Agnisotra: Origin Tails

-How are things going with the evacuation? - - I fully understand now why Agnis sent some of these people to get vaporized. It is like they are deliberately making things difficult for me. -

- Are you in the underground city now? - - Yes, it took a long time to convince Isi to let these people in. Luckily Agnis’ clone was really helpful in this because she might not have agreed without that clone by our side. I am busy preventing these people from carelessly claiming rooms in the palace. Agnis’ clone seems to put in a lot of work but it seems that it is running out of juice, how is the real Agnis doing? I can't reach him. -

- Hmm, we can't reach him either but the Thing’s are gone. I assume because I can feel Agnis' energy which I normally can’t feel when he is dealing with his dimensional stuff. But the pink root seems a bit bigger and is glowing so he might have different problems now.- - I see, how is Raishin behaving?-

- He was behaving well today, so I will allow him to misbehave tomorrow because that is probably when the dragon will escape.- - I will try my best to wrap up things here, delegate the responsibility to Paul and Paula and come and help you guys-

- Take your time, we don't want you to rush here to end up dying, I am expecting both of us to lose some lives against this dragon, in the worst-case scenario Raishin will use [Solar stream], and if that doesn't work we have to lure it to Azu.-

-Be careful, I have to go, Donkey and Monkey are causing problems, I might have to beat them up.- - Have fun.- I closed the Teleroad link and looked at how the hu... townspeople were bickering and arguing with each other. Even some small fights broke out. Charlize, Cecelia, Paul, and Paula were doing their best to keep order. Gianni and his girlfriend ehh cousin, yes Tara is his cousin now, were also trying to calm the crowd down. I sighed and headed over to the crowd.

“We can take care of ourselves! Bring us back!”

“This is a violation of our rights!”

“I left my tv up there!”

“Guys! Guys! If we could just all calm down!” Paul was trying to calm everyone down but it didn't seem like most of the people here could hear him.

“Calm? You want us to stay calm? There were those things everywhere! An earthquake and a volcano erupted!”

“2 volcanoes.”

“Yes, two volcanoes! Wait what?! 2 volcanoes erupted and you want us to stay calm!?” What he means is that right now we’re safe if you go back up there you will just get met with more dangers.

“How do you know!”

Gianni stepped forward. “Well, since we are deep underground the pink monsters and lava bombs won’t reach us. The earthquake didn't seem to do much to this place down here so it should be safe.”

“You have no proof!”

“Do you have proof that we’re unsafe down here?” Oooh, nice one Gianni.

“I don't feel safe here!”

“Unfortunately, feelings aren’t proof, there are many people here that accept that this is safer than on the surface why can’t you see that too?”

“Don't tell me how to behave I’m going back!”

“Yes! Come with us we will all guide you to the surface, for the right price of course!” Monkey and his group were spurring the people to join them and go back to the surface, they are using this situation as an opportunity to earn some money. Hey, Munkey, you’re giving a bad example! We must stick together in safety! “Silence brat! I won't have you ruin my opportunity to earn some gold!”

“Hey, dad can I beat him up?”

“Sure, son, show him that messing with the Hurado family is a foolish thought!”

“Ha! Carl, Hubert, Chad, and Brad! Let’s beat that kid up!” Dunkey, no Donkey gathered his friends and approached me. I will have to apologize to Agnis, these guys are annoying indeed. I thought you would personally deal with me; do you need your friends for this?

“The weak should just shut up and listen to the strong!” Donkey's line reminded me of the last timeline where a similar line ended up in Gianni’s death. I clenched my fist.

“You guys must be cowards to gang up on him!” Gianni stood next to me and tried to drive the bullies off.

“Hey, dad help! This guy is obstructing us!”

“Sure, son, let's turn them into a pile of ash!” I remembered how Tara was crying and Gianni’s charred body and the smell of burnt flash. I decided to follow Agnis’ example and teach these bullies a lesson. I would do my best to defeat them non-lethally but if they ended up dying, I wouldn't care. They will cause many more to die if they get ignored. Hey, Gianni, it seems a battle is unavoidable, are you ok with that?

“I am but a humble postman but I've watched enough magic tournaments on tv to get a grasp of how to be an effective fighter!” I got the feeling I would have to protect Gianni quite a lot in this battle. As I remember, he was a buffer and used light chains. Gianni made a pelican made out of wind… How much did these timelines change Gianni? It’s like he’s a completely different person! Monkey got out his fire gorilla and I took out my bear avatar. Monkey, a gorilla, a Donkey, a pelican, and a bear, it looks like a zoo here, I bet Agnis and Raishin would have a field day with this situation.

“Let's incinerate them!” Monkey sent his fire gorilla at us. I decided to take care of that because Gianni’s wind pelican would be a bad matchup. Donkey started his long-ass lightning cast and Gianni made his pelican swoop by and blew the bullies away. His pelican dropped packets of compressed air while flying over and bombarded them… When did Gianni get this strong? My bear avatar had a strength contest with the gorilla. My bear avatar was bigger and was pushing it back. I made it swipe and the gorilla took damage and shrank in size. Monkey was throwing [flame spears] at me but I shot them down with [Meteor punches].

“Ugh! how vexing! Just be a nice brat and drop dead!” Monkey prepared for the gorilla to slam on me but Gianni’s pelican blew Donkey in range. “Hey! That is dirty leave my son out of it!”

“If you wanted to leave your son out of it you shouldn't have joined his fight!” Gianni was keeping the bullies under control with wind magic. I was stunned. Did he even need me here? Wait he does, He needs me to deal with Monkey.

“Dad help! This guy is cheating!”

“How despicable!” Uhm it's you guys who started a 6 v 2 and you call us cheaters?! One of the bullies sent a [Water blast] at me. Honestly, this thing looks super weak. Maybe because I’m used to Agnis’ water blasts. I didn't even need to block or evade them. I got hit but only got wet.

“What? No damage? You monster!” I let out a loud bear roar and 2 bullies backed off and peed their pants.

“Here take this! My prized blue [Lightning bolt]!” I got hit with it too, it hurt a bit, also because I was wet but it didn't seem to be a threat. Hmm, why am I bothering with these guys again? Right, so they don't lead other townspeople to their deaths. I gently smacked the bullies aside and they passed out. It is just Gianni, me, and Monkey.

“My son! What have you done to my son? How could you!” Some discipline, something that you should've done yourself, although it seems you need some too! “You are dead meat!” The fire gorilla swelled and… split into 2 gorillas. “Ha! I bet you never saw fire magic this strong and potent!” Ooh boy, you have no idea…

“Take this!”

“Hey, Ted are we going to be, ok? Those [flame waves] look huge” Don’t worry Gianni, I got this! I made an [Earth wall] to block a [Flame wave] from one fire gorilla and blocked the other one with my bear avatar. I could easily do this for hours because these flames weren’t that hot.

“What? Impossible!” I closed in on a fire gorilla and destroyed it with a point-blank [Meteor rain]. I grabbed another one with my avatar paw and slashed it with [Bear claw]. Monkey looked shocked as his prized fire gorillas got destroyed in seconds. Gianni, you get the honor to finish him off.

“Are you sure?” I am sure. Monkey seemed paralyzed by fear and disbelief. Gianni walked over to Monkey and imbued his left fist with wind magic. I didn’t know he was left-handed. He stood in front of Monkey and landed the most satisfying [wind punch] I’ve ever seen. Monkey flew away in a beautiful arc and landed in a rock wall 20 meters further. His followers surrounded us and some ran at him. I got ready for round 2 but at that moment I heard lightning crackle. It seems Paula had enough of this situation and got mad.

“If you guys are here to start trouble then you either go take that up to the surface or answer to me!” Her magic was spiking hard and Paul got out the sword he bought from Agnis and was releasing killing intent. I high-fived Gianni while Monkey’s followers calmed down. Thank you, Paul and Paula!

“Don’t worry about it, Ted. Your exchange with Munkey showed us that some people just won't listen to words, so we decided to step up.” Paul patted my shoulder.

“Thank you for helping Ted out Gianni, your talents seem to be wasted to be a postman.” Paula thanked Gianni.

“Eh, yeah, I hate being a postman, I want to become a fighter in one of those tournaments!” Uhh, good luck with that, you are certainly stronger than I would’ve thought, maybe you can ask Charlize for some tricks in using wind magic, she used to be an adventurer.

“Oh! That is a great idea! Thank you, Ted!” Gianni ran at his gir… cousin, talked a bit to her and they headed toward Charlize.

“We will take it from here, Paul, and I will make sure everything will go without any problems, you go back to help your friends.” Thanks again, Paul and Paula. I tried to look for the Agnis clone that arrived with us here but I couldn't find him. I tried to contact him with Teleroad again. No answer. I sighed and decided to walk the long road back to the surface.