Chapter 43 Back to the Drawing Board

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Rapture The Final Battle By: LadyDawn

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Chapter 43 Back to the Drawing Board

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Bavo went to work with Icka and Lady Gaia busily drafting a totally new plan. After seeing everything they had down below in the mantle of the earth, with the heat and pressure and how their explosives worked he wasn't as sure about their effectiveness as he was originally. Bavo wanted to come up with a more foolproof plan to protect the explosives, and the team both; during the planting stages—before, during and after—for the safety of all. “We need a new insulation material before we go back there. I don't trust what we were going to use originally. It would have worked, but...” Bavo shook his head. “I don't believe that it would give us enough time to get out before they went off trapping us in the flow.” He looked suddenly downtrodden. “I believe even with flashing in and out it would be chancy at best. One of us could have got hurt, or worst, died.” He visibly shuddered.

“Bavo? We checked and double checked everything before hand. Even the Goddess of the Earth agreed it was a sound plan, and it would work. Are you saying she would lead us astray and intentionally put us at risk with this plan if it was unsafe in any way?” Icka asked. The startled look on her face was ghastly to say the least. She fell back into her chair with a whoosh of air coming from her lips. “I just can't imagine anything like that every happening with her watching over us. No! I won't believe it, it isn't possible. Not from the Goddess of the Earth, she was one of us originally, she wouldn't do a thing like that!” She fell back defeated.

“I agree with Icka. Bavo. There is no way The Goddess of the Earth would put us in jeopardy under any circumstance just to rid the earth of the demon kind. It just isn't happening. No way, no how!” She shook her head side to side vehemently. “I know the Goddess' that isn't their ways, they don't do things like that just to get the job done it is against the Goddess' ways of life, and a sure fire way to end a Goddess.” Lady Gaia stood up and walked around the table to Bavo's side looking down at what he was working on. “That isn't going to work either, you are using the wrong compounds, it will blow up in your face the minute you add the explosives, they are reactive to each other.” Bavo looked down at his calculations his eyes got wide.

“Oh My Goddess, you are right. I missed the period in my calculation that would have been very bad in deed. I guess I best start over. Care to help?” Icka and Lady Gaia got to work on designing a newer more stable container that was heat stable, and could resist the high heat of the lava for a good thirty seconds before going off.

On the Goddess side, Diana and I, we were down checking out what the demons were up against. They were busy digging their way back out of the cavern, feverishly, in an attempt to gain access to the surface. They were one atop another—claws extended—clawing away at the rubble, in a vain attempt to clear away all the tons of material that buried them. They were even digging a totally new tunnel straight up in an attempt to get out. The only problem with this process is, if they succeed, they would end up digging directly into an existing tunnel shaft leading to the surface of the ocean bottom. It would flood the cavern, and give them a direct access to the surface through the Pacific Ocean. With water not being a deterrent to them; they would just swim away. There is no way for either of us to kill them so we must try something different to slow them down. I gathered up Diana, and we ghost into the center of their cavern, and do a slow part materialize before them all. 'Hear Me! me, me, me meeee.” My voice echo's off the rock cavern walls. They all turn in our direction, but a ghost of our true selves there, but not... They try to attack, but rush right on through us falling against other demon kind. “Stop, stop top op p p” My voice rumbles through the cavern. Slowly they begin to stop moving, and all look to both of our ghostly images. “Good ood od d d” Once every demon was looking at us I threw my arms out to both my sides, and begin a slow spin chanting just under my breath. "By the Powers of the Spirits before me and of me. I command thee: to be indurate". Chanting three times getting louder each time. "By the Powers of the Spirits before me and of me. I command thee: to be indurate." Again louder this time still. "By the Powers of the Spirits before me and of me. I command thee: to be indurate." I was practically shouting the last time without my lips moving. They all stopped moving frozen in place. That was so much better, even the few that refused to stop digging were frozen; mid dig, claws extended, mid swipe.

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