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No matter where you run, you'll get burned pretty badly. In the midst of the mass panic and overturned dust, Kelper braces himself in what looks like a fighting stance, not budging an inch from the incoming meteor. You don't know what he's attempting to do, but you doubt it'll help at all. If only you could stop it somehow!
Then it hits you. Your newfound strength. How you cracked the ground with your fists from earlier. Maybe you have superpowers, like those mystical fighters from other worlds you've seen in recordings and live footage. Your eyes dart left and right looking for something, anything, to try and toss at the fiery ball of destruction. You set your sights on a large boulder a few paces away. There's probably only a handful of seconds left. You grab the boulder and lift it over your shoulders, hardly feeling any weight from it. The red hot object in the sky gets closer and larger, the landscape around you getting bathed in a red glow. It's now or never, and you chuck the boulder with all your might!
<span class="mu-g">The boulder makes its mark and strikes the ball of flames, the collision causing an explosion that shatters the large chunk of rock that was tossed and stops the fireball in its trajectory towards the village, it howling in pain as it falls to the ground away from flammable infrastructure, kicking up dust and scorching the grass with scattered embers as it crashes.</span> But the boulder you tossed burst into hot chunks of rocks and pebbles that fall onto to the village, bracing yourself against the incoming fragments. <span class="mu-g">There's a bit of luck on your side though, as most of the pieces are too small to seriously hurt you or anyone else that didn't get far enough while fleeing, the heated minerals cooling down before they hit the ground</span>.
You can't believe it actually worked! You lower your guard when you don't feel anything pelt at your skin anymore, and you turn to look at Kelper, who looks absolutely dumbfounded. The other villagers who had to duck for cover seem equally as shocked.
The fireball you stopped gradually peters out, and to your surprise, the dying flames reveal a giant winged creature, it wobbling and teetering upright on two powerful legs. Its wingspan looks wider than most of the houses in the village, and the beast stands taller than them too. The bat from hell bares its long fangs shrouded in flames as it sets its pure brimstone gaze in you and Kelper's direction in a hateful, but dazed expression.
