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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 7363555" data-attributes="member: 143">Chapter 132Bredan floated helplessly within the body of the water elemental.  He struggled, trying to find a way out, but without anything to push off he could not get any traction.  Panic flashed in his eyes, clearly visible to his companions standing just a few feet away.“Bredan!” Glori cried.Xeeta stepped forward, flames flashing around her hands as she shot another series of scorching rays into the body of the elemental.  Bredan flinched back as the flames slashed into the creature, but none of them penetrated to where he was.  Fresh plumes of steam rose from the mass of the monster, briefly obscuring it and its prisoner from view.It only took a moment for that fog to clear, and when it did Glori was charging forward in its wake.  She leapt directly at the creature, her outstretched right hand stabbing deep into its body.  As her fingertips closed around Bredan’s ankle, her face just barely outside of its enveloping substance, she unleashed a thunderwave.The sonic pulse shot through the creature, driving it back.  She clung desperately to Bredan, holding onto him as the elemental sloughed off of both of them.  The fighter had been hit by the wave of energy as well, and blood coursed from his nostrils and ears as he fell to the ground, but it seemed a small price to pay as he coughed up water and took in blessed gulps of air.Glori’s spell thrust the two elementals into contact once more.  This time it was only a brief, grazing impact, but it left both of them scarred as more of their respective substances were evaporated.  The elementals, unable to take their frustrations out on each other, rebounded on their mortal adversaries with a renewed fury.But the adventurers had not let up.  Even as the fire elemental turned back toward Quellan, the cleric slammed his mace into its substance.  The magical weapon tore a chunk of burning matter free, leaving another gap in its body that was slow to fill.  Each time it suffered such a hit the creature seemed to diminish.  It continued attacking, but while the cleric’s face twisted in pain as its fiery claws continued to scorch his armored frame, he refused to give way.On the far side of the battle Xeeta poured a stream of burning hands into the water elemental.  The tiefling’s dark eyes seemed to glow in echo of her summoned fire, and as she drew back flames continued to burn around her hands.  She stumbled back a step, her expression clearing as if she was coming out of a dream.The elemental turned on her, but once again Bredan stepped into its path to block it.  His sword had been left inside its body when Glori had pulled him free, but as he extended his hand the weapon materialized in his grasp.  The elemental poured at him, perhaps intending to duplicate its earlier attack, but the warrior held his ground.  At the very last instant he swept his sword around in a glittering arc that bisected the entirety of the creature.  With a sharp shriek the surging wave came apart, dousing all of them with water.The fire elemental flinched as the back surge of water swirled around its base.  Kosk dove forward, letting the water douse his still-smoldering shoulder before rolling up into a punch that sizzled as it impacted the creature’s fading form.  At the same time Quellan came up and matched the hit on its other side.  The elemental quivered between them, pulsed one last time, and then came apart.</blockquote>

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