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 stop himself from sinking. But, it was also exactly this rigidity that was

eyes. Gravity was a perfect counter to his spatial affinity as they were inextricably linked to one

BANG!

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

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

teeth cracked beneath the power of his clenched jaw. He pushed himself as far as he could.

his vision swimming, but his will was raging

gave out, until

the point his throat was torn to shreds. However, this

his body forward. Even if he couldn't stand

whatever small bit of will he had left to try an support his supposed enemy. It was only Franco that was well aware that he would have run out of

whale's gaze flashed, a furious light entering its eyes as though it couldn't believe the audacity of these ants to still continue struggling. But… if they could barely survive against this, what would they do against

BANG! BANG! BANG!

could no longer lift his knee, nor could he keep his back straight. His face crashed into the waters, feeling like a

'I can't…'

held the four up on his back, coating his forehead with Force and using it to push himself forward. It

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

the suppression of its gravity curtain, the waves couldn't even rise up. A sonic boom

dissipated and Franco was forced to take on

snapped. The last dregs of energy Gil had was already sapped clean. What Franco hadn't noticed was that it was also Gil's

his back

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