructive, and the magma nearly had us both there.”