Sorcerer… Cyborg???

Chapter 219: In the Skies Above(2)

"State your purpose!" Tam yelled out to the ships, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword, unlike the others, he had yet to draw his weapon.

But the three cuboid ships were silent, they just floated in the air, without making even the slightest noise.

"State your purpose!" Tam yelled again, he was beginning to grow anxious, what in the world could these otherworlders intentions be.

As Tam yelled at the ships, inside the center most ship, sat a pair of Aemos, a thin pale woman, whose mouth was curved in a tight smile, and her companion, a male Aemos, who also had a smile on his face.

"Look at the energy readings on these creatures! They're off the charts!" The male Aemos, who was just as pale as the other, brushed his bangs away from his eyes to get a better look at the spinning dials in front of him. 

The pair of them stared, fascinated, at the thousands of spinning cubes suspended on rods in front of them, that showed an image of the glowing beings flying ahead of them.

"Let's fire the incapacitators already, the higher ups will want to get a look at one of these things." The female Aemos, spoke in a high shrill voice, filling the cockpit of the ship with her high pitched screeching. 

"Alright, alright." The male replied, and then spun a dial on the dashboard in font of him, which was covered in knobs and the strange inscriptions that covered all of the Aemos' ships and devices.

A loud clanking noise rang out from the bottom of the ship, and a pair of round projectiles shot out, blasting toward Tam, the projectiles were connected by a length of flexible, metallic cord that caused them to spin around each other as they flew.

Just like all the devices of the Aemos, they were covered in angular inscriptions..

Tam squinted as they approached, and then his sword flashed out, coated in his bright blue aura, slicing clean through the length of cord that attached them together.

The projectiles fell to the ground, the cord between them leaking a thick red liquid. 

"I'd guess that they mean to capture us, let's crack them open and see if we can't persuade them to do otherwise." Tam said to the others, who nodded, propelling themselves toward the craft hovering in the air in front of them. 

"Oh. Seems they don't use that energy for nothing." The male Aemos in the center craft's eyes were wide, as he looked at the energy readings that skyrocketed when the middle figure struck out at the incapacitation device.

Anteris sent a column of flame slamming toward the other craft of the left, that completely engulfed it. 

Teves also struck out at the craft at the lift, a whip formed of sand lashing out at the craft, knocking it to the side in the air, the Aemos within yelling in surprise. 

Vaya flew at the rightmost craft, striking out with a wing from his Crow Aura, the golden light slicing into the exterior of the gray craft, carving a gash into it. 

The exterior was thick, but not thick enough, and Vaya easily sliced the craft open, screams of terror echoing out from the oval shape cockpit within. 

Tam, flapped his hawk wings as hard as he could, and shot past the central craft, a loud screeching noise echoing out, his sword appearing in his hands suddenly as he appeared in a flash behind it.

Tam had completely sliced the craft in two, and it fell to the ground, the two Aemos within yelling in terror as they spun uncontrollably to the ground. 

The two halves of the crafts leaked the same viscous red fluid that the first device had, and Tam caught the half of the craft that contained the pilots in the claws of his aura, gently setting it down on the ground, the other half of the craft falling harmlessly into the street below.

As for the remaining craft, it emerged from Anteris' flames unscathed, with only a gouge carved in its surface from Teves' attack. 

The same clunking noise that had sounded out when the first craft had attacked rang out, and the same projectile shot out at Teves, who huffed at its speed, flapping his wings to twist aside, and reaching out with his bare hand to grasp the cord.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!" A tortured scream rang out, as Teves began to convulse with pain, his hand closing tight around the cord, his muscles spasming, preventing him from letting go of the device.

The pain was so great that his aura dissipated, and he started to fall down to the hard stones below, screaming in pain even as he fell.

Anteris, only meters away, quickly picked up on what was happening, and sliced out with his halberd, slicing into the cord that hung from Teves hand that was clutched tightly around the device.

As soon as the cord was sliced in two, the muscle spasming stopped, and Teves' hand fell open, allowing the two halves of the device to fall to the streets below.

"Shouldn't be too cocky, lad!" Anteris said as he swooped down and grabbed Teves, stopping him from falling down. 

"Don't touch those projectiles bare handed, they'll put you in a world of hurt!" Anteris yelled out, and looked over to the others. He shook his head with a smile on his face as he saw that the other two craft had already been disabled.

"I'm alright, now." Teves murmured, his face red with shame, thanks to his pride, he had embarrassed himself on the battlefield.

His aura surrounded him again, and he leaped back into flight, his hands spread apart, a disc of sand starting to spin between them. 

The disc spun after and faster, and then Teves sent it flying at the cuboid craft, his brow furrowed in anger. He was venting his shame onto the craft in front of him.