Tales of The Mighty Dragonair

Arthur stayed in his place watching the swarming rivers of bronze energy. At this moment he knew these weren't some raging wildly energy, but trapped and overwhelmed energy by the energy of the world.

Standing there while trying to distract himself from the growing pain he was feeling he had no other way but to think and contemplate about what was happening in the sky.

"If I can control those separated rivers of bronzed energy, I'm sure I can create a big ocean with them," he slowly muttered while his mind was thinking of how to do that.

He tried to inject part of his dragonair energy inside the rock but failed. Every time he tried to instigate his dragonair energy, that alien energy would flare up and eat it away.

And that made him try an alternative, his spiritual energy.

"If I could control my spiritual energy into long threads and inject them in between that dense alien energy at my feet, then I could penetrate it and reach the array itself," he thought before closing his eyes, took a deep breath and then started to work out his idea.

To do that he had first to control the spiritual energy inside his leg meridians separately. He didn't try such an approach before, as he always controlled his energy as a whole.

But this time he found controlling the energy in such a way was quite challenging. Every time he pushed the energy in one leg, the energy got stirred up in his entire body.

"Screw it," he finally hit his patience bottom, "I'll seclude one leg then."

He didn't hesitate to block the energy inside one leg. To do that he used one risky technique of the old world he came from.

He first started to gush energy inside one main node in his left leg. There he kept the energy accumulating and tried to spin it.

"Water would stagnate in a place if there is a whirlpool blocking the path," he muttered while carefully trying not to harm his node or else he would be severely injuring the entire leg network of meridians.

And that was something he didn't want to experience, as he would be obliged to build up his meridians from scratch.

"Finally it calmed down," as the spinning accelerated, he noticed the energy inside his meridians at his left leg to go stagnant.

"Time to empty you then," he didn't hesitate to control the meridians and push the energy out of it towards the rock underneath.

And then the alien energy tried to resist.

"Screw you," he kept pushing his energy and didn't stop despite feeling the rapid depletion of his energy. "At least it isn't instantly consumed by that energy," he muttered while watching his spiritual energy getting thinner the closer it got to his sole of feet.

"Slow and easy," he muttered while keeping pushing the energy downward, "almost there," he watched his extremely thin wisps of energy reach his soul before finally exiting his body.

"Stop," he hurriedly returned to his blocked node and started to decelerate the energy whirlpool inside, "slowly stop," he started to insert his greater body energy with slight force, to force that spinning energy to stop.

He knew doing such a thing would leave scars, but he accepted that fate without hesitation.

All he could think of now was to hurriedly replenish the about to die spiritual wisps that got outside his body.

Or else what he did so far would be totally lost.

"Finally," he heard a cracking sound before the energy stopped spinning and opened a path towards the dried up meridians to be replenished. "Go, go and dig deeper," he pushed the energy and directed it towards the thin wisps.

And next thing happened was for these wisps to get slightly thicker and a lot stronger. "Now let's see how the array is doing," he closed his eyes and let his consciousness befell with his energy to see what his energy touched and the places it reached.

"Damn!" Just as he did that, he spotted something that made him curse out loud. "The array is about to be crushed!"

Just as he delved inside the earth, the entire array appeared all of sudden like a gigantic galaxy shining brightly in bronze color. Yet this galaxy was lying inside a seemingly endless space of myriad colors, swirling around the galaxy and trying to consume it.

From his position he felt like being an ant in front of a giant. "I… can't change anything alone," he reached this conclusion while examining some parts of the array, "and this array won't hold too much of the pressure."

He already saw faint cracks over the parts he examined, and he doubted he could amend any of these. The roaring energy of the world was now eating away the array, depleting its energy at a fast pace.

His energy would turn out to be a sand thrown in a sea, unable to cause any difference at all.

"No way then but to wait for them," he opened his eyes and took a deep breath. The monster swarmed the array non-stop but he now realized how weak they were.

Or compared to the world's enormous energy, they were simply nothing.

"What is taking them too long?" he turned towards the direction Doaf and Amera went to, "they should have started already."

Now he wasn't worried about that unpleasant feeling or the alien energy. All he cared about was the array itself. Laying it down took a day and he wasn't ready to repeat the process again.

Plus if he failed now then he wouldn't guarantee to succeed next time.

"I should heal my node and meridians first," as he had nothing else to do but wait, he decided to heal his injured meridians and big node. He doubted this would change much but at least he wouldn't stand there with all this worry waiting for them to act.

And so he closed up his eyes, started to breathe regularly while letting the spiritual energy around to enter his body.

"Damn! This energy is quite chaotic and much higher in quality!" Yet the moment he did so he felt like opening a dam, letting the trapped mighty river behind to flow and flood him without warning.