Chapter 22: AIRSHIP LANDS

Thorns shot from many clouds, falling like meteors from the sky, many elves led by Carlia shielded the ship and defended their ride, they kept shooting, the captain of the ship tried to speed it up, the shifter man powered by air, tries to get away with the monsters with his power but it is not strong enough because monsters are very fast, monsters were never seen but clouds were with them,

Selestia controls the ship's gravity as it ascends, reconnecting with shadow and glowing her eyes with white. The pressure was heavy, and she tried and tried to get it up, but Alice warned her not to go too high because reaching the atmosphere will be the end of them. Selestia continues to push up, and the wolf continues to push away from the monsters, while the elves and Carlia have had their chances and shoot an arrow into the clouds.

never they seen falling onto the ground, they shot again, they never see anything falling, Selestia stops not going to the atmosphere, The wolf shifter tries hard and keeps going, he felts the pressure and weight and his energy slowly let's him down, It was quiet for a while, Selestia, Carlia and Alice felt it suspicious especially all the people on deck, suddenly shot more thorns, more clouds were approaching,

Selestia commanded the wolf shifter to blow away the clouds so they can see who they're fighting, they fire arrows again, seen nothing fall, the wolf begins to drive away the clouds, clouds were push away and many people especially the princesses shock of it, a big flying monster, following the ship, the monster roars loudly, letting the glasses vibrate, then they saw its minions, flying with it, and prepares their thorns, Carlia commanded to shield the wolves, Selestia, Alice , and the other citizens of Aria, they were panicking the giant monster made it's move again, flapping its wings, it shed thorns , those thorns shoot the the balloon of the airship and the cloth, the ship slowly goes down,

Selestia goes forward as if she was not scared, she controlled the gravity, and concentrates it going up connected to shadow, Selestia grunts and scream cause of the heaviness of the airship, Selestia pushes it up with glowing white eyes, theo sters flaps their wings again and shootore thorns from their wings shooting them to Selestia,

a bunch of elves put a shield formation against the monsters protecting Selestia to concentrate with Carlia to it, Selestia's necklace glows and its brighter than before and showed the symbol of Libra, Libra reunited with Selestia with shadow by their side, shadow helps push with Selestia using gravity, the ship slowly goes up, the wolf shifter tries to push harder but has low air, alice is now worried,

the monster shoots the wolf shifter who produced air himself, Alice push him to not get hit, both of them get on the ground, another giant monster, throws big thorn once again on the deck leaving a big hold on it, Carlia got herself into the side of the hole still carrying on, libra increase the power of Selestia and keeps pushing, Selestia heard carlia in the side of the hole still holding onto something, Selestia saw it, she losses controls a after concentrates the power,

Selestia keeps strong letting her guard down, Carlia is nearly falling onto the hole, the monster shots again thorns, and the thorns wounded Selestia and she screamed right in her arm a wound and Selestia stops and all her glow were gone and Libra was abruptly disappear from her body, shadow was only left with a pain on his arm, Selestia gets to hold Carlia helping her to get back on the deck and Alice is still on the ground unconscious, the ship fastly goes down,

The captain then runs from their room and calls the people and shouted out them,"this is gonna blow, everybody we must jump", Alice slowly wakes and saw Selestia panicking over the citizens and she saw Alice, she said to Alice, "Alice you need to help us , can you make trees be a safe landing for us", Alice said yes and takes her to the side of the deck to concentrate, while monsters are still flying other wolves and archers still defended , wolf shoots daggers on his hand, other ones were nauseous of the ship,

Carlia still gets her bow and prepares to attack, Alice reconnects with her spirit one again, and tries hard to get the trees big, she puts her forces especially her spirit within her, she groans , Selestia then helps her and she reconnects again with shadow once more with wounds in their arms and slowly gets the ship to land safely, Alice puts more effort and trees got bigger and had many more leaves, citizens start panicking, all of the people made a teamwork, the ship slowly falls and lands on the tree well,

Carlia steadies her guard, cause of the monsters will came, Alice gets to the ground and felt absorbed really bad, and Selestia with shadow both of them grumble as they felt the wound in their arms, they still screamed really hard, Carlia gets to them and let go of her bow and arrow, Carlia asks the captain out loud with impatience , "do we have a ladder in her or rope?" The captain spoke, "both of them we had but we cannot let our other passenger get down using that, princess Aria and Marco is still in their bed, we cannot leave them princess",

Carlia slowly falls tears then they heard a horse coming through this way, marching in every step on the ground while they were on the deck in the trees, horse neighs loud and clear and people felt hope, Vampires climb onto the tree and crawls on it , and arrived on the deck, vampires emerged leaving citizens of Aria breathless, a vampire on their front each vampire came up and one not a vampire climb through a tree and her hands were on the deck side and walks with a coat of black with Vonn by her side,

then it saw Carlia, Carlia saw a familiarity in the woman in black coat and she recognizes it, the woman saw Carlia's face and approaches her slowly and saw Selestia on the ground, and sees in the window Aria, Carlia huggs the woman and mentions her name saying, "sis, you're here sis veria" Veria hugged her back and with sorrow in her eyes, veria asks, "what happened to our sisters",

Carlia answers with distress, "our sisters they fell unconscious, I need some cloth fist to cover Selestia's wound" Veria searches her pocket but Vonn gave her a cloth and veria Gave it to Carlia, carlia aids the wound In her sisters arm, Carlia continues telling veria, we've been ambush by flying monsters in the sky they must be still following us", many people get sadness in their faces, as they see the sisters, Veria asks again, "how about Aria? is she okay" Carlia replied, "Aria got ambush and trick by such monsters I want to avenge her , were coming onto Selestia territory to help and assist them",

Veria adds, "my troops are also coming to Selestia an informer told me that you needed help," Carlia asks, "who asked you?", Veria replies with nothing, Veria tells her that they need to love now before such monsters attack them, Veria asks Vonn and the other vampires for a favor to carry her friends , sisters Down and the citizens of Aria , Carlia helps Aria get to the vampires, Veria assists them in getting supplies down, Alice is carried, and all of them get down, and Carlia goes back to check it but there is nothing there, Veria tells Carlia to get onto her us,

She held Carlia's hand and helped her get up, the elves were tired and the netizens were devastated, Veria told his people to offer their horse for the humans, they helped each other, the doctor and his assistant remained, Selestia and Alice remained unconscious and hoping to wake up. Veria hopes they will open their eyes now or never as they march through the night, wolves howling on the side.

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