2012 09 03 5

Mon Sep 3 2072 The one standing earth elemental swats ponderously at nothing. Parts of its tremendous mass seem to liquify and then solidy as it comes under assault from all sides. The blurry outlines of air elementals converge on it, and the flames of fire elementals begin to lick up its legs. Even as powerful a spirit as this can only maintain itself for a few seconds under the unrelenting barrage before it wavers and then vanishes. What's left is wreckage: broken cars, shredded street, fallen bystanders. But as the camera pans, it's also clear that for all the chaos the disaster was contained. The buildings on either side stand with nothing more than cracked facades. The street can be repaved overnight. The rubble and corpses will be efficienctly cleared in under an hour.