Dimensional Descent

Vein's pulsed through Aulina's delicate brow, her face reddening beneath the strain as she released a low shout.

Joel and Arnold were ripped out of the waters, their consciousnesses still not having been regained. Panic took hold of Franco's heart as he wondered just how much water they had swallowed, but he didn't have the luxury of finding out now, he needed to bring everyone back.

Franco dug deep, pulling out everything he had. He stacked two people to each one of his shoulders, taking heavy steps back toward the coast. Every time his leg rose and fell, violent rippled of water would surge through, forming tall waves that drenched him through from head to toe.

Blood leaked between his teeth as he stomped back. He knew that the gravity whale was behind him, but he also knew that it had a choice to make.

If it moved, the curtain of gravity would vanish as Franco had enough distance to shoot away. However, if it didn't move, then Franco would just continue adding to the distance between them. Even if he had to turn his bones into dust, he would bring them out of here.

Unfortunately… What actually happened was far out of their expectations.

The curtain of gravity suddenly shifted as the whale's tail twitched. As though it was playing a cruel game with them all, the range of the curtain shrunk and began to concentrate on Franco.

BANG!

Unable to control what was happening, Franco fell to a single knee, feeling as though his bones had splintered. The pain was so excruciating that the blood vessels in his eyes popped, filling his whites with a crimson hue.

Franco roared, pushing himself back up inch by inch. But…

BANG!

The gravity curtain multiplied again, slamming Franco's knee back onto the waters.

to coat his knee with Force to stop himself from sinking. But, it was also exactly this rigidity that was harming him, yet he had no

who had been trying to force his way over as well but had been stalled by the gravity curtain, watched on with bloodshot eyes. Gravity was a perfect counter to his spatial affinity as they were inextricably linked to one another. This gravity curtain made it almost impossible for him to crack

BANG!

second knee from hitting the water. He tried to keep his back as straight as possible, but even that was

stamina having been drained to its limits. Every time she tried to control the waters, it would gurgle and ignore her. This was the first time she had ever experienced such a thing in her life, but it was also because she knew she had pushed herself too far to pull Joel

beneath the power of his clenched jaw. He pushed himself as far as he could. But, no matter what he tried, he

his vision swimming, but his will was raging like an endless

He wouldn't stop until he died. Until his nerves gave out, until his

roared to the point his throat was torn to shreds. However, this pain seemed to be

gazes, he rose back up to a knee, his toes bending and his ankles arching as he pushed his body forward. Even if he couldn't stand to his feet anymore, so what? He could still push himself

also at the end of his rope, scrounging up whatever small bit of will he had left to try an support his supposed enemy.

furious light entering its eyes as though it couldn't believe the audacity of these ants

BANG! BANG! BANG!

straight. His face crashed into the

'I can't…'

Force and using it to push himself forward. It was the kind

the whale was no less, though. It felt as though its ploy to play these humans to death continuously slapped his face,

even rise up. A sonic boom of sound shattered their

of the sound wave couldn't be dissipated and Franco was forced to take

within him snapped. The last dregs of energy Gil had was already sapped clean. What Franco hadn't noticed was that it was also Gil's lightning that kept his mind awake. But the moment it

collapsed, the weight on his back pushing him into

hand reached down and touched his shoulder, shrouding him in an energy shield that seemed