Ekkid stared at Shiloh's leg as she tried to move it. He shook his head in sorrow. The leg did not move an inch.
"I am afriad that you are now paralyzed on your leg. You won't be able to put up much of a fight like this. We can't fight like this." Ekkid lifted Shiloh slightly off of the ground. He picked her up the rest of the way. He laid her head back onto his shoulder. He used his telekinesis to push against the ground. Since he was not strong enough to lift the Earth, it pushed him up into the air. He floated quickly to the door, pushing against the ground. He moved outside, moving into the forest. He wanted to place her out of harm's way, away from Martio.
Martio flew out of the forest and back into the building. He could not see Ekkid or Shiloh anywhere. He floated in the doorway to the building, looking into the main room from where he was. Ekkid walked up slowly, not noticing Martio there. He bumped into him, knocking both to the ground. Ekkid latched on to Martio, not letting go. Martio flew up into the air, kicking at Ekkid, trying to knock him loose. Ekkid would not let go, and clung too tightly to Martio for the kicks to do much damage.
Ekkid looked down at the ground far below. He saw that smoke rose from the forest. The smoke was almost as high as them. A tree was beginning to tilt. It was an extremely rare occurrence for one of the giant sequoias to be tilting, but one did. It fell against another one, and Ekkid saw a flash of fire appear. (He had a sneaking feeling that Shiloh had found Isaac.)
Martio flew up into the real clouds, ones that he had not created. He created some lightning and struck Ekkid, which only served to empower Ekkid further. Ekkid gave Martio a small zap and pulled at the Earth. The pair hung still in the middle of the cloud, each power outweighing another. Martio let go of his invisibility and gained the upperhand. They climbed a few inches before Ekkid let his rock armor harden. That pulled the two downward as the full weight of the armor was released upon Martio's ability to fly. Ekkid yanked on the Earth as hard as he could.
The pair began to plummet to the ground. Ekkid looked below and steered them toward the clearing where the leaves had exploded. Martio completely let go, now afraid. Ekkid tried to pull up on the brakes, but was unable to. He twisted himself below Martio and reactivated his rock armor, wrapping it around both of them. All that he could see was a look of sheer terror in Martio's eyes. Martio watched the ground approach. He lost control of his faculties and blacked out long before they actually hit the ground.
The blow created a large crater in the ground, and Ekkid blacked out as soon as his back cracked.
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