LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 185: Saving Hope
Stonewall didn't power up or get bigger. He just punched. He punched when he was 20 feet away from me. At first I was confused. And then I saw his fist rocketing towards my face.
I barely dodged it. His arm had extended dramatically. Over a hundred feet. Then he retracted the arm. I was just looking at the side of his arm going back to his body, when his fist, that was now a massive boulder, smashed into me from behind and sent me spinning.
I barely managed to stay on my feet. Stonewall made a huge wall of stone appear in front of him. Then he pushed it at me and Hope like an offensive lineman.
It smashed into us, exploding from our durability and hardness, but while Hope was able to stay standing, I got knocked onto my back. Stonewall grabbed Hope by the throat and said, "I never liked you. Diamonds are for tools or display, and you don't do a good job of either."
He hurled Hope onto the train tracks. I could hear the sound of the train coming. Hope didn't jump up off the tracks like I expected her to. She laid on the tracks and she wasn't moving.
Stonewall jumped on top and me and started pummeling me into the ground. I blocked his blows with my arms at first, but I realized Hope was in danger, and I couldn't afford to pull my punches any longer.
I force palmed his next punch, exploding his entire arm off his body. Then I force palmed the punch after that, exploding his other arm. Then using both hands I started creating a Vi blast orb.
"You don't have the guts to kill. You're nothing but an overconfident pretty boy that had a golden egg fall into his lap," Stonewall said.
"Hey, at least I'm pretty," I said, and shot the Vi blast into his chest.
"Ahhh!!!" Stonewall screamed as he exploded into a million pieces.
I got up off the ground and ran towards Hope on the tracks. I heard a voice say, "This isn't over." Stay tuned for updates on My Virtual Library Empire
It came from the ground in front of me. Looking down as I ran, I saw the top half of Stonewall's head with his eyes glaring at me, sitting on the ground.
"It is now!" I said, as I smashed his head into dust while I ran towards Hope.
She still wasn't moving. I dove onto the tracks and rolled into a crouched position next to her. The train was right in front of us. Ten more feet and one of us would be toast. I just didn't know if it would be us or the train.
Grabbing Hope off the ground, I jumped off the tracks, barely making it onto the platform before the train zoomed past. I felt the wind and the air pressure on my back.
I gently set Hope on the ground. I looked her over and realized what was wrong. Stonewall had crushed her throat somehow. I didn't understand how he could create enough pressure to crack a diamond, but he did. There were cracks all throughout her throat, and they weren't regenerating.
If she were a human, I'd say he crushed her windpipe, but in this half elemental form, did she need to breathe? I was going to assume whatever was wrong had to do with her cracked throat, and I needed to fix it for her to wake up.
And since I didn't know how long I had, I should start right now. I put her hands gently around her throat and sent healing Vi through my hands into the cracks in her throat, trying to repair the cracks.
I didn't know if it was working because my hands were covering her neck, but I just hoped it was and continued. I kept pouring Vi into her neck. It felt like doing continuous cpr. I didn't know how long I needed to go, so I just kept going, hoping she would wake up.
After what felt like an hour, Hope took in a huge gasping breath. She gasped as she tried to recover from the lack of oxygen. I guess she did need to breathe in her half elemental state.
I was just happy to have her back. I hugged her. "Don't scare me like that," I said.
"Sorry. I'll try not to get killed by an oversized oaf again," she said, laughing.
I kissed her. She had the hardest lips I had ever kissed but it was still nice. I tried to get some tongue action, but she changed back to human form for that.
"I don't know if you want to kiss my diamond tongue. You might get cut," she said.
"Hey, there's nothing wrong with a little blood… is what I would say if I was a psychopath," I said, laughing nervously. "But seriously, I want to kiss your diamond tongue someday."
"That can be arranged, but I'd rather not get blood all over me right now," she said.
"That's fair," I said. "Human kissing then?"
"Human kissing," she said with a smile.
Needless to say we made out for a while after I saved her life. We kissed and touched tongues together for so long, that the soldiers fully regenerated and we had to kick their asses all over again.
And we did. Then we made out some more. All while people were walking past and going about their days. The only thing that kicked us out of our reverie, was the sound of another train coming.
"Shouldn't we get on that, before more of the elemental army shows up?" I said.
"Probably," Hope said.
"Ok, let's do that," I said.
We got on the train and went back to the human world, through a mechanism I have not yet explained. Hope and I said hi to the other girls when we got back to the hotel, and went to my room.
We decided to take a shower after all the strenuous fighting and sweating we did. My room, the suite, had a massive open shower with multiple shower heads and plenty of room for 'activities'.