The Umbra's Odyssey - Battle

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Chapter 22 - Battle -- Umbra lay down on a peice of slab, looking at the stars Overhead. They shone through the clouds overhead, made by the smoke. The fires were still burning, but they were pretty contained. Umbra had always loved nights where he could see the stars. It almost made him forget all the things he should worry about, or his pains. "How's your head?" Farmer Cletus approached Umbra. Umbra sat up, giving a little wince, his head giving a small pain. "It's better." "If we're going to battle, I don't want you there. That head injury will make it very bad, and we don't want you any more damaged. Here, I have some healing crops, however." He handed Umbra some strange-looking pear-like things. Umbra aput some in his pocket. They were as hard as stone, no thank you. "I wish to battle, this is my fight, as well. We can treat my head later." Farmer Cletus began to object but was cut off by a sudden sound. A rumble was heard, in shaking the ground. it was faint, but it came louder and louder by the second. "Incoming!" someone shouted, and the ground where umbra was just a few seconds before was burst open, and an army of drills came pouring out, with Drill leading. The kits scattered. Then a metallic clanking came, and Heptstsus came charging, with his mech reaching out for Umbra. Umbra jumped over just in time, and the fingers just missed him. Umbra quickly drew an explosive rune, but it barley damaged the mech when it went over it. Umbra ran. He whizzed past ruins, jumped over rocks, and almost tripped on a few roots growing, looking despertly for something to help him. But he had found none. He continued running, no matter the pain from his head or the incoming exhaustion. The Mech was fast, however, and would catch up to Umbra any second. Umbra ran up a set of stairs and looked over in dismay. He could see the battle, and they were losing. Pyro, Zepher, and Eveyln fought, protecting some injured kits. They were being pushed backwards, losing ground. Umbra turned to his right, and realized he had run into a dead end, which dropped off a cliff. He turned around to see Heptsituts grinning down at him from his mech. Umbra, desprate, looked around him. he then grabbed his hat. If he failed this, he would most centraily have much more than a bad head... He jumped and threw his hat at Hepstus at all his strength. He watched in dismay as it merely bounced off, and he started to free fall. Umbra fell, there were no trees, nothing. He could only go down, and as the wind whipped agenst him, see the ground go closer and closer. He started to spin out of control, mid air. This made him very dizzy, and pain again flared in his head as he tried to think, desperately. He closed his eyes, bracing for the fall. He was suddley yanked upwards, and a hoot was heard. Umbra opened his eyes, and saw Whisper's Owl holding onto his back, pulling him upwards. The wingbeats of the owl were strong, and the Owl pulled him upwards and umbra hit soild ground. Hepistuts was facing the other way, flexing his mech. The Owl landed on Umbra's shoulder and hooted. Hepistuts began to turn around, but before he could fully see them, the owl shot at him, and Heptistsus was launched, screaming, out off his mech, and fell somewhere else. The mech clanked and fell off the side of the ruins, crashing below. Umbra fell onto his knee, gasping for air. He patted the bird. "Good bird." The owl hooted. "And, thank you, Whisper." And then he fainted. oof. -- By the time Umbra came to, the owl was gone, and he woke to Whisper shaking him. "Come on, wake up, Umbra, we need to help." Whisper grabbed Umbra and jumped downwards, hopping through the ruins, until they were behind Pyro, Evelyn, and the others. "Umbra, are you ok?" Pyro yelled over the horde he was pushing backwards, torching them. "He's fine! Just a little beat up!!" Whisper yelled back at him. "We can't hold this horde back forever!" Farmer Cletus said, throwing what looked like explosive canotloupoe. "We can't do anything else!!" Evelyn shouted back. A horn, loud, and giving a spooky sound, echoed. --