Thread:Abbykurle/@comment-31148069-20180624180830/@comment-30921738-20180802165851

"Tier! We need... you're help," Akurle stuttered. She gritted her teeth and focused all her energy into opening the portal into the Phantom Badlands. The ground was shaking harder, and smoke was filling her vision. She coughed, which interrupted her chanting. She opened her eyes for a second and saw a firm portal frame made of pure gold hovering above the rising lava. A slightly trasnparent light blue was beginning to fill the portal frame.

The smoke stung her eyes, and Akurle closed them again. Her energy was draining fast, but she kept chanting. She wasn't exactly sure what happened next, but she felt the ground shift beneath her, and then something so hot it felt cold had splashed on her paw. It hurt so bad. Suddenly, she was lying on the ground with Zyla standing over her.

Zyla said something, but it didn't register to Akurle. Her head was hurting, and she was so confused. Zyla said something else and Cronin appeared beside Akurle.

"...sickness is coming back. Wasn't she infected...  ...death stinger?" was all Akurle heard.

"What?" Akurle managed to sit up. Her throat was sore, and her back paw burned like crazy. She blinked several times and looked down. The fur had been burned away in a few places, and a big, red, rash-looking spot was on her skin.

"You're sick again," Cronin explained. "Remember the death stinger? It infected you, but I managed to temporarily cure some of the effects. But the healing is wearing off. Do you remember me?"

"Yes. But what happened to my-"

"The lava splashed you...." Cronin turned toward Avatar. "You have the water powers, right? Can you splash a little on Akurle's paw?"