Aethelos: The Bastard of Light

(SCENARIO: Hideout in the forest. Frozen plants. Eli Cari and Lygar still unconscious. Night is falling.) · Yana ran back to the hideout, her desperation growing as darkness settled in. “I just hope you two are okay. I’m already on my way, family,” she thought. · Yana has dark hair of medium length. Yana has green or light-brown eyes. Yana wears modest clothes. · When she arrived, she saw her plants completely frozen. Fear rose through her body. She froze, until Eli Cari started coughing blood. “I have to act now,” she thought. “But how am I going to do this?! Yana, calm down, I need to stay calm.” · Breathing in and out, she grabbed the thread and needle and started stitching Eli Cari’s wound, applying the Terranova ointment. She began doing the same to Lygar when she heard footsteps. The cold increased out of nowhere, and she started trembling, not knowing if it was from cold or fear. “Only you left, Lygar,” she thought, speeding up the process. · Suddenly, a cynical and cold voice broke the silence. “Well, well, well. So you weren’t dead after all, huh.” · Yana looked forward and saw a human with half of his face frozen and a dark smile. This is the Freezer (Wayne). · “And now, what are you going to do?” the Freezer asked. · Yana sped up, her heart racing. “He’s right. I finished Lygar’s treatment in a rush, but the truth is I can’t escape with both of them in this state.” · There was a fixed exchange of looks. The Freezer said: “I’ll ask one last time: what are you going to do?” · Yana took a fighting stance. “It’s not like I have much choice, is it?” · The Freezer smiled slightly. “You can try to run, of course, leaving them behind. Or, orrrrr…” He smiled: “…you die here and now.” · “Well, the first option never even crossed my mind…” Yana couldn’t finish the sentence. · Her opponent charged at her and punched her in the face. “Kneel!” · Yana staggered. “Is this the best thing to do?” But a flashback of Eli Cari in the fight against Glinn came to her — him standing up and saying he had his own pride. · Yana changed her stance and shouted: “GROIEN!!!” · Green plants shot out of the ground to bind her opponent, but the moment they touched him, they froze. Yana was in shock. · The Freezer rolled his eyes. “Did you seriously think some weeds would hold me? You should have accepted kneeling and a quick death. Now I’m going to have fun.” · The Freezer started beating Yana with crushing violence and speed. Yana took a terrible beating, her Light Shield breaking with every blow, but she used her suffering as a distraction. While taking the beating, she concentrated her power. · “Focus on him, Yana. Don’t worry about the pain. Just buy time,” she ordered herself. · With the last breath of Groien energy, Yana made an underground plant grow, forcing it to wrap around Eli Cari and Lygar’s ankles and drag them into the forest, away from the ice. · Yana, on her last strength, stood up. · The Freezer said, bored: “Give up… ICE BURN!” · A freezing blast shot toward Yana. Weak and without strength, she shouted: “GROIEN!” A tree rose in front of her and blocked the attack. · The Freezer counterattacked. “ICE BIRDS!” Birds made of ice circled the tree and launched themselves at Yana. · Yana couldn’t hold on. She fell, taking a long time to get up. “Lygar, Eli… Ninjespeed. I hope you manage to achieve your dreams. Mine ends here.”