Chapter 97 - Fastball

"Oooh, this is gonna be so much fun!", Voxea said excitedly.

"Yeah... fun", I replied weakly.

Currently, Voxea and I were sitting inside a giant hollow ball of ice that is about to thrown by Savina's Shellvalier, off a cliff, towards a running wagon. Why is this happening? Because it's all a part of Voxea's brilliant (absolutely terrible) rescue plan.

She used a lot of strange sounding words and mathematical terms that went way beyond what my parents taught me, but it boiled down to this:

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Step 1: Voxea uses her ice abilities to make a giant hollow ice ball that Voxea and I will climb into.

Step 2: Savina uses Triton's prodigious strength, along with her empowering the giant water knight majimonster with her binder abilities, to throw us at a spot a little ahead of the wagon's location.

Step 3: As Voxea and I sail through the air, the ice would, supposedly, melt by the time we got close enough to the wagon to penetrate the canvas that was covering it. Apparently, and I quote, "Our combined weight and the velocity we're being thrown at will allow us to pierced the canvas covering with minimal effort".

Step 4: After we land in the cart, I swap out Voxea for Azalea and I empower Azalea with as much aether as I physically can and in the amount of time we have before the Omukade catches up.

Step 5: Use Azalea's [Body Double] technique to teleport all of us away from the Omukade's path of destruction and hope that it's rage is subdued after smashing the cart.

Step 6: Celebrate that we saved the day and thank whatever higher power exists that we didn't die.

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As Triton began to spin Voxea and I in a hammertoss throw, a memory from a few months back suddenly came to mind.

[Hey Voxea, didn't you one time teach me that the maji had over a hundred plus ways to travel long distances?], I asked.

[Ah, you remember my lessons! And yes, yes I did], she replied joyfully.

[Right, and wasn't one of the methods called teleportation or something like that? It allowed one to disappear in one place and instantly appear in another]?

[I know where you're going with this now, the answer is...no. I cannot teleport us from here to that cart], she replied plainly.

[Why not]?!

[Three reasons of my adorable student/binder. First,I don't know what the inside of that wagon looks like. Teleportation requires a clear image of the location you want to move to. If you try to do teleportation blind...well that last guy I knew who did ended up with half of his body being replaced with wood], she said with a mild grimace towards the end.

[Ouch].

[Second, can't do it right now because I'm technically still a majimonster and not a maji. Everytime you summon me, my techniques change], Voxea clarified.

[That explains some things... wait, then what's the third reason]?

[It wouldn't be as fun if I could teleport us]!

[...].

Before I could respond further, Triton tossed us like a sack of potatoes off the cliff.

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[Oh Mountain mother, please grant us safe haven...]

As the wagon sped onward into the valley, Louis began to make a small prayer to his deity, Nuluna the Mountain Mother.

Louis had been raised on the religious teachings of the Mountain Mother, but he never grew up to be a pious person. He made the sacrifices when necessary and prayed occasionally, but he never honestly prayed...that much.

Louis has only prayed three times with all of his heart and soul.

The first was when he met Strider, his Thunderhorn. As a child, he accidentally angered it when he was throwing stones at the local rhino herd. He prayed to Nuluna for deliverance, and became a binder in the process.

The second was when he met Cynthia. When he became an official binder and went traveling, he happened on a town in the middle of a festival of lovers . Unfortunately, he was very very single. Out of lonely desperation, he prayed to Nuluna for love. A few moments later, he ran into a girl who was also praying for love. The two married a few months later.

The third time was now. He prayed to Nuluna for a miracle, an earthquake, an even bigger majimonster, anything that could save him and his beloved.

It was in the middle of these prayers, that something huge hit his cart.

"Ouch...".

And started groaning.