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I felt the intense rise of the glow and it filled my heart and chest and I sucked those abilities into myself, and all at once, they were mine.
I barely twitched my finger. A blast of ice as thick as my shoulders struck the Supervisor full in the chest.
His eyes bulged as he slammed against the floor. I channeled that ice onto the liquid fire section of his armor and blasted it until the surface cracked and splintered. It shattered into a million pieces, leaving the original regular armor underneath.
The Supervisor bellowed: “No! That’s impossible!”
How could it be when I’d just done it?
Another twitch of my fingers and I absorbed the fire element he’d installed in the armor. I burned away the jagged edges of the ice plate until it too was smooth.
The Supervisor threw his arms at me and blasted me with air, but I was ready for it, absorbed it, and blasted it back at him, stripping that power from him too.
I stripped every element from his armor until there was nothing left but scorched metal. As a final act, I shot the security door leading to the shuttlecraft with a blast of electricity before turning it on the Supervisor’s armor.
The Supervisor’s eyes fluttered shut, barely conscious. His skin was burned and frozen to frostbite, zapped with electricity, and scorched with air.
I removed my hand gently from Ivy’s belly and immediately lost all strength in my legs. I collapsed to the floor.
“Kren?” Ivy screamed, kneeling beside me. “Kren? What happened? Are you okay?”
“I’m fine,” I said. “I just… need to relax for a little while.”
“You can’t relax here! The guards will come up any second!”
She tried to lift me, to drag me, but it was no good. I was far too heavy for her.
I struggled to my feet and leaned on her for support as we stumbled toward the exit.
“Wait,” a weak voice said.
It was the Supervisor. He was conscious—barely—and turned his head to face us.
“How did you do that?”
I had no idea and wouldn’t have told him even if I did.
“More than one neb is dangerous,” Ivy said. “Remember?”
The doors jerked open at our approach. The air was dusty and smelled of sulphur. We struggled toward the shuttlecraft and, thankfully, the hatch door whirred open.
Ivy dumped me on a seat in the back.
“Do you know how to fly this thing?”
“Computer,” I said in a croaky voice. “Get us out of here.”
“Do you have a destination in mind?” Computer said.
“No. Just take us somewhere safe.”
“Order confirmed.”
The hatch door shut and the engines fired up. The shuttlecraft took off and left that moon where I’d spent my entire life. I was free. I could go anywhere I wanted.
And it frightened me.
I was used to living in a single cell and having no choice of where to go or what to do.
Ivy searched the cabinets and came out with a blanket. She draped it over me, kicked off her shoes, and climbed onto the seat with me.
“You did it! We escaped!”
“We did it,” I said. “You did it.”
I kissed her cheek and marveled at how beautiful she was. Now, she was mine and there was nothing anyone could do to take her from me.
And if they tried, they were going to have to fight Ikmal’s only unbeaten fighter champion.
The Beast in the cage.
