HARPERFOCUSING ON THE STORM I JUST CREATED, I send alightning bolt straight down to the three-headed, alligator-like creature before it can attack Eight again. The bolt stuns the monster for a second and Nine jumps into the fray, hitting the beast with his staff. Out of the corner of my eye I see Marina helping Eight, put- ting her healing Legacy to use on his injured shoulder while the creature is distracted. Good—we can’t have any of us down for the count for too long. As soon as Nine is out of the way I fire off two more lightning strikes, knocking the thing down once again. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times and what we hit it with—it just keeps getting back up. Suddenly a strange whistle pierces the air, and IT whip around to see Five blowing into some weird flute. Where did he get that? And where has he been? Sitting this battle out? The noise has done something to the