Flammen Woofer

by Croabadrake


Chapter Three: Timberwolves

".................Oh no, nononononononononoooooNONONONOTHISISBAD!"

The stranger quickly regressed to the elements page, scrolling far to the left.

"No, no, no, why did I think that was a good idea!?" he scolded himself. "Come on, aquas, aqaus, aquas... THERE!"

He hurriedly grabbed the symbol from the panel and began to scroll away before looking back at what he grabbed.

"...OH NO, this is alchohol! Why is there alchohol on the base elements page!?" he cried, tossing the element over his shoulder backwards and quickly scrolling back to water, making sure he grabbed the right one this time. "Now... no, breath doesn't work with water unless I'm trying to make gills!" he then ranted to himself. "No, I'm trying to make water breath, not water breathing! What do I need to make it!? Is there a- YES, recipe page!"

He quickly navigated to it and scrolled past the actual food recipes to the element-mixing ones.

"Water breath, water breath......" he said to himself as he frantically searched. His eyes widened at the results as he found it. "What do you mean it requires gunpowder!? How in the world does gunpowder with water make water bre-..."

He froze, a hand in the air in frustration before bringing it back to slap himself in the face, where it remained.

"...water gun..." he said slowly to himself. "Water gun is the pun behind water breath's recipe..."

The stranger remained in this facepalming position for several moments. And then he resumed panicking.

"OH WAIT, I WAS DOING SOMETHING!" he cried loudly, resuming his search over the elements. "Now then, gunpowder, made of Breaking, Fire, Stone........ FIRE, I don't know where fire is!" he yelled. "I HAVE TO THINK OF SOMETHING ELSE!"

He scrolled the elements page far to the side, watching the symbols whiz by and trying to draw an idea.

"...force!" he then said. "Combine force with the water! Force will make the pressurized water! I'll apply that, that could work!"

He began to find Force as he muttered to himself. "Of course it could just make them begin sweating a lot, but that might at least dampen the effects of the fire breath's damage!"

The stranger found the Force element and quickly slammed it from the screen straight into the water element in his hand, then reopened the screen showing the scene he had created. He took the Pressurized Water element and spread multiple copies of it over the scene, targeting the Timberwolves.

"..........................................................................................oops," he said as he watched the result. The fires had gone out and the fire breath elements he had forgotten to take off of them for the search were destroyed, but... well, he hadn't intended for the Timberwolves to outright explode with water. There were pieces everywhere.

"...I may not have thought that through..." he said with a wince, watching as trickles of water still drained from some holes in the Timberwolves' bodies. "...yes, let's just... take this back..." he continued, removing the pressurized water elements, "...and... forget this happened."

He closed down the screen and began looking for something else to apply his template to, this time thinking his choices through a bit more.

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Silence reined over the forest scene... there were some singed trees, and more than a few singed animals and pieces of wood lying around. Thankfully, nothing had been truly harmed... any trees that were beginning to truly light up had been extinguished by the explosions of water around them.

The silence continued for several moments... and then the sound of shifting wood slowly filled it. Eventually, the sound grew into a loud cacophany of logs knocking against each other as the pieces of the Timberwolves slowly moved together and the beasts reassembled themselves.

As they were revived one by one, they looked around. They didn't know exactly what had just happened... all they knew was that there was suddenly fire, fire everywhere they ran, and then there was water, water everywhere they were, and then... this. They looked around at each other as the rest of them got back up and regrouped.

Another silent moment passed as they simply stood around, half from shock and half from utter confusion... and then they stumbled off to find someplace to dry. Perhaps they simply wanted to forget that this had ever happened too.