The raft jostled every which way as the sirens pulled and pushed it in every direction possible. The shape and contours of a fair maiden, voice as fair as a sunset rose, body as the clearest of crystal clear water, but fish eyes, very freaky fish eyes! Sirens had a variety of breeds, they were considered magical creatures, so definitely not under the jurisdiction of Qi, however they were also considered as demonic beasts, evil and rotten to the core, and very hungry for flesh. Sirens were legendary, especially the stories that have been told a out them from back on Earth, however on thing that was very true about sirens now, as the very real fact that they were now extinct. It didn"t matter if it was the sirens that were more conscious and sentient, or those that lived based on instinct and were nothing more than animals; they were all gone.*Splash! Crash!*
The raft smashed against the wall of the tunnel, water spraying all-over their bodies as the boys were jostled. One of the sirens jumped up and swiped a cla.s.s at Yun Fao"s legs, but he was luckily pulled to the side when the raft made a very hard turn right, going through another tunnel that suddenly appeared. The sirens weren"t just dangerous, they were also poisonous and carried curses with their every touch.
Alex reckoned that they were more like spirits than beasts, probably an Apparition school spirit, with ghost like qualities. Which was why it was imperative that they don"t get cut or injured by anyone of them, or they would be singing the tunes to an entirely different song. But as if moving the raft wasn"t enough, the sirens began to spin it, moving it round and round in an attempt to disorient the boys.
They were stronger than normal human beings by virtue of being cultivators, so they had stronger stomachs and more resistance to G-force, but there would always be a breaking point that even they would not be able prevent themselves from reaching if these sirens don"t stop spinning them like a merry go round on steroids.
Yun Fao gritted his teeth as he held on tightly to the raft, in all honesty it also seemed as if the raft was about to fall to pieces with how roughly it has been treated by the sirens. They needed a little bit of reprieve to be able to come up with a plan, but this monsters were not given them any sort of changes.
So all he could do was sneakily let the tip of his fingers stretch into the water as the sirens tried to send them to a watery grave. Yun Fao"s purple thunder art was an incredibly hard martial arts to master, it was not even originally from Wudang, but rather from the Kunlun sect. The basis of this martial art was the very real fact that it could not be used without a weapon in hand, not even if it"s pract.i.tioner had gotten to the true element realm where it would be possible for the to control and manipulate the element born from their cultivation roots.
Yun Fao placed the tip of his fingers in the water, and then closed his eyes. He focused, letting everything around him face away until there was nothing more than silence and peace. The purple thunder art was lightning attributed, however it was also wind base. Thunder was more like a concussive grenade than an electric shock, and this was a particular skill in the purple thunder art that was extremely hard to utilize, especially when you wanted to isolate it from the lightning. But there was no need to over think it, just like thunder all he needed to do was just act.
*Booom*
The raft was blasted to pieces as they were all thrown into the water, the river was only about six meters deep, but about ten meters wide, however the bottom of it was smoothed out, making it seamless causing for an uninterrupted flow of the river. The force from Yun Fao using the thunder ability of his purple thunder art had blasted the river apart, so much so that the river bed was exposed for a few seconds before the boys fell back into the river.
As for the sirens, they were unable to keep their bodies together as they were extinguished. It is a well know fact that lightning and thunder were elements that destroyed death, spirits and ghosts, it was just as effective as the light element, lacking it"s actor of healing and much more destructive as opposed to the light element that purified rather than destroyed.
Spirits regardless of their alignment or element or school, were weak against the power of lightning and thunder, because these forces of nature could not be managed, lightning strikes once, a definite law in the order of things that can not be shaken or proven wrong, it was balance, order and destruction.
As the boys fell back into the water, they were a bit disoriented and had to gather themselves a bit before they were swept forward by the currents. There were no more sirens around them, but still the current was moving them in such a way that they couldn"t understand, because it was quite noticeable that the river or rather the tunnel it was in slanted upwards, moving towards the surface, so it went against every natural law for the river to flow upwards rather than upwards. Alex looked around and saw Louis dragging an unconscious Yun Fao, who had a nasty cut and very terrible burns on his fingers towards a still floating piece of the raft. Alex quickly followed behind and grabbed Yun Fao, helping Louis until all three of them were properly situated on top of the spilt piece of the raft.
"Where are the Sirens?" Louis asked as he looked around.
"I think Yun Fao took care of them, but I"m not sure we"re out of trouble yet." Alex replied as he tightened his hold on Yun Fao.
"I can see that, but if the Sirens are gone, then what"s up with this river? Isn"t it supposed to flow downwards or downstream, then why the h.e.l.l are we going up, it"s like we"re going up a waterfall!"
It was when Louis mentioned a waterfall that Alex realized that they were no moving up a vertical incline, it was as if the flow of the river had been reversed and they were going along for the ride, or rather the flow was reversed because they were actually in the river.
Alex and Louis couldn"t see more than 3 feet in front of them, and that was because everything seemed to have gotten a bit darker, and mere moments later their movements back up became extremely turbulent as the river itself seemed angry with the way it was flowing. Louis and Alex began to feel a resistance from the water itself, a push and pull feeling that was threatening to spilt them all in half.
It was as if there was a force below that did not want them to go back up, to leave the gloom of this darkened underworld, of weird monsters and glowing diamond crystals. Alex turned his head backwards, and shuddered at what he saw. His apparent apprehension to whatever it was that he had seen forced Louis to look back too, and what he saw left him feeling chills also.
"d.a.m.n! Move river, moooove!" Louis screamed as he splashed his hands in the water trying to paddle forward.
"For G.o.d sake Louis! Just slapping your hands in the water and screaming at the river to move won"t force it to flow! This is a fight way above our paygrade!" Alex yelled at him, but Louis did not seem all too willing to listen as he turned and pointed behind him.
"Then what the f.u.c.k do we do about them!"
Alex swallowed, the sirens were back but this time there were a whole lot more than what they could possibly deal with. And this time they weren"t alone, the sylphs we"re back and bunch of other creatures that they never had the misfortune of meeting. It was then that Alex got to really understand what he f.u.c.k was going on here, this entire underground world was prison, in fact it was the oldest prison in this dimension and there were probably much worse places to be than where they had landed. But now it seems there was something trying to pull them out, since they fell here by mistake, there was a possibility that they would be freed, and the sirens wanted to use them as the key to probably open the gate or at least piggy back on their escape.
This upwards flowing river was probably the only way out, but with the creatures imprisoned here so close, they were causing a dissonance in whatever it was that as making this place function.
They needed to leave and it would happily spit then out, but the creature were too close and we"re also struggling to jump out too, if it proceeded to just spit the boys out, some if not all of the prisoners behind would follow, which as why it was both suppressing the prisoners and trying to push Alex, Louis and Yun Fao out, hence the push and pull motion.
{Master! Use me! You have to push them back to be able to leave this place, so use me! Let me out!}
Alex had no idea what she was going to bring to the table, especially since this would be the first time he ever used her. But none the less it seems their survival was solely in the hands of the Blood Dragon! Ébié has come out to play.